1976

1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.

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1976 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1976
MCMLXXVI
Ab urbe condita2729
Armenian calendar1425
ԹՎ ՌՆԻԵ
Assyrian calendar6726
Baháʼí calendar132–133
Balinese saka calendar1897–1898
Bengali calendar1383
Berber calendar2926
British Regnal year24 Eliz. 2 – 25 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2520
Burmese calendar1338
Byzantine calendar7484–7485
Chinese calendar乙卯年 (Wood Rabbit)
4672 or 4612
    — to —
丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4673 or 4613
Coptic calendar1692–1693
Discordian calendar3142
Ethiopian calendar1968–1969
Hebrew calendar5736–5737
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2032–2033
 - Shaka Samvat1897–1898
 - Kali Yuga5076–5077
Holocene calendar11976
Igbo calendar976–977
Iranian calendar1354–1355
Islamic calendar1395–1397
Japanese calendarShōwa 51
(昭和５１年)
Javanese calendar1907–1908
Juche calendar65
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4309
Minguo calendarROC 65
民國65年
Nanakshahi calendar508
Thai solar calendar2519
Tibetan calendar阴木兔年
(female Wood-Rabbit)
2102 or 1721 or 949
    — to —
阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
2103 or 1722 or 950
Unix time189302400 – 220924799
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Events

January

February

March
  • March – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico.[1]
  • March 1
    • U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
    • Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
  • March 4
    • The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in Direct rule over Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom in London.
    • The Maguire Seven are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions will be overturned in 1991.
  • March 9 – A cable car disaster in Cavalese, Italy leaves 43 dead.
  • March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky.
  • March 14 – After eight years on NBC, The Wizard of Oz returns to CBS, where it will remain until 1999, setting what is likely a record at that time for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. (That record is broken by The Ten Commandments in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on ABC in 1973, continuing be telecast by that network as of 2020.)
  • March 16 – Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • March 17 – American boxer Rubin Carter is retried in New Jersey for murder; his conviction is upheld on this occasion but will be overturned in 1985.
  • March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974.
  • March 22 – Star Wars begins filming in Tunisia.
  • March 23 – In a feud between Japanese ultranationalists, Mitsuyasu Maeno attempts to assassinate Yoshio Kodama by flying a plane into his Tokyo house.
  • March 24
    • Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Perón.
    • A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of the Congo.
  • March 26
  • March 27
    • The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah.
    • The first 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
  • March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina.
  • March 30 – Land Day: Arab citizens of Israel protest against intended appropriation of land by the government.
  • March 31 – The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that patient in a persistent vegetative state in the Karen Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.
  • March late – The first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U.S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell. The orchestra is the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel.

April
  • April 1
    • Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California.
    • Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.
    • The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
  • April 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
  • April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
  • April 5
  • April 10 – Frampton Comes Alive!, the multi-platinum selling live album by English rock musician Peter Frampton hits #1 in the Billboard 200 and remains there for 10 weeks, becoming the best-selling album of the year.
  • April 11 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launch the first Apple computer, the Apple I, for the U.S. hobbyist market.
  • April 13
    • The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion in Lapua, Finland kills 40.
    • The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • April 16 – As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
  • April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
  • April 23
  • April 25 – Portugal's new constitution is enacted.
  • April 29 – Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.[3] The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.[3]

May
  • May 1 – Neville Wran becomes Premier of New South Wales.
  • May 4
    • The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
    • A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
  • May 6 – An earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
  • May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
  • May 11
  • May 13 – Video arcade game Breakout is released.
  • May 16 – The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers in four games to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey. Flyers' forward Reggie Leach became the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
  • May 21
    • The Yuba City bus disaster, the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
    • The "Famous Fire" in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, destroys seven downtown structures, damages more than 12 others, and starts fires in at least 10 homes.
  • May 24
    • Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
    • The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
  • May 25 – U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.
  • May 30 – Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 kilometres (254 mi).
  • May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it has previously supported.

