1970

Events

January

* January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
* January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured.
* January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
* January 15 – After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.

February

* February 1 – The Benavídez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 236.
* February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France, kills 41 tourists.
* February 11 – '' Ohsumi'', Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket.
* February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.

March

* March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic.
* March 4 — All 57 men aboard the French submarine Eurydice (S644) are killed when the vessel implodes while making a practice dive in the Mediterranean Sea.
* March 5 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 56 nations.
* March 6 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (32nd government).
* March 12 – Citroën introduces the Citroën SM, the fastest front-wheel drive auto in the world at that time, at the annual Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland.
* March 15 – The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
* March 16 – The complete New English Bible is published.
* March 18 – General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and holds Queen Sisowath Kossamak under house arrest.
* March 19
**Ostpolitik: The leaders of West Germany and East Germany meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in Erfurt for a summit with his counterpart, East German ''Ministerpräsident'' Willi Stoph.
* March 20 – The Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation ( ACCT) (Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique) is founded.
* March 21 – ''All Kinds of Everything'', sung by Dana (music and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 for Ireland.
* March 31
** NASA's ''Explorer 1'', the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
** Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members. All passengers and crew are eventually freed.

April

* April 4 – Fragments of burnt human remains believed to be those of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children are crushed and scattered in the Biederitz center in Magdeburg, East Germany.
* April 8
** A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.
** Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.
* April 10 – In a press release written in mock-interview style, that is included in promotional copies of his first solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he has left The Beatles.
* April 11
** An avalanche at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps kills 74, mostly young boys.
** Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon.
* April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in four days.
* April 17 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific.
* April 21 – The Principality of Hutt River "secedes" from Australia (it remains unrecognised by Australia and other nations).
* April 24 – China's first satellite (''Dong Fang Hong 1'') is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).
* April 26 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is founded.

May

* May 4 – Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio, USA are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.
* May 6
** Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.
** Feyenoord wins the European Cup after a 2–1 win over Celtic.
* May 14
** Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create the Red Army Faction in West Germany which exists until 1998.
** In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.
* May 17 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat ''Ra II'', to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
* May 26 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
* May 31
** The 7.9 Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (''Severe'') and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794 and 70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
** The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico.

June

* June 1 – ''Soyuz 9'', a two-man spacecraft, is launched in the Soviet Union.
* June 4 – Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* June 8 – A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of service chiefs; on June 18, Roberto M. Levingston becomes President.
* June 12 – NDFLOAG guerrillas attack military garrisons at Izki and Nizwa in Oman.
* June 19 – The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
* June 21 – Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.

July

* July 3
** All 112 people on board Dan-Air Flight 1903 are killed when the British De Havilland Comet crashes into mountains north of Barcelona.
**The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the Mururoa Atoll. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program to perfect a hydrogen bomb small enough to be delivered by a missile.
* July 5 – Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport, Toronto, Ontario; all 109 passengers and crew are killed.
* July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat ''Ra II'' arrives in Barbados.
* July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
* July 23 – 1970 Omani coup d'état: Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a bloodless palace coup by his son, Qaboos.
* July 30 – Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 Thalidomide victims.

August

* August 11 – Creation of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts in Confolens, France.
* August 17 - Venera program: ''Venera 7'' is launched toward Venus. It later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet.
* August 31 - An Solar eclipse of August 31, 1970, annular solar eclipse is visible in Oceania, and is the 14th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 144.

September

* September 1 – An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September in Jordan, Black September crisis.
* September 3–September 6, 6 – Israeli forces fight State of Palestine, Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon
*September 4 – Chilean Socialist Party of Chile, Socialist Senate of Chile, Senator Salvador Allende wins 36.2% of the vote in his 1970 Chilean presidential election, run for presidency defeating former Right-wing politics, right-wing President of Chile, President Jorge Alessandri with 34.9% of the votes and Christian Democratic Party (Chile), Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic with 27.8% of the votes.
*September 5 – Vietnam War: Operation Jefferson Glenn: The 101st Airborne Division, United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971).
* September 6 – Dawson's Field hijackings, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York City, New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.
* September 7 – Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
* September 8–September 10, 10 – The Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make repeated unsuccessful truces.
* September 9 – Guinea recognizes the German Democratic Republic.
* September 10 - Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after three months.
* September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
* September 17 – "Black September": King Hussein of Jordan orders the Jordanian Armed Forces to oust Palestinian fedayeen from Jordan.
* September 19 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial Greek junta led by Georgios Papadopoulos.
* September 20
** Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.
** ''Luna 16'' lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth September 24.
* September 21 – State of Palestine, Palestinian armed forces reinforce guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.
* September 22
** The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is founded.
** Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as Prime Minister of Malaysia, prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, deputy Tun Abdul Razak.
* September 27
** Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, Ireland.
** Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of Ávila as the first female Doctor of the Church.
* September 28 – Vice President Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt following the death of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
* September 29 – In Berlin, Red Army Faction members rob three banks, with loot totaling over Deutsche Mark, DM 200,000.

