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Roosevelt Ogdensburg (New York) August 20 September 6 October 10 1940 Constitution of Cuba November 5 Wendell Willkie November 15 Federal Council (Switzerland) December 12 April 3 Battle of Suomussalmi February 16 German tanker Altmark Karelia Adolf Hitler Alps France April 8 Operation Wilfred April 9 April 10 Battles of Narvik April 12 May 10 May 12 Blitzkrieg May 13 May 14 May 15 May 16 German AB-Aktion in Poland May 26 May 27 June 4 May 28 Leopold III of Belgium Hubert Pierlot We Shall Fight on the Beaches June 10 Paul Reynaud June 14 June 15 June 17 June 16 June 18 Charles de Gaulle This Was Their Finest Hour June 22 1918 June 28 Ultimatum Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact July 3 July 10 July 19 July 25 July 31 August 6 August 13 August 30 Second Vienna Award September 2 September 13 September 16 September 17 September 18 Rockall SS City of Benares September 23 September 25 Battle of Dakar Dakar September 27 October 2 Warsaw October 4 October 12 October 22 Gurs Gurs internment camp October 23 October 28 Ioannis Metaxas Greco-Italian War RMS Empress of Britain (1931) November 12 November 13 November 20 November 24 December 9 Operation Compass December 13 December 18 December 24 RMS Queen Elizabeth San Bernardino, California Das Reich (newspaper) MAUD Committee April 16 Pierre Montet Pharaoh Psusennes I. April 27 Airship May 6 Vought-Sikorsky VS-300 September 12 October 26 November 25 Utility aircraft Martin B-26 Marauder Pinocchio (1940 film) April 13 Dresden Romeo und Julia Heinrich Sutermeister May 18 Volo di notte Luigi Dallapiccola Teatro della Pergola October 15 Charlie Chaplin Fantasia (film) Broadway theatre December 26 The Philadelphia Story (film) Katharine Hepburn Radio City Music Hall German submarine U-37 (1938) Saint-Nazaire RMS Lancastria August 31 Lovettsville air disaster Minnesota Ernest Lundeen German submarine U-48 (1939) November 10 Anna Prucnal Genya Ravan Thelma Schoonmaker Helmut Jahn Brian Josephson Gao Xingjian Athol Guy Van McCoy 1979 2012 Helga Schubert Matthias Habich Dieter Schulte Siegmund Nimsgern 2002 Reinhart Ahlrichs 2011 1971 Bernhard Sinkel Paolo Borsellino 1992 Jack Nicklaus John Hurt Eberhard Weber 2010 Armin Maiwald Joanna Miles 2001 Gonzalo Aguirre James Cromwell 2003 Miguel Barnet Katharine Ross Kunimitsu Takahashi 2008 Martin Jones (Pianist) George A. Romero Tom Brokaw Brian Bennett (musician) Hubert Burda Werner Mauss Bashir Ahmad (politician) 2009 Hank Brown Wolfgang Solz Pastor Vega 2005 Werner Pirchner Abdelwahab Abdallah 2007 Franco Valle Winfried Hassemer Gene Pitney 2006 1999 1993 Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher Smokey Robinson Rudolf Edlinger Christoph Eschenbach Gaston Caperton Jon Elster Billy Name Peter Fonda 1991 Denis Law Sigmar Wittig Whitney Smith 1989 Friedel Rausch February 28 Aldo Andretti Mario Andretti Joe South 2013 Klaus-Dieter Lehmann Hideo Ochi Ralph Towner 2004 John W. Carlin Graham McRae Sepp Piontek Philippe Amaury Manfred Manglitz Johnny Ventura Al Jarreau Julian Hunte Hans-Olaf Henkel Claus Offe Jan Pronk Keith Rowe Bernardo Bertolucci Anni Biechl Jim Telfer Giampiero Moretti Solomon Burke Paul Friedrichs Gerhard Zemann Fausto Bertinotti Rodolfo Mederos James Caan Christina