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1970 (MCMLXX) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of
the 20th century,
and the 1st year of the 1970s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] New Year's Day, January 1: Philippines First Quarter Stormbegins ·
Unix time epoch reached at
00:00:00 UTC. ·
First Quarter Storm begin
in the Philippines. ·
January 5 – The 7.1 Mw Tonghai
earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a
maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000–14,621 were
killed and 26,783 were injured. ·
January 5 – The first episode of United
States soap opera All My Children is broadcast on
the ABC
television network. ·
January 11 – the Kansas City Chiefs shock
the football world by beating heavily favorite Minnesota Vikings 23-7
in Super Bowl IV. ·
January 14 – Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War. ·
January 14 – Diana Ross and The Supremes perform their farewell
live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Ross's
replacement, Jean Terrell, is
introduced onstage at the end of the last show. ·
January 15 – After a 32-month fight for
independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to
General Yakubu Gowon. ·
January 20 – The Greater London
Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding (the
barrier opens in 1981). ·
Five
lifeboatmen are killed when a Fraserburgh, Scotland vessel, The
Duchess of Kent, capsizes. ·
Pan American Airways offers
the first commercially scheduled Boeing 747 service from John
F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow
Airport. ·
January 23 – Joseph Fielding
Smith becomes the 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ·
January 26 – Mick Jagger is fined Ł200 for
possession of cannabis. ·
January 31 – I Want You Back became the Jackson 5's first Billboard No. 1 Hot 100
single. February[edit] ·
February 1 – The Benavidez rail
disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 236. ·
February 10 – An avalanche at Val-d'Isčre, France kills 41 tourists. ·
February 11 – Ohsumi,
Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket. February 11: Ohsumi (satellite) launched ·
February 13 – Black Sabbath's eponymous debut
album is released; often regarded as the first true heavy metalalbum. ·
February 14 – The iconic live
album The Who: Live at Leeds is recorded. ·
MacDonald
family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills
his wife and children at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it. ·
Author David Irving is ordered to pay
Ł40,000 libel damages to Capt. John Broome over his book The Destruction of Convoy PQ17. ·
February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty
of conspiring to
incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence
at the 1968
Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found
guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot. ·
February 19 – Poseidon bubble: shares in Australian nickel mining company Poseidon NL,
which stood at $0.80 in September 1969, peak at around $280 before the
speculative bubble bursts. ·
February 21 – Construction begins on
the Boğaziçi Bridge crossing
the Bosphorus in Istanbul. ·
February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within
the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
February 26 – Chevrolet releases the second
generation Camaro. March[edit] ·
March 1 – Rhodesia severs its last tie with the
United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic. ·
March 5 – The Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification
by 56 nations. ·
March 6 ·
A
bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and
meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing three
members of the organization. ·
Süleyman Demirel of AP forms
the new government of Turkey (32nd
government). ·
March 7 ·
Citroën introduces the SM at the Geneva Auto Salon. ·
A solar eclipse passes along the Atlantic
coast region. Totality is visible across southern Mexico and across the
southeast coast of the United States, Nantucket, and Nova Scotia. ·
March 12 – 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds in
the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater. ·
March 15 – The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita,
Osaka, Japan. ·
March 16 – The complete New English Bible is
published. ·
March 17 – The United States Army
charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the My Lai Massacre. ·
March 18 ·
General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and holds Queen Sisowath Kossamak under
house arrest. ·
United
States Postal Service workers in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state
of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal
employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City
post offices. The strike lasts two weeks. ·
March 20 – The Agency for Cultural and
Technical Co-operation (ACCT) (Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique) is
founded. ·
March 21 ·
The
first Earth Day proclamation is issued
by San Francisco
Mayor Joseph Alioto. ·
All Kinds of
Everything,
sung by Dana (music
and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1970 for Ireland. ·
March 31 ·
NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft,
reenters Earth's atmosphere after
12 years in orbit. ·
Japan Airlines
Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Armymembers.
All passengers are eventually freed. April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
American
President Richard Nixon signs
the Public
Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in
the United States from January 1, 1971. ·
American
Motors Corporation introduces the Gremlin. April 1: New car – AMC Gremlin ·
The 1970 United
States Census begins. There are 203,392,031 United States
residents on this day. ·
April 4 – Fragments of burnt human
remains believed to be those of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children are
crushed and scattered in the Biederitz river at a KGB center
in Magdeburg, East Germany. ·
April 6 – BBC Radio 4 broadcasts the first edition
of PM. ·
April 8 ·
A
huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan kills 79 and injures over 400. ·
Israeli
Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter
bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is
known as Bahr el-Baqar
massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two
air-to-ground missiles. ·
April 10 ·
In
a press release written in mock-interview style, that is included in
promotional copies of his first solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he has
left The Beatles.[1] ·
April 11 ·
An avalanche at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps kills 74, mostly young
boys. ·
Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon. ·
April 13 – An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing
the crew to abort the mission and return in four days. ·
April 16 ·
Rev. Ian Paisley wins a by-election to gain a seat in the House
of Commons of Northern Ireland. ·
The National Westminster Bank begins
trading in the United Kingdom. ·
April 17 – Apollo program: Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific. April 17: Apollo 13crew after splashdown ·
April 21 – The Principality
of Hutt River "secedes" from Australia (it remains unrecognised by
Australia and other nations). ·
April 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S. ·
April 24 – China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched into orbit
using a Long March-1
Rocket (CZ-1). ·
April 26 – The World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is founded. ·
April 29 – The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; widespread, large antiwar
protests occur in the U.S. May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Demonstrations
against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000. ·
President Richard Nixon orders U.S. forces to
cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking protests across the
United States and leading to the Kent State shootings. ·
May 4 – Kent State shootings:
Four students at Kent State
University in Ohio,
USA are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National
Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia. ·
May 6 ·
Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of
the Irish Government,
for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by
the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland. ·
Feyenoord wins the European Cup after
a 2–1 win over Celtic. ·
May 8 ·
Hard Hat Riot: Unionized construction
workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near
the intersection of Wall Streetand Broad Street and
at New York City Hall. ·
The Beatles release their 12th and
final album, Let It Be. ·
The New York Knicks win their first NBA championship,
defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 113-99
in Game 7 of the world championship series at Madison Square
Garden. ·
May 9 – In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate
against the Vietnam War. ·
May 10 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr scores a goal 40 seconds into
overtime for a 4–3 victory which completes a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Blues. ·
May 11 ·
Henry Marrow is
killed in an alleged hate crime in Oxford, North
Carolina. ·
Lubbock tornado:
An F5 tornado hits
downtown Lubbock, Texas,
the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966;
26 are killed. ·
May 12 – The 1976 Winter Olympics are
awarded to Denver, Colorado but it is later rejected
in 1972. ·
May 14 ·
Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create
the Red Army Faction which
exists until 1998. ·
In
the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State
University in Jackson, Mississippi,
state law enforcement officers fire into the
demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12. ·
May 17 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean. ·
May 23 – A fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait near Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales, contributing to its partial
destruction and amounting to approximately Ł1,000,000 worth of fire damage. ·
May 24 – The scientific drilling of
the Kola Superdeep
Borehole begins in the USSR. ·
May 26 – The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first
commercial transport to exceed Mach 2. ·
May 27 – A British expedition climbs
the south face of Annapurna I. ·
May 31 ·
The
7.9 Mw Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with
a maximum Mercalli intensity of
VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794–70,000 were
killed and 50,000 were injured. ·
The 1970 FIFA World Cup is
inaugurated in Mexico. June[edit] ·
June 1 – Soyuz 9, a two-man spacecraft, is
launched in the Soviet Union. ·
June 2 – Norway announces it has rich
oil deposits off its North Sea coast. ·
June 4 – Tonga gains independence from the
United Kingdom. ·
June 7 – The Who become the first act to perform
rock music (their rock opera, Tommy) at the Metropolitan
Opera House, New York. ·
June 8 – A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of
service chiefs; on June 18, Roberto M.
Levingston becomes President. ·
June 11 – The United States gets its
first female generals, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P.
