The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the

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Events

January

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** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **

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and

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

enter the

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, which becomes the

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in 1993. *

January 11 Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muha ...

– The

Gateway Bridge The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges are a side-by-side pair of road bridges on the Gateway Motorway (M1), which skirts the eastern suburbs of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The western bridge carries traffic to the north and the eastern bridge car ...

Brisbane Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Queensland, and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million. Brisbane lies at the centre of the South ...

, Australia, at this time the world's longest

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free-

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, is opened. * January 13– 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. *

January 24 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. *1438 – The Cou ...

– The

Voyager 2 ''Voyager 2'' is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977, to study the outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun's heliosphere. As a part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, '' Voyager 1'', o ...

space probe makes its first encounter with

Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. Its name is a reference to the Greek god of the sky, Uranus ( Caelus), who, according to Greek mythology, was the great-grandfather of Ares (Mars), grandfather of Zeus (Jupiter) and father of ...

. * January 25 –

Yoweri Museveni Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and retired senior military officer who has been the 9th and current President of Uganda since 26 January 1986. Museveni spearheaded rebellions with aid of then ...

's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The sou ...

after leading a five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date to avoid a coincidence of dates with Dictator

Idi Amin Idi Amin Dada Oumee (, ; 16 August 2003) was a Ugandan military officer and politician who served as the third president of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. He ruled as a military dictator and is considered one of the most brutal despots in modern w ...

's 1971 coup. *

January 28 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...

– Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster – STS-51-L: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disintegrates 73 seconds after launch from the United States, killing the crew of seven astronauts, including schoolteacher

Christa McAuliffe Sharon Christa McAuliffe ( Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, who was killed on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' on mission STS-51-L where she was serving as a ...

. *

January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...

–

is sworn in as President of

February

* February 3 **

Pixar Pixar Animation Studios (commonly known as Pixar () and stylized as P I X A R) is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, Californ ...

is founded by

John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter (; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios ...

along with Steve Jobs. *

February 7 Events Pre-1600 * 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. * 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. * 1301 &nd ...

** President

Jean-Claude Duvalier Jean-Claude Duvalier (; 3 July 19514 October 2014), nicknamed "Baby Doc" ( ht, Bebe Dòk), was a Haitian politician who was the President of Haiti from 1971 until he was overthrown by a popular uprising in February 1986. He succeeded his father ...

("Baby Doc") flees Haiti, ending 28 years of family rule. ** The snap presidential election in the Philippines earlier announced by President Ferdinand Marcos is held amidst controversy, that paves the way for a chain of protests, culminating in the

People Power Revolution The People Power Revolution, also known as the EDSA Revolution or the February Revolution, was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines, mostly in Metro Manila, from February 22 to 25, 1986. There was a sustained campaign of c ...

. *

February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. *1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. * 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al ...

–

Hinton train collision The Hinton train collision was a rail transport accident that occurred in Canada on 8 February 1986. Twenty-three people were killed in a collision between a Canadian National Railway freight train and a Via Rail passenger train called the '' S ...

: A

Canadian National The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States. CN ...

train heading westbound collides with a

Via Rail Via Rail Canada Inc. (), operating as Via Rail or Via, is a Canadian Crown corporation that is mandated to operate intercity passenger rail service in Canada. It receives an annual subsidy from Transport Canada to offset the cost of operating ...

train in

Hinton, Alberta Hinton is a town in west-central Alberta, Canada. It is located in Yellowhead County, northeast of Jasper and about west of Alberta's capital city, Edmonton, at the intersection of Yellowhead and Bighorn Highway, in the Athabasca River val ...

; 23 people are killed and 71 injured in the accident. *

February 9 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1003 – Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland. *1539 – The first recorded race is held ...

–

Halley's Comet Halley's Comet or Comet Halley, officially designated 1P/Halley, is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 75–79 years. Halley is the only known short-period comet that is regularly visible to the naked eye from Earth, and thus the on ...

reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun, during its second visit to the solar system in the 20th century (the first was in

1910 Events January * January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...

). *

February 10 Events Pre-1600 * 1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, spar ...

– The Maxi Trial (

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

: ''Maxiprocesso'') begins in the

bunker A bunker is a defensive military fortification designed to protect people and valued materials from falling bombs, artillery, or other attacks. Bunkers are almost always underground, in contrast to blockhouses which are mostly above ground. T ...

room of the Ucciardone prison ( Palermo). It will be the largest trial against the Sicilian Mafia. * February 11 – Human rights activist

Natan Sharansky Natan Sharansky ( he, נתן שרנסקי; russian: Ната́н Щара́нский; uk, Натан Щаранський, born Anatoly Borisovich Shcharansky on 20 January 1948); uk, Анатолій Борисович Щаранський, ...

is released by

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nation ...

authorities and leaves the country for

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. * February 15 – The

Beechcraft Starship The Beechcraft Starship is a twin-turboprop six- to eight-passenger pressurized business aircraft produced by Beech Aircraft Corporation. Development Development of the Starship began in 1979 when Beech decided to explore designs for a succe ...

makes its

maiden flight The maiden flight, also known as first flight, of an aircraft is the first occasion on which it leaves the ground under its own power. The same term is also used for the first launch of rockets. The maiden flight of a new aircraft type is alw ...

. *

February 16 Events Pre-1600 *1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. *1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Kar ...

** The Soviet liner sinks in the

Marlborough Sounds The Marlborough Sounds are an extensive network of sea-drowned valleys at the northern end of the South Island of New Zealand. The Marlborough Sounds were created by a combination of land subsidence and rising sea levels. According to Māori ...

, New Zealand. ** Ouadi Doum air raid: The French Air Force raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern Chad. **

Mário Soares Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares, GColTE, GCC, GColL (; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese politician, who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985, and subsequently as the 17th pres ...

wins the second round of the Portuguese presidential election. * February 17 – The

Single European Act The Single European Act (SEA) was the first major revision of the 1957 Treaty of Rome. The Act set the European Community an objective of establishing a single market by 31 December 1992, and a forerunner of the European Union's Common Forei ...

is signed. * February 19 ** The

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

launches the ''

Mir ''Mir'' (russian: Мир, ; ) was a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. ''Mir'' was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to&n ...

'' space station. ** The

United States Senate The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States. The composition and pow ...

approves a treaty outlawing

genocide Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in 1944, combining the Greek word (, "race, people") with the Lat ...

. *

February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferd ...

– The

begins in the

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

to remove President Ferdinand Marcos from office. * February 25 ** The

27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union The 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held from 25 February to 6 March 1986 in Moscow. This was the first congress presided over by Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In accorda ...

opens in Moscow. The General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev introduces the keywords of his mandate to the audience: Glasnost and Perestroika. **

: President Ferdinand Marcos of the

is ousted from power and goes into exile in Hawaii after 21 years of dictatorial rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the first Filipino woman president and forms an interim government with

Salvador Laurel Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel (, November 18, 1928 – January 27, 2004), also known as Doy Laurel, was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the vice president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under President Corazon Aquino an ...

becoming her

Vice-President A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...

and

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

. ** A three-day riot begins in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the Capital city, capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, List of ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...

when around 25,000 conscripts of the

Central Security Forces The General Security and Central Security Forces ( ar, قوات الأمن العام و الأمن المركزي, Quwwāt al-Amn al- Amm wa Quwwāt al-Amn al-Markazī, often shortened to ar, الأمن المركزي, Al-Amn al-Markazī) is ...

(CSF), staged protests in and around the city. Three luxury hotels, several nightclubs, restaurants and cars were looted and burned in the tourist districts near the Pyramids over several days. The riot became known as the Egyptian Conscripts Riot. At least 25 people died during the first day in Cairo, and an estimated 8,000 people, mostly conscripts in regions outside the city, were killed in total. * February 27 – The

allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. * February 28 – Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme is shot to death on his way home from the cinema in Stockholm, Sweden.

March

March 1 Events Pre-1600 *509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocletian ...

– Olof Palme's deputy

Ingvar Carlsson Gösta Ingvar Carlsson (born 9 November 1934) is a Swedish politician who twice served as Prime Minister of Sweden, first from 1986 to 1991 and again from 1994 to 1996. He was leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party from 1986 to 1996. He ...

becomes acting Prime Minister of Sweden. He is elected Prime Minister by the Swedish Riksdag on March 15. *

March 3 Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. * 1575 & ...

– The first paper is published describing the

atomic force microscope Atomic force microscopy (AFM) or scanning force microscopy (SFM) is a very-high-resolution type of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), with demonstrated resolution on the order of fractions of a nanometer, more than 1000 times better than the op ...

invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig, Calvin Quate and Christopher Berger. *

March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem ''Shahnameh''. *1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between bou ...

– The Japanese Suisei probe flies by

, studying its UV hydrogen corona and solar wind. *

March 9 Events Pre-1600 * 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han dynasty of China. * 1009 – First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg. * 1226 &nda ...

–

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

divers find the largely intact but heavily damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle '' Challenger''; the bodies of all seven astronauts are still inside. *

March 13 Events Pre-1600 *624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. *1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. *1591 – At the Battle of Tond ...

– In a Black Sea incident, American cruiser USS ''Yorktown'' and the destroyer USS ''Caron'', claiming the right of

innocent passage Innocent passage is a concept in the law of the sea that allows for a vessel to pass through the archipelagic and territorial waters of another state, subject to certain restrictions. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Article 19 ...

, enter the Soviet

territorial waters The term territorial waters is sometimes used informally to refer to any area of water over which a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potent ...

near the southern

Crimean Peninsula Crimea, crh, Къырым, Qırım, grc, Κιμμερία / Ταυρική, translit=Kimmería / Taurikḗ ( ) is a peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea, that has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It has a pop ...

. * March 14 –

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washin ...

Corporation holds its

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investme ...

of stock shares. *

March 15 Events Pre-1600 *474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. * 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 – Odo ...

– Hotel New World collapses, 33 killed and 17 rescued from rubble. * March 25 – The

58th Academy Awards The 58th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 1986, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. Durin ...

are held in

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, largest city in the U.S. state, state of California and the List of United States cities by population, sec ...

, with ''

Out of Africa ''Out of Africa'' is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on ...

'' winning

Best Picture This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

. *

March 26 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. *1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...

– An article in ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...

