1980

Events

January

* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
* January 9 – In Saudi Arabia, 63 Islamist insurgents are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November 1979.
* January 14 – Indira Gandhi returns to power as Prime Minister of India.
* January 20 – At least 200 people are killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapses at Sincelejo, Colombia.
* January 21 – The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever of $843 per troy ounce ($2,249.50 in 2020 when adjusted for inflation).
* January 22 – Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
* January 26 – Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
* January 27 – Canadian Caper: Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran, as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland, on Swissair.
* January 31 – Burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala: The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people. In the United States, it is dubbed "Spain's own Tehran".

February

* February 2 – Abscam: FBI personnel target members of the Congress of the United States in a sting operation.
* February 2 – 3 – The New Mexico State Penitentiary riot takes place; 33 inmates are killed and more than 100 inmates injured.
* February 4 – Abolhassan Banisadr is sworn in as the first President of Iran after winning the January 25 presidential election.
* February 13 – The 1980 Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, New York.
* February 15 – In Vanuatu, followers of John Frum's cargo cult on the island of Tanna declare secession as the nation of Tafea.
* February 16 – A total solar eclipse is seen in North Africa and West Asia. It was the 50th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130.
* February 23 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
* February 25 – A coup in Suriname ousts the government of Henck Arron; leaders Dési Bouterse and Roy Horb replace it with a National Military Council.
* February 27 – M-19 guerrillas begin the Dominican embassy siege in Colombia, holding 60 people hostage, including 14 ambassadors.

March

* March 1
** The Commonwealth Trade Union Council is established.
** The ''Voyager 1'' probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
* March 3 - Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
* March 4 – Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
* March 8 – The Soviet Union's first rock music festival starts.
* March 14 – LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, Poland, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
* March 18 – Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
* March 19 – 20 – The , the ship housing pirate radio station Radio Caroline, sinks off the English coast (the station returns aboard a new ship in 1983).
* March 21 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
* March 26 – A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reefs gold mine in South Africa falls , killing 23 workers.
* March 27 – The Norwegian oil platform '' Alexander L. Kielland'' collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
* March 28 – The Talpiot Tomb is discovered by construction workers in Jerusalem.

April

* April 1 – The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) is formed in Lusaka, Zambia.
* April 2 – The St Pauls riot breaks out in Bristol.
* April 7 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
* April 10 – In Lisbon, Portugal, the governments of Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain in 1985, closed since 1969.
* April 12
** 1980 Liberian coup d'état: Samuel K. Doe overthrows the government of Liberia in a violent ''coup d'état'', assassinating President William Tolbert and 26 other people and ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
** Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope, a plan to run across Canada to raise money for cancer research, setting off from St. Johns, Newfoundland and running westward.
* April 14 – Iron Maiden's debut self-titled album ''Iron Maiden'' is released in the U.K.
* April 18 – Zimbabwe gains de jure independence from the United Kingdom with Robert Mugabe as its first Prime Minister.
* April 24 – 25 – Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
* April 25 – Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashes in Tenerife, killing all 146 occupants; at the time it was the worst air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of loss of life.
* April 26 – Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
* April 27 – The Dominican embassy siege in Colombia ends with all remaining hostages released after the guerrillas are allowed to escape to Cuba.
* April 30
** Iranian Embassy siege: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, England. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; one terrorist survives.
** Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates and her daughter Beatrix accedes to the throne.

May

* May 1 – "About that Urban Renaissance...", an article by journalist Dan Rottenberg in ''Chicago'', contains the first recorded use of the word "yuppie".
* May 2 – Referendum on system of government held in Nepal.
* May 4 – Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito dies. The largest state funeral in history is organized, with state delegations from 128 different countries out of 154 UN members at the time.
* May 7 – Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).
* May 8 – Global eradication of smallpox certified by the World Health Organization.
* May 9
** In Florida, United States, the Liberian freighter '' Summit Venture'' hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay. A section of the bridge collapses and 35 people (most in a bus) are killed.
** James Alexander George Smith "Jags" McCartney the Turks and Caicos Islands' first chief minister, is killed in a plane crash over New Jersey.
* May 14 – The Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
* May 17 – Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho.
* May 18 – The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens volcano in Washington (state) kills 57 and causes US$3 billion in damage.
* May 18 – 27 – Gwangju Uprising: Students in Gwangju, South Korea, begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
* May 20 – 1980 Quebec referendum: Voters in Quebec reject by a vote of 60%, a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
* May 22 – Pac-Man, the highest-earning arcade game of all time, is released in Japan.
* May 24
** The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.
** The New York Islanders win their first Stanley Cup, on a goal by Bobby Nystrom in Game 6 overtime of the 1980 Stanley Cup Finals over the Philadelphia Flyers.
* May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.
* May 26
** John Frum supporters in Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
** In South Korea, military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters die.
* May 28 – A fiery bus crash near the small village of Webb, Saskatchewan, Canada, claims 22 lives.