Hoisington. ·
June 12 – NDFLOAG guerrillas attack military
garrisons at Izki and Nizwa in Oman. ·
June 13 – The Long and
Winding Road becomes the Beatles' 20th and final single to reach
number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. ·
June 15 – Operation
Wedding: fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by
hijacking a plane. ·
June 18 – United
Kingdom general election, 1970: the Conservative
Party wins and Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister,
ousting the Labour government
of Harold Wilson after
nearly six years in power. The election result is something of a surprise, as
most of the opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win.[2] ·
June 19 – The Patent
Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law,
providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to
protect inventions. ·
June 21 ·
Brazil defeats Italy 4–1
to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in
Mexico. ·
Penn
Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, the largest ever US corporate
bankruptcy up to this date. ·
June 23 – The film: Kelly's Heroes is released in the
US. ·
June 24 – The United States Senate repeals
the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution of 1964. ·
June 28 – U.S. ground troops withdraw
from Cambodia. ·
June 30 – Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati opens. July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Colorado
State College changes its name to University
of Northern Colorado. ·
The U.S. Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) is subordinated to Public
Health Service. ·
July 3 – The French Army detonates a
914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the Mururoa Atoll. It is their fourth and
largest nuclear test. ·
July 4 ·
A
chartered Dan-Air De Havilland Comet crashes into
the mountains north of Barcelona; at least 112
people are killed. ·
Bob Hope and other entertainers gather
in Washington, D.C. for Honor
America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event. ·
Longtime
radio music countdown show American Top 40 debuts on 5 U.S.
stations with Casey Kasem as
host. ·
July 5 – Air Canada Flight
621 crashes at Toronto
International Airport, Toronto, Ontario; all 109 passengers and crew are
killed. ·
July 11 – The first tunnel under
the Pyrenees links the towns of Aragnouet (France) and Bielsa (Spain). ·
July 12 – Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives
in Barbados. ·
July 16 – Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens. ·
July 21 – The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed. ·
July 23 ·
Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman,
is deposed in a palace coup by his son, Qaboos. ·
Two CS gas canisters are thrown into the
chamber of the British
House of Commons. ·
July 30 – Damages totalling Ł485,528
are awarded to 28 Thalidomide victims. ·
July 31 – NBC anchor Chet Huntley retires from full-time
broadcasting. August[edit] ·
August 7 – Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court
Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George
Jackson from police custody. ·
The
United States sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas. ·
Venera program: Venera 7 is launched toward Venus.
It later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the
surface of another planet. ·
August 24 – Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling
Hall at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the
perpetrators. ·
Women's
Strike for Equality takes place down Fifth Avenue in New York City. ·
The Isle of Wight
Festival 1970 begins on East Afton Farm off the coast of
England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time.
Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake
& Palmer, The Moody Bluesand Jethro Tull. ·
August 29 – Chicano Moratorium against
the Vietnam War, East Los
Angeles, California. Police riot kills three people, including
journalist Rubén Salazar. September[edit] ·
September 1 – An assassination attempt
against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates
the Black September crisis. ·
September 3–6 – Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas
in southern Lebanon. ·
Vietnam War – Operation
Jefferson Glenn: The United States
101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division
initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends
in October 1971). ·
Formula One driver Jochen Rindt is killed in qualifying
for the Italian Grand
Prix. He becomes World
Driving Champion anyhow, first to earn the honor
posthumously. ·
September 6 – Dawson's Field
hijackings, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks
four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich. ·
An
anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. ·
Fighting
breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan. ·
September 8–10 – The Jordanian government and Palestinian
guerillas make repeated unsuccessful truces. ·
Guinea recognizes the German
Democratic Republic. ·
Elvis Presley begins his first concert
tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Veterans
Memorial Coliseum. ·
Cambodian government forces break the
siege of Kompong Tho after three months. ·
The Chevrolet Vega is introduced. ·
September 11 – The Ford Pinto is introduced. ·
The
covert incursion of Operation Tailwind is
instigated by the American forces in southeast Laos. ·
The
first New York City Marathon begins. ·
September 15 – King Hussein of Jordan forms
a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister. ·
September 17 – "Black September": King Hussein of Jordan orders
the Jordanian Armed
Forces to oust Palestinian fedayeen from
Jordan. ·
September 18 – American musician Jimi Hendrix dies at age 27 from
an overdose of sleeping pills. ·
September 19 – The first Glastonbury Festival is
held, at a farm belonging to Michael Eavis. ·
September 19 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of
geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a
protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios
Papadopoulos. ·
Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border. ·
Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with
samples. It lands on Earth September 24. ·
Palestinian armed
forces reinforce guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan. ·
Monday Night
Football debuts
on ABC;
the Cleveland Browns defeat
the New York Jets 31–21
in front of more than 85,000 fans at Cleveland Stadium. ·
The International
Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is founded. ·
Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns
as prime minister of Malaysia, and is
succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak. ·
September 23 – The first women's only
tennis tournament begins in Houston, known as the Houston
Women's Invitation. ·
September 24 – The Odd
Couple premiered on ABC. ·
September 26 – The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, burning 175,425 acres
(709.92 km2). ·
Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ireland. ·
Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of
Ávila as the first female Doctor of the Church. ·
September 28 – Gamal Abdel Nasser dies;
Vice President Anwar Sadat is
named temporary president of Egypt. ·
The
U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms
to Israel. ·
In Berlin, Red Army Faction members rob three
banks, with loot totaling over DM200,000. October[edit] "October
1970" redirects here. For other uses, see October
1970 (disambiguation). ·
Under
the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA)
Corps, one of seven federal uniformed
services of the United States, is renamed to NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps under
the soon to be formed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA). ·
The Wichita State University football
team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They
were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State
University. ·
Pink Floyd releases Atom Heart Mother.
It becomes their first number one album. ·
In Lebanon, the government of Prime
Minister Rashid Karami resigns. ·
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
is formed. ·
The
Weather Bureau is renamed to National Weather
Service, as part of NOAA. ·
Pope Paul VI names Saint Catherine
of Siena as the second female Doctor of the Church. ·
American
singer Janis Joplin dies
at age 27 from an overdose of drugs. ·
Jochen Rindt becomes Formula One World
Driving Champion, first to earn the honor posthumously. ·
In Bolivia, Army Commander General Rogelio Miranda and a group of officers
rebel and demand the resignation of President Alfredo Ovando
Candía, who fires him. ·
National
Educational Television ends operations, being succeeded
by PBS. ·
U.S.
President Richard Nixon's
European tour ends. ·
The Front de
libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands
release of all its imprisoned members. The next day the Canadian government
announces it will not meet the demand, beginning Quebec's October Crisis. ·
The Public
Broadcasting Service begins broadcasting. ·
Bolivian
President Alfredo Ovando
Candía resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns
soon after. ·
French
President Georges Pompidou visits
the Soviet Union. ·
October 7 – General Juan José Torres becomes
the new President of Bolivia. ·
The
U.S. Foreign Office announces the renewal of arms sales to Pakistan. ·
Soviet
author Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature. ·
Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S.
