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

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Events

January

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gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the

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. **

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and

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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 Muhamma ...

– 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 ...

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, Australia, at this time the world's longest

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free- cantilever bridge, is opened. *

January 13 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing ...

– 24 –

South Yemen Civil War The South Yemen Civil War, colloquially referred to as The Events of '86 or The Events of January 13, or more simply as The Events, was a failed coup d'etat and armed conflict which took place on January 13, 1986 in South Yemen. The civil war ...

. *

January 20 Events Pre-1600 * 250 – Pope Fabian is martyred during the Decian persecution. * 649 – King Chindasuinth, at the urging of bishop Braulio of Zaragoza, crowns his son Recceswinth as co-ruler of the Visigothic Kingdom. * 1156 &ndas ...

– The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the

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. *

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

– 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'', on a ...

space probe makes its first encounter with

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. *

January 25 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty ...

–

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

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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 ...

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

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 o ...

– Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster –

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: 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, ruler o ...

–

is sworn in as President of

February

February 3 Events Pre-1600 * 1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. *1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. *1488 – ...

** Pixar is founded by John Lasseter along with

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. *

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 F ...

("Baby Doc") flees

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, ending 28 years of family rule. ** The snap presidential election in the Philippines earlier announced by President

Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...

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 Demonstration (people), demonstrations in the Philippines, mostly in Metro Manila, from February 22 to 25, 1986. There was a ...

. *

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 train heading westbound collides with a Via Rail train in Hinton, Alberta; 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 hel ...

– Halley's Comet 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, sparkin ...

– The Maxi Trial ( Italian: ''Maxiprocesso'') begins in the bunker room of the Ucciardone prison (

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). It will be the largest trial against the

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. *

February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

– Human rights activist Natan Sharansky is released by

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authorities and leaves the country for

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. *

February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tiberi ...

– The

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makes its

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. *

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

** The Soviet liner sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. **

Ouadi Doum air raid The Ouadi Doum airstrike was carried out by French aircraft on 16 February 1986, against the Libyan airbase of Ouadi Doum in northern Chad, during the Chadian–Libyan conflict. The raid was significant in that it demonstrated French resolve ...

: The

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raids the Libyan Ouadi Doum airbase in northern

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. ** Mário Soares wins the second round of the Portuguese presidential election. *

February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons of ...

– The

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is signed. *

February 19 Events Pre-1600 * 197 – Emperor Septimius Severus defeats usurper Clodius Albinus in the Battle of Lugdunum, the bloodiest battle between Roman armies. * 356 – The anti-paganism policy of Constantius II forbids the worship of pagan ...

** The

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launches the '' Mir''

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. ** The

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approves a treaty outlawing

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. *

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 Ferdina ...

– The

begins in the

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to remove President

from office. *

February 25 Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. ...

** 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 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet politician who served as the 8th and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to dissolution of the Soviet Union, the country's dissolution in 1991. He served a ...

introduces the keywords of his mandate to the audience:

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and

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. **

: President

of the

is ousted from power and goes into exile in Hawaii after 21 years of dictatorial rule;

Corazon Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; ; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People P ...

becomes the first Filipino woman president and forms an interim government with Salvador Laurel becoming her

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and

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. ** A three-day riot begins in

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when around 25,000 conscripts of the Central Security Forces (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 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantinople ...

– The

allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis. *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. *1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed on ...

–

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on his way home from the cinema in

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March

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

–

's deputy

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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 &nd ...

– 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 diffr ...

invented the previous year by Gerd Binnig,

Calvin Quate Calvin Forrest Quate (December 7, 1923 – July 6, 2019) was one of the inventors of the atomic force microscope. He was a professor emeritus of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Education He earned his bachelo ...

and Christopher Berger. * March 8 – The Japanese Suisei probe flies by Halley's Comet, 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 – ...

–

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 ''

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''; the bodies of all seven

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s 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

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USS ''Yorktown'' and the

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USS ''Caron'', claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet

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near the southern Crimean Peninsula. *

March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. * 1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguen ...

–

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, Washing ...

Corporation holds its

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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 – Odoa ...

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

March 25 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...

– 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

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, with '' Out of Africa'' winning Best Picture. * March 26 – An article in ''

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'' charges that Kurt Waldheim, former

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

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war crimes during World War II. * March 27 –

Russell Street Bombing The Russell Street bombing was the 27 March 1986 bombing of the Russell Street Police Headquarters complex in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The explosion killed Angela Rose Taylor, the first Australian policewoman to be killed in the line ...

: A

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explodes at

Russell Street Police Headquarters Russell Street Police Headquarters in Melbourne, on the north-eastern corner of Russell and La Trobe Streets, was well known as the headquarters of the Victoria Police through the second half of the 20th century, and was often referred to simpl ...

in Russell Street, Melbourne, killing a woman constable, the first Australian policewoman to be killed in the line of duty. *

March 31 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine the Great, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian. *1146 – Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at V� ...

–

Mexicana Flight 940 Mexicana may refer to: * a woman born in Mexico * Mexicana de Aviación Compañía Mexicana de Aviación, S.A. de C.V. (usually shortened to Mexicana de Aviación or simply Mexicana) was Mexico's oldest airline and one of the List of airli ...

crashes near Maravatío, Mexico, killing 167.

April

* April – The government of

Ivory Coast Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...

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 Kom ...

–

Sector Kanda Sector Kanda ( ne, सेक्टर काण्ड, 'Sector Incident') is the name given to a failed attempt to launch an armed uprising in Nepal in 1986. It was organized by the Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal), one of the precursors of the ...

: Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in

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, 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. Jo ...

– A bomb explodes on a

Trans World Airlines Trans World Airlines (TWA) was a major American airline which operated from 1930 until 2001. It was formed as Transcontinental & Western Air to operate a route from New York City to Los Angeles via St. Louis, Kansas City, and other stops, with F ...

flight from Rome to Athens, killing 4 people. *

April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his a ...

1986 Berlin discotheque bombing On 5 April 1986, three people were killed and 229 injured when ''La Belle'' discothèque was bombed in the Friedenau district of West Berlin. The entertainment venue was commonly frequented by United States soldiers, and two of the dead and 79 ...

: 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 Egypt–Libya bo ...

is held responsible. * April 11 – The infamous FBI shootout in Miami results in the death of two FBI agents and the wounding of five others. *

April 13 Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...

–

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 Great Synagogue of Rome ( it, Tempio Maggiore di Roma) is the largest synagogue in Rome. History The Jewish community of Rome goes back to the 2nd century B.C when the Roman Republic had an alliance of sorts with Judea under the leadership ...

, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue. *

– The first child born to a non-related surrogate mother 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 ...

– Hailstones weighing fall on Gopalganj District, Bangladesh, killing 92. * April 15 – Operation El Dorado Canyon: At least 15 people die after United States planes bomb targets in the Libyan capital,

Tripoli Tripoli or Tripolis may refer to: Cities and other geographic units Greece *Tripoli, Greece, the capital of Arcadia, Greece * Tripolis (region of Arcadia), a district in ancient Arcadia, Greece * Tripolis (Larisaia), an ancient Greek city in ...

, and the

Benghazi Benghazi () , ; it, Bengasi; tr, Bingazi; ber, Bernîk, script=Latn; also: ''Bengasi'', ''Benghasi'', ''Banghāzī'', ''Binghāzī'', ''Bengazi''; grc, Βερενίκη (''Berenice'') and ''Hesperides''., group=note (''lit. Son of he Ghazi ...

region. * April 16 – The United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands sign a peace treaty, thus ending the

Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War ( nl, Driehonderdvijfendertigjarige Oorlog, kw, Bell a dri hans pymthek warn ugens) was an alleged state of war between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly (located off the southwest coast of Gr ...

, 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: 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 Phil ...

) and three others are killed in retaliation for the bombing of Libya. ** The

Hindawi affair The Hindawi affair was a failed attempt to bomb El Al Flight 016, from London to Tel Aviv in April 1986 by Nezar Nawwaf al-Mansur al-Hindawi ( ar, نزار نواف منصور الهنداوي, born 1954), a Jordanian citizen. On the morning of ...

begins when an Irishwoman is found carrying explosives onto an El Al 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 G ...

. ** 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 The Isles of Scilly (; kw, Syllan, ', or ) is an archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, England. One of the islands, St Agnes, is the most southerly point in Britain, being over further south than the most southerly point of the ...

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 Corbridge by a group led by his ealdormen, Ealdred and Wada. The ''patrician'' Osbald is crowned, but abdicates within 27 days. * 1428 – Peace of Ferrara betw ...

