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* September 9 – Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart becomes List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, World Drivers' Champion when his Tyrrell Racing, Tyrrell Tyrrell 003, 003-Cosworth places fourth in the 1973 Italian Grand Prix at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza.
* September 11 – Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in 1973 Chilean coup d'état, a violent military coup after serious political instability. President Salvador Allende allegedly Death of Salvador Allende, commits suicide during the coup in the La Moneda Palace, presidential palace, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a US-backed military junta that governs Chile for the next 17 years.
* September 15 – Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden following the deaths of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, King Gustaf VI Adolf.
* September 18 – The two German Republics, the West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.
* September 20 – The "Battle of the Sexes (tennis), Battle of the Sexes": Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in a televised tennis match, 6–4, 6–4, 6–3, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. With an attendance of 30,492, this remains the largest live audience ever to see a tennis match in US history. The global audience that views on television in 36 countries is estimated at 90 million.
* September 27
** Soviet space program: Soyuz 12 (Vasily Lazarev, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Oleg Makarov), the first Soviet manned flight since the Soyuz 11 tragedy in 1971, is launched.
** Luís Cabral declares the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from the Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo regime in Portugal. It is later granted in September 1974.
* October 6
**Yom Kippur War begins: The fourth and largest Arab–Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
* October 14 – 1973 Thai popular uprising, Thai popular uprising Students revolt in Bangkok – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
* October 15 – 1973 Pacific typhoon season#Typhoon Ruth .28Narsing.29, Typhoon Ruth crosses Luzon, 
* October 25 – The Yom Kippur War ends.
* October 26 – The United Nations recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
* October 30 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.
* October 31 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape: Three
* January 5 – Uday Chopra, Indian actor
* January 9 – Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
* January 11 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricket player and coach.
* January 12 – Hande Yener, Turkish singer
* January 13
** Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
** Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actress
* January 14 – Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian racing driver
* January 15
** Essam El Hadary, Egyptian goalkeeper
** Tomáš Galásek, Czech football player
** Maksim Martynov, Russian engineer
*
* February 1
** Yuri Landman, Dutch artist and musician
** Óscar Pérez Rojas, Mexican football goalkeeper
* February 2 – Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
* February 4 – Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer
* February 5
** Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch pop singer
** Deng Yaping, Chinese table tennis player
* February 7 – Juwan Howard, American basketball player
* February 9 – Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
* February 10 – Gunn-Rita Dahle, Norwegian mountain biker
* February 11
** Jeon Do-yeon, South Korean actress
** Mishal Husain, British news presenter
** Varg Vikernes, Norwegian rock musician
* February 12 – Tara Strong, Canadian actress and voice actress
* February 15
** Anna Dogonadze, German trampoline gymnast
** Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
* February 16 – Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
* February 18 – Claude Makélélé, French footballer
* February 22 – Shota Arveladze, Georgian football player
* February 24
** Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player
** Yordan Yovchev, Bulgarian gymnast
* February 25 – Julio Iglesias Jr., Spanish singer
* February 26
** ATB, German DJ and music producer
** Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
** Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
* February 27 – Peter Andre, English singer and television personality
* February 28 – Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player
* March 1
** Jack Davenport, English actor
** Ahmed El Sakka, Egyptian action actor
** Chris Webber, American basketball player
* March 3 – Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
* March 9 – Matteo Salvini, Italian politician
*
*
* May 1
** Paul Burke (rugby union, born 1973), Paul Burke, Irish rugby player
** Diana Hayden, Miss World and Indian actress
** Oliver Neuville, German footballer
* May 2 – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German director
*
*
* July 1 – Akhilesh Yadav, Indian politician
*
*
* September 1 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
* September 3 – Alexandra Kerry, American actress, filmmaker, director and producer
* September 4 – Diosbelys Hurtado, Cuban boxer
* September 5
** Paddy Considine, British actor, filmmaker and musician
** Rose McGowan, American actress
** Rachel Sheherazade, Brazilian journalist
* September 6
** Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
** Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player
* September 7 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
* September 11 - Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh, Iranian footballer
* September 12
** Tarana Burke, American civil rights activist
** Darren Campbell, British athlete
** Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013)
* September 13 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
* September 14
** Andrew Lincoln, English actor
** Nas, African-American rapper
* September 15 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, né Olof Daniel Westling, Swedish prince, married to Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria
* September 17 – Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
* September 18
** James Marsden, American actor
** Ami Onuki, Japanese singer
** Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
* September 19
** José Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist
** David Zepeda, Mexican actor, model and singer
* September 20 – Jo Pavey, British athlete
* September 21 – Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
* September 22 – Bob Sapp, American professional wrestler, actor, American football player, kickboxer and mixed martial artist
* September 24 – Eddie George, American football player
* September 25 – Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, American actress
* September 29
** Alfie Boe, English tenor
** Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
* September 30 – David Ury, American actor
* October 2
** Melissa Harris-Perry, African-American political commentator
** Lene Nystrøm, Norwegian singer (Aqua (band), Aqua)
** Proof (rapper), Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006)
** Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian Drag queen, comedian and singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2007 runner-up
* October 3 – Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
* October 4 – Abyss (wrestler), Chris Parks, American professional wrestler
* October 6 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
* October 8 – Kari Korhonen, Finnish cartoonist
* October 10 – Mario Lopez, American actor
* October 11
** Takeshi Kaneshiro, Taiwanese/Japanese actor
** Daisuke Sakaguchi, Japanese voice actor
* October 13
** Matt Hughes (fighter), Matt Hughes, American mixed martial arts fighter
** Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
* October 14
** George Floyd, African-American victim of police brutality (d. 2020)
** Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
* October 15
** Susy Pryde, New Zealand cyclist
** Dax Riggs, American musician
* October 16 – Todd van der Heyden, Canadian journalist and news anchor
* October 18
** Sergey Bezrukov, Russian screen and stage actor
** Rachel Nichols (journalist), Rachel Nichols, American sports journalist
* October 19 – Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
* October 22 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
* October 24 – Kurt Kuenne, filmmaker, known for documentary ''Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Dear Zachary''
* October 26 – Seth MacFarlane, American actor, screenwriter, producer, director and singer
* October 28
** Maryam Nawaz, Pakistani politician
** Montel Vontavious Porter, WWE Raw wrestler
* October 29 – Robert Pires, French football player
* October 30
** Silvia Corzo, Colombian newsreader
** Edge (wrestler), Edge, Canadian professional wrestler and 4-time WWE Champion
* October 31 – Beverly Lynne, American actress
* November 1
** Assia (singer), Assia, Algerian singer
** Li Xiaoshuang, Chinese gymnast
** Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress, Miss World 1994
* November 2 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
* November 3
** Sticky Fingaz, Kirk Jones, African-American rapper (Onyx (hip hop group), Onyx)
** Mick Thomson, American guitarist
* November 4 – Steven Ogg, Canadian actor
* November 7 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean-American film and theater actress
* November 8 – David Muir, American journalist and news anchor
* November 9
** Alyson Court, Canadian actress and voice actress
** Nick Lachey, American actor, singer and television personality and host
* November 13 – Jordan Bridges, American actor
* November 16 – Marcus Lemonis, Lebanese-American businessman, investor and television personality
* November 20 – Sav Rocca, American football player and Australian rules footballer
* November 22 – Cassie Campbell, Canadian ice hockey forward and CBC commentator
* November 24 – Amy Hayes (announcer), Amy Hayes, American ring announcer and model
* November 26 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
* November 27 – Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director
* November 29 – Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
* November 30
** Nimród Antal, Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and actor
** Christian Cage, Christian, Canadian professional wrestler
** Im Chang-jung, South Korean actor
* December 1 – Lombardo Boyar, American stand-up, comedian, actor and voice artist
* December 2
** Monica Seles, Hungarian-Yugoslavian tennis player
** Jan Ullrich, German professional road bicycle racer
* December 3
** Holly Marie Combs, American actress
** Super Crazy, Francisco Islas Rueda, Mexican professional wrestler
* December 4 – Tyra Banks, American supermodel, talk show host
* December 5
** Arik Benado, Israeli footballer
** Sorin Grindeanu, 65th Prime Minister of Romania
* December 7
** Carrie Kei Heim, American actress, lawyer and writer
** Terrell Owens, American football player
** Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
* December 8 – Corey Taylor, American rock vocalist (Slipknot (band), Slipknot, ''Stone Sour)
* December 9 – Bárbara Padilla, American operatic soprano
* December 10
**Arden Myrin, American comedian
**Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan-Mexican actress
* December 11 – Mos Def, African-American rapper and actor
* December 12 – Paz Lenchantin, Argentine-American musician
* December 14
** Tom S. Englund, Swedish musician
** Tomasz Radzinski, Canadian footballer
** Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress (d. 2001)
* December 15 – Surya Bonaly, French figure skater
* December 16 – Scott Storch, American hip-hop producer
* December 17
** Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, Mexican politician (d. 2018)
** Paula Radcliffe, British athlete
* December 18 – Darryl Brown (cricketer, born 1973), Darryl Brown, Trinidad and West Indian cricketer
* December 20 – Antti Kasvio, Finnish swimmer
* December 21 – Mike Alstott, American football player
* December 24
** Stephenie Meyer, American novelist
** Kerry Nettle, Australian politician
* December 25 – Chris Harris (wrestler), Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
* December 27 – Wilson Cruz, American actor
* December 28
** Seth Meyers, American actor and comedian, currently hosts ''Late Night with Seth Meyers''
** Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater
* December 30
** Jason Behr, American actor
** Ato Boldon, West Indian athlete
* December 31 – Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Russian dancer
* January 2 – Eleazar López Contreras, 45th President of Venezuela (b. 1883)
* January 22 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
