1985 In Ethiopia

The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.

Events

January

* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights.
* January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches '' Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
* January 15 – Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
* January 20 – Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
* January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran.
* January 28 – The charity single record " We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.

February

* February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969.
* February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
* February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico by drug traffickers; his body is later discovered on March 5.
* February 14 – Lebanon hostage crisis: CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
* February 16
** Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.
** The ideology of Hezbollah is declared in a program issued in Beirut.
* February 19
**William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave the hospital.
**Iberia Airlines Flight 610 crashes killing all 148 on board.
** China Airlines Flight 006 is involved in a mid-air incident; while there are 22 minor injuries and 2 serious injuries, no one is killed.
* February 20 – Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
* February 28 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry in Northern Ireland. With nine officers dead, it is the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.

March

* March – The '' GNU Manifesto'', written by Richard Stallman, is first published.
* March 1 – After a 12-year-long dictatorship, Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Uruguay.
* March 3 – The 8.0 Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and approximately a million people homeless.
* March 8 – A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than 80 people and injures 200 more.
* March 11
**Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and '' de facto'' leader of the Soviet Union.
** Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.
* March 15 – Vice-president José Sarney, upon becoming vice president, assumes the duties of president of Brazil, as the new president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill the day before. Sarney would later become Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, upon Neves' death on April 21.
* March 16 – Lebanon hostage crisis: US journalist Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he remains a prisoner until December 4, 1991.
* March 17 – Expo '85, an international exhibition, opens in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, running until September 16.
* March 18 – Australia's longest-running soap opera, ''Neighbours'', debuts on Seven Network.
* March 21 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his , 26-month Man in Motion tour which raises US$26 million for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
* March 25
** The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with '' Amadeus'' winning Best Picture.
** The Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache is officially dissolved.

April

* Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union begins to transfer the burden of fighting the mujahideen to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, a cause of the Revolutions of 1989.
* April 1 – Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.
* April 12 – El Descanso bombing: A terrorist bombing attributed to the Islamic Jihad Organization in the ''El Descanso'' restaurant near Madrid, Spain, mostly attended by U.S. personnel from the Torrejón Air Base, causes 18 deaths (all Spaniards) and 82 injuries.
* April 15 – South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.
* April 19 – The Soviet Union performs a nuclear weapon test in eastern Kazakhstan.
* April 23 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
* April 28 – The Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party (NDP) splits.

May

* May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song '' La det swinge'' for Norway.
* May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
* May 9 – The 3rd total Victory Day Parade (the first being in 1945 and the next in 1965) is held on Red Square in Moscow in the Soviet Union. It features T-34-85 tanks, veterans of World War II from Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, and is the first parade to be held during the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev.
* May 11
** The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.
** Bradford City stadium fire: A fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during an Association football match, killing 56 people.
* May 15 – Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín terminates Argentinian administration of the Falkland Islands but does not relinquish Argentina's claim to the islands.
* May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce the discovery of the ozone hole.
* May 25 – Approximately 10,000 people are killed when Bangladesh is affected by the storm surge from Tropical Storm One (1B).
* May 26 – Young driver Danny Sullivan beats veteran Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500.
* May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-nine spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus (0–1) at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
* May 31 – Forty-four tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, including a rare powerful F5. In total, the event killed 90 people.

June

* June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
* June 14
**TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed. Greek police arrest a 65-year-old Lebanese suspect on September 21, 2019.
** The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of (at this time) 5 states with no internal border controls.
* June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.
* June 20 – 1985 Nepal bombings: A series of bomb blasts occurs in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.
* June 22 – British and Irish police foil a "mainland bombing campaign" sponsored by the Provisional Irish Republican Army which targets luxury vacation resorts.
* June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet (9,500 m) above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.
* June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
* June 27 – The iconic U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.