President Richard Nixon's October 7 peace proposal as "a
maneuver to deceive world opinion." ·
October 9 – The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia which begins the Civil War with
the Khmer Rouge. ·
Fiji becomes
independent. ·
October Crisis: In Montreal, a national crisis hits Canada
when Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second
statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist
group. ·
October 11 – Eleven French soldiers are
killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad. ·
October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United
States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas. ·
Canada
and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations. ·
Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon. ·
October 14 – A Chinese nuclear test is
conducted in Lop Nor. ·
In Egypt, a referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%. ·
A
section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river
below, killing 35 construction workers. ·
The
domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is
hijacked and diverted to Turkey. ·
October 16 – October Crisis: The Canadian government
declares a state of emergency and
outlaws the Quebec Liberation
Front. ·
October
Crisis: Pierre Laporte is
found murdered in south Montreal. ·
A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul. ·
Anwar Sadat officially becomes
President of Egypt. ·
The
Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe. ·
Egyptian
president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister. ·
October 21 – A U.S. Air Force plane
makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the
American officers, including two generals, November 10. ·
October 22 – Chilean army commander René Schneider is
shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider
dies October 25. ·
October 23 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record
in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural
gas. ·
October 24 – Salvador Allende is elected President
of Chile. ·
October 25 – The wreck of the
Confederate submarine Hunley is
found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater
archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence,[3]then
just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history
to sink a ship in warfare. ·
October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately
two dozen newspapers in the United States. ·
In Jordan, the government of Ahmad Toukan resigns; the next prime
minister is Wasfi al-Tal. ·
A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia
causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia. ·
Gary Gabelich drives the
rocket-powered Blue Flame to
an official land speed record at
622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h)[4] on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt
Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h,
stands for nearly 13 years. ·
October 30 – In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years
causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless
and virtually halts the Vietnam War. November[edit] ·
Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont,
France, kills 146. ·
Three
Pakistanis and a Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, Zygfryd
Wolniak [pl], are killed at Karachi airport, Pakistan. ·
Democrats
sweep the U.S.
Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of
California; Jimmy Carter is
elected governor of Georgia. ·
Salvador Allende becomes president
of Chile. ·
Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States turns
control of the air base in
the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam. ·
Social
workers in Los Angeles take
custody of Genie, a
girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth. ·
November 5 – Vietnam War: The United
States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly
American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which
is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported
wounded that week, however). ·
Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form
a federation. ·
Tom Dempsey, who was born with a deformed
right foot and right hand, sets a National
Football League record by kicking a 63-yard field goal to
lift the New Orleans Saints to
a 19–17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium. ·
The
British comedy television series, The Goodies debuts
on BBC Two. ·
The
Soviet Union launches Luna 17. ·
Vietnam
War: The Supreme
Court of the United States votes 6–3 not to hear a case by
the state of Massachusetts,
about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents
the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war. ·
November 10 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: For the first time in five
years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States combat fatalities
in Southeast Asia. ·
November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three
years for 'anti-Soviet' writings. ·
Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military
coup within the Ba'ath Party. ·
1970 Bhola cyclone:
A 120-mph (193 km/h) tropical cyclone hits the densely
populated Ganges Delta region
of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000
people (considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster). It
gives rise to the temporary island of New Moore /
South Talpatti. ·
Southern
Airways Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County,
West Virginia; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches
from the Marshall University footballteam,
are killed. ·
The
Soviet Union enters the ICAO, making Russian the
fourth official language of the organization. ·
November 16 – The Lockheed L-1011
TriStar flies for the first time. ·
Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for
the My Lai Massacre. ·
Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the
Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another
world, and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. ·
U.S.
President Richard Nixon asks
the U.S.
Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US $85 million is
for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of
Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam). ·
The United
Nations Security Council demands that no government
recognize Rhodesia. ·
November 19 – European
Economic Community prime ministers meet in Munich. ·
November 20 – The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted
by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall,
London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same
evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside
broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade,
in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa. ·
Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government
but retains the post of defense minister. ·
In Ethiopia, the Eritrean
Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general. ·
Vietnam War – Operation Ivory
Coast: A joint Air Force and
Army team raids the Sơn Tây prison
camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (no
Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp;
all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result
of this raid). ·
Australian
Senate election, 1970: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led
by Prime
Minister John Gorton and
the Labor Party led
by Gough Whitlam each
ended up with 26 seats; both suffering a swing against them. The Democratic
Labor Party won an additional seat and held the balance of
power in the Senate. To
date, this was the last occasion where a Senate election was held without an
accompanying House
Of Representatives election. ·
November 22 – Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses
Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the
capital Conakry. ·
November 23–24 – The Guinean army repels the
landing attempts. ·
Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Oklahoma! makes its network TV
debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as
a three-hour Thanksgiving special. ·
The American Indian
Movement seizes a replica of the Mayflower in Boston. ·
November 25–29 – A U.N. delegation arrives to
investigate the Guinea situation. ·
November 25 – In Tokyo, author
and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take
over the headquarters of the Japan
Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to
sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including
restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide). ·
East
Pakistan leader Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman accuses the central government of negligence in
catastrophe relief. ·
Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour. ·
November 27 – Bolivian artist Benjamin
Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila. ·
November 28 – The Montréal Alouettes defeated
the Calgary Stampeders to
become victors in the 58th Grey Cup 23–10.[5] ·
November 30 – British Caledonian Airways
Ltd. (BCal) is formed. December[edit] The World
Trade Center, Lower Manhattan ·
The
Italian House of Representatives accepts the new divorce law. ·
Ethiopia recognizes the People's
Republic of China. ·
The Basque ETA kidnaps
West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián. ·
Luis Echeverría becomes president of Mexico. ·
December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency is
established. ·
October
Crisis: In Montreal, kidnapped
British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de
libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage
for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of
Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe
passage to Cuba. ·
Burgos
Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins. ·
The
Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of
Guipuzco, over strikes and demonstrations. ·
The
U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the
attempted invasion of Guinea. ·
The
Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends. ·
Fluminense wins the Brazil
Football Championship. ·
Giovanni
Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the
release of 70 political prisoners. ·
The
U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies. ·
During
his visit to the Polish capital, German
Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in
front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, which will become known as
the Warschauer Kniefall ("Warsaw
Genuflection"). ·
December 12 – A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead. ·
December 13 – The government of Poland
announces food price increases. Riots and looting lead to a bloody
confrontation between the rioters and the government on December 15. ·
The
USSR's Venera 7 becomes
the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to
Earth. ·
The
South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korea Strait; 308 people are killed. ·
December 16 – The Ethiopian government
declares a state of emergency in
the county of Eritrea over the activities of the Eritrean
Liberation Front. ·
December 17 – Polish 1970 protests:
Soldiers fire on civilians returning to work in Gdynia. Martial law is imposed in the
country until December 22. ·
General
Secretary of the Polish
United Workers' Party, Władysław
Gomułka, resigns; Edward Gierek replaces him. ·
An
Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid. ·
December 21 – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes
its first flight. ·
The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares
that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country. ·
Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka, is sentenced to life
imprisonment. ·
The
Polish government freezes food prices for two years. ·
The Bolivian government releases Régis Debray. ·
The
North Tower of the World
Trade Center in New York City is topped out at 1,368
feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world. ·
Law
70-001 is enacted in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, amending article 4 of the constitution and
making the country a one-party state. ·
December 25 – The ETA releases
Eugen Beihl. ·
December 27 – President of India V. V. Giri declares new
elections. ·
Burgos
Trial: Three Basques are sentenced to death, twelve others sentenced to
imprisonment (terms from 12 to 62 years), and one is released. ·
The
suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques and Paul Rose and
Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal. ·
December 29 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational
Safety and Health Act. ·
December 30 – In Viscaya in
the Basque
country of Spain, 15,000 go on strike in protest at the
Burgos trial death sentences. Francisco Franco commutes the sentences
to 30 years in prison. ·
December 31 – Paul McCartney sues in Britain to
dissolve The Beatles's
legal partnership. Date unknown[edit] ·
The
first Regional
Technical Colleges open in Ireland. ·
Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress,
disappears. ·
The Sweet Track is discovered in England.
