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#2063: Dutch & Linn
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, Alien vs Predator, Aliens, All Time Toys, NECA, Predator June 12, 2019
DUTCH & LINN
ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (NECA)
"Terror grips the city of San Drad as it is overwhelmed by a mysterious outbreak of aliens. The cybernetically-enhanced Major Dutch Schaefer and Lt. Linn Kurosawa of the USCMC are surrounded by a swarm of Xenomorph drones when a pair of unlikely allies – Predators – appear and offer a temporary alliance. Now it's a battle to end them all as human and Predator join forces against unending waves of deadly Xenomorphs!"
In 1994, with the golden years of both franchises firmly behind them, Aliens and Predator decided to meet in the middle, and dive headlong into the world of Alien Vs. Predator, in all its shapes and forms. While it would take us another decade to actually get a movie made out of that concept, one was in the works, and a script was drafted for a mid-90s release. Capcom was contacted to make an arcade game to tie-in with the film, and when the film fell through, decided to go ahead and release the game anyway. Players could choose between four playable characters on their trek to mow down Xenos. There were two variants of Predator, and then there were Dutch and Linn, who I'm taking a look at today.
THE FIGURES THEMSELVES
Dutch and Linn are a two-pack release as part of NECA's game-based Alien Vs. Predator line. They hit shelves between the Predators and the Aliens, which I guess makes some sense. Both follow NECA's trend of video game figures filtered through the lens of pseudo realism.
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer was no stranger to that whole Predator thing, being the main protagonist of the first movie and all. He's also no stranger to the NECA thing….being the protagonist of the first movie and all. And, given Arnold Schwarzenegger's '90s stardom, it's no surprise that there were plans to include him in the film crossover. Whether he would have actually been cybernetically-enhanced in the movie is anyone's guess, but it was a cool game concept. The figure stands 7 inches tall and he has 26 points of articulation. Unsurprisingly, this Dutch figure makes use of the molds from NECA's previous Dutch figures. As I noted when I reviewed the Contra figures that were also built on this body, it's a strong starting point, and still remains one of NECA's best bodies. Dutch gets a new, slightly less Schwarzenegger-looking head, plus a new belt and knee/elbow pads. And, of course, most notably, he gets a new right arm, replicating his big robot arm from the game. Boy is this a thing of beauty. It's a clean sculpt, and it's got working pistons and joints in all the proper spots. It could have easily been badly articulated or overly fragile, but it's neither one of those things, and it even manages to be pretty well balanced on the figure, so he won't fall over as much as you might expect. Man, is that a cool arm. Dutch's paintwork follows the usual NECA classic video-game trend, with actual painted shading and lighting, simulating the way the sprites in the game are painted. It's surprisingly subtle on Dutch, and adds a pop to the figure without making him look weird from non-highlighted angles. Dutch is packed with an extra, slightly more relaxed hand for his robot arm, as well as a fire-effect piece to plug onto the end.
Lt. Linn Kurosawa was a brand new addition for the game, though given that she was given the Aliens connection, one has to wonder if at some point in the process she was meant to be a returning Aliens franchise character. Whatever the case, she's just as prominent in the game as Dutch, and a natural choice here. The figure is 6 1/2 inches tall and has 25 points of articulation (including a balljoint on her pony tail; that's pretty darn cool). Though she's a new character, she's not all-new pieces. She's instead built on some of Pvt Vasquez's parts. Given they're both USCMC, it's s pretty sensible bit of re-use. Like Dutch, there are still plenty of new parts, including a new head and torso, as well as new dressing for the arms and legs. If Dutch is NECA's best male body, Vasquez is their best female, so Linn's got another good starting point. The new parts are all pretty good, though she doesn't have anything that immediately stands out the way Dutch's robot arm did. Still, a pretty solid sculpt all around. The paint on Linn is certainly bright and eye-catching, though I did notice that it seemed a little more prone to slop and bleed over than Dutch's. You might want to keep an eye on that. Linn is packed with a katana, and a handgun, with right hands to match each of them.
THE ME HALF OF THE EQUATION
I've not played the game these two are based on, but I've always liked the designs, especially Dutch. While I passed on the rest of the game figures, I liked these two enough in-person that I didn't want to pass on them. Dutch is probably one of my favorite NECA figures, truth be told. That robot arm is just so much fun! Linn may not have the wow factor that Dutch is, but I didn't feel like I was gipped by having to buy her as well. All-in-all a very fun set.
I picked this set up from All Time Toys, where it can still be purchased here. If you're looking for other toys both old and new, please check out their website and their eBay storefront.
#1863: Broken Tusk
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with Alien vs Predator, All Time Toys, NECA, Predator November 23, 2018
BROKEN TUSK
PREDATORS (NECA)
"Mankind's two ultimate nightmares come together in mortal combat, and whoever wins—we lose. On the remote planet Ryushi, a small ranching community becomes an unwilling participant in a deadly ritual: extraterrestrial predators have seeded Ryushi with alien eggs in order to create the ultimate hunt. But what the Predators don't know is that an alien queen egg is amongst those they've sent as potential hunting stock, and when the Predators arrive, the hunters become the hunted amidst a monumental swarm of aliens, and they may need to turn to the very same humans they regard as little more than potential trophies to give them any hope of survival."
Just over 1000 reviews ago, I had a brief discussion of the Alien vs. Predator movie. From the moment Predator 2 revealed a Xenomorph skull amongst the collection on the Predator ship, the "Alien vs. Predator" concept has been out there, permeating just about every form of media. While the movie was awful (although, it was sweet, sweet bliss when compared to its sequel), there have been a number of far more successful takes on the concept, including Dark Horse's comics version, which actually served as a heavy inspiration for the movie, but is better in just about every facet. NECA, always anxious for new venues for Predators to release, has slowly been adding various comics-based Predators to their ongoing line. The latest is Broken Tusk, aka Dachande, the comic's equivalent to the movie's "Scar," as a moderately heroic Predator that assists the humans in defeating the Xeno menace.
THE FIGURE ITSELF
Broken Tusk is one of the three figures in Series 18 of the Predators line from NECA. All three are based on the AvP comic, though somewhat adapted to the more realistic style of the rest of the line, which is sensible. The figure is just shy of 9 inches tall and has 32 points of articulation. He uses the larger and more posable style of body introduced with Series 14's AvP movie Predators. It gives them quite an imposing stature, and his articulation makes for a very playable figure. The underlying sculpt is the same basic one seen on the others, with the armored parts being the major change-up. Broken Tusk has a rather unique armor design. In the story, he's injured during the battle with the Xenos, so the humans have to help patch him up. The end result is a blending of the classic Predator aesthetic (including a Jungle Hunter-inspired faceplate), with more utilitarian human tech worked in on the torso, and then a bit of found materials (including a very cool Xeno head). As we've become accustomed to with this line, the gauntlets have extending blades on one side, and a fold-out panel on the other, which is always a fun feature. As amazing as the sculpt is, what really sold me on this figure was the paint scheme. In the comics, he's colored in a more traditional Predator sort of sense, with lots of browns and greys, making him as a whole look quite similar to the standard Jungle Hunter. Of course, that describes a lot of the NECA Predators so far, so this guy would have been just one fo the pack. As cool as the sculpt may be, with those same colors, he might end up unfortunately forgettable. So, instead, NECA's played up the human-ally aspect of the character, and given him a color scheme modeled after the Colonial Marines from Aliens. It's pretty darn cool, and I love have they've even made the patterns on his skin look like the camo pattern from the Marine uniforms. It's definitely very clever. Broken Tusk's accessories further the melding of the styles, with his more Predator specific two-part staff, and a more human-inspired rifle as well. Both weapons are very nicely sculpted and well fit to his hands.
I'm a more moderate Predator fan, but I'm a huge Aliens fan, so anytime NECA melds those two lines, I'm on board. As soon as this guy was shown off (TWO Toy Fairs ago), I knew I wanted one. It's been a long wait for him, long enough that I'd thought maybe he just wasn't coming. But then, Series 18 just sort of dropped in my lap, and boom, here he was. Fun's a word I used a few times in this review, and it's an apt description for him. I just really like him, in both concept and execution, and he's a fantastic accent piece for my rather expansive collection of Colonial Marines.
I picked up Broken Tusk from my friends over at All Time Toys. If you're looking for cool toys both old and new, please check out their website and their eBay Store.
#0843: Chopper Predator
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with Alien vs Predator, All Time Toys, Chopper, NECA, Predator February 12, 2016
CHOPPER PREDATOR
Alien vs. Predator is NOT a good movie. It's pretty terrible from start to finish. However, it's failure as a film is more punctuated by the fact that there's actually a lot decent ideas (or at least the beginnings of decent ideas/concepts) that are completely dropped in favor of making the film as generic and forgettable as possible. One of the most disappointing aspects of the film is it's handling of the second titular character, the Predator, or more accurately to the film, the Predators. The movie presents us with three unique Predators. They look cool, and their super imposing, and you're super excited to see what they can do. But, they spend the first half of the film cloaked, and when they finally engage the Aliens, two of the three are taken out in the space of 5 minutes (by the same Xeno, no less!), leaving us with only the least distinctive of the three Predators to carry the rest of the film. Fortunately, NECA's currently in the process of making super cool toys of just about every Predator ever, so the AvP Preds have gotten new life via action figures. Today, I'll be looking at my personal favorite of the trio, Chopper Predator.
Chopper Predator is part of the 14th Series of NECA's Predators line, which is the first of a handful of series (in both the Predator and Aliens lines) based on AvP. The figure stands almost 9 inches tall and has 32 points of articulation. Chopper uses a new base body for the Predators, introduced in this series, and shared with his two series-mates. This new body is much larger than previous Predators, and also offers a much greater range of motion and posability. The body is nicely proportioned, and it has a ton of really great texturing and fine detail work. Seriously, every part of this sculpt is covered in texturing, which makes him look really cool. While a lot of the body is shared with the other two Predators, Chopper does get a unique head, forearms, and plasma caster. The head depicts Chopper's bio mask very nicely; the texturing on it really makes it look like the real thing. The "hair" is a little bit unruly, but it's made from soft rubber, so it can be managed. The forearms are the real star here, since the large blades are what he takes his name from. The gauntlets have some fantastically ornate work on them, while still being nice and sturdy, and the left one even has a flip-up display. The actual blades are well-handled, and surprisingly sharp; they're included in both semi-stowed and fully extended lengths, which is a nice touch. One of Chopper's more distinctive elements was the pair of skulls mounted on spikes on his back, which this figure replicates as best it can. They're included as separate pieces; one is slotted into the base of the plasma caster, and the other is supposed to pop into the little clip on Chopper's back. I say "supposed" because mine included the clip included on Celtic and Scar, rather than the smaller unique clip that Chopper was meant to have. Fortunately, a carefully shaped and cut twisty tie was enough to keep it in place! The actual skulls are just as awesomely sculpted as the rest of the figure, and replicate the in-movie look very well. Chopper's paint work is another pretty great area. There's some nice variance in the sheens of the various parts of him, with the skin being shinier than the armor and cloth. He's also got some fantastic accent work on the armor, which gives it a nice worn in look and adds a lot of depth to the figure. There are one or two spots of bleed over, but the overall work is good enough that they don't jump out at you. In addition to the two sets of blades, and the skulls on spikes, Chopper also includes a Combi Stick (in retracted form), a pretty brutal looking knife, and a shuriken looking thing (which he can't hold, what with having two fists. It's the thought that counts!). That's incredibly impressive given that prior Predators were lucky to get more than one accessory!
