1966

1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.

1966 by topic
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1966 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1966
MCMLXVI
Ab urbe condita2719
Armenian calendar1415
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԵ
Assyrian calendar6716
Baháʼí calendar122–123
Balinese saka calendar1887–1888
Bengali calendar1373
Berber calendar2916
British Regnal year14 Eliz. 2 – 15 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2510
Burmese calendar1328
Byzantine calendar7474–7475
Chinese calendar乙巳年 (Wood Snake)
4662 or 4602
    — to —
丙午年 (Fire Horse)
4663 or 4603
Coptic calendar1682–1683
Discordian calendar3132
Ethiopian calendar1958–1959
Hebrew calendar5726–5727
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2022–2023
 - Shaka Samvat1887–1888
 - Kali Yuga5066–5067
Holocene calendar11966
Igbo calendar966–967
Iranian calendar1344–1345
Islamic calendar1385–1386
Japanese calendarShōwa 41
(昭和４１年)
Javanese calendar1897–1898
Juche calendar55
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4299
Minguo calendarROC 55
民國55年
Nanakshahi calendar498
Thai solar calendar2509
Tibetan calendar阴木蛇年
(female Wood-Snake)
2092 or 1711 or 939
    — to —
阳火马年
(male Fire-Horse)
2093 or 1712 or 940
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Events

January
  • January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko.[1]
  • January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso).[2]
  • January 10
    • Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
    • The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance.[3]
    • A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia.
  • January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
  • January 15 – 1966 Nigerian coup d'état: A bloody military coup is staged in Nigeria, deposing the civilian government and resulting in the death of Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.
  • January 17
    • The Nigerian coup is overturned by another faction of the military, leaving a military government in power. This is the beginning of a long period of military rule.
    • 1966 Palomares B-52 crash: A U.S. Air Force B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares, and one into the sea. Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of the latter which results in the amputation of his leg.
  • January 19 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India; she is sworn in January 24.
  • January 20
  • January 21 – Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
  • January 22
    • The military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup a week previously.
    • The Chadian Muslim insurgent group FROLINAT is founded in Sudan, starting the Chadian Civil War.
  • January 24 – Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc, killing all 117 people on board, including Dr. Homi J. Bhabha, chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission.
  • January 26 – Beaumont children disappearance: Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg, South Australia, never to be seen again.
  • January 27
    • The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in Malaysia will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
    • Britain's Labour Party unexpectedly retains the parliamentary seat of Hull North in a by-election, with a swing of 4.5% to their candidate from the opposition Conservatives, and a majority up from 1,181 at the 1964 General Election to 5,351.
  • January 31 – The United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia.

February
  • February 1 – Around 2,600 political prisoners are released by East Germany, in return for "donations" worth approximately $10,000 a head from West Germany.[4]
  • February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
  • February 4 – All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay; 133 people are killed.
  • February 7 – Lyndon Johnson of the United States and Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam convene with other officials in a summit in Honolulu, Hawaii to discuss the course of the Vietnam War.[5]
  • February 10 – Soviet fiction writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years, respectively, for "anti-Soviet" writings.
  • February 14 – The Australian dollar is introduced at a rate of 2 dollars per pound, or 10 shillings per dollar.
  • February 19 – The naval minister of the United Kingdom, Christopher Mayhew, resigns.
  • February 20 – While Soviet author and translator Valery Tarsis is abroad, the Soviet Union negates his citizenship.
  • February 23 – 1966 Syrian coup d'état: An intra-party military coup in Syria replaces the previous government of Amin al-Hafiz by one led by Salah Jadid.
  • February 24 – A coup led by the police and military of Ghana raises the National Liberation Council to power while president Kwame Nkrumah is abroad.
  • February 28 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson calls a General Election in the United Kingdom, to be held on March 31.