June

* June 1 – The first 24-hour news channel, Cable News Network (CNN) is launched.
* June 3 – 1980 Grand Island tornado outbreak: A series of deadly tornadoes strikes Grand Island, Nebraska, causing over $300m in damage, killing five people and injuring over 250.
* June 10 – Apartheid: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a statement by their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
* June 23 – September 6 – The 1980 United States heat wave claims 1,700 lives.
* June 23
** Sanjay Gandhi, the politically influential son of prime minister Indira Gandhi, is killed in a plane crash.
** Tim Berners-Lee begins work on ENQUIRE, the system that will eventually lead to the creation of the World Wide Web in autumn 1990.
* June 25 – A Muslim Brotherhood assassination attempt against Syrian president Hafez al-Assad fails. Assad retaliates by sending the army against them.
* June 27
** Itavia Flight 870 crashes into the sea near Ustica island, Italy, killing all 81 people on board. The cause of the accident remains unclear.
** U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs Proclamation 4771, requiring 18- to 25-year-old males to register for a peacetime military draft, in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
* June 29 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is elected President of Iceland, making her the first woman democratically elected as head of state.

July

* July 8 – A wave of strikes begins in Lublin, Poland.
* July 9 – Pope John Paul II visits Brazil; seven people are crushed to death in a crowd waiting to see him at afternoon Mass at the stadium in Fortaleza.
* July 16 – Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. president, at the 1980 Republican National Convention in Detroit. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops its long-standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying moderate Republicans.
* July 19 – Former Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim is killed by two gunmen in Istanbul, Turkey.
* July 19 – August 3 – The 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union. 82 countries boycott the Games, athletes from 16 of them participate under a neutral flag.
* July 25 – The album ''Back in Black'' is released by the Australian band AC/DC.
* July 27 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed Shah of Iran, dies in Cairo.
* July 30
** Vanuatu gains independence.
** Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.

August

* August 1 – Vigdís Finnbogadóttir becomes the 4th President of Iceland, the world's first democratically directly elected female president.
* August 2 – Strage di Bologna: A terrorist bombing at the Bologna Centrale railway station in Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.

* August 4 – Hurricane Allen (category 5) pounds Haiti, where it kills more than 200 people.
* August 7– 31 – Lech Wałęsa leads the first of many strikes at the Gdańsk Shipyard in the Polish People's Republic.
* August 17 – In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (Uluru), reportedly taken by a dingo.
* August 19 – In one of aviation's worst disasters, 301 people are killed when Saudia Flight 163 catches fire in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
* August 31 – Victory of the strike in Gdańsk Shipyard, Poland. The Gdańsk Agreement is signed, opening a way to start the first free (i.e. not state-controlled) trade union in the communist bloc, " Solidarity" (''Solidarność'').

September

* September 1 – Terry Fox is forced to end his Marathon of Hope run outside of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, after finding out that the cancer has spread to his lungs.
* September 2 – Ford Europe launches the Escort MK3, a new front-wheel drive hatchback.
* September 3 – Zimbabwe breaks diplomatic and consular relations with South Africa, even though it maintains a commercial mission in Johannesburg.
* September 5 – The Gotthard Road Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at , stretching from Göschenen to Airolo beneath the Gotthard Pass.
* September 12 – Kenan Evren stages a military coup in Turkey. It stops political gang violence, but begins stronger state violence leading to the execution of many young activists.
* September 17 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
* September 21 – Bülent Ulusu, ex admiral, forms the new government of Turkey (44th government, composed mostly of technocrats).
* September 22 – The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets", initiating the Iran–Iraq War.
* September 26
** Oktoberfest bombing: 13 people are killed and 211 injured in a right-wing terror attack in Munich (West Germany).
** The Mariel boatlift in Cuba officially ends.
* September 30 – Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.