Despite not caring for the film, I've actually been anxiously awaiting this series' release ever since they were announced. I was always bummed that Chopper was so under-utilized, and even more bummed when he was the only Predator left out of McFarlane's tie-in line. I bought Chopper from All Time Toys, after catching their post on their FB page that this series was in stock. I'm so happy to have him, and he's hands down my favorite Predator to date. NECA did an amazing job on this one!
#0750: Alien Warrior
Posted by Ethan Wilson in Reviews and tagged with Alien vs Predator, Aliens, Bandai, Imports, SH MonsterArts November 11, 2015
ALIEN WARRIOR
What's this? Another Alien review? On my site? Why, that's just unheard of! …Or, maybe not. So, what's different about this review? Well, amongst other things, it's a figure based on a movie I don't like. Yeah, this here is one of the Alien Warriors from the first Alien vs. Predator film, a movie that's only real saving grace is that it's not as bad as its own sequel. In fact, it's not a bad movie, just a mediocre one. That doesn't seem right for Alien vs. Predator, which should really be a "go big or go home" affair. But, alas, we got the film we got, and it's highly unlikely we'll ever see another. Sorry, this is actually supposed to be a toy review! Let's get on to the figure!
The Alien Warrior is a part of Bandai's S.H. MonsterArts line, and was released as a standalone item in early 2014. The figure stands just shy of 6 inches tall (a little taller than Bandai's Big Chap) and has 63 points of articulation. As noted in the intro, this figure is based on the Alien vs. Predator design for the Alien Warrior. It's interesting that they opted to release this version of the alien so far after the movie instead of something more iconic, such as the Aliens version, but if I had to guess, I'd say AvP's probably just the cheapest of the licenses to procure. I find that each successive iteration of the Xenomorph design after Aliens loses a little of what made the first two designs work, and in particular, I found the Xenos in AvP to be too skinny and waaaaay too slimy and goopy. While this figure does strive to be an overall fairly accurate translation of the design, I find it changes a few minor things that result in a much better end product. For one thing, the details and texturing feel much sharper here than in the film, which is definitely a change I appreciate. In addition, it seems they've shrunk the size of the head ever so slightly, so that makes the body feel less skinny by comparison. In general, the sculpt has some incredible detail work and there's some really great touches that they could have gotten away with leaving out, like the fully sculpted head under the dome. That's something we don't see in the movie, but they put it there anyway. Also, like the Big Chap, the knees and the tip of the figure's tail are made from die-cast metal, which is a cool little, easily missed touch. The figure also has the signature Xeno inner-jaw, though the instructions tell you to remove the whole outer jaw to get it out (side note: looks like they got an actual translator for the instructions on this one. It makes for a more professional end product, but I must admit to missing the just slightly off English of the Big Chap's instructions. Oh well.) The paintwork on the figure is pretty much what you'd expect on a figure of a Xeno; it's black with silver highlights. The dark brown transparent dome is definitely a cool look, and I was quite happy to see that the fully sculpted head was also fully painted under there. The Alien Warrior includes an alien egg, a chestburster, two sets of hands in splayed and closed poses, and a display stand, which, like the Big Chap's, seems a little out of place with this figure.
After getting me the Big Chap for Christmas, my boy Tim got me this guy as a birthday present. Though I don't love the movie, and I'm not a big fan of the Xeno design as it's presented in the film, I actually really like this figure a lot. He's a ton of fun to pose, and the tweaks Bandai made to the design make it a lot better looking. Definitely an awesome addition to the collection!
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George Spelvin, U.S. theatrical convention used in the credits commonly to conceal dual roles or for a corpse or other anthropomorphic props. Spelvin first "appeared" on Broadway in the cast list of Charles A. Gardiner's Karl the Peddler in 1886. Winchell Smith employed the character in many of his plays, beginning with Brewster's Millions in 1906. He appeared with Maude Adams in Joan of Arc (1908), as a Betting Man in High Button Shoes (1947), and as Colonel Dent in Jane Eyre (1958).
D.W. Griffith cast Spelvin as a Union soldier in his epochal film The Birth of a Nation (1915) and as a dancer in Way Down East (1920). He also had a small role in the Academy Award-winning From Here to Eternity (1953). Spelvin was first listed in television credits in the dramatic series The Fugitive, and from time to time he has filled out the cast of such daytime soap operas as The Guiding Light and Edge of Night.
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January[edit]
Main article: January 1937
January 19: Howard Hughes sets record.
January 20: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in as US President for his second term.
January – February – The Ohio River flood of 1937 takes place, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead.
January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
January 11 – The first issue of Look Magazine goes on sale in the United States.
January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road (begun 13 December 1936) concludes with both sides withdrawing.
January 19 – Howard Hughes establishes a record by flying from Los Angeles to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds.
January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time Inauguration Day in the United States is on this date, on which it continues to occur; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders.
January 26 – Michigan celebrates its centennial anniversary as a U.S. state.
January 31 – The Soviet Union executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism.
February[edit]
Main article: February 1937
February – Hergé's Tintin adventure The Broken Ear (L'Oreille cassée) concludes serialization in the Belgian weekly newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième, and soon afterwards is published as a book in black and white.
February 5 – U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
February 6 – John Steinbeck's novella of the Great Depression, Of Mice and Men, is published in the United States.
February 8 – Spanish Civil War: Falangist troops take Málaga.
February 8 – February 27 – Spanish Civil War – Battle of Jarama: Nationalist and government troops fight to a stalemate.
February 11 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
February 16 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.
Airliner VH-UHH (Stinson) goes down over Lamington National Park, bound for Sydney, killing 5 people.
Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian security guards fire into the crowd of Ethiopian onlookers. Authorities exact further reprisals, which include indiscriminately slaughtering native Ethiopians over the next 3 days, detaining thousands of Ethiopians at Danan and slaughtering almost 300 monks at the Debre Libanos Monastery.
The flag of the Netherlands is officially adopted.
February 20 – Roberto Ortiz is elected president of Argentina.
February 21 – The League of Nations Non-Intervention Committee prohibits foreign nationals from fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
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The first issue of Detective Comics is published in the United States. It goes on to become the longest continually published comic book in American history; it is still published as of 2018[update].
Napoleon Hill's self-help book Think and Grow Rich is first published in the United States.
March 10 (dated March 14 (Passion Sunday)) – The encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With burning concern") of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in the German language. Largely the work of Cardinals von Faulhaber and Pacelli, it condemns breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticises Nazism's views on race and other matters incompatible with Catholicism.
March 17 – The Atherton Report (private investigator Edwin Atherton's report detailing vice and police corruption in San Francisco) is released.
March 18 – New London School explosion: In the worst school disaster in American history in terms of lives lost, the New London School in New London, Texas, suffers a catastrophic natural gas explosion, killing in excess of 295 students and teachers. Mother Frances Hospital opens in Tyler, Texas, a day ahead of schedule, in response to the explosion.
March 19 – The encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pope Pius XI, critical of communism, is published.
Ponce massacre: A police squad, acting under orders from Governor of Puerto Rico Blanton Winship, opens fire on demonstrators protesting at the arrest of Puerto Rican Nationalist Party leader Pedro Albizu Campos, killing 17 people and injuring over 200.
The first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile, makes its initial flight.[citation needed]
In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.
William H. Hastie becomes the first African American appointed to a federal judgeship in the United States.
April[edit]
Main article: April 1937
Aden becomes a British crown colony.
The Bombing of Jaén is carried out in Spain, by the Condor Legion of the Nazi German Luftwaffe.
April 9 – The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London; it is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
Frank Whittle ground-tests the world's first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the National Labor Relations Act is constitutional.
April 17 – The animated short Porky's Duck Hunt, directed by Tex Avery for the Looney Tunes series, featuring the debut of Daffy Duck, is released in the United States.
April 20 – A fire in an elementary school in Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia, kills 17 students and injures 50.
April 26 – Spanish Civil War: The Bombing of Guernica is carried out in Spain, by the Condor Legion of the Nazi German Luftwaffe, in support of the Francoists. Three-quarters of the town is destroyed and hundreds killed.[1]
May[edit]
Main article: May 1937
May 6: The Hindenburg disaster occurs.
May 27: The Golden Gate Bridge opens.
The Dáil Éireann passes the Executive Authority (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937, which abolishes the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State, retrospectively dated to December 1936.
17 million are unemployed in the USA.
May 1 – A general strike occurs in Paris, France.
May 6 – Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Of the 36 passengers and 61 crew on board, 13 passengers and 22 crew die, as well as one member of the ground crew.
May 7 – Spanish Civil War: The German Condor Legion Fighter Group, equipped with Heinkel He 51 biplanes, arrives in Spain to assist Francisco Franco's forces.
May 8 – Wydad Athletic Club (WAC;(Arabic: نادي الوداد الرياضي; Berber: Wydad Dar al-Beida; commonly: Wydad al ouma is established in Casablanca, Morocco; it will be best known for its Casablanca Association football team.
May 12 – The coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth takes place at Westminster Abbey, London.
A Soviet station becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
As one of the reprisals for the attempted assassination of Italian viceroy Rodolfo Graziani, a detachment of Italian troops massacres the entire community of Debre Libanos, killing 297 monks and 23 laymen.