March
  • March – The DKW automobile ceases production in Germany.[6]
  • March 1
    • The British Government announces plans for the decimalisation of the pound sterling (hitherto denominated in 20 shillings and 240 pence to the £), to come into force on 15 February 1971 (Decimal Day).
    • Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
    • The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
  • March 2 – Kwame Nkrumah arrives in Guinea and is granted asylum.
  • March 4
    • Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 crashes during a night landing in poor visibility at Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing 64 of 72 people on board.
    • In an interview with London Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, John Lennon of The Beatles states "We're more popular than Jesus now".
  • March 5
    • BOAC Flight 911 crashes in severe clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji soon after taking off from Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
    • "Merci, Chérie" by Udo Jürgens (music by Udo Jürgens, lyrics by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1966 for Austria.
  • March 7 – Charles de Gaulle asks U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson for negotiations about the state of NATO equipment in France.
  • March 8
    • Anti-communist demonstrations occur at the Indonesian Foreign Ministry.
    • Vietnam War: The U.S. announces it will substantially increase the number of its troops in Vietnam.
    • Nelson's Pillar in O'Connell Street, Dublin, is clandestinely blown up by former Irish Republican Army volunteers marking this year's 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising.
  • March 10 – Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Claus von Amsberg.[7] Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.
  • March 11
  • March 16
    • NASA spacecraft Gemini 8 (David Scott, Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with an Agena target vehicle.
    • Paul Van Doren establishes the Vans shoe company in California.
  • March 19 – The Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with five African American starters, ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.
  • March 20 – Football's FIFA World Cup Trophy is stolen while on exhibition in London; it is found seven days later by a mongrel dog named "Pickles" and his owner David Corbett, wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden.
  • March 22: in the Chinese city of Xingtai a magnitude 6.8 earthquake leaves more than 8,000 dead and 38,000 injured.
  • March 24 – Pope Paul VI meets Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.[8]
  • March 26 – Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War.[9]
  • March 27 – In South Vietnam, 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.
  • March 28
  • March 29 – The 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held: Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.[11]
  • March 31
    • The British Labour Party led by Harold Wilson wins the 1966 United Kingdom general election, gaining a 96-seat majority (compared with a single seat majority when the election was called on February 28).[12]
    • The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.

April

May
Flag of Guyana

June

July
  • July 1 – Joaquín Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.[21]
  • July 3
    • 31 people are arrested when a demonstration by approximately 4,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters in front of the United States Embassy in London in Grosvenor Square turns violent.
    • René Barrientos is elected President of Bolivia.
  • July 6 – Malawi becomes a republic.
  • July 7 – A Warsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
  • July 8 – King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Ntare V, who is in turn deposed by prime minister Michel Micombero.
  • July 11 – The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
  • July 12
  • July 13 – The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is founded in New York City by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
  • July 14
    • Israeli and Syrian jet fighters clash over the Jordan River.
    • Richard Speck murders 8 student nurses in their Chicago dormitory. He is arrested on July 17.
    • Gwynfor Evans, President of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for Carmarthen, taking the previously Labour-held Welsh seat at a by-election with a majority of 2,435 on an 18% swing and giving his party its first representation at Westminster in its forty-one year history.
  • July 18
    • Gemini 10 (John Young, Michael Collins) is launched from the United States. After docking with an Agena target vehicle, the astronauts set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763 km).
    • The International Court of Justice rules in favour of South Africa in a case on the administration of South West Africa which has been brought before them by Ethiopia and Liberia.
  • July 22 – Following the death of Hsu Tsu-tsai, an engineer, in The Hague, the Chinese government declares Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans persona non grata, but tells him not to leave the country before other Chinese engineers have left the Netherlands.
  • July 23 – Katangese troops in Stanleyville, Congo, revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister Moise Tshombe.
  • July 24 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.
  • July 24 – A USAF F-4C Phantom #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese SAM-2 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Hanoi, the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese surface-to-air missile in the Vietnam War.[22]
  • July 26 – Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom, stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
  • July 28 – The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
  • July 29
    • 1966 Nigerian counter-coup: Army officers from the north of Nigeria execute head of state General Aguiyi-Ironsi and install Yakubu Gowon.
    • La Noche de los Bastones Largos: Junta takes over Argentine universities.
    • Bob Dylan is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in Woodstock, New York. He is not seen in public for over a year.
  • July 30 – England beats West Germany 4–2 to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley after extra time.
  • July 31 – The pleasure cruiser MV Darlwyne disappeared off the Cornwall coast with the loss of all 31 aboard.[23]

