1983

January

January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).

January 3 – Kīlauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing as of 2016.

January 10 – Canada and the United States launch Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, a worldwide program advocating peace.

January 19 – High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.

January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Aldo Moro.

January 25 – IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space.

January 26 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM PC compatible computers.

January 30 – Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII

January 31 – Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

February

February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of bigamy involving 105 women.

February 3

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections the next day.

Bob Hawke replaces Bill Hayden as leader of the Australian Labor Party.

February 5 and 6 The team of A.J. Foyt Preston Henn Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Lena won the 24 hours of Daytona in a Porshche 935

February 6 – Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.

February 12 – 100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. The women were successful in repealing the law.

February 13 – A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 64 people.

February 13 – Two US Marshals are killed and three lawmen are wounded in a shootout with Gordon Kahl in Medina, North Dakota.

February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.

February 18

The Venezuelan bolívar is devaluated and exchange controls are established in an event now referred to as Black Friday by many Venezuelans (the Bolívar had been the most stable and internationally accepted currency).

Nellie massacre: Over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.

Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.

February 20- Cale Yarborough Wins the 25th running of the Daytona 500

February 23

The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.

The automatic shut-down fails at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA.

February 24

A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.

Bermondsey by-election, 1983 (U.K.): Simon Hughes's defeat of Peter Tatchell is criticised for alleged homophobia.

February 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, setting a record for most watched television episode and reaching a total audience estimated at 125 million.

March

March 1 – The Balearic Islands and Madrid become Autonomous communities of Spain.

March 5 – Bob Hawke is elected Prime Minister of Australia, ending over 7 years of Conservative rule under Malcolm Fraser.

March 8 – IBM releases the IBM PC XT.

March 9

Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.

The 3D printer is invented by Chuck Hull.

March 11 – Australia's First Hawke Ministry is sworn in; Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.

March 16 – The Ismaning radio transmitter (last wooden radio tower in Germany) is demolished.　

March 21 – Yamoussoukro, officially becames transfer Ivorian political capital from Abidjan.

March 23 – Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars".

March 25 – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary with the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, during which Michael Jackson performs "Billie Jean" and introduces the moonwalk.

April

April 3 – In Mexico, the 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins, it ends five weeks later on May 1.

April 11 Spain's Seve Ballesteros won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament

April 13 – California's largest retailer Target Corporation expands into California, opening 11 stores.

April 10 – Tokyo Disneyland opens.

April 18

The 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people.

Channel broadcasting is founded by Disney (the Disney Channel).

April 22 – A reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods occurs at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia.

April 25 – Manchester, Maine, US, schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

May

May 6 – Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).

May 11 – Aberdeen F.C. beat Real Madrid 2–1 (after extra time) to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and become only the third Scottish side to win a European trophy.

May 14 – Dundee United F.C. are crowned champions of Scotland for the first time in their history by winning the Scottish Premier Division, on the final day of the league season at the home of their city rivals Dundee F.C. at Dens Park.

May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.

May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.

May 17- New York Islanders beat the Edmonton Oilers 4 games to none to win the Stanley Cup

May 20

Two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal Science.

Church Street bombing, a car bombing in Pretoria South Africa kills 19 people. It had been planted by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the African National Congress.

May 25 – Return of the Jedi opens in theatres.

May 26 – The 7.8 Mw Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.

May 27 – Benton fireworks disaster, an explosion at an unlicensed fireworks operation near Benton, Tennessee kills eleven, injures one, and causes damage within a radius of five miles.

May 28 – The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia.

May 29 – Tom Sneva wins the Indianapolis 500

May 29 – Neil Bonnett wins the 24th running of the world 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway

May 31 – The Philadelphia 76ers defeat the LA Lakers to sweep the NBA championship in four games.

June

June – Throughout the local summer – Many Midwestern American states are affected by a severe drought that causes water shortages.

June 4 – Fugitive tax protester Gordon Kahl, who has been on the run for four months, is killed in a shootout with police in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff.

June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority.

June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System.

June 16 – Cork Graham is caught off the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd. He is convicted and imprisoned until 1984 for illegal entry.

June 18

Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission.

Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women are hanged because of their membership of the Bahá'í Faith.

June 18 and 19 The team of Vern Schuppan Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood won the 24 Hours of Le Mans

June 19 – Dragon's Lair is released in arcades.

June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup by defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.

June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

July

July 1

A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.

The High Court of Australia blocks construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.

A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany.

July 15

Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.

The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves 8 dead and 55 injured.

July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.

July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.

July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).

July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter.

July 23

Gimli Glider: Out of fuel, Air Canada Flight 143 glides in to land in Gimli, Manitoba.

13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, starting the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued until 2009.

