1984 British Novels

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 Asian Nations (ASEAN).
* January 10
** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations.
** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission.
*January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States.

February

* February 3
** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth.
** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission.
* February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
* February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.
* February 13 – Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
* February 22 – President of Bangladesh, H M Ershad upgraded South Sylhet's sub-division status to a district and renamed it back to Moulvibazar.
* February 23 – TED (conference) founded.
* February 29 – Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement.

March

* March 5 – Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.
* March 16 – The United States Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization and later dies in captivity.
* March 23 – General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over two of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.

April

* April 2 – Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the ''Soyuz T-11''.
* April 12 – Palestinian gunmen take Israeli bus number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (one hostage, two hijackers killed).
* April 13 – India launches Operation Meghdoot, bringing most of the disputed Siachen Glacier region of Kashmir under Indian control and triggering the Siachen conflict with Pakistan.
* April 15 – The first World Youth Day gathering is held in Rome, Italy.

* April 16 – More than one million people, led by Tancredo Neves, occupy the streets of São Paulo to demand direct presidential elections during the Brazilian military government of João Figueiredo. It is the largest protest during the Diretas Já civil unrest, as well as the largest public demonstration in the history of Brazil. The elections are granted in 1989.
* April 19 – ''Advance Australia Fair'' is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
* April 24 – An X-class solar flare erupts on the Sun.
* April 26 – Sultan Iskandar of Johor becomes Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, in succession to Sultan Ahmad Shah, whose term ended the previous day.

May

* May 2 – South Africa, Mozambique and Portugal sign an agreement on electricity supply from the Cahora Bassa dam.
* May 5
** The Herreys' song ''Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley'' wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden in Luxembourg. It subsequently became a top ten hit in five European countries.
** The Itaipu Dam, on the border of Brazil and Paraguay after nine years of construction, begins generating power; it was the largest hydroelectric dam in the world at the time.
* May 8 – The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
* May 11 – A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
* May 12 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as the 1984 World's Fair, opens.
* May 13 – Severomorsk Disaster: an explosion at the Soviets' Severomorsk Naval Base destroys two-thirds of all the missiles stockpiled for the Soviets' Northern Fleet. The blast also destroys workshops needed to maintain the missiles as well as hundreds of technicians. Western military experts called it the worst naval disaster the Soviet Navy has suffered since WWII.
* May 14 – The one-dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
* May 23 – A methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, UK, kills 16 people.
* May 30 – Liverpool beat Roma 5-2 after penalties in the final of the 1984 European Cup football tournament.

June

* June 5 – The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
* June 6 – Tetris is officially released in the Soviet Union on the Electronika 60.
* June 8 – A F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing nine people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
* June 16 – The Canadian entertainment company, Cirque du Soleil, is founded.
* June 22 – Virgin Atlantic makes its inaugural flight.
* June 27 – France beats Spain 2–0 to win Euro 84.
* June 30 – John Turner becomes the 17th Prime Minister of Canada.

July

* July 1
** Liechtenstein becomes the last country in Europe to grant women the right to vote.
** Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona is sold by FC Barcelona (Spain) to S.S.C. Napoli (Italy) for a world record fee at this date of $10.48M (£6.9M).
* July 14 – New Zealand Prime Minister Rob Muldoon calls a snap election and is defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.

* July 25 – ''Salyut 7'': cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
* July 28–August 12 – The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.

August

* August 1 – Australian banks are deregulated.
* August 4
** The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
** reaches a record submergence depth of 1,020 meters.
* August 11
** Barefoot South African runner Zola Budd, and Mary Decker of the U.S. collide in the Olympic 3,000 meters final, neither finishing as medallists.
* August 16 – John DeLorean is acquitted of all eight charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.
* August 21 – Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.

* August 30 – STS-41-D: the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' takes off on its maiden voyage.

September

* September 2 – Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney, Australia.
* September 4 – The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons of Canada, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
* September 5
** ''STS-41-D'': the Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' lands after its maiden voyage at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
** Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
* September 7 – An explosion on board a Maltese patrol boat disposing illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo kills seven soldiers and policemen.
* September 14 – P. W. Botha is inaugurated as the first executive State President of South Africa.
* September 14 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.
* September 16 – Edgar Reitz's film series ''Heimat'' begins release in Germany.
* September 17 – Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
* September 18 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic, solo, in a hot air balloon.
* September 20 – Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 24 people.
* September 26 – The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.

October

* October 4 – Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
* October 5 – ''STS-41-G'': Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian space program, Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle ''Challenger''.
* October 9 - Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends by Britt Allcroft broadcasts its first 2 episodes in the United Kingdom.
* October 11
** Aboard the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'', astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
** Aeroflot Flight 3352 crashed at Omsk Airport into maintenance vehicles on the runway, killing 174 people on board and 4 on the ground.
* October 12 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) attempts to assassinate Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the British Cabinet of the United Kingdom, Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing. The terror attack kills five people and injures 31.
* October 14 – The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres in game five of the 1984 World Series to win the franchise's 4th championship.
* October 19 – Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity movement. His body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.
* October 20 – Monterey Bay Aquarium is opened to the public after seven years of development and construction.
* October 23 – The world learns from moving BBC News television reports presented by Michael Buerk of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, famine in Ethiopia, where thousands of people have already died of starvation due to a famine, and as many as 10,000,000 more lives are at risk.
* October 25 – The European Economic Community makes £1.8 million available to help combat the famine in Ethiopia.
* October 31 – Assassination of Indira Gandhi: Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her two Sikh security guards in New Delhi. 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Anti-Sikh riots break out, leaving 10,000 to 20,000 Sikhs dead in Delhi and surrounding areas with majority populations of Hindus. Rajiv Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.

