1969

1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.

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1969 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1969
MCMLXIX
Ab urbe condita2722
Armenian calendar1418
ԹՎ ՌՆԺԸ
Assyrian calendar6719
Baháʼí calendar125–126
Balinese saka calendar1890–1891
Bengali calendar1376
Berber calendar2919
British Regnal year17 Eliz. 2 – 18 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2513
Burmese calendar1331
Byzantine calendar7477–7478
Chinese calendar戊申年 (Earth Monkey)
4665 or 4605
    — to —
己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4666 or 4606
Coptic calendar1685–1686
Discordian calendar3135
Ethiopian calendar1961–1962
Hebrew calendar5729–5730
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2025–2026
 - Shaka Samvat1890–1891
 - Kali Yuga5069–5070
Holocene calendar11969
Igbo calendar969–970
Iranian calendar1347–1348
Islamic calendar1388–1389
Japanese calendarShōwa 44
(昭和４４年)
Javanese calendar1900–1901
Juche calendar58
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4302
Minguo calendarROC 58
民國58年
Nanakshahi calendar501
Thai solar calendar2512
Tibetan calendar阳土猴年
(male Earth-Monkey)
2095 or 1714 or 942
    — to —
阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
2096 or 1715 or 943
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This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing to the moon.

Events

January
  • January 2
    • Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest-selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World.
    • People's Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry City, Northern Ireland to gain publicity and to promote its cause.
  • January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco.
  • January 5
    • Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants.
  • January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314.
  • January 18 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks.
  • January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests.
  • January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
  • January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed.
  • January 26 – Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine", thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis. The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds", "In the Ghetto", and "Kentucky Rain".
  • January 27
    • Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel.
    • Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Irish Unionist leader and founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.
    • The modern-day powerhouse of the Hetch Hetchy Project at Moccasin, California, rated at 100,000 kVA, is completed and placed in operation. On February 7, the original is removed from service.
  • January 28 – 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.
  • January 30 – The Beatles give their last public performance, of several tracks on the roof of Apple Records, London (featured in Let It Be (1970 film)).

February

March
January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise
  • March 2
    • In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
    • Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
  • March 3
    • Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, Rusty Schweickart, David Scott) to test the lunar module.
    • In a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
    • The United States Navy establishes the Navy Fighter Weapons School (also known as Top Gun) at Naval Air Station Miramar.
  • March 4 – Arrest warrants are issued by a Florida court for Jim Morrison on charges of indecent exposure during a Doors concert three days earlier.[1]
  • March 10
  • March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
  • March 16 – Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground.[3]
  • March 17
    • Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.
    • The Longhope life-boat is lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the Pentland Firth between Orkney and the northern tip of Scotland; the entire crew of 8 die.[4]
  • March 18 –
    • Operation Breakfast, the covert bombing of Cambodia by U.S. planes, begins.
    • An annular solar eclipse was visible in Indian and Pacific Oceans, and was the 49th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129.
  • March 19
    • British paratroopers and Marines land on the island of Anguilla, ending its unrecognized independence.
    • A 385-metre (1,263 ft) tall TV mast at Emley Moor, England, collapses due to ice build-up.
  • March 20
    • One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a United Arab Airlines flight, most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to Aswan from Mecca, are killed when the Ilyushin-18 turboprop crashes during a sandstorm.
    • John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-In" for peace in Amsterdam.
  • March 22
    • UCLA wins its third consecutive NCAA basketball championship by defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72.
    • The landmark art exhibition When Attitudes become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann, opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, Switzerland.
  • March 28 – Pope Paul VI increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134.
  • March 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
  • March 30 – The body of former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is brought by caisson to the United States Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
  • March 31 – The Barroterán coal mine disaster kills 153 coal miners in Mexico.

April

May

June

July
July 16: The Saturn V rocket launches
July 20: Buzz Aldrin descends a ladder to become the second human to step onto the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 program
  • July 1 – Charles, Prince of Wales, is invested with his title at Caernarfon.
  • July 3 – Brian Jones, musician and founder of The Rolling Stones, drowns in his swimming pool at his home in Sussex, England.
  • July 4 – Michael Mageau and Darlene Ferrin are shot at Blue Rock Springs in California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. Mageau survives the attack while Ferrin is pronounced dead-on-arrival at Richmond Medical Center.
  • July 5 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan Minister of Development, is assassinated.
  • July 7 – French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
  • July 8 – Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
  • July 10 – Donald Crowhurst's sailing trimaran Teignmouth Electron is found drifting and unoccupied in mid-Atlantic; it is presumed that Crowhurst committed suicide (or fell overboard) at sea earlier in the month having falsified his progress in the solo Sunday Times Golden Globe Race.
  • July 14
    • Football War: After Honduras loses an association football match against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20.
    • The Act of Free Choice for West Irian commences in Merauke, Indonesia.
    • The United States' $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.
  • July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy in Florida towards the first manned landing on the Moon.
  • July 19
    • Chappaquiddick incident: US Senator Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy does not report the accident for nine or ten hours.
    • John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida near Miami and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board the 25' ocean rowboat Britannia (left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969).
    • Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi takes the fourteen largest banks in the country into public ownership.
    • Philippines' Gloria Diaz won the Miss Universe contest.
  • July 20
    • Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC) Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon's surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), an estimated 650 million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his first historic steps on the surface.[8][9]
    • 1969 Tour de France: Belgian Eddy Merckx wins the cycle race for the first time.
  • July 22 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death.
  • July 24
    • Apollo 11 returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life.
    • The Soviet Union returns British lecturer Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris and Lona Cohen).
  • July 25 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This starts the "Vietnamization" of the war.
  • July 26 – A 6.4 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Yangjiang destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people.
  • July 26 – The New York Chapter of the Young Lords is founded to fight for empowerment of Puerto Ricans.
  • July 30 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam, meeting with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
  • July 31

