1977

January

January – The world's first all-in-one home computer (keyboard/screen/tape storage), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago

January 1 – The Australian state of Queensland abolishes the inheritance tax.

January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated.

January 6 – Record company EMI drops the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.

January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.

January 9 – Legendary rock band Toto is founded by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

January 10

Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

Ocean Park opens in Hong Kong.

January 15 – Linjeflyg Flight 618 crashes into the Kälvesta area of Stockholm, killing all 22 on board.

January 17

Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah (the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the U.S.).

49 marines from the USS Trenton and USS Guam perished in the waters of the Barcelona harbour [1].

January 18

Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.

Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.

SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

January 19

U.S. President Gerald Ford, on his final full day in office, pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose").

Snow falls in Miami (despite its ordinarily tropical climate) for the only time in its history. Snowfall has occurred farther south in the United States only on the high mountains of the state of Hawaii.

January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as President of the United States.

January 21 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders.

January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls for fresh elections to the Lok Sabha and releases all political prisoners.

January 23 – Roots begins its phenomenally successful run on ABC.

January 24 – The Massacre of Atocha occurs during the Spanish transition to democracy.

January 26 – Katimavik is founded as a volunteer service organization for Canadian youths.

January 28 – The Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo, New York, and the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario.

January 31 – The Centre Georges Pompidou is officially opened by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.

February

February 2 – The Congress party of India, led by Indira Gandhi, splits with Jagjivan Ram and other senior leaders, forming Congress for Democracy. This party later merges with the Janata Party.

February 4 – Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released in the United States.

February 7

The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.

London's newly revived International Times proclaims for the first time that "punk is dead".

February 15 – The first Aardman Animations character, Morph, is introduced on British children's television show Take Hart.

February 18

American Space Shuttle program: First test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise mated to the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

British science fiction comic 2000 AD is launched with Prog 1 dated February 26.

February 23 – Óscar Romero becomes Archbishop of San Salvador.

February 28 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the Parliament of New Zealand.

March

March 4 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills 1,500.

March 5 – Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies after colliding with a track marshal at the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami.

March 8 – The Australian parliament is opened by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia.

March 9 – Hanafi Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later).

March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered.

March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

March 15 – Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and the PBS opera series Live from the Met both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of Puccini's La Boheme.

March 19 – Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition parties later to form the Janata Party.

March 26 – Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson.

March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.

March 28 – Marquette University wins the men's NCAA basketball tournament with a win over the University of North Carolina 67-59.

April

April 1 – The small market town of Hay-on-Wye declares independence from the UK, as a publicity stunt.

April 2 – Horse racing: Red Rum wins a record third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse.

April 4

Grundy, Virginia experiences a major flood that causes around $15 million in damages to 228 residential and commercial structures (to date the town is still recovering).

Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes on a highway in New Hope, Georgia, killing 72 people.

April 5 – Beginning of demonstrations in 10 cities across the U.S., the longest being the 3.5 week sit-in the San Francisco Federal Building to persuade President Jimmy Carter to implement the first Federal civil rights law for people with disabilities, Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, without reinstituting the "separate but equal" doctrine.

April 7

German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by 2 Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility.

The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.

The Seattle Mariners play their first-ever game of baseball against the California Angels.

April 8

Ms Low Was Born

The punk band The Clash's debut album The Clash is released in the UK on CBS Records.

April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.

April 21 – Residents of Dover, Massachusetts report sightings of an eerie monster.

April 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.

April 27 – The Guatemala City air disaster kills 28 people.

April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.

April 30 – The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

Led Zeppelin sets a new world record attendance for an indoor solo attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when 76,229 persons attend a concert here on the group's 1977 North American Tour.

May

May 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths, hundreds of injuries.

May 3 – The light aircraft carrier HMS Invincible is launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Elizabeth II.

May 8 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece about rape, Three Weeks in May begins in Los Angeles and continues until May 24.

May 12 – Portugal and Israel establish diplomatic relations.

May 14

The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all 6 on board.

In Milan, Italy, during a far-left demonstration, a hooded person shoots at the police, killing a policeman, Antonio Custra. The scene is photographed and the picture of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street appears in many magazines around the world.

May 17

The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel.

Elizabeth II commences her 1977 Silver Jubilee tour in Glasgow, Scotland.

Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre first opens in San Jose, California

May 23

Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin via gene splicing.

Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde–Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train, and 6 terrorists and 2 hostages are killed.

May 25 – George Lucas's Star Wars opens in cinemas and later becomes the historic highest-grossing film for that time. It also makes sci-fi films very popular.

May 26 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of the World Trade Center.

May 27

Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal Building at the Edinburgh Airport.

The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills 69 people.

Space Mountain opens at Disneyland and to this day remains as one of the park's most popular attractions.

A demonstration and coup attempt in Angola takes place. Afterward thousands were killed by the government and Cuban forces.

May 28 – The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside.

May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race 4 times.

June

June 5

A bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as President of the Seychelles.

The Portland Trail Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the National Basketball Association finals four games to two. Bill Walton is selected as the MVP of the series.

June 6 – 9 – Jubilee celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate 25 years of Elizabeth II's reign.

June 7 – After campaigning by Anita Bryant and her anti-gay "Save Our Children" crusade, Miami-Dade County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county's "gay rights" ordinance.

June 10

The first Apple II series computers go on sale.

James Earl Ray escapes from the Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee; he is recaptured on June 13.

June 12 – The Supremes perform their final concert together at Drury Lane in London, England and then disband permanently.

June 15 – Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years under the Franco regime.

June 16 – The Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates.

June 20

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions.

Anglia Television broadcasts the fake documentary Alternative 3, which enters into the conspiracy theory canon.

June 21 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (40th government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive the vote of confidence).

June 25

The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13 – 12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators.

American Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for the seventh time.

June 26

Elvis Presley holds his last concert at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis.

Some 200,000 protesters march through the streets of San Francisco, protesting Anita Bryant's anti-gay remarks and the murder of Robert Hillsborough.

16-year-old shop assistant Jayne Macdonald is murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper in Leeds, England.

June 27 – Djibouti receives its independence from France.

June 30

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded.

The Women Marines are disbanded, and the women are integrated into regular Marine Corps.

U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces the cancellation of the B-1 Bomber program (it is later revived by the Reagan Administration).

July

July 1

CKO (a Canadian all news radio network, defunct since 1989) begins broadcasting.

The EAC is dissolved.

Wimbledon – Virginia Wade wins women's singles title in centenary year of the tournament – It was Wade's first and only Wimbledon title, third and final Grand Slam title overall. Wade remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon.

July 5 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrows Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.

July 13

Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethio-Somali War.

The New York City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.

July 15 – Anti-drug campaigner Donald Mackay disappears near Griffith, New South Wales (presumed murdered).

July 19–20 – Flooding in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, caused by massive rainfall, kills over 75 people and causes billions in damage.

July 21–24 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins.

July 21 – Süleyman Demirel, of AP forms the new government of Turkey (41st government a three-party coalition, so-called second national front (Turkish: Milliyetçi cephe)).

July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power 9 months after the "Gang of Four" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.

July 24 – Led Zeppelin presents its last American concert in Oakland, California, at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and the staff of the promoter Bill Graham, resulting in criminal assault charges for several members of the Led Zeppelin group including the drummer John Bonham.

July 27 – The Soviet Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918. Yeltsin eventually calls this a barbarian act.

July 28 – The first oil through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska.

July 30 – Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar assassinate Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.

August

August 3

United States Senate hearings on Project MKUltra are held.

The Tandy Corporation TRS-80 Model I computer is announced at a press conference.

August 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.

August 7 – Mount Usu volcano in Japan erupts.

August 9 – The military-controlled government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a President and Congress.

August 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son of Sam.

August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.

August 15

The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.

Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome.

August 16

Elvis Presley, the "king of rock and roll", dies in his home in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans line the streets of Memphis for his funeral.

Supertanker Pierre Guillaumat is launched at Saint-Nazaire; she is the all-time world's largest ship (by deadweight tonnage and length overall) at launch.

August 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

August 19 – Groucho Marx, comedic legend, star of stage and screen, dies of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 86 (born 1890).

August 20 – Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.

August 26 – The National Assembly of Quebec passes the Charter of the French Language (Law 101, La charte de la langue française) making French the official language of the Canadian province of Quebec.

September

September – Evangelical pastor Oral Roberts publishes plans to build the 'City of God Hospital' in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The towers are completed in 1981 for $120M ($299M, in 2012)

September 3 – The Commodore PET computer is first sold.

September 4 – The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco.

September 5

Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.

German Autumn: Employers Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill 3 escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.

September 7 – Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.

September 8 – Interpol issues a resolution against the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs.

September 10 – Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France.

September 11 – Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America.

September 12 – South African activist Steve Biko dies after suffering a massive head injury in police custody in Pretoria.

September 16 – Glam rock pioneer Marc Bolan dies in a car crash in Barnes, London.

September 18 – Courageous (U.S.), skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht race.

September 19

Under pressure from the Carter Administration, President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua.

North Korean agents abduct Yutaka Kume from Noto Peninsula starting the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.

September 20 – The Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.

September 23 – Jazz-rock group Steely Dan releases their sixth studio album Aja; it becomes their highest charting album in the United States at No. 3 and goes on to sell over 5 million copies.

September 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show.

September 29

Singer-songwriter Billy Joel releases his fifth studio album The Stranger; it becomes the first of several hit albums, spawning five hit singles, going 10x platinum in the US, and later ranking at No. 70 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

The modern Food Stamp Program begins when the Food Stamp Act of 1977 is enacted.

October

October 1

Energy Research and Development Administration combined with the Federal Energy Administration to form United States Department of Energy.

October 7

The Soviet Union adopts its third Constitution after a prolonged campaign by Brezhnev Supporters to have it passed before the Supreme Soviet dissolves for the end of the parliamentary session.

Pelé plays his final professional football game as a member of the New York Cosmos.

October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members.

October 14

Anita Bryant is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. This event results in her political fallout from anti-gay activism.

American singer and actor Bing Crosby, one of the most popular, far-reaching and influential entertainers of all time, dies after finishing 18 holes at La Moraleja Gold Course in Spain.

October 17–18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; 3 of the 4 hijackers die.

October 18

German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails (their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried on October 27.

Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, opens the third session of the 30th Canadian Parliament.

Reggie Jackson blasts 3 home runs to lead the New York Yankees to a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

October 19 – German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer is found murdered in Mulhouse, France.

October 20 – Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, 3 days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.

October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded.

October 23 – The president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returns to Barcelona from exile and the autonomous government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, is restored.

October 25 – Seychelles recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

October 26

The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.

Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise, over California.

October 27 – British punk band Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols on the Virgin Records label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it debuts at number one on the UK Album Charts the week after its release.

October 28

Hong Kong police forces attack the ICAC headquarters.

British rock band Queen release the album News of the World.

November

November 1 – 2060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.

November 2 – The worst storm in Athens' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people.

November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia fails, killing 39.

November 8

Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.

San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.

November 9 – Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military government of Bolivia, announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously provided.

November 10 – The Bee Gees release the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever, which will go on to become the then best selling album of all time.

November 19

Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.

November 22

British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol.

November 28 – Jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp records "On Green Dolphin Street", the first digitally recorded album to be released commercially in the USA.

November 30 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations.

December

December – the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (CESDAP) is implemented.