August
  • August 1
    • Sniper Charles Whitman kills 14 people and wounds 32 from atop the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower, after earlier killing his wife and mother.
    • The British Colonial Office merges with the Commonwealth Relations Office to form a new Commonwealth Office.
  • August 2 – The Spanish government forbids overflights by British military aircraft.
  • August 5
    • Groundbreaking takes place for the World Trade Center in New York City.
    • Martin Luther King Jr. leads a civil rights march in Chicago, during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.
    • The Caesars Palace hotel and casino opens in Las Vegas.
  • August 6
    • Braniff Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska, killing all 42 on board.
    • René Barrientos takes office as the President of Bolivia.
    • The Salazar Bridge (later the 25 de Abril Bridge) opens in Lisbon, Portugal.
  • August 10
    • An East German court sentences Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for spying for the United States.
    • Lunar Orbiter 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit the moon, is launched.
  • August 11
    • Indonesia and Malaysia issue a joint peace declaration, formally ending the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation which began in 1963.
    • The Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his "more popular than Jesus" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
  • August 12 – Massacre of Braybrook Street: Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead 3 plainclothes policemen in London; they are later sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • August 15 – Syrian and Israeli troops clash over Lake Kinneret (also known as the Sea of Galilee) for 3 hours.
  • August 17 – Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen.
  • August 18 – Vietnam War – Battle of Long Tan: D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, meets and defeats a Viet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, in Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam.
  • August 19 – The 6.8 Mw Varto earthquake affects the town of Varto in eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 2,394–3,000 and injuring at least 1,420.
  • August 21 – Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt for anti-Nasser agitation.
  • August 22
    • The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is established.
    • The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), is formed.
  • August 26 – The first battle of the South African Air Force and the South African Police with PLAN, the armed wing of the South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO), takes place at Ongulumbashe during Operation Blue Wildebeest, triggering the South African Border War which continues until 1989.
  • August 29 – The Beatles end their U.S. tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It is their last performance as a live touring band.
  • August 30 – France offers independence to French Somaliland (Djibouti from 1977).

September
Flag of Botswana

October
Flag of Lesotho
  • October – Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party in the United States.
  • October 1 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles (8.9 km) south of Wemme, Oregon, the first loss of a DC-9.[25]
  • October 3 – Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic.
  • October 4
  • October 5
    • UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
    • Spain closes its Gibraltar border to vehicular traffic.[26]
    • An experimental breeder reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan suffers a partial meltdown when its cooling system fails.
  • October 6
    • LSD is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only are possession and recreational use criminalized, but all legal scientific research programs on the drug in the country are shut down as well.
    • The Love Pageant Rally takes place in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park (a narrow section that projects into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district).
  • October 7 – The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
  • October 9 – Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre.
  • October 11 – France and the Soviet Union sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
  • October 14
    • Closure of Intra Bank begins a crisis in the Lebanese banking system.
    • The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro system.
  • October 17 – Lesotho and Botswana are admitted to the United Nations.
  • October 21
    • Aberfan disaster in South Wales (U.K.): 144 (including 116 children) are killed by a collapsing coal spoil tip.
    • The AFL-NFL merger in American football is approved by the U.S. Congress.
  • October 22 – Spain demands that the United Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar; Britain refuses the next day.
  • October 26
    • NATO decides to move its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.[27]
    • A fire aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen.
  • October 27
    • The United Nations terminates the mandate given by the League of Nations and proclaims that South West Africa will be administrated by the United Nations. This is rejected by South Africa.
    • Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for EPCOT, a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.

November
Flag of Barbados

December

Date unknown

Births
Births
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January
Ivica Dačić
Christian Kern
Nadia Maftouni
Lena Philipsson
Stefan Edberg
Romário

February
Cindy Crawford
Téa Leoni

March
  • March 1 – Zack Snyder, American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer
  • March 2 – Sheren Tang, Hong Kong actress
  • March 3
    • Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor
    • Vander Lee, Brazilian singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
    • Tone Lōc, African American R&B musician
  • March 4
    • Steve Bastoni, Australian actor
    • Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
  • March 9 – Tony Lockett, Australian rules footballer
  • March 10 – Edie Brickell, American singer
  • March 13 – Chico Science, Brazilian musician (d. 1997)
  • March 17 – Espen Hammer, Norwegian philosopher
  • March 18 – Jerry Cantrell, American guitarist and singer
  • March 22
    • Pia Cayetano, Filipino politician, and lawyer
    • Antonio Pinto, Portuguese long-distance runner
  • March 25
    • Tom Glavine, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
    • Jeff Healey, Canadian guitarist (d. 2008)
    • Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer
    • Remig Stumpf, German cyclist (d. 2019)
  • March 26 – Michael Imperioli, American actor
  • March 29 – Krasimir Balakov, Bulgarian footballer