August
August 15–18: Woodstock
  • August 4 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since the two sides cannot agree to any terms.
  • August 5
    • Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometres (2,190 mi)).
    • The Lonesome Cowboys police raid occurs in Atlanta, Georgia, leading to the formation of the Georgia Gay Liberation Front.
  • August 8
    • The Beatles at 11:30 have photographer Iain Macmillan take their photo on a zebra crossing on Abbey Road.
    • A fire breaks out in Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River; most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels.
  • August 9
    • Members of the Manson Family invade the home of actress Sharon Tate and her husband Roman Polanski in Los Angeles. The followers killed Tate (who was 8.5 months pregnant), and her friends: Folgers coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring. Also killed is Steven Parent, leaving from a visit to the Polanskis' caretaker. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims, except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson Family entered the property.
    • The Haunted Mansion attraction opens at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Later versions open in Florida, Tokyo and Paris.
  • August 10 – The Manson Family kills Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, wealthy Los Angeles businessman and his wife.
  • August 12 – The Troubles: Violence erupts after the Apprentice Boys of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day communal riot known as the Battle of the Bogside, and violence elsewhere in Northern Ireland.
  • August 13 – Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
  • August 14 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland to restore order following three days of political and sectarian violence, marking the beginning of the 37-year Operation Banner.[11]
  • August 15 – Captain D's is founded as "Mr. D's Seafood and Hamburgers" by Ray Danner with its first location opening in Donelson, Tennessee.
  • August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
  • August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille, the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars).
  • August 18 – Long John Silver's restaurant chain opens its first store in Lexington, Kentucky.
  • August 19 – Embraer, a commercial aircraft brand, founded in State of São Paulo, Brazil.
  • August 20 – Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is established in Florissant, Colorado, U.S.
  • August 21
    • Donald and Doris Fisher open the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco.
    • Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
    • Strong violence on demonstration in Prague and Brno, Czechoslovakia. Military force contra citizens. Prague spring finally beaten.
  • August 24 – V. V. Giri elected President of India
  • August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.

September

October

November
  • November 3
    • Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity with the Vietnam War effort, and to support his policies.
    • Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (31st government).
  • November 7 – Pink Floyd release their Ummagumma album.
  • November 9 – A group of American Indians, led by Richard Oakes, seizes Alcatraz Island as a symbolic gesture, offering to buy the property for $24 from the U.S. government. A longer occupation begins 11 days later. The act inspires a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform.
  • November 10 – Sesame Street aired its first episode on NET.
  • November 12 – Vietnam War – My Lai Massacre: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
  • November 14
    • Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second manned mission to the Moon.
    • The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger ship, is withdrawn from service.
  • November 15
    • Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
    • Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000–500,000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
    • Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in the United Kingdom.
    • Dave Thomas opens his first restaurant in a former steakhouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He names the chain Wendy's after his 8-year-old daughter, Melinda Lou (nicknamed "Wendy" by her siblings).
  • November 17 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
  • November 19
    • Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
    • Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
    • The Benny Hill Show begins airing on ITV after previously airing on the BBC.
  • November 20
    • Vietnam War: A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer, publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.
    • Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers to Alcatraz Island and begins a 19 month long occupation, lasting until June 1971.
  • November 21
    • U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.
    • The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the global Internet).
    • The United States Senate votes down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
  • November 22 – College Football: Michigan ends Ohio State's 22-game winning streak with a 24–12 upset at Ann Arbor, denying the Buckeyes their second consecutive national championship.
  • November 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
  • November 25 – John Lennon returns his MBE medal to protest the British government's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War.
  • November 29 – In basketball, South Korea defeats the Philippines 95 to 86 to win the 1969 ABC Championship in Bangkok, Thailand.

December
  • December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held. September 14 is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random".
  • December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.
  • December 4 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
  • December 5 – The Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed is released.
  • December 6
    • College football: #1 ranked Texas rallies from 14–0 deficit with two fourth quarter touchdowns to edge #2 Arkansas 15–14 at Fayetteville in a game attended by President of the United States Richard Nixon and several high-ranking government dignitaries, including future President George H. W. Bush. The victory clinches the national championship of the coaches poll for the Longhorns; they would win the Associated Press national championship by defeating Notre Dame 21–17 in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day.
    • The Altamont Free Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern California. Hosted by The Rolling Stones, it is an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and is best known for the uproar of violence that occurred. It is viewed by many as the "end of the sixties."
  • December 7 – Frosty the Snowman aired on the CBS network.
  • December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, Italy kills 17 people and injures 88.
  • December 14 – The murder of Diane Maxwell takes place. The 25-year-old phone operator is found sexually assaulted and killed (the case remains unsolved until 2003).
  • December 24
    • Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.
    • The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea.
    • Nigerian troops capture Umuahia. The last Biafran capital before its dissolution becomes Owerri.
  • December 27 – The Liberal Democratic Party wins 47.6% of the votes in the 1969 Japanese general election. Future prime ministers Yoshirō Mori and Tsutomu Hata and future kingmaker Ichirō Ozawa are elected for the first time.
  • December 28 – The Young Lords take over the First Spanish Methodist Church in East Harlem.
  • December 30 – The Linwood bank robbery leaves two police officers dead.

