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1964 (MCMLXIV) was
a leap year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1964th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 964th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of
the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1960s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1964 January 8: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty ·
January
– The Federation
of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. ·
U.S.
Senator Barry Goldwater announces
that he will seek the Republican Party nomination
for President. ·
In
the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches
since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch
Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. Starting
with the 36 years of meeting rule. It ends in 2000. ·
January 7 – A British firm, the Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of
450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade
of Cuba. ·
January 8 – In his first State of the
Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty". ·
January 9 – Martyrs' Day:
Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in
the Panama Canal Zone precipitate
a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4
U.S. soldiers. ·
January 10 – Introducing...
The Beatles is released by Chicago's Vee-Jay Records to
get the jump on Capitol Records' release of Meet the Beatles!,
scheduled for January 20. The two record companies fight over Vee-Jay's
release of this album in court. ·
January 11 – United
States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may
be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S.
government). ·
Zanzibar Revolution:
The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown by African
nationalist rebels; a United States Navy destroyer evacuates 61 U.S.
citizens. ·
Routine
U.S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin. ·
January 13 – In Manchester, New
Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward
Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside
by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New
Hampshire (1971). ·
January
13 - Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths. ·
Musical Hello, Dolly! opens
in New York's St. James Theatre. ·
John Glenn, the first American to orbit the
Earth, resigns from NASA. ·
John Glenn announces that he will seek
the Democratic Party nomination
for U.S. Senator from Ohio. ·
Roald Dahl's Charlie
and the Chocolate Factory is published by Alfred A. Knopf,
Inc. in the United States. It will later be published
by George Allen
& Unwin in the United Kingdom on November 23. ·
January 18 – Plans to build the New
York City World
Trade Center are announced. ·
January 20 – Meet the Beatles!,
the first Beatles album from Capitol Records in the United States,
is released ten days after Chicago's Vee-Jay Records releases Introducing...
The Beatles. The two record companies battle it out in court
for months, eventually coming to a conclusion. ·
January 22 – Kenneth Kaunda is inaugurated as the
first Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia. ·
Pope Paul VI institutes the World Day
of Prayer for Vocations. During this celebration the Pope reminds the
universal Church that still today salvation comes to everyone. It continues
to be celebrated every Fourth Sunday of Easter (also known as Good Shepherd
Sunday). ·
Thirteen
years after its proposal and nearly two years after its passage by the United States Senate,
the 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution,
prohibiting the use of poll taxes in
national elections, is ratified. ·
Arthur Miller's After the Fall opens Off-Broadway. A semi-autobiographical work,
it arouses controversy over his portrayal of late ex-wife Marilyn Monroe. ·
France and the People's
Republic of China announce their decision to establish
diplomatic relations. ·
U.S.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith,
66, announces her candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. ·
January 28 – A U.S. Air Force jet
training[citation needed] aircraft that strays into East Germany is shot down by Soviet
fighters near Erfurt; all three crew
men are killed. ·
January 29–February 9 – The 1964 Winter Olympics are
held in Innsbruck, Austria. ·
The Soviet Union launches two
scientific satellites, Elektron I
and II, from a single rocket. ·
Ranger 6 is launched by NASA,
on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon. ·
January 30 – General Nguyễn Khánh leads
a bloodless military coup d'état, replacing Dương
Văn Minh as Prime Minister of South Vietnam. February[edit] Main article: February 1964 ·
February 1 – The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the
U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold
Your Hand", starting the British Invasion in the United States. ·
February 3 – Protesting against alleged
de facto school racial segregation,
Black and Puerto Rican groups in New York City boycott public
schools. ·
February 4 – The Government
of the United States authorizes the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States
Constitution, outlawing the poll tax. ·
February 5 – India backs out of its
promise to hold a plebiscite in the disputed territory of Kashmir. In 1948,
India had taken the issue of Kashmir to the United Nations Security Council
and offered to hold a plebiscite in the held Kashmir under UN supervision. ·
February 6 – Cuba cuts
off the normal water supply to the United States Guantanamo Bay
Naval Base, in reprisal for the U.S. seizure 4 days earlier of 4
Cuban fishing boats off the coast of Florida. ·
A Jackson, Mississippi,
jury, trying Byron De La Beckwith for
the murder of Medgar Evers in
June 1963, reports that it cannot reach a
verdict, resulting in a mistrial. ·
The Beatles arrive from the UK at New
York City's JFK
International Airport, receiving a tumultuous reception from a
throng of screaming fans, marking the first occurrence of "Beatlemania" in the United States. ·
February 9 – The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show,
marking their first live performance on American television. Seen by an
estimated 73,000,000 viewers, the appearance becomes the catalyst for the
mid-1960s "British Invasion"
of American popular music. ·
Greeks
and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus. ·
The Republic of China severs diplomatic
relations with France because of French recognition of the People's Republic
of China. ·
Wesberry v. Sanders (376 US 1 1964): The Supreme
Court of the United States rules that congressional districts
have to be approximately equal in population. ·
Gabonese
president Léon M'ba is
toppled by a military coup and
his archrival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame,
is installed in his place. However, French intervention restores M'ba's
government the next day. ·
February 23 – Chrysler's second generation
hemi racing engine debuts at the Daytona 500. The 426 hemi-powered Plymouth of Richard Petty (#43) wins. Hemi-powered
Plymouths finish 1-2-3. ·
February 25 – Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) beats Sonny Liston in Miami Beach, Florida,
and is crowned the heavyweight
champion of the world. ·
February 26 – U.S. politician John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in
his Columbus, Ohio,
apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and
prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Democratic
Party Senate nomination. ·
February 27 – The Italian government
asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of
Pisa from toppling over. ·
February 29 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces
that the United States has developed a jet airplane (the A-11), capable of sustained flight at more
than 2,000 miles per hour (3,200 km/h) and of altitudes of more than
70,000 feet (21,000 m). March[edit] Main article: March 1964 ·
March 4 – Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted by a federal
jury of tampering with a federal jury in 1962. ·
March 6 ·
Constantine II becomes
King of Greece, upon the death of his father King Paul. ·
Malcolm X, suspended from the Nation of Islam, says in New York City that
he is forming a black nationalist party. ·
Boxer Cassius Clay announces the change of
his name to Muhammad Ali.[1] ·
March 9 ·
New York
Times Co. v Sullivan (376 US 254 1964): The United States
Supreme Court rules that under the First Amendment, speech criticizing
political figures cannot be censored. ·
London
Fisheries Convention signed, giving signatories the right of
full access to fishing grounds within 12 nautical miles of the western
European coastline. ·
The
first Ford Mustang rolls
off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company. ·
March 10 ·
Soviet military forces shoot down an
unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany; the 3 U.S. flyers parachute to
safety. ·
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jr., Ambassador to South Vietnam, wins the New Hampshire Republican primary. ·
March 12 – Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam. ·
March 13 – The New York Times misreports
that 38 neighbors of Kitty Genovese, 28, fail to respond to her
cries, as she is being stabbed to death in Queens, New York City, prompting
investigation into the bystander effect. ·
March 14 – A Dallas, Texas, jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. ·
March 15 – Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor marry (for the first
time) in Montreal. ·
March 18 – Approximately 50 Moroccan
students broke into the
embassy of Morocco in the Soviet Union and staged an all‐day sit-in protesting against sentencing of
eleven people to death for the alleged assassination attempt of King Hassan II of Morocco. ·
March 19 – The American Geraldine Jerrie Mock is the first
woman to fly solo around the world from March 19 to April 17. ·
March 20–June 6 – The first United Nations Conference on Trade and Development takes
place. ·
March 20 – The precursor of the European Space
Agency, ESRO (European Space
Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14,
1962. ·
March 21 – Non ho l'età by
Gigliola Cinquetti (music by Nicola Salerno, text by Mario Panzeri) wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1964 for Italy. ·
March 26 – U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara delivers an address
that reiterates American determination to give South Vietnam increased
military and economic aid, in its war against the Communist insurgency. ·
March 27 (Good Friday) – The Great Alaskan
earthquake, the second-most powerful known (and the most powerful
earthquake recorded in North American history) at a magnitude of
9.2, strikes Southcentral Alaska,
killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage. ·
March 28 ·
King Saud of Saudi Arabia abdicates
the throne. ·
Radio Caroline becomes the United
Kingdom's first "Pirate"
radio station, broadcasting from a ship anchored just outside
UK territorial waters on
the east coast. ·
March 30 – Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! debuts on NBC; Art Fleming is its first host. ·
March 31 – The military
overthrows Brazilian President João Goulart in a coup,
starting 21 years of dictatorship in
Brazil. It ends in 1985. April[edit] Main article: April 1964 ·
April 1 – Deployed military rule
in Brazil ended the government of
democratically elected president, João Goulart. ·
April 2 – Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72,
mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, is released on $450 bond
after spending two days in a St. Augustine,
Florida, jail, for participating in an anti-segregation
demonstration there. ·
April 4 ·
The Beatles hold the top 5 positions in
the Billboard Top 40 singles in America, an unprecedented achievement. The
top songs in America as listed on April 4, in order, are: Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want to Hold
Your Hand, and Please Please Me. ·
April 6 – Jigme Palden Dorji,
premier of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, is shot dead by an unidentified
assassin in Puncholing, near the Indian border. ·
April 7 – IBM announces
the System/360. ·
April 8 ·
Four
of 5 railroad operating unions strike against the Illinois
Central Railroad without warning, bringing to a head a 5-year dispute over
railroad work rules. ·
Gemini 1 is launched, the first
unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft. ·
From Russia
with Love premiers
in U.S. movie theaters. ·
April 9 – The United
Nations Security Council adopts by a 9–0 vote a resolution
deploring a British air attack on a fort in Yemen 12 days earlier, in which 25
persons were reported killed. ·
April 10 – Demolition of the Polo Grounds sports stadium commences
in New York City. ·
April 11 – The Brazilian Congress
elects Field Marshal Humberto
de Alencar Castelo Branco as President of Brazil. ·
April 12 – In Detroit, Malcolm X delivers a speech entitled
"The Ballot or the Bullet" ·
April 13 ·
The 36th Academy Awards ceremony
is held. ·
Sidney Poitier is the first
African-American to win an Academy Award in the category Best Actor
in a Leading Role in Lilies of
the Field. ·
April 14 – A Delta rocket's third-stage motor ignites
prematurely in an assembly room at Cape Canaveral, killing 3. ·
April 16 ·
The Rolling Stones release
their debut album, The Rolling
Stones. ·
Sentences
totaling 307 years are passed on twelve men who stole £2,600,000 in used bank
notes, after holding up the night train traveling from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that
became known as the Great Train
Robbery. ·
April 17 ·
In
the United States, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to
the public. ·
Shea Stadium opens in Flushing, New York. ·
April 19 – In Laos,
the coalition government of Prince Souvanna Phouma is deposed by a
right-wing military group, led by Brig. Gen. Kouprasith Abhay. Not supported by the
United States, the coup is ultimately unsuccessful, and Souvanna Phouma is
reinstated, remaining as Prime Minister until 1975. ·
April 20 ·
U.S.