October

* October 5
** The Elisabeth blast furnace is demolished at Bilston Steelworks, marking the end of iron and steel production in the Black Country region of the UK.
** British Leyland launches its new Metro, a three-door entry-level hatchback which is designed as the eventual replacement for the Mini. It gives BL a long-awaited modern competitor for the likes of the Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Chevette.
* October 10 – The 7.1 El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''), killing 2,633–5,000 and injuring 8,369–9,000.
* October 14
** The Staggers Rail Act is enacted, deregulating American railroads.
** The 6th Congress of the Workers' Party ended, having anointed North Korean President Kim Jong-il's son Kim Jong-il as his successor.
* October 15 – James Callaghan announces his resignation as leader of the British Labour Party.
* October 18 – 1980 Australian federal election: Malcolm Fraser's Liberal/ National Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Bill Hayden. The Government also loses control of the Senate, with the Australian Democrats winning the balance of power.
* October 20
** Greece rejoins the NATO military structure.
** In continuous production since 1962, the last MG MGB roadster rolls off the assembly line at the Abingdon-on-Thames (England) factory, ending production for the MG Cars marque.
* October 21 – In Major League Baseball, The Philadelphia Phillies of the National League defeat the Kansas City Royals of the American League, 4–1, in Game Six of the World Series to win the championship.
* October 25 – Proceedings on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction conclude at The Hague.
* October 27 – Six Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners in Maze prison in Northern Ireland refuse food and demand status as political prisoners; the hunger strike lasts until December.
* October 30 – El Salvador and Honduras sign a peace treaty to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
* October 31
** The Polish government recognizes Solidarity.
** Reza Pahlavi, eldest son of the Shah of Iran, proclaims himself the rightful successor to the Peacock Throne.

November

* November 4 – 1980 United States presidential election: Republican challenger and former Governor Ronald Reagan of California defeats incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter and was elected the 40th President of the United States.
* November 10 – 12 – Voyager program: The NASA space probe '' Voyager I'' makes its closest approach to Saturn, when it flies within of the planet's cloud-tops and sends the first high resolution images of the world back to scientists on Earth.
* November 20 – The Gang of Four trial begins in China.
* November 21
** A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip kills 85 people.
** A record number of viewers on this date (for an entertainment program) tune into the U.S. television show ''Dallas'' to learn who shot lead character J. R. Ewing. The " Who shot J.R.?" event is an international obsession.
* November 23 – The 6.9 Irpinia earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Officially, there were 2,483 people killed and 8,934 injured, though the deaths may have been as high as 4,900.

December

* December 2 – A missionary ( Jean Donovan) and three Roman Catholic nuns (Maura Clarke, Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel), all Americans, are murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador while doing charity work during that country's civil war.
* December 8 – Murder of John Lennon: Mark David Chapman is arrested following the murder of English musician John Lennon, formerly of the Beatles, outside his New York City apartment building, The Dakota.
* December 14 – Four people are murdered and four others are injured by two armed robbers at Bob's Big Boy on La Cienega Boulevard in Los Angeles, in what is one of the city's most brutal crimes ever.
* December 15 – The Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (Academy of the Asturian language) is created.
* December 16 – During a summit on the island of Bali, OPEC decides to raise the price of petroleum by 10%.

Date unknown

* The Right Livelihood Award is founded by Jakob von Uexkull. Hassan Fathy and Plenty International/Stephen Gaskin are its first winners.
* The World Hockey Association and NHL merge, adding teams in Hartford, Quebec City, Edmonton and Winnipeg to the league. Accompanying the newly added Edmonton Oilers as the first team in Alberta, the Atlanta Flames move to Calgary.

World population

Births

January

* January 1 – Richie Faulkner, British rock guitarist
* January 4 – Greg Cipes, American voice, film and television actor
* January 7 – Hele Kõrve, Estonian actress and singer
* January 8
** Adam Goodes, Australian rules footballer
** Rachel Nichols, American actress
* January 9 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer
* January 10 – Sarah Shahi, American actress
* January 11 – Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
* January 12 – Amerie, American singer
* January 13 – María de Villota, Spanish racing driver (d. 2013)
* January 14
** Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Costa Rican politician, 48th President of Costa Rica
** Monika Kuszyńska, Polish singer and songwriter
* January 16
** Albert Pujols, Dominican Major League Baseball player
** Michelle Wild, Hungarian actress
** Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puerto Rican-American actor, composer and writer
* January 17
** Zooey Deschanel, American actress, singer and musician
** Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dance champion, choreographer and instructor
* January 18
** Estelle, British singer
** Jason Segel, American actor and comedian
* January 19
** Luke Macfarlane, Canadian actor and singer
** Jenson Button, British racing driver
** Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
* January 20
** Philippe Cousteau Jr., American-French oceanographer
** Philippe Gagnon, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
** Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
** Brigitte Olivier, Belgian martial artist
** Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer and guitarist
* January 21 – Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
* January 22 – Christopher Masterson, American actor and disc jockey
* January 24
** Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Dutch actress
** Suzy, Portuguese singer
* January 25
** Christian Olsson, Swedish athlete
** Xavi, Spanish footballer
** Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
* January 27 – Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
* January 28 – Nick Carter, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
* January 29
** Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress and model
** Jason James Richter, American actor

