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MS Herald of Free Enterprise MS ''Herald of Free Enterprise'' was a roll-on/roll-off (RORO) ferry which capsized moments after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge on the night of 6 March 1987, killing 193 passengers and crew. The eight-deck car and passenger ferry was ow ...
capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing everyone except a little girl; The King's Cross fire kills 31 people after a fire under an escalator flashes-over; The
MV Doña Paz MV ''Doña Paz'' was a Japanese built and Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker ''Vector'' on December 20, 1987. Built by Onomichi Zosen of Hiroshima, Japan, the ship was launched on April 25, 1963 ...
sinks after colliding with an oil tanker, drowning almost 4,400 passengers and crew; Typhoon Nina strikes the Philippines; LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 crashes outside of Warsaw, taking the lives of all aboard; The USS Stark is
struck Struck is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Adolf Struck (1877–1911), German author *Hermann Struck (1876–1944), German artist *Karin Struck (1947–2006), German author *Paul Struck (1776-1820), German composer *Peter Struc ...
by Iraqi Exocet missiles in the Persian Gulf;
U.S. President The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States ...
Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
gives a famous
speech Speech is a human vocal communication using language. Each language uses Phonetics, phonetic combinations of vowel and consonant sounds that form the sound of its words (that is, all English words sound different from all French words, even if ...
, demanding that Soviet leader
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 ...
tears down the
Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
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MV Doña Paz MV ''Doña Paz'' was a Japanese built and Philippine-registered passenger ferry that sank after colliding with the oil tanker ''Vector'' on December 20, 1987. Built by Onomichi Zosen of Hiroshima, Japan, the ship was launched on April 25, 1963 ...
rect 0 400 200 600 USS Stark incident rect 200 400 400 600 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 5055 rect 400 400 600 600 Typhoon Nina


Events


January

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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 ...
Chadian–Libyan conflict
Battle of Fada The Battle of Fada took place in northern Chad in 1987, and was a turning point of the Chadian–Libyan conflict. Prelude At the beginning of 1986 the Libyans controlled all Chad north of the 16th parallel. However, when France intervened ...
: The
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destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. *
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 ...
1987 Maryland train collision The 1987 Maryland train collision occurred at 1:30 pm on January 4, 1987, on Amtrak's Northeast Corridor main line. The site of the crash was in the Chase community in eastern Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, at , about northeast of B ...
: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with
Conrail Conrail , formally the Consolidated Rail Corporation, was the primary Class I railroad in the Northeastern United States between 1976 and 1999. The trade name Conrail is a portmanteau based on the company's legal name. It continues to do busin ...
engines at
Chase, Maryland Chase is an unincorporated community in eastern Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. Geography Chase is located at (39.3634413, -76.3710704). Chase is located on the waterfront of the Gunpowder River, Middle River, Dundee Creek, Saltpeter ...
, United States, killing 16 people. *
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 ...
Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives. *
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 ...
León Febres Cordero León Esteban Febres-Cordero Ribadeneyra (9 March 1931 – 15 December 2008), known in the Ecuadorian media as LFC or more simply by his composed surname (Febres-Cordero), was the 35th President of Ecuador, serving a four-year term from 10 Augu ...
, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned general Frank Vargas, who successfully demand the latter's release. *
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 ...
Terry Waite, the special envoy of the
Archbishop of Canterbury The archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and a principal leader of the Church of England, the ceremonial head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. The current archbishop is Justi ...
in Lebanon, is kidnapped in Beirut (released November
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 ...
).


February

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February 6 Events Pre-1600 * 1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 * 1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of ...
– The Soviet oil tanker ''Antonio Gramsci'' suffers a minor shipwreck in Finnish waters en route to the Neste oil refinery in Porvoo, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 570–650 tons. *
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 ...
** British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange. ** The new
Constitution of the Philippines The Constitution of the Philippines (Filipino: ''Saligang Batas ng Pilipinas'' or ''Konstitusyon ng Pilipinas'', Spanish: ''Constitución de la República de Filipinas'') is the constitution or the supreme law of the Republic of the Philippines ...
goes into effect. This new constitution adds Spanish and Arabic as optional languages of the Philippines. *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
– A second Unabomber bomb explodes at a Salt Lake City computer store in the United States, injuring the owner. *
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 ...
SN 1987A, the first "naked-eye"
supernova A supernova is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. It has the plural form supernovae or supernovas, and is abbreviated SN or SNe. This transient astronomical event occurs during the last evolutionary stages of a massive star or when ...
since
1604 Events January–June * January 1 – '' The Masque of Indian and China Knights'' is performed by courtiers of James VI and I at Hampton Court. * January 14 – The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England ...
, is observed. *
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. ...
– Beginning of the
Phosphorite War The Phosphorite War ( et, Fosforiidisõda) is the name given to a late-1980s environmental campaign in the then-Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, against the opening of large phosphorite mines in the Virumaa region. The movement, peaking in 1 ...
protest movement in the
Estonian SSR The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an ethnically based adminis ...
. *
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 ...
Iran–Contra affair: The
Tower Commission The Tower Commission was a United States presidential commission established on December 1, 1986, by President Ronald Reagan in response to the Iran–Contra affair (in which senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arm ...
rebukes U.S. President
Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
for not controlling his
National Security Council A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...
staff.


March

* March 1 – The first
Starbucks Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It is the world's largest coffeehouse chain. As of November 2021, the company had 33,833 stores in 80 c ...
outside of the US is opened in Vancouver, Canada. * March 2New Zealand's most destructive earthquake in 19 years hits near the city of
Edgecumbe Edgecumbe is a town in the Bay of Plenty of the North Island of New Zealand, 15 kilometres to the west of Whakatāne and eight kilometres south of the Bay's coast. It is the main service town for the agricultural region surrounding the plains ...
, killing 1 person and leaving 25 injured. * March 4 – U.S. President
Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
addresses the American people on the Iran–Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal. * March 6Zeebrugge disaster: Roll-on/roll-off cross-channel ferry capsizes off Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium; 193 people die. *
March 7 Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. * 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
1987 Lieyu massacre The 1987 Lieyu massacre occurred on 7 March 1987, at Donggang Bay, Lieyu Island ("Lesser Kinmen" or "Little Quemoy"), Kinmen, Fujian, Republic of China. ROC military officially denied the massacre, and defined it as an incident of ...
: The Republic of China Army execute 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees on Donggang beach,
Lieyu, Kinmen Lieyu Township (Liehyu) (; pinyin: ''Lièyǔ Xiāng''; Hokkien POJ: ''Lia̍t-sū-hiong'') is a rural township in Kinmen County (Quemoy), Fujian Province, Republic of China (Taiwan). It mainly consists of Lesser Kinmen (; Pīnyīn: ''Xiǎojīnmé ...
off Mainland China. * March 18
Woodstock of physics The term "Woodstock of physics" is often used by physicists to refer to the marathon session of the American Physical Society’s meeting on March 18, 1987, which featured 51 presentations of recent discoveries in the science of high-temperature sup ...
: A marathon session of the
American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...
's meeting features 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors. * March 20
AZT Zidovudine (ZDV), also known as azidothymidine (AZT), is an antiretroviral medication used to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. It is generally recommended for use in combination with other antiretrovirals. It may be used to prevent mother-to-child ...
is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. * March 24 – Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and French Prime Minister and future President of France,
Jacques Chirac Jacques René Chirac (, , ; 29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. Chirac was previously Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988, as well as Ma ...
, sign an agreement to construct the Euro Disney Resort (now called Disneyland Paris) and to develop the Val d'Europe area of the new town Marne-la-Vallée in Paris, France. * March 29 ** The World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) produces WrestleMania III from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until February 14, 2010, when the
2010 NBA All-Star Game The 2010 NBA All-Star Game was an Exhibition game, exhibition basketball game that was played on February 14, 2010, during the National Basketball Association's (NBA) 2009–10 NBA season, 2009–10 season. It was the 59th edition of the NBA All-S ...
has an attendance of 108,713 at
AT&T Stadium AT&T Stadium, formerly Cowboys Stadium, is a retractable roof, retractable-roof stadium in Arlington, Texas, United States. It serves as the home of the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL), and was completed on May 27, 2009. I ...
. ** A
hybrid solar eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of the Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs during an eclipse season, approximately every six month ...
was the second hybrid solar eclipse in less than one year, the first being on October 3, 1986. It was annular visible in southern Argentina, Gabon,
Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...
, Cameroon, Central African Republic,
Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
(part of the path of annularity crossed today's South Sudan), Ethiopia, Djibouti and northern Somalia and total visible in Atlantic Ocean, lasting just 7.57 seconds. * March 30 – The
59th Academy Awards The 59th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 30, 1987, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST. During ...
take place in Los Angeles, with '' Platoon'' winning Best Picture. *
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 ...
Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, conducts a 45-minute interview on Soviet television.


