1986

January

January 1

Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which later becomes the European Union.

Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles.

The Province of Flevoland is established in the Netherlands.

UNIDO becomes a specialised agency of the United Nations.

In Northern Ireland as part of The Troubles, James McCandless (39) and Michael Williams (24), both Protestant members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army remote controlled bomb hidden in a litter bin and detonated when their foot patrol passes at Thomas Street, Armagh.

January 9 – After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.

January 11 – The Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened.

January 12 – STS-61-C: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched with the first Hispanic American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang Díaz.

January 13–24 – South Yemen Civil War.

January 19 – The first PC virus, Brain, starts to spread.

January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel.

January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus.

January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a 5-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator Idi Amin's 1971 coup.

January 26 – Super Bowl XX was an American football game between the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears and the American Football Conference (AFC) champion New England Patriots to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 1985 season. The Bears defeated the Patriots by the score of 46–10, capturing their first NFL championship since 1963, three years prior to the birth of the Super Bowl. Super Bowl XX was played on January 26, 1986, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana.

January 28 – Space Shuttle Challenger disaster – STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch from the United States, killing the crew of 7 astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

January 29 – Yoweri Museveni is sworn in as President of Uganda.

February

February 3 – Pixar Animation Studios are opened in California.

February 7

President Jean-Claude Duvalier ("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule.

The snap presidential election in the Philippines earlier announced by President Ferdinand Marcos was held amidst controversy that would pave the way for a chain of protests culminating in the People Power Revolution.

February 8 – The Hinton train collision happened, which a Canadian National train heading westbound collided with a Via Rail train in Hinton, Alberta. 23 people were killed in the accident, and injured 71 people.

February 9 – Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century (the first was in 1910).

February 11 – Human rights activist Natan Sharansky is released by the Soviet Union and leaves the country.

February 15 – The Beechcraft Starship makes its maiden flight.

February 16

The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Ouadi Doum air raid: The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad.

February 17 – The Single European Act is signed.

February 19

The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.

The United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.

February 21 – Nintendo releases the first game in the Zelda series, The Legend of Zelda, in Japan on the Famicom.

February 22 – The People Power Revolution begins in the Philippines to remove President Ferdinand Marcos from office.

February 25

The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opens in Moscow. The General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduces the keywords of his mandate to the audience: Glasnost and Perestroika.

People Power Revolution: President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines goes into exile in Hawaii after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president, first as an interim president. Salvador Laurel becomes her Vice President.

Egyptian military police, protesting against bad salaries, enter 4 luxury hotels near the pyramids, set fire to them and loot them.

February 27 – The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.

February 28 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death on his way home from the cinema in Stockholm, Sweden.

March

March 1 – Olof Palme's deputy Ingvar Carlsson becomes acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He is elected Prime Minister by the Swedish Riksdag on March 15.

March 3 – The first paper is published describing the atomic force microscope invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christopher Berger.

March 4 – The Today national tabloid newspaper is launched in the United Kingdom, pioneering the use of computer photosetting and full-colour offset printing, at a time when British national newspapers still use Linotype machines and letterpress printing.

March 8 – The Japanese Suisei probe flies by Halley's Comet, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind.

March 9 – United States Navy divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle Challenger; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside.

March 13 – In a Black Sea incident, American cruiser USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron, claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet territorial waters near the southern Crimean Peninsula.

March 14 – Microsoft Corporation holds its initial public offering of stock shares.

March 15 – Hotel New World collapses, 33 killed and 17 rescued from rubble.

March 25 – The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Out of Africa winning Best Picture.

March 26 – An article in The New York Times charges that Kurt Waldheim, former United Nations Secretary-General and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in Nazi war crimes during World War II.

March 27 – Russell Street Bombing: A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police Headquarters in Russell Street, Melbourne, killing a police constable, the first Australian policewoman to be killed in the line of duty.

March 31

A fire causes extensive damage at Hampton Court Palace in Surrey, England.

Mexicana Flight 940 crashes near Maravatío, Mexico, killing 167.

April

April 1 – Sector Kanda: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.

April 2 – A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people.

April 3 – The British children's TV show The Raggy Dolls is released on ITV in the UK.

April 5

1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The West Berlin discothèque La Belle, a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing 3 and injuring 230; Libya is held responsible.

Jean Michel Jarre plays Rendez-vous Houston concert in Houston, Texas.

April 13 – Pope John Paul II officially visits the Great Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue.

April 13 – The first child born to a non-related surrogate mother is born.

April 14 – Hailstones weighing 1 kg (2.2 lb) fall on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92.

April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region.

April 17

John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut (released in August 1991) – 3 others are found dead; Revolutionary Cells claims responsibility in retaliation for the U.S. bombing of Libya.

The Hindawi affair begins when an Irishwoman is found unknowingly carrying explosives onto an El Al flight from London to Tel Aviv.

April 21 – Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's secret vault on The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults, discovering only a bottle of moonshine.

April 26 – Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people are forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".

April 27 – "Captain Midnight" interrupts the HBO satellite feed.

April 29 – The Diamond Jubilee of Hirohito is held at the Kokugikan in Tokyo.

May

May 2

Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The physical game show Takeshi's Castle first airs on the Tokyo Broadcasting System.

May 3 – Sandra Kim from Belgium wins the Eurovision Song Contest in Bergen, Norway with her song J'aime la vie.

May 8 – Óscar Arias is inaugurated into his first term as President of Costa Rica.

May 9 – Short Circuit starring Fisher Stevens is released.

May 12 – NBC debuts the current well-known peacock as seen in the NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration.

May 16 – The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.

May 19 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is enacted.

May 23 – Somali President Siad Barre is injured in a car accident in Mogadishu and taken to Saudi Arabia for treatment. Somali opposition groups see this as an opportunity to try and remove Barre, beginning the Somali Civil War.

May 24 – The Montreal Canadiens win their 23rd Stanley Cup In Calgary against the Flames.

May 25

Hands Across America: At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to Long Beach, California, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness.