October

* October 2 – The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane Wichita State University football team plane crash, crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.
* October 3
** In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.
** The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is formed.
** The Weather Bureau is renamed to National Weather Service, as part of NOAA.
** Pope Paul VI names Saint Catherine of Siena as the second female Doctor of the Church.
* October 4
** Jochen Rindt becomes Formula One List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, World Driving Champion, the first to earn the honor posthumously.
** In Bolivia, Army Commander General Rogelio Miranda and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President Alfredo Ovando Candía, who fires him.
* October 5 – The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members, beginning Quebec's October Crisis. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
* October 6
** Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
* October 7 – General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
* October 8
** The U.S. Foreign Office announces the renewal of arms sales to Pakistan.
** Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
** Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communism, Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
* October 9 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia, escalating the Cambodian Civil War between the government and the Khmer Rouge.
* October 10
** Fiji becomes independent.
** October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
* October 11 – Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
* October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
* October 13 – Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon.
* October 14 – A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.
* October 15
** A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
** In Egypt, a referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
* October 16 – October Crisis: The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front.
* October 17
** October Crisis: Pierre Laporte is found murdered in south Montreal.
** A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.
** Anwar Sadat officially becomes President of Egypt.
* October 20
** The Soviet Union launches the ''Zond 8'' lunar probe.
** Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
* October 22 – Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
* October 23 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
* October 24 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile, President of Chile by a run-off vote in the National Congress of Chile, National Congress
* October 25 – The wreck of the Confederate submarine ''H. L. Hunley (submarine), Hunley'' is found off Charleston, South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence, then just 22 years old. ''Hunley'' was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
* October 28
** In Jordan, the government of Ahmad Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi al-Tal.
** A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.
** Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered ''Blue Flame'' to an official land speed record of on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
* October 30 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

November

* November 1
** The Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146.
** Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Zygfryd Wolniak and three Pakistanis are killed in an attack on a group of Polish diplomats at the Karachi airport.
* November 3
** Salvador Allende takes office as president of Chile.
** The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970 United States dollar, USD, $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.
* November 5 – Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).
* November 8 – Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.
* November 9
** The Soviet Union launches ''Luna 17''.
** Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
* November 13
** 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph (193 km/h) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster). It gives rise to the temporary island of New Moore / South Talpatti.
** Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following Corrective Movement (Syria), a military coup within the Ba'ath Party.
* November 14
** Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University American football, football team, are killed.
** The Soviet Union enters the International Civil Aviation Organization, after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years. Russian language, Russian becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.
* November 16 – The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flies for the first time.
* November 17 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands ''Lunokhod 1'' on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting ''Luna 17'' spacecraft.
* November 19 – The six European Economic Community nation prime ministers meet in Munich to begin the new programme of European Political Cooperation (EPC), a unified foreign policy for a future European Union.
* November 20 – The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade, in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa.
* November 21
** Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
** In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.
** Vietnam War – Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force, Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây (Hanoi), Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoner of war, POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
** 1970 Australian Senate election: The Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal/National Party of Australia, Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition Gorton Government, Government led by Prime Minister of Australia, Prime Minister John Gorton and the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam each ended up with 26 seats; both suffering a swing against them. The Democratic Labor Party (historical), Democratic Labor Party won an additional seat and held the balance of power in the Australian Senate, Senate. To date, this was the last occasion where a Senate election was held without an accompanying Australian House of Representatives, House Of Representatives election.
* November 22 – Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry. The Guinean army repels the landing attempts over the next three days.
* November 25 – November 29, 29 – A U.N. delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.
* November 25 – In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor of Japan, Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
* November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
* November 28 – The Montréal Alouettes defeat the Calgary Stampeders, 23–10, to win the 58th Grey Cup.

