1983

1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1983rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 983rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 83rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1980s decade.

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1983 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1983
MCMLXXXIII
Ab urbe condita2736
Armenian calendar1432
ԹՎ ՌՆԼԲ
Assyrian calendar6733
Baháʼí calendar139–140
Balinese saka calendar1904–1905
Bengali calendar1390
Berber calendar2933
British Regnal year31 Eliz. 2  32 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2527
Burmese calendar1345
Byzantine calendar7491–7492
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4679 or 4619
     to 
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4680 or 4620
Coptic calendar1699–1700
Discordian calendar3149
Ethiopian calendar1975–1976
Hebrew calendar5743–5744
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2039–2040
 - Shaka Samvat1904–1905
 - Kali Yuga5083–5084
Holocene calendar11983
Igbo calendar983–984
Iranian calendar1361–1362
Islamic calendar1403–1404
Japanese calendarShōwa 58
(昭和58年)
Javanese calendar1915–1916
Juche calendar72
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4316
Minguo calendarROC 72
民國72年
Nanakshahi calendar515
Thai solar calendar2526
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
2109 or 1728 or 956
     to 
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
2110 or 1729 or 957
Unix time410227200 – 441763199

The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet[1] and the first mobile cellular telephone call.

Events

January

February

  • February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of polygamy involving 105 women.
  • February 3Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5, 1983. As Fraser is being granted the dissolution, Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent leadership spill Bob Hawke is elected as Hayden's successor unopposed.
  • February 56 – The team of A. J. Foyt, Preston Henn, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Lena win the 24 hours of Daytona automobile race in a Porsche 935
  • February 6Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.
  • February 8 – The race horse Shergar is stolen from his owner's stud farm in County Kildare, Ireland, by an armed gang.
  • February 12 – 100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women are tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up but are successful in repealing the law.
  • February 13 – Two US Marshals are killed and three lawmen are wounded in a shootout with Gordon Kahl in Medina, North Dakota.
  • February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.
  • February 18
    • The Venezuelan bolívar is devalued and exchange controls are established in an event now referred to as Black Friday by many Venezuelans (the Bolívar had been the most stable and internationally accepted currency).
    • Nellie massacre: Over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
    • Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in the Chinatown area of Seattle, United States.[4]
  • February 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, setting the record for most watched television episode and reaching a total audience estimated at 125 million, which remains unsurpassed.[5]

March

April

May

  • May 6Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).
  • May 11Aberdeen F.C. beat Real Madrid 2–1 (after extra time) to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and become only the third Scottish side to win a European trophy.
  • May 17Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
  • May 20
    • Two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declare that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and publish their findings in the same issue of the journal Science.[8][9]
    • Church Street bombing: A car bombing in Pretoria, South Africa, kills 19 people. The bomb has been planted by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the African National Congress.
  • May 25
  • May 26 – The 7.8 Mw Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
  • May 27 – Benton fireworks disaster. An explosion at an unlicensed and illegal fireworks operation near Benton, Tennessee, kills eleven and injures one. The blast is heard within a radius of 20 miles (32 km).[11]
  • May 28 – The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.

June

July

  • July 1
    • A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
    • A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany.
  • July 15
    • Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.
    • The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.
  • July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
  • July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
  • July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
  • July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation of the world in a helicopter.
  • July 23
  • July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.

August

  • August 1 – America West Airlines begins operations out of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.
  • August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta.
  • August 18
    • Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
    • Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock in the Northern Territory of Australia (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
  • August 21Benigno Aquino Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile.
  • August 26 – Heavy rain triggers flooding at Bilbao, Spain, and surrounding areas, killing 44 people and causing millions in damages.

September

  • September 1Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed, including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.
  • September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
  • September 19Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state.[13]
  • September 23
    • Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb explodes in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
    • Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.[14]
  • September 26
    • 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.
    • The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
    • The Australian yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy.
  • September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

October

November

December

  • December 4
    • United States Navy aviator Lt's. Mark Lange and Bobby Goodman are shot down in an A-6 Intruder over Lebanon and captured by Syrians; Lt. Lange dies of his injuries; Lt. Goodman is released 30 days later after the intervention of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
    • General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984–1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turn out is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes.
    • Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983.
  • December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.
  • December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90.
  • December 9 – The Australian dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke.
  • December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina.
  • December 13 – Turgut Özal, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning a new civilian regime.
  • December 17
    • The Alcalá 20 nightclub fire in Madrid, Spain, injuring 47 and killing 83 people.
    • Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 people and injures 90 outside Harrods department store in London.
  • December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro. As of 2022, the trophy has not been recovered.
  • December 27
  • December 31 – Two bombs explode in France: one on a Paris train kills 3 and injures 19; the other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.