Heavy massive rain and mudslides at western Shimane Prefecture, Japan, kill 117.

July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

July 28 – New South Wales premier Neville Wran is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.

August

August 1 – America West Airlines begins operations out of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.

August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta.

August 16 – The Bill first airs as Woodentop.

August 18

Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.

Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock, NT (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).

August 21 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile.

August 24 – The Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.

August 26 – Heavy rain triggers flooding at Bilbao, Spain, and surrounding areas, killing 45 people and causing millions in damages.

August 30 – Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission.

September

September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.

September 4 – Six men walk underwater across Sydney Harbour – 82.9 km in 48 hours.

September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.

September 9 – Iraqi club Al-Shorta wins the 1983 President's Gold Cup by defeating Malaysia 2-0 in the final.

September 16 – President Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) will be made available for civilian use.

September 17 – Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first African American to be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

September 18 – U.S. heavy metal band Kiss officially appears in public without makeup for the first time on MTV.

September 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state.

September 23

Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb explodes in the baggage compartment, killing 117.

Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.

September 25 – Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison lorry and smash their way out of HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, in the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.

September 26

1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.

The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.

The Australian yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy.

September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

October

October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.

October 4 – British entrepreneur Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.

October 4 – The first Hooters opened in Clearwater, Florida.

October 7 – A plan to abolish the Greater London Council is announced.

October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others. The perpetrators are believed to be North Koreans.

October 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.

October 16- Baltimore Orioles Beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 1 to win the World series

October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.

October 21 – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

October 22 – In Bonn, West Germany, people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament.

October 23 – Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.

October 25 – Invasion of Grenada by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.

October 30 – Argentine general election: The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.

November

November 2

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: At the White House Rose Garden, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. It is first observed in 1986.

Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.

South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid.

Chrysler introduces the Dodge Caravan, the first "minivan".

November 3 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 United States' Democratic Party presidential nomination.

November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.

November 10 – The anticancer drug etoposide is approved by the FDA, leading to a curative treatment regime in the field of combination chemotherapy of testicular carcinoma.

November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the National Diet, Japan's national legislature.

November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common in England amid protests from peace campaigners.

November 14

The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.

Ecuador recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).

November 15 – The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.

November 16 – A jury in Gretna, Louisiana, US acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.

November 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.

November 18 – A Christmas Story is released.

November 19 – An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.

November 20 – The Day After airs on ABC.

November 24 – Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988).

November 26 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.

November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 11 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.

December

December 2

Michael Jackson's Thriller video is aired on MTV for the first time.

December 4

United States Navy aviator Lt's. Mark Lange and Bobby Goodman are shot down in an A-6 Intruder over Lebanon and captured by Syrians; Lt. Lange dies of his injuries; Lt. Goodman is released 30 days later after the intervention of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984-1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turn out is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes.

Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983.

December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.

December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90.

December 9 – The Australian dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke.

December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina

December 13 – Turgut Özal, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning of a new civilian regime

December 17

A discothèque fire in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.

Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.

December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro. As of 2016, the trophy has not been recovered.

December 27

A propane explosion in Buffalo, New York, US kills 5 firefighters and 2 civilians.

Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.

December 29 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson travels to Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity since being shot down over Lebanon during a bombing mission.

December 31

Brunei gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Two bombs explode in France; one on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

Date unknown

I. M. Pei wins the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Zlatko Ugljen receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is launched in the United States.

Flashdance and Return of the Jedi are box-office hits.

Gérard Debreu wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

Kellogg's introduces Crispix cereal.

Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins / Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef / CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.

McDonald's introduces the McNugget.

Kary Mullis discovers polymerase chain reaction while working for Cetus.

Last time Gasher performed a shortened

The DeLorean Motor Company ceases production.

The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event brings severe weather worldwide.

Ronald Reagan declassifies GPS for public use; it will be shut down again in 1990 for the Gulf War and re-activated again in 1993.

The capital of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire is changed from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro.

January

January 1 – Calum Davenport, English footballer

January 2 – Kate Bosworth, American actress

January 3 – Precious Lara Quigaman, Filipina model, host and actress

January 4

Spencer Chamberlain, American musician

Kerry Condon, Irish actress

January 6

Cristina Rosato, Canadian actress

January 7

Natalie Gulbis, American golfer

Robert Ri'chard, American actor

Tosin Abasi, Nigerian-American musician (Animals As Leaders)

January 8

Chris Masters, American wrestler

Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter

January 9

Gala Évora, Spanish actress

Chris Getzlaf, American football player; brother of Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf

January 10 – Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier

January 11 – Adrian Sutil, German Formula One driver

January 13

Brianne Moncrief, American soap opera actress

Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

Imran Khan, Indian actor

Julian Morris, British actor

Bill Hudson, Brazilian-American musician (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)

