1997

1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1997th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 997th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1990s decade.

From left, clockwise: The movie set of Titanic, the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner land on Mars; flowers left outside Kensington Palace following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris.
Millennium: 2nd millennium
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1997 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1997
MCMXCVII
Ab urbe condita2750
Armenian calendar1446
ԹՎ ՌՆԽԶ
Assyrian calendar6747
Baháʼí calendar153–154
Balinese saka calendar1918–1919
Bengali calendar1404
Berber calendar2947
British Regnal year45 Eliz. 2  46 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2541
Burmese calendar1359
Byzantine calendar7505–7506
Chinese calendar丙子年 (Fire Rat)
4693 or 4633
     to 
丁丑年 (Fire Ox)
4694 or 4634
Coptic calendar1713–1714
Discordian calendar3163
Ethiopian calendar1989–1990
Hebrew calendar5757–5758
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2053–2054
 - Shaka Samvat1918–1919
 - Kali Yuga5097–5098
Holocene calendar11997
Igbo calendar997–998
Iranian calendar1375–1376
Islamic calendar1417–1418
Japanese calendarHeisei 9
(平成9年)
Javanese calendar1929–1930
Juche calendar86
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4330
Minguo calendarROC 86
民國86年
Nanakshahi calendar529
Thai solar calendar2540
Tibetan calendar阳火鼠年
(male Fire-Rat)
2123 or 1742 or 970
     to 
阴火牛年
(female Fire-Ox)
2124 or 1743 or 971
Unix time852076800 – 883612799

Events

January

February

  • February 4
    • On their way to Lebanon, two Israeli troop-transport helicopters collide, killing all 73 on board.[4][5]
    • After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
    • A magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes North Khorasan province, Iran, killing 88 people and injuring 1,948.[6]
  • February 10 – Sandline affair: Australian newspapers publish stories that the government of Papua New Guinea has brought mercenaries onto Bougainville Island.
  • February 13STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle Discovery.[7]
  • February 28 – North Hollywood shootout: Two robbers, wearing kevlar body armor, and armed with AK-47s containing armor-piercing bullets, injure 17 police officers and civilians in a gun battle. The incident sparks debate on the appropriate firepower for United States patrol officers to have available in similar situations in the future.

March

  • March 4 – U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federal funding for any research on human cloning.
  • March 7 – In Sri Lanka, the Tamil Tigers overrun a military base and kill over 100 Sri Lankan troops.
  • March 13
  • March 14 – A study of gender reassignment of a boy who lost his penis to a botched circumcision is refuted by a follow-up study. The supposedly successful outcome had been widely cited as proof that gender was determined by nurture, yet the patient, David Reimer, was deeply unhappy and had returned to his original gender by the age of 15, thus indicating the opposite thesis.[8]
  • March 16 – Sandline affair: On Bougainville Island, soldiers of commander Jerry Singirok arrest Tim Spicer and his mercenaries of the Sandline International.
  • March 18 – The tail of a Russian An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey, causing the plane to crash, killing all 50 on board, and resulting in the grounding of all An-24s.
  • March 21 – In Zaire, Étienne Tshisekedi is appointed prime minister; he ejects supporters of Mobutu Sese Seko from his cabinet.
  • March 22 – The Comet Hale–Bopp makes its closest approach to Earth.
  • March 24 – The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with The English Patient winning Best Picture. During the event, the DVD format is launched in the United States.
  • March 2426 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.
  • March 26 – Julius Chan resigns as prime minister of Papua New Guinea, effectively ending the Sandline affair.[9]

April

  • April 3 – The Thalit massacre in Algeria: all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas.
  • April 14
    • Fire breaks out in a pilgrim camp on the Plain of Mena, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) from Mecca; 343 die.
    • Former S.S. Captain Erich Priebke is retried; on July 22 he is sentenced to fifteen years in prison.[10]
  • April 18 – The Red River of the North breaks through dikes and floods Grand Forks, North Dakota, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota, causing US$2 billion in damage.
  • April 21 – A Pegasus rocket carries the remains of 24 people into earth orbit, in the first space burial.
  • April 22
    • Haouch Khemisti massacre: 93 villagers are killed in Algeria.
    • A 126-day hostage crisis at the residence of the Japanese ambassador in Lima, Peru.
  • April 23 – 42 villagers are killed in the Omaria massacre in Algeria.
  • April 29
    • The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), CWC treaty enters into force.
    • Two trains crash at Hunan, China; 126 are killed.

