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* May 1 – Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch runner
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* August 5 – Kajol, Indian actress
* August 6 – Ever Carradine, American actress
* August 7 – Michael Shannon, American actor
* August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
* August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician
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* September 3 – Jen Royle, American sports reporter and chef
* September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer
* September 6
** Tim Henman, English tennis player
** Nina Persson, Swedish singer
* September 7 – Glenn Ljungström, Swedish guitarist
* September 10
** Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer; mixed martial arts fighter
** Ryan Phillippe, American actor
** Ben Wallace (basketball), Ben Wallace, American basketball player
* September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
* September 15 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer, musician, and songwriter
* September 17
** Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
** Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist
* September 18
** Sol Campbell, English footballer
** Xzibit, American rapper
* September 19
** Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and television personality
** Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
* September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
* September 24 – Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer
* September 26 – Joo Jin-mo, South Korean actor
* September 30 – Yul Bürkle, Venezuelan actor and model
* October 2 – Rachana Banerjee, Indian film actress
* October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
* October 4 – Kiti Kokkonen, Finnish film, television and voice actress, and author
* October 6 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese sports shooter
* October 7 – Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
* October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
* October 10
** Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
** Oded Kattash, Israeli basketball player and coach
** Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player
* October 11 – Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player
* October 16
** Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
** Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
* October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
* October 18 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
* October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer and pianist
* October 23
** Aravind Adiga, Indian-Australian author
** Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
* October 24 – Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
* October 28
** Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer
** Joaquin Phoenix, American actor born in Puerto Rico
* October 29
** Akashdeep Saigal, Indian television actor and model
** Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician
* November 2 – Nelly, American rapper
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* December 1 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
* December 5 – Kid Koala, Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and graphic novelist
* December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer
* December 10 – Meg White, American drummer
* December 11
** Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
** Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner
* December 12 – Michelle Saram, Singaporean singer and actress
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* January 1 – Jimmy Smith (baseball, born 1895), Jimmy Smith, American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1895)
* January 2 – Tex Ritter, American actor and country musician (b. 1905)
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* March 1
** Hüseyin Kemal Gürmen, Turkish theatre and cinema actor (b. 1901)
** Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935)
* March 2 – Péter Schell, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
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* May 1 – Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor (b. 1906)
* May 2
** James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)
** William Wantling, American ex-Marine, poet and novelist (b. 1933)
* May 3
** Nasir Khan (actor), Nasir Khan, Indian actor (b. 1924)
** Ralph McCabe, Canadian-born Major League Baseball player (b. 1918)
* May 4 – Ludwig Karl Koch, German broadcaster and sound recordist (b. 1881)
* May 6 – Robert Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans (b. 1889)
* May 7
** Abu Bakar of Pahang, Fourth Sultan of Pahang (b. 1904)
** Fred Kelly (athlete), Fred Kelly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891)
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* August 2 – Cyril Smith (pianist), Cyril Smith, English virtuoso concert pianist (b. 1909)
* August 3
** Edna Murphy, American actress of the silent era (b. 1899)
** Almira Sessions, American character actress (b. 1888)
* August 4 – Józef Kondrat, Polish stage and film actor (b. 1902)
* August 5 – Friedrich F. Tippmann, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1894)
* August 6 – Gunboat Smith, Irish-born American boxer and referee (b. 1887)
* August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Méxican poet and author (b. 1925)
* August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907)
* August 11
** José Falcón, Portuguese matador (gored to death by bull) (b. 1944)
** Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (b. 1902)
* August 13 – Ernst Forsthoff, German jurist (b. 1902)
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* September 1 – Mary Broadfoot Walker, Scottish physician (b. 1888)
* September 2 – Walter Strenge, American cinematographer (b. 1898)
* September 3 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
* September 4
** Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
** Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899)
* September 6
** Olga Baclanova, Soviet stage and screen actress, operatic singer, and ballerina (b. c. 1893)
** Otto Kruger, American actor of German descent (b. 1885)
* September 7 – Juan Antonio Ipiña, Spanish football manager (b. 1912)
* September 8
** Dhani Nivat, Prince of Thailand (b. 1885)
** Bert Niehoff, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1884)
** Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist, ''Little Jimmy'' (b. 1875)
* September 10 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. 1892)
* September 11 – Robert Nodar Jr., American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from New York (state), New York and its member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1916)
* September 12
** Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1900)
** Craig Woods, American actor (b. 1918)
* September 15 – René Capistrán Garza, Méxican Association of Catholic Youth leader, lawyer, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1898)
* September 16 – Phog Allen, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1885)
* September 17 – Claudia Morgan, American actress, ''The Edge of Night'' in the 1950s (b. 1912)
* September 18 – Edna Best, British actress (b. 1900)
* September 19
** Tránsito Cocomarola, Argentine musician and folklorist (b. 1918)
** Zack Taylor (baseball), Zack Taylor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
* September 20
** José Mojica, Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, Mexican Franciscan friar, singer, and actor (b. 1896)
** Arthur Rylah, Sir Arthur Rylah, Australian lawyer and politician. (b. 1909)
* September 21
** Walter Brennan, American actor; 3-time Best Supporting Academy Award-winning actor (1936, 1938, and 1940) (b. 1894)
** Jacqueline Susann, American writer and actress (b. 1918)
* September 22
** Winfried Otto Schumann, German physicist (b. 1888)
** George Spahn, American rancher connected to the Manson family (b. 1889)
* September 23 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian who created the character ''Charlie Weaver'' (b. 1905)
* September 24 – Dorothy Stone (actress), Dorothy Stone, American actress (b. 1905)
* September 26 – Jean Gale, American vaudeville performer (b. 1912)
* September 27
** Silvio Frondizi, Argentine intellectual and lawyer (b. 1907)
** James R. Webb, American soldier and screenwriter who won the 1963 Academy Award for ''How the West Was Won (film), How the West Was Won'' (b. 1909)
* September 28 – Arnold Fanck, German film director who pioneered in the mountain film genre (b. 1889)
* September 30
** Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician (assassinated) (b. 1915)
** Sofía Cuthbert, wife of Carlos Prats (b. 1918)
* October 1
** Stephen Latchford, American diplomat and aviation expert (b. 1883)
** Frederick Moosbrugger, American admiral (b. 1900)
* October 2 – Vasily Shukshin, Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter, and director from the Altai Krai, Altai region (b. 1929)
* October 3 – Bessie Louise Pierce, American historian (b. 1888)
* October 4
** Robert Lee Moore, American mathematician (b. 1882)
** Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (b. 1928)
* October 5
** Virgil Miller, American cinematographer (b. 1886)
** Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (b. 1889)
* October 6 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian statesman, diplomat and nationalist (b. 1896)
* October 7 – Henry J. Cadbury, American biblical scholar and Quaker (b. 1883)
* October 8 – Harry Carney, American jazz musician (b. 1910)
* October 9
** Theodore Foley, American Roman Catholic priest and servant of God (b. 1913)
** Oskar Schindler, Sudetgerman businessman (b. 1908)
* October 10 – Werner Heyking, Danish actor, ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971) (b. 1913)
* October 11 – Frank Kowalski, American soldier United States Army and United States representative from Connecticut (b. 1907)
* October 13
** Josef Krips, Austrian conductor and violinist (b. 1902)
** Sam Rice, American baseball player (History of the Washington Senators (1901–60), Washington Senators) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1890)
** Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
* October 14 – Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani landscape painter (b. 1909)
* October 16 – Vlasta Dekanova, Czechoslovak artistic gymnast (b. 1909)
* October 17
** Johannes Krahn, German architect (b. 1908)
** Tomotaka Tasaka, Japanese film director (b. 1902)
* October 18 – Anders Lange, Norwegian politician (b. 1902)
* October 19
** Farrukh Ahmad, Bangladeshi poet and writer (b. 1918)
** Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian jurist, musician, and spiritual thinker (b. 1895)
* October 20 – Élie Lescot, 29th President of Haiti, leader of the World War II (b. 1883)
* October 21 – Donald Goines, American writer of urban fiction (b. 1936)
* October 23 – Melchior Lengyel, Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter (b. 1880)
* October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
* October 25 – Fahrettin Altay, Ottoman military officer (b. 1880)
* October 26 – Bidia Dandaron, Buryat Buddhist practitioner in the USSR (b. 1914)
* October 27
** Paul Frankeur, French actor (b. 1905)
** C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938)
* October 30 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (b. 1914)
* October 31 – Mikheil Chiaureli, Soviet Georgia (country), Georgian filmmaker (b. 1894)
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* December 1 – Anita Brenner, Mexican anthropologist, historian and author (b. 1905)
* December 2
** Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Russian-born, Canadian composer, virtuoso pianist, & violinist (b. 1899)
** Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (b. 1900)
** Max Weber (Swiss politician), Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
* December 3 – Hans Leibelt, German film actor (b. 1885)
* December 4 – Lee Kinsolving, American actor (b. 1938)
* December 5
** Pietro Germi, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
** Zaharia Stancu, Romanian prose writer (b. 1902)
** Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (b. 1886)
* December 6
** Einar Texas Ljungberg, Swedish Socialist politician (b. 1880)
** Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk, Dutch anthropologist, biologist and psychologist (b. 1887)
** Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Russian admiral (b. 1904)
** Luigi Salvatorelli, Italian historian and publicist (b. 1886)
* December 7 – Ariyavangsagatayana, 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Member of the Chetupon Temple (b. 1896)
* December 8 – Nadia Benois, Russian painter and stage designer; also the mother of English actor Peter Ustinov (b. 1896)
* December 9
** Hans Traut, German General-Lieutenant in the Nazi Wehrmacht in World War II (b. 1895)
** Ludwig Weber, Austrian bass (b. 1899)
* December 10 – Paul Richards (actor), Paul Richards, American actor, ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'' (b. 1924)
* December 11
** Maravillas de Jesús, Spanish Roman Catholic professed member of the Discalced Carmelites and saint (b. 1891)
** Reed Hadley, American radio, television and film actor (b. 1911)
* December 12 – Booker McDaniels, American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues with (Kansas City Monarchs) (b. 1913)
* December 13 – John G. Bennett, British mathematician (b. 1897)
* December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and journalist (b. 1889)
* December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (b. 1902)
* December 16 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (b. 1884)
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1973 oil crisis
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and the resignation of United States President
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Richard Nixon
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following the Watergate scandal
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. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War
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determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir
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's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish
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troops initiated the Cyprus dispute
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, the Carnation Revolution
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took place in Portugal
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, and Chancellor of West Germany
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Willy Brandt
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resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup
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in West Germany
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, in which the German national team
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won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali
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and George Foreman
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in Zaire
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.
