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Gregorian Year
1971 (MCMLXXI) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of
the 20th century,
and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade. The world population increased by 2.1% this
year, the highest increase in history.[1] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
Ibrox disaster:
A stairway crush at the Rangers vs. Celtic football match
in Glasgow, Scotland, kills 66. ·
A
ban on radio and television cigarette advertisements goes into
effect in the United States.[2] ·
January 3 – BBC Open University begins in the United
Kingdom. ·
January 5 – The 1st ever ODI cricket match
is played between Australia & England at the M.C.G. ·
January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson,
British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until
September. ·
January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands
emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next
day. ·
January 12 – The landmark television
sitcom All in the Family,
starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. ·
January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are
released in Santiago, Chile;
Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released January 16. ·
January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in
Egypt. ·
January 17 – The Baltimore Colts defeat
the Dallas Cowboys 16-13
in Super Bowl V to
win the National
Football League championship. The Colts scored the winning
points on a 32-yard field goal by Jim O'Brien with five seconds remaining. ·
Strikes
in Poland demand the resignation of Interior Minister Kazimierz
Świtała. He resigns January 23 and is replaced by
Franciszek Szlachcic. ·
Ivan Koloff defeats Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF World Heavyweight Championship ending
a Seven and two thirds years reign. (the longest in the Championships
history) ·
January 19 – Representatives of 23
western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oilprices; February 14 they sign a treaty with
6 Khalij el-Arab countries. ·
January 24 – The Guinean government sentences to death
92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in
November 1970; 72 are sentenced to hard labor for life; 58 of the
sentenced are hanged the next day. ·
In Uganda, Idi Amin deposes Milton Obote in a coup, and becomes
president. ·
In
Los Angeles, Charles Manson and
3 female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca
murders. ·
Himachal Pradesh becomes the 18th
Indian state. ·
Intelsat
IV (F2) is
launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean March 26. ·
January 31 – Apollo program: Apollo 14 (carrying
astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell) lifts off on the third
successful lunar landing mission. January 15: Aswan Dam opens in Egypt. February[edit] ·
February 4 – In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes
bankrupt and is nationalised. ·
February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon. ·
February 6 – The 4.6 Mb Tuscania
earthquake shook the Italian province of Viterbo with a
maximum Mercalli
intensityof VIII (Severe), causing 24 deaths, 150 injuries,
and extreme damage. ·
Switzerland
gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton-specific
ones. ·
Władysław
Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the
Polish Communist Party. ·
February 8 – A new stock market index called
the Nasdaq Composite debuts. ·
The
6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar
earthquake hits the Greater Los
Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring
2,000. ·
Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player
to become voted into the Baseball Hall of
Fame from the Negro League. ·
Apollo program: Apollo 14 returns to Earth after
the third manned Moon landing. ·
February 11 – The US, UK, USSR and
others sign the Seabed Treaty,
outlawing nuclear weapons on
the ocean floor. ·
February 11–February 12 – Palestinian and Jordanian
fighters clash in Amman. ·
February 13 – Vietnam War: Backed by American air and
artillery support, South Vietnamese troops
invade Laos. ·
Decimal Day: – The United Kingdom and
Ireland both switch to decimal currency (see also decimalisation). ·
Protesting
Belgian farmers bring 3 live cows to crash the EEC meeting
in Brussels. ·
February 16 – In Italy, a local
parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria; residents of Reggio di Calabria riot
for 5 days because of the decision. ·
Fifty tornadoes rage in Mississippi and Louisiana, killing 74 people. ·
The
U.S. Emergency
Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning, meant to be a
standard weekly test conducted by NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado;
many radio stations just ignore it. The most notorious warning was of WOWO (AM) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. ·
February 21 – The Convention
on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna. ·
February 26 – Secretary General U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of
the vernal equinox as Earth Day. ·
February 27 – Doctors in the first
Dutch abortion clinic (Mildredhuis
in Arnhem) start to perform abortus provocatus. ·
February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and
jumps 19 cars in Ontario, California. February 5: Apollo 14 on Moon February 6: Earthquake in Tuscania, Italy. February 20: Tornadoes kill 74 in Mississippi. March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
A
bomb explodes in the men's room at the United States
Capitol; the Weather Underground claims
responsibility. ·
Pakistani
President Agha Muhammad
Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending National
Assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan. ·
Canadian John Robarts ends his term of office as
the 17th Premier of Ontario. ·
March 4 – The southern part of Quebec, and especially Montreal, receive 16˝" (42 cm) of
snow in what becomes known as the Century's
Snowstorm (la tempęte du sičcle). ·
March 5 – The Pakistani army occupies East Pakistan. In Belfast, a Led Zeppelin show includes the first
public performance of Stairway to Heaven,
a song from the fourth album. ·
March 6 – A fire in a mental hospital
at Burghölzli,
Switzerland, kills 28 people. ·
March 7 ·
The
British postal workers' strike, led by UPW General
Secretary Tom
Jackson, ends after 47 days. ·
Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his famous speech in
the Racecourse Field in Dhaka, calling on the
masses to be prepared to fight for national independence. ·
March 8 ·
The Citizens'
Commission to Investigate the FBI breaks into the Media, Pennsylvania offices
of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and removes all the files. ·
'Fight of the Century':
Boxer Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in a 15-round unanimous decision at Madison Square
Garden. ·
March 10 – William McMahon replaces John Gorton as the Liberal/Country Coalition Prime
Minister of Australia, after Gorton resigned following a vote of confidence that was tied
33-all. ·
March 12 – Hafez al-Assad becomes president
of Syria. ·
March 12–13 – The Allman
Brothers Band plays their legendary concert at the Fillmore East. ·
March 16 – Trygve Bratteli forms a government in
Norway. ·
March 18 – A landslide at
Chungar, Peru crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200. ·
March 23 – General Alejandro Lanusse of Argentina takes power in a military
coup. ·
March 25 – The Pakistani army starts Operation
Searchlight in East Pakistan from midnight, after
President Agha Muhammad
Yahya Khan, a military ruler, voids election results that gave
the Awami League an
overwhelming majority in the parliament. ·
March 26 ·
East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) independence is declared
by Ziaur Rahman for Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman and transmitted using East Pakistan Rifles (now Border Guards
Bangladesh) radio.[3] ·
Nihat Erim (a former CHP member)
forms the new government of Turkey (33rd government, composed
mostly of technocrats). ·
March 27 – East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) independence is repeatedly
declared by Army Major (later President of Bangladesh) Ziaur Rahman on behalf of Sheikh
Mujibur Rahman from Kalurghat Radio Station, Chittagong. ·
March 28 – The Ed Sullivan Show airs
its final episode. ·
March 29 ·
U.S.