President Lyndon Johnson in
New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in
Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for
making nuclear weapons. ·
Nelson Mandela makes his "I Am
Prepared to Die" speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a key event for the anti-apartheid movement. ·
In
the UK, BBC Two starts broadcasting for the
first time. ·
April 22 April 22: 1964 New York
World's Fair ·
British
businessman Greville Wynne,
imprisoned in Moscow since 1963
for spying, is exchanged for Soviet spy Gordon Lonsdale. ·
The 1964 New York
World's Fair opens to celebrate the 300th anniversary of New
Amsterdam being taken over by British forces under the Duke of York
(later King James II)
and being renamed New York in 1664. The fair runs until October 18, 1964, and
reopens April 21, 1965, finally closing October 17, 1965. (Not sanctioned,
due to being within ten years of the Seattle World's Fair in 1962,
some countries decline, but many countries have pavilions with exotic crafts,
art and food.) ·
April 25 – Thieves steal the head of
the Little
Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark (Henrik Bruun confesses
in 1997). ·
April 26 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form Tanzania. May[edit] Main article: May 1964 ·
May 1 – At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz ran
the first computer program written in BASIC (Beginners'
All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language which
they created. BASIC was eventually included on many computers and even some games consoles. ·
May 2 ·
Vietnam War: Attack on USNS Card –
An explosion caused by Viet Cong commandos
causes carrier USNS Card to
sink in the port of Saigon. ·
Some
400–1,000 students march through Times Square, New York, and another 700
in San Francisco,
in the first major student demonstration against the Vietnam War. Smaller
marches also occur in Boston, Seattle, and Madison, WI. ·
United
States Senator Barry Goldwater receives
more than 75% of the votes in the Texas Republican Presidential primary. ·
Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore,
hitchhiking in Meadville,
Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten, murdered by members of
the Ku Klux Klan.
Their badly decomposed bodies
are found by chance in July during the search for missing
activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. ·
May 4 – The United States
Congress recognizes Bourbon whiskey as a "distinctive
product of the United States". ·
May 7 ·
Pacific Air
Lines Flight 773 crashes near San Ramon,
California, killing all 44 aboard; the FBI later
reports that a cockpit recorder tape indicates that the pilot and co-pilot
had been shot by a suicidal passenger. ·
At
a mail rockets demonstration by Gerhard Zucker on Hasselkopf Mountain
near Braunlage (Lower Saxonia, Germany),
three people are killed by a rocket explosion. ·
May 9 – South Korean President Park Chung-hee reshuffles his Cabinet,
after a series of student demonstrations against his efforts to restore
diplomatic and trade relations with Japan. ·
May 11 – Terence Conran opens the first Habitat store
on London's Fulham Road. ·
May 12 – Twelve young men in New York
City publicly burn their draft cards to
protest the Vietnam War; the first such act of war resistance.[2][3] ·
May 19 – The United
States State Department says that more than forty hidden
microphones have been found embedded in the walls of the U.S. Embassy in
Moscow. ·
May 23 ·
Madeline
Dassault, 63, wife of a French plane manufacturer and politician, is
kidnapped while leaving her car in front of her Paris home; she is found
unharmed the next day in a farmhouse 27 miles (43 km) from Paris. ·
Pablo Picasso paints his fourth Head
of a Bearded Man. ·
May 24–25 – The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru riots over
a referee's decision in the Peru-Argentina game; 319 are killed, 500
injured. ·
May 26 – Nelson Rockefeller defeats Barry Goldwater in the Oregon Republican primary, slowing but
not stalling Goldwater's drive toward the nomination. ·
May 27 – Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru dies; he is succeeded
by Lal Bahadur Shastri. ·
May 28 – The Charter of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO) is released by the Arab League. ·
May 30 – Eddie Sachs and Dave MacDonald are killed in a fiery
crash during the 1964 Indianapolis
500. June[edit] Main article: June 1964 ·
June 2 ·
Senator
Barry Goldwater wins the California Republican Presidential
primary, making him the overwhelming favorite for the nomination. ·
Five
million shares of stock in the Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) are
offered for sale at $20 a share, and the issue is quickly sold out. ·
June 3 – South Korean President Park Chung-hee declares martial law in Seoul, after 10,000 student demonstrators
overpower police. ·
June 6 – With a temporary order,
the rocket
launches at Cuxhaven are terminated. ·
June 9 – In a federal Court in Kansas City, Kansas,
28 year-old army deserter George
John Gessner is convicted of passing United States secrets to
the Soviet Union. ·
June 10 ·
The
U.S. Senate votes cloture of the
Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster. ·
The Deacons
for Defense and Justice (Black self-defense organization) is
founded in Jonesboro, Louisiana. ·
June 11 ·
Greece
rejects direct talks with Turkey over Cyprus. ·
Cologne school
massacre: In Cologne, West
Germany, Walter Seifert attacks
students and teachers in an elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21. ·
June 12 ·
Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton announces his
candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination, as part of a
'stop-Goldwater' movement. ·
Nelson Mandela and 7 others are
sentenced to life
imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison. ·
June 16 – Keith Bennett, 12, is
abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. His body has never been found. ·
June 17 – Author Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters embark on their
cross-country trip aboard Further (bus) spreading the gospel
of LSD. ·
June 19 – U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, 32, is seriously injured in
a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed. ·
June 20 – The Ford GT40 makes its first appearance at
the 24 Hours of Le
Mans. It does not see its first victory, however, until 1966.
At the same event, the AC Cobra wins
its class in its second Le Mans appearance. ·
June 21 ·
Civil rights
movement: Murders
of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner – Three Congress of
Racial Equality workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney, are abducted and murdered
near Philadelphia,
Mississippi, by local members of the White
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan with local law enforcement
officials involved in the conspiracy. Their bodies are not found until August
4. ·
Spain beats
the Soviet Union 2–1
to win the 1964
European Nations Cup. ·
Jim Bunning pitches a perfect game for the Philadelphia
Phillies, the first in the National League since 1880. ·
June 26 – Moise Tshombe returns to the Democratic
Republic of the Congo from exile in Spain. ·
June 29 – Manx Radio commences broadcasting from
Douglas, Isle of Man after
receiving its first Low power broadcast licence from the United
Kingdom's General Post Office. July[edit] Main article: July 1964 ·
July 2 – President Lyndon Johnson signs
the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 into law, officially abolishing racial
segregation in the United States. ·
July 6 – Malawi receives its independence from
the United Kingdom. ·
July 8 – U.S. military personnel
announce that U.S. casualties in Vietnam have risen to 1,387, including 399
dead and 17 MIA. ·
July 16 – At the Republican
National Convention in San Francisco, U.S. presidential
nominee Barry Goldwater declares
that "extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice", and
"moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue". ·
July 18 ·
Six
days of race riots begin
in Harlem. ·
Judith Graham Pool publishes
her discovery of cryoprecipitate,
a frozen blood clotting product made from plasma primarily to treat hemophiliacs around the world. ·
"False Hare" is the final Warner Bros.
cartoon with "target"
titles. ·
July 19 – Vietnam War: At a rally in Saigon, South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Khánh calls
for expanding the war into North Vietnam. ·
July 20 ·
Vietnam
War: Viet Cong forces attack a provincial
capital, killing 11 South Vietnamese military personnel and 40 civilians (30
of which are children). ·
The National
Movement of the Revolution is instituted as the sole
legal political party in
the Republic of the
Congo. ·
July 21 – Race riots begin
in Singapore between ethnic Chinese and
Malays. ·
July 22 – The second meeting of
the Organisation
of African Unity is held. ·
July 24 – There is a minor criticality accident
at a United Nuclear Corporation Fuels recovery plant in Wood
River Junction, Richmond, Rhode Island. 37-year-old Robert Peabody
dies two days after the incident. ·
July 27 – Vietnam War: The U.S. sends 5,000 more
military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United
States forces in Vietnam to 21,000. ·
July 31 – Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up
photographs of the Moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever
seen from Earth-bound telescopes). August[edit] Main article: August 1964 ·
August 1 – The final Looney Tune, "Señorella
and the Glass Huarache", is released before the Warner Bros.