December 1

Lockheed's top-secret stealth aircraft project, designated Have Blue and precursor to the U.S. Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, makes its first flight.

The first children's cable channel The Pinwheel Network (later known as Nickelodeon), is launched.

December 4

Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor.

Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.

December 11 – after losing 26 games, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the US National Football League record their very first win; against the New Orleans Saints.

December 13 – a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft carrying the University of Evansville basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, crashes in rain and dense fog about 90 seconds after takeoff from Evansville Regional Airport; 29 people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson.

December 16

Mikhail Baryshnikov's 1976 production of Tchaikovsky's beloved ballet The Nutcracker comes to CBS a year after premiering onstage at the Kennedy Center. This adaptation will become the most popular television production of the work.

The movie Saturday Night Fever is released in theaters and becoming the biggest dancing movie of all time and launches the career of its star John Travolta and the Bee Gees who performed many songs on its soundtrack to superstardom.

December 18 – SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730, an international charter service from Zurich to Funchal Airport (Madeira), hits the sea during a landing attempt. Many of the 36 who die drown, trapped inside the sinking aircraft. Twenty-one people survive with the help of rescuers and by swimming to the shore.

December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.

December 22 – A grain elevator explodes in Westwego, Louisiana, killing 36.

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Portugal's traditional naming conventions change such that children's surnames can come from either the mother or the father, not just from the father.

The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.

Mormon sex in chains case with the alleged abduction in England of a young Mormon missionary.

The WAVES are disbanded; women integrated into the regular Navy.

January

January 1

Axel, Argentine singer and songwriter

Mahmadu Alphajor Bah, Sierra Leonean footballer (d. 2016)

Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian

Donna Ares, Bosnian singer

January 2

Gavin Mahon, English footballer

Aleš Píša, Czech ice hockey player

January 3

Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress

A. J. Burnett, American baseball player

Jim Shearer, American VJ (MTV2 and VH1) and television personality

January 4 – Tim Wheeler, Irish singer-songwriter and musician (Ash)

January 7

John Gidding, American actor and architect

Dustin Diamond, American actor

January 8 – Amber Benson, American actress

January 9 – Scoonie Penn, American basketball player

January 11 – Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater

January 12 – Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor

January 13 – Orlando Bloom, British actor

January 14 – Ruco Chan, Hong Kong actor

January 17 – Leigh Whannell, Australian actor and writer

January 19 – Taliesin Jaffe, American voice actor and actor

January 20 – Melody, Belgian singer

January 21 – Jerry Trainor, American actor

January 22 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer

January 23 – Kamal Heer, Punjabi singer and musician

January 24 – Johann Urb, American actor

January 25

Hatem Trabelsi, Tunisian footballer

The-Dream, American singer

Christian Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian singer (A1)

January 26 – Vince Carter, American basketball player

January 28

Lyle Overbay, American baseball player

Daunte Culpepper, American football player

Joey Fatone, American musician ('N Sync)

January 31

Mark Dutiaume, Canadian hockey player

Kerry Washington, American actress

February

February 2

Shakira, Colombian musician

Jessica Wahls, German pop singer

February 4 – Gavin DeGraw, singer/songwriter

February 5

Adam Everett, American baseball player

Ahmad Merritt, American football player

Ben Ainslie, British sailor

February 6 – Jim Conroy, North American voice artist

February 7

Paul Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player

Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman

February 8

Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist

Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer

February 9 – Ledina Çelo, Albanian singer and model

February 11

Randy Moss, American football player

Mike Shinoda, American rock musician (Linkin Park)

February 15 – Álex González, Venezuelan baseball player

February 16 – Ian Clarke, Irish computer scientist

February 17 – Matthew Hottenstein, American legend

February 18

Ike Barinholtz, American actor, comedian and screenwriter

László Nemes, Hungarian film director and screenwriter

February 19 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer

February 20

Stephon Marbury, American basketball player

Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model

February 21

Cyrine Abdelnour, Lebanese singer, actress, and model

Jonathan Safran Foer, American author

Steve Francis, American basketball player

Kevin Rose, American television host

February 23 – Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier

February 24

Floyd Mayweather Jr., boxing champion

Jason Akermanis, Australian rules footballer

February 27 – Ji Sung, South Korean actor

February 28

Jason Aldean, American country music singer

Rafael Amaya, Mexican model, singer, and actor

March

March 1 – Rens Blom, Dutch athlete

March 2

Chris Martin, British rock musician (Coldplay)

Heather McComb, American actress

March 3 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer (Boyzone)

March 4

Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete

Daniel Klewer, German footballer

Christian Jessen, TV presenter/doctor Embarrassing Bodies

March 5 – Wally Szczerbiak, Spanish-born basketball player

March 6

Paquillo Fernández, Spanish race walker

Santino Marella, Canadian wrestler

March 7

Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player

Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer

Paul Cattermole, English singer (S Club 7)

March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor

March 9 – Lydia Mackay, American voice actress

Bree Turner, American actress

Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer

Shannon Miller, American gymnast

Rita Simons, English actor

Robin Thicke, American-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor

March 11

Becky Hammon, American basketball player

Jason Greeley, Canadian singer

March 14 – Kim Nam-il, South Korean footballer

March 15

Brian Tee, Japanese American actor

Norifumi Yamamoto, Japanese mixed martial artist

Adrian Burnside, Australian baseball player

March 16 – Ismael La Rosa, Peruvian actor

March 18 – Zdeno Chára, Czechoslovakian (now Slovakia) hockey player

March 23

Sammy Morris, American football player

Edwin Siu, Hong Kong actor and singer

March 24

Jessica Chastain, American actress

Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player

March 26 – Bianca Kajlich, American actress

March 27

Vítor Meira, Brazilian race car driver

Roger Velasco, American actor

March 28 – Annie Wersching, American actress

April

April 1 – Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist

April 2

Michael Fassbender, German-Irish actor

Nicki Pedersen, Danish motorcycle rider

April 4

Adam Dutkiewicz, American musician, Killswitch Engage

Stephen Mulhern, British musician, TV presenter

April 5 – Daniel Majstorović, Swedish soccer player

April 9 – Gerard Way, American rock singer

April 10 – Stephanie Sheh, American voice actress

April 11 – DJ Fresh, English DJ and music producer

April 12

Tobias Angerer, German cross-country skier

Sarah Monahan, Australian actress

Sarah Jane Morris, American actress

April 14

Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress

Chandra Levy, American murder victim (d. 2001)