May

June

July

  • July – The 1997 Central European flood occurs across Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic.
  • July 1 – The United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.
  • July 2 – The Bank of Thailand floats the baht, triggering the Asian financial crisis.
  • July 4NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
  • July 5
    • In Cambodia, Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party overthrows Norodom Ranariddh in a coup.
    • The Egyptian Islamic Group announces a cessation-of-violence initiative.
  • July 8NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.
  • July 10 – In London, scientists report their DNA analysis findings from a Neanderthal skeleton, which support the out of Africa theory of human evolution, placing an "African Eve" at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.
  • July 11Thailand's worst hotel fire at Pattaya kills 90.
  • July 13 – The remains of Che Guevara are returned to Cuba for burial, alongside some of his comrades. Guevara and his comrades were executed on October 9 1967 in Bolivia.
  • July 15 – Spree killer Andrew Cunanan shoots fashion designer Gianni Versace dead outside Versace's Miami Beach residence.
  • July 17 – The F. W. Woolworth Company closes after 117 years in business.
  • July 25K. R. Narayanan is sworn in as India's 10th president and the first member of the Dalit caste to hold this office.
  • July 27 – About 50 are killed in the Si Zerrouk massacre in Algeria.
  • July 30 – 18 people are killed in the Thredbo landslide in the Snowy Mountains resort in Australia.

August

  • August 1Boeing and McDonnell Douglas complete a merger.
  • August 3 – Between 40 and 76 villagers are killed in the Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria.
  • August 311 – Two of the three islands of the Union of the ComorosAnjouan and Mohéli – attempt to revert to colonial rule by France. The plan fails when the French government of President Jacques Chirac refuses to recolonize them, resulting in the two islands being reintegrated into the Comoros over the next two years.
  • August 6 – Korean Air Flight 801 crash lands west of Guam International Airport, resulting in the deaths of 228 people.
  • August 20 – More than 60 are killed, 15 kidnapped in the Souhane massacre in Algeria.
  • August 26
    • 60–100 are killed in the Beni Ali massacre in Algeria.
    • The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning is set up in Northern Ireland, as part of a peace process.
  • August 29 – Over 98 (and possibly up to 400) are killed in the Rais massacre in Algeria.
  • August 31 – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales: Diana, Princess of Wales is taken to a hospital after a car accident shortly after midnight, in the Pont de l'Alma road tunnel in Paris. She is pronounced dead at 4:00 am.[14]

September

The funeral cortege of Diana, Princess of Wales, en route to Westminster Abbey from Kensington Palace.

October

  • October 2 – British scientists Moira Bruce and John Collinge, with their colleagues, independently show that the new variant form of the Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is the same disease as Bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
  • October 3 – President of Paraguay, Juan Carlos Wasmosy, orders the arrest of political opponent Lino Oviedo.
  • October 4 – Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery: The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history ($17.3 million, mostly in small bills) occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Wells Fargo. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the stolen cash.
  • October 10 – Uruguay's worst air disaster occurs when Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes near Nuevo Berlín, killing all 74 on board.[17]
  • October 12 – Sidi Daoud massacre: 43 are killed at a false roadblock in Algeria.
  • October 15
    • Andy Green sets the first supersonic land speed record for the ThrustSSC team, led by Richard Noble of the UK. ThrustSSC goes through the flying mile course at Black Rock Desert, Nevada at an average speed of 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph).
    • NASA launches the Cassini–Huygens probe to Saturn.
  • October 16 – The first color photograph appears on the front page of The New York Times.
  • October 17 – The remains of Che Guevara are laid to rest with full military honours in a specially built mausoleum in the city of Santa Clara, Cuba, where he had won the decisive battle of the Cuban Revolution 39 years before.
  • October 22 – Danish escaped criminal Steen Christensen robs the Hotel Palace in Helsinki, Finland, killing two police officers while evading capture.[18][19]
  • October 29 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq says it will begin shooting down Lockheed U-2 surveillance planes being used by UNSCOM inspectors.

