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The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile
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* March 1 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-born Kenyan-American Academy Award-winning actress
* March 4 – Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater
* March 9
** Clint Dempsey, American footballer
** Maite Perroni, Mexican singer and actress
* March 10
** Jonas Olsson, Swedish footballer
** Rafe Spall, English actor
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* April 1
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* May 1 – Alain Bernard, French Olympic swimmer
* May 2 – Tina Maze, Slovenian alpine ski racer
* May 5 – Henry Cavill, British actor
* May 6
** Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
** Adrianne Palicki, American actress
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* June 1 –
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* August 3 – Mamie Gummer, American actress
* August 4
** Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker
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* September 1 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (d.
* October 1 – Anna Drijver, Dutch actress and model
* October 3 – Tessa Thompson, American actress
* October 4 – Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
* October 5
** Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
** Nicky Hilton Rothschild, American model and socialite
** Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer
* October 9 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
* October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ
* October 13 – Katia Winter, Swedish actress
* October 14 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
* October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
* October 16 – Loreen (singer), Loreen, Swedish pop singer and music producer,
* November 1
** Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol
** Jelena Tomašević, Serbian pop singer
* November 2 – Andreas Bourani, German singer-songwriter
* November 3 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress
* November 5 – Alexa Chung, English television presenter and model
* November 7 – Adam DeVine, American actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and singer
* November 8
** Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
** Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
* November 9 – Meseret Defar, Ethiopian long-distance runner
* November 10 – Miranda Lambert, American country singer
* November 11
** Sola Aoi, Japanese model
** Philipp Lahm, German footballer
* November 15 – Laura Smet, French actress
* November 17
** Viva Bianca, Australian actress
** Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
** Ryan Braun, American baseball player
** Christopher Paolini, American author
* November 18 – Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
* November 19
** Adam Driver, American actor
** DeAngelo Hall, American football player
* November 20 – Future (rapper), Future, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
* November 21 – The Bella Twins, (Brie Bella, Brie & Nikki Bella, Nikki), American professional wrestlers
* November 27
** Professor Green, British rapper
** Donta Smith, American basketball player
* December 2 – Ana Lucía Domínguez, Colombian actress
* December 9 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
* December 10 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
* December 12 – Roni Porokara, Finnish footballer
* December 13 – Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
* December 14 – Íñigo Errejón, Spanish political scientist and politician
* December 15
** René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
** Brooke Fraser, New Zealand folk-pop and Christian musician
** Camilla Luddington, English actress
** Wang Hao (table tennis, born 1983), Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
* December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model
* December 17
** Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
** Sébastien Ogier, French rally driver
* December 19
** Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer
** Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer
** Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
* December 20
** Jonah Hill, American actor
** Lucy Pinder, English model
* December 21 – Steven Yeun, Korean-American actor
* December 22
** Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, Miss Universe 2004
** Nathalie Péchalat, French ice dancer
* December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
* December 25 – Gwei Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
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* February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
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* March 1
** Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902)
** Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
* March 3 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
* March 6 – Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)
* March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)
* March 8
** William Walton, Sir William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
** Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b. 1920)
* March 9
** Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
** Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
* March 11 – Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)
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* April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)
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* May 1
** George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
** Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born American cinematographer (b. 1889)
** Arthur Dewey Struble, Arthur D. Struble, American admiral (b. 1894)
* May 2
** Pridi Banomyong, Thai politician and professor, 7th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
** Ernesto de la Guardia, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1904)
** Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Minnesota Vikings) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1926)
* May 5 – John Williams (actor), John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)
* May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
* May 13 – Allauddin (Pakistani actor), Allauddin, Pakistan actor (b. 1923)
* May 14
** Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
** Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
* May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)
* May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish politician, former Tánaiste and Minister for External Affairs, Foreign Minister of Ireland (b. 1898)
* May 19 – Jean Rey (politician), Jean Rey, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
* May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
* May 22
** Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
** King Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
** John Penrose (actor), John Penrose, British actor (b. 1914)
* May 23 – John Seward Johnson I, American art collector (b. 1895)
* May 25 – Sid Daniels, British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of the RMS Titanic, RMS ''Titanic'' (b. 1895)
* May 29 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b. 1899)
* May 31 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)
* June 1
** Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
** Ernest Graves (actor), Ernest Graves, American actor (b. 1919)
** Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
* June 2
** Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
** Julio Rosales, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
* June 4 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (b. 1920)
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* August 1 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (b. 1954)
* August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1936)
* August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
* August 4 – Jobriath, American rock musician and actor (b. 1946)
* August 5
** Bart Bok, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1906)
** Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
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* September 1 – Henry M. Jackson, Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (suffered an aortic aneurysm after giving a news conference condemning the shooting down of KAL 007) (b. 1912)
* September 2 – Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (b. 1944)
* September 8 – Ibrahim Abboud, 4th Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b. 1900)
* September 9 – Leo Lemay (bishop), Leo Lemay, American-born Solomonian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1909)
* September 10
** Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
** Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)
** Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)
** B. J. Vorster, John Vorster, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa and 5th President of South Africa (b. 1915)
* September 12 – Sabin Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1904)
* September 14 – Robert Leahy Fair, American lieutenant general (b. 1923)
* September 16
** Gunnar Olsson (actor), Gunnar Olsson, Swedish actor (b. 1904)
** José María Reyes Mata, Honduran revolutionary leader (b. 1943)
* September 17 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-born American Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1915)
* September 18 – María Esther Podestá, Argentine actress (b. 1896)
* September 19 – Bruno Pittermann, Austrian Social Democratic politician, 19th Vice-Chancellor of Austria (b. 1905)
* September 20
** Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1906)
** Ángel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
* September 21 – Xavier Zubiri, Spanish philosopher (b. 1898)
* September 25 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
* September 26 – Tino Rossi, French singer (b. 1907)
* September 29 – Alan Moorehead, Australian-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)
* September 30 – William Elliott (actor, born 1934), William Elliott, American actor (b. 1934)
* October 4 – Andrés Córdova, acting President of Ecuador, Leader of the World War II (b. 1892)
* October 5 – Earl Tupper, American businessman (b. 1907)
* October 6 – Terence Cooke, American Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1921)
* October 7
** George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
** Christophe Soglo, Beninese military officer and political leader, 3rd President of Benin, President of Dahomey (b. 1909)
* October 8
** Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
** Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Tetra Pak (b. 1895)
* October 10
** Georgia Cozzini, American socialist politician (b. 1915)
** Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)
* October 12 – Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (b. 1914)
* October 13 – Ajitesh Bandopadhyay Indian actor, playwright and director (b. 1933)
* October 14
** Alice Lardé de Venturino, Salvadoran poet and writer (b. 1895)
** Paul Fix, American actor (b. 1901)
* October 15 – Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
* October 16 − George Liberace, American musician and television performer (b. 1911)
* October 17 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. (b. 1905)
* October 19
** Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary, 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
** Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-British pathologist (b. 1895)
** Carel Willink, Dutch painter (b. 1900)
* October 20 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
* October 21 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
* October 23
** Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
** Toru Takahashi (racing driver), Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)
** Lakshman Wickremasinghe, Sri Lankan Anglican bishop (b. 1927)
* October 26
** Mike Michalske, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
** Alfred Tarski, Polish-born American logician and mathematician (b. 1901)
* October 28
** Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)
** Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
* October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player and coach; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1895)
* November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
* November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
* November 8 – Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)
* November 13 – Aliagha Aghayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1913)
* November 14
** Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)
** Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)
* November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
* November 19
** Tom Evans (musician), Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
** Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)
* November 20
** Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
** Richard Loo, Chinese-born American actor (b. 1903)
* November 22 − Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
* November 23 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)
* November 27
** Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican novelist and playwright (b. 1928)
** Ángel Rama, Uruguayan writer and literary critic (b. 1926)
** Marta Traba, Colombian-Argentine art critic and writer (b. 1930)
** Rosa Sabater, Spanish pianist (b. 1929)
* November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
* November 30
** George Headley, West Indian cricketer (b. 1909)
** Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)
* December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
* December 5
** Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
** John Robinson (bishop of Woolwich), John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919)
* December 6
** Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
** Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)
* December 7 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b. 1944)
* December 8
** Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
** Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
* December 9
** Tito Junco (Mexican actor), Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
** David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)
* December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
* December 13
** Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)
** Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)
* December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913)
* December 19 – Cameron Hall (actor), Cameron Hall, British actor (b. 1897)
* December 20
** Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b. 1935)
** Bill Brandt, German-British photographer and photojournalist(b. 1904)
* December 21 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
* December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
* December 25 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b. 1893)
* December 26 – Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (b. 1907)Manfred H. Grieb: ''Liska, Hans''. In: ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und Mäzene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Walter de Gruyter, 2011, , p. 930
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- preview). * December 27 – William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892) * December 28 ** Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910) ** Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)
cellular telephone
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call.