* January 23 – Kid Ory, American musician (b. 1886)
* January 24 – J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)
* January 26 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
* January 28 – John Banner, Austrian-born actor (b. 1910)
* January 31
** Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
** Jack MacGowran, Irish film actor (b. 1918)
* February 11 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
* February 15
** Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
** Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
* February 16 – Francisco Caamaño, 50th President of the Dominican Republic (executed) (b. 1932)
* February 18 – Frank Costello, Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss (b. 1891)
* February 19
** Ivan T. Sanderson, Scottish-American naturalist, cryptozoologist and writer (b. 1911)
** Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
* February 22
** Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (b. 1899)
** Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
* February 23 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
* February 28 – Cecil Kellaway, South African actor (b. 1890)
* March 3 – Vera Panova, Soviet-Russian writer (b. 1905)
* March 6 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
* March 8
** Benjamín de Arriba y Castro, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1886)
** Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American rock musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
*
* April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
* April 12 – Arthur Freed, American film producer (b. 1894)
* April 13
** Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892)
** Dudley Senanayake, 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1911)
* April 14 – Károly Kerényi, Hungarian philologist and mythologist (b. 1897)
* April 16
** Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
** István Kertész (conductor), Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
* April 19 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881)
* April 20 – Robert Armstrong (actor), Robert Armstrong, American actor (b. 1890)
* April 21
** Merian C. Cooper, American aviator, director, and producer (b. 1893)
** Arthur Fadden, Sir Arthur Fadden, Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
* April 25
** Fuad Chehab, 8th President of Lebanon (b. 1902)
** Frank Jack Fletcher, American admiral (b. 1885)
* April 26 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
*
* May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914)
* May 6 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (b. 1933)
* May 8 – Alexander Vandegrift, American general (b. 1887)
* May 11 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
* May 12 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
* May 16 – Jacques Lipchitz, French-American sculptor (b. 1891)
*
*
* July 2
** Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
** George Macready, American actor (b. 1899)
* July 6
** Joe E. Brown, American actor and comedian (b. 1891)
** Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (b. 1885)
* July 7
** Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
** Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
* July 8
** Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (b. 1884)
** Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
*
* September 2 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
* September 11 – Salvador Allende, 30th President of Chile (b. 1908)
* September 12 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman (b. 1887)
* September 13 – Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
* September 15 – King Gustaf VI Adolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
* September 16
** Rafael Franco, 33rd President of Paraguay (b. 1896)
** Víctor Jara, Chilean political activist and singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
* September 18 – Théo Lefèvre, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1914)
* September 19 – Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
* September 20 – Jim Croce, American songwriter (b. 1943)
* September 22 – Paul van Zeeland, 29th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893)
* September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
* September 24 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (b. 1908)
* September 26 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
* September 28
** Norma Crane, American actress (b. 1928)
** Mantan Moreland, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
* September 29 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
* October 1 – Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1921)
* October 2
** Paul Hartman, American dancer and actor (b. 1904)
** Paavo Nurmi, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1897)
* October 6 – François Cevert, French racing driver (b. 1944)
* October 8 – Gabriel Marcel, French Catholic existential thinker (b. 1889)
* October 9 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer and guitarist (b. 1915)
* October 10 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881)
* October 16 – Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
* October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author (b. 1926)
* October 18
** Leo Strauss, German-American political philosopher (b. 1899)
** Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
** Crane Wilbur, American actor (b. 1886)
* October 19 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
* October 22 – Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
* October 25 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian Olympic athlete (b. 1932)
* October 26 – Semyon Budyonny, Cossack cavalryman and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1883)
* October 27 – Allan Lane, American actor (b. 1909)
* October 28
** Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
** Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
* November 3
** Arturo de Córdova, Mexican actor (b. 1908)
** Marc Allégret, French film director (b. 1900)
* November 7 – Kiyohide Shima, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
* November 11
** Hassan al-Hudaybi, Egyptian general (b. 1891)
** Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
* November 12 – Wacław Stachiewicz, Polish writer, geologist, and general (b. 1894)
* November 13
** B. S. Johnson, English experimental novelist (b. 1933)
** Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1905)
** Bruno Maderna, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1920)
** Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890)
* November 16 – Alan Watts, British philosopher (b. 1915)
* November 17 – Mirra Alfassa, multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville, India (b. 1878)
* November 18 – Alois Hába, Czech composer and musicologist (b. 1893)
* November 20 – Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer, and song parodist (b. 1924)
* November 23
** Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese-born American actor and film director (b. 1889)
** Constance Talmadge, American actress (b. 1898)
* November 25
** Albert DeSalvo, American criminal, suspect in the Boston Strangler case (b. 1931)
** Laurence Harvey, English actor (b. 1928)
* November 28 – John Rostill, English bassist, musician and composer (The Shadows) (b. 1942)
* December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
* December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico (b. 1889)
* December 4
**Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1908)
** Michael O'Shea (actor), Michael O'Shea, American actor (b. 1906)
* December 5 – Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, radar pioneer (b. 1892)
* December 12 – Atilio García, Argentine-born Uruguayan football player (b. 1914)
* December 13 – Giuseppe Beltrami, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1889)
* December 16 – Sid Barnes, Australian cricketer (b. 1916)
* December 17 – Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1872)
* December 20
** Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1904)
** Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, impressionist and TV presenter (b. 1936)
* December 22 – James Anderson (tennis), James Anderson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1894)
* December 23 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1905)
* December 25
** İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and statesman, 3-time Prime Minister of Turkey and 2nd President of Turkey during World War II (b. 1884)
** Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
* December 26
** William Haines, American actor (b. 1900)
** Harold B. Lee, American president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
Events
January
*January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...
- The United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
, the Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...
and Denmark
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, establish ...
enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union
The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...
.
* January 15 – Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...
: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam
North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; vi, Việt Nam Dân chủ Cộng hòa), was a socialist state supported by the Soviet Union (USSR) and the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Southeast Asia that existed f ...
.
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
.
* January 20 – Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. Nixon is the only person to have been sworn in twice as President (1969
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon.
Events January
* January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
* January 5
**Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...
, 1973
Events January
* January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
* January 15 – Vietnam War: ...
) and Vice President of the United States (1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...
, 1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year ...
).
* January 22
** George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing
Boxing (also known as "Western boxing" or "pugilism") is a combat sport in which two people, usually wearing protective gloves and other protective equipment such as hand wraps and mouthguards, throw punches at each other for a predetermine ...
championship.
** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano
Kano may refer to:
Places
*Kano State, a state in Northern Nigeria
* Kano (city), a city in Nigeria, and the capital of Kano State
**Kingdom of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 10th and 14th centuries
**Sultanate of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between ...
, Nigeria
Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...
; 176 people are killed.
* January 27 – U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam a ...
ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
February
*February 8
Events Pre-1600
* 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
*1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir.
* 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...
– A military insurrection in Uruguay
Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...
poses an institutional challenge to President Juan María Bordaberry
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (; 17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011) was a Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher, who served as constitutional President from 1972 until 1973, and then ruled as the head of a civilian-military dictatorship up t ...
.
* February 21
Events Pre-1600
*452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine.
* 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery.
*1440 – The Pru ...
– Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
After the heavy 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller airpo ...
) is shot down by Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert
Sinai commonly refers to:
* Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
* Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God
Sinai may also refer to:
* Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...
, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. Only 5 (1 crew member and 4 passengers) of 113 survive.
* February 28 – The Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...
general election is held. Liam Cosgrave becomes the new Taoiseach
The Taoiseach is the head of government, or prime minister, of Ireland. The office is appointed by the president of Ireland upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legislature) and the o ...