November

December

Date unknown

  • The Toyota Prius, the first hybrid vehicle to go into full production, is unveiled in Japan on October 24, and goes on sale in Japan on December 9. It comes to U.S. showrooms on July 11, 2000.[20]

Births

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

January

Cody Simpson
Connor McDavid
Elvira Herman
Jeremy Shada
  • January 1
    • Chidozie Awaziem, Nigerian footballer[21]
    • Chloé Dygert, American professional cyclist[22]
  • January 2 – Gabriel Carlsson, Swedish ice hockey player[23]
  • January 4 – Pauline Schäfer, German gymnast[24]
  • January 5 – Mikhail Vorobyev, Russian ice hockey player[25]
  • January 7 – Lamar Jackson, American football player[26]
  • January 9 – Elvira Herman, Belarusian athlete[27]
  • January 11 – Cody Simpson, Australian singer-songwriter[28]
  • January 12 – Felix Sandström, Swedish ice hockey player[29]
  • January 13
    • Egan Bernal, Colombian road bicycle racer[30]
    • Connor McDavid, Canadian ice hockey player[31]
  • January 14 – Francesco Bagnaia, Italian motorcycle racer
  • January 15 – Valentina Zenere, Argentine actress, model, and singer
  • January 17 – Jake Paul, American boxer, actor and social media personality[32]
  • January 18 – Denis Malgin, Swiss ice hockey player[33]
  • January 20 – Blueface, American rapper
  • January 21
    • Jeremy Shada, American actor, voice actor, singer and musician
    • Ilia Topuria, German-Georgian mixed martial artist[34]
    • Yang Yang, Chinese paralympic swimmer
  • January 22 – Kole Sherwood, American ice hockey player[35]
  • January 23
    • Sophie Hahn, English paralympic sprinter[36]
    • Lexie Priessman, American artistic gymnast
    • Ramadan Sobhi, Egyptian footballer
    • Gudaf Tsegay, Ethiopian middle-distance runner
  • January 25 – Noah Hanifin, American ice hockey player[37]
  • January 26 – Gedion Zelalem, American soccer player[38]
  • January 28 – Jeffrey Viel, Canadian ice hockey player[39]
  • January 29
    • Joel Eriksson Ek, Swedish ice hockey player
    • Jack Roslovic, American ice hockey player[40]
  • January 30 – Shim Suk-hee, South Korean speed skater[41]

February

Chloë Grace Moretz
Isabelle Fuhrman
  • February 2 – Jaheel Hyde, Jamaican sprinter[42]
  • February 8 – Kathryn Newton, American actress
  • February 10
    • Josh Jackson, American basketball player[43]
    • Lilly King, American swimmer[44]
    • Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress[45]
    • Rozaliya Nasretdinova, Russian swimmer
  • February 11 – Rosé, New Zealand singer
  • February 14
    • Jaehyun, South Korean singer and actor
    • Breel Embolo, Swiss footballer
  • February 22 – Anton Chupkov, Russian swimmer
  • February 23
    • Érick Aguirre, Mexican footballer
    • Jamal Murray, Canadian basketball player[46]
  • February 24 – César Montes, Mexican footballer
  • February 25
    • Isabelle Fuhrman, American actress
    • Santiago Ascacíbar, Argentinian footballer
    • Katsiaryna Halkina, Belarusian rhythmic gymnast
  • February 26 – Zheng Siwei, Chinese badminton player

March

Becky G
Camila Cabello
Simone Biles
Katie Ledecky
  • March 2 – Becky G, American singer[47]
  • March 3
    • Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer
    • Jaime Carreño, Chilean footballer
    • David Neres, Brazilian footballer
  • March 4 – Matisse Thybulle, American basketball player
  • March 6 – Alisha Boe, Norwegian actress
  • March 8
    • Irene Ekelund, Swedish sprinter
    • Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer
  • March 10 – Belinda Bencic, Swiss tennis player
  • March 13 – Rúben Neves, Portuguese footballer
  • March 14
    • Simone Biles, American gymnast
    • Dawid Kownacki, Polish footballer
    • Harrie Lavreysen, Dutch track cyclist
  • March 17
    • Konrad Bukowiecki, Polish athlete
    • Katie Ledecky, American swimmer[48]
  • March 18
    • Ciara Bravo, American actress, voice artist, singer, and comedian
    • Mario Burke, Barbadian sprinter
  • March 19 – Rūta Meilutytė, Lithuanian swimmer
  • March 20 – Bobby Cheng, Australian chess champion
  • March 21 – Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress, singer, dancer, and model
  • March 22 – Harry Wilson, Welsh footballer
  • March 23 – Thiago Maia, Brazilian footballer
  • March 27
    • A-Reece, South African hip hop artist
    • Lisa, Thai rapper, singer, dancer, and model
  • March 30
    • Gideon Adlon, American actress
    • Cha Eun-woo, South Korean singer[49]
    • Shervin Hajipour, Iranian singer[50]