December

* December 1
** The Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Italian Chamber of Deputies accepts the new divorce law.
** Ethiopia recognizes the People's Republic of China.
** The Basques, Basque ETA (separatist group), ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.
** Luis Echeverría becomes president of Mexico.
* December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency is established.
* December 3
** October Crisis: In Montreal, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
** Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque people, Basque terrorism suspects begins.
* December 4
** The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzcoa, over strikes and demonstrations.
** The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.
* December 5
** The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.
** Fluminense wins the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Brazil Football Championship.
* December 7
** Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.
** The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.
** During his visit to the Polish capital, Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic), German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, which will become known as the Warschauer Kniefall ("Warsaw Genuflection").
* December 12 – A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead.
* December 15
** The USSR's ''Venera 7'' becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
** The South Korean ferry ''Namyong Ho'' capsizes off Korea Strait; 308 people are killed.
* December 16 – The Ethiopian government declares a state of emergency in the county of Eritrea over the activities of the Eritrean Liberation Front.
* December 20 – An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic aid, economic and military aid.
* December 21 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes its first flight.
* December 22
** The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
** Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
* December 23
** The Bolivian government releases Régis Debray.
** Law 70-001 is enacted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amending article 4 of the constitution and making the country a one-party state.
* December 25 – The ETA (separatist group), ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
* December 27 – President of India V. V. Giri declares 1971 Indian general election, new elections.
* December 28 – The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques and Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
* December 29 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act (United States), Occupational Safety and Health Act.
* December 30 – In Biscay (Congress of Deputies constituency), Biscay in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque country of Spain, 15,000 go on strike in protest at the Burgos trial death sentences. Francisco Franco commutes the sentences to 30 years in prison.
* December 31 – Paul McCartney sues in Britain to dissolve The Beatles's legal partnership.

Date unknown

* The first Institutes of Technology in Ireland, Regional Technical Colleges open in Ireland.
* Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress, disappears.
* The Sweet Track is discovered in England. It was the world's oldest engineered roadway at the time of its discovery.
* Alvin Toffler publishes his book ''Future Shock''.
* Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.
* PARC (company), Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California.
* A Business, multi-business Conglomerate (company), conglomerate, Virgin Group was founded by Richard Branson in England.

World population

Births

January

* January 2
** Oksana Omelianchik, Soviet artistic gymnast
** Eric Whitacre, American composer
* January 9 – Lara Fabian, Canadian/Belgian singer
* January 12 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician
* January 13
** Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
** Shonda Rhimes, American TV producer and writer
* January 17 – Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian-American animator
* January 18 – DJ Quik, American rapper and producer
* January 20 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor
* January 21 – Ken Leung, American actor
* January 22 – Alex Ross (comic illustrator), Alex Ross, American comic artist
* January 24 – Matthew Lillard, American actor, presenter, director, and producer
* January 29
** Heather Graham, American actress
** Paul Ryan, American politician
* January 31 – Minnie Driver, English actress

February

* February 1 – Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d. 2000)
* February 3
** Warwick Davis, English actor
** Russo brothers, Anthony Russo, American film and television director
* February 8 – Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player
* February 9 – Glenn McGrath, Australian test cricketer
* February 10 – Ardy Wiranata, Indonesian badminton player
* February 13 – Park Hee-soon, South Korean actor
* February 14 – Simon Pegg, British comedian, actor, and screenwriter
* February 15 – Shepard Fairey, American temporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator, and founder of OBEY (clothing)
* February 16 – Armand Van Helden, American DJ and music producer
* February 17
** Tommy Moe, American Alpine skier
** Dominic Purcell, English-Australian actor
* February 18 – Susan Egan, American actress, voice actress, singer and dancer
* February 19 – Bellamy Young, American actress
* February 26 – Cathrine Lindahl, Swedish curler
* February 28
** Daniel Handler, American author
** Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete

March

* March 2 – Alexander Armstrong, English comedian, actor and presenter
* March 3 – Julie Bowen, American actress
* March 5
** John Frusciante, American rock musician
** Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
** Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia
* March 7 – Rachel Weisz, British-American actress
* March 10
** Antonio Edwards, American football player
** Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer
* March 13 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (d. 2017)
* March 16 – Paul Oscar (Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson), Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey
* March 18 – Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress
* March 20
** Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
** Linda Larkin, American actress and voice actress
** Michael Rapaport, American actor
* March 21
** Jaya (singer), Jaya, Filipino pop singer
** Cenk Uygur, Turkish-American political commentator, activist, and attorney
* March 22 – Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
* March 24
** Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
** Sharon Corr, Irish musician
* March 27
** Maribel Díaz Cabello, Peruvian educator, First Lady of Peru
** Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
** Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d. 2001)
* March 28 – Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer, and producer
* March 30 – Secretariat (horse), Secretariat, American Thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1989)
* March 31 – Alenka Bratušek, 7th Prime Minister of Slovenia