The Bangladeshi double decked ferry Shamia capsizes in the Meghna River, southern Barisal, Bangladesh, killing at least 600.

May 27 – The game credited as setting the template for role-playing video games, Dragon Quest, is released in Japan.

May 28 – Pingu premieres in Switzerland.

May 31 – The 1986 FIFA World Cup begins in Mexico.

June

June – Construction of the Oosterscheldekering, the world's largest openable storm surge flood barrier, is completed in the Netherlands.

June 4 – Jonathan Pollard pleads guilty to espionage for selling top secret United States military intelligence to Israel.

June 8 – Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.

June 9 – The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

June 12 – South Africa declares a nationwide state of emergency.

June 14 – The Mindbender accident happened in West Edmonton Mall. 3 people died, and 1 person was injured.

June 19 – American college basketball player Len Bias suffers a fatal cardiac arrhythmia from a cocaine overdose, less than 48 hours after being selected 2nd overall by the Boston Celtics in the 1986 NBA draft. Bias' death came 11 days after the Celtics won their 16th NBA championship by defeating the Houston Rockets in the finals.

June 22 – In one of the most famous FIFA World Cup matches, Argentinian football player Diego Maradona scores one handball goal (nicknamed the "Hand of God") and then dribbles past the entire English football team to score a second goal (nicknamed "The Goal of the Century") with Argentina winning 2-1 against England.

June 23 – Eric Thomas develops LISTSERV, the first email list management software.

June 24 – The Dominican Republic recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.

June 29 – Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 to win the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico City.

July

July 1 – CSX Transportation is established.

July 5 – The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after celebrating its centennial and an extensive refurbishment.

July 5 – 20 – The Goodwill Games are held in Moscow.

July 7 – Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers are executed in Malaysia.

July 12 – The New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Act decriminalizes consensual sex between men from the age of 16.

July 22 – In the Philippines, ABS-CBN Radio launches DZMM at 630 kHz on AM Band.

July 23 – In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

July 27 – Greg LeMond wins the Tour de France.

July 28 – Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanishes after a meeting in London.

August

August 2 – The first film produced by Studio Ghibli, Castle in the Sky directed by Hayao Miyazaki is released in Japan.

August 6

A low-pressure system moving from South Australia and redeveloping off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimetres (12.9 in) of rain in a day on Sydney.

In Louisville, Kentucky, William J. Schroeder, the second artificial heart recipient, dies after 620 days.

Australian Democrats leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia.

August 19 – Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting Weeping Woman is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in Melbourne, Australia.

August 20 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, United States Postal Service employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers before committing suicide.

August 21 – The Lake Nyos disaster, a limnic eruption, occurs in Cameroon, killing nearly 2,000 people.

August 31

The Soviet passenger liner SS Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.

Aeroméxico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, collides with a Piper PA-28 over Cerritos, California, killing 67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground.

The cargo ship Khian Sea departs from the docks of Philadelphia, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It wanders the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo. The waste is later dumped in Haiti.

September

September 1 – Jordan University of Science and Technology is established in Jordan.

September 4 – Eusko Alkartasuna, the Basque Social Democratic Party, is created in Vitoria-Gasteiz.

September 5 – Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by four Abu Nidal terrorists.

September 6

The Big Mac Index is introduced in The Economist newspaper as a semi-humorous international measure of purchasing power parity.

In Istanbul, two Abu Nidal terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the Neve Shalom Synagogue during Shabbat services.

September 7

Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.

Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; 5 of his bodyguards are killed.

September 8 – The Oprah Winfrey Show premieres in syndication.

September 13 – A magnitude 6.0 earthquake rocks the city of Kalamata in southern Greece, killing 20 people, injuring 80 and completely destroying one-fifth of the city.

September 28 – The Democratic Progressive Party is founded. It was part of the Tangwai movement in new generation to challenge Kuomintang in Taiwan's one-party politics.

October

October 1 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater–Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.

October 3 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron, officially opens at Chalk River Laboratories.

October 9

United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment.

News Corporation completes its acquisition of the Metromedia group of companies, thereby launching the Fox Broadcasting Company.

The Phantom of the Opera, the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London.

October 10 – The 5.7 Mw San Salvador earthquake shook San Salvador, El Salvador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to 1,500 people were killed.

October 11 – 12 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Reykjavík, Iceland, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate missile arsenals in Europe, which end in failure.

October 12 – Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China.

October 16 – The International Olympic Committee chooses Albertville, France to be the host city of the 1992 Winter Olympics and Barcelona, Spain to be the host city of the 1992 Summer Olympics. The IOC also announces that the summer and winter games will separate with the winter games on every even, common year; and the summer games on every even, leap year starting from 1992.

October 19 – Mozambican President Samora Machel's plane crashes in South Africa.

October 21 – The Marshall Islands became an associated state under the Compact of Free Association.

October 22 – In New York City, WNBC Radio's traffic helicopter crashes into the Hudson River, killing traffic reporter Jane Dornacker. The last words heard on-the-air are Dornacker's screams of terror, "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!"

October 24 – Lambda Sigma Gamma Sorority Inc. is founded at Sacramento State by Linda V. Fuentes and 26 Founding Mothers.

October 26 – Bus deregulation goes into effect in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland.

October 27

The International World Day of Prayer is held in Assisi, Italy.

World Series: The New York Mets defeat the Boston Red Sox in 7 games. This is the second world series title in the Mets franchise. It is also remembered for Game 6, when Bill Buckner lets a routine ground ball hit by Mookie Wilson roll through his legs, letting the Mets win and pull even with the Red Sox in the series.

The Big Bang in the London Stock Exchange abolishes fixed commission charges, paving the way for electronic trading.

October 28

The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.

In London, Jeremy Bamber is found guilty of the murder of his adoptive parents, sister and twin nephews, and sentenced to life imprisonment, with a recommendation by the trial judge that he should serve at least 25 years before being considered for parole.

October 29 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher officially opens the M25 Motorway, which encircles Greater London, in a ceremony on the carriageway near Potters Bar. It became Europe's second longest orbital road upon completion, and provides the first and only full bypass of London.