June
  • June 1 – The United Kingdom and Iceland end the Third Cod War, with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
  • June 2
    • A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
    • The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.
  • June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association Finals at the Boston Garden. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
  • June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the US, killing 11 people.
  • June 6 – The Double Six Crash, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, kills everyone on board, including Sabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
  • June 12 – Alberto Demicheli, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay after Juan María Bordaberry is deposed by the military.
  • June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan.
  • June 14 – The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court in England of Donald Neilson, the multiple killer known as the Black Panther. He will be convicted and serve the remainder of his life in prison.
  • June 16
    • The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins.
    • Francis E. Meloy Jr., newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, and two others are kidnapped in Beirut and killed.
  • June 17 – The National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association agree on the ABA–NBA merger.
  • June 20
    • Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
    • General elections are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
    • Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
  • June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (Ursus, Radom, Płock) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.
  • June 26 – The CN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
  • June 27
    • G-6 is renamed "Group of 7" (G-7) with the inclusion of Canada.
    • Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.
  • June 28
    • Inauguration of the north lane of the Rodovia dos Imigrantes.
  • June 29
    • Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom.
    • The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.

July
Italian tall ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • July 2 – North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
  • July 3
    • Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning the Furman v. Georgia case of 1972.
    • The great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
  • July 4
  • July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
  • July 7
    • German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin.
    • David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe.
  • July 10
    • Four mercenaries, three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in Angola, following the Luanda Trial.
    • Seveso disaster: An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
  • July 12 – In the United States:
    • California State University, Fullerton massacre: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a mass shooting on campus at California State University, Fullerton.
    • Barbara Jordan is the first African-American to keynote a political convention.
    • Price Club, as predecessor of Costco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in California.[6]
    • Family Feud debuts on ABC-TV.
  • July 15
    • Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
    • Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.
  • July 16–20 – Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice, France.
  • July 17
  • July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
  • July 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
  • July 20
    • Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
    • American criminal Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
  • July 21 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
  • July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
  • July 27
    • The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.
    • Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
  • July 28 – The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
  • July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
  • July 30
  • July 31
    • NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
    • The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.

August

September

October
October 4: The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.
  • October 4 – The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
  • October 6
    • Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.[10]
    • Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
    • In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
    • The Cultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of Four.
  • October 8 – Thorbjörn Fälldin replaces Olof Palme as Prime Minister of Sweden.
  • October 9 – Pittsburgh Pirates baseball pitcher Bob Moose is killed in a car crash in Ohio on his 29th birthday.
  • October 10 – Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-min is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
  • October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from a heart attack.
  • October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory).
  • October 18 – Ford officially launches volume production of the Fiesta car at its Valencia plant in Spain.
  • October 19
    • The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.
    • The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
    • The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
  • October 20 – The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, Louisiana to Luling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.
  • October 22
    • Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5th President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
    • The Damned release their debut single "New Rose", making them the first British punk band to release a single, beating the Sex Pistols by a month.
  • October 24 – James Hunt wins a very political Formula One World Championship by just 1 point driving a McLaren M23-D as rival Niki Lauda retires from the Japanese Grand Prix due to heavy rain.
  • October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys, is pardoned.
  • October 26 – Transkei gains "independence" from South Africa.
  • October 28 – British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene is published, introducing the term memetics.

November

December

Date unknown
  • Plans to move the Nigerian capital from Lagos to Abuja are approved.
  • Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia).
  • California's sodomy law is repealed.
  • Thomas A. Minetree founds Bethesda Cancer Centers in the United States.
  • The first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800).
  • The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada.
  • The Early Academic Outreach Program (EAOP) is established by the University of California (UC) in response to the State Legislature's recommendation to expand post-secondary opportunities to all of California's students including those who are first-generation, socioeconomically disadvantaged, and English-language learners.[12]
  • Universe, a public domain film produced by Lester Novros for NASA, is released.
  • Marc Brown's children's picture book Arthur's Nose is published in the United States.

