1981

January

January – The subterranean Sarawak Chamber is discovered in Borneo.

January 1

Greece enters the European Community, which later becomes the European Union.

Palau becomes a self-governing territory.

January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.

January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican.

January 16 – Loyalists shoot and seriously wound nationalist activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and her husband.

January 17 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law.

January 19 – United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.

January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis.

January 21 – The first DeLorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.

January 23 – An earthquake of 6.8 magnitude in Sichuan, China kills 150.

January 25

Jiang Qing ("Madame Mao") is sentenced to death in the People's Republic of China.

In South Africa the largest part of the town Laingsburg is swept away within minutes by one of the strongest floods ever experienced in the Great Karoo.

January 27 – The Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas 2 catches fire and capsizes in the Java Sea, killing 580.

February

February 4 – Gro Harlem Brundtland becomes Prime Minister of Norway.

February 8 – 20 fans of Olympiacos and 1 fan of AEK Athens die, while 54 are injured, after a stampede at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, possibly because gate 7 does not open immediately after the end of the game.

February 9 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Pińkowski resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski.

February 14

Stardust fire: A fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland in the early hours kills 48 people and injures 214.

Australia withdraws recognition of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia.

February 17--February 22 – Pope John Paul II visit to the Philippines.

February 23 – Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil, enters the Spanish Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo is about to be named president of the government. The coup d'état fails thanks to King Juan Carlos.

February 24 – A powerful, magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Athens, killing 22 people, injuring 400 people and destroying several buildings and 4000 house, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki, Kiato and Xylokastro.

March

March 1 – Bobby Sands, a Provisional Irish Republican Army member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison. He died May 5, the first of 10 men.

March 11 – Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President of Chile for another 8-year term.

March 17 – In Italy the Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge is discovered.

March 19 – Three workers are killed and 5 injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia.

March 29 – The first London Marathon starts with 7,500 runners.

March 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.; 2 police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded.

April

April 1 – Daylight saving time is introduced in the Soviet Union.

April 4 – UK pop group Bucks Fizz' song "Making Your Mind Up" wins the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Republic of Ireland.

April 6 – Eventual 2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders becomes the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont and was in office until April 4, 1989. 26 years later he got elected as Democratic U.S. Senator from Vermont, and still remains the state's current Senator.

April 11 – 1981 Brixton riot: Rioters in south London throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.

April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth on April 14. It is the first time a manned reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit.

April 15 – The first Coca-Cola bottling plant in China is opened.

April 18

A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).

The rock band Yes splits up (regrouping in 1983).

April 26 – French presidential election: A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand.

May

May – Daniel K. Ludwig abandons the Jari project in the Amazon basin.

May 1 – The new Chilean pension system, based on private pension funds, begins.

May 4 – The European Law Students' Association (ELSA) was founded in Vienna by law students from Austria, West Germany, Poland and Hungary.

May 5 – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and abstentionist Member of Parliament of the House of Commons, dies, aged 27, while on hunger strike in prison.

May 6 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.

May 11 – Jamaican singer Bob Marley dies aged 36 from cancer.

May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca, a Turkish gunman who is allegedly on orders from the Soviet KGB to shoot him, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general audience. The Pope successfully recovers.

May 15 – Donna Payant is murdered by serial killer Lemuel Smith, the first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.

May 21 – In France, Socialist François Mitterrand becomes the first socialist President of the French Fifth Republic.

May 22 – Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty of being the Yorkshire Ripper. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder.

May 25 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Alain Robert scales the Willis Tower in Chicago.

May 26 – The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due.

May 30 – Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong.

May 31 – Burning of Jaffna library, was one of the most violent examples of ethnic biblioclasm of the 20th century.

June

June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized cases of AIDS).

June 6 – Bihar train disaster: Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the Bagmati River in Bihar, India, killing between 500 and 800.

June 7 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor killing ten Iraqi troops and a French technician.

June 12 – Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark is released in theaters.

June 13 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London, Marcus Sarjeant fires 6 blank shots at Elizabeth II.

June 18

The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is founded.

The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter makes its first flight at Groom Lake (Area 51), NV.

June 22 – Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is deposed.

June 27

The first game of paintball is played in Henniker, New Hampshire.

The E-mu Emulator sampler keyboard with floppy disk operation is unveiled at NAMM international Sound & Music Expo, Chicago. Production Model Serial Number 001 is issued to Stevie Wonder

July

July 2 – The Wonderland Gang is brutally murdered in a massacre involving Eddie Nash.

July 3 – The Toxteth riots in Liverpool, UK start after a mob saves a youth from being arrested. Shortly afterward, the Chapeltown riots in Leeds start after increased racial tension.

July 7 – United States President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States.

July 8 – Irish republican volunteer Joe McDonnell dies at the Long Kesh Internment Camp after a 61-day hunger strike.

July 9 – Donkey Kong is released, marking the first Donkey Kong title and Mario title arcade smash hit game developed by Nintendo.

July 10

Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

Urban rioting hits several parts of the United Kingdom, including Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham.

July 16-21 – England become the first team this century to win a test match after following on when they beat Australia by 18 runs at Headingley cricket ground, Leeds, England.

July 17

Hyatt Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.

Israeli aircraft bomb Beirut, destroying multi-story apartment blocks containing the offices of PLO associated groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.

In Bolivia, General Luis Gracia Meza leads a bloody coup d'état against the elected government of Lidia Gayler.