Events
January–February
*January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
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– Bülent Ecevit
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of CHP forms the new government of Turkey
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(37th government, partner MSP).
* February 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
* 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
** Fire
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breaks out in the Joelma Building
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in São Paulo
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, Brazil; 177 die, 293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
** Kuala Lumpur
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, the capital of Malaysia
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, is declared
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a Federal Territory
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.
* 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 ...
– After a record 84 days in orbit
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, the crew of '' Skylab 4'' returns to Earth.
* February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– Zamalek disaster
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, rue, Чеськословень ...
: a soccer
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stampede occurs in Cairo
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, killing 49.
* February 28
Events Pre-1600
*202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty.
* 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes.
*1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...
– The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Jeremy Thorpe-led Liberal Party achieves its biggest vote.
March–April
*March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
– Turkish Airlines Flight 981
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, travelling from Paris to London, crashes in the woods near Paris, killing all 346 aboard. This becomes the deadliest single aircraft accident with no survivors.
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
** Following a hung parliament in the United Kingdom general election
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, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour
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's Harold Wilson
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, who previously led the country from 1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
to 1970
Events
January
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* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...
.
* March 18–End of five-month oil embargo by most OPEC
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nations against the United States, Europe, and Japan which had caused the 1973 oil crisis
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.
* March 26 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand
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, India, use their bodies to surround trees to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement
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The movement originated in 1973 at the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) and went on to beco ...
.
* March 29
** The Terracotta Army
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of Qin Shi Huang
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is discovered at Xi'an
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, China.
** Launch of the Volkswagen Golf in West Germany
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, a modern front-wheel drive hatchback which is expected to replace the iconic Volkswagen Beetle
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, holder of the world record for the car with the most units produced.
* April 3– 4 – An enormous tornado outbreak
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strikes the central parts of the United States, killing around 319 and injuring about 5,484.
* April 6 – Swedish
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pop group ABBA
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's song ''Waterloo
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'' wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest
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in Brighton
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, England
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, UK.
* April 11 – The Kiryat Shmona massacre
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takes place in Israel
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.
* April 24 – '' Guillaume Affair'': exposure of an East German
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spy Günter Guillaume within the West German
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government, leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt
Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ge ...
.
* April 25 – ''Carnation Revolution
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'': A left-wing military coup in Portugal restores democracy
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, ending 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship in the country. Portuguese Prime Minister
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Marcelo Caetano flees to Brazil
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and is granted political asylum by Brazilian President
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Ernesto Geisel
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Early life and fa ...
.
May–June
* May 4 ** An all-female Japanese team summits Manaslu inNepal
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सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...
, becoming the first women to climb an peak.
** The Expo '74 world's fair
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opens in Spokane, Washington
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.
* May 7 – Willy Brandt
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, West Germany's chancellor, resigns.
* May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
: A violent 7.1 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Zhaotong causing between 1,600 and 20,000 deaths.
* May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
– Helmut Schmidt becomes the new Chancellor of West Germany.
* May 17– Dublin and Monaghan bombings: The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), explode four car bombs in Dublin
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and Monaghan
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The population of the town as of the 2016 census was 7 ...
in the Republic of Ireland
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. The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, the highest number of casualties in any single day during "The Troubles
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".
* 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 4 ...
** 1974 Australian federal election
The 1974 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 18 May 1974. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives and all 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution. The incumbent Labor Party led by Prime ...
: Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1967 to 1977, he was notable for being the he ...
's Labor Government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal
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** Liberalism by country
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* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
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/Country
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Coalition
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Formation
According to ''A Gui ...
led by Billy Snedden
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Represe ...
. Whitlam consequently becomes the first Labor Prime Minister
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to be re-elected in his own right. The Democratic Labor Party meanwhile loses all five of their Senate
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seats, effectively wiping them out as a political force.
** Nuclear weapons testing: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon
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, becoming the 6th nation to do so.
* June 13 – The 1974 FIFA World Cup
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soccer tournament begins in West Germany.
* June 17
Events Pre-1600
* 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
* 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
– A bomb explodes in Westminster Hall
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, the oldest part of the British Houses of Parliament
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. The hall's annex, housing offices, and a canteen are destroyed by the bombing, attributed by police to the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army
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.
* June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
– Isabel Perón
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is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina
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, replacing her sick husband Juan Perón
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, who dies 2 days later.
July–August
* July 7 –West Germany
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beats the Netherlands
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2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup
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. The West German football team is awarded the new FIFA World Cup Trophy.
* July 15 – The Greek military junta sponsors a coup d'état
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in Cyprus
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, replacing President Makarios III
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with Nikos Sampson
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.
* July 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is re ...
– Railcar
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explosion in Decatur, Illinois
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. A tanker car collides with a Norfolk & Western boxcar. Seven people are killed, 349 are injured and $18 million in property damage.
* July 20 – The Turkish invasion of Cyprus
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occurs.
* July 23 – The Greek military junta is replaced by a civilian government, the '' metapolitefsi''.
* August 4 – A bomb explodes in a train between Italy and West Germany, killing twelve and wounding 48. Italian neo-fascists take responsibility.
* Watergate scandal
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:
** August 8 - U.S. President Richard Nixon
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announces his resignation on August 8, effective at noon on August 9.
** August 9 - Vice President Gerald Ford
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is sworn in as the 38th President of the United States upon Nixon's resignation.
* August 14
Events Pre-1600
* 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
** Turkey
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invades Cyprus for the second time, occupying 37% of the island's territory.
** Greece
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withdraws its forces from NATO
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's military command structure, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
* August 30 – An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade
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derails in Zagreb
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, Yugoslavia
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(now Croatia
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), killing more than 150 passengers.
September–October
* September 8 - TWA Flight 841 crashes into theIonian Sea
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18 minutes after takeoff from Athens
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, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people.
* September 10 – The Portuguese military junta grants independence to Guinea-Bissau
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.
* September 12 – Emperor Haile Selassie
Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...
of Ethiopia
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is deposed by the Derg
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, bringing an end to the Solomonic dynasty
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's rule since 1270
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. The Ethiopian Civil War
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The Derg overthre ...
begins.
* September 12 – African Youth Amílcar Cabral
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is founded in Guinea-Bissau
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.
* September 13 – Japanese Red Army
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members seize the French Embassy in The Hague
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, Netherlands.
* September 20 – The Kootenai War
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Born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Trice was the chairwoman of the Kootenai Tribal Council. In 1974, while chairman, the Kootenai tribe declare ...
is declared, and 10-cent tolls are charged on U.S. Highway 95
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.
* October 11 – The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested.
* October 26 - Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña
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(FALN) sets off 5 bombs in Manhattan, with their largest bomb set off in the Financial District.
November–December
*November 1
Events Pre-1600
* 365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, ...
– The World Tourism Organization
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(WTO) is established.
* November 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
* 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
– The Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
*Democratic Party (United States)
Democratic Party and similar terms may also refer to:
Active parties Africa
*Botswana Democratic Party
*Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea
*Gabonese Democratic Party
*Demo ...
makes big gains nationwide in House, Senate, and Gubernatorial elections.
* November 16 – Arecibo message
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: The radio telescope
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at the Arecibo Observatory
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on Puerto Rico
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sends an interstellar radio message towards Messier 13
Messier 13 or M13, also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules.
Discovery and vis ...
, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000.
* November 17
Events Pre-1600
* 887 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.
*1183 &n ...
– The 1974 Greek legislative election
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, the first election since the fall of the Greek junta of 1967–1974, is held and the newly formed New Democracy party wins 220 of 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament
The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule (ancient Greece), Boule of the Greeks, Hellenes, label=none), also kno ...
.
* November 18 – The International Energy Agency
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is founded.
* November 20
Events Pre-1600
* 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
* 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
*1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry ...
– Lufthansa Flight 540
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On 20 November 1974, the Boeing 747-130 that was operating as Flight 540 was carrying 157 people (140 passenge ...
crashes in Nairobi
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, Kenya
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due to a mechanical failure, killing 59 of its 157 passengers.
* November 21
Events Pre-1600
* 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 235 ...
– Birmingham pub bombings: In Birmingham
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, England, two pub
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s are bombed, killing 21 people in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army
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. The Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this, but their convictions are quashed after a lengthy campaign.
* November 22
Events Pre-1600
* 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
* 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Fra ...
– The United Nations General Assembly
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grants the Palestine Liberation Organization
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observer status.
* November 24 – A skeleton from the hominid
The Hominidae (), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: '' Pongo'' (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); ''Gorilla'' (the east ...
species ''Australopithecus afarensis
''Australopithecus afarensis'' is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not ...
'' is discovered and named Lucy.
* November 26
Events Pre-1600
* 783 – The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her king from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
*1161 – Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ...
– Anneline Kriel
Anneline Kriel (born 28 July 1955) is a South African actress, model, and beauty queen. She won Miss South Africa and Miss World in 1974 after the UK's Helen Morgan resigned only four days after her victory. Kriel is the second South African w ...
is crowned as Miss World 1974
Miss World 1974, the 24th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 22 November 1974 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. The event was viewed by an estimated 30 million people, and was a "Wide World Special" on the ABC Tel ...
, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan Helen Morgan may refer to:
*Helen Morgan (singer)
Helen Morgan (née Riggins; August 2, 1900 – October 9, 1941) was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in ...
resigns four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant.