Date unknown

  • I. M. Pei wins the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
  • Zlatko Ugljen receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.
  • Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef/CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.
  • The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event brings severe weather worldwide.
  • The capital of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire is changed from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro.

Births

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

January

Brett Dalton
Chris Masters
Jung Yu-mi
Øystein Pettersen
  • January 2Kate Bosworth, American actress[23]
  • January 4
    • Will Bynum, American basketball player[24]
    • Kerry Condon, Irish actress
  • January 7 – Brett Dalton, American actor[25]
  • January 8
    • Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter
    • Chris Masters, American wrestler
  • January 9 – Gala Évora, Spanish actress
  • January 10 – Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
  • January 12 – Manourou Gakou, French basketball player
  • January 13
    • Imran Khan, Bollywood actor
    • Julian Morris, British actor[26]
    • Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player[27]
  • January 14 – Takako Uehara, Japanese singer
  • January 16
    • Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
    • Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
  • January 18
    • Jung Yu-mi, South Korean actress
    • Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
  • January 19
    • Øystein Pettersen, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
    • Hikaru Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter
  • January 21
    • Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress
    • Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian professional wrestler and glamour model
  • January 23
    • Justyna Kowalczyk, Polish cross-country skier[28]
    • Sarah Tait, Australian rower (d. 2016)
  • January 24
    • Craig Horner, Australian actor[29]
    • Teo, Belarusian singer
  • January 25 – Yasuyuki Konno, Japanese footballer

February

Daiane dos Santos
Selita Ebanks
Aziz Ansari
  • February 2Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete[30]
  • February 3 – Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
  • February 5 – Vanessa Rousso, French-American professional poker player
  • February 6
    • Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
    • Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
  • February 7
    • Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
    • Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer
  • February 8
    • Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
    • Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter (d. 2015)
  • February 10 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian artistic gymnast
  • February 11Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
  • February 12 – Iko Uwais Indonesian pencak silat actor
  • February 15
    • Philipp and David Degen, Swiss footballers
    • Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
  • February 16 – Agyness Deyn, English supermodel
  • February 17
    • Selita Ebanks, Caymanian model
    • Elin Kling, Swedish fashion journalist
    • Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter and record producer
  • February 19
    • Kotoōshū Katsunori (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler
    • Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
    • Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese voice actress
    • Reynhard Sinaga, Indonesian rapist[31]
  • February 20
    • Emad Moteab, Egyptian footballer
    • Justin Verlander, American baseball player[32]
  • February 21 – Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director
  • February 22 – Iliza Shlesinger, American comedian
  • February 23
    • Aziz Ansari, American comedian and actor
    • Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
    • Emily Blunt, English actress
    • Mido, Egyptian footballer
  • February 25Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player
  • February 27
    • Devin Harris, American basketball player
    • Kate Mara, American television and film actress
    • Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
  • February 28 – Linda Király, American-Hungarian singer-songwriter

March

Lupita Nyong'o
Florencia Bertotti
Martin Shkreli
Mo Farah
Ed Skrein
  • March 1 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-born Kenyan-American Academy Award-winning actress
  • March 4
    • Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater
    • Jessica Heap, American actress
  • March 7 – Raquel Alessi, American actress
  • March 9
    • Clint Dempsey, American footballer
    • Maite Perroni, Mexican singer and actress
  • March 10
    • Kyle Marshall, Canadian animator, storyboard artist, director and writer
    • Jonas Olsson, Swedish footballer
    • Rafe Spall, English actor
    • Carrie Underwood, American singer, songwriter, fashion designer and actress
  • March 14
    • Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
    • Taylor Hanson, American musician
  • March 15 – Florencia Bertotti, Argentine actress, singer and producer
  • March 16
    • Stephanie Gatschet, American actress
    • Katie Kim, Irish singer-songwriter
  • March 17
    • Atit Shah, Indian American Hollywood film producer
    • Attila Vajda, Hungarian sprint canoeist
  • March 18
    • Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player[33]
    • Kyle Downes, Canadian-American actor
  • March 19 – Nicole Muirbrook, American actress and model
  • March 20
    • Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer
    • Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish pop singer
  • March 23 – Mo Farah, Somali-born British athlete[34]
  • March 29
    • Ezgi Mola, Turkish actress
    • Ed Skrein, English actor and rapper
  • March 30 – Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer
  • March 31
    • Hashim Amla, South African cricketer
    • Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress, singer and musician