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

January
Paz Vega
Johnny Yong Bosch
Jenny Lewis
Michael Peña
Emma Bunton
Andy Milonakis
  • January 1
    • Chai Jing, Chinese host and reporter
    • Tank, American R&B musician
  • January 2
    • Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
    • Paz Vega, Spanish actress
  • January 3 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
  • January 4
    • Shiro Amano, Japanese manga artist/writer
    • August Diehl, German actor
  • January 5 – Shintarō Asanuma, Japanese voice actor
  • January 6 – Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor and musician
  • January 7
    • Nilton Pereira Mendes, Brazilian footballer (d. 2006)
    • Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball player
  • January 10
    • Eduardo Garza, Mexican voice actor, announcer, translator, puppeteer and singer
    • Khairy Jamaluddin, Malaysian politician
  • January 13
    • Michael Peña, American actor
    • Bic Runga, New Zealand singer-songwriter[13]
    • Mario Yepes, Colombian football player
  • January 15
    • Meredith Bishop, American actress
    • Dorian Missick, American actor
  • January 16
    • Carrie Keranen, American voice actress
    • Eva Habermann, German actress
  • January 19 – Marsha Thomason, English actress
  • January 20
    • Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish television presenter[14]
    • Michael Myers, NFL defensive tackle
    • Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
    • Anastasia Volochkova, Russian prima ballerina
  • January 21 – Emma Bunton, English musician (Spice Girls)[15]
  • January 22 – TJ Trinidad, Filipino actor
  • January 23
    • Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteer (world champion 2008)
    • Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
    • Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
  • January 24 – Paul Bowman, Australian rugby league player
  • January 26 – Yasmine Belmadi, French actor (d. 2009)
  • January 27
    • Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer and television personality
    • Maia Estianty, Indonesian musician, music producer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and television personality
  • January 28
    • Lee Ingleby, British voice artist
    • Mark Madsen, American basketball player
    • Rick Ross, American rapper
  • January 30 – Andy Milonakis, American actor, writer, rapper, comedian and streamer

February
Isla Fisher
Tony Jaa
Charlie Day
Janet Varney
Kelly Macdonald
Rashida Jones
  • February 1
    • Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic politician, 28th Prime Minister of Iceland
    • Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper
  • February 2
    • Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
    • James Hickman, British swimmer
    • Lori Beth Denberg, American actress and comedian
  • February 3
    • Isla Fisher, Australian actress
    • Tim Heidecker, American comedian
    • Tijana, Macedonian singer
    • Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer songwriter and rapper
  • February 4 – Cam'ron, African-American rapper
  • February 5
    • Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
    • Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
    • Brian Moorman, American football player
  • February 6
    • James Hiroyuki Liao, American actor
    • Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
  • February 9 – Charlie Day, American actor
  • February 10 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
  • February 10 – Keeley Hawes, British actress
  • February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor
  • February 12
    • Jenni Falconer, British television presenter
    • Silvia Saint, Czech actress
  • February 14 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress
  • February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American singer-songwriter and author
  • February 16
  • February 17 – Svein Berge, Norwegian musician (Röyksopp)
  • February 20
    • Johanna Beisteiner, Austrian guitarist
    • Chris Cillizza, American journalist
  • February 21 – Michael McIntyre, British stand-up comedian
  • February 23
    • Aaron Aziz, Singaporean-born Malaysian actor
    • Jeff O'Neill, Canadian hockey player
    • Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
  • February 24
    • Yuval Noah Harari, Israeli historian
    • Zach Johnson, American golfer
  • February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model and musician
  • February 27 – Yukari Tamura, Japanese voice actress and songwriter
  • February 27 – Barry Opdam, Dutch footballer
  • February 27 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player
  • February 28
    • Ali Larter, American actress and model
    • Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
  • February 29
    • Ja Rule, American rapper
    • Shane Johnson, American actor
    • Katalin Kovács, Hungarian sprint kayaker
    • Mark Pollock, blind Irish adventurer and author