July 19 – The 1981 Springbok Tour commences in New Zealand, amid controversy over the support of apartheid.

July 21 – Tohui The Panda is born in Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, the first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside of China.

July 29 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

July 30 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

August

August 1 – The first 24-hour video music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched.

August 9 – Major League Baseball resumes from the strike with the All-Star Game in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.

August 12

The original Model 5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.

Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Nauru, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu recognize the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

August 19

Gulf of Sidra incident (1981): Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two U.S. fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters.

August 24 – Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, after pleading guilty to murdering John Lennon in Manhattan 8 months earlier.

August 28 – South African troops invade Angola.

August 31 – A bomb explodes at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein, West Germany, injuring 20 people.

September

September 1 – Gregorio Conrado Álvarez is inaugurated as a military de facto President of Uruguay.

September 4 – An explosion at a mine in Záluží, Czechoslovakia, kills 65 people.

September 8 – the first episode of the extremely popular British sitcom Only Fools and Horses, Big Brother is shown on BBC One.

September 10 – Picasso's painting "Guernica" is moved from New York to Madrid.

September 15 – The John Bull becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, D.C.

September 16 – Postman Pat is first aired on BBC1.

September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City.

September 18 – France abolishes capital punishment.

September 19 – Simon & Garfunkel perform The Concert in Central Park, a free concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.

September 20 – The Brazilian river boat Sobral Santos capsizes in the Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil, killing at least 300.

September 21 – Belize gains independence from the United Kingdom.

September 25

Sandra Day O'Connor takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Rolling Stones begin their Tattoo You tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.

September 26

The Boeing 767 airliner makes its first flight.

The Sydney Tower opens to the public.

September 27 – TGV high-speed rail service between Paris and Lyon, France begins.

September 28 – The classic British children's animated comedy espionage TV series Danger Mouse debuts on ITV in the U.K.

October

October 2 – English rock band The Police releases Ghost in the Machine.

October 5 – Raoul Wallenberg becomes a posthumously honorary citizen of the United States.

October 6 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who belong to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization led by Khalid Islambouli; they opposed his negotiations with Israel.

October 10 – The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the jōyō kanji.

October 14 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated.

October 16 – Gas explosions at a coal mine at Hokutan, Yūbari, Hokkaidō, Japan kill 93.

October 21 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister of Greece.

October 22 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.

October 27 – Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground outside the Karlskrona, Sweden military base.

November

November 1 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.

November 9 – Edict No. 81-234 abolishes slavery in Mauritania.

November 12 – The Church of England General Synod votes to admit women to holy orders.

November 16 – Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.

November 18 – COMDEX Fall, IBM introduces the IBM PC; Scientific Solutions announces the first PC add-in cards.

November 22 – The Edmonton Eskimos (14-1-1) barely stave off defeat and win a record 4th consecutive Grey Cup, at the 69th Grey Cup at Montréal's Olympic Stadium defeating the Ottawa Rough Riders (5-11-0) 26-23 in the final 3 seconds; after being down 20-1 at halftime.

November 23 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), authorizing the Central Intelligence Agency to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

November 25–November 26 – A group of mercenaries led by Mike Hoare take over Mahe airport in the Seychelles in a coup attempt. Most of the mercenaries escape by a commandeered Air India passenger jet; 6 are later arrested.

November 30 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin negotiating intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings end inconclusively on Thursday, December 17).

December

December 1 – An Inex-Adria Aviopromet McDonnell Douglas MD-80 strikes a mountain peak and crashes while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.

December 4 – South Africa grants homeland Ciskei independence, not recognized outside South Africa.

December 7 – Rotary International charters the Rotary Club of Grand Baie, Mauritius.

December 8

The No. 21 Mine explosion in Whitwell, Tennessee kills 13.

Arthur Scargill becomes President-elect of the National Union of Mineworkers.

December 10 – During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council in Brussels, Spain signs the Protocol of Accession to NATO.

December 11

Boxing: Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick; this proves to be Ali's last-ever fight.

El Mozote massacre: In El Salvador, army units kill 900 civilians.

December 13 – Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity.

December 15 – A car bomb destroys the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 61 people; Syrian intelligence is blamed.

December 17 – American Brigadier General James L. Dozier is kidnapped in Verona by the Italian Red Brigades.

December 20 – The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurs off the coast of South-West Cornwall.

December 21 – Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA).

December 28 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.

December 31 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the PNDC led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.

Date unknown

January to March – Heavy snow causes many houses and buildings to collapse in northwestern Japan; 152 are killed.

Cuba suffers a major outbreak of Dengue fever, with 344,203 cases.

Use of crack cocaine, a smokeable form of the drug, first reported in the United States and Caribbean.

Luxor AB presents the ABC 800 computer.

Polybius, an urban legend game, is said to have been released in Portland, Oregon; there is no evidence for its existence.

The State Council of the People's Republic of China lists the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Guilin as those where the protection of historical and cultural heritage, as well as natural scenery, should be treated as a priority project.

Pepsi enters China.

The Millennium translation of Saint Edward the Martyr's relics from Wareham to Shaftesbury in England is observed in a reenactment.