Rob McElhenney, American actor

April 15 – Dejan Milojevic, Serbian basketball player

April 16

Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer

Tameka Empson, English actress

April 17 – Frederik Magle, Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist

April 19 – Bryan Spears, American film and television producer

April 21 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater

April 22

Anna Eriksson, Finnish pop-rock singer

Steven Price, British film composer

April 23

Arash, Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer and producer

Andruw Jones, Antillean baseball player

John Cena, American professional WWE wrestler, actor and rapper

John Oliver, British comedian, political commentator, actor, and television personality; host of HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Kal Penn, American actor, producer and civil servant

April 24

Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player

Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ, Belarusian writer

Rebecca Mader, English actress

April 25 – Manolo Cardona, Colombian actor

April 26

Jason Earles, American actor

Tom Welling, American actor

April 27 – Dai Fujikura, Japanese composer

April 30

Alexandra Holden, American actress

Ole Jørn Myklebust, Norwegian jazz musician

Robert Evans, Welsh playwright

May

May 3

Ben Olsen, American footballer

Ryan Dempster, Canadian baseball player

Eric Church, American country music singer

May 4 – Emily Perkins, Canadian actress

May 5

Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress

Virginie Efira, Belgian actress and television anchor

Jessica Schwarz, German film and TV actress

May 8

Pepe Sánchez, Argentine basketball player

Chiaki Takahashi, Japanese voice actress

May 9 – Choi Jung-yoon, South Korean actress

May 10

Nick Heidfeld, German race car driver

Chas Licciardello, Australian comedian (The Chaser)

May 11

Victor Matfield, South African rugby player

Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper

May 12

Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player

Rebecca Herbst, American actress

May 13

Ilse DeLange, Dutch country and pop singer, member of The Common Linnets, Eurovision Song Contest 2014 runner-up

Samantha Morton, British actress

May 14

Roy Halladay, American baseball player

Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress

May 16

Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress

Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer

May 17 – Lisa Kelly, Irish singer

May 19

Brandon Inge, American baseball player

Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress

May 20 – Chad Muska, American skateboarder

May 23

Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater

Yevgeny Rodionov, Russian soldier (d. 1996)

Heather Wahlquist, American actress

May 24 – Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thai tennis player

May 26

Misaki Ito, Japanese actress

Luca Toni, Italian footballer

May 27

Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete

Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player

May 28 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American talk show host

May 29 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian football player

May 31

Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player

Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer

Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player

Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete

Eric Christian Olsen, American actor

June Sarpong, British television presenter

Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer

Petr Tenkrát, Czech ice hockey player

June

June 1

Danielle Harris, American actress

Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress

Jónsi, Icelandic singer

June 2

Zachary Quinto, American actor

A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler

June 3 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player

June 4 – Jordan Bratman, American celebrity

June 5 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer

June 7 – Marcin Baszczyński, Polish footballer

June 8 – Kanye West, American rapper and record producer

June 9 – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player

June 10

Adam Darski, Polish musician (aka Nergal, Holocausto)

Takako Matsu, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress

June 11

Ryan Dunn, American television personality (d. 2011)

Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer

Shane Meier, Canadian actor

June 12 – Ana Tijoux, French-Chilean musician

June 14 – Chris McAlister, American football player

June 16 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player

June 19

Peter Warrick, American football player

Veronika Vařeková, Czech model

Maria Cioncan, distance runner from Romania (d. 2007)

June 20 – Aaron Moule, Australian rugby league player

June 21 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player

June 22 – Ryōko Ono, Japanese voice actress

June 23

Antoine Winfield, American football player

Jason Mraz, American singer/songwriter

June 25 – Naoya Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast

June 26

William Kipsang, Kenyan long-distance runner

Tite Kubo, Japanese manga artist who created BLEACH

June 27

Raúl, Spanish footballer

Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer

June 28 – Harun Tekin, Turkish rock vocalist and guitarist (Mor ve Ötesi)

June 29 – Zuleikha Robinson, British actress and singer

July

July 1

Tom Frager, French-born singer and surfer

Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player

Liv Tyler, American actress

July 2 – Ricardo Medina, Jr., American actor

July 5 – Steven Sharp Nelson, American cellist

July 6 – Craig Handley, British film director

July 8

Milo Ventimiglia, American actor

Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player

July 10

Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug smuggler

Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor

July 11 – Edward Moss, American impersonator

July 12

Peter Schaefer, Canadian ice hockey player

Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler

July 13

Ashley Scott, American actress

Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress

July 14 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

July 15 – Ray Toro, American rock guitarist (My Chemical Romance)

July 18 – Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright

July 19 – Jean-Sébastien Aubin, Canadian ice hockey player

July 21 – Paul Casey, English golfer

July 24

Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player

Danny Dyer, English actor

July 26 – Rebecca St. James, Australian-born Christian musician

July 27

Jason Zimbler, American actor

Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor

Martha Madison, American actress

July 28

Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player

Rahman "Rock" Harper, American personality, restauranteur

July 30 – Jaime Pressly, American actress

July 31 – Tim Couch, American football player

August

August 2 – Edward Furlong, American actor

August 3 – Tom Brady, American football player

August 7 – Twins Samantha Ronson and Charlotte Ronson, British DJ and designer

August 8 – Marílson Gomes dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner

August 9 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player

August 10 – Danny Griffin, Irish footballer

August 12

Plaxico Burress, American football player

Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer (d. 2010)

August 13

Michael Klim, Australian swimmer

Miho Konishi, Japanese actress

August 15

Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player

Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast

Anthony Rocca, Australian rules footballer

August 16 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer/actor

August 17

Thierry Henry, French footballer

Tarja Turunen, Finnish operatic soprano

Claire Richards, English singer (Steps)

August 18 – Lukáš Bauer, Czech cross-country skier

August 20

Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player

Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player

Henning Stensrud, Norwegian ski jumper

August 22 – Miho Kanno, Japanese actress and singer

August 23

Nicole Bobek, American figure skater

Kenta Miyake, Japanese voice actor

August 24

Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009)

Per Gade, Danish footballer

Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer

John Green, American author, vlogger, writer, producer, actor and editor

August 25 – Masumi Asano, Japanese voice actress

August 26 – Morris Peterson, American basketball player

August 27 – Deco, Portuguese footballer

August 30

Shaun Alexander, American football player

Jens Ludwig, German guitarist

Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer

Sayori Ishizuka, Japanese voice actress

August 31

Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler

Ian Harte, Irish footballer

Barry Winchell, infantry soldier in the United States Army (d. 1999)

Craig Nicholls, Australian rock musician and songwriter

September

September 1 – Adrienne Wilkinson, American actress

September 2

Frédéric Kanouté, Mali soccer player

Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriter

September 4

Ian Grushka, American bassist (New Found Glory)

Lucie Silvas, English singer

September 6 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer

September 11 – Ludacris, American rapper and actor, co-founder of Disturbing tha Peace

September 12

Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter

James McCartney, English musician and songwriter

September 13 – Fiona Apple, American singer

September 15

Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter

Tom Hardy, English actor

Jason Terry, American basketball player

September 18 – Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman

September 19

Ryan Dusick, American musician (former Maroon 5)

Ioana Maria Lupașcu, Romanian pianist

September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer

September 21 – Hank Fraley, American football player

September 22 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league player

September 23

Matthieu Descoteaux, Canadian ice hockey player

Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer, actress, and murder victim (d. 2008)

September 24

Elizabeth Bogush, American actress

Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, American football player

September 25

Clea DuVall, American actress

Robbie Jones, American actor

Adam Lovell, founder and owner of WriteAPrisoner.com

Joel David Moore, American actor

September 27

Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower

Mike Maronna, American actor

September 28

Ivana Božilović, Serbian model and actress

Se-Ri Pak, South Korean golfer

Kristal Tin, Hong Kong actress

September 29 – Jorgito Vargas, Jr., Canadian actor

September 30 – Roy Carroll, Irish footballer

October

October 2 – Didier Defago, Swiss Olympic alpine skiier

October 5 – Hugleikur Dagsson, Icelandic artist

October 6 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player

October 7

Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress

Yukta Mookhey, former Miss World and Indian actress.

October 8 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain bicycle racer

October 9

Hicham Chami, Moroccan financier and musician

Yafeu Fula (aka Yaki Kadafi), rapper from Tupac Shakur's group The Outlawz (d. 1996)

October 11

Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader

Rhett McLaughlin, American musician and internet personality, host of "Good Mythical Morning"

Matt Bomer, American film, stage, and television actor

October 12 – Bode Miller, American skier

October 13

Paul Pierce, American basketball player

Quincy Carter, American football Player

Kiele Sanchez, American actress

October 14

Adam Pengilly, British skeleton racer

Bianca Beauchamp, Canadian latex model

Kelly Schumacher, American basketball and volleyball player

October 15 – David Sergio Trezeguet, French footballer

October 16 – John Mayer, American musician and record producer

October 17 – André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager

October 18

Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer

Paul Stalteri, Canadian footballer

October 20 – Stewart Petrie Scottish actor

October 25 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer

October 26

Louis Crayton, Swiss/Liberian footballer

October 27 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer

October 28 – Jonas Rasmussen, Danish badminton player

October 29 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor

October 30 – Charmian Faulkner, missing Australian toddler

November

November 1 – Alistair Griffin, British singer and songwriter

November 2 – Randy Harrison, American actor

November 3 – Aria Giovanni, American model and actress

November 4 – Larry Bigbie, American baseball player

November 6

Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress

Dušan Kecman, Serbian basketball player

November 8

João Rodrigo Silva Santos, Brazilian soccer player (d. 2013)

Bucky Covington, American country singer

Nick Punto, Italian-American baseball player

November 10

Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009)

Josh Barnett, American mixed martial artist

November 11

Scoot McNairy, American actor

November 13

Chanel Cole, New Zealand-born singer

Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer

November 15 – Peter Phillips, son of Anne, Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips

November 16

Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater

Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress

November 17 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer

November 18

Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league player

Miranda Raison, British actress

November 19 – Kerri Strug, American gymnast

November 20

Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer

Josh Turner, American country music singer

November 21 – Jonas Jennings, American football player

November 22 – Michael Preston, English footballer

November 23

Christopher Amott, Swedish musician

David Lucas, English footballer

November 24 – Colin Hanks, American actor

November 26 – Ivan Basso, Italian cyclist

November 27 – Mika Tan, Asian-American adult film actress

November 28 – DeMya Walker, American basketball player

November 30 – Steve Aoki, American electro house DJ and founder of Dim Mak Records