April

* April 4 – Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
* April 7 – Rosey (wrestler), Rosey, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2017)
* April 8 – Andrej Plenković, 12th Prime Minister of Croatia
* April 10
** José Paulo Lanyi, Brazilian journalist, writer and filmmaker
** Q-Tip (musician), Q-Tip, American musician and actor
** Kenny Lattimore, American Contemporary R&B, R&B singing, singer
* April 11 – Trevor Linden, Canadian hockey player
* April 13 – Ricky Schroder, American actor
* April 17 – Redman (rapper), Redman, American rapper and actor
* April 18
** Heike Friedrich, German swimmer
** Saad Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon
* April 19 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer
* April 20
** Sven Benken, German footballer and Manager
** Shemar Moore, American actor
** Adriano Moraes (bull rider), Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
* April 21
** Rob Riggle, American actor and comedian
** Nicole Sullivan, American actress, comedian, and writer
* April 22 – Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
* April 23
** Sadao Abe, Japanese actor
** Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league footballer
** Hans Välimäki, Finnish cook
* April 25
** Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (d. 2011)
** Jason Lee (actor), Jason Lee, American skateboarder and actor
* April 26
** Melania Trump, Slovenian model, First Lady of the United States
** Tionne Watkins (T-Boz), American actress and singer-songwriter
* April 28
** Kurt Eversley, Guyanese-born former cricketer
** Nicklas Lidström, Swedish hockey player
** Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer and manager
* April 29
** Andre Agassi, American tennis player
** Uma Thurman, American actress
* April 30 – Halit Ergenç, Turkish actor

May

* May 3
** Bobby Cannavale, American actor
** Ariel Hernández (boxer), Ariel Hernandez, Cuban boxer
* May 4 – Will Arnett, Canadian actor
* May 6
** Roland Kun, Nauruan politician
** Ade Rai, Indonesian bodybuilder
* May 8
** Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer
** Luis Enrique (footballer), Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer
** Naomi Klein, Canadian author and activist
* May 9
** Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer
** Ghostface Killah, American rapper
* May 10
** Craig Mack, American rapper (d. 2018)
** Angelica Agurbash, Belarusian singer and model
* May 12 – Samantha Mathis, American actress
* May 15 – Ronald de Boer, Ronald and Frank de Boer, Dutch footballers
* May 16 – Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
* May 17 – Jordan Knight, American singer
* May 18 – Tina Fey, American comedian and actress
* May 19 – Choi Kyung-Ju, K.J. Choi, South Korean golfer
* May 20
**Juliana Pasha, Albanian singer
**Louis Theroux, Singaporean-English journalist and producer
* May 21 – Once Mekel, Indonesian singer
* May 22 – Naomi Campbell, British model and actress
* May 25
** Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian
** Octavia Spencer, American actress
* May 26 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
* May 27
** Joseph Fiennes, British actor
** Bianka Panova, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
* May 28 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
* May 30 – Erick Thohir, Indonesian politician and businessman

June

* June 1
** Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
** Alison Hinds, Barbadian soca singer born in England now residing in Barbados.
** R. Madhavan, Indian film actor
** Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
* June 2 – B-Real, American rapper
* June 3
** Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
** Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician
* June 4 – Izabella Scorupco, Polish model and actress
* June 5 – Deborah Yates, American dancer and actress
* June 7
** Ronaldo da Costa, Brazilian long-distance runner
** Mike Modano, American hockey player
* June 8
** Gabby Giffords, American politician
** Kelli Williams, American actress
* June 13
** Rivers Cuomo, American musician, frontman of Weezer
** Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
* June 15 – Leah Remini, American actress
* June 16
** Younus AlGohar, Pakistani spiritualist
** Phil Mickelson, American golfer
* June 17
** Will Forte, American actor and comedian
** Michael Showalter, American actor, writer, and director
* June 19 – Quincy Watts, American athlete
* June 20
** Russell Garcia (field hockey), Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
** Prince Moulay Rachid of Morocco, Moulay Rachid, Prince of Morocco
** Michelle Reis, Hong Kong actress and beauty queen
** Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher
* June 21 – Pete Rock, American rapper and DJ
* June 22
** Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
** Michael Trucco, American actor
* June 23 – Marko Albrecht, German disc jockey and electronic producer
* June 24
** Glenn Medeiros, American singer and songwriter
** Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Spanish screenwriter and film director
* June 25 – Pan Lingling, Singaporean actress
* June 26
** Paul Thomas Anderson, American screenwriter and director
** Sean Hayes (actor), Sean Hayes, American actor
** Paweł Nastula, Polish judoka and mixed martial artist
** Chris O'Donnell, American actor
** Nick Offerman, American actor, writer and carpenter
* June 27 – Ahmed Ahmed, Egyptian-born American actor and comedian
* June 30
** Leonardo Sbaraglia, Argentine actor
** Erica Sjöström, Swedish female singer and saxophonist