January

January 1

Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver

Mladen Petrić, Croatian football player

Eden Riegel, American actress

January 2 – Maxi Rodríguez, Argentine footballer

January 3 – Eli Manning, American football player, brother of Peyton Manning

January 4 – Silvy De Bie, Belgian singer

January 5 – Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman), Canadian DJ/producer

January 6

Mike Jones, American rapper

Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress

Jérémie Renier, Belgian actor

January 7 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey goaltender

January 8

Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player

Genevieve Cortese, American actress

Jeff Francis, Canadian pitcher

January 9

Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer

Caroline Lufkin, American singer

January 11

Jamelia, British singer

Tom Meighan, British singer and songwriter, lead vocalist for alternative rock band Kasabian

January 12 – Quentin Griffin, American football player

January 15

El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer

Howie Day, American singer and songwriter

Pitbull, American hip-hop musician and record producer

January 16 – Marta Roure, Andorran singer and actress

January 17

Scott Mechlowicz, American actor

Ray J, American rapper and singer

January 18 – Otgonbayar Ershuu, Mongolian visual artist

January 19

Lucho González, Argentine footballer

Bitsie Tulloch, American actress

Thaila Zucchi, English singer (allSTARS*) and actress

January 20

Jason Richardson, American basketball player

Owen Hargreaves, Canadian-born English footballer

Brendan Fevola, Australian rules footballer

January 21

Dany Heatley, German-born hockey player

Gillian Chung, Hong Kong singer (Twins)

Mohd Amri Yahyah, Malaysian footballer

January 22

Chantelle Anderson, American basketball player

Willa Ford, American singer, television hostess, and actress

Beverley Mitchell, American actress

Ben Moody, American guitarist (formerly of Evanescence)

January 24 – Carrie Coon, American actress

January 25

Alicia Keys, American singer

Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007)

January 26 – Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan conductor

January 27

Greg Owens, Australian soccer player

Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player

January 28 – Elijah Wood, American actor and music producer

January 29 – Jonny Lang, American musician

January 30

Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer

Chieko Higuchi, Japanese voice actress

January 31 – Justin Timberlake, American actor and musician, former member of 'N Sync

February

February 2 – Emily Rose, American actress

February 3 – Alisa Reyes, American actress

February 4 – Matchstik, American rapper, singer and songwriter

February 5

Lee Eon, South Korean actor and model (d. 2008)

Nora Zehetner, American actress

Sara Foster, American actress

February 8 – Ralf Little, English actor

February 9

Tom Hiddleston, British actor

Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, American drummer (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009)

February 10

Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer

Holly Willoughby, British television presenter

February 11

Kelly Rowland, American singer (Destiny's Child)

Edoardo Molinari, Italian golfer

February 12

Lisa Hannigan, Irish singer, songwriter, and musician

Selena Li, Hong Kong actress

February 14 – Erin Torpey, American actress

February 15

Jenna Morasca, American television personality

Olivia, American singer

February 17

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor and film director

Paris Hilton, American model, heiress, and socialite

February 18

Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player

Ivan Sproule, British footballer

February 20

Chris Thile, American mandolinist

Majandra Delfino, American actress

February 22 – Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress

February 23

Josh Gad, American actor

Mai Nakahara, Japanese voice actress

Paleo, American singer-songwriter

Dylan Ryder, American former pornographic actress

February 24 – Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player

February 25

Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer

Shahid Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor

February 26 – Maria Sansone, American journalist and Internet personality

February 27 – Josh Groban, American singer

March

March 1

Ana Hickmann, Brazilian model

Adam LaVorgna, American actor

Will Power, Australian racing driver

Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player

March 2

Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)

Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress

March 3

Lil' Flip, American rapper

Shada Hassoun, Iraqi singer

László Nagy, Hungarian handball player

Cristina Scarlat, Moldovan singer

March 5 – Hanna Alström, Swedish actress

March 6 – Ellen Muth, American actress

March 9 – Antonio Bryant, American football player

March 10

Kristen Maloney, American gymnast

Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer

March 11

David Anders, American actor

Lee Evans, American football player

LeToya Luckett, American singer

March 12

Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player

Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese professional wrestler

March 13 – April Matson, American actress and singer

March 15 – Young Buck, American rapper

March 16

Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer

Johannes Aigner, Austrian footballer

March 17 – Kyle Korver, American basketball player

March 18 – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss road bicycle racer

March 19

Kolo Touré, Ivorian football player

Declan Bennett, English singer/songwriter

March 22

MIMS, American rapper

Tiffany Dupont, American actress

March 26 – Jay Sean, British-Indian singer

March 27

Lin Jun Jie, Chinese singer

Terry McFlynn, British footballer

March 28

Gareth David-Lloyd, Welsh actor

Lindsay Frimodt, American model

Dan Petronijevic, Canadian actor

Julia Stiles, American actress

March 29

Megan Hilty, American actress, singer, and broadway star

PJ Morton, American musician, singer, producer, and touring member of Maroon 5

March 31

Gerard McCarthy, British actor

Ryōko Shintani, Japanese voice actress

Maarten van der Weijden, Dutch Olympic swimmer

April

April 1

Aslı Bayram, Turkish German model and actress

Aimee Chan, Chinese-Canadian actress

Hannah Spearritt, British singer (S Club 7) and actress

Nolan Yonkman, Canadian hockey player

April 2

Bethany Joy Lenz, American actress and singer

Raghav, Canadian singer

April 3 – Arfius Arf, British artist

April 5 – Michael A. Monsoor, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2006)

April 6

Eliza Coupe, American actress

Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer

April 7 – Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer

April 8

Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model

Frédérick Bousquet, French swimmer

April 9

Milan Bartovič, Slovak hockey player

Eric Harris, American murderer (d. 1999)