November

November 1

Queensland, Australia: Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987, following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the Fitzgerald Inquiry.

Sandoz chemical spill: a major environmental disaster near Basel, Switzerland, pollutes the Rhine.

November 3

Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

The Northern Mariana Islands enter in a political union with the United States. The island's government adopted its own constitution in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in January 1978. The covenant was fully implemented November 3, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred United States citizenship on legally qualified island residents.

November 4

Democrats regain control of the United States Senate for the first time in 6 years. In California, Chief Justice Rose Bird and two colleagues are removed by voters from the Supreme Court of California for opposing capital punishment.

Eventual 2008 presidential nominee John McCain gets elected as Republican U.S. Senator from Arizona, and has been in office since then.

November 6 – Sumburgh disaster: A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport, killing 45 people (the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record).

November 11 – Sperry Rand and Burroughs merge to form Unisys, becoming the second largest computer company.

November 12 – Australian singer John Farnham releases the album Whispering Jack, which becomes the highest selling album in Australia's history.

November 18 – Greater Manchester Police announce that they will search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley confess to 2 more murders.

November 21 – Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

November 22 – Mike Tyson wins his first world boxing title by defeating Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas.

November 25 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

November 26 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that on December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal (they became known as the Tower Commission). Reagan denies involvement in the scandal.

December

December 7 – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake destroys most of the Bulgarian town of Strajica, killing 2 people.

December 14 – Rutan Voyager, an experimental aircraft designed by Burt Rutan and piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, begins its flight around the world.

December 16 – Mass anti-government protests break out across the Kazakh SSR, resulting in the massacre of over 165 protesters.

December 19 – Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to Moscow after six years of internal exile.

December 20 – Three African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York. One of the victims, Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers.

December 23 – Voyager completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds.

December 26 – After 35 years on the airwaves and holding the title of longest-running non-news program on network television, NBC airs the final episode of daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.

December 31 – A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.

Date unknown

The National Park Passport Stamps program begins.

The Council on Competitiveness is founded.

Average per capita income in Japan exceeds that in the United States.

Matt Groening creates The Simpsons family.

The first commercially available 3D printer is sold.

Informal stock trading is done in Shenyang, China; the first of its kind in Red China.

January

January 1

Glen Davis, American basketball player

Colin Morgan, British actor

Anna Brewster, British actress and model

Lee Sung-min, South Korean actor and member of Korean pop group Super Junior

January 2

Nathan Cowen, New Zealand rower

Trombone Shorty, American jazz musician

January 3 – Lloyd, American urban musician

January 4

Katrina Halili, Filipina actress and commercial model

James Milner, English soccer player

Steve Slaton, American football player

Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwanese tennis player

Charlyne Yi, American actress

January 5

Teppei Koike, Japanese singer and actor

Deepika Padukone, Bollywood actress

Jesse Draper, American actress

January 6

Petter Northug, Norwegian Olympic skier

Irina Shayk, Russian model

Alex Turner, English musician (Arctic Monkeys)

January 8 – David Silva, Spanish footballer

January 10

Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player

Suzanne Harmes, Dutch artistic gymnast

Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer

January 11

Daniela Cosío, Mexican model

Rachel Riley, English TV presenter

January 12

Zlata Ognevich, Ukrainian singer

Kieron Richardson, British actor

January 13 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater

January 14 – Yohan Cabaye, French footballer

January 15

Jessy Schram, American actress

Kleio Valentien, American pornographic actress

January 16

Paula Pareto, Argentinian judoka

Mason Gamble, American actor

January 17

Max Adler, American actor

Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Australian actress and singer

January 18

Marya Roxx, Estonian rock musician and was lead singer of Vanilla Ninja

Becca Tobin, American actress and singer

January 19 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer

January 20 – Genie Chuo, Taiwanese singer and actress

January 21

Peyton Hillis, American football player

Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor

January 22 – Daniel Smith, American actor (d. 2006)

January 23

José Enrique, Spanish footballer

January 24

Mischa Barton, British actress

Raviv Ullman, Israeli actor

January 26

Gerald Green, American basketball player

Matt Heafy, Lead singer and guitarist of American rock group Trivium

Jaejoong, South Korean actress and pop singer

Shantelle Malawski, Canadian professional wrestler

January 28

Jessica Ennis-Hill, British heptathlete

Shruti Haasan, Indian actress and musician

January 29

Sarah Jaffe, American surburbia singer

Drew Tyler Bell, American actor and dancer

January 31 – Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian footballer

February

February 1 – Lauren Conrad, American television personality and fashion designer

February 2

Gemma Arterton, British actress

Miwa Asao, Japanese beach volleyball player

Tiffany Vise, American figure skater

February 5

Claudia Cruz, Dominican model and beauty queen

Kevin Gates, American hip-hop musician and entrepreneur

Madison Rayne, American professional wrestler

February 6

Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian international footballer

Sofia Nizharadze, Georgian pop musician

Yunho, South Korean actor and member of pop group TVXQ

Dane DeHaan, American actor

Alice Greczyn, American actress and model

February 7

Stephen Colletti, American actor and television personality

James Deen, American pornographic actor and director

February 8

Anna Hutchison, New Zealand actress

Charles Andrew Williams, American perpetrator of the Santana High School shootings

February 10

Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer

Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress

February 14

Tiffany Thornton, American actress

Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer

February 15

Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer

Amber Riley, American actress

Ami Koshimizu, Japanese voice actress

February 18

Brenan Espartinez, Filipino singer and actor

Vika Jigulina, Romanian music producer, dance singer and DJ

Alessandra Mastronardi, Italian actress

February 19

Marta (Vieira da Silva), Brazilian-born footballer

Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian

Ophelia Lovibond, British actress

Maria Mena, Norwegian pop singer

February 21

Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, member of the Belgian Royal Family

Charlotte Church, British singer, actress and television presenter

February 22 – Miko Hughes, American actor

February 23

Emerson da Conceição, Brazilian footballer

Skylar Grey, American pop singer

Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (KAT-TUN and Shūji to Akira)