Army Lieutenant William Calley is
found guilty of 22 murders in the My Lai Massacre and sentenced to life
in prison (he is later pardoned). ·
A Los Angeles jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and female
followers Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten. April[edit] ·
April 1 – The United Kingdom lifts all
restrictions on gold ownership. ·
April 5 ·
In Ceylon, a group calling themselves the People’s
Liberation Front begins a rebellion against the Bandaranaike government. ·
Chile and East Germany establish diplomatic relations. ·
Mount Etna erupts in Sicily. ·
April 7 – Greece releases 261 political prisoners,
50 of whom are sent into internal exile. ·
April 8 – A right-wing coup attempt is
exposed in Laos. ·
April 9 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death;
in 1972, the sentence for all California Death Row inmates is commuted to
life imprisonment. ·
April 10 – Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia opens. ·
April 12 – Palestinians retreat
from Amman to the north of Jordan. ·
April 17 ·
The
People's Republic of Bangladesh forms,
under Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman, at Mujibnagor. ·
Libya, Syria and Egypt sign an agreement to form a confederation. ·
April 19 ·
The
government of Bangladesh flees
to India. ·
Sierra Leone becomes a republic. ·
The
Soviet Union launches Salyut 1. ·
Followers
of Charles Manson,
the Manson Family, are sentenced to the gas chamber. ·
April 20 ·
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education: The Supreme
Court of the United States rules unanimously that busing of
students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation. ·
Cambodian Prime Minister Lon Nol resigns, but remains
effectively in power until the next elections. ·
April 21 ·
Siaka Stevens is elected the first
president of Sierra Leone. ·
François Duvalier,
president of Haiti, dies; his son Jean-Claude Duvalier follows
him as president-for-life. ·
April 24 ·
Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1. ·
Five
hundred thousand people in Washington, D.C. and 125,000 in San Francisco march in protest against
the Vietnam War. ·
April 25 ·
Todor Zhivkov is re-elected as the
leader of the Bulgarian Communist
Party. ·
Franz Jonas is re-elected as president
of Austria. ·
April 26 – The government of Turkey declares a state of siege in 11 provinces, Ankara included, due to violent demonstrations. ·
April 28 – The first number of Il
Manifesto is issued in Italy. ·
April 29 – Bolivia nationalizes the American-owned
Matilde zinc mine. ·
April 30 – The Milwaukee Bucks win the NBA World
Championship, sweeping the Baltimore Bullets in
4 straight games. May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Amtrak begins inter-city rail passenger
service in the United States. ·
The Ceylonese government promises amnesty for those guerillas who
surrender before April 5. ·
May 2 – In Ceylon, left-wing guerillas launch a series
of assaults against public buildings. ·
May 3 ·
Arsenal F.C. wins the English
Division 1 football league championship at the home of their
bitter rivals, Tottenham Hotspur,
with Ray Kennedy scoring
the winner. (Arsenal will go on to win the league and cup 'double' six days
later by defeating Liverpool in
the FA Cup final). ·
The
Harris Poll claims that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War. ·
East
German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns
as Communist Party leader but retains the position of head of state. ·
1971 May Day
Protests: Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government
business in Washington, D.C.;
police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later
released. ·
May 5 – The US dollar floods the European currency markets and threatens
especially the Deutsche Mark;
the central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the
currency trading. ·
May 6 – The Ceylon government begins a major
offensive against the People's
Liberation Front. ·
May 9 ·
Arsenal FC beats Liverpool F.C. 2-1 to win the
English FA Cup, thus completing the league and cup
'double'. ·
Mariner 8 fails to launch. ·
May 12 – An earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city
of Burdur. ·
May 15 – Efraim Elrom, Israeli ambassador to Turkey, is
kidnapped; he is found killed in Istanbul May 25. ·
May 16 – A coup attempt is exposed and
foiled in Egypt. ·
May 18 ·
The
U.S. Congress formally votes to end funding for the American Supersonic
Transport program. ·
The Montréal Canadiens win
the Stanley Cup against
the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Canadiens became only the second team in NHL history
to win the Cup in game 7 on the road, and did so after the home team won each
of the previous six games in the series. This also marked the last NHL game
that the late Jean Béliveau played. ·
May 19 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union. ·
May 22 – An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys
most of Bingöl, Turkey – more than 1,000 are killed,
10,000 made homeless. ·
May 23 – An air crash at Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia kills 78 people, mostly
British tourists. ·
May 26 ·
Austria
and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations. ·
Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb
hoaxer-extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested. ·
May 27 ·
Six
armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger
plane and force it to fly to Vienna. ·
Christie's auctions a diamond known
as Deepdene;
it is later found to be artificially colored. ·
May 28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO. ·
May 30 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars. ·
May 31 – The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the
government in exile, in territory formerly part of Pakistan. June[edit] ·
June
– Massachusetts passes
its Chapter 766 laws enacting Special Education. ·
June 1 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just
Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served
in Southeast Asia,
speak against war protests. ·
June 6 ·
Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 (Vladislav Volkov, Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev) is launched. ·
A
midair collision between Hughes Airwest
Flight 706 Douglas DC-9 jetliner and a U.S. Marine
Corps McDonnell
Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California,
claims 50 lives. ·
June 10 ·
The
U.S. ends its trade embargo of
China. ·
Corpus
Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed. ·
June 11 – Neville Bonner becomes the first Indigenous
Australian to sit in the Australian
Parliament. ·
June 13 ·
Vietnam War: The New York Times begins
to publish the Pentagon Papers. [1]. ·
Gijs van Lennep (The Netherlands) and
co-driver Helmut Marko (Austria)
win the 24 Hours of Le
Mans in the Martini Racing Porsche 917K. ·
June 14 – Norway begins oil production
in the North Sea. ·
June 17 ·
Representatives
of Japan and the United States sign the Okinawa Reversion Agreement, whereby
the U.S. will return control of Okinawa.[4] ·
President Richard Nixon declares the U.S. War on Drugs. ·
June 18 – Southwest Airlines,
a low-cost carrier,
begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio. ·
June 20 – Britain announces that Soviet
space scientist Anatoli Fedoseyev has been granted asylum. ·
June 21 – Britain begins new
negotiations for EEC membership
in Luxembourg. ·
June 25 – Madagascar accuses the U.S. of being
connected to the plot to oust the government; the U.S. recalls its ambassador. ·
June 27 – Concert promoter Bill Graham closes
the legendary Fillmore East,
which first opened on 2nd Avenue (between 5th and 6th Streets) in New York
City on March 8, 1968. ·
June 28 – Assassin Jerome A. Johnson
shoots Joe Colombo in
the head in a middle of an Italian-American rally, putting him in
a coma. ·
June 30 ·
After
a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space
station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when
their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve. ·
New
York Times Co. v. United States: The U.S. Supreme Court rules
that the Pentagon Papers may
be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior
restraint. ·
The
classical musical fantasy family film Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, based on the novel Charlie
& the Chocolate Factory and starring Gene Wilderand Jack Albertson is released. July[edit] ·
July
– Nordic Council secretariat
inaugurated. ·
July 3 – Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in his bathtub
in Paris, France. ·
July 4 – Michael S. Hart posts the first e-book, a copy of the United
States Declaration of Independence, on the University
of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer,
the origin of Project Gutenberg.[5] ·
July 5 – Right to vote: The 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution,
formally certified by President Richard Nixon, lowers the voting age from 21
to 18. ·
July 6 – Hastings Banda is proclaimed President for Life of Malawi. ·
July 9 – The United Kingdom increases
its troops in Northern Ireland to
11,000. ·
July 10–11 – Coup attempt in Morocco: 1,400 cadets take over the king's
palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's
troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for
involvement). ·
July 10 – Gloria Steinem makes her Address
to the Women of America. ·
July 11 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized. ·
July 13 ·
Ólafur Jóhannesson forms
a government in Iceland. ·
Jordanian army troops launch an
offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan. ·
The Yugoslavian government begins allowing
foreign companies to take their profits from the country. ·
Paced
by a prodigious home run by Reggie Jackson, which hits a transformer on
the roof of Tiger Stadium,
the American League defeats
the National League 6-4
in the Major League
Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit. ·
July 14 – Libya severs its diplomatic ties
with Morocco. ·
July 15 – American President Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to
China. ·
July 17 – Italy and Austria sign a
treaty that ends the schism about South Tyrol. ·
July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf. ·
July 19 – The South Tower of the World
Trade Center in New York City is topped out at 1,362
feet (415 m), making it the second tallest building in the world. ·
July 19–23 – Major Hashem al-Atta ousts Jaafar
Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in Sudan. Fighting continues until on July 22, when pro-Nimeiri troops win.
Al-Atta and three officers are executed. ·
July 24 – Georgina Rizk of Lebanon will be crowned Miss Universe 1971. ·
July 25–30 – Arturo
Benedetti Michelangeli records in Munich two Debussy works for Deutsche Grammophon;
it's his fifth recording. ·
July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying
astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin) is launched. ·
July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged. ·
July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out
of the Space Race, with
the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle. ·
July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese
fighter jet; 162 people are killed. ·
July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in
a lunar rover, a day after landing on the
Moon. August[edit] ·
August
– Camden, New Jersey erupts
in race riots following the beating death
of a Puerto Rican motorist
by city police. Looting and arson occurred. This is a turning point in
Camden's decline to one of the poorest and highest-crime municipalities in
the United States. Camden was, however, the site of a 1949 shooting rampage
by Howard Unruh,
considered by some to be the first mass murderer in the United States. The
riots result in the demise of Camden's Sears and A&Pbranches.
