The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
and the first mobile
cellular telephone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive telephone call, calls over a radio freq ...
call.
Events
January
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January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the yea ...
– The migration of the
ARPANET
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was the first wide-area packet-switched network with distributed control and one of the first networks to implement the TCP/IP protocol suite. Both technologies became the technical fou ...
to
TCP/IP
The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria. The foundational protocols in the suit ...
is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
).
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January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Cou ...
– Twenty-five members of the
Red Brigades
The Red Brigades ( it, Brigate Rosse , often abbreviated BR) was a far-left Marxist–Leninist armed organization operating as a terrorist and guerrilla group based in Italy responsible for numerous violent incidents, including the abduction ...
are sentenced to life imprisonment for the
1978
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
Aldo Romeo Luigi Moro (; 23 September 1916 – 9 May 1978) was an Italian statesman and a prominent member of the Christian Democracy (DC). He served as prime minister of Italy from December 1963 to June 1968 and then from November 1974 to July ...
.
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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
Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...
war criminal Klaus Barbie
Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German operative of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primari ...
is arrested in
Bolivia
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.
**
IRAS
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (Dutch: ''Infrarood Astronomische Satelliet'') (IRAS) was the first space telescope to perform a survey of the entire night sky at infrared wavelengths. Launched on 25 January 1983, its mission lasted ten mo ...
is launched from
Vandenberg AFB
Vandenberg Space Force Base , previously Vandenberg Air Force Base, is a United States Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California. Established in 1941, Vandenberg Space Force Base is a space launch base, launching spacecraft from th ...
, to conduct the world's first all-sky
infrared
Infrared (IR), sometimes called infrared light, is electromagnetic radiation (EMR) with wavelengths longer than those of visible light. It is therefore invisible to the human eye. IR is generally understood to encompass wavelengths from around ...
survey from space.
February
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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
Crimes
Polygamy (from Late Greek (') "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses. When a man is married to more than one wife at the same time, sociologists call this polygyny. When a woman is married ...
involving 105 women.
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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
John Malcolm Fraser (; 21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, holding office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Fraser was raised on hi ...
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
William George Hayden (born 23 January 1933) is an Australian politician who served as the 21st governor-general of Australia from 1989 to 1996. He was Leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1977 to 1983, and served as ...
resigns as leader of the
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also simply known as Labor, is the major centre-left political party in Australia, one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party forms the f ...
, and in the subsequent
leadership spill
In Australian politics, a leadership spill (or simply spill) is a colloquialism referring to a declaration that the leadership of a parliamentary party is vacant and open for contest. A spill may involve all or some of the leadership positions (le ...
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.
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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
Anthony Joseph Foyt Jr. (born January 16, 1935) is an American retired auto racing driver who has raced in numerous genres of motorsports. His open wheel racing includes United States Automobile Club Champ cars, sprint cars, and midget cars. He ...
,
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
Bob Wollek (4 November 1943 – 16 March 2001), nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He was killed on 16 March 2001 at age 57 in a road accident in Florida while riding a bicycle back to his accommodation afte ...
and
Claude Ballot-Léna
Claude Ballot-Léna (4 August 1936 – 9 November 1999) was a French racing driver born in Paris.
Career
He won the 1969 Spa 24 Hours in a Porsche 911 and the 1983 24 Hours of Daytona in a Porsche 935 Turbo owned by Preston Henn. He also entered ...
win the
24 Hours of Daytona
The 24 Hours of Daytona, also known as the Rolex 24 At Daytona for sponsorship reasons, is a 24-hour sports car endurance race held annually at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. It is run on the Sports Car Course layou ...
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 ( ...
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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
Nikolaus "Klaus" Barbie (25 October 1913 – 25 September 1991) was a German operative of the SS and SD who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primari ...
is officially charged with
war crimes.
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February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– 100 women protest in
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
, Pakistan, against military dictator
Zia-ul-Haq
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq HI, GCSJ, ร.ม.ภ, (Urdu: ; 12 August 1924 – 17 August 1988) was a Pakistani four-star general and politician who became the sixth President of Pakistan following a coup and declaration of martial law in ...
's proposed Law of Evidence. The women are tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up but are successful in repealing the law.