April

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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 ...
– The governments of the Portuguese Republic and the People's Republic of China sign an
agreement Agreement may refer to: Agreements between people and organizations * Gentlemen's agreement, not enforceable by law * Trade agreement, between countries * Consensus, a decision-making process * Contract, enforceable in a court of law ** Meeting o ...
in which Macau will be returned to China in
1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
. * April 19 – '' The Simpsons'' cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on '' The Tracey Ullman Show''. *
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 ...
– In Colombo,
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
, the Central Bus Station Bombing kills 113 civilians. *
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 ...
– The United States Department of Justice declares incumbent Austrian president Kurt Waldheim an "undesirable alien". * April 30 – Canadian Prime Minister
Brian Mulroney Martin Brian Mulroney ( ; born March 20, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the 18th prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993. Born in the eastern Quebec city of Baie-Comeau, Mulroney studied political sci ...
and the Provincial Premiers agree on principle to the Meech Lake Accord which would bring Quebec into the constitution.


May

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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 ...
Loughgall ambush: A 24-man unit of the British Army
Special Air Service The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling and in 1950, it was reconstituted as a corps. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terro ...
(SAS) ambushed eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) as they mounted an attack on a
Royal Ulster Constabulary The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC)Richard Doherty, ''The Thin Green Line – The History of the Royal ...
(RUC) barracks. All IRA members were killed as well as one civilian. * May 9 – A Soviet-made
Ilyushin Il-62 The Ilyushin Il-62 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-62; NATO reporting name: Classic) is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As successor to the popular turboprop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 pa ...
airliner, operated by
LOT Polish Airlines LOT Polish Airlines, legally incorporated as Polskie Linie Lotnicze LOT S.A. (, ''flight''), is the flag carrier of Poland. Established in 1928, LOT was a founding member of IATA and remains one of the world's oldest airlines in operation. Wit ...
, crashes into a forest just outside Warsaw, killing all 183 people on board. *
May 11 Events 1601–1900 *1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. *1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II. *
May 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks. *1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. * 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
– Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka executes a bloodless coup in
Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
. * May 17 – is hit by two Iraqi-owned Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles killing 37 sailors. *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...
** The
Hashimpura massacre The Hashimpura massacre was the killing of 50 Muslim men by police on or around 22 May 1987 near Meerut in Uttar Pradesh state, India, during the 1987 Meerut communal riots. It was reported that 19 personnel of the Provincial Armed Constabulary ...
occurs in Meerut, India. ** The first ever Rugby World Cup kicks off with New Zealand playing Italy at
Eden Park Eden Park is New Zealand's largest sports stadium, with a capacity of 50,000. Located in central Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, it is three kilometres southwest of the CBD, on the boundary between the suburbs of Mount Eden and King ...
, Auckland. *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
– In one of the densest concentrations of humanity in history, a crowd of 800,000+ packed shoulder-to-shoulder onto the
Golden Gate Bridge The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California—the northern tip of the San Francisco Pen ...
and its approaches for its 50th Anniversary celebration. * May 28 – Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defenses and lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained (released on August 3, 1988).


June

* June 3 – The
Vanuatu Labour Party The Vanuatu Labour Party ( bi, Vanuatu Leba Pati; french: Parti Travailliste du Vanuatu) is a political party in Vanuatu. The party was established on 3 June 1987. It was founded on the initiative of various trade union organizations in order to ...
is founded. * June 8 – The
New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act In 1987, the Fourth Labour Government of New Zealand, Fourth Labour Government passed the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament and Arms Control Act. The Act essentially declared New Zealand as a nuclear free zone. The purpose of the Act ...
is passed, the first of its kind in the world. * June 11 – The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 general election. *
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 ...
– During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President
Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
challenges Soviet
general secretary Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...
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 ...
to tear down the
Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall (german: Berliner Mauer, ) was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and East Germany (GDR). Construction of the Berlin Wall was commenced by the government ...
. *
June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
– With the death of the last known individual, the dusky seaside sparrow, a subspecies native to the US state of Florida, becomes extinct. * June 19 **
Teddy Seymour Teddy Seymour is the first black man to sail around the world solo. On June 19, 1987, Teddy Seymour became officially designated the first black man to sail around the world when he completed his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, S ...
is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands. ** ''
Edwards v. Aguillard ''Edwards v. Aguillard'', 482 U.S. 578 (1987), was a United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of teaching creationism. The Court considered a Louisiana law requiring that where evolutionary science was taught in public ...
'': The
Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that involve a point o ...
rules that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution is taught is unconstitutional. **
Hipercor bombing The Hipercor bombing was a car bomb attack by the Basque nationalism, Basque separatist organisation ETA (separatist group), ETA, which was classified as a List of designated terrorist groups, terrorist group. It took place on 19 June 1987 at th ...
: the Basque terrorist group
ETA Eta (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἦτα ''ē̂ta'' or ell, ήτα ''ita'' ) is the seventh letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the close front unrounded vowel . Originally denoting the voiceless glottal fricative in most dialects, ...
perpetrate a car-bomb attack at an Hipercor market in Barcelona, killing 21 and hurting 45. * June 27 – A commercial
HS 748 The Hawker Siddeley HS 748 is a medium-sized turboprop airliner originally designed and initially produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Avro. It was the last aircraft to be developed by Avro prior to its absorption by Hawker Siddeley ...
(
Philippine Airlines Flight 206 Philippine Airlines Flight 206 (PR206) was the route designator of a domestic flight from the Manila Domestic Airport, Metro Manila, Philippines to Loakan Airport, Baguio. On June 26, 1987, the Hawker Siddeley HS 748 crashed onto a mountain en rou ...
) crashes near Baguio, Philippines, killing 50. *
June 28 Events Pre-1600 * 1098 – Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul at the battle of Antioch. * 1360 – Muhammed VI becomes the tenth Nasrid king of Granada after killing his brother-in-law Ismail II. * 1461 – ...
** Iraqi warplanes drop mustard-gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in two separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas. This is the first time a civilian town was targeted by chemical weapons. ** An accidental explosion at the Hohenfels Training Area in West Germany kills 3 U.S. troops. * June 29 – South Korean politician, presidential candidate of the ruling party Roh Tae-woo makes a speech promising a wide program of nationwide reforms, the result of the June Democracy Movement. * June 30 – Canada introduces a one-dollar coin, nicknamed the " Loonie".


July

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July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– The Single European Act is passed by the European Community. * July 3Greater Manchester Police recover the body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from
Saddleworth Moor Saddleworth Moor is a moorland in North West England. Reaching more than above sea level, it is in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park. It is crossed by the A635 road and the Pennine Way passes to its eastern side. Geography ...
, after her killers 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 ...
help them in their search, almost exactly 24 years since Pauline was last seen alive. * July 4 – A court in Lyon sentences former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie to
life imprisonment Life imprisonment is any sentence of imprisonment for a crime under which convicted people are to remain in prison for the rest of their natural lives or indefinitely until pardoned, paroled, or otherwise commuted to a fixed term. Crimes for ...
for crimes against humanity. * July 11 **
1987 Australian federal election The 1987 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 11 July 1987, following the granting of a double dissolution on 5 June by the Governor-General Sir Ninian Stephen. Consequently, all 148 seats in the House of Representatives as well ...
:
Bob Hawke Robert James Lee Hawke (9 December 1929 – 16 May 2019) was an Australian politician and union organiser who served as the 23rd prime minister of Australia from 1983 to 1991, holding office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (A ...
's Labor Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Liberal Party led by John Howard and the National Party led by Ian Sinclair. ** World population is estimated to have reached five billion people, according to the United Nations. * July 15Martial law in Taiwan ends after 38 years. * July 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time, at 2,510.04. * July 22 – Palestinian cartoonist
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is shot in London; he dies August 28. *
July 25 Events Pre-1600 * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
– The East Lancashire Railway, a
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in the North West of England, is opened between
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and Ramsbottom. * July 27 – The song Never Gonna Give You Up a
single Single may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * Single (music), a song release Songs * "Single" (Natasha Bedingfield song), 2004 * "Single" (New Kids on the Block and Ne-Yo song), 2008 * "Single" (William Wei song), 2016 * "Single", by ...
was created and released by Rick Astley. *
July 31 Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. * 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
** Four hundred pilgrims are killed in clashes between demonstrating Iranian pilgrims and Saudi Arabian security forces in Mecca. ** Docklands Light Railway in London, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II. ** An F4-rated tornado devastates eastern Edmonton, Alberta; hardest hit are an industrial park and a trailer park. 27 people are killed and hundreds injured, with hundreds more left homeless and jobless.