May 27 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushes a button in Washington, D.C., signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the bridge.
Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, following the retirement of Stanley Baldwin.
Spanish Civil War: Spanish ship Ciudad de Barcelona is torpedoed.
Memorial Day massacre of 1937: The Chicago Police Department shoot and kill 10 unarmed demonstrators in Chicago.
June[edit]
Main article: June 1937
June – Picasso completes his painting Guernica.
June – July – The Dáil Éireann debates and passes the new draft Constitution of Ireland, which is then submitted for public approval by plebiscite.
June 3 – Wallis Simpson marries The Duke of Windsor (the former Edward VIII) in France.
The first total solar eclipse to exceed 7 minutes of totality, in over 800 years, is visible in the Pacific and Peru.
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana premieres in Frankfurt, Germany.
June 14 – Pennsylvania becomes the first (and only one) of the United States to celebrate Flag Day officially as a state holiday.
June 21 – The coalition government of Léon Blum resigns in France.
July[edit]
Main article: July 1937
July 2: Amelia Earhart disappears from New Guinea.
July 9: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
The Gestapo arrests pastor Martin Niemöller in Germany.
In a referendum the people of the Irish Free State accept the new Constitution by 685,105 votes to 527,945.
First alleged sighting of the White River Monster.
Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea, during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.
A guard takes his place at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Washington, D.C.; continuous guard has been maintained there ever since.
July 4 – The Lost Colony historical drama is first performed at an outdoor theater in the location where it is set, Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
The canned precooked meat product Spam is introduced by the Hormel Company in the United States.
The highest recorded temperature in Canada, at Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, is 45 °C (113 °F).
Sino-Japanese War - Battle of Lugou Bridge (aka Marco Polo Bridge Incident): Japanese forces invade China (often seen as the beginning of World War II in Asia).
The Peel Commission proposes partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.[2][3]
July 9 – 1937 Fox vault fire: The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed.
July 20 – The Geibeltbad Pirna is opened in Dresden, Germany.
July 21 – Éamon de Valera is elected President of the Executive Council (prime minister) of the Irish Free State, by the Dáil (parliament).
July 22 – New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
July 24 – Alabama drops rape charges against the so-called Scottsboro Boys.
July 25–31 – Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Beiping–Tianjin, a series of actions fought around Beiping and Tianjin, result in Japanese victory.
July 28 – The Irish Republican Army attempts the assassination by bomb of George VI in Belfast.
July 29 – Tungchow Mutiny: Units of the East Hopei Army mutiny, and kill Japanese troops and civilians in Tōngzhōu.
July 31 – NKVD Operative Order 00447 "Об операции по репрессированию бывших кулаков, уголовников и других антисоветских элементов" ("The operation for repression of former kulaks, criminals and other anti-Soviet elements") is approved by the Politburo of the Soviet Union, initially as a 4-month plan for 75,950 people to be executed and an additional 193,000 to be sent to the Gulag.
August[edit]
Main article: August 1937
August 2 – The Marihuana Tax Act[4] in the United States is a significant bill on the path that will lead to the criminalization of cannabis. It was introduced to the U.S. Congress by Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger.
August 5 – The Soviet Union commences one of the largest campaigns of the Great Purge, to "eliminate anti-Soviet elements". Within the following year, at least 724,000 people are killed[citation needed] on order of the troikas, directed by Joseph Stalin. This is an offensive that targets social classes (such as the kulaks), ethnic or racial backgrounds which are seen as non-Russian,[citation needed] and Stalin's personal opponents from the Communist Party and their sympathizers.
August 6 – Spanish Civil War: Falangist artillery bombards Madrid.
August 8 – Japan occupies Beijing.
August 9 – The Polish Operation of the NKVD (1937–38) is signed by Nikolai Yezhov, as a continuation of the Great Purge.
August 13 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai opens.
August 26 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese aircraft attack the car carrying the ambassador of Great Britain, during a raid on Shanghai.
September[edit]
Main article: September 1937
September 17: Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.
September 2 – The Great Hong Kong Typhoon kills an estimated 11,000 persons.
September 5 – Spanish Civil War: The city of Llanes falls to the Falangists.
September 7 – CBS broadcasts a two-and-a-half hour memorial concert nationwide on radio in memory of George Gershwin, live from the Hollywood Bowl. Many celebrities appear, including Oscar Levant, Fred Astaire, Otto Klemperer, Lily Pons and members of the original cast of Porgy and Bess. The concert is recorded and released complete years later in what is excellent sound for its time, on CD. The Los Angeles Philharmonic is the featured orchestra.
September 10 – Nine nations meet in the Nyon Conference, led by the United Kingdom and France, to address international piracy in the Mediterranean.
September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.
September 19 – Swiss professional ice hockey club HC Ambrì-Piotta is founded.
September 21 – George Allen & Unwin, Ltd. of London publishes the first edition of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
September 25 – Second Sino-Japanese War - Battle of Pingxingguan: The Communist Chinese Eighth Route Army defeats the Japanese.
September 27 – The last Bali tiger dies.[5]
October[edit]
Main article: October 1937
The Marihuana Tax Act becomes law in the United States.
U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Hugo Black, in a nationwide radio broadcast, refutes allegations of past involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.
October 2–8 – Parsley Massacre: Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops kill thousands of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
October 3 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops advance toward Nanking, capital of the Republic of China.
October 5 – Roosevelt gives his famous Quarantine Speech in Chicago.
October 9 – Jimmie Angel lands his plane on top of Devil's Mountain; however, the plane gets damaged, and he has to trek through the rainforest for help.
October 11 - The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days, and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
October 13 – Germany, in a note to Brussels, guarantees the inviolability and integrity of Belgium, so long as the latter abstains from military action against Germany.
October 15 – Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not is first published, in the United States.
October 18–October 21 – Spanish Civil War: The whole Spanish northern seaboard falls into the Falangists' hands; Republican forces in Gijón, Spain, set fire to petrol reserves, prior to retreating before the advancing Falangists.
October 23 – 1937 Australian federal election: Joseph Lyons' UAP/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the Labor Party led by John Curtin.
October 25 – Celâl Bayar forms the new (ninth) government of Turkey.
November[edit]
Main article: November 1937
November 3 – Maurice J. Tobin resoundingly defeats former governor and mayor James Michael Curley, in Boston's mayoral election.
World War II: In the Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people (recorded in the Hossbach Memorandum).
November 6 – Italy joins the Anti-Comintern Pact.
November 9 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Japanese troops take Shanghai.
November 10 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas announces the Estado Novo ("New State"), thence becoming dictator of Brazil until 1945.
November 11 – The Kogushi Sulfur Mine collapse, in western Gunma, Japan, kills at least 245 people.
December[edit]
Main article: December 1937
December 21: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released, the world's first full-length animated feature film, the first Disney film, and the first film to feature a Disney Princess. The top image shows the Seven Dwarfs singing "Heigh-Ho" while walking on a log. The second top image shows Walt Disney introducing the Seven Dwarfs in the trailer and the bottom images are the trailers.
December 1 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanking begins.
December 4 – The Dandy comic is first published in Scotland; it continued until 2012 as a physical publication, then until 2013 online.
December 11 – Italy withdraws from the League of Nations.
USS Panay incident: Japanese bombers sink the American gunboat USS Panay.
Mae West makes a risqué guest appearance on NBC's Chase and Sanborn Hour, which eventually results in her being banned from radio.
December 13 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanking ends with the Japanese occupying the city. In the Nanking Massacre which follows, Japanese soldiers kill over 300,000 Chinese in 3 months. A few days previously, the Nationalist government of China had moved its capital to the southwestern city Chungking (Chongqing).
December 16 – The original production of the musical Me and My Girl opens at the Victoria Palace Theatre, in London's West End. A later revival will win an award.
December 21 – Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first feature-length animated film, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre in Los Angeles.
December 22 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
December 25 – At the age of 70, legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra on radio for the first time, beginning his successful 17-year tenure with that orchestra. This first concert consists of music by Vivaldi (at a time when he is seldom played), Mozart, and Brahms. Millions tune in to listen, including U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
December 29 – The new Constitution of Ireland (Bunreacht na hÉireann) comes into force. The Irish Free State becomes "Ireland", and Éamon de Valera becomes the first Taoiseach (prime minister) of the new state. A Presidential Commission (made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938. The new constitution prohibits divorce.
Date unknown[edit]
Switzerland begins construction of its Border Line defences.
The Vibora Luviminda sugar plantation trades unions strike on Maui island, Hawaii.
Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti is the first to document a transorbital approach to the brain, which becomes the basis for the controversial medical procedure of transorbital lobotomy.
Soviet industry produces about four times as much as it had in 1928.
The Allen Organ Company, builder of church, home and theatre organs, is founded in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
Births[edit]
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December
Yukio Endo
Werner Schneyder
January 1 – Anne Aubrey, British actress
Grace Bumbry, American opera singer
Dyan Cannon, American actress, film director and screenwriter
Lorene Mann, American country music singer, songwriter (d. 2013)
Paolo Conte, Italian singer, pianist and composer
Underwood Dudley, American mathematician
January 8 – Dame Shirley Bassey, Welsh singer ("Goldfinger")
George Reisman, American economist
Ati George Sokomanu, President of Vanuatu
Ken Higgs, English cricketer (d. 2016)
Leo Kadanoff, American physicist (d. 2015)
Tom McEwen, American drag racer (d. 2018)
Billie Jo Spears, American country music singer (d. 2011)
January 15 – Margaret O'Brien, American child actress
January 16 – Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015)
Yukio Endo, Japanese gymnast (d. 2009)
John Hume, Northern Irish politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Princess Birgitta of Sweden, Princess of Sweden
Giovanna Marini, Italian singer, songwriter
January 21 – Prince Max, Duke in Bavaria, heir to the Bavarian Royal House
Sauryavong Savang, Laotian prince (d. 2018)
Joseph Wambaugh, American author
Ange-Félix Patassé, 5th President of Central African Republic (d. 2011)
Werner Schneyder, Austrian writer, director, and actor (d. 2019)
January 27 – John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
January 29 – Bobby Scott, American musician, producer and songwriter (d. 1990)
Vanessa Redgrave, British actress
Boris Spassky, Russian chess grandmaster
Philip Glass, American composer
Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (d. 2008)
Gaston Roelants
Rupiah Banda
Harald V of Norway