Also in 1971, Philadelphia
International Records is established, with Camden native Leon
Huff as co-founder. ·
August 1 – In New York City, 40,000
attend The Concert
for Bangladesh. ·
August 2 – J. C. Penney debuts its trademark Helvetica wordmark which has been used
ever since. ·
August 5 – The South Pacific Forum (SPF)
is established. ·
August 6 – A lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40
minutes, and 4 seconds is observed. ·
August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth. ·
August 9 ·
India
signs a 20-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. ·
Internment in Northern Ireland: British security forces
arrest hundreds of nationalists and
detain them without trial in Long Kesh prison; 20 people die in the
riots that follow. ·
August 11 – Construction begins on
the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. ·
Three
thousand people from Belfast and Derry flee to the Republic of Ireland because
of the violence.[citation needed] ·
Syria severs diplomatic relations
with Jordan because of border clashes. ·
British
troops are stationed on the Ireland border to stop arms smuggling. ·
Bahrain declares independence as the
State of Bahrain (As of 2018 officially the Kingdom of Bahrain). ·
Jackie Stewart becomes Formula One World Drivers' Champion in
the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth. ·
The
number of British troops in Northern Ireland is raised to 12,500. ·
President Richard Nixon announces that the United
States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively
ending the Bretton Woods system.
He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents. ·
Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand
decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam. ·
British
troops are engaged in a firefight with the IRA in Derry, Northern Ireland. ·
August 19–22 – A right-wing coup ignites a
rebellion in Bolivia. Miners and
students join troops to support president Juan José Torres,
but eventually Hugo Banzertakes
over. ·
International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat)
(effective 12 February 1973). ·
The USS Manatee spills
1,000 US gallons (3,800 L) of fuel oil on President Nixon's Western White House beach
in San Clemente,
California. ·
August 21 – A bomb made of two hand
grenades by communist rebels explodes in the Liberal Party campaign
party in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila the Philippines, injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates. ·
Border
clashes occur between Tanzania and Uganda. ·
Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the
area. ·
August 26 – A civilian government takes
power in Greece. ·
August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social
Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of
uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta. September[edit] ·
September
– Operation
Sourisak Montry VIII opens when forces of the Royal Thai Army recapture several
positions in the territory of Laos on
the south bank of the Mekong in response
to an encroaching Chinese presence to the north. ·
Qatar gains independence from the
United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, Qatar declines to become part of
either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia. ·
Manlio Brosio resigns as NATO Secretary
General. ·
September 4 – A Boeing 727 (Alaska
Airlines Flight 1866) crashes into the side of a mountain
near Juneau, Alaska,
killing all 111 people on board. ·
September 8 – In Washington, D.C.,
the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is
inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. ·
September 9–13 – Attica Prison riot:
– A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York.
In the end, state police and
the United
States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10
of them hostages. ·
September 17 – Hugo L. Black retires as an Associate
Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States after serving for 34 years, at the
time a record for longevity. Black died eight days later. ·
September 19 – Trams in Ballarat (Victoria,
Australia) cease to run. ·
September 21 – Pakistan declares a state of emergency. ·
September 24 – Britain expels 90 KGB
and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return. ·
September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad. ·
September 28 – Cardinal József Mindszenty,
who has taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest since 1956,
is allowed to leave Hungary. ·
September 29 – A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in the Indian state of Odisha, kills 10,000. October[edit] ·
Over
a four-day period, Pink Floyd recorded
their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd:
Live at Pompeii at the Amphitheatre of
Pompeii. ·
October 1 – Walt Disney World opens
in Orlando, Florida. ·
October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat
the Baltimore Orioles 4-3
in Game 4 of the World Series at home in
the first Major League
Baseball postseason game played at night. The Pirates
defeated the Orioles 2-1 in the decisive Game 7 at Baltimore four days later. ·
October 14 – Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada. ·
October 18 – In New York City,
the Knapp Commission begins
public hearings on police corruption. ·
U.S.
President Richard Nixon nominates Lewis Franklin
Powell Jr. and William H. Rehnquist to
the U.S. Supreme Court. ·
The Clarkston explosion in
Scotland kills 22 people. ·
October 24 – Texas Stadium opens in Irving, Texas. In the inaugural game, the
host Dallas Cowboys defeat
the New England Patriots 44-21. ·
October 25 – The United
Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of
China and expels the Republic of China (or
Taiwan). ·
October 27 – The Democratic
Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. ·
The House
of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 356–244 in favour of
joining the European
Economic Community. ·
The
United Kingdom becomes the sixth nation successfully to launch a satellite into
orbit using its own launch vehicle, the Prospero (X-3)
experimental communications satellite, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Woomera, South
Australia. ·
The Khedivial Opera
House in Cairo (Egypt) burns
down. ·
October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American
troops still in Vietnam drops to a
record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966). ·
October 30 – Rev. Ian Paisley's Democratic
Unionist Party is founded in Northern Ireland. ·
October 31 – A bomb explodes at the top
of the Post Office Tower in
London. November[edit] ·
Erin Pizzey establishes the world's
first domestic violence shelter in Chiswick, London.[6][7] ·
November 3 – The UNIX Programmer's
Manual is published. ·
November 6 – Operation Grommet:
The U.S. tests a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named
Project Cannikin. At around 5 megatons, it is the largest ever U.S. underground
detonation. ·
November 8 – Led Zeppelin releases their fourth
studio album Led Zeppelin IV,
which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies in the United States. ·
November 9 – A Royal Air Force C-130 crashes into the Ligurian Sea near Leghorn, Italy, killing all 51 people on
board. ·
November 10 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44,
wounding at least 30 and damaging 9 airplanes. ·
November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972,
as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam. ·
November 13 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 becomes the first
spacecraft to enter Mars orbit
successfully. ·
November 14 – Pope
Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned. ·
Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004. ·
International
Organization and System of Space Communications (Intersputnik) (effective 12 July 1972). ·
November 18 – Oman gains
independence from the United Kingdom. ·
November 20 – A bridge still in
construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de
Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 48 people are killed and several
injured. Reconstructed, the bridge is a part of the Linha Vermelha elevate. ·
November 23 – The People's Republic of
China takes the Republic of China's
seat on the United
Nations Security Council (see China and
the United Nations). ·
During
a severe storm over Washington State,
a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest
Orient Airlines plane he'd hijacked, with US$200,000 in
ransom money, and is never seen again (as of March 2008, this case remains
the only unsolved skyjacking in history). ·
A Brussels court sentences
pretender Alexis Brimeyer to
18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled
to Greece. ·
November 28 – The 59th Grey Cup Game sees the Calgary Stampeders beat
the Toronto Argonauts 14-11. December[edit] ·
December 1 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults
on Cambodian government positions, forcing
their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray, 10 kilometers northeast
of Phnom Penh. ·
December 2 – Six Persian Gulf sheikdoms found the United Arab Emirates. ·
December 3 – The Indo-Pakistani
War of 1971 begins with Operation Chengiz
Khan as Pakistan launches preemptive attacks on nine Indian
airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan. ·
December 3–4 – The Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi (former USS Diablo) sinks mysteriously
near the Indian coast while laying mines. ·
The Montreux Casino burns down during
a Frank Zappa concert (the event is
memorialized in the Deep Purple song
"Smoke on the Water").