April

Jamie Chung
Matt Cardle
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
  • April 1
    • Matt Lanter, American actor and model
    • Sergey Lazarev, Russian pop-singer
  • April 2 – Yung Joc, American rapper
  • April 4
    • Eric Andre, American comedian, actor, and television host
    • Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
    • Amanda Righetti, American actress and film producer
  • April 6 – Diora Baird, American actress
  • April 7Franck Ribéry, French footballer
  • April 10 – Jamie Chung, American actress
  • April 11 – Joanna Douglas, Canadian actress
  • April 12
    • Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player
    • Judy Marte, American actress and producer
  • April 13 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
  • April 14 – Armando Torrea, Mexican actor
  • April 15
    • Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
    • Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
    • Matt Cardle, British singer[35]
  • April 16 – Alex Antônio de Melo Santos, Brazilian footballer
  • April 18 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player[36]
  • April 20
    • Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish club DJ
    • Miranda Kerr, Australian model
  • April 21
    • Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
    • Lily Chan, Chinese singer
    • Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
  • April 23
  • April 29
    • Megan Boone, American actress
    • David Lee, American basketball player[37]
    • Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese actress and gravure idol
  • April 30 – Yelena Leuchanka, Belarusian professional women's basketball player

May

Henry Cavill
Gabourey Sidibe
Alina Kabaeva
Domhnall Gleeson
  • May 1 – Alain Bernard, French Olympic swimmer[38]
  • May 2 – Tina Maze, Slovenian alpine ski racer[39]
  • May 5 – Henry Cavill, British actor
  • May 6
    • Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
    • Adrianne Palicki, American actress
    • Doron Perkins, American basketball player[40]
    • Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
  • May 7
    • Marco Galiazzo, Italian archer
    • Alexander Legkov, Russian cross country skier
  • May 9 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
  • May 11Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer[41]
  • May 12
    • Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Polish actress and singer
    • Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor and writer
    • Alina Kabaeva, Russian rhythmic gymnast and politician
    • Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
  • May 13
    • Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
    • Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
    • Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
  • May 14
    • Anahí, Mexican singer and actress
    • Sarbel, Greek Cypriot pop singer
    • Amber Tamblyn, American actress
  • May 16
    • Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
    • Marcela Temer, First Lady of Brazil
  • May 17 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
  • May 20
    • Michaela McManus, American actress
    • N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian actor and singer
  • May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes)
  • May 24 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model (d. 2009)
  • May 30 – Jennifer Ellison, British actress
  • May 31
    • David Hernandez, American singer
    • Zana Marjanović, Bosnian actress