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February 16
Events Pre-1600
* 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
* 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...
– The
Ash Wednesday bushfires
The Ash Wednesday bushfires, known in South Australia as Ash Wednesday II, were a series of bushfires that occurred in south-eastern Australia on 16 February 1983, which was Ash Wednesday. Within twelve hours, more than 180 fires fanned by hot ...
in
Victoria
Victoria most commonly refers to:
* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
and
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...
claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.
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February 18
Events Pre-1600
* 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
* 1268 &ndas ...
** The
Venezuelan bolívar
The bolívar is the official currency of Venezuela. Named after the hero of Latin American independence Simón Bolívar, it was introduced following the monetary reform in 1879, before which the venezolano was circulating. Due to its decade- ...
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
The Nellie massacre took place in central Assam during a six-hour period in the morning of 18 February 1983. The massacre claimed the lives of 1,600–2,000 people from 14 villages—Alisingha, Khulapathar, Basundhari, Bugduba Beel, Bugduba ...
: Over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in
Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur ...
, India, during the
Assam agitation
The Assam Movement (also Anti-Foreigners Agitation) (1979–1985) was a popular uprising in Assam, India, that demanded the Government of India to detect, disenfranchise and deport illegal aliens. Led by All Assam Students Union (AASU) and Al ...
.
**
Wah Mee massacre
The Wah Mee massacre () was a mass shooting that occurred during the night of February 18–19, 1983, in which Kwan Fai "Willie" Mak, Wai Chiu "Tony" Ng, and Keung Kin "Benjamin" Ng (no relation) bound, robbed, and shot fourteen people in the Wa ...
: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in the Chinatown area of
Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
, United States.
March
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March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
– The
Balearic Islands
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and
Madrid
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become
Autonomous communities of Spain
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ca, comunitat autònoma
gl, comunidade autónoma
oc, comunautat autonòma
an, comunidat autonoma
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.
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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
Elections in Australia take place periodically to elect the legislature of the Commonwealth of Australia, as well as for each Australian state and territory and for local government councils. Elections in all jurisdictions follow similar princip ...
: 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
Liberal or liberalism may refer to:
Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
* an adherent of a Liberal Party
* Liberalism (international relations)
* Sexually liberal feminism
* Social liberalism
Arts, entertainment and m ...
/
National
National may refer to:
Common uses
* Nation or country
** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen
Places in the United States
* National, Maryland, ce ...
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
A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
led by
Prime Minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...
Malcolm Fraser
John Malcolm Fraser (; 21 May 1930 – 20 March 2015) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd prime minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983, holding office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
Fraser was raised on hi ...
. Hawke would be sworn in on
March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the venerati ...
. 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
Andrew Sharp Peacock (13 February 193916 April 2021) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He served as a cabinet minister and went on to become leader of the Liberal Party on two occasions (1983–1985 and 1989–1990), leading the par ...
.
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March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
* 1226 – ...
– The
3D printer
3D printing or additive manufacturing is the Manufacturing, construction of a three-dimensional object from a computer-aided design, CAD model or a digital 3D modeling, 3D model. It can be done in a variety of processes in which material is ...
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
Yamoussoukro (; , locally ) is the ''de jure'' capital of Ivory Coast and an autonomous district. As of the 2014 census, Yamoussoukro is the fifth most populous city in Ivory Coast with a population of 212,670. Located north-west of Abidjan, th ...
officially becomes the
Ivorian political capital after transfer from
Abidjan
Abidjan ( , ; N'Ko script, N’ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the economic capital of the Ivory Coast. As of the Demographics of Ivory Coast, 2021 census, Abidjan's population was 6.3 million, which is 21.5 percent of overall population of the country, ...
.
April
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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
STS-6 was the sixth NASA Space Shuttle mission and the maiden flight of the . Launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 4, 1983, the mission deployed the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1, into orbit, before landing at Edwards A ...
.
*
April 11
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
* 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
* 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferra ...