January 14 – Takako Uehara, Japanese singer

January 15 – Kaine Bennett Charleston, Australian film producer, film and stage actor

January 16

Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor

Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer

January 17 – Johannes Herber, German basketball player

January 18

Jelena Gavrilović, Serbian actress

Jung Yu-mi, South Korean actress

Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress

January 19

Hikaru Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter

Oystein Pettersen, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skiier

January 20

Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player

Yasser Elshantaf, Palestinian entrepreneur

January 21

Maryse, French-Canadian professional wrestler and glamour model

Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress

Moritz Volz, German footballer

January 22 – Shaun Cody, American football player

January 23

David Firth, British animator

Justyna Kowalczyk, Polish cross-country skier

Sarah Tait, Australian rower (d. 2016)

January 24

Scott Speed, American Formula One driver

Diane Birch, American singer-songwriter

Teo, Belarusian singer

Frankie Grande, American television personality, musical theatre actor, dancer, producer, and YouTube Personality

January 25 – Yasuyuki Konno, Japanese footballer

January 27 – Rebecca Judd, Australian model and television presenter

January 31

James Sutton, British actor

Belçim Bilgin, Turkish actress

February

February 1 – Andrew VanWyngarden, American singer

February 2

Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete

David Call, American film and television actor

February 3

Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress

Damiel Dossévi, French pole vaulter

Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster

February 4 – Hannibal Buress, American comedian

February 5 – Vanessa Rousso, French-American professional poker player

February 6

Michael Robinson, former American football player

Sreesanth, Indian cricketer

Jamie Whincup, Australian race car driver

February 7

Scott Feldman, American baseball player

Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model

February 8

Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer

Louise Glover, English model and photographer

Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter (d. 2015)

Ashley Mulheron, Scottish actress and television presenter

February 10 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian artistic gymnast

February 11 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer

February 15

Alan Didak, Australian rules footballer

Philipp Degen and David Degen, Swiss footballers

Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player

Selita Ebanks, Caymanian model

February 16

Agyness Deyn, English supermodel

John Magaro, American film, television and stage actor

February 17

Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter and record producer

Elin Kling, Swedish fashion journalist

February 18 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player

February 19

Kotoōshū Katsunori (Kaloyan Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler

Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player

Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese voice actress

Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress

Jawad Williams, American basketball player

February 20

Justin Verlander, American baseball player

Emad Moteab, Egyptian footballer

February 21

Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director

Eoin Macken, Irish actor

February 22

Penny Flame, born Jennifer Ketcham, American former pornographic actress/reality TV star

Iliza Shlesinger, American comedian

February 23

Aziz Ansari, American comedian and actor

Emily Blunt, English actress

Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player

Mido, Egyptian footballer

February 24 – Sophie Howard, English glamour model

February 25 – Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player

February 26 – Andrew Baggaley, English table tennis player

February 27

Devin Harris, American basketball player

Kate Mara, American television and film actress

Hayley Angel Holt, English actress

Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower

February 28 – Linda Király, American-Hungarian singer-songwriter

March

March 1 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-born Kenyan/American actress

March 2 – Lee Ha-nui, South Korean beauty pageant titleholder, classical musician, and actress

March 3

Katie White, English singer (The Ting Tings)

Kim Smith, American fashion model and actress

March 4

Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater

Jessica Heap, American actress

Adam Deacon, British actor

March 7 – Raquel Alessi, American actress

March 9

Bryony Afferson, English actress and musician

Maite Perroni, Mexican singer and actress

Clint Dempsey, American footballer

Bobby Campo, American actor

March 10

Janet Mock, American author and activist

Jonas Olsson, Swedish footballer

Aimee Walker Pond, American gymnast

Rafe Spall, English actor

Carrie Underwood, American singer

March 11 – Melissa Rycroft, American television personality and reality television contestant

March 14

Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer

Taylor Hanson, American musician (Hanson)

March 15 – Florencia Bertotti, Argentine actress and singer

March 16

Stephanie Gatschet, American actress

Katie Kim, Irish singer-songwriter

March 17

Penny McNamee, Australian actress

Atit Shah, Indian American Hollywood film producer

March 19 – Nicole Muirbrook, American actress and model

March 20

Michael Cassidy, American film television and actor

Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer

Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish pop singer

March 21 – Bruno Langley, British actor

March 22

Heather Lind, American actress

Christina Bennett Lind, American actress

March 23 – Mo Farah, British athlete

March 27 – Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (d. 2005)