* December 1 – A 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 ...
carrying TWA Flight 514
Trans World Airlines Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on Sunday, 1974. All 92 aboard, ...
crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
* December 9 – The Paris summit, reuniting the European Communities
The European Communities (EC) were three international organizations that were governed by the same set of institutions. These were the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), and the ...
' heads of state and government, commences.
* December 13 – Malta
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becomes a republic.
* December 17
Events Pre-1600
* 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
* 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
* 920 – Romanos I Lekap ...
– The World Intellectual Property Organization
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(WIPO) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and international security, security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be ...
.
* December 24
Events Pre-1600
* 502 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.
* 640 – Pope John IV is elected, several months after his predecessor's death.
* 759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, whe ...
– 25 – Darwin, Australia
Darwin ( ; Larrakia: ) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the sparsely populated Northern Territory.
It is the smalle ...
is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
Date unknown
*Rubik's Cube
The Rubik's Cube is a Three-dimensional space, 3-D combination puzzle originally invented in 1974 by Hungarians, Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik t ...
puzzle
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is invented by Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik
Ernő Rubik (; born 13 July 1944) commonly known by his nickname, "Little Man", is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rubi ...
.
Births
January
* January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
– Alessandro Petacchi, Italian road cyclist
* January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– Farhan Akhtar, Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, singer, producer, and television host
* January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
– Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
*1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned s ...
** Melanie C
Melanie Jayne Chisholm (12 January 1974 - 25 December 2022), better known as Melanie C or Mel C, is an English singer-songwriter and media personality. She is best known as one of the five members of the Spice Girls, during which time she was ni ...
, English pop singer (Spice Girls
The Spice Girls are a British girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie Chisholm, or Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and Vict ...
)
** Tor Arne Hetland
Tor Arne Hetland (born 12 January 1974) is a Norwegian cross-country skiing coach and a former professional cross-country skier.
Hetland was born in Stavanger. He now lives in Trondheim. While active he represented Byåsen IL ski club. He was co ...
, Norwegian cross-country skier
* January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
– Kevin Durand
Kevin Serge Durand (born January 14, 1974) is a Canadian actor. He is best known for portraying Vasiliy Fet in ''The Strain'', Joshua in '' Dark Angel'', Martin Keamy in ''Lost'', Fred J. Dukes / The Blob in '' X-Men Origins: Wolverine'', Barry ...
, Canadian-American actor and singer
* January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
– Kate Moss
Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fas ...
, English model
* January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chi ...
– David Dorby
David Dorby (born 18 January 1974) is a Seychelles, Seychellois association football, football player. He is a midfielder on the Seychelles national football team.
See also
*Seychelles Football Federation
References
External links
*
L ...
, Seychellois footballer
* January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...
– Joseph Muscat, 13th Prime Minister of Malta
* January 23
Events Pre-1600
* 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor.
* 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao.
*1264 & ...
– Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
* January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Cou ...
– Ed Helms
Edward Parker Helms (born January 24, 1974) is an American actor and comedian. From 2002 to 2006, he was a correspondent on Comedy Central's ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''. He played paper salesman Andy Bernard in the NBC sitcom ''The Offic ...
, American actor and stand-up comedian
* January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
– Ole Einar Bjørndalen
Ole Einar Bjørndalen () (born 27 January 1974) is a retired Norwegian professional Biathlon, biathlete and coach, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon". With 13 Winter Olympic Games medals, he is second on the List of multip ...
, Norwegian biathlete
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– Kari Traa, Norwegian freestyle skier
* January 29
Events
Pre-1600
* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler o ...
** Michael Andersen
Michael Dahl Andersen (born 29 January 1974), is a retired Danish professional basketball player. He is 2.13 m (7'0") in height and he plays at the position of center.
Honours
Prokom Sopot
* 2-time Polish League championship as a player for ...
, Danish basketball player
** Kōji Wada
was a Japanese pop singer. He was best known for performing theme songs for several installments of the ''Digimon'' anime television series, including his recording debut in 1999 with his first and most famous single, "Butter-Fly", the theme so ...
, Japanese rock singer (d. 2016
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)
* January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
** Christian Bale
Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Known for his versatility and physical transformations for his roles, he has been a leading man in films of several genres. He has received various accolades, including ...
, British actor
** Olivia Colman
Sarah Caroline Sinclair ( Colman; born 30 January 1974), known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. Known for her comedic and dramatic roles in film and television, she has received various accolades, including an Academy A ...
, English actress
February
* February 1
Events Pre-1600
* 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
* 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...
- Roberto Heras
Roberto Heras Hernández (born 1 February 1974) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer who won the Vuelta a España a record four times. Between 1997 and 2005 he finished in the top 5 of the Vuelta every year except 1998 when he f ...
, Spanish road cyclist
* February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
* February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
** Urmila Matondkar
Urmila Matondkar (born 4 February 1974) is an Indian actress and politician. Known for her work primarily in Hindi films, in addition to Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil films, she has received numerous accolades, including the Filmfare A ...
, Indian actress
** Shahab Hosseini, Iranian actor and film director
* February 7
Events Pre-1600
* 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor.
* 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II.
* 1301 &nd ...
** J Dilla, American record producer and rapper (d. 2006
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)
** Steve Nash
Stephen John Nash (born 7 February 1974) is a Canadian professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 18 seasons in the NBA, ...
, Canadian basketball player
** Nujabes, Japanese record producer and DJ (d. 2010
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)
* 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 ...
** Seth Green
Seth Benjamin Green ( ''né'' Gesshel-Green; born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and writer. Green's film debut came with a role in the comedy-drama film ''The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984), and he went on to have supporting ...
, American actor and comedian
** Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo
Guillaume Emmanuel "Guy-Manuel" de Homem-Christo (; born 8 February 1974) is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and composer. He is known as one half of the former French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas Bang ...
, French musician and record producer
** Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-born American boxer and mixed martial artist (d. 2016
File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...
)
* February 10
Events Pre-1600
* 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end.
* 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparkin ...
** Elizabeth Banks, American actress and film director
**David Datuna
David Datuna ( ka, დეივიდ დათუნა; February 10, 1974 – May 23, 2022) was a Georgian-born American artist who lived in New York City. His ''Viewpoint of Millions'' series explores the sources and meaning of cultural iden ...
, Georgian-American artist (d. 2022
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)
** Ivri Lider
Ivri Lider ( he, עברי לידר) is an Israeli pop star and part of the duo TYP, also known as The Young Professionals. He served as a judge on the first season of '' The X Factor Israel''.
Music career
In October 2005 Lider received ...
, Israeli singer
* February 11
Events Pre-1600
*660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
* 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
– Alex Jones, American radio host, conspiracy theorist, author and filmmaker
* February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Naseem Hamed, British boxer
* February 13
Events Pre-1600
* 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome.
*1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th.
*1462 – The ...
– Robbie Williams
Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, and achieved commercial success after launching a solo career in 1996. His debut stud ...
, British singer
* February 14
Events Pre-1600
* 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt.
* 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...
** Philippe Léonard
Philippe Léonard (born 14 February 1974) is a Belgian former professional footballer who played as a left back.
After playing most notably for Standard Liège and Monaco, he rarely appeared for his following four teams (including Standard agai ...
, Belgian footballer
** Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencer
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
** Mr Lordi
Tomi Petteri Putaansuu (born 15 February 1974), best known by his stage names Mr Lordi or Mr L, is a Finnish musician, businessman, special effect make-up artist, songwriter, painter, comics artist and graphic designer. He is best known as the ...
, Finnish singer
** Alexander Wurz, Austrian racing driver
* February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...
– Mahershala Ali
Mahershala Ali (; born Mahershalalhashbaz Gilmore, February 16, 1974) is an American actor. He has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. ''Time'' magazine named him one of th ...
, American actor and rapper
* February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– Jerry O'Connell
Jerry O'Connell (born February 17, 1974) is an American actor and television host. He is known for his roles as Quinn Mallory in the television series ''Sliders'', Andrew Clements in ''My Secret Identity'', Vern Tessio in the film '' Stand by M ...
, American actor
* February 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdina ...
– James Blunt
James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount; 22 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. A former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army, he served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. After l ...
, English singer
* February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
** Divya Bharti, Indian film actress (d. 1993
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)
** Dominic Raab
Dominic Rennie Raab (; born 25 February 1974) is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor since October 2022, having previously served from 2021 to ...
, British politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is a minister of the Crown and a member of the British Cabinet. The office is not always in use, and prime ministers may use other offices, such as First Secretary of State, to indicate the seni ...
* February 26
Events Pre-1600
*747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events.
* 364 – Valentinian I is p ...
– Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
* February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
– Hiroyasu Shimizu
is a Japanese speed skater. He has an Olympic gold medal from 1998 in the 500 m, and held the 500 m record (34.32).
He married Japanese fashion model Reiko Takagaki
is a Japanese model and actress who is represented by the agencies Incent a ...
, Japanese speed skater
March
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
** Karol Kučera
Karol Kučera (born 4 March 1974) is a retired ATP professional male tennis player from Slovakia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 6 in September 1998, reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open the same year.
In 20 ...
, Slovak tennis player
** Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
* March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
** Jens Jeremies
Jens Jeremies (born 5 March 1974) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
Best known for his tackling abilities, he played for three clubs during his professional career, most notably Bayern Munich which ...
, German footballer
** Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
** Eva Mendes, American actress and model
** Hiten Tejwani, Indian model and actor
* March 6 – Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional wrestler
* March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
** Jenna Fischer, American actress
** Antonio de la Rúa
Antonio de la Rúa Pertiné (born 7 March 1974) is an Argentine lawyer, and the son of former president Fernando de la Rúa (who governed Argentina from 1999 to 2001) and Inés Pertiné. He was an advisor to his father during his father's pres ...
