James Alfred Birch [SEP] date of birth
James Alfred Birch
James Alfred Birch (8 October 1888 – 11 December 1969) was a British philatelist who signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1960.
Birch had award-winning collections of the stamps of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Danish West Indies, Greenland, and Faroe Islands. He was a writer for numerous journals on Scandinavian topics and was awarded the Medal of Honour by the Copenhagen Philatelic Club for distinguished work in Danish philately.
20 Aug – Fall of Japan
- 27 Aug – Douglas MacArthur
- 3 Sep – Chiang Kai-shek
- 10 Sep – Robert L. Eichelberger
- 17 Sep – James F. Byrnes
- 24 Sep – Alfred P. Sloan
- 1 Oct – Archbishop Damaskinos
- 8 Oct – Sinclair Lewis
- 15 Oct – Lewis Schwellenbach
- 22 Oct – Edvard Beneš
- 29 Oct – James V. Forrestal
- 5 Nov – Spruille Braden
- 12 Nov – Glenn Davis & Doc Blanchard