1975
1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1975th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 975th year of the 2nd millennium, the 75th year of the 20th century, and the 6th year of the 1970s decade.
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| Gregorian calendar | 1975 MCMLXXV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2728 |
| Armenian calendar | 1424 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԴ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6725 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 131–132 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1896–1897 |
| Bengali calendar | 1382 |
| Berber calendar | 2925 |
| British Regnal year | 23 Eliz. 2 – 24 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2519 |
| Burmese calendar | 1337 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7483–7484 |
| Chinese calendar | 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4671 or 4611 — to — 乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit) 4672 or 4612 |
| Coptic calendar | 1691–1692 |
| Discordian calendar | 3141 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1967–1968 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5735–5736 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2031–2032 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1896–1897 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5075–5076 |
| Holocene calendar | 11975 |
| Igbo calendar | 975–976 |
| Iranian calendar | 1353–1354 |
| Islamic calendar | 1394–1395 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 50 (昭和５０年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1906–1907 |
| Juche calendar | 64 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4308 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 64 民國64年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 507 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2518 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 2101 or 1720 or 948 — to — 阴木兔年 (female Wood-Rabbit) 2102 or 1721 or 949 |
| Unix time | 157766400 – 189302399 |
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It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
- January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
- January 2
- The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.[1]
- Bangladesh revolutionary leader Siraj Sikder is killed by police while in custody.
- A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
- January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier MV Lake Illawarra, killing 12 people.
- January 7 – OPEC agrees to raise crude oil prices by 10%.
- January 10–February 9 – The flight of Soyuz 17 with the crew of Georgy Grechko and Aleksei Gubarev aboard the Salyut 4 space station.
- January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11.
- January 19 – The 6.8 Ms Kinnaur earthquake affected Himachal Pradesh in India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 47.
- January 20
- In Hanoi, North Vietnam, the Politburo approves the final military offensive against South Vietnam.
- Work is abandoned on the British end of the Channel Tunnel.
- January 24 – Jazz pianist Keith Jarrett plays the solo improvisation The Köln Concert at the Cologne Opera. The live recording becomes the best-selling piano recording in history.[2]
February
- February 4 – The Haicheng earthquake, the first successfully predicted earthquake, kills 2,041 and injures 27,538 in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
- February 5 – The Argentinian president Isabel Perón decrees Operativo Independencia, aiming to neutralize or annihilate the "subversive elements" in the province of Tucuman. Isabelita takes advantage to take a self-coup and assume extraordinary powers.
- February 11
- Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the opposition UK Conservative Party. Thatcher, 49, is Britain's first female leader of any political party.[3]
- Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated.
- February 13 – A "Turkish Federated State of North Cyprus" is declared as an unsuccessful first step to international recognition of a Turkish Cypriot separatist state in Cyprus.
- February 21 – Watergate scandal: Former United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, and former White House aides H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, are sentenced to between 30 months and 8 years in prison.
- February 27 – The 2 June Movement kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
- February 28
- A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
- In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.
- The National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) approaches the South African Embassy in London and requests 40 to 50 artillery pieces to assist their cause in the Angolan Civil War.
March
- March 1
- Aston Villa win the Football League Cup at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0 in the final.
- Australian television switches to full-time colour.
- March 4 – A Canadian parliamentary committee is televised for the first time.
- March 6
- Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement in their border dispute.
- A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of the Springer Press. The March 6 Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
- March 8 – The United Nations proclaims International Women's Day.
- March 9 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
- March 10
- Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon.
- An extended portion of Sanyō Shinkansen between Okayama Station and Hakata Station opens, thus making Shinkansen reach the second island, Kyushu, Japan.
- March 11 – The leftist military government in Portugal defeats a rightist coup attempt in head of the former president António de Spínola.
- March 13 – Vietnam War: South Vietnam President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu orders the Central Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians (the Convoy of Tears).
- March 15 – In Brazil, Guanabara State merges into the state of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niterói to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
- March 22 – Ding-a-dong by Teach-In (music by Dick Bakker, text by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975 for the Netherlands.
- March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.[4]
- March 27 – The South African government announces that it will consolidate the 113 separate homeland areas into 36.
- March 28 – A fire in the maternity wing at Kučić Hospital in Rijeka, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), kills 25 people.
- March 31 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (39th government), a four-party coalition, so-called First National Front (Turkish: Milliyetçi cephe)).
April
- April 4
- Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
- Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
April 4: Allen and Gates four years prior to the founding of Microsoft
- April 5 – The Soviet manned space mission (Soyuz 18a) ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging at an altitude of 192 km, resulting in the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle. Both cosmonauts (Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov) survive.
- April 9
- Asia's first professional basketball league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.
- Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in the People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
April 9th-21st: Battle of Xuân Lộc
- April 13
- Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese Civil War which lasts until 1990.
- A coup d'état in Chad led by the military overthrows and kills President François Tombalbaye.
- April 17 – The Khmer Republic surrenders, when the Communist Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh ending the Cambodian Civil War, with mass evacuation of American troops and Cambodian civilians.
- April 18 – The Khmer Rouge begins a forcible mass evacuation of the city and starts the genocide.
- April 19 – Nico Diederichs becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa.[5]
- April 20 – Taman Mini Indonesia Indah opens to the public in Jakarta, Indonesia.
- April 24 – Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police (See West German Embassy siege).
- April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
- April 29 – Vietnam War: North Vietnam concludes its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands that were being held by South Vietnam.
- April 30 – The Vietnam War ends with the Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War concludes as Communist forces from North Vietnam take Saigon, resulting in mass evacuation of the remaining American troops and South Vietnam civilians. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally and is replaced with a temporary Provisional Government.
May
- May 2 – The Khmer Rouge raids several Vietnamese towns, which eventually leads to the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
- May 3 – West Ham United wins the FA Cup at Wembley, beating Fulham 2–0 in the final. Both goals are scored by Alan Taylor. West Ham legend Bobby Moore, appears for Fulham.
- May 6 – The South African government announces that it will provide all Black children with free and compulsory education.
- May 15 – Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
- May 16
- Sikkim accedes to India after a referendum and abolishes the Chogyal, its monarchy.
- Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
- May 25 – Bobby Unser wins the Indianapolis 500 for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, 700 km (430 mi) race.
- May 27 – The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, UK, results in 32 deaths (the highest ever toll in a United Kingdom road accident).
- May 28 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
June
- June 5
- The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- June 6 – The Georgetown Agreement, formally creating the ACP Group, is signed.
- June 7 - June 21 – The first ever Cricket World Cup, 1975 Cricket World Cup is held in England with West Indies defeating Australia in the final.
- June 9 – The Order of Australia is awarded for the first time.
- June 11 – After a referendum and seven years of military rule, modern day Greece is established as the Hellenic Republic.
- June 25
- Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
- Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
July
- July 1 – The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia) and the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post).
- July 4
- Zion Square refrigerator bombing. A terrorist attack in downtown Jerusalem kills 15 civilians and wounds 77.
- Sydney newspaper publisher Juanita Nielsen disappears, and is presumed to have been murdered.
- July 5 – Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
- July 6 – The Comoros declares and is granted its independence from France.
- July 9 – The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a multi-party system (albeit highly restricted).
- July 12 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
- July 17 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: A manned American Apollo spacecraft and the manned Soviet Soyuz spacecraft for the Soyuz 19 mission dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
August
- The first Cuban forces arrive in Angola to join Soviet personnel who are there to assist the MPLA that controls less than a quarter of Angolan territory. In response, the United States, Zaire and Zambia request South Africa to provide training and support for the FNLA and UNITA forces.[6]
- August 1 – The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
- August 8 – The Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, fails after Typhoon Nina; over 200,000 people perish.
- August 11 – Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese East Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
- August 15
- Founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup led by Major Syed Faruque Rahman.
- Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Armageddon will occur this year based on the group's chronology[7] and some sell their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believe will be created when Jesus establishes God's Kingdom on Earth.
- August 20 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- August 24 – Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.
- August 25 – The Victoria Falls Conference between Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and the United African National Council is held in a South African Railways coach on the Victoria Falls Bridge, officiated by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and South African Prime Minister John Vorster.
September
- September–October – In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people, in support of Maori claims to their land.
- September 5
- In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
- The London Hilton Hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; two people are killed and 63 injured.[8]
- September 6 – An earthquake of magnitude Ms 6.7 kills at least 2,085 in Diyarbakır and Lice, Turkey.
- September 14 – Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
- September 15 – The French department of "Corse", comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
Flag of Papua New Guinea
- September 16
- Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
- Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
- September 19 – General Vasco Gonçalves is ousted as Prime Minister of Portugal.
- September 20 – The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.
- September 21 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra of Kelantan, becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
- September 27 – Francoist Spain executes five ETA and FRAP members, the last executions in Spain to date.
- September 30 – The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
October
- October 1 – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- October 14
- The South African Defence Force invades Angola during Operation Savannah in support of the FNLA and UNITA prior to the Angolan elections scheduled for November 11.[9]
- An RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.[10]
- October 16
- October 30 - Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state after General Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern. His death on November 20 effectively marks the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.[12]
- October 31
November
- November 6 – The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
- November 7 – A vapor cloud explosion at a petroleum cracking facility in Geleen, Netherlands, leaves 14 dead and 109 injured, with fires lasting for five days.[13]
- November 10
- United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72–35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The resolution provokes an outcry among Jews around the world. It is repealed in 1991.