March 29

Ed Skrein, English actor and rapper

Ezgi Mola, Turkish actress

March 30

Zach Gowen, American wrestler

Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer

March 31

Meinir Gwilym, Welsh folk singer

Hashim Amla, South African cricketer

Melissa Ordway, American actress and model

April

April 1

Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)

Matt Lanter, American actor and model

Sergey Lazarev, Russian pop-singer

April 2 – Yung Joc, American rapper

April 4

Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player

Amanda Righetti, American actress and film producer

April 6 – Diora Baird, American actress

April 7 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer

April 10

Jamie Chung, American actress

Ryan Merriman, American actor

April 11 – Joanna Douglas, Canadian actress

April 12

Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player

Jonti Richter, Australian soccer player

Judy Marte, American actress and producer

April 13 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player

April 15

Matt Cardle, English singer

Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player

Alice Braga, Brazilian actress

Siobhan Hewlett, Irish film, television and theatre actress

April 16 – Alex Antônio de Melo Santos, Brazilian footballer

April 18 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player

April 19

Joe Mauer, American baseball player

Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player

Alberto Callaspo, American baseball player

April 20

Joanne King, Irish film and television actress

Miranda Kerr, Australian model

Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish club DJ

April 21

Tarvaris Jackson, American football player

Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer

April 22

Matt Jones, American football player

Francis Capra, American actor

April 23

Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player

Aaron Hill, American actor

Hayley-Marie Coppin, English glamour model

April 24 – Will Champlin, American singer, contestant from The Voice season 5

April 29

Jay Cutler, American football player

Megan Boone, American actress

David Lee, American basketball player

Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese actress and gravure idol

April 30 – Yelena Leuchanka, Belarusian professional women's basketball player

May

May 1 – Alain Bernard, French Olympic swimmer

May 2

Dani Sordo, Spanish rally driver

Tina Maze, Slovenian alpine ski racer

May 4 – Jesse Moss, Canadian actor

May 5 – Henry Cavill, British actor

May 6

Adrianne Palicki, American actress

Gabourey Sidibe, American actress

Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model

May 7

Marco Galiazzo, Italian archer

Alexander Legkov,

May 9 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor

May 11

Matt Leinart, American football player

Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer

Daizee Haze, American professional wrestler

May 12

Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Polish actress and singer

Alina Kabaeva, Russian rhythmic gymnast and politician

Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer

Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor and writer

May 13

Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer

Natalie Cassidy, British actress

Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player

Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)

May 14

Amber Tamblyn, American actress

Anahí, Mexican singer and actress

Sarbel, Greek Cypriot pop singer

May 16

Daniel Kerr, Australian rules footballer

Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer

May 17 – Channing Frye, American basketball player

May 18 – Vince Young, American football player

May 19

Eve Angel, Hungarian model

Jessica Fox, British actress

May 20

Michaela McManus, American actress

Emma Williams, English stage and television actress

N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian actor and singer

May 21 – Leva Bates, American professional wrestler

May 22

John Hopkins, American MotoGP racer

Connie and Cassie Powney, English twin actresses

May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes)

May 24 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model

May 27 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player

May 28 – Toby Hemingway, British/American actor

May 30 – Jennifer Ellison, British actress

May 31

David Hernandez, American singer

Zana Marjanović, Bosnian actress

June

June 1 – Sylvia Hoeks, Dutch actress

June 2 – Brooke White, American singer

June 3 – Janine Carmen Habeck, German model

June 6

Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby union player

Gemma Bissix, British actress

Adam Hendershott, American actor

Gianna Michaels, porn actress

June 7 – Indiggo, Romanian-born American twin sisters, singer-songwriters, and reality TV personalities

June 8

Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player

Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor

June 9

Alektra Blue, American porn actress

Marina Lizorkina, Russian singer (Serebro)

June 10

Marina Abrosimova, Russian pop singer

Shanna Collins, American actress

Leelee Sobieski, American film and television actress

June 11 – José Reyes, Dominican baseball player

June 12

Andy Ologun, Nigerian mixed martial artist

Anja Rubik, Polish model

Bryan Habana, South African rugby union player

June 13 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player

June 14

Torrance Coombs, Canadian film, theatre and television actor

Sean Klitzner, American internet personality and comedian

June 15

Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist

Derek Anderson, American football player

June 16

Verónica Echegui, Spanish actress

Lisa Yamanaka, Canadian voice actress

June 17

Connie Fisher, British actress and singer

Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor, idol, and singer

Lee Ryan, English singer (Blue)

June 19

Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress

Laura Norton, English actress

Aidan Turner, Irish actor

Mark Selby, British snooker player

Macklemore, American rapper

June 20 – Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress

June 21

Edward Snowden, American computer professional

Jussie Smollett, American actor and singer

June 22 – Sally Nicholls, English children's book author of Ways to Live Forever

June 23 – Miles Fisher, American film and television actor and musician

June 24

John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor

Shermain Jeremy, Antiguan singer and beauty pageant contestant

June 25 – Cleo, Polish singer

June 27

Alsou, Russian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2000 runner-up