November

* November 1–November 4, 4 – 1984 anti-Sikh riots, Anti Sikh Mass murder took place in Delhi and various parts of India following Assassination of Indira Gandhi, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
* November 4 – The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan 1984 Nicaraguan general election, general elections.
* November 6 – 1984 United States presidential election: Republican President Ronald Reagan defeats Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% 1972 United States presidential election, popular vote victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the United States electoral college, electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota (by a mere 3,761 vote margin) and the Washington, D.C., District of Columbia.

* November 9–November 11, 11 – The first The Hackers Conference, Hackers Conference is held.
* November 11 – The Louisiana World Exposition, also known as The 1984 World's Fair, and also the New Orleans World's Fair, and, to the locals, simply as "The Fair" or "Expo 84", closes.
* November 12 – Western Sahara conflict: Morocco leaves the Organization of African Unity in protest at the admission of Western Sahara as a member.
* November 14 – Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of President of the Philippines, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
* November 19 – A San Juanico disaster, series of explosions at the Pemex Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
* November 21 – Start of Operation Moses, the evacuation of refugee Beta Israel Ethiopian Jews from Sudan to Israel via Brussels.
* November 25
** Band Aid (band), Band Aid (assembled by Bob Geldof) records the charity single ''Do They Know It's Christmas?'' in London to raise money to combat the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia, famine in Ethiopia. It is released on December 3.
** 1984 Uruguayan presidential election: Julio María Sanguinetti is democratically elected President of Uruguay after 12 years of Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay, military dictatorship.
* November 28 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
* November 30 – Kent and Dollar Farm massacres: the Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese people from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.

December

* December 1 – A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
* December 2 – 1984 Australian federal election: Bob Hawke's Australian Labor Party, Labor Hawke Government, Government is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, National Coalition (Australia), Coalition led by Andrew Peacock.
* December 3 – Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll reaches 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.
* December 4
** Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers 1984 Mannar massacre, kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar, Sri Lanka, Mannar.
** Hezbollah militants Aircraft hijacking, hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.
* December 19 – The People's Republic of China and the United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
* December 20 – Disappearance and death of Jonelle Matthews, Disappearance of Jonelle Matthews from Greeley, Colorado. Her remains were discovered on 23 July 2019, located about southeast of Jonelle's home. The cause of death "was a gunshot wound to the head".
* December 22
** Four African-American youths (Barry Allen (shooting victim), Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in the The Bronx, Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime in the United States.
** In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.
* December 28 – A Soviet Union, Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland (Finland), Lapland. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.

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* 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia intensifies with renewed drought by mid-year, killing a million people by the end of this year.
* Crack cocaine, a smokeable form of the drug, is first introduced into Los Angeles and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the crack epidemic (United States), crack epidemic.
* The Chrysler Corporation introduces the first vehicles to be officially labeled as "minivans". They are branded as the Chrysler Town & Country, Dodge Caravan, and Plymouth Voyager.

Births

January

* January 1 – Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
* January 5
** Shariff Abdul Samat, Singaporean footballer (d. 2020)
** Diego Gómez (footballer, born 1984), Diego Gómez, Argentine-French footballer
* January 6
** Priit Loog, Estonian actor
** Kate McKinnon, American actress and comedian
* January 7 – Max Riemelt, German actor and director
* January 10 – Kalki Koechlin, French-Indian film actress
* January 11 – Mark Forster (singer), Mark Forster, German singer-songwriter
* January 13
** Eleni Ioannou, Greek martial artist (d. 2004)
** Nathaniel Motte, American songwriter, performer, singer, music producer, film composer, instrumentalist, and playwright
* January 15
** Megan Quann, American swimmer
** Victor Rasuk, American actor
** Ben Shapiro, American political commentator and writer
* January 17
** Cassie Hager, American basketball player
** Calvin Harris, British dance musician
* January 18
** Seung-Hui Cho, Korean-born American Virginia Tech shooting, Virginia Tech massacre gunman (d. 2007)
** Makoto Hasebe, Japanese footballer
** Alaixys Romao, Togolese footballer
* January 19
** Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
** Zakia Mrisho Mohamed, Tanzanian long-distance runner
** Aliona Savchenko, Ukrainian-born German pair skater
** Thomas Vanek, Austrian hockey player
** Lil Scrappy, American rapper
* January 21
** Luke Grimes, American actor
** Karim Haggui, Tunisian footballer
** Karen Schwarz, Peruvian actress and TV host
* January 22 – Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
* January 23 – Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
* January 24
** Emerse Faé, Ivorian footballer
** Yotam Halperin, Israeli basketball player
** Witold Kiełtyka, Polish musician (d. 2007)
* January 25
** Stefan Kießling, German football player
** Robinho, Brazilian footballer
* January 26 – Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
* January 28 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
* January 29
** Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer
** Safee Sali, Malaysian footballer