March
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Danny Masterson
Corey Stoll
Chester Bennington
Rachael MacFarlane
Reese Witherspoon
Peyton Manning
Wladimir Klitschko
Ayako Kawasumi
  • March 1
    • Akhil Gogoi, Indian activist and politician
    • Aleksey Jdanov, Uzbekistani football player
    • Luke Mably, British actor
    • Peter Bell, Australian rules footballer
  • March 3
    • Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
    • Isabel Granada, Filipino actress and singer (d. 2017)
  • March 4
    • Robbie Blake, English footballer
    • Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
    • Sean Covel, American film producer
    • Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
    • Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
    • Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
  • March 5
  • March 6 – Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
  • March 8
  • March 9 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinean model
  • March 10
    • Miroslav Kostadinov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter
    • Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese model, actress and singer
  • March 11
    • Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
    • Craig Parkinson, British actor
  • March 12 – Zhao Wei, Chinese singer and actress
  • March 13
    • Danny Masterson, American actor
    • Jamie Pressnall, American tap dancer and musician
  • March 14
    • Corey Stoll, American actor
    • Daniel Gillies, Canadian actor
    • Brian Quinn, American actor
    • Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
  • March 15
    • Abhay Deol, Indian actor
    • Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
  • March 16
    • Nick Spano, American actor
    • Blu Cantrell, American R&B singer
    • Pál Dárdai, Hungarian football player and manager
    • Kim Johnsson, Swedish hockey player
    • Zhu Chen, Chinese chess grandmaster
  • March 17
  • March 18
    • Emma Willis, English television presenter and former model
    • FanFan, American-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter
  • March 19
    • Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
    • Andre Miller, American basketball player
    • Alessandro Nesta, Italian football player
  • March 20 – Chester Bennington, American singer (Linkin Park) (d. 2017)
  • March 21
    • Rachael MacFarlane, American actress and singer, sister of Seth MacFarlane
    • Dariush Ramezani, Iranian cartoonist
  • March 22
    • Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
    • Shawty Lo, American rapper (d. 2016)
    • Wayne Turner, American basketball player
    • Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress
    • Reese Witherspoon, American actress
  • March 23
  • March 24
    • Aaron Brooks, American football player
    • Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
    • Peyton Manning, American football player[17]
  • March 25 – Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian professional boxer
  • March 26
    • Blaise Alexander, American automobile racing driver (d. 2001)
    • Amy Smart, American actress
    • Eirik Verås Larsen, Norwegian sprint kayaker
  • March 27 – Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
  • March 29 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
  • March 30
    • Jessica Cauffiel, American actress and singer
    • Ty Conklin, American ice-hockey player
    • Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress

April
Troy Baker
David Oyelowo
Candace Cameron Bure
Glenn Howerton
Jonathan Brandis
Lukas Haas
Melissa Joan Hart
Wyatt Cenac
Joey Lawrence
Sally Hawkins
  • April 1
    • Troy Baker, American actor and musician
    • Hazem El Masri, Lebanese-Australian rugby league player
    • David Oyelowo, English-American actor
    • Clarence Seedorf, Dutch footballer
  • April 2
    • Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
    • Daisuke Namikawa, Japanese voice actor
    • Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
  • April 3 – Will Mellor, English actor
  • April 4 – James Roday, American actor, director and screenwriter
  • April 5
    • Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
    • Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
    • Sterling K. Brown, African-American actor
  • April 6 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress
  • April 7 – Eric Wareheim, American comedian
  • April 9 –
    • Kris Radlinski, English rugby league player
    • Blayne Weaver, American actor and filmmaker
    • Ramkarpal Singh, Malaysian politician
  • April 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (d. 2006)
  • April 12 – Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
  • April 13
    • Glenn Howerton, American actor
    • Jonathan Brandis, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2003)
  • April 14 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
  • April 15
    • Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey player
    • Brock Huard, American football player
    • Steve Williams, British rower
  • April 16
    • David Lyons, Australian actor
    • Lukas Haas, American actor and musician
    • Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (d. 2017)
    • Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
  • April 17 – Monet Mazur, American actress
  • April 18
    • Gavin Creel, American actor and singer-songwriter
    • Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
    • Sean Maguire, British actor and singer
  • April 19
    • Wyatt Cenac, American actor, writer and director
    • Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
  • April 20
    • Joey Lawrence, American actor
    • Shay Given, Irish football goalkeeper
  • April 21
    • Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
    • Petero Civoniceva, Australian rugby league player
  • April 22 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
  • April 23 – Darren Huckerby, English footballer
  • April 24
    • George P. Bush, American attorney and politician
    • Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
  • April 25
    • Tim Duncan, American basketball player
    • Denis Kartsev, Russian professional ice hockey player[18]
    • Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
    • Kim Jong-kook, South Korean singer, television personality
    • Amir Fryszer Guttman, Israeli singer
  • April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
  • April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
  • April 28 – Michael Carbonaro, American actor, magician and improv artist
  • April 29
    • Jay Orpin, Swedish composer and record producer
    • Shiho Kawaragi, Japanese voice actress
  • April 30 – Ankaralı Namık, Turkish singer