, Argentine lawyer
* March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– Grace Park, Canadian actress
* March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
– Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
player
* March 20 – Carsten Ramelow
Carsten Ramelow (; born 20 March 1974) is a German former professional footballer who played as either a central defender or a defensive midfielder.
Known for his tough tackling and defensive positioning, he played professionally for Hertha BSC ...
, German footballer
* March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
** Marcus Camby, American basketball player
** Kidada Jones
Kidada Ann Jones ( ; born March 22, 1974) is an American actress, model, and fashion designer. Jones works as a designer for The Walt Disney Company, where she has a line known as Kidada for Disney Couture. Jones is the daughter of record produc ...
, American actress
** Bassem Youssef, Egyptian journalist
* March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
* March 28
Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
– Daisuke Kishio, Japanese voice actor
* March 29 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian photographer
* March 30 – Miho Komatsu
is a former Japanese singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, Komatsu began her career as a songwriter, writing "Kono Machi de Kimi to Kurashitai" for Field of View. In May 1997, she released her debut single " Nazo", which served ...
, Japanese pop singer and songwriter
* March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
** Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter
** Jani Sievinen
Jani Nikanor Sievinen (; born 31 March 1974) is a former medley swimmer from Finland, who won the silver medal in the 200 m individual medley at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In winning the World Championship 200m individ ...
, Finnish swimmer
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 Kom ...
– Marcos Balter
Marcos Balter (born April 1, 1974) is a Brazilian contemporary classical music composer and the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University.
Life and professional career
Balter began his music studies at age five at th ...
, Brazilian composer
* 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. Jo ...
– Håkan Hellström
Håkan Georg Hellström (; born 2 April 1974) is a Swedish musician. He made his breakthrough in Sweden in 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" and the album with the same name. He has released nine studio albums to date wit ...
, Swedish musician
* April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013
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)
* April 11 – Tricia Helfer
Tricia Janine Helfer (born April 11, 1974) is a Canadian-American actress and former model. She played the enigmatic Cylon model Number Six in the re-imagined ''Battlestar Galactica'' series (2004–2009). She also voiced Sarah Kerrigan in ''S ...
, Canadian actress and model
* April 12 – Marley Shelton
Marley Eve Shelton (born April 12, 1974) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Wendy Peffercorn in David Mickey Evans's coming-of-age comedy ''The Sandlot'' (1993), the Customer in Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez's neo-noir ...
, American actress
* April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– Marta Jandová
Marta Verner (née Jandová; born 13 April 1974) is a Czech singer, best known for being the lead singer of the German alternative rock band Die Happy. She Czech Republic in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015, represented the Czech Republic in the ...
, Czech musician and actress
* April 15 – Danny Pino
Daniel Gonzalo Pino (born April 15, 1974) is an American actor who starred as Detective Scotty Valens on the CBS series ''Cold Case'' from 2003 to 2010, and as NYPD Detective Nick Amaro in the long-running NBC legal drama '' Law & Order: Specia ...
, Cuban American actor
* April 16 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director
* 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 ...
** Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish progressive metal/rock band from Stockholm, formed in 1990 by lead vocalist David Isberg. The group has been through several personnel changes, including the replacement of every original member; notably Isberg in 1992. Mikael ...
)Mikael Åkerfeldt, Opeth – Official Website, Retrieved 3 June 2012 ** Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer *
April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
** Lorraine Pilkington
Lorraine Pilkington (born 18 April 1974) is an Irish actress from Dublin who is best known for her role as Katrina Finlay from '' Monarch of the Glen''.
Life
Born in Dublin, Pilkington grew up in the affluent suburban village of Malahide, and ...
, Irish actress
** Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a ...
, English film director
* April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– Oleksiy Zhuravko
Oleksiy Valeriyovych Zhuravko ( uk, Олексій Валерійович Журавко, ; 21 April 1974 – 25 September 2022) was a Ukrainian and Russian politician who was a member of Ukraine's national parliament Verkhovna Rada from 2006 to ...
, Ukrainian politician (d. 2022
File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...
)
* April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
– Jennifer Paz
Jennifer Paz-Fedorov (born April 23, 1974) is a Filipina-born American actress. She is mostly known for her recurring role as Lapis Lazuli in ''Steven Universe'' and '' Steven Universe Future''.
Career
The youngest of four children, Paz moved wi ...
, Filipino actress
* April 24 – Stephen Wiltshire
Stephen Wiltshire (born 24 April 1974) is a British architectural artist and autistic savant. He is known for his ability to draw a landscape from memory after seeing it just once. His work has gained worldwide popularity.
In 2006, Wiltsh ...
, British architectural artist and autistic savant
* April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and model
* April 29 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter
May
* May 1 – Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch runner
* May 2
** Matt Berry
Matthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. He is best known for his roles in comedy series such as '' The IT Crowd'', ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', ''The Mighty Boosh'', ''Snuff Box'', ''What ...
, English actor and singer
** Horacio Carbonari
Horacio Angel Carbonari (born 2 May 1974) is a Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defender. He was nicknamed "Bazooka" due to his powerful free-kicks.
Career Rosario Central
Born in Santa Teresa, a town in the southern en ...
, Argentinian footballer and manager
** Garðar Thór Cortes
Garðar Thór Cortes (pronounced , born 2 May 1974) is an Icelandic tenor of Icelandic and English parentage. A former child actor, Garðar subsequently trained as a singer in Vienna, Copenhagen and London. He has performed various leading tenor ...
, Icelandic tenor and actor
** Janek Meet, Estonian footballer
* May 3 – Princess Haya bint Al Hussein
Princess Haya bint Hussein ( ar, الأميرة هيا بنت الحسين; born 3 May 1974) is the daughter of King Hussein of Jordan and his third wife Queen Alia, and the half-sister of King Abdullah II.
She is a graduate of the University ...
of Jordan
* May 4
** Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
** Tony McCoy, Irish jockey and sportscaster
* May 6
** Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner
** Daniela Bártová
Daniela Bártová-Břečková () (born 6 May 1974) is a retired Czech athlete. She was born in Ostrava. Originally a gymnast, her coach persuaded her to be a pole vaulter. She set nine world records in the mid-1990s, but she lost it on 4 November 1 ...
, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast
** Faruk Namdar
Faruk Namdar (born 6 May 1974 in West Berlin, West Germany) is a former professional Turkish footballer.
Namdar made 104 appearances in the Turkish Süper Lig and 12 appearances in the German 2. Bundesliga during his playing career.
References
...
, German-Turkish footballer
* May 7
** Lawrence Johnson, American pole vaulter
** Breckin Meyer, American actor
* May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Marge Kõrkjas
Marge Kõrkjas (born 8 May 1974) is an Estonian Paralympic swimmer with a vision impairment, who has won seven medals at four Paralympics.
Competitive career
Born in Rakvere, Kõrkjas first participated at the Paralympics at the 1992 Barcelona ...
, Estonian swimmer
* May 9
Events Pre-1600
* 328 – Athanasius is elected Patriarch of Alexandria.
*1009 – Lombard Revolt: Lombard forces led by Melus revolt in Bari against the Byzantine Catepanate of Italy.
*1386 – England and Portugal formally rati ...
– Brian Deegan, American Motocross Racer
* May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
** Liu Fang
Liu Fang 1974) is a Chinese–Canadian musician who is one of the most prominent ''pipa'' players in the world. Described in the media as the "empress of pipa" (''L'actualité''), "divine mediator" (World), "the greatest ambassadress of ...
, Chinese pipa player
** Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
* 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 forc ...
– Chantal Kreviazuk
Chantal Jennifer Kreviazuk (; born May 18, 1974) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, composer, and pianist. Born in Winnipeg, she played music from a young age before signing with Columbia Records in the 1990s. Her debut studio album, ''Under These ...
, Canadian singer-songwriter
* May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
– Laura Pausini
Laura Pausini (; born 16 May 1974) is an Italian singer. She rose to fame in 1993, winning the newcomer artists' section of the 43rd Sanremo Music Festival with her debut single "La solitudine", which became an Italian standard and an internat ...
, Italian singer
* May 17 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer
* May 19
** Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player
** Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indian film actor
* May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
** Mikael Stanne
Bengt Mikael Stanne (born 20 May 1974) is a Swedish musician, best known as the vocalist and one of the lyricists (as well as a former rhythm guitarist) for the Swedish melodic death metal band Dark Tranquillity. Since the departure of origina ...
, Swedish singer
** Colette Wong, Singaporean sports anchor
* May 21 – Fairuza Balk, American actress and musician
* May 22
Events Pre-1600
* 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu.
* 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
* 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt.
* 11 ...
** Sean Gunn, American actor
** Henrietta Ónodi
Henrietta Ónodi (born May 22, 1974) is a Hungarian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in 1992. After retiring from gymnastics in 1997 she moved to the United States, married American O ...
, Hungarian artistic gymnast
* May 23 – Jewel, American singer
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
– Lars Frölander
Lars Arne Frölander (born 26 May 1974) is a Swedish swimmer. He has competed in six consecutive Olympic Games (1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012).
Biography
Frölander was born in Boden. He grew up in Ornäs in Borlänge Municipality.
In ...
, Swedish swimmer
* May 28 – Misbah-ul-Haq
; born 28 May 1974) is a former Pakistani cricket coach and former international cricketer. Misbah captained Pakistan in all formats and is former head coach and former chief selector of the Pakistan national team.
A late bloomer, Misbah was a midd ...
, Pakistani cricketer
* May 29 – Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and actor
* May 30
Events Pre-1600
* 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...
– Big L, American rapper (d. 1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
)
* May 31 – Kenan Doğulu
Kenan Doğulu (; born 31 May 1974) is a Turkish pop musician. He represented Turkey at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, where he was placed fourth, with 163 points. In the summer of 2006, Doğulu released the album ''Festival'', co ...
, Turkish pop musician
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– Alanis Morissette
Alanis Nadine Morissette ( ; born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and actress. Known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting, Morissette began her career in Canada in the early 1990s with tw ...
, Canadian-American singer
* June 2 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
* 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 Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Ba ...
