Events
January
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January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...
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Air India Flight 855
Air India Flight 855 was a scheduled passenger flight from Santa Cruz Airport, Bombay to Dubai International Airport, Dubai. On New Years Day in 1978, the Boeing 747 operating the flight crashed about off the coast of Bandra, Bombay (now Mum ...
, a
Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of
Bombay
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second-m ...
, killing 213.
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January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
* 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
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Bülent Ecevit, of
CHP, forms the new government of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...
(42nd government).
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January 6 – The
Holy Crown of Hungary
The Holy Crown of Hungary ( hu, Szent Korona; sh, Kruna svetoga Stjepana; la, Sacra Corona; sk, Svätoštefanská koruna , la, Sacra Corona), also known as the Crown of Saint Stephen, named in honour of Saint Stephen I of Hungary, was the c ...
(also known as
Stephen of Hungary
Stephen I, also known as King Saint Stephen ( hu, Szent István király ; la, Sanctus Stephanus; sk, Štefan I. or Štefan Veľký; 975 – 15 August 1038), was the last Grand Prince of the Hungarians between 997 and 1000 or 1001, and the f ...
Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
.
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January 10 –
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal (23 September 1924 – 10 January 1978) was a Nicaraguan journalist and publisher. He was the editor of '' La Prensa'', the only significant opposition newspaper to the long rule of the Somoza family. He is a ...
, a critic of the
Nicaragua
Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the countr ...
n government, is assassinated; riots erupt against
Somoza
The Somoza family ( es, Familia Somoza) is a former political family that ruled Nicaragua for forty-three years from 1936 to 1979. Their family dictatorship was founded by Anastasio Somoza García and was continued by his two sons Luis Somoza D ...
's government.
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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 ...
– The
European Court of Human Rights
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that ...
finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
, but not guilty of torture.
*
January 22 –
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
declares the ambassador of West Germany ''
persona non grata''.
*
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 ...
**
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
satellite
Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering debris over Canada's
Northwest Territories.
**
Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison since the establishment of the
Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...
.
*
January 25 –
27 – The
Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the
Ohio Valley
The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...
and
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes, also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the mid-east region of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River. There are five lak ...
, killing 70.
February
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February 1 – Film director
Roman Polanski
Raymond Roman Thierry Polański , group=lower-alpha, name=note_a ( né Liebling; 18 August 1933) is a French-Polish film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, tw ...
skips
bail
Bail is a set of pre-trial restrictions that are imposed on a suspect to ensure that they will not hamper the judicial process. Bail is the conditional release of a defendant with the promise to appear in court when required.
In some countrie ...
and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in
sex
Sex is the trait that determines whether a sexually reproducing animal or plant produces male or female gametes. Male plants and animals produce smaller mobile gametes (spermatozoa, sperm, pollen), while females produce larger ones ( ova, of ...
with a 13-year-old girl.
*
February 5–
7 – The
Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978
The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 was a catastrophic, historic nor'easter that struck New England, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the New York metropolitan area. The Blizzard of '78 formed on Sunday, February 5, 1978, and broke ...
hits the
New England
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York (state), New York to the west and by the Can ...
region and the
New York metropolitan area
The New York metropolitan area, also commonly referred to as the Tri-State area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, at , and one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. The vast metropolitan area ...
, killing about 100, and causing over US$520 million in damage.
*
February 6 –
King Dragon operation in Arakan
Operation Dragon King ( my, နဂါးမင်း စစ်ဆင်ရေး), officially known as Operation Nagamin in English, was a military operation carried in 1978 out by the Tatmadaw and immigration officials in northern Arakan, Bu ...
: Burmese General
Ne Win targets Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara.
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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 ...
–
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States.
The composition and pow ...
proceedings are broadcast on
radio
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...
for the first time.
*
February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
*1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– The
Budd Company unveils its first
SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
, United States.
*
February 11
**
Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314
On 11 February 1978, Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashed at Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport, near Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, killing 43 of the 49 people on board.
The scheduled flight from ...
, a
Boeing 737
The Boeing 737 is a narrow-body aircraft produced by Boeing at its Boeing Renton Factory, Renton Factory in Washington (state), Washington.
Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retains the Boeing 707, 7 ...
-200, crashes in
Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people on board.
**
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
mobilizes its troops to deal with an apparent
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
n attack.
** The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by
Aristotle
Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of ph ...
,
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
and
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
.
*
February 13 –
Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing: A bomb explodes outside the
Hilton Hotel
Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton.
The original company was founded by Conrad Hilton. As ...
in Sydney, Australia, killing a policeman and two civilians, and injuring several other people.
*
February 15 –
Rhodesia, one of only two remaining white-ruled African nations (the other being South Africa), announces that it will accept
multiracial democracy Multiracial democracy is a democratic political system that is multiracial. It is cited as aspiration in South Africa after apartheid and as existing for the United States.
See also
* Cultural mosaic
* Ethnopluralism
* Intercultural relations
* ...
within 2 years.
*
February 19 –
Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport
On 19 February 1978, Egyptian special forces raided Larnaca International Airport near Larnaca, Cyprus, in an attempt to intervene in a hijacking. Earlier, two assassins had killed prominent Egyptian newspaper editor Yusuf Sibai and then round ...
:
Egyptian Special Forces attempt to rescue several hostages in Larnaca, Cyprus; 20 Egyptian commandos are injured or killed.
*
February 25 – The
first Legislative Assembly election is held in
Arunachal Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh (, ) is a state in Northeastern India. It was formed from the erstwhile North-East Frontier Agency (NEFA) region, and became a state on 20 February 1987. It borders the states of Assam and Nagaland to the south. It shares ...
, India.
*
February 27 – The first
global positioning satellite
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sys ...
, the
Rockwell International
Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products. R ...
-built
Navstar 1, is launched by the United States.
March
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March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
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Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.
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March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
– ''
Soyuz 28
Soyuz 28 (russian: Союз 28, ''Union 28'') was a March 1978 Soviet crewed mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station. It was the fourth mission to the station, the third successful docking, and the second visit to the resident crew launche ...
'' (
Aleksei Gubarev,
Vladimír Remek
Vladimír Remek (born 26 September 1948) is a Czech, formerly Czechoslovak, politician and diplomat, as well as a former cosmonaut and military pilot. He flew aboard Soyuz 28 from 2 to 10 March 1978, becoming the first and only Czechoslovak in ...
) is launched on a rendezvous with ''
Salyut 6
Salyut 6 (russian: Салют-6; lit. Salute 6), DOS-5, was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth station of the Salyut programme. It was launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket. Salyut 6 was the first space station to recei ...
'', with the first cosmonaut from a country other than the USA or USSR (Czechoslovakian Vladimír Remek).