Ben Bocquelet, French-British animator and producer

June 30

Cheryl, British singer (Girls Aloud) and TV personality

Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedian and actress

July

July 1

Park Jeong-su, Korean singer (Super Junior)

Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter

Tanya Chisholm, American actress and dancer

July 2

Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)

Alicia Menendez, American television commentator

July 3 – Edinson Volquez, Dominican baseball player

July 4 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian fashion model

July 5

Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player

Kumiko Ogura, Japanese badminton player

Edwina Bartholomew, Australian journalist and television presenter

July 6 – Gregory Smith, Canadian actor

July 10 – Kim Heechul, Korean actor and singer (Super Junior)

July 11 – Marie Eleonor Serneholt, Swedish singer (A*Teens)

July 12

Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model

Krystin Pellerin, Canadian actress of theatre, television and film

July 13 – Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete

July 15 – Maxim Dondyuk, Ukrainian documentary photographer

July 16

Philando Castile, American man fatally shot by a St. Anthony, Minnesota police officer (d. 2016)

Katrina Kaif, Bollywood actress and model

Zhang Xiangxiang, Chinese weightlifter

July 17 – Flávia de Oliveira, Brazilian model

July 19 – Helen Skelton, British television presenter

July 21

Vinessa Antoine, Canadian actress

Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer

Kellen Winslow II, American football player

July 22

Juliana Felisberta, Brazilian beach volleyball player

Jodi Albert, English actress and singer

Sharni Vinson, Australian model, actress and dancer

July 23

Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer

Bec Hewitt, Australian actress

July 24

Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer

Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress

July 26 – Elettra Weidemann, American fashion model and sociallite

July 29

Kaitlyn Black, American actress

Elise Testone, American singer-songwriter

Tania Gunadi, Indonesian-American actress and producer

Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican television host, reporter and actress

July 30 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer

July 31 – Kim Moylan, Irish actress

August

August 2 – Huston Street, American baseball player

August 3

Mamie Gummer, American actress

Michelle Buswell, American model

August 4

Mariusz Wlazły, Polish volleyball player

Adhir Kalyan, South African actor

Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker

Jai Crawford, Australian cyclist

August 5 – Kara Tointon, English actress

August 6 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer

August 7

Brit Marling, American actress, screenwriter and producer

Maggie Castle, Canadian actress

Tina O'Brien, British actress

Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor

August 8 – Fred Meyers, American actor

August 9

Sarah Elizabeth, American model

David Ames, British actor

Ashley Johnson, American actress

August 10

Spencer Redford, American actress

Mathieu Roy, Canadian professional ice hockey player

August 11

Sammy Glenn, English television actress

Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor

August 13

Aleš Hemský, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player

Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born American actor

August 14

Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)

Mila Kunis, Ukrainian/American actress

Spencer Pratt, American television personality

August 16 – Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player

August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player

August 18

Mika, Lebanese-British singer

Cameron White, Australian cricketer

Kris Boyd, Scottish football player

August 19

Tammin Sursok, Australian actress

Claudia Salinas, Mexican model and actress

Missy Higgins, Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor

Tania Nolan, New Zealand actress

Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013)

August 20

Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer

Andrew Garfield, British/American actor

August 21

Brody Jenner, American television personality

Chantelle Houghton, English glamour model and television personality

August 23

Ruta Gedmintas, Lithuanian-English actress

Annie Ilonzeh, American actress

James Collins, Welsh footballer

August 24 – Brett Gardner, American baseball player

August 26 – Nicol David, Malaysian squash player

August 27

Jamala, Ukrainian singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest 2016 winner

Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor

August 28 – Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer

August 29 – Jennifer Landon, American actress

August 30

Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor

Jim Miller, American mixed martial artist

August 31

Larry Fitzgerald, American football player

Maria Flor, Brazilian actress

September

September 1

José Antonio Reyes, Spanish football player

Camille Mana, American actress

September 2 – Tiffany Hines, American television actress and singer

September 3

Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player

Alexander Klaws, German singer

September 4 – Jennifer Metcalfe, English actress

September 5 – Priscilla Meirelles, Miss Earth 2004

September 8 – Chris Judd, Australian rules footballer

September 9

Kristine Hermosa, Filipino actress

Zoe Kazan, American actress and screenwriter

September 10 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player

September 11 – Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner

September 12 – Carly Smithson, Irish singer

September 13 – Kaoklai Kaennorsing, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer

September 14 – Amy Winehouse, British singer (d. 2011)