Cartoon Division is shut down by Jack Warner. ·
August 2 – Vietnam War: United States destroyer Maddox is
attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks
one gunboat, while the other two leave the battle. ·
August 5 ·
Vietnam
War: Operation Pierce
Arrow – Aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for
strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. ·
The
Simba rebel army in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo captures Stanleyville, and takes 1,000 Western
hostages. ·
August 7 – Vietnam War: The United
States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution, giving U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson broad
war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces. ·
August 8 – A Rolling Stones gig in Scheveningen gets out of control. Riot
police end the gig after about fifteen minutes, upon which spectators start
to fight the riot police. ·
August 13 – Murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen become
the last people to be executed in the United Kingdom. ·
August 16 – Vietnam War: In a coup,
General Nguyễn Khánh replaces Dương
Văn Minh as South Vietnam's chief of state and
establishes a new constitution,
drafted partly by the U.S. Embassy. ·
August 17 – Margaret Harshaw, Metropolitan Opera
soprano, sings the role of Turandot in Puccini's opera Turandot at the New York World's
Fair. ·
August 18 – The International Olympic
Committee bans South Africa from the Tokyo Olympics on
the grounds that its teams are racially segregated. ·
August 20 – The International
Telecommunications Satellite Consortium (Intelsat) began to work. ·
Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and
Vice Chair of the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party, addresses the Credentials Committee of
the Democratic
National Convention, challenging the all-white Mississippi delegation. ·
Goalkeeper
Derek Foster of Sunderland becomes the youngest-ever player to play in
the Football League,
aged 15 years and 185 days. ·
August 24–27 – The Democratic
National Convention in Atlantic City nominates incumbent
President Lyndon B. Johnson for
a full term, and U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota as his running mate. ·
August 27 – Walt Disney's Mary Poppins has
its world premiere in Los Angeles. It will go on to become Disney's biggest
moneymaker, and winner of 5 Academy Awards, including a Best
Actress. It is the first Disney film to be nominated for Best
Picture. ·
August 28–30 – Philadelphia
1964 race riot: Tensions between African American residents and police
lead to 341 injuries and 774 arrests. September[edit] Main article: September 1964 ·
September 2 – Indian Hungry generation poets
are arrested on charges of conspiracy against the state and obscenity in
literature. ·
September 4 – The Forth Road Bridge opens
over the Firth of Forth. ·
September 10 – The African
Development Bank (AfDB) is founded. ·
September 11 – In Jacksonville,
Florida, John Lennon announces
that the Beatles will not play to a segregated
audience. ·
The
third period of the Second Vatican
Council opens. ·
The
London Daily Herald ceases
publication, replaced by The Sun. ·
September 17 – Goldfinger opens
in the UK. ·
September 18 – In Athens, King Constantine II
of Greece marries Princess
Anne-Marie of Denmark, who becomes Europe's youngest Queen at age
18 years, 19 days. ·
September 20 – At the autumnal equinox, the Order
of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) is founded in England. ·
The
island of Malta obtains independence from the
United Kingdom. ·
The North
American XB-70 Valkyrie makes its first flight at Palmdale, California. ·
September 24 – The Warren Commission Report,
the first official investigation of the assassination of United States
President John F. Kennedy,
is published. ·
September 25 – The Mozambican
War of Independence is launched by FRELIMO. ·
September 26 – The sitcom Gilligan's Island,
starring Bob Denver as Gilligan premieres
on CBS. October[edit] Main article: October 1964 ·
October
– Dr. Robert Moog demonstrates
the prototype Moog synthesizer.[4] ·
Three
thousand student activists at University
of California, Berkeley, surround and block a police car from
taking a CORE volunteer
arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist
card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the Berkeley
Free Speech Movement. ·
The Shinkansen high-speed rail system, the world's
first such system, is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between
Tokyo and Osaka. ·
October 2 – The Kinks release their first
album, Kinks. ·
Twenty-three
men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel
under the Berlin Wall. ·
Elizabeth II and The Duke
of Edinburgh begin an 8-day visit to Canada. ·
October 10–24 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are
held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country. ·
October 12 – The Soviet Union
launches Voskhod 1 into
Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a
multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. The flight is cut short and
lands again on October 13 after
16 orbits. ·
October 14 – American civil rights
movement leader Martin Luther King
Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize,
which was awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States. ·
October 14–15 – Nikita Khrushchev is
deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power. ·
The Labour Party wins
the parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom, ending 13 years of
Conservative Party rule. The new prime minister is Harold Wilson.[5] ·
Craig Breedlove's jet-powered car Spirit of
America goes out of control in Bonneville Salt
Flats in Utah and makes skid
marks 9.6 km long. ·
Harold Wilson becomes British Prime
Minister after leading the Labour Party to
a narrow election
win over the Conservative government
of Sir Alec Douglas-Home,
which had been in power for 13 years and had four different leaders during
that time.[6] ·
596: The
People's Republic of China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang. ·
October 18 – The New York World's
Fair closes for the year (it reopens April 21, 1965). ·
October 21 – The film version of
the hit Broadway stage musical My Fair Lady premieres in New
York City. The movie stars Audrey Hepburn in the role of Eliza
Doolittle and Rex Harrison repeating
his stage performance as Professor Henry Higgins (which will win him an
Academy Award for Best Actor). The film will win seven other Academy Awards,
including Best
Picture. ·
Canada:
A Federal Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects a design to become the
new official Flag of Canada. ·
A
5.3 kiloton nuclear device is detonated at
the Tatum Salt Dome, 21 miles (34 km) from Hattiesburg,
Mississippi, as part of the Vela Uniform program. This test is the
Salmon phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Dribble. ·
October 24 – Northern Rhodesia, a former British protectorate,
becomes the independent Republic of Zambia, ending 73 years of British rule. ·
October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes the last man
executed in Western Australia, for murdering 8 citizens in Perth between 1959 and 1963. ·
October 27 – In the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, rebel leader Christopher Gbenye takes 60
Americans and 800 Belgians hostage. ·
October 29 – A collection of irreplaceable gemstones, including the 565-carat
(113.0 g) Star of India,
is stolen from the American
Museum of Natural History in New York City. ·
October 31 – Campaigning at Madison
Square Garden, New York, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson pledges the
creation of the Great Society. November[edit] Main article: November 1964 ·
November 1 – Mortar fire from North
Vietnamese forces rains on the Bien Hoa Air Base,
killing four U.S. servicemen, wounding 72, and destroying five B-57 jet bombers and other planes. ·
United
States presidential election, 1964: Incumbent President Lyndon B.
Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of
the popular vote. ·
The Bolivian government of President Víctor Paz
Estenssoro is overthrown by a military rebellion led by
General Alfredo Ovando
Candía, commander-in-chief of the armed forces. ·
November 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 3 spacecraft is launched
from Cape Kennedy but
fails.[clarification
needed] ·
November 9 – The House
of Commons of the United Kingdom votes to abolish the death
penalty for murder in Britain. ·
November 10 – Australia partially
reintroduces compulsory
military service due to the Indonesian
Confrontation. ·
November 13 – Bob Pettit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes the first
American National
Basketball Association player to score 20,000 points. ·
November 19 – The United
States Department of Defense announces the closing of 95
military bases and facilities, including Fort Jay, the Brooklyn Navy Yard and
the Brooklyn Army Terminal. ·
Second Vatican
Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution
on the Church, is promulgated. ·
The Verrazano-Narrows
Bridge across New York Bay opens to traffic (the
world's longest suspension bridge at
this time). ·
November 24 – Belgian paratroopers and
mercenaries capture Stanleyville, but a
number of hostages die in the fighting, among
them American Evangelical
Covenant Church missionary Dr. Paul Carlson. ·
Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 space probe from Cape Kennedy
toward Mars to take television pictures of that planet in July 1965. ·
Vietnam
War: United
States National Security Council members, including Robert McNamara, Dean Rusk, and Maxwell Taylor, agree to recommend a plan
for a 2-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam, to President Lyndon B. Johnson. ·
France
performs an underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria. December[edit] Main article: December 1964 ·
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz takes
office as President of Mexico. ·
Vietnam
War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to
discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam (after some debate, they agree on a
2-phase bombing plan). ·
Berkeley
Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at
the University
of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive
sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. The sit-in most directly
protested the U.C. Regents' decision to punish student activists for what
many thought had been justified civil disobedience earlier in the conflict. ·
The
Danish football club Brøndby IF was founded as a merger
between the two local clubs Brøndbyøster Idrætsforening and Brøndbyvester
Idrætsforening. The club has won the national championship Danish Superliga 10 times, and has won
the national Danish Cups six
times since the club joined the Danish top-flight football league in 1981. ·
December 5 – Australian
Senate election, 1964: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led
by Prime
Minister Robert Menzies held their status quo,
while the Labor Party led
by Arthur Calwell lost
one seat to the Democratic
Labor Party, who held the balance of power in the Senate alongside
independent Reg Turnbull. ·
December 6 – The 1-hour stop-motion
animated special Rudolph
the Red-Nosed Reindeer, based on the popular Christmas song,
premieres on NBC. It becomes a beloved Christmas tradition, still being shown
on television more than 50 years later. ·
December 10 – Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo,
Norway. ·
Sam Cooke, African-American singer and
songwriter was shot and killed at a motel in Los Angeles, California
(b. 1931) ·
Che Guevara addresses the U.N. General
Assembly.[7] ·
December 12 – Jamhuri Day: Kenya becomes a republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President. ·
December 14 – Heart
of Atlanta Motel v. United States (379 US 241 1964): The
U.S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, establishments providing public accommodation must
refrain from racial discrimination. ·
In
the wake of deadly riots in January over control of the Panama Canal, the U.S. offers to negotiate a
new canal treaty. ·
The
deadly Christmas flood
of 1964 begins; It becomes one of the most destructive
weather events to affect Oregon in the 20th century. ·
The James Bond film Goldfinger begins
its run in U.S. theaters. It becomes one of the most successful and popular
Bond films ever made. ·
The General Dynamics
F-111 makes its first flight. ·
Comedian Lenny Bruce is sentenced to 4 months in
prison, concluding a 6-month obscenity trial. ·
A
cyclone in the Palk Strait destroys
the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, killing
1800 people. ·
The Lockheed SR-71
Blackbird makes its first flight at Palmdale, California. ·
December 23 – Wonderful Radio
London becomes the United Kingdom's fourth "Pirate"
radio station, broadcasting from MV Galaxy (a
former US Navy minesweeper) anchored off the east coast of England, with an
American-style Top 40 ("Fab 40") playlist of popular records. ·
December 24 – Bombing of the
Brinks Hotel in Saigon. ·
December 26 – Lesley Ann Downey, 10, is
abducted by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in Manchester, England. ·
December 27 – The Cleveland
Browns defeat the Baltimore
Colts, 27-0, in the National
Football League Championship Game. ·
December 30 – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
established as a permanent organ of the UN General Assembly. Date unknown[edit] ·
Spring
– First recognition of cosmic
microwave background radiation as a detectable phenomenon.[8] ·
Jerome Horwitz synthesizes zidovudine (AZT), an antiviral drug which will later be used
in treating HIV. ·
Farrington Daniels's
book Direct Use of the Sun's Energy is published by Yale University
Press. ·
Rudi Gernreich designs the
original monokini topless
swimsuit in the U.S.[9] ·
The Vishva Hindu
Pariṣad is founded in India. ·
The Centre
for Contemporary Cultural Studies is established at the University of
Birmingham, England, by Richard Hoggart. ·
The
first fatality occurs at Disneyland in California: a 15-year-old
boy is injured while riding the Matterhorn Bobsleds and
dies three days later as a result of his injuries. ·
The Pontiac GTO, the first vehicle officially
dubbed a "muscle car",
debuts as a trim level of
the Tempest. ·
Germaine Greer becomes the first full
female member of Cambridge University Footlights revue after joining in her
first week at Newnham
College, Cambridge. ·
Pete Townshend of The Who destroys his first guitar at
the Railway Hotel, London. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Moussa Dadis Camara,
Guinean general and 3rd President of Guinea ·
Juliana Donald, American actress ·
Dedee Pfeiffer, American film and television
actress ·
Noriah Kasnon, Malaysian politician
(d. 2016) ·
Pernell Whitaker, American boxer ·
January 3 – Jon
Gibson, American Christian musician ·
Alexandre Fadeev, Soviet figure skater ·
Dot Jones, American actress and retired
athlete ·
January 5 – Miguel Ángel Jiménez,
Spanish golfer ·
Colin Cowherd, American talk show host ·
Henry Maske, German boxer ·
Jacqueline DeLois Moore, American wrestler ·
Anthony Scaramucci,
American financier, entrepreneur, and political figure ·
Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan swimmer and sports
commentator (d. 2005) ·
January 7 – Nicolas Cage, American actor ·
Patrícia Pillar,
Brazilian actress ·
Yolanda Hadid, American television
personality ·
January 12 – Jeff Bezos, American Internet entrepreneur ·
Bill Bailey, British comedian ·
Penelope Ann Miller,
American actress ·
January 14 – Mark Addy, English actor ·
January 15 – Osmo Tapio Räihälä,
Finnish composer ·
January 16 – Chris Dittmar, Australian squash player ·
Michelle Fairley, Northern Irish actress ·
Michelle Obama, First
Lady of the United States ·
January 18 – Jane Horrocks, British actress ·
January 19 – Ricardo Arjona, Guatemalan singer ·
Aquilino Pimentel
III, Filipino politician, 28th President
of the Senate of the Philippines ·
Fareed Zakaria, American journalist ·
Mariska Hargitay, American actress ·
Bharrat Jagdeo, Guyanese politician and
7th President of Guyana ·
Kelly Parsons, American actress and model ·
January 27 – Bridget Fonda, American actress ·
January 29 – Andre Reed, NFL player, 2014 Pro Football
Hall of Fame inductee ·
January 31 – Jeff Hanneman, American rock guitarist (Slayer) (d. 2013) February[edit] ·
Laura Linney, American actress ·
Duff McKagan, American rock musician,
songwriter ·
Martha Fiennes, English film director ·
February 6 – Gord Downie, Canadian singer-songwriter (The Tragically Hip)
(d. 2017) ·
February 8 – German Gref, Minister of Economics and Trade
of Russia ·
Glenn Beck, American conservative
broadcaster ·
John Campbell,
New Zealand broadcaster ·
Sarah Palin, American politician, former
Governor of Alaska ·
Ken Shamrock, American mixed martial arts fighter ·
Chris Farley, American actor and comedian
(d. 1997) ·
Mark Price, American basketball player ·
Bebeto, Brazilian footballer ·
Christopher
Eccleston, British actor ·
Valentina Yegorova,
Russian Olympic athlete ·
Matt Dillon, American actor and film
director ·
Tommy Scott,
British musician and frontman of Space ·
Jonathan Lethem, American author ·
Richard A. Scott, American illustrator ·
Willie Garson, American character actor ·
French Stewart, American actor ·
February 22 – Diane Charlemagne,
English singer (52nd Street, Urban Cookie
Collective) (d. 2015) ·
February 23 – Eizo Sakamoto, Japanese musician, singer and
songwriter (Anthem and Animetal) ·
Todd Field, American actor and director ·
Ute Geweniger, German swimmer ·
February 25 – Lee Evans,
British comedian and actor ·
February 28 – Djamolidine
Abdoujaparov, Uzbekistan cyclist March[edit] ·
March 4 ·
Paul Bostaph, American drummer ·
Emilia Eberle, Romanian artistic gymnast ·
Tom Lampkin, American baseball player ·
March 6 ·
Skip Ewing, American country singer ·
Yvette Wilson, American actress and comedian
(d. 2012) ·
March 7 ·
Bret Easton Ellis,
American author ·
Vladimir Smirnov,
Kazakh cross-country skier ·
Wanda Sykes, African-American comedian and
actress ·
March 9 ·
Tomomitsu Niimi, Japanese criminal (d. 2018) ·
Juliette Binoche, French actress ·
Steve Wilkos, American retired police
officer; talk show host ·
March 10 ·
Edith Lucie Bongo,
First Lady of Gabon (d. 2009) ·
Neneh Cherry, Swedish-born singer-songwriter ·
Prince
Edward, Earl of Wessex, British prince and third son (youngest
child) of Elizabeth II and The Duke
of Edinburgh ·
March 11 ·
Shane Richie, British actor ·
Emma Chambers, English actress (d. 2018) ·
Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah) (d. 2018) ·
March 16 ·
Pascal Richard, Swiss road bicycle racer ·
Gore Verbinski, American film director ·
March 17 – Rob Lowe, American actor ·
March 18 ·
Bonnie Blair, American speed skater ·
Mika Kanai, Japanese voice actress ·
Rozalla, Zambian singer ·
March 19 ·
Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer ·
Jake Weber, English actor ·
March 20 – Michael Keith Smith,
American bass player and builder ·
March 23 – Hope Davis, American actress ·
March 24 – Liz McColgan, British long-distance runner
athlete ·
Steve Souza, American singer (Exodus) ·
March 25 ·
Mike Henry,
American actor and voice actor ·
Alexey Prokurorov,
Russian cross-country skier (d. 2008) ·
LisaGay Hamilton, American actress ·
Vince Offer, American writer, director,
comedian and pitchman ·
March 26 ·
Ed Wasser, American actor ·
Martin
Donnelly, Northern Irish racecar driver ·
Todd Barry, American stand-up comedian,
actor, and voice actor ·
March 27 ·
Clive Rowe, English actor ·
Jessica Soho, Filipino broadcast journalist ·
March 29 ·
Catherine Cortez
Masto, U.S. Senator from Nevada ·
Ming Tsai, Chinese-American chef ·
Michael A.