*
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 & ...
**
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of
Cuba
Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...
n soldiers, against
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
n troops in the
Ogaden.
**
Rhodesia attacks
Zambia
Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa, although it is typically referred to as being in Southern Africa at its most central point. Its neighbours are t ...
.
** The ''
New York Post
The ''New York Post'' (''NY Post'') is a conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City. The ''Post'' also operates NYPost.com, the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, and the entertainment site Decider.com.
It was established ...
'' publishes an article about
David Rorvik
David Michael Rorvik (born 1944) is an American journalist and novelist who was the author of the 1978 book ''In his Image: The Cloning of a Man'' in which he claimed to have been part of a successful endeavor to create a clone of a human being. T ...
's book ''The Cloning of Man'', about a supposed
cloning of a human being.
*
March 8
Events Pre-1600
* 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''.
*1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León.
* 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...
– The first radio episode of ''
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' (sometimes referred to as ''HG2G'', ''HHGTTG'', ''H2G2'', or ''tHGttG'') is a comedy science fiction franchise created by Douglas Adams. Originally a 1978 radio comedy broadcast on BBC Radio 4, it ...
'', by
Douglas Adams
Douglas Noel Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author and screenwriter, best known for ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Originally a 1978 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), BBC radio comedy, ''The H ...
, is transmitted on
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
.
*
March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a ...
– ''
Soyuz 28
Soyuz 28 (russian: Союз 28, ''Union 28'') was a March 1978 Soviet crewed mission to the orbiting Salyut 6 space station. It was the fourth mission to the station, the third successful docking, and the second visit to the resident crew launche ...
'' lands.
*
March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
–
Coastal Road massacre:
Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
terrorists
Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...
kill 34
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
is.
*
March 14 –
Operation Litani
The 1978 South Lebanon conflict (codenamed Operation Litani by Israel) began after Israel invaded southern Lebanon up to the Litani River in March 1978, in response to the Coastal Road massacre near Tel Aviv by Lebanon-based Palestinian mi ...
:
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
i forces invade
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to Lebanon–Syria border, the north and east and Israel to Blue ...
.
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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 – Odo ...
–
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
and
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
sign a truce to end the
Ethio-Somali War
The Ogaden War, or the Ethio-Somali War (, am, የኢትዮጵያ ሶማሊያ ጦርነት, ye’ītiyop’iya somalīya t’orineti), was a military conflict fought between Somalia and Ethiopia from July 1977 to March 1978 over the Ethiopi ...
.
* March 16 – Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; 5 bodyguards are killed.
* March 17 – An oil tanker, ''Amoco Cadiz'', runs aground on the coast of Brittany.
* March 18
** Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging, for ordering the assassination of a political opponent.
** California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting more than 300,000 fans.
* March 22 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies, after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
* March 26 – The control tower and some other facilities of Narita International Airport, New Tokyo International Airport, which were scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged in a terrorist attack by New Left activists, forcing a rescheduling of its opening date to May 20.
* March 28
** San Francisco's City Council signs the United States's most comprehensive gay rights bill.
** ''Stump v. Sparkman'' (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 decision, in a controversial case involving involuntary Human sterilization, sterilization and judicial immunity.
April
* April 1
** New Zealand National Airways Corporation (the domestic airline of New Zealand) is merged with New Zealand's international airline, Air New Zealand.
** Dick Smith (entrepreneur), Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.
** The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, is converted to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
* April 2 – ''Dallas (1978 TV series), Dallas'' debuts on CBS, and gives birth to the modern day primetime soap opera.
* April 3 – The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with ''Annie Hall'' winning Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Picture.
* April 7 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb, a weapon that kills people with radiation, but leaves buildings relatively intact.
* April 9 – Somalia, Somali Military of Somalia, military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.
* April 14 – 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against an attempt by
Soviet
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...
authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
* April 18 – The U.S. Senate votes, 68–32, to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.
* April 20 – A Soviet air defense plane shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902; the plane makes an emergency landing on a frozen lake.
* April 22
** Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
with their song ''A-Ba-Ni-Bi''.
** The One Love Peace Concert is held at National Heroes Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. Bob Marley unites two opposing political leaders at this concert, bringing peace to the civil war-ridden streets of the city.
* April 25 – St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance, after Anita Bryant's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
* April 27
** Afghanistan's president Daoud Khan is killed, and his family murdered, during a Marxist military coup d'état; Nur Muhammad Taraki succeeds him, beginning the Afghanistan conflict (1978–present), Afghan war which has not ended yet.
** Willow Island disaster – In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.
* April 30 – The Marxist "Democratic Republic of Afghanistan" is proclaimed, under pro-communist leader Nur Muhammad Taraki.
May
* May 4
** The Battle of Cassinga occurs in southern Angola.
** Communist activist Henri Curiel is murdered in Paris.
* May 5 – Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.
* May 8
** Norway opens a natural gas field, in the Arctic Ocean, Polar Sea.
** Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria) make the first ascent of Mount Everest, without supplemental oxygen.
* May 9 – In Rome, the corpse of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, is found in a red Renault 4.
* May 12 – In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining centre of the province of Katanga Province, Shaba. The Zairean government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
* May 12–May 13, 13 – A group of mercenary, mercenaries, led by Bob Denard, oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros; ten local soldiers are killed. Denard forms a new government.
* May 15 – Students of the University of Tehran riot in Tabriz; the army stops the riot.
* May 17 –
Charlie Chaplin's coffin is found some from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva.
* May 18
** Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov is sentenced to 7 years' hard labor, for distributing 'counterrevolutionary material'.
** Sarajevo is selected to host the 1984 Winter Olympics, and Los Angeles is selected to host the 1984 Summer Olympics.
* May 18–May 19, 19 – Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire, to aid the fight against the rebels.
* May 19–May 20, 20 – French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi, Zaire, to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.
* May 20 – Mavis Hutchinson, 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days.
* May 22 – Exiled leaders Ahmed Abdallah and Muhammad Ahmad return to the Comoros.
* May 25
** First Unabomber attack: A bomb explodes in the security section of Northwestern University, wounding a security guard.
** In a rematch of the previous season, the Montreal Canadiens again defeat the Boston Bruins, this time four games to two, to win the Stanley Cup.
* May 26 – In Atlantic City, New Jersey, Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States, opens.
* May 28 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall (racing driver), Jim Hall.
* May 29 – Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros, allegedly shot when trying to escape.
June
* June 1 – The 1978 FIFA World Cup starts in Argentina.
* June 10 – Affirmed holds off Alydar to win the Belmont Stakes and becomes the last horse to win the U.S. Triple Crown of Horse Racing until 2015.
