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- January 23: Hall of Fame election: The writers' vote again fails to select an inductee, despite a newly revamped voting process. Voting again favors earlier candidates from the 1900s and 1910s, but none is able to gain 75% of the vote.
- April 23: The Hall of Fame Committee clears the deadlock at the top of the writers' ballot by selecting 11 new inductees, primarily from the popular candidates of the 1900s and 1910s: Jesse Burkett, Frank Chance, Jack Chesbro, Johnny Evers, Clark Griffith, Tommy McCarthy, Joe McGinnity, Eddie Plank, Joe Tinker, Rube Waddell and Ed Walsh. Selections of 19th century players are largely postponed. It is decided that the writers will henceforth select only players retired within the more recent past, rather than from the entire 20th century.
The World Figure Skating Championships were not held due to World War II.
[edit] England
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] January-April
- January 1 — Samuel Mbugua, Kenyan boxer
- January 1 — Manfred Stengl, Austrian luger
- January 10 — Robert Gadocha, Polish footballer
- January 11 — Ludmila Poradnik, Soviet handball player
- January 21 — Johnny Oates, American baseball catcher and manager (d. 2004)
- February 22 — Evert Dolman, Dutch cyclist (d. 1993)
- March 1 — Jan Kodeš, Czech tennis player
- March 3 — Charles Asati, Kenyan athlete
- April 4 — Colin Coates, Australian ice speed skater
- April 20 — Fedor den Hertog, Dutch cyclist
- April 26 — Simeon Simeonov, Bulgarian football (soccer) goalkeeper (d. 2000)
- April 30 — Don Schollander, American swimmer
[edit] May-July
- May 1 — Valery Muratov, Soviet ice speed skater
- May 14 — Stephen Rerych, US freestyle swimmer
- May 17 — Sinaida Turchina, Soviet handball player
- May 20 — Mario Guilloti, Argentine boxer
- May 24 — Selwyn Maister, New Zealand field hockey player
- May 31 — Steve Bucknor, Jamaican international cricket umpire
- June 2 — Warwick Wright, New Zealand field hockey player
- July 7 — Jim Day, Canadian equestrian show jumper
- July 10 — Juan Amat, Spanish field hockey player
- July 19 — Ilie Năstase, Romanian tennis player
- July 25 — Ion Alexe, Romanian heavyweight boxer
- July 31 — Zbigniew Kaczmarek, Polish weightlifter
[edit] August-October
- August 6 — Dusty Rhodes, Australian baseball coach
- August 29 — Bob Beamon, American high jumper
- September 2 — Uli Vos, German field hockey player
- September 3 — René Pijnen, Dutch cyclist
- September 7 — Eduard Thelen, German field hockey player
- September 9 — Evert Kroon, Dutch water polo goalkeeper
- September 10 — James Hines, American track and field athlete
- September 30 — Barry Weitzenberg, American water polo player
- October 1 — Eva Klobukowska, Polish relay sprinter
- October 1 — Alfred Jones, American middleweight boxer
- October 1 — Winnie van Weerdenburg, Dutch swimmer (d. 1998)
- October 6 — Bart Bongers, Dutch water polo player
- October 8 — Lennox Miller, Jamaican champion runner (d. 2004)
- October 11 — Sawao Kato, Japanese gymnast
- October 23 — Miklós Németh, Hungarian javelin thrower
[edit] November-December
[edit] Deaths
European Championships Marathon, Oslo, Norway