– Titan 34D-9 explodes just after launch while carrying the final KH-9 satellite. *

April 21 Events Pre-1600 *753 BC – Romulus founds Rome ( traditional date). * 43 BC – Battle of Mutina: Mark Antony is again defeated in battle by Aulus Hirtius, who is killed. Antony fails to capture Mutina and Decimus Brutus is murdered ...

–

Lorimar-Telepictures Lorimar-Telepictures Corporation was an entertainment company established in 1985 with the merger of Lorimar Productions, Inc. and Telepictures Corporation. Headquartered at the former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (now Sony Pictures Studios) ...

launches as a mass media company. * April 26 –

Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. It is one of only two nuc ...

: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat,

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 R ...

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

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

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 – 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 annivers ...

Hirohito Emperor , commonly known in English-speaking countries by his personal name , was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kōjun, had two sons and five daughters; he was ...

is held at the Kokugikan in Tokyo.

May

* May 2 –

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 Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs a ...

– Óscar Arias 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 President of C ...

. * May 12 – NBC unveils its current

peacock logo The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) has used several corporate logos over the course of its history. The first logo was used in 1926 when the radio network began operations. Its most famous logo, the Peafowl, peacock, was first used in 1956 ...

at the finale of its 60th anniversary special. *

May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. *1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1364 ...

** 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 Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldes ...

releases ''

Top Gun ''Top Gun'' is a 1986 American action drama film directed by Tony Scott, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an a ...

''. * May 23 – Somali President

Siad Barre Mohamed Siad Barre ( so, Maxamed Siyaad Barre, Osmanya script: ; ar, محمد سياد بري; c. 1910 – 2 January 1995) was a Somali head of state and general who served as the 3rd president of the Somali Democratic Republic from 1969 to 199 ...

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 List of cities in Somalia by population, most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port ...

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 dictatorship, military junta wh ...

. * May 25 ** ''

Hands Across America Hands Across America was a public fundraising event on Sunday, May 25, 1986, when 5 to 6.5 million people held hands for 15 minutes in an attempt to form a continuous human chain across the contiguous United States. The attempt to have a co ...

'': 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 Dist ...

, 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 A storm surge, storm flood, tidal surge, or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low-pressure weather systems, such as cyclones. It is measured as the rise in water level above the n ...

flood barrier A flood barrier, surge barrier or storm surge barrier is a specific type of floodgate, designed to prevent a storm surge or spring tide from flooding the protected area behind the barrier. A surge barrier is almost always part of a larger flood p ...

, is completed in the Netherlands. * June 4 –

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 tangibl ...

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 provinces ...

– Former

Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria. * June 9 – The

Rogers Commission The Rogers Commission Report was written by a Presidential Commission charged with investigating the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster during its 10th mission, STS-51-L. The report, released and submitted to President Ronald Reagan on Jun ...

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 southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

declares a nationwide state of emergency. * June 14 –

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 – 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 FI ...

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 Events Pre-1600 * 229 – Sun Quan proclaims himself emperor of Eastern Wu. * 1266 – War of Saint Sabas: In the Battle of Trapani, the Venetians defeat a larger Genoese fleet, capturing all its ships. * 1280 – The Spanish Re ...

– Eric Thomas develops

LISTSERV The term Listserv (styled by the registered trademark licensee, L-Soft International, Inc., as LISTSERV) has been used to refer to electronic mailing list software applications in general, but is more properly applied to a few early instances of ...

, 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 Association football, 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-tea ...

in Estadio Azteca in

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

July

* July 2 –

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 uni ...

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 film, mystery adventur ...

''. *

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 proclaim ...

– The

Statue of Liberty The Statue of Liberty (''Liberty Enlightening the World''; French: ''La Liberté éclairant le monde'') is a List of colossal sculpture in situ, colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor in New York City, in the U ...

is reopened to the public after celebrating its centennial and an extensive refurbishment. * July 7 – Australian drug smugglers Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers are executed 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, abd ...

– The New Zealand

Homosexual Law Reform Act The Homosexual Law Reform Act 1986 is a New Zealand law that broadly legalised consensual sex between men as well as anal sex between any parties including opposite-sex partners. It removed the provisions of the Crimes Act 1961 that criminalise ...

decriminalizes consensual sex between men from the age of 16. * July 23 – In London,

Prince Andrew, Duke of York Prince Andrew, Duke of York, (Andrew Albert Christian Edward; born 19 February 1960) is a member of the British royal family. He is the younger brother of King Charles III and the third child and second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince ...

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 United ...

August

August 6 Events Pre-1600 *1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. * 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ...

** 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

New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ...

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 Australia ...

leader

Don Chipp Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 192528 August 2006) was an Australian politician who was the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats, leading the party from 1977 to 1986. He began his career as a member of the Liberal Party, winning el ...

retires from federal parliament and is succeeded by

Janine Haines Janine Winton Haines, AM (née Carter; 8 May 1945 – 20 November 2004) was an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 1977 to 1978 and again from 1981 to 1990. She represented the Australian Democrats, and served as t ...

, the first woman to lead a political party in Australia. *

August 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs. * 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdan ...

– 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 Phil ...

, going on to become one of the longest-lived tropical cyclones 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 Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

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 – In

Edmond, Oklahoma Edmond is a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area in the central part of the state. The population was 94,428 according to the 2020 United States Census, making it the fifth largest cit ...

United States Postal Service The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the U ...

employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his coworkers before committing

suicide Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Mental disorders (including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders), physical disorders (such as chronic fatigue syndrome), and s ...

. *

August 21 Events Pre-1600 * 959 – Eraclus becomes the 25th bishop of Liège. * 1140 – Song dynasty general Yue Fei defeats an army led by Jin dynasty general Wuzhu at the Battle of Yancheng during the Jin–Song Wars. *1169 – Battle o ...

– The Lake Nyos disaster, a limnic eruption, 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 ** 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, Roma ...

and sinks almost immediately, killing 398. ** Aeroméxico Flight 498, a Douglas DC-9, collides with a

Piper PA-28 The Piper PA-28 Cherokee is a family of two-seat or four-seat light aircraft built by Piper Aircraft and designed for flight training, air taxi and personal use.Plane and Pilot: ''1978 Aircraft Directory'', pages 62–64. Werner & Werner Corp, ...

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

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

, 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

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 Ancon ...

–

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 state-supported university located on the ou ...

is established in Jordan. * September 4 – Eusko Alkartasuna, the Basque Social Democratic Party, is created in

Vitoria-Gasteiz es, vitoriano, vitoriana, , population_density_km2 = auto , blank_name_sec1 = Official language(s) , blank_info_sec1 = Spanish, Basque , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

. * September 5 –

Pan Am Flight 73 Pan Am Flight 73 was a Pan American World Airways flight from Bombay, India, to New York, United States with scheduled stops in Karachi, Pakistan and Frankfurt, West Germany. On September 5, 1986, the Boeing 747-121 serving the flight was hijack ...

, with 358 people on board, is hijacked at

Karachi International Airport Jinnah International Airport ( ur, جناح بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈا) , formerly Drigh Road Airport or Karachi Civil Airport, is Pakistan's busiest international and domestic airport, and handled 7,267,582 passengers in 2017� ...

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 Palestinians, Palestinian splinter group more commonly known as the Abu Nidal ...

terrorists. * September 6 ** The

Big Mac Index The Big Mac Index is a price index published since 1986 by ''The Economist'' as an informal way of measuring the purchasing power parity (PPP) between two currencies and providing a test of the extent to which market exchange rates result i ...

is introduced in ''

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'' newspaper as a semi-humorous international measure of

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. ** In

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, two

terrorists kill 22 and wound 6 inside the

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during

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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 Cru ...

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becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa. **

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an dictator Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt by the FPMR; 5 of Pinochet's bodyguards are killed. * September 13 – 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 Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Pompey disembarks at Pelusium upon arriving in Egypt, whereupon he is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII. * 235 – Pope Pontian resigns. He is exiled to the mines of Sardinia, along with Hippolytus ...

– The

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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 Legi ...

in the new generation to challenge

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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 – U.S. President

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signs the

Goldwater–Nichols Act The Goldwater–Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of October 4, 1986 , (signed by President Ronald Reagan), made the most sweeping changes to the United States Department of Defense since the department was established in the ...

into law, making official the largest reorganization of the

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since the

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was made a separate branch of service in

1947 It was the first year of the Cold War, which would last until 1991, ending with the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Events January * January–February – Winter of 1946–47 in the United Kingdom: The worst snowfall in the country in ...

. * October 3 –

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 1 ...

, a superconducting cyclotron, 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 ** United States District Court Judge

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becomes the fifth federal official to be removed from office through

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. ** News Corporation completes its acquisition of the Metromedia group of companies, thereby launching the

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. ** '' The Phantom of the Opera'', the longest running Broadway show in history, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre in London. * October 10 – The 5.7 San Salvador earthquake shook

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with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to 1,500 people were killed. * October 11– 12 –

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and Soviet leader

meet in Reykjavík,

Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...