May
Anza
Michele Frangilli
Anže Logar
Ana Paula Valadão
Nadine Heredia
Colin Farrell
  • May 1
    • Darius McCrary, American actor
    • James Murray, American actor
    • Michele Frangilli, Italian archer
  • May 3
    • Beto, Portuguese footballer
    • Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
  • May 4
    • Jason Michaels, American baseball player
    • Anza, Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of Sailor Moon in some Sailor Moon musical
  • May 5
    • Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster[19]
    • Sage Stallone, American actor, film director, producer and distributor (d. 2012)
  • May 6 – Marshall Burt, American railroader and politician
  • May 7
  • May 8
    • Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American folk-pop singer
    • Ian Watkins, Welsh singer (Steps) and actor
  • May 10
    • Rhona Bennett, American actress, singer and model
    • Rogério Oliveira da Costa, Brazilian-born football striker (d. 2006)
  • May 14 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer
  • May 15
    • Tyler Walker, American baseball player
    • Mark Kennedy, Irish footballer
    • Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
    • Ryan Leaf, American football quarterback
    • Anže Logar, Slovenian politician, minister of foreign affairs
  • May 16 – Ana Paula Valadão, Brazilian worship leader, singer-songwriter, pastor, author and television presenter
  • May 19 – Kevin Garnett, African-American basketball player
  • May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
  • May 22
    • Chris Brazzell, Canadian and American football player
    • Külli Teetamm, Estonian actress
  • May 25
    • Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper[20]
    • Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
    • J. Michael Tatum, American voice actor
    • Erinn Hayes, American actress
    • Nadine Heredia, Peruvian politician, First Lady of Peru
    • Ethan Suplee, American actor
    • Vincent Piazza, American actor
  • May 26 – Paul Collingwood, English cricketer
  • May 28
    • Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
    • Liam O'Brien, American actor
  • May 31
    • Tony Hopper, English footballer (d. 2018)
    • Colin Farrell, Irish actor
    • Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norwegian ski jumper

June
Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
Alexei Navalny
Emilie-Claire Barlow
Lindsay Davenport
Blake Shelton
Ryan Hurst
Juliano Belletti
Gavin Williamson
  • June 1 – Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss America 2001
  • June 2
    • Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
    • Tim Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer (Keane)
    • Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
  • June 3 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
  • June 4 – Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and political activist
  • June 5
    • Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist
    • Marc Worden, Canadian actor and voice actor
    • Joe Gatto, American comedian
  • June 6
    • Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian actress and singer
    • Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
  • June 7
    • Necro, American rapper
    • Nora Salinas, Mexican actress and model
  • June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
  • June 9
    • Ameesha Patel, Indian actress
  • June 10
    • Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
    • Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress
  • June 12 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish football goalkeeper
  • June 13
    • Kym Marsh, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress
    • Jason "J" Brown, British singer (5ive)
  • June 14 – Alan Carr, English comedian
  • June 16 – Tom Lenk, American actor
  • June 17
    • Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
    • Scott Adkins, English actor
  • June 18
    • Petri Haapimaa, Finnish footballer and coach
    • Brady Haran, Australian-British founder and cast of Numberphile channel
    • Blake Shelton, American singer
  • June 19
    • Anar Baghirov, Azerbaijani lawyer
    • Ryan Hurst, American actor
  • June 20 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
  • June 21 – Antonio Cochran, American football player
  • June 22
    • Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice-hockey player
    • Mike O'Brien, American actor, writer and comedian
  • June 23
    • Brandon Stokley, American football player
    • Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
    • Patrick Vieira, French footballer
    • Gavin Williamson, British politician, Secretary of State for Education
  • June 24 – Suhaimi Mat Hassan, Malaysian football referee
  • June 25
    • Sylvain N'Diaye, Senegalese footballer
    • Hennie Otto, South African professional golfer
    • Neil Walker, American swimmer
  • June 26
    • Cédric Jimenez, French film producer, film director and screenwriter
    • Wilson Lima, Brazilian politician and journalist
    • Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel (d. 2018)
  • June 27 – Joseph Sikora, American actor
  • June 28
    • Nawaf Al-Temyat, Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player
    • Jason J. Lewis, American voice actor
    • David Palmer, Australian squash player
    • Seth Wescott, American snowboarder
  • June 29
    • Annette Beutler, Swiss professional racing cyclist
    • Katsutoshi Domori, Japanese football player
    • Takahiro Mazuka, Japanese sprinter
    • Omar Doom, American actor, musician and artist
    • Ma Yili, Chinese actress
    • Angelo Lekkas, Australian rules footballer
  • June 30
    • Tamara Sedmak, Swiss television presenter, model and actress
    • Kazumasa Shimizu, Japanese football player
    • Jason Bostic, American football defensive back
    • Christine Schürrer, German serial killer
    • Gilbert Yvel, Dutch mixed martial artist