Date unknown
  • Summer – Invention of Unix under the potential name "Unics" (after Multics).[15]
  • Fall – First-generation Dodge Challenger automobile introduced in the United States.
  • Common African, Malagasy and Mauritian Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established.
  • International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, a maritime treaty, is adopted.
  • Women are allowed membership in the Future Farmers of America (the later National FFA Organization).
  • Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips is founded by S. Robert Davis and Dave Thomas and its first location in Columbus, Ohio opens for business.

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

January
Michael Schumacher
Norman Reedus
Jason Bateman
Dave Grohl
Dave Bautista
Patton Oswalt
  • January 1
    • Morris Chestnut, African-American actor
    • Mr. Lawrence, American actor
    • Verne Troyer, American actor (d. 2018)
  • January 2
    • Robby Gordon, American race car driver
    • Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013)
    • Christy Turlington, American fashion model
  • January 3 – Michael Schumacher, German seven-time Formula One world champion
  • January 5
    • Mai Charoenpura, Thai singer and actress
    • Marilyn Manson, American rock musician
    • Shea Whigham, American actor
  • January 6
    • Aron Eisenberg, American actor and filmmaker (d. 2019)
    • Norman Reedus, American actor
  • January 7 – Alfredo Romero, Venezuelan activist[16]
  • January 11
  • Kyōko Hikami, Japanese voice actress
  • Kyle Richards, American actress
  • January 13
  • January 14
  • January 15 – Meret Becker, German actress and musician
  • January 16
    • Dead, Swedish vocalist (d. 1991)
    • Roy Jones Jr., African-American professional boxer, commentator, trainer, rapper, and actor
  • January 17
    • Tiësto, Dutch DJ and record producer
    • Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
    • Naveen Andrews, British-American actor
  • January 18
    • Dave Bautista, American actor, professional mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
    • Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer
  • January 19 – Junior Seau, American NFL player (d. 2012)
  • January 20
    • Patrick K. Kroupa, American writer, hacker
    • Nicky Wire, Welsh musician
  • January 21 – John Ducey, American actor
  • January 27
    • Cornelius, Japanese rock musician, singer and producer
    • Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice artist
  • January 28
    • Kathryn Morris, American actress
    • Mo Rocca, American humorist, journalist and actor
  • January 29 – Hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist

February
Bobby Brown
Michael Sheen
Jennifer Aniston
Darren Aronofsky
Birdman
Thomas Jane
  • February 1
    • Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
    • Himanta Biswa Sarma, Indian politician and 15th Chief Minister of Assam
    • Andrew Breitbart, American writer and publisher (d. 2012)
  • February 2 – Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist
  • February 3
    • Beau Biden, 44th Attorney General of Delaware (d. 2015)
    • Retief Goosen, South African golfer
  • February 5
    • Bobby Brown, African-American singer
    • Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
  • February 6 – David Hayter, Canadian-American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
  • February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician[18]
  • February 9
    • Ian Eagle, American sports announcer
    • Tom Scharpling, American comedian, television writer and producer
  • February 11
    • Jennifer Aniston, American actress, director, producer and businesswoman
    • Lee Tockar, Canadian voice actor
  • February 12
    • Darren Aronofsky, American filmmaker
    • Steve Backley, British javelin thrower
    • Meja, Swedish singer-songwriter
    • Hong Myung-bo, South Korean footballer
    • Brad Werenka, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • February 13
    • Ahlam, Arabic singer
    • JB Blanc, French voice actor
    • Bryan Thomas Schmidt, American science fiction author and editor[19]
  • February 14 – Nurserik Kudereev, Russian civil servant
  • February 15
    • Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (d. 1994)
    • Birdman, American rapper, entertainer, and record producer
  • February 19 – Burton C. Bell, American rock vocalist/lyricist
  • February 20
    • Keiji Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler
    • Kjell Ove Hauge, Norwegian track and field athlete and head master
    • Siniša Mihajlović, Croatian football manager
  • February 21
    • James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter
    • Bosson, Swedish singer-songwriter
    • Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skier
  • February 22 – Thomas Jane, American actor, producer and writer
  • February 23
    • Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
    • Daymond John, American businessman and investor
    • Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
  • February 28
    • Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
    • Patrick Monahan, American musician and singer
    • Benjamin Yeaten, Liberian militant, military commander, and mercenary

