Events 
November 2 – Haile Selassie became King of Ethiopia
The Trump Building is built in New York City which is at the time the world's tallest building
The Chrysler Building surpasses The Trump Building and also claims world's tallest building

Births 
January 3 - Robert Loggia, American actor (d. 2015)
January 10 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d. 2009)
January 20 – Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut
February 19 - John Frankenheimer, American movie director (d. 2002)
 February 19 – Milenko Stefanovic, Serbian clarinet player
March 7 - Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
March 22 – Pat Robertson, American preacher and television host
March 26 – Sandra Day O'Connor, US Supreme Court justice
April 3 – Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German born British actor
April 13 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, Romanian movie director (d. 2013)
April 15 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, 4th President of Iceland
April 28 - James Baker, former United States Secretary of State
May 8 – Gary Snyder, American writer
May 13 – Mike Gravel, former US Senator from Alaska (d. 2021)
May 21 – Malcolm Fraser, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia
May 31 – Clint Eastwood, American actor, director, producer
July 2 – Carlos Menem, President of Argentina (d. 2021)
July 4 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Soviet – Armenian actor (d. 1993)
July 4 – Johnny Saxton, American boxer
July 30 – Captain Lou Albano, Italian – American professional wrestler and manager (d. 2009)
August 1 - Lawrence Eagleburger, American diplomat (d. 2011)
August 5 – Neil Armstrong, American astronaut (d. 2012)
August 8 – Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib, Bengali Mother of the Nation (d. 1975)
August 10 - Barry Unsworth, British writer (d. 2012)
August 14 - Earl Weaver, American baseball manager (d. 2013)
August 21 – Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (d. 2002)
August 25 – Sean Connery, Scottish actor (d. 2020)
August 28 - Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)
August 30 - Warren Buffett, American businessman
September 7 – Baudouin I, King of Belgium (d. 1993)
September 7 - Sonny Rollins, American musician
September 23 – Ray Charles, American singer and musician (d. 2004)
September 29 - Colin Dexter, British writer
October 1 – Philippe Noiret,  French actor (d. 2006)
October 6 – Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
October 10 - Harold Pinter, British playwright (d. 2008)
October 14 - Mobutu Sese Seko, leader of Zaire (d. 1998)
October 28 - Bernie Ecclestone, British racing executive
October 31 - Michael Collins, American astronaut (d. 2021)
November 15 - J. G. Ballard, British writer (d. 2009)
November 16 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
December 2 - Gary Becker, American economist
December 8 - Maximilian Schell, Swiss-Austrian actor (d. 2014)
December 17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor

Deaths 
March 8 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
March 19 – Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
July 7 – Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer and doctor (b. 1859)
September 29 - Ilya Repin, Ukrainian painter (b. 1844)
October 26 – Mary Harrison McKee, American First Lady, daughter of Benjamin Harrison (b. 1858)
after November 2 - Alfred Wegener, German geologist (b. 1880)
November 22 - Paul Raud, Estonian painter (b. 1865)

Movies released 
All Quiet on the Western Front
Little Caesar

Nobel Prizes 
 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine won by Karl Landsteiner, Austrian doctor, (1868 – 1943)