July
Gino D'Acampo
Bérénice Bejo
Fred Savage
Adrian Grenier
Diane Kruger
Gabriel Iglesias
Luke Bryan
Elsa Pataky
Benedict Cumberbatch
  • July 1
    • Justin Lo, Hong Kong singer and actor
    • Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
    • U. K. Shyam, Singaporean athlete
    • Haaz Sleiman, Lebanese-American actor
    • Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
    • Kellie Bright, English actress
  • July 2
    • Kon Arimura, Malaysian-Japanese radio personality, film critic and film commentator
    • Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
    • Tommy Pistol, American actor and director
  • July 3
    • Shane Lynch, Irish singer
    • Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
    • Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean rugby union player
    • Andrea Barber, American actress
    • Henry Olonga, Zambian-Zimbabwean cricketer
  • July 4
    • Rohan Nichol, Australian actor
    • Aryan Vaid, Indian male model
    • Jo Chen, American-Taiwanese comic book artist and writer
    • Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
  • July 5
    • Jamie Elman, Canadian-American actor
    • Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
    • Liberty Phoenix, Venezuelan actress
    • Rufus Johnson, American rapper also known as Bizarre
  • July 6 – Dimitrije Banjac, Serbian actor, comedian and screenwriter
  • July 7
    • Kim Jong-chun, South Korean football player
    • Lina Teoh, Malaysian actress, television host and model
    • Bérénice Bejo, Argentine actress
    • Hamish Linklater, American actor and playwright
    • Natasha Collins, English actress and model (d. 2008)
  • July 8
    • Ellen MacArthur, English yachtswoman
    • Josh Taumalolo, Tongan rugby union player
    • Grettell Valdez, Mexican television and film actress and fashion model[21]
  • July 9
    • Fred Savage, American actor and director
    • Arturo Carmona, Mexican actor
    • Elliot Cowan, English actor
  • July 10
    • Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
    • Adrian Grenier, American actor, musician and director
  • July 11 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player
  • July 12
    • Anna Friel, English actress
    • Tracie Spencer, American R&B singer
  • July 13 – Lisa Riley, British actress and presenter
  • July 14 – Geraint Jones, Papua New Guinea cricketer
  • July 15
    • Diane Kruger, German actress
    • Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist
    • Jim Jones, American rapper, member of hip hop group The Diplomats
    • Gabriel Iglesias, American actor, voice actor and comedian
    • Leslie Mahaffy, Canadian murder victim (d. 1991)
  • July 16
    • John Ovia, Papua New Guinean cricketer
    • Zak Smith, American artist and adult film performer
    • Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
    • Bobby Lashley, American professional wrestler
  • July 17
    • Luke Bryan, American country music singer-songwriter
    • Marcos Senna, Brazilian footballer
    • Dagmara Domińczyk, Polish-American actress and author
    • Matt Holmes, Australian actor
    • Eric Winter, American actor and fashion model
    • Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress and model
  • July 19
    • Diether Ocampo, Filipino actor, singer and model
    • Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor[22]
    • Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer
  • July 20
    • Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
    • Annie Man, Hong Kong actress
  • July 21
    • Jaime Murray, English actress
    • Kang Sung-yeon, South Korean actress
  • July 23 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
  • July 24
    • Tiago Monteiro, Portuguese Formula One driver
    • Johnny McDaid, Irish musician, songwriter and music producer
    • Rashida Tlaib, American politician and lawyer
  • July 25 – Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen bard
  • July 26 – Martha Roby, American politician
  • July 27
    • Scott Mason, Australian cricketer (d. 2005)
    • Fernando Ricksen, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2019)
  • July 28 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer
  • July 31 – Rod Monroe, American football player (d. 2017)

