Birdsong, American singer December 17 – Eddie Kendricks, African-American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992) December 18 Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer Michael Moorcock, English science fiction writer Harold E. Varmus, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine December 26 – Phil Spector, American record producer (d. 2021) December 27 – John Amos, African-American actor (Good Times) Date unknown Astratijs Roškovs, former Lithuanian-Russian-Latvian footballer Deaths January January 2 – Roman Dmowski, Polish politician (b. 1864) January 4 – Mary J. L. Black, Canadian librarian and suffragist (b. 1879) January 6 – Gustavs Zemgals, 2nd President of Latvia (b. 1871) January 8 – Charles Eastman, American author, physician, reformer, helped found the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1858) January 13 – Arthur Barker, American criminal, son of Ma Barker (b. 1899) January 14 – Prince Valdemar of Denmark (b. 1858) January 15 – Kullervo Manner, Finnish Speaker of the Parliament, the Prime Minister of the FSWR and the Supreme Commander of the Red Guards (b. 1880) January 18 – Ivan Mosjoukine, Soviet actor (b. 1889) January 22 – Léopold Bernhard Bernstamm, Soviet sculptor (b. 1859) January 23 – Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (b. 1903) January 24 – Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician, nutritionist (b. 1867) January 25 – Helen Ware, American actress (b. 1877) January 28 – W. B. Yeats, Irish writer, 1923 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865) February February 1 – Lawrence Marston, American actor, playwright, and film director (b. 1857) February 2 – Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer, polymath, scientist and architect (b. 1853) February 3 – Janez Frančišek Gnidovec, Yugoslav Roman Catholic priest and venerable (b. 1873) February 4 – Edward Sapir, German-American anthropologist, linguist (b. 1884) February 5 – Teresa Mañé, Spanish teacher, editor and writer (b. 1865) February 6 – Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharada of Baroda (b. 1863) February 9 – Henry Balfour, British archaeologist (b. 1863) February 10 Pope Pius XI (b. 1857) Patriarch Torkom Koushagian of Jerusalem (b. 1874) February 11 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (b. 1874) February 12 Potenciano Gregorio, Filipino musician (b. 1880) S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (b. 1868) February 13 – Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon, British general (b. 1859) February 15 – Henri Jaspar, Belgian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1870) February 18 – Okamoto Kanoko, Japanese tanka poet (b. 1899) February 22 – Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875) February 23 – Michael Knatchbull, 5th Baron