March
Javier Bardem
Terrence Howard
Jimmy Morales
Kevin Corrigan
Suroosh Alvi
Mariah Carey
Pauley Perrette
  • March 1
    • Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
    • Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh rock drummer
    • Litefoot, Native American actor
  • March 4
    • Chaz Bono, American child actor and LGBT rights activist
    • Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
    • Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
    • Adrian Wojnarowski, American sports columnist and reporter
  • March 5 - Paul Blackthorne, English actor
  • March 7 – Todd Williams, American long-distance runner
  • March 10 – Paget Brewster, American actress
  • March 11
    • Terrence Howard, American actor and singer
    • Soraya, Colombian singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2006)
  • March 12
    • Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter
    • Akemi Okamura, Japanese voice actress
    • Falguni Pathak, Indian singer
    • Jake Tapper, American journalist
  • March 13 – Susanna Mälkki, Finnish conductor
  • March 14 – Mary Cheney, American political activist
  • March 15
    • Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
    • Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey
    • Laurie Berkner, American-French children's musician
  • March 16 – Markus Lanz, German-Italian television presenter
  • March 17 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (d. 2010)
  • March 18
    • Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess grandmaster
    • Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan politician, 37th President of Guatemala
  • March 19
    • Patrick Tam, Hong Kong actor
    • Connor Trinneer, American actor
  • March 21 – Ali Daei, Iranian football player
  • March 24 – Stephan Eberharter, Austrian alpine skier
  • March 25
  • March 26 – Suroosh Alvi, Canadian journalist and filmmaker
  • March 27
    • Mariah Carey, American pop singer
    • Stéphane Morin, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
    • Kevin Corrigan, American actor
    • Pauley Perrette, American actress
  • March 28
    • Rodney Atkins, American country music singer-songwriter
    • Laurie Brett, Scottish actress
    • Jake Adelstein, American journalist
  • March 29
    • Chiaki Ishikawa, Japanese singer (See-Saw)
    • Ted Lieu, American politician
    • Tess Daly, English television presenter

April
Ben Mendelsohn
Paul Rudd
Gina Torres
Renée Zellweger
  • April 1
    • Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer
    • April Stewart, American actress
    • Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player
  • April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Indian actor, director and producer
  • April 3
    • Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
    • Lance Storm, Canadian professional wrestler
  • April 6
    • Bret Boone, American baseball player
    • Paul Rudd, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
  • April 9
    • Barnaby Kay, English actor
    • Debbie Schlussel, political commentator and film critic
  • April 10 – Billy Jayne, American actor
  • April 11
    • Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
    • Caren Miosga, German journalist and television presenter
    • Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
  • April 12 – Michael Jackson, former NFL wide receiver (d. 2017)
  • April 13 – Ha Wen, Chinese director
  • April 16 – Frank J. Mrvan, American politician[20]
  • April 18 – Vladimir Tsyplakov, Belarusian ice hockey player (d. 2019)
    • Shannon Lee, Chinese-American actress
    • Susan Polgár, Hungarian chess player
  • April 20 – Marietta Slomka, German journalist
  • April 21
    • Nezam Hafiz, Guyanese-American cricketer (d. 2001)
    • Toby Stephens, English actor
    • Traci Paige Johnson, American animator, television producer, and voice actress
  • April 22 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
  • April 23 – Yelena Shushunova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2018)
  • April 25
    • Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist
    • Jon Olsen, American swimmer
    • Gina Torres, American actress
    • Renée Zellweger, American Academy Award-winning actress and producer
  • April 27 – Cory Booker, American politician and U.S. Senator (New Jersey)
  • April 28 – Nika Futterman, American voice actress
  • April 29
    • Jack Mackenroth, American swimmer, model and fashion designer
    • Irina Tsvila, Ukrainian artist and soldier

May
Wes Anderson
Brian Lara
Cate Blanchett
David Boreanaz
Tucker Carlson
  • May 1 – Wes Anderson, American filmmaker
  • May 2
    • Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer.
    • Corinna Schumacher, German animal rights activist and accomplished horse rider
  • May 3 – Daryl F. Mallett, American author and actor
  • May 4
    • Christina Billotte, American musician
    • Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, Nepalese politician (d. 2019)
  • May 5 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011)
  • May 6 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
  • May 7 – Anies Baswedan, Indonesian academic, activist, politician and current Governor of Jakarta
  • May 8 – Michael E. Rodgers, Scottish actor
  • May 9
    • Amber, German musician
    • Joe Carnahan, American film director, screenwriter and producer
    • Benjamín Rivera, Mexican voice actor
  • May 10 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer
  • May 11 – Annie Pootoogook, Canadian artist
  • May 12 – Kim Fields, American actress
  • May 13
    • Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host
    • Brian Carroll (aka Buckethead), American guitarist
  • May 14
    • Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
    • Danny Wood, American singer
    • Sabine Schmitz, German racing driver and television personality (d. 2021)
  • May 15 – Emmitt Smith, American football player
  • May 16
    • David Boreanaz, American actor
    • Tucker Carlson, American political commentator
    • Steve Lewis, American athlete
    • Tracey Gold, American actress
  • May 17
    • Frances Callier, American actress, producer, writer, and comedian
    • Sergei Gribov, former Russian professional footballer
  • May 18
    • Sean Sellers, American juvenile convict (d. 1999)
    • Martika, American singer
  • May 21 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
  • May 24 – Sudhir Kumar Walia, Indian Army officer (d. 1999)
  • May 25
  • Stacy London, American fashion consultant and media personality
  • Anne Heche, American actress (d. 2022)
  • May 26 – Siri Lindley, American triathlete
  • May 28 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (d. 2016)