* June 15 – King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor of Jordan, Queen Noor.
* June 19
** England cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take eight wickets in one innings of a Test match.
** ''Garfield's'' first comic strip, originally published locally as ''Jon'' in 1976, goes into nationwide Print syndication, syndication.
* June 20 – The 6.2 1978 Thessaloniki earthquake, Thessaloniki earthquake shakes Northern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''). Fifty people were killed.
* June 21
** A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army in Northern Ireland leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead.
** 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: Iranian helicopters stray into Soviet airspace and are shot down.
* June 22 – Charon (moon), Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is discovered.
* June 24 – The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark the 9th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots (which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; later incorporating a festival).
* June 25
** Argentina national football team, Argentina defeats Netherlands national football team, the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup.
** The Rainbow flag (LGBT), rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Pride, San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
* June 26 – A bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in the Palace of Versailles.
* June 30 –
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
begins a massive offensive in Eritrea.
July
* July 3 – The Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization, Amazon Co-operation Treaty (ACT) is signed.
* July 7 – The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom.
* July 11 – At least 217 tourists die in an Los Alfaques disaster, explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in Costa Daurada, Spain.
* July 24 – In Acapulco, Mexico, Margaret Gardiner (beauty queen), Margaret Gardiner of South Africa is crowned Miss Universe.
* July 25
** Cerro Maravilla murders: Two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists are killed in a police ambush.
** Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK.
August
* August 12 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is concluded.
* August 17 – ''Double Eagle II'' becomes the first balloon to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, France.
* August 22 – Sandinistas seize the Nicaraguan National Palace.
* August 26 – Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.
September
![Sadat Carter Begin, Camp David 1978](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Sadat_Carter_Begin%2C_Camp_David_1978.gif)
* September 5 – Camp David Accords: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
* September 7 – In London, UK, a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, fatally poisons Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov; he dies four days later.
* September 8 – Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in Tehran, killing 122, wounding 4,000.
* September 12 – The Declaration of Alma Ata is signed and released in the Capital City of Kazakh, USSR. Known as the core document on Primary Health Care Practices and Equity in Healthcare, it paved the way for the modern-day State-sponsored Healthcare System.
* September 16
** General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan.
** The 7.4 1978 Tabas earthquake, Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.
* September 17 – The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt.
* September 19
** Police in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary.
** The Solomon Islands join the United Nations.
* September 20 – General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of Martial Law Governor of Balochistan, Pakistan, Balochistan.
* September 23 – California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock is shot to death at age 27 while visiting friends in Gary, Indiana during an Angels' road trip in Chicago, Illinois.
* September 24
** PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed.
** Giuseppe Verdi's opera ''Otello'' makes its first appearance on ''Live from the Met'', in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.
* September 27 – The last Forest Brothers, Forest Brother Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia.
* September 28 – Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
* September 30 – Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland.
* September – The African National Congress attempts to kill about 500 of its own cadres by poisoning their food because an infiltrated enemy agent cannot be identified.
October
* October 1
** Vietnam attacks Cambodia.
** Tuvalu becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* October 7 – ''Wranslide'' in New South Wales: the Neville Wran, Wran government is re-elected with an increased majority.
* October 8 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.6 mph (511.13 km/h) at Blowering Dam, Australia.
* October 9 – P. W. Botha, P.W. Botha succeeds B. J. Vorster, John Vorster as Prime Minister of South Africa.
* October 10
** Daniel arap Moi becomes president of Kenya.
** B. J. Vorster, John Vorster becomes State President of South Africa.
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Archontology.org; accessed April 14, 2017.
** A massive short circuit in Seasat's electrical system ends the satellite's scientific mission.
** United States President Jimmy Carter signs a bill that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
* October 13 – The Soviet Union launches a major Russification campaign throughout all union republics.
* October 14 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law which allows homebrewing of beer in the United States.
* October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523).
* October 18 – Thorbjörn Fälldin steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden, and is succeeded by Ola Ullsten, the Leader of the liberal People's Party ("''Folkpartiet''").
* October 20 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall riots.
* October 21 – Australian civilian pilot Disappearance of Frederick Valentich, Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 Skylane over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft.
* October 27 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord.
* October 31 – The South African Railways sets a still unbeaten Land speed record for rail vehicles, world rail speed record on Cape gauge.
November
* November 2: 8:00 pm – The
Republic of Ireland
Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern ...
's second television channel RTÉ Two, RTÉ 2 goes on air (renamed Network 2, 1988; RTÉ Network Two, 1995; N2, 1997; and RTÉ Two in 2004).
* November 3 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
* November 7 – Indira Gandhi is re-elected to the Indian parliament.
* November 18 – Jonestown incident: In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder–suicide that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Leo Ryan, Congressman Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.
* November 24 – China starts an experimental "household responsibility system", in Anhui, Anhui Province.
* November 26 – Two British commercial divers, Michael Ward and Tony Prangley, die of hypothermia and drowning in the East Shetland Basin after their diving bell Star Canopus diving accident, plunges to the seabed at a depth of over .
December
* December 4 – Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered George Moscone, to become the first woman mayor of San Francisco; she will remain in office until January 8, 1988.
* December 6 – The Spanish Constitution of 1978, Spanish Constitution officially restores the country's democratic government.
* December 11
** Lufthansa heist: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
** Two million demonstrate against the Shah in Iran.
* December 16
** Train 87 from Nanjing to Xining collides with train 368 from Xi'an to Xuzhou near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218.
** ''The Mystery of Mamo'' is released in cinemas in Japan.
* December 19 – Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.
* December 22
** The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform.
** Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men and boys committed between 1972 and 1978, is arrested.
** Argentina begins Operation Soberanía against Chile, but Argentinian forces quickly withdraw.
* December 25 – Vietnam launches a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia.
* December 27 – The Spanish Constitution of 1978, Constitution of Spain is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military dictatorship.
Date unknown
* Synthetic insulin is developed.
* Romanian painter Doina Bumbea is abducted by the North Korean government.
* Abortion is legalized in Italy for the first time.
* In Seoul, South Korea, construction begins on Seoul Subway Line 2.
* Ford Motor Company, Ford initiates a recall for the Ford Pinto, Pinto because of a public outcry resulting from deaths associated with gas tank explosions.
* Rolnicka Praha children's choir is founded in Prague, Czech Republic.
* The New York International Bible Society's New International Version of the complete Bible translated into modern American English is published.
* The ''Space Invaders'' arcade video game is released by Taito.
Births
January
![Sheamus March 2018](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Sheamus_March_2018.jpg)
*
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...
– Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
* January 2 – Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer
* January 3
** Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model, clothing designer and actress
** Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress
* January 4 – Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (d. 2009)
*
January 5
Events Pre-1600
*1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France.