April

Asa Butterfield
Maisie Williams
Alexander Zverev
  • April 1 – Asa Butterfield, English actor
  • April 3 – Gabriel Jesus, Brazilian footballer
  • April 6 – Pavel Zacha, Czech ice hockey player
  • April 8 – Roquan Smith, American football player
  • April 9 – Michael Špaček, Czech ice hockey player
  • April 10 – Alla Sosnitskaya, Russian artistic gymnast
  • April 11
    • Max Clegg, English speedway racer
    • Mélovin, Ukrainian singer-songwriter
  • April 12 – Katelyn Ohashi, American artistic gymnast
  • April 14 – D. J. Moore, American football player
  • April 15
    • Jesse Little, American stock car racing driver
    • Maisie Williams, English actress
  • April 16 – Daniel Rioli, Australian rules footballer
  • April 18
    • Donny van de Beek, Dutch footballer
    • Matthias Blübaum, German chess grandmaster
  • April 19 – Malcolm Perry, American football player[51]
  • April 20 – Alexander Zverev, German tennis player
  • April 21 – Mikel Oyarzabal, Spanish footballer
  • April 23
    • Zach Apple, American swimmer[52]
    • Kim Hae-jin, South Korean figure skater
    • Peng Cheng, Chinese figure skater[53]
  • April 24
    • Kirill Aleshin, Russian ice dancer
    • Arturo Deliser, Panamanian sprinter
    • Lydia Ko, South Korean-born New Zealand golfer
    • Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player
  • April 26 – Moritz Wagner, German basketball player
  • April 27 – Livio Loi, Belgian motorcycle racer
  • April 28 – Denzel Ward, American football player
  • April 29 – Ekaterina Baturina, Russian artistic gymnast
  • April 30 – T. J. Leaf, American basketball player[54]

May

Youri Tielemans
Ousmane Dembélé
Jake Short
  • May 2
    • BamBam, Thai singer
    • Blake Rutherford, American baseball first baseman and outfielder
  • May 3
    • Desiigner, American hip hop artist
    • Ivana Jorović, Serbian tennis player
  • May 4
    • Nicolas Prattes, Brazilian actor
    • Jon Teske, American basketball player
    • Ben Dolic, Slovenian singer
  • May 5 – Mitch Marner, Canadian ice hockey player[55]
  • May 6 – Duncan Scott, Scottish swimmer[56]
  • May 7
    • Daria Kasatkina, Russian tennis player
    • Youri Tielemans, Belgian footballer
    • Rico Nasty, American rapper and singer
  • May 10
    • Richarlison, Brazilian footballer
    • Enes Ünal, Turkish footballer
  • May 11 – Lana Condor, American actress and dancer
  • May 12
    • Frenkie de Jong, Dutch footballer
    • Morgan Lake, English athlete
    • Odeya Rush, Israeli-born American actress
  • May 14 – Manushi Chhillar, Indian model, actress and Miss World 2017
  • May 15 – Ousmane Dembélé, French footballer
  • May 19
    • Oliver Kylington, Swedish ice hockey player
    • Víctor Robles, Dominican baseball outfielder
  • May 21 – Kevin Quinn, American actor
  • May 22 – Lauri Markkanen, Finnish basketball player
  • May 23 – Joe Gomez, English footballer
  • May 26 – Julian Yee, Malaysian figure skater
  • May 27 – Daron Payne, American football player
  • May 30 – Jake Short, American actor
  • May 31 – Cupcakke, American rapper