July

* July 2
** Derrick Adkins, American Olympic athlete
** Yap Kim Hock, Malaysian badminton player
** Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
** Kym Ng, Singaporean television host and actress
* July 2 – Scott Aukerman, American writer, actor, comedian, television personality, director, producer, and podcast host
* July 3
** Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
** Audra McDonald, American actress and singer
** Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian road racing cyclist
* July 7
** Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
** Masai Ujiri, Nigerian professional basketball executive
** Akram Abdel-Majeed, Egyptian professional footballer
** Atli Örvarsson, Icelandic film score composer
* July 8
** Beck, American singer-songwriter and record producer
** Taiei Kin, Korean-Japanese karateka, kickboxer and mixed martial artist
** Atul Agnihotri, Indian film actor, producer, and director
** Micky Hoogendijk, Dutch actress, presenter, model and professional photographer
* July 10
** Adam Hills, Australian comedian and television presenter
** Jason Orange, British singer
** John Simm, British actor
* July 11 – Justin Chambers, American actor and fashion model
* July 12
** Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor, singer and model
** Jaason Simmons, Australian actor
** Viétia Zangrandi, Brazilian actress
** Aure Atika, French actress, writer and director
* July 13 – Bruno Salomone, French actor and comedian
* July 17
** Jang Hyun-sung, South Korean actor
** William C. Kuebler, American lawyer (d. 2014)
** Gavin McInnes, Canadian writer and political commentator (co-founder of Vice Media)
* July 20 – Tunku Abdul Majid
* July 22 – Jonathan Zaccaï, Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter
* July 23
** Thea Dorn, German writer
** Saulius Skvernelis, Prime Minister of Lithuania
* July 30
** Christopher Nolan, English screenwriter and director
** MC Trouble, African American rapper (d. 1991)

August

* August 1
** David James (footballer, born 1970), David James, English football goalkeeper
** Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
** Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
* August 2
** Elijah Alexander, American football linebacker (d. 2010)
** Kevin Smith, American screenwriter, film director, and actor
* August 3 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game director, designer and writer
* August 5 – Konstantin Yeryomenko, Russian futsal (d. 2010)
* August 6 – M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American film director and writer
* August 10
** Brendon Julian, New Zealand cricket player
** Steve Mautone, Australian football player and coach
* August 11 – Daniella Perez, Brazilian actress and ballerina (d. 1992)
* August 13
** Hamden Khalif Allah Awad, Egyptian Islamist militant (d. 1998)
** Alan Shearer, English footballer
* August 14 – Leah Purcell, Australian actress
* August 15 – Anthony Anderson, American actor
* August 16 – Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
** Manisha Koirala, Indian actress
* August 17
** Jim Courier, American tennis player
** Tammy Townsend, American actress and singer
* August 20
** Fred Durst, American rapper
** Ove Jørstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2008)
* August 21
** Erik Dekker, Dutch professional cyclist
** Cathy Weseluck, Canadian actress and comedian
* August 22
** Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American celebrity chef
** Ricco Groß, German biathlete
** Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer
* August 23
** Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
** River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
** Fabian Wilnis, Dutch footballer
* August 25 – Claudia Schiffer, German model
* August 26
** Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian race walker
** Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian, and film producer
* August 27
** Pokwang, Filipino comedian and actress
** Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
** Jim Thome, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
** Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)
* August 28
** Henny van Schoonhoven, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2009)
** Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, Indian director and poet. (d. 2015)
* August 29 – Alessandra Negrini, Brazilian actress
* August 30 – Guang Liang, Malaysian singer
* August 31
** Debbie Gibson, American singer
** Queen Rania of Jordan, Queen consort of Jordan