June

Marina Lizorkina
Julia Fischer
Macklemore
Alsou
Ben Bocquelet
  • June 1 – Sylvia Hoeks, Dutch actress
  • June 2 – Brooke White, American singer
  • June 6
    • Adam Hendershott, American actor
    • Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby union player
  • June 7 – Indiggo, Romanian-born American twin sisters, singer-songwriters, and reality TV personalities
  • June 8
  • June 9 – Marina Lizorkina, Russian singer
  • June 10
    • Marina Abrosimova, Russian pop singer
    • Leelee Sobieski, American film and television actress
  • June 12
    • Bryan Habana, South African rugby union player
    • Andy Ologun, Nigerian mixed martial artist
    • Anja Rubik, Polish model
  • June 13 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player[42]
  • June 15
    • Derek Anderson, American football player
    • Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist
  • June 16
    • Verónica Echegui, Spanish actress
    • Kana Mannami, Japanese Go player
  • June 17 – Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor, idol, and singer
  • June 19
    • Macklemore, American rapper
    • Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress
    • Mark Selby, British snooker player
    • Aidan Turner, Irish actor
  • June 20 – Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
  • June 21
    • Michael Malarkey, British-American actor and musician
    • Edward Snowden, American computer specialist, CIA employee, and whistleblower
    • Eduardo Hernández-Sonseca, Spanish basketball player
  • June 22 – Giacomo Bevilacqua, Italian cartoonist
  • June 23
    • José Rojas, Chilean footballer
    • Brandi Rhodes, American wrestler and reality television personality
    • Rade Đokić, Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
  • June 24
    • Albert, 12th Prince of Thurn and Taxis
    • John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor and model
    • Shermain Jeremy, Antiguan singer and beauty pageant contestant
    • Kenny Van Hoevelen, Belgian footballer
  • June 25
    • Cleo, Polish singer
    • Shamau Shareef, Maldivian politician
    • Daniele Gastaldello, Italian footballer
    • Cristian Baroni, Brazilian footballer
    • Marko Đurić, Serbian politician
  • June 26
    • Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
    • Alsény Këïta, Liberian footballer
    • Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor
    • Richard Okia, Ugandan cricketer
  • June 27
    • Alsou, Russian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2000 runner-up
    • Ben Bocquelet, French-British animator and producer
    • Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor
  • June 28
    • Jaiveer Shergill, Indian politician
  • June 29 – Ilya Yashin, Russian activist and politician
  • June 30
    • Cheryl, British singer (Girls Aloud) and TV personality
    • Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedian and actress

July

Aaron Peirsol
  • July 1
    • Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
    • Park Jeong-su, Korean singer (Super Junior)
  • July 2
    • Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
    • Fadhil Hashim, Malaysian footballer
  • July 3 – Park Jin-woo, South Korean actor
  • July 4 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian fashion model
  • July 5
    • Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
    • Kumiko Ogura, Japanese badminton player
  • July 6
    • Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
    • David Price, British professional boxer
  • July 7
    • Kristi Capel, American beauty pageant and news presenter
    • Renee Chappell, Australian cricketer
    • Krzysztof Lijewski, Polish handballer
    • C4 Pedro, Angolan musician
    • Martin Wallström, Swedish actor
    • Vincent Wong, Hong Kong actor
    • Yoo Jae-hoon, South Korean footballer
  • July 9 – Christopher Porco, American convicted murderer
  • July 10
    • Barış Pehlivan, Turkish journalist and writer
    • Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian footballer
    • Kim Heechul, Korean actor and singer (Super Junior)
    • Boniface Mwangi, Kenyan photojournalist, politician and activist
  • July 11 – Marie Eleonor Serneholt, Swedish singer (A*Teens)
  • July 12 – Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
  • July 13
    • Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
    • Carmen Villalobos, Colombian actress and model
  • July 14 – Graham Ackerman, American gymnast
  • July 15
    • Maxim Dondyuk, Ukrainian documentary photographer
    • Cristián Muñoz Corrales, Chilean footballer
  • July 16
    • Katrina Kaif, Bollywood actress and model
    • Duncan Keith, Canadian ice hockey player
    • Eleanor Matsuura, Japanese-English actress
  • July 17
    • Flávia de Oliveira, Brazilian model
    • Joker Xue, Chinese singer-songwriter
  • July 18 – Mikk Pahapill, Estonian decathlete
  • July 19
    • Prince Ernst August of Hanover
    • Sindhu Tolani, Indian actress
  • July 21
    • Amy Mizzi, Australian actress
    • Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
  • July 22
    • Detsl, Russian musician (d. 2019)
    • Ryan Doucette, Canadian actor
    • Juliana Silva, Brazilian beach volleyball player
    • Jonas Sakuwaha, Zambian footballer
    • Sharni Vinson, Australian model, actress and dancer[43]
  • July 23 – Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer[44]
  • July 24
  • July 26 – Elettra Weidemann, American fashion model and socialite
  • July 28 – Ilir Latifi, Swedish-Albanian mixed martial artist[45]
  • July 29
    • Kaitlyn Black, American actress
    • Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican television host, reporter and actress
  • July 30 – Mariano Andújar, Argentine footballer