June

John Hunter Nemechek
Madison Kocian
KJ Apa
Shannon Purser
  • June 1 – Youssef En-Nesyri, Moroccan footballer
  • June 5
    • Sam Darnold, American football quarterback
    • Henry Onyekuru, Nigerian footballer
  • June 7 – David Montgomery, American football player[57]
  • June 8 – Jeļena Ostapenko, Latvian tennis player
  • June 9 – Shen Duo, Chinese swimmer
  • June 10 – Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, Ukrainian basketball player
  • June 11
    • Kodak Black, American hip-hop artist
    • Julia Lavrentieva, Ukrainian pair skater
    • John Hunter Nemechek, American stock car racing driver
    • Jorja Smith, English singer
  • June 13
    • Katie Lou Samuelson, American basketball player
    • Yuta Watanabe, Japanese badminton player
  • June 15 – Madison Kocian, American artistic gymnast
  • June 17 – KJ Apa, New Zealand actor
  • June 21
    • Rebecca Black, American singer
    • Derrius Guice, American football player
  • June 22
    • Lorenzo Dalla Porta, Italian motorcycle racer
    • Dinah Jane, American singer
  • June 23
    • Chen Qingchen, Chinese badminton player
    • Antoine Olivier Pilon, French-Canadian actor
  • June 25
    • Rodrigo Bentancur, Uruguayan footballer
    • Bassem Srarfi, Tunisian footballer
  • June 27
    • H.E.R., American singer
    • Shannon Purser, American actress
  • June 28 – Shakur Stevenson, American boxer
  • June 29 – Jia Yifan, Chinese badminton player
  • June 30
    • Avika Gor, Indian actress
    • Iryna Shymanovich, Russian tennis player

July

Malala Yousafzai
Noah Lyles
Cailee Spaeny
Finneas O'Connell
  • July 1 – Grigoriy Oparin, Russian chess grandmaster
  • July 2 – Marquese Chriss, American basketball player
  • July 3 – Georgios Papagiannis, Greek basketball player
  • July 4
    • Daniela Nieves, Venezuelan-American actress
    • Jason Spevack, Canadian actor and filmmaker
  • July 8 – Bryce Love, American football player and sprinter
  • July 10
    • Ebba Andersson, Swedish cross-country skier[58]
    • Marilena Kirchner, German volksmusik and schlager singer[59]
  • July 12 – Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist and Nobel Prize laureate[60]
  • July 13 – Leo Howard, American actor and martial artist
  • July 14 – Cengiz Ünder, Turkish footballer
  • July 17 – Amadou Diawara, Guinese footballer
  • July 18
    • Bam Adebayo, American basketball player
    • Chiara Kreuzer, Austrian ski jumper
    • Kwon Jin-ah, South Korean singer
    • Noah Lyles, American sprinter
    • Fionn Whitehead, English actor
  • July 19
    • Kang Young-seo, South Korean alpine skier
    • Zach Werenski, American ice hockey player
  • July 22 – Field Cate, American actor
  • July 24
    • Emre Mor, Turkish footballer
    • Cailee Spaeny, American actress and singer
    • Andreas Varady, Slovak jazz guitarist
  • July 25 – Kayli Barker, American racing driver
  • July 26 – Ewa Swoboda, Polish track and field sprinter
  • July 27 – Craig Wighton, Scottish footballer
  • July 28 – Bilal Ould-Chikh, Dutch-Moroccan footballer
  • July 30
    • Teófimo López, American boxer[61]
    • Finneas O'Connell, American musician and actor

August

Olivia Holt
Adam Irigoyen
Wang Yibo
Kylie Jenner
Greyson Chance
  • August 1
    • Kévin Aymoz, French figure skater[62]
    • Yomif Kejelcha, Ethiopian long-distance runner
  • August 2
    • Ke Jie, Chinese professional go player
    • Triston McKenzie, American baseball pitcher
    • Christina Robinson, American actress
  • August 3
    • Daniel Crowley, English footballer
    • Ronald Jones II, American football player
  • August 4 – Cinzia Zehnder, Swiss footballer
  • August 5
    • Braxton Garrett, American baseball pitcher
    • Olivia Holt, American actress and singer
    • Adam Irigoyen, American actor
    • Laura Waem, Belgian artistic gymnast
  • August 6 – Sander Svendsen, Norwegian footballer
  • August 7 – Kyler Murray, American football player
  • August 9 – Leon Bailey, Jamaican footballer
  • August 10 – Kylie Jenner, American reality television personality
  • August 16
    • Greyson Chance, American singer, songwriter and pianist[63]
    • Piper Curda, American actress
  • August 18
    • Josephine Langford, Australian actress[64]
    • Renato Sanches, Portuguese footballer
  • August 19 – Maria Titova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
  • August 22 – Lautaro Martínez, Argentine footballer
  • August 23 – Lil Yachty, American rapper, singer and songwriter
  • August 24 – Alan Walker, British-Norwegian music producer
  • August 25
    • Bryana Salaz, American singer and actress
    • Markus Thormeyer, Canadian swimmer
    • Mike Weber, American football player
  • August 28
    • Bazzi, American singer-songwriter
    • Emilia McCarthy, Canadian actress
  • August 29 – Ainsley Maitland-Niles, English footballer
  • August 30 – Dana Gaier, American actress