February

* February 2 – Nina Zilli, Italian singer-songwriter
* February 5 – Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
* February 6 – Ryan Parmeter, American professional wrestler
** Mamiko Noto, Japanese actress and singer
* February 8 – Yang Wei, Chinese gymnast
* February 10
** César Izturis, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
** Steve Tully, English footballer
* February 11 – Matthew Lawrence, American actor
* February 12
** Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
** Christina Ricci, American actress
** Gucci Mane, American rapper
* February 15 – Petr Elfimov, Belarusian singer
* February 17 – Jason Ritter, American actor and producer
* February 18 – Regina Spektor, Russian-American singer-songwriter
* February 19
** Mike Miller, American basketball player
** Ma Lin, Chinese table-tennis player
* February 20
** Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
** Artur Boruc, Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper
* February 21
** Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
* February 22 – Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress
* February 24
** Emma Johnson, Australian swimmer
** Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
* February 26 – Júlio César da Silva e Souza, Brazilian footballer
* February 27
** Chelsea Clinton, daughter of U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
** Don Diablo, Dutch DJ and producer
* February 28
** Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
** Piotr Giza, Polish footballer

March

* March 1 – Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
* March 2 – Rebel Wilson, Australian actress
* March 3 – Katherine Waterston, American actress
* March 4 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
* March 5 – Jessica Boehrs, German singer and actress
* March 7
** Murat Boz, Turkish singer and actor
** Laura Prepon, American actress
** Mart Toome, Estonian actor
* March 10 – Chingy, American rapper, singer and actor
* March 11 – Gabriela Pichler, Swedish film director and screenwriter
* March 12 – Juliana Silveira, Brazilian actress
* March 13 – Caron Butler, American basketball player
* March 14 – Aaron Brown, English footballer
* March 18 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
* March 19 – Johan Olsson, Swedish cross country skier
* March 20 – Hamada Helal, Egyptian singer
* March 21
** Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
** Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
* March 30 – Yalın, Turkish pop singer and songwriter
* March 31
** Maaya Sakamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
** Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese Major League Baseball player

April

* April 1 – Randy Orton, American professional wrestler and actor
* April 4 – Björn Wirdheim, Swedish racing driver
* April 9 – Arlen Escarpeta, Belizean actor
* April 10
** Charlie Hunnam, English actor
** Andy Ram, Israeli tennis player
* April 12 – Brian McFadden, Irish pop singer
* April 15 – Willie Mason, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
* April 16
** Samir Javadzadeh, Azerbaijani singer
** Paul London, American professional wrestler
* April 17
** Brenda Villa, American water polo player
**Kiril Petkov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria
** Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
* April 20
** Vibeke Skofterud, Norwegian cross country skier (d. 2018)
** Jasmin Wagner, German singer
** Waylon, Dutch singer
* April 22 – Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
* April 23
** Małgorzata Socha, Polish actress
** Taio Cruz, British singer
* April 24
** Austin Nichols, American actor
** Karen Asrian, Armenian chess Grandmaster (d. 2008)
* April 26
** Jordana Brewster, American actress and model
** Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
** Channing Tatum, American actor, producer and dancer
* April 27 – Zayed Khan, Indian actor
* April 28 – Josh Howard, American basketball player
* April 29
** Kian Egan, Irish singer (Westlife)
** Emmad Irfani, Pakistani model and TV actor
* April 30 – Luis Scola, Argentine basketball player

May

* May 1 – Ana Claudia Talancón, Mexican actress
* May 2
** Tim Borowski, German footballer
** Ellie Kemper, American actress and comedian
* May 5
** Maia Hirasawa, Swedish pop singer
** Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
* May 6 – Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
* May 7 – Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
* May 9
** Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
** Carolin Kebekus, German comedian and actress
* May 17 – Alistair Overeem, Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer
* May 18 – Ali Zafar, Pakistani music composer, singer-songwriter, painter and actor
* May 19 – Dean Heffernan, Australian footballer
* May 21 – Gotye, Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
* May 22 – Evelin Võigemast, Estonian actress and singer
* May 24 – Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress
* May 28
** Mark Feehily, Irish singer
** Jørgen Strickert, Norwegian comedian
* May 29 – Michael Stasko, Canadian actor
* May 30 – Steven Gerrard, English footballer