'' charges that

Kurt Waldheim Kurt Josef Waldheim (; 21 December 1918 – 14 June 2007) was an Austrian politician and diplomat. Waldheim was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981 and president of Austria from 1986 to 1992. While he was running for t ...

, former

United Nations Secretary-General The secretary-general of the United Nations (UNSG or SG) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations. The role of the secretary-g ...

and candidate for president of Austria, may have been involved in

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

war crimes during World War II. *

March 27 Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...

– Russell Street Bombing: A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police Headquarters in

Russell Street, Melbourne Russell Street is a main street and thoroughfare in the central business district of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It runs roughly north-south and was laid out as a core feature of the Hoddle Grid in 1837. Russell Street is named after Joh ...

, killing a woman constable, the first Australian policewoman to be killed in the line of duty. * March 31 – Mexicana Flight 940 crashes near

Maravatío Maravatío is a municipality in the Mexican state of Michoacán, representing 1.17% of its land area, or 691.55 km2. Etymology The modern word Maravatío comes from the Purépecha word Marhabatio, meaning a precious place or thing. Hist ...

, Mexico, killing 167.

April

* April – The government of Ivory Coast requests international diplomatic use of the French form of its name, ''Côte d'Ivoire''. *

April 1 Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. *1081 – Alexios I Ko ...

– Sector Kanda:

Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) The Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) was an underground communist party in Nepal. CPN (Mashal) was formed in November 1984, following a split in the Communist Party of Nepal (Masal). The new party was founded at a congress (labelled the 'fifth ...

cadres attack a number of police stations in

Kathmandu , pushpin_map = Nepal Bagmati Province#Nepal#Asia , coordinates = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = , subdivision_type1 = Province , subdivision_name1 = Bagmati Prov ...

, seeking to incite a popular rebellion. *

April 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1513 – Having spotted land on March 27, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on what is now the U.S. state of Florida, landing somewhere between the modern city of St. Augustine and the mouth of the St. J ...

– A bomb explodes on a Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people. * April 5 ** 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing: The

West Berlin West Berlin (german: Berlin (West) or , ) was a political enclave which comprised the western part of Berlin during the years of the Cold War. Although West Berlin was de jure not part of West Germany, lacked any sovereignty, and was under mi ...

discothèque ''La Belle'', a known hangout for United States soldiers, is bombed, killing three and injuring 230;

Libya Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Suda ...

is held responsible. *

April 11 Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. *1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. *1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...

– The infamous FBI shootout in Miami results in the death of two FBI agents and the wounding of five others. * April 13 –

Pope John Paul II Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...

officially visits the Great Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue. * April 13 – The first child born to a non-related

surrogate mother Surrogacy is an arrangement, often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman agrees to delivery/labour for another person or people, who will become the child's parent(s) after birth. People may seek a surrogacy arrangement when pregnan ...

is born. *

April 14 Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho ...

–

Hailstone Hail is a form of solid precipitation. It is distinct from ice pellets (American English "sleet"), though the two are often confused. It consists of balls or irregular lumps of ice, each of which is called a hailstone. Ice pellets generally fal ...

s weighing fall on

Gopalganj District, Bangladesh Gopalganj ( bn, গোপালগঞ্জ জেলা) is a district (''zilla'' in Bengali) in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh. The district has about 1,172,415 civilians and its surface area is 1,490 km2. The main city of the district ...

, killing 92. *

April 15 Events Pre-1600 * 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings. * 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscar ...

–

Operation El Dorado Canyon The 1986 United States bombing of Libya, code-named Operation El Dorado Canyon, consisted of air strikes by the United States against Libya on Tuesday 15 April 1986. The attack was carried out by the U.S. Air Force (USAF), U.S. Navy and U.S. M ...

: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and the Benghazi region. *

April 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. * 69 – Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide. * 73 – Masad ...

– The United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands sign a peace treaty, thus ending the Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War, one of the longest wars in human history. *

April 17 Events Pre-1600 *1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. *1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of Hasan ...

Lebanon hostage crisis The Lebanon hostage crisis was the kidnapping in Lebanon of 104 foreign hostages between 1982 and 1992, when the Lebanese Civil War was at its height. The hostages were mostly Americans and Western Europeans, but 21 national origins were represen ...

: British journalist John McCarthy is kidnapped in Beirut (he is released in August

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

) and three others are killed in retaliation for the bombing of Libya. ** The Hindawi affair begins when an Irishwoman is found carrying explosives onto an

El Al El Al Israel Airlines Ltd. (, he, אל על נתיבי אויר לישראל בע״מ), trading as El Al (Hebrew: , "Upwards", "To the Skies" or "Skywards", stylized as ELAL; ar, إل-عال), is the flag carrier of Israel. Since its inaugura ...

flight from London to

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

. ** An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

and the Isles of Scilly declared peace bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have been legally considered to exist. *

April 18 Events Pre-1600 * 796 – King Æthelred I of Northumbria is murdered in Coria (Corbridge), Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald of Northumbria, Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 d ...

– Titan 34D-9 explodes just after launch while carrying the final KH-9 satellite. * April 21 – Lorimar-Telepictures launches as a mass media company. *

April 26 Events Pre-1600 * 1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. *1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe. * 1 ...

– Chernobyl disaster: A mishandled safety test at the

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Pripyat Pripyat ( ; russian: При́пять), also known as Prypiat ( uk, При́пʼять, , ), is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, located near the border with Belarus. Named after the nearby river, Pripyat, it was founded on 4 February 1 ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic ( uk, Украї́нська Радя́нська Соціалісти́чна Респу́бліка, ; russian: Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респ ...

"killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident is concentrated near

Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika Belarus. is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

and

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and at least 350,000 people are forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere". *

April 29 Events Pre-1600 * 1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. * 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and b ...

– The

Diamond Jubilee A diamond jubilee celebrates the 60th anniversary of a significant event related to a person (e.g. accession to the throne or wedding, among others) or the 60th anniversary of an institution's founding. The term is also used for 75th anniver ...

of Hirohito is held at the Kokugikan in Tokyo.

May

May 2 Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. *1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprison ...

–

Expo 86 The 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, or simply Expo 86, was a World's Fair held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from May 2 until October 13, 1986. The fair, the theme of which was "Transportation and Communicatio ...

, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a

World's fair A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large international exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specif ...

, opens in Vancouver,

British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ...

, Canada. * May 8 –

Óscar Arias Óscar Arias Sánchez (; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 198 ...

is inaugurated into his first term as

President of Costa Rica The president of the Republic of Costa Rica is the head of state and head of government of Costa Rica. The president is currently elected in direct elections for a period of four years, which is not immediately renewable. Two vice presidents are ...

. *

May 12 Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang d ...

–

NBC The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network. The flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a division of Comcast, its headquarters are l ...

unveils its current

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at the finale of its 60th anniversary special. * May 16 ** The

Seville Statement on Violence The Seville Statement on Violence is a statement on violence that was adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain, on 16 May 1986. It was subsequently adopted by UNESC ...

is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

, in

Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...

, Spain. ** Paramount Pictures releases '' Top Gun''. *

May 23 Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. *1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. * 1533 – The marriage of King Henry VI ...

– Somali President Siad Barre is injured in a car accident in

Mogadishu Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Oc ...

and taken to

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

for treatment. Somali opposition groups see this as an opportunity to try to remove Barre, beginning the

Somali Civil War The Somali Civil War ( so, Dagaalkii Sokeeye ee Soomaaliya; ar, الحرب الأهلية الصومالية ) is an ongoing civil war that is taking place in Somalia. It grew out of resistance to the military junta which was led by Siad Bar ...

. *

May 25 Events Pre-1600 * 567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. *240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Tol ...

** '' Hands Across America'': At least 5,000,000 people form a human chain from New York City to

Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city in Los Angeles County, California. It is the 42nd-most populous city in the United States, with a population of 466,742 as of 2020. A charter city, Long Beach is the seventh-most populous city in California. Incorporate ...

, to raise money to fight hunger and homelessness. ** The

Bangladesh Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...

i double-decked ferry ''Shamia'' capsizes in the

Meghna River The Meghna River ( bn, মেঘনা নদী) is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal. A part of the Surma-Meghna River System, ...

, southern

Barisal Barisal ( or ; bn, বরিশাল, ), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh. It is the largest city and the administrative headquarter of both Barisal Di ...

, killing at least 600.

June

WEM Galaxyland MindBender Galaxy Orbitter

June June is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is the second of four months to have a length of 30 days, and the third of five months to have a length of less than 31 days. June contains the summer solstice in ...

– Construction of the

Oosterscheldekering The Oosterscheldekering ( English: Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier), between the islands Schouwen-Duiveland and Noord-Beveland, is the largest of the Delta Works, a series of dams and storm surge barriers, designed to protect the Netherlands ...

, the world's largest openable storm surge

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, is completed in the Netherlands. *

June 4 Events Pre-1600 *1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries. * 1561 – The steeple of St Paul's, the medieval cathedr ...

–

Jonathan Pollard Jonathan Jay Pollard (born August 7, 1954) is a former intelligence analyst for the United States government. In 1987, as part of a plea agreement, Pollard pleaded guilty to spying for and providing top-secret classified information to Israel. H ...

pleads guilty to

espionage Espionage, spying, or intelligence gathering is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information (intelligence) from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information for a tangib ...

for selling top secret United States

military intelligence Military intelligence is a military discipline that uses information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance and direction to assist commanders in their decisions. This aim is achieved by providing an assessment of data from a ...

. *

June 8 Events Pre-1600 * 218 – Battle of Antioch: With the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeats the forces of emperor Macrinus. * 452 – Attila leads a Hun army in the invasion of Italy, devastating the northern province ...

– Former

is elected president of Austria. *

June 9 Events Pre-1600 *411 BC – The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. * 53 – The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. * 68 – Nero dies by suicide after quoting Vergil's ''Aeneid'', thus ending th ...

– The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster. *

June 12 Events Pre-1600 * 910 – Battle of Augsburg: The Hungarians defeat the East Frankish army under King Louis the Child, using the famous feigned retreat tactic of the nomadic warriors. * 1240 – At the instigation of Louis IX of Fr ...

–

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

declares a nationwide state of emergency. *

June 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1158 – The city of Munich is founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the river Isar. * 1216 – First Barons' War: Prince Louis of France takes the city of Winchester, abandoned by John, King of England, and soon ...