February

* February 1
** Darren Fletcher, Scottish football player
** Abbi Jacobson, American comedian, writer and actress
** Lee Thompson Young, American actor (d. 2013)
* February 3
** Elizabeth Holmes, American fraudster who founded Theranos
** Kim Joon, South Korean rapper, actor, and model
* February 4 – Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
* February 5 – Carlos Tevez, Argentinian football player
* February 8 – Cecily Strong, American actress and comedian
* February 9 – Han Geng, Chinese singer in Korea (Super Junior)
* February 10 – Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
* February 11
** Mai Demizu, Japanese announcer
** Aubrey O'Day, American singer and actress
* February 12 – Brad Keselowski, American stock car driver
* February 15
** Doda (singer), Doda, Polish singer and model
** The Duffer Brothers, Matt and Ross Duffer, American screenwriters and directors
* February 16 – Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian Olympic swimmer
* February 17 – AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
* February 18 – Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
* February 19 – Marissa Meyer, American novelist
* February 20 – Trevor Noah, South African comedian, actor, and television personality
* February 22 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby union player
* February 24 – Wilson Bethel, American actor
* February 25
** Xing Huina, Chinese athlete
** Filip Šebo, Slovak footballer
* February 26
** Emmanuel Adebayor, Togolese footballer
** Beren Saat, Turkish actress
* February 28 – Karolína Kurková, Czech model
* February 29
** Mark Foster (singer), Mark Foster, American singer and composer, frontman of Foster the People
** Alicia Hollowell, American softball pitcher
** Cullen Jones, American Olympic swimmer
** Cam Ward, Canadian hockey player

March

* March 1
** Claudio Bieler, Argentinian football player
** Brandon Stanton, American photographer and blogger
* March 6 – Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer
* March 7
** Steve Burtt Jr., American-Ukrainian basketball player
** Mathieu Flamini, French football player
** Brandon T. Jackson, American stand-up comedian, actor and rapper
* March 8
** Matthew Wong, Canadian artist (d. 2019)
** Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
* March 9 – Julia Mancuso, U.S. Olympic skier
* March 10 – Olivia Wilde, American actress
* March 11 – Tom James, British rower
* March 12
** Jaimie Alexander, American actress
** Shreya Ghoshal, Indian playback singer
* March 13 – Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
* March 16
** Michael Ennis, Australian rugby league player
** Hosea Gear, New Zealand Rugby Union player
* March 18 – Michael Schmid (skier), Michael Schmid, Swiss Olympic freestyle skier
* March 19 – Bianca Balti, Italian model
* March 20
** iJustine, Justine Ezarik, Internet celebrity and actress
** Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
** Fernando Torres, Spanish football player
* March 21 – Sopho Gelovani, Georgian singer
* March 22 – Didit Hediprasetyo, Indonesian fashion designer and socialite
* March 24
** Chris Bosh, American basketball player
** Park Bom, South Korean singer
* March 25 – Katharine McPhee, ''American Idol'' finalist
* March 26 – Stéphanie Lapointe, Canadian singer
* March 30
** Helena Mattsson, Swedish actress
** Justin Moore, American country music singer
** Anna Nalick, American singer
** Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player

April

* April 1 – Murali Vijay, Indian cricketer
* April 3 – Allana Slater, Australian gymnast
* April 4 – Haitham Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian actor (d. 2019)
* April 5
** Marshall Allman, American actor
** Aram Mp3, Armenian singer-songwriter, comedian and showman
** Saba Qamar, Pakistani actress and model
** Phil Wickham, American musician
* April 8
** Austin Ejide, Nigerian footballer
** Ezra Koenig, American musician
* April 9
** Linda Chung, Canadian TVB actress and singer
** Adam Loewen, Canadian pitcher
* April 10 – Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter, and actress
* April 11
** Kelli Garner, American actress
** Nikola Karabatić, French handball player
* April 12 – Luisel Ramos, Uruguayan model (d. 2006)
* April 13 – Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor and writer
* April 14
** Kyle Coetzer, Scottish cricketer
** Adán Sánchez, American singer (d. 2004)
* April 15 – Zizan Razak, Malaysian comedian
* April 16
** Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
** Claire Foy, English actress
* April 17
**Siyar Bahadurzada, Afghan-Dutch mixed martial artist
**Rosanna Davison, Irish model, Miss World 2003
* April 18 – America Ferrera, American actress, producer, and director
* April 19
** Lee Da-hae, South Korean actress
** Dmitry Trunenkov, Russian Olympic bobsledder
* April 20
** John Jairo Castillo, Colombian football player
** Tyson Griffin, American MMA fighter
* April 22 – Amelle Berrabah, British singer
* April 23 – Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian chess player
* April 24 – Tyson Ritter, American singer-songwriter
* April 25 – Melonie Diaz, American actress
* April 26 – Emily Wickersham, American actress
* April 27
** Fabien Gilot, French Olympic swimmer
** Patrick Stump, American musician and singer-songwriter (Fall Out Boy)
* April 29
** Taylor Cole, American actress and model
** Kirby Cote, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
** Paulius Jankūnas, Lithuanian basketball player
** Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator
** Vassilis Xanthopoulos, Greek basketball player