July

* July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.
* July 10 – The Greenpeace vessel '' Rainbow Warrior'' is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.
* July 13 – ''Live Aid'' benefit concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
* July 19
** New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe is selected as the first person to go into space under the Teacher in Space Project, and designated to ride aboard the Space Shuttle ''Challenger''.
** The Val di Stava dam collapses in Italy, killing 268 people, destroying 63 buildings, and demolishing eight bridges.
* July 20 – State President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in black townships.
* July 27 – The 63 Building officially opens as the tallest skyscraper outside North America in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea.

August

* August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
* August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
* August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people (the worst single-aircraft disaster in history).
* August 14 – The Accomarca massacre takes place in Ayacucho, Peru.
* August 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M: The 737's left engine catches fire while on its takeoff roll at Manchester Airport in the UK and 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.
* August 25 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes in the United States killing all 8 on board including thirteen-year-old American celebrity schoolgirl Samantha Smith.

September

* September 1 – The wreck of the RMS ''Titanic'' is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard ( WHOI) and Jean-Louis Michel ( IFREMER) using side-scan sonar from RV ''Knorr''.
* September 6 – Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing all 31 on board.
* September 13 – '' Super Mario Bros.'' is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
* September 19 – An 8.0 earthquake strikes Mexico City, killing between 5,000 and 45,000 people and injuring 30,000 more.
* September 20 – The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.
* September 22 – The Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.
* September 23 – Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by the Camorra.

October

* October 1 – Operation Wooden Leg: The Israeli air force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters near Tunis.
* October 3 – The Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'' makes its maiden flight.
* October 7 – The cruise ship ''Achille Lauro'' is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American Leon Klinghoffer, is killed.
* October 16 – The Finnish dry cargo ship MS ''Hanna-Marjut'', on its way from Mariehamn to Naantali, sank in hard sea on the open water of Kihti between the Kökar and Sottunga islands of Åland, leading to the drowning of four people.
* October 25 – Emirates Airlines is established in Dubai and makes its first flight, to Karachi.

November

* November 6
** Palace of Justice siege: Members of the 19th of April Movement (M-19) Marxist guerrilla group take over the Palace of Justice of Colombia in Bogotá and hold the Supreme Court hostage. Hours later, after a military raid, the incident leaves almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices dead.
** The Argentine tourist village of Villa Epecuén is permanently flooded through the collapse of a dam and dyke.
* November 9 – In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.
* November 12 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.
* November 13 – Armero tragedy: The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars, in the town of Armero, Colombia.
* November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
* November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first international release of Windows 1.0.
* November 23 – EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
* November 25 – 1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down: A Soviet Aeroflot Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, en route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda, is shot down by South African Special Forces and crashes approximately 43 km east of Menongue, the provincial center of the Cuando Cubango Province, Angola, killing 8 crew members and 13 passengers on board.
* November 29 – Gérard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.

December

* December 1
** The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (Spanish: Organización e Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación la Ciencia y la Cultura; OEI) is created.
** The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public in the US.
* December 8 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is established.
* December 11 – Hugh Scrutton is killed outside his Sacramento, California computer rental store by a Unabomber explosive, becoming the first fatality of the bombing campaign.
* December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 people – 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, after overseeing a peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula.
* December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the instituting of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.
* December 27
** Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
** American naturalist Dian Fossey is found brutally murdered in Rwanda.

Date unknown

* The fullerene Buckminsterfullerene (C₆₀) is first intentionally prepared by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University in the US.
* DNA is first used in a criminal case.
* The 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa ('' We Are the World'') and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.
* The Union for Aromanian Language and Culture, an Aromanian cultural organization, is founded in Freiburg im Breisgau by the Aromanian professor .
* Africa has a population growth of 3.2 percent per year.

