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1.12 December

December 1 ? Alvaro Obregon becomes a president of Mexico
December 5 - Referendum in Greece is favorable to reinstatement of monarchy.
December 11 - Martial law in Ireland.
December 16 - Finland joins the League of Nations.
December 16 - 8.6 Richter scale Earthquake causes landslide in Gansu province, China - 180.000 dead.
December 23 - United Kingdom and France ratify the border between French-held Syria and British-held Palestine.

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Number of US Americans move to Paris to escape the Prohibition
France prohibits selling of contraceptives.
Roman Ungern von Sternberg conquers Urga and declares himself as a ruler of Mongolia.
Kurd rebellion in Turkey begins.
Johnny Torrio invites Al Capone to Chicago from New York.

2 Births

January 1 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer and songwriter ( Quartetto Cetra)
January 2 - Isaac Asimov, author (d. 1992)
January 3 - Renato Carosone, Italian musician and singer (d. 2001)
January 6 - Early Wynn, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1999)
January 6 - Sun Myung Moon, evangelist
January 19 - Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, United Nations Secretary General
January 20 - Federico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993)
January 20 - DeForest Kelley, actor (d. 1999)
January 20 - John O'Connor , Cardinal of New York City (d. 2000)
January 23 - Ray Abrams , tenor saxophonist
January 23 - Gottfried Böhm , architect
January 27 - Frankie Albert , US football star (d. 2002)
January 30 - Delbert Mann, director
January 31 - Paul Warnke , diplomat (d. 2001)
February 7 - An Wang, computer pioneer (d. 1990)
February 8 - Lana Turner, actress (d. 1995)
February 11 - Billy Halop, actor.
February 11 - Daniel Francis Galouye , US science fiction author
February 11 - Farouk I, last King of Egypt (1936-1952) (d. 1965)
February 11 - Paul Peter Piech, artist (d. 1996)
February 12 - William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor of Church history emeritus at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (d. 2000)
February 17 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (d. 2001)
February 18 - Bill Cullen, game show host (d. 1990)
February 18 - Jack Palance, actor
February 18 – Eddie Slovik, private, U.S. Army (d. 1945)
February 26 - Tony Randall, actor ( The Odd Couple) (d. 2004)
February 29 - Howard Nemerov, winner of the Pulitzer Prize (d. 1991)
March 3 - Ronald Searle, illustrator
March 3 - James Doohan, actor
March 14 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (d. 2001)
March 15 - Lawrence Sanders , novelist (d. 1998)
March 16 - Leo McKern, actor (d. 2002)
March 17 - Mujibur Rahman, Prime Minister of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
March 19 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
March 25 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
April 1 - Toshirô Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
April 2 - Jack Webb, actor, director, producer (d. 1982)
April 7 - Ravi Shankar, musician
April 11 - Peter O'Donnell, creator of Modesty Blaise
April 15 - Thomas Stephen Szasz , A professor of psychiatry, Writer of the book " The Myth of Mental Illness"
April 13 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of Ireland
April 27 - Guido Cantelli, conductor (d. 1956)
April 29 - Harold Shapero, composer
May 2 - Jean-Marie Auberson, Swiss conductor (d. 2004)
May 6 - Ross Hunter , producer (d. 1996)
May 6 - Kamisese Mara, first Prime Minister of Fiji (d. 2004)
May 9 - Richard Adams, author
May 18 - Karol Wojtyla, future pope John Paul II
May 18 - Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer ( Quartetto Cetra)
May 23 - Helen O'Connell, singer (d. 1993)
May 26 - Peggy Lee, singer (d. 2002)
May 30 - Franklin Schaffner, film director (d. 1989)
June 12 - Dave Berg, cartoonist for Mad Magazine (d. 2002)
July 20 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, Spanish sports official and IOC president
August 8 - Leo Chiosso, Italian lyricist
August 16 - Charles Bukowski, US writer (d. 1994)
August 22 - Ray Bradbury, US science fiction writer
August 29 - Charlie Parker, jazz musician (d. 1955)
September 10 - Fabio Taglioni, automotive engineer (d. 2001)
September 22 - William H. Riker, political scientist (d. 1993)
October 1 - Walter Matthau, US actor (d. 2000)
October 1 - Charles Daudelin, Canadian sculptor (d. 2001)
October 9 - Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (d. 1976)
October 15 - Mario Puzo, author (The Godfather) (d. 1999)
October 31 - Fritz Walter, football player (d. 2002)
November 21 - Stan Musial, Baseball Hall of Famer
November 23 - Paul Celan, Romanian born German language poet
November 25 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, later Raja of Perlis and 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (d. 2000)
December 6 - Dave Brubeck, jazz musician

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