Ireneusz Jeleń, Polish footballer

April 10

Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder

Laura Bell Bundy, American actress, singer, and Broadway star

Liz McClarnon, British singer (Atomic Kitten)

Michael Pitt, American actor

April 11 – Alessandra Ambrosio, Brazilian model

April 15 – Seth Wulsin, American artist

April 17 – Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer

April 18

Jang Na-ra, Korean actress and singer

Audrey Tang, Taiwanese software programmer

April 19

Hayden Christensen, Canadian-American actor

Saskia de Brauw, Dutch model and artist

Troy Polamalu, American football player

Catalina Sandino Moreno, Colombian actress

April 21

Mike Christie, English musician

Stephanie Larimore, American model

April 22 – Ken Dorsey, American football player

April 25

John McFall, British Paralympic sprinter

Anja Pärson, Swedish alpine skier

Felipe Massa, Brazilian race car driver

April 26 – Matthieu Delpierre, French football player

April 27 – Sandy Mölling, German pop singer

April 28 – Jessica Alba, American actress and businesswoman, co-founder of the Honest Company

April 29 – George McCartney, British footballer

May

May 1

Alexander Hleb, Belarusian football player

Wes Welker, American football player

May 2 – Rina Satō, Japanese voice actress

May 3

Farrah Franklin, American singer

Natalie Tong, Hong Kong actress

U;Nee, South Korean singer and actress (d. 2007)

May 4 – Jacques Rudolph, South African cricketer

May 5

Craig David, English singer

Danielle Fishel, American actress

May 8

Andrés Romero, Argentine golfer

Stephen Amell, Canadian actor

May 11

Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player

Daisuke Matsui, Japanese football player

Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist and reporter in Hungary

Terry Pheto, South African actress

May 12

Rami Malek, American actor

Kentaro Sato, Japanese composer

Dennis Trillo, Filipino actor

May 13

Rebecka Liljeberg, Swedish actress

Sunny Leone, Canadian pornstar and Bollywood actress

Jimmy Wang Yang, Korean professional wrestler

May 15

Patrice Evra, Senegalese-born French footballer

Zara Phillips, British elite equestrienne and daughter of Anne, Princess Royal and Captain Mark Phillips

Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player

Jamie-Lynn Sigler, American actress

May 16 – Joseph Morgan, English actor

May 17 – Shiri Maimon, Israeli pop/R&B singer, TV show host and actress

May 18 – Adam Green, American singer-songwriter

May 19

Sani Bečirovič, Slovenian basketball player

Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor

Klaas-Erik Zwering, Dutch swimmer

Georges St-Pierre, Canadian mixed martial arts fighter

May 20

Rachel Platten, American singer-songwriter

Sean Conlon, English musician (5ive)

Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player

Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer

May 21

Belladonna, American porn actress and director

Josh Hamilton, American baseball player

Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter

May 22

Daniel Bryan, American professional wrestler

Melissa Gregory, American figure skater

May 26 – Isaac Slade, American singer-songwriter and pianist (The Fray)

May 27 – Alina Cojocaru, Romanian ballerina

May 28

Laura Bailey, American voice actress

Aaron Schock, American politician

May 29

Andrey Arshavin, Russian football player

Brian Simnjanovski, American football player (d. 2009)

May 30 – Remy Ma, American rapper

May 31 – Jake Peavy, American baseball player

June

June 1

Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player

Brandi Carlile, American singer and songwriter

Amy Schumer, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter

June 3 – Mike Adam, Canadian curler

June 4

Jennifer Carroll, Canadian swimmer

T. J. Miller, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter

Giourkas Seitaridis, Greek footballer

Natalia Vodopyanova, Russian basketball player

June 5 – Jade Goody, British reality show star (d. 2009)

June 6 – Johnny Pacar, American actor

June 7

Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player

Larisa Oleynik, American actress

June 8

Alex Band, American musician

Sara Watkins, American violinist

Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actress

June 9

Vic Chou, Taiwanese actor, singer, and model

Celina Jaitly, Indian actress

Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress

Anoushka Shankar, British musician and daughter of Ravi Shankar

June 10

Hoku Ho, Hawaiian singer and musician

Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer

Arwind Santos, Filipino professional basketball player

Jonathan Bennett, American actor and model

June 12 – Adriana Lima, Brazilian model

June 13 – Chris Evans, American actor

June 14 – Lonneke Engel, Dutch model

June 15 – Haley Scarnato, American singer

June 16

Ben Kweller, American musician

Joe Saunders, American baseball player

June 17 – Amrita Rao, Indian actress

June 18

Ella Chen, Taiwanese singer

Yurin, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer

June 20 – Alisan Porter, American singer and retired actress; winner of The Voice season 10

June 21

Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist

Simon Delestre, French equestrian

June 22

Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist

Monty Oum, American animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015)

June 23 – Antony Costa, English singer (Blue)

June 25

Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper

Yūichi Komano, Japanese footballer

Sheridan Smith, English actress

June 28 – Mara Santangelo, Italian tennis player

June 29 – Joe Johnson, American basketball player

July

July 2

Alex Koroknay-Palicz, American activist

Paul Anthony Finn, Irish singer and songwriter (The Flaws)

July 3 – Brandon Jay McLaren, Canadian actor

July 4 – Will Smith, former American football player (d. 2016)