– Martín Karpan
Carlos Martín Karpan (born June 3, 1974 in Villa del Parque, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine- Colombian actor, notable for playing a villain in the telenovela ''El Cuerpo del Deseo'' and ''Te Voy a Enseñar a Querer''.
Personal life
He ...
, Argentinian actor
* June 7
** Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
** Bear Grylls, British survivalist
* June 13
** Katharina Bellowitsch
Katharina "Kati" Bellowitsch (born 13 June 1974) is an Austrian radio and TV presenter.
Career
Born in Graz, Styria, Bellowitsch trained as a primary school teacher before becoming, in 1996, a presenter at a commercial radio station in Styria ...
, Austrian radio and TV presenter.
** Selma
Selma may refer to:
Places
* Selma, Algeria
*Selma, Nova Scotia, Canada
*Selma, Switzerland, village in the Grisons
United States:
*Selma, Alabama, city in Dallas County, best known for the Selma to Montgomery marches
*Selma, Arkansas
*Selma, Cal ...
, Icelandic singer
** Steve-O
Stephen Gilchrist Glover (born June 13, 1974), known professionally as Steve-O, is an American entertainer, television personality, stunt performer and YouTuber. His career is mostly centered on his performance stunts in the reality comedy tel ...
, American actor
* June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
** Natasha Beaumont
Natasha Elisabeth Beaumont (born 21 June 1974) is a Malaysian-born British-Australian actress and model.
Beaumont was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She grew up in Kuala Lumpur, attended boarding school in Sydney and moved at age 20 to attend ...
, Malaysian actress and model
** Maggie Siff, American actress
** Hitoshi Uematsu
(born 21 June 1974) is a Japanese short-track speed skater. He received a bronze medal on the 500 m at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano Nagano may refer to:
Places
* Nagano Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
** Nagano (city), the capital c ...
, Japanese short track speed skater
* June 22
** Devayani
Devayani ( sa, देवयानी, translit=Devayānī) is a character in Hindu literature. She is described to be the daughter of Shukra, the acharya (preceptor) of the asuras, and his wife Jayanti, the daughter of Indra. She marries K ...
, Indian actress
** Donald Faison, American actor
** B. V. S. Ravi
Bachimanchi Venkata Subrahmanyam Ravi, better known as B. V. S. Ravi or Macha Ravi, is an Indian screenwriter and dialogue writer who works in Telugu films.
Career
He assisted Posani Krishna Murali for films such as ''Sivayya'', '' Seetharam ...
, Indian writer
** Tu Tamarua
Tu Tamarua (born 22 June 1974) is a retired Cook Islands rugby union flanker.
Career
Tamarua played for Queensland Reds, in Australia, from 1997 to 1999. He later played for NEC Harlequins, in England, for 2001/02 but missed a portion of the s ...
, Cook Islands rugby union flanker
** Vijay, Indian actor
* June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
** Joel Edgerton, Australian actor and filmmaker
** Kim Young-chul, South Korean comedian and singer
** Andi Vasluianu
Andi Vasluianu (; born 23 June 1974) is a Romanian film actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 2000.
Selected filmography
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vasluianu, Andi
1974 births
Living people
Male actors f ...
, Romanian actor
* June 24
** Andrea De Cruz
Andrea Heidi De Cruz (; born 24 June 1974) is a Singaporean actress and psychologist. She left Mediacorp when her contract ended, but continues to work on an ad hoc basis.
Career
De Cruz was a psychologist before going into show business. Alth ...
, Singaporean actress
** Ruffa Gutierrez, Filipino model, beauty queen and actress
* June 25
** Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
** Tereza Pergnerová
Tereza Pergnerová (born 25 June 1974) is a Czech actress, singer and television presenter. She presented the 2012 reality television show ''Farma''. She has two children, having given birth to a son in 2000 and a daughter in 2008.
Selected film ...
, Czech actress, singer and television presenter
* June 26
** Derek Jeter
Derek Sanderson Jeter ( ; born June 26, 1974) is an American former professional baseball shortstop, businessman, and baseball executive. As a player, Jeter spent his entire 20-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career with the New York Yankees ...
, American baseball player
** Ecija Ojdanić
Ecija Ojdanić (born 26 June 1974) is a Croatian theatre, film and television actress.Ecija Ojdanić< ...
, Croatian actress
** Nicole Saba
Nicole Saba ( ar, نيكول سابا; born 26 June 1974) is a Lebanese singer and actress.
Career
From 1998 to 2001, Saba was a member of the Lebanese pop group The 4 Cats, replacing Rola Bahnam. Saba released two albums with the 4 Cats (' ...
, Lebanese singer and actress
** Kristofer Steen, Swedish musician
** Matt Striker, American professional wrestler and commentator
* June 27 – Christopher O'Neill
Christopher Paul O'Neill, KNO (born 27 June 1974) is a British-American financier and husband of Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, with whom he has three children. He did not take any titles or become a Swedish citiz ...
, British-American businessman, Swedish royal
* June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
– Nelson Mariano II
Nelson Isurina Mariano II (born June 28, 1974) is a Filipino chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2004, the fifth from the Philippines. Mariano won the Asian Junior Chess Championship in 1994.
Life and career
Maria ...
, Filipino chess Grandmaster
* June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
– Pua Khein-Seng
Pua Khein-Seng (; born 29 June 1974, is regarded in Malaysia as the inventor of USB flash drive. In an interview with ''The Star'', the CEO of Phison Electronics Corp based in Taiwan claims to have incorporated the world's first single chip USB f ...
, Malaysian businessman
* June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus (763), Battle of Anc ...
– Hezekiél Sepeng
Hezekiél Sello Sepeng (born 30 June 1974), is a South African middle distance runner who won silver in the Olympic 800 metres final in Atlanta 1996 (behind Vebjørn Rodal), the 1998 Commonwealth Games (behind Japheth Kimutai) and the World C ...
, South African middle-distance athlete
July
* July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
** Timmy Hung
Timmy Hung Tin-ming (born 1 July 1974) is a Hong Kong actor. He is the eldest son of Sammo Hung.
Background
He was born in Hong Kong as the eldest son of martial arts superstar Sammo Hung and Sammo's Korean first wife Jo Eun-ok (曹恩玉). His ...
, Hong Kong actor
** Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada (born 1 July 1974) is an Ecuadorian retired race walker. He specialized in the 20 km event, in which he won the first two medals his country achieved in the Olympic Games.
He won the gold medal at the 199 ...
, Ecuadorean race walker
* July 2 – Moon So-ri
Moon So-ri (born July 2, 1974) is a South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her acclaimed leading roles in ''Oasis'' (2002) and ''A Good Lawyer's Wife'' (2003).
Career
After graduating with a degree in Educa ...
, South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter
* July 3
** Taiga Ishikawa, Japanese politician and LGBT activist
** Marko Milošević, Serbian fugitive and refugee
* July 4
** Kevin Hanchard, Canadian actor
** Karole Rocher, French actress
* July 7 – Jennifer Jones (curler), Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler
* July 8
** Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, actress, model and socialite (d. 2015)
** Dragoslav Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer
* July 12
** Parvin Dabas, Indian actor, model and director
** Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer
* July 14
** Martina Hill, German actress, comedian and impersonator
** David Mitchell (comedian), David Mitchell, British comedian and actor
* July 20 – Doug Ithier, Australian footballer
* July 22
** Franka Potente, German actress and singer
** Johnny Strong, American actor
* July 23
** Maurice Greene (sprinter), Maurice Greene, American athlete
** Kathryn Hahn, American actress
** Stephanie March, American actress
** Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian road racing cyclist
* July 24
** Eva Aridjis, Mexican-American director and screenwriter
* July 25 – Lauren Faust, American animator
* July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
* July 28 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician
* July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor
* July 30 – Hilary Swank, American actress
* July 31 – Emilia Fox, English actress
August
* August 5 – Kajol, Indian actress
* August 6 – Ever Carradine, American actress
* August 7 – Michael Shannon, American actor
* August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
* August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician
* August 14
Events Pre-1600
* 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
– Christopher Gorham, American actor
* August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
* August 16
** Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier
** Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
* August 20
** Amy Adams, American actress
** Misha Collins, American actor
** Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist
* August 22
** Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
** Lee Sheppard (cartoonist), Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist
* August 23
** Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist
** Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu, Ovi, Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician
** Shifty Shellshock, American singer
* August 24 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
* August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer
September
* September 3 – Jen Royle, American sports reporter and chef
* September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer
* September 6
** Tim Henman, English tennis player
** Nina Persson, Swedish singer
* September 7 – Glenn Ljungström, Swedish guitarist
* September 10
** Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer; mixed martial arts fighter
** Ryan Phillippe, American actor
** Ben Wallace (basketball), Ben Wallace, American basketball player
* September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
* September 15 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer, musician, and songwriter
* September 17
** Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
** Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist
* September 18
** Sol Campbell, English footballer
** Xzibit, American rapper
* September 19
** Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and television personality
** Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
* September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
* September 24 – Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer
* September 26 – Joo Jin-mo, South Korean actor
* September 30 – Yul Bürkle, Venezuelan actor and model
October
* October 2 – Rachana Banerjee, Indian film actress
* October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
* October 4 – Kiti Kokkonen, Finnish film, television and voice actress, and author
* October 6 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese sports shooter
* October 7 – Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
* October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
* October 10
** Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
** Oded Kattash, Israeli basketball player and coach
** Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player
* October 11 – Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player
* October 16
** Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
** Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
* October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
* October 18 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
* October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer and pianist
* October 23
** Aravind Adiga, Indian-Australian author
** Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
* October 24 – Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
* October 28
** Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer
** Joaquin Phoenix, American actor born in Puerto Rico
* October 29
** Akashdeep Saigal, Indian television actor and model
** Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician
November
* November 2 – Nelly, American rapper
* November 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
* 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
** Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
** Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
* November 8
** Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer
** Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
** Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
* November 9 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian football player
* November 10 – Chris Lilley (comedian), Chris Lilley, Australian comedian and actor
* November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor, producer and environmentalist
* November 13 – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect
* November 15
** Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
** Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of Lithuania
* November 16 – Paul Scholes, English football player
* November 18 – Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver
* November 20
Events Pre-1600
* 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor.
