December 26 – Miners strike in Borinage, Belgium. December 27 – The 7.8 Erzincan earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XII (Extreme), causing $20 million in damage, and leaving 32,700–32,968 dead. Date unknown Kirlian photography is invented by Semyon Kirlian. Enzo Ferrari founds Auto Avio Construzioni, the company that becomes Ferrari in 1947. Births January–February January 1 – Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Somali entrepreneur, politician and 4th President of Somalia (d. 2021) January 3 Arik Einstein, Israeli singer (d. 2013) Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2023) Vincent Siew, Taiwanese politician, 9th Vice President of the Republic of China January 6 Valeriy Lobanovskyi, Ukrainian footballer, manager (d. 2002) Murray Rose, Australian swimmer (d. 2012) January 9 – Susannah York, British actress (d. 2011) January 10 Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976) Bill Toomey, American athlete January 11 – Anne Heggtveit, Canadian skier January 12 – Joachim Yhombi-Opango, Congolese politician (d. 2020) January 17 – Maury Povich, American talk show host January 19 – Phil Everly, American rock 'n' roll musician (member of Rockabilly Hall of Fame) (d. 2014) January 20 – Chandra Wickramasinghe, British astronomer and poet January 22 Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist (d. 2021) Alfredo Palacio, 42nd President of Ecuador January 24 – Ray Stevens, American musician (Everything is Beautiful) January 29 – Germaine Greer, Australian feminist writer February 1 – Ekaterina Maximova, Russian ballerina (d. 2009) February 3 – Michael Cimino, American film director (d. 2016) February 7 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (d. 1978) February 8 – Egon Zimmermann, Austrian Olympic alpine skier (d. 2019) February 10 Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada Tsuyoshi Yamanaka, Japanese freestyle swimmer (d. 2017) February 12 – Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors) (d. 2013) February 13 – Andrew Peacock, Australian politician (d. 2021) February 18 – Abdelraouf Al-Rawabdeh, Jordanian political figure, 65th Prime Minister of Jordan February 19 – Erin Pizzey, British author, founder of the first domestic violence shelter in the modern world February 28 – Daniel C. Tsui, Chinese-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate March–April March 1 – Tzvetan Todorov, Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist and essayist (d. 2017) March 2 – Takako, Princess Suga March 5 Samantha Eggar, English actress Chögyam Trungpa, Buddhist meditation master (d. 1987) March 8 – Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed-skater March 10 – Lee Soo-sung, 27th Prime Minister of