July 5

Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model

Ryan Hansen, American actor

July 6 – Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player

July 7

Synyster Gates, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Indian cricketer

July 8

Anastasia Myskina, Russian tennis player

Ashley Blue, American pornographic actress

July 11 – Andre Johnson, American football player

July 12

Rebecca Hunter, English singer (allSTARS*) and actress

Maya Sar, Bosnian singer

July 13

Ágnes Kovács, Hungarian swimmer

Fran Kranz, American actor

July 14 – Lee Mead, British actor

July 15 – Taylor Kinney, American Actor

July 19

Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things and The Cooper Temple Clause)

Nikki Osborne, Australian actress

Anderson Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer

July 20

Damien Delaney, Irish footballer

Dayang Nurfaizah, Malaysian singer

July 21

Paloma Faith, English singer, songwriter and actress

Stefan Schumacher, German cyclist

Chrishell Stause, American actress

July 23

Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer (Sum 41)

Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player

July 24

Summer Glau, American actress (Firefly)

Doug Bollinger, Australian cricketer

July 25 – Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player

July 26 – Maicon Douglas Sisenando, Brazilian footballer

July 27

Li Xiaopeng, Chinese gymnast

Dan Jones, British Historian

July 29 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish Two Time Formula 1 World Champion

July 31

M. Shadows, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold)

Eric Lively, American actor

Vernon Carey, American football player

Ira Losco, Maltese singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2002 runner-up

August

August 3

Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer

Travis Willingham, American voice actor

August 4

Marques Houston, American singer and actor (IMx)

Florian Silbereisen, German singer and television presenter

August 5

Anna Rawson, Australian professional golfer

Carl Crawford, Major League Baseball outfielder

Rachel Scott, American murder victim (d. 1999)

Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer and actress

Travie McCoy, American alternative hip-hop artist

August 6

Vitantonio Liuzzi, Italian race car driver

Leslie Odom Jr., American actor and singer

August 8

Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player

Harel Skaat, Israeli singer

Meagan Good, American actress

Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress

Vanessa Amorosi, Australian singer-songwriter, recording artist and entertainer

Bradley McIntosh, English singer (S Club 7)

August 9 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player

August 10

Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress

Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player

August 11 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer & songwriter

August 12

Djibril Cissé, French footballer

Steve Talley, American actor

August 14

Ray William Johnson, American actor, comedian, rapper, and YouTuber

Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian professional wrestler

August 15

Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress

Oh Jin-hyek, South Korean archer

August 16 – Taylor Rain, American actress

August 18 – Jan Frodeno, German triathlete

August 20 – Ben Barnes, English actor (Prince Caspian)

August 21

Ross Thomas, American actor

Mai Aizawa, Japanese voice actress

August 23 – Carmen Luvana, Puerto Rican adult actress

August 24

Jiro Wang, Taiwanese actor and singer (Fahrenheit)

Chad Michael Murray, American actor

August 25

Rachel Bilson, American actress

Shiva Keshavan, Indian luge pilot

August 26 – Nico Muhly, American contemporary classical composer

August 28

Charlie Frye, American National Football League quarterback

Jake Owen, American country music singer-songwriter

August 29 – Karim Darwish, Egyptian squash player

September

September 1

Park Hyo-shin, Korean singer

Clinton Portis, American football player

Michael Adamthwaite, Canadian voice actor

September 2 – Chris Tremlett, English cricketer

September 3 – Fearne Cotton, British television presenter

September 4

Jero, American-born Japanese enka singer

Beyoncé Knowles, American actress and R&B singer (Destiny's Child)

Lacey Mosley, American lead vocalist (Flyleaf)

September 6 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer

September 8

Dan Fredinburg, American Google executive

Jonathan Taylor Thomas, American actor

September 9

Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress

Nancy Wu, Hong Kong actress

September 10 – Marco Chiudinelli, Swiss tennis player

September 11

Dylan Klebold, American mass murderer (d. 1999)

Charles Kelley, American country music singer-songwriter and founding member of Lady Antebellum

September 12

Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress

Hosea Chanchez, American actor of The Game

September 13 – Angelina Love, Canadian professional wrestler

September 14

Ashley Roberts, American singer (The Pussycat Dolls)

Miyavi, Japanese musician

September 15 – Ben Schwartz, American actor

September 16

Alexis Bledel, American actress

Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress

September 18 – Jennifer Tisdale, American actress

September 21

Nicole Richie, American actress, singer and socialite

Phoenix Marie, American porn actress

September 22

Ashley Drane, American actress

Alexei Ramírez, Cuban baseball player

September 23

Misti Traya, American actress

Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada)

Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver

September 25

Lee Norris, American actor

Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player

Van Hansis, American actor

Shane Tutmarc, American singer-songwriter (Dolour)

September 26

Christina Milian, American R&B singer and actress

Serena Williams, American tennis player

Ayumi Tsunematsu, Japanese voice actress

September 28 - Melissa Claire Egan, American actress

September 29 – Suzanne Shaw, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress

September 30

Cecelia Ahern, Irish author and daughter of Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach

Dominique Moceanu, Romanian-American gymnast

October

October 1 – Rupert Friend, English actor, director, screenwriter and producer

October 3

Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer

Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress

Seth Gabel, American actor

October 5 – Enrico Fabris, Italian speed skater

October 8

Ryuji Sainei, Japanese actor

Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player

Ruby, Egyptian singer

October 9

Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor

Ryoichi Maeda, Japanese footballer

October 10 – Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays)