1601–1900
* 1675 – Battle of Colmar: The French a ...
** Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
** January Jones, American actress
* January 7 – Emilio Palma, Argentine citizen, first human born in Antarctica
* January 9
** Chad Johnson, American football player
** AJ McLean, American singer
** Gennaro Gattuso, Italian football player
*
January 10 – Kanako Mitsuhashi, Japanese voice actress
* January 11 – Emile Heskey, English footballer
* January 12 – Hannah Gadsby, Australian comedian
* January 13
** Ashmit Patel, Indian actor
** Mohit Sharma (soldier), Mohit Sharma Indian Army Officer
* January 14 – Shawn Crawford, American sprinter
* January 15
** Eddie Cahill, American actor
** Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist
* January 17 – Ricky Wilson (singer), Ricky Wilson, British vocalist (Kaiser Chiefs)
*
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 ...
** Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist
** Katja Kipping, German politician
* January 20 – Omar Sy, French actor and comedian
*
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 ...
** Mark Hildreth (actor), Mark Hildreth, Canadian actor and voice actor
** Nami Miyahara, Japanese voice actress and singer
** Kristen Schaal, American actress, comedian, and writer
*
January 25 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian politician and comedian, President of Ukraine
* January 28
** Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
** Jamie Carragher, English footballer
** Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (d. 2020)
** Sheamus, Irish wrestler
** Vanessa Villela, Mexican actress
February
![Danai Gurira (48411663897) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Danai_Gurira_%2848411663897%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* February 2
** Nelson Chamisa, Zimbabwean politician
** Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and coach
* February 3 – Amal Clooney, British-Lebanese barrister, activist and author
* February 4 – Aleksey Rozin, Russian actor
*
February 5
** Brian Russell, American football player
** Samuel Sánchez, Spanish road bicycle racer
*
February 6
** Danny Buderus, Australian rugby league player
** Olena Zelenska, Ukrainian first lady and former model
** Yael Naim, Israeli-French singer and songwriter
* February 7
** Ashton Kutcher, American actor
** Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Nigerian actress, singer, philanthropist and former model
* February 10
** Isabella Eklöf, Swedish screenwriter and film director
** Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer and actor
* February 12
** Gethin Jones, Welsh television presenter
** Silver Meikar, Estonian politician
*
February 13 – Niklas Bäckström, Finnish hockey player
* February 14
** Richard Hamilton (basketball), Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
** Danai Gurira, American actress and playwright
** Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player
* February 16
** John Tartaglia, American actor
** Tia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete
*
February 19
** Kenyatta Wright, American football player
** Immortal Technique, Peruvian-American rapper
* February 20
** Julia Jentsch, German actress
** Ken Takeuchi, Japanese voice actor
* February 21
** Kim Ha-neul, South Korean actress
** Kumail Nanjiani, Pakistani-American actor and comedian
** Miki Sakai, Japanese actress
* February 22 – Jenny Frost, English singer
* February 23 – Dan Snyder (ice hockey), Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d. 2003)
* February 24 – Gary (rapper), Gary, South Korean musician, entertainer
*
February 27 – Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer and politician, Mayor of Tbilisi
* February 28
** Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter
** Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer
** Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier
March
![Rani Mukerji promoting Hichki in 2018 (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Rani_Mukerji_promoting_Hichki_in_2018_%28cropped%29.jpg)
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
** Jensen Ackles, American actor
** Donovan Patton, American actor and television host
** Sakura Nogawa, Japanese voice actress
*
March 2
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his '' bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...
** Tomáš Kaberle, Czech hockey player
** Sebastian Janikowski, American football player
*
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 & ...
– Tanishaa Mukerji, Indian actress
* March 4 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
* March 6
** Sage Rosenfels, American football player
** Mike Jackson (Oklahoma politician), Mike Jackson, American politician
* March 7
** Mike Reese (Pennsylvania politician), Mike Reese, American politician (d. 2021)
** Azis, Bulgarian singer
*
March 10
Events Pre-1600
* 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
* 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a ...
– Benjamin Burnley, American musician
*
March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the ven ...
** Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
** Ha Jung-woo, South Korean actor and director
* March 12
** Neal Obermeyer, American editorial cartoonist
** Claudio Sanchez, American writer and musician
* March 13
** Tom Danielson, American cyclist
** Kenny Watson (American football), Kenny Watson, American football player
*
March 14
** Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
** Carl Johan Bergman, Swedish biathlete
** Moon Hee-joon, Korean singer
*
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 – Odo ...