September

* September 1 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
* September 3 – Jeremy Glick, passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
* September 4
** Daisy Dee, Dutch singer and actress
** Ione Skye, British-born American actress
* September 7
** Gao Min (diver), Gao Min, Chinese diver
** Tom Everett Scott, American actor
* September 8 – Benny Ibarra, Mexican singer
* September 10 – Ménélik, French rapper
* September 11
** Taraji P. Henson, American actress
** Laura Wright, American actress
* September 12 – Amala Akkineni, Indian actress, dancer and activist
* September 14 – Mike Burns (soccer), Mike Burns, American soccer player
* September 17 – Valeria Cappellotto, Italian racing cyclist. (d. 2015)
*September 18
** Darren Gough, English cricketer
** Aisha Tyler, American actress, comedian, director, and talk show host
* September 19
** Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player
** Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer
* September 20 – Gert Verheyen, Belgian footballer
* September 21 – Samantha Power, Irish-American government official and writer
* September 23 – Ani DiFranco, American musician
* September 25 – Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
* September 26
** Marco Etcheverry, Bolivian football player
** Yukio Iketani, Japanese gymnast
* September 27 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
* September 28
** Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
** Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
* September 29
** Ninel Conde, Mexican actress, singer, and television host
** Emily Lloyd, English actress
** Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
* September 30 – Tony Hale, American actor

October

* October 1 – Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan athlete
* October 4 – Zdravko Zdravkov, Bulgarian footballer
* October 6 – Amy Jo Johnson, American-Canadian actress
* October 7 – Nicole Ari Parker, American actress and model
* October 8
** Matt Damon, American actor
** Sadiq Khan, British politician; 3rd Mayor of London (2016–present)
** Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game and film director
* October 9 – Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
* October 10
** Sir Matthew Pinsent, British rower
** Jokelyn Tienstra, Dutch handball player (d. 2015)
* October 12 – Kirk Cameron, American actor and Christian activist
* October 14 – Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel
** Roel Vermeulen - Dutch epidemiologist
* October 16 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
* October 17
** Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
** Marciano Vink, Dutch footballer
* October 19 – Chris Kattan, American comedian and actor
* October 20 – Michelle Malkin, American political commentator
* October 21
** Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor
** Tony Mortimer, English singer
* October 24 – Stephen Kipkorir, Kenyan middle-distance runner (d. 2008)
* October 25 – Adam Goldberg, American actor
* October 26 – Chavo Guerrero Jr., Mexican-American professional wrestler
* October 27 – Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
* October 27 – Jonathan Stroud, British writer of fantasy fiction
* October 29 – Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
* October 30 – Nia Long, American actress
** Xie Jun, Chinese chess grandmaster
* October 31
** Linn Berggren, Swedish singer
** Nolan North, American actor and voice actor

November

* November 1 – Merle Palmiste, Estonian actress
* November 2
** Ely Buendia, Filipino rock lead singer and rhythm guitarist (Eraserheads)
** Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman, American wrestling valet
* November 3 – Dawn Marie Psaltis, American professional wrestler
* November 4 – François Delapierre, French politician (d. 2015)
* November 6 – Ethan Hawke, American actor, writer, and film director
* November 7 – Morgan Spurlock, American filmmaker and activist
* November 8 – Tom Anderson, American co-founder of Myspace
* November 9 – Chris Jericho, professional wrestler
* November 10 – Warren G, American rapper
* November 12
** Tonya Harding, American figure skater
** Alina María Hernández, Cuban transgender woman (d. 2016)
* November 13 – Frederick Herman, American air line pilot
* November 15 – Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
* November 16 – Martha Plimpton, American actress
* November 17 – Paul Allender, English guitarist
* November 18
** Peta Wilson, Australian actress
** Mike Epps, American comedian and actor
* November 21 – Karen Davila, Filipina journalist, TV host and news personality
* November 22 – Joe Son, Korean-American actor, wrestler, and convicted felon
* November 23 – Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor
* November 25 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009)
* November 26 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
* November 27 – Jorge Luis González Tanquero, Cuban dissident (d. 2016)
* November 28 – Richard Osman, English television presenter, producer and director
* November 30
** Yayuk Basuki, Indonesian tennis player
** Natalie Williams, American basketball player