Don Everly, American rock and roll musician (The Everly Brothers)
Garrett Morris, African-American comedian, actor (Saturday Night Live)
Remak Ramsay, American actor
Tom Smothers, American musician, comedian (The Smothers Brothers)
Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer (d. 2015)
February 3 – Billy Meier, Swiss prophet
February 4 – Magnar Solberg, Norwegian biathlete
February 5 – Gaston Roelants, Belgian Olympic athlete
Manfred Krug, German actor, singer (d. 2016)
Harry Wu, Chinese human rights activist (d. 2016)
Francis William Lawvere, American mathematician
Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2017)
Roberta Flack, African-American singer
Anne Anderson, Scottish physiologist (d. 1983)
Ian Gow, British Member of Parliament who was assassinated by the IRA (d. 1990)[6]
Mauro Staccioli, Italian sculptor (d. 2018)
Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
February 12 – Charles Dumas, American athlete (d. 2004)
February 13 – Rupiah Banda, 4th President of Zambia
February 14 – Magic Sam, American musician (d. 1969)
February 17 – Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (d. 2014)
Robert Huber, German chemist; Nobel Prize laureate
George Leonardos, Greek journalist, author
Roger Penske, American race car driver
Nancy Wilson, African-American singer and actress (d. 2018)
Ron Clarke, Australian runner (d. 2015)
King Harald V of Norway
Sir Tom Courtenay, English actor
Bob Schieffer, American television journalist
February 27 – Barbara Babcock, American character actress
Olusegun Obasanjo
Benny Paret
March 2 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria
March 3 – Bobby Driscoll, American child, voice actor (d. 1968)
Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
Leslie H. Gelb, American foreign policy expert, President of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1993
Yuri Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut (d. 2003)
Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
March 5 – Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria
March 6 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian cosmonaut, first woman in space
March 7 – Rogério Cardoso, Brazilian actor and comedian (d. 2003)
Richard Fariña, American folk music singer, novelist (d. 1966)
Juvénal Habyarimana, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
Bernard Landry, Canadian politician (d. 2018)
Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey coach, broadcaster
March 14 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (d. 1962)
March 15 – Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (d. 2015)
March 16 – Brian Browne, Canadian jazz pianist, composer (d. 2018)
Frank Calabrese, Sr., American gangster in the Chicago Outfit (d. 2012)
Vince Martin, American singer, songwriter (d. 2018)
March 18 – Aleksei Zasukhin, Soviet boxer (d. 1996)
Jerry Reed, American country musician (d. 2008)
Eddie Shaw, American saxophonist and songwriter (d. 2018)
March 22 – Armin Hary, German athlete
Craig Breedlove, American race car driver
Tony Burton, American actor, boxer and football player (d. 2016)
March 24 – Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, 4th Prime Minister of Barbados
March 27 – Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
March 29 – Billy Carter, American farmer, businessman, brewer and politician (d. 1988)
March 30 – Warren Beatty, American actor, director
Joseph Estrada
April 4 – Obed Dlamini, 6th Prime Minister of Swaziland (d. 2017)
Colin Powell, African-American U.S. Secretary of State
Maryanne Trump Barry, American attorney
Merle Haggard, American country musician (d. 2016)
Billy Dee Williams, African-American actor
April 9 – Valerie Singleton, English television presenter
April 10 – Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet (d. 2010)
April 12 – Gene Lenz, American competition swimmer (d. 2005)
April 15 – Robert W. Gore, American inventor
April 16 – George Steele, American professional wrestler and actor (d. 2017)
Don Buchla, American electronic-instrument designer (d. 2016)
Ferdinand Piëch, Austrian engineer, business magnate
Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin (d. 2009)
Teddy Taylor, British politician (d. 2017)
Robert Hooks, African-American actor, producer and activist
Antonio Carluccio, Italian-born restaurateur (d. 2017)
Elinor Donahue, American actress
Joseph Estrada, Filipino actor and politician, 13th President of the Philippines
April 20 – George Takei, Japanese-American actor, director and author (Star Trek)
April 22 – Jack Nicholson, American film actor, director
April 24 – Joe Henderson, American rhythm and blues, gospel music singer (d. 1964)
April 26 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver (d. 2015)
Sandy Dennis, American actress (d. 1992)
Robin Eames, Anglican prelate, Northern Irish clergyman and peace activist
April 28 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (d. 2006)
April 29 – Jill Paton Walsh, English novelist
May 1 – Una Stubbs, British actress
Gisela Elsner, German writer (d. 1992)
Lorenzo Music, American voice actor (d. 2001)
May 3 – Hans Cieslarczyk, German football player
Ron Carter, American jazz musician
David Waisman, Peruvian politician, First Vice President of Peru
Dick Dale, American guitarist (d. 2019)
May 5 – Trần Đức Lương, President of Vietnam
May 6 – Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, African-American boxer (d. 2014)
Shin Seong-il, South Korean actor (d. 2018)
Carlos Gaviria Díaz, Colombian justice, politician
Thomas Pynchon, American writer
May 9 – Rafael Moneo, Spanish architect
May 10 – Mike Melvoin, American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger (d. 2012)
May 11 – Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő, Hungarian Olympic and world champion foil fencer
May 12 – George Carlin, American stand-up comedian (d. 2008)
Trevor Baylis, English inventor (d. 2018)
Roch Carrier, Canadian writer
Roger Zelazny, American writer (d. 1995)
Beverley Owen, American actress (d. 2019)
Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State
Trini Lopez, American singer, guitarist, and actor.[7]
May 16 – Yvonne Craig, American actress (Batman) (d. 2015)
May 17 – Hazel R. O'Leary, U.S. Secretary of Energy
Brooks Robinson, American baseball player
Jacques Santer, Luxembourg politician, President of the European Council
Sofiko Chiaureli, Georgian actress (d. 2008)
John Fairfax, British ocean rower (d. 2012)
Mengistu Haile Mariam, President of Ethiopia
May 22 – Facundo Cabral, Argentine singer (d. 2011)
Roger Peterson, American pilot who flew the plane on The Day the Music Died (d. 1959)
Timothy Brown, American professional football player and actor
May 30 – Deanna Lund, American actress (Land of the Giants) (d. 2018)
Herbert Feuerstein
Simeon II
Keizō Obuchi
Robert Coleman Richardson
Morgan Freeman, African-American actor
Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress
Colleen McCullough, Australian author (d. 2015)
Ezio Pascutti, Italian footballer (d. 2017)
June 2 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
Phyllis Baker, American professional baseball player (d. 2006)
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., American archaeologist (d. 2012)
Solomon P. Ortiz, U.S. congressman from Texas
Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (d. 2014)
Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler, announcer (d. 1999)
Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
Roberto Blanco, German singer
Toni Harper, American child singer
Bruce McCandless II, American astronaut (d. 2017)
June 9 – Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
June 10 – Luciana Paluzzi, Italian actress
Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Reginaldo Faria, Brazilian actor, film director
Waylon Jennings, American country singer (d. 2002)
Herbert Feuerstein, German cabarettist, entertainer
Alan Thornett, British Trotskyist activist
Charmian May, British actress (d. 2002)
Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,
Tsar of Bulgaria (1943-1946)
48th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (2001-2005).
June 17 – Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian fashion designer, television presenter and politician (d. 2009)
Wray Carlton, American football player
Vitaly Zholobov, Soviet cosmonaut
June 19 – André Glucksmann, French philosopher, author (d. 2015)
Barbara Carlson, American politician
Gerald Clarke, American author
John Edrich, English cricketer
Jon Huntsman Sr., American businessman, philanthropist (d. 2018)
June 23 – Martti Ahtisaari, 10th President of Finland
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Crown Prince of Kuwait
Eddie Floyd, African-American soul, R&B singer, songwriter
Keizō Obuchi, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
Donald J. Albanese, American politician
Sombat Metanee, Thai actor, film director
Len Worley, English footballer
Robert Coleman Richardson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
Jules Accorsi, French football player, manager
Joseph P. Allen, American astronaut
Alona Frankel, Polish-born Israeli writer, illustrator
Abraham Karem, American aerospace engineer
June 28 – Ron Luciano, American baseball umpire, writer (d. 1995)
June 29 – Yair Nossovsky, Israeli footballer
Ron Husmann, American actor
Walton McLeod, American politician
Queen Sonja of Norway
Ned Beatty
Yoshirō Mori
Manoj Kumar
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Claus-Wilhelm Canaris, German jurist
Ali Chekr, Lebanese fencer
Lydia Makhubu, Swazi chemist
Polly Holliday, American actress
Dennis Keeney, American soil science, water chemistry scientist
Dee Palmer (b. David Palmer), English composer, arranger and progressive rock keyboardist
Richard Petty, American stock car racer, 7-time NASCAR Winston Cup champion
July 3 – Brian Garvey, English footballer
Wolf von Lojewski, German television journalist
Richard Rhodes, American historian, journalist and author
Ray Pillow, American country music singer
July 5 – Jo de Roo, Dutch road racing cyclist
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist
Ned Beatty, American actor
Ernesto Figueiredo, Portuguese footballer
Michael Sata, Zambian president (d. 2014)
Valery Anisimov, Soviet wrestler
Carroll Hubbard, American politician
Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish rowing coxswain
Jocelyn Newman, Australian politician
Carol Nugent, American actress
Nanami Shiono, Japanese author, novelist
Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong administrator
David Hockney, English-born artist
Josef Vacenovský, Czech football forward
Bill Cosby, African-American actor, comedian, educator and convicted sex offender
Fritz Kehl, Swiss football defender
Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France
František Valošek, Czech football player
Bruce W. Klunder, American Presbyterian minister and civil right activist (d. 1964)
July 13 – Ghillean Prance, British botanist, ecologist
Duncan MacKay, Scottish footballer
Yoshirō Mori, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
Jeremy Spenser, British actor
Richard Bryan, American attorney, politician
Kurt Mrkwicka, Austrian diver
Ada Rogovtseva, Ukrainian actress
Alan Hopper, English professional footballer
Jaberi Bidandi Ssali, Ugandan politician, businessman
Roald Hoffmann, Polish-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
Peter Smith, Scottish footballer
Hunter S. Thompson, American author, journalist (d. 2005)
July 19 – George Hamilton IV, American country music singer (d. 2014)
Ilie Datcu, Romanian football goalkeeper, coach
Dick Hafer, American Christian cartoonist (d. 2003)
Ken Ogata, Japanese actor (d. 2008)
July 21 – Neville Bannister, English footballer
July 24 – Manoj Kumar, Indian actor and director
Anna Dawson, British actress
Don Galloway, American actor (d. 2009)
Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2006)
Daniel McFadden, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
July 31 — Sab Shimono, American actor
Barbara Windsor
Gustavo Noboa
Francesco Musso
August 2 – Coenraad Bron, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2006)
Paul Abels, American United Methodist minister (d. 1992)
David Bedford, American musician (d. 2011)
David Holliday, American actor (d. 1999)
August 5 – Herb Brooks, American hockey coach (d. 2003)
Charlie Haden, American jazz bassist (d. 2014)
Barbara Windsor, English actress
August 8 – Dustin Hoffman, American actor, director (The Graduate)
Hasri Ainun Habibie, Indonesian physician (d. 2010)
Dieter Kemper, German cyclist (d. 2018)
August 14 – Alberta Nelson, American actress (d. 2006)
August 15 – Bounnhang Vorachith, 14th Prime Minister, 6th President of Laos
David Anderson, Canadian politician
Ian Deans, Canadian politician (d. 2016)
Jean Alingué Bawoyeu, Chadian politician, former Prime Minister
Willie Rushton, English comedian, cartoonist (d. 1996)
Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian, TV personality (d. 2018)
Jean-Louis Petit, French composer, conductor and organist
Stelvio Cipriani, Italian composer (d. 2018)
Donald Dewar, First Minister of Scotland (d. 2000)