The casino is rebuilt in 1975. ·
The McGurk's Bar bombing by
the Ulster Volunteer
Force in Belfast kills 15. ·
December 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to
move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean. ·
December 10 – The John Sinclair
Freedom Rally in support of the imprisoned activist features
a performance by John Lennon at Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan. ·
December 11 – Nihat Erim forms the new government
of Turkey (34th government; Nihat Erim has
served two times as prime minister). ·
December 16 – Victory Day of
Bangladesh: The Pakistan Army in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) surrenders to the joint forces
of India and the Bengali nationalist separatists, ending the Bangladesh
Liberation War. ·
The U.S. dollar is devalued for the second
time in history. ·
The
world's largest hydroelectric plant in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union, begins operations. ·
Clube Atlético
Mineiro wins the Brazil
Football Championship. ·
Intelsat IV (F3) is launched; it enters
commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972. ·
The
controversial dystopian crime film A Clockwork
Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick is released in New York
City. ·
December 20 – Two groups of French
doctors involved in humanitarian aid merge to form Médecins Sans
Frontičres. ·
Giovanni Leone is elected President
of the Italian Republic. ·
Juliane Koepcke survives a fall of
10,000 feet following disintegration of LANSA Flight 508. ·
In
the longest American football game
in National
Football League history, the Miami Dolphins beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27-24
after 82 minutes, 40 seconds of playing time. Garo Yepremian kicked the winning
37-yard field goal after 7:40 of the second overtime period. ·
A
fire at a 22-story hotel in Seoul, South Korea kills
158 people. ·
December 29 – The United Kingdom gives
up its military bases in Malta. ·
December 30 – The first McDonald's in Australia opens in Yagoona. Date unknown[edit] ·
Ray Tomlinson sends the first ARPANET e-mail between host computers. ·
The Free State of
Christiania is founded. ·
Seychelles
International Airport in Victoria, Seychelles (Mahe) is
completed. ·
Crude oil production peaks in the continental
United States at approximately 4.5 million barrels per day
(720,000 m3/d). ·
The Center
for Science in the Public Interest is established in the
United States. ·
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is
established in the United States. ·
The
British crime magazine Master Detective, in an attempt to
capitalize on the murder of Diane
Maxwell, illegally takes photo negatives from Houston, Texas and uses them for a 1971
edition. ·
Kamuzu Banda, president of Malawi, becomes the first Black President to
visit South Africa. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Sammie Henson, American wrestler, Olympic
silver medalist ·
Bridget Pettis, American basketball player ·
Lev Gorn, American-Russian actor ·
Taye Diggs, American actor ·
Renée Elise
Goldsberry, American actress, singer and songwriter ·
Lisa Harrison, American basketball player ·
January 3 – Cory Cross, Canadian ice hockey player ·
January 5 – Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress ·
DJ Ötzi, Austrian entertainer and singer ·
Jeremy Renner, American actor, singer and
producer ·
January 9 – Scott
Thornton, Canadian hockey player ·
January 11 – Mary J. Blige, American singer ·
January 12 – Jay Burridge, British artist and television
presenter ·
January 13 – Matt McIntosh, American
rock singer ·
January 14 – Lasse Kjus, Norwegian alpine skier ·
January 15 – Regina King, American actress ·
January 17 – Kid Rock, American rock singer ·
Jonathan Davis, American musician (Korn) ·
Pep Guardiola, Spanish football manager ·
Seamus O'Regan, Canadian-Irish politician
and former television personality ·
Fabian Ribauw, Nauruan politician ·
January 19 – Shawn Wayans, American actor ·
January 20 – Gary Barlow, British singer-songwriter ·
Darren Frost, Canadian actor ·
Alan McManus, Scottish snooker player ·
January 24 – Stanislas Merhar, French actor ·
January 25 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver ·
January 26 – Li Ming,
Chinese footballer and football executive ·
Fann Wong, Singaporean Chinese actress,
model, and singer ·
Lil Jon, American rapper and producer ·
Karin Tammaru, Estonian actress ·
January 29 – Clare Balding, British sports presenter ·
January 30 – Lizzie Grubman, American publicist ·
Patrick "Pat" Kielty, Northern
Irish comedian and television presenter ·
Lee Young-ae, South Korean actress ·
Patricia Velásquez,
Venezuelan actress and model February[edit] ·
Rebecca Creskoff, American actress ·
Michael C. Hall, American actor ·
Hynden Walch, American voice actress ·
Kevin Symons, American actor ·
Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country
skier ·
Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999) ·
Jayne Middlemiss, English television and
radio presenter ·
Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian ·
Fatmir Limaj, Albanian politician ·
February 5 – David Chisum, American actor ·
February 6 – Brian Stepanek, American actor ·
February 9 – Sharon Case, American model and actress ·
Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress (d. 2015) ·
Lisa Marie Varon, American professional
wrestler ·
Annie Wood, American actress, writer and
television personality ·
Damian Lewis, English actor and producer ·
Susi Susanti, Indonesian badminton player ·
February 12 – Scott Menville, American actor and voice
actor ·
February 13 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player ·
Kris Aquino, Filipina actress ·
Tommy Dreamer, American professional
wrestler ·
Viscera,
American professional wrestler (d. 2014) ·
Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer and actress ·
Alex Borstein, American actress, voice
artist, producer, and screenwriter ·
Renee O'Connor, American actress ·
Dan Green,
American voice actor and voice director ·
Amanda Holden, British actress ·
February 17 – Denise Richards, American actress ·
February 18 – Thomas Bjřrn, Danish golfer ·
February 19 – Gil Shaham, Israeli/American violinist ·
Calpernia Addams, American actress ·
Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer ·
Joost van der
Westhuizen, South African rugby football player (d. 2017) ·
February 21 – Randy Blythe, American heavy metal singer (Lamb of God) ·
February 22 – Lea Salonga, Filipino singer and actress ·
February 23 – Melinda Messenger,
English television presenter ·
Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver ·
Gillian Flynn, American author, comic book
writer, and screenwriter ·
Sean Astin, American actor ·
Nova Peris, Australian athlete and
politician ·
Daniel Powter, Canadian rock musician ·
Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter and
record producer ·
Max Martin, Swedish music producer and
songwriter ·
February 27 – Rozonda Thomas, African-American singer ·
Amanda Davis, American writer and teacher
(d. 2003) ·
Tristan Louis, French Internet entrepreneur March[edit] ·
March 1 – Allen Johnson, American Olympic athlete ·
March 2 ·
Roman Čechmánek,
Czech hockey goalie ·
Method Man, American rapper, record
producer, and actor ·
Karel Rada, Czech footballer ·
Manami Toyota, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
March 3 – Charlie Brooker, English satirist and writer ·
March 4 ·
Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player ·
Shavar Ross, American actor and filmmaker ·
March 5 – Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor ·
March 6 – Val Venis, Canadian professional wrestler ·
March 7 ·
Peter Sarsgaard, American actor ·
Kali Troy, American voice actress ·
March 9 ·
Kinga Rusin, Polish journalist ·
Diego Torres, Argentine singer ·
Mike DelGuidice, American musician and
singer/songwriter ·
March 10 ·
Jon Hamm, American actor, director and
producer ·
Daryle Singletary,
American country singer (d. 2018) ·
March 11 – Johnny Knoxville, American actor, comedian,
and stunt performer ·
March 15 – Chris Patton, American voice actor ·
March 16 – Alan Tudyk, American actor and voice actor ·
March 22 ·
Iben Hjejle, Danish actress ·
Keegan-Michael Key,
American actor, writer, and comedian ·
Will Yun Lee, Korean-American actor ·
March 23 ·
Karen McDougal, American model ·
Alexander Selivanov,
Russian ice hockey player ·
March 26 – Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian scientist ·
March 27 ·
David Coulthard, Scottish racing driver ·
Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor ·
March 29 ·
Attila Csihar, Hungarian vocalist ·
Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary ·
March 31 ·
Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player ·
Craig McCracken, American animator ·
Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor April[edit] ·
April 1 – Jessica Collins, American actress ·
April 2 ·
Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player ·
Zeebra, Japanese rapper ·
April 3 – Picabo Street, American skier ·
April 9 – Jacques Villeneuve,
Canadian 1997 Formula 1 world
champion ·
April 11 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein) ·
April 12 – Shannen Doherty, American actress ·
April 14 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer
(d. 2012) ·
April 15 – Kate Harbour, English voice actress ·
April 16 ·
Peter Billingsley,