May

* May 1
** Kerry Bishé, American actress
** Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
* May 3
** Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer
** Morgan Kibby, American actress and singer-songwriter
* May 4
** Little Boots, British pop singer
** Sarah Meier (figure skater), Sarah Meier, Swiss figure skater
* May 5 – Chris Birchall, Trinidadian footballer
* May 7
** Kevin Owens, Canadian professional wrestler
** Alex Smith, American football player
* May 8
** Francesco Servino, Italian journalist and activist
** Martin Compston, Scottish actor and former professional footballer
* May 10 – Pe'er Tasi, Israeli singer
* May 11 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
* May 12 – Sajjad Anoushiravani, Iranian weightlifter
* May 13 – Hannah New, English actress and model
* May 14
** Gary Ablett Jr., Australian rules footballer
** Olly Murs, English singer
** Mark Zuckerberg, American founder and CEO of Facebook
* May 17
** Jayson Blair (actor), Jayson Blair, American actor
** Alejandro Edda, Mexican-American actor
** Andreas Kofler, Austrian ski jumper
** Passenger (singer), Passenger, English singer and songwriter
** Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
* May 18 – Yuri Kolovorotny, former Russian professional football player
* May 20
** Dilara Kazimova, Azerbaijani singer and actress
** Naturi Naughton, American singer and actress
* May 21
** Jackson Pearce, American novelist
** Gary Woodland, American golfer
* May 23 – Adam Wylie, American actor
* May 24 – Monica Bergamelli, Italian artistic gymnast
* May 25
** Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
** Emma Marrone, Italian pop/rock singer
** Kostas Martakis, Greek singer, model and occasional actor
** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer
** Marion Raven, Norwegian singer and songwriter
** Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, Miss Iceland, crowned Miss World 2005
* May 29
** Carmelo Anthony, African-American basketball player
** Nia Jax, Australian-born American professional wrestler
** Aleksei Tishchenko, Russian Olympic boxer
* May 31
** Milorad Čavić, Serbian swimmer
** Yael Grobglas, Israeli actress

June

* June 1
** Olivier Tielemans, Dutch racing driver
** Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolian judoka
* June 4
** Jillian Murray, American actress
** Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer
* June 5 – Iris van Herpen, Dutch fashion designer
* June 7 – Balli Kalyanachakravarthy, Indian politician
* June 8
** Andrea Casiraghi, Prince of Monaco
** Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
* June 9 – Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
* June 13
** Bérengère Schuh, French archer
** Phillip Van Dyke, American actor
* June 15 – Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
* June 16
** Emiri Miyasaka, Japanese model
** Rick Nash, Canadian hockey player
* June 17 – John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer, and dancer
* June 19 – Paul Dano, American actor and producer
* June 19 – Teri Ijeoma, American entrepreneur
* June 21
** Kim Ho-jun, South Korean football player
** Zabit Samedov, Azerbaijani kickboxer
** Erick Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
* June 22 – Janko Tipsarević, Serbian tennis player
* June 23 – Duffy (singer), Duffy, Welsh singer
* June 24
** Javier Ambrossi, Spanish actor, stage director and film director
** JJ Redick, American basketball player
* June 25
** Lauren Bush, American model and producer
** Killian Donnelly, Irish musical theatre performer
* June 26
** Raymond Felton, American basketball player
** Assan Jatta, Gambian football striker
** Aubrey Plaza, American actress
** Deron Williams, American basketball player
** Eddie Wineland, American mixed martial artist
* June 27
** Son Ho-jun, South Korean singer and actor
** Khloé Kardashian, American television personality
* June 28 – Eric Friedman, American musician and songwriter
* June 30
** Fantasia Barrino, American singer
** Nikos Oikonomopoulos, Greek singer
** Yu Koshikawa, Japanese volleyball player

July

* July – James Holzhauer, American game show champion
* July 1
** Jason Reeves (songwriter), Jason Reeves, American singer-songwriter and musician
** Donald Thomas (high jumper), Donald Thomas, Bahamian high jumper
** Heo Jae-won, South Korean football player
* July 2
** Johnny Weir, American figure skater, fashion designer, and television commentator
** Vinny Magalhães, Brazilian mixed martial artist
* July 3 – Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
* July 4
** Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer and actor
** Lee Je-hoon, South Korean actor
* July 5
** Yu Yamada, Japanese model, actress, and singer
** Yeon Woo-jin, South Korean actor
** Danay García, Cuban actress and model
* July 6 – Lauren Harris, British rock musician
* July 7
** Oleksiy Honcharuk, Ukrainian politician
** AG Coco, Malaysian musician
** Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladeshi cricketer
* July 9 – LA Tenorio, Filipino professional basketball player
* July 10
** Laurent Recouderc, French tennis player
** Mark González, South African-Chilean footballer
** Óscar Escandón, Colombian boxer
** María Julia Mantilla, Peruvian actress, dancer, model, teacher, and beauty queen
* July 11
** Tiffiny Hall, Australian author, journalist and television personality
** Tanith Belbin White, Canadian-American figure skater
** Joe Pavelski, American hockey player
** Serinda Swan, Canadian actress
** Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
* July 12
** Gareth Gates, English singer
** Amanda Hocking, American fantasy novelist
** Natalie Martinez, American actress and model
** Michael McGovern (footballer), Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
** Sami Zayn, Syrian Canadian professional wrestler
* July 13 – Pio Marmaï, French actor
* July 15
** Vincent Wan (actor), Vincent Wan, Hong Kong actor
** Rustam Totrov, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
** Lars Øvrebø, Norwegian football player
* July 16 – Sašo Bertoncelj, Slovenian male artistic gymnast
* July 17 – Mohamed Bouchaïb, Libya-Algerian actor
* July 18
** Sam Sexton, British professional boxer
** Liv Boeree, English poker player and TV presenter
** Josh Harding, Canadian hockey player
* July 19
** Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian videographer
** Andrea Libman, Canadian actress
** Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
** Zhu Zhu, Chinese actress and singer
* July 20 – Huang Yi-hua, Taiwanese table tennis player
* July 21
** Sarah Greene (actress), Sarah Greene, Irish actress and singer
** Iris Strubegger, Austrian model
* July 23 – Brandon Roy, American basketball player
* July 26 – Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
* July 27 – Taylor Schilling, American actress
* July 28
** Ali Krieger, American soccer player
** Zach Parise, American hockey player
** John David Washington, American actor and former American football player
* July 30
** Anna Bessonova, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast
** Gina Rodriguez, American actress and producer