World population

Births

January

* January 1
** Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player
** Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
* January 2
** Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
** Carla Juri, Swiss actress
** Heather O'Reilly, U.S. women's national soccer player
* January 7 – Lewis Hamilton, British 7-Time Formula One world champion
* January 11 – Aja Naomi King, American actress
* January 16 – Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
* January 17
** Kangin, Korean singer (Super Junior)
** Simone Simons, Dutch metal singer ( Epica)
* January 19
** Damien Chazelle, American film director and screenwriter
** Benny Feilhaber, Brazilian-born footballer
* January 21 – Aura Dione, Danish pop musician
* January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
* January 25 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
* January 27 – Eric Radford, Canadian pair skater
* January 28
** J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and record producer
** Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
* January 29
** Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter
** Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
** Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
* January 31 – Kalomira, Greek-American singer and model

February

* February 5 – Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
* February 6
** Joji Kato, Japanese speed skater
** Crystal Reed, American actress
* February 7
** Donald Moatshe, South African musician
** Deborah Ann Woll, American actress
* February 9 – David Gallagher, American actor
* February 15
** Luis Carlos Díaz, Venezuelan journalist
** Natalie Morales, American actress
* February 19
** Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
** Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress
* February 22 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
* February 25
** Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby league player
** Joakim Noah, American basketball player
* February 28
** Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer
** Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
** Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian soccer player

March

* March 2 – Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan long-distance runner
* March 3 – Alena and Ninel Karpovich, Belarusian twin sister musical duo, members of 3+2
* March 10 – Lassana Diarra, French footballer
* March 11
** Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
** Hakuhō Shō, Mongolian wrestler, 69th Yokozuna
* March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
* March 15
** Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
** Andriy Honchar, retired Ukrainian professional footballer
** Kellan Lutz, American fashion model and actor
* March 18 – Bianca King, Filipina actress and model
* March 21 – Sonequa Martin-Green, American actress
* March 22 – Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
* March 24 – Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player
* March 26
** Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer
** Stéphane Séjourné, French lawyer and politician
** Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer and dancer
** Keira Knightley, English actress
* March 27 – Ram Charan, Indian film actor
* March 31 – Jessica Szohr, American actress

April

* April 2 – Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater
* April 3
** Leona Lewis, British pop musician
** Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish racing driver
* April 4
** Rudy Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player
** Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
* April 6 – Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer
* April 7 – Ariela Massotti, Brazilian actress
* April 8 – Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian marathon runner
* April 9 – Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor
* April 10 – Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater
* April 12
** Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician
** Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actress
* April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model
* April 16 – Benjamín Rojas, Argentine singer and actor
* April 17
** Rooney Mara, American film and television actress
** Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
** Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
* April 18
** Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
** Elena Temnikova, Russian pop singer
* April 19 – Zhang Xi, Chinese beach volleyball player
* April 22
** Kristin Fairlie, Canadian actress
** Camille Lacourt, French swimmer
* April 30 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model

May

* May 2
** Lily Allen, British pop musician
** Kyle Busch, American race car driver
** Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player (d. 2011)
** Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
* May 4 – Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer
* May 5 – P. J. Tucker, American basketball player
* May 6 – Chris Paul, American basketball player
* May 7 – J Balvin, Colombian reggaeton singer, in Medellín
* May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast
* May 11 – Jadyn Wong, Canadian actress
* May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer
* May 14
** Lina Esco, American actress, producer and activist
** Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
** Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler
* May 15
** Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
** Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor
* May 16 – Andrew Keenan-Bolger, American actor, writer and director
* May 17
** Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer and musician, six-time winner of ''Dancing with the Stars''
** Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
* May 18 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
* May 20 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-born British road racing cyclist
* May 21
** Mutya Buena, British urban singer ( Sugababes)
** Mark Cavendish, Manx-born road racing cyclist
** Kano, British rapper, songwriter and actor
* May 22 – Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model
* May 23 – Kanyeria, Kenyan music producer
* May 25
** Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and actress
** Lauren Frost, American actress and singer
** Roman Reigns, American professional wrestler
* May 26 – Ashley Vincent, English footballer
* May 27 – Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
* May 28
** Colbie Caillat, American musician
** Carey Mulligan, British actress
* May 31 – Zoraida Gómez, Mexican actress