American actor, director and producer ·
Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor ·
Selena, Mexican-American singer (d. 1995) ·
April 18 ·
David Tennant, Scottish actor ·
Fredro Starr, American rapper ·
Samantha Cameron, British businesswoman ·
April 19 ·
Scott McCord, Canadian voice actor ·
Wendy Powell, American voice actress ·
April 20 ·
Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer ·
Allan Houston, American basketball player ·
Mikey Welsh, American musician and artist
(d. 2011) ·
April 22 – Daisuke Enomoto, first Japanese space
tourist ·
April 23 – D.B. Weiss, American television producer and
writer, and novelist ·
April 24 ·
Alejandro Fernández,
Mexican singer ·
Adrian Simpson, British television presenter ·
April 28 ·
Markus Beyer, German Olympic boxer (d. 2018) ·
Bridget Moynahan, American actress ·
April 29 ·
Darby Stanchfield,
American actress ·
Tamara
Johnson-George, American singer ·
Siniša Vuco, Croatian musician ·
April 30 – John Boyne, Irish novelist May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Stuart Appleby, Australian golfer ·
Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor ·
May 5 – Dresta, American rapper ·
May 8 – Ross Anderson,
American pro speed skier ·
May 10 ·
Kim Jong-nam, eldest son of North Korean
leader Kim Jong-il (d. 2017) ·
May 12 – Doug Basham, American professional wrestler ·
May 14 – Sofia Coppola, American filmmaker ·
May 15 – Phil Pfister, American strength athlete ·
May 17 ·
Vernie Bennett, English singer (Eternal) ·
Queen
Máxima of the Netherlands ·
May 19 – Peter Boström, Swedish music producer and
songwriter, co-writer of Euphoria ·
May 20 – Tony Stewart, American race car driver ·
May 23 – George Osborne, British politician ·
May 24 – Emily Hamilton, British actress ·
May 25 – Kristina
Orbakaitė, Lithuanian-Russian singer and actress ·
May 26 – Matt Stone, American actor and producer ·
May 27 ·
Mathew Batsiua, Nauruan politician ·
Paul Bettany, British actor ·
Wayne Carey, Australian rules footballer ·
Lisa Lopes, African-American rapper (TLC) (d. 2002) ·
May 28 – Marco Rubio, Cuban-American
politician, U.S Senator (R-Fl.) ·
May 30 ·
John Ross Bowie, American actor and comedian ·
Idina Menzel, American singer, songwriter
and actress June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer ·
Georgie Gardner, Australian journalist ·
Fadli Zon, Indonesian politician and the
current deputy speaker of the Indonesian People's
Representative Council ·
June 3 – Benedict Wong, English actor ·
June 4 ·
Joseph Kabila, 4th President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ·
Noah Wyle, American actor ·
June 5 ·
Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress ·
Robert Melson,
American murderer (d. 2017) ·
Mark Wahlberg, American actor, producer,
businessman, model and rapper known as Marky Mark ·
June 8 ·
Jeff Douglas, Canadian actor ·
Troy Vincent, American football player ·
June 9 – Uladzimir Zhuravel,
Belarusian football player and coach (d. 2018) ·
June 10 ·
Bobby Jindal, American Governor of Louisiana ·
Soraya Sáenz
de Santamaría, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain ·
Kyle Sandilands, Australian DJ, Australian Idol judge and TV
presenter ·
June 11 – Kenjiro Tsuda, Japanese voice actor ·
June 12 ·
Arman Alizad, Finnish tailor, columnist and
TV personality ·
Mark Henry, American professional wrestler,
Olympian ·
June 15 ·
Isménia do Frederico,
Cape Verdean sprinter ·
Taavi Eelmaa, Estonian actor ·
June 16 ·
Eva Püssa, Estonian actress ·
Tupac Shakur, African-American rapper and
actor (d. 1996) ·
June 17 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer ·
June 18 – Nathan Morris, African-American singer (Boyz II Men) ·
June 20 – Josh Lucas, American actor ·
June 21 – Anette Olzon, Swedish singer (Nightwish, Alyson Avenue) ·
June 22 – Kurt Warner, American football player ·
June 24 – Ji Jin-hee, South Korean actor ·
June 25 ·
Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer ·
Scott Maslen, English actor ·
June 26 – Max Biaggi, Italian motercycle racer ·
June 27 ·
Marcelo
Faustini, Brazilian singer ·
King Dipendra of Nepal (d. 2001) ·
Kieren Keke, Nauruan politician ·
June 28 ·
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi,
Iraqi Islamic extremist leader ·
Fabien Barthez, French football player ·
Norika Fujiwara, Japanese actress and
television personality ·
Elon Musk, South African-born,
Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor ·
Aileen Quinn, American actress ·
June 29 ·
Matthew Good, Canadian musician ·
Junko Noda, Japanese voice actress ·
June 30 ·
Megan Fahlenbock, Canadian voice actress ·
Jamie McLennan, retired professional ice
hockey goaltender, radio sports analyst ·
Agvaansamdangiin
Sükhbat, Mongolian wrestler July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Amira Casar, French actress ·
Missy Elliott, African-American rapper,
singer, and songwriter ·
July 3 – Julian Assange, Australian activist ·
July 8 ·
John Juanda, Indonesian-American
professional poker player ·
Marcel Blaguet
Ledjou, Ivorian Chairman of the Africa Scout CommitteeIvorian ·
July 9 ·
Marc Andreessen, American software developer ·
Scott Grimes, American actor ·
July 10 – Aaron D. Spears, American actor ·
July 11 ·
Brett Hauer, American ice hockey player ·
Park Hyuk-kwon, South Korean actor ·
July 12 ·
Robert Allenby, Australian golfer ·
Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater ·
July 13 – Craig Elliott, American illustrator ·
July 14 ·
Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly,
American actress ·
Mark LoMonaco, American professional
wrestler ·
Joey Styles, American professional wrestling
announcer ·
Howard Webb, English referee ·
July 16 ·
Corey Feldman, American actor ·
Ed Kowalczyk, American singer-songwriter ·
July 17 ·
Benjamin Herrmann,
German film producer and distributor ·
Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist ·
July 18 – Penny Hardaway, American basketball player ·
July 19 ·
Andrew Kavovit, American actor ·
Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and
politician ·
July 20 ·
Sandra Oh, Korean actress ·
DJ Screw, American hip hop DJ (d. 2000) ·
July 21 ·
Charlotte Gainsbourg,
French actress and singer-songwriter ·
Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio
host ·
July 23 ·
Ahmed Ezz,
Egyptian actor ·
Alison Krauss, American country singer ·
Scott Krippayne, American Christian musician ·
July 26 ·
Scott Cawthon, American independent video
game developer and animator ·
Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer ·
July 28 – Jeffrey S. Williams,
American sportswriter ·
July 30 ·
Tom Green, Canadian entertainer ·
Mzukisi Sikali, South African triple world
champion boxer (d. 2005) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Juan Camilo Mourińo,
Mexican politician (d. 2008) ·
August 2 ·
Alice Evans, British actress ·
Michael
Hughes, Northern Irish footballer ·
August 4 ·
Jeff Gordon, American race car driver ·
August 6 – Merrin Dungey, American actress ·
Yo-Yo, African-American rapper ·
August 8 – Ali Liebegott, American author and poet ·
August 9 – James Kim, American television personality
and technology analyst (d. 2006) ·
Roy Keane, Irish footballer ·
Mario César
Kindelán Mesa, Cuban amateur boxer ·
Justin Theroux, American actor ·
Yvette Nicole Brown,
American actress and comedian ·
Patrick Carpentier,
Canadian race car driver ·
Pete Sampras, American tennis player ·
Phil Western, Canadian musician ·
Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor ·
Heike Makatsch, German actress ·
Anthony Kearns, Irish tenor ·
Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player ·
August 18 – Aphex Twin, Irish-born British electronic
musician ·
August 19 – Guido Cantz, German television presenter ·
August 20 – David Walliams, English comedy actor ·
Robert Harvey,
Australian rules footballer ·
Liam Howlett, English musician ·
Richard Armitage,
English actor ·
Benoît Violier,
French-born chef (d. 2016) ·
Crash Holly, American wrestler (d. 2003) ·
Ayumi Miyazaki, Japanese singer ·
Peter Oldring, Canadian voice actor ·
Gaynor Faye, British actress ·
Thalía, Mexican actress and singer ·
August 27 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer ·
Janet Evans, American swimmer ·
Daniel Goddard,
Australian actor and model ·
August 29 – Carla Gugino, American actress ·
Pádraig Harrington,
Irish golfer ·
Chris Tucker, American actor and comedian September[edit] ·
September 1 – Hakan Şükür,
Turkish footballer ·
Kjetil André Aamodt,
Norwegian alpine skier ·
Arnold Arre, Filipino graphic novelist ·
Tommy Maddox, American football player ·
Shauna Sand, American model and actress ·
September 4 – Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress ·
September 6 – Dolores O'Riordan,
Irish singer (The Cranberries)
(d. 2018) ·
David Arquette, American actor ·
Brooke Burke-Charvet,
American model ·
Martin Freeman, English actor ·
Eric Stonestreet, American actor ·
Henry Thomas, American actor ·
September 11 – Richard Ashcroft, English musician and
singer (The Verve) ·
September 13 – Stella McCartney, British fashion designer,
daughter of Paul McCartney ·
Christopher
McCulloch, American actor and voice actor ·
Kimberly
Williams-Paisley, American actress ·
September 15 – Colleen Villard, American voice actress ·
September 16 – Amy Poehler, American actress ·
September 17 – Jens Voigt, German cyclist ·
Lance Armstrong, American cyclist ·
Anna Netrebko, Russian operatic soprano ·