– Flavio Furtado, Cape Verdean boxer
* March 16
** Matthew Montgomery (actor), Matthew Montgomery, American actor
** Brooke Burns, American fashion model and actress
* March 17 – Patrick Seitz, American voice actor
* March 18
** Antonio Margarito, Mexican-American boxer
** Fernandão (footballer, born 1978), Fernandão, Brazilian footballer
* March 21
** Rani Mukerji, Indian actress
** Mohammad Rezaei (wrestler, born 1978), Mohammad Rezaei, Iranian wrestler
* March 22
**Josh Heupel, American football player and coach
**Vanessa Senior, Venezuelan comedian and actress.
* March 23
** Simon Gärdenfors, Swedish cartoonist and radio host
** Nicholle Tom, American actress
** Perez Hilton, American actor and blogger
* March 29 – Igor Rakočević, Serbian basketball player
* March 30 – Simon Webbe, English singer
April
![Stana Katic at Paleyfest 2012](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Stana_Katic_at_Paleyfest_2012.jpg)
* April 2 – Nick Berg, American businessman (d. 2004)
* April 3
** Matthew Goode, English actor
** John Smit, South African rugby union player
* April 4 – Sam Moran, Australian singer
* April 5
** Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
** Arnaud Tournant, French track cyclist
** Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
* April 6
** Tim Hasselbeck, American football player
** Myleene Klass, English singer, pianist, and model
** Martín Méndez, Uruguayan musician and songwriter
** Lauren Ridloff, African-American actress
* April 7
** Duncan James, English singer
** Adrienne Haan, German-Luxembourgish actress, singer, writer and producer
* April 9
** Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer
** Takashi Ohara, Japanese voice actor
** Rachel Stevens, English singer
* April 10 – Rokhaya Diallo, French writer and filmmaker
* April 12
** Guy Berryman, Scottish musician
** Cheeming Boey, Malaysian artist
** Riley Smith, American actor
* April 13
** Kyle Howard, American television and movie actor
** Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
* April 15
** Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter
** Chris Stapleton, American country singer and guitarist
* April 16
** Lara Dutta, Indian actress and beauty queen
** Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer
* April 17
** Juan Guillermo Castillo, Uruguayan goalkeeper
** Jason White (rugby union), Jason White, Scottish rugby union player
* April 19 – James Franco, American actor
* April 20
** Matthew Wilkas, American actor, playwright and reality television personality
** Matt Austin (actor), Matt Austin, Canadian actor
** Alessandro Rigotti, Italian voice actor
* April 21 – Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer
* April 22
** Esteban Tuero, Argentine Formula One driver
** Manu Intiraymi, American actor
* April 23 – Princess Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon, Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon, Spanish athlete
* April 25 – Duncan Kibet, Kenyan long-distance runner
* April 26
** Stana Katic, Canadian-American actress
** Shinnosuke Tachibana, Japanese voice actor
* April 28
** Robert Oliveri, American former actor
** Roman Karmen, Soviet war camera-man and film director
* April 29
** Bob and Mike Bryan, American doubles tennis team
** Tyler Labine, Canadian actor
May
![Jason Biggs at Paley Fest Orange Is The New Black](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Jason_Biggs_at_Paley_Fest_Orange_Is_The_New_Black.jpg)
* May 4 – Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor
* May 6
** Tony Estanguet, French slalom canoeist
** Aleksandr Fyodorov (bodybuilder), Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder
* May 10 – Kenan Thompson, African-American actor and comedian
* May 11
** Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
** Judy Ann Santos, Filipino actress
* May 12
** Hossein Rezazadeh, Iranian weightlifter
** Jason Biggs, American actor
** Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer
** Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian actress
* May 15
** Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian footballer
** Caroline Dhavernas, French-Canadian actress
** Krzysztof Ignaczak, Polish volleyball player
* May 18 – Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer
* May 19 – Marcus Bent, English footballer ***
* May 22
** Katie Price (Jordan), English model and television personality
** Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress
* May 25 – Adam Gontier, Canadian singer
* May 28
** Jake Johnson, American actor and comedian
** Tomohiko Ito (footballer), Tomohiko Ito, Japanese footballer
* May 29 – Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter
* May 30 – Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist
* May 31 – Sara Duterte, 15th Vice President of the Philippines
June
![Nicole Scherzinger 2012](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Nicole_Scherzinger_2012.jpg)
* June 1 – Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high-jumper
* June 2
** Nikki Cox, American actress
** Justin Long, American actor
* June 4 – Simone Maludrottu, Italian boxer
* June 5 – Nick Kroll, American actor and comedian
* June 6
** Konstantīns Konstantinovs, Latvian powerlifter (d. 2018)
** Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer
* June 7 – Bill Hader, American actor and comedian
* June 8
** Maria Menounos, American actress, journalist, and television presenter
** Eun Ji-won, South Korean rapper and singer
* June 9
** Michaela Conlin, American actress
** Miroslav Klose, German footballer
** Matt Bellamy, British musician and singer
* June 10
** Han Hee-won, South Korean golfer
** DJ Qualls, American actor, producer, and model
** Shane West, American actor
* June 11 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
* June 13 – Faizal Yusof, Malaysian actor (d. 2011)
* June 14 – Nikola Vujčić, Croatian basketball player and general manager (basketball), team manager of Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C., Maccabi Tel Aviv
* June 15
** Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer
* June 16 – Daniel Brühl, German actor
* June 19
** Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
** Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player
** Zoe Saldana, American actress
* June 20 – Frank Lampard, English footballer
* June 21
** Erica Durance, Canadian actress
** Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer, actor and television host
** Ignacio Corleto, Argentine rugby union player
* June 22
** Tim Driesen, Belgian actor and singer-songwriter
** Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (d. 2011)
* June 23
** Gladys Reyes, Filipino actress
** Frédéric Leclercq, French musician
* June 24
** Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish musician
** Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
** Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
* June 25
** Aramis Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
** Aftab Shivdasani, Indian actor
* June 26
** Daniel Constantin (politician), Daniel Constantin, Romanian politician
** Cristian Lucchetti, Argentine footballer
* June 28 – Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer
* June 29
** Luke Kirby, Canadian actor
** Nicole Scherzinger, American singer
** Steve Savidan, French footballer
July
![Josh Hartnett SDCC 2014](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Josh_Hartnett_SDCC_2014.jpg)
* July 1
** Hillary Tuck, American actress
** Aleki Lutui, Tongan rugby player
** Liu Kwok Man, Chinese footballer
** Mark Hunter (rower), Mark Hunter, British rower
* July 2
** Ganesh (actor), Ganesh, Indian actor and television presenter
** Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
** Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Estonia
* July 3
** Jesse Leach, America vocalist
** Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner
* July 4 – Becki Newton, American actress
* July 5
** Andreas Baum, German politician
** Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, Indian actor and film producer
* July 6
** Daphne Iking, Malaysian television personality and actress
** Danil Khalimov, Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler
** Tia Mowry, Tia and Tamera Mowry, African-American actresses
** Kevin Senio, New Zealand rugby union footballer
* July 7