, to continue discussions about scaling back their intermediate

missile In military terminology, a missile is a guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor. Missiles are thus also called guided missiles or guided rockets (when a previously unguided rocket i ...

arsenals in Europe, which end in failure. * October 16 – The

International Olympic Committee The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...

chooses Albertville, France to be the host city of the

1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...

and

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

, Spain to be the host city of the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

. 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 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

. * October 19 – Mozambican President

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's plane crashes in South Africa. * October 21 – The

Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands ( mh, Ṃajeḷ), officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands ( mh, Aolepān Aorōkin Ṃajeḷ),'' () is an independent island country and microstate near the Equator in the Pacific Ocean, slightly west of the Internati ...

became an associated state under the Compact of Free Association. * October 22 – In New York City, WNBC Radio's traffic helicopter crashes into the

Hudson River The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York. It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between N ...

, killing traffic reporter

Jane Dornacker Jane Carroll Dornacker (October 1, 1947 – October 22, 1986) was an American rock musician, actress, comedian and traffic reporter. She gained fame as a comedian, actor, dancer and as an associate and songwriter for the San Francisco rock band ...

. The last words heard on-the-air are Dornacker's screams of terror, "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!" * October 26 ** Bus deregulation 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

New York Mets The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major league ...

win 4 games to 3 in the

1986 World Series The 1986 World Series was the World Series, championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1986 Major League Baseball season, 1986 season. The 83rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff played between the National Lea ...

against the

Boston Red Sox The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight ...

. * October 29 – British

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officially opens the

M25 Motorway The M25 or London Orbital Motorway is a major road encircling most of Greater London. The motorway is one of the most important roads in the UK and one of the busiest. Margaret Thatcher opened the final section in 1986, making the M25 the lon ...

, which encircles

Greater London Greater may refer to: *Greatness, the state of being great *Greater than, in inequality (mathematics), inequality *Greater (film), ''Greater'' (film), a 2016 American film *Greater (flamingo), the oldest flamingo on record *Greater (song), "Greate ...

, in a ceremony on the carriageway near Potters Bar. It became Europe's second longest

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upon completion, and provides the first and only full bypass of London. * October 30 – 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 Freising, ...

** Queensland, Australia: Joh Bjelke-Petersen wins his final election as Premier of Queensland with 38.6% of the vote. He resigns on December 1, 1987, following revelations of his involvement with corruption released in the Fitzgerald Inquiry. **

Sandoz chemical spill The Sandoz chemical spill was a major environmental disaster caused by a fire and its subsequent extinguishing at Sandoz agrochemical storehouse in the Schweizerhalle industrial complex, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland, on 1 November 1986, which r ...

: A major environmental disaster near Basel, Switzerland pollutes the Rhine, when an

agrochemical An agrochemical or agrichemical, a contraction of ''agricultural chemical'', is a chemical product used in industrial agriculture. Agrichemical refers to biocides ( pesticides including insecticides, herbicides, fungicides and nematicides) an ...

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 F ...

** Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine ''

Ash-Shiraa ''Ash-Shiraa'' (or ''Al-Shiraa'') (Arabic: الشراع, ''The Sail'' in English) is an Arabic weekly magazine published in Lebanon. The magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country. History and profile ''Ash-Shira'' was launched i ...

'' reports that the United States has been selling weapons to

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

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

Northern Mariana Islands The Northern Mariana Islands, officially the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI; ch, Sankattan Siha Na Islas Mariånas; cal, Commonwealth Téél Falúw kka Efáng llól Marianas), is an unincorporated territory and commonw ...

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 United States citizenship on legally qualified island residents. * November 6 ** 45 people are killed in the

1986 British International Helicopters Chinook crash On 6 November 1986, a Boeing-Vertol Model 234LR Chinook helicopter returning workers from the Brent oilfield crashed on approach to land at Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Islands. At from the runway the helicopter had a catastrophic forw ...

. **

Alex Ferguson Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest football managers of all time ...

is appointed as the new manager of

Manchester United Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of City of Salford, Salford to ...

. * November 18 ** Greater Manchester Police announce that they will search for the bodies of 2 missing children (who both vanished more than 20 years ago) after the Moors murderers Ian Brady 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 Events Pre-1600 * 164 BCE – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.) * 235 ...

** Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary,

Fawn Hall Fawn Hall (born September 15, 1959) is a former secretary to Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and had a small role in the Iran-Contra affair by helping North shred confidential documents. Early life Born in Annandale, Virginia, in 1959, Hall gr ...

, start shredding documents implicating them in selling weapons to

and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in

Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in Central America, bordered by Honduras to the north, the Caribbean to the east, Costa Rica to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Managua is the cou ...

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 D ...

– The MV ''Amazon Venture'' oil tanker begins leaking oil while at the port of Savannah in the United States, resulting in an oil spill of approximately . * December 7 – A magnitude 5.7 earthquake destroys most of the

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedon ...

n town of

Strajica Strazhitsa ( bg, Стражица, Stražica, ) is a town in northeastern Bulgaria, part of Veliko Tarnovo Province. It is the administrative centre of the homonymous Strazhitsa Municipality, which lies in the eastern part of the Province. The to ...

, killing 2 people. * December 14 – Rutan Voyager, an experimental

aircraft An aircraft is a vehicle that is able to fly by gaining support from the air. It counters the force of gravity by using either static lift or by using the dynamic lift of an airfoil, or in a few cases the downward thrust from jet engines ...

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 m ...

, begins its flight around the world from

Edwards Air Force Base Edwards Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force installation in California. Most of the base sits in Kern County, but its eastern end is in San Bernardino County and a southern arm is in Los Angeles County. The hub of the base is E ...

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 ...

– Jeltoqsan, mass anti-government protests, break out across the Kazakh SSR, resulting in the massacre of over 165 protesters. * December 19 – Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov is permitted to return to Moscow after six years of internal exile. * December 20 – Three

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s are assaulted by a group of white teens in the

Howard Beach Howard Beach is a neighborhood in the southwestern portion of the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered to the north by the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue in Ozone Park, to the south by Jamaica Bay in Broad Channel, to the east by 1 ...

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

December 31 It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, New Year's Eve or Old Years Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day. It is the last day of the year; the following day is January 1, the first day of the followin ...

Dupont Plaza Hotel arson The Dupont Plaza Hotel arson was a fire that occurred on New Year's Eve, December 31, 1986, at the Hotel Dupont Plaza (now San Juan Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino) in San Juan, the capital of the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. The fire w ...

: 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 stock trading is done in

Shenyang Shenyang (, ; ; Mandarin pronunciation: ), formerly known as Fengtian () or by its Manchu language, Manchu name Mukden, is a major China, Chinese sub-provincial city and the List of capitals in China#Province capitals, provincial capital of Lia ...

, China; the first of its kind in Communist China. *

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, a Latvian hard rock group, is established. *The band Sweet Children (now known as

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) was formed by the lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong. *The Province of

Flevoland Flevoland () is the twelfth and youngest province of the Netherlands, established in 1986, when the southern and eastern Flevopolders, together with the Noordoostpolder, were merged into one provincial entity. It is in the centre of the countr ...

is established in the Netherlands.

Births

Those born in the year 1986 are considered ''

millennials Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the Western demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000 ...

'' (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, Northern Irish actor *

January 2 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor. * 366 – The Alemanni cross the frozen Rhine in large numbers, invading the Roman Empi ...

Yulia Yulia ( Юлия) is a female given name, the equivalent of the Latin Julia. It can be spelled Yulia, Yulya, Julia, Julja, Julija, Yuliia, Yuliya, Juliya or İulia. An alternative spelling is Ioulia/Gioulia (Greek) or Iuliia. Prononciations can diff ...

, 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 Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – Engli ...

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 role ...

, Filipina actress and commercial model ** Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwanese tennis player ** James Milner, English soccer player *

January 5 Events Pre-1600 *1477 – Battle of Nancy: Charles the Bold is defeated and killed in a conflict with René II, Duke of Lorraine; Duchy of Burgundy, Burgundy subsequently becomes part of France. 1601–1900 *1675 – Battle of Turckh ...

** Teppei Koike, Japanese singer and actor **

Deepika Padukone Deepika Padukone ( or ; born 5 January 1986) is an Indian actress who works in Hindi films. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in India, and her accolades include three Filmfare Awards. She features in listings of the nation's most pop ...

, Indian actress and producer *

January 6 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Edward the Confessor on the previous day, the Witan meets to confirm Harold Godwinson as the new King of England; Harold is crowned the same day, sparking a succession crisis that will eve ...