August
Iván Duque Márquez
Sam Worthington
Alexander Skarsgård
Scott Caan
Alex O'Loughlin
Sarah Chalke
  • August 1
    • Don Hertzfeldt, American animator
    • Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
    • Iván Duque Márquez, Colombian politician, 33rd President of Colombia
    • Amar Upadhyay, Indian television actor and model
  • August 2 – Sam Worthington, English-born Australian actor
  • August 3 – Sarah Kendall, Australian-born comedian
  • August 4
    • Paul Goldstein, American tennis player[23]
    • David Lewis, Canadian actor
  • August 5 – Napoleon Beazley, juvenile offender (d. 2002)
  • August 6
    • Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
    • Soleil Moon Frye, American actress, director and screenwriter
    • Melissa George, Australian actress
    • Travis Kalanick, American businessman and computer programmer; co-founder of Uber
  • August 8
    • JC Chasez, American singer ('N Sync)
    • Drew Lachey, American singer (98 Degrees)
  • August 9
    • Jessica Capshaw, American actress
    • Aled Haydn Jones, Welsh radio producer and presenter
    • Mark Priestley, Australian actor (d. 2008)
    • Audrey Tautou, French actress
  • August 11 – Will Friedle, American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
  • August 12
    • Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock guitarist
    • Lina Rafn, Danish singer
  • August 14 – Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
  • August 15
  • August 16 – Kadri Rämmeld, Estonian actress
  • August 18
    • Lee Seung-yeop, South Korean baseball player
    • Bryan Volpenhein, American rower[24]
  • August 23 – Scott Caan, American actor
  • August 24
    • Alex O'Loughlin, Australian actor
    • Yang Yang, Chinese short track skater
  • August 25 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
  • August 26 – Mike Colter, American actor
  • August 27
    • Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
    • Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player
    • Mark Webber, Australian racing driver
  • August 29 – Luana Piovani, Brazilian actress and model
  • August 30 – Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer
  • August 31 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer

September
Naomie Harris
Robin Atkin Downes
Alison Sweeney
Jon Bernthal
Emma de Caunes
Ronaldo

October
Seann William Scott
Alicia Silverstone
Ramzan Kadyrov
Emily Deschanel
Ryan Reynolds
  • Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d. 2022)
  • October 1
    • Danielle Bisutti, American actress and singer
    • Giuliana Jakobeit, German voice actress
  • October 2 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
  • October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor and producer
  • October 4
  • October 5
    • Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic
    • Mauro Colagreco, Italian Argentine chef
    • Matt Hamill, American mixed martial arts fighter
  • October 6
    • Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
    • Barbie Shu, Taiwanese actress and singer
  • October 7
  • October 8 – Peter Stickles, American actor
  • October 9
    • Sam Riegel, American voice actor and director
    • Nick Swardson, American actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter
  • October 10
    • Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
    • Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
  • October 11 – Emily Deschanel, American actress
  • October 14 – Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
  • October 15 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress
  • October 18 – Galder, Norwegian musician
  • October 19
    • Joe Duplantier, French musician
    • Ryuji Imada, Japanese golfer
    • Dan Smith, Canadian ice-hockey player
    • Michael Young, American baseball player
    • Desmond Harrington, American actor
    • Omar Gooding, American actor
  • October 20
    • Dan Fogler, American actor, comedian and writer
    • Plamen Goranov, Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader (d. 2013)
  • October 21
    • Jeremy Miller, American actor
    • Lavinia Miloșovici, Romanian artistic gymnast
    • Andrew Scott, Irish actor
  • October 23
    • Cat Deeley, British television presenter
    • Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
  • October 25 – Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
  • October 26
    • Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
    • Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater
    • Thurop Van Orman, American animator and voice actor
    • Florence Kasumba, Ugandan-born German actress
  • October 29 – Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
  • October 31 – Piper Perabo, American actress

November
Sebastian Arcelus
Jack Dorsey
Jaleel White
Chadwick Boseman
Anna Faris
  • November 1
    • Chad Lindberg, American actor
    • Sam Presti, American basketball executive, general manager of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder since 2007
  • November 2 – Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper
  • November 5
    • Oleh Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer
    • Sean Brown, Canadian ice-hockey player
    • Sebastian Arcelus, American actor
  • November 6
    • Pat Tillman, American football player, victim of friendly fire (d. 2004)
    • Troy Hambrick, American football player
    • Wiley Wiggins, American actor
    • Sal Vulcano, American actor
  • November 7 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
  • November 8 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
  • November 9
    • Josh Kaufman, American singer-songwriter, winner of The Voice season 6
    • Federica De Bortoli, Italian voice actress
  • November 11 – Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
  • November 12
    • Tevin Campbell, American singer and actor
    • Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
  • November 17 – Diane Neal, American actress
  • November 18 – Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir)
  • November 19
    • Jack Dorsey, American software architect, businessman, co-founder of Twitter
    • Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
    • Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete (d. 2007)
  • November 20
    • Dominique Dawes, African-American Olympic gymnast
    • Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
    • Laura Harris, Canadian actress
  • November 22
  • November 24
    • Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
    • Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • November 25
  • November 26 – Maia Campbell, American actress and singer
  • November 27 – Jaleel White, African-American actor
  • November 28 – Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor and comedian
  • November 29
    • Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright (d. 2020)
    • Anna Faris, American actress
    • Ehren McGhehey, American stunt performer and actor