December

* December 1 – Sarah Silverman, American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, producer, and writer
* December 3 – Jimmy Shergill, Indian actor
* December 4 – Kevin Sussman, American actor and comedian
* December 5
** Tim Hetherington, English-born photojournalist (d. 2011)
** Martin Selmayr, German Eurocrat
* December 9 – Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter, producer and singer
* December 12
** Mädchen Amick, American actress
** Jennifer Connelly, American actress
** Regina Hall, American actress
* December 14 – Andrew Lewis (boxer), Andrew Lewis, Guyanese professional boxer (d. 2015)
* December 15
**Babul Supriyo, Indian singer and politician
**Przemysław Truściński, Polish artist
* December 17
** Craig Doyle, Irish television presenter
** Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
* December 18
** DMX, American rapper and actor (d. 2021)
** Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
* December 20 – Massimo Ellul, Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
* December 22
** Ted Cruz, Canadian-American politician, United States Senate, U.S. Senator (Republican Party (United States), R-Texas, Tx.) from 2013 and 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 presidential candidate
** Gary Anderson (darts player), Gary Anderson, Scottish darts player
* December 23 – Catriona Le May Doan, Canadian speed skater
* December 25 – Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian footballer
* December 26 – Krissada Sukosol Clapp, Thai actor and singer
* December 28 — Yolanda Andrade, Mexican actress and television presenter
* December 29
** Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television presenter
** Kevin Weisman, American actor

Deaths

January–February

* January 5 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
* January 10 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
* January 18 – David O. McKay, 9th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
* January 25 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (b. 1901)
* January 27 – Erich Heckel, German painter (b. 1883)
* January 29
** Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (b. 1895)
** Thelma Morgan, American socialite (b. 1904)
* January 30 – Fritz Bayerlein, German general (b. 1899)
* January 31 – Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)
* February 2 – Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
* February 3 – Italo Gariboldi, Italian general (b. 1879)
* February 7 – Abe Attell, American boxer (b. 1883)
* February 14
** Arthur Edeson, American cinematographer (b. 1891)
** Harry Stradling, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
* February 15 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, British RAF Fighter Commander during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882)
* February 16 – Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1879)
* February 17
** Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
** Alfred Newman (composer), Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1900)
* February 19 – Jules Munshin, American actor (b. 1915)
* February 20 – João Fernandes Campos Café Filho, João Café Filho, Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
* February 22 – Dora Boothby, English tennis champion (b. 1881)
* February 24 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)

March–April

* March 6 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
* March 11 – Erle Stanley Gardner, American crime writer (b. 1889)
* March 15 – Arthur Adamov, Russian-French playwright (b. 1908)
* March 16 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
* March 18 – William Beaudine, American film director (b. 1892)
* March 21 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian author (b. 1920)
* March 29 – Vera Brittain, British writer (b. 1893)
* March 30 – Heinrich Brüning, German academic and politician, 21st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
* March 31 – Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
* April 1 – Polina Zhemchuzhina, Soviet politician (b. 1897)
** Ludolf von Alvensleben, German Nazi functionary, SS and Police Leader (b. 1901)
* April 5
**Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (b. 1877)
**Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
* April 6 – Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
* April 8
** Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte (b. 1893)
** Julius Pokorny, Austrian-born Czech linguist (b. 1887)
* April 11 – Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
* April 16 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-born American architect (b. 1892)
* April 17 – Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (b. 1877)
* April 18 – Michał Kalecki, Polish economist (b. 1899)
* April 26
** Francisco Cunha Leal, Portuguese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1888)
** Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
* April 27 – Arthur Shields, Irish actor (b. 1896)
* April 28 – Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
* April 30 – Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (b. 1934)

May

* May 1
** Ralph Hartley, American inventor (b. 1888)
** Yi Un, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897)
* May 9 – Walter P. Reuther, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers (b. 1907)
* May 11 – Johnny Hodges, American jazz musician (b. 1907)
* May 12
** Władysław Anders, General of the Polish Army (b. 1892)
** Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
* May 13 – Sir William Dobell, Australian artist (b. 1899)
* May 14 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
* May 17 – Heinz Hartmann, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1894)
* May 24 – Phan Khắc Sửu, South Vietnamese politician and Leaders_of_South_Vietnam#Heads_of_state_2, Chief of State of the Republic of Vietnam (b. 1893)
* May 28 – Iuliu Hossu, Romanian Roman Catholic bishop and servant of God (b. 1885)
* May 29
** John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
** Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b. 1936)
* May 31 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)

June

* June 1 – Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, 31st President of Argentina (b. 1903)
* June 2 – Bruce McLaren, founder of McLaren Racing (b. 1937)
* June 3 – Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi German economic minister (b. 1877)
* June 7
** E. M. Forster, English writer (b. 1879)
** Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, Spanish archaeologist and historian (b. 1870)
** Prudencia Grifell, Spanish-born Mexican actress (b. 1879)
* June 8 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
* June 9 – Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, 19th President of Costa Rica (b. 1900)
* June 10 – Bartolomé Blanche, Chilean military officer, provisional President of Chile (b. 1879)
* June 11 – Alexander Kerensky, Russian revolutionary politician (b. 1881)
* June 14 – Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (b. 1893)
* June 15 – José de Almada Negreiros, Portuguese artist (b. 1893)
* June 16 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
* June 21 – Sukarno, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
* June 26 – Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer (b. 1900)