August

* August 1
** Danny Tidwell, American dancer (d. 2020)
** Bastian Schweinsteiger, German football player
* August 2 – Giampaolo Pazzini, Italian footballer
* August 3 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer
* August 5 – Helene Fischer, German singer and entertainer
* August 10 – Ryan Eggold, American film and television actor
* August 11
** Mojtaba Abedini, Iranian Olympic fencer
** Melky Cabrera, American baseball player
* August 12 – Sherone Simpson, Jamaican athlete
* August 13
** Alexander Bartz, German politician
** James Morrison (singer), James Morrison, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
* August 14
** Clay Buchholz, American Major League Baseball pitcher
** Robin Söderling, Swedish tennis player
* August 17 – Liam Heath, British sprint canoeist
* August 20
** Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
** Tsokye Tsomo Karchung, Tsokye Karchung, Bhutanese beauty queen, Miss Bhutan 2008
* August 21 – Alizée, Alizée Jacotey, French singer
* August 23
** Glen Johnson, English footballer
** Ashley Williams (footballer), Ashley Williams, Welsh footballer
* August 24
** Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
** Yesung, South Korean singer, songwriter, actor, radio personality and MC
* August 25 – Kenan Sofuoğlu, Turkish professional motorcycle racer
* August 28 – Sarah Roemer, American model and actress
* August 31 – Charl Schwartzel, South African golfer

September

* September 1 – Joe Trohman, American singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist (Fall Out Boy)
* September 2 – Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
* September 3
** Garrett Hedlund, American actor
** Nuša Šenk, Slovenian model, media personality, businesswoman and television host
* September 4
** Camila Bordonaba, Argentine actress, singer-songwriter, dancer, musician, and former model
** Kyle Mooney, American comedian
* September 6
** Igor Maksymenko, Ukrainian kickboxer
** Orsi Kocsis, Hungarian model
** Abby Martin, American journalist
* September 7
** Kate Miner (actress), Kate Miner, American actress and musician
** Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
** Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
* September 8 – Daniele Hypolito, Brazilian artistic gymnast
* September 10 – Luke Treadaway, English actor and singer
* September 14 – André de Vanny, Australian actor
* September 15 – Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, British Prince
* September 16
** Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
** Katie Melua, Georgian-English singer
** Ali Fedotowsky, American television personality
* September 18
** Nina Arianda, American actress
** Dizzee Rascal, English rapper
* September 19
** Young Greatness, American rapper (d. 2018)
** Lydia Hearst, American actress and fashion model
** Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
* September 20
** Brian Joubert, French figure skater
** Soundarya Rajinikanth, Indian graphic designer, producer, and director
** Holly Weber, American actress and model
* September 21 – Ben Wildman-Tobriner, American Olympic swimmer
* September 22
** Theresa Fu, Hong Kong singer and actress
** Godfrey Gao, Taiwanese-Canadian model and actor (d. 2019)
** Laura Vandervoort, Canadian actress
* September 23
** Kate French, American television and film actress and model
** Matt Kemp, American baseball player
** Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress and singer
* September 25
** Annabelle Wallis, English actress
** CariDee English, American fashion model and TV personality
** Zach Woods, American actor and comedian
* September 27 – Avril Lavigne, Canadian rock musician
* September 28
** Helen Oyeyemi, British novelist
** Melody Thornton, American singer
** Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
* September 29 – Per Mertesacker, German football player
* September 30 – Keisha Buchanan, British singer

October

* October 1
** Beck Bennett, American actor and comedian
** Josh Brener, American actor
** Matt Cain, American baseball player
** Mónica Spear, Venezuelan actress, Miss Venezuela 2004 (d. 2014)
* October 2 – Marion Bartoli, French professional tennis player
* October 3
** Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
** Yoon Eun-hye, Korean singer, model, actress and entertainer
** Laura Weissbecker, French actress
** Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress
* October 4
** Lena Katina, Russian singer
** Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
* October 5
** Glenn McMillan, Australian actor
** Brooke Valentine, American urban musician
* October 6
** Joanna Pacitti, American singer
** Magdalena Frackowiak, Polish model
** Valerie Adams, New Zealand athlete
* October 7
** Ikuta Toma, Japanese drama actor
** Andy Bean (actor), Andy Bean, American actor
* October 10
** Pavel Durov, Russian entrepreneur
** Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
** Steve Turner (rugby league), Steve Turner, Australian rugby league player
* October 11 – Martha MacIsaac, Canadian actress
* October 12 – Emmanuel Kipchirchir Mutai, Kenyan long-distance runner
* October 13
** Kathrin Fricke, German web- and video-artist, known as Coldmirror
** Anton Kushnir, Belarusian Olympic freestyle skier
* October 16
** Ben Smith (rugby league), Ben Smith, Australian rugby league player
** Shayne Ward, British singer
* October 17
** Chris Lowell, American actor
** Randall Munroe, American programmer and webcomic artist
* October 18
** Hollie Dunaway, American female boxer
** Robert Harting, German discus thrower
** Esperanza Spalding, American singer
** Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
* October 20 – Mitch Lucker, American heavy metal singer (d. 2012)
* October 23
** Izabel Goulart, Brazilian model
** Meghan McCain, American author
* October 24
** Ben Giroux, American actor and director
** Erin Lucas, American actress
* October 25 – Katy Perry, American singer and television judge
* October 26
** Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
** Jefferson Farfán, Peruvian footballer
* October 27
** Kelly Osbourne, English singer and television personality
** Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
* October 28 – Obafemi Martins, Nigerian footballer
* October 29 – Eric Staal, Canadian hockey player