June

* June 1 – Damien Fahey, American MTV VJ, television host and drummer
* June 3 – Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, List of Amirs of Qatar, Emir of Qatar
* June 6 – Mmusi Maimane, South African politician
* June 8 – David Holoubek, Czech football manager
* June 10
** Matuzalém, Brazilian footballer
** Wang Yuegu, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
* June 13
** Sarah Connor (singer), Sarah Connor, German singer
** Juan Carlos Navarro (basketball), Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
* June 16
** Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
** Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
* June 17 – Venus Williams, American tennis player
* June 21
** Richard Jefferson, American basketball player
** Branko Bošković, Montenegrin footballer
* June 22 – Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
* June 23
** Erick Elías, Mexican actor
** Mark Greaney, Irish singer and guitarist
** Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indian cricketer
** Manus Boonjumnong, Thai boxer
** Niusila Opeloge, Samoan weightlifter
** Melissa Rauch, American actress
* June 24
** Minka Kelly, American actress
** Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
* June 25 – Philippe Lacheau, French actor, director and writer
* June 26 – Rafiz Abu Bakar, Malaysian footballer
* June 27 – Kevin Pietersen, South African-English cricketer
* June 29 – Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
* June 30
** Adil Annani, Moroccan long-distance runner
** Ryan ten Doeschate, Dutch cricketer
** Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Iranian footballer
** Nelbert Omolon, Filipino professional basketball player

July

* July 1
** Nelson Cruz, Dominican baseball player
** Shon Seung-mo, South Korean badminton player
* July 3
** Olivia Munn, American actress and model
** Harbhajan Singh, Indian international cricketer
* July 5
** Zayed Khan, Indian actor and producer
** Fabián Ríos (actor), Fabián Ríos, Colombian actor and model
* July 6
** Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
** Eva Green, French actress and model
* July 7
** Gerti Bogdani, Albanian politician
** Marika Domińczyk, Polish American actress
** Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
* July 8 – Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
* July 10
** Cláudia Leitte, Brazilian singer
** Jessica Simpson, American singer
* July 11 – Mathias Boe, Danish badminton player
* July 12 – Kristen Connolly, American actress
* July 13 – Pejman Nouri, Iranian football player
* July 15
** JW-Jones, Canadian blues musician
** Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (d. 2017)
* July 16
** Svetlana Feofanova, Russian pole-vaulter
** Adam Scott (golfer), Adam Scott, Australian golfer
* July 17
** Brett Goldstein, British actor, comedian and writer
** Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan-Bahraini athlete
* July 18
** Kristen Bell, American actress
** David Blu (born David Bluthenthal), American–Israeli basketball player
* July 19
** Yeoh Kay Bin, Malaysian badminton player
** Mark Webber (actor), Mark Webber, American actor
* July 20
** Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian supermodel
** Jin Goo, South Korean actor
* July 21 – CC Sabathia, American baseball player
* July 22
** Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
** Kate Ryan, Belgian singer-songwriter
* July 26 – Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
* July 27 – Dolph Ziggler, Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
* July 29 – Fernando González, Chilean tennis player

August

* August 3 – Nadia Ali (singer), Nadia Ali, Pakistani-American singer-songwriter
* August 5 – Wayne Bridge, English footballer
* August 6 – Will Pan, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
* August 9 – Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
* August 11 – Monika Pyrek, Polish pole vaulter
* August 16
** Julien Absalon, French mountain biker
** Vanessa Carlton, American singer
* August 17 – Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer and musician
* August 18 – Damion Stewart, Jamaican footballer
* August 21 – Paul Menard, American race car driver
* August 23 – Rex Grossman, American football player
* August 26
** Macaulay Culkin, American actor
** Chris Pine, American actor
* August 29
** William Levy (actor), William Levy, Cuban-American actor
** David West (basketball), David West, American basketball player

September

* September 3
** Jennie Finch, American softball player
** Jason McCaslin, Canadian Guitarist
** Polina Smolova, Belarusian singer
* September 6
** Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer and heavyweight champion
** Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
* September 7
** Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2011 winner
** Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
* September 9 – Michelle Williams (actress), Michelle Williams, American actress
* September 10 – Mikey Way, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
* September 11 – Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
* September 12
** Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
** Hiroyuki Sawano, Japanese composer
* September 13 – Ben Savage, American actor
* September 15
** Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
** Faiz Khaleed, Malaysian astronaut
* September 21
** Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
** Autumn Reeser, American actress
* September 24 – Victoria Pendleton, English cyclist
* September 25 – T.I., African-American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author
* September 26 – Daniel Sedin, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
* September 29 – Zachary Levi, American actor and singer
* September 30
** Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
** Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer

October

* October 4
** Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
** Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer

* October 5
** James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
** Joakim Brodén, Swedish-Czech Singer

* October 8
** The Miz, Michael Mizanin, American professional wrestler
** Nick Cannon, American comedian, rapper, and television host
* October 10
** Sherine, Egyptian singer
** Lynn Hung, Hong Kong actress
* October 12 – Ledley King, English footballer
* October 13
** Ashanti (singer), Ashanti, American singer, songwriter, record producer, model, dancer, and actress
** Scott Parker, English footballer
* October 14 – Ben Whishaw, English actor
* October 15 – Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
* October 16 – Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
* October 17 – Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
* October 18 – Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Indian cricket player
* October 19 – José Bautista, Dominican baseball player
* October 21 – Kim Kardashian, American socialite and television personality
* October 24
** Monica (singer), Monica, American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman
** Casey Wilson, American actress and comedian

November

* November 5
** Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
** Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
* November 6 – Anri Jokhadze, Georgian pop singer
** Pål Sverre Hagen, Norwegian actor
* November 7 – Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
* November 9 – Vanessa Lachey, American television personality, fashion model, and beauty queen
* November 10 – Calvin Chen, Taiwanese pop singer
* November 12 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor and musician
* November 13 – Stalin González, Venezuelan lawyer and politician
* November 15 – Kevin Staut, French equestrian
* November 16 – Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
* November 18 – François Duval, Belgian rally driver
* November 21
** Hiroyuki Tomita, Japanese gymnast
** Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress
* November 26 – Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer
* November 28 – Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
* November 29
** Janina Gavankar, American actress and musician
** Ilias Kasidiaris, Greek politician

December

* December 3 – Anna Chlumsky, American actress
* December 5 – Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter
* December 7 – John Terry, English footballer
* December 9 – Simon Helberg, American actor, comedian and musician
* December 10 – Sarah Chang, American violinist
* December 13 – Bosco Wong, Hong Kong actor
* December 18
** Christina Aguilera, American singer, songwriter, actress and television personality
** Mark Essien, Nigerian entrepreneur, founder of Hotels.ng
* December 19 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
* December 20 – Ashley Cole, English footballer
* December 21 – Stefan Liv, Swedish ice hockey player
* December 31 – Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player

Deaths

January

* January 1
** Adolph Deutsch, American composer (b. 1897)
** Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (b. 1891)
** Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
* January 2 – Alessandro Bruschetti, Italian artist (b. 1910)
* January 3 – Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (b. 1910; murdered)
* January 6 – Piersanti Mattarella, President of Sicily (b. 1935; assassinated)
* January 7 – Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
* January 8 – John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
* January 11 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
* January 13 – Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
* January 18 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904)
* January 21 – Georges Painvin, French cryptographer (b. 1886)
* January 22
** Walter Pym (actor), Walter Pym, Australian actor (b. 1905)
** Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (b. 1900)
* January 24 – Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
* January 27
** Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (b. 1906)
** Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1903)
* January 28 – Franco Evangelisti (composer), Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
* January 29 – Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1893)
* January 30
** Maria Bolognesi, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, mystic and blessed (b. 1924)
** Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
* January 31 – Eduardo Cáceres, Guatemalan politician (b. 1906)

February

* February 2
** Hanna Rovina, Russian-born Israeli actress (b. 1889)
** William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
* February 7 – Richard Williams (RAAF officer), Sir Richard Williams, Royal Australian Air Force officer (b. 1890)
* February 8
** Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer (b. 1936)
** Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1902)
* February 10 – Wels Eicke, Australian rules football player (b. 1893)
* February 11 – R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian (b. 1884)
* February 13 – David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
* February 14 – Rudra Baruah, Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese people, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
* February 17 – Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)
* February 19
** Robert Morrison (rower), Robert Morrison, British Olympic rower (b. 1902)
** Bon Scott, Scottish-born Australian rock singer ( AC/DC) (b. 1946)
* February 20 – Alice Roosevelt Longworth, American writer and socialite (b. 1884)
* February 21 – Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician (b. 1924)
* February 22 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886)
* February 23 – Enrico Celio, Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1889)
* February 24
** Michael Browne (bishop of Galway), Michael Browne, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1895)
** Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893)
* February 26 – Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
* February 27 – Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
* February 29 – Yigal Allon, Israeli politician and army general (b. 1918)