- The 729-foot (222 m)-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm 27 kilometres (17 mi) from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
- Lev Leshchenko revives Den Pobedy, one of the most popular World War II songs in the USSR.
- November 11
- Angola becomes independent from Portugal and civil war erupts.
Flag of Angola - Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr controversially dismisses the Whitlam Labor Government and commissions Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal/National Country Coalition as caretaker Prime Minister.
- The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.
- Angola becomes independent from Portugal and civil war erupts.
- November 12 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
- November 14 – Madrid Accords: Spain agrees to hand over power of the Spanish Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania by the end of February 1976.[14]
- November 15 – The "Group of 6" industrialized nations (G-6) is formed and helds its 1st summit at the Château de Rambouillet in France.
- November 16 – Beginning of the Third Cod War between UK and Iceland, which lasts until June 1976.
- November 19 – The United States Congress approves the Clark Amendment, ending aid to the FNLA and UNITA.
- November 20 – Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.
- November 22 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of General Francisco Franco; he would reign until his abdication in 2014.
Flag of Suriname
- November 25 – Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.[15]
- November 28
- Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.
- South African Navy frigates evacuate 26 SADF members from behind enemy lines at Ambrizete, 160 kilometres (99 mi) north of Luanda in Angola.
- November 29
- The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976).
- While disabled, the submarine tender USS Proteus discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.
December
- December 2 – In Laos, the communist party of the Pathet Lao takes over Vientiane and defeats the Kingdom of Laos, forcing King Sisavang Vatthana to abdicate and creating the Lao People's Democratic Republic. This ends the Laotian Civil War, with mass evacuation of American troops and Laotian civilians, but effectively begins the ongoing Insurgency in Laos with the Pathet Lao fighting the Hmong people, Royalist-in-exile and the Right-wings.
- December 3 – Wreck of HMHS Britannic (sunk by mine 1916) is found in the Kea Channel by Jacques Cousteau.
- December 7 – Indonesian invasion of East Timor: Indonesia invades East Timor; the occupation continues until 1999, when U.N. peacekeepers take over control until 2002.
- December 13
- 1975 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Country Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser defeats the recently dismissed Labor Government led by Gough Whitlam. The Fraser Government achieves what is so far the largest parliamentary majority in federal Australian political history. Whitlam would subsequently survive a leadership challenge against him.
- United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) comes into effect.[16]
- December 18 – The Algerian president Houari Boumediene orders the expulsion of all Moroccans from Algeria.[17]
- December 21 – Six people, including Carlos the Jackal, kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna.
- December 29 – A bomb explosion at LaGuardia Airport in New York City kills 11 people.
Date unknown
- The Spanish Army quits Spanish Sahara (modern-day Western Sahara), last remnant of the Spanish Empire. The Sahrawi Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades the former territory.
- The government of Colombia announces the finding of Ciudad Perdida.
- Benoit Mandelbrot coins the mathematical term fractal.
- Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment.
- South Australia becomes the first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.
- The first monster truck, Bigfoot, is created by Bob Chandler.
World population
| World population | ||||||
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| 1975 | 1970 | 1980 | ||||
| World | 4,068,109,000 | 3,692,492,000 |  375,617,000 |
4,434,682,000 | 366,573,000 | |
| Africa | 408,160,000 | 357,283,000 | 50,877,000 |
469,618,001 | 61,458,000 | |
| Asia | 2,397,512,000 | 2,143,118,000 | 254,394,000 |
2,632,335,000 | 234,823,000 | |
| Europe | 675,542,000 | 655,855,000 | 19,687,000 |
692,431,000 | 16,889,000 | |
| South America | 321,906,000 | 284,856,000 | 37,050,000 |
361,401,000 | 39,495,000 | |
| North America | 243,425,000 | 231,937,000 | 11,488,000 |
256,068,000 | 12,643,000 | |
| Oceania | 21,564,000 | 19,443,000 | 2,121,000 |
22,828,000 | 1,264,000 | |
Births
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January
Danica McKellar
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Matteo Renzi
Sara Gilbert
- January 1
- Sonali Bendre, Indian actress[18]
- Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
- January 2
- January 3
- January 5 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
- January 6
- Yukana, Japanese voice actress
- Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball player
- January 11 – Matteo Renzi, 56th Prime Minister of Italy
- January 13 – Andrew Yang, American entrepreneur, founder of Venture for America, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
- January 15 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player
- January 17 – Tony Brown, New Zealand rugby union footballer
- January 23 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial arts fighter
- January 25
- Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
- Tim Montgomery, American athlete
- January 28
- Tanya Chua, Singapore singer
- Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese voice actor and singer
- January 29 – Sara Gilbert, American actress
- January 31 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress and entrepreneur
February
Brian Littrell
- February 1 – Big Boi, American rapper
- February 2
- Todd Bertuzzi, Canadian hockey player
- Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