Events
January
* January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet). * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the1978
Events January
* January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
* January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...
murder of Italian politician Aldo Moro.
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
** High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia
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** IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space.
February
*February 2
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law".
* 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...
– Giovanni Vigliotto Giovanni Vigliotto (c. 1930 – 1991) was a bigamist and fraudster.
Vigliotto told his targets that he lived some distance away and asked them to join him there. Once the women had packed and were ready to move, he would drive their belongings aw ...
goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women.
* February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The prime minister heads the executive branch of the Australian Government, federal government of Australia and is also accountable to Parliament of A ...
Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution
A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks in the bicameral Parliament of Australia between the House of Representatives (lower house) and the Senate (upper house). A double dissolution ...
of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent leadership spill Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and union organiser who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (A ...
is elected as Hayden's successor unopposed.
* February 5
Events Pre-1600
* 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
* 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
* 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...
– 6 – The team of A. J. Foyt, Preston Henn
Preston B. Henn (January 20, 1931 – April 30, 2017) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop in 1963.
Business career
Henn opened what became the Swap Shop as a drive-in movie theater in 1963. He shortly thereaft ...
, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Léna win the 24 Hours of Daytona
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automobile race in a Porsche 935
The Porsche 935 was a race car developed and manufactured by German automaker Porsche. Introduced in 1976 as the factory racing version of the Porsche 930, 911 (930) Turbo and prepared for Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, FIA-Group 5 ( ...
* February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
– Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.
* February 12 – 100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women are tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up but are successful in repealing the law.
* February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.
* February 18
** The Venezuelan bolívar is devalued and exchange controls are established in an event now referred to as ''Black Friday'' by many Venezuelans (the Bolívar had been the most stable and internationally accepted currency).
** Nellie massacre: Over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
** Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in the Chinatown area of Seattle, United States.
March
* March 1 – TheBalearic Islands
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and Madrid become Autonomous communities of Spain.
* March 5
Events Pre-1600
* 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
* 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...
– Australian federal election: The Labor Party led by Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and union organiser who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (A ...
defeats the Liberal/ National Coalition
A coalition is a group formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political or economical spaces.
Formation
According to ''A Gui ...
Government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Hawke would be sworn in on March 11. As soon as the results became clear, Fraser resigned from the Liberal leadership; he would be replaced by outgoing Minister for Industry and Commerce Andrew Peacock.
* March 9 – The 3D printer
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is invented by Chuck Hull
Chuck Hull (Charles W. Hull; born May 12, 1939) is the co-founder, executive vice president and chief technology officer of 3D Systems. He is one of the inventors of the SLA 3D printer, the first commercial rapid prototyping technology, and ...
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* March 21
Events Pre-1600
* 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...
– Yamoussoukro officially becomes the Ivorian political capital after transfer from Abidjan.
April
*April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
– The Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6
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.
* April 11 – Spain's Seve Ballesteros
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won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament
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* April 18 – The 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut
The April 18, 1983 United States embassy bombing was a suicide bombing in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US ...
kills 63 people.
* April 22 – A reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods occurs at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia.
May
* May 6 – ''Stern
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'' magazine publishes the " Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).
*May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
– Aberdeen F.C. beat Real Madrid
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
2–1 (after extra time) to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and become only the third Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
side to win a European trophy.
* May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement Agreement may refer to:
Agreements between people and organizations
* Gentlemen's agreement, not enforceable by law
* Trade agreement, between countries
* Consensus, a decision-making process
* Contract, enforceable in a court of law
** Meeting of ...
on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
* May 20
** Two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier
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independently declare that a novel retrovirus
A retrovirus is a type of virus that inserts a DNA copy of its RNA genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell. Once inside the host cell's cytoplasm, the virus uses its own reverse transcriptase ...
may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and publish their findings in the same issue of the journal '' Science''.
** Church Street bombing: A car bombing in Pretoria, South Africa, kills 19 people. The bomb has been planted by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the African National Congress.
* May 25 – Hamburger SV defeat Juventus
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1-0 in the final of the European Cup
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* May 26 – The 7.8 Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
*May 27
Events Pre-1600
* 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed.
* 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.
* 1153 &ndash ...
– Benton fireworks disaster
The Benton fireworks disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred on May 27, 1983, on a farm near Benton, Tennessee. A powerful explosion at an unlicensed fireworks factory producing illegal fireworks killed eleven and injured one, revealin ...
. An explosion at an unlicensed and illegal fireworks operation near Benton, Tennessee, kills eleven and injures one. The blast is heard within a radius of .
* May 28 – The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.
June
* June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority. * June 13 – '' Pioneer 10'' passes the orbit ofNeptune
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, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System.
* June 18 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad
Mona Mahmudnizhad ( fa, مونا محمود نژاد, September 10, 1965 – June 18, 1983) was an Iranian Baháʼí who, in 1983, together with nine other Baháʼí women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran on the grounds of bein ...
and nine other women are hanged because they are members of the Baháʼí Faith.
* June 18– 19 – The team of Vern Schuppan, Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans
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.
* June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup
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, defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.
* June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station
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, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
July
*July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
**A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62
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M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea
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, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
**A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany.
* July 15
**Nintendo
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Nintendo was founded in 1889 as by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi and originally produce ...
's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.
** The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.
* July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly
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, causing 20 fatalities.
* July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
* July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
* July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter.
* July 23
** 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, starting the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued until 2009
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.
** Heavy rain and mudslides at western Shimane Prefecture
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, Japan, kill 117.
* July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka
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, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
August
* August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President ofUpper Volta
Upper Volta (now named Burkina Faso
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.
* August 18
** Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005
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dollars) in damage.
** Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
).
* August 21
Events Pre-1600
* 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
* 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
*1169 – Battle o ...
– Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated
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in Manila just as he returns from exile.
* August 26 – Heavy rain triggers flooding at Bilbao, Spain, and surrounding areas, killing 44 people and causing millions in damages.
September
* September 1 –Cold War
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: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.
* September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
* September 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state.
* September 23
Events Pre-1600
* 38 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.
* 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat ...
** Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb explodes in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
** Violence erupts in New Caledonia
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between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
* September 26
** 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident
On 26 September 1983, during the Cold War, the nuclear early-warning radar of the Soviet Union reported the launch of one intercontinental ballistic missile with four more missiles behind it, from bases in the United States. These missile attack ...
: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.
** The '' Soyuz T-10-1'' mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome
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, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft
Soyuz () is a series of spacecraft which has been in service since the 1960s, having made more than 140 flights. It was designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolev Design Bureau (now Energia). The Soyuz succeeded the Voskhod spacecraf ...
, fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
** The Australian yacht ''Australia II
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'' wins the America's Cup
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, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy.
* September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.
October
* October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party. * October 4 – British entrepreneur Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. * October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others. The perpetrators are believed to be North Koreans. * October 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail. * October 13 – The world's first commercial mobile cellular telephone call is made, in Chicago, United States. * October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister ofGrenada
Grenada ( ; Grenadian Creole French: ) is an island country in the West Indies in the Caribbean Sea at the southern end of the Grenadines island chain. Grenada consists of the island of Grenada itself, two smaller islands, Carriacou and Pe ...
, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.