June
Horatio Sanz
Prince Joachim of Denmark
Kim Rhodes
J. P. Manoux
Peter Dinklage
Steffi Graf
Ice Cube
Oliver Kahn
Ayelet Zurer
  • June 2 – Jamie Thraves, English film writer, director and music video director
  • June 3 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer and writer
  • June 4
    • Rob Huebel, American comedian
    • Horatio Sanz, Chilean-born American actor and comedian
  • June 7
    • Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper
    • Prince Joachim of Denmark
    • Kim Rhodes, American actress
  • June 8 – J. P. Manoux, American actor
  • June 10 – Kasim Reed, American lawyer and politician
  • June 11
    • Peter Dinklage, American actor
    • Steven Drozd, American rock drummer
    • Anatoliy Povedenok, Kazakh football player
  • June 12
    • Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (d. 2007)
    • Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
  • June 13 – Søren Rasted, Danish musician
  • June 14
    • Brooks Ashmanskas, American stage actor
    • Eugene Chung, Korean-American football player
    • Steffi Graf, German tennis player
    • Kyle Hebert, American voice actor
  • June 15
    • Ice Cube, African-American rapper and actor
    • Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper
    • Jansher Khan, Pakistani squash player
    • Satoshi Murayama, Japanese professional shogi player (d. 1998)
    • Maurice Odumbe, Kenyan cricketer
  • June 16
    • Sam Register, American television producer and businessman
    • MC Ren, American rapper
  • June 17
    • Amy Keating Rogers, American television producer and writer
    • Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
  • June 18 – Haki Doku, Albanian para-cyclist
  • June 19 – Trine Pallesen, Danish actress
  • June 20
    • Alexander Schallenberg, current Chancellor of Austria
    • Paulo Bento, Portuguese football player and coach
  • June 21 – Pat Sansone, American guitarist
  • June 23
    • Martin Klebba, American actor
    • Noa, Israeli singer
    • Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance runner
  • June 24
    • Rich Eisen, American television journalist
    • Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
  • June 25 – Storm Large, American singer and actress
  • June 26 – Mike Myers, American baseball pitcher
  • June 27 – Draco Rosa, Puerto Rican musician, singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur
  • June 28
    • Phil Masinga, South African footballer (d. 2019)
    • Sandiaga Uno, Indonesian businessman, investor, and politician
    • Tichina Arnold, American actress
    • Ayelet Zurer, Israeli actress
  • June 29 – Federica Valenti, Italian voice actress
  • June 30
    • Ben Patrick Johnson, American voice actor, author and blogger, Foundation Director, and human rights activist
    • Anastasiya Nemolyaeva, Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, designer
    • Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer

July
RZA
Brian Van Holt
Cree Summer
Ken Jeong
Jason Clarke
Elizabeth Gilbert
James Arnold Taylor
Jennifer Lopez
Simon Baker
  • July 1 – Rino Romano, Canadian voice actor
  • July 2
    • Tony Touch, American hip hop break dancer, singer-songwriter, producer and DJ
    • Matthew Cox, American criminal
    • Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012)
    • Tim Rodber, English rugby player
  • July 3
    • Gedeon Burkhard, German actor
    • Shawnee Smith, American actress
  • July 4 – Jordan Sonnenblick, American teacher and novelist
  • July 5
    • John LeClair, American hockey player
    • RZA, American musician, actor, and director
  • July 6
    • Christopher Scarver, American serial killer
    • Beverly McClellan, American singer and reality talent show finalist (The Voice) (d. 2018)
    • Brian Van Holt, American actor
  • July 7
    • Shiro Kikuhara, Japanese football player
    • Sylke Otto, German luger
    • Joe Sakic, Canadian hockey player
    • Keith Baker, American game designer and fantasy novel author
    • Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress and singer
    • Metin Feyzioğlu, Turkish lawyer
  • July 8
    • Sugizo, Japanese guitarist and singer
  • July 9 – Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, Mongolian-German sport shooter
  • July 10
    • Gale Harold, American actor
    • Hossan Leong, Singaporean stage and screen actor, television host, radio deejay and comedian
    • Jonas Kaufmann, German operatic tenor
    • Rami Makhlouf, Syrian businessman
  • July 11 – David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
  • July 12 – Jesse Pintado, Mexican-Dutch musician (d. 2006)
  • July 13
    • Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian and physician
    • Luis Rodríguez, Puerto Rican volleyball player
    • Barney Greenway, British extreme metal vocalist
  • July 14
    • Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
    • Billy Herrington, American gay pornographic actor (d. 2018)
  • July 15 – Chris Wyse, American bassist of Owl and The Cult
  • July 16
    • Björn Dunkerbeck, Danish windsurfer
    • Sahra Wagenknecht, German politician
  • July 17
    • Jason Clarke, Australian actor
    • Ravi Kishan, Indian actor
    • Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
  • July 18
    • Orlando Miguel, Cuban-Mexican actor
    • Masanori Murakawa, Japanese wrestler
    • Elizabeth Gilbert, American author, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and memoirist
  • July 19
    • Chris Kratt, American educational nature show host
    • Courtenay Taylor, American voice actress
  • July 20
    • Josh Holloway, American actor
    • Johnny Ngauamo, Tonga rugby union player
  • July 21
    • Godfrey, American comedian and actor
    • Avraam Russo, Russian singer
    • Isabell Werth, German equestrian
  • July 22
    • Jason Becker, American heavy metal guitarist, formerly of Cacophony
    • James Arnold Taylor, American voice actor
    • Despina Vandi, Greek singer
  • July 23
    • John Cariani, American actor and playwright
    • Phil Edge, British theatre lighting designer
    • Raphael Warnock, American pastor and junior senator from Georgia[21]
  • July 24
    • Neal Fredericks, American cinematographer (d. 2004)
    • Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
  • July 25;
    • Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland [22]
    • Jason Harris Katz, American voice actor and television host
  • July 26 – Tanni Grey-Thompson, born Carys Grey, British Paralympian
  • July 27
    • Dacian Cioloș, 64th Prime Minister of Romania
    • Pavel Hapal, Czech footballer
    • Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
    • Triple H (aka Paul Levesque), American wrestler
  • July 28
    • Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
    • Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (d. 2016)
    • Dana White, American businessman and president of Ultimate Fighting Championship
  • July 29 – Timothy Omundson, American actor
  • July 30 – Simon Baker, Australian-American actor and director
  • July 31 – Antonio Conte, Italian football player and manager