- February 3 – Brad Thorn, New Zealand-Australian rugby player[23]
- February 4 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer
- February 9 – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
- February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball pitcher
- February 14 – Malik Zidi, French actor
- February 17
- February 18
- Igor Dodon, President of Moldova
- Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
- Gary Neville, English footballer
- February 19 – Mohamed Aly, Egyptian boxer
- February 20 – Brian Littrell, American pop singer[24]
- February 22 – Drew Barrymore, American actress and film producer[25]
- February 23
- Wilfred Kibet Kigen, Kenyan long-distance runner
- Callan Mulvey, New Zealand-born Australian actor
- February 25 – Chelsea Handler, American comedian and television host[26]
March
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Valentina Monetta
Aracely Arámbula
Puneeth Rajkumar
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- March 1
- Maya Kulenovic, Canadian painter
- Valentina Monetta, Sammarinese singer
- March 3
- Khadaffy Janjalani, Filipino terrorist
- Patric Chiha, Austrian film director and screenwriter[27]
- March 5 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
- March 6 – Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress, singer and model
- March 9
- Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer[28]
- Lisa Miskovsky, Swedish musician
- March 6 – Jamie Arnold, American-Israeli basketball player[29]
- March 11
- Buvaisar Saitiev, Chechen wrestler
- David Cañada, Spanish cyclist (d. 2016)
- March 12 – Kéllé Bryan, English singer
- March 13 – Matt Sing, Australian rugby league player
- March 15
- Eva Longoria, American actress
- Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
- will.i.am, American rapper and singer
- March 17
- Natalie Zea, American actress
- Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (d. 2021)
- March 18 – Sutton Foster, American actress[30]
- March 19
- Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
- Le Jingyi, Chinese swimmer
- Matthew Richardson, Australian rules footballer
- March 21
- Fabricio Oberto, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
- Mark Williams, Welsh professional snooker player
- March 22 – Guillermo Díaz, American actor
- March 25
- Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player
- Melanie Blatt, English singer
- March 27
- Fergie, American singer and actress
- March 28 – Richard Kelly, American director
- March 29 – Jan Bos, Dutch speed skater[31]
April
Pedro Pascal
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Anouk
Jasey-Jay Anderson
Johnny Galecki
- April 2
- April 3 – Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball pitcher[33]
- April 4 – Delphine Arnault, French businesswoman and entrepreneur
- April 5
- John Hartson, Welsh footballer
- Juicy J, American rapper, songwriter, and record producer
- April 6
- Zach Braff, American actor
- Sónia Lopes, Cape Verdean runner
- April 8 – Anouk, Dutch singer-songwriter and producer
- April 9
- Robbie Fowler, English footballer
- David Gordon Green, American filmmaker
- April 10
- Chris Carrabba, American singer and guitarist
- David Harbour, American actor
- April 11 – Dariusz Kozubek, Polish footballer
- April 13 – Jasey-Jay Anderson, Canadian snowboarder
- April 14
- Amy Dumas, American professional wrestler
- Stefano Miceli, Italian conductor and pianist
- Anderson Silva, Brazilian UFC fighter
- April 15 – Paul Dana, American racing driver (d. 2006)
- April 16 – Sean Maher, American actor
- April 17 – Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
- April 21 – Danyon Loader, New Zealand swimmer
- April 22
- Greg Moore, Canadian racing driver (d. 1999)
- Carlos Sastre, Spanish road bicycle racer
- April 23 – Olga Kern, Russian pianist
- April 26 – Joey Jordison, American metal drummer (d. 2021)[34]
- April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper[35]
- April 30
- Johnny Galecki, Belgian-born American actor
- Tomi Joutsen, Finnish metal musician
May
Christina Hendricks
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Chris Diamantopoulos
Hélio Castroneves
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Keiko Fujimori
André 3000
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- May 1 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
- May 2
- David Beckham, English footballer
- Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer
- May 3
- Andreea Bibiri, Romanian actress and theatre director
- Christina Hendricks, American actress
- Dulé Hill, American actor and tap dancer
- Kimora Lee Simmons, American fashion designer
- May 7 – Jason Tunks, Canadian discus thrower
- May 8
- Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer
- Jussi Markkanen, Finnish hockey player
- May 9 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
- May 10
- Hazem Emam, Egyptian footballer
- Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian racing driver
- Torbjørn Brundtland, Norwegian musician
- May 11 – Ziad Jarrah, a member of al-Qaeda and one of the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks (d. 2001)
- May 12
- Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
- Jared Polis, American politician, 43rd Governor of Colorado
- May 13
- Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress
- Brian Geraghty, American actor
- May 15
- Peter Iwers, Swedish rock bassist
- Ray Lewis, American football player
- Janne Seurujärvi, Finnish Sami politician, and the first Sami ever to be elected to the Finnish Parliament.[36]
- May 16
- Tony Kakko, Finnish singer
- Simon Whitfield, Canadian triathlete
- May 17 – Alex Wright, German professional wrestler
- May 18
- John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
- Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter
- Irina Karavayeva, Russian trampolinist
- May 19
- London Fletcher, American football player
- Jonas Renkse, Swedish musician
- Dorit Bar Or, Israeli actress
- Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
- Zhang Ning, Chinese badminton player
- May 20
- Al Bano, Italian singer
- Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