–

Fantasyland Fantasyland is one of the "themed lands" at all of the Magic Kingdom-style parks run by The Walt Disney Company around the world. It is themed after Disney's animated fairy tale films. Each Fantasyland has a castle, as well as several gentle ri ...

's Mindbender derails and kills three people. *

June 22 Events Pre-1600 * 217 BC – Battle of Raphia: Ptolemy IV Philopator of Egypt defeats Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid kingdom. * 168 BC – Battle of Pydna: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat Macedonian King Perseus ...

– In one of the most famous

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament ha ...

matches, Argentinian football player

Diego Maradona Diego Armando Maradona (; 30 October 196025 November 2020) was an Argentine professional football player and manager. Widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport, he was one of the two joint winners of the F ...

scores one handball goal (nicknamed the "Hand of God") and then dribbles past the entire

English football team The England national football team has represented England in international football since the first international match in 1872. It is controlled by The Football Association (FA), the governing body for football in England, which is affilia ...

to score a second goal (nicknamed "The Goal of the Century") with Argentina winning 2–1 against England. * June 23 – Eric Thomas develops LISTSERV, the first email list management software. *

June 29 Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. *1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. * 1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...

– Argentina defeats West Germany 3–2 to win the

1986 World Cup The 1986 FIFA World Cup was the 13th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Mexico from 31 May to 29 June 1986. The tournament was the second to feature a 24-team format. Colombia had ...

Estadio Azteca Estadio Azteca () is a multi-purpose stadium located in Mexico City. It is the official home of Association football, football clubs Club América and Cruz Azul as well as the Mexico national football team. The stadium sits at an altitude of a ...

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital city, capital and primate city, largest city of Mexico, and the List of North American cities by population, most populous city in North Amer ...

July

July 2 Events Pre-1600 * 437 – Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. * 626 – Li Shimin, t ...

–

Walt Disney Pictures Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company. The studio is the flagship producer of live-action feature films within the Walt Disney Studios unit ...

releases the company's 26th animated film, ''

The Great Mouse Detective ''The Great Mouse Detective'' (also known as ''The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective'' for its 1992 theatrical re-release and ''Basil the Great Mouse Detective'' in some countries) is a 1986 American animated mystery adventure film produc ...

''. *

July 4 Events Pre-1600 *362 BC – Battle of Mantinea: The Thebans, led by Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans. * 414 – Emperor Theodosius II, age 13, yields power to his older sister Aelia Pulcheria, who reigned as regent and proclaime ...

– The Statue of Liberty is reopened to the public after celebrating its centennial and an extensive refurbishment. *

July 7 Events Pre-1600 * 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks. * 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. * 1520 – Spanish ''conquistad ...

– Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers are

executed Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

in Malaysia. *

July 11 Events Pre-1600 * 472 – After being besieged in Rome by his own generals, Western Roman Emperor Anthemius is captured in St. Peter's Basilica and put to death. * 813 – Byzantine emperor Michael I, under threat by conspiracies, ...

– The New Zealand Homosexual Law Reform Act decriminalizes consensual sex between men from the age of 16. *

July 23 Events Pre-1600 * 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury. *1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1 ...

– In London, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at

Westminster Abbey Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an historic, mainly Gothic church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the Unite ...

August

* August 6 ** A low-pressure system moving from

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

and redeveloping off the

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coast dumps a record of rain in a day on Sydney. **

Australian Democrats The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia. Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, both of which were descended from Liberal Party dissenting splinter groups, it was Austral ...

leader Don Chipp retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by Janine Haines, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia. * August 16 – Typhoon Wayne formed over the

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phi ...

, going on to become one of the longest-lived

tropical cyclones A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Dependi ...

at 21 days, and kill 490.JMA
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Chapter 3: Northwest Pacific and North Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones.

. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. *

August 19 Events Pre-1600 *295 BC – The first temple to Venus, the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility, is dedicated by Quintus Fabius Maximus Gurges during the Third Samnite War. *43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later know ...

– Two weeks after it was stolen, the Picasso painting ''Weeping Woman'' is found in a locker at the Spencer Street Station in

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

, Australia. *

August 20 Events Pre-1600 * AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is mysteriously executed by his guards while in exile. * 636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take con ...

– In

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employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his coworkers before committing suicide. * August 21 – The

Lake Nyos disaster On 21 August 1986, a limnic eruption at Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon killed 1,746 people and 3,500 livestock. The eruption triggered the sudden release of about 100,000–300,000 tons (1.6 million tons, according to some sources) of c ...

, a

limnic eruption A limnic eruption, also known as a lake overturn, is a very rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide () suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of suffocating wildlife, livestock, and humans. A lim ...

, occurs in

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

, killing nearly 2,000 people. *

August 31 Events Pre-1600 * 1056 – After a sudden illness a few days previously, Byzantine Empress Theodora dies childless, thus ending the Macedonian dynasty. * 1057 – Abdication of Byzantine Emperor Michael VI Bringas after just one year ...

** The

passenger liner collides with the bulk carrier ''Pyotr Vasev'' in the

Black Sea The Black Sea is a marginal mediterranean sea of the Atlantic Ocean lying between Europe and Asia, east of the Balkans, south of the East European Plain, west of the Caucasus, and north of Anatolia. It is bounded by Bulgaria, Georgia, Rom ...

and sinks almost immediately, killing 398. **

Aeroméxico Flight 498 Aeroméxico Flight 498 was a scheduled commercial flight from Mexico City, Mexico to Los Angeles, California, United States, with several intermediate stops. On Sunday, August 31, 1986, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating the flight was clipped ...

, a

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, collides with a Piper PA-28 over

Cerritos, California Cerritos (Spanish for "Little hills") is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States, and is one of several cities that constitute the Gateway Cities of southeast Los Angeles County. It was incorporated on April 24, 1956. As of 20 ...

, killing 82 (67 on both aircraft and 15 on the ground). ** The cargo ship '' Khian Sea'' departs from the docks of

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, carrying 14,000 tons of toxic waste. It wanders the seas for the next 16 months trying to find a place to dump its cargo. The waste is later dumped in Haiti.

September

September 1 Events Pre-1600 *1145 – The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated. *1173 – The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona b ...

–

Jordan University of Science and Technology The Jordan University of Science and Technology ( ar, جامعة العلوم والتكنولوجيا الأردنية ''Jami'at Al-Ulum wa Al-Tiknolojia Al-Urdunia''), often abbreviated JUST, is a public university, state-supported university ...

is established in Jordan. *

September 4 Events Pre-1600 * 476 – Romulus Augustulus is deposed when Odoacer proclaims himself "King of Italy", thus ending the Western Roman Empire. * 626 – Li Shimin, posthumously known as Emperor Taizong of Tang, assumes the throne ove ...

–

Eusko Alkartasuna Eusko Alkartasuna (; en, Basque Solidarity; es, Solidaridad Vasca; french: Solidarité basque) is a Basque nationalist and social-democratic political party operating in Spain and France. The Basque language name means ''Basque Solidarity'' an ...

, the Basque Social Democratic Party, is created in

Vitoria-Gasteiz Vitoria-Gasteiz (; ), also alternatively spelled as Vittoria in old English-language sources, is the seat of government and the capital city of the Basque Country and of the province of Álava in northern Spain. It holds the autonomous community' ...

. *

September 5 Events Pre-1600 * 917 – Liu Yan declares himself emperor, establishing the Southern Han state in southern China, at his capital of Panyu. *1367 – Swa Saw Ke becomes king of Ava *1590 – Alexander Farnese's army forces Henry ...

– Pan Am Flight 73, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at Karachi International Airport by four

Abu Nidal Sabri Khalil al-Banna (May 1937 – 16 August 2002), known by his '' nom de guerre'' Abu Nidal, was the founder of Fatah: The Revolutionary Council, a militant Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization ...

terrorists. *

September 6 Events Pre-1600 * 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later. *1492 – Christopher Colu ...

** The Big Mac Index is introduced in ''

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'' newspaper as a semi-humorous international measure of purchasing power parity. ** In

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, two

terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the

Neve Shalom Synagogue Neve Shalom Synagogue ( tr, Neve Şalom Sinagogu, he, בית הכנסת נווה שלום; lit. "Oasis of Peace" or "Valley of Peace") is a synagogue in the Karaköy quarter of Beyoğlu district, in Istanbul, Turkey. The synagogue was built in ...

during Shabbat services. *

September 7 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem. * 878 – Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII. *1159 – Pope Alexander III is chosen. *1191 – Third Cr ...

** Desmond Tutu becomes the first black

Anglican Church Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the ...

bishop in South Africa. **

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an dictator

Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...

survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; 5 of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed. *

September 13 Events Pre-1600 * 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia. * 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hi ...

– The 6.0 Kalamata earthquake shook southern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). The shock left at least 20 dead, 300 injured, and caused $5 million in damage. * September 28 – The Democratic Progressive Party is founded. It was part of the

Tangwai movement The ''Tangwai'' movement, or simply ''Tangwai'' (), was a loosely knit political movement in Taiwan in the mid-1970s and early 1980s. Although the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) had allowed contested elections for a small number of seats in the Leg ...

in the new generation to challenge

Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially on the Chinese mainland and in Tai ...

in Taiwan's one-party politics, and is currently one of only two parties to win

presidential elections in Taiwan President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

October

October 1 Events Pre-1600 * 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. * 366 – Pope Damasus I is consecrated. * 959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to Eadw ...

– U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater–Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the

United States Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD or DOD) is an executive branch department of the federal government charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national sec ...

since the

Air Force An air force – in the broadest sense – is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an ...

was made a separate branch of service in 1947. *

October 3 Events Pre-1600 * 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. * 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Juliu ...

–

TASCC Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron (TASCC) was a Canadian particle accelerator facility constructed at Chalk River Laboratories on October 3, 1986. TASCC was the world's first Tandem Accelerator and able to accelerate most elements to ...

, a

superconducting Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in certain materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic flux fields are expelled from the material. Any material exhibiting these properties is a superconductor. Unlike ...

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, officially opens at

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. A

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was visible off the coast of Iceland, and was the 53rd solar eclipse of

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. *

October 9 Events Pre-1600 * 768 – Carloman I and Charlemagne are crowned kings of the Franks. * 1238 – James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia. * 1410 – The first known mention of the Prague astronomical clock. * 1446 &ndash ...