* 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels.
*1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry ...
** Drew Ginn, Australian rower
** Kurt Krömer, German television presenter, comedian and actor
* November 24 – Stephen Merchant, English actor and comedian
* November 27
** Wendy Houvenaghel, British racing cyclist
** Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player
* November 29 – Ferenc Merkli, Hungarian Slovene priest, writer and translator
* November 30 – Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer
December
* December 1 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
* December 5 – Kid Koala, Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and graphic novelist
* December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer
* December 10 – Meg White, American drummer
* December 11
** Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
** Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner
* December 12 – Michelle Saram, Singaporean singer and actress
* December 17
Events Pre-1600
* 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
* 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
* 920 – Romanos I Lekap ...
** Sarah Paulson, American actress
** Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
* December 18
** Kari Byron, American artist and television personality
**Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan Army commander (d. 2011)
** Viki Miljković, Serbian singer
* December 19
** Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian footballer
** Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
* December 20 – Paul Linger, English footballer
* December 24
Events Pre-1600
* 502 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.
* 640 – Pope John IV is elected, several months after his predecessor's death.
* 759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, whe ...
** Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
** Ryan Seacrest, American television personality
* December 27 – Alena Vinnitskaya, Ukrainian singer
* December 29 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor
* December 31 – Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver
Deaths
January
* January 1 – Jimmy Smith (baseball, born 1895), Jimmy Smith, American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1895)
* January 2 – Tex Ritter, American actor and country musician (b. 1905)
* January 3
Events Pre-1600
*AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor.
* 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...
** Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
** Red Snapp, American baseball player (b. 1888)
* January 6
** David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter and muralist (b. 1896)
** Dewey Mayhew, American football coach (b. 1898)
** Lech Pijanowski, Polish screenwriter, film critic, broadcaster and director (b. 1928)
** Margit Slachta, Hungarian politician (b. 1884)
* January 7 – Wang Shusheng, Chinese general (b. 1905)
* January 8 – Charles-Édouard Ferland, Canadian jurist, Liberal politician and Senator (b. 1892)
* January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
– Charles G. Bond, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (state), New York (b. 1877)
* January 11 – Antonio Bautista, Filipino pilot with the Philippine Air Force (b. 1937)
* January 12
Events Pre-1600
* 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire.
*1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned s ...
** Jack Jacobs, American-born National Football League and Canadian Football League player (b. 1919)
** Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
* January 14
Events Pre-1600
*1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence.
*1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
1601–1900
*1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...
– Joseph Dippolito, Italian American Mafia member of the Los Angeles crime syndicate (b. 1914)
* January 15 – Harold D. Cooley, U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1897)
* January 17 – Clara Edwards (composer), Clara Edwards, American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1880)
* January 18
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later.
* 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail.
* 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chi ...
– Bill Finger, American comic strip and book writer (b. 1914)
* January 19 – Edward Seago, British artist (b. 1910)
* January 20 – Leonard Freeman, American television writer and producer (''Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), Hawaii Five-0'') (b. 1920)
* January 21 – Robert Guy Howarth, Australian scholar, literary critic and poet (b. 1906 in poetry, 1906)
* January 22
Events Pre-1600
* 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (''Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople.
* 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw Vi ...
– Oskar Herman, Croatian Jewish painter (b. 1886)
* January 26
Events Pre-1600
* 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
*1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people.
*1564 – ...
– Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor (b. 1898)
* January 27
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent.
* 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
** Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1898)
** Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (b. 1886)
* January 28
Events Pre-1600
* 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany.
* 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession o ...
– Oswald Cornwallis, English cricketer (b. 1894)
* January 29
Events
Pre-1600
* 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
* 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ruler o ...
– H. E. Bates, English writer and author (b. 1905)
* January 30
Events Pre-1600
*1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen.
*1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom.
1601–1900
*1607 – An estimated ...
– Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (b. 1886)
* January 31
** Pina Gallini, Italian actress (b. 1888)
** Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879)
** Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete (b. 1912)
February
* February 4
Events Pre–1600
* 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
– Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894)
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
** Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
** George W. Snedecor, American mathematician and statistician (b. 1881)
* February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...
– Anita Bush, African American stage and silent film actress and playwright. Known as "The Little Mother of Colored Drama"
* February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
– Ralph W. Gerard, American neurophysiologist and behavioural scientist (b. 1900)
* February 21 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of the Tim Hortons restaurant chain (b. 1930)
* February 23
** Harry Ruby, American musician, composer and writer (b. 1885)
** George Van Biesbroeck, American-born Belgian astronomer (b. 1880)
* February 24
** Margaret Leech, American historian and fiction writer (b. 1893)
** Robert A. Stemmle, German screenwriter and film director (b. 1903)
March
* March 1
** Hüseyin Kemal Gürmen, Turkish theatre and cinema actor (b. 1901)
** Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935)
* March 2 – Péter Schell, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
* March 3
Events Pre-1600
* 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
* 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan.
* 1575 &nd ...
** Barbara Ruick, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
** Frank Wilcox, American character actor (b. 1907)
* March 4
Events Pre-1600
*AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth).
* 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
* 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...
– Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903)
* March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
** John Samuel Bourque, French-Canadian politician, Cabinet Minister, military member, and businessman from Québec, Canada (b. 1894)
** Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (b. 1907)
* March 6 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and writer; who won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for his book ''The Denial of Death'' (b. 1924)
* March 7
Events Pre-1600
* 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius.
* 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
** Moriji Mochida, last person ever awarded the 10th dan rank in kendo (b. 1885)
** Hans Sachs (poster collector), Hans Sachs, Holocaust survivor and poster collector (b. 1881)
* March 8 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (b. 1889)
* March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
* March 10 – Alexander John Majeski, American architect and Naval Lieutenant (b. 1920)
* March 12 – Oleksii Shovkunenko, Ukrainian painter (b. 1884)
* March 13 – Red Wing (actress), Red Wing, American actress (b. 1873)
* March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– Maulana Shams-ud-din Harifal, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1944)
* March 15
Events Pre-1600
* 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
*44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place.
* 493 – Odoa ...
– José Tohá, Chilean Socialist politician, minister (assassinated) (b. 1927)
* March 17 – Louis Kahn, Russian-born American architect (b. 1901)
* March 19 – Edward Platt, American actor known as "Get Smart, The Chief" on NBC/CBS's ''Get Smart'' (b. 1916)
* March 20 – Chet Huntley, American television reporter (b. 1911)
* March 21 – Candy Darling, American actress (b. 1944)
* March 22
Events Pre-1600
* 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
* 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
* 871 – Æthelr ...
– Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
* March 24 – Lewie G. Merritt, U.S. Marine, major general and aviator (b. 1897)
* March 27
** Wilhelm Herget, German Luftwaffe flying ace (b. 1910)
** Eduardo Santos Montejo, Eduardo Santos, Colombian publisher and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
* March 28
Events Pre-1600
* AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate.
* 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...
– Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1904)
* March 29
** Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (''Two Women, La ciociara'') (b. 1916)
** Joe Stecher, American professional wrestler (b. 1893)
* March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– Frank Seno, American football running back and defensive back (b. 1921)
April
* 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. Jo ...
** Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian actor (b. 1889)
** Georges Pompidou, 100th Prime Minister of France and 19th President of France, Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1911)
* April 3 – Ossie Newton-Thompson, South African cricketer and politician (b. 1920)
* April 5 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven (b. 1882)
* April 6
** Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch modernist architect (b. 1884)
** Roy Wood (baseball), Roy Wood, American professional baseball player (b. 1892)
* April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
– K. A. C. Creswell, English architectural historian (b. 1879)
* April 9 - Marvin L. Kline, Republican politician (b. 1903)
* April 10 – Patricia Collinge, Irish-born American actress (b. 1892)
* April 11 – Edward Alexander Bott, psychologist at the University of Toronto (b. 1887)
* April 14
** Howard Pease, American adventure novelist (b. 1894)
** Michael Whalen (actor), Michael Whalen, American actor (b. 1902)
* April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
** Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897)
** Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895)
* April 19 – Ayub Khan (general), Ayub Khan, Pakistanian general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
* April 20 – Peter Lee Lawrence, German actor in Spaghetti Westerns; such as ''For a Few Dollars More'' (b. 1944)
* April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– Mirja Mane, Finnish actress (b. 1929)
* April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
– Cy Williams, American baseball player (b. 1887)
* April 24
** Bud Abbott, American comedian (b. 1895)
** Franz Jonas, Austrian political figure, 7th President of Austria (b. 1899)
* April 25 – Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (b. 1888)
* April 27 – Hans W. Petersen, Danish actor of over 40 films (b. 1897)
* April 28 – Paul Page (actor), Paul Page, American actor of the 1920s and 1930s (b. 1903)
* April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
May
* May 1 – Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor (b. 1906)
* May 2
** James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)
** William Wantling, American ex-Marine, poet and novelist (b. 1933)
* May 3
** Nasir Khan (actor), Nasir Khan, Indian actor (b. 1924)
** Ralph McCabe, Canadian-born Major League Baseball player (b. 1918)
* May 4 – Ludwig Karl Koch, German broadcaster and sound recordist (b. 1881)
* May 6 – Robert Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans (b. 1889)
* May 7
** Abu Bakar of Pahang, Fourth Sultan of Pahang (b. 1904)
** Fred Kelly (athlete), Fred Kelly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891)
* May 8
Events Pre-1600
* 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin.
* 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...
– Fred Conyngham, Australian actor (b. 1901)
* May 10
Events Pre-1600
* 28 BC – A sunspot is observed by Han dynasty astronomers during the reign of Emperor Cheng of Han, one of the earliest dated sunspot observations in China.
*1291 – Scottish nobles recognize the authority of Edw ...