Robert Stone, American novelist
Chuck Traynor, American pornographer (d. 2002)
Gustavo Noboa, President of Ecuador
Francesco Musso, Italian Olympic boxer
Ary Toledo, Brazilian humorist, singer, lyricist and actor
Don Bowman, American comedian, country music singer, songwriter, and radio host (d. 2013)
Kenji Utsumi, Japanese actor, voice actor (d. 2013)
Gennady Yanayev, former Soviet leader (d. 2010)
August 27 – Alice Coltrane, African-American jazz harpist, organist, pianist and composer (d. 2007)
August 29 – James Florio, Governor of New Jersey
August 30 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand founder of McLaren Racing (d. 1970)
August 31 – Bobby Parker, American rock musician (d. 2013)
Dawn Fraser
Fernando de la Rúa
Bob Schul
September 2 – Len Carlson, Canadian voice actor (d. 2006)
Dawn Fraser, Australian swimmer
Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (d. 2006)
A. George Pradel, American police officer, politician (d. 2018)
William Devane, American actor
Kirtanananda Swami Bhaktipada (Keith Gordon Ham), American-born Hare Krishna guru (d. 2011)
Jo Anne Worley, American actress, comedian (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In)
Cüneyt Arkın, Turkish film actor
John Phillip Law, American actor (d. 2008)
September 8 – Joe Carolan, Irish footballer (d. 2018)
September 9 – Alí Rodríguez Araque, Venezuelan politician, lawyer and diplomat (d. 2018)
Jared Diamond, American geographer, anthropologist, and author (Guns, Germs, and Steel)
Tommy Overstreet, American country singer (d. 2015)
September 11 – Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian-born Queen of the Belgians
Don Bluth, American director, producer
Meeli Sööt, Estonian actress
Jean-Claude Decaux, French advertising executive (d. 2016)
King Curtis Iaukea, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
Robert Lucas, Jr., American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
Giuseppe Puglisi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (d. 1993)
Fernando de la Rúa, Argentine politician, 43rd President of Argentina (d. 2019)
September 16 – Keith Bosley, British broadcaster, poet and translator (d. 2018)
Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican baseball player
Ilarion Ionescu-Galați, Romanian conductor
September 19 – Abner Haynes, American football player
September 26 – Jerry Weintraub, American film producer, talent agent (d. 2015)
Rod Roddy, American television announcer (d. 2003)
Bob Schul, American Olympic athlete
October 2 – Johnnie Cochran, African-American attorney (d. 2005)
Jackie Collins, English author (d. 2015)
Franz Vranitzky, former Chancellor of Austria
October 5 – Barry Switzer, American football coach
Colin Guest, Australian cricketer (d. 2018)
Édouard-Jean Empain, French-Belgian industrialist (d. 2018)
October 11 – Bobby Charlton, English footballer
October 15 – Linda Lavin, American actress and singer
October 17 – Paxton Whitehead, English actor
October 19 – Teresa Ciepły, Polish Olympic athlete (d. 2006)
Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
Wanda Jackson, American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
Irán Eory, Iranian-Mexican actress, model (d. 2002)
Édith Scob, French actress (d. 2019)
October 22 – Kader Khan, Afghan-born Indian-Canadian film actor, screenwriter, comedian, and director (d. 2018)
October 23 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (d. 1971)
John Goetz, American professional baseball player (d. 2008)
M. Rosaria Piomelli, Italian-born American architect
October 25 – Jeanne Black, American singer (d. 2014)
October 26 – John "Jabo" Starks, African-American drummer (d. 2018)
October 28 – Lenny Wilkens, American basketball player, coach
October 30 – Ashaari Mohammad, Malaysian spiritual leader (d. 2010)
October 31 – Tom Paxton, American folk singer, songwriter
Bill Anderson, American country music singer, songwriter and game show host
Witta Pohl, German actress (d. 2011)
Earl Carroll, African-American lead vocalist for The Cadillacs (d. 2012)
Bob Spoo, American football coach (d. 2018)
Loretta Swit, American actress (M*A*S*H)
Michael Wilson, Canadian politician, diplomat (d. 2019)
Chan Sek Keong, third Chief Justice of Singapore
Harris Yulin, American actor
November 6 – Joe Warfield, American actor
Paul Foot, British journalist (d. 2004)
Dragoslav Šekularac, Serbian footballer and manager (d. 2019)
November 10 – Zdeněk Zikán, Czech football player (d. 2013)
November 11 – Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician, diplomat
November 15 – Little Willie John, African-American rock and roll, rhythm and blues singer (d. 1968)
Peter Cook, English comedian, writer (d. 1995)
Manuel Félix López, Ecuadorian politician (d. 2004)
Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)
Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (d. 2013)
Ingrid Pitt, Polish-born British actress (d. 2010)
Marlo Thomas, American actress, producer and social activist (That Girl)
November 26 – Boris Yegorov, Russian cosmonaut (d. 1994)
Luther Ingram, African-American R&B singer, songwriter (d. 2007)
Ridley Scott, British film director, producer
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom
Bruce Brown, American documentary film director (d. 2017)
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia
December 3 – Bobby Allison, American race car driver
December 4 – Donnelly Rhodes, Canadian actor (d. 2018)
December 6 – Ramon Torrents, Spanish artist
Kenneth Colley, British actor
Thad Cochran, American politician (d. 2019)
Michael Bowen, American artist (d. 2009)
James MacArthur, American actor (d. 2010)
Arne Næss, Jr., Norwegian mountaineer, businessman (d. 2004)
December 9 – Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
December 11 – Jim Harrison, American writer (d. 2016)
Connie Francis, American singer, actress
Flukey Stokes, American mobster (d. 1986)
Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
Sergio Jiménez, Mexican actor (d. 2007)
December 18 – Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani cleric, politician (d. 2018)
December 19 – Wayne Maunder, Canadian-born American actor (d. 2018)
Jimmy Collins, Scottish footballer (d. 2018)
Jane Fonda, American actress and activist
December 22 – Pierluigi Chicca, Italian fencer (d. 2017)
John Horton Conway, English-born mathematician
Ronnie Prophet, Canadian-American country musician (d. 2018)
December 27 – Tom Tall, American singer (d. 2013)
December 28 – Ratan Tata, Indian industrialist
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Maldives (1978–2008)
Dieter Thomas Heck, German television presenter, singer and actor
Barbara Steele, British actress
Raquel Olmedo, Cuban-Mexican actress and singer
Gordon Banks, English footballer (d. 2019)
John Hartford, American musician, composer (d. 2001)
Jim Marshall, American football player
Noel Paul Stookey, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary)
Zaldy Zshornack, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor
Deaths[edit]
Saint Peter of Jesus Maldonado
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, Indian spiritual teacher (b. 1874)
John Gresham Machen, American Presbyterian theologian (b. 1881)
January 2 – Ross Alexander, American actor (b. 1907)
January 4 – Paul Behncke, German admiral (b. 1869)
Alberto de Oliveira, Brazilian poet (b. 1857)
Ernst Löfström, Finnish general of World War I (b. 1865)
André Bessette, Canadian religious leader, saint (b. 1845)
Albert Gleaves, American admiral (b. 1858)
January 12 – Martin Johnson, American adventurer, documentary filmmaker (plane crash) (b. 1884)
Pietro Biginelli, Italian chemist (b. 1860)
Georges Hilaire Bousquet, French scholar (b. 1845)
January 16 – Pyotr Bark, Soviet statesman (b. 1869)
January 17 – Richard Boleslavsky, Polish film director (b. 1889)
January 18 – Jaime Hilario Barbal, Spanish Roman Catholic religious professed and saint (executed) (b. 1889)
Yasin al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician and 4th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1884)
Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (b. 1896)
January 23 – Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist, politician (b. 1876)
George Hassell
February 1 – Asano Nagakoto, Japanese diplomat, politician (b. 1842)
February 2 – Reinhold Hanisch, Austrian politician, worker (b. 1884)
Lou Andreas-Salomé, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
José Nicoletti Filho, Italian revolutionary hero (b. 1871)
February 7 – Elihu Root, American statesman, diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1845)
Walter Burley Griffin, American architect, town planner (b. 1876)
Vasily Gurko, Russian general (b. 1864)
Maria Luisa Josefa, Mexican Roman Catholic nun and venerable (b. 1866)
Peter of Jesus Maldonado, Mexican priest, martyr and saint (b. 1892)
February 13 – Francisco Bergamín y García, Spanish lawyer, economist and politician (b. 1855)
February 14 – Vicente Vilar David, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, saint and martyr (killed in battle) (b. 1889)
February 17 – George Hassell, English actor (b. 1881)
February 20 – Sir Percy Cox, British army general and colonial administrator (b.1864)
February 22 – James P. Buchanan, American politician (b. 1867)
Vladimir Ippolitovich Lipsky, Soviet scientist, botanist (b. 1863)
Beyene Merid, Ethiopian military commander (b. 1897)
Guy Standing, British actor (b. 1873)
Douglas Carnegie, British politician (b. 1870)
Charles Donnelly, Irish poet (killed in battle) (b. 1915)
Blessed Concepcion Cabrera de Armida
Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco
Lucy Beaumont
March 6 – John Ellis Martineau, American politician (b. 1873)
March 7 – Concepcion Cabrera de Armida, Mexican Roman Catholic mystic and blessed (b. 1862)
Yuriy Kotsiubynsky, Soviet politician, activist (b. 1896)
Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
March 9 – Paul Elmer More, American critic, essayist (b. 1864)
March 11 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, founder of Texaco (b. 1860)
Julius Geppert, German philosopher (b. 1856)
Jenő Hubay, Hungarian composer, violinist (b. 1858)
Charles-Marie Widor, French organist, composer (b. 1840)
March 15 – H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
March 16 – Edith Clark, French aviator, parachutist (b. 1904)
March 17 – Austen Chamberlain, British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1863)
Mélanie Bonis, French composer (b. 1858)
Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (killed in action) (b. 1852)
Julio Sanchez Gardel, Argentine dramatist (b. 1870)
Arthur Bernède, French writer, poet and playwright (b. 1870)
Harry Vardon, English golf professional (b. 1870)
Thorvald Aagaard, Danish composer (b. 1877)
Alfred Dyke Acland, British military officer (b. 1858)
Vladimir Maksimov, Soviet actor (b. 1880)
Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, British aviator, ornithologist (plane crash) (b. 1865)
March 25 – John Drinkwater, British poet, dramatist (b. 1882)
March 27 – Victor Gustav Bloede, Swedish chemist (b. 1849)
March 28 – Josef Klička, Czechoslovak organist, violinist and composer (b. 1855)
Fyodor Keneman, Soviet pianist, composer (b. 1873)
Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (b. 1882)
Kim You-jeong, Korean novelist (b. 1908)
March 31 – Ahmed Izzet Pasha, Turkish general (b. 1864)
Afonso Costa
April 2 – Nathan Birnbaum, Austrian writer, journalist (b. 1864)
Sultan Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (b. 1875)
Maria Teresa Casini, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1864)
April 5 – Jose Benlliure y Gil, Spanish painter (b. 1858)
April 6 – Gyula Juhász, Hungarian poet (b. 1883)
April 7 – Helen Burgess, American actress (b. 1916)
April 8 – Billy Bassett, English association footballer (b. 1869)
Ralph Ince, American film director (b. 1887)
Shridhar Venkatesh Ketkar, Indian sociologist, historian (b. 1884)
April 14 – Ned Hanlon, American baseball manager, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1857)
April 16 – Jay Johnson Morrow, American military engineer, politician and 3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (b. 1870)
William Martin Conway, British art critic, mountaineer (b. 1856)
William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist (b. 1865)
Gaston Chérau, French journalist (b. 1872)
Josef Mařatka, Czech sculptor (b. 1874)
April 21 – Saima Harmaja, Finnish poet (b. 1913)
April 22 – Arthur Edmund Carewe, Armenian-American actor (b. 1884)
April 23 – Caroline Harris, American actress (b. 1867)
April 24 – Lucy Beaumont, British actress (b. 1873)
April 25 – Michał Drzymała, Polish rebel (b. 1857)
April 27 – Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer, politician (b. 1891)
Wallace Carothers, American chemist, inventor of nylon (b. 1896)
William Gillette, American actor (b. 1853)
Lizardo García
Jean Harlow
Snitz Edwards, Hungarian actor (b. 1868)
Herbert Hughes, Irish composer (b. 1882)
May 2 – Takuji Iwasaki, Japanese meteorologist (b. 1869)
May 4 – Noel Rosa, Brazilian songwriter (b. 1910)
Camillo Berneri, Italian philosopher, anarchist (b. 1897)