Boipelo Makhothi, Lesotho swimmer

Jerod Mayo, American football player

Ola Svensson, Swedish pop singer

February 24 – Bryce Papenbrook, American voice actor, son of Bob Papenbrook

February 25

Justin Berfield, American actor

James and Oliver Phelps, identical twin British actors

Danny Saucedo (aka Danny), Swedish pop and dance singer

February 26

Leila Lopes, Angolan Miss Universe 2011

Teresa Palmer, Australian actress and model

Crystal Kay, Japanese actress and pop singer

March

March 1

Jonathan Spector, American soccer player

Ayumu Goromaru, Japanese rugby union player

Big E Langston,American Professional Wrestler

March 2 – Ethan Peck, American actor

March 3 – Stacie Orrico, American singer

March 4 – Margo Harshman, American actress

March 5

Corey Brewer, American basketball player

Julie Henderson, American model

Mika Newton, Ukrainian singer and actress

Andrew Jenks, American filmmaker

Shikabala, Egyptian footballer

March 6

Eli Marienthal, American actor

Francisco Cervelli, Venezuelan baseball player

Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer

March 8 – Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, a member of the Japanese Imperial Family

March 9 – Brittany Snow, American actress

March 11

Dario Cologna, Swiss Olympic skier

Mariko Shinoda, Japanese singer, actress, fashion model, and idol (AKB48)

March 12 – Danny Jones, Lead singer and guitarist of British pop and rock group McFly

March 13

Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol

Kousuke Yonehara, Japanese singer (Run&Gun) and actor

March 14 – Jamie Bell, British actor

March 15 – Jai Courtney, Australian actor

March 16

Alexandra Daddario, American actress and model

Ken Doane, American professional wrestler

T. J. Jordan, American basketball player

Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater

March 17

Edin Džeko, Bosnian footballer

Olesya Rulin, Russian-born actress

March 18 – Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter.

March 19 – Anne Vyalitsyna, Russian model

March 21 – Scott Eastwood, American actor

March 22 – Matt Bush, American actor

March 23

Steven Strait, American actor

Brett Eldredge, American country music singer

March 24 – Val Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American professional dancer from Dancing With The Stars

March 25

Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player

Megan Gibson, American softball player

March 26

Jonny Craig, Member of urban group Dance Gavin Dance and Emarosa

Jessica Hart, Australian model

Misty Stone, American pornographic actress

March 27

SoCal Val, American professional wrestling personality

Manuel Neuer, German football goalkeeper

March 28

Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta), American pop musician and record producer

Meagan Smith, American film and voice actress

March 29

Romina Oprandi, Italian tennis player

Lucas Elliot Eberl, American actor and director

March 30 – Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

April

April 1

Ellen Hollman, American actress

Kid Ink, American hip-hop musician

Yurika Nakamura, Japanese athlete

Hillary Scott, Lead singer and guitarist of American surburbia group Lady Antebellum

April 2

Lee DeWyze, American rock musician

Drew Van Acker, American actor

April 3

Amanda Bynes, American actress

Coleen Rooney, English media personality

April 4 – Eunhyuk, South Korean actor and member of pop group Super Junior

April 7 – Choi Si-won, South Korean actor, model and member of pop group Super Junior

April 8

Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer

Cliff Avril, American football player

Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player

Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, singer, and model

April 9

Leighton Meester, American actress

Jordan Masterson, American actor

April 10

Sam Attwater, British actor

Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer

Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer

April 11 – Stephanie Pratt, American television personality

April 16 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese football player

April 18 – Maurice Edu, American footballer

April 19 – Candace Parker, American basketball player

April 20

Pablo Martín, Spanish golfer

Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director and writer (d. 2003)

April 22

Viktor Fayzulin, Russian footballer

Amber Heard, American actress

Marshawn Lynch, American football player

April 23 – Jessica Stam, Canadian model

April 24 – Tahyna Tozzi, Australian model, singer and actress

April 25

John DeLuca, American actor

Daniel Sharman, British actor

April 27

Jenna Coleman, British actress

Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player

April 28 – Jenna Ushkowitz, American stage and television actress and singer

April 30 – Dianna Agron, American actress

May

May 2

Emily Hart, American actress

Thomas McDonell, American actor

May 3 – Poppy Delevingne, English model

May 5 – Grace Wong, Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant contestant

May 7 – Rianne ten Haken, Dutch model

May 8 – Laura Spencer, Ukrainian singer

May 9 – Grace Gummer, American actress

May 12 – Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress

May 13

Lena Dunham, American actress and producer

Robert Pattinson, English actor and musician

Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer and violinist, Eurovision Song Contest 2009 winner

May 14

Alyosha, Ukrainian singer

Mey Chan, Indonesian singer

Darren Wilson, American police officer responsible for fatally shooting Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri

May 15 – Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer

May 16

Megan Fox, American actress

Drew Roy, American actor

Shamcey Supsup, Filipino beauty pageant contestant

Jacob Zachar, American actor

May 17

Amy Gumenick, Swedish actress

Tahj Mowry, American actor, dancer, and singer

Erin Richards, Welsh actress

May 19 – Eric Lloyd, American actor

May 20

Dexter Blackstock, English footballer

Louisa Krause, American actress

May 21

Ricardo Lockette, American football player

Mario Mandžukić, Croatian footballer

May 22

Molly Ephraim, American actress

Tatiana Volosozhar, Ukrainian-born Russian figure skater

May 23

Nico Colaluca, American footballer

Valentina Marchei, Italian figure skater

Jordan Zimmermann, American baseball player

May 24 – Mark Ballas, American dancer, choreographer, actor, singer-songwriter, musician, and two-time winner of Dancing with the Stars

May 25 – Juri Ueno, Japanese actress

May 26 – Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Spanish actress and model