Paul McShane Paul McShane may refer to: * Paul McShane (footballer) (born 1986), Irish football player * Paul McShane (rugby league) (born 1989), rugby league footballer See also *Paul Shane Paul Shane (born George Frederick Speight; 19 June 1940 – 16 M ...

, Irish professional footballer **

Petter Northug Petter Northug Jr. (born 6 January 1986) is a Norwegian former cross-country skier and double Olympic champion. He won a total of 13 World Championship and two Winter Olympic gold medals with 20 medals overall (two gold, one silver and one bronze ...

, Norwegian Olympic skier ** Irina Shayk, Russian model ** Alex Turner, English musician *

January 8 Events Pre-1600 * 307 – Emperor Huai of Jin, Jin Huaidi becomes emperor of China in succession to his father, Emperor Hui of Jin, Jin Huidi, despite a challenge from his uncle, Sima Ying. * 871 – Æthelred I, King of Wessex, Æthel ...

Jaclyn Linetsky Jaclyn Michelle Linetsky (January 8, 1986 – September 8, 2003) was a Canadian actress who played Megan O'Connor on ''15/Love'' and the title character on '' Caillou'' during the show's second and third seasons, replacing the character's origina ...

, Canadian actress and voice actress (d.

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

) ** David Silva, Spanish footballer *

January 10 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. * 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the be ...

** Chen Jin, Chinese badminton player **

Suzanne Harmes Suzanne Helena Johanna Harmes (born 10 January 1986 in Zoetermeer) is a Dutch gymnast. In 2002, she won the silver medal at the European Championships in Patras as a part of the Dutch team alongside Verona van de Leur, Gabriella Wammes, Rensk ...

, Dutch artistic gymnast **

Kenneth Vermeer Kenneth Harold Vermeer (born 10 January 1986) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club FC Cincinnati. A product of the Ajax Youth Academy, Vermeer has played for Jong Ajax, Willem II on loan, ...

, Dutch footballer *

– Daniela Cosío, Mexican model *

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. *1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already reigned s ...

– Zlata Ognevich, Ukrainian singer **

Jakob Oftebro Jakob Hoff Oftebro (born 12 January 1986) is a Norwegian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004 including Hamilton and ''Kon-Tiki'', which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academ ...

, Norwegian actor *

–

Joannie Rochette Joannie Rochette (born January 13, 1986) is a Canadian physician and retired competitive figure skater. She is the 2010 Olympic bronze medallist, the 2009 World silver medallist, the 2008 and 2009 Four Continents silver medallist, the 2004 G ...

, Canadian figure skater *

January 14 Events Pre-1600 *1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 *1639 – The "Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Fundamenta ...

Yohan Cabaye Yohan Cabaye (; born 14 January 1986) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Cabaye began his football career playing for hometown club US Tourcoing at the age of six. After seven years developing in the club's ...

, French footballer *

January 15 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. * 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...

– Jessy Schram, American actress *

January 16 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. * 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spear ...

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Paula Pareto Paula Belén Pareto (born 16 January 1986) is an Argentine retired judoka and physician. She was the flag bearer for her country at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She competed at the 2020 Summer ...

, Argentinian judoka *

January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 people on ...

** Max Adler, American actor **

Chloe Rose Lattanzi Chloe Rose Lattanzi (born January 17, 1986) is an American-Australian singer and actress. Biography Personal life Lattanzi was born on January 17, 1986, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of the lat ...

, Australian actress and singer *

January 18 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. * 1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chi ...

Marya Roxx Marya Roxx (born Maarja Kivi on 18 January 1986) is an Estonian hard rock/metal singer-songwriter residing in Los Angeles. She is a former member of the Estonian girl band Vanilla Ninja. Background When the girl band Vanilla Ninja was founded ...

, Estonian musician ** Becca Tobin, American actress and singer *

January 19 Events Pre-1600 * 379 – Emperor Gratian elevates Flavius Theodosius at Sirmium to ''Augustus'', and gives him authority over all the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. * 649 – Conquest of Kucha: The forces of Kucha surrender ...

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Claudio Marchisio Claudio Marchisio (; born 19 January 1986) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A product of the Juventus youth system, he spent a large portion of his career at his hometown club, with the exception of a sea ...

, Italian footballer *

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Genie Chuo Genie Chuo (; born 20 January 1986) is a Taiwanese singer, actress and television host. Life and career Chuo won several karaoke competitions when she was a first year in the Taipei County Fuho Junior High School. After a number of lessons an ...

, Taiwanese singer and actress *

January 21 Events Pre-1600 * 763 – Following the Battle of Bakhamra between Alids and Abbasids near Kufa, the Alid rebellion ends with the death of Ibrahim, brother of Isa ibn Musa. * 1525 – The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Co ...

– Sushant Singh Rajput, Indian actor (d.

2020 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of events, COVID- ...

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January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. *1264 & ...

José Enrique José Enrique is a Spanish given name. It may refer to: *José Enrique (footballer) (born 1986), Spanish footballer * José Enrique Angulo (born 1995), Ecuadorian footballer *José Enrique Arrarás (born 1937), Puerto Rican politician * José Enriq ...

, Spanish footballer ** Michael Stevens, American scientist and entertainer *

Mischa Barton Mischa Anne Marsden Barton (born 24 January 1986) is a British-American film, television, and stage actress. She began her career on the stage, appearing in Tony Kushner's ''Slavs!'' and took the lead in James Lapine's '' Twelve Dreams'' at Ne ...

, British-American actress ** Raviv Ullman, Israeli-American actor, director, and musician *

January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. *1564 – ...

** Gerald Green, American basketball player **

Matt Heafy Matthew Kiichi Heafy (born January 26, 1986) is an American musician, best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for heavy metal band Trivium. He was also the lead vocalist for the band Capharnaum, along with Trivium's former producer Jason ...

, American musician ** Kim Jae-joong, South Korean actor and pop singer **

Taylor Wilde Shantelle Larissa Malawski (born January 26, 1986) is a Canadian professional wrestler. She is signed with Impact Wrestling, where she performs under the ring name Taylor Wilde. Malawski was under a World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) contract fr ...

, Canadian professional wrestler *

** Dame

Jessica Ennis-Hill Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill (born 28 January 1986) is a British retired track and field athlete from England, specialising in multi-eventing disciplines and 100 metres hurdles. As a competitor in heptathlon, she is the 2012 Olympic champion, ...

, British heptathlete ** Shruti Haasan, Indian actress and musician *

Drew Tyler Bell Drew Tyler Bell (born January 29, 1986) is an American actor and dancer. He graduated from Barbizon Modeling and Acting School in Akron, Ohio. He also graduated from the David Nazarian College of Business and Economics at California State Univ ...

, American actor and dancer **

Sarah Jaffe Sarah Allison Jaffe (born January 29, 1986) is an American singer-songwriter from Denton, Texas. Known for her distinctively clear vocals, she has worked as a singer-songwriter across many musical genres, including acoustic-folk, indie pop and ...

, American singer **

Ashley Lilley Ashley-Anne Lilley is a Scottish actress and singer. She made her debut in the 2008 film '' Mamma Mia!''. Early life Lilley was born in Rothesay, Bute. At the age of 12, she won a place with the National Youth Music Theatre. At 15, she enrolle ...

, Scottish actress and singer *

January 30 Events Pre-1600 *1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. *1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 *1607 – An estimated ...

Ashley Buccille Ashley Buccille (born January 30, 1986) is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in the films ''Phenomenon'' (1996) and ''Tumbleweeds'' (1999). From 1997 to 2003, she provided the voice of Lila Sawyer on the Nic ...

, American film and television actress **

Georgi Gurtskaya Georgi Dzhustanovich Gurtskaya (russian: Георгий Джустанович Гурцкая; born 30 January 1986) is a former Russian professional footballer. Club career He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2004 for FC Dynamo M ...

, former Russian professional footballer *

January 31 Events Pre-1600 * 314 – Pope Sylvester I is consecrated, as successor to the late Pope Miltiades. * 1208 – The Battle of Lena takes place between King Sverker II of Sweden and his rival, Prince Eric, whose victory puts him on the t ...

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Yves Ma-Kalambay Yves Makabu-Ma-Kalambay (born 31 January 1986) is a former professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper. He most recently played for English club Wycombe Wanderers. Ma-Kalambay has previously played for Chelsea, Watford, Hibernian, Swanse ...

, Belgian footballer

February

February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Mon ...

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Lauren Conrad Lauren Katherine Conrad (born February 1, 1986)) is an American television personality, fashion designer and author. In September 2004, as an 18-year-old, Conrad came to prominence after being cast in the reality television series '' Laguna Beac ...

, American television personality and fashion designer *

February 2 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...