** United States District Court Judge Harry E. Claiborne becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. **

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completes its acquisition of the

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group of companies, thereby launching the

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. ** ''

The Phantom of the Opera ''The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French author Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serial in from 23 September 1909 to 8 January 1910, and was released in volume form in late March 1910 by Pier ...

'', the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at

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in London. *

October 10 Events Pre-1600 * 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. * 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France. *1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with ...

– The 5.7 San Salvador earthquake shook San Salvador, El Salvador with a maximum

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of IX (Violent). Up to 1,500 people were killed. *

October 11 Events Pre-1600 *1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. *1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. * 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of Engl ...

– 12 – Cold War: Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet in

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, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate

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arsenals in Europe, which end in failure. *

October 16 Events Pre-1600 * 456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. * 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. * ...

– The

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chooses

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, France to be the host city of the

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and

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, Spain to be the host city of the

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. The IOC also announces that the summer and winter games will separate with the winter games on every even, common year; and the summer games on every leap year starting from 1992. *

October 19 Events Pre-1600 * 202 BC – Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage. * 439 – The Vandals, led by King Gaiseric, take Carthage in ...

– Mozambican President

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's plane crashes in South Africa. *

October 21 Events Pre-1600 *1096 – A Seljuk Turkish army successfully fights off the People's Crusade. *1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of A ...

– The

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became an

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under the

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. *

October 22 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, an ecumenical council. * 794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō (no ...

– In New York City, WNBC Radio's traffic helicopter crashes into the

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, killing traffic reporter Jane Dornacker. The last words heard on-the-air are Dornacker's screams of terror, "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!" *

October 26 Events Pre-1600 * 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. * 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally b ...

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goes into effect in the United Kingdom, except Greater London and Northern Ireland. ** The state funeral of President

of Mozambique takes place in

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. *

October 27 Events Pre-1600 * 312 – Constantine is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross. * 1275 – Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam. * 1524 – French troops lay siege to Pavia. * 1553 – Condemned as ...

** The

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win 4 games to 3 in the 1986 World Series against the

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. *

October 29 Events Pre-1600 * 312 – Constantine the Great enters Rome after his victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, stages a grand '' adventus'' in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber an ...

– British

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officially opens the M25 Motorway, which encircles Greater London, in a ceremony on the carriageway near

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. It became Europe's second longest orbital road upon completion, and provides the first and only full bypass of London. *

October 30 Events Pre-1600 * 637 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. * 758 – Guangzhou is sacked by Arab and Persian pirates. *1137 – Ranulf of Apulia defeats Ro ...

– The National Park Passport Stamps program begins in the

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November

November 1 Events Pre-1600 *365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities. * 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freisin ...

** Queensland, Australia:

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wins his final election as

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with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987, following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the

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. **

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: A major environmental disaster near

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pollutes the Rhine, when an agrochemical storehouse catches on fire. *

November 3 Events Pre-1600 * 361 – Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia; on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor. *1333 – The River Arno floods causing massive damage in Fl ...

Iran–Contra affair The Iran–Contra affair ( fa, ماجرای ایران-کنترا, es, Caso Irán–Contra), often referred to as the Iran–Contra scandal, the McFarlane affair (in Iran), or simply Iran–Contra, was a political scandal in the United States ...

: The Lebanese magazine '' Ash-Shiraa'' reports that the United States has been selling weapons to

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in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. ** The

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enter in a political union with the United States. The island's government adopted its own constitution in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in January 1978. The covenant was fully implemented November 3, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred

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on legally qualified island residents. *

November 6 Events Pre-1600 * 447 – A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers. * 963 – Synod of Rome: Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Pope John XII is ...

** 45 people are killed in the 1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash. ** Alex Ferguson is appointed as the new manager of Manchester United. *

November 18 Events Pre-1600 * 326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I. * 401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy. * 1095 – The Council of Clermont begins: called ...

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announce that they will search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the

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Ian Brady The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward E ...

and

Myra Hindley The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England. The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, and Edward E ...

confess to 2 more murders. * November 21 ** Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member

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and his secretary,

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, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to

and channeling the proceeds to help fund the

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rebels in

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December

December 4 Events Pre-1600 * 771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne as sole king of the Frankish Kingdom. * 963 – The lay papal protonotary is elected pope and takes the name Leo VIII, being consecrated on 6 ...

– The MV ''Amazon Venture'' oil tanker begins leaking oil while at the

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in the United States, resulting in an oil spill of approximately . *

December 7 Events Pre-1600 *43 BC – Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius. * 574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him ...

– A magnitude 5.7 earthquake destroys most of the

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n town of Strajica, killing 2 people. *

December 14 Events Pre-1600 * 557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia. * 835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the T ...

–

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, an experimental

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and piloted by

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and

Jeana Yeager Jeana Lee Yeager (born May 18, 1952) is an American aviator. She co-piloted, along with Dick Rutan, the first non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from December 14 to 23, 1986. The flight took 9 days, 3 ...

, begins its flight around the world from Edwards Air Force Base in the United States. *

December 16 Events Pre-1600 * 714 – Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald, while his widow Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom. * 755 ...

–

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, mass anti-government protests, break out across the

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, resulting in the massacre of over 165 protesters. *

December 19 Events Pre-1600 * 1154 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. * 1187 – Pope Clement III is elected. * 1490 – Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy. * 1562 &ndas ...

– Soviet dissident

Andrei Sakharov Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov ( rus, Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ˈdmʲitrʲɪjevʲɪtɕ ˈsaxərəf; 21 May 192114 December 1989) was a Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident, nobel laureate and activist for n ...

is permitted to return to Moscow after six years of internal exile. *

December 20 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian. * 1192 – Richard I of England is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England a ...

– Three

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s are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of

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, New York. One of the victims, Michael Griffith, is run over and killed by a motorist while attempting to flee the attackers. *

December 23 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity. * 558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks. * 583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque. * 962 &ndas ...

–

completes the first nonstop circumnavigation of the earth by air without refueling in 9 days, 3 minutes and 44 seconds. *

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** Dupont Plaza Hotel arson: A hotel fire in

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, kills 97 and injures 140. ** Soviet submarine ''Krasnoyarsk'' (K-173) is commissioned.

Date unknown

* Average per capita income in Japan exceeds that in the United States. * The first commercially available

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is sold. * Informal

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is done in Shenyang, China; the first of its kind in Communist China. * Opus Pro, a Latvian hard rock group, is established. *The band Sweet Children (now known as Green Day) was formed by the lead singer,

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. *The Province of Flevoland is established in the Netherlands.

Births

Those born in the year 1986 are considered '' millennials'' (Generation Y or Gen Y).

January

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** Glen Davis, American basketball player ** Lee Sung-min, South Korean actor and singer **

Colin Morgan Colin Morgan (born 1 January 1986) is a Northern Irish actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the BBC fantasy series ''Merlin'' (2008–2012), Leo Elster in ''Humans'' (2015–2018), and Billy Clanton in Kenneth Branagh’s ...

, Northern Irish actor * January 2 ** Yulia, Russian-New Zealander classical crossover singer ** Nathan Cowen, New Zealand rower **

Trombone Shorty Troy Andrews (born January 2, 1986), also known by the stage name Trombone Shorty, is an American musician, producer, actor and philanthropist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is best known as a trombone and trumpet player but also plays drums, ...

, American jazz musician * January 4 **

Katrina Halili Maria Katrina Iren Pe Halili (born January 4, 1986) is a Filipino actress and commercial model of Chinese descent. She made her screen debut through the reality talent search '' StarStruck'' in 2003, and became more popular playing several rol ...

, Filipina actress and commercial model ** Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwanese tennis player ** James Milner, English soccer player * January 5 ** Teppei Koike, Japanese singer and actor ** Deepika Padukone, Indian actress and producer * January 6 ** Paul McShane (footballer), Paul McShane, Irish professional footballer ** Petter Northug, Norwegian Olympic skier ** Irina Shayk, Russian model ** Alex Turner, English musician * January 8 ** Jaclyn Linetsky, Canadian actress and voice actress (d. 2003) ** David Silva, Spanish footballer * January 10 ** Chen Jin (badminton), Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player ** Suzanne Harmes, Dutch artistic gymnast ** Kenneth Vermeer, Dutch footballer *

– Daniela Cosío, Mexican model * January 12 – Zlata Ognevich, Ukrainian singer ** Jakob Oftebro, Norwegian actor * January 13 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater * January 14 ** Yohan Cabaye, French footballer * January 15 – Jessy Schram, American actress * January 16 – Paula Pareto, Argentinian judoka * January 17 ** Max Adler (actor), Max Adler, American actor ** Chloe Rose Lattanzi, Australian actress and singer * January 18 ** Marya Roxx, Estonian musician ** Becca Tobin, American actress and singer * January 19 – Claudio Marchisio, Italian footballer * January 20 – Genie Chuo, Taiwanese singer and actress * January 21 – Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor (d. 2020) * January 23 ** José Enrique (footballer), José Enrique, Spanish footballer ** Michael Stevens (educator), Michael Stevens, American scientist and entertainer *

** Mischa Barton, British-American actress ** Raviv Ullman, Israeli-American actor, director, and musician * January 26 ** Gerald Green, American basketball player ** Matt Heafy, American musician ** Kim Jae-joong, South Korean actor and pop singer ** Taylor Wilde, Canadian professional wrestler *

** Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, British heptathlete ** Shruti Haasan, Indian actress and musician *

** Drew Tyler Bell, American actor and dancer ** Sarah Jaffe, American singer ** Ashley Lilley, Scottish actress and singer * January 30 ** Ashley Buccille, American film and television actress ** Georgi Gurtskaya, former Russian professional footballer * January 31 – Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer

February

* February 1 – Lauren Conrad, American television personality and fashion designer * February 2 ** Gemma Arterton, British actress ** Miwa Asao, Japanese beach volleyball player ** Tiffany Vise, American figure skater * February 5 ** Claudia Cruz, Dominican model and beauty queen ** Kevin Gates, American hip-hop musician and entrepreneur ** Madison Rayne, American professional wrestler ** Andrea Masiello, Italian footballer ** Billy Sharp, English footballer ** Sebastián Pinto, Chilean footballer * February 6 ** Vedran Ćorluka, Croatian international footballer ** Dane DeHaan, American actor ** Alice Greczyn, American actress and model ** Sofia Nizharadze, Georgian pop musician ** Yunho, South Korean actor and singer *