.
March
* March 7 –Comet Kohoutek
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is discovered.
* March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a ...
– Sir Richard Sharples
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, Governor of Bermuda
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, is assassinated in Government House.
* March 20
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
* 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 1600 – The Link ...
– A British government White Paper on Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
proposes the re-establishment of an Assembly elected by proportional representation, with a possible All-Ireland council.
* March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– The Lofthouse Colliery disaster
The Lofthouse Colliery disaster was a mining accident in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on Wednesday 21 March 1973, in which seven mine workers died when workings flooded.
Disaster
Lofthouse Colliery was in Lofthouse Gate, close to Out ...
occurs in Great Britain. Seven miners are trapped underground; none survive.
* March 27
Events Pre-1600
*1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
* 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
– At the 45th Academy Awards, ''The Godfather
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'' wins best picture.
April
*April 1
Events Pre-1600
* 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.
* 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
*1081 – Alexios I Ko ...
**India launches the wildlife conservation program Project Tiger
Project Tiger is a tiger conservation programme launched in April 1973 by the Government of India during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's tenure. The project aims at ensuring a viable population of the Bengal tiger in its natural habitats, protect ...
.
**Value Added Tax (VAT) is introduced in the United Kingdom.
* April 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...
– The LexisNexis
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computerized legal research service begins.
* April 3
Events Pre-1600
* 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
*1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
*1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
* ...
– The first handheld mobile phone
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call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola
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in New York City.
* April 5
** Fahri Korutürk
Fahri Sabit Korutürk (3 August 1903 – 12 October 1987) was a Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician who was the 6th president of Turkey from 1973 to 1980. Before his presidency, he served as the 3rd commander of the Turkish Naval Forces fr ...
becomes the sixth president of Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
.
** ''Pioneer 11
''Pioneer 11'' (also known as ''Pioneer G'') is a robotic space probe launched by NASA on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, solar winds, and cosmic rays. It was the first probe to encounter ...
'' is launched on a mission to study the Solar System
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.
* April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*13 ...
– Ron Blomberg
Ronald Mark Blomberg (born August 23, 1948), nicknamed "Boomer", is an American former professional baseball player and minor league manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a designated hitter, first baseman, and right fielder. He played f ...
of the New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one of ...
becomes the first designated hitter
The designated hitter (DH) is a baseball player who bats in place of another position player, most commonly the pitcher. The position is authorized by Major League Baseball Rule 5.11. It was adopted by the American League in 1973 and later by th ...
in Major League Baseball
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.
* April 7
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town.
* 529 – First ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Empe ...
– ''Tu te reconnaîtras
"Tu te reconnaîtras" (; "You'll Recognize Yourself"), sung in French by French singer Anne-Marie David representing , was the winning song at the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 – the first time a country won the contest two years in successi ...
'' by Anne-Marie David (music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1973
The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was the 18th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the with the song "Après toi" by Vicky Leandros. Organised by the Euro ...
for Luxembourg
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.
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 140 ...
– Operation Spring of Youth
The 1973 Israeli raid on Lebanon (known as Operation Spring of Youth, Hebrew: מבצע אביב נעורים, ''Mivtsa Aviv Ne'urim'') took place on the night of April 9 and early morning of April 10, 1973, when Israeli army special forces un ...
: Israel
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i commandos raid Beirut
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, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saeb Salam
Saeb Salam (17 January 1905 – 21 January 2000) ( ar, صائب سلام) was a Lebanese politician, who served as Prime Minister six times between 1952 and 1973. Following his death, the Lebanese daily ''As-Safir'' described Salam as "most ...
, a Sunni Muslim.
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 140 ...
– The Islamic Republic of Pakistan
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introduced its new constitution, its supreme law.
* April 15
Events Pre-1600
* 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings.
* 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...
– Naim Talu
Mehmet Naim Talu (22 July 1919 – 15 May 1998) was a Turkish economist, banker, politician and former Prime Minister of Turkey.
Biography
Naim Talu was born in Istanbul in 1919. He was educated at Kabataş Erkek Lisesi. After graduating ...
, a former civil servant, forms the new government of Turkey
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(36th government).
* April 17
Events Pre-1600
*1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized.
*1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...
– The German counter-terrorist force GSG 9 is officially formed in response to the Munich massacre
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.
* April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
– Six Irishmen, including Joe Cahill
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, are arrested by the Irish Naval Service off County Waterford, on board a coaster carrying 5 tons of weapons destined for the Provisional Irish Republican Army
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.
May
250px, Sears Tower *
May 3
Events Pre-1600
* 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
* 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
...
– The Sears Tower
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in Chicago is topped-out, becoming the world's tallest building at .
* May 5
Events Pre-1600
* 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
*1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
*1260 – Kub ...
– Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest
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.
* May 10
** The Montreal Canadiens
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win the Stanley Cup 4 games to 2 over the Chicago Blackhawks
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, Yvan Cournoyer was voted MVP.
** The Polisario Front
The Polisario Front, Frente Polisario, Frelisario or simply Polisario, from the Spanish abbreviation of (Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el-Hamra and Río de Oro), (in ar, rtl=yes, الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير الس ...
, a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Spanish Sahara
Spanish Sahara ( es, Sahara Español; ar, الصحراء الإسبانية, As-Sahrā'a Al-Isbānīyah), officially the Spanish Possessions in the Sahara from 1884 to 1958 then Province of the Sahara between 1958 and 1976, was the name used f ...
, is formed.
* May 11 – The Data Act (Sw. ''Datalagen'') − the world's first national data protection law − is enacted in Sweden.
* May 14
Events Pre-1600
*1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
* 1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
*1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and force ...
– Skylab
Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Major operations ...
, the United States' first space station, is launched.
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of ...
– Second Cod War: Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a United Kingdom cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The post was originally named President of the Board of Agriculture and was created in 1889. ...
, announces that Royal Navy
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frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed limit around Iceland
Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
.
* May 23
Events Pre-1600
* 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction.
*1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
* 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...
– The Royal Canadian Mounted Police celebrate their 100th anniversary.
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
** Skylab 2
Skylab 2 (also SL-2 and SLM-1) was the first crewed mission to Skylab, the first American orbital space station. The mission was launched on an Apollo command and service module by a Saturn IB rocket on May 25, 1973, and carried NASA astronau ...
(Pete Conrad
Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. (June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999) was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer and aviator, and test pilot, and commanded the Apollo 12 space mission, on which he became the third person to ...
, Paul Weitz, Joseph Kerwin) is launched on a mission to repair damage to the recently launched Skylab
Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Major operations ...
space station.
** Héctor José Cámpora
Héctor José Cámpora (26 March 190918 December 1980) was an Argentine politician. A major figure of left-wing Peronism, Cámpora was briefly Argentine president from 25 May to 13 July 1973 and subsequently arranged for Perón to run for preside ...
becomes democratic president of the Argentine Republic
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
ending the 1966 to 1973 Revolución Argentina military dictatorship.
* May 27 – Soviet copyright law
The Copyright law of the Soviet Union went through several major revisions during its existence. The first Socialist copyright law was passed in 1925. Three years later, it was superseded by a second version that remained in force for more than thr ...
begins to recognize foreign copyrights.
* May 30 – Gordon Johncock
Gordon Johncock (born August 5, 1936) is an American former racing driver. He won the Indianapolis 500 twice, and was the 1976 USAC Marlboro Championship Trail champion.
Early career
Johncock began racing at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan. J ...
wins the Indianapolis 500
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in the ''Patrick Racing Special'' Eagle
Eagle is the common name for many large birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. Eagles belong to several groups of genera, some of which are closely related. Most of the 68 species of eagle are from Eurasia and Africa. Outside this area, j ...
- Offenhauser, after only 133 laps, due to rain. (The race was begun May 28
Events Pre-1600
*585 BC – A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from ...
but called due to rain.)
June
*June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed k ...
– The Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy
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and proclaims a republic.
* June 3
Events Pre-1600
* 350 – The Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman emperor, entering Rome at the head of a group of gladiators.
* 713 – The Byzantine emperor Philippicus is blinded, depos ...
– A Tupolev Tu-144
The Tupolev Tu-144 (russian: Tyполев Ту-144; NATO reporting name: Charger) is a Soviet supersonic passenger airliner designed by Tupolev in operation from 1968 to 1999.
The Tu-144 was the world's first commercial supersonic transport ai ...
crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.
* June 10
Events Pre-1600
* 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
*1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...