Gemma Arterton Gemma Christina Arterton (born 2 February 1986) is an English actress and producer. After her stage debut in Shakespeare's ''Love's Labour's Lost'' at the Globe Theatre (2007), Arterton made her feature film debut in the comedy ''St Trinian's'' ...

, British actress ** Miwa Asao, Japanese beach volleyball player **

Tiffany Vise Tiffany Vise (born February 2, 1986) is an American retired pair skating, pair skater. Between 2003 and 2009, she competed with partner Derek Trent. On November 17, 2007, Vise and Trent landed the first clean throw quadruple salchow jump in inte ...

, American figure skater *

February 5 Events Pre-1600 * 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy. * 1576 – Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. * 1597 – A group of early Japanese Christians ar ...

** Claudia Cruz, Dominican model and beauty queen ** Kevin Gates, American hip-hop musician and entrepreneur **

Madison Rayne Ashley Nichole Lomberger (née Simmons; born February 5, 1986) is an American professional wrestler currently signed to All Elite Wrestling under the ring name Madison Rayne, where she is also the coach of the women's division. She is best known ...

, American professional wrestler **

Andrea Masiello Andrea Masiello (born 5 February 1986) is an Italian professional footballer, who plays as a centre-back for club Südtirol. He is perhaps best known for match-fixing in the Derby of Puglia, whilst playing for Bari, scoring an own goal to gu ...

, Italian footballer ** Billy Sharp, English footballer **

Sebastián Pinto Sebastián Pinto (born 5 February 1986) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a striker. His last team was Chilean Primera B club Deportes Temuco. Career Begins of his career Pinto began his career in the youth categories ...

, Chilean footballer *

February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...

Vedran Ćorluka Vedran Ćorluka (; born 5 February 1986) is a Croatian football coach and former player who played as a centre-back. He is an assistant to Zlatko Dalić in the Croatia national team. Ćorluka graduated from the Dinamo Zagreb Youth Academy, ...

, Croatian international footballer ** Dane DeHaan, American actor ** Alice Greczyn, American actress and model **

Sofia Nizharadze Sopho "Sofia" Nizharadze ( ka, სოფო ნიჟარაძე, ) is a Georgian singer, actress, and songwriter who represented Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2010 with the song " Shine". Nizharadze was a judge on the TV shows ''Geo ...

, Georgian pop musician **

Yunho Jung Yun-ho (; born February 6, 1986), also known by his stage name U-Know Yunho () or simply U-Know, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and a member of the pop duo TVXQ. Born and raised in Gwangju, South Korea, Yunho started his music ...

, South Korean actor and singer *

** Anna Hutchison, New Zealand actress **

Anderson .Paak Brandon Paak Anderson (born February 8, 1986), better known by his stage name Anderson .Paak (), is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, and drummer. He released his debut mixtape, ''O.B.E. Vol. 1,'' in 2012 and went on to rel ...

, American musician and record producer *

Shaka Bangura Shaka Bangura (born February 9, 1986 in Kissy) is a Sierra Leonean association football, footballer. Career Youth and College Bangura moved to the United States from Sierra Leone when he was a small child, settling in College Park, Georgia. He ...

, Sierra Leonean footballer **

Ciprian Tătărușanu Anton Ciprian Tătărușanu (; born 9 February 1986) is a Romanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club AC Milan. He started his senior career in Romania with Juventus București, going on to represent Gloria Bistrița a ...

, Romanian footballer *

Radamel Falcao Radamel Falcao García Zárate (born 10 February 1986) is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a forward for La Liga club Rayo Vallecano and often captains the Colombia national team. Nicknamed "''El Tigre''" (Spanish for ''The Tige ...

, Colombian footballer **

Yui Ichikawa , is an actress and model from Tokyo, Japan. She is also known by her nickname, ''Yui-nyan''. As an actress she has appeared in several dramas (''doramas''), and in recent years she has concentrated more on her film career. She played a minor ...

, Japanese actress *

February 12 Events Pre-1600 *1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. *1429 – English forces under ...

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Valorie Curry Valorie Mae Curry (born February 12, 1986) is an American actress. Her credits include ''Veronica Mars'' (2005–06), ''The Following'' (2013–14) and ''The Tick'' (2016–19).Gaede, Susan (December 1, 2010)"AEDE: Sonora grad cast in 'Twilight' ...

, American actress *

February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis ...

Aschwin Wildeboer Aschwin Wildeboer Faber (born 14 February 1986 in Sabadell, Spain), known as Aschwin Wildeboer, is a Spanish Olympic backstroke swimmer of Dutch origin. Biography His parents, both born and raised in Netherlands, moved to Spain in 1978 and settl ...

, Spanish swimmer ** Tiffany Thornton, American actress, radio personality and singer *

Valeri Bojinov Valeri Emilov Bojinov ( bg, Валери Емилов Божинов, ; born 15 February 1986) is a Bulgarian professional footballer who plays as a striker. Throughout his career, Bojinov has played for seventeen different clubs during his ...

, Bulgarian footballer ** Ami Koshimizu, Japanese voice actress **

Amber Riley Amber Patrice Riley (born February 15, 1986), sometimes known mononymously as RILEY, is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her portrayal of Mercedes Jones on the Fox comedy-drama series ''Glee'' (2009–2015). For her perform ...

, American actress, singer and author *

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Brett Kern Brett Alan Kern (born February 17, 1986) is an American football punter for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Toledo and was signed by the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent i ...

, American football player *

February 18 Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. * 1268 &ndas ...

Brenan Espartinez Brenan Espartinez is a Filipino singer and former child actor. Music career Brenan Espartinez started singing at an early age. He used to sing the theme song of ''Bayani'', an educational show aired on ABS-CBN in the early 1990s. At age 15, he ...

, Filipino singer and actor **

Vika Jigulina Vika Jigulina (born Victoria Corneva; February 18, 1986) is a Moldovan-born record producer, singer, and DJ of Bulgarian and Russian descent. Life and career Victoria Corneva was born in Cahul, Moldavian SSR (Moldova). She is Bulgarian through ...

, Romanian music producer, dance singer and DJ **

Alessandra Mastronardi Alessandra Carina Mastronardi (born February 18, 1986) is an Italian actress. She is best known for her roles in the films '' To Rome with Love'' and '' The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent'', and the television series ''Master of None'', for ...

, Italian actress **

Gregory Vargas Gregory Maxdier Vargas Díaz (born 18 February 1986) is a Venezuelan professional basketball player who last played for Hapoel Haifa of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He was the Israeli Basketball Premier League Defensive Player of the Y ...

, Venezuelan basketball player *

Björn Gustafsson Lars Björn Gustafsson (born 19 February 1986) is a Swedish comedian and actor. He is known from TV shows such as ''Parlamentet'' and '' Stockholm Live''. Early and personal life Gustafsson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden. He studied at the C ...

, Swedish comedian **

Ophelia Lovibond Ophelia Lucy Lovibond (born 19 February 1986) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Carina in the film ''Guardians of the Galaxy,'' Izzy Gould in the BBC's ''W1A'', Joyce Prigger in HBO's ''Minx'', and Kitty Winter in CBS's ''Ele ...

, British actress **

Marta Marta may refer to: People * Marta (given name), a feminine given name * Märta, a feminine given name * Marta (surname) :István Márta composer * Marta (footballer) (born 1986), Brazilian professional footballer Places * Marta (river), an ...

, Brazilian-born footballer **

Maria Mena Maria Viktoria Mena (born 19 February 1986) is a Norwegian pop singer, best known for her singles such as " You're the Only One", "Just Hold Me", "All This Time" which charted in multiple countries. Early life Maria Mena was born into an art ...

, Norwegian pop singer *

February 21 Events Pre-1600 * 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. * 1440 – The Prus ...

** Prince Amedeo of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este, member of the Belgian Royal Family **

Charlotte Church Charlotte Maria Church (born Charlotte Maria Reed, 21 February 1986) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress, television presenter and political activist from Cardiff. Church rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching i ...

, Welsh singer, actress, and television presenter *

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Miko Hughes Miko John Hughes (born February 22, 1986) is an American actor known for his film roles as a child, such as Gage Creed in ''Pet Sematary'' (1989), ''Kindergarten Cop'' (1990), ''Apollo 13'' (1995), ''Spawn'' (1997), ''Mercury Rising'' (1998), '' ...

, American actor **

Rajon Rondo Rajon Pierre Rondo (, born February 22, 1986) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, Rondo played two years of college basketball for ...

, American Basketball Player *

February 23 Events Pre-1600 * 303 – Roman emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution. * 532 – Byzantine emperor Justinian I lays the foundation stone of a ...

** Emerson da Conceição, Brazilian footballer **

Skylar Grey Holly Brook Hafermann (born February 23, 1986), known professionally as Skylar Grey, is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer from Mazomanie, Wisconsin. In 2004, at the age of 17, Grey signed a publishing deal with Universal Music ...

