Events
January
* January 3 – TheFebruary
* February 4 ** The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria. ** The 7.5 Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured. * February 5 – Nearly 2,000 students become involved in a racially charged riot atMarch
*April
* April 1 ** Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California. ** Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public. ** The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore. * April 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest. * April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song ''Save Your Kisses for Me''. * April 5 ** James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. ** 1976 Tiananmen Incident, Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's ''Monument of the Martyrs'' to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown. ** Segovia prison break: in Spain's largest prison break since the Spanish civil war, 29 political prisoners escape from Segovia prison. * April 10 – ''Frampton Comes Alive!'', the multi-platinum selling live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton hits #1 in the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 and remains there for 10 weeks, becoming the best-selling album of the year. * April 11 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launch the first Apple computer, the Apple I, for the U.S. hobbyist market. * April 13 ** The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion in Lapua, Finland kills 40. ** The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the United States two-dollar bill, two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration. * April 16 – As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women. * April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne. * April 23 ** Punk rock group the Ramones release their first album, ''Ramones (album), Ramones''. ** Jethro Tull (band), Jethro Tull release their album, ''Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!'' * April 25 – Portugal's 1976 Constitution of Portugal, new constitution is enacted. * April 29 – Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese. The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.May
* May 1 – Neville Wran becomes Premier of New South Wales. * May 4 ** The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched. ** A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people. * May 6 – An 1976 Friuli earthquake, earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless. * May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of theJune
* June 1 – The United Kingdom and Iceland end the Cod Wars, Third Cod War, with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights. * June 2 ** A car bomb fatally injures ''Arizona Republic'' reporter Don Bolles. ** The Philippine government opens relations with theJuly
* July 2 – North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Communism, Socialist Republic of Vietnam. * July 3 ** ''Gregg v. Georgia'': The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning the ''Furman v. Georgia'' case of 1972. ** The 1976 United Kingdom heat wave, great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak. * July 4 ** The U.S. celebrates its United States Bicentennial, bicentennial, in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom. ** Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian people, Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid. * July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. * July 7 ** German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin. ** David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe. * July 10 ** Four mercenary, mercenaries, three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in Angola, following the Luanda Trial. ** Seveso disaster: An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud. * July 12 – In the United States: ** California State University, Fullerton massacre: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a mass shooting on campus at California State University, Fullerton. ** Barbara Jordan is the first African-American to keynote a political convention. ** Price Club, as predecessor of Costco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in California. ** ''Family Feud'' debuts on ABC-TV. * July 15 ** Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in New York City. ** Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are 1976 Chowchilla kidnapping, abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime. * July 16–July 20, 20 – Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice, France. * July 17 ** The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ** East Timor is declared the Indonesian occupation of East Timor, 27th province of Indonesia. * July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics. * July 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created. * July 20 ** Viking program: The ''Viking 1'' lander successfully lands on Mars. ** American criminal Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah. * July 21 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive. * July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican Party (United States), Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford. * July 27 ** The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139. ** Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees. * July 28 – The 1976 Tangshan earthquake, Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851. * July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year. * July 30 ** Caitlyn Jenner wins the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. ** In Santiago, Chile, Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats Club Atlético River Plate, River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions in Association football. * July 31 ** NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by ''Viking 1''. ** The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.August
* August 1 ** The 1976 Summer Olympics ends in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ** Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic, replacing Elizabeth II as its head of state with President of Trinidad and Tobago, President Ellis Clarke. ** The Seattle Seahawks play their firstSeptember
