Births
- 2 June - Cornelius Mahlangu is born, later to become King Ingwenyama Mayitjha III of the Ndzundza-Mabhoko people (Ndebele)
- 4 June - Uwe Pfaff, artist, is born in Rye, Denmark
- 2 July - George Weideman, author, is born
- 16 July - Roelf Meyer, politician, is born
- 21 December - Ina Pretorius, founder member of Die Grafsteensangers, is born
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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