- Miriam Quiambao, Filipina actress
- May 21 – Anthony Mundine, Australian rugby league player and boxer
- May 22
- Janne Niinimaa, Finnish hockey player
- Harriet Toompere, Estonian actress
- May 25
- Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician
- Lauryn Hill, American singer
- May 27
- André 3000, American musician, record producer, and actor
- Chrigel Glanzmann, Swiss metal singer
- Jamie Oliver, English chef, restaurateur and television personality
- ZP Theart, South African singer and songwriter
- May 28 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
- May 29
- David Burtka, American actor and professional chef
- Jason Allison, Canadian hockey player
- Mel B, English singer, songwriter, rapper, television personality, actress and author
- Gunnar Garfors, Norwegian media professional, traveller, and author
- Daniel Tosh, American comedian
- May 31 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
June
Nikol Pashinyan
Bryan Konietzko
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Linda Cardellini
Ismail ibn Musa Menk
- June 1
- Bryan Konietzko, American animator
- Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian politician, Prime Minister if Armeni
- June 4
- Nikki Araguz, American same-sex marriage activist, author, and public speaker (d. 2019)
- Russell Brand, English actor and comedian
- Angelina Jolie, American actress
- June 7
- Shane Bond, New Zealand fast bowler
- Allen Iverson, American basketball player
- Ekta Kapoor, Indian actress
- June 8 – Shilpa Shetty, Bollywood actress
- June 9
- Serena Liu, Taiwanese dancer and actress (d. 2020)
- Andrew Symonds, British-born Australian cricketer (d. 2022)
- Ameesha Patel, Indian actress and model
- June 11
- Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
- Gergely Karácsony, Hungarian politician
- June 15 – Elizabeth Reaser, American actress[37]
- June 16 – Anabel Conde, Spanish singer
- June 17 – Phiyada Akkraseranee, Thai actress
- June 18 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
- June 19
- Oksana Chusovitina, German artistic gymnast
- Anthony Parker, American basketball player[38]
- Ed Coode, British rower
- June 23
- Lee Kiat Lee, Malaysian politician
- KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter
- Markus Zusak, Australian writer
- June 24
- Christie Pearce, American footballer[39]
- Jean-Kome Loglo, Togolese tennis player
- June 25
- Linda Cardellini, American actress
- Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
- Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
- June 26
- Gwendolyn Rutten, Belgian politician
- Luke Mejares, Filipino singer-songwriter
- Florence Loiret Caille, French actress
- June 27
- Mufti Menk, Zimbabwean Muslim cleric and Mufti
- Tobey Maguire, American actor
- Mosese Rauluni, Fijian rugby union footballer
- Timote Moleni, Tongan footballer
- June 28
- Jeff Geddis, Canadian film and television actor
- Ning Baizura, Malaysian singer
- Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer (d. 2006)
- June 29
- Șerban Pavlu, Romanian actor
- Mime Gopi, Indian actor
- June 30
- Robert Avellanet, Puerto Rican singer and actor
- James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer
- Ralf Schumacher, German racing driver
- Angela Tong, Hong Kong actress
July
Cécile de France
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Judy Greer
Suriya
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Liz Truss
- July 1 – Sufjan Stevens, American musician
- July 2 – Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby union player
- July 3 – Ryan McPartlin, American actor
- July 4
- Scott Major, Australian actor and director
- John Lloyd Young, American actor and singer
- July 5
- Zander de Bruyn, South African cricketer
- Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
- Kip Gamblin, Australian actor
- Surya Saputra, Indonesian actor, singer, and model
- Alberto Castillo, Cuban baseball pitcher
- Patrick Hivon, Canadian actor
- Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
- July 6
- Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor and model
- Alessandro Juliani, Canadian actor and singer
- July 7
- Richard Arkless, Scottish politician
- João Bosco Cabral, Timorese footballer
- Khaled Gahwji, Saudi football player
- Nina Hoss, German actress
- Michael Voss, Australian rules footballer
- July 8
- Amara, Indonesian actress, model, and singer
- Elias Viljanen, Finnish musician
- Régis Laconi, French motorcycle racer
- Jamal Woolard, American actor and rapper
- July 9
- Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
- Damián Szifron, Argentine director and screenwriter
- Robert Koenig, American film director and producer
- Jack White, American singer and guitarist
- July 10
- Martina Colombari, Italian actress, model and television presenter
- Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
- Alain Nasreddine, Canadian ice hockey player
- Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
- July 11
- Spencer Cox, American lawyer and politician
- Jon Wellner, American actor
- Bridgette Andersen, American actress (d. 1997)
- July 12 - Cheyenne Jackson, American actor and singer
- July 13 – Diego Spotorno, Ecuadorian actor and TV host
- July 15 – K Brosas, Filipino actress, comedian, singer and television host
- July 16 – Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
- July 17
- Cécile de France, Belgian actress
- Daffney, American professional wrestler, manager, and actress (d. 2021)
- Darude, Finnish DJ and record producer
- Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
- Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician
- July 18
- Torii Hunter, American baseball player
- Daron Malakian, Armenian-American guitarist
- July 19
- Heather Armstrong, American blogger
- Patricia Ja Lee, American actress and model
- Kamijo, Japanese singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer
- July 20
- July 21
- David Dastmalchian, American actor[41]
- Fredrik Johansson, Swedish musician
- July 23 – Suriya, Indian actor
- July 25
- Håvard Ellefsen, Norwegian musician
- Evgeni Nabokov, Kazakh-Russian hockey goaltender
- July 26 – Liz Truss, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom September/October 2022