– Takeshi Sakamoto, Japanese actor (b. 1899)
* May 12 – Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944)
* May 13 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican public servant, 2nd Director-General of the UNESCO (b. 1902)
* 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 forc ...
– Jacob L. Moreno, Romanian-American psychiatrist and psychosociologist (b. 1889)
* May 15 – Guy Simonds, Canadian Lieutenant-General, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces in World War II (b. 1903)
* May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
– Billy Welu, American professional bowler (b. 1932)
* May 17 – Symbionese Liberation Army shootout with the Los Angeles Police Department
** Angela Atwood, American founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1949)
** Donald DeFreeze, American leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army who went by the ''nom de guerre'' "Field Marshal Cinque" (b. 1943)
** Camilla Hall, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, one of main kidnappers of heiress Patricia Hearst (b. 1945)
** Nancy Ling Perry, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1947)
** Patricia Soltysik, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1950)
* 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 4 ...
– Harry Ricardo, Sir Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer (b. 1885)
* May 19 – Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, poet, writer and scholar (b. 1910)
* May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
– Jean Daniélou, French Catholic cardinal, theologian and academic (b. 1905)
* May 21 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1890)
* May 24 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
* May 25
** Donald Crisp, English-American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1882)
** Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer, politician and philosopher (b. 1901)
* May 26
Events Pre-1600
* 17 – Germanicus celebrates a triumph in Rome for his victories over the Cherusci, Chatti, and other German tribes west of the Elbe.
* 451 – Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sasanian Empire take ...
– Kitty Gordon, English stage and silent film actress. (b. 1878)
* May 27 – Rudolf Altstadt, German soldier in World War II (b. 1914)
* May 28 – Francesco Fausto Nitti, Italian journalist (b. 1899)
* May 31
** Adelle Davis, American author and nutritionist (b. 1904)
** Frederick George Topham, Canadian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1917)
June
* June 1
Events Pre-1600
*1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen people, Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu.
*1252 – Alfonso X is pr ...
– Henry Clay Sevier, American lawyer and member from Louisiana House of Representatives (b. 1896)
* June 2 – Roger C. Slaughter, American lawyer and U.S. Representative from Missouri (b. 1905)
* 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 Empire, Byzantine emperor Philippikos Ba ...
– Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player (b. 1912)
* June 4
** Smokey Harris, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890)
** Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 43rd President of Bolivia (b. 1895)
* June 5 – Larry Cabrelli, American football player and assistant coach Philadelphia Eagles (b. 1917)
* June 7 – Abdul Rahman Hashim, Malaysian Inspector-General of Police (b. 1925)
* June 9
** Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
** Katharine Cornell, Berlin-born, American stage actress, writer, theatre owner, and producer (b. 1893)
** Carlo Pisacane (actor), Carlo Pisacane, Italian actor (b. 1889)
* June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 11th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900)
* June 11
** Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
** Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
* June 12 – André Marie, French Radical politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (b. 1897)
* June 14 – Knud Jeppesen, Danish musicologist, composer, and songwriter (b. 1892)
* June 15 – Kevin Gately, English mathematics student at University of Warwick involved in the Red Lion Square disorders (b. 1953)
* June 16
** Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894)
** Mauritz Hugo, Swedish-born American film and television actor (b. 1909)
* June 17
Events Pre-1600
* 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism.
* 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
** Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)
** Austin Gunsel, 3rd commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1909)
* June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Army marshal and Minister of Defence (Soviet Union), Minister of Defence (b. 1896)
* June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
– Katsutaro Kouta, Japanese female geisha and ryūkōka singer (b. 1904)
* June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
* June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
– Calvin B. Hoover, noted U.S. economist and professor (b. 1897)
* June 24 – József Juhász, Hungarian stage and film actor (b. 1908)
* June 25 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
* June 26 – Ernest Gruening, American journalist, Governor of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1953, and United States Senator from 1959 to 1969 (b. 1887)
* June 27 – Fred DeStefano, American football player and physician; who won the National Football League title with the Chicago Cardinals of 1925 (b. 1900)
* June 28
Events Pre-1600
* 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch.
* 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II.
* 1461 – ...
** Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor and science administrator (b. 1890)
** Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
* June 29
Events Pre-1600
* 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei.
*1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi.
* 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...
– José Maria Ferreira de Castro, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1898)
* June 30
Events Pre-1600
* 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy.
* 763 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus (763), Battle of Anc ...
– Alberta Williams King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King, Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1904)
July
* July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Juan Perón
Juan Domingo Perón (, , ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine Army general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President of a military dictatorship, he was elected P ...
, Argentine army general and politician, 2-time President of Argentina
The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...
(b. 1895)
* July 2
** Sonia Holm, English actress (b. 1920)
** Edith L. Sharp, Canadian writer (b. 1911)
* July 4
** Georgette Heyer, British writer (b. 1902)
** André Randall, French actor (b. 1892)
* July 6 – Joseph Baldacchino, Maltese archaeologist (b. 1894)
* July 7
** Leon Shamroy, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer (b. 1901)
** Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, American publisher and member of the Vanderbilt Family (b. 1898)
* July 8
** Mário Simões Dias, Portuguese violinist (b. 1902)
** Margaret Furse, British Academy Award-winning costume designer for ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' (b. 1911)
* July 9 – Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)
* July 10 – Nancy Wickwire, American soap opera actress (b. 1925)
* July 11
** Edward Beck (British Army officer), Edward Beck, British army officer (b. 1880)
** Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
* July 12 – Sonja Ludvigsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1928)
* July 13
** Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
** Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (1898–1974), Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1898)
* July 14
**Dame Sibyl Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark (b. 1884)
** Carl Andrew Spaatz, United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force general (b. 1891)
* July 15
** William Albrecht, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri (b. 1888)
** Christine Chubbuck, American TV personality (b. 1944)
** Victor Negus, British surgeon (b. 1887)
* July 17 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1910)
* July 19
Events Pre-1600
*AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city.
* 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is re ...
– Joe Flynn (US actor), Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
* July 20 – Charles Rudolph d'Olive, American World War I ace (b. 1896)
* July 22 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer, politician, and United States Senator from Oregon (1945–1969) (b. 1900)
* July 23 – Peter Lei, Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, Bishop of Hong Kong (b. 1922)
* July 24 – Sir James Chadwick, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
* July 25 – Robert Hanbidge, Canadian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Kerrobert and 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (b. 1891)
* July 27 – Joop Pelser, Dutch footballer (b. 1892)
* July 29
** Cass Elliot, American vocalist (b. 1941)
** Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
* July 30 – Lev Knipper, Soviet composer (b. 1898)
August
* August 2 – Cyril Smith (pianist), Cyril Smith, English virtuoso concert pianist (b. 1909)
* August 3
** Edna Murphy, American actress of the silent era (b. 1899)
** Almira Sessions, American character actress (b. 1888)
* August 4 – Józef Kondrat, Polish stage and film actor (b. 1902)
* August 5 – Friedrich F. Tippmann, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1894)
* August 6 – Gunboat Smith, Irish-born American boxer and referee (b. 1887)
* August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Méxican poet and author (b. 1925)
* August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907)
* August 11
** José Falcón, Portuguese matador (gored to death by bull) (b. 1944)
** Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (b. 1902)
* August 13 – Ernst Forsthoff, German jurist (b. 1902)
* August 14
Events Pre-1600
* 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
– Romuald Bourque, French-Canadian politician from Québec (b. 1889)
* August 15 – Edmund Cobb, American actor (b. 1892)
* August 17 – Aldo Palazzeschi, Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist (b. 1885)
* August 18 – J. C. Winslow, British missionary to India for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (b. 1882)
* August 19 – Rodger Davies, American diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1921)
* August 20 – Magda Sonja, Austrian actress (b. 1886)
* August 21 – Buford Pusser, American Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee (b. 1937)
* August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. 1908)
* August 23 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. 1888)
* August 24 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1894)
* August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (''Spirit of St. Louis'') (b. 1902)
* August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician (b. 1897)
* August 28 –
** Aleksandar Sekulović, Montenegrin cinematographer (b. 1918)
** Harlan County, USA, Lawrence Jones, American UMWA member who was martyred after being slain by a strikebreaker (b. 1950)
* August 29
** Judith Furse, English actress (b. 1912)
** Fred W. Preller, American politician (b. 1902)
* August 30 – Kenneth Anderson (writer), Kenneth Anderson, Indian-British writer and hunter (b. 1910)
* August 31
** Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1895)
** Norman Kirk, New Zealander politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)
** Gianna Manzini, Italian writer (b. 1896)
September
* September 1 – Mary Broadfoot Walker, Scottish physician (b. 1888)
* September 2 – Walter Strenge, American cinematographer (b. 1898)
* September 3 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
* September 4
** Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
** Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899)
* September 6
** Olga Baclanova, Soviet stage and screen actress, operatic singer, and ballerina (b. c. 1893)
** Otto Kruger, American actor of German descent (b. 1885)
* September 7 – Juan Antonio Ipiña, Spanish football manager (b. 1912)
* September 8
** Dhani Nivat, Prince of Thailand (b. 1885)
** Bert Niehoff, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1884)
** Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist, ''Little Jimmy'' (b. 1875)
* September 10 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. 1892)
* September 11 – Robert Nodar Jr., American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from New York (state), New York and its member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1916)