It was the world's oldest engineered roadway at the time of its discovery. ·
Alvin Toffler publishes his book Future Shock. ·
Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik
Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is
established in Germany. ·
Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens
in Palo Alto,
California. ·
The American
Football League and NFL merge, creating the National
Football Conference and American
Football Conference. All AFL teams go to the AFC with a few NFL
teams while the NFC is composed entirely of NFL teams. World population[edit]
Births[edit]
January[edit] ·
January 1 – Sergei Kiriakov, Russian footballer and
manager ·
Royce Clayton, American baseball player ·
Oksana Omelianchik,
Soviet artistic gymnast ·
Eric Whitacre, American composer ·
January 3 – Christian Duguay,
American comic actor ·
January 4 – Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler
(d. 2010) ·
Julie Chen, American television news anchor
and host ·
Keenan McCardell, American football player ·
Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player
and model ·
Todd Day, American basketball player ·
Doug E. Doug, American comedian, actor and
director ·
Nick
Miller, British weather forecaster ·
Adam Reed, American voice actor and animator ·
January 9 – Lara Fabian, Canadian/Belgian singer ·
January 12 – Zack de la Rocha, American musician ·
Keith Coogan, American actor ·
Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004) ·
Shonda Rhimes, American TV producer and
writer ·
January 15 – Jamie Bishop
(cricketer), Welsh cricketer (d. 2015) ·
Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player ·
Genndy Tartakovsky,
Russian animator ·
January 18 – DJ Quik, American rapper and producer ·
Tim Foster, British rower ·
Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian ·
Kerri Kenney-Silver,
American actress ·
Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and
musician ·
Skeet Ulrich, American actor ·
January 22 – Alex Ross,
American comic artist ·
January 24 – Matthew Lillard, American actor ·
January 27 – Adam Brand,
Australian singer ·
Heather Graham, American actress ·
Janice Kawaye, American voice actress ·
Rajyavardhan
Singh Rathore, Indian shooter ·
Paul Ryan, American politician,
long-time U.S. Representative since
1999 and Speaker of the House since 2015; 2012 Republican
nominee for Vice
President under Mitt Romney ·
Minnie Driver, English actress ·
Chen Lin,
Chinese Mandopop singer (d. 2009) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Malik Sealy, American basketball player
(d. 2000) ·
February 2 – Andrew J. Olmsted,
major in the U.S. Army. (d. 2008) ·
Keith Carney, American hockey player ·
Warwick Davis, English actor ·
Stephanie Courtney,
American actress and comedian ·
John Filan, Australian footballer ·
Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player ·
February 9 – Glenn McGrath, Australian test cricketer ·
Sarah Aldrich, American actress ·
Ardy Wiranata, Indonesian badminton player ·
February 11 – Fredrik Thordendal,
Swedish musician ·
February 12 – Judd Winick, American cartoonist and comic
book writer ·
Sean Hill,
American hockey player ·
Simon Pegg, British comedian, actor, and
screenwriter ·
February 15 – Shepard Fairey, American temporary street
artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator, and founder of OBEY (clothing) ·
February 16 – Armand Van Helden,
American DJ and music producer ·
Tommy Moe, American Alpine skier ·
Dominic Purcell, English-Australian actor ·
Susan Egan, American actress ·
Raine Maida, Canadian musician, frontman
of Our Lady Peace ·
February 19 – Miisa, Finnish Eurodance artist (d. 2016) ·
February 21 – Dayna Devon, American news anchor ·
Nicole Oliver, Canadian actress ·
Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player ·
February 24 – Jeff Garcia, American football player ·
Linda Brava, Finnish violinist ·
Cathrine Lindahl, Swedish curler ·
February 27 – Matthias Lechner, German art director ·
Rupert Hamer,
British journalist (d. 2010) ·
Noureddine Morceli,
Algerian athlete March[edit] ·
March 1 – Jason V Brock, American author, filmmaker,
artist, scholar and musician ·
March 2 – Alexander Armstrong,
English comedian, actor and presenter ·
March 3 – Julie Bowen, American actress ·
March 5 ·
John Frusciante, American rock musician ·
Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013) ·
Aleksandar
Vučić, President of Serbia ·
March 7 ·
Vladislav Adelkhanov,
Russian classical violinist and writer ·
Jeff Hordley, English actor ·
Rachel Weisz, British-American actress ·
March 8 – Jason Elam, American football player ·
March 9 – Simon Monjack, British screenwriter, film
director (d. 2010) ·
March 10 ·
Antonio Edwards, American football player ·
Michel van der Aa,
Dutch composer ·
March 11 – Jane Slavin, British actress and author ·
March 12 – John Nemechek, American race car driver
(d. 1997) ·
March 13 – Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (d. 2017) ·
March 14 – Meredith Salenger,
American actress ·
March 15 – Christine Anu, Notable Australian singer ·
March 16 ·
Oleg Pavlov, Russian writer (d. 2018) ·
Paul Oscar (Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson),
Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey ·
March 18 – Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress ·
March 20 ·
Bernhard Hoëcker,
German comedian ·
Michele Jaffe, American novelist ·
Andrew Kishino, Canadian-American actor,
voice actor, and rapper ·
Linda Larkin, American actress and voice
actress ·
Michael Rapaport, American actor ·
March 21 ·
Jaya, Filipino pop singer ·
Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress
(d. 2000) ·
Cenk Uygur, American media personality ·
March 22 – Leontien van Moorsel,
Dutch cyclist ·
March 24 ·
Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress ·
Sharon Corr, Irish musician ·
March 27 ·
Mariah Carey, American singer ·
Maribel Díaz Cabello,
Peruvian educator, First Lady of Peru ·
Elizabeth Mitchell,
American actress ·
Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d. 2001) ·
March 28 – Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer, and
producer ·
March 31 ·
Alenka Bratušek,
7th Prime Minister
of Slovenia ·
Samantha Brown, American television host April[edit] ·
April 4 ·
Sean Kelly,
Canadian musician ·
Barry Pepper, Canadian actor ·
April 7 – Rosey, Samoan-American professional wrestler
(d. 2017) ·
April 8 – Andrej
Plenković, 12th Prime Minister
of Croatia ·
April 10 ·
Q-Tip, American musician and actor ·
Kenny Lattimore, American R&B singer ·
April 11 – Trevor Linden, Canadian hockey player ·
April 12 – Nick Hexum, American musician ·
April 13 ·
Eduardo Capetillo,
Mexican actor and singer ·
Ricky Schroder, American actor ·
April 14 ·
Matt Allwright, English television presenter
and journalist ·
Shizuka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress ·
April 15 – Flex Alexander, American actor ·
April 17 – Redman, American rapper and actor ·
April 18 ·
Heike Friedrich, German swimmer ·
Saad Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister
of Lebanon ·
April 19 – Luis Miguel, Mexican singer ·
April 20 ·
Sven Benken, German footballer and Manager ·
Shemar Moore, American actor ·
Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer ·
April 21 ·
Rob Riggle, American actor and comedian ·
Nicole Sullivan, American actress, comedian,
and writer ·
April 22 – Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and
actress ·
April 23 ·
Sadao Abe, Japanese actor ·
Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league
footballer ·
Hans Välimäki,
Finnish cook ·
April 25 ·
Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress
(d. 2011) ·
Jason Lee,
American skateboarder and actor ·
April 26 ·
Melania Trump, Slovenian model, First
Lady of the United States ·
Tionne Watkins, American actress and
singer-songwriter ·
April 28 ·
Nicklas Lidström,
Swedish hockey player ·
Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer and
manager ·
April 29 ·
Andre Agassi, American tennis player ·
Uma Thurman, American actress ·
April 30 – Halit Ergenç, Turkish actor May[edit] ·
May 1 – Dave Willis, American voice actor and
producer ·
May 3 ·
Bobby Cannavale, American actor ·
Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer ·
May 4 ·
Will Arnett, Canadian actor ·
Karla Homolka, Canadian serial killer and
rapist ·
May 5 ·
Kyan Douglas, American television
personality ·
Todd Newton, American television personality ·
May 6 ·
Roland Kun, Nauruan politician ·
Kavan Smith, Canadian actor ·
May 8 ·
Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer ·
Luis Enrique,
Spanish footballer ·
Naomi Klein, American cultural critic ·
May 9 ·
Doug Christie,
American basketball player and TV personality ·
Ghostface Killah, American rapper ·
May 10 ·
Angelica Agurbash,
Belarusian singer and model ·
Craig Mack, American rapper (d. 2018) ·
May 12 ·
Eric Champion, American Christian musician ·
Samantha Mathis, American actress ·
May 14 – Daniel Lewin, American-Israeli mathematician
and entrepreneur (d. 2001) ·
May 15 ·
Ronald and Frank de Boer, Dutch footballers ·
Prince Be, American rapper, singer, and
record producer (P.M. Dawn) (d. 2016) ·
Rod Smith,
American football player ·
May 16 – Gabriela Sabatini,
Argentine tennis player ·
May 17 ·
Jordan Knight, American singer ·