* October 21 – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
* October 23 – Beirut barracks bombing
Early on a Sunday morning, October 23, 1983, two truck bombs struck buildings in Beirut, Lebanon, housing American and French service members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF), a military peacekeeping operation during the Lebane ...
: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
* October 25
** Invasion of Grenada
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by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. The first female lawyer in Dominica, she was Dominica's first, and to date only, fe ...
of Dominica
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, a member of the Organization of American States
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.
** Word processor software ''Multi-Tool Word'', soon to become Microsoft Word, is released in the United States. It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of '' PC World'' magazine.
* October 30 – Argentine general election: The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule Military rule may mean:
* Military justice, the legal system applying to members of the armed forces
* Martial law, where military authority takes over normal administration of law
* Militarism or militarist ideology, the ideology of government as b ...
are held.
November
* November 2 – South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights toColoured
Coloureds ( af, Kleurlinge or , ) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in Southern Africa who may have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including African, European, and Asian. South ...
s and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid.
* November 3 – Commencement of the battle of Tripoli between Arafat loyalists and PLO
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dissidents.
* November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and 1 severely wounded in an explosive decompression
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accident.
* November 7
** Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike First strike most commonly refers to:
* Pre-emptive nuclear strike
* Pre-emptive war
First strike may also refer to:
* ''First Strike'' (1996 film), also known as ''Jackie Chan's First Strike'' or ''Police Story 4: First Strike'', an action movie ...
, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War
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.
** 1983 U.S. Senate bombing
The 1983 U.S. Senate bombing was a bomb explosion at the United States Senate on November 7, 1983, motivated by United States military involvement in Lebanon and Grenada. The attack led to heightened security in the DC metropolitan area, and th ...
A bomb explodes in the United States Senate with the intent to kill Republican senators; no one is injured. The perpetrators are members of the May 19th Communist Organization.
* November 11 – Ronald Reagan
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becomes the first U.S. president to address the National Diet
The is the national legislature of Japan. It is composed of a lower house, called the House of Representatives (Japan), House of Representatives (, ''Shūgiin''), and an upper house, the House of Councillors (Japan), House of Councillors (, ...
, Japan's national legislature.
* November 13 – The first United States cruise missile
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s arrive at RAF Greenham Common in the UK amid protests from peace campaigners.
* November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
* November 15 – The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.
* November 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
* November 19 – An attempted hijacking
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Common usage
Computing and technology
* Bluejacking, the unsolicited transmission of data via Bluetooth
* Brandjacking, the unauthorized use of a company's brand
* Browser hijacking
* Clickjacking (including ''like ...
of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.
* November 27 – Colombia
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n Avianca Flight 011 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.
December
* December 4 – General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984–1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turn out is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes. ** Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983. * December 5 –ICIMOD
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is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.
* December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90 people.
* December 9 – The Australian dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and union organiser who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (A ...
.
* December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina
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.
* December 13 – Turgut Özal, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning a new civilian regime.
* December 17
** The Alcalá 20 nightclub fire
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in Madrid, Spain, injuring 47 and killing 83 people.
** Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 people and injures 90 outside Harrods
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department store in London.
* December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro. , the trophy has not been recovered.
* December 27 – Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison
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The suburb, first developed ...
to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.
* December 31 – Two bombs explode in France: one on a Paris train kills 3 and injures 19; the other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.
Date unknown
* Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins/ Rocky Mountain Institute andManfred Max Neef
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/ CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award
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.
* The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event
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It led to droughts in Indonesia and Australia, widespread flooding across the southern United States, lack of snow in the northern United States, and ...
brings severe weather worldwide.
* The capital of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
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is changed from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro.
Births
January
* January 2
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
* 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empi ...
– Kate Bosworth, American actress
* January 4
Events Pre-1600
*46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
* 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1601–1900
*1649 – Engli ...
** Will Bynum, American basketball player
** Kerry Condon, Irish actress
* January 7
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting.
* 1325 – Alfonso IV ...
– Brett Dalton
Brett Patrick Dalton (born January 7, 1983) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Grant Ward and Hive in ABC's series ''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'', as well as Michael Munroe in the 2015 video game ''Until Dawn''.
Early life
Dalton gr ...
, American actor
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
** Chen Xiexia
Chen Xiexia (; born January 8, 1983, in Panyu District, Panyu, Guangzhou, Guangdong) is a PR China, Chinese Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter.
Career
She won three golds at the 2007 World Weightlifting Championships. and the first gold medal ...
, Chinese weightlifter
** Chris Masters, American wrestler
* January 9
Events Pre-1600
* 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain.
*1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– Gala Évora, Spanish actress
* January 10
Events Pre-1600
*49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war.
* 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...
– Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
* January 12 – Manourou Gakou
Manourou Gakou (born January 12, 1983 in Paris, France) is a French basketball player who played professionally for French Pro A league
The LNB Pro A, currently known for sponsorship reasons as Betclic Élite, is the top-tier men's professiona ...
, French basketball player
* January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
** Imran Khan, Bollywood actor
** Julian Morris, British actor
** Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
* January 16
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
* 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...
** Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
** Emanuel Pogatetz
Emanuel Pogatetz (born 16 January 1983) is an Austrian former professional footballer who is an assistant coach for SKN St. Pölten. At club level, has previously played for FC Kärnten, Bayer Leverkusen II, FC Aarau, Spartak Moscow, Middlesbro ...
, Austrian footballer
* January 18
** Jung Yu-mi, South Korean actress
** Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
* January 19
** Øystein Pettersen
Øystein "Pølsa" Pettersen (born 19 January 1983 in Linderud) is a former Norwegian cross-country skier, television personality and podcast host who competed professionally from 2002 to 2019. He has six World Cup podiums, his best finish being ...
, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
** Hikaru Utada
, who is also known by the mononym Utada, is a Japanese-American pop singer, songwriter and producer. By 2010, Utada had become one of the most influential, and best-selling, musical artists in Japan.
Born in the United States to Japanese parent ...
, Japanese singer and songwriter
* January 21
** Svetlana Khodchenkova
Svetlana Viktorovna Khodchenkova (russian: Светла́на Ви́кторовна Хо́дченкова; born 21 January 1983) is a Russian film, television and theater actress. She is an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2018).
Earl ...
, Russian actress
** Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian professional wrestler and glamour model
* January 23
** Justyna Kowalczyk
Justyna Maria Kowalczyk-Tekieli (born 19 January 1983) is a Polish cross-country skier who has been competing since 2000.
Kowalczyk is a double Olympic Champion and a double World Champion. She is also the only skier to win the Tour de Ski four ...
, Polish cross-country skier
** Sarah Tait, Australian rower (d. 2016
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)
* January 24
** Craig Horner, Australian actor
** Teo, Belarusian singer
* January 25
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate.
* 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...
– Yasuyuki Konno, Japanese footballer
February
* February 2
Events Pre-1600
* 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law".
* 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...
– Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
* February 3
Events Pre-1600
* 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
*1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
*1488 – ...
– Gabriel Sargissian
Gabriel Eduardi Sargissian ( hy, Գաբրիել Էդուարդի Սարգսյան, ''Gabriel Eduardi Sargsyan''; born 3 September 1983) is an Armenian chess grandmaster. He was a member of the gold medal-winning Armenian team at the Chess Olympi ...
, Armenian chess Grandmaster
* February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
**Sreesanth
Shanthakumaran Nair Sreesanth (, born 6 February 1983) is an Indian former cricketer and film actor who played all forms of the game. He is a right-arm fast-medium-pace bowler and a right-handed tail-ender batsman. In first class cricket, he p ...
, Indian cricketer
** Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
* February 7
** Elin Grindemyr
Elin Karolina Grindemyr (born 7 February 1983) is a Swedish model. Her first appearance was in the Swedish men's magazine ''Slitz
''Slitz'' was a Swedish men's magazine that was published in Stockholm, Sweden, between 1980 and 2012.
History
'' ...