– Spain's
Seve Ballesteros
Severiano Ballesteros Sota (; 9 April 1957 – 7 May 2011) was a Spanish professional golfer, a World No. 1 who was one of the sport's leading figures from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. A member of a gifted golfing family, he won 90 inte ...
won the 47th PGA
Masters Tournament
The Masters Tournament (usually referred to as simply The Masters, or the U.S. Masters outside North America) is one of the four major championships in professional golf. Scheduled for the first full week of April, the Masters is the first maj ...
*
April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– 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.
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April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
– A reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods occurs at
Kursk Nuclear Power Plant
The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant (Russian: Курская АЭС []) is a nuclear power plant located in western Russia on the bank of the Seym River about 40 kilometers west of the city of Kursk. The nearby town of Kurchatov was founded when cons ...
, Russia.
May
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May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanis ...
– ''
Stern
The stern is the back or aft-most part of a ship or boat, technically defined as the area built up over the sternpost, extending upwards from the counter rail to the taffrail. The stern lies opposite the bow, the foremost part of a ship. Ori ...
'' magazine publishes the "
Hitler Diaries
The Hitler Diaries (german: Hitler-Tagebücher) were a series of sixty volumes of journals purportedly written by Adolf Hitler, but forged by Konrad Kujau between 1981 and 1983. The diaries were purchased in 1983 for 9.3 million Deutsche ...
" (which are later found to be forgeries).
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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.
Aberdeen Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland. They compete in the Scottish Premiership and have never been relegated from the top division of the Scottish football league system since they were ...
beat
Real Madrid
Real Madrid Club de Fútbol (, meaning ''Royal Madrid Football Club''), commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.
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
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*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.
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May 17
Events Pre-1600
*1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.
* 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
* 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Flo ...
–
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...
,
Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
, 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 o ...
on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
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May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
** Two separate research groups led by
Robert Gallo
Robert Charles Gallo (; born March 23, 1937) is an American biomedical researcher. He is best known for his role in establishing the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the infectious agent responsible for acquired immune deficiency syndrome ( ...
and Luc Montagnier independently declare that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and publish their findings in the same issue of the journal ''Science (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 F.C., Juventus 1-0 in the final of the UEFA Champions League, European Cup.
*May 26 – The 7.8 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake, Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe''). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
*May 27 – Benton fireworks disaster. 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 Party (UK), Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is 1983 United Kingdom general election, re-elected by a landslide majority.
*June 13 – ''Pioneer 10'' passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System.
*June 18 – Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women are hanged because they are members of the Baháʼí Faith.
*June 18–June 19, 19 – The team of Vern Schuppan, Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
*June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup, defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.
*June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
July
*July 1
**A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, 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's Family Computer, also known as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.
** The 1983 Orly Airport attack, Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.
* July 16 – 1983 British Airways Sikorsky S-61 crash, Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
* July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of Martial law in Poland, martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
* July 21 – The Lowest temperature recorded on Earth, lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
* July 22 – Australian Dick Smith (entrepreneur), Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter.
* July 23
** 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a Four Four Bravo, deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, starting the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued until 2009.
** Heavy rain and mudslides at western Shimane Prefecture, Japan, kill 117.
* July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, 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 of Republic of Upper Volta, Upper Volta.
* August 18
** Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
** Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Uluru, Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
* August 21 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is Assassination of Benigno Aquino, Jr., assassinated 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: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Air Force, Soviet Union Air Force Sukhoi Su-15, 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
**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 between native Kanak people, Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
* September 26
** 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: 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, 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, 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'' wins the 1983 America's Cup, America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing (sport), 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 (UK), 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 Beom-seok (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 Corporation, 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 of Grenada, 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 – 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, Beirut barracks bombing: 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 by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.
** 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 (programmer), Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of ''PC World'' magazine.
* October 30 – 1983 Argentine general election, Argentine general election: The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of National Reorganization Process, military rule are held.
November
* November 2 – South Africa approves a Tricameral Parliament, new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asian South African, Asians as part of a series of reforms to South Africa under apartheid, apartheid.
* November 3 – Commencement of the Battle of Tripoli (1983), battle of Tripoli between Yasser Arafat, Arafat loyalists and Palestine Liberation Organization, PLO dissidents.
* November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and 1 severely wounded in an uncontrolled decompression, explosive decompression accident.
* November 7
** Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear Pre-emptive nuclear strike, first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.