July

* July 6 – Marjorie Rambeau, American actress (b. 1889)
* July 7 – Sylvester Wiere, Austro-Hungarian-born American slapstick comedian, member of the Wiere Brothers (b. 1909)
* July 10 – Bjarni Benediktsson (born 1908), Bjarni Benediktsson, 11th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
* July 11 – André Lurçat, French modernist architect, landscape architect, (b. 1894)
* July 13
** Leslie Groves, American general, director of the Manhattan Project (b. 1896)
** Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)
* July 14 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor (b. 1914)
* July 19
** Egon Eiermann, German architect (b. 1904)
** Panagiotis Pipinelis, former Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1899)
* July 22 – Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (b. 1892)
* July 23 – Amadeo Bordiga, Italian Marxist (b. 1889)
* July 27 – António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
* July 29 – John Barbirolli, Sir John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
* July 30 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)

August

* August 1
** Frances Farmer, American actress and television host (b. 1913)
** Giuseppe Pizzardo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1877)
** Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1883)
* August 10 – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (b. 1918)
* August 12 – Glenn Hartranft, American athlete (b. 1901)
* August 18 – Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
* August 20 – Zeki Velidi Togan, Turkish historian (b. 1890)
* August 22 – Vladimir Propp, Soviet folklorist (b. 1895)
* August 23 – Abdallah Khalil, 3rd Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1892)
* August 30 – Del Moore, American actor, comedian and radio announcer (b. 1916)

September

* September – Mahmud al-Muntasir, 1st Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1903)
* September 1 – François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
* September 2
** Marie-Pierre Kœnig, French general and politician (b. 1898)
** Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer (b. 1906)
* September 3
** Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
** Alan Wilson (musician), Alan Wilson, American musician (Canned Heat) (b. 1943)
* September 5
** Jesse Pennington, English footballer (b. 1883)
** Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, 1970 Formula One Driver's Champion (b. 1942)
* September 7 – Yitzhak Gruenbaum, noted leader of the Zionism, Zionist movement in the interwar period (b. 1879)
* September 14 – Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1891)
* September 18 – Jimi Hendrix, American rock musician (b. 1942)
* September 22 – Alice Hamilton, the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University (b. 1869)
* September 23 – Bourvil, André Bourvil, French actor (b. 1917)
* September 25 – Erich Maria Remarque, German author (''All Quiet On The Western Front'') (b. 1898)
* September 28
** John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
** Gamal Abdel Nasser, 31st Prime Minister of Egypt and 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
* September 29 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
* September 30 – Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1875)

October

* October 1 – Petar Konjović, Yugoslav composer (b. 1883)
* October 4 – Janis Joplin, American rock singer (b. 1943)
* October 10 – Édouard Daladier, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1884)
* October 18 – Prince Zeid bin Hussein (b. 1898)
* October 19 – Lázaro Cárdenas, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895)
* October 21
** Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (b. 1896)
** Ernest Haller, American cinematographer (b. 1896)
* October 24 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian (b. 1916)
* October 25 – René Schneider, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army (b. 1913)

November

* November 2
** Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
** Fernand Gravey, French actor (b. 1904)
* November 6 – Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (b. 1897)
* November 8 – Napoleon Hill, American author in the area of the new thought (b. 1883)
* November 9 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister of France and 18th President of France (b. 1890)
* November 13 – Bessie Braddock, British politician (b. 1899)
* November 15 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Greek politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1884)
* November 19
** Andrei Yeremenko, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
** Maria Yudina, Soviet pianist (b. 1899)
* November 21
** C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (b. 1888)
** Percy Ernst Schramm, German historian (b. 1894)
* November 23 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
* November 25
** Louise Glaum, American actress (b. 1888)
** Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist (b. 1925)

December

* December 7 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
* December 8 – Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist (b. 1893)
* December 9 – Feroz Khan Noon, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893)
* December 14 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, British field marshal and 13th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891)
* December 15 – Ernest Marsden, English-New Zealand physicist (b. 1889)
* December 16 – Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist and philosopher (b. 1894)
* December 29 – Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (1886–1970), Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (b. 1886)
* December 30 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. c.1930)
* December 31 – Cyril Scott, English composer, writer, and poet (b. 1879)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel
* Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Luis Federico Leloir
* Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
* Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
* Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Norman Borlaug
* Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Paul Samuelson

References

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