* September 1 ** Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio. ** Aparicio Méndez, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian ''de facto'' President of Uruguay in the framework of a dictatorship. ** The state of emergency in the Republic of Ireland legally still in force since 1939 is lifted. * September 3 – Viking program: The ''Viking 2'' spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface. * September 4 – 1500th anniversary of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. * September 6 ** Cold War: Soviet Union, Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests refugee, political asylum in the United States. ** Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years. * September 10 ** 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision, Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia (modern-day Zagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard. * September 13 – ''The Muppet Show'' is broadcast in the United Kingdom for the first time, on ITV (TV network), ITV. * September 15 – Darryl Sittler scores the winning goal in the 1976 Canada Cup for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey. * September 16 ** Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir. ** Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the National Reorganization Process, Argentine dictatorship takes place. * September 17 – The space shuttle ''Space Shuttle Enterprise, Enterprise'' is rolled out of a Palmdale, California hangar. * September 20–September 21, 21 – The semi-legendary 100 Club Punk Special festival in London ignites the careers of several influential punk and post-punk bands, arguably sparking the punk movement's introduction into mainstream culture. * September 21 ** The Seychelles join theOctober
* October 4 – The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom. * October 6 ** Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by Cuban dissident movement, anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed. ** Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand are Thammasat University massacre, massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government. ** InNovember
* November – Diffie–Hellman key exchange cryptography is proposed. * November 2 – 1976 United States presidential election: Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the American Civil War, Civil War. * November 4 – Mark Fidrych, pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, wins 1976 Major League Baseball Rookie Of The Year Award. * November 12 – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case. * November 15 – The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oahu in Hawaii. * November 19 – Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal. * November 24 – 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake: Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3 earthquake at Van, Turkey, Van and Muradiye in eastern Turkey. * November 25 – InDecember
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* Plans to move the Nigerian capital from Lagos to Abuja are approved. * Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia). * California's sodomy law is repealed. * Thomas A. Minetree founds Bethesda Cancer Centers in the United States. * The first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800). * The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City, New Jersey, Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The American Mafia, mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada. * The EAOP, Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) is established by the University of California (University of California, UC) in response to the California State Leislature, State Legislature's recommendation to expand post-secondary opportunities to all of California's students including those who are first-generation, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and English-language learners. * ''Universe (1976 film), Universe'', a public domain film produced by Lester Novros for NASA, is released. * Marc Brown (author), Marc Brown's children's picture book ''Arthur's Nose'' is published in the United States.Births
January
* January 1 **Chai Jing, Chinese host and reporter **Tank (American singer), Tank, American R&B musician * January 2 ** Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress ** Paz Vega, Spanish actress * January 3 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer * January 4 **Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist/writer **August Diehl, German actor * January 5 – Shintarō Asanuma, Japanese voice actor *January 6 – Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor and musician * January 7 ** Nilton Pereira Mendes, Brazilian footballer (d. 2006) ** Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player * January 10 **Eduardo Garza, Mexican voice actor, announcer, translator, puppeteer and singer **Khairy Jamaluddin, Malaysian politician * January 13 ** Michael Peña, American actor ** Bic Runga, New Zealand singer-songwriter ** Mario Yepes, Colombian football player * January 15 ** Meredith Bishop, American actress ** Dorian Missick, American actor * January 16 ** Carrie Keranen, American voice actress ** Eva Habermann, German actress * January 19 – Marsha Thomason, English actress * January 20 ** Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television presenter ** Michael Myers (American football), Michael Myers, National Football League, NFL defensive tackle ** Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater ** Anastasia Volochkova, Russian prima ballerina * January 21 – Emma Bunton, English musician (Spice Girls) * January 22 – TJ Trinidad, Filipino actor * January 23 ** Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteer (2008 World Orienteering Championships, world champion 2008) ** Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer ** Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler * January 24 – Paul Bowman (rugby league), Paul Bowman, Australian rugby league player * January 26 – Yasmine Belmadi, French actor (d. 2009) * January 27 ** Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer and television personality ** Maia Estianty, Indonesian musician, music producer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and television personality * January 28 ** Lee Ingleby, British voice artist ** Mark Madsen (basketball), Mark Madsen, American basketball player **Rick Ross, American rapper * January 30 – Andy Milonakis, American actor, writer, rapper, comedian and streamerFebruary