- July 27 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
August
Kaitlin Olson
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Dante Basco
- August 1 – Danny Chan Kwok-kwan, Hong Kong actor
- August 3 – Yoyo Mung, Hong Kong actress
- August 4 – Jason Crump, Australian motorcycle speedway rider[42]
- Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist
- August 7
- Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian musician
- Megan Gale, Australian model and actress
- Charlize Theron, South African actress
- August 9 – Mahesh Babu, Indian actor
- August 11 – Roger Craig Smith, American voice actor
- August 12 – Casey Affleck, American actor and film director
- August 13 – Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani fast bowler
- August 15 – Kara Wolters, American basketball player
- August 16 – Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian
- August 18 – Kaitlin Olson, American actress
- August 22 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
- August 27 – Björn Gelotte, Swedish musician
- August 29 – Dante Basco, American film, television and voice actor[43]
- August 30 - Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
- August 31 – Sara Ramirez, American Actress
September
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Mark Ronson
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Jason Sudeikis
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Moon Bloodgood
- September 1
- Maritza Rodríguez, Colombian actress and model
- Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
- Elvira Rahić, Bosnian singer
- Scott Speedman, Canadian actor
- September 2 – Czech neo-burlesque impresario
- September 3 – Redfoo, American disc jockey
- September 4 – Mark Ronson, English DJ, record producer, and singer
- September 6 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka
- September 7 – Renato Sobral, Brazilian martial artist
- September 9 – Michael Bublé, Canadian musician
- September 13
- Peter Ho, American-Taiwanese singer and actor
- Idan Tal, Israeli footballer[44]
- September 16
- Gal Fridman, Israeli windsurfer
- Shannon Noll, Australian singer
- September 17 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
- September 18 – Jason Sudeikis, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
- September 20
- Asia Argento, Italian actress, singer, and director
- Moon Bloodgood, American actress
- September 22 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian hockey player
- September 23 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
- September 25
- Declan Donnelly, British TV presenter, actor and singer
- Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
- September 27 – Sam Lee, Hong Kong actor
- September 28 – Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of Serbia
- September 30
- Marion Cotillard, French actress, singer, songwriter, and musician[45]
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author and journalist
- Georges-Alain Jones, French singer
- Glenn Fredly, Indonesian R&B singer and songwriter (d. 2020)
October
Bimba Bosé
Alanna Ubach
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- October 1 – Bimba Bosé, Spanish model, actress and singer (d. 2017)
- October 3 – Alanna Ubach, American actress and singer[46]
- October 5
- Kate Winslet, British actress
- Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese actress
- Parminder Nagra, British actress[47]
- October 9 – Sean Lennon, British-American musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist[48]
- October 10 – Ihsahn, Norwegian musician
- October 14
- Floyd Landis, American cyclist
- Shaznay Lewis, English singer
- October 15 – Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer
- October 16
- Alexandra Barreto, American actress
- Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
- October 21
- Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
- Madchild, Canadian rapper
- October 22 – Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
- October 23 – Odalys García, Cuban actress
- October 25 – Zadie Smith, English writer
- October 27 – Aron Ralston, American outdoorsman, mechanical engineer and motivational speaker
- October 28 – Krisztián Zahorecz, Hungarian football player (d. 2019)
- October 30 – Ian D'Sa, Canadian guitarist
- October 31 – Director X, Canadian music video director
November
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Jason Lezak
- November 2
- Zhang Ouying, Chinese footballer (d. 2018)
- Danny Cooksey, American actor and comedian
- November 3 – Marta Domínguez, Spanish athlete
- November 4
- November 5
- Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer
- Jamie Spaniolo (Jamie Madrox), American rapper
- November 7 – Marcus Luttrell, American U.S. Navy Seal
- November 8
- Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer
- Tara Reid, American actress
- November 10 – Markko Märtin, Estonian racing driver
- November 11
- Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby union player
- Angélica Vale, Mexican-American actress, singer, and comedian
- November 12 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer
- November 14
- Faye Tozer, English singer[50]
- Gary Vaynerchuk, American-Belarusian entrepreneur and internet personality[51]
- November 16 – Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player
- November 18
- Neal E. Boyd, American singer and reality show winner (America's Got Talent) (d. 2018)
- Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter, actor and singer
- David Ortiz, Dominican-American baseball player
- November 19 – Sushmita Sen, Indian actress and model, former Miss Universe.
- November 20
- Dierks Bentley, American country music singer
- Joshua Gomez, American actor
- Davey Havok, American rock musician, frontman of AFI
- November 21
- Cherie Johnson, American actress
- Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
- Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian drummer
- November 22
- James Madio, American actor
- Michael Cohen, Canadian actor and writer
- November 24
- Thomas Kohnstamm, American writer
- Lee Wan Wah, Malaysian badminton player