October 11 – Beau Brady, Australian actor

October 12

Engin Akyürek, Turkish actor

Brian J. Smith, American actor

October 13

Ryan Ashford, English footballer

Kele Okereke, English singer (Bloc Party)

October 14 – Ruslan Alekhno, Russian-Belarusian singer

October 15

Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player

Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver

October 16 – Boyd "Rainmaker" Melson, American boxer

October 17 – Tsubasa Imai, Japanese actor, singer and dancer (Tackey & Tsubasa)

October 19 – Christian Bautista, Filipino singer, actor, host, and model

October 20

Willis McGahee, American football player

Stefan Nystrand, Swedish swimmer

October 21 – Nemanja Vidić, Serbian football player

October 22 – Michael Fishman, American actor

October 23

Olivier Occéan, Canadian footballer

Huo Siyan, Chinese actress

October 24

Tila Tequila, Vietnamese-American model and singer

Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress

October 25

Shaun Wright-Phillips, English footballer

Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle road racer

October 26 – Guy Sebastian, original Australian Idol 2003 singer

October 28

Milan Baroš, Czech footballer

Dwayne Cameron, New Zealand actor

Noah Galloway, American former soldier and contestant from Dancing With The Stars

October 29

Jonathan Brown, Australian rules footballer

Amanda Beard, American swimmer

Angelika Dela Cruz, Filipina actress and singer

October 30

Chris Clemons, American football player

Fiona Dourif, American actress, daughter of Brad Dourif

Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress

Shaun Sipos, Canadian actor

Ivanka Trump, American model

October 31

Selina Ren, member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E

Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer

Frank Iero, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance)

November

November 1 – LaTavia Roberson, American singer (Destiny's Child)

November 2

Tatiana Totmianina, Russian figure skater

Katharine Isabelle, Candanian actress

November 3

Blair Chenoweth, American beauty queen

Jackie Gayda, American professional wrestler

November 4

Lakshmi Menon, Indian model

Vince Wilfork, American football player

Paul Tucker Canadian comic-book artist

November 6 – Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)

November 7 – George Pilkington, English footballer;

November 8

Joe Cole, English footballer

Azura Skye, American actress

November 10

Tony Blanco, Dominican baseball player

Jason Dunham, American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)

Alison Waite, American model

November 11

Natalie Glebova, Canadian beauty queen

Raphael Gualazzi, Italian singer and pianist, Eurovision Song Contest 2011 runner-up

Jyothika, Indian actress

Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg

November 13

Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player

Shawn Yue, Hong Kong actor and singer

Kirsten Price, American porn actress

November 14 – Russell Tovey, British actor

November 15 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer

November 16 – Caitlin Glass, American voice actress

November 17 – Sarah Harding, British singer (Girls Aloud)

November 19 – Yfke Sturm, Dutch model

November 20 – Kimberley Walsh, British singer (Girls Aloud)

November 21

Bryant McFadden, American football player

Ainārs Kovals, Latvian javelin thrower

November 22

Ben Adams, British singer (A1)

Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish footballer

Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress

November 24 – Lindsey Doe, American sexologist and video blogger

November 25

Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer

Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush

Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush

November 26

Natasha Bedingfield, British singer

Jon Ryan, Canadian National Football League football player from Regina, Saskatchewan

Aurora Snow, American pornographic actress

November 27 – Gary Lucy, British actor

November 29

Tom Hurndall, British photographer (d. 2004)

Fawad Afzal Khan, Pakistani and Indian actor

Bakhyt Sarsekbayev, Kazakh Olympic boxer

Kimberly Cullum, American actress

November 30

Billy Lush, American actor

December

December 1 – Kathryn Drysdale, English actress

December 2 – Britney Spears, American singer and entertainer

December 3

David Villa, Spanish footballer

Brian Bonsall, American actor

Tyjuan Hagler, American football player

December 4

Lila McCann, American singer

Courtney Cummz, American pornographic actress

December 8 – Philip Rivers, NFL quarterback of the San Diego Chargers

December 9 – Dia Mirza, Bollywood actress

December 11

Zacky Vengeance, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold)

Javier Saviola, Argentine soccer player

Kevin Phillips, American film actor

Jeff McComsey, American artist

Nikki Benz, Ukrainian-American porn actress

December 12 – Spencer Johnson, NFL player

December 13 – Amy Lee, American pianist/singer/songwriter (Evanescence)

December 14 – Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress

December 15

Michelle Dockery, British actress

Thomas Herrion, American football player (d. 2005)

Donal Coonan, UK presenter for Channel 4's webshow thisisaknife

Roman Pavlyuchenko, Russian soccer player

December 16

A. J. Allmendinger, American racecar driver

Gaby Moreno, Guatemalan singer

December 18 – Joshua Dallas, American actor

December 19 – Monica Leigh, American model

December 21

Lynda Thomas, Mexican eurodance and alternative rock musician

Cristian Zaccardo, Italian footballer

December 24 – Dima Bilan, Russian pop-singer

December 27

Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress

Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer

December 28

Elizabeth Jordan Carr, first American test-tube baby

Sienna Miller, American-born English actress

Khalid Boulahrouz, Dutch footballer

December 29 – Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater

December 30

Kyle Eckel, American National Football League player

Haley Paige, American porn actress (d. 2007)