August

* August 4 ** The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission, publishes its report, '' Our Common Future.'' ** The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present alternative views on controversial issues. * August 7 ** The
Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
n frigate ''Caldas'' enters Venezuelan waters near the
Los Monjes Archipelago The Los Monjes islands (Spanish: ''Archipiélago Los Monjes'') is a federal dependency of Venezuela are located to the northwest of the Gulf of Venezuela, off the coast of Guajira Peninsula at the border between Colombia and the Venezuelan st ...
, sparking the Caldas frigate crisis between both nations. ** American Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim the Bering Strait, crossing from Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in 2 hours and 5 minutes. * August 9
Hoddle Street massacre The Hoddle Street massacre was a mass shooting that occurred on the evening of Sunday, 9 August 1987, in Hoddle Street, Clifton Hill, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in Australia. The shootings resulted in the deaths of seven people, and seri ...
in Australia: Julian Knight, 19, goes on a shooting rampage in the Melbourne suburb of
Clifton Hill, Victoria Clifton Hill is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Yarra local government area. Clifton Hill recorded a population of 6,606 at the 2021 census ...
, killing 7 people and injuring 19 before surrendering to police. *
August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
– All the children held at Kai Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid. *
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 ...
** Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (a McDonnell Douglas MD-82) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan just west of Detroit killing all but one (4-year old
Cecelia Cichan This list includes sole survivors of aviation accidents and incidents that involved 10 or more onboard. Within this list, "sole survivor" refers to a person who survived an air accident in which all other aircraft occupants died as a direct conseq ...
) of the 156 people on board. ** The followers of the
Harmonic Convergence The Harmonic Convergence is the name given to the world's first synchronized global peace meditation, which occurred on August 16–17, 1987. This event also closely coincided with an exceptional alignment of planets in the Solar System. Althoug ...
claim it was observed around the world. * August 17
Rudolf Hess Rudolf Walter Richard Hess (Heß in German; 26 April 1894 – 17 August 1987) was a German politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. Appointed Deputy Führer to Adolf Hitler in 1933, Hess held that position unt ...
is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon demolished. *
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 ...
** Hungerford massacre: Sixteen people die in an apparently motiveless mass shooting in the United Kingdom, carried out by
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. ** ABC News' chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity. ** The
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is opened to women. * August 23 – The
Hirvepark meeting The Hirvepark meeting ( et, Hirvepargi miiting) was held in Estonia on 23 August 1987 in Hirvepark, the anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet Pact. It was attended by 2,000 to 5,000 people, and was one of the first organized public demonstrations agai ...
is organized as the first unsanctioned political meeting in Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, in commemoration of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.


September

*
September 2 Events Pre-1600 *44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his ''Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them ...
– In Moscow, USSR, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his
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airplane into Red Square in May. *
September 3 Events Pre-1600 *36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. * 301 – San Marino, one of the s ...
– In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major
Pierre Buyoya Pierre Buyoya (24 November 1949 – 17 December 2020) was a Burundian army officer and politician who served two terms as President of Burundi in 1987 to 1993 and 1996 to 2003. He was the second-longest serving president in Burundian history. An ...
. * September 721 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States. * September 13Goiânia accident: Metal scrappers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area. *
September 15 Events Pre-1600 * 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes. *1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by ...
Pope John Paul II arrives in Los Angeles for a two-day papal visit, his first one ever to the city, where he makes an arrival day speech to local leaders of the U.S. entertainment industry. *
September 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia". * 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empi ...
Pope John Paul II arrives in San Francisco for his first visit to the city, in which he embraces several
AIDS Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a retrovirus. Following initial infection an individual m ...
sufferers, including an infected child, and proclaims
abstinence Abstinence is a self-enforced restraint from indulging in bodily activities that are widely experienced as giving pleasure. Most frequently, the term refers to sexual abstinence, but it can also mean abstinence from alcohol, drugs, food, etc. ...
from illicit sex and drugs are the two main ways to avoid infection.


October

* October 3 – The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement is reached but still requires ratification. This agreement would be a precursor to
NAFTA The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA ; es, Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte, TLCAN; french: Accord de libre-échange nord-américain, ALÉNA) was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States that crea ...
. * October 6
Fiji Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
becomes a republic. * October 7
Sikh Sikhs ( or ; pa, ਸਿੱਖ, ' ) are people who adhere to Sikhism, Sikhism (Sikhi), a Monotheism, monotheistic religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Gu ...
nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India. *
October 15 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later. * 1211 ...
– In Burkina Faso, a military coup is orchestrated by Blaise Compaoré against incumbent President Thomas Sankara. *
October 15 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later. * 1211 ...
16Great Storm of 1987: Hurricane-force winds hit much of southern England, killing 23 people. * October 19 **
Black Monday Black Monday refers to specific Mondays when undesirable or turbulent events have occurred. It has been used to designate massacres, military battles, and stock market crashes. Historic events *1209, Dublin – when a group of 500 recently arriv ...
: Stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world. ** US warships destroy two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf. ** Two commuter trains collide head-on on the outskirts of
Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...
, Indonesia; 102 are killed. * October 22 ** The pilot of a British Aerospace BAE Harrier GR5 registered ZD325 accidentally ejects from his aircraft. The jet continues to fly until it runs out of fuel and crashes into the Irish Sea. * October 23 ** British champion
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Lester Piggott is jailed for three years after being convicted of tax evasion. ** On a vote of 58–42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. * October 26 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average goes down 156.83 points.


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, ...
– The InterCity 125 breaks the world speed record for a diesel-powered train, reaching 238 km/h (147.88 mph). * November 7 **
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali Zine El Abidine Ben Ali ( ar, زين العابدين بن علي, translit=Zayn al-'Ābidīn bin 'Alī; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali ( ar, بن علي) or Ezzine ( ar, الزين), was a Tunisian politician ...
assumes the Presidency of Tunisia. ** Lynne Cox swims between the Diomede Islands from the American Little Diomede Island to the Soviet
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. ** Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service. * November 8
Enniskillen bombing The Remembrance Day bombing (also known as the Enniskillen bombing or Poppy Day massacre) took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster- ...
: Twelve people are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen. *
November 12 Events Pre-1600 * 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. *1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros. * 13 ...
– The first
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restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, near Tiananmen Square. *
November 15 Events Pre-1600 * 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. *1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morg ...
– In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime led by Nicolae Ceaușescu. * November 16 – The
Parlatino The Latin American Parliament (''Parlatino'') is a regional, permanent organization composed by the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a consultative assembly similar to the early European Parliament. Currently the institution ...
Treaty of Institutionalization is signed. * November 17 – A tsunami hits the Gulf of Alaska. * November 18 ** The King's Cross fire on the London Underground kills 31 people and injures a further 100. ** Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Senate and House panels release reports charging President
Ronald Reagan Ronald Wilson Reagan ( ; February 6, 1911June 5, 2004) was an American politician, actor, and union leader who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He also served as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 ...
with 'ultimate responsibility' for the affair. * November 22Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion – unknown perpetrators hijack the signal of
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for about 20 seconds, and
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for about 90 seconds, and displays a strange video of a man in a Max Headroom mask. * November 25Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the Philippines with winds and a devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 812 deaths. * November 28
South African Airways Flight 295 South African Airways Flight 295 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Taoyuan International Airport, Taipei, Taiwan, to Jan Smuts International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa, with a stopover in Plaisance Airport, Plaine Mag ...
crashes into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius, due to a fire in the cargo hold; the 159 passengers and crew perish. *
November 29 Events Pre-1600 * 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom. * 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over t ...
Korean Air Flight 858 is blown up over the
Andaman Sea The Andaman Sea (historically also known as the Burma Sea) is a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean bounded by the coastlines of Myanmar and Thailand along the Gulf of Martaban and west side of the Malay Peninsula, and separated from ...
, killing 115 crew and passengers. North Korean agents are responsible for the bombing.