– Henri Pescarolo
Henri Jacques William Pescarolo (born 25 September 1942) is a former racing driver from France. He competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans a record 33 times, winning on four occasions, and won a number of other major sports car events including the 2 ...
and co-driver Gérard Larrousse
Gérard Gilles Marie Armand Larrousse (born 23 May 1940) is a former sports car racing, rallying and Formula One driver from France. His greatest success as a driver was winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1973 and 1974, driving a Matra-Simca MS670. ...
(both France) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans
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in the ''Equipe Matra'' MS670B.
* June 18
Events Pre-1600
* 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
* 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
* 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about ...
– U.S. President Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
begins several talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and ...
.
* June 20 – The Ezeiza massacre occurs in Buenos Aires
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, Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. Snipers shoot at left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
* June 24
Events Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
* 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome. ...
** Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; uk, links= no, Леонід Ілліч Брежнєв, . (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1964 and ...
addresses the American people on television, the first Soviet leader to do so.
** UpStairs Lounge arson attack, an as-yet unsolved attack on a gay bar in , in which 32 patrons are killed.
* June 25
Events Pre-1600
* 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...
– Erskine Hamilton Childers
Erskine Hamilton Childers (11 December 1905 – 17 November 1974) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as the fourth president of Ireland from June 1973 to November 1974. He is the only Irish president to have died in office. He also ...
is elected the 4th President of Ireland
The president of Ireland ( ga, Uachtarán na hÉireann) is the head of state of Ireland and the supreme commander of the Irish Defence Forces.
The president holds office for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms.Constitu ...
.
* June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fr ...
– At Plesetsk Cosmodrome
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, nine people are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
* June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
*1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coa ...
– Coup d'état
A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...
in Uruguay
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: pressed by the military, President Juan María Bordaberry
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (; 17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011) was a Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher, who served as constitutional President from 1972 until 1973, and then ruled as the head of a civilian-military dictatorship up t ...
dissolves Parliament; a 12-year-long civic-military dictatorship begins.
* June 28 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists
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in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
for the first time.
* June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
*1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
– A very long total solar eclipse occurs. During the entire second millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality.
July
*July 3
Events Pre-1600
* 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolut ...
– Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
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(CSCE).
* July 5
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.
* 1316 – The Burgundian a ...
** The Isle of Man Post
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begins to issue its own postage stamp
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s.
** The catastrophic BLEVE
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(Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) occurs in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, killing 11 firefighters. This explosion becomes a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
* July 10
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prin ...
– The Bahamas
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gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the ...
.
* July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...
– Varig Flight 820
Varig Flight 820 was a flight of the Brazilian airline Varig that departed from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 11, 1973, for Orly Airport, in Paris, France. The plane, a Boeing 707, registration PP-VJZ, made an ...
crashes near Orly
Orly () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, Île-de-France. It is located from the center of Paris.
The name of Orly came from Latin ''Aureliacum'', "the villa of Aurelius".
Orly Airport partially lies on the territory of the co ...
, France; 123 people are killed.
* July 16
Events Pre-1600
* 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
* 1 ...
– Watergate scandal
The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's contin ...
: Former White House
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aide Alexander Butterfield
Alexander Porter Butterfield (born April 6, 1926) is a retired United States Air Force officer, public servant, and businessman. He served as the deputy assistant to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. He revealed the White House tapin ...
informs the United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
* July 17
Events Pre-1600
* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
*1048 – Damasu ...
– King Mohammed Zahir Shah
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of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan
Mohammed Daoud Khan ( ps, ), also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan (18 July 1909 – 28 April 1978), was an Afghan politician and general who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973 Afghan coup ...
while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
* July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
– France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll
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, over the protests of Australia and New Zealand.
* July 21
Events Pre-1600
* 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
* 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After being exiled to Sardinia, he became t ...
– Lillehammer affair
The Lillehammer affair (Hebrew: פרשת לילהאמר, ''Parshat Lillehammer'', Norwegian: ''Lillehammer-saken'') was the killing by Mossad agents of Ahmed Bouchikhi, a Moroccan waiter and brother of the renowned musician Chico Bouchikhi, in ...
: Agents of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, shoot and kill a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, mistakenly believing him to be a senior member of the Palestinian Black September Organization
The Black September Organization (BSO) ( ar, منظمة أيلول الأسود, translit=Munaẓẓamat Aylūl al-Aswad) was a Palestinian militant organization founded in 1970. Besides other actions, the group was responsible for the assass ...
.
* July 23
Events Pre-1600
* 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
*1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1 ...
– The Avianca
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Building in Bogotá, Colombia, suffers a serious fire, in which four people are killed.
* July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
– The Soviet
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''Mars 5
Mars 5 (), also known as 3MS No.53S was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MS spacecraft launched as part of the Mars programme, it successfully entered orbit around Mars in 1974. However, it failed a few weeks later.
Spacecraft
...
'' space probe is launched.
* July 28
Events Pre-1600
*1364 – Troops of the Republic of Pisa and the Republic of Florence clash in the Battle of Cascina.
*1540 – Henry VIII of England marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, on the same day his former Chancellor, Thom ...
– Skylab 3
Skylab 3 (also SL-3 and SLM-2) was the second crewed mission to the first American space station, Skylab. The mission began on July 28, 1973, with the launch of NASA astronauts Alan Bean, Owen Garriott, and Jack Lousma in the Apollo command ...
(Owen Garriott
Owen Kay Garriott (November 22, 1930 – April 15, 2019) was an American electrical engineer and NASA astronaut, who spent 60 days aboard the Skylab space station in 1973 during the Skylab 3 mission, and 10 days aboard Spacelab-1 on a S ...
, Jack Lousma
Jack Robert Lousma (born February 29, 1936) is an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former naval aviator, NASA astronaut, and politician. He was a member of the second crew, Skylab-3, on ...
, Alan Bean
Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astron ...
) is launched, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard Skylab
Skylab was the first United States space station, launched by NASA, occupied for about 24 weeks between May 1973 and February 1974. It was operated by three separate three-astronaut crews: Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4. Major operations ...
.
* July 31 – A Delta Air Lines
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DC-9
The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced by the developer company as the Douglas DC-9 until August 1967 and then by McDonnell Douglas.
After ...
aircraft flying as Delta Air Lines Flight 173 lands short of Boston's Logan Airport
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runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3,000 feet (914 m) short. All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed, 1 of the passengers dying several months after the accident.
August
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August 1
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
*AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under ...
– Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) inaugurated.
* August 2 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.
* August 5
Events Pre-1600
*AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty.
* 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...
** Black September members open fire at the Athens
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airport; 3 are killed, 55 injured.
** Mars 6
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Spacec ...
, also known as 3MP No.50P, is a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars.
* August 8
Events Pre-1600
* 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...
– South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung
Kim Dae-jung (; ; 6 January 192418 August 2009), was a South Korean politician and activist who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
He was a 2000 Nobel Peace Prize recipient for his work for democracy and human ...
is kidnapped in Tokyo by the KCIA
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.
* August 15
Events Pre-1600
* 636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins.
* 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Const ...
– The U.S. bombing of Cambodia
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ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia according to the Case–Church Amendment
The Case–Church Amendment was legislation attached to a bill funding the U.S. State Department. it was approved by the U.S. Congress in June 1973 that prohibited further U.S. military activity in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia unless the preside ...
-an act that prohibits military operations in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, North and South Vietnam, South Vietnam as a follow up of the Paris Peace Accords.
* August 23 – The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurs, famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.
September
* September 9 – Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart becomes List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, World Drivers' Champion when his Tyrrell Racing, Tyrrell Tyrrell 003, 003-Cosworth places fourth in the 1973 Italian Grand Prix at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza.
* September 11 – Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in 1973 Chilean coup d'état, a violent military coup after serious political instability. President Salvador Allende allegedly Death of Salvador Allende, commits suicide during the coup in the La Moneda Palace, presidential palace, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a US-backed military junta that governs Chile for the next 17 years.
* September 15 – Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden following the deaths of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, King Gustaf VI Adolf.
* September 18 – The two German Republics, the West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.
* September 20 – The "Battle of the Sexes (tennis), Battle of the Sexes": Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in a televised tennis match, 6–4, 6–4, 6–3, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. With an attendance of 30,492, this remains the largest live audience ever to see a tennis match in US history. The global audience that views on television in 36 countries is estimated at 90 million.
* September 27
** Soviet space program: Soyuz 12 (Vasily Lazarev, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Oleg Makarov), the first Soviet manned flight since the Soyuz 11 tragedy in 1971, is launched.
** Luís Cabral declares the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from the Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo regime in Portugal. It is later granted in September 1974.