, Swedish model
** Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer
* February 8
** Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
** Olga Syahputra
Yoga Syahputra, better known as Olga Syahputra, (8 February 1983 – 27 March 2015) was an Indonesian actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter.
Early life
Olga Syahputra was born on 8 February 1983 in Jakarta. He was the eldest child o ...
, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter (d. 2015
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)
* February 10 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian artistic gymnast
* February 11
Events Pre-1600
*660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu.
* 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...
– Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
* February 12 – Iko Uwais
Uwais Qorny (), known professionally as Iko Uwais, is an Indonesian actor, stuntman, fight choreographer, and martial artist. He is best known for acting in the action films '' Merantau'' (2009), '' The Raid'' (2011), '' The Raid 2'' (2014), ...
Indonesian pencak silat actor
* February 15
Events Pre-1600
* 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus
* 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia.
* 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...
– Philipp and David Degen, Swiss footballers
* February 17
Events Pre-1600
* 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau.
* 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...
** Selita Ebanks, Caymanian model
** Elin Kling
Elin Kling (born 17 February 1983, in Mariestad) is a Swedish fashion blogger, fashion journalist and co-founder of women's clothing label Totême.
Career
Kling launched her personal fashion blog in 2007 on Swedish media site Stureplan and becam ...
, Swedish fashion journalist
** Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter and record producer
* February 19
Events Pre-1600
* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
* 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
** Kotoōshū Katsunori (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler
** Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
** Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese voice actress
** Reynhard Sinaga
Reynhard Tambos Maruli Tua Sinaga (born 19 February 1983) is an Indonesian sex offender who was convicted of 159 sex offences, including 136 rapes of young men committed in Manchester, England, between 2015 and 2017, where he was living as a st ...
, Indonesian rapist
* February 20
Events Pre-1600
*1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated.
*1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
** Emad Moteab, Egyptian footballer
** Justin Verlander, American baseball player
* February 21 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director
* February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
** Aziz Ansari, American comedian and actor
** Mirco Bergamasco
Mirco Bergamasco (born 23 February 1983) is an Italian rugby union and rugby league footballer. Bergamasco has played both rugby league and rugby union, and is a dual-code rugby international, having played for both the Italy national rugby unio ...
, Italian rugby union player
** Emily Blunt, English actress
** Mido, Egyptian footballer
* February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
– Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player
* February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
** Devin Harris, American basketball player
** Kate Mara, American television and film actress
** Vítězslav Veselý
Vítězslav Veselý () (born 27 February 1983) is a Czech javelin thrower. He won two bronze medals at the Olympic games, in 2012 and 2020.
Career
He finished ninth at the 2002 World Junior Championships. He threw a personal best throw of 81.20 ...
, Czech javelin thrower
March
* March 1 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-born Kenyan-American Academy Award-winning actress
* March 4 – Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater
* March 9
** Clint Dempsey, American footballer
** Maite Perroni, Mexican singer and actress
* March 10
** Jonas Olsson, Swedish footballer
** Rafe Spall, English actor
** Carrie Underwood
Carrie Marie Underwood (born March 10, 1983) is an American singer. She rose to prominence after winning the fourth season of ''American Idol'' in 2005. Her single "Inside Your Heaven" made her the only country artist to debut atop the ''Bill ...
, American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and actress
* March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
** Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
** Taylor Hanson, American musician
* March 16 – Stephanie Gatschet, American actress
* March 17 – Attila Vajda, Hungarian sprint canoeist
* March 18 – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro
Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro (born 18 March 1983) is a former professional tennis player from France.
Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 61, achieved on 5 October 2003. Her highest doubles ranking position of 54, she set on 18 July 2005.
C ...
, French tennis player
* March 20
** Eiji Kawashima
is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Strasbourg.
Kawashima played in Japan for Omiya Ardija, Nagoya Grampus Eight and Kawasaki Frontale before joining Lierse S.K. in Belgium in 2010. He then pla ...
, Japanese footballer
** Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish pop singer
* March 23 – Mo Farah, Somali-born British athlete
* March 29
** Ezgi Mola
Mercan Ezgi Mola (born 29 March 1983) is a Turkish actress who acted in several prominent Turkish movies and TV series.
Biography
Ezgi is known for her successful run in the cinema as well as theatre in her career. She has performed in an im ...
, Turkish actress
** Ed Skrein, English actor and rapper
* March 30 – Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer
* March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
** Hashim Amla, South African cricketer
** Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress, singer and musician
April
* April 1
** Matt Lanter
Matthew MacKendree Lanter (born April 1, 1983) is an American actor and model. He began his modeling career in 2004. The same year, he acted in the film '' Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius'' and the television series '' Point Pleasant''. He went o ...
, American actor and model
** Sergey Lazarev, Russian pop-singer
* April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
– Amanda Righetti
Amanda Righetti (born April 4, 1983) is an American actress. She is known for her role as Grace Van Pelt on ''The Mentalist'', as well as her roles in ''Friday the 13th'', ''The O.C.'' and ''Colony''.
Early life
The youngest of eight children, ...
, American actress and film producer
* April 6 – Diora Baird
Diora Lynn Baird (born April 6, 1983)Baird at Maxim.com
Retrieved on 2011-07-26. ...
, American actress
* April 7 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
* April 10 – Jamie Chung, American actress
* April 12 – Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player
* Retrieved on 2011-07-26. ...
April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
* April 14 – Armando Torrea, Mexican actor
* April 15
** Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
** Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
** Matt Cardle, British singer
* April 16 – Alex Antônio de Melo Santos
Alex Antônio de Melo Santos, or simply Alex (born April 16, 1983), is a Brazilian midfielder. He recently plays for Kamatamare Sanuki in J2 League.
Playing career
In June 2012, Alex joined Tokushima Vortis on loan from Kashima Antlers. The move ...
, Brazilian footballer
* April 18 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
* April 20
** Sebastian Ingrosso
Sebastian Carmine Ingrosso (; born 20 April 1983) is a Swedish DJ and record producer. He is also a member of the Swedish House Mafia, together with friends Axwell and Steve Angello.
Career 1999–2007: Career Beginnings
Sebastian Ingrosso ent ...
, Swedish club DJ
** Miranda Kerr, Australian model
* April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
** Paweł Brożek
Paweł Łukasz Brożek (; born 21 April 1983) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Brozek previously represented various youth squads for Poland. He made his Poland national football team debut in 2005, scored over ...
, Polish footballer
** Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
* April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
** Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
** Aaron Hill, American actor
* April 29
** Megan Boone, American actress
** David Lee, American basketball player
** Yuriko Shiratori is a Japanese gravure idol, tarento artist and actress formerly affiliated to the A-Team Entertainment Production Agency.
Career
Yuriko graduated at Sendai Vocational School in April 2004 and moved to the capital, hoping to become an actress, ...
, Japanese actress and gravure idol
* April 30 – Yelena Leuchanka, Belarusian professional women's basketball player
May
* May 1 – Alain Bernard, French Olympic swimmer
* May 2 – Tina Maze, Slovenian alpine ski racer
* May 5 – Henry Cavill, British actor
* May 6
** Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
** Adrianne Palicki, American actress
** Doron Perkins
Doron Perkins (born on May 6, 1983) is a former American professional basketball player and currently an assistant coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C. of the Euroleague. Standing at 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) he can play as either a point guard or a s ...
, American basketball player
** Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
* May 7
** Marco Galiazzo, Italian archer
** Alexander Legkov, Russian cross country skier
* May 9 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
* May 11
Events 1601–1900
*1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons.
*1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
– Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
* May 12
** Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Polish actress and singer
** Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor and writer
** Alina Kabaeva, Russian rhythmic gymnast and politician
** Charilaos Pappas
Charilaos "Charis" Pappas (Greek: Χαρίλαος "Χάρης" Παππάς; born 12 May 1983) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right winger.
Career
He began his career in Panserraikos, Greece. In January 2003, he mov ...
, Greek footballer
* May 13
** Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
** Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007
File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...