September

Jeon Jung-Kook
Jonatan Christie
Auston Matthews
Max Verstappen
  • September 1
    • Jungkook, South Korean singer, member of BTS
    • Maria Stavitskaia, Russian figure skater
  • September 2 – Brandon Ingram, American basketball player
  • September 3
    • Hana Kimura, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2020)
    • Salome Pazhava, Georgian rhythmic gymnast
  • September 6
    • Mallory Comerford, American swimmer
    • Tsukushi, Japanese wrestler
  • September 7 – Dean-Charles Chapman, English actor
  • September 12
    • Almida de Val, Swedish curler[65]
    • Sydney Sweeney, American actress
  • September 13 – Leah Keiser, American figure skater
  • September 14 – Benjamin Ingrosso, Swedish singer-songwriter
  • September 15
    • Jonatan Christie, Indonesian badminton player
    • Forrest Whitley, American baseball pitcher
  • September 16
    • Zsanett Kaján, Hungarian footballer
    • Elena Kampouris, American actress
    • Jackie Young, American basketball player
  • September 17
    • Luke Greenbank, British swimmer
    • Guan Xiaotong, Chinese actress
    • Auston Matthews, American ice hockey player
  • September 18 – Alisson Perticheto, Filipina figure skater
  • September 20 – Aurélie Fanchette, Seychellois swimmer
  • September 23 – John Collins, American basketball player
  • September 24 – Malaya Watson, American singer and tuba player
  • September 30
    • Yana Kudryavtseva, Russian rhythmic gymnast
    • Max Verstappen, Dutch racing driver

October

Naomi Osaka
Marcus Rashford
  • October 1 – Jade Bird, English singer-songwriter
  • October 2 – Tammy Abraham, English footballer
  • October 3
    • Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater
    • Jonathan Isaac, American professional basketball player
    • Jo-Ane van Dyk, South African javelin thrower
  • October 4 – Seamus O'Connor, Irish snowboarder
  • October 6
    • Kasper Dolberg, Danish footballer
    • Tsao Chih-i, Taiwanese figure skater
  • October 7 – Kira Kosarin, American actress and singer
  • October 8
    • Steven Bergwijn, Dutch footballer
    • Bella Thorne, American actress and singer
  • October 9 – Angelica Moser, Swiss athlete
  • October 10 – Grace Rolek, American actress
  • October 16
    • Charles Leclerc, Monégasque racing driver
    • Naomi Osaka, Japanese tennis player
  • October 24
    • Claudia Fragapane, British artistic gymnast
    • Park So-youn, South Korean figure skater
  • October 25 – Federico Chiesa, Italian footballer
  • October 27
    • Lonzo Ball, American basketball player
    • Li Meiyi, Chinese pair skater
  • October 28 – Sierra McCormick, American actress
  • October 29 – Ale Müller, Mexican actress and singer
  • October 31
    • Sydney Park, American actress and comedian
    • Marcus Rashford, English footballer

November

Max Burkholder
Alex Wolff
Stratos Iordanoglou
  • November 1
    • Max Burkholder, American actor
    • Alex Wolff, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
  • November 3 – Lázaro Martínez, Cuban triple jumper
  • November 4
    • Bea Binene, Filipino actress
    • Stratos Iordanoglou, Greek basketball player
  • November 6 – Hero Fiennes Tiffin, English actor and model
  • November 10 – Daniel James, English-born Welsh footballer
  • November 17 – Jacob Eason, American football player
  • November 18 - Micheal Ward, Jamaican-born English actor and former model
  • November 19 – Rachel Parsons, American ice dancer[66]
  • November 23 – Akari Takeuchi, Japanese singer
  • November 26 – Aubrey Joseph, American actor and rapper
  • November 29
    • Agata Kryger, Polish figure skater
    • Ye Qiuyu, Chinese tennis player
  • November 30 – Liu Huixia, Chinese diver