** 1983 U.S. Senate bombing A bomb explodes in the United States Senate with the intent to kill United States Republican Party, Republican senators; no one is injured. The perpetrators are members of the May 19th Communist Organization.
* November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. president to address the National Diet, Japan's national legislature.
* November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common in the UK amid protests from peace campaigners.
* November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the Food and Drug Administration, 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 Aircraft hijacking, hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Georgian SSR, Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.
* November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 011 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.
December
* December 4 – 1983 Venezuelan general election, General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action (Venezuela), 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 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 ...
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* December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina.
* December 13 – Turgut Özal, of Motherland Party (Turkey), ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning a new civilian regime.
* December 17
** The Alcalá 20 nightclub fire in Madrid, Spain, injuring 47 and killing 83 people.
** Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 people and injures 90 outside Harrods 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 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 Palau, Belau, Amory Lovins, Amory and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef/CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.
* The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event brings severe weather worldwide.
* The capital of the Ivory Coast, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire is changed from
Abidjan
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to
Yamoussoukro
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Births
January
![%C3%98ystein Pettersen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/%C3%98ystein_Pettersen.JPG)
* January 2 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
* January 4
** Will Bynum, American basketball player
** Kerry Condon, Irish actress
* January 7 – Brett Dalton, American actor
* January 8
** Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter
** Chris Masters, American wrestler
* January 9 – Gala Évora, Spanish actress
* January 10 – Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
* January 12 – Manourou Gakou, French basketball player
* January 13
** Imran Khan (Bollywood actor), Imran Khan, Bollywood actor
** Julian Morris, British actor
** Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
* January 16
** Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
** Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
* January 18
** Jung Yu-mi (actress born 1983), Jung Yu-mi, South Korean actress
** Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
* January 19
** Øystein Pettersen, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
** Hikaru Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter
* January 21
** Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress
** Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian professional wrestler and glamour model
* January 23
** Justyna Kowalczyk, Polish cross-country skier
** Sarah Tait, Australian rower (d. 2016)
*
January 24
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Cou ...
** Craig Horner, Australian actor
** Teo (singer), 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
![Kate Mara by Gage Skidmore](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Kate_Mara_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)
*
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, 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, Indian cricketer
**Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
* February 7
** Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
** Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer
* February 8
** Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
** Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter (d. 2015)
* February 10 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian artistic gymnast
* February 11 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
*
February 12
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
– Iko Uwais Indonesian pencak silat actor
* February 15 – Philipp Degen, Philipp and David Degen, Swiss footballers
* February 17
** Selita Ebanks, Cayman Islands, Caymanian model
** Elin Kling, Swedish fashion journalist
** Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter and record producer
* February 19
** Kotoōshū Katsunori (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler
** Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
** Nozomi Sasaki (voice actress), Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese voice actress
** Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian rapist
* February 20
** Emad Moteab, Egyptian footballer
** Justin Verlander, American baseball player
* February 21 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director
* February 23
** Aziz Ansari, American comedian and actor
** Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
** Emily Blunt, English actress
** Mido (footballer), Mido, Egyptian footballer
* February 25 – Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player
* February 27
** Devin Harris, American basketball player
** Kate Mara, American television and film actress
** Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
March
![Ed Skrein by Gage Skidmore](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Ed_Skrein_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg)
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
– Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-born Kenyan-American Academy Awards, Academy Award-winning actress
* March 4 – Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater
*
March 9
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
* 1226 – ...
** Clint Dempsey, American footballer
** Maite Perroni, Mexican singer and actress
* March 10
** Jonas Olsson (footballer, born 1983), Jonas Olsson, Swedish footballer
** Rafe Spall, English actor
** Carrie Underwood, American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and actress
* March 14
** 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, French tennis player
* March 20
** Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer
** Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish pop singer
* March 23 – Mo Farah, Somali-born British athlete
* March 29
** Ezgi Mola, Turkish actress
** Ed Skrein, English actor and rapper
* March 30 – Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer
* March 31
** Hashim Amla, South African cricketer
** Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress, singer and musician
April
![Gugu Mbatha-Raw 2013 TIFF](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Gugu_Mbatha-Raw_2013_TIFF.jpg)
* April 1
** Matt Lanter, 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, American actress and film producer
* April 6 – Diora Baird, American actress
* April 7 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
* April 10 – Jamie Chung, American actress
* April 12 – Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player
* April 13 – 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, Brazilian footballer
*
April 18
Events Pre-1600
* 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days.