August
Michael DeLuise
Bernard Fanning
Donnie Wahlberg
Edward Norton
Christian Slater
Matthew Perry
Jack Black
Jason Priestley
  • August 1 – David Wain, American comedian, writer, actor, and director
  • August 2
  • August 3 – Anne Marie DeLuise, Canadian actress
  • August 4
  • August 5
    • Kenny Irwin Jr., American stock car racing driver (d. 2000)
    • Kim Mai Guest, American voice actress
  • August 6
  • August 8
    • Song Sung-il, South Korean wrestler (d. 1995)
    • Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
  • August 9 – Troy Percival, American baseball player
  • August 10 – Brian Drummond, Canadian voice actor
  • August 11
    • Vanderlei de Lima, Brazilian long-distance runner
    • Ashley Jensen, British actress
  • August 12
    • Tanita Tikaram, German-born British singer-songwriter
    • Aga Muhlach, Filipino actor
  • August 13 – Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
  • August 14 – Chris Pérez, Mexican-American guitarist
  • August 15
    • Justin Broadrick, British musician
    • Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong television actor and singer
    • Bernard Fanning, Australian musician (Powderfinger)
  • August 16 – Kate Higgins, American voice actress
  • August 17
    • Christian Laettner, American professional basketball player
    • Dick Togo, Japanese professional wrestler
    • Donnie Wahlberg, American singer and actor (New Kids on the Block)
  • August 18
    • Everlast, American singer, rapper, and songwriter
    • Edward Norton, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and social activist
    • Christian Slater, American actor, voice actor and producer
    • Timothy Snyder, American author and historian
  • August 19
    • Nate Dogg, African-American rapper (d. 2011)
    • Doug Langdale, American screenwriter, producer and actor
    • Paula Jai Parker, American actress, comedian, director and singer-songwriter
    • Matthew Perry, American actor
    • Clay Walker, American singer
  • August 21 – Oliver Geissen, German television presenter
  • August 26 – Glenn Berger, American scriptwriter
  • August 28
    • Jack Black, American actor and musician
    • Jason Priestley, Canadian actor and director
  • August 29
    • Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
    • Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
  • August 30
    • Nebojša Glogovac, Serbian actor (d. 2018)
    • Kent Osborne, American actor and producer
  • August 31
    • Andrew Cunanan, American serial killer (d. 1997)
    • Jonathan LaPaglia, Australian actor

September
Tyler Perry
Bong Joon-ho
Keith Flint
Hal Sparks
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Dan Stulbach
  • September 2
    • Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
    • Dave Naz, American photographer
  • September 3 – Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer
  • September 4
    • Giorgi Margvelashvili, politician; 4th President of the Republic of Georgia
    • Kristen Wilson, American actress
  • September 5 – Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician
  • September 6 – Cece Peniston, American musician
  • September 7
    • Jean-Benoît Dunckel, French musician
    • Angie Everhart, American actress and model
    • Diane Farr, American actress
    • Jimmy Urine, American singer
  • September 8 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2011)
  • September 9 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
  • September 10 – Ai Jing, Chinese singer
  • September 11 – Crystal Lewis, American Christian musician
  • September 12
    • Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
    • Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
    • Emma Griffiths, English golfer
  • September 13
    • Dominic Fumusa, American actor
    • Tyler Perry, American actor, film director and screenwriter
    • Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (d. 2022)
  • September 14 – Bong Joon-ho, South Korean film director and screenwriter
  • September 17
    • Keith Flint, English singer (d. 2019)
    • Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
    • Matthew Settle, American actor
  • September 19
    • Simona Păucă, Romanian gymnast
    • Michael Symon, American chef and television personality
  • September 21 - Billy Porter, American actor and singer
  • September 24
    • Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American rock percussionist
    • DeVante Swing, American music producer
  • September 25
    • Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
    • Bill Simmons, American sports columnist
    • Hal Sparks, American actor, writer, comedian and political commentator
    • Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
  • September 26
    • Victor N'Gembo-Mouanda, Congolese author
    • Paul Warhurst, English football player
    • Dan Stulbach, actor, television presenter, director and artistic director
  • September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American model and actress
  • September 30
    • Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
    • Jackie Traverse, Canadian artist and activist