December

December 3

Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper

Troy Evans, American football player

December 6

Lindsey Alley, American actress and singer

Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer

Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer

Miwa Yasuda, Japanese voice actress

December 7

Fernando Vargas, American boxer

Luke Donald, English golfer

Dominic Howard Drummer in English rock-trio Muse

December 8

Elsa Benítez, Mexican model and television host

Ryan Newman, American race car driver

Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union player

December 10 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress

December 11 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player

December 12

Dahm triplets, American models

Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler and Olympic gold medalist

December 14

KaDee Strickland, American actress

Jamie Peacock, English rugby league player

December 16

Kevin Gillespie, American comic book artist

Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player

December 17

Oxana Fedorova, Russian personality, Miss Universe 2002 (dethroned)

Katheryn Winnick, Canadian actress

December 20 – Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer

December 21 – Gregor Horvatič, a Slovenian politician, former president of Slovenian Democratic Youth

December 23

Alge Crumpler, American football player

Matt Baker, British television presenter

Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician

December 24 – Domingo Vega, also known as Américo, Chilean singer

December 25 – Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress

December 27

Jacqueline Pillon, Canadian actress

Sam Talbot, American chef

December 29

Huang Chuncai, Chinese man known as the "Elephant Man"

Laveranues Coles, American football player

Katherine Moennig, American actress

December 30

Laila Ali, American boxer

Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer

Kenyon Martin, American basketball player

Saša Ilić, Serbian football player

December 31

Donald Trump, Jr., American executive vice-president of The Trump Organization

Psy, South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and record producer

Date unknown

Hayko, Armenian singer

Yaakov Shwekey, Jewish singer

January

January 1

Adam Fox, Indian-born British male tennis player (b. 1883)

Michael Hogan, British screenwriter (b. 1893)

January 2 – Erroll Garner, American musician (b. 1921)

January 3

Carroll Quigley, American historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations (b. 1910)

Tom Gries, American TV and film director (b. 1922)

Hans Reinowski, German politician (b. 1900)

January 4 – Ibrahim Biçakçiu, 20th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1905)

January 5

Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. 1889)

Onslow Stevens, American actor (b. 1902)

January 6 – William Gropper, American artist (b. 1897)

January 11

Hilder F. Smith, American pioneer aviator (b. 1890)

Henry Cronin, British civil engineer and army officer (b. 1894)

January 12 – Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director (b. 1907)

January 13 – Henri Langlois, French film historian (b. 1914)

January 14

Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)

Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)

Anaïs Nin, French author (b. 1903)

January 16 – Daniel V. Gallery, American admiral and author (b. 1901)

January 17 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (executed) (b. 1940)

January 18

Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslavian Prime Minister (b. 1917)

Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (b. 1896)

January 19 – Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (b. 1895)

January 21 – Sandro Penna, Italian poet (b. 1906)

January 22 – Billy Down, English professional association footballer (b. 1898)

January 23 – Toots Shor, New York restaurateur (b. 1903)

January 24 – Eli Lilly, American pharmaceutical industrialist and philanthropist from Indianapolis (b. 1885)

January 26 – Dietrich von Hildebrand, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1889)

January 27

Eero Nelimarkka, Finnish painter (b. 1891)

Walter Baldwin, prolific character actor (b. 1889)

January 28 – Burt Mustin, American actor (b. 1884)

January 29

Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)

Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (Chico and the Man) (b. 1954)

February

February 3 – Pauline Starke, American actress (b. 1901)

February 4 – Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)

February 5 – Oskar Klein, Swedish theoretical physicist (b. 1894)

February 6 – George John Park, New Zealand teacher and technical college principal (b. 1880)

February 8 – Olinda Bozán, Argentinian actress (b. 1894)

February 9 – Queen Alia, Queen of Jordan (b. 1948)

February 11

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and politician, 5th President of India (b, 1905)

Louis Beel, Dutch politician and jurist, former Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1902)

February 12

Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch juridical scholar by training (b. 1894)

Henry Jordan, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1935)

February 13 – Alberto Diena, Italian stamps collector (b. 1894)

February 14 – Bill Tilman, English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1898)

February 15 – Herman Johannes Lam, Dutch botanist (b. 1892)

February 16

Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)

Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (b. 1897)

February 17 – Mary Anne Reidy, New Zealand civilian and military nurse, community leader (b. 1880)

February 18

Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)

Ralph Graves, American actor (b. 1900)

February 18 – Chandabai, Jain scholar and a pioneer of women's education in India (b. 1880)

February 19 – Anthony Crosland, British author and politician (b. 1918)

February 20

Ralph Hungerford, American naval officer, 33rd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1896)

Christoffel Venter, South African military commander (b. 1892)

Yisrael Alter, 4th Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger (b. 1895)

February 21 – John Hubley, American animator (b. 1914)

February 25

Patricia Haines, British actress (b. 1932)

Cuthbert Dukes, English physician and pathologist and author,(b. 1890)

February 26 – Aurel Persu, Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer (b. 1890)

February 27 – Allison Hayes, American actress (b. 1930)

February 28 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, African-American actor (The Jack Benny Show) (b. 1905)

March

March 2 – Paul Rohmer, Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics (b. 1876)

March 3 – Percy Marmont, American stage and screen actor (b. 1883)

March 4

Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)

Ola Solberg, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (b. 1886)

Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official (b. 1887)

March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula race car driver (b. 1949)

March 8 – Henry Hull, American actor (b. 1890)

March 10

E. Power Biggs, British-born American organist (b. 1906)

William G. James, Australian pianist and composer (b. 1892)

Léonce-Henri Burel, French cinematographer (b. 1892)

Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician and civil engineer, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1945–1946) (b. 1894)

March 11 – Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893)

March 14

Black Mike Winage, Serbian-Canadian miner, pioneer (b. 1870)

Mae Carden, American educator who developed the Carden Method (b. 1894)

March 15 – Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler (b. 1921)

March 16 – Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)

March 17 – Claude Roger-Marx, French writer, and playwright (b. 1888)