** Anna Hutchison, New Zealand actress ** Anderson .Paak, American musician and record producer *

** Shaka Bangura, Sierra Leonean footballer ** Ciprian Tătărușanu, Romanian footballer *

** Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer ** Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress * February 12 – Valorie Curry, American actress * February 14 ** Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer ** Tiffany Thornton, American actress, radio personality and singer * February 15 ** Valeri Bojinov, Bulgarian footballer ** Ami Koshimizu, Japanese voice actress ** Amber Riley, American actress, singer and author * February 17 – Brett Kern, American football player * February 18 ** Brenan Espartinez, Filipino singer and actor ** Vika Jigulina, Romanian music producer, dance singer and DJ ** Alessandra Mastronardi, Italian actress ** Gregory Vargas, Venezuelan basketball player * February 19 ** Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian ** Ophelia Lovibond, British actress ** Marta (footballer), Marta, Brazilian-born footballer ** Maria Mena, Norwegian pop singer * February 21 ** Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, member of the Belgian Royal Family ** Charlotte Church, Welsh singer, actress, and television presenter *

– ** Miko Hughes, American actor ** Rajon Rondo, American Basketball Player * February 23 ** Emerson da Conceição, Brazilian footballer ** Skylar Grey, American pop singer ** Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor ** Boipelo Makhothi, Lesotho swimmer ** Jerod Mayo, American football player ** Ola Svensson, Swedish pop singer * February 25 ** Danny Saucedo, Swedish pop and dance singer ** Justin Berfield, American actor, writer, and producer ** James and Oliver Phelps, English actors * February 26 ** Leila Lopes (Miss Universe), Leila Lopes, Angolan Miss Universe ** Crystal Kay, Japanese actress and pop singer ** Teresa Palmer, Australian actress, writer, model and film producer

March

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Lady Gaga at Joe Biden's inauguration (cropped 5)

** Ayumu Goromaru, Japanese rugby union player ** Jonathan Spector, American soccer player * March 2 – Ethan Peck, American actor *

** Stacie Orrico, American singer ** Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer * March 4 – Margo Harshman, American actress * March 5 ** Corey Brewer, American basketball player ** Julie Henderson, American model ** Andrew Jenks, American filmmaker ** Sarah J. Maas, American novelist ** Shikabala, Egyptian footballer * March 6 ** Eli Marienthal, American actor ** Francisco Cervelli, Venezuelan baseball player ** Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer *

** Tal Slutzker, Israeli painter and poet ** Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, member of the Japanese Imperial Family *

– Brittany Snow, American actress, producer, director and singer * March 11 ** Dario Cologna, Swiss Olympic skier ** Mariko Shinoda, Japanese singer, actress, fashion model, and idol * March 12 ** Danny Jones, British musician ** František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (d. 2017) *

** Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol ** Kousuke Yonehara, Japanese singer and actor * March 14 – Jamie Bell, English actor and dancer *

– Jai Courtney, Australian actor * March 16 ** Alexandra Daddario, American actress ** Kenny Dykstra, Ken Doane, American professional wrestler ** T. J. Jordan, American basketball player ** Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater * March 17 ** Edin Džeko, Bosnian footballer ** Olesya Rulin, Russian-born actress * March 18 – Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter * March 19 – Anne Vyalitsyna, Russian model * March 20 – Ruby Rose, Australian actress and model * March 21 ** Scott Eastwood, American actor ** Michu, Spanish footballer * March 22 – Matt Bush (actor), Matt Bush, American actor * March 23 ** Brett Eldredge, American country music singer ** Steven Strait, American musician, actor, and fashion model * March 24 – Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer * March 25 ** Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player ** Megan Gibson, American softball player ** Kyle Lowry, American basketball player *

** Jonny Craig, Canadian-American singer ** Jessica Hart (model), Jessica Hart, Australian model ** Misty Stone, American pornographic actress **Alexander Taraikovsky, Belarusian demonstrator (d. 2020) *

** SoCal Val, American professional wrestling personality ** Manuel Neuer, German football goalkeeper * March 28 ** Lady Gaga, American singer, songwriter and actress ** Bowe Bergdahl, American soldier and deserter captured by the Taliban ** Amaia Salamanca, Spanish actress and model * March 29 ** Lucas Elliot Eberl, American actor and director ** Romina Oprandi, Italian tennis player * March 30 ** Tessa Ferrer, American actress ** Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer

April

Amanda Bynes on the Red Carpet (cropped2)

** Ellen Hollman, American actress ** Kid Ink, American hip-hop musician ** Yurika Nakamura, Japanese athlete ** Hillary Scott, American musician *

** Lee DeWyze, American rock musician ** Drew Van Acker, American actor * April 3 ** Amanda Bynes, American actress and fashion designer ** Coleen Rooney, English media personality * April 4 ** Labinot Harbuzi, Swedish footballer (d. 2018) ** Eunhyuk, South Korean actor and singer ** Steven Brown (judoka), Steven Brown, Australian judoka personnel * April 7 – Choi Si-won, South Korean actor and singer * April 8 ** Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer ** Cliff Avril, American football player ** Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player ** Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, singer, and model * April 9 ** Leighton Meester, American actress ** Jordan Masterson, American actor * April 10 ** Sam Attwater, British actor ** Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer ** Vincent Kompany, Belgian footballer *

– Esteban Vizcarra, Argentine-Indonesian footballer * April 12 – Matt McGorry, American actor and activist *

– Thaila Ayala, Brazilian actress and model *

– Tom Heaton, English footballer *

** Sufe Bradshaw, American actress ** Shinji Okazaki, Japanese football player ** Paul Di Resta, British racing driver *

** Romain Grosjean, French racing driver ** Zheng Kai, Chinese actor *

– Maurice Edu, American footballer * April 19 – Candace Parker, American basketball player * April 20 ** Pablo Martín (golfer), Pablo Martín, Spanish golfer ** Cameron Duncan, New Zealand director and writer (d. 2003) * April 22 ** Amanda Marie Berry, Amanda Berry, American author and abduction survivor ** Viktor Fayzulin, Russian footballer ** Amber Heard, American actress ** Marshawn Lynch, American football player * April 23 – Sven Kramer, Dutch speed skater * April 24 – Tahyna Tozzi, Australian model, singer and actress * April 25 ** Daniel Sharman, English actor ** John DeLuca, American actor and singer * April 27 ** Jenna Coleman, British actress ** Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player * April 28 ** Jenna Ushkowitz, American stage and television actress and singer ** Jazmín Beccar Varela, Argentine actress * April 30 – Dianna Agron, American actress, singer and dancer

May

* May 1 ** Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2013) **Jesse Klaver, Dutch politician ** Diego Valeri, Argentine footballer ** Cassie Jaye, American actress and film director *

** Emily Hart, American actress and voice actress ** Thomas McDonell, American actor, musician, and artist * May 5 – Grace Wong, Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant contestant * May 6 ** Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor and film maker ** Sasheer Zamata, American actress and comedian * May 7 – Rianne ten Haken, Dutch model * May 8 – Laura Spencer (actress), Laura Spencer, American actress *

** Jonathan Orozco, Mexican footballer ** Emily VanCamp, Canadian actress * May 13 ** Lena Dunham, American actress and producer ** Robert Pattinson, English actor and musician ** Alexander Rybak, Norwegian singer and violinist ** Nino Schurter, Swiss mountain bike cyclist * May 14 ** Alyosha (singer), Alyosha, Ukrainian singer ** Mey Chan, Indonesian singer ** Marco Motta, Italian footballer ** Camila Sodi, Mexican actress, singer and model * May 15 – Matías Fernández (footballer, born 1986), Matías Fernández, Chilean footballer * May 16 ** Drew Roy, American actor ** Megan Fox, American actress and model ** Shamcey Supsup-Lee, Shamcey Supsup, Filipina beauty queen, host and pageant director * May 17 ** Amy Gumenick, Swedish actress ** Tahj Mowry, American actor and singer ** Eric Lloyd, American actor, comedian, musician and producer ** Erin Richards, Welsh actress, director and writer * May 18 - Natalia Osipova, Russian ballerina * May 20 – Louisa Krause, American actress * May 21 ** Kevin Kraxner, former Austrian ice hockey player ** Ricardo Lockette, American football player ** Mario Mandžukić, Croatian footballer * May 22 ** Thandeka Mdeliswa, South African actress (d. 2020) ** Julian Edelman, American football player ** Molly Ephraim, American actress ** Tatiana Volosozhar, Ukrainian-born Russian figure skater *

** Nico Colaluca, American footballer ** Ryan Coogler, American film director, producer, and screenwriter ** Valentina Marchei, Italian figure skater ** Jordan Zimmermann, American baseball player * May 24 ** Mark Ballas, American dancer, actor, and musician ** Carolina Rodríguez, Carolina Rodriguez, Spanish rhythmic gymnast *

– Juri Ueno, Japanese actress * May 26 – Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Spanish actress and model * May 27 – Timo Descamps, Belgian actor and singer * May 28 ** Joseph Cross (actor), Joseph Cross, American actor ** Bryant Dunston, American-Armenian basketball player ** Charles N'Zogbia, French footballer ** Britt McHenry, American sports reporter ** Seth Rollins, American professional wrestler * May 29 ** Hornswoggle, American professional wrestler and actor ** Eleazar Gómez, Mexican actor ** Jaslene Gonzalez, Puerto Rican fashion model * May 30 ** Will Peltz, American actor ** Pasha Parfeni, Moldovan singer * May 31 ** Brooke Castile, American figure skater ** Robert Gesink, Dutch cyclist ** Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian musician ** Melissa McIntyre, Canadian actress

June

Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza en Nicaragua 11

Alessio Puccio - Lucca Comics & Games 2015

Shia LaBeouf at TIFF 2017 (36949725591) (cropped)

Solange Knowles, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2019 (cropped)

Drake Bell 2019 by Glenn Francis (cropped)