June

* June 1 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete
* June 3 – Nikolai Bondarenko, Russian politician and blogger
* June 4
** Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
** Lukas Podolski, German footballer
** Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and occasional actress
* June 7 – Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter
* June 8 – Joel Dommett, English comedian and television presenter
* June 9 – Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model
* June 10 – Andy Schleck, Luxembourgish road cyclist
* June 11 – Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer
* June 12 – Dave Franco, American actor, voice actor, and filmmaker
* June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer
* June 17
** Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian politician (d. 2018)
** Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
* June 18 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor
* June 20 – Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
* June 21 – Lana Del Rey, American pop musician
* June 24 – Krunoslav Simon, Croatian basketball player
* June 25 – Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
* June 26
** Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
** Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
* June 27
** James Hook, Welsh rugby union player
** Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
** Nico Rosberg, German 2016 Formula 1 world champion
* June 28 – Ahmed Kantari, Moroccan footballer
* June 30
** Michael Phelps, American swimmer
** Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler

July

* July 1
** Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle player
** Léa Seydoux, French actress
* July 2
** Gábor Máthé, Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis
** Pak Nam-chol, North Korean footballer
** Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer and producer
** Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor (d. 2018)
* July 5 – François Arnaud, French-Canadian actor
* July 6 – Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
* July 7
** Pong Escobal, Filipino basketball player
** Langton Rusere, Zimbabwean cricket umpire
** Seo Woo, Korean actress
* July 9
** Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer
** Ashley Young, English footballer
* July 10
** Mario Gómez, German footballer
** Park Chu-young South Korean footballer
* July 11 – Lilian Marijnissen, Dutch politician
* July 12
** Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
** Natasha Poly, Russian model
* July 13
** Charlotte Dujardin, English dressage rider
** Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
** Andrew Wolff, Filipino-British rugby player
* July 14
** Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukrainian javelin thrower
** Lee Kwang-soo, South Korean actor, entertainer and model
* July 15
** Pedro Carvalho (actor), Pedro Carvalho, Portuguese actor
** Igor Jurković, Croatian heavyweight kickboxer
**Tomer Kapon, Israeli actor
**Agniya Kuznetsova, Russian actress
**Crowd Lu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
**Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball player, TV host, commercial model, and politician
* July 16
** Cha Ye-ryun, South Korean actress
** Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
** Rosa Salazar, American actress
* July 17
** Tom Fletcher, British musician
** Caitlin Van Zandt, American actress
* July 18
** Hopsin, American rapper and record producer
** James Norton (actor), James Norton, British actor
** Chace Crawford, American actor
* July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
* July 20 – John Francis Daley, American television and film actor
* July 21 – Guillaume Bastille, Canadian short track speed skater
* July 22
** Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
** Ryan Dolan, Irish singer
** Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
** Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
* July 25
** James Lafferty, American actor
** Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
** Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver
* July 27 – Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
* July 30 – Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer
* July 31 – Allie X, Canadian singer, songwriter and visual artist

August

* August 2 – Davey Boy Smith Jr., Canadian professional wrestler
* August 3
** Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand rugby league and rugby union player and boxer
** Georgina Haig, Australian actress
* August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter
* August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
* August 8 – Toby Flood, English rugby union player
* August 9
** Anna Kendrick, American actress
** Filipe Luís, Brazilian footballer
* August 11
** Asher Roth, American rapper
** Jacqueline Fernandez, Bahraini–Sri Lankan actress
* August 12 – África Zavala, Mexican actress
* August 14 – Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
* August 15
** Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, and songwriter
** Nipsey Hussle, American rapper (d. 2019)
* August 16
** Arden Cho, American actress, singer and model
** Cristin Milioti, American actress and singer
* August 17 – Evgeny Konobry, Russian professional ice hockey player
* August 21
** Melissa M, French singer
** Laura Haddock, English actress
* August 27 – Kayla Ewell, American actress
* August 30
** Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
** Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
** Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion swimmer
* August 31 – Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.