March 18 – Marien Ngouabi, President of The Republic of the Congo (assassinated) (b. 1938)

March 19 – William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-born American journalist (b. 1888)

March 20 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)

March 22 – A. K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)

March 25

Nunnally Johnson, American screenwriter and director (b. 1897)

Joe Stydahar, American football player (Chicago Bears) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1912)

March 26 – Madeleine Dring, British composer and actress (b. 1923)

March 27 – Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)

March 28

Andries Mac Leod, Belgian-Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1891)

Frithiof Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1894)

Marion Clyde McCarroll, writer and journalist (b. 1891)

March 29

Charles Nicoletti, American gangster (b. 1916)

Eugen Wüster, industrialist and terminologist (b. 1898)

March 30 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)

March 31

Yasuji Kamada, Japanese photographer (b. 1883)

Eric Grant Miles, served as an officer with the British Army (b. 1891)

Jean Bachelet, French cinematographer (b. 1894)

April

April 2 – He Tianjian, Chinese painter (b. 1891)

April 2 – John Whitaker, British gymnast (b. 1886)

April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1903)

April 6

Isaac B. Mitchell, American farmer and politician (b. 1888)

Frank Rooney, Austro-Hungarian Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1884)

April 7 – Karl Ritter, German film producer and director (b. 1888)

April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)

April 12 – Philip K. Wrigley, American chewing gum manufacturer and Major League Baseball executive (b. 1894)

April 16 – Harwood Sturtevant, Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac (b. 1888)

April 17 – William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1913)

April 20

Wilmer Allison, American tennis champion (b. 1904)

Bryan Foy, American film producer and director (b. 1896)

April 21 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892)

April 23 – Charles D. Herron, general in the United States Army (b. 1877)

April 26 – Jack Ayre, Canadian pianist (b. 1894)

April 27 – Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)

April 28

Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1899)

Sepp Herberger, German soccer coach (b. 1897)

Viktor Novak, Yugoslav historian of Croat descent (b. 1889)

April 29 – William Arthur Whitlock, New Zealand journalist (b. 1891)

May

May 4 – Richard Pike Bissell, British author of short stories and novels (b. 1913)

May 5

Ludwig Erhard, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1897)

Sam Lanin, American 1920s bandleader (b. 1891)

May 9 – James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)

May 10 – Joan Crawford, American actress

May 13 – Otto Deßloch, German World War II Luftwaffe general (b. 1889)

May 15

Herbert Wilcox, British film director and producer (b. 1892)

Torsten Tegnér, Swedish athlete and journalist (b. 1888)

René Roy, French economist (b. 1894)

Yang Sen, Sichuan warlord and general who excelled himself in his long military career (b. 1884)

May 16 – Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)

May 17 – Robert Maynard Hutchins, American educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (b. 1899)

May 18 – Czesław Wycech, Polish activist, politician and historian (b. 1899)

May 25 – Máire Gill, French political activist who became third and longest-serving president (b. 1891)

May 31

William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)

Herbert Marshall, Canadian academic, statistician, and third Dominion Statistician (b. 1888)

June

June 2

Forrest Lewis, American actor (b. 1899)

Stephen Boyd, American film actor (Fantastic Voyage) (b. 1931)

June 3

Archibald Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)

Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)

June 5 – Ward Melville, American philanthropist and businessman (b. 1887)

June 9 – Walter B. Jones, American geologist and archaeologist (b. 1895)

June 13 – Matthew Garber English child actor (b. 1956)

June 14

Alan Reed, American actor (b. 1907)

Andy York, English professional footballer (b. 1894)

Leonard Barnes, British anti-colonialist writer, journalist and educationalist (b. 1895)

June 16 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist (b. 1912)

June 19

Geraldine Brooks, American actress (b. 1925)

Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)

June 22

Jacqueline Audry, French film director (b. 1908)

Oscar Olstad, Norwegian gymnast (b. 1887)

Marston Morse, American mathematician (b. 1892)

Georges Miquelle, studies at the age of five (b. 1894)

Joan Evans, British historian (b. 1893)

Philip Lindsey Clark, English sculptor (b. 1889)

June 25 – Olave Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting and Girl Guides, by over 35 years (b. 1889)

July

July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born writer (Lolita) (b. 1899)

July 9

Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist and writer (The Immense Journey) (b. 1907)

Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (b. 1885)

Harriette Chick, British protein scientist and nutritionist (b. 1875)

Willoughby Weaving, British writer and poet of the First World War era (b. 1885)

July 13 – Carl Gustav von Rosen, Swedish pilot (b. 1909)

July 15 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (b. 1892)

July 19 – Karl Ristikivi, Estonian writer (b. 1912)

July 20

Carter DeHaven, American actor (b. 1886)

Grenfell Price, Australian geographer, historian and educationist (b. 1892)

July 23 – Arsenio Erico, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1915)

July 26 – Gena Branscombe, Canadian pianist, composer, music educator and choir conductor (b. 1881)

July 30 – Jean de Laborde, French admiral, famous for the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon (b. 1878)

August

August 1 – Francis Gary Powers, American pilot, shot down in 1960 U-2 incident (b. 1929)

August 3

Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)

Makarios III, Cypriot Archbishop and first President of Cyprus (b. 1913)

August 4

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)

Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher (b. 1885)

Antonio Machín, Cuban singer (b. 1903)

August 5 – Waldo L. Schmitt, American biologist (b. 1887)

August 6 – Alexander Bustamante, 1st Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1884)

August 9 – George Kenney, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1889)

August 11

John Howard Lawson, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1894)

August 11 – Frederic Calland Williams the co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube used for memory in early computer systems (b. 1911)

August 13 – Henry Williamson, English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist (b. 1895)

August 14

Ron Haydock, American actor, writer, and musician (b. 1940)

Alexander Luria, Soviet neuropsychologist (b. 1902)