November

* November 1
** Miloš Krasić, Serbian footballer
** Natalia Tena, English actress and singer
* November 2
** Julia Stegner, German model
** Tamara Hope, Canadian actress and singer
* November 3
** Ryo Nishikido, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
** Mina Fukui, Japanese actress, tarento and gravure model
* November 4
** Dustin Brown (ice hockey), Dustin Brown, American hockey player
** Ayila Yussuf, Nigerian footballer
* November 5
** Jon Cornish, Canadian football player
** Tobias Enström, Swedish ice hockey player
** Baruto Kaito, Estonian sumo wrestler
** Eliud Kipchoge, Kenyan long-distance runner
** Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
* November 6 – Sebastian Schachten, German footballer
* November 7
** Mihkel Aksalu, Estonian footballer
** Jonathan Bornstein, American-Israeli soccer player
** Amelia Vega, Miss Universe 2003
* November 8
** Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (d. 2012)
** Steven Webb, English actor
* November 9
** Delta Goodrem, Australian actress and singer
** Ku Hye-sun, South Korean actress and singer
* November 10
** Britt Irvin, Canadian actress and singer
** Ludovic Obraniak, Polish footballer
* November 11 – Birkir Már Sævarsson, Icelandic footballer
* November 12
** Omarion, American singer-songwriter and actor
** Sandara Park, Dara, South Korean singer and model
** Yan Zi (tennis), Yan Zi, Chinese tennis player
* November 14
** Marija Šerifović, Serbian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2007 winner
** Maria Kozhevnikova, Russian politician and actress
* November 15 – Hevrin Khalaf, Kurdish-Syrian politician and civil engineer (d. 2019)
* November 16 – Kimberly J. Brown, American actress
* November 17
** Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
** Lauren Maltby, American actress and psychologist
* November 20 – Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984), Jeremy Jordan, American actor and singer
* November 21 – Jena Malone, American actress, musician, and photographer
* November 22 – Scarlett Johansson, American actress and singer
* November 23
** Jarah Mariano, American model
** Lucas Grabeel, American actor, singer, songwriter, and producer
* November 24 – Maria Höfl-Riesch, German alpine skier
* November 25
** Ian Lacey, Australian rugby league player
** Gaspard Ulliel, French actor (d. 2022)
* November 26 – Antonio Puerta, Spanish footballer (d. 2007)
* November 27 – Sanna Nielsen, Swedish pop singer
* November 28
** Alan Ritchson, American actor, model, and singer
** Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
** Marc-André Fleury, Canadian hockey player
** Trey Songz, African-American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actor
** Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress and singer
* November 30 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer

December

* December 1 – Ajuma Ameh-Otache, Nigerian footballer (d. 2018)
* December 3 – Avraam Papadopoulos, Greek football player
* December 4 – Lindsay Felton, American actress
* December 5 – Lauren London, American actress and model
* December 6 – Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland, Swedish princess
* December 7 – Robert Kubica, Polish Formula One racing driver
* December 8
** Sam Hunt (musician), Sam Hunt, American singer-songwriter
* December 10 – Tom Hern, New Zealand actor
* December 11
** Xosha Roquemore, American actress
** Sandra Echeverría, Mexican actress, singer and model
* December 12 – Daniel Agger, Danish football (soccer) player
* December 13 – Santi Cazorla, Spanish football player
* December 14
** Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
** Jackson Rathbone, American actor and singer
* December 15
** Kirsty Lee Allan, Australian actress and fashion model
** Martin Škrtel, Slovak footballer
** Yu Fengtong, Chinese speed skater
* December 16 – Theo James, English actor and singer
* December 17
** Asuka Fukuda, Japanese singer
** Tennessee Thomas, British-born American drummer and actor
** Shannon Woodward, American actress
* December 18 – Tiffany Mulheron, Scottish actress
* December 20 – Bob Morley, Australian actor
* December 22
** Basshunter, Swedish singer, record producer and DJ
** Greg Finley, American actor
* December 23 – Alison Sudol, American singer, songwriter, and actress (aka A Fine Frenzy)
* December 25
** Francisco Vargas (Mexican boxer), Francisco Vargas, Mexican professional boxer
** Jessica Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
** Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer
* December 26 – Jenny Shakeshaft, American actress and model
* December 28
** Martin Kaymer, German golfer
** Raditya Dika, Indonesian writer, comedian, and filmmaker
* December 30 – LeBron James, American basketball player

Date unknown

* Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita, Nepali Sherpa mountaineer

Deaths

January

* January 1 – Alexis Korner, British blues musician and broadcaster (b. 1928)
* January 5 – Giuseppe Fava, Italian writer (b. 1925)
* January 6 – Ernest Laszlo, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (b. 1898)
* January 7 – Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
* January 9 – Sir Deighton Lisle Ward, 4th Governor-General of Barbados (b. 1909)
* January 11 – Jack La Rue, American actor (b. 1902)
* January 13 – Ray Moore (comics), Ray Moore, American comic writer (b. 1905)
* January 14
** Brooks Atkinson, American theater critic (b. 1894)
** Saad Haddad, Lebanese military officer and militia leader (b. 1936)
** Ray Kroc, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
* January 17
** Kostas Giannidis, Greek composer (b. 1903)
** George Rigaud, Argentinian actor (b. 1905)
* January 20 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
* January 21
** Archduke Gottfried of Austria (b. 1902)
** Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
* January 22 – Sir Count Mikiel Gonzi, Michael Gonzi, Maltese Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1885)
* January 29 – Frances Goodrich, American screenwriter (b. 1890)
* January 30 – Luke Kelly, lead singer of Irish band The Dubliners (b. 1940)
* January 31 – George Harmon Coxe, American writer (b. 1901)