* September 12
** Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1900)
** Craig Woods, American actor (b. 1918)
* September 15 – René Capistrán Garza, Méxican Association of Catholic Youth leader, lawyer, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1898)
* September 16 – Phog Allen, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1885)
* September 17 – Claudia Morgan, American actress, ''The Edge of Night'' in the 1950s (b. 1912)
* September 18 – Edna Best, British actress (b. 1900)
* September 19
** Tránsito Cocomarola, Argentine musician and folklorist (b. 1918)
** Zack Taylor (baseball), Zack Taylor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
* September 20
** José Mojica, Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, Mexican Franciscan friar, singer, and actor (b. 1896)
** Arthur Rylah, Sir Arthur Rylah, Australian lawyer and politician. (b. 1909)
* September 21
** Walter Brennan, American actor; 3-time Best Supporting Academy Award-winning actor (1936, 1938, and 1940) (b. 1894)
** Jacqueline Susann, American writer and actress (b. 1918)
* September 22
** Winfried Otto Schumann, German physicist (b. 1888)
** George Spahn, American rancher connected to the Manson family (b. 1889)
* September 23 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian who created the character ''Charlie Weaver'' (b. 1905)
* September 24 – Dorothy Stone (actress), Dorothy Stone, American actress (b. 1905)
* September 26 – Jean Gale, American vaudeville performer (b. 1912)
* September 27
** Silvio Frondizi, Argentine intellectual and lawyer (b. 1907)
** James R. Webb, American soldier and screenwriter who won the 1963 Academy Award for ''How the West Was Won (film), How the West Was Won'' (b. 1909)
* September 28 – Arnold Fanck, German film director who pioneered in the mountain film genre (b. 1889)
* September 30
** Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician (assassinated) (b. 1915)
** Sofía Cuthbert, wife of Carlos Prats (b. 1918)
October
* October 1
** Stephen Latchford, American diplomat and aviation expert (b. 1883)
** Frederick Moosbrugger, American admiral (b. 1900)
* October 2 – Vasily Shukshin, Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter, and director from the Altai Krai, Altai region (b. 1929)
* October 3 – Bessie Louise Pierce, American historian (b. 1888)
* October 4
** Robert Lee Moore, American mathematician (b. 1882)
** Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (b. 1928)
* October 5
** Virgil Miller, American cinematographer (b. 1886)
** Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (b. 1889)
* October 6 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian statesman, diplomat and nationalist (b. 1896)
* October 7 – Henry J. Cadbury, American biblical scholar and Quaker (b. 1883)
* October 8 – Harry Carney, American jazz musician (b. 1910)
* October 9
** Theodore Foley, American Roman Catholic priest and servant of God (b. 1913)
** Oskar Schindler, Sudetgerman businessman (b. 1908)
* October 10 – Werner Heyking, Danish actor, ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971) (b. 1913)
* October 11 – Frank Kowalski, American soldier United States Army and United States representative from Connecticut (b. 1907)
* October 13
** Josef Krips, Austrian conductor and violinist (b. 1902)
** Sam Rice, American baseball player (History of the Washington Senators (1901–60), Washington Senators) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1890)
** Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
* October 14 – Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani landscape painter (b. 1909)
* October 16 – Vlasta Dekanova, Czechoslovak artistic gymnast (b. 1909)
* October 17
** Johannes Krahn, German architect (b. 1908)
** Tomotaka Tasaka, Japanese film director (b. 1902)
* October 18 – Anders Lange, Norwegian politician (b. 1902)
* October 19
** Farrukh Ahmad, Bangladeshi poet and writer (b. 1918)
** Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian jurist, musician, and spiritual thinker (b. 1895)
* October 20 – Élie Lescot, 29th President of Haiti, leader of the World War II (b. 1883)
* October 21 – Donald Goines, American writer of urban fiction (b. 1936)
* October 23 – Melchior Lengyel, Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter (b. 1880)
* October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
* October 25 – Fahrettin Altay, Ottoman military officer (b. 1880)
* October 26 – Bidia Dandaron, Buryat Buddhist practitioner in the USSR (b. 1914)
* October 27
** Paul Frankeur, French actor (b. 1905)
** C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938)
* October 30 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (b. 1914)
* October 31 – Mikheil Chiaureli, Soviet Georgia (country), Georgian filmmaker (b. 1894)
November
* November 1
Events Pre-1600
* 365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities.
* 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, ...
– Ralf Harolde, American character actor (b, 1899)
* November 2
** Richard Kroner, German neo-Hegelian philosopher (b. 1884)
** Farid-ud-Din Qadri, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1918)
* November 3 – Mamá Tingó, Dominican activist (b. 1921)
* November 4 – Harry Fritz (baseball), Harry Fritz, American baseball player Chicago Whales (b. 1890)
* November 5
Events Pre-1600
* 1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign.
* 1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Br ...
** Marguerite Namara, American lyric soprano (b. 1888)
** Stafford Repp, American actor noted for his work on the ''Batman (TV Series)'' (b. 1918)
* November 7
** Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1920)
** Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
* November 8 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1914)
* November 9 – Egon Wellesz, British composer, teacher and musicologist (b. 1885)
* November 13
** Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and film director (b. 1901)
** Karen Silkwood, American chemical technician and labor union activist (b. 1946)
* November 14 – Johnny Mack Brown, American football star and actor (b. 1904)
* November 15
** Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma (b. 1909)
** Konstantin Shayne, Russian-born, American actor (b. 1888)
* November 16 – Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (b. 1882)
* November 17
Events Pre-1600
* 887 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November.
*1183 &n ...
** Erskine Hamilton Childers, Irish politician, 4th President of Ireland (b. 1905)
** Clive Brook, English actor (b. 1887)
* November 18 – Gösta Lilliehöök (1884–1974), Gösta Lilliehöök, Swedish pentathlete and 1912 Olympic Games champion (b. 1884)
* November 19 – Alessandro Momo, Italian actor (b. 1956)
* November 21
Events Pre-1600
* 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)
* 235 ...
** Julia Navarrete Guerrero, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and venerable (b. 1881)
** Frank Martin (composer), Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
* November 22
Events Pre-1600
* 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
* 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Fra ...
– Ilie Antonescu, Romanian general (b. 1894)
* November 23
** Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born American writer (b. 1920)
** Massacre of the Sixty in Ethiopia of government and military officials.
*** Abiye Abebe, politician and army officer (b. 1918)
*** Aklilu Habte-Wold, politician and 6th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912)
*** Aman Andom, army officer and 1st List of Presidents of Ethiopia, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924)
*** Asrate Medhin Kassa, aristocrat and army officer (b. 1922)
*** Endelkachew Makonnen, politician and 4th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927)
* November 25
** Nick Drake, British musician (b. 1948)
** U Thant, Burmese diplomat and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909)
* November 27 – T. A. Madhuram, Tamil stage & film actress and film producer (b. 1918)
* November 28 – Konstantin Melnikov, Soviet architect (b. 1890)
* November 29
** James J. Braddock, American boxer (b. 1905)
** Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b. 1898)
December
* December 1 – Anita Brenner, Mexican anthropologist, historian and author (b. 1905)
* December 2
** Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Russian-born, Canadian composer, virtuoso pianist, & violinist (b. 1899)
** Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (b. 1900)
** Max Weber (Swiss politician), Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
* December 3 – Hans Leibelt, German film actor (b. 1885)
* December 4 – Lee Kinsolving, American actor (b. 1938)
* December 5
** Pietro Germi, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1914)
** Zaharia Stancu, Romanian prose writer (b. 1902)
** Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (b. 1886)
* December 6
** Einar Texas Ljungberg, Swedish Socialist politician (b. 1880)
** Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk, Dutch anthropologist, biologist and psychologist (b. 1887)
** Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Russian admiral (b. 1904)
** Luigi Salvatorelli, Italian historian and publicist (b. 1886)
* December 7 – Ariyavangsagatayana, 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Member of the Chetupon Temple (b. 1896)
* December 8 – Nadia Benois, Russian painter and stage designer; also the mother of English actor Peter Ustinov (b. 1896)
* December 9
** Hans Traut, German General-Lieutenant in the Nazi Wehrmacht in World War II (b. 1895)
** Ludwig Weber, Austrian bass (b. 1899)
* December 10 – Paul Richards (actor), Paul Richards, American actor, ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'' (b. 1924)
* December 11
** Maravillas de Jesús, Spanish Roman Catholic professed member of the Discalced Carmelites and saint (b. 1891)
** Reed Hadley, American radio, television and film actor (b. 1911)
* December 12 – Booker McDaniels, American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues with (Kansas City Monarchs) (b. 1913)
* December 13 – John G. Bennett, British mathematician (b. 1897)
* December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and journalist (b. 1889)
* December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (b. 1902)
* December 16 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (b. 1884)
* December 17
Events Pre-1600
* 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome.
* 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
* 920 – Romanos I Lekap ...
** Luis Almarcha Hernández, Spanish cleric, politician and Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1887)
** Bing Slamet, Indonesian singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. 1927)
* December 18 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887)
* December 19
** Bernd von Brauchitsch, German air force officer (b. 1911)
** Catrano Catrani, Italian-born Argentine director & producer (b. 1910)
* December 20 – André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
* December 21 – Richard Long (actor), Richard Long, American actor (b. 1927)
* December 22 – Gordon Purdy, Canadian Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal politician (b. 1888)
* December 23 – Jules Rykovich, Croatian-born, American football player (b. 1923)
* December 24
Events Pre-1600
* 502 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate.
* 640 – Pope John IV is elected, several months after his predecessor's death.
* 759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, whe ...
– Sentarō Ōmori, Japanese admiral (b. 1892)
* December 25 – Gorman Kennedy, Canadian executive and general manager of the Montreal Alouettes from (1957 to 1959) (b. 1907)
* December 26
** Jack Benny, American actor (b. 1894)
** Frank Hussey, American Olympic athlete (b. 1905)
* December 27
** Bob Custer, American film actor (b. 1898)
** Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898)
** Ned Maddrell, last surviving first language, native speaker of the Manx language (b. 1877)
* December 28 – Zachary Cope, British physician and surgeon (b. 1881)
* December 29
** Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892), Robert Ellis, American actor (b. 1892)
** William Charles Fuller, Welsh soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1884)
* December 30
** George Howard Earle III, American politician and diplomat; served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939 (b. 1890)
** Sid Terris, American boxer (b. 1904)
* December 31
** Dogen Handa, Japanese professional Go player (b. 1914)
** Robert Pache, Swiss footballer (b. 1897)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Paul Flory * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George Emil Palade * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Seán MacBride, Eisaku Satō * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich HayekReferences
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