April
Robin Wright
Samantha Fox
Jeffrey Dean Morgan

May
Charlie Schlatter
Stephen Baldwin
Greg Wise
Janet Jackson
H. Jon Benjamin
Helena Bonham Carter
  • May 3 – Firdous Bamji, Indian-American actor
  • May 5 – Lyubov Yegorova, Russian cross-country skier
  • May 6
    • Andrea Chiesa, Swiss Formula One driver
    • Cindy Hsu, American Emmy Award-winning journalist
  • May 7
    • Anderson Cummins, Canadian cricketer
    • Jes Høgh, Danish footballer
  • May 8
    • Robert J. Behnen, American genealogist and politician
    • Kamil Kašťák, Czech ice hockey player
    • Marta Sánchez, Spanish female vocalist, entertainer
    • Cláudio Taffarel, Brazilian goalkeeper
  • May 10
    • Mikael Andersson, Swedish ice hockey player
    • Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
    • Anne Elvebakk, Norwegian biathlete
    • Genaro Hernández, Mexican-American boxer
    • Wade Dominguez, American actor, model, singer and dancer (d. 1998)
  • May 12
  • May 13
    • Cheryl Dunye, Liberian-born film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress
    • Darius Rucker, African American country singer
  • May 16
    • Janet Jackson, African American R&B singer[47]
    • Juan Manuel Funes, Guatemalan footballer and coach
  • May 17
    • Hill Harper, American actor
    • Qusay Hussein, Iraqi politician (d. 2003)
  • May 19 – Polly Walker, English actress
  • May 21
    • Lisa Edelstein, American actress and playwright
    • François Omam-Biyik, Cameroonian football player
  • May 22 – Siri Eftedal, Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist
  • May 23
    • H. Jon Benjamin, American actor and comedian[48]
    • Graeme Hick, English cricketer
  • May 24
    • Eric Cantona, French footballer[49]
    • Francisco Javier Cruz, Mexican football player
    • Russell Kun, Nauruan politician
  • May 25 – Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh, Iranian goalkeeper
  • May 26
  • May 27
    • Heston Blumenthal, British chef
    • Carol Campbell, Afro-German actress, model and presenter
  • May 30 – Thomas Häßler, German football player

June
Julianna Margulies
Emmanuelle Seigner
J. J. Abrams
John Cusack
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama
Mike Tyson
  • June 3 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer
  • June 4
    • Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
    • Svetlana Jitomirskaya, American mathematician[50]
    • Vladimir Voevodsky, Russian mathematician (d. 2017)[51]
  • June 6 – Faure Gnassingbé, President of Togo
  • June 7 – Tom McCarthy, American film director and actor
  • June 8
    • Jens Kidman, Swedish musician
    • Julianna Margulies, American actress and producer
  • June 13 – Grigori Perelman, Russian mathematician
  • June 14 – Eduardo Waghorn, Chilean musician
  • June 15 – Roberto Carnevale, Italian musician
  • June 16 – Jan Železný, Czech javelin thrower
  • June 18 – Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
  • June 19 – Samuel West, British actor
  • June 22
    • Michael Park, British rally co-driver (d. 2005)
    • Emmanuelle Seigner, French actress
    • Dean Woods, Australian cyclist and Olympic champion (d. 2022)[52]
  • June 23 – Richie Jen, Taiwanese musician
  • June 24 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress, film director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
  • June 25 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player
  • June 26 – Dany Boon, French comedian and filmmaker
  • June 27 – J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
  • June 28
    • John Cusack, American actor
    • Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress
  • June 29 – Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta
  • June 30
    • Cheryl Bernard, Canadian Olympic curler
    • Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor
    • Mike Tyson, African American boxer[53]