December

* December –
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, marketed as Prozac, is approved for use as an
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in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration. * December 1 ** NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell. ** Queensland: Following a week of turmoil from his National Party of Australia colleagues, Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland. He is replaced by Mike Ahern, the only premier never to contest an election as premier. * December 7Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, United States, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots. * December 8 **
Israeli–Palestinian conflict The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, beginning in the mid-20th century. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, alongside other ef ...
: The
First Intifada The First Intifada, or First Palestinian Intifada (also known simply as the intifada or intifadah),The word ''intifada'' () is an Arabic word meaning "uprising". Its strict Arabic transliteration is '. was a sustained series of Palestinian ...
begins in the
Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza.. ...
and West Bank. **
Queen Street massacre The Queen Street massacre was a mass shooting which occurred on 8 December 1987 at Australia Post offices on 191 Queen Street in Melbourne, Victoria. University dropout Frank Vitkovic entered the building on the pretext of visiting a friend ...
: In Melbourne, Australia, 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 people and injures another 5 in a Post Office building before committing suicide by jumping from the eleventh floor. ** The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President
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and Soviet leader
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. It later expires in
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. **
Alianza Lima air disaster The 1987 Alianza Lima air disaster occurred on 8 December 1987, when a Peruvian Navy Fokker F27-400M chartered by Peruvian football club Alianza Lima crashed into the Pacific Ocean seven miles from Jorge Chávez International Airport near the cit ...
: A
Peruvian Navy The Peruvian Navy ( es, link=no, Marina de Guerra del Perú, abbreviated MGP) is the branch of the Peruvian Armed Forces tasked with surveillance, patrol and defense on lakes, rivers and the Pacific Ocean up to from the Peruvian littoral. Addit ...
Fokker F27 crashes near Ventanilla, Peru, killing 43. * December 9 – General
Rahimuddin Khan Rahimuddin Khan (21 July 1926 – 22 August 2022) was a general of the Pakistan Army who served as the 4th Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1984 to 1987, after serving as the 7th governor of Balochistan from 1978 to 1984. He als ...
retires from the
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, along with the cabinet of the country's
military dictatorship A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer. The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...
. *
December 15 Events Pre-1600 * 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum. * 687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theod ...
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is founded by
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and Takayuki Goto. *
December 17 Events Pre-1600 * 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. * 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison. * 920 – Romanos I Lekap ...
Gustáv Husák resigns as
General Secretary Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the organization. The term is derived ...
of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * December 20 – In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry MV ''Doña Paz'' sinks after colliding with the oil tanker ''Vector 1'' in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official). * December 21Turgut Özal of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (46th government). * December 22 – In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the
Gukurahundi The ''Gukurahundi'' was a genocide in Zimbabwe which arose in 1982 until the Unity Accord in 1987. It derives from a Shona language term which loosely translates to "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains". During ...
. *
December 30 Events Pre-1600 *534 – The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire. *999 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushi ...
Pope John Paul II issues the
encyclical An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church. At that time, the word could be used for a letter sent out by any bishop. The word comes from the Late Latin (originally from ...
'' Sollicitudo rei socialis'' (''On Social Concern'').


Births


January

* January 1Meryl Davis, American figure skater *
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 ...
Shelley Hennig Shelley Catherine Hennig (born January 2, 1987) is an American actress and model. She is the recipient of several accolades, including a Teen Choice Award and two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Prior to pursuing an acting career, Hennig compet ...
, American actress and model * January 5
Jason Mitchell Jason Mitchell (born January 5, 1987) is an American actor. Mitchell started his career acting in minor roles in films such as the action-thriller '' Contraband'' (2012), and the neo-noir ''Broken City'' (2013). He is best known for portraying ...
, American actor *
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 ...
Zhang Lin, Chinese swimmer *
January 7 Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting. * 1325 – Alfonso IV ...
**
Davide Astori Davide Astori (; 7 January 1987 – 4 March 2018) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a central defender. After playing youth football for Pontisola and AC Milan, Astori started his senior career at Serie C clubs Pizzighettone ...
, Italian footballer (d.
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) ** Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress **
Sirusho Siranush Harutyunyan ( hy, Սիրանուշ Հարությունյան; born 7 January 1987), known professionally as Sirusho ( hy, Սիրուշո), is an Armenian singer and songwriter. She received her first award when she was nine years old fo ...
, Armenian singer *
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 ...
Freddie Stroma, English actor and model *
January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. *1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
**
Lucas Leiva Lucas Pezzini Leiva (born 9 January 1987), known as Lucas or Lucas Leiva (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Grêmio. Lucas began his career as a box-to-box midfielder at Grêmio where he won the ...
, Brazilian football player ** Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer ** Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d.
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) *
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 ...
César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer * January 11 ** Jamie Vardy, English footballer ** Danuta Kozák, Hungarian sprint canoer * January 12Naya Rivera, American actress and singer (d.
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) *
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 ...
Jack Johnson, American ice hockey player *
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 ...
**
Greg Inglis Gregory Paul Inglis (born 15 January 1987), also known by the nickname of "G.I.", is a retired Australian professional rugby league footballer. His regular playing positions were Centre, Fullback, Five-eighth and Wing. From 2011 to 2019 he pl ...
, Australian rugby league player **
Tsegaye Kebede Tsegaye Kebede Wordofa ( Amharic: ፀጋየ ከበደ ዎርዶፋ; born 15 January 1987) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in road running events, including marathons. He quickly rose to become a prominent distance runner after ...
, Ethiopian long-distance runner **
Kelly Kelly Barbara Blank Coba (born Barbara Jean Blank; January 15, 1987), known professionally as Barbie Blank and by her ring name Kelly Kelly, is an American professional wrestler and model. Blank has a background in gymnastics and cheerleading, an ...
, American professional wrestler ** Michael Seater, Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer * January 18Zane Holtz, Canadian actor and model * January 19
Arkadiy Vasilyev Arkadiy Vasilyev (born 19 January 1987) is a Russian decathlete. Vasilyev won the decathlon at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing, China. References External links * 1987 births Living people Russian decathletes Russian ...
, Russian decathlete *
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 ...
** Evan Peters, American actor ** Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (d.
2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...
) * January 21
Pablo Caballero González Pablo Caballero (born 21 January 1987 in Minas, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer. Club career He made his professional debut against Liverpool on 29 August 2004 at the age of 17. In February 2010, he was loaned to Vasas SC of Hungary for six ...
, Uruguayan footballer * January 24 **
Ruth Bradley Sharon Ruth Bradley is an Irish actress. She is best known for playing Emily Merchant in ''Primeval'' (2011) and Karen Voss in ''Humans'' (2015–18). She has also had recurring roles in ''Legend'' (6 episodes, 2006), ''The Innocence Project'' ...
, Irish television and film actress **
Wayne Hennessey Wayne Robert Hennessey (born 24 January 1987) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Nottingham Forest and the Wales national team. Hennessey's first professional games saw him set a new Football ...
, Welsh football player ** Luis Suárez, Uruguayan football player * January 26
Sebastian Giovinco Sebastian Giovinco (; born 26 January 1987) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a forward. A quick and creative player on the ball, Giovinco was a versatile forward capable of playing in multiple offensive positions. Gio ...
, Italian football player *
January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
Hannah Teter, American snowboarder *
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 ...
** Becky Lynch, Irish professional wrestler **
Arda Turan Arda Turan (born 30 January 1987) is a Turkish former professional footballer who played most notably as a winger. Turan is mostly known for his ball control, dribbling skills and vision. At age 21, prior to the 2009–10 season, he was named ...
, Turkish footballer * January 31Marcus Mumford, English-American singer, songwriter, and musician ( Mumford & Sons)