- November 26 – DJ Khaled, American DJ, record executive, songwriter, record producer and media personality
- November 27 – Bad Azz, American rapper (d. 2019)
- November 28 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
- November 30
- Mindy McCready, American country music singer (d. 2013)
- IronE Singleton, African-American actor
- Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
December
Emmanuelle Chriqui
Mayim Bialik
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Sia
- December 3 – Csaba Czébely, Hungarian drummer
- December 5
- Sofi Marinova, Bulgarian singer
- Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player
- Paula Patton, American actress[52]
- December 6 – Ashin, Taiwanese singer
- December 8 – Kevin Harvick, American race car driver
- December 10 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
- December 12
- Mayim Bialik, Israeli-American actress and neuroscientist
- Houko Kuwashima, Japanese voice actress[53]
- December 13
- Lucía Meza Guzmán, Mexican politician
- Tom DeLonge, American musician, author, and UFOlogist
- December 16 – Ben Kowalewicz, Canadian vocalist
- December 17
- Tim Clark, South African golfer
- Nick Dinsmore, American professional wrestler
- Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan athlete
- Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
- Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born American actress and model
- December 18
- Sia, Australian singer-songwriter and music video director
- Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler and model
- December 20 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
- December 21
- Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
- Charles Michel, Belgian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council
- Dixon, German house and techno DJ, producer and label manager
- December 23 – Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
- December 26
- Ed Stafford, English explorer
- Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
- December 27 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)
- December 29 – Shawn Hatosy, American actor
- December 30 – Tiger Woods, American golfer[54]
Deaths
January
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
- January 3 – Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
- January 5 – Gottlob Berger, German Nazi senior official (b. 1896)[55]
- January 9 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
- January 14 – Georgi Traykov, former head of State of Bulgaria as Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (b. 1898)
- January 17 – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (b. 1900)
- January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, American artist (b. 1889)
- January 23 – Prince Karl Franz of Prussia (b. 1916)
- January 24 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian (b. 1902)
- January 27
- January 28 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
February
Sir Julian Huxley
Sir P. G. Wodehouse
- February 3 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian actress and singer (b. 1898)
- February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
- February 8
- February 10 – Dave Alexander, American musician (b. 1947)
- February 14
- Sir Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)[56]
- Sir P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)[57]
- February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
- February 17 – Hugo Österman, Finnish general (b. 1892)
- February 18 – Chivu Stoica, Romanian Communist politician, 48th Prime Minister of Romania and head of State (b. 1908)
- February 19 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
- February 22 – Lionel Tertis, English violist (b. 1876)[58]
- February 24 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
- February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, American Nation of Islam leader (b. 1897)
March
- March 2 – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (b. 1876)[59]
- March 3 – Therese Giehse, German actress (b. 1898)
- March 6 – Glenn Hardin, American athlete (b. 1910)
- March 7 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)
- March 8
- Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1887)
- George Stevens, American director, producer and cinematographer (b. 1904)
- March 9 – Shirley Ross, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
- March 11 – Margarita Fischer, German silent film actress (b. 1886)
- March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- March 14 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
- March 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)
- March 16 – T-Bone Walker, American blues performer (b. 1910)
- March 19 – Harry Lachman, American set designer and film director (b. 1886)
- March 20 – Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia (b. 1908)
- March 21 - Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911) [60]
- March 25
- King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
- Michèle Girardon, French actress (b. 1938)
- March 27 – Sir Arthur Bliss, British composer and Master of the Queen's Music (b. 1891)
- March 30 – Boots Adams, American business magnate, president of Phillips Petroleum Company (b. 1899)
April
- April 5
- Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese nationalist general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
- Harold Osborn, American Olympic athlete (b. 1899)
- Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician and jurist, 40th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1917)[61]
- April 10
- April 12 – Josephine Baker, France entertainer, activist (b. 1906)
- April 14 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
- April 17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)
- April 23 - William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
- April 24 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
- April 30
May
Avery Brundage
- May 1 – Trần Văn Hai, South Vietnamese Army general (b. 1927)
- May 4 – Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (b. 1897)
- May 8 – Avery Brundage, American administrator, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