September 15 – Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier

September 16 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer

September 17

Catherine Tyldesley, English actress and model

Jennifer Peña, American singer

September 18

Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer

Sasha Son, Lithuanian singer

September 20

Yuna Ito, American-Japanese singer and actress

A-Lin, Taiwanese singer

September 21

Maggie Grace, American actress

Joseph Mazzello, American actor

Sarah Rees Brennan, Irish novelist

Anna Meares, Australian track cyclist

Scott Evans, American actor

September 22 – Eriko Imai, Japanese singer (Speed)

September 23 – Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower

September 24

Randy Foye, American basketball player

Lyndon Ferns, South African swimmer

September 25

Donald Glover, American actor

Son Dam-bi, South Korean singer

September 26 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer

September 27 – Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer (LUV)

September 28

Fazura, Malaysian actress

Sarah Wright, American actress

Julissa Bermudez, Dominican American television personality and actress

September 30

Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast

Reiko Shiota, Japanese badminton player

October

October 1 – Anna Drijver, Dutch actress and model

October 2 – Gerran Walker, American football player

October 3

Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor

Meghan Heffern, Canadian actress

Tessa Thompson, American actress

October 4

Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress

Risa Kudō, Japanese gravure idol

Shontelle, Barbadian singer, and songwriter

October 5

Jesse Eisenberg, American actor

Nicky Hilton, American model and socialite

Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress

Noah Segan, American character actor

October 8

Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper

Lou Charmelle, French pornographic actress

October 9 – Spencer Grammer, American actress

October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ

October 11 – Bradley James, English actor

October 13 – Katia Winter, Swedish actress

October 14

Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player

Zesh Rehman, English-Pakistani footballer

David Oakes, English film, television and theatre actor

October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress

October 16 – Loreen, Swedish pop singer and music producer, Eurovision Song Contest 2012 winner

October 17

Daniel Kajmakoski, Macedonian singer and songwriter

Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer

Daniel Booko, American actor

Felicity Jones, English actress

October 19

Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and writer

Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish model and actress

October 20 – Alona Tal, Israeli television actress

October 21

Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress

Ashley Banjo, Canadian actor

Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou, Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou

Aaron Tveit, American actor

October 24

Brian Vickers, American race car driver

Katie McGrath, Irish actress

Ashleigh Harrington, Canadian actress

V V Brown, English singer, songwriter, model, and producer

Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress

October 25 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family

October 27

Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Turkish actor and model

Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer

Katy Tur, American journalist

October 29

Amit Sebastian Paul, Swedish singer (A*Teens)

Johnny Lewis, American actor (d. 2012)