Fadwa Soliman, Syrian actress and voice
actress ·
May 18 – Tina Fey, American comedian and actress ·
May 19 ·
K.J. Choi, South Korean golfer ·
Mario Dumont, Canadian politician ·
Jason Gray-Stanford,
Canadian actor ·
May 20 ·
Juliana Pasha, Albanian singer ·
Louis Theroux, British documentary filmmaker
and broadcaster ·
May 22 – Naomi Campbell, British model and actress ·
May 23 ·
Matt Flynn,
American musician ·
Robert Peirce,
American attorney ·
May 24 ·
Tommy Page, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2017) ·
Jeff Zgonina, American football player ·
May 25 ·
Lindsay and
Sidney Greenbush, American actress ·
Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian ·
Octavia Spencer, American actress ·
Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress ·
May 26 ·
John Hamburg, American writer and director ·
Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist ·
May 27 ·
Joseph Fiennes, British actor ·
Bianka Panova, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast ·
May 28 – Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002) ·
May 30 – Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Alison Hinds, British-Barbadian soca artist
based in Barbados ·
Alexi Lalas, American soccer player ·
R. Madhavan, Indian film actor ·
Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer ·
June 2 – B-Real, American rapper ·
June 3 ·
Ammon McNeely, American rock climber ·
Peter Tägtgren,
Swedish musician ·
June 4 ·
Donald Farley, Canadian cross-country skier
(d. 2016) ·
Izabella Scorupco,
Polish model and actress ·
June 5 ·
John Marquez,
British actor and cinematographer ·
Deborah Yates, American dancer and actress ·
June 6 ·
Dulmatin, militant group Jemaah Islamiyah
(d. 2010) ·
Angad Paul, British businessman and film
producer. (d. 2015) ·
June 7 ·
Ronaldo da Costa, Brazilian long-distance
runner ·
Mike Modano, American hockey player ·
June 8 ·
Gabrielle Giffords,
American politician ·
Kelli Williams, American actress ·
June 10 – Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer ·
June 11 – Cristina Pucelli, American actress ·
June 13 ·
Cheryl
"Coko" Clemons, American singer ·
Rivers Cuomo, American musician ·
Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004) ·
June 15 ·
Claus Norreen, Danish musician ·
Leah Remini, American actress ·
June 16 ·
Younus AlGohar, Pakistani spiritualist ·
Phil Mickelson, American golfer ·
June 17 ·
Will Forte, American actor and comedian ·
Michael Showalter,
American actor, writer, and director ·
Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer ·
June 18 – Katie Derham, British newsreader ·
June 19 – Quincy Watts, American athlete ·
June 20 ·
Russell
Garcia, British field hockey player ·
Moulay
Rachid, Prince of Morocco ·
Michelle Reis, Hong Kong actress and beauty
queen ·
Athol Williams, South African poet and
social philosopher ·
June 21 – Pete Rock, American rapper and DJ ·
June 22 ·
Michel Elefteriades,
Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman ·
Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor ·
Michael Trucco, American actor ·
June 23 ·
Zen Gesner, American actor ·
Christian Meier, Peruvian actor and singer ·
June 24 ·
Glenn Medeiros, American singer and
songwriter ·
Andres Raag, Estonian actor and singer ·
June 25 ·
Lucy Benjamin, British actress ·
Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist ·
June 25 – Pan Lingling, Singaporean actress ·
June 26 ·
Paul Thomas Anderson,
American screenwriter and director ·
Sean Hayes,
American actor ·
Patrick Norton, American writer and
television host ·
Chris O'Donnell, American actor ·
Nick Offerman, American actor, writer and
carpenter ·
David Teeuwen, managing editor of USA Today
where he helped pioneer digital news. (d. 2015) ·
June 27 ·
Ahmed Ahmed, Egyptian-born American actor
and comedian ·
Jim Edmonds, American baseball player ·
Jo Frost, English nanny and television host ·
June 28 ·
Steve Burton,
American actor ·
Mike White,
American writer, director, actor and producer ·
June 29 – Mike Vallely, American skateboarder, actor,
and musician ·
June 30 ·
Emmanuel Mouret, French actor, director and
screenwriter ·
Leonardo Sbaraglia,
Argentine actor ·
Erica Sjöström,
Swedish female singer and saxophonist July[edit] ·
July 1 – Henry Simmons, American actor ·
July 2 ·
Derrick Adkins, American Olympic athlete ·
Yap Kim Hock, Malaysian badminton player ·
Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer ·
Kym Ng, Singaporean television host and
actress ·
Spice 1, American rapper ·
July 3 ·
Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player ·
Audra McDonald, American actress and singer ·
July 5 ·
Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004) ·
O.G. Style, American hip hop duo (d. 2008) ·
July 6 – Demonaz Doom Occulta,
Norwegian musician ·
July 7 ·
Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer ·
Masai Ujiri, Nigerian professional
basketball executive ·
Akram Abdel-Majeed,
Egyptian professional footballer ·
July 8 ·
Beck,
American singer-songwriter and record producer ·
Taiei Kin, Korean-Japanese karateka,
kickboxer and mixed martial artist ·
Atul Agnihotri, Indian film actor, producer,
and director ·
Micky Hoogendijk, Dutch actress, presenter,
model and professional photographer ·
July 9 – Trent Green, American football quarterback ·
July 10 ·
Jason Orange, British singer ·
John Simm, British actor ·
July 11 ·
Justin Chambers, American actor and fashion
model ·
Saj Karim, British politician ·
Michael Saucedo, American Hispanic Irish
actor ·
July 12 ·
Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor, singer
and model ·
Conrad Coates, English-Canadian actor and
teacher ·
Jaason Simmons, Australian actor ·
Viétia Zangrandi,
Brazilian actress ·
Aure Atika, French actress, writer and
director ·
July 13 – Bruno Salomone, French actor and comedian ·
July 17 ·
Jang Hyun-sung, South Korean actor ·
William C. Kuebler,
American lawyer (d. 2014) ·
Gavin McInnes, Canadian writer and political
commentator (co-founder of Vice Media) ·
July 22 – Jonathan Zaccaď,
Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter ·
July 23 ·
Thea Dorn, German writer ·
Saulius Skvernelis, Prime
Minister of Lithuania ·
July 25 – Julien Fountain, English cricket coach ·
July 29 – Andi Peters, British TV presenter and
producer ·
July 30 ·
Christopher Nolan,
English screenwriter and director ·
MC Trouble, African American rapper
(d. 1991) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Quentin Coryatt, American football player ·
David
James, English football goalkeeper ·
Elon Lindenstrauss,
Israeli mathematician ·
Eugenie van Leeuwen,
Dutch cricketer ·
August 2 ·
Elijah Alexander, American football
linebacker (d. 2010) ·
Kevin Smith, American screenwriter, film
director, and actor ·
August 3 – Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game
director, designer and writer ·
August 4 – Pete Abrams, American webcomic artist ·
August 5 – Konstantin
Yeryomenko, Russian futsal (d. 2010) ·
August 6 – M. Night Shyamalan,
Indian-American film director and writer ·
August 9 ·
Chris Cuomo, American journalist ·
Thomas Lennon, American actor, comedian, and
writer ·
Doug Flach, American tennis player ·
Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player ·
Brendon Julian, New Zealand cricket player ·
Steve Mautone, Australian football player
and coach ·
August 11 – Andy Bell,
English musician (Ride, Hurricane #1, Oasis) ·
August 12 – Jim Schlossnagle, American baseball coach ·
Will Clarke,
American novelist ·
Alan Shearer, English footballer ·
August 14 – Leah Purcell, Australian actress ·
Maddie Corman, American actress ·
Anthony Anderson, American actor ·
Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster ·
Dean Del Mastro, Canadian politician ·
Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor ·
Manisha Koirala, Indian actress ·
Jim Courier, American tennis player ·
Tammy Townsend, American actress and singer ·
August 18 – Malcolm-Jamal Warner,
American actor ·
August 19 – Fat Joe, American rapper ·
Fred Durst, American rapper ·
Ove Jřrstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2008) ·
Erik Dekker, Dutch professional cyclist ·
Cathy Weseluck, Canadian actress and voice
actress ·
Giada De Laurentiis,
Italian-American celebrity chef ·
Ricco Groß, German biathlete ·
Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian ·
River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993) ·
Fabian Wilnis, Dutch footballer ·
August 25 – Claudia Schiffer, German model ·
Olimpiada Ivanova,
Russian race walker ·
Melissa McCarthy, American actress,
comedian, and film producer ·
Peter Ebdon, English snooker player ·
Karl Unterkircher,
Italian mountaineer (d. 2008) ·
Henny van
Schoonhoven, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2009) ·
Bappaditya
Bandopadhyay, Indian director and poet. (d. 2015) ·
August 29 – Nyimpine Chissano,
eldest son of former Mozambican (d. 2007) ·
August 30 – Guang Liang, Malaysian singer ·
Debbie Gibson, American singer ·
Epic Mazur, American singer and rapper ·
Queen Rania of
Jordan, Queen consort of Jordan ·
Zack Ward, Canadian actor September[edit] ·
September 1 – Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor ·
September 3 – Jeremy Glick, passenger on board United
Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001) ·
Daisy Dee, Dutch singer and actress ·