February

* February 5 – El Santo, Mexican professional wrestler and actor (b. 1917)
* February 6 – Jorge Guillén, Spanish poet (b. 1893)
* February 8
** Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
** Philippe Ariès, French medievalist and historian (b. 1914)
* February 9 – Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
* February 10
** David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
** Claudia Zobel, Filipina actress (b. 1965)
* February 11 – John Comer, English actor (b. 1924)
* February 12
** Anna Anderson, Pretender to the Russian throne (b. 1896)
** Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
** Tom Keating, English art restorer (b. 1917)
* February 13 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (b. 1941)
* February 15 – Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
* February 20 – Giuseppe Colombo, Italian scientist (b. 1920)
* February 21 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
* February 22
** Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah, Pakistani religious leader of Allo Mahar Shrif. (b. 1911)
** Jessamyn West (writer), Jessamyn West, American writer. (b. 1902)

March

* March 1 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
* March 5
** Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1913)
** William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
* March 6
** Martin Niemöller, German theologian and Lutheran pastor (born 1892)
** Henry Wilcoxon, British actor (b. 1905)
* March 10 – June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
* March 14 – Aurelio Peccei, Italian industrialist and philanthropist, co-founder of the Club of Rome (b. 1908)
* March 15 – Ken Carpenter (discus thrower), Ken Carpenter, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)
**Konstantin Badygin, Soviet Naval officer and explorer (b. 1910)
* March 12 – Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
* March 16 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
* March 18 – Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist (b. 1907)
* March 23 – Peter Kolosimo, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1922)
* March 24 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
* March 26 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (b. 1922)
* March 27 – Jack Donohue (director), Jack Donohue, American film screenwriter and director (b. 1908)
* March 30 – Karl Rahner, German Jesuit priest and theologian (b. 1904)
* March 31 – Jack Howarth (actor), Jack Howarth, English actor (b. 1896)

April

* April 1
** Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
** Elizabeth Goudge, English writer (b. 1900)
* April 5
** Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Arthur "Bomber" Harris, British air marshal (b. 1892)
** Giuseppe Tucci, Italian scholar of oriental cultures (b. 1894)
* April 7 – Frank Church, American politician, U.S senator from 1957 to 1981 (b. 1924)
*April 8 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
* April 9 – Willem Sandberg, Dutch typographer (b. 1897)
* April 12 – Edward Sokoine, 2nd Prime Minister of Tanzania (b. 1938)
* April 15
** Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
** William Empson, English poet and critic (b. 1906)
* April 16 – Byron Haskin, American film and television director (b. 1899)
* April 17 – Mark W. Clark, American general (b. 1896)
* April 19 – Machito, Cuban jazz musician (b. 1908)
* April 20 – Otto Arosemena, 32nd President of Ecuador (b. 1925)
* April 21 – Marcel Janco, Romanian-Israeli artist (b. 1895)
* April 22 – Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
* April 23 – Roland Penrose, English artist, historian and poet (b. 1900)
* April 26
** Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)
** May McAvoy, American actress (b. 1899)
* April 30 – Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, Colombian lawyer and politician (b. 1946)

May

* May 2
** Jack Barry (game show host), Jack Barry, American television host and producer (b. 1918)
** Bob Clampett, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
* May 4 – Diana Dors, English actress (b. 1931)
* May 6 – Mary Cain (editor), Mary Cain, American newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
* May 8 – Lila Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
* May 12 – Charlie Stubbs (footballer), Charlie Stubbs, English footballer (b. 1920)
* May 15 – Lionel Robbins, British economist (b. 1898)
* May 16
** Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
** Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
* May 19 – Sir John Betjeman, English diplomat and poet (b. 1906)
* May 20 – Ólafur Jóhannesson, 15th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1913)
* May 21
** Andrea Leeds, American actress (b. 1914)
** Ann Little, American actress (b. 1891)
* May 22
** Rambai Barni, Queen consort of King Prajadhipok of Thailand (b. 1904)
** Karl-August Fagerholm, 20th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1901)
** John Marley, American actor (b. 1907)
* May 24 – Vincent J. McMahon, professional wrestling promoter WWE, WWF (b. 1914)
* May 26 – Elizabeth Peer, American journalist (b. 1936)
* May 27 – Vasilije Mokranjac, Serbian composer (b. 1923)
* May 28
** Eric Morecambe, British comedian (b. 1926)
** D'Urville Martin, American actor and director (b. 1939)

June

* June 5 – Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin, 42nd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1926)
* June 6 – Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Sikh theologian, Most powerful Sikh leader of the 20th century (b. 1947)
* June 11 – Enrico Berlinguer, General Secretary of the Italian Communist Party (b. 1922)
* June 15
** Ned Glass, American actor (b. 1906)
** Meredith Willson, American composer (b. 1902)
* June 19 – Lee Krasner, American painter (b. 1908)
* June 20 – Estelle Winwood, English actress (b. 1883)
* June 22 – Joseph Losey, American film director (b. 1909)
* June 24 – William Keighley, American film director (b. 1889)
* June 25 – Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)
* June 26 – Carl Foreman, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
* June 28
** Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist, politician and Military Chief of Staff (b. 1917)
** Claude Chevalley, French mathematician (b. 1909)
* June 30
** Henri Fabre, pioneer French aviator & inventor (b. 1882)
** Lillian Hellman, American playwright (b. 1905)