May 27 – Timo Descamps, Belgian actor and singer

May 28

Joseph Cross, American actor

Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer

Britt McHenry, American sports reporter

Seth Rollins, American professional wrestler

May 29

Hornswoggle, American professional wrestler and actor

Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican-American fashion model

May 30

Pasha Parfeni, Moldovan singer

May 31

Brooke Castile, American figure skater

Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist

Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musician

June

June 1

Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner

Dayana Mendoza, Miss Universe 2008

Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer

Skream, British DJ and producer (Magnetic Man)

Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player

June 2

Todd Carney, Australian rugby player

Curtis Lofton, American football player

June 3

Al Horford, Dominican basketball player

Brenden Jefferson, American actor

Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer

Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner

Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

Adrián Vallés, Spanish race car driver

Tomáš Verner, Czech Republic ice skater

June 4

Oona Chaplin, Spanish-English actress and dancer

Fahriye Evcen, German-Turkish actress

Shane Kippel, Canadian actor

Shelly Woods, British wheelchair racer

Yoochun, South Korean musician and actor

June 5

Christian Baracat, German rugby player

Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player

Amanda Crew, Canadian actress

Vernon Gholston, American football player

June 6

Bhavana, Indian actress

Kim Hyun-joong, South Korean actor, model and singer

Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player

Leslie Carter, American pop singer (d. 2012)

June 10 – Joey Zimmerman, American actor and musician

June 11 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor and film director

June 12 – Cintia Dicker, Brazilian model

June 13

Kat Dennings, American actress

DJ Snake, French DJ and producer

Keisuke Honda, Japanese football player

Ashley Olsen, American actress

Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress

Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish pop singer and television presenter

June 15 – Momoko Ueda, Japanese golfer

June 17

Lisa Haydon, Indian actress

Marie Avgeropoulos, Canadian actress and model

June 18

Richard Gasquet, French tennis player

Richard Madden, British actor

Shusaku Nishikawa, Japanese footballer

Crystal Renn, American model and author

June 19

Erin Mackey, American actress and singer

Marvin Williams, American basketball player

Nazareno Casero, Argentinian actor

June 20 – Dreama Walker, American actress

June 23 – Marti Malloy, American judoka

June 24

Bojana Stamenov, Serbian singer

Phil Hughes, American baseball player

Solange Knowles, American singer and actress

Kaitlin Cullum, American actress

June 25 – Lee Ho-suk, South Korean short-track skater

June 26 – Brittney Karbowski, American voice actress

June 27

Drake Bell, American actor and singer

Sam Claflin, British actor

Kristal Uzelac, American artistic gymnast

June 28

Kellie Pickler, American singer

Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress

June 29 – Edward Maya, Romanian musician

June 30 – Victoria Crawford, American professional wrestler and model

July

July 1

Agnes Monica, Indonesian urban singer

Casey Reinhardt, American model

July 2 – Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer

July 4 – Takahisa Masuda, Japanese actor and singer

July 6 – Leon Frierson, American actor and comedian

July 7 – Sevyn Streeter, Member of American urban group TG4 and RichGirl

July 8

Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer

Jake McDorman, American film and television actor

July 9

Caroline D'Amore, American model

Kiely Williams, American actress and singer

July 10 – Wyatt Russell, American actor

July 12

Krystal Forscutt, Australian reality TV star

JP Pietersen, South African rugby player

July 14

Dan Smith, Lead singer of the British rock group Bastille

Sanam Baloch, Pakistani VJ, actress and anchor

Peta Murgatroyd, New Zealand-born Australian dancer from Dancing With The Stars

July 16 – Taryn Southern, American actress

July 17

Dana, Korean singer, dancer and actress (TSZX)

Lacey Von Erich, professional wrestler

July 18

Brando Eaton, American film and television actor

Travis Milne, Canadian actor

Kaitlin Riley, American actress

July 21 – Diane Guerrero, American actress

July 24

Megan Park, Canadian actress and singer

Natalie Tran, Australian comedian

July 25 – Hulk, Brazilian footballer

July 26 – Monica Raymund, American actress

July 27 – Nathan Stephenson, Canadian actor

July 28 – Alexandra Chando, American actress

July 30 – Jung Chul-woon, South Korean football player

July 31 – Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player

August

August 3

Charlotte Casiraghi, heir to the Monaco throne

Andrew McFarlane, American actor

Prince Louis of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg

August 4 – Oleg Ivanov, Russian footballer

August 5

Paula Creamer, American golfer

Kyoko Oshima, Japanese artistic gymnast

August 6 – Bryan Young, Canadian ice hockey player

August 7

Paul Biedermann, German swimmer

Nancy Sumari, Tanzanian beauty queen and model, Miss World 2005

Keahu Kahuanui, American actor

August 8 – Peyton List American actress

August 11

Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress

Colby Rasmus, American baseball player

August 14 – Nigel Boogaard, Australian footballer

August 16

Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player

Shawn Pyfrom, American actor

August 17

Bryton James, American actor

Tobias Schönenberg, German actor and photo model

August 19 – Christina Perri, American pop and rock musician

August 21

Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter

Kiami Davael, American actress

August 22

Lacie Heart, American porn actress

Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress

August 26 – Big K.R.I.T., American rapper

August 28

Armie Hammer, American actor

Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier/hostage

Florence Welch, British singer

August 29

Lauren Collins, Canadian actress

Lea Michele, American actress and singer

August 30

Theo Hutchcraft, British pop musician

Ryan Ross, American guitarist (Panic! at the Disco)

August 31 – Feng Tianwei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player

September

September 1

Sidney Rice, former American football player

Shahar Tzuberi, Israeli windsurfer

September 2

Moses Ndiema Kipsiro, Ugandan middle-distance runner

Stevan Faddy, Montenegrin singer

September 3

OMI, Jamaican-born singer

Shaun White, American professional snowboarder

September 4

Jaclyn Hales, American actress

Xavier Woods,American Professional Wrestler

September 6 – Raven Riley, American porn star

September 8 – Jake Sandvig, American actor

September 9 – José Aldo, WEC Featherweight Champion, the first UFC Featherweight Champion