August

Mamie Gummer
Chris Hemsworth
Andrew Garfield
Jamala
  • August 3 – Mamie Gummer, American actress
  • August 4
    • Jai Crawford, Australian cyclist
    • Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker
    • Adhir Kalyan, South African actor
    • Mariusz Wlazły, Polish volleyball player
  • August 6Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
  • August 7
    • Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor
    • Brit Marling, American actress, screenwriter and producer
    • Tina O'Brien, British actress
  • August 9 – Ashley Johnson, American actress and voice actress
  • August 11 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
  • August 13 – Aleš Hemský, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
  • August 14
    • Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
    • Sunidhi Chauhan, Indian playback singer
    • Spencer Pratt, American television personality
    • Mila Kunis, Ukraine-born American actress
  • August 16 – Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
  • August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
  • August 18
    • Kris Boyd, Scottish football player
    • Mika, Lebanese-British singer
    • Cameron White, Australian cricketer
  • August 19
    • Missy Higgins, Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor
    • Claudia Salinas, Mexican model and actress
    • Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013)
    • Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
  • August 20
    • Andrew Garfield, British/American actor
    • Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
  • August 21 – Brody Jenner, American television personality
  • August 23
    • James Collins, Welsh footballer
    • Ruta Gedmintas, Lithuanian-English actress
    • Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
  • August 26
    • Rob Cantor, American singer-songwriter
    • Nicol David, Malaysian squash player
  • August 27
  • August 28
    • Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer
    • Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
  • August 29 – Jennifer Landon, American actress
  • August 30 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
  • August 31
    • Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
    • Maria Flor, Brazilian actress
    • Marloes Wittenberg, Dutch judoka

September

Zoe Kazan
Donald Glover
Andreea Raducan

October

Jesse Eisenberg
Loreen
Felicity Jones
Rebecca Ferguson
Alona Tal
  • October 1 – Anna Drijver, Dutch actress and model
  • October 3
    • Meghan Heffern, Canadian actress
    • Tessa Thompson, American actress
  • October 4
    • Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
    • Shontelle, Barbadian singer, and songwriter
  • October 5
    • Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
    • Nicky Hilton Rothschild, American model and socialite [50]
    • Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer
  • October 9 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
  • October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ
  • October 11 – Bradley James, English actor
  • October 13 – Katia Winter, Swedish actress
  • October 14
    • Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
    • David Oakes, English film, television and theatre actor
  • October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
  • October 16 – Loreen, Swedish pop singer and music producer, Eurovision Song Contest 2012 winner
  • October 17
    • Felicity Jones, English actress
    • Daniel Kajmakoski, Macedonian singer and songwriter
    • Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
  • October 19
    • Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish model and actress
    • Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and writer
  • October 20 – Alona Tal, Israeli television actress
  • October 21
    • Ashley Banjo, Canadian actor
    • Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (d. 2008)
    • Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou, Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou
    • Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress
    • Amber Rose, American model and actress
    • Aaron Tveit, American actor
  • October 24
    • Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress
    • Katie McGrath, Irish actress
  • October 25 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
  • October 27
    • Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
    • Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Turkish actor and model
  • October 30 – Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer

November

Adam Driver
Professor Green

December

Sébastien Ogier
Jonah Hill
Steven Yeun
  • December 2 – Ana Lucía Domínguez, Colombian actress
  • December 9 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
  • December 10 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
  • December 12 – Roni Porokara, Finnish footballer[53]
  • December 13 – Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
  • December 14 – Íñigo Errejón, Spanish political scientist and politician
  • December 15
    • René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
    • Brooke Fraser, New Zealand folk-pop and Christian musician
    • Camilla Luddington, English actress[54]
    • Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
  • December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model
  • December 17
    • Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
    • Sébastien Ogier, French rally driver
  • December 19
    • Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer
    • Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer
    • Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
  • December 20
    • Jonah Hill, American actor
    • Lucy Pinder, English model
  • December 21 – Steven Yeun, Korean-American actor
  • December 22
    • Joe Dinicol, Canadian actor
    • Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, Miss Universe 2004
    • Nathalie Péchalat, French ice dancer
  • December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
  • December 25 – Gwei Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
  • December 27 – Sa Dingding, Chinese singer