** Chris Andersen, American basketball player
** DJ Manian, German music producer and DJ
** Marino Franchitti, British racing driver
** Mark Sloan (wrestler), Mark Sloan, British professional wrestler
* July 8
** Rachael Lillis, American voice actress
** Erin Morgenstern, American artist and author
** Garth Mulroy, South African golfer
* July 9
** Kyle Davis (actor), Kyle Davis, American actor
** Dmitri Dyuzhev, Russian actor and singer
** Mark Medlock, German singer
** Linda Park, Korean-born actress
* July 10
** Ray Kay, Norwegian director and photographer
** Jesse Lacey, American singer-songwriter
* July 11
** Kris Law, Malaysian actor
** Kim Kang-woo, South Korean actor
** Dustin Demri-Burns, English actor, comedian, writer
** Mattias Gustafsson, Swedish handball player
* July 12
** Topher Grace, American actor
** Michelle Rodriguez, American actress
* July 13
** Gary David, Filipino professional basketball player
** Jessica Barth, American actress
* July 15
** Matt Mitrione, American mixed martial artist
** Greg Sestero, French-American actor and model
* July 16 – Ahmede Hussain, Bangladeshi writer
* July 17
** Panda Bear (musician), Panda Bear, American musician
** Justine Triet, French actress
* July 18
** Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player
** Crystal Mangum, American murderer responsible for making false rape allegations in the Duke lacrosse case
** Virginia Raggi, Italian lawyer, politician
** Joo Sang-wook, South Korean actor
** Vladimir Tintor (actor), Vladimir Tintor, Serbian film actor
* July 19 – Atsushi Harada, Japanese actor
* July 20
** Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player
** Tamsyn Manou, Australian athlete
* July 21
** Josh Hartnett, American actor
** Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer
* July 22
** A. J. Cook, Canadian actress
** Ryan Eigenmann, Filipino actor
** Kyōko Hasegawa, Japanese model and actress
* July 23
** Stuart Elliott (footballer, born 1978), Stuart Elliott, Northern Irish footballer
** Stefanie Sun, Singapore singer
* July 25
** Louise Brown, British citizen, first human born through in vitro fertilisation
** Gerard Warren, American football player
* July 26
** Jehad Muntasser, Libyan footballer
** Eve Myles, Welsh actress
* July 28 – Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer
* July 31
** Zac Brown Band, Zac Brown, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
** Nick Sorensen, American football player and sportscaster
** Justin Wilson (racing driver), Justin Wilson, English race car driver (d. 2015)
* July – Caucher Birkar, born Fereydoun Derakhshani, Kurdish-born mathematician
August
![Amanda Schull 2015 TCA (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Amanda_Schull_2015_TCA_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* August 3
** Mariusz Jop, Polish footballer
** Shanelle Workman, American actress
* August 4 – Kurt Busch, American race car driver
* August 5
** Carolina Duer, Argentine boxer
** Harel Levy, Israeli tennis player
* August 6
** Marisa Miller, American supermodel
** Freeway (rapper), Freeway, American rapper
** Peng Cheng-min, Taiwanese baseball player
** Iñaki Rueda, Spanish racing strategist
* August 7
** Alexandre Aja, French director
** Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer
* August 8
** Countess Vaughn, American actress
** Natsuko Kuwatani, Japanese voice actress
* August 9 – Daniela Denby-Ashe, English actress
* August 10 – Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician and former military officer
* August 15
** Jennie Eisenhower, American actress
** Kerri Walsh Jennings, American beach volleyball player
* August 17
** Vibeke Stene, Norwegian rock singer
** Jelena Karleuša, Serbian pop singer
* August 18 – Andy Samberg, American actor and comedian
* August 20 – Noah Bean, American actor
* August 21
** Reuben Droughns, American football player
** Alan Lee (footballer), Alan Lee, Irish footballer
* August 22
** Vitaliy Balytskyi, Ukrainian football player and manager (d. 2018)
** James Corden, British comedian and television personality
* August 23
** Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (d. 2020)
** Julian Casablancas, American singer-songwriter and musician
* August 24 – Rafael Furcal, Dominican baseball player
* August 25 – Kel Mitchell, American actor, stand-up comedian, musician, singer, and rapper
* August 26 – Amanda Schull, American actress
* August 27 – Suranne Jones, English actress
* August 28
** Kelly Overton (actress), Kelly Overton, American actress
** Rachel Kimsey, American actress
** Sam Wills, New Zealand comic
* August 29 – Danielle Hampton, Canadian actress
* August 31
** Ido Pariente, Israeli mixed martial artist
** Jennifer Ramírez Rivero, Venezuelan model and businesswoman (d. 2018)
September
![Ani Lorak ESC Party 2009 8](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Ani_Lorak_ESC_Party_2009_8.jpg)
* September 1 – Max Vieri, Italian Australian footballer
* September 3 – Tinkara Kovač, Slovenian singer and musician
* September 4
** Wes Bentley, American actor
** Frederik Veuchelen, Belgian cyclist
* September 6
** Mathew Horne, English actor
** Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer
* September 7 – Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
* September 9 – Gina Gogean, Romania artistic gymnast
* September 11
** Ed Reed, American football player
** Ben Lee, Australian singer
** Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk, Norwegian handball player
* September 12
** Ruben Studdard, American singer
** Ben McKenzie, American actor
* September 13
** Megan Henning, American actress
** Swizz Beatz, American record producer and rapper
* September 14
** Ben Cohen (rugby union), Ben Cohen, English rugby union player
** Ron DeSantis, American politician, 46th Governor of Florida
** Carmen Kass, Estonian supermodel
* September 15
** Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic football player
** David Sneddon, Scottish singer-songwriter
* September 18 – Billy Eichner, American actor and comedian
* September 20
** Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player
** Patrizio Buanne, Italian singer
** Sarit Hadad, Israeli pop singer
* September 21
** Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union player
** Josh Thomson, American mixed martial artist
* September 22 – Harry Kewell, Australian footballer
* September 23
** Anthony Mackie, American actor
** Worm Miller, American screenwriter, director and actor
** Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress
* September 24 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
* September 25
** Jodie Kidd, English model
** Rossif Sutherland, Canadian actor
* September 27 – Ani Lorak, Ukrainian singer
* September 28
**Dane Boedigheimer, American Internet personality
**Pastora Soler, Spanish singer
* September 29 – Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer
* September 30 – Candice Michelle, American professional wrestler and model
October
![Matthew Morrison Peabody 2010 (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Matthew_Morrison_Peabody_2010_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* October 1 – Katie Aselton, American actress
* October 2 – Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
* October 3
** Jake Shears, American singer and songwriter
** Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
** Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
** Ricardo Rocha (footballer, born 1978), Ricardo Rocha, Portuguese footballer
** Christian Coulson, English actor
** Shannyn Sossamon, American actress
* October 4
** Dana Davis, American actress
** Mark Day (actor), Mark Day, Canadian actor
** Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer
** Kei Horie, Japanese actor
* October 5
** Shane Ryan (Dublin Gaelic footballer), Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer
** James Valentine (musician), James Valentine, American musician
** Morgan Webb, television personality
* October 7 – Omar Benson Miller, American actor
* October 9 – Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife)