Jada Pinkett Smith,
African-American actress, singer, and songwriter ·
September 19 – Sanaa Lathan, African-American actress ·
September 20 – Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer ·
Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor, television
director, dancer, and host of America's
Funniest Home Videos ·
Luke Wilson, American actor ·
Chesney Hawkes, English singer-songwriter ·
Ted Leonard, American singer (Enchant) ·
September 23 – Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress ·
September 24 – Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist
and entomologist ·
September 25 – Jessie Wallace, English actress ·
September 27 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican artist ·
September 29 – Sibel Tüzün, Turkish pop/rock/jazz singer ·
Jenna Elfman, American actress ·
Jeff Whitty, American playwright October[edit] ·
Chris Savino, American animator, creator
of The Loud House. ·
Xavier Naidoo, German singer ·
Tiffany, American singer ·
Jim Root, American guitarist (Slipknot, ex-Stone Sour) ·
October 3 – Kevin
Richardson, American pop singer ·
October 4 – Ridwan Kamil, Indonesian architect,
politician and current governor of West Java ·
October 5 – Samuel Vincent, Canadian voice actor ·
Tiffany Mynx, American porn actress and
director ·
Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist ·
October 11 – Aman Verma, Indian television anchor and
actor ·
October 12 – Đŕm
Vĩnh Hưng, Vietnamese singer ·
Billy Bush, American radio and television
host ·
Sacha Baron Cohen,
English comedian and actor ·
Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter ·
Andy Cole, English Footballer ·
Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer ·
October 16 – Mirko Reisser (DAIM),
German graffiti-artist ·
Martin Heinrich, American politician
and U.S. Senator (D-New Mexico) ·
Chris Kirkpatrick,
American singer ('N Sync) ·
Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model
(d. 2011) ·
Snoop Dogg, African-American rapper ·
Dannii Minogue, Australian singer ·
October 21 – Jade Jagger, English jewelry designer ·
October 23 – Bohuslav Sobotka, 11th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic ·
Caprice Bourret, American model and actress ·
Aaron
Bailey, American football player ·
Gustavo Jorge, Argentina rugby union player ·
Zephyr Teachout, American academic ·
Diane
Guthrie-Gresham, Jamaican track and field athletes ·
Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer ·
Midori Gotō, Japanese violinist ·
Pedro Martínez,
Dominican baseball player ·
Craig Robinson,
American actor, comedian and singer ·
Jim Butcher, American author ·
Anthony Rapp, American actor and singer ·
Chiara Badano, Italian Roman Catholic religious teenager and
blessed (d. 1990) ·
Winona Ryder, American actress ·
October 30 – Peter New, Canadian actor, voice actor and
screenwriter November[edit] ·
Piret Laurimaa, Estonian actress ·
Dylan Moran, Irish comedian, actor, and
writer ·
November 4 – Tabu, Indian actress ·
November 5 – Jonny Greenwood, English musician and
composer ·
Robin Finck, American guitarist ·
Rituparna Sengupta,
Indian film actress ·
Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director ·
Tech N9ne, American rapper ·
Benjamin King,
American actor ·
Big Pun, American/Latin rapper (d. 2000) ·
Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and movie
director ·
November 11 – David DeLuise, American actor ·
Yasuo Aiuchi, Japanese snowboarder ·
Chen Guangcheng, Chinese civil rights
activist ·
Gert Thys, South African long-distance
runner ·
Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer ·
Marco Leonardi, Italian actor ·
November 16 – Alexander Popov,
Russian swimmer ·
November 17 – Michael
Adams, British chess player ·
November 18 – Özlem Tekin, Turkish singer ·
Justin Chancellor,
British musician (Tool, Peach) ·
Sundeep Malani, Indian film director ·
Dion Nash, New Zealand cricket captain ·
Joel McHale, Italian-born American actor ·
November 21 – Michael Strahan, American-German television
personality and American football player ·
Crystal Scales, American actress and singer ·
Kyran Bracken, English rugby player ·
Lisa Arch, American actress and comedian ·
Chris Hardwick, American actor and comedian ·
November 24 – Keith Primeau, Canadian hockey player ·
Christina Applegate,
American actress ·
Magnus Arvedson, Swedish hockey player ·
November 27 – Kirk Acevedo, American actor ·
November 28 – Fenriz, Norwegian musician ·
November 29 – Naoko Mori, English-Japanese actress ·
Jessalyn Gilsig, Canadian actress ·
Iván "Pudge"
Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player and actor December[edit] ·
Jason Keng-Kwin Chan,
Malaysian-Australian actor ·
Emily Mortimer, English actress and
screenwriter ·
December 2 – Mine Yoshizaki, Japanese manga artist ·
December 5 – Kali Rocha, American actress ·
Helena Bulaja, Croatian multimedia artist ·
Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player ·
Katariina Unt, Estonian actress ·
Ryan White, American AIDS activist (d. 1990) ·
Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player ·
Larisa Alexandrovna,
Ukrainian-American feminist ·
DeObia Oparei, English actor ·
December 8 – Abdullah Ercan, Turkish football player ·
Daniel Betts, British actor ·
Michele Mahone, American television
entertainment reporter and former make-up artist and hair stylist ·
December 12 – Sammy Korir, Kenyan long-distance runner ·
December 13 – Henry Dittman, American actor and voice
actor ·
Monica Lee
Gradischek, American actress and voice actress ·
Arne Quinze, Belgian conceptual artist ·
Michael McCary, African-American singer (Boyz II Men) ·
Paul van Dyk, German dance music DJ,
musician and record producer ·
Sinan Akkuş, Turkish-German actor ·
Alan Khan, South African media and radio
personality ·
Antoine Rigaudeau,
French basketball player ·
Jason Hughes,
Welsh actor ·
Arantxa Sánchez
Vicario, Spanish tennis player ·
December 20 – Simon O'Neill, New Zealand opera singer ·
December 22 – Khalid Khannouchi,
Moroccan long-distance runner ·
Corey Haim, Canadian actor (d. 2010) ·
Tara
Palmer-Tomkinson, English socialite (d. 2017) ·
Giorgos Alkaios, Greek recording artist ·
Christopher Daniels,
American professional wrestler ·
Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer ·
Dido, English singer ·
Ain Mäeots, Estonian actor and director ·
Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister
of Canada ·
December 26 – Jared Leto, American actor and musician (Thirty Seconds to
Mars) ·
December 27 – Sergei Bodrov Jr.,
Russian actor (d. 2002) ·
December 28 – Machiko Toyoshima,
Japanese voice actress ·
December 31 – Brent Barry, American basketball player Date unknown[edit] ·
Vic Pratt, English writer Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 3 – Carlo Braga, Italian Salesian priest,
missionary, and servant of God (b. 1889) ·
January 4 – Arthur Ford,
American psychic spiritual medium, clairaudient (b. 1896) ·
January 5 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound
engineer (b. 1899) ·
January 9 – Elmer Flick, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1876) ·
January 10 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer
(b. 1883) ·
January 12 – John Tovey, British admiral (b. 1885) ·
January 14 – Guillermo de Torre,
Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900) ·
January 15 – John Dall, American actor (b. 1918) ·
January 20 – Gilbert
M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and
producer (b. 1880) ·
January 23 – Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1875) ·
St. John Greer
Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author (b. 1883) ·
Bill W. (William Griffith Wilson),
co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895) ·
Barry III, Guinean politician (b. 1923) ·
Hermann Hoth, German general (b. 1885) ·
Isobel Lennart, American screenwriter
(b. 1915) ·
January 27 – Jacobo Árbenz, 19th President of
Guatemala (b. 1913) ·
January 28 – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst
(b. 1896) ·
January 30 – Dalisay
Lazaga, Filipino Canossian sister and teacher (b. 1940) ·
January 31 – Viktor
Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist
(b. 1891) February[edit] ·
Robert Gordon,
American actor (b. 1895) ·
Raoul Hausmann, Austrian Dadaist artist (b. 1886) ·
February 2 – Secundino Zuazo, Spanish architect and city
planner (b. 1887) ·
February 3 – Jay C. Flippen, American actor (b. 1899) ·
Brock Chisholm, Canadian physician, 1st
Director-General of World Health
Organization (b. 1896) ·
Charles Lahr, German-born anarchist, London
bookseller and publisher (b. 1885) ·
Samuel Fox,
American music publisher and founder of the Sam Fox Publishing Company
(b. 1884) ·
Mátyás Rákosi,
former leader of the (Communist) Hungarian
Working People's Party and 43rd Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1892) ·
Lew
"Sneaky Pete" Robinson, drag racer (b. 1933)[8] ·
February 8 – Charles
Walter Simpson, English painter (b. 1885) ·
February 12 – James Cash Penney,
American businessman and entrepreneur, founder of J. C. Penney (b. 1875) ·
February 13 – Emil Fuchs,
German theologian (b. 1874) ·
February 17 – Adolf A. Berle, American lawyer, educator,
author and diplomat (b. 1895) ·
February 18 – Jaime de Barros
Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1894) ·
February 19 – Edwin North
McClellan, United States Marine Corps officer, author and
historian (b. 1881) ·
February 22 – William B.