March

* March 1
** Dixie Dean, English football player (b. 1907)
** Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (b. 1923)
** Wilhelmina Cooper, Wilhelmina, Dutch-born American high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
* March 5 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
* March 6 – Barbara Brukalska, Polish architect (b. 1899)
* March 9
** Nikolay Bogolyubov (actor), Nikolay Bogolyubov, Soviet and Russian actor (b. 1899)
** Olga Chekhova, Russian-German actress (b. 1897)
* March 13 – Roland Symonette, 1st Prime Minister of the Bahamas, Premier of the Bahamas (b. 1898)
* March 14
** Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950)
** Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president (b. 1902)
** Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist and television presenter (b. 1928)
* March 17 – Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1911)
* March 18
** Elsa Goveia, Guyanese-born Jamaican scholar (b. 1925)
** Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
** Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)
** Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
* March 24
** Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893)
** Óscar Romero, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
* March 25
** Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902)
** Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
** Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901)
* March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
* March 28
** Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, Czechoslovak illustrator (b. 1894)
** Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1918)
* March 29 – Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
* March 30 – Tôn Đức Thắng, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1888)
* March 31
** Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
** Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)

April

* April 6 – Nils Ericson (actor), Nils Ericson, Swedish actor (b. 1906)
* April 10 – Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
* April 11 – Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1935)
* April 12
** Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895)
** William Tolbert, 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)
* April 13 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor (b. 1913)
* April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
* April 20 – Helmut Käutner, German director (b. 1908)
* April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
* April 22
** Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
** Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
* April 24 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
* April 26 – Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
* April 27 – Mario Bava, Italian director (b. 1914)
* April 29 – Alfred Hitchcock, British film director (b. 1899)
* April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín, the first elected Governor of Puerto Rico (1949 to 1965) (b. 1898)

May

* May 2
** George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904)
* May 4
** Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
** Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
* May 5 – Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897)
* May 9
** Prince Himalaya of Nepal (b. 1921)
** Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1928)
* May 12 – Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
* May 14
**Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (b. 1887)
**Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
**Fatmawati, inaugural First Spouses of Indonesia, First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)
* May 16 – Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922)
* May 18
** David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949) (killed by 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, eruption of Mount St. Helens)
** Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956)
** Reid Blackburn, photojournalist for National Geographic (magazine), National Geographic (b. 1952; also killed by 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, eruption of Mount St. Helens)
** Harry R. Truman, owner/operator of Mt. St. Helens Lodge (b. 1896; killed by 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, eruption of Mount St. Helens)
* May 20 – Jack Walsh (cricketer), Jack Walsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
* May 21 – Ida Kamińska, Polish-born Jewish actress, playwright and translator (b. 1899)
* May 28 – Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)

June

* June 1 – Rube Marquard, American baseball player (New York Giants (MLB), New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
* June 2 – Stanley Forman Reed, American lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
* June 6 – Gualtiero De Angelis, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1899)
* June 7
** Lillian Dean, Australian photographer and local politician (b. c.1899)
** Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1913)
** Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
** Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former Polish Council of State, head of State (b. 1908)
* June 8
** Ernst Busch (actor), Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
** Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian football player (b. 1904)
* June 9 – Shyam Kumari Khan, Indian lawyer (b. 1904)
* June 12
** Billy Butlin, South African-born Canadian founder of Butlins, Butlins Holiday Camps (b. 1899)
** Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
* June 13 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
* June 14 – Sante Spessotto, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1923)
* June 18 – Terence Fisher, British director (b. 1904)
* June 21 – Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
* June 23
** Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
** V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India (b. 1894)
* June 24 – Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
* June 26 – List of Syriac Orthodox Patriarchs of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Jacob III (b. 1912)
* June 28 – José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
* June 29 – Jorge Basadre, Peruvian historian (b. 1903)

July

* July 1 – C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
* July 3
** Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910)
** Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939)
* July 4 – Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, anthropology, anthropologist, social sciences, social scientist, linguistics, linguist, semiotics, semiotician and cybernetics, cyberneticist (b. 1904)
* July 6 – Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911)
* July 7 – Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1901)
* July 8 – Rudolf Creutz, Austrian criminal (b. 1896)
* July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
*July 10 – Leonidas Zervas, Greek organic chemist (b. 1902)
* July 13 – Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
* July 17 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
* July 19 – Nihat Erim, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
* July 20 – Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter (b. 1896)
* July 21 – Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1912)
* July 22 – Hans-Georg Bürger, German racing driver (b. 1952)
* July 24 – Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
* July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)
* July 26 – Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
* July 27 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Pahlavi dynasty, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
* July 28 – Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, Brazilian librarian (b. 1908)
* July 30 – Lucien Dalsace, French actor (b. 1893)
* July 31 – Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)