C.K.G. Billings, American horseman (b. 1861)
May 7 – Ernst A. Lehmann, German captain of the Hindenburg (b. 1886)
Harry Barton, American architect (b. 1876)
Maurice Conner, Canadian politician (b. 1868)
May 10 – Sir James Blindell, British politician (b. 1884)
May 11 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer, professor, politician and 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1871)
May 12 – Sir Henry Birchenough, British businessman and public servant (b. 1853)
May 15 – Percy Lee Gassaway, American politician (b. 1885)
May 23 – John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist, philanthropist (b. 1839)
Luis F. Álvarez, Spanish physician (b. 1853)
Francis Bird, Australian architect (b. 1845)
May 25 – Henry Ossawa Tanner, American artist (b. 1859)
May 26 – Bertha May Crawford, Canadian opera singer (b. 1886)
May 28 – Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist (b. 1870)
May 29 – Lizardo García, 17th President of Ecuador (b. 1844)
Robert Laird Borden
Gaston Doumergue
J. M. Barrie
June 2 – Louis Vierne, French composer (b. 1870)
Hugo Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, politician (b. 1845)
Emilio Mola, Spanish Nationalist commander (plane crash) (b. 1887)
Fernand Cabrol, French theologian (b. 1855)
Keke Geladze, mother of Joseph Stalin, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1858)
June 7 – Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
Jane Foss Barff, American activist (b. 1863)
Sir Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer, politician and 8th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
Malcolm Williams, American actor (b. 1870)
June 12 – Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Soviet Army officer, Red Army commander-in-chief (executed) (b. 1893)
June 16 – Alexander Chervyakov, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
Pierre Bodard, French painter (b. 1881)
Gaston Doumergue, 60th Prime Minister of France, 13th President of France (b. 1863)
June 19 – J. M. Barrie, British novelist, dramatist (b. 1860)
June 20 – Andreu Nin Pérez, Spanish politician (b. 1892)
Colin Clive, British actor (b. 1900)
Marta Cunningham, American opera singer (b. 1869)
June 26 – Minoru Murata, Japanese actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1894)
June 27 – Sandro Akhmeteli, Soviet director (b. 1866)
Reverend Nazzareno Formosa
Varnava, Serbian Patriarch
Ilya Garkavyi, Soviet general (b. 1888)
Matvei Vasilenko, Soviet komkor (b. 1888)
July 2 – Amelia Earhart, American aviator (missing on this date) (b. 1897)
July 3 – Boris Gorbachyov, Soviet general (b. 1892)
Bohdan Ihor Antonych, Soviet poet (b. 1909)
Ernesto Badini, Italian opera singer (b. 1876)
July 7 – Åke Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, lawyer (b. 1893)
July 9 – Oliver Law, American labor organizer, Army officer (killed in Spanish Civil War) (b. 1899)
George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
Rodrigues Ottolengui, American writer (b. 1861)
July 12 – Hugo Charteris, 11th Earl of Wemyss, British politician, public servant (b. 1857)
Mykhailo Boychuk, Soviet painter (b. 1882)
Victor Laloux, French architect (b. 1850)
Julius Meier, American businessman, politician (b. 1874)
Joseph Taylor Robinson, American politician (b. 1872)
July 15 – Walter Gay, American painter (b. 1856)
July 16 – Vladimir Kirillov, Soviet poet (b. 1889)
Annie Furuhjelm, Finnish feminist activist, politician (b. 1859)
Percy Gardner, British archaeologist (b. 1846)
Julian Bell, British poet (killed in Spanish Civil War) (b. 1908)
Grigol Giorgadze, Soviet historian, jurist and politician (b. 1879)
July 20 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italian-born American inventor (b. 1874)
Nazzareno Formosa, American Roman Catholic priest and reverend (b. 1901)
Paolo Iashvili, Soviet poet (b. 1894)
July 23 – Varnava, Serbian Patriarch (b. 1880)
July 31 – Noë Bloch, Soviet producer (b. 1875)
Saint Alexander Hotovitzky
August 5 – Jean Louis Conneau, French aviator (b. 1880)
Adeodato Barreto, Portuguese poet (b. 1905)
F. C. S. Schiller, German-British philosopher (b. 1864)
August 8 – Martin Rázus, Czechoslovakian poet, writer and politician (b. 1888)
August 9 – Na Woon-gyu, Korean actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
August 11 – Edith Wharton, American writer (b. 1862)
August 13 – Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot (b. 1902)
Alexander Hotovitzky, Russian Orthodox priest, missionary and saint (b. 1872)
Asaichi Isobe, Japanese army officer (b. 1905)
Ivan Kataev, Russian novelist, writer (b. 1902)
Owen Burns, American entrepreneur (b. 1869)
Gelegdorjiin Demid, Russian political military figure (b. 1900)
August 24 – Gervase Beckett, British politician (b. 1866)
August 26 – Christos Christovasilis, Greek journalist, author (b. 1861)
August 27 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1855)
Gaetano Bisleti, Italian cardinal (b. 1856)
Tomás António Garcia Rosado, Portuguese general (b. 1854)
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Ray Ewry
Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, Indian revolutionary hero (b. 1880)
Pierre de Coubertin, 2nd President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1863)
September 3 – François Guiguet, French painter (b. 1860)
Daniel Alexander Cameron, Canadian politician (b. 1870)
Juan Campisteguy, Uruguayan lawyer, soldier and 25th President of Uruguay (b. 1859)
September 5 – David Hendricks Bergey, American bacteriologist (b. 1860)
September 6 – Harry Charles Purvis Bell, British civil servant, commissioner (b. 1851)
September 8 – Frank Alexander, American actor (b. 1879)
Moritz Geiger, German philosopher (b. 1880)
Géza Horváth, Hungarian doctor, entomologist (b. 1847)
September 11 – Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish painter (b. 1881)
September 13 – Ellis Parker Butler, American humorist (b. 1869)
September 14 – Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czechoslovakian politician, sociologist, philosopher and 1st President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1850)
Anders Bundgaard, Danish sculptor (b. 1864)
Clifford Heatherley, British actor (b. 1888)
Maksymilian Horwitz, Polish socialist, communist activist (b. 1877)
Lev Karakhan, Soviet revolutionary hero, diplomat (b. 1889)
September 21 – Osgood Perkins, American actor (b. 1892)
September 22 – Ruth Roland, American actress (b. 1892)
Bessie Smith, African-American blues singer (b. 1894)
Edward Filene, American businessman, philanthropist (b. 1860)
September 29 – Ray Ewry, American Olympic athlete (b. 1873)
Prince Kuni Taka
Metropolitan Peter of Krutitsy
October 1 – Prince Kuni Taka of Japan (b. 1875)
Baden Baden-Powell, American aviator pioneer (b. 1860)
Richard Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1850)
October 6 – Angelo Musco, Italian actor (b. 1872)
August de Boeck, Flemish composer (b. 1865)
Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, German prince (b. 1868
October 10 – Peter of Krutitsy, Soviet Orthodox priest, martyr and metropolitan (b. 1862)
October 13 – Kazimierz Nowak, Polish traveller (b. 1897)
October 14 – Salvatore Micalizzi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1856)
October 15 – James Marcus, American actor (b. 1867)
October 16 – Jean de Brunhoff, French writer (b. 1899)
J. Bruce Ismay, English businessman (b. 1862)
Antônio Parreiras, Brazilian painter, illustrator (b. 1860)
Pedro Chutro, Argentine physician (b. 1880)
Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient (b. 1871)
October 23 – Nikolai Klyuev, Russian poet (b. 1884)
October 26 – Józef Dowbor-Muśnicki, Polish general (b. 1867)
Joseph-Félix Bouchor, French painter (b. 1853)
Abdul Karim Khan, Indian classical singer (b. 1872)
October 29 – Kazimierz Cichowski, Polish-born Soviet politician (b. 1887)
Mendel Khatayevich, Soviet politician (b. 1893)
Ivan Zhukov, Soviet politician (b. 1889)
Ramsay MacDonald
Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh)
Saint Aleksandr Glagolev
Peljidiin Genden
November 1 – Ivar Bauck, Norwegian general (b. 1863)
November 2 – Félix Gaffiot, French philologist (b. 1870)
William Bennett, British politician (b. 1873)
Alfred Walter Campbell, Australian neurologist (b. 1868)
Gustav Gartner, Austrian pathologist (b. 1855)
Emil Hassler, Swiss physician, botanist (b. 1864)
November 5 – Naoe Kinoshita, Japanese Christian socialist (b. 1869)
November 6 – Johnston Forbes-Robertson, British stage actor (b. 1853)
November 8 – Francis de Croisset, Belgian-born French playwright (b. 1877)
November 9 – Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman, 2-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1866)
November 10 – Nikolai Batalov, Soviet actor (b. 1899)
November 11 – Uryū Sotokichi, Japanese admiral (b. 1857)
November 13 – Mrs. Leslie Carter (Caroline Louise Dudley), American actress (b. 1862)
Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1933)
Némèse Garneau, Canadian politician (b. 1847)
November 17 – Jack Worrall, Australian cricketer, coach (b. 1860)
November 20 – Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh) of the Soviet Union (b. 1872)
Miklós Kovács, Hungarian-born Yugoslav poet (b. 1857)
Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1858)
George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
Aleksandr Glagolev, Russian Orthodox priest, religious philosopher and saint (b. 1872)
Alessandro Padoa, Italian mathematician (b. 1868)
Raymond Stanton Patton, American admiral, engineer and second Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1882)
November 26 – Peljidiin Genden, Mongolian political figure, 9th Prime Minister of Mongolia and 2nd President of Mongolia (b. 1892)
Vsevolod Balitsky, Leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
Eero Haapalainen, Finnish Communist leader, activist (b. 1880)
Felix Hamrin, 22nd Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1875)
Vasyl Lypkivsky, Soviet Orthodox priest, metropolitan (b. 1864)
Wilhelm Weinberg, German physician (b. 1862)
November 28 – Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1879)
Prosper Poullet
Dimitrie Călugăreanu
December 2 – Josep Comas i Solà, Andorran astronomer (b. 1868)
Attila József, Hungarian poet (b. 1905)
Prosper Poullet, Belgian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1868)
Yue Yiqin, Chinese flying ace (b. 1914)
December 4 – Ralph Lewis, American actor (b. 1872)
December 8 – Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist (b. 1856)
Lilias Armstrong, British phonetician (b. 1882)
Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
December 10 – Robert Bolder, British actor (b. 1859)
December 12 – Alfred Abel, German actor (b. 1879)
December 14 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter (b. 1869)
December 16 – Giorgi Mazniashvili, Soviet general (b. 1870)
December 17 – Dimitrie Călugăreanu, Romanian physician, naturalist and physiologist (b. 1868)
December 18 – Robert Worth Bingham, American politician (b. 1871)
December 20 – Erich Ludendorff, German general (b. 1865)
Meliton Balanchivadze, Soviet composer (b. 1862)
Ted Healy, American actor (b. 1896)
Frank B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1856)
December 22 – Joseph Darby, British jumper (b. 1861)
December 23 – Osman Nuri Hadžić, Yugoslav writer (b. 1869)
December 25 – Newton D. Baker, United States Secretary of War (b. 1871)
December 27 – Sir Coote Hedley, British army officer and sportsman (b. 1865)
Herbert Bullmore, Scottish Rugby Union international player, grandfather of Kerry Packer (b. 1874)
Maurice Ravel, French composer (Bolero) (b. 1875)
Frederik Beichmann, Norwegian jurist (b. 1859)
Don Marquis, American poet (b. 1878)
December 30 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852)
December 31 – Dezső Czigány, Hungarian painter (b. 1883)
Nobel Prizes[edit]
Physics – Clinton Joseph Davisson, George Paget Thomson
Chemistry – Walter Haworth, Paul Karrer
Physiology or Medicine – Albert von Szent-Györgyi Nagyrapolt
Literature – Roger Martin du Gard
Peace – Robert Cecil
^ Journalist George Steer's report to The Times (London) connects Germany with the attack.
^ League of Nations Mandates – Palestine: Report of the Palestine Royal Commission. July 1937. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
^ Schechtman, Joseph B. (1949). Population Transfers in Asia. New York: Hallsby Press. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
^ Pub. 238, 75th Congress, 50 Stat. 551 (subsequently, commonly referred to using the modern spelling as the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937)
^ Loadstar. "The Balinese Tiger".
^ "Mr Ian Gow (Hansard)". api.parliament.uk.
^ "Trini Lopez Biography". IMDb.com. Retrieved May 31, 2019.
1930s portal
1937 WWII Timeline
The 1930s Timeline: 1937 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1937&oldid=905508755"
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namespace Area4\CampeonatoBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;
use Area4\UsuarioBundle\Entity\Usuario as Usuario;
use Symfony\Component\Validator\Constraints as Assert;