Ione Skye, British-born American actress ·
September 5 – Liam Lynch,
American musician, comedian, and puppetteer ·
Gao Min, Chinese diver ·
Tom Everett Scott,
American actor ·
Benny Ibarra, Mexican singer ·
Rosearik Rikki
Simons, American voice actor ·
Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player ·
Molly McKay, LGBT activist ·
Ménélik, French rapper ·
Taraji P. Henson, American actress ·
Laura Wright, American actress ·
September 13 – Susumu Chiba, Japanese voice actor ·
September 14 – Mike Burns,
American soccer player ·
September 17 – Valeria Cappellotto,
Italian racing cyclist. (d. 2015) ·
September 18 – Darren Gough, English cricketer ·
Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player ·
Yuka Imai, Japanese voice actress ·
Takanori Nishikawa,
Japanese singer ·
September 20 – Gert Verheyen, Belgian footballer ·
September 21 – Samantha Power, Irish-American government
official and writer ·
Mike Matheny, American baseball player ·
Mystikal, American rapper ·
Chris Tallman, American actor and comedian ·
September 23 – Ani DiFranco, American musician ·
September 25 – Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler ·
Marco Etcheverry, Bolivian football player ·
Frank Guinta, American politician ·
Yukio Iketani, Japanese gymnast ·
September 27 – Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi
player ·
Isabelle Brasseur,
Canadian figure skater ·
Kimiko Date-Krumm,
Japanese tennis player ·
Joe Doucet, American designer, inventor and
artist ·
Emily Lloyd, English actress ·
Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
Natasha Gregson
Wagner, American actress ·
Tony Hale, American actor ·
Mark Smith,
English actor and bodybuilder October[edit] ·
October 1 – Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan athlete ·
October 2 – Kelly Ripa, American actress and TV
personality ·
Richard Hancox, English footballer ·
Zdravko Zdravkov, Bulgarian footballer ·
October 7 – Nicole Ari Parker,
American actress and model ·
Matt Damon, American actor ·
Sadiq Khan, British politician; 3rd Mayor of London ·
Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game and film
director ·
Jason Butler Harner,
American actor ·
Annika Sörenstam,
Swedish golfer ·
Sir Matthew Pinsent, British rower ·
Jokelyn Tienstra, Dutch handball player
(d. 2015) ·
Lee Bong-Ju, South Korean long-distance
runner ·
Andy Marriott, English footballer ·
Kirk Cameron, American actor and Christian
activist ·
Charlie Ward, American football and
basketball player ·
October 14 – Daniela Peštová,
Czech supermodel ·
October 15 – Chris Mims, American football (d. 2008) ·
October 16 – Mehmet Scholl, German footballer ·
Chris Kattan, American actor and comedian ·
Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer ·
Marciano Vink, Dutch footballer ·
October 18 – Jose
Padilla, American gang member and convicted terrorist ·
October 20 – Michelle Malkin, American political
commentator ·
Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor ·
Tony Mortimer, English singer ·
October 22 – D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler ·
October 24 – Stephen Kipkorir, Kenyan middle distance
runner (d. 2008) ·
October 25 – Adam Goldberg, American actor ·
October 26 – Chavo Guerrero Jr.,
Mexican-American professional wrestler ·
October 27 – Adrian Erlandsson,
Swedish drummer ·
October 28 – Greg Eagles, American actor and voice actor ·
Michael Daingerfield,
Canadian actor and voice actor ·
Toby Smith, British musician (d. 2017) ·
Edwin van der Sar,
Dutch footballer ·
Ben Bailey, American host ·
Nia Long, American actress ·
Xie Jun, Chinese chess grandmaster ·
Linn Berggren, Swedish singer ·
Nolan North, American actor November[edit] ·
November 1 – Merle Palmiste, Estonian actress ·
Ely Buendia, Filipino rock lead singer and
rhythm guitarist (Eraserheads) ·
Sharmell
Sullivan-Huffman, American wrestling valet ·
November 3 – Dawn Marie Psaltis,
American professional wrestler ·
François Delapierre,
French politician (d. 2014) ·
Anthony Ruivivar, American actor ·
Tony Sly, American singer (d. 2012) ·
November 5 – Heather Pick, American television news
anchor (d. 2008) ·
November 6 – Ethan Hawke, American actor, writer, and
film director ·
Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician ·
Morgan Spurlock, American filmmaker and
activist ·
November 8 – Tom Anderson, American co-founder of Myspace ·
Chris Jericho, American professional
wrestler ·
Imam Samudra, Bali bombings, an act of
terrorism (d. 2008) ·
Scarface,
American rapper ·
Orny Adams, American comedian ·
Warren G, American rapper ·
Tonya Harding, American figure skater ·
Alina María
Hernández, Cuban transgender (d. 2016) ·
Frederick Herman, American air line pilot ·
Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer ·
Jack Ingram, American country music singer ·
Matt Healy, British actor ·
Martha Plimpton, American actress ·
Paul Allender, English guitarist ·
Tania Zaetta, Australian actress and
television presenter ·
November 18 – Peta Wilson, Australian actress ·
November 20 – Joe Zaso, American actor and producer ·
November 21 – Karen Davila, Filipina journalist, TV host
and news personality ·
Stel Pavlou, British novelist and
screenwriter ·
Joe Son, Korean-American actor, wrestler,
and convicted felon ·
Zoë Ball, British television and radio
presenter ·
Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor ·
November 25 – Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in
right-to-die case (d. 2009) ·
November 26 – Dave Hughes, Australian comedian ·
Mr. Lobo, television personality ·
Jorge Luis
González Tanquero, Cuban dissident (d. 2016) ·
November 28 – Richard Osman, English television presenter,
producer and director ·
November 29 – Larry Joe Campbell,
American actor and comedian ·
Walter Emanuel Jones,
American actor ·
Natalie Williams, American basketball player December[edit] ·
December 1 – Sarah Silverman, American comedian ·
December 2 – Treach, American rapper ·
Jimmy Shergill, Indian actor ·
Stephanie
Herseth Sandlin, U.S. Representative (D-SD) ·
Fat Pat, American rapper (d. 1998) ·
Kevin Sussman, American actor ·
Tim Hetherington, English-born
photojournalist (d. 2011) ·
Martin Selmayr, German Eurocrat ·
December 6 – Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician ·
December 9 – Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter ·
Mädchen Amick, American actress ·
Jennifer Connelly,
American actress ·
Regina Hall, American actress ·
December 13 – Bart Johnson, American actor ·
December 14 – Andrew Lewis,
Guyanese professional boxer (d. 2014) ·
December 15 – Przemysław
Truściński, Polish artist ·
December 17 – Craig Doyle, Irish television presenter ·
DMX, American rapper and actor ·
Miles Marshall Lewis,
American author ·
Victoria Pratt, Canadian-born actress and model ·
Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler ·
Nicole de Boer, Canadian actress ·
Massimo Ellul, Maltese entrepreneur and
philanthropist ·
Ted Cruz, Canadian-American
politician, U.S. Senator (R-Tx.) from 2013 and 2016 presidential
candidate ·
Gary
Anderson, Scottish darts player ·
Clay Dreslough, American game designer ·
December 23 – Catriona Le May Doan,
Canadian speed skater ·
December 25 – Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian footballer ·
December 26 – Krissada Sukosol
Clapp, Thai actor and singer ·
December 28 – Francesca Le, American porn actress and
director ·
Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television
presenter ·
Kevin Weisman, American actor ·
December 31 – Bryon Russell, American basketball player Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Alfred Lauck Parson,
British chemist and physicist (b. 1889) ·
Jean-Étienne Valluy,
French general (b. 1899) ·
David John Williams,
Welsh-language writer and Welsh nationalist (b. 1885) ·
January 5 – Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1882) ·
Robert Barrat, American actor (b. 1889) ·
Babbis Friis-Baastad,
Norwegian children's writer (b. 1921) ·
January 10 – Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925) ·
January 13 – Jimmy Hanley, English actor (b. 1918) ·
January 14 – Harry M. Woods, American songwriter
(b. 1896) ·
January 18 – David O. McKay, 9th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873) ·
January 19 – Aldo De Benedetti,
Italian screenwriter (b. 1892) ·
Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877) ·
Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and
special effects designer (Godzilla, Ultraman) (b. 1901) ·
January 27 – Erich Heckel, German painter (b. 1883) ·
January 28 – Thomas J. Ryan,
American admiral (b. 1901) ·
Lawren Harris, Canadian painter. (b. 1885) ·
Basil Liddell Hart,
British military historian (b. 1895) ·
Thelma Morgan, American socialite (b. 1904) ·
January 30 – Fritz Bayerlein, German general (b. 1899) ·
January 31 – Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924) February[edit] ·
Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898) ·
Bertrand Russell, British logician and
philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (b. 1872) ·
February 3 – Italo Gariboldi, Italian general (b. 1879) ·
February 4 – Louise Bogan, American poet (b. 1897) ·
February 6 – Roscoe Karns, American actor (b. 1891) ·
John Davidson,
Scottish-Canadian botanist. (b. 1878) ·
Tobias Geffen, Lithuanian-born,
American Orthodox rabbi.