October 30 – Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer

November

November 1

Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol

Jelena Tomašević, Serbian pop singer

November 2 – Andreas Bourani, German singer-songwriter

November 3 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress

November 5 – Alexa Chung, English television presenter and model

November 4 – Tyler Everett, American football player

November 7

Adam DeVine, American actor

Lauren Elaine, American fashion designer, model and actress

November 8

Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer

Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper

November 9 – Meseret Defar, Ethiopian long-distance runner

November 10 – Miranda Lambert, American country music singer

November 11

Philipp Lahm, German footballer

Kristal Marshall, American professional wrestler, model and beauty queen

Sola Aoi, Japanese model

Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese voice actor

November 12 – Kate Bell, Australian actress

November 15 – Laura Smet, French actress

November 16 – K, Korean singer

November 17

Viva Bianca, Australian actress

Patrick McHale, American animator

Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player

Ryan Bradley, American figure skater

Ryan Braun, American baseball player

Évelyne Brochu, Canadian actress

Harry Lloyd, British actor

Nick Markakis, American baseball player

Rocsi, American television personality

November 18

Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer

Robert Kazinsky, English actor and model

November 19

Adam Driver, American actor

DeAngelo Hall, American football player

Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model

November 20 – Future, American rapper, singer, and songwriter

November 21 – The Bella Twins, (Brie & Nikki), American professional wrestlers

November 22 – Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter and actor

November 24

Dean Ashton, British footballer

José López, Venezuelan baseball player

November 25 – Atsushi Itō, Japanese actor

November 27 – Professor Green, British rapper

November 28

Courtney Rush, Canadian professional wrestler

Ellie Taylor, English comedian and television presenter

Kelly Wenham, English actress

November 29

Jenn Sterger, American television personality and model

Aylin Tezel, German actress

November 30 – Nicholas Kole, American figure skater

December

December 2

Mette Lindberg, Danish singer

Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

Ana Lucía Domínguez, Columbian actress

Jana Kramer, American actress

Aaron Rodgers, American football player

Daniela Ruah, Portuguese actress

December 3

Troy Bergeron, American football player

Andy Grammer, American singer and songwriter

December 4

Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer

Charity Shea, American actress

Roman Zaretsky, Israeli figure skater

December 5

Tori Sparks, American singer, songwriter and activist

Tiffany Weimer, American footballer

December 6 – Francesca Jackson, English musical theatre actress

December 7 – Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player

December 9 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer

December 10

Patrick Flueger, American actor

Xavier Samuel, Australian actor

December 12 – Katrina Elam, American singer

December 13

Satya Bhabha, British actor

Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer

J Alvarez Puerto Rican singer

December 15

René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler

Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player

Brooke Fraser, New Zealand folk-pop and Christian musician

Camilla Luddington, English actress

December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model

December 17 – Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player

December 19

Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer

AJ Lamas, American actor

Casey Crescenzo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dear Hunter and The Receiving End of Sirens)

Bridget Phillipson, English politician

Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer

Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player

December 20

Nelly Alisheva, Russian volleyball player

Jonah Hill, American actor

Lucy Pinder, English model

Lara Stone, Dutch model

Gia Allemand, American actress (d. 2013)

December 21 – Steven Yeun, American actor

December 22

Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, Miss Universe 2004

Joe Dinicol, Canadian actor

Nathalie Péchalat, French ice dancer

December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player

December 25 – Gwei Lun-Mei, Taiwanese actress

December 27 – Cole Hamels, American baseball player

December 28 – Aiko Nakamura, Japanese tennis player

December 29 – Jessica Andrews, American country music singer

Date unknown

Linda Bhreathnach, Irish television actress

Kristi Capel, American beauty pageant and news presenter

Sarah Earnshaw, British actress

Yalda Hakim, Australian journalist

Lisa Hammond, English actress

Leila Benn Harris, English actress and singer

Eleonore Hendricks, American actress, photographer and casting director

Ainsley Howard, British actress

Mari Lövgreen, Welsh television presenter

Jane McGregor, Canadian actress

Ashley Austin Morris, American actress

Daráine Mulvihill, Irish television personality

Sophy Ridge, British journalist and Political Correspondent for Sky News

Brook Roberts, American television personality and former beauty pageant

Fernanda Romero, Mexican actress and model

Roxy Shahidi, English actress

Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Australian actress

January

January 2 – Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)

January 8 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (b. 1919)

January 10 – Roy DeMeo, American Mafia hitman (b. 1942)

January 11

Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)

Tikhon Kiselyov (also Kiselev), Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the de facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR from 1980 to 1983 (b. 1917)

January 12 – Nikolai Podgorny, Ukrainian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977 (b. 1903)

January 13 – David M. Shoup, American general (b. 1904)

January 15

Masatane Kanda, Japanese general (b. 1890)

Meyer Lansky, American gangster (b. 1902)

January 17 – Doodles Weaver, American comedian and uncle of Sigourney Weaver (b. 1911)

January 18 – Arturo Umberto Illia, 34th President of Argentina (b. 1900)

January 23 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)

January 24

George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)

Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine athlete (b. 1911)

January 26 – Paul "Bear" Bryant, American college football coach (b. 1913)

January 27

Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)

Michael "Pat" Bilon, American dwarf actor (b. 1947)

Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)

January 28

Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)

Billy Fury, British musician (b. 1940)

January 29 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1898)

February

February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)

February 8 – Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)

February 12 – Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)

February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)

February 19 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)

February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)

February 23 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)

February 25 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)

February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)

February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914)

March

March 1 – Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902)

March 3

Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)

Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)

March 6 – Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)

March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)

March 8 – William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)

March 9

Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)

Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

March 11 – Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)

March 14 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927)

March 15 – Rebecca West, English-born writer (b. 1892)

March 16

Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b. 1903)

Freda Dudley Ward, former royal mistress (b. 1894)

March 17 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)

March 18

Umberto II of Italy, the last King of Italy (b. 1904)

Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)

March 25 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1920)

March 26 – Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian (b. 1907)

March 27

Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (b. 1898)

James Hayter, British actor (b. 1907)

March 30 – Lisette Model, Austrian-born American photographer (b. 1901)

April

April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)

April 4

Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b. 1901)

Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)

April 11 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1905)

April 12 – Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b. 1923)

April 15

Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1892)

Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1902)

April 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)

April 20

Walther Nehring, German general (b. 1892)

Pedro Quartucci, Argentine boxer and actor (b. 1905)

April 21 – Walter Slezak, Austrian actor (b. 1902)

April 22 – Earl 'Fatha' Hines, American musician (b. 1903)

April 23

Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b. 1908)

Selena Royle, American actress (b. 1904)

Alberto Zorrilla, Argentine Olympic swimmer (b. 1906)

April 30

George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (b. 1904)

Joel Henry Hildebrand, American chemist (b. 1881)

Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)

May

May 1

George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)

Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born cinematographer (b. 1889)

Arthur D. Struble, American admiral (b. 1894)

May 2 – Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Minnesota Vikings) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1926)

May 5 – John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)

May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)

May 14

Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)

Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)

May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)

May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898)

May 19 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)

May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)

May 22

Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

King Idris of Libya (reigned from 1951 to 1969) (b. 1889)

May 25 – Sid Daniels, British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of the RMS Titanic dies (b. 1895)

May 29 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b. 1899)

May 31 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)

June

June 1 – Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)

June 2 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)

June 4 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (b. 1920)

June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)

June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)

June 12 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress (b. 1902)

June 15 – Srirangam Srinivasarao, also known as Sri Sri, Telugu poet (b. 1910)

June 17 – Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)

June 18

Robert Riddles, British locomotive engineer (b. 1892)

Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)

June 23 – Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, 21st President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1919)

June 24 – Charles Phelps Taft II, American politician, son of President William Howard Taft (b. 1897)

June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)

June 30 – Mary Livingstone, American comedian (b. 1905)

July

July 1 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)

July 4

Dr. John Bodkin Adams, British suspected serial killer (b. 1899)

Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)

July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)

July 7

Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)

Vicki Morgan, American model (murdered) (b. 1952)

July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)

July 10 – Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)

July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)

July 12 – Chris Wood, British rock musician (b. 1944)

July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)

July 16 – Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)

July 17 – Roosevelt "Honeydripper" Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)

July 19 – Erik Ode, German actor (b. 1910)

July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)

July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)

July 26

Larry Gains, Canadian boxer (b. 1901)

Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)

July 29

Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born filmmaker (b. 1900)

Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)

David Niven, British actor (b. 1910)

July 30

Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)

Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)

August

August 1

Peter Arne, British actor (b. 1918)

Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (b. 1954)

August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1938)

August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)

August 4 – Jobriath, American rock musician and actor (b. 1946)

August 5 – Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)

August 6 – Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)

August 12 – Theodor Burchadi, German Admiral (b. 1892)

August 16 – Earl Averill, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1902)

August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)

August 18 – Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born art historian (b. 1902)

August 21 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)

August 27 – Harry A. deButts, American railroad executive

August 28 – Jan Clayton, American actress (b. 1917)

August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)

September

September 1

Larry McDonald, American politician (plane crash – KAL 007 victim) (b. 1935)

Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (aortic aneurysm after giving a news conference condemning the shooting down of KAL 007) (b. 1912)

September 10

Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)

Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)

Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)

B. J. Vorster, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa and 5th President of South Africa (b. 1915)

September 12 – Sabin Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1904)

September 17 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Cardinal Archbishop of Boston between 1970 and 1983 (b. 1915)

September 20 – Ángel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)

September 25 – King Léopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)

September 26 – Tino Rossi, Corsican singer (b. 1907)

September 29 – Alan Moorehead, Australian-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)

October

October 5 – Earl Tupper, American businessman (b. 1907)

October 6 – Terence Cooke, Cardinal Archbishop of New York (b. 1921)

October 8 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)

October 10

Georgia Cozzini, American socialist politician (b. 1915)

Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)

October 14 – Paul Fix, American actor (b. 1901)

October 15 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)

October 18 – Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)

October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary (b. 1944)

October 20 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)

October 21 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)

October 23

Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)

Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)

October 26 – Mike Michalske, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)

October 28

Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)

Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)

October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player and coach (Chicago Bears), a co-founder of the National Football League, and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1895)

November

November – Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)

November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)

November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)

November 8

Robert Agnew, American actor (b. 1899)

Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)

November 13 – Junior Samples, American comedian (b. 1926)

November 14 – Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)

November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)

November 19 – Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)

November 20

Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)

Richard Loo, Chinese-American actor (b. 1903)

November 23 – Waheed Murad, Legendary Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)

November 25 – Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)

November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)

November 30 – Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)

December

December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b. 1904)

December 4 – Bobby Goodman, U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder Bombardier Navigator shot down over Lebanon; captured upon ejection and held captive in Syria for 30 days; pilot Mark Lange died of injuries

December 5 – Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)

December 6 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)

December 6 – Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)

December 8

Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)

Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)

December 9 – David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)

December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)

December 13

Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)

Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)

December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913)

December 21

Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)

Rod Cameron, American actor (b. 1910)

December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)

December 25 – Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b. 1893)

December 26 – Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)

December 27

William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)

Walter Scott, American performer (b. 1943)

December 28

Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)

Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910)

Date unknown

Mary Cohan, Broadway composer and lyricist, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1909)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler

Chemistry – Henry Taube

Medicine – Barbara McClintock

Literature – William Golding

Peace – Lech Wałęsa

Economics – Gérard Debreu