* June 1 ** Ricardo Abarca, Mexican actor and singer ** Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner ** Dayana Mendoza, Venezuelan model and beauty queen ** Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer ** Skream, British DJ and producer ** Ben Smith (rugby union), Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player ** Alessio Puccio, Italian voice actor * June 2 ** Todd Carney, Australian rugby player ** Curtis Lofton, American football player * June 3 ** Al Horford, Dominican basketball player ** Brenden Jefferson, American actor ** Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer ** Micah Kogo, Kenyan runner ** Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player ** Josh Segarra, American actor ** Adrián Vallés, Spanish race car driver ** Tomáš Verner, Czech Republic ice skater *

** Oona Chaplin, Spanish-English actress and dancer ** Fahriye Evcen, German-Turkish actress ** Shane Kippel, Canadian actor ** Shelly Woods, British wheelchair racer ** Yoochun, South Korean musician and actor * June 5 ** Christian Baracat, German rugby player ** Dave Bolland, Canadian ice hockey player ** Amanda Crew, Canadian actress ** Vernon Gholston, American football player * June 6 ** Justin Allgaier, American race car driver ** Kim Hyun-joong, South Korean actor, model and singer ** Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player ** Leslie Carter, American pop singer (d. 2012) *

– Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor * June 10 ** Hajime Hosogai, Japanese footballer ** Joey Zimmerman, American actor and musician * June 11 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor, performance artist, and filmmaker *

** Benjamin Schmideg, Australian actor ** Cintia Dicker, Brazilian model ** Jessica Keenan Wynn, American actress ** Luke Youngblood, British actor ** Mario Casas, Spanish actor ** Gary Buckland, Welsh former professional boxer of Romani people, Romani descent * June 13 ** Kat Dennings, American actress ** DJ Snake, French DJ and producer ** Keisuke Honda, Japanese football player ** Ashley Olsen, American actress ** Mary-Kate Olsen, American actress ** Måns Zelmerlöw, Swedish pop singer and television presenter *

– Haley Hudson, American actress * June 15 – Momoko Ueda, Japanese golfer * June 16 – Fernando Muslera, Uruguayan footballer * June 17 ** Marie Avgeropoulos, Canadian actress and model ** Lisa Haydon, Indian actress * June 18 ** Richard Gasquet, French tennis player ** Richard Madden, Scottish actor ** Shusaku Nishikawa, Japanese footballer ** Meaghan Rath, Canadian film and television actress ** Crystal Renn, American model and author * June 19 ** Nazareno Casero, Argentinian actor ** Erin Mackey, American actress and singer ** Marvin Williams, American basketball player * June 20 – Dreama Walker, American actress * June 21 – Cheick Tioté, Ivorian footballer (d. 2017) * June 23 ** Marti Malloy, American judoka ** Simon Špilak, Slovenian road bicycle racer ** Colin Ryan (actor), Colin Ryan, English actor * June 24 ** Stuart Broad, English cricketer ** Solange Knowles, American actress and singer ** Bojana Stamenov, Serbian singer * June 25 ** Lee Ho-suk, South Korean short-track skater ** Ace Mahbaz, Iranian actor and writer * June 26 – Mohd Farizal Marlias, Malaysian footballer * June 27 ** Drake Bell, American actor, voice actor, singer, songwriter, and musician ** Sam Claflin, British actor ** LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter ** Kristal Uzelac, American artistic gymnast * June 28 ** Matteo Lane, American comedian, opera singer, and oil painter ** Suzuko Mimori, Japanese voice actress and singer ** Kellie Pickler, American singer ** Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress ** Maya Stojan, Swiss actress *

** Christopher Egan, Australian actor ** Mohd Farizal Marlias, Malaysian footballer ** Edward Maya, Romanian musician ** Iya Villania, Filipina TV personality * June 30 ** Alicia Fox, American professional wrestler and model ** Azat Nurgaliev, Kazakh footballer

July

Megan Park - The F Word Premiere Sept 2013 (cropped)

Nolan Gerard Funk at the 70th Venice International Film Festival (cropped)

* July 1 ** Anton Bukhanko, Russian ice hockey player ** Saw Yi Khy, Malaysian swimmer ** Ekaterina Malysheva, Russian designer and filmmaker *

** Lindsay Lohan, American actress, singer-songwriter, businesswoman, fashion designer, and film producer ** Bruno Rezende, Brazilian volleyball player * July 3 – Felixia Yeap, Malaysian model *

** Jaclyn Betham, American actress and ballet dancer ** Takahisa Masuda, Japanese actor and singer * July 5 ** Iurii Cheban, Ukrainian canoe sprinter ** Ashkan Dejagah, Iranian footballer *

** Wan Azraie, Malaysian footballer ** Igor Klitsov, Russian footballer ** Sevyn Streeter, American singer * July 8 ** Renata Costa, Brazilian footballer ** Jake McDorman, American film and television actor * July 9 – Kiely Williams, American actress and singer * July 10 ** Shintaro Yamada, Japanese fashion model, actor and singer ** Wyatt Russell, American actor ** Tom Richards (squash player), Tom Richards, English squash player *

– Raúl García (footballer, born 1986), Raúl García, Spanish footballer * July 12 – JP Pietersen, South African rugby player * July 13 – Stanley Weber, French actor and theatre director * July 14 ** Sanam Baloch, Pakistani VJ, actress and anchor ** Peta Murgatroyd, New Zealand-born Australian dancer ** Dan Smith (singer), Dan Smith, British singer * July 15 – Mishael Morgan, Canadian actress * July 17 ** Dana (South Korean singer), Dana, Korean singer, dancer and actress ** Mojo Rawley, American professional wrestler and former American professional football player ** Brando Eaton, American film and television actor * July 18 ** James Sorensen, Australian model and actor ** Natalia Mikhailova, Russian former competitive ice dancer ** Mustapha Jarju, Gambian footballer ** Travis Milne, Canadian actor * July 19 – Jinder Mahal, Canadian professional wrestler * July 20 – Osric Chau, Canadian actor and martial artist * July 21 ** Livia Brito, Cuban-Mexican actress and model ** Betty Gilpin, American actress ** Diane Guerrero, American actress * July 22 – Zeus (musician), Zeus, Motswana hip-hop artist, MC and businessman *

** Aya Uchida, Japanese voice actress ** Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese actress, model and gravure idol * July 24 ** Vugar Gashimov, Azerbaijani chess grandmaster (d. 2014) ** Megan Park, Canadian actress and singer ** Natalie Tran, Australian comedian ** Remy Hii, Malaysian-Australian actor * July 25 – Hulk (footballer), Hulk, Brazilian footballer * July 26 – Monica Raymund, American actress * July 27 – Nathan Stephenson, Canadian actor * July 28 ** Alexandra Chando, American actress ** Nolan Gerard Funk, Canadian actor and singer * July 30 ** Jung Chul-woon, South Korean football player ** Danielle Keaton, American actress * July 31 ** Sean Eldridge, Canadian-born American political and gay activist ** Evgeni Malkin, Russian hockey player

August

* August 1 ** Josh Harder, American politician ** Darshana Sandakalum, Sri Lankan cricketer * August 3 ** Charlotte Casiraghi, Monegasque heiress, royal and socialite ** Prince Louis of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg * August 4 – Oleg Ivanov, Russian footballer * August 5 ** Paula Creamer, American golfer ** Kyoko Oshima, Japanese artistic gymnast * August 6 – Bryan Young (ice hockey), Bryan Young, Canadian ice hockey player * August 7 ** Altaír Jarabo, Mexican actress and model ** Paul Biedermann, German swimmer ** Nancy Sumari, Tanzanian beauty queen and model ** Shunji Igarashi, Japanese actor * August 8 ** Jackie Cruz, Dominican-American actress ** Peyton List (actress, born 1986), Peyton List, American actress ** Paula Forteza, French-Argentine politician * August 11 ** Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress ** Colby Rasmus, American baseball player * August 14 – Nigel Boogaard, Australian footballer * August 15 – Teddy Sinclair, English singer-songwriter * August 16 – Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player * August 17 – Tobias Schönenberg, German actor and photo model *

– Christina Perri, American pop and rock musician *

– Ryo Katsuji, Japanese actor and voice actor * August 21 ** Usain Bolt, Jamaican sprinter ** Brooks Wheelan, American actor, comedian and writer * August 22 ** Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese actress ** Neville (wrestler), Benjamin Satterley, English professional wrestler * August 23 ** Ayron Jones, American musician ** Neil Cicierega, American Internet artist ** Andra (singer), Andra, Romanian singer * August 26 ** Big K.R.I.T., American rapper ** Cassie Ventura, American singer, songwriter, model, actress and dancer ** Saint Jhn, Guyanese-American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer * August 27 – Sebastian Kurz, Austrian politician, 25th Chancellor of Austria * August 28 ** Briggs (rapper), Briggs, Australian rapper ** Armie Hammer, American actor ** Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier/hostage ** Florence Welch, British singer * August 29 ** Lea Michele, American actress, singer, and author ** Hajime Isayama, Japanese manga artist, and creator of Attack on Titan * August 30 – Ryan Ross, American guitarist *

** Melanie Schlanger, Australian freestyle swimmer ** Feng Tianwei, Singaporean table tennis player

September

Shaun White in 2018 181222-D-PB383-014 (46423162561) (cropped)

– Jean Sarkozy, French politician * September 2 ** Moses Ndiema Kipsiro, Ugandan middle-distance runner ** Stevan Faddy, Montenegrin singer * September 3 ** OMI (singer), OMI, Jamaican-born singer ** Shaun White, American professional snowboarder *

** Jaclyn Hales, American actress ** Xavier Woods, American professional wrestler *

- Francis Ngannou, Cameroonian Professional MMA Fighter *

- Charlie Daniels (footballer), Charlie Daniels, English footballer * September 8 – Jake Sandvig, American actor * September 9 – José Aldo, Brazilian mixed martial artist * September 10 ** Greg Garbowsky, American musician ** Ryuji Kamiyama, Japanese vocalist and actor ** Sarah Levy, Canadian actress **Carlos Paparoni, Venezuelan politician * September 12 ** Alfie Allen, English actor ** Yuto Nagatomo, Japanese footballer ** Emmy Rossum, American actress and singer ** Yang Mi, Chinese actress and singer *

– Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese professional racing driver * September 14 ** Ai Takahashi, Japanese singer ** Tinchy Stryder, Ghanaian musician * September 15 ** Jenna McCorkell, British figure skater ** Heidi Montag, American television personality * September 18 – Renaud Lavillenie, French pole vaulter * September 19 ** Mandy Musgrave, American actress ** Sally Pearson, Australian athlete ** Ilya Salmanzadeh, Swedish music producer ** Peter Vack, American actor, writer, director and producer * September 20 ** Aldis Hodge, American actor ** Diego Sinagra, Italian footballer * September 21 – Lindsey Stirling, American violinist, dancer, performance artist, and composer * September 24 ** Leah Dizon, American singer and model ** Eloise Mumford, American actress * September 26 ** Ashley Leggat, Canadian actress * September 27 – Natasha Thomas, Danish singer and songwriter * September 28 – Andrés Guardado, Mexican footballer * September 30 ** Cristián Zapata, Colombian footballer ** Olivier Giroud, French footballer ** Ki Hong Lee, Korean-American actor

October

Emilia Clarke by Gage Skidmore 2 (cropped)

** Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (d. 2021) ** Jurnee Smollett, American actress * October 2 ** Kiko Casilla, Spanish footballer ** Camilla Belle, Brazilian-American actress, director, writer and producer *

– Joonas Suotamo, Finnish basketball player and actor * October 5 – Novica Veličković, Serbian basketball player * October 6 ** Luisa D'Oliveira, Canadian actress ** Tereza Kerndlová, Czech singer ** Olivia Thirlby, American actress * October 7 ** Holland Roden, American actress ** Amber Stevens West, American actress and model *

**Blagoy Ivanov, Bulgarian mixed martial artist ** Laure Manaudou, French swimmer *

** Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1986), Lucy Griffiths, English actress ** Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player * October 12 ** Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist (d. 2020) ** Tyler Blackburn, American actor, singer and model * October 13 – Gabby Agbonlahor, English footballer * October 14 ** Wesley Matthews, American basketball player ** Iveta Mukuchyan, Armenian singer, model and actress ** Skyler Shaye, American actress * October 15 ** Ali Fazal, Indian actor ** Paul Walter Hauser, American actor ** Lee Donghae, Korean singer *

** Franco Armani, Argentine footballer ** Craig Pickering, English sprinter ** Inna, Romanian singer * October 17 - Mohombi, Congolese-Swedish urban singer-songwriter and dancer * October 18 – Loukas Giorkas, Greek-Cypriot singer and model * October 20 – Elyse Taylor, Australian model *

** Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist (d. 2013) ** Christopher von Uckermann, Mexican-Swedish singer, songwriter and actor *

** Chancellor (musician), Chancellor, American musician ** Kyle Gallner, American actor ** Kara Lang, Canadian footballer * October 23 ** Emilia Clarke, English actress ** Jessica Stroup, American actress and fashion model ** LoLa Monroe, American rapper, model and actress * October 24 ** Drake (musician), Drake, Canadian actor and hip-hop rapper ** Nobuhiko Okamoto, Japanese voice actor and singer ** John Ruddy, English footballer * October 25 – Chiquito do Carmo, Chiquito Felipe do Carmo, East Timorese football player *

** Alba Flores, Spanish actress ** Erica Dasher, American actress ** Inbar Lavi, Israeli actress * October 28 **May Calamawy, Egyptian-Palestinian actress **Tamar Kaprelian, Armenian-American musician and singer *

** Italia Ricci, Canadian actress ** Derek Theler, American actor *

** Thomas Morgenstern, Austrian Olympic ski jumper ** Hiba Abouk, Spanish-Tunisian actress

November

– Penn Badgley, American actor and musician *

** Davon Jefferson, American basketball player ** Jasmine Trias, Filipino singer ** Heo Young-Saeng, South Korean singer ** Joseline Hernandez, Puerto Rican reality television personality, rapper, and actress * November 4 ** Alexz Johnson, Canadian actress and singer ** Angelica Panganiban, Filipino-American actress and comedian * November 5 ** Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer ** Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer *

– Katie Leclerc, American actress * November 7 – James Ferraro, American musician and contemporary artist * November 8 – Aaron Swartz, American programmer (d. 2013) * November 10 ** Andy Mientus, American actor, singer, composer and writer ** Josh Peck, American actor and director ** Samuel Wanjiru, Kenyan athlete (d. 2011) * November 11 ** François Trinh-Duc, French rugby player ** Greta Salóme Stefánsdóttir, Icelandic singer and violinist ** Radhika Kumaraswamy, Indian actress ** Rafael de la Fuente, Venezuelan actor and singer * November 12 – Evan Yo, Taiwanese singer-songwriter *November 13 - Kevin Bridges, Scottish stand-up comedian * November 14 ** Cory Michael Smith, American actor ** Yuna (singer), Yuna, Malaysian singer, songwriter, and businesswoman * November 15 ** Winston Duke, Tobagonian actor ** Sania Mirza, Indian tennis player * November 17 ** Karmichael Hunt, New Zealand-Australian sportsperson ** Nani (footballer), Nani, Cape Verde-born Portuguese footballer ** Greg Rutherford, British athlete ** Alexis Vastine, French boxer (d. 2015) * November 20 ** Ashley Fink, American actress and singer ** Lee Gye-deok, South Korean singer and activist ** Oliver Sykes, English musician and vocalist of Bring Me the Horizon * November 21 – Sam Palladio, British actor and musician * November 22 ** Oscar Pistorius, South African Paralympic runner ** Sebastián Zurita, Mexican actor * November 23 – Alejandro Alfaro, Spanish footballer * November 24 ** Jimmy Graham, American football player ** Pedro León, Spanish soccer player ** Mohamed Massaquoi, American football player ** Guðmundur Pétursson, Icelandic soccer player ** Micaela Vázquez, Argentine actress * November 25 – Katie Cassidy, American singer and model * November 26 – Kanae Ito, Japanese voice actress * November 27 – Suresh Raina, Indian cricket player * November 28 ** Pamela Bianca Manalo, Filipina beauty queen and actress ** Johnny Simmons, American actor

December

Andrew Tate on 'Anything Goes With James English' in 2021

Ana Breco at a Pantene event in January 2015

Kit harrington by sachyn mital (cropped 2)

Ellie Goulding - Global Citizen Festival Hamburg 07

* December 1 – DeSean Jackson, American football player *

– Martell Webster, American basketball player * December 8 ** Amir Khan (boxer), Amir Khan, British boxer ** Kate Voegele, American singer-songwriter and actress * December 11 ** Alex House, Canadian actor ** Lee Peltier, English footballer ** Condola Rashād, American actress *

- Andrew Tate, American-British Internet personality and former professional kickboxer * December 15 ** Radosław Majewski, Polish footballer ** Xiah, Korean singer * December 17 – Emma Bell, American actress * December 18 – Jery Sandoval, Colombian actress, model and singer *

** Calvin Andrew, English footballer ** Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer * December 22 – Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Nigerian terrorist * December 24 ** Ana Brenda Contreras, Mexican actress and singer ** Satomi Ishihara, Japanese actress * December 26 ** Joe Alexander, American-Israeli basketball player ** Mew Azama, Japanese actress ** Kit Harington, British actor * December 27 ** Jamaal Charles, American football player ** Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Jamaican sprinter * December 29 – Kim Ok-bin, South Korean actress and model * December 30 ** Ellie Goulding, British singer ** Max Walker (actor), Max Walker, Canadian actor ** Jeff Ward (actor), Jeff Ward, American actor ** Gina Azzi (author), Gina Azzi, American author

Deaths

January

Christopher Isherwood en route to China, 1938

Jaroslav Seifert 1981 foto Hana Hamplová

* January 4 ** Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904) ** Phil Lynott, Irish musician, lead singer and bassist (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949) * January 5 – Ilmari Salminen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1902) * January 6 – Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903) * January 7 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b. 1917) * January 10 – Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) * January 12 – Juan Carlos Corazzo, Uruguayan football player (b. 1907) * January 13 – Abdul Fattah Ismail, Leader of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) (b. 1939) * January 14 – Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921) * January 16 – Herbert W. Armstrong, founded the Worldwide Church of God (b. 1892) * January 17 – Abdul Majid Kubar, 4th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1909) * January 23 – Willard Van Dyke, American filmmaker and photographer (b. 1906) *

** Victor Crutchley, British admiral (b. 1893) ** L. Ron Hubbard, American writer and founder of Scientology (b. 1911) ** Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (b. 1921) * January 27 ** Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical sitarist (b. 1931) ** Lilli Palmer, German actress (b. 1914) *

– In the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, ''Challenger'' disaster: ** Gregory Jarvis, American astronaut (b. 1944) **

, American astronaut and teacher (b. 1948) ** Ronald McNair, American astronaut (b. 1950) ** Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (b. 1946) ** Judith Resnik, American astronaut (b. 1949) ** Dick Scobee, American astronaut (b. 1939) ** Michael J. Smith (astronaut), Michael J. Smith, American astronaut (b. 1945) *

– Leif Erickson (actor), Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)

February

* February 1 ** Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, diplomat, and writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1902) ** Ida Rhodes, American mathematician, pioneer in computer programming (b. 1900) *

** Minoru Yamasaki, Japanese architect, designed the twin towers of the World Trade Center (1973–2001), World Trade Center (b. 1912) ** Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist, and politician (b. 1923) *

– Brian Aherne, British actor (b. 1902) * February 11 – Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920) * February 14 – Edmund Rubbra, British composer (b. 1901) *

– Howard Da Silva, American actor (b. 1909) * February 17 ** Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1895) ** Paul Stewart (actor), Paul Stewart, American actor (b. 1908) * February 19 ** Francisco Mignone, Brazilian classical music (b. 1897) ** Barry Seal, American smuggler of drugs and arms, aircraft pilot, and money launderer and former Trans World Airlines, Trans Worlds Airlines pilot (b. 1939) ** Adolfo Celi, Italian actor and director (b. 1922) * February 20 – Bert Schneider (boxer), Bert Schneider, Canadian boxer (b. 1897) * February 21 – Mart Stam, Dutch architect (b. 1899) * February 24 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of medicare" in Canada (b. 1904) * February 25 – Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (b. 1927) * February 27 – Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929) * February 28 – Olof Palme, Swedish politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)

March

James cagney promo photo (cropped, centered)

* March 4 ** Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943) ** Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936) * March 6 ** Adolph Caesar, American actor (b. 1933) ** Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887) ** Zhu Guangqian, Chinese esthetician, modern literary theorist, and famous scholar (b.1897) * March 10 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor and director (b. 1907) *

– Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician, 20 July Plotter (b. 1906) *

– Miguel Darío Miranda y Gómez, Mexican Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1895) * March 17 – John Bagot Glubb, British soldier (b. 1897) * March 18 – Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914) * March 19 – Jon Lormer, American actor (b. 1906) * March 22 ** Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903) ** Martin Harlinghausen, German air force general (b. 1902) * March 23 ** Moshe Feinstein, Orthodox rabbi (b. 1895) ** Anastasia Zuyeva (actress), Anastasia Zuyeva, Soviet actress (b. 1896) * March 24 – Michael, Prince of Montenegro (b. 1908) * March 28 – Virginia Gilmore, American actress (b. 1919) * March 29 – Ritz Brothers, Harry Ritz, American actor (b. 1907) * March 30 – James Cagney, American actor and dancer (b. 1899) * March 31 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (b. 1925)

April

– Erik Bruhn, Danish danseur and choreographer (b. 1928) * April 3 – Peter Pears, Sir Peter Pears, English tenor (b.