October
* October 6
**Yom Kippur War begins: The fourth and largest Arab–Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
* October 14 – 1973 Thai popular uprising, Thai popular uprising Students revolt in Bangkok – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers.
* October 15 – 1973 Pacific typhoon season#Typhoon Ruth .28Narsing.29, Typhoon Ruth crosses Luzon, Philippines
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, killing 27 people and causing $5 million in damage.
* October 17 – An OPEC oil embargo against several countries supporting Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.
* October 20
** The Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President Richard Nixon
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orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate scandal, Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the United States Department of Justice, Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event raises calls for Nixon's impeachment.
** The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.
* October 25 – The Yom Kippur War ends.
* October 26 – The United Nations recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
* October 30 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.
* October 31 – Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army
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members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland after a hijacked helicopter lands in the exercise yard.
November
* November 1 –Watergate scandal
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: Acting Attorney General Robert Bork appoints Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.
* November 3
** Pan Am cargo flight 160, a Boeing 707#Notable accidents, Boeing 707-321C, crashes at Logan International Airport, Boston, killing 3 people.
** Mariner program: NASA launches ''Mariner 10'' toward Mercury (planet), Mercury (on March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet).
* November 7 – The Congress of the United States overrides President Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...
's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
* November 8 – Millennium '73, a festival hosted by Prem Rawat, Guru Maharaj Ji at the Astrodome, is called by supporters the "most significant event in human history".
* November 11 – Egypt and Israel
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sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.
* November 16
** Skylab
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program: NASA launches Skylab 4 (Gerald P. Carr, Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission.
** U.S. President Richard Nixon
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signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
* November 17 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurs against the military regime in Athens
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, Greece.
* November 21 – U.S. President Richard Nixon
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's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an -minute gap in one of the White House
The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in ...
tape recordings related to Watergate scandal, Watergate.
* November 25 – Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
* November 27 – The United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.
* November 29 – 104 people are killed in a Taiyo department store fire in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan.
* November – Sisowath Kossamak, Queen Sisowath Kossamak of Cambodia is released from house arrest to Beijing.
December
* December – Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden. * December 1 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia. * December 3 – Pioneer program: ''Pioneer 10'' sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. * December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day. * December 14 – Rhodesia executes two Blacks at Salisbury Central Prison for murder * December 18 ** Soviet space program: Soyuz 13 (Pyotr Klimuk, Valentin Lebedev) is launched. ** The Islamic Development Bank is created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) (effective August 12, 1974). * December 20 – Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero-Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco, Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the separatist organization ETA (separatist group), ETA. * December 28 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. * December 30 – Terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.Date unknown
* ODECA functions are suspended. * The COSC The Swiss Official chronometer watch, Chronometer testing Institute is founded in Switzerland by 5 Watch Cantons of Switzerland, Cantons & Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry. * A large Song dynasty trade ship of c. 1277 A.D. is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China with 12 compartments in its Hull (watercraft), hull. It confirms the descriptions of Bulkhead (partition), bulkheaded hull compartments for Junk (ship), junks in Zhu Yu (author), Zhu Yu's ''Pingzhou Table Talks'' of 1119.Births
January
* January 5 – Uday Chopra, Indian actor
* January 9 – Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
* January 11 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricket player and coach.
* January 12 – Hande Yener, Turkish singer
* January 13
** Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player
** Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actress
* January 14 – Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian racing driver
* January 15
** Essam El Hadary, Egyptian goalkeeper
** Tomáš Galásek, Czech football player
** Maksim Martynov, Russian engineer
* January 17
Events Pre-1600
*38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey.
* 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...
– Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer and politician, Governor of Morelos 2018-2024
* January 19
** Ann Kristin Aarønes, Norwegian footballer
** Wang Junxia, Chinese long-distance runner
** Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
* January 20 – Queen Mathilde of Belgium
* January 26 – Brendan Rodgers, Northern Irish football manager
* January 27 – Shadmehr Aghili, Iranian pop singer, musician and composer
* January 29 – Louise Hindsgavl, Danish artist
* January 30 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player
* January 31 – Portia de Rossi, Australian actress
February
* February 1
** Yuri Landman, Dutch artist and musician
** Óscar Pérez Rojas, Mexican football goalkeeper
* February 2 – Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
* February 4 – Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer
* February 5
** Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch pop singer
** Deng Yaping, Chinese table tennis player
* February 7 – Juwan Howard, American basketball player
* February 9 – Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
* February 10 – Gunn-Rita Dahle, Norwegian mountain biker
* February 11
** Jeon Do-yeon, South Korean actress
** Mishal Husain, British news presenter
** Varg Vikernes, Norwegian rock musician
* February 12 – Tara Strong, Canadian actress and voice actress
* February 15
** Anna Dogonadze, German trampoline gymnast
** Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
* February 16 – Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
* February 18 – Claude Makélélé, French footballer
* February 22 – Shota Arveladze, Georgian football player
* February 24
** Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player
** Yordan Yovchev, Bulgarian gymnast
* February 25 – Julio Iglesias Jr., Spanish singer
* February 26
** ATB, German DJ and music producer
** Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
** Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
* February 27 – Peter Andre, English singer and television personality
* February 28 – Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player
March
* March 1
** Jack Davenport, English actor
** Ahmed El Sakka, Egyptian action actor
** Chris Webber, American basketball player
* March 3 – Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
* March 9 – Matteo Salvini, Italian politician
* March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a ...
** Eva Herzigová, Czech model and actress
** Dan Swanö, Swedish musician
* March 13
** Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
** David Draiman songwriter and lead singer for the band Disturbed (band), Disturbed
** Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Icelandic actor
* March 15 – Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor and model
* March 17 – Caroline Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
* March 19
** Magnus Hedman, Swedish footballer
** Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Australian actor
* March 20
Events Pre-1600
* 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka.
* 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 1600 – The Link ...
– Talal Khalifa Aljeri, Kuwaiti businessman
* March 23
** Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
** Jason Kidd, American basketball player
* March 24
** Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
** Jim Parsons, American actor and comedian
* March 25 – Anders Fridén, Swedish musician
* March 26 – Larry Page, American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Google (2011-2015)
* March 28 – Umaga (wrestler), Umaga, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2009)
* March 29 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
April
* April 1
Events Pre-1600
* 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held.
* 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
*1081 – Alexios I Ko ...
** Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricket captain
** Rachel Maddow, American political commentator
* April 2
Events Pre-1600
* 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...
– Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American actress
* April 3
Events Pre-1600
* 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul.
*1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.
*1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created.
* ...
** Jamie Bamber, English actor
** Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
* April 4
** David Blaine, American magician
** Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer
* April 5
** Élodie Bouchez, French actress
** Cho Sung-min, South Korean baseball pitcher (d. 2013)
** Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
* April 6
Events Pre–1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus.
* 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia.
*13 ...
– Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and singer
* April 8 – Emma Caulfield, American actress
* April 10
Events Pre-1600
* 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
* 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles).
* 140 ...
– Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer
* April 11 – Jennifer Esposito, American actress
* April 12
** Christina Moore, American actress
** Amr Waked, Egyptian film, television and stage actor
* April 13 – Sergey Shnurov, Russian singer
* April 14 – Adrien Brody, American actor
* April 16
** Akon, Senegalese Americans, Senegalese American rapper, R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
** Teddy Cobeña, Spanish-Ecuadorian sculptor
* April 18 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian long-distance runner
* April 19 – George Gregan, Australian rugby union footballer
* April 21 – Katsuyuki Konishi, Japanese voice actor
* April 23 – Cem Yılmaz, Turkish comedian and actor
* April 24
** Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
** Lee Westwood, English golfer
* April 27 – Sharlee D'Angelo, Swedish guitarist
* April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
** Jorge Garcia, American actor and comedian
** Elisabeth Röhm, German-American actress
* April 29 – David Belle, French actor and stunt performer
May
* May 1
** Paul Burke (rugby union, born 1973), Paul Burke, Irish rugby player
** Diana Hayden, Miss World and Indian actress
** Oliver Neuville, German footballer
* May 2 – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German director
* May 3
Events Pre-1600
* 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne.
* 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties.
...
– Michael Reiziger, Dutch footballer
* May 4 – Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer
* May 5
Events Pre-1600
* 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins.
*1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta.
*1260 – Kub ...
– Johan Hedberg, Swedish retired hockey goaltender also known as "Moose"
* May 7 – Paolo Savoldelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
* May 8 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist
* May 9 – Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan long-distance runner
* May 10
** Keylla Hernandéz, Puerto Rican television reporter (d. 2018)
** Rüştü Reçber, Turkish football goalkeeper
* May 12 – Robert Tinkler, Canadian voice actor
* May 14
Events Pre-1600
*1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks.