)
** Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
* May 14
** Anahí, Mexican singer and actress
** Sarbel, Greek Cypriot pop singer
** Amber Tamblyn, American actress
* May 16
Events Pre-1600
* 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
*1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
* 1364 ...
** Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
** Marcela Temer, First Lady of Brazil
* May 17 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
* May 20 – N. T. Rama Rao Jr.
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Jr. (born 20 May 1983), also known as Jr. N.T.R. or Tarak, is an Indian actor who primarily works in Telugu cinema. One of the highest paid Telugu film actors, Rama Rao Jr. has won several accolades, including two Fil ...
, Indian actor and singer
* May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer ( Sugababes)
* May 24
Events Pre-1600
* 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.
* 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
* 1276 – Magnus La ...
– Woo Seung-yeon
Woo Seung-yeon (24 May 1983 – 27 April 2009) was a South Korean model and actress.
Biography Career
Woo began her career as a fashion model in magazine and television commercials, and had appeared in minor roles in the films ''Herb (film) ...
, South Korean actress and model (d. 2009
File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
)
* May 31 – Zana Marjanović, Bosnian actress
June
* June 1 – Sylvia Hoeks
Sylvia Hoeks (; born 1 June 1983) is a Dutch actress and former model, best known internationally for her roles in ''Blade Runner 2049'' (2017) and ''The Girl in the Spider's Web'' (2018).
Early life and education
Hoeks was raised in Maarheeze, ...
, Dutch actress
* June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
** Adam Hendershott, American actor
** Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby union player
* June 8
** Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
** Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor
* June 10
** Marina Abrosimova
Maxim (also Maksim, “Maxym”, or Maksym) is a male first name of Roman origin. It is common in Slavic-speaking countries, mainly in Belarus, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine. The name is derived from the Latin fami ...
, Russian pop singer
** Leelee Sobieski, American film and television actress
* June 12
** Bryan Habana, South African rugby union player
** Andy Ologun, Nigerian mixed martial artist
** Anja Rubik, Polish model
* June 13 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
* June 15 – Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist
* June 16
** Verónica Echegui, Spanish actress
** Kana Mannami
is a professional Go player.
Biography
Mannami became a professional in 2000 at the age of seventeen, and four years later, she won the Women's Kisei
The is a Japanese Go competition.
Outline
The Women's Kisei is sponsored by NTT DoCoMo ...
, Japanese Go player
* June 17 – Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor, idol, and singer
* June 19
** Macklemore, American rapper
** Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress
** Mark Selby, British snooker player
** Aidan Turner, Irish actor
* June 20
Events Pre-1600
* 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
* 1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting ...
– Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
* June 21
Events Pre-1600
* 533 – A Byzantine expeditionary fleet under Belisarius sails from Constantinople to attack the Vandals in Africa, via Greece and Sicily (approximate date).
* 1307 – Külüg Khan is enthroned as Khagan of the Mo ...
** Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden (born June 21, 1983) is an American and naturalized Russian former computer intelligence consultant who leaked highly classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA) in 2013, when he was an employee and su ...
, American computer specialist, CIA employee, and whistleblower
** Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca
Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca Lorenzo (born 21 June 1983) is a Spanish professional basketball player who plays for Basket Navarra of the LEB Plata.
Professional career
Hernández-Sonseca starts his career in the reserve team of Baloncesto, and ...
, Spanish basketball player
* June 22 – Giacomo Bevilacqua
Giacomo Andrea Bevilacqua (Rome, 22 June 1983) is an Italian cartoonist. He is the author of the comics ''A Panda Piace'' and one of the most popular modern cartoonist in his homeland.
On 22 May 2008 he creates the first strips of ''A Panda piace ...
, Italian cartoonist
* June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
** José Rojas, Chilean footballer
** Brandi Rhodes, American wrestler and reality television personality
** Rade Đokić
Rade Đokić (; born 23 June 1983) is a Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer who last played for SK Vorwärts Steyr.
Club career
Born in Zvornik, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ðokić started his career at FK Drina Zvornik before moving to Serbia where h ...
, Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
* June 24
** Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
** Kenny Van Hoevelen
Kenny Van Hoevelen (born 24 June 1983 in Mechelen, is a Belgian football (soccer) centre back who currently plays for Mariekerke-Branst in the Belgian Provincial Leagues. His previous clubs include Westerlo, KV Mechelen, RKC Waalwijk, Oud-He ...
, Belgian footballer
* June 25
** Cleo, Polish singer
** Shamau Shareef
Shamau Shareef ( ޝަމާޢު ޝަރީފް) is a Maldivian politician who is a Deputy Minister of Health. Previously he served at Malé City Council as the 4th Deputy Mayor from 2017 till 2021, He was elected to the council to represent Maafannu ...
, Maldivian politician
** Daniele Gastaldello, Italian footballer
** Cristian Baroni
Cristian Mark Junior Nascimento Oliveira Baroni (born 25 June 1983), known as Cristian Baroni or simply Cristian, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Atibaia.
Career
Early years
Cristian Baroni was ch ...
, Brazilian footballer
** Marko Đurić
Marko Đurić ( sr-cyr, Марко Ђурић; born 25 June 1983) is a Serbian politician and diplomat serving as the Ambassador of Serbia to the United States of America since 8 October 2020, and the non-resident Ambassador of Serbia to Colombia ...
, Serbian politician
* June 26
** Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
** Alsény Këïta
Alsény Këïta Kamolosilah (born 26 June 1983), also known as Al Husein Keita, is a Liberian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Born and raised in Guinea, he played for Guinea's youth and senior level national teams. In ...
, Liberian footballer
** Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor
** Richard Okia
Richard Okia (born 26 June 1983) is a Ugandan cricketer. A right-handed batsman and fast-medium bowler, he has played for the Uganda national cricket team since 2001.
, Ugandan cricketer
* June 27
** Alsou, Russian singer, Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
2000
File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...
runner-up
** Ben Bocquelet
Benjamin Bocquelet (born June 27, 1980) is a French-British animator, writer, director and producer, best known as the creator of the hit Cartoon Network animated series ''The Amazing World of Gumball.'' He was also the director of a short film c ...
, French-British animator and producer
** Nikola Rakočević
Nikola Rakočević ( sr-cyr, Никола Ракочевић; born 27 June 1983, Kragujevac, Serbia) is a Serbs, Serbian actor proclaimed as one of Europe’s leading young screen actors,. Rakočević has received numerous awards at major intern ...
, Serbian actor
* June 29 – Ilya Yashin
Ilya Valeryevich Yashin (russian: Илья́ Вале́рьевич Я́шин; born 29 June 1983) is a Russian opposition politician who led the PARNAS party from 2012 to 2016, and then its Moscow branch. He was also head of the Moscow munici ...
, Russian activist and politician
* June 30 – Cheryl
Cheryl is a female given name common in English speaking countries.
There are several prevailing theories about its etymology. The most common is that it has Italo-Celtic roots and is an Anglicised version of either the French name Cherie (from ...
, British singer ( Girls Aloud) and TV personality
July
* July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
** Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
** Park Jeong-su, Korean singer (Super Junior
Super Junior (; stylized in all caps), also known as SJ or SuJu, is a South Korean boy band formed by Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment in 2005. They are also dubbed by the media as the "King of Hallyu Wave" due to their prominent ...
)
* July 2
** Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers
The Wreckers were an American country music duo formed in 2005 by Michelle Branch and Jessica Harp, both of whom had solo recordings before the duo's foundation. In 2006, the duo released its debut album '' Stand Still, Look Pretty'', which produ ...
)
** Fadhil Hashim
Mohd Fadhil Mohd Hashim (born 2 July 1983) is a Malaysian footballer who is currently playing for Kuala Lumpur FA. He started his professional career by playing for Selangor FA President Cup Team. In the 2006/07 season, he was promoted to play ...
, Malaysian footballer
* July 3 – Park Jin-woo, South Korean actor
* July 4 – Isabeli Fontana
Isabeli Bergossi Fontana (born 4 July 1983) is a Brazilian model known for her work with brands like Victoria's Secret.