August 16 – Elvis Presley, American actor and rock musician, Time, Person of the 20th Century (b. 1935)

August 17 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and director (b. 1904)

August 19

Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)

John Harlow, English film director (b. 1896)

August 22 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)

August 23 – Naum Gabo, prominent Russian sculptor (b. 1890)

August 29 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)

August 31

Rick Vallin, Russian-American actor (b. 1919)

H. C. Potter, American film director (b. 1904)

September

September 1 – Ethel Waters, African-American singer (b. 1896)

September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, British economist (b. 1911)

September 6 – John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885)

September 8 – Zero Mostel, American film and stage actor (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum) (b. 1915)

September 9 – "Jungle" Jim Liberman, funny car drag racer (b. 1945)

September 12

Steve Biko, South African activist (b. 1946)

Robert Lowell, American poet (b. 1917)

September 13 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)

September 16

Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)

Maria Callas, American-born soprano (b. 1923)

Francis Shurrock, notable New Zealand sculptor and art teacher (b. 1887)

Alexandre Constantinovich Chnéour, Russian entomologist and herpetologist (b. 1884)

September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)

September 23 – John Nash, British painter of landscape and still-life (b. 1893)

September 24

Piet Zwart, Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer.(b. 1885)

Frederick Merk, American historian.(b. 1887)

September 26 – Ernie Lombardi, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1908)

September 27 – Czesław Wycech, Polish activist, politician and historian (b. 1899)

September 28 – Adam Fox, Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford (b. 1883)

October

October 2 – Joseph William Woodrough, United States federal judge (b. 1873)

October 3 – Tay Garnett, American film director (b. 1894)

October 6 – Danny Greene, Irish American mobster killed by car bomb (b. 1933)

October 8

Joe Greenstein, Polish-born American strongman (b. 1893)

Giorgos Papasideris, Greek country singer, composer, and lyricist (b. 1902)

October 10

Helen Gibson, American actress (b. 1892)

Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)

October 12 – Dorothy Davenport, American actress (b. 1895)

October 13 – Jackie Condon, American actor (b. 1918)

October 14 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)

October 16 – Cal Hubbard, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1900)

October 17 – Michael Balcon, English film producer (b. 1896)

October 18 – Andreas Baader, West German member of Red Army Faction (b. 1943)

October 20 – Members of the American southern rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd (killed in a plane crash):

Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)

Steve Gaines (b. 1949)

Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)

October 22 – Boye Schlytter, Norwegian businessperson and mountain climber (b. 1891)

October 25 – Félix Gouin, French Socialist politician (b. 1884)

October 27

James M. Cain, American writer (b. 1892)

Tony Hulman, American businessman and racetrack owner (b. 1901)

October 30 – Frederick Hamilton March, Australian soldier and adventurer (b. 1891)

November

November 3 – Florence Vidor, American actress (b. 1895)

November 4 – Betty Balfour, English screen actress (b. 1903)

November 5

René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)

Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader (b. 1902)

Alice May Palmer, New Zealand public servant (b. 1886)

November 8 – Bucky Harris, American baseball manager (Washington Senators) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1896)

November 9 – Gertrude Astor, American actress (b. 1887)

November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English writer (b. 1897)

November 11

Greta Keller, Austrian-born singer and actress (b. 1903)

Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist and political activist (b. 1950)

November 14

A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON (b. 1896)

Ferdinand Heim, German general, branded the "Scapegoat of Stalingrad" (b. 1897)

November 15 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (b. 1898)

November 16 – José Acosta, starting pitcher in Major League Baseball(b. 1891)

November 17 – André Perugia, French shoe designer (b. 1893)

November 18

Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)

Kurt Schuschnigg, 12th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1897)

November 21 – Richard Carlson, American actor (b. 1912)

November 25 – Tommy Prince, Canadian war hero (b. 1915)

November 28 – Claus von Wagner, German cabarettist and comedian

November 30 – Terence Rattigan, English playwright (b. 1911)

December

December 3 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower (b. 1899)

December 4 – Tom Senier, Irish melodeon (single row diatonic accordion) player (b. 1895)

December 5

Rahsaan Roland Kirk, American jazz musician (b. 1936)

Katherine Milhous, American artist, illustrator, and writer (b. 1894)

Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)

December 7 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born engineer and developer of the 33rpm record (b. 1906)

December 10 – Ethel Roosevelt Derby, Youngest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (b. 1891)

December 12 – Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill, Wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)

December 13 – Sir Charles Petrie, British historian (b. 1895)

December 15 – Wilfred Kitching, 7th (British) General of The Salvation Army (b. 1893)

December 16

Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (b. 1879)

Yngve Larsson, Swedish Ph.D., Municipal commissioner (Borgarråd), Member of Parliament and statesman (b. 1881)

December 18 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian actor and director (b. 1897)

December 19

Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)

Jacques Tourneur, French director (b. 1904)

Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 (b. 1876)

December 24

Juan Velasco Alvarado, military President of Peru (b. 1910)

Samael Aun Weor, Colombian writer (b. 1917)

December 25

Sir Charles Chaplin, British actor, producer and director (b. 1889)

Oliver P. Smith, American general (b. 1893)

December 26 – Howard Hawks, American film director (b. 1896)

December 27 – Mildred Bendall, active force of the avant-garde in Bordeaux (b. 1891)

December 28

Karen Grech, Maltese terrorism victim (b. 1962)

Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (b. 1890)

Date unknown

Johannes Pedersen, Danish theologian and linguist (b. 1883)

Stephen Sanford, American heir and polo champion (b. 1899)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck

Chemistry – Ilya Prigogine

Physiology or Medicine – Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Yalow

Literature – Vicente Aleixandre

Peace – Amnesty International

Economics – Bertil Ohlin, James Meade