August

* August 1 – Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
* August 4 – Ioan Arhip, Romanian general (b. 1890)
* August 9
** Harry Bell (Australian footballer), Harry Bell, Australian footballer (b. 1897)
** Jacqueline Cochran, Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
* August 10
** Gareth Evans (philosopher), Gareth Evans, British philosopher (b. 1946)
** Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
* August 14 – Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (b. 1960)
* August 18 – Arman (actor), Arman, Iranian-born Soviet actor (b. 1921)
* August 19 – Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
* August 20 – Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
* August 22 – Gabriel González Videla, 24th President of Chile (b. 1898)
* August 25 – Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919)
* August 26 – Tex Avery, American animator and director (b. 1908)
* August 29 – Franco Basaglia, Italian psychiatrist and professor (b. 1924)

September

* September 3
** Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
** Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
* September 4
** Pepe Abad, Spanish-born Chilean television presenter and radio host (b. 1932)
** George Murray Burnett, British mathematician and chemist (b. 1921)
* September 5 – Don Banks, Australian composer (b. 1923)
* September 8 – Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
* September 9 – Manzoor Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
* September 12 – Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898)
* September 14 – Domingo Acedo, Spanish football player (b. 1898)
* September 15 – Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
* September 16 – Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
* September 17 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua 1967–72, 1974-79 (b. 1925)
* September 18 – Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890)
* September 19 – Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890)
* September 23 – Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 5th President of South Africa (b. 1898)
* September 25
** John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
** Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
** Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)

October

* October 2 – John Kotelawala, Sri Lanka soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1895)
* October 6 – Hattie Jacques, British actress (b. 1922)
* October 7 – Sydney Gordon Russell, English designer and craftsman (b. 1892)
* October 10 – Elizabeth Rummel, German-Canadian mountaineer and environmental activist (b. 1897)
* October 12 – Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan political figure, former president of Uruguay (de facto) (b. 1896)
* October 15 – Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (b. 1908)
* October 18 – Hans Ehard, German lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
* October 21
** Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
** Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian Communist leader and statesman, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900)
** Edelmiro Julián Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (b. 1887)
* October 23
**Tibor Rosenbaum, Hungarian-born Swiss rabbi and businessman (b. 1923)
**Mariano Suárez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador (b. 1897)
* October 25
**Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
** Víctor Galíndez, Argentine boxer (b. 1948)
** Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921)
* October 26 – Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906)
* October 27
** Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (b. 1949)
** John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
* October 29 – Giorgio Borġ Olivier, Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
* October 31 – Jan Werich, Czech actor, playwright and writer (b. 1905)

November

* November 4
** Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1904)
** Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer (b. 1956)
* November 7 – Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
* November 9
** Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born American fashion icon (b. 1912)
* November 10 – Marion Ellen Lea Allnutt, Marion Allnutt, welfare worker and full-time secretary and commanding officer of the NGO, Women's Australian National Services (WANS) (b. 1896)
* November 16
** Boris Aronson, Russian set designer (b. 1898)
** Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942)
* November 18 – Conn Smythe, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1895)
* November 20
** Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922)
** John McEwen, Sir John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
* November 21 – Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
* November 22
** Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
** Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
** Leonard Barr, American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer (b. 1903)
* November 24
**George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
**Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (b. 1922)
* November 25 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player (b. 1928)
* November 26 – Rachel Roberts (actress), Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927)
* November 27 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
* November 29
** Dorothy Day, American journalist, activist, Roman Catholic convert and Servant of God (b. 1897)
** Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901)

December

* December 2 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
* December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
* December 4
** Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
** Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911)
* December 7 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer (b. 1958)
* December 8 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
* December 10 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
* December 12 – Bruno Bartolozzi, Italian composer (b. 1911)
* December 14 – Nichita Smochină, Moldovan activist (b. 1894)
* December 16
** Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
** Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
** Peter Collinson (film director), Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936)
* December 18
** Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
** Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910)
* December 19 – Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909)
* December 21 – Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890)
* December 24
** Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891)
** Heikki Liimatainen (athlete), Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894)
* December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
* December 31
** Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)
** Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)

Date unknown

* Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Baruj Benacerraf, Jean Dausset, George D. Snell
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Czesław Miłosz
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Lawrence Klein

References

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