Odenberg Nancy Pelosi Silvano Bertini Derrick Morgan Sandro Munari Russell Banks Godfrey Reggio Octavian Nemescu Uwe Timm Wilhelm von Gottberg Brian Ackland-Snow April 1 April 2 1981 Karl-Heinz Thielen April 4 Richard Attwood Michael Ruetz April 5 Tommy Cash 2000 April 6 April 7 John Havlicek Hans-Joachim Reske Clark Blaise April 11 1998 Herbie Hancock Jack Hibberd Vladimir Cosma April 15 Wilfried Erdmann Rolf Dieter Brinkmann 1975 April 17 Anja Silja Siegfried Jerusalem Billy Fury 1983 Agostino Vallini April 18 Gordon Spice April 19 Kurt Ahrens, Jr. Bernd Heinrich April 20 Susy Andersen April 21 Peter Schneider (writer) April 22 Berndt Seite April 23 Dietrich Schwanitz April 24 Sue Grafton Jochen Borchert April 26 Giorgio Moroder April 28 April 29 1977 George Adams (musician) April 30 Darrell McCall May 1 Fakhruddin Ahmed Gene Perla May 4 Peter Gregg (racing driver) 1980 May 5 Vito Taccone May 7 May 8 Gary Glitter 1985 May 9 James L. Brooks Dick Morrissey May 11 Niklaus Meienberg Roger Ailes May 17 Peter Gerety May 19 Jan Janssen Frank Lorenzo May 20 May 21 Martin Carthy Tony Sheridan May 22 Klaus Schlappner May 24 1996 May 25 Levon Helm Gillian Barge Jan Bruins 1997 John Bergamo Hans Dulfer May 29 C. Anthony Anderson Bruce Chatwin Augie Meyers June 1 1995 June 2 Constantine II of Greece Ludwig Schwarz Veronika Bayer Klaus Urbanczyk June 5 June 6 Willie John McBride June 7 Helmut Bieler June 8 Nancy Sinatra June 9 Peter Ryan (racing driver) 1962 June 11 Volkmar Sigusch June 13 Dallas Long Janis Hansen Bobby Bell Michael Sheard June 19 June 20 June 21 Mariette Hartley Abbas Kiarostami June 23 Wilma Rudolph 1994 Stuart Sutcliffe June 25 Peer Augustinski June 26 June 29 John Dawes June 30 July 2 Irving Abella Georgi Ivanov Jerzy Buzek Mihai Adam Peer Raben July 6 July 7 1972 Wolfgang Clement July 8 Peter Danckert July 9 Jair da Costa Erich Iltgen Helen Donath July 11 July 12 July 13 Patrick Stewart July 14 July 17 Francisco Toledo Mickey Hawks July 18 July 22 Thomas Wayne (singer) July 23 July 24 July 26 2014 July 27 Pina Bausch Gary Kurtz July 28 Gianpaolo Ambrosi Judy Grahn July 29 Wolfgang Grzyb James A. Anderson August 1 August 3 Ray Draper 1982 Roscoe Mitchell Martin Sheen August 4 Abdurrahman Wahid August 5 Natalie Trundy Egil Kapstad August 7 Jean-Luc Dehaene Martin Heisenberg August 8 Marie-Luise Marjan August 9 August 10 Sid Waddell August 11 Lennie Pond August 12 Tony Allen (musician) Allen Blairman Dirk Sager August 14 Aristides Royo Arthur Laffer August 15 Gudrun Ensslin August 16 Bruce Beresford August 19 Johnny Nash Gary Collins (American football) August 22 Valerie Harper August 25 Wilhelm von Homburg Dieter Senghaas Sonny Sharrock August 28 Christian Attersee William Cohen Dyson Lovell August 29 Bennie Maupin Dorrit Willumsen September 1 September 3 Eduardo Galeano September 5 Raquel Welch September 7 Dario Argento September 9 September 10 Dave Burrell September 11 Linda Gray Kurt Faltlhauser September 14 Manfred Ach Larry Brown (basketball) September 15 Chris Menges Norman Spinrad Heidelinde Weis Jan Eliasson Cynthia Flood Abbas El Fassi September 19 Karin Baal September 20 September 21 Lowell Lee Andrews September 22 Anna Karina Gerhard Hennige Hans Siemensmeyer September 24 Amelita Baltar Yves Navarre September 26 Gary