Jackson, former sheriff of Prince George's County, Maryland ·
March 30 ·
Ian Ziering, American actor and voice actor ·
Tracy Chapman, African-American singer ·
Sigurd Haveland, Gibraltarian triathlete and
cyclist ·
March 31 – Dave Wyman, Former American football player April[edit] ·
April 1 – Erik Breukink, Dutch cyclist and manager ·
April 3 ·
Nigel Farage, English politician and MEP,
head of UK Independence Party (UKIP) ·
Bjarne Riis, Danish cyclist ·
Yelena Ruzina, Russian Olympic athlete ·
April 4 ·
Robbie Rist, American actor and Musician ·
David Cross, American actor and comedian ·
April 6 – David Woodard, American businessman ·
April 7 ·
Russell Crowe, New Zealand-born actor ·
Steve Graves, Canadian ice hockey player ·
April 8 – Lisa Guerrero, Hispanic American actress,
model and sportscaster/reporter ·
April 10 – Hiroshi Tsuburaya,
Japanese actor (d. 2001) ·
April 13 – Caroline Rhea, Canadian actress and comedian ·
April 14 ·
Jeff Andretti, American race car driver ·
Takumi Yamazaki, Japanese voice actress ·
April 15 – Lee Kernaghan, Australian country singer ·
April 16 – Esbjörn Svensson Swedish
jazz pianist (d. 2008) ·
April 17 ·
Lela Rochon, American actress ·
Maynard James Keenan,
American singer, actor, and winemaker, frontman of Tool ·
April 18 – Lourenço Mutarelli,
Brazilian underground comic book writer ·
April 19 – Harris Barton, American football player ·
April 20 ·
Andy Serkis, English actor ·
Crispin Glover, American actor ·
Sean A. Moore, American writer (d. 1998) ·
April 21 – Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish
athlete ·
April 24 ·
Augusta Read Thomas,
American composer ·
Cedric the
Entertainer, American actor and comedian ·
Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor and model ·
April 25 ·
Hank Azaria, American actor, voice artist
and comedian ·
Andy Bell,
English singer and songwriter ·
Vince Offer, Israeli-American actor,
director, comedian, and pitchman ·
April 28 – L'Wren Scott, American fashion designer
(d. 2014) ·
April 29 ·
Federico
Castelluccio, Italian-born actor ·
Radek Jaroš, Czech mountaineer ·
April 30 ·
Pooky Quesnel, English actress ·
Misa Watanabe, Japanese voice actress ·
Abhishek Chatterjee,
Indian actor May[edit] Charles
Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer ·
May 1 – Yvonne van Gennip,
Dutch speed-skater ·
May 3 – Ron Hextall, Canadian ice hockey player ·
May 4 ·
Gary Holt,
American guitarist (Exodus and Slayer) ·
Zsuzsa Mathe, Hungarian born painter and
visual artist, founder of Transrealism[citation needed] ·
May 5 ·
Heike Henkel, German Olympic athlete ·
Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and
singer (Two-Mix and DoCo) ·
May 6 – Dana Hill, American voice actress (d. 1996) ·
May 7 ·
Doug Benson, American comedian ·
Ronnie Harmon, American football player ·
Leslie O'Neal, American football player ·
May 8 ·
Melissa Gilbert, American actress and
president of the Screen Actors Guild ·
Bobby Labonte, American race car driver ·
Dave Rowntree, English drummer (Blur) ·
May 10 – Mark Andre, French-born German composer ·
May 11 – John Parrott, English snooker player ·
May 13 – Stephen Colbert, American comedian,
political commentator, and television personality; host of The
Late Show with Stephen Colbert ·
May 14 – Suzy Kolber, American sportscaster ·
May 16 – John Salley, American basketball player and
talk show host ·
May 17 – Nancy Benoit, American professional
wrestling valet and model (d. 2007) ·
May 20 ·
Charles
Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat,
author, print journalist and broadcaster. Younger brother of Diana, Princess
of Wales. ·
Mike Gregory, English rugby player and coach
(d. 2007) ·
May 21 – Danny Bailey, English footballer ·
May 22 – Marcus Dupree, American football player ·
May 23 – Ruth Metzler-Arnold,
member of the Swiss Federal Council ·
May 24 – Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer ·
May 25 – Ray Stevenson, Northern Irish-born actor ·
May 26 ·
Caitlín R. Kiernan,
American author and paleontologist ·
Lenny Kravitz, American singer, songwriter,
and actor ·
May 27 – Adam Carolla, American comedic radio
personality and television personality ·
May 28 – Jeff Fenech, Australian boxer ·
May 30 ·
Tom Morello, American musician and political
activist (Rage Against the
Machine, Audioslave, Prophets of Rage) ·
Wynonna Judd, American country singer June[edit] ·
June 1 – Deirdre Bolton, American broadcast
journalist and business news and commentator ·
June 3 ·
James Purefoy, British actor ·
Kerry King, American guitarist (Slayer) ·
Daniel Lieberman, American
paleoanthropologist ·
June 4 – Sean Pertwee, British actor and voice actor ·
June 5 ·
Dukagjin Pupovci, Kosovo Albanian professor ·
Rick Riordan, American author ·
June 6 – Guru Josh, British musician (d. 2015) ·
June 7 ·
Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress ·
Petr Hruška,
Czech poet ·
June 9 ·
Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress ·
Wayman Tisdale, American NBA basketball star
and smooth jazz musician ·
June 10 ·
Ben Daniels, British actor ·
Kate Flannery, American actress ·
June 12 – Paula Marshall, American actress ·
June 13 – Kathy Burke, English actress and comedian ·
June 15 ·
Courteney Cox, American actress ·
Michael Laudrup, Danish footballer and
manager ·
June 18 – Uday Hussein, Iraqi paramilitary leader
(d. 2003) ·
June 19 ·
Boris Johnson, American-born British
politician, former Mayor of London (2008-2016) ·
Laura Ingraham, American radio host and
political commentator ·
June 21 ·
Doug Savant, American actor ·
Sammi Davis, English actress ·
Josh Pais, American actor ·
Patrice
Bailly-Salins, French biathlete ·
Tania Mathias, British ophthalmologist and
Conservative Party politician ·
Keith Stevens, English professional
footballer ·
Dean Saunders, Welsh football manager and
former professional footballer ·
Kiyoshi Okuma, Japanese football player and
manager ·
June 22 ·
Amy Brenneman, American actress ·
Dan Brown, American author ·
Hiroshi Abe,
Japanese model and actor ·
Cadillac Anderson,
American professional basketball player ·
Miroslav Kadlec, Czech football defender ·
Nico Jalink, Dutch footballer and football
manager ·
Angelo Tsarouchas,
Canadian comedian/actor ·
Henrik Mestad, Norwegian actor ·
Tom Crebbin, Australian rules footballer ·
Paterson Joseph, British actor ·
June 23 ·
Astrid Carolina
Herrera, Venezuelan actress ·
Tara Morice, Australian actress, singer, and
dancer ·
Tomonohana Shinya,
Japanese sumo wrestler ·
Joss Whedon, American screenwriter ·
June 24 ·
Kari Kennell, American actress ·
Christopher Steele,
British intelligence officer ·
June 25 ·
Matt Gallant, American television host ·
Johnny Herbert, English race car driver ·
June 26 ·
Ian Tracey, Canadian actor ·
Tommi Mäkinen, Finnish rally driver ·
June 27 ·
Michael Reilly Burke,
American actor ·
Kai Diekmann, German journalist ·
Park Jun-gyu, South Korean actor ·
June 28 – Mark Grace, American baseball player ·
June 29 ·
Bradley Bell, American television writer and
producer ·
Wendy Kilbourne, American attorney and
actress ·
June 30 ·
Rebecca Hollweg, English singer-songwriter ·
Mark Waters,
American screenwriter, director and film producer ·
Ivan Trojan, Czech actor July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Yu Long, Chinese conductor ·
Clayton Lamb, Australian rules footballer ·
Paul Coyne, American TV producer and editor ·
Bernard Laporte, French rugby player and
coach ·
Loli Sánchez, Spanish basketball player ·
Chie Satō, Japanese voice actress ·
July 2 – Jose and Ozzie Canseco, Cuban-born American baseball
players; twin brothers ·
July 3 ·
Joanne Harris, English novelist ·
Aleksei
Serebryakov, Russian-Canadian actor ·
Peyton Reed, American television and film
director ·
Yeardley Smith, American actress and voice
actress ·
Toshiharu Sakurai,
Japanese voice actor ·
July 4 ·
Martin Flood, Australian quiz show winner ·
Edi Rama, 33rd Prime Minister
of Albania ·
July 5 ·
Lee Ee Hoe, Malaysian businessman ·
Jimmy Demers, American singer-songwriter ·
July 7 ·
Karina Galvez, Ecuadorian poet ·
Dominik Henzel, Czech-Swedish actor and
comedian ·
Tracy Reiner, American actress ·
Jennifer Gibney, Irish actress ·
July 8 ·
Rodziah Ismail, Malaysian politician ·
Lam Suet, Hong Kong actor ·
July 9 ·
Courtney Love, American musician/actress ·
Rainer Matsutani,
German film director and screenwriter ·
July 10 ·
Dalton Vigh, Brazilian actor ·
Eom Yeong-seop, South Korean cyclist ·
July 11 ·
Craig Charles, British actor ·
Goran Radaković,
Serbian actor ·
July 12 – Gaby Roslin, British TV presenter ·
July 13 ·
Leanne Benjamin, Australian ballet dancer ·
Charlie Hides, American drag queen and
comedian ·
July 14 – Kippei Shiina, Japanese actor ·
July 16 ·
Andy Abraham, British singer ·
Miguel Indurain, Spanish cyclist ·
Canti Lau, Hong Kong actor ·
July 17 ·
Heather Langenkamp,
American actress ·
Craig Morgan, American country music
singer-songwriter ·
July 18 ·
Evan Stone, American pornographic actor ·
Wendy Williams, African-American former
radio host and current talk show host ·