) * April 7 – Leonid Kantorovich, Russian economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912) * April 8 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967) *

– Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908) *

** Jean Genet, French writer (b.

) ** Tim McIntire, American actor (b. 1944) ** Robert Marjolin, French economist and politician, 1st OECD, Secretary-General of the OECD (b. 1911) *

** Paul Costello, American Olympic rower – double sculls (b. 1894) ** Marcel Dassault, French aircraft industrialist (b. 1892) ** Bessie Head, South African writer (b. 1937) * April 19 – Alvin Childress, American actor (b. 1907) * April 20 – Aleksei Arbuzov, Soviet playwright (b. 1908) * April 21 – Teodoro Casana Robles, Peruvian lawyer, historian, journalist, archaeologist, photographer and geographer (b. 1900) * April 22 – Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (b. 1907) * April 23 ** Harold Arlen, American music composer (b. 1905) ** Jim Laker, English cricketer (b. 1922) ** Otto Preminger, Austrian-American film director (b. 1905) * April 24 – Wallis Simpson, The Duchess of Windsor (b. 1896) *

** Broderick Crawford, American actor (b. 1911) ** Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898) ** Hermann Gmeiner, Austrian educator (b. 1919) ** Valery Khodemchuk, Soviet engineer, working at Chernobyl reactor 4 (b. 1951) * April 27 – J. Allen Hynek, American ufologist (b.

) * April 30 – Robert Stevenson (director), Robert Stevenson, English film director (b. 1905)

May

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– Henri Toivonen, Finnish rally car driver (b. 1956) * May 3 – Robert Alda, American actor (b. 1914) * May 7 – Herma Szabo, Austrian figure skater (b. 1902) * May 9 ** Herschel Bernardi, American actor (b. 1923) ** Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese sherpa (b. 1914) * May 11 ** Vladimir Pravik, Soviet firefighter (b. 1962) ** Aleksandr Akimov, Soviet engineer who was the shift supervisor during the events of the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1953) *

** Elisabeth Bergner, Austrian actress (b. 1897) ** Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist (b. 1885) * May 13 – Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter who responded to the Chernobyl disaster (b. 1961) * May 15 ** Elio de Angelis, Italian race car driver (b. 1958) ** Theodore White, American writer (b. 1915) * May 20 – Helen B. Taussig, American cardiologist (b. 1898) *

** Sterling Hayden, American actor (b. 1916) ** Altiero Spinelli, Italian political theorist and European federalist (b. 1907) * May 24 – Yakima Canutt, American actor and stuntman (b. 1895) *

– Chester Bowles, American politician (b. 1901) * May 26 – Gian-Carlo Coppola, American film producer (b. 1963) * May 28 – Lurene Tuttle, American actress (b. 1907) * May 30 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer (b. 1940) * May 31 – James Rainwater, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)

June

* June 3 – Dame Anna Neagle, English actress (b. 1904) * June 5 – Bryan Grant, American tennis champion (b. 1909) * June 11 – Chesley Bonestell, American painter (b. 1888) * June 13 – Benny Goodman, American jazz musician (b. 1909) *

** Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (b. 1918) ** Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer (b. 1899) * June 16 – Maurice Duruflé, French composer (b. 1902) * June 17 – Kate Smith, American singer (b. 1907) * June 19 ** Len Bias, American basketball player (b. 1963) ** Coluche, stage name of Michel Colucci, French comedian and humorist (b. 1944) * June 23 – Moses Finley, Sir Moses Finley, British classicist (b. 1912) * June 26 – Kunio Maekawa, Japanese architect (b. 1905) * June 27 – Don Rogers (safety), Don Rogers, American football player (b. 1962) * June 28 – Mary Anderson (actress, born 1897), Mary Anderson, American actress (b. 1897)

July

* July 3 – Rudy Vallée, American singer, actor, and bandleader (b. 1901) *

– Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician (b. 1899) * July 6 – Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908) * July 8 – Hyman G. Rickover, American admiral (b. 1900) * July 14 – Raymond Loewy, French-born industrial designer (b. 1893) * July 18 ** Buddy Baer, American boxer and actor (b. 1915) ** Stanley Rous, English administrator, 6th President of FIFA (b. 1895) * July 19 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902) * July 22 – Floyd Gottfredson, American cartoonist (b. 1905) * July 24 ** Fritz Albert Lipmann, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) ** Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1903) * July 25 ** Ted Lyons, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1900) ** Vincente Minnelli, American film director (b. 1903) * July 26 – W. Averell Harriman, American diplomat and politician (b. 1891) * July 31 ** Patriarch Iustin of Romania (b.

) ** Teddy Wilson, American jazz pianist (b. 1912) ** Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat and humanitarian who saved Jewish WWII refugees (b. 1900)

August

* August 2 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer (b. 1927) * August 6 – Emilio Fernández, Mexican film director, actor and screenwriter (b. 1904) * August 11 – Chuck McKinley, American tennis champion (b. 1941) * August 18 – Harun Babunagari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and educationist (b. 1902) *

– Hermione Baddeley, British actress (b. 1906) *

– Thad Jones, American jazz musician (b. 1923) * August 22 – Celâl Bayar, Turkish politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Turkey and President of Turkey (b. 1883) * August 23 – Mikhail Kuznetsov (actor), Mikhail Kuznetsov, Soviet actor (b. 1918) * August 24 – Harry Benjamin, American endocrinologist and sexologist (b. 1885)Harry Benjamin American endocrinologist and sexologist
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** Henry Moore, British sculptor (b. 1898) ** Urho Kekkonen, Finnish politician, 21st Prime Minister of Finland and 8th President of Finland (b. 1900) ** Jorge Alessandri, Chilean engineer, entrepreneur and politician, 27th President of Chile (b. 1896)

September

– Murray Hamilton, American actor (b. 1923) * September 3 – Vittorino Veronese, Italian lawyer and international servant, 4th Director-General of

(b.

) *

– Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1911) *

– Blanche Sweet, American actress (b. 1896) *

– Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Sultan of Brunei (b. 1914) * September 11 ** Jacques Henri Lartigue, French painter (b. 1894) ** Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek author and politician, 164th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1902) ** Henry DeWolf Smyth, American physicist (b. 1898) * September 18 – Pat Phoenix, English actress (b. 1923) * September 22 – József Asbóth, Hungarian tennis champion (b. 1917) * September 23 – Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield, Austro-Hungarian naval aeroplane pilot in the First World War (b. 1890) * September 25 – Nikolay Semyonov, Russian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1896) * September 26 – Noboru Terada, Japanese Olympic swimmer (b. 1917) * September 27 – Cliff Burton, American musician and songwriter (b. 1962) * September 28 – Robert Helpmann, Australian actor, dancer and choreographer (b. 1909) * September 29 – Prince George Valdemar of Denmark (b. 1920)

October

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* October 4 – Arno von Lenski, German military officer and general (b. 1893) * October 5 ** Hal B. Wallis, American film producer (b. 1898) ** James H. Wilkinson, British mathematician (b. 1919) *

– Michele Pellegrino, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1903) *

– Georges Dumézil, French philologist and historian (b. 1898) * October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916) *

– Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921) *

–

, Mozambican military commander, politician and revolutionary, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933) *

– Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (b. 1911) *

– Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1893) * October 23 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1893) * October 25 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919) *

– Jackson Scholz, American Olympic athlete (b. 1897) * October 31 – Robert S. Mulliken, American physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (b. 1896)

November

* November 2 – Paul Frees, American actor, comedian (b. 1920) * November 4 – Abdallah El-Yafi, Lebanese politician, 9th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1901) * November 5 – Claude Jutra, Canadian film director (b. 1930) *

– Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911) * November 7 - Tracy Pew Australian musician (b. 1957) * November 8 ** Artur London, Czech statesman (b. 1915) ** Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician (b. 1890) * November 11 – Roger C. Carmel, American actor (b. 1932) * November 15 – Alexandre Tansman, French composer and virtuoso pianist (b. 1897) * November 16 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (b. 1923) *

– Gia Carangi, American supermodel (b. 1960) * November 21 ** Jerry Colonna (entertainer), Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904) ** Dar Robinson, American stunt performer and actor (b. 1947) * November 22 ** Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b.

) ** Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (b. 1921) * November 29 – Cary Grant, English actor (b. 1904)

December

* December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (b. 1917) * December 8 – Anatoly Marchenko, Soviet dissident and author (b. 1938) * December 10 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927) * December 12 – Paul Verner, German politician (b. 1911) * December 13 ** Heather Angel (actress), Heather Angel, British-born American actress (b. 1909) ** Ella Baker, American civil rights activist (b. 1903) *

– Antal Páger (actor), Antal Páger, Hungarian actor (b. 1899) * December 15 – Serge Lifar, Soviet dancer and choreographer (b. 1905) * December 17 ** Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925) ** Wanis al-Qaddafi, Libyan politician, 10th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1924) * December 21 – Willy Coppens, Belgian pilot (b. 1892) * December 24 ** Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911) ** Richard van der Riet Woolley, English astronomer (b. 1906) * December 26 – Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (b. 1902) * December 29 ** Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) ** Pietro Parente, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1891) ** Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian filmmaker, writer, and film theorist (b. 1932) *

– Lloyd Haynes, American actor (b. 1934)

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* D.R. Kaprekar, Indian recreational mathematician (b. 1905)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Polanyi * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Stanley Cohen (biochemist), Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Wole Soyinka * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Elie Wiesel * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – James M. Buchanan

References

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