December
Dominic Monaghan
Armin van Buuren
Joe Manganiello
Danny McBride
  • December 1
  • December 3
    • Cornelius Griffin, American football player
    • Marcos Denner, Brazilian footballer
  • December 4 – Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (d. 1997)
  • December 5
    • Amy Acker, American actress
    • Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
  • December 6 – Alicia Machado, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss Universe 1996
  • December 7
    • Mark Duplass, American actor, screenwriter and director
    • Georges Laraque, Canadian ice-hockey player
    • Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model
  • December 8
    • Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician
    • Dominic Monaghan, English-German actor
  • December 13
    • Mark Paston, New Zealand footballer
    • Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
  • December 14 – Leland Chapman, American bail bondsman
  • December 15 – Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
  • December 17
    • Takeo Spikes, American football player
    • Dan Hageman, American screenwriter and television producer
  • December 18
    • Antti Koivumäki, Finnish poet and keyboardist (Aavikko) (d. 2002)
    • Koyuki, Japanese actress
  • December 21 – Mirela Maniani, Greek javelin thrower
  • December 23
    • Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
    • Amjad Sabri, Pakistani Qawwali singer (d. 2016)
    • Christopher Pizzey, English actor and comedian
  • December 24 – Ángel Matos, Cuban taekwondo athlete
  • December 25
  • December 26
    • Nadia Litz, Canadian actress and producer
    • Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey (d. 1999)
  • December 27 – Fernando Pisani, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • December 28 – Joe Manganiello, American actor
  • December 28 - Deddy Corbuzier, Indonesian actor, YouTuber and magician.
  • December 29 – Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer
  • December 31 – Ceza, Turkish rapper
  • December 31
    • Vanessa Kerry, American physician and health care administrator
    • Chris Terrio, American film director/screenwriter

Date unknown
  • Pedro X. Molina, Nicaraguan caricaturist[27]
  • Birgit C. Muller, Austrian fashion designer, producer and philanthropist

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

January
Agatha Christie
Paul Robeson

February
Sal Mineo
Florence Ballard

March
Luchino Visconti
Bernard Montgomery
  • March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
  • March 5
    • Charles Lederer, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1910)
    • Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander (b. 1889)
  • March 6 – Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1907)
  • March 8 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
  • March 10 – Haddon Sundblom, Swedish illustrator and American artist (b. 1899)
  • March 14 – Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
  • March 17 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906)
  • March 19 – Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
  • March 21 – Vladimir Peter "Spider" Sabich, American alpine pro ski racing champion (1971, 1972), Olympic skier (1968 Winter Olympics) and homicide victim (b. 1945)
  • March 24
  • March 25 – Josef Albers, German-American artist (b. 1888)
  • March 28 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1899)
  • March 31 – Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)

April
Howard Hughes
Phil Ochs

May
Martin Heidegger

June
J. Paul Getty
Sybil Thorndike
  • June 2
    • Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Egyptian diplomat and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the Arab League (b. 1893)
    • Juan José Torres, Bolivian politician and military leader, 50th President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
  • June 6
    • J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founder of Getty Oil (b. 1892)
    • David Jacobs, Welsh Olympic athlete (b. 1888)
    • Fuad Stephens, Malaysian politician (b. 1920)
    • Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
  • June 7
    • Bobby Hackett, American jazz musician (b. 1915)
    • Shigetarō Shimada, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (b. 1883)
  • June 9 – Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (b. 1882)
  • June 10 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
  • June 11 – Toots Mondt, American WWF promoter (b. 1886)
  • June 12 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam and 1st Vice President of South Vietnam (b. 1908)
  • June 16 – Hector Pieterson, South African activist (b. 1963)
  • June 17 – Richard Casey, Australian statesman and diplomat (b. 1890)
  • June 24 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
  • June 27 – C. Wade McClusky, United States Navy admiral (b. 1902)
  • June 28 - Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer (b. 1928)

July
Zhu De
Gustav Heinemann

August
Fritz Lang

September
Mao Zedong

October
Barbara Nichols

November
Rosalind Russell

December
João Goulart

Nobel Prizes

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