December

Taylor Hickson
Zara Larsson
Vachirawit Chiva-aree
  • December 3 – Rashan Gary, American football linebacker
  • December 5
    • Khaleel Ahmed, Indian cricketer
    • Clara Rugaard, Danish actress and singer
    • Sophie Simnett, English actress
  • December 8 – Ilaria Käslin, Swiss artistic gymnast
  • December 11 – Taylor Hickson, Canadian actress and singer
  • December 14 – DK Metcalf, American football wide receiver[67]
  • December 15 – Magdalena Fręch, Polish tennis player
  • December 16
    • Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter
    • Bassam Al-Rawi, Iraqi-born Qatari footballer
  • December 17
    • Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater
    • Gabrielle Camille Basiano, Filipino model and beauty pageant titleholder
  • December 18 – Ronald Acuña Jr., Venezuelan baseball outfielder
  • December 20
    • De'Aaron Fox, American basketball player[68]
    • Suzuka Nakamoto, Japanese singer
  • December 21 – Charlie McAvoy, American ice hockey player[69]
  • December 22 – Taylor Rapp, American football player
  • December 23
    • Luka Jović, Serbian footballer
    • Park Yoo-na, South Korean actress[70]
  • December 24 – Oreoluwa Cherebin, Grenadian swimmer
  • December 27
    • Ana Konjuh, Croatian tennis player
    • Zhao Ziquan, Chinese figure skater
    • Vachirawit Chivaaree, Thai actor and singer[71]
  • December 30 – Anastasiya Malyavina, Ukrainian swimmer
    • Enea Bastianini, Italian motorcycle racer

Deaths

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

January

Alexander R. Todd
Charles Brenton Huggins

February

March

Michael Manley
Fred Zinnemann

April

May

Virgilio Barco Vargas
  • May 1 – Bo Widerberg, Swedish film director (b. 1930)
  • May 2
    • John Eccles, Australian neurophysiologist (b. 1903)
    • Paulo Freire, Brazilian educator and philosopher (b. 1921)
  • May 3, Narciso Yepes, Spanish guitarist (b. 1927)
  • May 4 – Wijeyananda Dahanayake, 5th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1901)
  • May 5 – Walter Gotell, German actor (b. 1924)
  • May 13 – Laurie Lee, English author (b. 1914)
  • May 16 – Giuseppe De Santis, Italian film director (b. 1917)
  • May 20 – Virgilio Barco Vargas, 27th President of Colombia (b. 1921)
  • May 22 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist (b. 1908)
  • May 24 – Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
  • May 26 – Manfred von Ardenne, German physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
  • May 29Jeff Buckley, American musician (b. 1966)

June

Brian Keith
  • June 1
    • Robert Serber, American physicist (b. 1909)
    • Nikolai Tikhonov, Soviet-Russian statesman (b. 1905)
  • June 2 – Helen Jacobs, American tennis champion (b. 1908)
  • June 4 – Ronnie Lane, English musician (b. 1946)
  • June 6 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (b. 1915)
  • June 12 – Bulat Okudzhava, Soviet singer (b. 1924)
  • June 14 – Richard Jaeckel, American actor (b. 1926)
  • June 15
    • Edmond Leburton, 42nd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1915)
    • Son Sen, Cambodian politician and criminal (b. 1930)
  • June 18
    • Lev Kopelev, Soviet writer and dissident (b. 1912)
    • Héctor Yazalde, Argentine footballer (b. 1946)
  • June 21 – Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor, singer, producer, and director (b. 1931)
  • June 22 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer, songwriter, and musician (b. 1956)
  • June 23 – Betty Shabazz, American educator and activist (b. 1934)
  • June 24
    • Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
    • Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
  • June 25Jacques Cousteau, French explorer (b. 1910)
  • June 26 – Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, Hawaiian singer (b. 1959)
  • June 29 – William Hickey, American actor (b. 1927)

July

August

September

October

Audra Lindley

November

December

Lillian Disney

Nobel Prizes

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