September

* September 1 – Camile Velasco, Filipina-American actress
* September 2 – Allison Miller, American actress
* September 4
** Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
** Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer
** Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer
* September 7
** Radhika Apte, Indian film and theatre actress
** Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer
** Rafinha (footballer, born 1985), Rafinha, Brazilian football player
* September 8
** Vanessa Baden, American actress, writer, director, and producer
** Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater
* September 9
** Lior Eliyahu, Israeli basketball player
** Amy Manson, British actress
** Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
** J. R. Smith, American basketball player
* September 10 – Monica Lopera, Colombian-American actress
* September 12 – Headhunterz, Dutch DJ and music producer
* September 14 – Aya Ueto, Japanese actress
* September 15 – Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model
* September 16
** Madeline Zima, American actress
** Max Minghella, English actor
** Danny Fernandes, Canadian singer
* September 17 – Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
* September 19
** Alun Wyn Jones, Welsh rugby union player
* September 20 – Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner of The Voice (U.S. TV series), The Voice The Voice (U.S. season 5), season 5
* September 22 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
* September 23 – Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress
* September 24 – Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
* September 26 – Marcin Mroziński, Polish actor, singer and television presenter
* September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer
* September 29
** Calvin Johnson, retired American football player and contestant on Dancing with the Stars season 23
** Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
* September 30 – T-Pain, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor

October

* October 2 – Mzwandile Ndzimandze, Eswatini international footballer
* October 5 – Nicola Roberts, British singer
* October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional baseball player
* October 8 – Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer
* October 9 – Sam Oji, English footballer (d. 2021)
* October 10
** Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter
** Kyle Switzer, Canadian actor
* October 11
** Lee Min-hye, South Korean racing cyclist (d. 2018)
** Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop singer-songwriter
** Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
* October 14 – Sherlyn, Mexican actress
* October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
* October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
* October 23
** Chris Neal, English footballer
** Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
* October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
* October 25 – Ciara, African-American singer
* October 26 – Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional basketball player
* October 27 – Briana Lane, American actress and musician
* October 28 – Troian Bellisario, American actress
* October 29 – Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer and actress
* October 31 – Kerron Clement, American hurdler and sprinter

November

* November 2 – Diana Penty, Indian model and actress
* November 3 – Philipp Tschauner, German footballer
* November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
* November 10
** Johana Clavel, Venezuelan cook and entrepreneur
* November 11
** Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
** Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
* November 13
** Rahul Kohli, English actor
** Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
** Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player
* November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
* November 15 – Lily Aldridge, American model
* November 16 – Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, 46th Prime Minister of Finland
* November 18 – Allyson Felix, American sprinter
* November 20
** Aaron Yan, Taiwanese actor and singer
** Dan Byrd, American actor
* November 21 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter
* November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian football player
* November 23
** Katie Crown, Canadian voice actress and writer
** Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
* November 25 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish cross-country skier
* November 27 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
* November 28 – Magdolna Rúzsa, Hungarian singer
* November 30
** Gia Crovatin, American actress and producer
** Kaley Cuoco, American actress and producer
** Chrissy Teigen, American model

December

* December 1 – Janelle Monáe, African-American R&B/soul musician
* December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
* December 3 – Amanda Seyfried, American actress, model and singer-songwriter
* December 4 – Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
* December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, musician, writer, producer, and race car driver
* December 6 – Dulce María, Mexican singer and actress
* December 7 – Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler
* December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player
* December 9 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
* December 10 – Raven-Symoné, African-American actress, singer, songwriter, executive producer, and director
* December 12 – Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombian footballer
* December 16 – Amanda Setton, American actress
* December 19 – Gary Cahill, English footballer
* December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV presenter
* December 23 – Harry Judd, English drummer
* December 26
** Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer
** Beth Behrs, American actress
* December 27
** Jérôme d'Ambrosio, Belgian racing driver
** Jessica Harmon, Canadian actress
** Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player

Deaths

January

* January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer (b. 1935)
* January 4 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general (b. 1895)
* January 5 – Robert Surtees (cinematographer), Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer (b. 1906)
* January 11 – William McKell, Sir William McKell, 12th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
* January 14
** Jetta Goudal, Dutch actress (b. 1891)
** Anagarika Govinda, German buddhist lama (b. 1898)
* January 18 – Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Sudanese religious thinker (b. 1909)
* January 19 – Eric Voegelin, German-American philosopher (b. 1901)
* January 22 – Mikhail Gromov (aviator), Mikhail Gromov, Soviet aviator (b. 1899)
* January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader (b. 1914)