September 10

Greg Garbowsky, American musician

Ryuji Kamiyama, Japanese vocalist (Run&Gun) and actor

September 12

Yang Mi, Chinese actress and singer

Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer

Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer

Alfie Allen, English actor

September 14

Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian musician

Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer

A.J. Trauth, American actor and musician

September 15

Jenna McCorkell, British figure skater

Heidi Montag, American television personality

September 16

Gordon Beckham, American baseball player

Ian Harding, American actor

Kyla Pratt, American actress

September 18

Keeley Hazell, British model

Renaud Lavillenie, French pole vaulter

September 19

Mandy Musgrave, American actress

Ilya Salmanzadeh, Swedish music producer

Peter Vack, American voice actor

September 21 – Lindsey Stirling, American violinist, dancer, performance artist, and composer

September 23 – Kaylee DeFer, American actress

September 24

Leah Dizon, American singer and model

Eloise Mumford, American actress

September 25 – Steve Forrest, American drummer

September 26 – Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress

September 27 – Natasha Thomas, Danish singer and songwriter

September 28 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer

September 29 – Lo Bosworth, American television personality

September 30

Olivier Giroud, French footballer

Ki Hong Lee, South Korean actor

October

October 1 – Jurnee Smollett, American actress

October 2

Camilla Belle, American actress

Tom Hudson, British actor

October 3 – Andy San Dimas, American pornographic actress

October 4 – Yuridia, Mexican singer

October 5 – Novica Veličković, Serbian basketball player

October 6

Luisa D'Oliveira, Canadian actress

Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer

Olivia Thirlby, American actress

October 7

Holland Roden, American actress

Amber Stevens West, American actress and model

Bree Olson, American former pornographic actress

October 9 – Laure Manaudou, French swimmer

October 10

Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player

Lucy Griffiths, British actress

October 12

Marcus T. Paulk, American actor

Tyler Blackburn, American actor

October 13

Raquel Lee, American actress

Gabriel Agbonlahor, English Footballer

October 14

Iveta Mukuchyan, Armenian singer, model and actress

Wesley Matthews, American basketball player

Skyler Shaye, American actress

October 15 – Lee Donghae, Korean singer (Super Junior)

October 16 – Craig Pickering, British sprinter

October 17 – Mohombi, Congolese urban singer-songwriter and dancer

October 18 – Loukas Giorkas, Greek-Cypriot singer and model

October 20 – Elyse Taylor, Australian model

October 21

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings (d. 2013)

Christopher Uckermann, Mexican actor

October 22

Kyle Gallner, American actor

Kara Lang, Canadian footballer

October 23

Briana Evigan, American actress

Emilia Clarke, British actress

Jessica Stroup, American actress and fashion model

October 24 – Drake, Canadian actor and hip-hop rapper

October 28 – Tamar Kaprelian, Armenian American musician and singer

October 29

Italia Ricci, Canadian actress

Derek Theler, American actor

October 30 – Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian Olympic ski jumper

November

November 1 – Penn Badgley, American actor

November 3

Heo Young-Saeng, South Korean singer

Jasmine Trias, Filipino singer

November 4 – Alexz Johnson, Canadian actress and singer

November 5

BoA, Korean singer

Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer

Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer

November 6 – Katie Leclerc, American actress

November 8 – Aaron Swartz, American programmer (d. 2013)

November 10 – Josh Peck, American actor and director

November 11

Greta Salóme, Icelandic singer and violinist

François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player

November 12 – Evan Yo, Taiwanese singer-songwriter

November 14 – Yuna, Malaysian singer, songwriter, and businesswoman

November 15 – Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player

November 16 – Omar Mateen, American mass murderer (d. 2016)

November 17

Karmichael Hunt, Australian NRL player

Nani, Cape Verde-born Portuguese footballer

November 18

Georgia King, British actress

Joseph Ashton, American film and voice actor

Ragne Veensalu, Estonian actress

November 19 – Veronica Scott, American fashion designer

November 20 – Lee Gye-deok, South Korean singer and activist

November 22 – Oscar Pistorius, South African Paralympic runner

November 24

Jimmy Graham, American football player

Pedro León, Spanish soccer player

Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player

Guðmundur Pétursson, Icelandic soccer player

November 25

Katie Cassidy, American singer and model

Amber Hagerman, American murder victim and namesake for the AMBER Alert system (d. 1996)

November 26 – Trevor Morgan, American actor

November 27 – Suresh Raina, Indian cricket player

November 28

Johnny Simmons, American actor

Pamela Bianca Manalo, Filipina beauty queen and actress

Hannah Fry, British complex systems theorist, public speaker and TV presenter

November 30

Boggie, Hungarian singer

Jordan Farmar, American basketball player

December

December 1 – DeSean Jackson, American football player

December 4 – Martell Webster, American basketball player

December 7 – Corey Vidal, Canadian online video content provider and digital media consultant

December 8

Amir Khan, British boxer

Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter and actress

December 11

Alex House, Canadian actor

Lee Peltier, English footballer

Condola Rashād, American actress

December 15

Radosław Majewski, Polish footballer

Xiah, Korean singer (TVXQ)

December 17

Emma Bell, American actress

Vanessa Zima, American actress

December 18 – Jery Sandoval, Colombian actress, model and singer

December 19

Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer

Ingrid Burley, American rapper and songwriter

Calvin Andrew, English footballer

December 22 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nigerian-born terrorist known as the "Underwear Bomber"

December 23 – Noël Wells, American actress and comedian

December 24

Tim Elliott, American mixed martial artist

Satomi Ishihara, Japanese actress

Riyo Mori, Japanese Miss Universe 2007 winner

December 26

Mew Azama, Japanese actress

Kit Harington, British actor

December 27 – Jamaal Charles, American football player

December 29 – Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model

December 30

Caity Lotz, American actress

Ellie Goulding, British artist

Faye Marsay, British actress

January

January 2 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903)

January 4

Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904)

Phil Lynott, Irish musician, lead singer and bassist of Thin Lizzy (b. 1949)

January 5 – Ilmari Salminen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1902)

January 7 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b. 1917)

January 8 – Maria L. de Hernández, Mexican-American rights activist (b. 1896)

January 10 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

January 14 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921)