* February 1 ** Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic politician, 28th Prime Minister of Iceland ** Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper * February 2 ** Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver ** James Hickman, British swimmer ** Lori Beth Denberg, American actress and comedian * February 3 ** Isla Fisher, Australian actress ** Tim Heidecker, American comedian ** Tijana Dapčević, Tijana, Macedonian singer **Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer songwriter and rapper * February 4 – Cam'ron, African-American rapper * February 5 ** Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor ** Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director ** Brian Moorman, American football player * February 6 ** James Hiroyuki Liao, American actor ** Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast * February 9 – Charlie Day, American actor * February 10 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player *February 10 – Keeley Hawes, British actress * February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor * February 12 ** Jenni Falconer, British television presenter ** Silvia Saint, Czech actress * February 14 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress * February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American singer-songwriter and author * February 16 ** Kyo (musician), Kyo, Japanese rock musician (Dir En Grey) ** Adam Simpson, Australian rules footballer ** Janet Varney, American actress and comedian * February 17 – Svein Berge, Norwegian musician (Röyksopp) * February 20 ** Johanna Beisteiner, Austrian guitarist ** Chris Cillizza, American journalist * February 21 – Michael McIntyre, British stand-up comedian * February 23 ** Aaron Aziz, Singaporean-born Malaysian actor ** Jeff O'Neill, Canadian hockey player ** Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress * February 24 ** Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli historian ** Zach Johnson, American golfer * February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model and musician * February 27 – Yukari Tamura, Japanese voice actress and songwriter * February 27 – Barry Opdam, Dutch footballer * February 27 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player * February 28 ** Ali Larter, American actress and model ** Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor * February 29 ** Ja Rule, American rapper ** Shane Johnson (actor), Shane Johnson, American actor ** Katalin Kovács, Hungarian sprint kayaker ** Mark Pollock, blind Irish adventurer and authorMarch
* March 1 ** Akhil Gogoi, Indian activist and politician ** Aleksey Jdanov, Uzbekistani football player ** Luke Mably, British actor ** Peter Bell (footballer, born 1976), Peter Bell, Australian rules footballer * March 3 **Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer **Isabel Granada, Filipino actress and singer (d. 2017) * March 4 ** Robbie Blake, English footballer ** Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player ** Sean Covel, American film producer ** Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player ** Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer ** Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player * March 5 ** Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player ** Lucian Msamati, English actor **Neil Jackson, English actor * March 6 – Ken Anderson (wrestler), Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson) * March 8 ** Sergej Ćetković, Montenegrin singer ** Gaz Coombes, English musician and singer-songwriter (Supergrass) ** Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor * March 9 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinean model * March 10 ** Miroslav Kostadinov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter ** Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese model, actress and singer * March 11 ** Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer ** Craig Parkinson, British actor * March 12 – Zhao Wei, Chinese singer and actress * March 13 ** Danny Masterson, American actor ** Jamie Pressnall, American tap dancer and musician * March 14 ** Corey Stoll, American actor ** Daniel Gillies, Canadian actor ** Brian Quinn (comedian), Brian Quinn, American actor ** Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002) * March 15 ** Abhay Deol, Indian actor ** Cara Pifko, Canadian actress *April
* April 1 ** Troy Baker, American actor and musician ** Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player ** David Oyelowo, English-American actor **Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer * April 2 ** Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer ** Daisuke Namikawa, Japanese voice actor ** Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer * April 3 – Will Mellor, English actor * April 4 – James Roday, American actor, director and screenwriter * April 5 ** Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer ** Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer ** Sterling K. Brown, African-American actor * April 6 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress * April 7 – Eric Wareheim, American comedian * April 9 – ** Kris Radlinski, English rugby league player ** Blayne Weaver, American actor and filmmaker ** Ramkarpal Singh, Malaysian politician * April 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (d. 2006) * April 12 – Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater * April 13 ** Glenn Howerton, American actor ** Jonathan Brandis, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2003) * April 14 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player * April 15 ** Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey player ** Brock Huard, American football player ** Steve Williams (rower), Steve Williams, British rower * April 16 ** David Lyons (actor), David Lyons, Australian actor ** Lukas Haas, American actor and musician ** Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (d. 2017) ** Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress * April 17 – Monet Mazur, American actress * April 18 ** Gavin Creel, American actor and singer-songwriter ** Melissa Joan Hart, American actress ** Sean Maguire, British actor and singer * April 19 **Wyatt Cenac, American actor, writer and director **Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator * April 20 ** Joey Lawrence, American actor ** Shay Given, Irish football goalkeeper * April 21 ** Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player ** Petero Civoniceva, Australian rugby league player * April 22 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer * April 23 – Darren Huckerby, English footballer * April 24 ** George P. Bush, American attorney and politician ** Steve Finnan, Irish footballer * April 25 ** Tim Duncan, American basketball player ** Denis Kartsev, Russian professional ice hockey player ** Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player ** Kim Jong-kook (singer), Kim Jong-kook, South Korean singer, television personality ** Amir Fryszer Guttman, Israeli singer * April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress * April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress * April 28 – Michael Carbonaro, American actor, magician and improv artist * April 29 ** Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and record producer ** Shiho Kawaragi, Japanese voice actress *April 30 – Ankaralı Namık, Turkish singerMay