Early life
Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, to Maribel Bergossi and Antonio Carlos Fontana. She is of Italian ...
, Brazilian fashion model
* July 5
** Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
** Kumiko Ogura, Japanese badminton player
* July 7
** Krzysztof Lijewski, Polish handballer
** C4 Pedro, Angolan musician
** Martin Wallström, Swedish actor
** Vincent Wong, Hong Kong actor
** Yoo Jae-hoon, South Korean footballer
* July 10
** Barış Pehlivan, Turkish journalist and writer
** Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian footballer
** Kim Heechul, Korean actor and singer (Super Junior
Super Junior (; stylized in all caps), also known as SJ or SuJu, is a South Korean boy band formed by Lee Soo-man, the founder of SM Entertainment in 2005. They are also dubbed by the media as the "King of Hallyu Wave" due to their prominent ...
)
** Boniface Mwangi, Kenyan photojournalist, politician and activist
* July 12 – Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
* July 13
** Liu Xiang Liu Xiang or Liuxiang may refer to:
People
*Liu Xiang, Prince of Qi (died 179 BC), prince during the Han dynasty
*Liu Xiang, Prince of Liang (died 97 BC), prince during the Han dynasty
*Liu Xiang (scholar) (77 BC – 6 BC), Han dynasty scholar-off ...
, Chinese athlete
** Carmen Villalobos
Villalobos (born Yorley del Carmen Villalobos Barrios on July 13, 1983) is a Colombian actress and model.
Career
She is best known for her character Catalina Santana in the telenovela ''Sin senos no hay paraíso'' based on the book by Gustavo ...
, Colombian actress and model
* July 15
** Maxim Dondyuk
Maxim Dondyuk ( uk, Максим Дондюк; born 1983) is a photographer and visual artist. His professional career began in Ukrainian media as a photojournalist in 2007. He has been freelance since 2010, working on creating and promoting his ...
, Ukrainian documentary photographer
** Cristián Muñoz Corrales, Chilean footballer
* July 16
** Katrina Kaif, Bollywood actress and model
** Duncan Keith, Canadian ice hockey player
** Eleanor Matsuura, Japanese-English actress
* July 17 – Flávia de Oliveira, Brazilian model
* July 18 – Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete
* July 19 – Prince Ernst August of Hanover
* July 21 – Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
* July 22
** Detsl, Russian musician (d. 2019
File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...
)
** Ryan Doucette, Canadian actor
** Juliana Silva
Juliana Felisberta da Silva (born 22 July 1983) is a Brazilian female beach volleyball player who won the silver medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2005 Beach Volleyball World Championships in Berlin, Germany and the 2009 Beach ...
, Brazilian beach volleyball player
** Jonas Sakuwaha, Zambian footballer
** Sharni Vinson, Australian model, actress and dancer
* July 23 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
* July 24
** Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
** Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress
* July 28 – Ilir Latifi, Swedish-Albanian mixed martial artist
* July 29
** Kaitlyn Black, American actress
** Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican television host, reporter and actress
* July 30 – Mariano Andújar
Mariano Andújar (born 30 July 1983) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Argentine Primera División club Estudiantes.
Club career
In 2009, Andújar was the first team goalkeeper in Estudiantes' Copa Liberta ...
, Argentine footballer
August
* August 3 – Mamie Gummer, American actress
* August 4
** Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker
** Adhir Kalyan
Adhir Kalyan (born 4 August 1983) is a South African actor noted for his role as Timmy in the CBS sitcom ''Rules of Engagement'' and as Awalmir Karimi/'Al' in ''United States of Al''.
Early life
Kalyan was born in Durban, South Africa, to an I ...
, South African actor
** Mariusz Wlazły, Polish volleyball player
* August 6
Events Pre-1600
*1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
* 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ...
– Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
* August 7 – Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor
* August 9 – Ashley Johnson, American actress and voice actress
* August 11
Events Pre-1600
* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founde ...
– Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
* August 13 – Aleš Hemský, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
* August 14
Events Pre-1600
* 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
** Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014
File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...
)
** Sunidhi Chauhan
Sunidhi Chauhan (pronounced ; born 14 August 1983) is an Indian playback singer. Born in Delhi, she began performing in local gatherings at the age of 5 and made her career debut at the age of 13, with the film ''Shastra'' (1996). During the ye ...
, Indian playback singer
** Mila Kunis, Ukraine-born American actress
* August 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs.
* 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdan ...
– Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
* August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
* August 18
** Kris Boyd, Scottish football player
** Mika
Mika is a given name, a nickname and a surname. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:
People known just as Mika
* Mika (singer) (born 1983), Lebanese-born British singer-songwriter Michael Penniman, Jr.
* Mika (footbal ...
, Lebanese-British singer
** Cameron White, Australian cricketer
* August 19
** Missy Higgins
Melissa Morrison Higgins (born 19 August 1983), known professionally as Missy Higgins, is an Australian singer-songwriter and musician. Her Australian number-one albums are ''The Sound of White'' (2004), ''On a Clear Night'' (2007) and ''The Ol ...
, Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor
** Claudia Salinas
Claudia Salinas ( ; born 19 August 1983) is a Mexican model and actress; as a fashion blogger she is known as Miss Salinas, which is the name of her blog.
Career
She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York.
Claudia has appear ...
, Mexican model and actress
** Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013
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)
** Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
* August 20
** Andrew Garfield, British/American actor
** Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
* August 23
** James Collins James, Jim, Jimmy, or Jamie Collins may refer to:
Sports Association football
* Jimmy Collins (footballer, born 1872) (1872–1900), Scottish footballer
* Jimmy Collins (footballer, born 1895), Scottish footballer
* Jimmy Collins (footballer, born ...
, Welsh footballer
** Ruta Gedmintas, Lithuanian-English actress
* August 26 – Nicol David, Malaysian squash player
* August 27
** Chen Bolin, Taiwanese actor
** Jamala, Ukrainian singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
2016
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winner
* August 28
** Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer
** Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
* August 30 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
* August 31
** Maria Flor, Brazilian actress
** Marloes Wittenberg
Marloes Wittenberg (born August 31, 1983 in Boxtel) is a Dutch judoka.
Wittenberg won the third place in the Dutch Championships two times in a row. She was downed by a knee injury in December 2004. After recovering from this injury, she won the ...
, Dutch judoka
September
* September 1 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (d. 2019
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)
* September 4 – Guy Pnini, Israeli basketball player
* September 5 – Priscilla Meirelles, Brazilian model, Miss Earth 2004
* September 9 – Zoe Kazan, American actress and screenwriter
* September 10
** Shawn James, Guyanese-American basketball player
** Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
* September 11 – Vivian Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
* September 13 – Kaoklai Kaennorsing, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer
* September 14 – Amy Winehouse, English singer (d. 2011
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)
* September 15 – Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
* September 16 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
* September 18
** Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
** Sasha Son, Lithuanian singer
* September 20 – Yuna Ito, American-Japanese singer and actress
* September 21
** Maggie Grace, American actress
** Joseph Mazzello, American actor
** Anna Meares, Australian track cyclist
* September 23
Events Pre-1600
* 38 – Drusilla, Caligula's sister who died in June, with whom the emperor is said to have an incestuous relationship, is deified.
* 1122 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agree to the Concordat ...
– Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
* September 24
** Lyndon Ferns, South African swimmer
** Randy Foye, American basketball player
* September 25
** Donald Glover, American actor
** Son Dam-bi, South Korean singer
* September 26 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
* September 27
** Fazura, Malaysian actress
** Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer
* September 30 – Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
October
* October 1 – Anna Drijver, Dutch actress and model
* October 3 – Tessa Thompson, American actress
* October 4 – Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
* October 5
** Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
** Nicky Hilton Rothschild, American model and socialite
** Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer
* October 9 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
* October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ
* October 13 – Katia Winter, Swedish actress
* October 14 – Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
* October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
* October 16 – Loreen (singer), Loreen, Swedish pop singer and music producer, Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing pr ...