, American pop singer ** Kazuya Kamenashi, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor **

Boipelo Makhothi Boipelo Makhothi (born 23 February 1986) is a Basotho swimmer. Career Mokhesi first competed for Lesotho at the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne where he finished 89th in the 100 metre backstroke in 1:32.14, 96th in the 50 metre backs ...

, Lesotho swimmer **

Jerod Mayo Jerod Mayo Sr. (born February 23, 1986) is an American football coach and former linebacker who is the inside linebackers coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Mayo played college football for the University ...

, American football player ** Ola Svensson, Swedish pop singer *

** Danny Saucedo, Swedish pop and dance singer ** Justin Berfield, American actor, writer, and producer **

James and Oliver Phelps James Andrew Eric Phelps and Oliver Martyn John Phelps (born 25 February 1986) are English actors and identical twin brothers. They are known for playing Fred and George Weasley in the ''Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter'' film seri ...

, English actors *

February 26 Events Pre-1600 *747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events. * 364 – Valentinian I is p ...

Leila Lopes Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes Umenyiora (born 26 February 1986) is an Angolan model and beauty queen best known for having been crowned Miss Universe 2011. She had previously won Miss Angola UK 2010 and Miss Angola 2010. Early life Lop ...

, Angolan Miss Universe **

Crystal Kay is a Japanese singer, songwriter, actress and radio host. After releasing her first single, "Eternal Memories" (1999), Crystal Kay gained fame for her third studio album, '' Almost Seventeen'' (2002), which debuted at number 2 on the Japanese ...

, Japanese actress and pop singer ** Teresa Palmer, Australian actress, writer, model and film producer

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** Ayumu Goromaru, Japanese rugby union player **

Jonathan Spector Jonathan Michael Paul Spector (born March 1, 1986) is an American former soccer player who played as a defender. In his 16-year career playing first-team soccer he played over 400 games for club and country, and helped the United States win the ...

, American soccer player *

March 2 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut o ...

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Ethan Peck Ethan Gregory Peck (born March 2, 1986) is an American actor. He is the grandson of actor Gregory Peck and Greta Kukkonen, the elder Peck's first wife. In 2019, he played a young Spock in '' Star Trek: Discovery'' (2019), a role he has reprised fo ...

, American actor *

** Stacie Orrico, American singer ** Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer *

March 4 Events Pre-1600 *AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a st ...

– Margo Harshman, American actress *

March 5 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. * 1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern ...

** Corey Brewer, American basketball player **

Julie Henderson Julie Patrice Henderson (born March 5, 1986) is an American model known for her appearances in the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue''. She has also done advertisements for such notable clients as Benetton and Gant. Career Henderson was disco ...

, American model **

Andrew Jenks Andrew Jenks (born March 5, 1986) is an American filmmaker. Early life When he was nine, his family moved to Belgium for two years. Jenks attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. When Jenks was 16 he founded the Hendrick Hud ...

, American filmmaker **

Sarah J. Maas Sarah Janet Maas (born March 5, 1986) is an American fantasy author known for her fantasy series '' Throne of Glass'' and '' A Court of Thorns and Roses''. As of 2022, she has sold over twelve million copies of her books and her work has been ...

, American novelist **

Shikabala Mahmoud Abdelrazek Hassan Fadlala ( ar, محمود عبد الرازق حسن فضل الله ; born 5 March 1986), commonly known as Shikabala ( ar, شيكابالا ), is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays for Egyptian Premier Leag ...

, Egyptian footballer * March 6 **

Eli Marienthal Eli David Marienthal (born March 6, 1986) is an American actor. Family & Personal life Marienthal was born in Santa Monica, California in 1986, the son of Penny Marienthal and Joseph Cross. He has two siblings, actors Harley Cross and Flora Cr ...

, American actor **

Francisco Cervelli Francisco Cervelli (born March 6, 1986) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher and former catching coach for the San Diego Padres. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Brave ...

, Venezuelan baseball player **

Charlie Mulgrew Charles Patrick Mulgrew (born 6 March 1986) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Scottish Premiership side Dundee United. Mulgrew began his career at Celtic, during which time he spent time on loan at Dundee U ...

, Scottish footballer * March 8 **

Tal Slutzker Tal Slutzker (born March 8, 1986) is an Israeli painter and poet. Biography Tal Slutzker was born in Ra'anana to Nachum and Pola, both teachers. During childhood he painted and played the violin. At the third grade he played a solo with orches ...

, Israeli painter and poet **

Princess Tsuguko of Takamado is a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the eldest daughter of Norihito, Prince Takamado, and Hisako, Princess Takamado. Biography Princess Tsuguko was born on 8 March 1986 at Aiiku Hospital in Minami-Azabu, Tokyo. She graduated from th ...

, member of the Japanese Imperial Family *

– Brittany Snow, American actress, producer, director and singer * March 11 **

Dario Cologna Dario Cologna (born 11 March 1986) is a Swiss cross-country skier. He has four overall World Cup victories, four Olympic gold medals, one World Championships gold medal and four Tour de Ski victories in his career. On 3 November 2021, he announc ...

, Swiss Olympic skier ** Mariko Shinoda, Japanese singer, actress, fashion model, and idol *

March 12 Events Pre-1600 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius. * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Cat ...

** Danny Jones, British musician **

František Rajtoral František Rajtoral (12 March 1986 – ca. 23 April 2017) was a Czech professional footballer who played as a right winger or right-back. He was best known for his stint at Viktoria Plzeň. He was a member of the Czech Republic national team. ...

, Czech footballer (d.

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Chiaki Kyan is a Japanese tarento, master of ceremonies, yoga instructor, lyricist and former gravure idol A model is a person with a role either to promote, display or advertise commercial products (notably fashion clothing in fashion shows) or to ...

, Japanese gravure idol ** Kousuke Yonehara, Japanese singer and actor *

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Jamie Bell Andrew James Matfin Bell (born 14 March 1986) is an English actor and dancer. He rose to prominence for his debut role in ''Billy Elliot'' (2000), for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, becoming one of the youngest ...

, English actor and dancer *

– Jai Courtney, Australian actor * March 16 **

Alexandra Daddario Alexandra Anna Daddario (born March 16, 1986) is an American actress who had her breakthrough portraying Annabeth Chase in the ''Percy Jackson'' film series (2010–2013). In 2021, she starred in the first season of the HBO series ''The White L ...

, American actress **

Ken Doane Kenneth George Doane (born March 16, 1986) is an American retired professional wrestler signed to WWE as a producer and as a trainer at the WWE Performance Center. During his past time in WWE, he was known as Kenny Dykstra and Kenny as a member ...

, American professional wrestler **

T. J. Jordan Taurean Yves Jordan (born March 16, 1986 in Denver, Colorado, Denver, Colorado) is a women's basketball player who played collegiately for Old Dominion University. She holds several ODU scoring records, and was regarded as one of the best players ...

, 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 Anna Sergeyevna "Anne" Vyalitsyna (russian: А́нна Серге́евна Вьяли́цына; born 19 March 1986), also known as Anne V, is a Russian-American model best known for her 10-consecutive-year appearances (2005–2014) in the ''Spor ...

, Russian model * March 20 –

Ruby Rose Ruby Rose Langenheim (born 20 March 1986) is an Australian model, actress, disc jockey and television presenter. Rose was a presenter on MTV Australia (2007–2011), followed by several high-profile modelling gigs, including Maybelline New York ...

, Australian actress and model *

March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas an ...

Scott Eastwood Scott Eastwood (born Scott Clinton Reeves; March 21, 1986) is an American actor. His notable films are ''Flags of Our Fathers'' (2006), ''Gran Torino'' (2008), ''Invictus'' (2009), '' The Forger'' (2012), ''Trouble with the Curve'' (2012), '' Te ...

, American actor **

Michu Miguel Pérez Cuesta (born 21 March 1986), known as Michu (), is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker or attacking midfielder. He started playing for Real Oviedo, subsequently representing Celta and Rayo Vallecano, ...

, Spanish footballer *

March 22 Events Pre-1600 * 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. * 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. * 871 – Æthelr ...

– Matt Bush, American actor * March 23 ** Brett Eldredge, American country music singer **

Steven Strait Steven Strait (born March 23, 1986) is an American actor and singer. He is best known for starring in the adventure film '' Sky High'' (2005) and the science fiction series ''The Expanse'' (2015–2022). Early life Strait was born and raised in ...

, American musician, actor, and fashion model * March 24 – Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dancer *

** Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player **

Megan Gibson Megan Lynn Gibson-Loftin (born March 25, 1986) is an American, former collegiate All-American, professional softball pitcher and current pitching coach at Houston. Gibson-Loftin played college softball for Texas A&M where she is the career leade ...