* May 1 ** Darius McCrary, American actor ** James Murray (comedian), James Murray, American actor ** Michele Frangilli, Italian archer * May 3 ** Beto (footballer, born May 1976), Beto, Portuguese footballer ** Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player * May 4 ** Jason Michaels, American baseball player ** Anza (singer), Anza, Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of ''Sailor Moon'' in some Sailor Moon musical * May 5 ** Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster ** Sage Stallone, American actor, film director, producer and distributor (d. 2012) * May 6 – Marshall Burt, American railroader and politician * May 7 ** Stacey Jones, New Zealand rugby league player ** Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy SEAL, First recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Afghanistan War (d. 2005) * May 8 ** Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American folk-pop singer ** Ian "H" Watkins, Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Steps (band), Steps) and actor * May 10 ** Rhona Bennett, American actress, singer and model ** Rogério Oliveira da Costa, Brazilian-born football striker (d. 2006) * May 14 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer * May 15 **Tyler Walker (baseball), Tyler Walker, American baseball player ** Mark Kennedy (footballer, born 1976), Mark Kennedy, Irish footballer ** Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer ** Ryan Leaf, American football quarterback **Anže Logar, Slovenian politician, minister of foreign affairs * May 16 – Ana Paula Valadão, Brazilian worship leader, singer-songwriter, pastor, author and television presenter * May 19 – Kevin Garnett, African-American basketball player * May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan Major League Baseball, baseball player * May 22 ** Chris Brazzell, Canadian and American football player ** Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress * May 25 ** Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper ** Cillian Murphy, Irish actor ** J. Michael Tatum, American voice actor ** Erinn Hayes, American actress ** Nadine Heredia, Peruvian politician, First Lady of Peru ** Ethan Suplee, American actor **Vincent Piazza, American actor * May 26 – Paul Collingwood, English cricketer * May 28 ** Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast ** Liam O'Brien, American actor * May 31 ** Tony Hopper, English footballer (d. 2018) ** Colin Farrell, Irish actor ** Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norwegian ski jumperJune
* June 1 – Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss America 2001 * June 2 ** Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist ** Tim Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer (Keane (band), Keane) ** Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho * June 3 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver * June 4 – Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and political activist * June 5 ** Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist ** Marc Worden, Canadian actor and voice actor ** Joe Gatto (comedian), Joe Gatto, American comedian * June 6 ** Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian actress and singer ** Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder * June 7 ** Necro (rapper), Necro, American rapper ** Nora Salinas, Mexican actress and model * June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player * June 9 ** Ameesha Patel, Indian actress * June 10 ** Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals ** Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress * June 12 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish football goalkeeper * June 13 ** Kym Marsh, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress ** Jason "J" Brown, British singer (5ive) * June 14 – Alan Carr, English comedian * June 16 – Tom Lenk, American actor * June 17 ** Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster ** Scott Adkins, English actor * June 18 ** Petri Haapimaa, Finnish footballer and coach ** Brady Haran, Australian-British founder and cast of Numberphile channel ** Blake Shelton, American singer * June 19 ** Anar Baghirov, Azerbaijani lawyer ** Ryan Hurst, American actor * June 20 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer * June 21 – Antonio Cochran, American football player * June 22 ** Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice-hockey player ** Mike O'Brien (actor), Mike O'Brien, American actor, writer and comedian * June 23 ** Brandon Stokley, American football player ** Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress ** Patrick Vieira, French footballer ** Gavin Williamson, British politician, Secretary of State for Education * June 24 – Suhaimi Mat Hassan, Malaysian football referee * June 25 ** Sylvain N'Diaye, Senegalese footballer ** Hennie Otto, South African professional golfer ** Neil Walker (swimmer), Neil Walker, American swimmer * June 26 ** Cédric Jimenez, French film producer, film director and screenwriter ** Wilson Lima, Brazilian politician and journalist ** Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel (d. 2018) * June 27 – Joseph Sikora, American actor * June 28 ** Nawaf Al-Temyat, Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player ** Jason J. Lewis, American voice actor ** David Palmer (squash player), David Palmer, Australian squash player ** Seth Wescott, American snowboarder * June 29 ** Annette Beutler, Swiss professional racing cyclist ** Katsutoshi Domori, Japanese football player ** Takahiro Mazuka, Japanese sprinter ** Omar Doom, American actor, musician and artist ** Ma Yili, Chinese actress ** Angelo Lekkas, Australian rules footballer * June 30 ** Tamara Sedmak, Swiss television presenter, model and actress ** Kazumasa Shimizu, Japanese football player ** Jason Bostic, American football defensive back ** Christine Schürrer, German serial killer ** Gilbert Yvel, Dutch mixed martial artistJuly
* July 1 ** Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and actor ** Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer ** U. K. Shyam, Singaporean athlete ** Haaz Sleiman, Lebanese-American actor ** Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer ** Kellie Bright, English actress * July 2 ** Kon Arimura, Malaysian-Japanese radio personality, film critic and film commentator ** Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer ** Tommy Pistol, American actor and director * July 3 ** Shane Lynch, Irish singer ** Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist ** Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean rugby union player ** Andrea Barber, American actress ** Henry Olonga, Zambian-Zimbabwean cricketer * July 4 ** Rohan Nichol, Australian actor ** Aryan Vaid, Indian male model ** Jo Chen, American-Taiwanese comic book artist and writer ** Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003) * July 5 ** Jamie Elman, Canadian-American actor ** Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer ** Liberty Phoenix, Venezuelan actress ** Rufus Johnson, American rapper also known as Bizarre * July 6 – Dimitrije Banjac, Serbian actor, comedian and screenwriter * July 7 ** Kim Jong-chun, South Korean football player ** Lina Teoh, Malaysian actress, television host and model ** Bérénice Bejo, Argentine actress ** Hamish Linklater, American actor and playwright ** Natasha Collins, English actress and model (d. 2008) * July 8 ** Ellen MacArthur, English yachtswoman ** Josh Taumalolo, Tongan rugby union player ** Grettell Valdez, Mexican television and film actress and fashion model * July 9 ** Fred Savage, American actor and director ** Arturo Carmona, Mexican actor ** Elliot Cowan, English actor * July 10 ** Ludovic Giuly, French footballer ** Adrian Grenier, American actor, musician and director * July 11 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player * July 12 ** Anna Friel, English actress ** Tracie Spencer, American R&B singer * July 13 – Lisa Riley, British actress and presenter * July 14 – Geraint Jones, Papua New Guinea cricketer * July 15 ** Diane Kruger, German actress ** Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist ** Jim Jones (rapper), Jim Jones, American rapper, member of hip hop group The Diplomats ** Gabriel Iglesias, American actor, voice actor and comedian ** Murder of Leslie Mahaffy, Leslie Mahaffy, Canadian murder victim (d. 1991) * July 16 ** John Ovia, Papua New Guinean cricketer ** Zak Smith, American artist and adult film performer ** Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player ** Bobby Lashley, American professional wrestler * July 17 ** Luke Bryan, American country music singer-songwriter ** Marcos Senna, Brazilian footballer ** Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-American actress and author ** Matt Holmes (actor), Matt Holmes, Australian actor ** Eric Winter, American actor and fashion model * July 18 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress and model * July 19 ** Diether Ocampo, Filipino actor, singer and model ** Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor ** Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer * July 20 ** Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver ** Annie Man, Hong Kong actress * July 21 ** Jaime Murray, English actress ** Kang Sung-yeon, South Korean actress * July 23 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player * July 24 ** Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver ** Johnny McDaid, Irish musician, songwriter and music producer ** Rashida Tlaib, American politician and lawyer * July 25 – Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen bard * July 26 – Martha Roby, American politician * July 27 ** Scott Mason (cricketer), Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005) ** Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2019) * July 28 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer * July 31 – Rod Monroe (American football), Rod Monroe, American football player (d. 2017)August
* August 1 ** Don Hertzfeldt, American animator ** Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer ** Iván Duque Márquez, Colombian politician, 33rd President of Colombia ** Amar Upadhyay, Indian television actor and model * August 2 – Sam Worthington, English-born Australian actor * August 3 – Sarah Kendall, Australian-born comedian * August 4 ** Paul Goldstein (tennis), Paul Goldstein, American tennis player ** David Lewis (Canadian actor), David Lewis, Canadian actor * August 5 – Napoleon Beazley, juvenile offender (d. 2002) * August 6 ** Andero Ermel, Estonian actor ** Soleil Moon Frye, American actress, director and screenwriter ** Melissa George, Australian actress ** Travis Kalanick, American businessman and computer programmer; co-founder of Uber * August 8 ** JC Chasez, American singer ('N Sync) ** Drew Lachey, American singer (98 Degrees) * August 9 ** Jessica Capshaw, American actress ** Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio producer and presenter ** Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008) ** Audrey Tautou, French actress * August 11 – Will Friedle, American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian * August 12 ** Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock guitarist ** Lina Rafn, Danish singer * August 14 – Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer * August 15 ** Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ** Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player * August 16 – Kadri Rämmeld, Estonian actress * August 18 ** Lee Seung-yeop, South Korean baseball player ** Bryan Volpenhein, American rower * August 23 – Scott Caan, American actor * August 24 ** Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor ** Yang Yang (A), Yang Yang, Chinese short track skater * August 25 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor * August 26 – Mike Colter, American actor *August 27 ** Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress ** Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player ** Mark Webber (racing driver), Mark Webber, Australian racing driver * August 29 – Luana Piovani, Brazilian actress and model * August 30 – Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer * August 31 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballerSeptember
* September 1 ** Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver ** Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker ** Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer * September 3 ** Jevon Kearse, American football player ** Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor * September 4 – Brian Myrow, American baseball player * September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress * September 6 ** Naomie Harris, British actress ** Mark Wilkerson, American musician ** Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor * September 7 – Stevie Case, American video game celebrity * September 8 – Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player * September 9 ** Mick Blue, Austrian pornographic actor and director ** Emma de Caunes, French actress ** Lúcia Moniz, Portuguese singer and actress * September 10 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player * September 12 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer * September 13 – Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress * September 15 – Rob Wiethoff, American actor * September 16 – Tina Barrett, English singer (S Club 7) * September 17 – Nicole Reinhart, American track and road racing cyclist (d. 2000) * September 18 – Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer), Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer * September 19 ** Raja Bell, American basketball player **Isha Koppikar, Indian actress ** Alison Sweeney, American actress ** Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian footballer and referee * September 20 ** Jon Bernthal, American actor ** Yui Horie, Japanese voice actress ** Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress * September 23 – Rob James-Collier, British actor and model * September 24 – Stephanie McMahon, Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American wrestling promoter * September 25 ** Chauncey Billups, American basketball player ** Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2005 runner-up * September 26 ** Michael Ballack, German footballer ** Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress * September 27 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer * September 28 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter * September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballerOctober
* Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d. 2022) * October 1 ** Danielle Bisutti, American actress and singer ** Giuliana Jakobeit, German voice actress * October 2 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005) * October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor and producer * October 4 ** Mauro Camoranesi, Italian footballer ** Alicia Silverstone, American actress ** Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer (d. 2017) * October 5 ** Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic ** Mauro Colagreco, Italian Argentine chef **Matt Hamill, American mixed martial arts fighter * October 6 ** Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player ** Barbie Shu, Taiwanese actress and singer * October 7 ** Taylor Hicks, American singer ** Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish violinist ** Gilberto Silva, Brazilian football player * October 8 – Peter Stickles, American actor * October 9 ** Sam Riegel, American voice actor and director ** Nick Swardson, American actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter * October 10 ** Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder ** Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player * October 11 – Emily Deschanel, American actress * October 14 – Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor * October 15 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress * October 18 – Galder, Norwegian musician * October 19 ** Joe Duplantier, French musician ** Ryuji Imada, Japanese golfer ** Dan Smith (ice hockey), Dan Smith, Canadian ice-hockey player ** Michael Young (baseball), Michael Young, American baseball player ** Desmond Harrington, American actor ** Omar Gooding, American actor * October 20 ** Dan Fogler, American actor, comedian and writer ** Plamen Goranov, Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader (d. 2013) * October 21 ** Jeremy Miller, American actor ** Lavinia Miloșovici, Romanian artistic gymnast ** Andrew Scott (actor), Andrew Scott, Irish actor * October 23 ** Cat Deeley, British television presenter ** Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor * October 25 – Steve Jones (Northern Irish footballer), Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer * October 26 ** Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player ** Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater ** Thurop Van Orman, American animator and voice actor **Florence Kasumba, Ugandan-born German actress * October 29 – Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer * October 31 – Piper Perabo, American actressNovember
* November 1 ** Chad Lindberg, American actor ** Sam Presti, American basketball executive, general manager of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder since 2007 * November 2 – Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper * November 5 ** Oleh Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer ** Sean Brown (ice hockey), Sean Brown, Canadian ice-hockey player ** Sebastian Arcelus, American actor * November 6 ** Pat Tillman, American football player, victim of friendly fire (d. 2004) ** Troy Hambrick, American football player ** Wiley Wiggins, American actor ** Sal Vulcano, American actor * November 7 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player * November 8 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer * November 9 ** Josh Kaufman, American singer-songwriter, winner of ''The Voice (U.S. TV series), The Voice'' The Voice (U.S. season 6), season 6 ** Federica De Bortoli, Italian voice actress * November 11 – Mike Leon Grosch, German singer * November 12 ** Tevin Campbell, American singer and actor ** Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer * November 13 – Janine Leal, Venezuelan television presenter and model. * November 17 – Diane Neal, American actress * November 18 – Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir) * November 19 ** Jack Dorsey, American software architect, businessman, co-founder of Twitter ** Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter ** Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007) * November 20 ** Dominique Dawes, African-American Olympic gymnast ** Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer ** Laura Harris, Canadian actress * November 22 ** Torsten Frings, German footballer ** Ville Valo, Finnish rock singer (HIM (Finnish band), HIM) * November 24 ** Chen Lu (figure skater), Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater ** Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice-hockey player * November 25 ** Donovan McNabb, American football player ** Hienadz Shutau, Belarusian demonstrator (d. 2020) * November 26 – Maia Campbell, American actress and singer * November 27 – Jaleel White, African-American actor * November 28 – Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor and comedian * November 29 ** Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (d. 2020) ** Anna Faris, American actress ** Ehren McGhehey, American stunt performer and actorDecember
* December 1 ** Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998) ** Laura Ling, American journalist 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea, imprisoned by North Korea in 2009 * December 3 ** Cornelius Griffin, American football player ** Marcos Denner, Brazilian footballer * December 4 – Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (d. 1997) * December 5 ** Amy Acker, American actress ** Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer * December 6 – Alicia Machado, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss Universe 1996 * December 7 ** Mark Duplass, American actor, screenwriter and director ** Georges Laraque, Canadian ice-hockey player ** Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model * December 8 ** Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician ** Dominic Monaghan, English-German actor * December 13 ** Mark Paston, New Zealand footballer ** Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer * December 14 – Leland Chapman, American bail bondsman * December 15 – Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer * December 17 ** Takeo Spikes, American football player ** The Hageman Brothers, Dan Hageman, American screenwriter and television producer * December 18 ** Koyuki, Japanese actress * December 21 – Mirela Maniani, Greek javelin thrower * December 23 ** Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler ** Amjad Sabri, Pakistani Qawwali singer (d. 2016) ** Christopher Pizzey, English actor and comedian * December 24 – Ángel Matos, Cuban taekwondo athlete * December 25 ** Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish metal keyboardist (Nightwish) ** Armin van Buuren, Dutch music producer and DJ * December 26 ** Nadia Litz, Canadian actress and producer ** Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey (d. 1999) * December 27 – Fernando Pisani, Canadian ice-hockey player * December 28 – Joe Manganiello, American actor * December 28 - Deddy Corbuzier, Indonesian actor, YouTuber and magician. * December 29 – Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer * December 31 – Ceza, Turkish rapper * December 31 ** Vanessa Kerry, American physician and health care administrator ** Chris Terrio, American film director/screenwriterDate unknown