* 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...
– Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
* April 20
** Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish club DJ
** Miranda Kerr, Australian model
* April 21
** Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
** Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
* April 23
** Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
** Aaron Hill (actor), Aaron Hill, American actor
* April 29
** Megan Boone, American actress
** David Lee (basketball), David Lee, American basketball player
** Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese actress and gravure idol
* April 30 – Yelena Leuchanka, Belarusian professional women's basketball player
May
![Nancy Ajram signing ceremony](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Nancy_Ajram_signing_ceremony.jpg)
* May 1 – Alain Bernard, French Olympic swimmer
* May 2 – Tina Maze, Slovenian alpine ski racer
* May 5 – Henry Cavill, British actor
*
May 6
Events Pre-1600
* 1527 – Spanish and German troops sack Rome; many scholars consider this the end of the Renaissance.
*1536 – The Siege of Cuzco commences, in which Incan forces attempt to retake the city of Cuzco from the Spanis ...
** Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
** Adrianne Palicki, American actress
** Doron Perkins, 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, Greek footballer
* May 13
** Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
** Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
** Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
* May 14
** Anahí, Mexican singer and actress
** Sarbel, Greek Cypriot pop singer
** Amber Tamblyn, American actress
* May 16
** Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
** Marcela Temer, First Lady of Brazil
*
May 17
Events Pre-1600
*1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army.
* 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason.
* 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Flo ...
– Channing Frye, American basketball player
*
May 20
Events Pre-1600
* 325 – The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church.
* 491 – Empress Ariadne marries Anastasius I. The widowed '' Augusta'' is able to choose her ...
– N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian actor and singer
* May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes)
* May 24 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (d. 2009)
* May 31 – Zana Marjanović, Bosnian actress
June
![Cheryl Cole Cannes 2014](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Cheryl_Cole_Cannes_2014.jpg)
* June 1 – Sylvia Hoeks, Dutch actress
* June 6
** 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, 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, 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 – Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
* June 21
** Edward Snowden, American computer specialist, CIA employee, and whistleblower
** Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca, Spanish basketball player
* June 22 – Giacomo Bevilacqua, Italian cartoonist
* June 23
** José Rojas (footballer, born 1983), José Rojas, Chilean footballer
** Brandi Rhodes, American wrestler and reality television personality
** Rade Đokić, Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
* June 24
** Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
** Kenny Van Hoevelen, Belgian footballer
* June 25
** Cleo (Polish singer), Cleo, Polish singer
** Shamau Shareef, Maldivian politician
** Daniele Gastaldello, Italian footballer
** Cristian Baroni, Brazilian footballer
** Marko Đurić, Serbian politician
* June 26
** Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
** Alsény Këïta, Liberian footballer
** Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor
** Richard Okia, Ugandan cricketer
* June 27
** Alsou, Russian singer, Eurovision Song Contest Eurovision Song Contest 2000, 2000 runner-up
** Ben Bocquelet, French-British animator and producer
** Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor
* June 29 – Ilya Yashin, Russian activist and politician
* June 30 – Cheryl (singer), Cheryl, British singer (Girls Aloud) and TV personality
July
![Aaron peirsol-2](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Aaron_peirsol-2.jpg)
* July 1
** Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
** Leeteuk, Park Jeong-su, Korean singer (Super Junior)
* July 2
** Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
** Fadhil Hashim, Malaysian footballer
* July 3 – Park Jin-woo, South Korean actor
* July 4 – Isabeli Fontana, 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), 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)
** Boniface Mwangi, Kenyan photojournalist, politician and activist
* July 12 – Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
* July 13
** Liu Xiang (hurdler), Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
** Carmen Villalobos, Colombian actress and model
* July 15
** Maxim Dondyuk, 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 (born 1983), Prince Ernst August of Hanover
* July 21 – Eivør (singer), Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese people, Faroese singer and composer
* July 22
** Detsl, Russian musician (d. 2019)
** Ryan Doucette, Canadian actor
** Juliana Silva, 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, Argentine footballer
August
![ESC2016 - Ukraine Meet & Greet 17 (square crop)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/ESC2016_-_Ukraine_Meet_%26_Greet_17_%28square_crop%29.jpg)
* August 3 – Mamie Gummer, American actress
* August 4
** Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker
** Adhir Kalyan, South African actor
** Mariusz Wlazły, Polish volleyball player
* August 6 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
* August 7 – Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor
* August 9 – Ashley Johnson (actress), Ashley Johnson, American actress and voice actress
* August 11 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
* August 13 – Aleš Hemský, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
* August 14
** Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
** Sunidhi Chauhan, Indian playback singer
** Mila Kunis, Ukraine-born American actress
* August 16 – Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
* August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
* August 18
** Kris Boyd, Scottish football player
** Mika (singer), Mika, Lebanese-British singer
** Cameron White, Australian cricketer
* August 19