December 31

Matthew Pavlich, former professional Australian rules footballer

January

January 1 – Mauri Rose, American race car champion (b. 1906)

January 3 – Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving grandchild of Queen Victoria (b. 1883)

January 5

Harold C. Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)

Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher, poet, and activist (b. 1901)

January 6 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (b. 1896)

January 7 – John Pascal, American playwright, screenwriter, author, and journalist (b. 1932)

January 8 – Matthew Beard, American actor (b. 1925)

January 10

Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)

Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)

January 11 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)

January 13 – Robert Kellard, American actor (b. 1915)

January 16 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)

January 19 – Francesca Woodman, American photographer (b. 1958)

January 21 – Allyn Joslyn, American actor (b. 1901)

January 23

Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910)

Lobsang Rampa (Cyril Henry Hoskin), English author (b. 1910)

January 25 – Adele Astaire, American actress (b. 1896)

January 27 – Léo Collard, Belgian Socialist politician (b. 1902)

January 29 – Lajos Korányi, Hungarian footballer (b. 1907)

January 31 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)

February

February 1

Wanda Hendrix, American actress (b. 1928)

Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908)

Ernst Pepping, German composer (b. 1901)

February 2 – Hugh Joseph Addonizio, Italian-American politician and Mayor of Newark (b. 1914)

February 3 – Normand Poirier, French-American newspaper editor, journalist, and essayist (b. 1928)

February 6 – Frederica of Hanover, Queen Consort of the Hellenes and wife of King Paul of Greece (b. 1917)

February 7 – Hermann Esser, German journalist and editor of the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter (b. 1900)

February 9

Bill Haley, American musician (b. 1925)

Jack Z. Anderson, U.S. Representative from California (b. 1904)

February 10 – Hubert Shirley-Smith, British civil engineer (b. 1901)

February 12 – Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, British admiral (b. 1888)

February 15 – Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)

February 17 – David Garnett, British writer (b. 1892)

February 18 – John Knudsen Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (b. 1895)

February 20 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor and playboy (b. 1904)

February 22

Michael Maltese, American screenwriter (b. 1908)

Ilo Wallace, wife of Henry A. Wallace, Second Lady of the United States (b. 1888)

February 25 – Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1888)

February 26

Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)

Roger Tonge, British actor (b. 1946)

February 27 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)

March

March 4 – Torin Thatcher, American actor (b. 1905)

March 5 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)

March 6 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)

March 7

Bosley Crowther, American film critic (b. 1905)

Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)

Red Pollard, Jockey (b. 1909)

Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, American tennis champion (b. 1908)

March 8 – Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894)

March 9 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)

March 15 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)

March 20 – Gerry Bertier, American college football player (b. 1953)

March 22

John S. McCain Jr., American admiral (b. 1911)

Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, Senator of the Philippines, and Senate President (b. 1907)

March 23

Claude Auchinleck, British field marshal (b. 1884)

Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (b. 1941)

March 30

Sherman Edwards, American songwriter (b. 1919)

Douglas Lowe, British Olympic athlete (b. 1902)

DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher (b. 1889)

March 31 – Frank Tieri, American gangster (b. 1904)

April

April 3 – Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur (b. 1899)

April 5

Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1896)

Bob Hite, American musician (b. 1943)

April 7 – Norman Taurog, American film director (b. 1899)

April 8 – Omar N. Bradley, US Army General (b. 1893)

April 12 – Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914)

April 13 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (b. 1887)

April 15 – John Thach, American naval aviator and admiral (b. 1905)

April 18 – James H. Schmitz, German-born writer (b. 1911)

April 26

Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)

Madge Evans, American actress (b. 1909)

April 27 – John Aspinwall Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916)

April 28 – Cliff Battles, American football player (Boston Redskins) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1910)

May

May 5 – Bobby Sands, Irish republican hunger striker (b. 1954)

May 6 – Frank O'Grady, Australian public servant (b. 1900)

May 7 – Hiromichi Yahara, Imperial Japanese Army officer (b. 1902)

May 8 – Uri Zvi Greenberg, Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896)

May 9

Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909)

Ralph Allen, English footballer (b. 1906)

Margaret Lindsay, American actress (b. 1910)

May 11

Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)

Bob Marley, Jamaican rock musician and guitarist (The Wailers) (b. 1945)

May 17 – Hugo Friedhofer, German-American film composer (b. 1901)

May 18

Eleonore Baur, German Nazi and only woman to participate in Munich Beer Hall Putsch (b. 1885)

Arthur O'Connell, American actor (b. 1908)

William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908)

May 23 – George Jessel, American actor (b. 1898)

May 24

Jaime Roldós Aguilera, President of Ecuador (1979-1981) (b. 1940)

A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and politician (b. 1916)

May 25 – Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (b. 1897)

May 28

John Bryan Ward-Perkins, British archaeologist (b. 1912)

Mary Lou Williams, American jazz pianist (b. 1910)

May 29 – Soong Ching-ling, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (b. 1893)

May 30 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)

May 31 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician, 31st Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1902)

June

June 1 – Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)

June 2 – Rino Gaetano, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1950)

June 9 – Allen Ludden, American television game show host (b. 1917)

June 10

Jenny Maxwell, American actress (b. 1941)

Phelps Phelps, 38th Governor of American Samoa and United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (d. 1897)

June 13 – George Walsh, American actor (b. 1889)

June 17

Sir Richard O'Connor, British general (b. 1889)

Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator (b. 1889)