- May 9 – Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (b. 1901)
- May 14 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born American television pioneer (b. 1878)[62]
- May 18
- May 20 – Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (b. 1903)
- May 22
- May 28
- May 30
- Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)
- Michel Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1895)
June
- June 3
- Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, 39th Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
- Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer (b. 1906)
- June 4 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (b. 1899)
- June 9 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat (b. 1898)
- June 12 – Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Guatemalan writer (b. 1884)
- June 13 – José María Guido, 33rd President of Argentina (b. 1910)
- June 15 – William Austin, English actor (b. 1884)
- June 18 – Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883)
- June 27 – G. I. Taylor, British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory (b. 1886)
- June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter and narrator (b. 1924)
- June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
July
Konstantine Gamsakhurdia
- July 2 – James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
- July 4 – Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1893)
- July 10 – Achille Van Acker, 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1898)
- July 14 – Madan Mohan, Indian music director (b. 1924)
- July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
- July 19 – Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
- July 21 – Billy West, American actor (b. 1892)
- July 23 – Emlen Tunnell, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
- July 30 – James Blish, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1921)
August
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- August 3
- August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1906)
- August 11
- August 15 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
- August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)
- August 17 – Sig Arno, German actor (b. 1895)
- August 19
- Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937)
- Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (b. 1882)[63]
- Frank Shields, American tennis player (b. 1909)
- August 23 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
- August 25 – Joseph Kane, American film director and producer (b. 1894)
- August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor (b. 1896)
- August 27 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1892)
- August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
- August 29 – Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach (b. 1882)
September
- September 5 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (b. 1881)
- September 9
- September 10 – Sir George Paget Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
- September 15 – Pavel Sukhoi, Soviet aerospace engineer, twice Hero of Socialist Labour (b. 1895)
- September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
- September 20 – Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
- September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor (b. 1900)
- September 26 – C. H. Waddington, British biologist, paleontologist, geneticist and philosopher (b. 1905)
- September 27
- September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
October
- October 3 – Guy Mollet, 94th Prime Minister of France (b. 1905)
- October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1886)
- October 10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)
- October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (b. 1889)
- October 27
- October 28 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
- October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
November
- November 1 – C. S. Wright, Canadian explorer (b. 1887)
- November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
- November 4 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (b. 1893)
- November 5
- November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English writer (b. 1896)
- November 17 – Kay Johnson, American actress (b. 1904)
- November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892)[65]
- November 29
- Tony Brise, English racing driver (b. 1952)
- Graham Hill, English racing driver (b. 1929)
December
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- December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
- December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
- December 8 – Plínio Salgado, Brazilian politician and writer (b. 1895)
- December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director (b. 1896)
- December 10 – Andrew "Boy" Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
- December 12 – Saadi Al Munla, 4th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1890)
- December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
- December 15
- December 17 – Noble Sissle, American jazz composer (b. 1889)
- December 18 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1900)
- December 19 – René Maheu, French professor and administrator, 6th Director-General of UNESCO (b. 1905)
- December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor (b. 1914)
- December 21 – Rowland V. Lee, American film director (b. 1891)
- December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (b. 1911)
- December 30 – Elene Akhvlediani, Soviet painter (b. 1901)
Date unknown
- Sisowath Monireth, 3rd Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1909)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics – Aage Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, James Rainwater
- Chemistry – John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
- Medicine – David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
- Literature – Eugenio Montale
- Peace – Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
- Economics – Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans
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