** Missy Higgins, Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor
** Claudia Salinas, Mexican model and actress
** Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013)
** Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
* August 20
** Andrew Garfield, British/American actor
** Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
* August 23
** James Collins (footballer, born 1983), James Collins, 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 Eurovision Song Contest 2016, 2016 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, Dutch judoka
September
![Andreea Raducan -2-](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Andreea_Raducan_-2-.jpg)
* September 1 – José Antonio Reyes, Spanish footballer (d. 2019)
* 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)
* 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 – 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
![Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ 2009](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/K%C4%B1van%C3%A7_Tatl%C4%B1tu%C4%9F_2009.jpg)
* 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 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
![Philipp Lahm, Germany national football team (07)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Philipp_Lahm%2C_Germany_national_football_team_%2807%29.jpg)
* 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
![Steven Yeun 2016](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Steven_Yeun_2016.jpg)
* 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
![Bear Bryant 1945](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Bear_Bryant_1945.jpg)
* January 2 – Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)
* January 8 – 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 – 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 (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
Events Pre-1600
* 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
* 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
*1438 – The Cou ...
** 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
![Tennessee Williams NYWTS](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Tennessee_Williams_NYWTS.jpg)
* 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
Events Pre-1600
*1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna.
*1429 – English forces under ...
** 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 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
* February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
* February 23 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
* February 25 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
* February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)
* February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914)
March
![Umberto II, 1944](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Umberto_II%2C_1944.jpg)
*
March 1
Events Pre-1600
*509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first Roman triumph, triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.
* 293 – Emperor ...
** 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
Events Pre-1600
*141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China.
*1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
* 1226 – ...
** Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
** Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
*
March 11
Events Pre-1600
* 222 – Roman emperor Elagabalus is murdered alongside his mother, Julia Soaemias. He is replaced by his 14-year old cousin, Severus Alexander.
* 843 – Triumph of Orthodoxy: Empress Theodora II restores the venerati ...
– Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)
* March 14 – 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 – Stephen Murray (actor), Stephen Murray, British actor (b. 1912)
April
![Muddy Waters november 1976](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/Muddy_Waters_november_1976.jpg)
* 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
Events Pre-1600
* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.
* 1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi.
* 1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferra ...
– 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 – 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 – Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor (b. 1902)
*
April 22
Events Pre-1600
* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.
* 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico.
* 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...
– Earl Hines, Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
* April 23
** 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
![King Idris I of Libya](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/King_Idris_I_of_Libya.png)
* 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
![Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado mar65](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Osvaldo_Dortic%C3%B3s_Torrado_mar65.jpg)
* 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 – 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 – 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
![David Niven 4 Allan Warren](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/David_Niven_4_Allan_Warren.jpg)
* July 1 – 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
![Ninoy Aquino 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/Ninoy_Aquino_3.jpg)
* 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 – 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 – Mamie Phipps Clark, American psychologist (b. 1917)
* August 16
** 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 – 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
![Cardinalhm](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Cardinalhm.jpg)
* 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
![Carel Willink (1966)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Carel_Willink_%281966%29.jpg)
* 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
![George Headley photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/George_Headley_photo.jpg)
* 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
![Dennis Wilson 1971 cropped](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Dennis_Wilson_1971_cropped.jpg)
* 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)
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* 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 Debreu
References
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