Eurovision Song Contest 2012, 2012 winner
* October 17
** Felicity Jones, English actress
** Daniel Kajmakoski, Macedonian singer and songwriter
** Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
* October 19 – Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish model and actress
* October 20 – Alona Tal, Israeli television actress
* October 21
** Ashley Banjo, Canadian actor
** Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (d. 2008)
** Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou, Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse, Duke of Anjou, Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou
** Amber Rose, American model and actress
** Aaron Tveit, American actor
* October 24 – Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress
* October 25 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
* October 27
** Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
** Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Turkish actor and model
November
* November 1
** Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol
** Jelena Tomašević, Serbian pop singer
* November 2 – Andreas Bourani, German singer-songwriter
* November 3 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress
* November 5 – Alexa Chung, English television presenter and model
* November 7 – Adam DeVine, American actor, voice actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and singer
* November 8
** Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
** Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
* November 9 – Meseret Defar, Ethiopian long-distance runner
* November 10 – Miranda Lambert, American country singer
* November 11
** Sola Aoi, Japanese model
** Philipp Lahm, German footballer
* November 15 – Laura Smet, French actress
* November 17
** Viva Bianca, Australian actress
** Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
** Ryan Braun, American baseball player
** Christopher Paolini, American author
* November 18 – Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
* November 19
** Adam Driver, American actor
** DeAngelo Hall, American football player
* November 20 – Future (rapper), Future, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
* November 21 – The Bella Twins, (Brie Bella, Brie & Nikki Bella, Nikki), American professional wrestlers
* November 27
** Professor Green, British rapper
** Donta Smith, American basketball player
December
* December 2 – Ana Lucía Domínguez, Colombian actress
* December 9 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
* December 10 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
* December 12 – Roni Porokara, Finnish footballer
* December 13 – Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
* December 14 – Íñigo Errejón, Spanish political scientist and politician
* December 15
** René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
** Brooke Fraser, New Zealand folk-pop and Christian musician
** Camilla Luddington, English actress
** Wang Hao (table tennis, born 1983), Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
* December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model
* December 17
** Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
** Sébastien Ogier, French rally driver
* December 19
** Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer
** Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer
** Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
* December 20
** Jonah Hill, American actor
** Lucy Pinder, English model
* December 21 – Steven Yeun, Korean-American actor
* December 22
** Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, Miss Universe 2004
** Nathalie Péchalat, French ice dancer
* December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
* December 25 – Gwei Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
Deaths
January
* January 2
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
* 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empi ...
– Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)
* January 8
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying.
* 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...
– Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (b. 1919)
* January 11
** Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
** Tikhon Kiselyov, Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the de facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR from 1980 to 1983 (b. 1917)
* January 12 – Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977 (b. 1903)
* January 13
Events Pre-1600
* 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years.
* 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...
– David M. Shoup, American general (b. 1904)
* January 15
** Masatane Kanda, Japanese general (b. 1890)
** Meyer Lansky, American gangster (b. 1902)
* January 17 – Doodles Weaver, American comedian (b. 1911)
* January 18 – Arturo Umberto Illia, Argentine politician and physician, 34th President of Argentina
The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under Constitution of Ar ...
(b. 1900)
* January 20 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
* January 21 – Howard Clark (bishop), Howard Clark, Canadian Anglican primate (b. 1903)
* January 22 – Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, British trade unionist (b. 1887)
* January 23
** Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
** Marcolino Gomes Candau, Brazilian medical doctor, 2nd Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1911)
* January 24
** Carmen Clemente Travieso, Venezuelan journalist and activist (b. 1900)
** George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
** Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
* January 26 – Bear Bryant, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
* January 27
** Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader and politician, 82nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1899)
** Louis de Funès, French actor (b. 1914)
* January 28
** Frank Forde, Australian politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia
The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia. The prime minister heads the executive branch of the Australian Government, federal government of Australia and is also accountable to Parliament of A ...
, leader of the World War II (b. 1890)
** Billy Fury, British musician (b. 1940)
* January 29 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1898)
February
* February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
* February 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop.
1601–1900
* 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
– Eben Bartlett, American military officer and politician (b. 1912)
* February 7 – Raja Babu (actor), Raja Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
* February 8
** Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)
** Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1893)
* February 9 – Patriarch Khoren I Paroian (b. 1914)
* February 12
** Italo Acconcia, Italian football player and manager (b. 1925)
** Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
* February 13 – Lorenzo Bianchi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899)
* February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
* February 19
Events Pre-1600
* 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies.
* 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...
– Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
* February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
* February 23
Events Pre-1600
* 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
* 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...
– Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
* February 25
Events Pre-1600
* 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor.
* 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II.
...
– Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
* February 27
Events Pre-1600
* 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
* 425 – The University of Constantinople ...
– Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)
* February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914)
March
* March 1
** Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902)
** Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
* March 3 – Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
* March 6 – Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)
* March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)
* March 8
** William Walton, Sir William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
** Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b. 1920)
* March 9
** Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
** Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
* March 11 – Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)
* March 14
Events Pre-1600
* 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland.
* 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...
– Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927)
* March 15
** Dame Rebecca West, British writer (b. 1892)
** Josep Lluís Sert, Spanish architect and urbanist (b. 1902)
* March 16 – Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b. 1903)
* March 17 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
* March 18
** Umberto II of Italy, 4th and last King of Italy (b. 1904)
** Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
* March 20 – Maria Babanova, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1900)
*March 22 – Blanton Collier, American football coach (b. 1906)
* March 25 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1920)
* March 26 – Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian (b. 1907)
* March 27
** Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (b. 1898)
** James Hayter (actor), James Hayter, British actor (b. 1907)
* March 30
** Gunnar Bigum, Danish actor (b. 1914)
** Lisette Model, Austrian-American photographer (b. 1901)
* March 31
Events Pre-1600
* 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
*1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V ...
– Stephen Murray (actor), Stephen Murray, British actor (b. 1912)
April
* April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)
* April 4
Events Pre-1600
* 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines.
* 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground.
* 611 – ...
**Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b. 1901)
**Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
* April 11 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
* April 12
** Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b. 1923)
** Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (b. 1906)
* April 13
Events Pre-1600
*1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.
* 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1601–1900
*1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...
– Gloria Marín, Mexican actress (b. 1919)
* April 15
** Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1902)
** Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1892)
* April 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)
* April 20
** Mária Mezei, Hungarian actress (b. 1909)
** Walther Nehring, German general (b. 1892)
** Pedro Quartucci, Argentine boxer and actor (b. 1905)
* April 21
Events Pre-1600
*753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date).
* 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...
– Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor (b. 1902)
* April 22 – Earl Hines, Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
* April 23
Events Pre-1600
* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.
* 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...
** Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b. 1908)
** Selena Royle, American actress and writer (b. 1904)
* April 30
** George Balanchine, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
** Joel Henry Hildebrand, American chemist (b. 1881)
** Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1913)
May
* May 1
** George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
** Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born American cinematographer (b. 1889)
** Arthur Dewey Struble, Arthur D. Struble, American admiral (b. 1894)
* May 2
** Pridi Banomyong, Thai politician and professor, 7th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1900)
** Ernesto de la Guardia, 32nd President of Panama (b. 1904)
** Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Minnesota Vikings) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1926)
* May 5 – John Williams (actor), John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)
* May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
* May 13 – Allauddin (Pakistani actor), Allauddin, Pakistan actor (b. 1923)
* May 14
** Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
** Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
* May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)
* May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish politician, former Tánaiste and Minister for External Affairs, Foreign Minister of Ireland (b. 1898)
* May 19 – Jean Rey (politician), Jean Rey, 2nd President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
* May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
* May 22
** Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
** King Idris of Libya (b. 1889)
** John Penrose (actor), John Penrose, British actor (b. 1914)
* May 23 – John Seward Johnson I, American art collector (b. 1895)
* May 25 – Sid Daniels, British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of the RMS Titanic, RMS ''Titanic'' (b. 1895)
* May 29 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b. 1899)
* May 31 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)
June
* June 1
** Prince Charles, Count of Flanders, Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
** Ernest Graves (actor), Ernest Graves, American actor (b. 1919)
** Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)
* June 2
** Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
** Julio Rosales, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
* June 4 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (b. 1920)
* June 6
Events Pre-1600
* 913 – Constantine VII, the eight-year-old illegitimate son of Leo VI the Wise, becomes nominal ruler of the Byzantine Empire under the regency of a seven-man council headed by Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos, appointed b ...
– Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (b. 1910)
* June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)
* June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)
* June 11 – George Douglas (actor), George Douglas, American actor (b. 1903)
* June 12 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1902)
* June 15
** Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Spanish-born Guatemalan Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1909)
** Srirangam Srinivasarao, Indian Telugu poet (b. 1910)
* June 17
** George Benson (actor), George Benson, British actor (b. 1911)
** Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
* June 18
** Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
** Robert Riddles, British locomotive engineer (b. 1892)
* June 23
Events Pre-1600
* 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu.
* 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships.
* 1280 – The Spanish Re ...
– Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician, 21st President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1919)
* June 24 – Charles Phelps Taft II, American politician, son of President William Howard Taft (b. 1897)
* June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
* June 30
** Choo Seng Quee, Singaporean football coach (b. 1914)
** Mary Livingstone, American radio and voice actress (b. 1908)
July
* July 1
Events Pre-1600
* 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor.
* 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
* July 2 – László Budai, Hungarian footballer (b. 1928)
* July 4
** Dr. John Bodkin Adams, British suspected serial killer (b. 1899)
** Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)
* July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)
* July 7 – Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)
* July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)
* July 10
** Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)
** Estrellita Castro, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1908)
* July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
* July 12 – Chris Wood (rock musician), Chris Wood, British rock musician, lead singer and guitarist of the band Traffic (band), Traffic (b. 1944)
* July 14 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b. 1892)
* July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)
* July 16
** Michel Micombero, Burundian military officer and statesman, 8th Prime Minister of Burundi, Prime Minister and 1st President of Burundi (b. 1940)
** Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
* July 17 – Roosevelt Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)
* July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
* July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
* July 25 – Jerome Moross, American composer (b. 1913)
* July 26
** Larry Gains, Canadian boxer (b. 1901)
** Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)
* July 29
** Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1900)
** Rocco Chinnici, Italian judge (b. 1925)
** Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
** David Niven, British soldier and actor (b. 1910)
* July 30
** Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
** Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)
August
* August 1 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (b. 1954)
* August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1936)
* August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
* August 4 – Jobriath, American rock musician and actor (b. 1946)
* August 5
** Bart Bok, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1906)
** Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
* August 6
Events Pre-1600
*1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean.
* 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ...
– Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)
* August 10 – José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Portuguese military officer and political figure, 104th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1917)
* August 11
Events Pre-1600
* 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Maya, begins.
* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founde ...
– Mamie Phipps Clark, American psychologist (b. 1917)
* August 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs.
* 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdan ...
** Earl Averill, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1902)
** Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (b. 1895)
* August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
* August 18 – Nikolaus Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b. 1902)
* August 21
Events Pre-1600
* 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège.
* 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars.
*1169 – Battle o ...
– Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
* August 24 – Scott Nearing, American political activist, economist, and simple living advocate (b. 1883)
* August 26 – Nazir Ahmed Khan, Pakistan-born Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1904)
* August 28
** Jan Clayton, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
** José Bergamín, Spanish writer (b. 1895)
* August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)
September
* September 1 – Henry M. Jackson, Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (suffered an aortic aneurysm after giving a news conference condemning the shooting down of KAL 007) (b. 1912)
* September 2 – Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (b. 1944)
* September 8 – Ibrahim Abboud, 4th Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b. 1900)
* September 9 – Leo Lemay (bishop), Leo Lemay, American-born Solomonian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1909)
* September 10
** Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
** Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)
** Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)
** B. J. Vorster, John Vorster, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa and 5th President of South Africa (b. 1915)
* September 12 – Sabin Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1904)
* September 14 – Robert Leahy Fair, American lieutenant general (b. 1923)
* September 16
** Gunnar Olsson (actor), Gunnar Olsson, Swedish actor (b. 1904)
** José María Reyes Mata, Honduran revolutionary leader (b. 1943)
* September 17 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-born American Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1915)
* September 18 – María Esther Podestá, Argentine actress (b. 1896)
* September 19 – Bruno Pittermann, Austrian Social Democratic politician, 19th Vice-Chancellor of Austria (b. 1905)
* September 20
** Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1906)
** Ángel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
* September 21 – Xavier Zubiri, Spanish philosopher (b. 1898)
* September 25 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
* September 26 – Tino Rossi, French singer (b. 1907)
* September 29 – Alan Moorehead, Australian-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)
* September 30 – William Elliott (actor, born 1934), William Elliott, American actor (b. 1934)
October
* October 4 – Andrés Córdova, acting President of Ecuador, Leader of the World War II (b. 1892)
* October 5 – Earl Tupper, American businessman (b. 1907)
* October 6 – Terence Cooke, American Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1921)
* October 7
** George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
** Christophe Soglo, Beninese military officer and political leader, 3rd President of Benin, President of Dahomey (b. 1909)
* October 8
** Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
** Ruben Rausing, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Tetra Pak (b. 1895)
* October 10
** Georgia Cozzini, American socialist politician (b. 1915)
** Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)
* October 12 – Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (b. 1914)
* October 13 – Ajitesh Bandopadhyay Indian actor, playwright and director (b. 1933)
* October 14
** Alice Lardé de Venturino, Salvadoran poet and writer (b. 1895)
** Paul Fix, American actor (b. 1901)
* October 15 – Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
* October 16 − George Liberace, American musician and television performer (b. 1911)
* October 17 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. (b. 1905)
* October 19
** Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary, 2nd Prime Minister of Grenada (b. 1944)
** Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-British pathologist (b. 1895)
** Carel Willink, Dutch painter (b. 1900)
* October 20 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
* October 21 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
* October 23
** Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
** Toru Takahashi (racing driver), Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)
** Lakshman Wickremasinghe, Sri Lankan Anglican bishop (b. 1927)
* October 26
** Mike Michalske, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
** Alfred Tarski, Polish-born American logician and mathematician (b. 1901)
* October 28
** Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)
** Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
* October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player and coach; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1895)
November
* November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
* November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
* November 8 – Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)
* November 13 – Aliagha Aghayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1913)
* November 14
** Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)
** Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)
* November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
* November 19
** Tom Evans (musician), Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
** Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)
* November 20
** Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
** Richard Loo, Chinese-born American actor (b. 1903)
* November 22 − Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
* November 23 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)
* November 27
** Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican novelist and playwright (b. 1928)
** Ángel Rama, Uruguayan writer and literary critic (b. 1926)
** Marta Traba, Colombian-Argentine art critic and writer (b. 1930)
** Rosa Sabater, Spanish pianist (b. 1929)
* November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
* November 30
** George Headley, West Indian cricketer (b. 1909)
** Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)
December
* December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
* December 5
** Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
** John Robinson (bishop of Woolwich), John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919)
* December 6
** Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
** Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)
* December 7 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b. 1944)
* December 8
** Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
** Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
* December 9
** Tito Junco (Mexican actor), Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
** David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)
* December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
* December 13
** Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)
** Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)
* December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913)
* December 19 – Cameron Hall (actor), Cameron Hall, British actor (b. 1897)
* December 20
** Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b. 1935)
** Bill Brandt, German-British photographer and photojournalist(b. 1904)
* December 21 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
* December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
* December 25 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b. 1893)
* December 26 – Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (b. 1907)Manfred H. Grieb: ''Liska, Hans''. In: ''Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon: Bildende Künstler, Kunsthandwerker, Gelehrte, Sammler, Kulturschaffende und Mäzene vom 12. bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Walter de Gruyter, 2011, , p. 930books.google.de
- preview). * December 27 – William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892) * December 28 ** Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910) ** Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)
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* Mary Cohan, Broadway theatre, Broadway composer and lyricist, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1909) * Freda Simmonds, New Zealand artist (b. 1912)Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Henry Taube * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Barbara McClintock * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – William Golding * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Lech Wałęsa * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Gérard DebreuReferences
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