February

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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 ...
**
Heather Morris Heather Elizabeth Morris (born February 1, 1987) is an American actress, dancer, singer, and model. She played the role of Brittany Pierce, Brittany S. Pierce in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox musical comedy-drama series ''Glee (TV series), G ...
, American actress and dancer ** Ronda Rousey, American martial arts expert and actress *
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 ...
Gerard Piqué, Barcelona and Spanish footballer *
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 – ...
Johan Dahlberg Johan Dahlberg (born February 3, 1987) is a Swedish professional ice hockey winger who played with Modo Hockey during the 2005–06 Elitserien season. He was selected by the Toronto Maple Leafs The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Tor ...
, Swedish architect *
February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
Lucie Šafářová Lucie Šafářová (; born 4 February 1987) is a Czech former professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles, and No. 5 in singles. She is a five-time Grand Slam champion in doubles, having won the 2015 Australian Open, 2015 ...
, Czech tennis player *
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 ...
** Darren Criss, American singer and actor ** Henry Golding, Malaysian-English actor, model, and television host * February 7Kerli, Estonian singer * February 8Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater * February 9 ** Michael B. Jordan, American actor and producer ** Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete * February 10 **
Choi Siwon Choi Si-won (; born 7 April 1986), known mononymously as Siwon, is a South Korean singer, songwriter, model, and actor known for his work as a member of South Korean boy group Super Junior. Choi committed as special representative of UNICEF K ...
, South Korean recording artist ** Poli Genova, Bulgarian singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter ** Yuja Wang, Chinese pianist *
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 ...
Ellen van Dijk, Dutch road and track cycling world champion *
February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. *1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. *1462 – The ...
Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer *
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 ...
** Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer **
José Miguel Cubero José Miguel Cubero Loría (born 14 February 1987) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays for Liga Deportiva Alajuelense and for the Costa Rica national football team as a holding midfielder. Club career Cubero was born in Sarchí. He made hi ...
, Costa Rican footballer * February 16 ** Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (d.
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
) ** Mauricio Henao, Colombian actor ** Jon Ossoff, American politician, senior senator from Georgia *
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 ...
Raffi Ahmad Raffi Farid Ahmad (born 17 February 1987) is an Indonesian media personality, presenter, actor, singer, entrepreneur and producer. As a Sundanese and Pakistani descent, He is the eldest son of Munawar Ahmad and Amy Qanita. Early life Raffi wa ...
, Indonesian actor and comedian * February 18
Carla Hernández Carla Hernández (born February 18, 1987) is a Mexican actress. She attended TV Azteca's acting class, Centro de Formación Actoral. She made her official acting debut in Azteca's Vidas Robadas, as Luz and Camila, the protagonist and antagonis ...
, Mexican actress *
February 20 Events Pre-1600 *1339 – The Milanese army and the St. George's (San Giorgio) Mercenaries of Lodrisio Visconti clash in the Battle of Parabiago; Visconti is defeated. *1472 – Orkney and Shetland are pawned by Norway to Scotland ...
**
Miles Teller Miles Teller (born February 20, 1987) is an American actor. He played a jazz drummer in ''Whiplash'' and a supporting pilot in '' Top Gun: Maverick''. Teller made his feature film debut in 2010 and gained recognition for his starring role in t ...
, American actor ** Taylor Boggs, American Football Player * February 21 **
Ashley Greene Ashley Michele Greene Khoury (born February 21, 1987) is an American actress. She is known for playing Alice Cullen in the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer's ''Twilight'' novels. Early life Greene was born on February 21, 1987, in Jack ...
, American actress **
Tuppence Middleton Tuppence Middleton (born 21 February 1987) is an English actress known for her performances in film, television and theatre. In 2010, she was nominated for the ''London Evening Standard'' Film Awards for Most Promising Newcomer. Middleton appea ...
, English actress * February 22 **
Han Hyo-joo Han Hyo-joo (Korean: 한효주; born February 22, 1987) is a South Korean film and television actress, model and singer. She is best known for her leading roles in television series such as ''Heaven & Earth'' (2007), '' Iljimae'' (2008), ''Brill ...
, South Korean actress ** Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer *
February 24 Events Pre-1600 * 484 – King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica. * 1303 – The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence. * 13 ...
Tina Desai Tina may refer to: People *Tina (given name), people and fictional characters with the given name ''Tina'' Places *Tina, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran *Tina, Tunisia, a town in Sfax Governorate, Tunisia * Tina, Guadalcanal, Solomon ...
, Indian actress and model *
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. ...
Andrew Poje, Canadian figure skater *
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 ...
Johan Sjöstrand Johan Sjöstrand (; born 26 February 1987) is a Swedish handballer for Bjerringbro-Silkeborg, and has represented the Swedish national team at several competitions including the 2012 Olympic Games where he was part of the Swedish team that won ...
, Swedish handball player *
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 ...
Valeriy Andriytsev Valerii Oleksandrovych Andriitsev ( uk, Валерій Олександрович Андрійцев; born 27 February 1987 in Kozelets) is a male freestyle wrestler from Ukraine. He won the silver medal in the Men's freestyle 96 kg at 2012 Sum ...
, Ukrainian wrestler


March

* March 1
Kesha Kesha Rose Sebert (; born March 1, 1987), formerly stylized as Ke$ha, is an American singer and songwriter. In 2005, at age 18, Kesha was signed to Kemosabe Records. Her first major success came in early 2009 after she was featured on America ...
, American singer * March 3Elnur Hüseynov, Azerbaijani singer *
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 ...
Anna Chakvetadze, Russian professional tennis player * March 6Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer * March 9Bow Wow, American rapper and actor * March 10 ** Liu Shishi, Chinese actress ** Emeli Sandé, Scottish recording artist and songwriter * March 11 **
Estefanía Villarreal Estefanía Villarreal (born ''Estefanía Villarreal Villarreal''; March 11, 1987) is a Mexican actress best known for her performance in the Mexican telenovela ''Rebelde ''Rebelde'' (English: ''Rebel'') is a Mexican telenovela produced by P ...
, Mexican actress **
Ngonidzashe Makusha Ngonidzashe Makusha (born 11 March 1987) is a Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper. He is the national record holder over 100 m and Long Jump for Zimbabwe with 9.89 s (+1.3 m/s) and 8.40 m (0.0 m/s) respectively. Both performances ach ...
, Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper *
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 ...
Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player * March 13
Marco Andretti Marco Michael Andretti (born March 13, 1987) is an American auto racing driver who drives the No. 98 car for Bryan Herta Autosport, Andretti Herta Autosport part-time in the IndyCar Series. He is the third generation of the famous Andretti racin ...
, American IRL driver *
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 ...
Aravane Rezaï, Iranian-French tennis player * March 16
Alexandr Smyshlyaev Alexandr Aleksandrovich Smyshlyaev (russian: Александр Александрович Смышляев, born 16 March 1987) is a Russian freestyle skier who specializes in the moguls discipline. Career Smyshlyaev competed at the 2006, 2 ...
, Russian freestyle skier * March 17 **
Federico Fazio Federico Julián Fazio (born 17 March 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Italian club Salernitana. He began his career at Ferro Carril Oeste, signing for Sevilla in 2007. He made 201 official app ...
, Argentine footballer ** Rob Kardashian, American television personality, model, and talent manager ** Bryan Dechart, American actor and Twitch streamer * March 18 ** Rebecca Soni, American swimmer **
Gabriel Mercado Gabriel Iván Mercado (born 18 March 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Internacional. Mainly a right back, he could also play as a central defender. He began his career with Racing Club and Estudiantes before joining ...
, Argentine footballer * March 19
AJ Lee April Jeanette Mendez (born March 19, 1987) is an American author and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in WWE under the ring name AJ Lee. She is currently an executive producer and color commentator for Women of Wre ...
, American professional wrestler * March 20
João Alves de Assis Silva João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below. Kings * ...
(Jô), Brazilian soccer player *
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 ...
Yuri Ryazanov, Russian artistic gymnast (d.
2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
) * March 22Alexander Shatilov, Israeli artistic gymnast * March 23
Alan Toovey Alan Toovey (born 23 March 1987) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A speedy left-footed defender, Toovey was initially unlucky not to ...
, Australian rules footballer * March 24
Juan Diego Covarrubias Juan Diego Covarrubias (born Juan Diego Covarrubias Aceves on March 24, 1987, in Guadalajara, Jalisco, México) is a Mexican actor. Early life and career Born in Guadalajara, Covarrubias studied at the prestigious boys school, Instituto Cumb ...
, Mexican actor *
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 ...
Nobunari Oda is a Japanese competitive figure skater. He is the 2006 Four Continents champion, a four-time Grand Prix Final medalist (silver in 2009 and 2010; bronze in 2006 and 2013), the 2005 World Junior champion and the 2008 Japanese national champio ...
, Japanese figure skater * March 26YUI, Japanese singer-songwriter * March 27Polina Gagarina, Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model ** Buster Posey, American Baseball Player * March 29Dénes Varga, Hungarian water polo player *
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 ...
– Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster


April

* April 1 ** Mackenzie Davis, Canadian actress ** Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player * April 3 – Yuval Spungin, Israeli footballer * April 4 ** Océane Zhu, Chinese actress ** Sami Khedira, German footballer ** Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress * April 8 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer * April 9 ** Jesse McCartney, American singer, songwriter, and actor ** Pengiran Anak Sarah, wife of the Crown Prince of Brunei, Al-Muhtadee Billah * April 10 ** Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano ** Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress and model * April 11 ** Joss Stone, English singer and actress ** Lights Poxleitner, Canadian musician * April 12 ** Brooklyn Decker, American fashion model and actress ** Brendon Urie, American musician * April 15 – Samira Wiley, American actress and model * April 17 – Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Canadian actress * April 18 − Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English supermodel * April 19 ** Joe Hart, English footballer ** Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player ** Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress *
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 ...
** Lenira Santos, Cape Verdean sprinter ** Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian folk rock and traditional pop singer * April 22 ** David Luiz, Brazilian footballer ** Mikel John Obi, Nigerian footballer * April 24 − Varun Dhawan, Indian actor * April 25 - Arjit Singh, Indian playback 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 ...
** Anne Suzuki, Japanese actress ** Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress * April 28 ** Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian film actress and model ** Daequan Cook, American basketball player * April 29 – Sara Errani, Italian tennis player


May

* May 1 – Matt Di Angelo, British Actor * May 2 – Nana Kitade, Japanese singer * May 4 ** Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish football player ** Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish triple MotoGP world champion ** Zbigniew Bartman, Polish volleyball player ** Li Yifeng, Chinese male actor * May 6 – Moon Geun-young, Korean actress * May 7 – Asami Konno, Japanese singer *
May 11 Events 1601–1900 *1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is Assassination of Spencer Perceval, assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. *1813 – William Lawson (explorer), William Lawson, Grego ...
** Albulena Haxhiu, Kosovo Albanian politician ** Enikő Mihalik, Hungarian model * May 12 – Felipe Roque, Brazilian actor and model * May 13 ** Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer ** Candice King, American actress and singer ** Marianne Vos, Dutch multiple cyclist * May 15 – Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player * May 17 – Ott Lepland, Estonian singer * May 18 – Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and singer * May 20 – Julian Wright, American basketball player *
May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...
** Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer ** Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player * May 23 – Bray Wyatt, American professional wrestler * May 25 – Nico Hillenbrand, German footballer * May 26 ** Tooji, Norwegian-Iranian singer, model and television host ** Brandi Cyrus, American actress, singer and DJ *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
– Bella Heathcote, Australian actress * May 29 – Noah Reid, Canadian actor and musician


June

* June 2 ** Tobias Arlt, German Olympic luger ** Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress * June 3 ** Lalaine, American actress, singer-songwriter, and bassist ** Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress * June 6 ** Luo Zilin, Miss Universe China, Miss Universe China 2011 4th runner-up and model ** Cássio Ramos, Brazilian footballer * June 10 – He Chong, Chinese diver * June 11 ** Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer ** Rie Tanaka (gymnast), Rie Tanaka, Japanese gymnast *
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 ...
** Abbey Lee, Australian model ** Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer * June 16 – Tobias Wendl, German Olympic luger *
June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. * 1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...
** Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer ** Kendrick Lamar, American rapper * June 18 ** Niels Schneider, French-Canadian actor ** Zsuzsanna Tomori, Hungarian handball player * June 20 ** A-fu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter ** Daiana Menezes, Brazilian actress, model, and television host * June 21 – Kim Ryeo-wook, South Korean singer * June 22 ** Joe Dempsie, English actor ** Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer and model * June 23 ** Guillaume Bonnafond, French road bicycle racer ** Aaron Groom, Fijian rugby league footballer * June 24 ** Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer ** Pierre Vaultier, French snowboarder * June 26 – Samir Nasri, French footballer


July

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July 1 Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...
– Ahn Jae-hyun, South Korean model and actor * July 2 – Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d.
2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...
) * July 3 ** Murad Subay, Yemeni artist and political activist ** Maximilian Mauff, German actor ** Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver, 4-time champions in Formula One * July 4 ** Ater Majok, Sudanese basketball player ** Prajwal Devaraj, Indian film actor * July 5 ** David Halaifonua, Tongan rugby union player ** Ji Chang-wook, South Korean actor ** Mohd Safiq Rahim, Malaysian footballer ** Chen Xiao, Chinese actor and model * July 6 ** Kate Nash, British singer-songwriter ** Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model * July 7 – Veronica Wagner, Swedish artistic gymnast * July 9 ** Rebecca Sugar, American animator and creator of ''Steven Universe'' ** Élodie Fontan, French actress * July 11 – Maximilian Müller, German field hockey player * July 13 ** Eva Rivas, Russian-Armenian singer ** Neil Denis, Canadian actor * July 14 ** Sara Canning, Canadian actress ** Larry Madowo, Kenyan journalist and news anchor ** Dan Reynolds (singer), Dan Reynolds, American singer and musician * July 16 – AnnaLynne McCord, American actress * July 17 – Benedict Martin, Malaysian footballer * July 19 ** Yan Gomes, Brazilian baseball player ** Ho Ho Lun, Hong Kong wrestler * July 20 – Owen Cheung, Hong Kong actor * July 23 – Marta Pihan-Kulesza, Polish artistic gymnast * July 24 – Mara Wilson, American actress and writer *
July 25 Events Pre-1600 * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...
– Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer * July 28 ** Sumire (model), Sumire, Japanese fashion model (d.
2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...
) ** Pedro (footballer, born 1987), Pedro, Spanish footballer *
July 31 Events Pre-1600 *30 BC – Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian's forces, but most of his army subsequently deserts, leading to his suicide. * 781 – The oldest recorded eruption of Mount Fuji (Tr ...
** Brittany Byrnes, Australian actress ** Michael Bradley (soccer), Michael Bradley, American soccer player


August

* August 3 – Zaquan Adha, Malaysian footballer * August 4 – Phil Younghusband, British-Filipino footballer * August 7 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player * August 8 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress * August 10 – Ari Boyland, New Zealand actor *
August 14 Events Pre-1600 * 74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating t ...
– Johnny Gargano, American wrestler *
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 ...
** Eri Kitamura, Japanese voice actress and singer ** Okieriete Onaodowan, Nigerian actor ** Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey goaltender *
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 ...
– Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver * August 20 ** Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast ** Tulus (singer), Tulus, Indonesian singer * August 21 – Anton Shipulin, Russian biathlete * August 24 – Anže Kopitar, Slovene ice hockey player * August 25 ** Liu Yifei, Chinese actress ** Blake Lively, American actress ** Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer and songwriter ** Rona Nishliu, Albanian singer, radio presenter, and humanitarian * August 30 – Roy Krishna, Fijian footballer


September

*
September 2 Events Pre-1600 *44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his ''Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them ...
** Scott Moir, Canadian figure skater ** Spencer Smith (musician), Spencer Smith, American musician *
September 3 Events Pre-1600 *36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. * 301 – San Marino, one of the s ...
– James Neal (ice hockey), James Neal, Canadian ice hockey player * September 4 – Maryna Linchuk, Belarusian model * September 6 – Anna Pavlova (gymnast), Anna Pavlova, Russian artistic gymnast * September 7 ** Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer ** Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player * September 8 ** Wiz Khalifa, American rapper ** Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier * September 9 ** Afrojack, Dutch DJ and music producer ** Milan Stanković, Serbian pop-folk singer * September 11 ** Ilija Spasojević, Indonesian footballer ** Susianna Kentikian, German-Armenian boxer ** Tyler Hoechlin, American actor ** Elizabeth Henstridge, English actress * September 13 – G.NA, Canadian singer *
September 15 Events Pre-1600 * 994 – Major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of the Orontes. *1440 – Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody upon an accusation brought against him by ...
– Aly Cissokho, French footballer * September 19 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress * September 21 – Ryan Guzman, American actor * September 22 – Tom Felton, English actor and musician * September 26 – Jang Keun Suk, South Korean actor, singer and model * September 28 – Hilary Duff, American actress, businesswoman, singer, songwriter, producer, and writer * September 29 – Anaïs Demoustier, French actress * September 30 ** Ramy Ashour, Egyptian squash player ** Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano ** Elanne Kong, Hong Kong actress and singer