(b.1870) ·
Alfred Roberts, English lay preacher,
politician, and father of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1892) ·
Arthur Edeson, American cinematographer
(b. 1891) ·
Sasha Siemel, adventurer, hunter, guide,
actor, writer, photographer, and lecturer. (b. 1890) ·
Harry Stradling, American cinematographer (b. 1901) ·
Herbert Strudwick,
English cricketer (b. 1880) ·
February 15 – Hugh
Dowding, British RAF Fighter Commander during
the Battle of Britain (b. 1882) ·
February 16 – Francis Peyton Rous,
American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1879) ·
Shmuel Yosef Agnon,
Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
Alfred Newman,
American film composer (b. 1901) ·
February 19 – Jules Munshin, American actor (b. 1915) ·
Joăo
Café Filho, Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899) ·
Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and
journalist (b. 1885) ·
February 21 – Johannes Semper, Estonian writer and
translator (b. 1892) ·
February 22 – Edward Selzer, American film producer
(b. 1893) ·
February 24 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897) ·
February 25 – Mannathu
Padmanabha Pillai, Indian social reformer (b. 1878) ·
February 28 – Arthur
Henry Knighton-Hammond, English painter (b. 1875) March[edit] ·
March 2 – Joseph Vialatoux, French Roman Catholic philosopher (b. 1880) ·
March 6 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915) ·
March 11 ·
Erle Stanley Gardner,
American crime writer (b. 1889) ·
Lucille Hegamin, American singer and
entertainer (b. 1894) ·
March 8 – Waldo Peirce, American painter (b. 1884) ·
March 9 – Nicholas Timasheff,
Russian sociologist (b. 1886) ·
March 13 – Alec Clunes, English actor (b. 1912) ·
March 14 – Ma Hongkui, prominent warlord in China
during the Republic of China era (b. 1892) ·
March 16 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945) ·
March 18 – William Beaudine, American film director
(b. 1892) ·
March 23 – Del Lord, Canadian film director (b. 1894) ·
March 28 – Fortune Gallo, Italian-born opera impresario
(b. 1878) ·
March 29 – Vera Brittain, British writer (b. 1893) ·
March 30 – Heinrich Brüning,
German academic and politician, 21st Chancellor of
Germany (b. 1885) ·
March 31 ·
Semyon Timoshenko,
Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895) ·
George Wootten, Australian soldier, public
servant, political activist and solicitor (b. 1893) April[edit] ·
April 5 – Alfred Henry
Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891) ·
April 6 – El Deif Ahmed, Egyptian actor (b. 1936) ·
April 8 ·
Prince
Felix of Bourbon-Parma (b. 1893) ·
Julius Pokorny, Austrian-born Czech linguist
(b. 1887) ·
April 11 ·
Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923) ·
Richard Neill, American actor of the silent
era (b. 1875) ·
Joseph Schechtman,
writer and Revisionist political activist (b. 1891) ·
April 16 – Richard Neutra, Austrian-born American
architect (b. 1892) ·
April 17 – Patriarch
Alexy I of Moscow (b. 1877) ·
April 18 – Michał Kalecki,
Polish economist (b. 1899) ·
April 26 ·
Francisco Cunha Leal,
Portuguese politician, 84th Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1888) ·
Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911) ·
April 27 – Arthur Shields, Irish actor (b. 1896) ·
April 28 – Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Ralph Hartley, American inventor (b. 1888) ·
Yi Un, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897) ·
May 4 – Sandra Lee Scheuer,
Kent State University shooting victim (b. 1949) ·
May 6 ·
Giovanni Giuriati,
Italian Fascist politician (b. 1876) ·
Helen Kinnear, Canadian lawyer (b. 1894) ·
May 10 ·
Mari Blanchard, American actress (b. 1927) ·
Leslie H. Sabo Jr., Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1948) ·
May 11 – Johnny Hodges, American jazz musician
(b. 1906) ·
May 12 ·
Władysław
Anders, General of the Polish Army (b. 1892) ·
Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1891) ·
May 13 – Sir William Dobell,
Australian artist (b. 1899) ·
May 14 – Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884) ·
May 17 – Heinz Hartmann, Austrian psychiatrist and
psychoanalyst (b. 1894) ·
May 19 – Ray Schalk, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1892) ·
May 21 – E. L. Grant Watson,
Australian scientist and writer (b. 1885) ·
May 22 – Joseph Wood Krutch,
American writer and naturalist. (b. 1893) ·
May 27 – Osei Tutu
Agyeman Prempeh II, King of the Ashanti (b. 1892) ·
May 28 – Iuliu Hossu, Romanian Roman Catholic bishop and servant of
God (b. 1885) ·
May 29 – John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901) ·
May 31 – Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player
(b. 1929) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Pedro Eugenio
Aramburu, 31st President of
Argentina (b. 1903) ·
George Watkins,
American baseball player (b. 1900) ·
June 2 – Bruce McLaren, Founder of McLaren Racing
(b. 1937) ·
June 3 ·
Ruth Sawyer, American storyteller and writer
(b. 1880) ·
Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi German economic
minister (b. 1877) ·
June 7 ·
E. M. Forster, English writer (b. 1879) ·
Manuel
Gómez-Moreno Martínez, Spanish archaeologist and historian
(b. 1870) ·
June 8 – Abraham Maslow, American psychologist
(b. 1908) ·
June 9 – Rafael
Ángel Calderón Guardia, 19th President of
Costa Rica (b. 1900) ·
June 10 – Bartolomé Blanche,
Chilean military officer, provisional President of Chile (b. 1879) ·
June 11 ·
Alexander Kerensky,
Russian revolutionary politician (b. 1881) ·
Frank Laubach, American Congregational
Christian missionary (b. 1884) ·
June 13 – Gonzalo Roig, Cuban musician, composer,
musical director and founder of several orchestras. (b. 1890) ·
June 14 –Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (b. 1893) ·
June 15 – John Noble Kennedy,
British Army officer (b. 1893) ·
June 16 – Heino Eller, Estonian composer and
composition teacher (b. 1887) ·
June 21 – Sukarno, 1st President of
Indonesia (b. 1901) ·
June 22 – Frank J. Wilson, Chief of the United States
Secret Service (b. 1887) ·
June 26 – Leopoldo Marechal,
Argentine writer (b. 1900) ·
June 30 – Arthur Leslie, British actor (b. 1901) July[edit] ·
July 6 – Marjorie Rambeau, American actress (b. 1889) ·
July 10 ·
Bjarni
Benediktsson, Icelandic Foreign Minister and 11th Prime Minister
of Iceland (b. 1908) ·
Maria Orsola Bussone,
Italian Roman Catholic student
and venerable (b. 1954) ·
July 11 – André Lurçat,
French modernist architect, landscape architect, (b. 1894) ·
July 12 – L. Wolfe Gilbert, Russian-born American
songwriter. (b. 1886) ·
July 13 ·
Leslie Groves, American general, director of
the Manhattan Project (b. 1896) ·
Lazar Drljača, Yugoslav-Bosnian painter
(b. 1882) ·
Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895) ·
July 14 – Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor (b. 1914) ·
July 15 – Frits Lugt, self-taught collector and
connoisseur of Dutch drawings and prints and a selfless (b. 1884) ·
July 17 – Ernst Wellmann, highly decorated German Army
officer (b. 1904) ·
July 19 ·
Egon Eiermann, German architect (b. 1904) ·
Panagiotis Pipinelis,
former Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1899) ·
July 21 – Bob Kalsu, American football player
(b. 1945) ·
July 22 – Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (b. 1892) ·
July 23 – Amadeo Bordiga, Italian Marxist (b. 1889) ·
July 24 – Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman
(b. 1897) ·
July 27 – António de
Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1889) ·
July 28 – Baba Bujha Singh, Indian revolutionary ·
July 29 – Sir John Barbirolli, English conductor
(b. 1899) ·
July 30 – George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897) ·
July 31 – Wilfrid Kent Hughes,
Australian Olympian and politician (b. 1895) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Delia Akeley, American explorer (b. 1875) ·
Frances Farmer, American actress and
television host (b. 1913) ·
Giuseppe Pizzardo,
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
(b. 1877) ·
Otto Heinrich
Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1883) ·
Lula Wardlow, American businesswoman
(b. 1876) ·
August 10 –Victor W. Voorhees,
American architect (b. 1876) ·
August 18 – Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943) ·
August 19 – Efisio Melis, Sardinian folk musician
(b. 1890) ·
August 20 – Zeki Velidi Togan,
Turkish historian (b. 1890) ·
August 22 – Vladimir Propp, Soviet folklorist (b. 1895) ·
August 23 – Abdallah Khalil, 3rd Prime Minister of
Sudan (b. 1892) ·
Thomas Hunton, Royal Marines officer
(b. 1885) ·
William McCance, Scottish artist (b. 1894) September[edit] ·
September
– Mahmud al-Muntasir,
1st Prime Minister of
Libya (b. 1903) ·
September 1 – François Mauriac,
French writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1885) ·
Marie-Pierre Koenig,
French general and politician (b. 1898) ·
Agnes E. Meyer, American journalist, a
philanthropist (b. 1887) ·
Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer (b. 1906) ·
September 3 – Vince Lombardi, American football player and
coach after whom the NFL's Super Bowl trophy is named (b. 1913) ·
Jesse Pennington, English footballer
(b. 1883) ·
André Simon,
French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine (b. 1877) ·
Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, 1970
Formula One Driver's Champion (b. 1942) ·
September 7 – Yitzhak Gruenbaum,
noted leader of the Zionist movement in
the interwar period (b. 1879) ·
Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher
and mathematician (b. 1891) ·
Virgil T. McCroskey,
American conservationist (b. 1876) ·
September 18 – Jimi Hendrix, American rock musician
(b. 1942) ·
September 22 – Alice Hamilton, the first woman appointed to
the faculty of Harvard University (b. 1869) ·
September 23 – André Bourvil, French actor (b. 1917) ·
September 25 – Erich Maria Remarque,
German author (All Quiet On The Western Front) (b. 1898) ·
John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896) ·
Gamal Abdel Nasser,
31st Prime Minister of
Egypt and 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918) ·
September 29 – Edward Everett
Horton, American actor (b. 1886) ·
September 30 – Benedetto Aloisi
Masella, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1875) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Petar Konjović,
Yugoslav composer (b. 1883) ·
October 4 – Janis Joplin, American rock singer (b. 1943) ·
October 10 – Édouard Daladier,
72nd Prime Minister
of France (b. 1884) ·
October 11 – César Falcón,
Peruvian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1892) ·
October 13 – Julia Culp, Dutch mezzo-soprano (b. 1880) ·
October 15 – Jack Harrison,
British boxer (b. 1888) ·
October 17 – Quincy Wright, American political scientist
(b. 1890) ·
October 18 – Prince Zeid bin
Hussein (b. 1898) ·
October 19 – Lázaro Cárdenas Mexican
general and statesman, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895) ·
October 20 – Antoni Bohdziewicz,
Polish screenplay, writer and director (b. 1906) ·
Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat
(b. 1896) ·
Ernest Haller, American cinematographer
(b. 1896) ·
Corneliu Calotescu,
Romanian Major-General during World War II (b. 1889) ·
October 22 – George Austin Welsh,
Republican member of the U.S. House
of Representatives (b. 1878) ·
October 23 – Fan Changjiang, Chinese journalist and
writer (b. 1909) ·
Robert Delafield
Rands, Estonian painter (b. 1890) ·
René Schneider, commander-in-chief
of the Chilean Army (assassinated) (b. 1890) ·
October 26 – Hugh Gordon Cummins,
2nd Premier of Barbados (b. 1891) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Otto Kreisler, Austrian film director of the
silent era (b. 1890) ·
Abram
Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Russian mathematician (b. 1891) ·
Fernand Gravey, French actor (b. 1904) ·
November 6 – Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (b. 1897) ·
November 8 – Napoleon Hill, American author in the area
of the new thought (b. 1883) ·
November 9 – Charles de Gaulle,
French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister
of France and 18th President of France (b. 1890) ·
Louis Rich, American entrepreneur (b. 1896) ·
Howard Winkler, Canadian politician
(b. 1891) ·
November 15 – Konstantinos
Tsaldaris, Greek politician, 2-time Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1884) ·
November 19 – Andrei Yeremenko, Soviet military leader,
Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892) ·
November 20 – John Louis Clarke,
Blackfoot wood carver from Montana. (b. 1881) ·
C. V. Raman, Indian physicist. (b. 1888) ·
Percy Ernst Schramm,
German historian (b. 1894) ·
November 23 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician,
1st President of
Singapore (b. 1910) ·
Louise Glaum, American actress (b. 1888) ·
Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist (b. 1925) ·
November 26 – David
Brown, Scottish footballer (b. 1887) December[edit] ·
December 7 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883) ·
Christopher Kelk
Ingold, British chemist (b. 1893) ·
Philip Edward Smith,
American endocrinologist (b. 1884) ·
December 9 – Evelyn Temple Emmett,
first Director of the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau (b. 1871) ·
December 12 – Doris Blackburn, Australian politician
(b. 1889) ·
December 15 – Ernest Marsden, English-New Zealand
physicist (b. 1889) ·
December 14 – William
Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, British field marshal and 13th Governor-General
of Australia (b. 1889) ·
December 16 – Friedrich Pollock,
German social scientist and philosopher (b. 1894) ·
December 29 – Prince
Adalbert of Bavaria (b. 1886) ·
December 30 – Lenore Ulric, American actress (b. 1892) ·
December 30 – Sonny Liston, American boxer, former world
heavyweight champion ·
December 31 – Cyril Scott, English composer, writer, and
poet (b. 1879) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel ·
Chemistry – Luis Federico Leloir ·
Medicine – Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod ·
Literature – Aleksandr Isaevich
Solzhenitsyn ·
Nobel
Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Paul Samuelson References |
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