Bartz Harry Jerome October 1 Phyllis Chesler Fredi M. Murer Gheorghe Gruia October 3 Barbara Henneberger 1964 Steve Swallow October 5 October 6 Boris Andreyev (cosmonaut) Manfred Bietak Wyche Fowler October 7 Raimund Harmstorf 1978 October 9 Erling von Mende Kiyoshi Tanabe October 11 Christoph Blocher October 13 Chris Farlowe October 14 Cliff Richard Benno Ohnesorg 1967 Edwin Skinner October 16 Dave DeBusschere Wolfgang Ziffer October 17 October 18 Cynthia Weil Uzi Even October 19 October 20 October 21 Manfred Mann (musician) Marita Petersen October 24 Giacomo Bulgarelli October 25 Bob Knight October 27 John Gotti October 29 Frida Boccara Connie Mack III Heinrich Mussinghoff October 31 November 2 Phil Minton Carolin Reiber November 3 Dieter Acker November 4 Jonathan Leakey November 6 Dieter F. Uchtdorf November 7 November 8 Bobby Rush (musician) Screaming Lord Sutch November 11 Barbara Boxer Mario Pavone Rudolf Schwarzkogler 1969 November 16 November 17 Gunnar Uldall 1984 November 18 Helma Sanders-Brahms November 21 Dr. John November 22 Terry Gilliam November 23 John Gudenus Hermann Otto Solms Karl Offmann Bruce Lee November 27 1973 November 28 November 29 November 30 Peter Gamper December 1 Richard Pryor December 3 December 4 Gerd Achterberg Barbara Amiel December 6 December 7 Heinfried Birlenbach Clancy Eccles December 10 Dionne Warwick Jutta Wachowiak Edith Clever December 15 Barbara Valentin Lei Feng Klaus Wennemann December 19 1976 December 20 Larry Willis December 21 Moritz de Hadeln Frank Zappa December 22 Brian Locking December 23 Nancy Graves Jorma Kaukonen December 28 December 29 Brigitte Kronauer December 30 Renate Jaeger December 31 Ido Abram Leila Ahmed Judith Binney Dennis Coffey Charles Nagel 1849 1895 1873 1860 Giuseppe Motta 1871 1894 1861 1883 1869 1896 1863 Otto Toeplitz 1881 Rudy Wiedoeft 1893 Olli Huttunen (biathlete) 1915 Abdullah Abdurahman 1872 1866 1903 Michael Hainisch 1858 Peter Behrens 1868 Andreas Heusler 1865 Agnes von Krusenstjerna 1891 1862 1884 1870 Robert Leffler Alfred Ploetz Felice Nazzaro 1887 1844 Wilhelm Anderson 1880 1856 Yuly Shokalsky Walter Eisfeld 1905 Peter Wust Katharina Schratt 1853 Carl Bosch 1874 Furnifold McLendel Simmons 1854 May 2 Willi Schlage 1888 1878 Emma Goldman 1859 1906 May 30 Otto Neururer 1882 Marcus Garvey 1875 Joseph Meister 1876 Arthur Harden Ernest Willard Gibson 1846 Walter Hasenclever 1890 1889 John Stuchell Fisher 1867 June 27 Harry Burton (Egyptologist) 1879 Ferdinando Minoia Paul Klee July 1 Ben Turpin John Abercrombie (Congressman) July 5 Carl Einstein 1885 Donald Tovey July 16 Alexander Koenig July 21 1852 1886 Italo Balbo 1899 1910 August 18 August 21 Paul Juon Hermann Obrecht Oliver Lodge 1851 August 24 Gregorio Aglipay Jonathan Bourne, Jr. 1855 David F. Houston Edmund Rumpler Hermann Stehr 1864 Henri Lavedan 1892 Rudolf Medek 1857 Walter Kollo Oliver Henry Shoup Henry Horner 1902 October 8 Vito Volterra William H. Dieterich 1912 George Sebastian Silzer Erich Bethe 1901 William G. Conley Pierre Weiss Julius Caldeen Gunter November 9 Raymond Pearl Eric Gill Ivane Javakhishvili November 19 Gustav Neckel December 5 December 8 December 11 Nathaniel B. Dial Clara Southern F. Scott Fitzgerald Nathanael West Gjergj Fishta

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