, American softball player ** Kyle Lowry, American basketball player * March 26 ** Jonny Craig, Canadian-American singer ** Jessica Hart, Australian model **

Misty Stone Misty Stone is an American pornographic actress and Fetish model, nude model. She was the ''Penthouse (magazine), Penthouse'' Pet of the Month for December 2014. Career She entered the adult film industry in 2006 at the age of around 20 and has ...

, American pornographic actress **

Alexander Taraikovsky Alexander Taraikovsky ( be, Аляксандр Тарайкоўскі; 26 March 1986 – 10 August 2020) was a demonstrator who died in Minsk, Belarus, during the 2020 Belarusian protests in which the police used tear gas, rubber bullets, and ...

, Belarusian demonstrator (d.

) * March 27 ** SoCal Val, American professional wrestling personality ** Manuel Neuer, German football goalkeeper *

March 28 Events Pre-1600 * AD 37 – Roman emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, bestowed on him by the Senate. * 193 – After assassinating the Roman Emperor Pertinax, his Praetorian Guards auction off the throne to Di ...

Lady Gaga Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta ( ; born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her image reinventions and musical versatility. Gaga began performing as a teenag ...

, American singer, songwriter and actress **

Bowe Bergdahl Beaudry Robert "Bowe" Bergdahl (born March 28, 1986) is a United States Army soldier who was held captive from 2009 to 2014 by the Taliban-aligned Haqqani network in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Bergdahl was captured after deserting his post on Ju ...

, American soldier and deserter captured by the Taliban **

Amaia Salamanca Amaia Salamanca Urízar (born 28 March 1986) is a Spanish actress, best known for her role as Catalina Marcos in the Spanish version of the Colombian TV series ''Sin tetas no hay paraíso'' and as Alicia Alarcón in series '' Gran Hotel''. Biog ...

, Spanish actress and model * March 29 **

Lucas Elliot Eberl Luke Eberl (born March 29, 1986) is an American actor and director best known for his role as Birn in the 2001 film ''Planet of the Apes'' and for his film ''Choose Connor''. In 2008, Eberl was described by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the "10 ...

, American actor and director **

Romina Oprandi Romina Sarina Oprandi (born 29 March 1986) is a retired tennis player. She has dual Swiss-Italian citizenship and represented Italy from her professional debut in 2005 until January 2012, when she joined the Swiss tennis federation. She has wo ...

, Italian tennis player * March 30 **

Tessa Ferrer Tessa Rosiola Ferrer (born March 30, 1986) is an American actress. She is known for playing Dr. Leah Murphy, a surgical intern then resident, in ''Grey's Anatomy''. She is the daughter of singer Debby Boone and Gabriel Ferrer. Career In 2012, S ...

, American actress **

Sergio Ramos Sergio Ramos García (; born 30 March 1986) is a Spanish professional Association football, footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain F.C., Paris Saint-Germain and the Spain national football team, Spain nationa ...

, Spanish footballer

April

Amanda Bynes on the Red Carpet (cropped2)

Ellen Hollman Ellen Hollman (born April 1, 1983) is an American actress. Biography Hollman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the oldest of four siblings. She eventually moved to Troy, Michigan, and was an all-star track runner, holding the Michigan state recor ...

, American actress ** Kid Ink, American hip-hop musician **

Yurika Nakamura (born 1 April 1986 in Fukuchiyama) is a Japanese long-distance runner. Nakamura grew up in the Hyōgo Prefecture. She finished seventh at the 2006 World Road Running Championships, helping the Japanese team win the bronze medal in the team co ...

, Japanese athlete ** Hillary Scott, American musician *

** Lee DeWyze, American rock musician **

Drew Van Acker Drew Van Acker (born April 2, 1986) is an American actor, model and producer. He is known for playing Jason DiLaurentis, the older brother of Alison DiLaurentis (Sasha Pieterse), on Freeform's ''Pretty Little Liars'' (2010–2017) and Ian Archer ...

, American actor * April 3 ** Amanda Bynes, American actress and fashion designer **

Coleen Rooney Coleen Mary Rooney ( McLoughlin; born 3 April 1986) is the wife of former English footballer Wayne Rooney. She is also a former television personality. Early life and family Coleen Mary McLoughlin was born in Liverpool, Merseyside, to Tony an ...

, English media personality *

April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...

Labinot Harbuzi Labinot Harbuzi (4 April 1986 – 11 October 2018) was a Swedish professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Early life Harbuzi's family migrated to Sweden. His father, Ismet, was a table tennis player in Kosovo. He was the cousin (aun ...

, Swedish footballer (d.

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

) **

Eunhyuk Lee Hyuk-jae (born April 4, 1986), better known by his stage name Eunhyuk, is a South Korean rapper, singer-songwriter, dancer and television host. He is a member of the South Korean boy group Super Junior and its subgroups Super Junior-T and S ...

, South Korean actor and singer **

Steven Brown Stephen or Steven Brown may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stephen Brown (athlete) (born 1969), Trinidadian hurdler * Stephen Brown (composer) (born 1948), Canadian composer * Stephen Brown (film producer) (born 1961), American film producer, ...

, Australian judoka personnel * April 7 – Choi Si-won, South Korean actor and singer *

April 8 Events Pre-1600 * 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus. * 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids. *1139 – Ro ...

** Igor Akinfeev, Russian footballer **

Cliff Avril Clifford Samuel Avril (born April 8, 1986) is a former American football defensive end. He played college football at Purdue and was drafted in the third round of the 2008 NFL Draft by the Detroit Lions. He has also played for the Seattle Seahaw ...

, American football player ** Félix Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player ** Erika Sawajiri, Japanese actress, singer, and model *

April 9 Events Pre-1600 * 193 – The distinguished soldier Septimius Severus is proclaimed emperor by the army in Illyricum. * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (''Enkyklikon'') to the bishops of his empire, s ...

Leighton Meester Leighton Marissa Meester (; born April 9, 1986) is an American actress, singer, and model. She is best known for her starring role as the devious socialite Blair Waldorf on ''Gossip Girl'' on The CW (2007–2012). She has also appeared in films ...

, American actress ** Jordan Masterson, American actor *

April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 1407 ...

Sam Attwater Samuel Attwater (born 10 April 1986) is an English actor and singer who played Leon Small in the British soap opera ''EastEnders'' and its online spin-off '' EastEnders: E20''. He won the sixth series of '' Dancing on Ice'' in March 2011 and p ...

, British actor ** Fernando Gago, Argentine footballer **

Vincent Kompany Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany (; ; born 10 April 1986) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back and is the current manager of EFL Championship club Burnley. He most notably played for Manchester City f ...

, Belgian footballer * April 11 – Esteban Vizcarra, Argentine-Indonesian footballer * April 12 –

Matt McGorry Matthew David McGorry (born April 12, 1986) is an American actor, writer and activist. He is best known for playing John Bennett on the Netflix comedy-drama series ''Orange Is the New Black'' and Asher Millstone on the ABC legal drama series ...

, American actor and activist *

–

Thaila Ayala Thaila Ayala Sales (born April 14, 1986) is a Brazilian actress and model. Career She began her modeling career at the age of sixteen. In 2006, she enrolled in the Rede Globo Actors Workshop. At the end of the course, she did tests, and got th ...

, Brazilian actress and model * April 15 – Tom Heaton, English footballer * April 16 **

Sufe Bradshaw Sufe Bradshaw ( ; born November 30, 1979) is an American actress, best known for her role as Sue, the secretary and scheduler with an acerbic wit, to Vice-President Selina Meyer, in the HBO comedy series ''Veep''. Her prior acting credits include ...

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

Romain Grosjean Romain David Jeremie Grosjean (; born 17 April 1986) is a Swiss-French professional racing driver, competing under the French flag in the NTT IndyCar Series, driving the No. 28 Honda for Andretti Autosport. Grosjean had previously spent nine ...

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

–

Maurice Edu Maurice Edu (born April 18, 1986) is an American former professional soccer player. A highly touted prospect, Edu was the first overall pick in the 2007 MLS SuperDraft and won the MLS Rookie of the Year Award with Toronto. His performances for T ...

, American footballer *

April 19 Events Pre-1600 *AD 65 – The freedman Milichus betrays Piso's plot to kill the Emperor Nero and all the conspirators are arrested. * 531 – Battle of Callinicum: A Byzantine army under Belisarius is defeated by the Persians at ...

– Candace Parker, American basketball player * April 20 ** Pablo Martín, Spanish golfer **

Cameron Duncan Cameron Troy Duncan (20 April 1986 – 12 November 2003) was a filmmaker from New Zealand. Biography Life and film career Duncan was of Māori descent and was raised in Auckland and attended Avondale College. Duncan completed many home videos b ...