July
Enrique Peña Nieto
  • July 1
    • Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
    • Samir Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan
  • July 3 – František Štorm, Czech musician (Master's Hammer) and typographer
  • July 5 – Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer
  • July 8 – Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician
  • July 9 – Pamela Adlon, American actress, voice actress, screenwriter, producer and director
  • July 10 – Gina Bellman, New Zealand-British actress
  • July 11 – Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator[54]
  • July 14 – Matthew Fox, American actor[55]
  • July 15
    • Irène Jacob, French-born actress
    • Kristoff St. John, American actor (d. 2019)
  • July 16
    • Frankie Gan Joon Zin, Malaysian politician
    • Waytha Moorthy Ponnusamy, Malaysian lawyer
  • July 18
    • Lori Alan, American actress and voice actress
    • Dan O'Brien, American athlete[56]
  • July 20 – Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico (2012-2018), Governor of the State of Mexico (2005–2011)[57]
  • July 21 – Sarah Waters, British novelist
  • July 26 – Angelo Di Livio, Italian footballer
  • July 28 – Miguel Ángel Nadal, Spanish footballer
  • July 29 – Richard Steven Horvitz, American actor and voice actor
  • July 30
    • Murilo Bustamante, Brazilian mixed martial artist
    • Allan Langer, Australian rugby league player
  • July 31 – Dean Cain, American actor

August
Jimmy Wales
Halle Berry
Enrico Letta
  • August 5 – James Gunn, American filmmaker [58]
  • August 7
    • Harith Iskander, Malaysian actor and comedian
    • Jimmy Wales, American-British entrepreneur, co-founder of Wikipedia[59]
  • August 10
    • Charlie Dimmock, English TV gardening expert
    • Hossam Hassan, Egyptian footballer
    • André Sogliuzzo, American actor and voice actor
  • August 11 – Juan María Solare, Argentine composer
  • August 12 – Les Ferdinand, English footballer
  • August 14
  • August 17 – Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder
  • August 19 – Lee Ann Womack, American musician
  • August 20
    • Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist (d. 2004)
    • Enrico Letta, 55th Prime Minister of Italy[61]
    • Liu Chunyan, Chinese voice actress and host
  • August 23 – Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
  • August 26 – Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
  • August 27
    • Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower
    • Juhan Parts, 15th Prime Minister of Estonia
  • August 28 – Priya Dutt, Indian social worker and politician

September
Salma Hayek
Adam Sandler
Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan
Nechirvan Barzani
Maria Canals-Barrera

October
David Cameron
Roman Abramovich
Zoran Milanovic

November
David Schwimmer
Vincent Cassel

December
Patricia Kaas
Kiefer Sutherland
  • December 1 - Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player, MLB Hall of Fame member
  • December 3 – Adam Berry, American composer
  • December 4
    • Fred Armisen, American actor, comedian and musician
    • Carey Means, American actor and voice artist
  • December 5 – Patricia Kaas, French singer and actress
  • December 7
    • C. Thomas Howell, American actor and director
    • Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
  • December 8
    • Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (d. 2019)
    • Matthew Labyorteaux, American actor
    • Sinéad O'Connor, Irish pop singer
    • Ralph Santolla, Italian-American metal guitarist (d. 2018)
  • December 9
    • Tim Bull, Australian politician
    • Michael Foster, American musician, drummer
  • December 10
    • Montserrat Gil Torné, Andorran politician
    • Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician; United States Senator (D-NY)
    • Julio Rodas, Guatemalan soccer player
    • Mateo Romero, Native American painter
    • Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli politician
    • Kadyrbek Sarbayev, foreign minister of Kyrgyzstan
    • Natee Thongsookkaew, Thailand footballer
  • December 12
    • Último Dragón, Japanese professional wrestler
    • Lydia Zimmermann, Spanish filmmaker
  • December 14
    • Anthony Mason, American basketball player (d. 2015)
    • Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish Prime Minister[77]
  • December 15 – Katja von Garnier, German film director
  • December 17 – Miloš Tichý, Czech astronomer
  • December 19
    • Tim Sköld, Swedish multi-instrumentalist musician
    • Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier
  • December 20 – Ed de Goeij, Dutch footballer
  • December 21 – Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor and film director[78]
  • December 22
    • Din Beramboi, Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ (d. 2010)
    • Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
  • December 23 – Cláudia Raia, Brazilian actress, dancer and singer
  • December 24 – Diedrich Bader, American actor and voice artist
  • December 27 – Bill Goldberg, American professional wrestler
  • December 28 – Kaliopi, Macedonian singer-songwriter
  • December 31 – Maddie Taylor, American actress and comedian