October

* October 1 – Matthew Daddario, American actor * October 3 – Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican beauty queen (Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2006, Miss Universe 2006) * October 4 – Marina Weisband, German politician * October 8 – Aya Hirano, Japanese voice actress and singer * October 11 – Ariella Käslin, Swiss artistic gymnast * October 12 – Besian Idrizaj, Austrian footballer *
October 15 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later. * 1211 ...
** Jesse Levine, American-Canadian tennis player ** Mizuho Sakaguchi, Japanese woman footballer * October 16 ** Seungho (singer), Seungho, South Korean pop singer (MBLAQ) ** Zhao Liying, Chinese actress * October 18 ** Zac Efron, American actor and singer ** Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model * October 23 – Miyuu Sawai, Japanese actress * October 24 – Charlie White (figure skater), Charlie White, American figure skater * October 26 – Tommy Johansson (musician), Tommy Johansson, Swedish musician (Sabaton (band), Sabaton) * October 27 ** Thelma Aoyama, Japanese singer ** Yi Jianlian, Chinese basketball player (year of birth disputed) * October 28 ** Frank Ocean, American singer and rapper ** Na Yeon Choi, South Korean female professional golfer * October 29 – Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer


November

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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, ...
– Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress * November 3 ** Colin Kaepernick, American football player ** Gemma Ward, Australian model * November 4 – T.O.P (rapper), T.O.P, Korean rapper * November 5 – Kevin Jonas, American actor and singer-songwriter * November 6 ** Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player ** G.O (singer), G.O, South Korean singer (MBLAQ) * November 8 ** Maryjun Takahashi, Japanese model and actress ** Mohd Faiz Subri, Malaysian footballer * November 10 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress * November 11 ** Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (News (band), NEWS, Tegomass) ** Giles Matthey, Australian actor *
November 12 Events Pre-1600 * 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. *1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros. * 13 ...
** Jason Day, Australian golfer ** Kengo Kora, Japanese actor ** Juan José Ballesta, Spanish actor * November 14 – Brian Gleeson (actor), Brian Gleeson, Irish actor *
November 15 Events Pre-1600 * 655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria. *1315 – Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morg ...
– Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player * November 18 – Daniella Mastricchio, Argentine actress * November 22 – Mauro Nespoli, Italian archer * November 23 – Kasia Struss, Polish model * November 24 ** Maysoon al-Eryani, Yemeni poet and translator ** Jeremain Lens, Dutch footballer ** Elena Satine, Georgian-American film actress and singer * November 26 – Kat DeLuna, American singer * November 28 – Karen Gillan, Scottish actress


December

* December 1 – Sarah Snook, Australian actress * December 2 – Isaac Promise, Nigerian footballer (d.
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) * December 3 ** Michael Angarano, American actor ** Alicia Sacramone, American gymnast * December 8 – Susanne Riesch, German alpine skier * December 9 – Hikaru Nakamura, American chess grandmaster * December 10 – Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentine footballer * December 11 – Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress * December 12 – Lao Lishi, Chinese diver * December 13 ** Michael Socha, English actor ** Rachel Anne Daquis, Filipino volleyball player * December 14 - Ana Polvorosa, Spanish actress * December 18 ** Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater ** Ayaka, Japanese singer ** Yuki Furukawa, Japanese actor * December 19 ** Karim Benzema, French footballer ** Ronan Farrow, American activist ** Fábio Audi, Brazilian actor and producer * December 20 – Michihiro Yasuda, Japanese football player * December 25 – LJ Reyes, Filipino actress * December 27 – Lily Cole, British model * December 28 – Thomas Dekker (actor), Thomas Dekker, American actor, musician, singer, director and producer * December 29 – Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor * December 31 ** Seydou Doumbia, Ivorian football player ** Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast


Deaths


January

*
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 ...
– Jean de Gribaldy, French road cyclist and directeur sportif (b. 1922) * January 5 – Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian supercentenarian (b. 1875) *
January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. *1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the J ...
– Arthur Lake (actor), Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905) *
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 ...
** Håkan Malmrot, Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. 1900) ** Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919) * January 14 – Douglas Sirk, German-born film director (b. 1897) *
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 ...
– Ray Bolger, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1904) * January 22 – R. Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939) * January 25 – Asim Ferhatović, Yugoslav footballer (b. 1933) *
January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to becom ...
– Norman McLaren, Canadian animator and director (b. 1914) * January 28 – Galo Plaza, Ecuadorian statesman, 29th President of Ecuador (b. 1906) * January 31 – Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1905)


February

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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 ...
** Gustav Knuth, German film actor (b. 1901) ** Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director and screenwriter (b. 1900) *
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 ...
** Alistair MacLean, British novelist (b. 1922) ** Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian football goalkeeper (b. 1927) *
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 – ...
– Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, younger brother of Japanese Emperor Hirohito (b. 1905) *
February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrellin ...
– Liberace, American pianist, singer and actor (b. 1919) *
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 ...
– Otto Wöhler, German general, serving during World War I and World War II (b. 1894) * February 7 – Claudio Villa, Italian singer (b. 1926) * February 10 – Robert O'Brien (racing driver), Robert O'Brien, American racing driver (b. 1908) *
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 ...
– Mark Ashton, Irish gay rights activist (b. 1960) * February 12 ** Dennis Poore, British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver (b. 1916) ** Raymond Vouel, Luxembourg politician (b. 1923) *
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 ...
– Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904) * February 22 – Andy Warhol, American artist, director, writer (b. 1928) *
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 ...
** Esmond Knight, English actor (b. 1906) ** José Afonso, Portuguese singer-songwriter, teacher and activist (b. 1929) *
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. ...
** James Coco, American actor (b. 1930) ** Elisabeth Coit, American architect (b. 1897) *
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 ...
** Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921) ** Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (b. 1921)


March

* March 1 – Freddie Green, American swing jazz guitarist (b. 1911) * March 2 – Randolph Scott, American actor (b. 1898) * March 3 – Danny Kaye, American singer, actor, and comedian (b. 1911) *
March 7 Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. * 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Cob ...
– Waldo Salt, American screenwriter (b. 1914) * March 11 – Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906) *
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 ...
- Woody Hayes, American college football coach, coached for Ohio State University * March 15 – W. Sterling Cole, American politician, first Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (b. 1904) * March 19 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) *
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 ...
** Robert Preston (actor), Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918) ** Dean Paul Martin, American pop singer and film and television actor (b. 1951) * March 26 ** Georg Muche, German painter, printmaker, architect, author, and teacher (b. 1895) ** Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902) * March 27 – Stane Kavčič, 6th Prime Minister of Slovenia (b. 1919) * March 28 ** Maria von Trapp, Austrian singer (b. 1905) ** Patrick Troughton, English actor (b. 1920) ** Alphonse Alley, Beninese military officer, former President of Dahomey, Head of State of Dahomey (b. 1930)


April

* April 1 – Henri Cochet, French tennis champion (b. 1901) * April 2 ** Wang Renmei, Chinese actress and singer (b. 1914) ** Buddy Rich, American jazz drummer (b. 1917) * April 4 – C. L. Moore, American writer (b. 1911) * April 5 – Leabua Jonathan, 2nd Prime Minister of Lesotho (b. 1914) * April 11 ** Erskine Caldwell, American writer (b. 1903) ** Kent Taylor, American actor (b. 1907) ** Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (b. 1919) * April 12 – Mike Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1964) * April 15 – Masatoshi Nakayama, Japanese karate master (b. 1913) * April 17 ** Carlton Barrett, Jamaican reggae drummer (b. 1950) ** Cornelius Van Til, Dutch Christian philosopher, reformed theologian, and presuppositional apologist (b. 1895) ** Dick Shawn, American actor (b. 1923) * April 19 ** Milt Kahl, Animator for the Disney Studio (b. 1909) ** Antony Tudor, English dancer and choreographer (b. 1908) ** Maxwell D. Taylor, American general and diplomat (b. 1901)


May

* May 3 – Dalida, French rock musician (b. 1933) * May 4 ** Paul Butterfield, American musician (b. 1942) ** Cathryn Damon, American actress (b. 1930) * May 6 – William J. Casey, American Central Intelligence Agency director (b. 1913) * May 7 – Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (b. 1930) *
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 ...
** James Plimsoll, Sir James Plimsoll, Australian public servant (b. 1917) ** Carl Tchilinghiryan, German businessman (b. 1910) * May 9 – Thodoros Kefalopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1894) * May 13 ** Ismael Rivera, Puerto Rican composer and salsa singer (b. 1931) ** Signe Amundsen, Norwegian operatic soprano (b. 1899) *
May 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1027 – Robert II of France names his son Henry I as junior King of the Franks. *1097 – The Siege of Nicaea begins during the First Crusade. * 1264 – Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured and forc ...
– Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (b. 1918) * May 17 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) * May 19 – James Tiptree, Jr., American author (b. 1915) * May 21 – Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (b. 1930) * May 24 – Hermione Gingold, English actress (b. 1897) *
May 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1096 – Count Emicho enters Mainz, where his followers massacre Jewish citizens. At least 600 Jews are killed. * 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death. * 1153 &ndash ...
** Colin McCahon, New Zealand artist (b. 1919) ** John Howard Northrop, American biochemist (b. 1891) * May 29 ** Charan Singh, 5th Prime Minister of India (b. 1902) ** Jozef Langenus, Belgian middle-distance runner (b. 1898) * May 31 – John Abraham (director), John Abraham, Indian film director (b. 1937)