* October 10 – QBoy, UK-based rapper, producer, DJ, writer and presenter
* October 14
** Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)
** Usher (musician), Usher, American singer and actor, is born.
* October 17 – Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician
* October 20
** Tomohiko Itō (director), Tomohiko Ito, Japanese anime director
** Michael Johns (singer), Michael Johns, Australian singer (d. 2014)
** Kira (German singer), Kira, German singer
** Dionne Quan, American voice actress
** Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
* October 21 – Joey Harrington, American football player
* October 24 – Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer
* October 25
** Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer
** Zachary Knighton, American actor
** David T. Little, American composer and drummer
* October 26 – CM Punk, American professional wrestler
* October 27
** David Walton (actor), David Walton, American actor
** Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean violinist
* October 28
** Justin Guarini, American singer
** Gwendoline Christie, English actress and model
* October 29 – Travis Henry, American football player
* October 30 – Matthew Morrison, American actor and singer
November
![Robert Kirkman by Gage Skidmore 4](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Robert_Kirkman_by_Gage_Skidmore_4.jpg)
* November 1
** Jessica Valenti, American blogger and writer
** Manju Warrier, Indian actress
** Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress
* November 3 – Tim McIlrath, American singer
* November 4 – Shaun Berrigan, Australian rugby league player
* November 5
** Bubba Watson, American golfer
** Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
* November 6
** Nicole Dubuc, American actress and writer
** Taryn Manning, American actress
** Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
* November 7
** Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
** Mark Read (singer), Mark Read, English singer (A1 (band), A1)
* November 8
** Moses Michael Levi Barrow (born Jamal Michael Barrow), better known by his stage name Shyne, Belizean rapper and politician
** Ali Karimi, Iranian football player
* November 9 – Sisqó, American actor and singer
* November 10
** Nadine Angerer, German footballer
** Kyla Cole, Czech model
** Diplo, American DJ and music producer
** Eve (rapper), Eve, African-American rapper
** Akemi Kanda, Japanese voice actress
** Drew McConnell, English musician
* November 12 – Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistani journalist, activist and filmmaker
* November 13 – Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (d. 2007)
* November 14
** Bobby Allen (ice hockey), Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player
** Xavier Nady, American baseball player
* November 17
** Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
** Reggie Wayne, American football player
* November 18
** Daniel Chong, American animator
** Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer
** Aldo Montano (fencer born 1978), Aldo Montano, Italian fencer
* November 19
** Chad Doreck, American actor
** Matt Dusk, Canadian musician and singer
* November 22 – Karen O, American singer-songwriter and musician
* November 23 – Destin Daniel Cretton, American film director
* November 24 – Katherine Heigl, American actress
* November 25 – Shiina Ringo, Japanese singer and musician
* November 26 – Jun Fukuyama, Japanese voice actor
* November 27 – Mike Skinner (musician), Mike Skinner, English musician
* November 28 – Aimee Garcia, American actress
* November 29 – Lauren German, American actress
* November 30
** Clay Aiken, American singer-songwriter and author
** Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
** Robert Kirkman, American comic book writer
December
![Tyrese Gibson (21479937550) (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Tyrese_Gibson_%2821479937550%29_%28cropped%29.jpg)
* December 1 – Stefan Kapičić, Serbian actor
* December 2
** Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter
** Alo Kõrve, Estonian actor
* December 4 – Lars Bystøl, Norwegian ski jumper
* December 5
** Neil Druckmann, Israeli-American video game writer and programmer, founder of Naughty Dog
** Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player
* December 7
** Shiri Appleby, American actress
** Kristofer Hivju, Norwegian actor
* December 8
** Chung-Ming Wang, Taiwan Wikipedian, politician, environmentalist and gay rights activist.
** Ian Somerhalder, American actor
* December 9 – Gastón Gaudio, Argentine tennis player
* December 10 – Summer Phoenix, American actress
* December 12 – Monica Bîrlădeanu, Romanian actress
* December 17
** Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor, architect, producer and entrepreneur
** Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
* December 18
** Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
** Josh Dallas, American actor
** Katie Holmes, American actress
* December 19 – Patrick Casey (writer), Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
* December 20
** Geremi, Cameroon footballer
** Jacqueline Saburido, Venezuelan-American social activist (d. 2019)
**Waleed al-Shehri, 9/11 terrorist (d. 2001)
* December 21 – Shaun Morgan, South African musician and singer-songwriter
* December 22
** Edo Maajka, Bosnian rapper
** Emmanuel Olisadebe, Polish-Nigerian footballer
** Joanne Kelly, Canadian actress
* December 23
** Víctor Martínez (baseball), Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player
** Estella Warren, Canadian swimmer, model, and actress
* December 24 – Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
* December 25
** Paula Seling, Romanian singer and radio DJ
** Jeremy Strong (actor), Jeremy Strong, American actor
* December 26 – Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player
* December 28 – John Legend, African-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
* December 29
** Alexis Amore, Peruvian actress, dancer, and model
** Angelo Taylor, American athlete
* December 30
** Tyrese Gibson, African-American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, model, and screenwriter
** Zbigniew Robert Promiński, Inferno, Polish musician
* December 31 – Yulia Barsukova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
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*Hind Shoufani, poet, director, and producer, born in Beirut, Lebanon
Deaths
January
![1925 kurt gödel (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/1925_kurt_g%C3%B6del_%28cropped%29.png)
*
January 6 – Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899)
* January 13 – Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911)
* January 14 – Kurt Gödel, Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1906)
*
January 22 – Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
* January 23
** Terry Kath, American rock musician (Chicago (band), Chicago) (b. 1946)
** Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903)
* January 26 – Leo Genn, English actor and barrister (b. 1905)
* January 29 – Tim McCoy, American actor (b. 1891)
* January 30 – Marie-Louise Damien, French actress (b. 1889)
February
![Phillip ahn as kan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Phillip_ahn_as_kan.JPG)
*
February 9
Events Pre-1600
* 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
*1539 – The first recorded race is held ...
– Warren King (cartoonist), Warren King, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
* February 10 – Redento Maria Gauci, Maltese Carmelite bishop (b. 1920)
*
February 11 – James B. Conant, American chemist (b. 1893)
*
February 15 – Ilka Chase, American actress (b. 1905)
* February 17 – Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (b. 1902)
* February 18 – Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
*
February 19 – Pankaj Mullick, Bengali composer and singer (b. 1904)
* February 24 – Alma Thomas, African American painter (b. 1891)
* February 28 – Philip Ahn, Korean-born American actor (b. 1905)
March
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...