February

* February 4 – Jesse Hibbs, American film director (b. 1906)
* February 6 – Neil McCarthy (actor), Neil McCarthy, English actor (b. 1932)
* February 8
** William Lyons, British automobile engineer and designer (b. 1901)
** Marvin Miller (actor), Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
* February 11 – Henry Hathaway, American film director (b. 1898)
* February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)
* February 20 – Clarence Nash, American actor (b. 1904)
* February 21
** Ina Claire, American actress (b. 1893)
** Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
** John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist (b. 1907)
* February 22
** Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist (b. 1889)
** Alexander Scourby, American film, television, and voice actor (b. 1913)
* February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
* February 27
** Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician (b. 1902)
** J. Pat O'Malley, English actor (b. 1904)

March

* March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1916)
* March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator (b. 1908)
* March 8 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
* March 10
** Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
** Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
* March 11
** Tom Adams (politician), Tom Adams, Barbadosian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1931)
** Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1902)
* March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor (b. 1899)
* March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter (b. 1891)
* March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian (b. 1921)
* March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer (b. 1896)
* March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor (b. 1908)
* March 23
** Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail (b. 1913)
** Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
* March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
* March 29
** The Singing Nun (Jeannine Deckers), Belgian nun and singer (b. 1933)
** Gerhard Stock, German Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
* March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer (b. 1914)
* March 31
** Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist (b. 1883)
** Richard McKeon, American philosopher (b. 1900)

April

* April 4 – Kate Roberts (author), Kate Roberts, Welsh-language author (b. 1891)
* April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer (b. 1900)
* April 6 – Terence Sanders, British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1901)
* April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German jurist, political theorist and professor of law (b. 1888)
* April 10 – Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean statesman (b. 1898)
* April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist politician, leader of the Party of Labour of Albania, Party of Labour 22nd Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1908)
* April 14 – Noele Gordon, British actress (b. 1919)
* April 15 – Jack Medica, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1914)
* April 16 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
* April 17 – Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer (b. 1888)
* April 18 – Gertrude Caton–Thompson, English archaeologist (b. 1888)
* April 19 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev, Russian ethnologist (b. 1899)
* April 21
** John Welsh (actor), John Welsh, Irish actor (b. 1914)
** Tancredo Neves, Brazilian elected president and former Prime Minister of Brazil, Prime Minister (b. 1910)
* April 26 – Albert Maltz, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1908)

May

* May 1 – Denise Robins, (akas: Francesca Wright, Ashley French, Harriet Gray, Julia Kane) British romance novelist (b. 1897)
* May 4 – Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1907)
* May 5 – Sir Donald Bailey (civil engineer), Donald Bailey, British civil engineer (b. 1901)
* May 6
** Pete Desjardins, American Olympic diver (b. 1907)
** Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer (b. 1968)
* May 7 – Dawn Addams, British actress (b. 1930)
* May 8
** Karl Marx (composer), Karl Marx, German composer and music teacher (b. 1897)
** Theodore Sturgeon, American writer (b. 1918)
** Dolph Sweet, American actor (b. 1920)
* May 9 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor (b. 1915)
* May 10
** Tahar Ben Ammar, Tunisian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1889)
** Florizel von Reuter, American violinist and composer (b. 1890)
* May 12 – Jean Dubuffet, French artist (b. 1901)
* May 13 – Leatrice Joy, American actress (b. 1893)
* May 14 – Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress (b. 1959)
* May 15 – Rama Devi (Orissa politician), Rama Devi, Indian nationalist leader (b. 1889)
* May 16 – Margaret Hamilton (actress), Margaret Hamilton, American actress (b. 1902)
* May 18 – Penn Nouth, Cambodian politician, 7-time Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1906)
* May 19 – Maqbular Rahman Sarkar, Bangladeshi academic (b. 1928)
* May 22
** Charles Murphy (architect), Charles Murphy, American architect. (b. 1890)
** Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and producer (b. 1909)