* 1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade.
*1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and force ...
** Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints (group), All Saints)
** Shanice, African-American singer
* May 16
** Jason Acuña, American skateboarder and actor
** Tori Spelling, American actress
** Kōsuke Toriumi, Japanese voice actor
* May 17
** Sasha Alexander, American actress
** Josh Homme, American musician
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of ...
– Kaz Hayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
* May 20 – Elsa Lunghini, French actress and singer
* May 21 – Noel Fielding, British comedian
* May 24
** Bartolo Colón, Dominican baseball player
** Ruslana, Ukrainian pop star, activist, Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner
* May 25
Events Pre-1600
* 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans.
*240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...
** Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist
** Ai Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
** Demetri Martin, American actor and comedian
* May 27 – Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian
* May 30 – Minae Noji, American actress
* May 31 – Dominique van Roost, Belgian tennis player
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed k ...
** Fred Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
** Adam Garcia, Australian actor and singer
** Heidi Klum, German model
** Derek Lowe, American baseball player
* June 2
** Carlos Acosta, Cuban-born ballet dancer
** Kevin Feige, American film producer and president of Marvel Studios
* June 8 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
* June 9 – Tedy Bruschi, American football player
* June 10
Events Pre-1600
* 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
*1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...
– Faith Evans, American singer
* June 12 – Mitsuki Saiga, Japanese voice actress
* June 14 – Ceca (singer), Ceca, Serbian folk singer
* June 15
** Neil Patrick Harris, American actor, comedian, singer, presenter and host
** Dean McAmmond, Canadian hockey player
** Greg Vaughan, American actor
* June 18
Events Pre-1600
* 618 – Li Yuan becomes Emperor Gaozu of Tang, initiating three centuries of Tang dynasty rule over China.
* 656 – Ali becomes Caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.
* 860 – Byzantine–Rus' War: A fleet of about ...
– Yumi Kakazu, Japanese voice actress
* June 19 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
* June 21
** Zuzana Čaputová, Slovak politician, President of Slovakia
** Juliette Lewis, American actress
** Fedja van Huêt, Dutch actor
* June 22
** Carson Daly, American television personality, host of NBC's ''The Voice (U.S. TV series), The Voice'' and ''Last Call with Carson Daly''
** Giorgio Pasotti, Italian actor and martial arts athlete
* June 23
** Davies Chisopa, Zambian politician
** Marija Naumova (Marie N), Latvian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2002 winner
* June 24
Events Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
* 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome. ...
– Jonathan Lambert (actor), Jonathan Lambert, French actor and comedian
* June 25
Events Pre-1600
* 524 – The Franks are defeated by the Burgundians in the Battle of Vézeronce.
* 841 – In the Battle of Fontenay-en-Puisaye, forces led by Charles the Bald and Louis the German defeat the armies of Lothair I of ...
– Jamie Redknapp, English footballer
* June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fr ...
– Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
* June 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1358 – The Republic of Ragusa is founded.
*1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.
* 1499 – Americo Vespucci, on Spanish financed trip, sights coa ...
** Olve Eikemo, Norwegian musician
** Gonzalo López-Gallego, Spanish film director
* June 28
** Adrián Annus, Hungarian athlete
** Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad, Frost, Norwegian musician
** Andre Lange, German Olympic bobsledder
* June 29 – Kento Masuda, Japanese composer and recording artist
* June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
*1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
– Hidetada Yamagishi, Japanese bodybuilder
July
* July 1 – Akhilesh Yadav, Indian politician
* July 3
Events Pre-1600
* 324 – Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
* 987 – Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolut ...
** Antonio Filippini, Italian footballer
** Emanuele Filippini, Italian footballer
** Jonah Lotan, Israeli actor
** Owen H.M. Smith, American television producer, writer, actor and comedian
** Patrick Wilson (American actor), Patrick Wilson, American actor
* July 4
** Gackt, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
** Mathieu Chantelois, Canadian television personality, journalist, magazine editor and marketing executive
* July 5
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius.
* 1316 – The Burgundian a ...
** Joe (singer), Joe, American singer-songwriter and record producer
** Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer and coach
** Andrei Zibrov, Russian actor
* July 6
** Pablo Escudero Morales, Mexican lawyer and politician
** Jehangir Wadia, Indian businessman
* July 7
** Troy Garity, American actor
** Yoon Kyung-shin, South Korean handball player
** Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist
* July 8
** Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress and producer
** Medi Sadoun, French actor
* July 9 – Enrique Murciano, American actor
* July 10
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina.
* 645 – Isshi Incident: Prin ...
** Julián Legaspi, Uruguayan-Peruvian actor
** McNeil Hendricks, South African rugby union player
** Andrej Hrnčiar, Slovak actor and politician
** Martin S. Jensen, Danish professional football goalkeeper
** Oleksandr Yanukovych, Ukrainian dentist and businessman
* July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...
** Link Abrams, American-New Zealand basketball player
** Andrew Bird, American violinist and singer-songwriter
** Marcelo Charpentier, Argentine tennis player
** Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
** Mohsen Torky, Iranian football player
* July 12
** Inoke Afeaki, Tongan rugby union footballer
** Christian Vieri, Italian footballer
* July 13
** Roberto Martínez, Spanish football manager
** Danny Williams (boxer), Danny Williams, British professional boxer
* July 14
** Kanaka (actress), Kanaka, South Indian actress
** Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
** Candela Peña, Spanish actress
* July 15
** John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born rock drummer for the band System of a Down
** Brian Austin Green, American actor
** Yasemin Şamdereli, Turkish-German actress, screenwriter and film director
* July 16
Events Pre-1600
* 622 – The beginning of the Islamic calendar.
* 997 – Battle of Spercheios: Bulgarian forces of Tsar Samuel are defeated by a Byzantine army under general Nikephoros Ouranos at the Spercheios River in Greece.
* 1 ...
** Stefano Garzelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
** Yoshihiko Hakamada, Japanese actor
* July 17
Events Pre-1600
* 180 – Twelve inhabitants of Scillium (near Kasserine, modern-day Tunisia) in North Africa are executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
*1048 – Damasu ...
– Daimaou Kosaka, Japanese comedian
* July 18 – Chi In-jin, South Korean boxer
* July 19
** Aílton (footballer, born 1973), Aílton, Brazilian football player
** Nathalie Boltt, South African actress
** Toni Brogno, Belgian football striker
** Saïd Taghmaoui, French-American actor and screenwriter
* July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
** Peter Forsberg, Swedish hockey player
** Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway
* July 21
Events Pre-1600
* 356 BC – The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, is destroyed by arson.
* 230 – Pope Pontian succeeds Urban I as the eighteenth pope. After being exiled to Sardinia, he became t ...
– Ali Landry, American actress
* July 22
** Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer
** Jaime Camil, Mexican actor and singer
** Daniel Jones (musician), Daniel Jones, Australian musician and record producer
* July 23
Events Pre-1600
* 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
*1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1 ...
** Omar Epps, American actor
** Fran Healy (musician), Fran Healy, Scottish singer-songwriter
** Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern
* July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
– Dani Filth, British vocalist
* July 26 – Kate Beckinsale, English actress
* July 30
** Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
** Sonu Nigam, Indian singer
* July 31 – Jacob Aagaard, Danish-Scottish chess player
August
* August 1
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
*AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under ...
– Edurne Pasaban, Basque Spanish mountaineer
* August 2
** Miguel Mendonca, Anglo-Azorean writer
** Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
* August 3 – Stephen Graham, English actor
* August 6
** Asia Carrera, American actress
** Vera Farmiga, American actress, director and producer
* August 8
Events Pre-1600
* 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...
– Jessica Calvello, American voice actress
* August 9
** Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor
** Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
** Oleksandr Ponomariov, Ukrainian singer
* August 10 – Javier Zanetti, Argentine football player
* August 11 – Carolyn Murphy, American model
* August 14
** Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
** Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer
** Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
* August 15
Events Pre-1600
* 636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins.
* 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Const ...