, New Zealand director and writer (d.

) *

April 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil. * 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés establishes a settlement at Veracruz, Mexico. * 1529 – Treaty of Zaragoza divides the eastern ...

** Amanda Berry, American author and abduction survivor **

Viktor Fayzulin Viktor Igorevich Fayzulin (russian: link=no, Виктор Игоревич Файзулин; born 22 April 1986) is a former Russian Association football, footballer, who played as a midfielder. Career Club A graduate of Sports school, CYSS bas ...

, Russian footballer ** Amber Heard, American actress ** Marshawn Lynch, American football player *

April 23 Events Pre-1600 * 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. * 599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southe ...

–

Sven Kramer Sven Kramer (; born 23 April 1986) is a retired Dutch long track speed skater who has won an all time record nine World Allround Championships as well as a record ten European Allround Championships. He is the Olympic champion of the 5000 meter ...

, Dutch speed skater * April 24 – Tahyna Tozzi, Australian model, singer and actress * April 25 **

Daniel Sharman Daniel Andrew Sharman (born 25 April 1986) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Isaac Lahey on the television series ''Teen Wolf'' (2012–2014), Kaleb Westphall / Kol Mikaelson on '' The Originals'' (2014–2015), Troy Otto on '' ...

, English actor **

John DeLuca John DeLuca is an American actor and singer who is known for his role as Butchy in the Disney Channel Original Movie, '' Teen Beach Movie'', as well as its sequel '' Teen Beach 2'', and as Anthony in coming-of-age comedy ''Staten Island Summer' ...

, American actor and singer *

April 27 Events Pre-1600 * 247 – Philip the Arab marks the millennium of Rome with a celebration of the ''ludi saeculares''. * 395 – Emperor Arcadius marries Aelia Eudoxia, daughter of the Frankish general Flavius Bauto. She becomes one of ...

Jenna Coleman Jenna-Louise Coleman (born 27 April 1986), known professionally as Jenna Coleman, is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Jasmine Thomas in the soap opera ''Emmerdale'', Clara Oswald in the science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'', Qu ...

, British actress ** Dinara Safina, Russian tennis player * April 28 **

Jenna Ushkowitz Jenna Noelle Ushkowitz (; born April 28, 1986) (born Min Ji []) is a South Korean-born American actress, singer, producer and podcast host. She is known for her performances in Broadway musicals such as ''The King and I'' and '' Waitress (musical ...

, American stage and television actress and singer **

Jazmín Beccar Varela Jazmín Beccar Varela (born 28 April 1986) is an Argentine actress, probably best known as in Luján Linares in television series '' Rebelde Way''. Personal life Jazmín Beccar Varela has three sisters, named Felicitas, Camila, and Paz Becc ...

, Argentine actress * April 30 – Dianna Agron, American actress, singer and dancer

May

* May 1 ** Christian Benítez, Ecuadorian footballer (d.

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

) ** Jesse Klaver, Dutch politician ** Diego Valeri, Argentine footballer **

Cassie Jaye Cassie Jaye (born May 1, 1986) is an American film director, best known for directing the 2016 Documentary film, documentary film ''The Red Pill'' about the men's rights movement. Early life and work Jaye was born in Fort Sill, Fort Sill, Okl ...

, American actress and film director * May 2 ** Emily Hart, American actress and voice actress ** Thomas McDonell, American actor, musician, and artist * May 5 –

Grace Wong Grace Wong Kwan-hing (born 5 May 1986) is a Hong Kong television actress and singer formerly contracted to TVB. She is best known for her role as Fa Man in the martial arts television drama '' A Fist Within Four Walls''. Early life Grace Wong ...

, Hong Kong actress and beauty pageant contestant * May 6 ** Tyler Hynes, Canadian actor and film maker **

Sasheer Zamata Sasheer Zamata Moore (; born May 6, 1986) is an American actress and comedian known for her work as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' from 2014 to 2017 as well as her leading roles in the TV series ''Woke'' (2020–2022) and ''Home Econom ...

, American actress and comedian * May 7 –

Rianne ten Haken Rianne ten Haken (born 27 November 1986) is a Dutch model. She was born to a Dutch Father and a Belgian mother in Lelystad, Flevoland, and began modeling after she won the 2001 Elite Model Look competition at the age of 15. In 2003, Rianne wa ...

, Dutch model *

– Laura Spencer, American actress * May 12 ** 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 *

** 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.

) ** Julian Edelman, American football player ** Molly Ephraim, American actress ** Tatiana Volosozhar, Ukrainian-born Russian figure skater * May 23 ** 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 * May 25 – 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 * June 4 ** 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) * June 9 – 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 * June 14 – 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.

) *

** 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 * July 2 ** 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 * July 7 ** 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 * July 23 ** 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 *

– 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 *

– Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player * August 17 – Tobias Schönenberg, German actor and photo model *

– Christina Perri, American pop and rock musician * August 20 – Ryo Katsuji, Japanese actor and voice actor *

** 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 * August 31 ** 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 * September 4 ** Jaclyn Hales, American actress ** Xavier Woods, American professional wrestler * September 5 - 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 * September 13 – 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 *

– 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)

* October 1 ** 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 * October 3 – 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 * October 9 **Blagoy Ivanov, Bulgarian mixed martial artist ** Laure Manaudou, French swimmer * October 10 ** Lucy Griffiths (actress, born 1986), Lucy Griffiths, English actress ** Nathan Jawai, Australian basketball player * October 12 ** Li Wenliang, Chinese ophthalmologist (d.

) ** 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 * October 16 ** 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 * October 21 ** Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Russian-American terrorist (d.

) ** Christopher von Uckermann, Mexican-Swedish singer, songwriter and actor * October 22 ** 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 * October 29 ** Italia Ricci, Canadian actress ** Derek Theler, American actor * October 30 ** 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 * November 6 – Katie Leclerc, American actress * November 7 – James Ferraro, American musician and contemporary artist * November 8 – Aaron Swartz, American programmer (d.

) * 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 *

– 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

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* 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 * December 14 - 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 * December 19 ** 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

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** Christopher Isherwood, English writer (b. 1904) ** Phil Lynott, Irish musician, lead singer and bassist (Thin Lizzy) (b. 1949) *

– Ilmari Salminen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1902) *

– Una Merkel, American actress (b. 1903) * January 7 – Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (b. 1917) *

– Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) *

– Juan Carlos Corazzo, Uruguayan football player (b. 1907) *

– Abdul Fattah Ismail, Leader of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) (b. 1939) *

– Donna Reed, American actress (b. 1921) *

– Herbert W. Armstrong, founded the Worldwide Church of God (b. 1892) *

– Abdul Majid Kubar, 4th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1909) *

– 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

** 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) *

– Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920) *

– Edmund Rubbra, British composer (b. 1901) *

– Howard Da Silva, American actor (b. 1909) *

** Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1895) ** Paul Stewart (actor), Paul Stewart, American actor (b. 1908) *

** 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) *

– Mart Stam, Dutch architect (b. 1899) * February 24 – Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician and "Father of medicare" in Canada (b. 1904) *

– Pasquale Festa Campanile, Italian screenwriter, film director and novelist (b. 1927) *

– Jacques Plante, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929) *

–

, Swedish politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)

March

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** 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) *

** 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) *

– 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) *

– 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) *

– Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967) *

– Simone de Beauvoir, French feminist writer (b. 1908) * April 15 ** 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) *

– Alvin Childress, American actor (b. 1907) * April 20 – Aleksei Arbuzov, Soviet playwright (b. 1908) *

– Teodoro Casana Robles, Peruvian lawyer, historian, journalist, archaeologist, photographer and geographer (b. 1900) *

– Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (b. 1907) *

** 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) * April 26 ** 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) *

– J. Allen Hynek, American ufologist (b.

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

May

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* May 2 – 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

(b. 1953) * May 12 ** 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

(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) * May 23 ** 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) * May 25 – 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) * June 14 ** 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) *

– 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) *

– 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) * August 20 – 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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September

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

(b.

) * September 4 – Hank Greenberg, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1911) * September 6 – 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) *

– 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) * October 10 – Michele Pellegrino, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1903) * October 11 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist and historian (b. 1898) * October 14 – Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916) * October 16 – Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (b. 1921) * October 19 –

, Mozambican military commander, politician and revolutionary, 1st President of Mozambique (b. 1933) * October 21 – Fritz Hochwälder, Austrian author (b. 1911) * October 22 – 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) * October 26 – 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) * November 6 – 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) * November 18 – Gia Carangi, American supermodel (b. 1960) *

** Jerry Colonna (entertainer), Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904) ** Dar Robinson, American stunt performer and actor (b.

) * 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) * December 14 – 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)

Date unknown

* 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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