June

* June 1 ** Errol Barrow, Caribbean statesman, 1st Prime Minister of Barbados (b. 1920) ** Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman, 21st Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1921) ** Domenico Piemontesi, Italian road bicycle racer (b. 1903) * June 2 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893) * June 3 – Will Sampson, American actor (b. 1933) * June 6 – Richard Münch (actor), Richard Münch, German actor (b. 1916) * June 9 ** Madge Kennedy, American actress (b. 1891) ** Raya Dunayevskaya, Russian-born philosopher, founder of Marxist humanism in the United States (b. 1910) * June 10 – Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (b. 1943) * June 13 ** Vera Caspary, American screenwriter, novelist, playwright (b. 1899) ** Geraldine Page, American actress (b. 1924) * June 20 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist and naturalist (b. 1896) * June 22 – Fred Astaire, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1899) * June 24 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and comedian (b. 1916) * June 26 ** Arthur F. Burns, American economist (b. 1904) ** Henk Badings, Dutch composer (b. 1907) * June 30 – Federico Mompou, Spanish composer and pianist (b. 1893)


July

* July 2 – Michael Bennett (theater), Michael Bennett, American theater director and choreographer (b. 1943) * July 3 – Viola Dana, American actress (b. 1897) * July 4 – Abdul Halim (Indonesia), Abdul Halim, Indonesian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1911) * July 8 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (b. 1896) * July 10 – John Hammond (record producer), John Hammond, American record producer (b. 1910) * July 11 – Tom Waddell, American sportsman and competitor (b. 1937) * July 17 ** Kristjan Palusalu, Estonian wrestler (b. 1908) ** Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934) * July 20 – Richard Egan (actor), Richard Egan, American actor (b. 1921) * July 28 - James Burnham, American philosopher and political theorist (b. 1905)


August

* August 1 – Pola Negri, Polish born actress (b. 1897) * August 2 – Abu Sayeed Chowdhury, 2nd President of Bangladesh (b. 1921) * August 5 – Anatoli Papanov, Soviet and Russian stage, film and voice actor (b. 1922) * August 6 ** Léon Noël, French diplomat, politician and historian (b. 1888) ** Ira C. Eaker, World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1896) * August 7 ** Camille Chamoun, 7th President of Lebanon (b. 1900) ** Nobusuke Kishi, Japanese politician, 37th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1896) * August 10 – Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1893) *
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 ...
– Andrei Mironov (actor), Andrei Mironov, Soviet and Russian theatre and film actor (b. 1941) * August 17 **
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, German Nazi official (b. 1894) ** Clarence Brown, American film director (b. 1890) ** Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian poet (b. 1902) * August 23 – Didier Pironi, French racing driver (b. 1952) * August 24 – Bayard Rustin, American civil rights activist (b. 1912) * August 26 – Georg Wittig, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) * August 28 – John Huston, American film director, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1906) * August 29 – Lee Marvin, American actor (b. 1924)


September

* September 1 – Gerhard Fieseler, German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, and aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1896) *
September 2 Events Pre-1600 *44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his ''Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them ...
– Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, President of Argentina (1982) (b. 1926) *
September 3 Events Pre-1600 *36 BC – In the Battle of Naulochus, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, admiral of Octavian, defeats Sextus Pompey, son of Pompey, thus ending Pompeian resistance to the Second Triumvirate. * 301 – San Marino, one of the s ...
– Morton Feldman, American composer (b. 1926) * September 4 – Richard Marquand, Welsh film director (b. 1937) * September 9 ** Bill Fraser, Scottish actor (b. 1908) ** Gerrit Jan Heijn, Dutch businessman (b. 1931) * September 11 ** Peter Tosh, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1944) ** Lorne Greene, Canadian actor, radio personality and singer (b. 1915) * September 12 ** John Qualen, Canadian-American actor (b. 1899) ** J. Lawton Collins, American general (b. 1896) * September 13 – Mervyn LeRoy, American film producer and director (b. 1900) *
September 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia". * 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empi ...
– Vladimir Basov, Soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (b. 1923) * September 18 – Américo Tomás, 13th President of Portugal (b. 1894) * September 19 – Einar Gerhardsen, former Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1897) * September 21 – Jaco Pastorius, American jazz bassist (b. 1951) * September 22 ** Hákun Djurhuus, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (b. 1908) ** Dan Rowan, American comedian (b. 1922) ** Hédi Váradi, Hungarian actress (b. 1929) * September 23 ** Bob Fosse, American theater choreographer and director (b. 1927) ** Erland Van Lidth De Jeude, Dutch-born wrestler, opera singer and actor (b. 1953) * September 25 ** Mary Astor, American actress (b. 1906) ** Emlyn Williams, Welsh writer, dramatist and actor (b. 1905) * September 29 – Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Company (b. 1917) * September 30 – Alfred Bester, American author (b. 1913)


October

* October 2 ** Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906) ** Peter Medawar, Sir Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915) * October 3 ** Jean Anouilh, French dramatist (b. 1910) ** Catherine Bramwell-Booth, English Salvation Army officer (b. 1883) ** Hans Gál, composer, teacher and author (b. 1890) * October 8 ** Spencer Gordon Bennet, American film producer (b. 1893) ** Konstantinos Tsatsos, President of Greece (b. 1899) * October 9 – William P. Murphy, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1892) * October 11 – Jaime Pardo Leal, Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician (b. 1941) * October 12 ** Alf Landon, American politician (b. 1887) ** Fahri Korutürk, Turkish diplomat, 6th President of Turkey (b. 1903) * October 13 ** Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) ** Kishore Kumar, Indian actor and playback singer (b. 1929) *
October 15 Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later. * 1211 ...
Thomas Sankara, Burkinabe politician, 5th Prime Minister of Burkina Faso and 2nd President of Burkina Faso (b. 1949) * October 19 ** Jacqueline du Pré, British cellist (b. 1945) ** Hermann Lang, German race car driver (b. 1909) * October 20 – Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903) * October 22 – Lino Ventura, Italian actor (b. 1919) * October 27 – Vijay Merchant, Indian cricketer (b. 1911) * October 28 – André Masson, French artist (b. 1896) * October 29 – Woody Herman, American jazz musician (b. 1913) * October 30 – Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, author (b. 1904)


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, ...
– René Lévesque, Canadian politician, 23rd Premier of Quebec (b. 1922) * November 5 – Georges Franju, French filmmaker (b. 1912) * November 6 ** Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955) ** Jean Rivier, French composer of classical music (b. 1896) * November 7 – Arne Borg, Swedish Olympic swimmer (b. 1901) * November 10 – Seyni Kountché, Nigerien military officer and statesman, 2nd President of Niger (b. 1931) *
November 12 Events Pre-1600 * 954 – The 13-year-old Lothair III is crowned at the Abbey of Saint-Remi as king of the West Frankish Kingdom. *1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe takes the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros. * 13 ...
– Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1937) * November 18 – Jacques Anquetil, French road racing cyclist (b. 1934) * November 23 – Antonio Sastre, Argentine footballer (b. 1911) * November 26 – Duncan Sandys, British politician (b. 1908)


December

* December 1 – James Baldwin, African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet (b. 1924) * December 2 ** Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (b. 1930) ** Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (b. 1930) ** Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) ** Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914) * December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897) * December 8 ** Marcos Calderón, Peruvian football coach (b. 1928) ** José González Ganoza, Peruvian footballer (b. 1954) * December 10 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born violinist (b. 1901) *
December 17 Events Pre-1600 * 497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. * 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison. * 920 – Romanos I Lekap ...
– Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (b. 1900) * December 21 – Ralph Nelson, American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor (b. 1916) * December 22 – Alice Terry, American actress (b. 1899) * December 24 ** Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1973–1977) (b. 1919) ** M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor and Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (1977–1987) (b. 1917) * December 27 – Priscilla Dean, American actress (b. 1896)


Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – J. Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Susumu Tonegawa * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Joseph Brodsky * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Óscar Arias Sánchez * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Solow


References

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