– Kris Mangum, American football player
* August 16 – Damian Jackson, American baseball player
* August 19
** Marco Materazzi, Italian football player
** HRH Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
* August 21
** Sergey Brin, Russian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
** Steve McKenna, Canadian ice hockey player
** Nikolai Valuev, Russian heavyweight boxing champion
* August 22
** Howie D., American singer (Backstreet Boys)
** Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian and writer
* August 23
** Chelsi Smith, American actress, singer, television host and beauty queen (d. 2018)
** Joey Cramer, Canadian child actor
* August 24
** Dave Chappelle, African-American actor and comedian
** Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
** Grey DeLisle, American voice actress, comedian and singer-songwriter
** Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
* August 28 – Kirby Morrow, Canadian actor, comedian and writer (d. 2020)
* August 29
** Abdo Hakim, Lebanese actor and voice actor
** Jason Spisak, American actor, voice actor and producer
* August 30 – Lisa Ling, American journalist
September
* September 1 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
* September 3 – Alexandra Kerry, American actress, filmmaker, director and producer
* September 4 – Diosbelys Hurtado, Cuban boxer
* September 5
** Paddy Considine, British actor, filmmaker and musician
** Rose McGowan, American actress
** Rachel Sheherazade, Brazilian journalist
* September 6
** Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
** Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player
* September 7 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
* September 11 - Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh, Iranian footballer
* September 12
** Tarana Burke, American civil rights activist
** Darren Campbell, British athlete
** Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013)
* September 13 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
* September 14
** Andrew Lincoln, English actor
** Nas, African-American rapper
* September 15 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, né Olof Daniel Westling, Swedish prince, married to Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria
* September 17 – Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
* September 18
** James Marsden, American actor
** Ami Onuki, Japanese singer
** Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
* September 19
** José Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist
** David Zepeda, Mexican actor, model and singer
* September 20 – Jo Pavey, British athlete
* September 21 – Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
* September 22 – Bob Sapp, American professional wrestler, actor, American football player, kickboxer and mixed martial artist
* September 24 – Eddie George, American football player
* September 25 – Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, American actress
* September 29
** Alfie Boe, English tenor
** Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
* September 30 – David Ury, American actor
October
* October 2
** Melissa Harris-Perry, African-American political commentator
** Lene Nystrøm, Norwegian singer (Aqua (band), Aqua)
** Proof (rapper), Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006)
** Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian Drag queen, comedian and singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2007 runner-up
* October 3 – Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
* October 4 – Abyss (wrestler), Chris Parks, American professional wrestler
* October 6 – Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
* October 8 – Kari Korhonen, Finnish cartoonist
* October 10 – Mario Lopez, American actor
* October 11
** Takeshi Kaneshiro, Taiwanese/Japanese actor
** Daisuke Sakaguchi, Japanese voice actor
* October 13
** Matt Hughes (fighter), Matt Hughes, American mixed martial arts fighter
** Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress
* October 14
** George Floyd, African-American victim of police brutality (d. 2020)
** Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician
* October 15
** Susy Pryde, New Zealand cyclist
** Dax Riggs, American musician
* October 16 – Todd van der Heyden, Canadian journalist and news anchor
* October 18
** Sergey Bezrukov, Russian screen and stage actor
** Rachel Nichols (journalist), Rachel Nichols, American sports journalist
* October 19 – Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
* October 22 – Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
* October 24 – Kurt Kuenne, filmmaker, known for documentary ''Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father, Dear Zachary''
* October 26 – Seth MacFarlane, American actor, screenwriter, producer, director and singer
* October 28
** Maryam Nawaz, Pakistani politician
** Montel Vontavious Porter, WWE Raw wrestler
* October 29 – Robert Pires, French football player
* October 30
** Silvia Corzo, Colombian newsreader
** Edge (wrestler), Edge, Canadian professional wrestler and 4-time WWE Champion
* October 31 – Beverly Lynne, American actress
November
* November 1
** Assia (singer), Assia, Algerian singer
** Li Xiaoshuang, Chinese gymnast
** Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress, Miss World 1994
* November 2 – Marisol Nichols, American actress
* November 3
** Sticky Fingaz, Kirk Jones, African-American rapper (Onyx (hip hop group), Onyx)
** Mick Thomson, American guitarist
* November 4 – Steven Ogg, Canadian actor
* November 7 – Yunjin Kim, South Korean-American film and theater actress
* November 8 – David Muir, American journalist and news anchor
* November 9
** Alyson Court, Canadian actress and voice actress
** Nick Lachey, American actor, singer and television personality and host
* November 13 – Jordan Bridges, American actor
* November 16 – Marcus Lemonis, Lebanese-American businessman, investor and television personality
* November 20 – Sav Rocca, American football player and Australian rules footballer
* November 22 – Cassie Campbell, Canadian ice hockey forward and CBC commentator
* November 24 – Amy Hayes (announcer), Amy Hayes, American ring announcer and model
* November 26 – Peter Facinelli, American actor
* November 27 – Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director
* November 29 – Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
* November 30
** Nimród Antal, Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and actor
** Christian Cage, Christian, Canadian professional wrestler
** Im Chang-jung, South Korean actor
December
* December 1 – Lombardo Boyar, American stand-up, comedian, actor and voice artist
* December 2
** Monica Seles, Hungarian-Yugoslavian tennis player
** Jan Ullrich, German professional road bicycle racer
* December 3
** Holly Marie Combs, American actress
** Super Crazy, Francisco Islas Rueda, Mexican professional wrestler
* December 4 – Tyra Banks, American supermodel, talk show host
* December 5
** Arik Benado, Israeli footballer
** Sorin Grindeanu, 65th Prime Minister of Romania
* December 7
** Carrie Kei Heim, American actress, lawyer and writer
** Terrell Owens, American football player
** Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
* December 8 – Corey Taylor, American rock vocalist (Slipknot (band), Slipknot, ''Stone Sour)
* December 9 – Bárbara Padilla, American operatic soprano
* December 10
**Arden Myrin, American comedian
**Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan-Mexican actress
* December 11 – Mos Def, African-American rapper and actor
* December 12 – Paz Lenchantin, Argentine-American musician
* December 14
** Tom S. Englund, Swedish musician
** Tomasz Radzinski, Canadian footballer
** Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress (d. 2001)
* December 15 – Surya Bonaly, French figure skater
* December 16 – Scott Storch, American hip-hop producer
* December 17
** Martha Erika Alonso Hidalgo, Mexican politician (d. 2018)
** Paula Radcliffe, British athlete
* December 18 – Darryl Brown (cricketer, born 1973), Darryl Brown, Trinidad and West Indian cricketer
* December 20 – Antti Kasvio, Finnish swimmer
* December 21 – Mike Alstott, American football player
* December 24
** Stephenie Meyer, American novelist
** Kerry Nettle, Australian politician
* December 25 – Chris Harris (wrestler), Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
* December 27 – Wilson Cruz, American actor
* December 28
** Seth Meyers, American actor and comedian, currently hosts ''Late Night with Seth Meyers''
** Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater
* December 30
** Jason Behr, American actor
** Ato Boldon, West Indian athlete
* December 31 – Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Russian dancer
Deaths
January
* January 2 – Eleazar López Contreras, 45th President of Venezuela (b. 1883)
* January 22 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
* January 23 – Kid Ory, American musician (b. 1886)
* January 24 – J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896)
* January 26 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
* January 28 – John Banner, Austrian-born actor (b. 1910)
* January 31
** Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
** Jack MacGowran, Irish film actor (b. 1918)
February
* February 11 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
* February 15
** Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
** Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
* February 16 – Francisco Caamaño, 50th President of the Dominican Republic (executed) (b. 1932)
* February 18 – Frank Costello, Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss (b. 1891)
* February 19
** Ivan T. Sanderson, Scottish-American naturalist, cryptozoologist and writer (b. 1911)
** Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
* February 22
** Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (b. 1899)
** Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
* February 23 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
* February 28 – Cecil Kellaway, South African actor (b. 1890)
March
* March 3 – Vera Panova, Soviet-Russian writer (b. 1905)
* March 6 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
* March 8
** Benjamín de Arriba y Castro, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1886)
** Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American rock musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
* March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a ...
– Robert Siodmak, German-born American director (b. 1900)
* March 12 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1898)
* March 13 – Melville Cooper, British actor (b. 1896)
* March 17 – Giuseppe Ferretto, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899)
* March 18
** Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (b. 1880)
** Lauritz Melchior, Danish opera singer (b. 1890)
* March 22 – Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (b. 1893)
* March 23 – Ken Maynard, American actor (b. 1895)
* March 25 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourg-born American photographer (b. 1879)
* March 26
** Sir Noël Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
** George Sisler, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)
April
* April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
* April 12 – Arthur Freed, American film producer (b. 1894)
* April 13
** Henry Darger, American outsider artist (b. 1892)
** Dudley Senanayake, 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1911)
* April 14 – Károly Kerényi, Hungarian philologist and mythologist (b. 1897)
* April 16
** Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
** István Kertész (conductor), Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
* April 19 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881)
* April 20 – Robert Armstrong (actor), Robert Armstrong, American actor (b. 1890)
* April 21
** Merian C. Cooper, American aviator, director, and producer (b. 1893)
** Arthur Fadden, Sir Arthur Fadden, Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
* April 25
** Fuad Chehab, 8th President of Lebanon (b. 1902)
** Frank Jack Fletcher, American admiral (b. 1885)
* April 26 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
* April 28
Events Pre-1600
* 224 – The Battle of Hormozdgan is fought. Ardashir I defeats and kills Artabanus V effectively ending the Parthian Empire.