October
Zach Galifianakis
Gwen Stefani
Steve McQueen
Loren Bouchard
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Trey Parker
  • October 1
    • Zach Galifianakis, American actor and stand-up comedian
    • Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
    • Marcus Stephen, Former President of Nauru
  • October 2 – Mitch English, American actor and television host
  • October 3
    • Gwen Stefani, American singer, actress, and television host
    • Tetsuya, Japanese musician
  • October 5 – Elizabeth Azcona Bocock, Honduran politician
  • October 6
    • Muhammad V of Kelantan, 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Sultan of Kelantan
    • Ogün Temizkanoğlu, Turkish football player
  • October 7
    • Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor
    • Benny Chan Muk-Sing, Hong Kong film director
    • DJ Qbert, American turntablist and composer
  • October 8
    • Julia Ann, American pornographic actress
    • Jeremy Davies, American actor
  • October 9
    • Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler
    • PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter
    • Steve McQueen, English film director, producer and screenwriter
    • Chan Chun Sing, Singaporean politician
  • October 10
    • Manu Bennett, New Zealand actor
    • Loren Bouchard, American voice actor, animator and producer
    • Brett Favre, American football player
    • Robert Quiroga, American world champion boxer (d. 2004)
    • Molly Kiely, American cartoonist
    • Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
  • October 11 – Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands
  • October 12 – Judit Mascó, Spanish model, television host and writer
  • October 13
    • Rhett Akins, American country singer
    • Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
    • Cady McClain, American actress and director
  • October 14
    • Kosuke Okano, Japanese voice actor
    • Pete Murray, Australian singer-songwriter
    • David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)
  • October 15
    • Kim Raver, American actress
    • Dominic West, English actor, director, and musician
  • October 16
    • Roy Hargrove, American Grammy-winner jazz trumpeter (d. 2018)
    • Wendy Wilson, American singer and television personality
  • October 17
    • Ernie Els, South African golfer
    • Jesús Ángel García, Spanish race walker
    • Wood Harris, American actor
    • Wyclef Jean, Haitian rapper
    • Nancy Sullivan, American actress
  • October 19
    • Pedro Castillo, 130th President of Peru[23]
    • Vanessa Marshall, American actress and voice actress
    • Trey Parker, American actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and composer
    • Roger Cross, Jamaican-Canadian actor
  • October 20
    • Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player
    • Juan González, American baseball player
  • October 21 – Michael Hancock, Australian rugby league player
  • October 22 – Spike Jonze, American director and filmmaker
  • October 24
    • Peter Dolving, Swedish musician
    • Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
    • Laura Berman, American therapist
  • October 25
    • Samantha Bee, Canadian comedian, writer, producer, and political commentator
    • Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player
    • Nika Futterman, American actress and voice artist
    • Oleg Salenko, Russian football player
    • Alex Webster, American bassist
  • October 30
    • Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015)
    • Snow, Canadian singer
  • October 31
    • Kylie Kwong, Australian chef and television presenter
    • Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and director


November
Sean Combs
Matthew McConaughey
Ellen Pompeo
Gerard Butler
Stephen Full
Erika Alexander
Colman Domingo
  • November 1
    • Gary Alexander, American basketball player[24]
    • Diane Parish, English actress
  • November 2 – Reginald Arvizu (aka Fieldy Snuts), American bassist
  • November 3
    • Laura Latini, Italian voice actress (d. 2012)
    • Robert Miles, Swiss-born Italian record producer and DJ (d. 2017)
  • November 4
  • November 5 – CJ de Mooi, British professional quizzer and television personality
  • November 7
    • Michelle Clunie, American actress
    • Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
  • November 8 – Jonathan Slavin, American actor and activist
  • November 9
    • Sandra Denton, African-American rapper
    • Allison Wolfe, American musician
  • November 10
  • November 12
    • Monalisa Perrone, Brazilian journalist
    • Ian Bremmer, American political scientist
    • Tomas N'evergreen, Danish singer
    • Rob Schrab, American actor and comic book creator
  • November 13
    • Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born Dutch American activist[25]
    • Gerard Butler, Scottish actor[26]
    • Stephen Full, American actor and comedian
    • Josh Mancell, American freelance composer and multi-instrumentalist
  • November 15
    • Big Hawk, American rapper (d. 2006)
    • Ong Ye Kung, Singaporean politician
  • November 17
    • Ryōtarō Okiayu, Japanese voice actor
    • Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
    • Tania Zaetta, Australian actress and television presenter
  • November 18
    • Kathleen van Brempt, Belgian politician
    • Sam Cassell, American basketball player
    • Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor
    • Rocket Ismail, American football player
  • November 19
    • Erika Alexander, African-American actress
    • Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish football coach and former player
  • November 20
    • Sakura, Japanese musician
    • Dabo Swinney, American college football coach
  • November 21 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player
  • November 23
    • Byron Moreno, Ecuadorian football (soccer) referee and convicted drug smuggler
    • Robin Padilla, Filipino actor
  • November 24 – David Adeang, Nauruan politician
  • November 26 – Kara Walker, American artist[27]
  • November 27 – Carina Ricco, Mexican actress and singer
  • November 28
    • Colman Domingo, African-American actor
    • Lexington Steele, African-American actor and film director
  • November 29
  • November 30
    • Trina Gulliver, English darts player