* Pedro X. Molina, Nicaraguan caricaturist * Birgit C. Muller, Austrian fashion designer, producer and philanthropistDeaths
January
* January 3 – John Ainsworth-Davis, Welsh surgeon and athlete (b. 1895) * January 5 ** John A. Costello, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (b. 1891) ** Mal Evans, English road manager to The Beatles (b. 1935) ** Károly Takács, Hungarian Olympic shooter (b. 1910) * January 8 – Zhou Enlai, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) * January 10 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer (b. 1910) * January 12 – Agatha Christie, English detective fiction writer (b. 1890) * January 13 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b. 1922) * January 14 ** Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1922) ** Muhammad Sakizli, 2nd Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1892) * January 15 – Gengo Hyakutake, Japanese admiral (b. 1882) * January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886) * January 22 – Hermann Jónasson, Icelandic politician, 7th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1896) * January 23 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and activist (b. 1898) * January 24 – Emil Bodnăraș, Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (b. 1904) * January 26 – Gabriele Allegra, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1907) * January 29 – Jesse Fuller, American one-man band musician (b. 1896) * January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal and namesake of the Miranda right (b. 1941)February
* February 1 ** Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) ** Hans Hofmann, German artist (b. 1880) ** George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878) * February 4 – Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (b. 1906) * February 6 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker and script writer (b. 1925) * February 9 – Percy Faith, Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (b. 1908) * February 11 ** Lee J. Cobb, American actor (b. 1911) ** Alexander Lippisch, German aeronautical engineer (b. 1894) ** Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Mathematician and biochemical theorist (b. 1894) * February 12 – Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939) * February 13 ** Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general (b. 1938) ** Lily Pons, French-American operatic soprano and actress (b. 1898) * February 17 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (b. 1910) * February 20 ** René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887) ** Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and faith healer (b. 1907) * February 22 – Florence Ballard, American singer (''The Supremes'') (b. 1943) * February 23 – L. S. Lowry, British artist (b. 1887) * February 26 – Frieda Inescort, Scottish-born actress (b. 1901)March
* March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886) * March 5 ** Charles Lederer, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1910) ** Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1889) * March 6 – Maxie Rosenbloom, Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1907) * March 8 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908) * March 10 – Haddon Sundblom, Swedish illustrator and American artist (b. 1899) * March 14 – Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895) *April
* April 1 ** Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891) ** Alfred Lennon, father of musician John Lennon (b. 1912) * April 4 – Harry Nyquist, American information theory pioneer (b. 1889) * April 5 – Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b. 1905) * April 8 – Renato Petronio, Italian rower (b. 1891) * April 9 – Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter (b. 1940) * April 12 – Miriam Cooper, American actress (b. 1891) * April 13 – Sabri al-Asali, Syrian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1903) * April 14 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia (b. 1891) * April 18 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895) * April 25 ** Carol Reed, English film director (b. 1906) ** Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist (b. 1886) * April 26 – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general, Soviet Defence Minister, Minister of Defence (b. 1903)May
* May 3 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (b. 1902) * May 7 – Alison Uttley, English children's author (b. 1884) * May 9 ** Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b. 1920) ** Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist (b. 1934) * May 11 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898) * May 12 – Keith Relf, British rock musician (''The Yardbirds'') (b. 1943) * May 20 – Royal E. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1883) * May 24 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1889) * May 26 ** Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b. 1889) ** Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player (b. 1904) * May 27 – Ruth McDevitt, American actress (b. 1895) * May 28 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter (b. 1917) * May 30 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer and Christian evangelist (b. 1902) * May 31 – Jacques Monod, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1910)June
* June 2 ** Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Egyptian diplomat and politician, 1st List of Secretaries General of the Arab League, Secretary-General of the Arab League (b. 1893) ** Juan José Torres, Bolivian politician and military leader, 50th President of Bolivia (b. 1920) * June 5 – Robert Wichard Pohl, German physicist (b. 1884) * June 6 ** J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founder of Getty Oil (b. 1892) ** David Jacobs (Welsh athlete), David Jacobs, Welsh Olympic athlete (b. 1888) ** Fuad Stephens, Malaysian politician (b. 1920) ** Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891) * June 7 ** Bobby Hackett, American jazz musician (b. 1915) ** Shigetarō Shimada, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (b. 1883) * June 9 – Sybil Thorndike, Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (b. 1882) * June 10 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873) * June 11 – Toots Mondt, American WWF promoter (b. 1894) * June 12 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of the Republic of Vietnam, Prime Minister of South Vietnam and 1st Vice President of South Vietnam (b. 1908) * June 16 – Hector Pieterson, South African activist (b. 1963) * June 17 – Richard Casey, Baron Casey, Richard Casey, Australian statesman and diplomat (b. 1890) * June 24 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883) * June 27 – C. Wade McClusky, United States Navy admiral (b. 1902) * June 28 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1928)July