July 19 ·
Miyeegombyn Enkhbold,
Mongolian politician ·
Peter Dobson, American actor ·
Masahiko Kondō,
Japanese singer ·
July 20 ·
Chris Cornell, American singer (Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog)
(d. 2017) ·
Dean Winters, American actor ·
Deon Lotz, South African actor ·
July 21 ·
Ross Kemp, British actor ·
Susan Swift, American actress ·
July 22 ·
Adam Godley, British actor ·
Bonnie Langford, British actress ·
John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor ·
David Spade, American comedian, actor and
television personality ·
July 23 – Nick Menza, German-born American drummer (Megadeth) (d. 2016) ·
July 24 ·
Barry Bonds, African-American baseball
player ·
Pedro Passos Coelho,
118th Prime Minister
of Portugal ·
July 25 – Lisa LaFlamme, Canadian journalist and news
anchor ·
July 26 ·
Sandra Bullock, American actress and film
producer ·
Anne Provoost, Belgian author ·
July 27 – Rex Brown, American musician and author (Pantera) ·
July 28 – Lori Loughlin, American actress ·
July 30 ·
Vivica A. Fox, American actress ·
Jürgen Klinsmann,
German footballer-manager and retired player ·
July 31 – C.C. Catch, Dutch-born German singer August[edit] ·
August 2 – Mary-Louise Parker,
American actress ·
August 3 ·
Lucky Dube, South African reggae musician
(d. 2007) ·
Ye Qiaobo, Chinese speed skater ·
Abhisit Vejjajiva,
27th Prime Minister
of Thailand ·
August 5 – Adam Yauch, American rapper (Beastie Boys) (d. 2012) ·
August 6 – Gary Valenciano, Filipino musician ·
August 7 – Tom McGrath,
American animator and voice ctor ·
August 8 ·
Giuseppe Conte, Italian Prime Minister ·
Nina Hoekman, Dutch draughts players
(d. 2014) ·
Jan Josef Liefers,
German actor, producer, director and musician ·
August 9 ·
Brett Hull, Canadian hockey player ·
William Martens, American computer engineer ·
August 10 – Hiro Takahashi, Japanese singer (d. 2005) ·
August 15 – Melinda Gates, American wife of Bill Gates ·
Jimmy Arias, American tennis player ·
William Salyers, American voice actor ·
August 19 – Dermott Brereton, Australian rules
footballer ·
August 21 – Alfonso Lacadena, Spanish Mesoamerican
epigraphist and academic (d. 2018) ·
Diane Setterfield,
British author ·
Mats Wilander, Swedish tennis player ·
Andrew Wilson,
American film actor and director ·
August 24 – Salizhan Sharipov,
Russian cosmonaut ·
Maxim Kontsevich, Russian mathematician ·
Blair Underwood, American actor and director ·
Dave Boyes, Canadian male rower ·
Allegra Huston, English-American author ·
Bobby Jurasin, Canadian football defensive
lineman ·
Zadok Malka, Israeli footballer ·
Torsten Schmitz, German boxer September[edit] ·
Brian Bellows, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Ray D'Arcy, Irish radio and television host ·
Holly Golightly,
American author and illustrator ·
Gary Mavers, English actor ·
Nabeel Rajab, Bahraini activist ·
Charlie Robison, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
Andrea Illy, Italian businessman ·
Keanu Reeves, Canadian actor and musician ·
Adam Curry, American-Dutch businessman and
television host, co-founded mevio ·
Spike Feresten, American screenwriter and
producer ·
Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani singer-songwriter
and guitarist (Vital Signs)
(d. 2016) ·
Holt McCallany, American actor ·
Nigel Rhodes, English actor and guitarist ·
September 4 – Anthony Weiner, U.S. Representative for New
York's 9th congressional district ·
Todd Palin, American husband of former
governor Sarah Palin ·
Rosie Perez, American actress and comedian ·
September 7 – Andy Hug, Swiss Seidokaikan karateka and kickboxer (d. 2000) ·
Michael
Johns, American health care executive and Presidential
speechwriter ·
Mitchell Whitfield,
American actor and voice actor ·
Raven, American professional wrestler ·
Jack Ma, Chinese business magnate and
billionaire internet entrepreneur ·
Yegor Letov, Russian singer (d. 2008) ·
September 11 – Ellis Burks, American baseball player ·
September 12 – Greg Gutfeld, American television
personality ·
September 13 – Simegnew Bekele, Ethiopian engineer and
public administrator (d. 2018) ·
Faith Ford, American actress ·
Stephen Dunham, American actor (d. 2012) ·
September 15 – Robert Fico, Prime Minister
of Slovakia ·
September 16 – Molly Shannon, American actress ·
September 18 – Holly Robinson Peete,
American actress and singer ·
Kim Richards, American actress ·
Trisha Yearwood, American country singer ·
September 20 – Maggie Cheung, Hong Kong actress ·
September 21 – Jorge Drexler, Uruguayan musician ·
Ian Culverhouse, English footballer ·
Juha Turunen, Finnish politician turned
criminal ·
September 23 – Koshi Inaba, Japanese singer (B'z) ·
Jeff Krosnoff, American race car driver
(d. 1996) ·
Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-American baseball
player ·
Anita Barone, American actress ·
Kikuko Inoue, Japanese singer and voice
actress ·
September 26 – Brett Climo, Australian actor ·
September 27 – Stephan Jenkins, American musician ·
September 28 – Janeane Garofalo, American actress and
comedian ·
Trey Anastasio, American musician ·
Monica Bellucci, Italian actress and model October[edit] ·
Harry Hill, English comedian, writer and
actor ·
Christopher Titus,
American comedian and actor ·
Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player ·
Makharbek Khadartsev,
Russian free-style wrestler ·
October 3 – Clive Owen, English actor ·
John Ralston,
Canadian actor ·
Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper (d. 2009) ·
Yvonne Murray, Scottish athlete ·
Keiji Fujiwara, Japanese voice actor ·
Korina Sanchez, Filipino broadcast
journalist ·
Martin Marquez, English actor ·
CeCe Winans, African-American Christian
musician ·
October 9 – Guillermo del Toro,
Mexican film director ·
Quinton Flynn, American voice actor ·
Maxi Gnauck, East German gymnast ·
Masaya Onosaka, Japanese voice actor ·
Matt Walsh
(comedian), American actor, comedian, director, and writer ·
Joe Girardi, American baseball
player-manager ·
David Kaye,
Canadian voice actor ·
Jim Rome, American sports T.V. and radio
host ·
October 16 – Kathryn Edwards, American reality television
star ·
October 18 – John Swasey, American voice actor ·
Jorge Luis González,
Cuban boxer ·
Ty Pennington, American carpenter, model and
television personality ·
October 20 – Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator from California ·
Dražen Petrović,
Croatian basketball player (d. 1993) ·
Paul McStay, Scottish footballer ·
TobyMac, American-born Christian musician ·
October 23 – David Sobolov, Canadian voice actor and
director ·
Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer and composer ·
Paul Bonwick, Canadian House of Commons
member ·
Danny Mastrogiorgio,
American actor ·
Nicole,
German singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1982 winner ·
Kevin Michael
Richardson, American actor and voice actor ·
October 26 – Marc Lépine, Canadian mass murderer
(d. 1989) ·
– Onofrio Catacchio,
Italian artist ·
– Nyakweba Lawrence Ombasa, Kenyan teacher,
lecturer, entrepreneur and political aspirant ·
October 29 – Yasmin Le Bon, British model ·
Tabitha St. Germain,
American-born Canadian actress ·
Mark Steven Johnson,
American screenwriter, film director, and producer ·
Abdel latif Moubarak,
Egyptian poet ·
October 31 – Marco van Basten, Dutch footballer and
manager November[edit] ·
Daran Norris, American actor and voice actor ·
Grant Gee, English film maker, photographer
and cinematographer ·
November 3 – Paprika Steen, Danish actress ·
Douglas
Wilson, American television personality and interior designer ·
Kurt Krakowian, American child actor ·
Yūko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress
(d. 2016) ·
November 6 – Greg Graffin, American rock musician (Bad Religion) ·
November 7 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999) ·
Kenny Rogers,
American baseball player ·
Magnús Scheving,
Icelandic producer ·
Calista Flockhart,
American actress ·
Ai-Ai delas Alas, Filipino actress ·
David Ellefson, American rock bassist (Megadeth) ·
Barbara Stühlmeyer,
German musicologist, church musician and writer ·
Rev Run, African-American rapper (Run–D.M.C.) ·
Patrick Warburton,
American actor and voice artist ·
Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and
singer ·
Valeria Bruni
Tedeschi, Italian-French actress ·
November 17 – Mitch Williams, American baseball player ·
Rita Cosby, American television personality ·
Seth Joyner, African-American football
player ·
Susie Dent, British lexicographer ·
Fred Diamond, American mathematician ·
Shawn Holman, American baseball pitcher ·
Phil
Hughes, Irish footballer and coach ·
Eric Musselman, Sacramento Kings head coach ·
Nicholas Patrick, English astronaut ·
Peter Rohde, Carlton Football Club player ·
Shane Douglas, American wrestler ·
Liza Tarbuck, British actress and
broadcaster ·
Sean Foley,
British director, writer, comedian and actor ·
November 23 – Boyd Kestner, American actor ·
Conleth Hill, Irish actor ·
Chris Reccardi, American animator ·
Garret Dillahunt, American actor ·