Date unknown
  • Guli Francis-Dehqani, Iranian-born Anglican diocesan bishop
  • Julian Hooper, New Zealand artist
  • Charbel Iskandar, Lebanese actor
  • Kivi Larmola, Finnish artist

Deaths
Deaths
January · February · March · April · May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December

January
Vincent Auriol
Georges Theunis

February
Buster Keaton
Louisa Martindale

March
Frits Zernike
Néstor Guillén
  • March 1
    • Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
    • William R. Munroe, American admiral (b. 1886)
    • Donald Stewart, American actor (b. 1910)
  • March 3
    • Joseph Fields, American playwright (b. 1895)
    • William Frawley, American actor (I Love Lucy) (b. 1887)
    • Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917)
  • March 5 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
  • March 7 – Donald B. Beary, American admiral (b. 1888)
  • March 8
    • William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British politician (b. 1907)
    • Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Egyptian painter (b. 1925)
  • March 10
  • March 12 – Néstor Guillén, Bolivian politician, 40th President of Bolivia (b. 1890)
  • March 20
    • Laurence Abrams, English professional footballer (b. 1889)
    • Johnny Morrison, American professional baseball player (b. 1895)
  • March 27 – Helen Menken, American actress (b. 1901)[84]
  • March 29 – Stylianos Gonatas, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
  • March 30 – Erwin Piscator, German theater director (b. 1893)

April
Evelyn Waugh
Javier Solís

May
Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez
Venceslau Brás
  • May 4 – Amédée Ozenfant, French painter (b. 1886)
  • May 8 – Erich Pommer, German film producer (b. 1889)
  • May 11 – Alfred Wintle, British army officer and eccentric (b. 1897)
  • May 14 – Ludwig Meidner, German painter (b. 1884)
  • May 15
  • May 20 – Carlos Arruza, Mexican bullfighter (b. 1920)
  • May 21 – Lady Dorothy Macmillan, spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
  • May 22 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b. 1900)
  • May 23 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b. 1902)
  • May 24 – Jim Barnes, English golf champion (b. 1886)
  • May 25 – Vernon Sturdee, Australian general (b. 1890)
  • May 29 – James Woolf, British film producer (b. 1919)

June
Ed Wynn

July
Montgomery Clift
Frank O'Hara
  • July 2
    • Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)
    • John the Wonderworker, Chinese Orthodox bishop, American archbishop and saint (b. 1896)
  • July 3 – Deems Taylor, American composer (b. 1885)
  • July 5 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
  • July 7 – Carmelita Geraghty, American actress (b. 1901)
  • July 9 – Venerable Marija Petković, Yugoslav Roman Catholic foundress and Servant of God (b. 1892)
  • July 11 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b. 1913)
  • July 12 – D. T. Suzuki, Japanese scholar and essayist (b. 1870)
  • July 14 – Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
  • July 18 – Bobby Fuller, American rock and roll musician (b. 1942)
  • July 21
    • Francesco Paolo Cantelli, Italian mathematician (b. 1875)
    • Philipp Frank, Austrian physicist and mathematician (b. 1884)
  • July 23
  • July 25 – Frank O'Hara, American poet (b. 1926)
  • July 31
    • Alexander von Falkenhausen, German general and military advisor, 20 July Plotter (b. 1878)
    • Bud Powell, American jazz pianist (b. 1924)

August
Lenny Bruce

September
Hendrik Verwoerd

October
Elizabeth Arden

November
Sean T. O'Kelly

December
Walt Disney
  • December 2 – L.E.J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881)
  • December 6 – Juan Natalicio González, Paraguayan poet, 37th President of Paraguay (b. 1897)
  • December 14
    • Emma Dunn, British-born actress (b. 1875)[95]
    • Verna Felton, American actress (b. 1890)
    • Richard Whorf, American actor (b. 1906)
  • December 15 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901)[96]
  • December 19 – Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian actress (b. 1879)[97]
  • December 22
    • Harry Beaumont, American film director (b. 1888)
    • Lucy Burns, American women's rights campaigner (b. 1879)
    • Robert Keith, American actor (b. 1898)
  • December 26 – Herbert Gille, SS German general (b. 1897)
  • December 27 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1905)
  • December 30 – Christian Herter, United States Secretary of State (b. 1895)

Nobel Prizes

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