July

* July 1 – Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian founder of the Feldenkrais Method (b. 1904)
* July 3 – Raoul Salan, French general (b. 1899)
* July 7 – Dame Flora Robson, English actress (b. 1902)
* July 8
** Brassaï, Hungarian-born photographer (b. 1899)
** Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz, Spanish historian and politician (b. 1893)
* July 17 – Karl Wolff, German Nazi SS Officer (b. 1900)
* July 19 – Faina Ranevskaya, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1896)
* July 20 - Gail Kubik, American composer (b. 1914
* July 25 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (b. 1926)
* July 26 – George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
* July 27 – James Mason, English actor (b. 1909)
* July 28 – Bess Flowers, American actress (b. 1898)

August

* August 2 – Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director (b. 1896)
* August 4 – Mary Miles Minter, American actress (b. 1902)
* August 5 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
* August 8 – Richard Deacon (actor), Richard Deacon, American actor (b. 1922)
* August 11 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)
* August 13
** Clyde Cook (actor), Clyde Cook, Australian actor (b. 1891)
** Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b. 1929)
* August 14 – J. B. Priestley, British novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
* August 25
** Truman Capote, American writer (b. 1924)
** Viktor Chukarin, Russian Olympic gymnast (b. 1921)
* August 28 – Mohammed Naguib, 30th Prime Minister of Egypt and 1st President of Egypt (b. 1901)
* August 29 – Pierre Gemayel, Lebanese politician, founder of the Kataeb Party (b. 1905)

September

* September 1 – Madeleine de Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (b. 1898)
* September 5
** Adam Malik, 3rd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1917)
** Jane Roberts, American writer (b. 1929)
* September 6 – Ernest Tubb, American singer (b. 1914)
* September 7 – Joe Cronin, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1906)
* September 8 – Frank Lowson, English Test Cricketer 1951–1955 (b.1925)
* September 9 – Yılmaz Güney, Turkish film director (b. 1937)
* September 10 – Ismael Merlo, Spanish actor (b. 1918)
* September 12 – Yvon Petra, French tennis player (b. 1916)
* September 14
** Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author (b. 1935)
** Janet Gaynor, American Academy Award-winning actress (b. 1906)
* September 16 – Vincenzo Cotroni, Italian-Canadian mobster (b. 1911)
* September 17 – Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
* September 20 – Steve Goodman, American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948)
* September 24 – Neil Hamilton (actor), Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
* September 25 – Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)
* September 27 – Toke Townley, English actor (b. 1912)

October

* October 1
** Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1911)
** Blagoje Marjanović, Yugoslav football player and manager (b. 1907)
* October 4 – Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1901)
* October 5 – Leonard Rossiter, British actor (b. 1926)
* October 6 – George Gaylord Simpson, American paleontologist (b. 1902)
* October 13 – George Kelly (baseball), George Kelly, American baseball player (New York Giants (MLB), New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1895)
* October 14 – Martin Ryle, Sir Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
* October 16 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (b. 1932)
* October 18 – Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
* October 19
** Henri Michaux, Belgian writer and painter (b. 1899)
** Jerzy Popiełuszko, Polish Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1947) (Murdered)
* October 20
** Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
** Paul Dirac, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
* October 21 – François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
* October 23
** David Gorcey, American actor (b. 1921)
** Oskar Werner, Austrian actor (b. 1922)
* October 24 – Walter Woolf King, American singer and actor (b. 1899)
* October 25 – Pascale Ogier, French actress (b. 1958)
* October 30 – June Duprez, English actress (b. 1918)
* October 31
** Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1900)
** Indira Gandhi, Indian politician and political figure, 3rd Prime Minister of India (assassinated) (b. 1917)

November

* November 11 – Martin Luther King Sr., American Baptist pastor, missionary, and an early figure in the civil rights movement (b. 1899)
* November 16
** Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
** Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918)
* November 20
** Trygve Bratteli, Norwegian politician, 19th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1910)
** Carlo Campanini, Italian actor (b. 1906)

December

* December 4 – Jack Mercer, American voice artist (b. 1910)
* December 7 – Jeanne Cagney, American actress (b. 1919)
* December 8 – Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
* December 9 – Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye, Ivor Moreton, British singer and pianist (b. 1908)Principal Probate Registry. ''Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration made in the Probate Registries of the High Court of Justice in England''. London, England
* December 11
** Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (b. 1911)
** George Waggner, American film director (b. 1894)
* December 13 – Clemente de la Cerda, Venezuelan director (b. 1935)
* December 14 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
* December 15 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
* December 16 – J. Roderick MacArthur, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
* December 20
** Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946)
** Stanley Milgram, American psychologist (b. 1933)
** Dmitry Ustinov, Dmitriy Ustinov, Soviet Army officer and Minister of Defense (b. 1908)
* December 24
** Ian Hendry, English actor (b. 1931)
** Peter Lawford, English-American actor and socialite (b. 1923)
* December 26 – Sheila Andrews, American country music singer (b. 1953)
* December 28 – Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)
* December 29 – Leo Robin, American composer (b. 1900)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Carlo Rubbia, Simon van der Meer
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Robert Bruce Merrifield
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Niels Kaj Jerne, Georges J. F. Köhler, César Milstein
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Jaroslav Seifert
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Bishop Desmond Tutu, Desmond Mpilo Tutu
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Richard Stone

References

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