June 18 – Pamela Hansford Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (b. 1912)

June 19

Anya Phillips, American co-founder of New York City's Mudd Club (b. 1955)

Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette animator (b. 1899)

June 22 – Lola Lane, American actress and singer (b. 1906)

June 23 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)

June 28

Mohammad Beheshti, Chief Justice of Iran (b. 1928)

Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)

July

July 1 – Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-American architect (b. 1902)

July 3 – Ross Martin, American actor (b. 1920)

July 8

Joe McDonnell, Irish republican hunger striker (b. 1951)

Isaac Soyer, American painter (b. 1902)

July 10 – Ken Rex McElroy, American murder victim (b. 1934)

July 16 – Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)

July 27

Adam Walsh, American murder victim, inspired Code Adam (b. 1974)

William Wyler, American movie director (b. 1902)

July 29 – Robert Moses, American urban planner (b. 1888)

July 31 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian leader (b. 1929)

August

August 1 – Paddy Chayefsky, American screenwriter (b. 1923)

August 2

Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete (b. 1919)

Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (b. 1900)

August 4 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901)

August 14 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894)

August 15 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author (b. 1895)

August 18 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1888)

August 19 – Jessie Matthews, English actress (b. 1907)

August 26 – Kelly Keen, coyote victim (b. 1978)

August 27 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player (b. 1948)

August 29 – Lowell Thomas, American writer (b. 1892)

August 30 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (b. 1921)

September

September 1

Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1902)

Albert Speer, German Nazi architect and war minister (b. 1905)

September 2 – Enid Lyons, Australia politician (b. 1897)

September 3 – Alec Waugh, British novelist (b. 1898)

September 6 – Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and artist (b. 1932)

September 7 – Edwin Albert Link, American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, and inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (b. 1904)

September 8 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

September 9

Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist (b. 1901)

Ricardo Balbín, Argentine politician, leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) (b. 1904)

Sir Robert (Bob) Askin, Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)

September 11 – Frank McHugh, American actor (b. 1898)

September 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)

September 14 – Charles L. Melson, American admiral (b. 1904)

September 15

Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)

Harold Bennett, British actor (b. 1899)

September 21 – Nigel Patrick, English actor (b. 1912)

September 22 – Harry Warren, American songwriter (b. 1893)

September 23 – Chief Dan George, Canadian First Nations actor (b. 1899)

September 24 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)

September 27 – Robert Montgomery, American actor (b. 1904)

September 28

Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet minister (b. 1923)

Rómulo Betancourt, two-term President of Venezuela (b. 1908)

September 29 – Bill Shankly, British football manager (b. 1913)

October

October 2

Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)

Hazel Scott, American jazz singer and pianist (b. 1920)

October 4 – Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1905)

October 5 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923)

October 6 – Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918)

October 13

Antonio Berni, Argentine painter (b. 1905)

Nils Asther, Danish-born actor (b. 1897)

October 16

Stanley Clements, American actor (b. 1926)

Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915)

October 20 – Mary Coyle Chase, American playwright (b. 1906)

October 23 – Reg Butler, English sculptor (b. 1913)

October 24 – Edith Head, American costume designer (b. 1897)

October 29 – Georges Brassens, French singer and songwriter (b. 1921)

November

November 3 – Jean Eustache, French film director (b. 1938)

November 7 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer (b. 1885)

November 10 – Abel Gance, French film director (b. 1889)

November 12 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918)

November 13 – Gerhard Marcks, German sculptor (b. 1889)

November 14 – Robert Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (b. 1941)

November 15

William O. Gallery, American admiral (b. 1904)

Walter Heitler, German physicist (b. 1904)

Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894)

Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar (b. 1938)

November 17 – Wilhelm Pelikan, Austrian chemist (b. 1893)

November 21

Harry von Zell, American actor (b. 1906)

Ejner Federspiel, Danish actor (b. 1896)

November 22

Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900)

Ilya Bolotowsky, Russian-American painter (b. 1907)

November 25 – Jack Albertson, American actor (b. 1907)

November 26

Max Euwe, Dutch chess grandmaster (b. 1901)

Regino Sainz de la Maza, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1896)

November 27 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)

November 29 – Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938)

December

December 2 – Wallace Harrison, American architect (b. 1895)

December 3 – Walter Knott, American farmer and theme park creator (b. 1889)

December 6 – Harry Harlow, American psychologist (b. 1905)

December 7 – William Edmunds, Italian stage and screen character actor (b. 1886)

December 8 – Ferruccio Parri, 29th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1905)

December 13 – Cornelius Cardew, English composer (b. 1936)

December 15

Catherine T. MacArthur, American philanthropist (b. 1909)

Karl Struss, American cinematographer (b. 1886)

December 17 – Mehmet Shehu, Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1913)

December 18 – Enrique Hertzog, Bolvian politician, 49th President of Bolivia (b. 1896)

December 23

Luther H. Evans, American political scientist and librarian, 3rd Director General of the UNESCO (b. 1902)

Reginald Miles Ansett, Australian businessman and aviator (b. 1909)

December 26 – Suat Hayri Urguplu, Turkish politician, 11th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)

December 27 – Hoagy Carmichael, American jazz composer (b. 1899)

December 28

Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film director (b. 1885)

Bram van Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1895)

December 30 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn

Chemistry – Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann

Medicine – Roger Wolcott Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten Wiesel

Literature – Elias Canetti

Peace – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – James Tobin

Links

Protocol of Accession