January 16 – Herbert W. Armstrong, founded the Worldwide Church of God (b. 1892)

January 23 – Willard Van Dyke, American filmmaker and photographer (b. 1906)

January 24

Victor Crutchley, British admiral (b. 1893)

L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911)

Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921)

January 27 – Lilli Palmer, German actress (b. 1914)

January 28 – In the Challenger disaster:

Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (b. 1944)

Christa McAuliffe, American astronaut and teacher (b. 1948)

Ronald McNair, American astronaut (b. 1950)

Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (b. 1946)

Judith Resnik, American astronaut (b. 1949)

Dick Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939)

Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (b. 1945)

January 29 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)

February

February 1 – Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1902)

February 6 – Frederick Coutts, the 8th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1899)

February 7 – Minoru Yamasaki, Japanese architect, designed the twin towers of the World Trade Center (b. 1912)

February 8 – Sarah Isabella McElligott, New Zealand cook and fruit-stall holder (b. 1883)

February 10 – Brian Aherne, British actor (b. 1902)

February 11

Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920)

Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)

February 14 – Edmund Rubbra, British composer (b. 1901)

February 16 – Howard Da Silva, American actor (b. 1909)

February 17

Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1895)

Red Ruffing, American baseball player (New York Yankees) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1905)

February 19 – Francisco Mignone, Brazilian classical music (b. 1897)

February 21

Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)

Mart Stam, Dutch architect (b. 1899)

February 24 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of medicare" in Canada (b. 1904)

February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)

February 28

Olof Palme, Swedish politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)

Thomas Williams, British politician (b. 1915)

March

March 4

Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)

Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)

March 6

Adolph Caesar, American actor (b. 1933)

Lewis Valentine, Welsh politician (b. 1893)

Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)

Alexander Hollaender, radiation biology (b. 1898)

March 10

Myron Cohen, American comedian (b. 1902)

Ray Milland, Welsh actor (b. 1907)

March 17 – John Bagot Glubb, British soldier (b. 1897)

March 18 – Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)

March 22

Harriette Simpson Arnow, American novelist (b. 1908)

Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (b. 1902)

Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)

March 23 – Moshe Feinstein, Orthodox rabbi (b. 1895)

March 24 – Krzysztof Mikołaj Radziwiłł, Polish translator and politician (b. 1898)

March 28 – Virginia Gilmore, American actress (b. 1919)

March 29 – Harry Ritz, American actor (b. 1907)

March 30 – James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)

March 31

O'Kelly Isley, American singer of The Isley Brothers (b. 1937)

Jerry Paris, American actor and director (b. 1925)

April

April 3 – Peter Pears, English tenor (b. 1910)

April 7 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

April 8 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)

April 13 – Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947)

April 14 – Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908)

April 15

Jean Genet, French writer (b. 1910)

Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944)

April 17

Paul Costello, American Olympic rower - double sculls (b. 1894)

Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (b. 1892)

April 19

Aileen Britton, Australian actress (b. 1916)

Alvin Childress, American actor (b. 1907)

April 22 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (b. 1907)

April 23

Harold Arlen, American music composer (b. 1905)

Jim Laker, English cricketer (b. 1922)

Otto Preminger, Austrian-born film director (b. 1906)

April 24 – The Duchess of Windsor (the former Wallis Simpson), widow of the late Duke of Windsor (formerly Edward VIII) (b. 1896)

April 26

Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911)

Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)

Lou van Burg, Dutch television personality and game show host (b. 1917)

Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)

April 30 – Robert Stevenson, English film director (b. 1905)

May

May 1 – Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (b. 1905)

May 2 – Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (b. 1956)

May 3 – Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914)

May 7 – Herma Szabo, Austrian figure skater (b. 1902)

May 9

Herschel Bernardi, American actor (b. 1923)

Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914)

May 11

Henry Plumer McIlhenny, American art collector, socialite, philanthropist and the chairman of the Philadelphia Art Museum (b. 1910)

Fritz Pollard, American football player and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1894)

May 12

Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897)

Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist (b. 1885)

May 14 – Janne Aikala, Finnish murder victim (b. 1975)

May 15

Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958)

Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915)

May 19 – Jimmy Lyons, American musician (b. 1931)

May 23

Altiero Spinelli, Italian political theorist and European federalist (b. 1907)

Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916)

May 24

Robert Holmes, British scriptwriter (b. 1926)

Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (b. 1895)

May 25 – Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901)

May 26 – Gian-Carlo Coppola, American film producer (b. 1963)

May 27 – Ajoy Mukherjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1901)

May 30 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940)

May 31

Jane Frank, American artist (b. 1918)

James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)

June

June 3 – Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904)

June 5 – Bryan Grant, American tennis champion (b. 1909)

June 6 – William Joynt, Australian officer, farm labourer (b. 1889)

June 11 – Chesley Bonestell, American painter (b. 1888)

June 13

Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (b. 1909)

Ulla Strömstedt, Swedish actress (b. 1939)

June 14

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899)

Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (b. 1918)

Marlin Perkins, American zoologist (b. 1905)

June 16 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer (b. 1902)

June 17 – Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907)

June 18 – Frances Scott Fitzgerald, daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre (b. 1921)

June 19

Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963)

Coluche, stage name of Michel Colucci, French comedian and humorist (b. 1944)

June 21 – Assi Rahbani, Lebanese composer, musician, conductor and author (b. 1923)

June 27 – Don Rogers, American football player (b. 1962)

June 29

Jack Christiansen, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1928)

Robert Drivas, American actor (b. 1938)

June 30 – Guan Zilan, Chinese avant-garde painter (b. 1903)

July

July 3 – Rudy Vallée, American singer, actor, and bandleader (b. 1901)

July 4 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899)

July 6 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)

July 8

Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral (b. 1900)

Skeeter Webb, baseball player (b. 1909)

July 12 – Wacław Kisielewski, Polish pianist (b. 1943)

July 14

Raymond Loewy, French-born industrial designer (b. 1893)

Joseph Vogt, German classical historian (b. 1895)

July 15

Florence Halop, American actress (b. 1923)

Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)