Deaths

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

January

Arturo Umberto Illia
Bear Bryant

February

March

Chabuca Granda
Rebecca West

April

May

Pridi Banomyong
Miguel Alemán Valdés
King Idris of Libya

June

Prince Charles of Belgium
Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
  • June 1
    • Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
    • Ernest Graves, American actor (b. 1919)
    • Anna Seghers, German writer (b. 1900)[56]
  • June 2
  • June 4 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (b. 1920)
  • June 6 – Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)
  • June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)
  • June 11 – George Douglas, American actor (b. 1903)
  • June 12Norma Shearer, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1902)
  • June 15
    • Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Spanish-born Guatemalan Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1909)
    • Srirangam Srinivasarao, Indian Telugu poet (b. 1910)
  • June 17
    • George Benson, British actor (b. 1911)
    • Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
  • June 18
    • Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)[57]
    • Robert Riddles, British locomotive engineer (b. 1892)
  • June 23 – Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician, 21st President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1919)
  • June 24 – Charles Phelps Taft II, American politician, son of President William Howard Taft (b. 1897)
  • June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
  • June 30
    • Choo Seng Quee, Singaporean football coach (b. 1914)[58]
    • Mary Livingstone, American radio and voice actress (b. 1908)

July

Estrellita Castro
Chris Wood
  • July 1Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
  • July 2 – László Budai, Hungarian footballer (b. 1928)
  • July 4
  • July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)
  • July 7 – Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)
  • July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)
  • July 10
    • Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)[59]
    • Estrellita Castro, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1908)
  • July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
  • July 12 – Chris Wood, British rock musician, lead singer and guitarist of the band Traffic (b. 1944)
  • July 14 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b. 1892)
  • July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)
  • July 16
    • Michel Micombero, Burundian military officer and statesman, 8th Prime Minister and 1st President of Burundi (b. 1940)
    • Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
  • July 17 – Roosevelt Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)
  • July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
  • July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)[60]
  • July 25 – Jerome Moross, American composer (b. 1913)
  • July 26
    • Larry Gains, Canadian boxer (b. 1901)
    • Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)
  • July 29
  • July 30
    • Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
    • Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)

August

Carolyn Jones
  • August 1 – Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (b. 1954)
  • August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1936)
  • August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
  • August 4 – Jobriath, American rock musician and actor (b. 1946)
  • August 5
    • Bart Bok, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1906)
    • Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
  • August 6 – Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)[61]
  • August 7 – David Ford, American actor (b. 1925)
  • August 10 – José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Portuguese military officer and political figure, 104th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1917)
  • August 11 – Mamie Phipps Clark, American psychologist (b. 1917)
  • August 13 – Bob Bailey, American actor (b. 1913)
  • August 16
    • Earl Averill, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1902)
    • Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (b. 1895)
  • August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
  • August 18 – Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b. 1902)
  • August 21Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
  • August 24 – Scott Nearing, American political activist, economist, and simple living advocate (b. 1883)[62]
  • August 26 – Nazir Ahmed Khan, Pakistan-born Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1904)
  • August 27 – Harry A. deButts, American railroad executive
  • August 28
    • Jan Clayton, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
    • José Bergamín, Spanish writer (b. 1895)
  • August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)

September

Humberto Sousa Medeiros

October

Terence Cooke
Joan Hackett
Ruben Rausing
Pat O'Brien
Carel Willink

November

George Headley
  • November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
  • November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
  • November 8
    • Robert Agnew, American actor (b. 1899)
    • Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)
  • November 13
    • Aliagha Aghayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1913)
    • Junior Samples, American comedian (b. 1926)
  • November 14
    • Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)
    • Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)
  • November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
  • November 19
    • Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
    • Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)
  • November 20
    • Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
    • Richard Loo, Chinese-born American actor (b. 1903)
  • November 22 − Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
  • November 23 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)
  • November 27
    • Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Mexican novelist and playwright (b. 1928)
    • Ángel Rama, Uruguayan writer and literary critic (b. 1926)
    • Marta Traba, Colombian-Argentine art critic and writer (b. 1930)
    • Rosa Sabater, Spanish pianist (b. 1929)
  • November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
  • November 30
    • George Headley, West Indian cricketer (b. 1909)[63]
    • Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)

December

Gul Khan Nasir
Keith Holyoake
Dennis Wilson

Date unknown

  • Mary Cohan, Broadway composer and lyricist, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1909)
  • Freda Simmonds, New Zealand artist (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

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