– Paul Scott (novelist), Paul Scott, English writer (b. 1920)
* March 13 – John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
* March 17
** Eddie Aikau, American lifeguard and surfer (b. 1946)
** Giacomo Violardo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1898)
* March 19 – Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
* March 21 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Irish barrister, judge and 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911)
* March 22 – Isidro Ayora, 22nd President of Ecuador (b. 1879)
* March 24 – André Lallemand, French astronomer (b. 1904)
* March 31 – Astrid Allwyn, American actress (b. 1905)
April
![Sandy_Denny_-_Fairport_Convention_(1974)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a8/Sandy_Denny_-_Fairport_Convention_%281974%29.jpg)
* April 8 – Lon L. Fuller, American legal philosopher (b. 1902)
* April 9 – Vivian McGrath, Australian tennis player (b. 1916)
* April 13 – Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1900)
* April 16
** Lucius D. Clay, American military governor of Germany after
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
(b. 1897)
** Philibert Tsiranana, Malagasy leader and politician, 1st President of Madagascar (b. 1912)
* April 18 – Katherine Schmidt, American artist (b. 1899)
* April 21 – Sandy Denny, British singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
* April 27
** Ralston Crawford, American abstract painter, lithographer, and photographer (b. 1906)
** John Doeg, American tennis player (b. 1908)
May
* May 1 – Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903)
* May 6 – Ethelda Bleibtrey, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902)
* May 8 – Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885)
* May 9 – Aldo Moro, Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1916)
* May 13 – Alby Roberts, New Zealander cricketer (b. 1909)
* May 15 – Robert Menzies, Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
* May 16 – William Steinberg, German-American conductor (b. 1899)
* May 17 – Armin T. Wegner, German human rights activist (b. 1886)
* May 18 – Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, English politician (b. 1904)
* May 22
** Joseph Colombo, American gangster (b. 1923)
** Aubrey Fitch, American admiral (b. 1883)
* May 26 – Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (b. 1885)
* May 27 – Jorge Icaza Coronel, Jorge Icyaza, Ecuadorean novelist (b. 1906)
* May 31
** József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925)
** José Gonzalvo, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
June
![Ahmad al-Ghashmi](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Ahmad_al-Ghashmi.jpg)
* June 2 – Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Santiago Bernabéu, Spanish footballer, player and president of Real Madrid C.F. (b. 1906)
* June 4 – Jorge de Sena, Portuguese novelist and poet (b. 1919)
* June 7 – Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
* June 12 – Guo Moruo, Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician, and writer (b. 1892)
* June 17 – Robert B. Williams (actor), Robert Williams, American actor (b. 1904)
* June 20 – Mark Robson (film director), Mark Robson, Canadian film director (b. 1913)
* June 24 – Ahmad al-Ghashmi, 4th President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1935)
* June 27 – Josette Day, French actress (b. 1914)
* June 28 – Clifford Dupont, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905)
* June 29 – Bob Crane, American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey (b. 1928)
July
* July 1 – Kurt Student, Luftwaffe general and commander of the German airborne forces during World War II. (b. 1890)
* July 3 – James Daly (actor), James Daly, American actor (b. 1918)
* July 7 – Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
* July 10 – Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, 31st Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1934)
* July 14 – Gaston Ragueneau, French athlete (b. 1881)
* July 16 – Howard Estabrook, American actor (b. 1884)
* July 17 – Thayer David, American actor (b. 1927)
* July 27 – Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor, cellist and composer (b. 1907)
* July 30 – Umberto Nobile, Italian aviator and explorer (b. 1885)
* July 31 – Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902)
August
![Jomo Kenyatta 1966-06-15](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Jomo_Kenyatta_1966-06-15.jpg)
* August 1 – W. E. Butler, British occultist (b. 1898)
* August 6
** Pope Paul VI (b. 1897)
** Edward Durell Stone, American architect (b. 1902)
* August 19 – Emilio Núñez Portuondo, Cuban diplomat and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Cuba (b. 1898)
* August 22 – Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan activist, politician and statesman, 1st Prime Minister of Kenya and 1st President of Kenya (b. 1894)
* August 23 – Agustín Isunza, Mexican actor (b. 1900)
* August 24 – Louis Prima, Italian-born American singer and actor (b. 1910)
* August 25
** Olivier Hussenot, French actor (b. 1913)
** George E. Jonas, American philanthropist (b. 1897)
* August 26
** Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899)
** José Manuel Moreno, Argentine football player (b. 1916)
* August 28
** Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ghanese nationalist leader, 2nd Prime Minister of Ghana (b. 1913)
** Robert Shaw (actor), Robert Shaw, British actor (b. 1927)
September
![Pope John Paul I portrait](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Pope_John_Paul_I_portrait.jpg)
* September 3 – Karin Molander, Swedish actress (b. 1906)
* September 4 – Leonora Cohen, British suffragette and trade unionist (b. 1873)
* September 6 – Adolf Dassler – Founder of Adidas (b. 1900)
* September 7 – Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (b. 1946)
* September 8 – Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (b. 1901)
* September 9
** Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892)
** Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American film producer (b. 1892)
* September 11
** Mike Gazella, American baseball player (b. 1895)
** Valerian Gracias, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1911)
** Georgi Markov, Bulgarian playwright and writer (b. 1929)
** Ronnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944)
* September 12 – Frank Ferguson, American actor (b. 1899)
* September 15 – Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1898)
* September 21 – Peter Vogel (actor), Peter Vogel, German film actor (b. 1937)
* September 23 – Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950)
* September 24 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general (b. 1897)
* September 27 – Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (b. 1897)
* September 28 – Pope John Paul I (b. 1912)
* September 30 – Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903)
October
![Jacques_Brel_1963](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Jacques_Brel_1963.jpg)
* October 4 – Roy L. Dennis, American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (b. 1961)
* October 8 – Karl Swenson, American actor (b. 1908)
* October 9 – Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (b. 1929)
* October 10
** Ralph Metcalfe, American Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
** Hermes Lima, former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Brazil (b. 1902)
* October 11 – Ruthven Todd, Scottish poet, artist, and novelist (b. 1914)
* October 12 – Nancy Spungen, American groupie and girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958)
* October 15 – W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918)
* October 16 – Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1915)
* October 19 – Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913)
* October 21 – Anastas Mikoyan, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (b. 1895)
* October 23 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (b. 1896)
* October 28 – Geoffrey Unsworth, British cinematographer (b. 1914)
November
![Margaret Mead (1901-1978)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Margaret_Mead_%281901-1978%29.jpg)
* November 4 – Arshad al-Umari, 15th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1888)
* November 8 – Norman Rockwell, American artist (b. 1894)
* November 10 – Theo Lingen, German actor (b. 1903)
* November 15 – Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901)
* November 18
** Leo Ryan, American politician (b. 1925)
** Jim Jones, American cult leader (b. 1931)
* November 20 – Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b. 1888)
* November 24 – Warren Weaver, American scientist and mathematician (b. 1894)
* November 27 – George Moscone, American politician and then-mayor of San Francisco
* November 27 – Harvey Milk, American politician and activist (b. 1930)
December
![Houari Boumediene's Portrait](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Houari_Boumediene%27s_Portrait.jpg)
* December 3 – William Grant Still, American composer (b. 1895)
* December 7 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and avian palaeontologist (b. 1886)
* December 8 – Golda Meir, Israeli teacher, politician and stateswoman, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898)
* December 10
** Emilio Portes Gil, Acting president of Mexico, 1928-1930 (b. 1890)
** Ed Wood, American filmmaker, actor and author (b. 1924)
* December 11 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist (b. 1901)
* December 12 – Fay Compton, English actress (b. 1894)
* December 14 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist (b. 1886)
* December 17 – Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934)
* December 27
** Chris Bell (American musician), Chris Bell, American musician (b. 1951)
** Houari Boumédiènne, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932)
* December 31 – Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, East Timorese politician, acting President of East Timor (b. 1946)
Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Peter D. Mitchell
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Werner Arber, Daniel Nathans, Hamilton O. Smith
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Isaac Bashevis Singer
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Anwar Sadat, Mohamed Anwar Al-Sadat and Menachem Begin
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Herbert A. Simon
References
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