December
Jay-Z
Sajid Javid
Viswanathan Anand
Laurie Holden
Richard Hammond
Julie Delpy
Sarah Vowell
Jay Kay
  • December 1
    • Richard Carrier, American historian
    • Rino Romano, Canadian voice actor
  • December 3 – Bill Steer, English musician
  • December 4 – Jay-Z, African-American rapper
  • December 5
    • Alex Kapp Horner, American actress
    • Sajid Javid, British Pakistani politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
    • Catherine Tate, English actress, comedian, and writer
  • December 7 – Patrice O'Neal, African-American comedian and radio personality (d. 2011)
  • December 8 – Kerry Earnhardt, American race car driver
  • December 9
    • Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter
    • Lori Greiner, American investor, entrepreneur and television personality
    • Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer
  • December 11
    • Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster
    • Sean Grande, American basketball announcer
    • Karl von Möller, Australian director and cinematographer
  • December 13
    • Hideo Ishikawa, Japanese voice actor
  • December 14
    • Archie Kao, Chinese-American film and television actor
    • Natascha McElhone, British actress
  • December 15 – Rick Law, American illustrator and producer
  • December 16 – Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer
  • December 17
    • Laurie Holden, American actress, producer, model and human rights activist
    • Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial arts fighter
    • Dean Obeidallah, American comedian, writer, and journalist
    • Michael V., Filipino comedian and actor
  • December 18
    • Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
    • Irvin Duguid, Scottish rock keyboard player (Stiltskin)
    • Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
    • Mille Petrozza, German-Italian rock vocalist and guitarist (Kreator)
    • Joe Randa, American Major League Baseball player and radio talk-show host
  • December 19
    • Richard Hammond, British television presenter
    • Dotun Oladipo, Nigerian Journalist
    • Lauren Sánchez, American news anchor
    • Kristy Swanson, American actress
  • December 20 – Chisa Yokoyama, Japanese voice actress
  • December 21
    • Julie Delpy, French actress
    • Magnus Samuelsson, Swedish bodybuilder, World's Strongest Man
  • December 23
    • Greg Biffle, American race car driver
    • Martha Byrne, American actress and singer
    • Rob Pelinka, American sports agent
  • December 24
    • Brad Anderson, American wrestler
    • Milan Blagojevic, Australian footballer
    • Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish film director
    • Taro Goto, Japanese footballer
    • Leavander Johnson, American lightweight boxer (d. 2005)
    • Ryuji Kato, Japanese footballer
    • Nick Love, English film director and writer
    • Miyuki Matsushita, Japanese voice actress
    • Clinton McKinnon, American musician
    • Sean Cameron Michael, South African actor and singer
    • Ed Miliband, English academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
    • Mark Millar, Scottish author
    • Luis Musrri, Chilean footballer
    • Mariko Shiga, Japanese voice actress (d. 1989)
    • Oleg Skripochka, Russian cosmonaut
    • Gintaras Staučė, Lithuanian footballer
    • Chen Yueling, American race walker
    • Jonathan Zittrain, American professor
    • Michael Zucchet, American economist and politician, Mayor of San Diego
  • December 25 – Nicolas Godin, French musician
  • December 27
    • Chyna, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
    • Sarah Vowell, American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress
  • December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
  • December 30
  • December 31 – Dominik Diamond, Scottish presenter and newspaper columnist

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

January
Dominique Pire

February
Boris Karloff
King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
Levi Eshkol

March
Dwight D. Eisenhower

April
Rómulo Gallegos

May
Franz von Papen
Jeffrey Hunter

June
Judy Garland

July
Brian Jones
Walter Gropius
  • July 2 – Mikio Naruse, Japanese film director (b. 1905)
  • July 3 – Brian Jones, British rock musician (b. 1942)
  • July 5
    • Ben Alexander, American actor (b. 1911)
    • Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
    • Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
    • Lambert Hillyer, American film director (b. 1889)
    • Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930)
    • Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
  • July 9 – Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1892)
  • July 15 – Peter van Eyck, German actor (b. 1911)
  • July 17
    • Harry Benham, American actor (b. 1884)
    • Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
  • July 18 – Barbara Pepper, American actress (b. 1915)
  • July 20 – Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929)
  • July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)
  • July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter (b. 1891)
  • July 28
    • Frank Loesser, American songwriter (b. 1910)
    • Ramón Grau, president of Cuba (b. 1882)[31]

August
Theodor W. Adorno
Sharon Tate

September
Ho Chi Minh

October
Sonja Henie

November
Iskander Mirza

December
Spencer Williams Jr.

Nobel Prizes

References
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