/**
 * Area4\CampeonatoBundle\Entity\Jugador
 *
 * @ORM\Table(name="Jugador")
 * @ORM\Entity(repositoryClass="Area4\CampeonatoBundle\Entity\JugadorRepository")
 * @ORM\HasLifecycleCallbacks()
 */
class Jugador
{

    /**
     * @var integer $dni
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="dni", type="integer", nullable=false)
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="IDENTITY")
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     */
    private $dni;

    /**
     * @var string $nombre
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="nombre", type="string", length=45, nullable=false)
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     */
    private $nombre;

    /**
     * @var string $apellido
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="apellido", type="string", length=45, nullable=false)
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     */
    private $apellido;

    /**
     * @var Equipo
     *
     * @ORM\ManyToOne(targetEntity="Equipo", inversedBy="Jugador")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="Equipo_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     * @Assert\Type(type="Area4\CampeonatoBundle\Entity\Equipo")
     */
    private $equipo;

    /**
     *
     * @ORM\OneToOne(targetEntity="Area4\UsuarioBundle\Entity\Usuario")
     * @ORM\JoinColumn(name="usuario_id", referencedColumnName="id")
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     * @Assert\Type(type="Area4\UsuarioBundle\Entity\Usuario")
     * @var Usuario
     **/
    private $usuario;
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="fecha_nacimiento", type="date", nullable=false)
     * @Assert\NotBlank()
     * @var date
     **/
    private $fechadeNacimiento;
    /**
     * Slug : concatena - nombre + apellido + dni
     * @ORM\Column(name="slug", type="string", length="255", nullable=false)
     * @var string
     **/
    private $slug;
    /**
     * @ ORM\Column(name="foto", type="string", length="255", nullable=true)
     **/
    private $foto;
    /**
     * Set dni
     *
     * @param integer $dni
     */
    public function setDni($dni)
    {
        $this->dni = str_replace(".", "", $dni);
    }