Alistair McGowan, British actor and comedian ·
Gary Love, British actor and film director ·
Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier ·
November 27 – Robin Givens, African-American actress ·
Giorgi Bagaturov, Georgian-Armenian chess
grandmaster ·
Michael Bennet, American lawyer, businessman
and politician ·
Jorge Capitanich, Argentine politician ·
Ken Charlery, St Lucian international
footballer ·
Naoto Hori, Japanese football player ·
Paul Kostacopoulos,
American college baseball coach ·
Eugene Licorish, Grenadian long jumper ·
Michelle McKormick,
American talk radio personality ·
Oscar Muñoz,
Colombian wrestler ·
Zurab Sturua, Georgian chess grandmaster ·
Roy Tarpley, American former professional
basketball player ·
Craig
Wilson, American professional baseball player ·
Don Cheadle, African-American actor ·
Cork Graham, American author December[edit] ·
December 1 – Salvatore Schillaci,
Italian footballer ·
Darryl Hamilton, American baseball player
(d. 2015) ·
Scott George
Huckabay, American guitarist ·
Sertab Erener, Turkish
singer-songwriter, Eurovision Song
Contest 2003 winner ·
Jonathan
Goldstein, American actor ·
Marisa Tomei, American actress ·
Chelsea Noble, American actress ·
Hugo Blick, English filmmaker ·
Patrick Fabian, American actor ·
Roberta Close, Brazilian transgender model ·
Curtis Hughes, American wrestler ·
Peter Laviolette, American ice hockey coach ·
December 8 – Teri Hatcher, American actress ·
Larry Emdur, Australian game-show host ·
Hape Kerkeling, German actor, presenter and
comedian ·
Johannes B. Kerner,
German TV personality and sportscaster ·
Paul Landers, German rock musician (Rammstein) ·
Bobby Flay, American chef and host ·
Edith González,
Mexican actress ·
December 11 – John Mark Karr, American murder suspect ·
December 12 – Sabu, American professional wrestler ·
hide, Japanese musician (d. 1998) ·
Tony Roper,
American racing driver (d. 2000) ·
Rebecca Gibney, New Zealand-born actress ·
Antje Vowinckel, German radio artist and
musician ·
Karey Kirkpatrick,
American screenwriter and director ·
Jerry Ball, American football player ·
Denis Scheck, German literary critic and
journalist ·
Heike Drechsler, German track-and-field
athlete ·
Billy Ripken, American baseball player ·
Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player and
scout ·
Steve Marmel, American television writer and
producer ·
December 18 – Stone Cold Steve
Austin, American professional wrestler ·
Ben Becker, German film and theatre actor ·
Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball
player ·
December 22 – Mike
Jackson, former MLB pitcher ·
December 23 – Eddie Vedder, American rock singer (Pearl Jam) ·
December 26 – Elizabeth Kostova,
American author ·
December 29 – Michael Cudlitz, American actor ·
Sophie Ward, English actress ·
George Newbern, American actor and voice
actor ·
December 31 – Michael
McDonald, American actor and comedian Date unknown[edit] ·
Juan Carlos Alom, Cuban photographer ·
Fiona Joy Hawkins,
Australian composer and pianist ·
Famke Janssen, Dutch actress. Estimated year
of birth. ·
Jiang Yu, Chinese politician Deaths[edit] January[edit] Blessed Cyprian Michael
Iwene Tansi ·
January 5 – Leslie Holdsworth
Allen, Australian academic and poet (b. 1879) ·
January 7 – Cyril Davies, British blues musician
(b. 1932) ·
January 8 – Julius Raab, Austrian politician, 14th Chancellor of
Austria (b. 1891) ·
January 9 – Halide Edib
Adıvar, Turkish novelist (b. 1884) ·
January 11 – Bechara El Khoury,
2nd Prime Minister
of Lebanon and 6th President of Lebanon (b. 1890) ·
Tawfiq Canaan, Palestinian doctor (b. 1882) ·
Jack Teagarden, American jazz trombonist
(b. 1905) ·
January 17 – T. H. White, British author (b. 1906) ·
January 19 – Joe Weatherly, NASCAR championship driver (b. 1922) ·
Joseph Baumgartner,
German politician (b. 1904) ·
Joseph Schildkraut,
Austrian actor (b. 1896) ·
Lissy Arna, German actress (b. 1900) ·
Marc Blitzstein, American composer (b. 1905) ·
Benedetta Bianchi
Porro, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman and venerable
(b. 1936) ·
Lucila Gamero de
Medina, Honduranian novelist (b. 1873) ·
January 24 – Cyprian
Michael Iwene Tansi, Nigerian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1903) ·
Norman Z. McLeod, American film director
(b. 1898) ·
Waite Phillips, American oil man, banker and
real estate investor (b. 1883) ·
Adolfo Diaz Recinos, 2-time President of
Nicaragua (b. 1875) ·
Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913) February[edit] Infante
Alfonso, Duke of Calabria ·
Infante
Alfonso, Duke of Calabria (b. 1901) ·
Giuseppe Amato, Italian producer, director
and screenwriter (b. 1899) ·
February 5 – Matilde Moisant, American pilot (b. 1878) ·
February 6 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and
1st President of
the Philippines (b. 1869) ·
February 7 – Sofoklis Venizelos,
Greek politician, three-time Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1894) ·
Boshirō
Hosogaya, Japanese admiral (b. 1888) ·
Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist
(b. 1888) ·
February 10 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer
(b. 1905) ·
February 12 – Gerald Gardner
(Wiccan), founder of Wiccan religion (b. 1884) ·
February 13 – Paulino Alcántara,
Filipino-Spanish footballer (b. 1896) ·
February 15 – Reginald
Garrigou-Lagrange, French theologian (b. 1877) ·
February 18 – Joseph-Armand
Bombardier, Canadian inventor of the snowmobile and founder of Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907) ·
Alexander Archipenko,
Ukrainian-American sculptor (b. 1887) ·
Johnny Burke,
American lyricist (b. 1908) ·
Mariano Jesús Cuenco,
Filipino politician and writer (b. 1888) ·
Maurice Farman, French aircraft designer
(b. 1877) ·
Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924) ·
February 26 – F. F. E. Yeo-Thomas,
British World War II hero (b. 1901) ·
February 27 – Orry-Kelly, Australian-born costume designer
(b. 1897) ·
February 29 – Frank Albertson, American actor (b. 1909) March[edit] King Paul of Greece ·
March 1 – Davíð Stefánsson,
Icelandic poet (b. 1895) ·
March 4 – Edwin August, American actor and director
(b. 1883) ·
March 6 ·
Paul of Greece, King of Greece (b. 1901) ·
Edward Van Sloan, American actor (b. 1882) ·
March 9 – Paul von
Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870) ·
March 12 – Abbās
al-Aqqād, Egyptian journalist (b. 1889) ·
March 13 – Friedrich Lahrs, German architect (b. 1880) ·
March 18 ·
Sigfrid Edström,
Swedish industrialist, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870) ·
Norbert Wiener, American mathematician
(b. 1894) ·
March 19 – Leo Maximilian
Baginski, German entrepreneur (b. 1891) ·
March 20 – Brendan Behan, Irish poet and writer
(b. 1923) ·
March 22 – Addison Richards, American actor (b. 1887) ·
March 23 – Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904) ·
March 25 – Alfredo Bigatti, Argentine sculptor
(b. 1898) ·
March 30 – Birinchi Kumar Barua,
Indian folklorist (b. 1890) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Božidar Kunc, Yugoslav composer (b. 1903) ·
April 3 – Franz
Joseph, Prince of Hohenzollern-Emden (b. 1891) ·
April 4 – Georgia Caine, American actress (b. 1876) ·
April 5 – Douglas MacArthur,
U.S. Army general, Supreme Allied Commander in Japan after World War II
(b. 1880) ·
April 6 – Jigme Palden Dorji,
1st Prime Minister
of Bhutan (b. 1919) ·
April 13 – Veit Harlan, German film director (b. 1899) ·
April 14 ·
Tatyana Afanasyeva,
Soviet mathematician and physicist (b. 1876) ·
Rachel Carson, American biologist and
environmental writer (b. 1907) ·
April 18 ·
Fumio Asakura, Japanese sculptor (b. 1883) ·
Ben Hecht, American screenwriter (b. 1894) ·
April 20 ·
Joseph-Alphida Crete,
Canadian politician (b. 1890) ·
Dimitar Ganev, Bulgarian communist
politician, head of the State (b. 1890) ·
April 24 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895) ·
April 26 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (b. 1882) ·
April 29 ·
J. M. Kerrigan, Irish actor (b. 1884) ·
Wenceslao
Fernández Flórez, Spanish journalist and novelist (b. 1885) May[edit] ·
May 2 – Nancy
Astor, Viscountess Astor, American-born politician (b. 1879) ·
May 5 – Tadao Ikeda, Japanese director and
screenwriter (b. 1905) ·
May 6 – José Maza Fernández,
Chilean politician, lawyer and diplomat (b. 1889) ·
May 10 – Carol Haney, American dancer and actress
(b. 1924) ·
May 13 – Diana Wynyard, English actress (b. 1906) ·
May 17 – Steve Owen,
American football coach (New York Giants) and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1898) ·
May 21 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1882) ·
May 27 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian politician,
1st Prime Minister of
India (b. 1889) ·
May 30 ·
Dave MacDonald, sports car driver (b. 1936) ·
Eddie Sachs, auto racing driver (b. 1927) ·
Leó Szilárd, Hungarian-born American
physicist (b. 1898) June[edit] ·
June 3 ·
Raoul
Magrin-Vernerey, French army officer (b. 1892) ·
Frans Eemil
Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