* July 1 ** Anneliese Michel, German Roman Catholic woman who was believed to be possessed by demons (b. 1952) ** Zhang Wentian, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1900) * July 4 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli commando leader (b. 1946) * July 6 – Zhu De, List of Presidents of the People's Republic of China, Head of State of China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886) * July 7 ** Norman Foster (director), Norman Foster, American film director (b. 1903) ** Gustav Heinemann, 6th President of Germany, President of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1899) * July 11 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet (b. 1895) * July 12 – James Wong Howe, American cinematographer (b. 1899) * July 14 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b. 1915) * July 15 – Paul Gallico, American novelist, short story and sports writer (b. 1897) * July 16 – Wilhelmina von Bremen, American sprint runner (b. 1909) * July 22 – Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist (b. 1890) * July 23 – Basil Hopko, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic bishop and saint (b. 1904) * July 24 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b. 1912) * July 28 ** Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer (b. 1881) ** Lucie Mannheim, German singer and actress (b. 1899) * July 29 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster (b. 1913) * July 30 – Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian (b. 1884)August
* August 2 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b. 1890) * August 6 ** Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b. 1903) ** Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist (b. 1898) * August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet (b. 1910) * August 10 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (b. 1884) * August 12 – Tom Driberg, British politician/journalist (b. 1905) * August 22 – Juscelino Kubitschek, 21st President of Brazil (b. 1902) * August 25 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1900) * August 26 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888) * August 28 – Anissa Jones, American actress and student (b. 1958) * August 29 – Jimmy Reed, American blues musician (b. 1925)September
* September 5 – Arthur Gilligan, English cricket captain (b. 1894) * September 9 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and political theorist, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b. 1893) * September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1905) * September 13 – Camilo Ponce Enríquez (politician), Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Ecuadorian political figure, 30th President of Ecuador (b. 1912) * September 14 – Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, (b. 1893) * September 15 – Josef Sudek, Czech photographer (b. 1896) * September 16 – Bertha Lutz, Brazilian zoologist, politician, diplomat and feminist (b. 1894) * September 21 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1932) * September 26 – Leopold Ružička, Yugoslav chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) * September 28 – Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace (b. 1893)October
* October 5 ** Lars Onsager, Norwegian-born American physical theoretical physicist, 1968 Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) ** Barbara Nichols, American actress (b. 1928) * October 9 – Troy H. Middleton, American general and educator (b. 1889) * October 10 – Silvana Armenulić, Yugoslav singer (b. 1939) * October 14 ** Edith Evans, British actress (b. 1888) ** Suleiman Nabulsi, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1908) * October 15 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mobster (b. 1902) * October 18 – Giacomo Lercaro, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1891) * October 31 – Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer (b. 1878)November
* November 8 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player (b. 1909) * November 9 – Armas Taipale, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1890) * November 11 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b. 1898) * November 15 – Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904) * November 18 – Man Ray, American artist (b. 1890) * November 20 – Trofim Lysenko, Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin (b. 1898) * November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist (b. 1901) * November 28 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (b. 1907) * November 29 – Godfrey Cambridge, American comedian and actor (b. 1933) * November 30 – Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1912)December
* December 2 – Danny Murtaugh, Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player and manager (b. 1917) * December 3 ** Alfredo Dinale, Italian Olympic cyclist (b. 1900) ** Angelo Iachino, Italian admiral (b. 1889) ** Mary Nash (actress), Mary Nash, American actress (b. 1884) * December 4 ** Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951) ** Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913) * December 6 – João Goulart, Brazilian politician, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918) * December 12 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (b. 1927) * December 15 – Grégoire Kayibanda, Rwandan politician, 2nd President of Rwanda (b. 1924) * December 19 – Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893) * December 20 ** Richard J. Daley, Mayor of Chicago since 1955 (b. 1902) ** Ned Washington, American lyricist (b. 1901) * December 28 – Freddie King, American rock guitarist (b. 1934)Nobel Prizes
* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – William Lipscomb, William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Physiology or Medicine – Baruch S. Blumberg, D Carleton Gajdusek * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Saul Bellow * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Betty Williams (Nobel laureate), Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Milton FriedmanReferences
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