July 18 – Stanley Rous, English administrator, 6th President of FIFA (b. 1895)

July 19 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)

July 21 – Ernest Maas, American screenwriter (b. 1892)

July 22 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter (b. 1941)

July 24

Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

Laurie Nash, Australian sportsman (b. 1910)

Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1903)

July 25

Ted Lyons, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1900)

Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903)

July 26 – W. Averell Harriman, American diplomat and politician (b. 1891)

July 27 – Osbert Lancaster, British cartoonist (b. 1908)

July 31 – Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912)

August

August 1 – Ignatius Joseph Kasimo Hendrowahyono, Indonesian politician (b. 1900)

August 2 – Renato Leduc, Mexican poet and journalist (b. 1897)

August 4 – Willem Ruis, Dutch game show host (b. 1945)

August 10 – Chuck McKinley, American tennis champion (b. 1941)

August 16 – Jaime Sáenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)

August 19

Hermione Baddeley, British actress (b. 1906)

Charles Radoff, Russian painter (b. 1894)

Lorenzo Tucker, American actor (b. 1907)

August 20 – Milton Acorn, Canadian poet, writer, and playwright (b. 1923)

August 21 – Thad Jones, American jazz musician (b. 1923)

August 22 – Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Turkey and President of Turkey (b. 1883)

August 26 – Ted Knight, American actor (b. 1923)

August 27 – George Nepia, New Zealand Maori rugby player (b. 1905)

August 29 – Arthur Meyerhoff, American advertising agency executive and entrepreneur (b. 1895)

August 30 – George Pelawa, American ice hockey star Minnesota Mr. Hockey (b. 1968)

August 31

Urho Kekkonen, 2-Time Prime Minister of Finland and 8th President of Finland (b. 1900)

Henry Moore, British sculptor (b. 1898)

Jorge Alessandri, 27th President of Chile (b. 1896)

September

September 1

Earl B. Dickerson, prominent African American attorney (b. 1891)

Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923)

September 4 – Hank Greenberg, Jewish-American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1911)

September 6 – Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1896)

September 7 – Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1914)

September 10 – María Dolores Katarain ("Yoyes"), Spanish Basque separatist leader, killed (b. 1954)

September 11

Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter (b. 1894)

Henry DeWolf Smyth, American physicist (b. 1898)

September 12 – Frank Nelson, American actor (b. 1911)

September 18 – Pat Phoenix, British actress (b. 1923)

September 21 – Cheryl Keeton, American murder victim (b. 1949)

September 22 – József Asbóth, Hungarian tennis champion (b. 1917)

September 23 – Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane pilot in the First World War (b. 1890)

September 25 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896)

September 26 – Noboru Terada, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1917)

September 27 – Cliff Burton, American bassist (Metallica) (b. 1962)

September 28 – Robert Helpmann, Australian dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)

September 29 – Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (b. 1920)

September 30 – Storm Jameson, English journalist and author (b. 1891)

October

October 5

Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898)

James H. Wilkinson, British mathematician (b. 1919)

October 7 – Wallace Wade, American football coach, University of Alabama, Duke University (b. 1892)

October 11

Norm Cash, American baseball player (b. 1934)

Boris Leven, Russian-born art director (b. 1908)

October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)

October 15 – Jerry Smith, American football All Pro tight end, Washington Redskins, NFL (b. 1943)

October 16 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921)

October 19 – Samora Machel, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933)

October 22 – Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893)

October 23 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893)

October 25 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (F Troop) (b. 1919)

October 26 – Jackson Scholz, American runner (b. 1897)

October 28 – Ian Marter, British actor and writer (b. 1944)

October 31 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1896)

November

November 2 – Paul Frees, American voice actor (b. 1920)

November 5 – Claude Jutra, Canadian film director (b. 1930)

November 6 – Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)

November 8

Artur London, Czech statesman (b. 1915)

Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890)

November 10 – Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (b. 1916)

November 11 – Roger C. Carmel, American actor (b. 1932)

November 15 – Alexandre Tansman, French composer and virtuoso pianist (b. 1897)

November 16 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (b. 1923)

November 18 – Gia Carangi, American supermodel (b. 1960)

November 19 – Willie Stokes, American mobster (b. 1937)

November 21

Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904)

Dar Robinson, American film stuntman (b. 1947)

November 22

Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b. 1910)

William Bradford Huie, American journalist, editor, publisher and author (b. 1910)

November 25 – Ivan Magill, Irish-born anaesthetist (b. 1888)

November 29 – Cary Grant, British actor (b. 1904)

December

December 1 – Bobby Layne, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1926)

December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, bandleader, musician, and television producer; co-founder of Desilu Productions (b. 1917)

December 3 – Austin Hayes, Irish footballer (b. 1958)

December 10 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)

December 12 – Paul Verner, German politician (b. 1911)

December 13 – Heather Angel, English actress (b. 1909)

December 15 – Serge Lifar, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)

December 16 – John Nathaniel Couch, American mycologist (b. 1896)

December 17 – Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925)

December 18 – Andrew Tsu, Chinese Anglican bishop (b. 1885)

December 21 – Willy Coppens, Belgian pilot (b. 1892)

December 22 – Ida Cook (aka Mary Burchell), British novelist and campaigner for Jewish refugees (b. 1904)

December 24 – Richard van der Riet Woolley, English astronomer (b. 1906)

December 26 – Elsa Lanchester, English actress (b. 1902)

December 28 – Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter (b. 1922)

December 29

Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1957–1963 (b. 1894)

Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian film director (b. 1932)

December 31 – Lloyd Haynes, American actor (b. 1934)

Date unknown

Tatiana Botkina, wife of Eugene Botkin (b. 1898)

Hilda Conkling, child poet (b. 1910)

Iren Marik, classical Hungarian pianist (b. 1906)

Guang Qin, Chinese Buddhist monk and teacher (b. 1892)

Felix Tikotin, architect and art collector (b. 1893)

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer

Chemistry – Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Charles Polanyi

Physiology or Medicine – Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini

Literature – Wole Soyinka

Peace – Elie Wiesel

Economics – James Buchanan Jr