Hartsfield, American politician (b. 1890) ·
February 25 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1884) ·
February 26 – Yahei Miura, Japanese athlete (b. 1895) March[edit] ·
March 5 – Jean Grenier, French philosopher and writer
(b. 1898) ·
March 6 – Herbert McLean Evans,
U.S. anatomist and embryologist (b. 1882) ·
March 7 – Barney Balaban, American studio executive
(b. 1887) ·
March 8 ·
Harold Lloyd, American actor and filmmaker
(b. 1893) ·
James Tait
Plowden-Wardlaw, Vicar of St Clement’s Cambridge and a barrister
(b. 1873) ·
March 9 ·
Anthony Berkeley Cox,
English writer (b. 1893) ·
Pope Cyril VI
of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902) ·
March 11 ·
Philo T. Farnsworth,
American television pioneer (b. 1906) ·
C. D. Broad, English philosopher (b. 1887) ·
March 12 – David Burns,
American actor (b. 1902) ·
March 16 ·
Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901) ·
Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York;
American presidential candidate (b. 1902) ·
March 17 – Elizabeth Okie
Paxton, American painter (b. 1877) ·
March 18 – Leland Hayward, American film and theatrical
agent (b. 1902) ·
March 19 – Winifred Horrabin,
British socialist activist and journalist (b. 1887) ·
March 22 – Nella Walker, American actress and
vaudevillian (b. 1886) ·
March 23 – Basil Dearden, English film director
(b. 1911) ·
March 24 ·
Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer
(b. 1902) ·
Arthur
Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895) ·
March 31 – Karl King, United States march music
(b. 1891) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Ramiro Arrue, Basque painter, illustrator,
and ceramist (b. 1892) ·
April 3 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904) ·
April 6 ·
Margaret Newton, Canadian plant pathologist
and mycologist (b. 1887) ·
Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882) ·
April 8 – Ivan Vurnik, Slovene architect (b. 1884) ·
April 12 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1895) ·
April 13 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian writer (b. 1922) ·
April 15 – Friedebert Tuglas,
Estonian writer and critic (b. 1886) ·
April 16 – William Eckert, Commissioner of American
baseball (b. 1909) ·
April 17 – William
Corbett, American attorney, acting Governor of Guam (b. 1902) ·
April 19 – Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b. 1895) ·
April 20 – Cecil Parker, English actor (b. 1897) ·
April 21 ·
François Duvalier,
32nd President of Haiti (b. 1907) ·
Edmund Lowe, American actor (b. 1890) ·
April 22 – Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of
Hungerford, Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1893) ·
April 26 – T. V. Soong, former Premier
of the Republic of China (b. 1891) ·
April 29 – Nikolai P.
Barabashov, Russian astronomer (b.1894) ·
April 30 – Albin Stenroos, Finnish athlete (b. 1889) May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Glenda Farrell, American actress (b. 1904) ·
Cheridah de
Beauvoir Stocks, the second British woman to gain a Royal Aero
Club aviator licence, in 1911 (b. 1887) ·
May 2 – Semaun, first chairman of the Communist
Party of Indonesia (b. 1899) ·
May 6 – Helene Weigel, German actress (b. 1900) ·
May 8 – Frederick Sheffield,
American Olympic rower - Men's eights (b. 1902) ·
May 11 – Seán Lemass, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1899) ·
May 12 ·
Harold Lea
Fetherstonhaugh, Canadian architect (b. 1887) ·
Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor
(b. 1903) ·
Heinie Manush, American baseball player
(b. 1901) ·
May 15 ·
Goose Goslin, American baseball player (b. 1900) ·
Sir Tyrone Guthrie, English film director,
producer, and writer (b. 1900) ·
May 17 – Georg Muschner, German cinemagratopher
(b. 1885) ·
May 18 ·
G. Owen Bonawit, stained glass artist
(b. 1891) ·
Bruno Villabruna, Italian lawyer and
politician (b. 1884) ·
May 19 ·
Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902) ·
Bernard Wagenaar, Dutch/American composer,
conductor and violinist (b. 1894) ·
May 21 – Dennis King, English actor (b. 1897) ·
May 26 – Laurence Wild, American basketball player,
coach, and 30th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1890) ·
May 27 – Chips Rafferty, Australian actor (b. 1909) ·
May 28 ·
Eduardo Blanco
Acevedo, Uruguayan political figure and physician (b. 1884) ·
Garnet Kearney, Canadian doctor, teacher,
and pioneer (b. 1884) ·
Kim Iryeop, Korean writer, journalist,
feminist activist, Buddhist nun (b. 1896) ·
Thomas
McLaughlin, Irish engineer (b. 1896) ·
Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and
actor (b. 1924) ·
Alfred Rose (bishop),
the sixth Bishop of Dover in the modern era (b. 1884) ·
Miriam Soljak, New Zealand feminist and
communist (b. 1879) ·
Jean Vilar, French stage actor (b. 1912) ·
May 30 – Marcel Dupré, French composer (b. 1886) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian
(b. 1892) ·
June 4 – György Lukács,
Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic
(b. 1885) ·
June 8 ·
Francesco Giunta, Italian Fascist politician
(b. 1887) ·
Edmundo Pérez
Zujovic, Chilean Christian Democratic politician (assassinated)
(b. 1912) ·
June 10 ·
Virginia True
Boardman, American actress (b. 1889) ·
Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909) ·
June 11 – Ambrose,
English violinist and bandleader (b. 1896) ·
June 14 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of
the Philippines (b. 1896) ·
June 15 ·
Herbert Gundelach,
German general during the Second World War (b. 1899) ·
Arthur Kaufmann,
German painter, (b. 1888) ·
Wendell Meredith
Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904) ·
June 16 – John Reith,
1st Baron Reith, British broadcasting executive (b. 1889) ·
June 18 ·
Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905) ·
Libby Holman, American singer and actress
(b. 1904) ·
Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1889) ·
Prajnalok
Mahasthavir, scholar, writer and orator (b. 1879) ·
Mildred Veitch, last member of the Veitch
family of horticulturists (b. 1889) ·
June 25 ·
John Boyd Orr, Scottish physician and
biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880) ·
Charles Vildrac, French playwright, poet and
author (b. 1882) ·
June 29 ·
Nestor Mesta Chayres,
Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist (b. 1908) ·
June 30 ·
Herbert Biberman, Jewish-American
screenwriter and film director (b. 1900) ·
Alexander Curt Brade,
German botanist (b. 1881) ·
Crew
of Soyuz 11: ·
Georgy Dobrovolsky (b. 1928) ·
Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933) ·
Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935) ·
Gaston Balande, French painter and
illustrator (b. 1880) July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
William Lawrence
Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1890) ·
Learie Constantine,
Baron Constantine, Trinidadian cricketer (b. 1901) ·
July 3 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943) ·
July 4 ·
Maurice Bowra, British critic (b. 1898) ·
August Derleth, American author and
anthologist (b. 1909) ·
Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and
politician (b. 1877) ·
July 6 – Louis Armstrong, African-American jazz
trumpeter (b. 1901) ·
July 7 ·
Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925) ·
Ub Iwerks, American animator (b. 1901) ·
July 10 – George Kenner, German artist (b. 1888) ·
July 13 – Joseph J. Clark, American admiral, (b. 1893) ·
July 15 – Bill Thompson,
American voice actor (b. 1913) ·
July 17 – Cliff Edwards, American actor (b. 1895) ·
July 19 ·
John
Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, British businessman
(b. 1886) ·
Harry W. Hill, American admiral (b. 1890) ·
Norman Reilly Raine,
American screenwriter (b. 1894) ·
Arsčne Roux, French Arabist (b. 1893) ·
July 21 – Michael Somogyi, Hungarian-American
professor of biochemistry (b. 1883) ·
July 22 – Ross Thatcher, Premier of Saskatchewan,
Canada (1964–1971) (b. 1917) ·
July 23 ·
Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1910) ·
