1981) September 5 Ralston Crawford, American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer (d. 1978) Sunnyland Slim, American blues pianist (d. 1995) September 6 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-born Argentine chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987) September 8 – Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990) September 12 – Lee Erwin, American television writer (d. 1972) September 17 – J. R. Jayewardene, President of Sri Lanka (d. 1996) September 25 José Figueres Ferrer, 32nd, 34th, & 38th President of Costa Rica (d. 1990) Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer (d. 1975) September 27 – William Empson, English poet, critic (d. 1984) October October 6 – Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (d. 1984) October 9 Georges Marie Anne, politician (d. 2001) Léopold Sédar Senghor, 1st President of Senegal (d. 2001) October 10 – Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001) October 14 Imam Hassan al-Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949) Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (d. 1975) October 19 – Bandō Mitsugorō VIII, Japanese actor (d. 1975) October 23 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (d. 2003) October 24 – Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, Austrian painter (d. 1996) October 26 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (d. 1967) October 27 – Kazuo Ohno, Japanese dancer (d. 2010) October 29 – Fredric Brown, American writer (d. 1972) November–December November 2 Ferit Melen, 14th Prime Minister of Turkey (d. 1988) Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre, cinema director, writer (d. 1976) November 4 – Willie Love, American Delta blues pianist (d. 1953) November 5 Philip Roberts, British general (d. 1997) Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004) November 9 – Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer (d. 1996) November 10 – Josef Kramer, German Nazi concentration camp commandant (d. 1945) November 13 Wanrong, last Empress of China (d. 1946) Hermione Baddeley, English character actress (d. 1986) Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (d. 1979) November 14 Albrecht Becker, German production designer, photographer, and actor (d. 2002) Louise Brooks, American actress (d. 1985) November 15 – Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force general, vice-presidential candidate (d. 1990) November 16 – Henri Charrière, French author (d. 1973) November 17 Betty Bronson, American actress (d. 1979) Soichiro Honda, Japanese industrialist (d. 1991) November 18 Alec Issigonis, Greek-born British automobile designer (d. 1988) Klaus Mann, German writer (d. 1949) George Wald, American scientist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) November 19 – Patriarch Paul II Cheikho (b. 1989) November 22 – Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player