June

* June 5 – George Brown, Baron George-Brown, Lord George-Brown, British politician (b. 1914)
* June 6
** Norman W. Walker, British businessman (b. 1886)
** Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher and musicologist (b. 1903)
* June 7
** Georgia Hale, American actress (b. 1905)
* June 9 – Clifford Evans (actor), Clifford Evans, British actor (b. 1912)
** Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
* June 10 – George Chandler, American actor (b. 1898)
* June 11 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre (b. 1954)
* June 12 – Helmuth Plessner, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1892)
* June 15
** Percy Fender, English cricketer (b. 1892)
** Andy Stanfield, American Olympic athlete (b. 1927)
* June 17
**George Jackson (footballer, born 1893), George Jackson, English footballer (b. 1893)
** Boulting brothers, John Boulting, English filmmaker (b. 1913)
**Kirill Moskalenko, Soviet military commander (b. 1902)
* Either June 18 or June 19 - Bonnie Nettles, American religious leader (b. 1927)
* June 21 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1901)
* June 27 – Elias Sarkis, Lebanese lawyer, 27th President of Lebanon (b. 1924)
* June 28 – James Craig (actor), James Craig, American actor (b. 1912)
* June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (b. 1933)

July

* July 1 – Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and priest (b. 1910)
* July 3 – Erik Ågren (boxer), Erik Ågren, Swedish boxer (b. 1916)
* July 4 – Jan de Quay, Dutch politician and psychologist, 31st Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1901)
* July 8
** Phil Foster, American actor (b. 1913)
** Simon Kuznets, American economist (b. 1901)
* July 9
** Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous (b. 1911)
** Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (b. 1896)
* July 14 – Lluís Solé, Spanish geographer and academic (b. 1908)
* July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
* July 17 – Margo (actress), Margo, Mexican-born American actress (b. 1917)
* July 19
** Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)
** Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress and wife of Johannes Heesters (b. 1902)
* July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
* July 22 – Matti Järvinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
* July 23
** Kay Kyser, American bandleader (b. 1905)
** Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor (b. 1920)
* July 25 – Grant Williams (actor), Grant Williams, American actor (b. 1931)
* July 26 – Grace Albee, American printmaker and wood engraver. (b. 1890)
* July 27 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert (b. 1903)

August

* August 1 – D. H. Turner, British art historian and museum curator (b. 1931)
* August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor (b. 1905)
* August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player (b. 1898)
* August 6
** Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political leader, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana (b. 1923)
** John Harmon (actor), John Harmon, American actor (b. 1905)
* August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress (b. 1906)
* August 9 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach (b. 1927)
* August 10 – Kenny Baker (American performer), Kenny Baker, American actor and singer (b. 1912)
*August 11 – Hector Grey, Scottish street trader and company director (b. 1904)
* August 12
** Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer (b. 1941)
** Manfred Winkelhock, German racing driver (b. 1951)
* August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress (b. 1899)
* August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1904)
* August 20 – Donald O. Hebb, Canadian neuropsychologist (b. 1904)
* August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist (b. 1888)
* August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist (b. 1895)
* August 25
** Paul Harris (actor), Paul Harris, American actor (b. 1917)
** Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist (b. 1972)
* August 28
** Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter, and playwright (b. 1896)
** Miguel Otero Silva, Venezuelan writer (b. 1908)
* August 29
** Evelyn Ankers, British actress (b. 1918)
** Patrick Barr, British actor (b. 1908)
* August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer (b. 1900)
* August 31 – Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)

September

* September 1
** Stefan Bellof, German racing driver and 1984 World SportsCars (Group C) Champion (b. 1957).
** Saunders Lewis, Welsh writer and founder of the Welsh National Party (Plaid Cymru) (born 1893)
* September 4
** Isabel Jeans, British actress (b. 1891)
** George O'Brien (actor), George O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
* September 6 – Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1917)
* September 7
** Bruiser Kinard, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers (NFL), Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1914)
** José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist (b. 1911)
** George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1887)
* September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1897)
* September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
* September 10
** Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1893)
** Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager (b. 1922)
* September 11
** William Alwyn, English composer (b. 1905)
** Henrietta Barnett (WRAF officer), Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force (World War II), Women's Royal Air Force officer (b. 1905)
** Masako Natsume, Japanese actress (b. 1957)
* September 13 – Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, Augusto Rademaker, Brazilian admiral and former military junta member (b. 1905)
* September 14
** Julian Beck, American actor (b. 1925)
** John Holt (educator), John Holt, American writer and educator (b. 1923)
* September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
* September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer (b. 1923)
* September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG (b. 1912)
* September 27 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (b. 1902)
* September 30
** Floyd Crosby, American cinematographer (b. 1899)
** Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale (b. 1900)
** Simone Signoret, French actress (b. 1921)

