(including Admiral Erich Bey); this is the war's last action between big-gun capital ships of Britain and Germany. December 30 – Subhas Chandra Bose sets up a pro-Japanese Indian government at Port Blair, India. December 31 - The Times Square Ball in Times Square, New York City isn't dropped a second time. Instead, there was a moment of silence at midnight, followed by the sound of bells playing from sound trucks at the base of One Times Square. Date unknown Bengal Famine. History of the cooperative movement: Father José María Arizmendiarrieta sets up a polytechnic school at Mondragón in the Spanish Basque Country (predecessor of the University of Mondragón), which inspires creation of the Mondragon Corporation. Arana Hall, a residential college of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, is founded. Jacques-Yves Cousteau co-invents, with Émile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of scuba diving equipment, the Aqua-lung. Martin Noth's groundbreaking work of Old Testament scholarship, , is published. Births January January 2 – Barış Manço, Turkish singer, television personality (d. 1999) January 4 – Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer January 5 – James Goldstein, LA businessman, NBA basketball aficionado January 6 – Terry Venables, English footballer and manager January 7 – Sadako Sasaki, Japanese atomic bomb sickness victim (d. 1955) January 9 – Scott Walker, American-born singer, composer and record producer (d. 2019) January 10 – Jim Croce, American surburbia musician (d. 1973) January 14 Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (d. 2019) José Luis Rodríguez, Venezuelan singer Ralph M. Steinman, Canadian immunologist, cell biologist and Nobel laureate (d. 2011) Holland Taylor, American actress January 15 Kirin Kiki, Japanese actress (d. 2018) Dame Margaret Beckett, British politician January 17 Daniel Brandenstein, American astronaut René Préval, 2nd Prime Minister of Haiti, 38th and 40th President of Haiti (d. 2017) January 18 Paul Freeman, English actor Kay Granger, American politician January 19 Janis Joplin, American rock singer (d. 1970) Princess Margriet of the Netherlands January 22 Tamás Cseh, Hungarian composer, singer and actor (d. 2009) Marília Pêra, Brazilian actress (d. 2015) January 24 Janice Raymond, American second-wave feminist activist Sharon Tate, American actress and model (d. 1969) January 25 Roy Black, German singer (d. 1991) Tobe Hooper, American film director (d. 2017) January 26 – Soad Hosny, Egyptian actress (d. 2001) February February 2 – Erkan Geniş, Turkish artist February 3 Blythe Danner, American actress Dennis Edwards, American soul, R&B