William Tubman, 19th President of Liberia
(b. 1895) ·
July 24 ·
Christl Mardayn, German actress (b. 1896) ·
Alan Rawsthorne, British Composer (b. 1905) ·
July 25 – Alfred
Michael "Chief" Venne, Ojibwa/Chippewa Native American
leader (b. 1879) ·
July 26 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923) ·
July 27 – Charlie Tully, Northern Irish footballer
(b. 1924) ·
July 30 – Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (b. 1901) August[edit] ·
August 2 ·
Satyananda Giri, Indian monk and Yukteswar
Giri’s chief in Dubai, India (b. 1896) ·
John McDermott,
American golfer (b. 1891) ·
August 3 – Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer, diver,
and aquatic performer (b. 1887) ·
August 4 – E. Barrett Prettyman,
United States federal judge (b. 1891) ·
August 5 – Royal Rife, American inventor (b. 1888) ·
August 10 – Antoine Mostaert, CICM Missionaries
(b. 1881) ·
August 11 – John Burton Cleland,
Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist (b. 1878) ·
August 12 – James T. Berryman,
American political cartoonist, recipient of the 1950 Pulitzer
Prize for Editorial Cartooning (b. 1902) ·
August 13 – King Curtis, American saxophonist (b. 1934) ·
Albrecht Goetze, German-American
Hittitologist (b. 1897) ·
Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born American actor
(b. 1894) ·
August 17 – Horace McMahon, American actor (b. 1906) ·
August 20 – Matiur
Rahman, Bangladeshi war hero (b. 1945) ·
August 24 – Carl Blegen, American archaeologist
(b. 1887) ·
August 25 – Ted Lewis,
American musician and entertainer (b. 1890) ·
Margaret
Bourke-White, American photographer (b. 1904) ·
Bennett Cerf, American publisher and
television personality (b. 1898) ·
Geoffrey
Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, British Judge during the Nuremberg
trials after World War II (b. 1880) ·
Reuvein Margolies,
Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (b. 1889) September[edit] ·
September 5 – George Trafton, American football player
(b. 1897) ·
September 7 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886) ·
September 8 – Emmett Toppino, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1909) ·
September 10 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932) ·
Bella Darvi, Polish-born actress (b. 1928) ·
Percy Helton, American film and television
actor (b. 1894) ·
Nikita Khrushchev,
Soviet leader (b. 1894) ·
September 12 – Lin Biao, Chinese defense minister (b. 1907) ·
September 17 – Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military officer
turned guerrilla leader (b. 1937) ·
September 20 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1900) ·
September 21 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine
physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1887) ·
September 22 – Lilian Bland, British journalist (b. 1878) ·
James Waddell
Alexander II, mathematician and topologist (b. 1888) ·
Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894) ·
September 24 – Hedwiga Reicher, German actress (b. 1884) ·
September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme
Court Justice (b. 1886) ·
September 26 – Sir Robert Saundby, British air marshal
(b. 1896) October[edit] ·
Jessie Arms Botke,
American artist (b. 1883) ·
Richard H. Jackson,
four-star admiral (b. 1866) ·
October 3 – Leah Baird, American actress (b. 1883) ·
October 6 – Debaki Bose, Bengali director, writer, and
actor (b. 1898) ·
October 7 – Henry Shoemaker
Conard, American botanist (b. 1874) ·
October 8 – Johanna
Bordewijk-Roepman, Dutch composer (b. 1892) ·
October 9 – Peter Rindskopf, American civil rights
lawyer (b. 1942) ·
October 10 – Sir Cyril Burt, British educational
psychologist (b. 1883) ·
Chester Conklin, American comedic actor
(b. 1886) ·
Tamanoumi Masahiro,
Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1944) ·
Dean Acheson, 51st United
States Secretary of State (b. 1893) ·
Gene Vincent, American singer (b. 1935) ·
Benito Canónico,
Venezuelan composer (b. 1894) ·
Abdul Monem Khan, Pakistani politician,
Governor of East Pakistan (b. 1899) ·
Hans Ledersteger, Austrian art director
(b. 1898) ·
Richard Thomas
Alexander, American educator and influential education
theorist.(b. 1887) ·
Robin Boyd,
Australian architect (b. 1919) ·
October 19 – Betty Bronson, American actress (b. 1906) ·
Raymond Hatton, American actor (b. 1887) ·
Naoya Shiga, Japanese writer (b. 1883) ·
October 24 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876) ·
October 27 – Gustave Baumann, American printmaker and
painter (b. 1881) ·
Duane Allman, American rock guitarist,
co-founder and leader of the Allman Brothers Band (b. 1946) ·
Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1902) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Gertrud von Le Fort,
German writer of novels, poems and essays (b. 1876) ·
November 2 – Martha Vickers, American actress (b. 1925) ·
November 4 – Guillermo León
Valencia, 21st President of
Colombia (b. 1909) ·
November 9 – Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor
(b. 1881) ·
A. P. Herbert, English humorist, novelist,
playwright and law reform activist (b. 1890) ·
Walther Kittel, German general during World
War II (b. 1887) ·
November 14 – Hanna Neumann, German mathematician
(b. 1914) ·
Lucien Chopard, French entomologist
(b. 1885) ·
Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model
(b. 1943) ·
Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director and
writer (b. 1898) ·
Dame Gladys Cooper, British actress (b. 1888) ·
November 22 – József Zakariás,
Hungarian soccer player (b. 1924) ·
November 25 – Hank Mann, American comedic actor (b. 1888) ·
November 26 – James Alberione, Italian Roman Catholic
priest and blessed (b. 1884) ·
November 27 – Joe Guyon, American football player
(b. 1892) ·
Wasfi al-Tal, 3-Time Prime Minister of
Jordan (assassinated) (b. 1919) ·
Grantley Herbert
Adams, 1st Premier of Barbados (b. 1898) ·
November 29 – Knud Jessen, Danish botanist and quaternary
geologist (b. 1884) December[edit] ·
December 2 – E. M. Almedingen, Russian-British novelist,
biographer and children's author (b. 1898) ·
December 6 – Mathilde Kschessinska,
Russian ballerina (b. 1872) ·
December 7 – Ferdinand Pecora, American lawyer and judge
(b. 1882) ·
Ralph Bunche, African-American diplomat,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904) ·
Aeneas Francon
Williams, English-born, Missionary, Church of Scotland minister,
writer and poet (b. 1886) ·
Torrance "Torry" Gillick, Scottish
footballer (b. 1915) ·
Nikolai Kudryavtsev,
Soviet Russian petroleum geologist (b. 1893) ·
Yechezkel Kutscher,
Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist (b. 1909) ·
Alan Morton, Scottish footballer (b. 1893) ·
David Sarnoff, Radio and television pioneer
(b. 1891) ·
December 13 – Gotthard Heinrici,
German general (b. 1886) ·
December 15 – Paul Levy,
French mathematician (b. 1886) ·
Bobby Jones,
American golfer (b. 1902) ·
Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926) ·
Gustavo Bacarisas,
Gibraltarian painter (b. 1873) ·
Roy O. Disney, American studio executive
(b. 1893) ·
December 22 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (b. 1913) ·
Dora Altmann, German actress (b. 1881) ·
Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist
(b. 1924) ·
December 26 – Robert Lowery,
American actor (b. 1913) ·
December 28 – Max Steiner, Austrian-born film composer
(b. 1888) ·
December 29 – Stuart Holmes, American actor (b. 1884) ·
Jo Cals, Dutch politician and jurist, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) (b. 1914) ·
Dorothy Comingore,
American actress (b. 1913) ·
Pete Duel, American actor (Alias Smith and
Jones) (b. 1940) ·
Eduardo Zamacois, Spanish novelist (b. 1873) Date unknown[edit] ·
Reg Bunn, British artist (b. 1905) ·
Hussein Al Oweini,
18th Prime Minister
of Lebanon (b. 1900) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Dennis Gabor ·
Chemistry – Gerhard Herzberg ·
Medicine – Earl W.
Sutherland, Jr ·
Peace – Willy Brandt References |
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