June 6 ·
Prince Hermann of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (b. 1886) ·
Robert Warwick, American actor (b. 1878) ·
June 7 ·
Violet
Attlee, Countess Attlee, wife of former British PM Clement Attlee
(b. 1895) ·
Charlie Llewellyn,
first non-white South African Test cricketer (b. 1876) ·
June 8 – Carlos Quintanilla,
44th President of Bolivia (b. 1888) ·
June 9 – Max
Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born newspaper publisher
and politician (b. 1879)U ·
June 11 ·
Catharine
Carter Critcher, American painter (b. 1868) ·
John Eke, Swedish Olympic athlete (b. 1886) ·
Plaek
Phibunsongkhram, Thai field marshal and 3rd Prime Minister
of Thailand (b. 1897) ·
June 12 – Paul Carpenter,
American actor (b. 1921) ·
June 17 – Clarence G. Badger,
American film director (b. 1880) ·
June 18 – Giorgio Morandi, Italian painter (b. 1890) ·
June 21 ·
James Chaney, American civil rights activist
(b. 1943) ·
Andrew Goodman, American civil rights
activist (b. 1943) ·
Michael Schwerner,
American civil rights activist (b. 1939) ·
June 24 – Stuart Davis,
American painter (b. 1892) ·
June 25 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (b. 1888) ·
June 27 ·
Salvatore Aldisio,
Italian politician (b. 1890) ·
Mona Barrie, English actress (b. 1909) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Pierre Monteux, French conductor (b. 1875) ·
July 2 – Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, American
race car driver and a member of the NASCAR Hall of Fame (b. 1929) ·
July 4 – Hank Sylvern,
U.S. radio personality (b. 1908) ·
July 6 – Zeng Junchen, Sichuan's 'King of Opium'
(b. 1888) ·
July 7 – Lillian Copeland, American athlete (b. 1904) ·
July 11 – Maurice Thorez, leader of the French Communist
Party (b. 1900) ·
July 13 – Stephen Galatti, Director of AFS, American
Field Service (b. 1888) ·
July 14 – Prince Axel of Denmark (b. 1888) ·
July 15 – Luis Batlle Berres,
Uruguayan political figure, 30th President of Uruguay (b. 1897) ·
July 16 – Alfred Junge, German-born art director
(b. 1886) ·
July 21 – Jean Fautrier, French painter and sculptor
(b. 1898) ·
July 22 ·
Leonid Baratov, Soviet director (b. 1895) ·
Gildo Bocci, Italian actor (b. 1886) ·
July 23 – Thakin Kodaw Hmaing,
Burmese poet and politician (b. 1876) ·
July 25 – John Latham,
Australian politician, judge (b. 1877) ·
July 26 – William A. Seiter,
American film director (b. 1890) ·
July 29 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (b. 1885) ·
July 31 – Jim Reeves, American country singer (b. 1923) August[edit] Blessed Symeon Lukach ·
August 3 – Flannery O'Connor,
American writer (b. 1925) ·
August 6 – Sir Cedric Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1893) ·
August 7 – Aleksander Zawadzki,
Polish political figure, 12th President of Poland (b. 1899) ·
August 9 – Fontaine Fox, American cartoonist (b. 1884) ·
August 11 – André Aymard, French historian (b. 1900) ·
Isidro Fabela, Mexican judge and politician
(b. 1882) ·
Ian Fleming, British writer (b. 1908) ·
Ernst Kühnel, German art historian (b. 1882) ·
Dmitry
Dmitrievich Maksutov, Soviet astronomer and inventor (b. 1896) ·
August 13 – Mushtaq Hussain Khan,
Indian musician (b. 1878) ·
August 14 – Johnny Burnette, American singer (b. 1934) ·
August 18 – Mohammad Gul
Khan Momand, Afghani politician (b. 1885) ·
August 20 – Anthony de Francisci,
Italian-born American sculptor (b. 1887) ·
August 21 – Palmiro Togliatti,
leader of the Italian Communist
Party (b. 1893) ·
August 22 – Symeon Lukach, Soviet Eastern Catholic bishop, martyr and
blessed (b. 1893) ·
August 23 – Estella Canziani, British painter (b. 1887) ·
August 27 – Gracie Allen, American actress and comedian,
known as part of the comedy duo Burns and Allen (b. 1895) ·
August 28 – Lumsden Hare, Irish-born actor, theatre
director, and theatre producer ·
August 30 – Aleksei
Aleksandrovich Grechkin, Soviet commander (b. 1893) September[edit] ·
Glenn Albert Black,
American archaeologist (b. 1900) ·
Francisco
Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese military officer and politician,
12th President of
Portugal (b. 1894) ·
Alvin Cullum York, American hero of World War I (b. 1887) ·
September 5 – Angel Cruchaga
Santa María, Chilean writer (b. 1893) ·
September 6 – San Tiago Dantas, Brazilian journalist
(b. 1911) ·
Sir
George Abercromby, 8th Baronet, British baronet (b. 1886) ·
Herschel Bennett, American baseball player
of St. Louis Browns (b. 1896) ·
September 15 – Herbert Heywood,
American actor (b. 1881) ·
Clive Bell, English art critic (b. 1881) ·
Seán O'Casey, Irish writer (b. 1880) ·
September 21 – Otto Grotewohl, East German Communist
politician, 1st Prime Minister
of the German Democratic Republic (b. 1894) ·
September 23 – Fred M. Wilcox,
American film director (b. 1907) ·
Nacio Herb Brown, American songwriter
(b. 1896) ·
Harpo Marx, American comedian (b. 1888) ·
September 29 – Fred Tootell, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1902) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (b. 1887) ·
October 10 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, comedian and
dancer (b. 1892) ·
October 15 – Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist
(b. 1891) ·
October 19 – Russ Brown,
American actor (b. 1892) ·
October 20 – Herbert Hoover, American politician,
31st President
of the United States (b. 1874) ·
October 21 – Margaret Gibson,
American actress (b. 1894) ·
Khawaja Nazimuddin,
Pakistani political figure, 2nd Prime Minister
of Pakistan (b. 1894) ·
Whip Wilson, American actor (b. 1911) ·
October 25 – Joe
Henderson, American rhythm and blues and gospel music singer (b. 1937) ·
October 26 – Eric Edgar Cooke, Australian serial killer
(b. 1931) ·
Pierre Cartier,
French jeweller (b. 1878) ·
Rudolph Maté, Polish cinematographer
(b. 1898) ·
Claudio Ermelli, Italian actor (b. 1892) ·
Henry Larsen,
Canadian explorer (b. 1899) November[edit] Servant of God Franciszek Barda ·
Charles Walter
Allfrey, British general (b. 1895) ·
José Ramón Guizado,
Panamanian politician, 17th President of Panama (b. 1899) ·
Mabel Lucie Attwell,
British illustrator (b. 1879) ·
John S. Robertson,
Canadian film director (b. 1878) ·
November 6 – Hans von
Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1873) ·
Jimmie Dodd, American actor and television
personality (b. 1910) ·
Sam Newfield, American movie director
(b. 1899) ·
Franciszek Barda, Polish Roman Catholic clergyman and servant of
God (b. 1880) ·
Juan de Dios
Filiberto, Argentine violinist (b. 1885) ·
Eduard Steuermann,
Austrian-American pianist and composer (b. 1892) ·
November 12 – Rickard Sandler, Swedish politician,
20th Prime Minister
of Sweden (b. 1884) ·
November 13 – Oskar Becker, German philosopher (b. 1889) ·
November 14 – Heinrich von
Brentano, German politician (b. 1904) ·
November 18 – Tommaso Besozzi, Italian journalist
(b. 1903) ·
November 25 – Clarence Kolb, American actor (b. 1874) ·
November 28 – Charles Meredith,
American actor (b. 1894) ·
November 29 – Anne de Vries, Dutch writer (b. 1904) December[edit] ·
Marie-Clémentine
Anuarite Nengapeta, Congolese Roman Catholic religious sister, martyr
and blessed (b. 1939) ·
J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist
(b. 1892) ·
December 3 – Charles P.
Snyder, American admiral (b. 1879) ·
December 5 – V. Veerasingam, Ceylon Tamil teacher and
politician (b. 1892) ·
December 6 – Consuelo Vanderbilt,
Duchess of Marlborough (b. 1877) ·
December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet (b. 1887) ·
December 10 – Mariano
Rossell y Arellano, Guatemalan Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1894) ·
Sam Cooke, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1931) ·
Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888) ·
Alma Schindler Mahler, wife of Gustav Mahler (b. 1879) ·
December 13 – Ernesto Almirante,
Italian actor (b. 1877) ·
William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906) ·
Francisco Canaro, Uruguayan-born composer
(b. 1888) ·
December 17 – Victor Francis Hess,
Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1883) ·
December 21 – Carl Van Vechten, American writer and
photographer (b. 1880) ·
December 22 – Rosa Borja de Ycaza,
Ecuadorian writer (b. 1889) ·
December 24 – Kuksha of Odessa, Eastern Orthodox priest and saint
(b. 1875) ·
December 27 – Francesco Spoto, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
(b. 1924) ·
December 28 – Cliff Sterrett, American cartoonist
(b. 1883) ·
December 29 – Vladimir Favorsky,
Russian artist and engraver (b. 1886) ·
Gertrude Michael, American actress (b. 1911) ·
Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician,
8th Prime Minister
of Iceland (b. 1892) ·
Henry Maitland
Wilson, British field marshal (b. 1881) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay
Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr
Prokhorov ·
Chemistry – Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen ·
Literature – Jean-Paul Sartre ·
Peace – Martin Luther King
Jr. See also[edit] ·
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