    /**
     * Get dni
     *
     * @return integer
     */
    public function getDni()
    {
        return $this->dni;
    }

    /**
     * Set nombre
     *
     * @param string $nombre
     */
    public function setNombre($nombre)
    {
        $this->nombre = strtoupper($nombre);
    }

    /**
     * Get nombre
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getNombre()
    {
        return $this->nombre;
    }

    /**
     * Set apellido
     *
     * @param string $apellido
     */
    public function setApellido($apellido)
    {
        $this->apellido = strtoupper($apellido);
    }

    /**
     * Get apellido
     *
     * @return string
     */
    public function getApellido()
    {
        return $this->apellido;
    }

    /**
     * Set equipo
     *
     * @param Area4\CampeonatoBundle\Entity\Equipo $equipo
     */
    public function setEquipo(\Area4\CampeonatoBundle\Entity\Equipo $equipo)
    {
        $this->equipo = $equipo;
    }

    /**
     * Get equipo
     *
     * @return Area4\CampeonatoBundle\Entity\Equipo
     */
    public function getEquipo()
    {
        return $this->equipo;
    }

    /**
     * Set usuario
     *
     * @param Area4\UsuarioBundle\Entity\Usuario $usuario
     */
    public function setUsuario(\Area4\UsuarioBundle\Entity\Usuario $usuario)
    {
        $this->usuario = $usuario;
    }

    /**
     * Get usuario
     *
     * @return Area4\UsuarioBundle\Entity\Usuario
     */
    public function getUsuario()
    {
        return $this->usuario;
    }

    /**
     * toString
     *
     * @return string
     *
     **/
    public function __toString()
    {
        return sprintf("%d - %s, %s", $this->dni, $this->apellido, $this->nombre);
    }

    /**
     * Set fechadeNacimiento
     *
     * @param date $fechadeNacimiento
     */
    public function setFechadeNacimiento($fechadeNacimiento)
    {
        $this->fechadeNacimiento = $fechadeNacimiento;
    }

    /**
     * Get fechadeNacimiento
     *
     * @return date
     */
    public function getFechadeNacimiento()
    {
        return $this->fechadeNacimiento;
    }

    /**
     * Concatena el nombre con el apellido
     *
     * @return string
     **/
    public function getNombreCompleto()
    {
        return (string) sprintf('%s, %s',$this->apellido,$this->nombre);
    }

    /**
     * Revisa si el jugador ya pertenece a un equipo
     *
     * @return true : si pertenece ya a un equipo.
     * @return false: si no pertenece a ningun equipo.
     * @author ezekielriva
     **/
    public function hasEquipo()
    {
        if (is_null($this->equipo))
            return false;
        else
            return true;
    }

    /**
     * Determina si este jugador es capitán
     *
     * @return true : si es capitán
     *         false: si no es capitán
     * @author ezekielriva
     **/
    public function isCapitan()
    {
        return $this->usuario->hasRole('ROLE_CAP');
    }

    /**
     * Uso para template
     *
     * @return string
     * @author ezekiel
     **/
    public function getCapitanString()
    {
        if ($this->isCapitan())
            return "[CAPITAN]";
    }

    /**
     * Realiza antes de crear
     * @ORM\PrePersist()
     */
    public function prePersist(){
        $this->slug = $this->generateSlug();
    }

    /**
     * @ORM\PreUpdate()
     */
    public function preUpdate(){
        $this->slug = $this->generateSlug();
    }

    /**
     * Genera el slug
     *
     * @return string
     * @author ezekiel
     **/
    private function generateSlug()
    {
        return (string) sprintf("%d - %s, %s", $this->dni, $this->apellido, $this->nombre);
    }

    /**
     * Retorna una versíon mas amigable del nombre
     *
     * @return string
     * @author ezekiel
     **/
    public function friendlyName()
    {
        return (string) sprintf("%s %s", $this->nombre, $this->apellido);
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


I've had my new Sigma 8-16mm F4.5-5.6 DC HSM UWA Lens for a few days now and have left just this lens on the camera and taken a number of shots with my Nikon D90. I've pretty much taken almost all of the shots at maximum wide (8mm – which equates to 12mm equivalent on my 1.5x crop sensor) to exaggerate it's effect for each purpose.
The first shot below was taken to show both some perspective distortion and close focusing as well as how the lens would fare from a chromatic aberration (CA) point of view. CA would appear as colour fringing (a sort of purple or green halo around the boundaries between very light and dark transitions in a photo). One of the new technologies touted with this new lens is Sigma's new FLD glass elements (four of them), which Sigma claim have the performance equal to fluorite glass (which is only found in the most expensive of lenses) to compensate for colour aberration.
This shot was taken with me lying on the ground and facing the camera up to the sky with the girls leaning in close to the lens above me – it does show that the closer to the centre the less distortion and the closer you get to the edges the more distorted the view. I needed to expose for the girls faces which were pretty shadowed facing down and this resulted in totally blowing the sky as expected. I only had a moment to take the shot before they'd all run off however the HSM focusing was fast and accurate and the CA seems to be reasonably well restrained even under these most extreme of conditions.
The next shot after is probably a more typical shot where you might see problems with CA with lots of leaves against the bright sky and even at 300% I can't really detect anything I'd be worried about.
In the following shot the hard afternoon light (after 4PM) is streaming in from just to the right of frame behind her hair which does introduce some lens flare – then again I'm almost pointing the lens into the sun so…. Again I'm fairly close to her which has provided distortion and the beginnings of some background blur even at f/8 @ 8mm.
The following image is an HDR I processed out of three bracketed shots at 0, -2 and +2 EV. This shot has actually turned out as well or even better than I might have hoped so I'm pretty happy with the result.
Some more perspective distortion shots of the girls – big feet and big heads are always good for a laugh.
Thus far I've been pleasantly surprised and happy with the new purchase.
I had been expecting to see some fairly significant vignetting (darkened corners of the photograph) especially at the wide angle end and if you take the camera at 8mm indoors and point towards a white wall you can fairly easily see that the corners of the frame are darker so vignetting is definitely there. However in real world use I didn't see a lot of obvious corner darkening in my everyday shots so I'm more than happy with the actual use.
Another thing I tried but didn't include shots of here were photos taken indoors of rooms with my SB-600 flash with the diffuser at maximum wide and bounced off the ceiling for maximum spread (still not enough to cover the lens field of view but good enough 🙂 ). Basically you can stand near a corner and the frame will take in both walls leading away from you and the whole room (making it seem stadium sized).
It appears to be sharper than I had been expecting for such a wide and distorting lens (I've yet to take any shots wide open so will reserve judgment under f/8). The HSM focusing mechanism has been fast, quiet and accurate in all lighting conditions I've used it in so far.
The lack of VC (Vibration Control – or VR in Nikon parlance) is probably pretty much irrelevant at these focal lengths and for the purposes I'm likely to use the lens for.
I'm very happy with the build quality so far – it feels solidly built with no loose parts and the the zoom and focus rings are smooth to use.
In my next post I'll cover a number of long exposures I took with the lens last night down on Sydney Harbour.
I am considering a UWA lens and would like to know where you purchased it from & approxiamtely howe mauch did you pay?
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