October

* October 1 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
* October 2
** Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
** George Savalas, American actor (b. 1924)
* October 5 – Abdus Sattar (president), Abdus Sattar, Bangladeshi statesman, 8th President of Bangladesh (b. 1906)
* October 6 – Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
* October 9 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and statesman, 28th President of Brazil (b. 1905)
* October 10
** Yul Brynner, Russian actor (b. 1920)
** Orson Welles, American actor and director (b. 1915)
* October 12 – Ricky Wilson (American musician), Ricky Wilson, American guitarist (b. 1953)
* October 13 – Francesca Bertini, Italian actress (b. 1892)
* October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist (b. 1916)
* October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1917)
* October 21 – Dan White, American politician and murderer (Moscone–Milk assassinations) (b. 1946)
* October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American inventor (b. 1905)
* October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen (b. 1899)
* October 29 – John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician (b. 1903)

November

* November 1
** Ōuchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1926)
** Phil Silvers, American entertainer (b. 1911)
* November 5
** Spencer W. Kimball, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1895)
** Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
* November 6 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1937)
* November 8 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist (b. 1899)
* November 9 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress (b. 1946)
* November 11
** James Hanley (novelist), James Hanley, British novelist, playwright and writer (b. 1897)
** Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey goaltender (b. 1959)
** Arthur Rothstein, American photographer (b. 1915)
* November 13
** William Pereira, American architect (b. 1909)
** George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
* November 14 – Wellington Koo, Chinese statesman (b. 1888)
* November 16 – John Sparkman, American politician (b. 1899)
* November 17
** Lon Nol, Cambodian general and statesman, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia and 7th President of Cambodia, President of Khmer Republic (b. 1913)
** Ritz Brothers, Jimmy Ritz, American actor (b. 1904)
* November 19
** Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1900)
** Stepin Fetchit, American actor (b. 1902)
* November 24 – Big Joe Turner, American blues singer (b. 1911)
* November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet, writer, critic (b. 1905)
* November 27 – Fernand Braudel, French historian (b. 1902)
* November 28 – Johnny McNally, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)

December

* December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist (b. 1922)
* December 7
** Robert Graves, English writer (b. 1895)
** Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
* December 12
** Anne Baxter, American actress (b. 1923)
** Ian Stewart (musician), Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician (b. 1938)
** Phil Karlson, American film director (b. 1908)
* December 14 – Roger Maris, American baseball player (New York Yankees) (b. 1934)
* December 15
** Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius (b. 1900)
** Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat (b. 1899)
* December 16 – Paul Castellano, American Mafia boss (b. 1915)
* December 20 – Coral Buttsworth, Australian tennis champion (b. 1900)
* December 22 – D. Boon, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
* December 23
** Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist, 1st president of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (b. 1899)
** Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver (b. 1914)
* December 24 – Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer (b. 1949)
* December 26 – Dian Fossey, American biologist (b. 1932)
* December 27
** Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach (b. 1906)
** Harold Whitlock, British Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
* December 28 – Renato Castellani, Italian director (b. 1913)
* December 31
** Ricky Nelson, American actor and musician (b. 1940)
** Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer (b. 1903)

Date unknown

* Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist (b. 1886)
* Kaare Bratung, Norwegian cartoonist (b. 1906)
* Hamlet Gonashvili, Georgian singer (b. 1928)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Klaus von Klitzing
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Claude Simon
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Franco Modigliani
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein

References

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