* 357 – Emperor Constantius II enters Rome for the first time to celebrate his victory ...
– Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (b. 1882)
May
* May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914)
* May 6 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (b. 1933)
* May 8 – Alexander Vandegrift, American general (b. 1887)
* May 11 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
* May 12 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
* May 16 – Jacques Lipchitz, French-American sculptor (b. 1891)
* May 18
Events Pre-1600
* 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople.
* 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of ...
– Jeannette Rankin, American politician (b. 1880)
* May 20 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
* May 21
** Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1897)
** Vaughn Monroe, American singer (b. 1911)
* May 26
** Karl Löwith, German philosopher (b. 1897)
* May 27 – Constantin Daicoviciu, Romanian historian and archaeologist (b. 1898)
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
* 1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed k ...
– Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
* June 8 – Emmy Göring ''nee'' Sonnemann, German actress, second wife of Hermann Göring (b. 1893)
* June 9 – Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (b. 1887)
* June 10
Events Pre-1600
* 671 – Emperor Tenji of Japan introduces a water clock ( clepsydra) called ''Rokoku''. The instrument, which measures time and indicates hours, is placed in the capital of Ōtsu.
*1190 – Third Crusade: Frederick I ...
– William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
* June 23 – Fay Holden, American actress (b. 1893)
* June 24
Events Pre-1600
*1312 BC – Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.
* 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, northwest of Rome. ...
– Mary Carr, American actress (b. 1874)
* June 26
Events Pre-1600
* 4 – Augustus adopts Tiberius.
* 221 – Roman emperor Elagabalus adopts his cousin Alexander Severus as his heir and receives the title of Caesar.
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian is killed during the retreat fr ...
– Ernest Truex, American actor (b. 1889)
* June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus.
*1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan ...
** Nancy Mitford, English novelist (b. 1904)
** Vasyl Velychkovsky, Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R, Ukrainian Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1903)
July
* July 2
** Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
** George Macready, American actor (b. 1899)
* July 6
** Joe E. Brown, American actor and comedian (b. 1891)
** Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (b. 1885)
* July 7
** Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
** Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
* July 8
** Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (b. 1884)
** Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
* July 11
Events Pre-1600
* 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death.
* 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...
** Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer (b. 1900)
** Robert Ryan, American actor (b. 1909)
* July 12 – Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
* July 13 – Willy Fritsch, German actor (b. 1901)
* July 18 – Jack Hawkins, British actor (b. 1910)
* July 20
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots.
* 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...
** Mikhail Isakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1900)
** Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and actor (b. 1940)
** Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938)
* July 23
Events Pre-1600
* 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury.
*1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1 ...
– Eddie Rickenbacker, American World War I flying ace and race car driver (b. 1890)
* July 24 – Julián Acuña Galé, Cuban botanist (b. 1900)
* July 25
Events Pre-1600
* 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops.
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
** Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875)
** Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882)
* July 26 – Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and professor, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1890)
* July 29
** Henri Charrière, French writer (b. 1906)
** Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, 34th President of El Salvador (b. 1921)
** Roger Williamson, British racing driver (b. 1948)
* July 31 – Annibale Bergonzoli, Italian general (b. 1884)
August
*August 1
Events Pre-1600
*30 BC – Octavian (later known as Augustus) enters Alexandria, Egypt, bringing it under the control of the Roman Republic.
*AD 69 – Batavian rebellion: The Batavians in Germania Inferior (Netherlands) revolt under ...
** Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
** Walter Ulbricht, East German politician, former leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Communist Party and 2nd State Council of East Germany, head of State of the GDR (b. 1893)
** Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician, former leader of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1903)
* August 2 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
* August 4 – Eddie Condon, American jazz musician (b. 1905)
* August 6
** Fulgencio Batista, 9th and 12th President of Cuba (b. 1901)
** James Beck, British actor (b. 1929)
* August 9 – Charles Daniels (swimmer), Charles Daniels, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1885)
* August 10 – Douglas Kennedy (actor), Douglas Kennedy, American actor (b. 1915)
* August 11 – Peggie Castle, American actress (b. 1927)
* August 12
** Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
** Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
* August 16
** Veda Ann Borg, American actress (b. 1915)
** Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
* August 17
** Conrad Aiken, American writer (b. 1889)
** Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
** Paul Williams (The Temptations), Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)
* August 18
** François Bonlieu, French Olympic alpine skier (b. 1937)
** Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, British politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1888)
* August 30 – Michael Dunn (actor), Michael Dunn, American actor (b. 1934)
* August 31 – John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)
September
* September 2 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
* September 11 – Salvador Allende, 30th President of Chile (b. 1908)
* September 12 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman (b. 1887)
* September 13 – Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
* September 15 – King Gustaf VI Adolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
* September 16
** Rafael Franco, 33rd President of Paraguay (b. 1896)
** Víctor Jara, Chilean political activist and singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
* September 18 – Théo Lefèvre, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1914)
* September 19 – Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
* September 20 – Jim Croce, American songwriter (b. 1943)
* September 22 – Paul van Zeeland, 29th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893)
* September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
* September 24 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (b. 1908)
* September 26 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
* September 28
** Norma Crane, American actress (b. 1928)
** Mantan Moreland, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
* September 29 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
October
* October 1 – Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1921)
* October 2
** Paul Hartman, American dancer and actor (b. 1904)
** Paavo Nurmi, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1897)
* October 6 – François Cevert, French racing driver (b. 1944)
* October 8 – Gabriel Marcel, French Catholic existential thinker (b. 1889)
* October 9 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer and guitarist (b. 1915)
* October 10 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881)
* October 16 – Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
* October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author (b. 1926)
* October 18
** Leo Strauss, German-American political philosopher (b. 1899)
** Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
** Crane Wilbur, American actor (b. 1886)
* October 19 – Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
* October 22 – Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
* October 25 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian Olympic athlete (b. 1932)
* October 26 – Semyon Budyonny, Cossack cavalryman and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1883)
* October 27 – Allan Lane, American actor (b. 1909)
* October 28
** Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
** Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)
November
* November 3
** Arturo de Córdova, Mexican actor (b. 1908)
** Marc Allégret, French film director (b. 1900)
* November 7 – Kiyohide Shima, Japanese admiral (b. 1890)
* November 11
** Hassan al-Hudaybi, Egyptian general (b. 1891)
** Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
* November 12 – Wacław Stachiewicz, Polish writer, geologist, and general (b. 1894)
* November 13
** B. S. Johnson, English experimental novelist (b. 1933)
** Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1905)
** Bruno Maderna, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1920)
** Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890)
* November 16 – Alan Watts, British philosopher (b. 1915)
* November 17 – Mirra Alfassa, multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville, India (b. 1878)
* November 18 – Alois Hába, Czech composer and musicologist (b. 1893)
* November 20 – Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer, and song parodist (b. 1924)
* November 23
** Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese-born American actor and film director (b. 1889)
** Constance Talmadge, American actress (b. 1898)
* November 25
** Albert DeSalvo, American criminal, suspect in the Boston Strangler case (b. 1931)
** Laurence Harvey, English actor (b. 1928)
* November 28 – John Rostill, English bassist, musician and composer (The Shadows) (b. 1942)
December
* December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
* December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico (b. 1889)
* December 4
**Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1908)
** Michael O'Shea (actor), Michael O'Shea, American actor (b. 1906)
* December 5 – Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, radar pioneer (b. 1892)
* December 12 – Atilio García, Argentine-born Uruguayan football player (b. 1914)
* December 13 – Giuseppe Beltrami, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1889)
* December 16 – Sid Barnes, Australian cricketer (b. 1916)
* December 17 – Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist (d. 1872)
* December 20
** Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1904)
** Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, impressionist and TV presenter (b. 1936)
* December 22 – James Anderson (tennis), James Anderson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1894)
* December 23 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1905)
* December 25
** İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and statesman, 3-time Prime Minister of Turkey and 2nd President of Turkey during World War II (b. 1884)
** Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
* December 26
** William Haines, American actor (b. 1900)
** Harold B. Lee, American president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Patrick White * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Henry Kissinger, Lê Đức Thọ * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Wassily LeontiefReferences
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