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Gregorian Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was
a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of
the 20th century,
and the 5th year of the 1970s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] ·
January 11 – David, Elizabeth,
Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz are born
in Cape Town, the first recorded sextuplets in the world where all six
babies survive. ·
January 17 – Two commercial divers, Pier Skipness and Robert
John Smyth, die from rapid decompression and
drowning in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea after their diving bell abruptly
surfaces from a depth of 320 feet (98 m).[1][2] ·
January 20 – The General
Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon makes its first flight at Edwards Air Force
Base, California. ·
January 26 – Bülent Ecevit of CHP forms
the new government of Turkey (37th
government, partner MSP). February[edit] ·
Fire breaks out in the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil; 177 die, 293 are injured,
11 die later of their injuries. ·
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, is declared a Federal
Territory. ·
February 4 – Heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped outside
her Berkeley, California apartment
by the Symbionese
Liberation Army. ·
February 8 – After a record 84 days
in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth. ·
February 12 – The first episode of
children's television series Bagpuss airs in Britain. ·
February 17 – Zamalek disaster: a soccer stampede occurs in Cairo, killing 49. March[edit] ·
March 3 – Turkish
Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes
in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard. This becomes the deadliest
single aircraft accident with no survivors. ·
March 4 ·
Following
a hung parliament in
the United Kingdom general election, Conservative prime
minister Edward Heathresigns
and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the
country from 1964 to 1970.[3] ·
People magazine's first issue released in the
U.S. with Mia Farrow on
the cover. ·
March 8 ·
Charles de
Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. ·
The Brady Bunch is cancelled after five seasons on
ABC. ·
Queen releases Queen II with the single Seven Seas of Rhye. ·
March 18 ·
End
of five-month oil embargo by most OPEC nations
against the United States, Europe and Japan which had caused the 1973 oil crisis. ·
After
23 consecutive years on television, Lucille Ball airs the finale of Here's Lucy. ·
March 26 – A group of peasant women
in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, use their bodies to
surround trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to
the Chipko movement. ·
March 29 ·
The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang is discovered at Xi'an, China.[4] ·
Launch
of the Volkswagen Golf in West Germany, a modern front-wheel drive
hatchback which is expected to replace the iconic Volkswagen Beetle,
holder of the world record for the car with the most units produced. April[edit] ·
April
– The world population reaches
4 billion people estimated by the United States
Census Bureau. ·
April 2 – French president Georges Pompidou, dies of cancer at
63. Alain Poher succeeds
him immediately; Valéry Giscard
d'Estaing wins the presidential contest in May 1974. ·
April 3–4 – An enormous tornado outbreak strikes the central
parts of the United States, killing around 319 people. Known as the "1974 Super Outbreak",
the event was the largest of its kind until the 2011 Super Outbreak. ·
April 4 – Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth for the all-time home run
record with his 714th at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. ·
April 5 – Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel. ·
April 6 ·
Swedish pop group ABBA's
song Waterloo wins
the 1974
Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, UK. ·
California Jam is held at the Ontario Motor
Speedway in Ontario, California,
attracting 250,000 fans. ·
April 8 – Hank Aaron became the all-time MLB home
run leader with his 715th at Atlanta in front of a national
television audience. ·
April 11 – The Kiryat Shmona
massacre takes place in Israel. ·
April 15 – As "Tania", Patty Hearst is photographed wielding
an M1 carbine while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank
in San Francisco. ·
April 24 – Guillaume Affair: exposure of an East German spy Günter Guillaume within
the West German government,
leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.[5] ·
April 25 – Carnation Revolution:
A left-wing military coup in Portugal restores democracy, ending 48 years of Estado Novo and Ditadura Nacional dictatorship
in the country. Portuguese
Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano flees to Braziland
is granted political asylum by Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel. May[edit] ·
May 4 ·
An
all-female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an
8,000 metres (26,000 ft) peak. ·
The Expo '74 world's fair opens in Spokane, Washington. ·
May 6 – Willy Brandt West Germany's chancellor
resigns; replaced by Helmut Schmidt. ·
May 17 – Dublin and
Monaghan bombings: The Ulster Volunteer
Force (UVF), explode four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland.
The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, the highest number of
casualties in any single day during "The Troubles". ·
A
massive, two-hour shootout between the Los Angeles Police Department and
members of the Symbionese
Liberation Army leaves six SLA members, including SLA
leader Donald DeFreeze,
dead. ·
May 18 ·
Australian
federal election, 1974: Gough Whitlam's Labor Government is
re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/Country Coalition led
by Billy Snedden.
Whitlam consequently becomes the first Labor Prime
Minister to be re-elected in his own right. The Democratic
Labor Party meanwhile lost all five of their Senate seats,
effectively wiping them out as a political force. ·
Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates
its first nuclear weapon,
becoming the 6th nation to do so. ·
The Warsaw radio mast is
completed, the second tallest structure ever built (it collapses on August
8, 1991). ·
May 19 – The Philadelphia Flyers defeat
the Boston Bruins to
become the first team from the 1967 NHL expansion class
to win the Stanley Cup in
the North American National Hockey
League. ·
May 30 – NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched. June[edit] ·
June 4 – The Cleveland Indians stage
an ill-advised Ten Cent Beer Night for
a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland
Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits after alcohol-fueled mayhem
and violence spreads from the stands onto the field. ·
June 13 – The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins
in West Germany. ·
June 17 – A bomb explodes in Westminster Hall, the oldest part of
the British
Houses of Parliament. The hall's annex, housing offices and a
canteen, is destroyed by the bombing, attributed by police to the Provisional
wing of the Irish Republican
Army. ·
June 26 – The Universal Product
Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package
of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in
Troy, Ohio. ·
June 29 ·
Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first
female President of
Argentina, replacing her sick husband Juan Perón, who dies 2 days later. ·
America Sings attraction opens to the
public for the first time at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. July[edit] ·
July 7 – West
Germany beats the
Netherlands 2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
The West German football team are awarded the new FIFA World Cup
Trophy. ·
July 8 – Two weeks after the
attraction's opening, an 18-year-old employee is crushed to her death while
working on America Sings at Disneyland. This is the first casualty to
occur to an employee at a Disney Park. ·
July 15 ·
The Greek
military junta sponsors a coup d'état in Cyprus, replacing President Makarios III with Nikos Sampson. ·
News anchor Christine Chubbuck commits
suicide during a live broadcast on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida. ·
July 16 – Elmer Wayne Henley is
sentenced to life imprisonment for
assisting Dean Corll in
murdering 28 Texas boys from 1970 to 1973. ·
July 19 – Railcar explosion in Decatur, Illinois.
A tanker car collides with a Norfolk &
Western boxcar. Seven people are killed, 349 are injured and
$18 million in property damage.[6] ·
July 20 – The Turkish
invasion of Cyprus occurs. ·
July 23 – The Greek
military junta is replaced by a civilian government,
the metapolitefsi. August[edit] August 9: Gerald R.
Ford becomes the 38th President of the United States ·
August 4 – A bomb
explodes in a train between Italy and West Germany, killing
12 and wounding 48. Italian neo-fascists take responsibility. ·
August 7 – Philippe Petit crosses between Twin
Towers of the World
Trade Center in New York City high-wire walking. ·
August 9 – Watergate scandal:
U.S. President Richard Nixon announces
his resignation on August 8, effective at noon on August 9. Vice
President Gerald Ford is
sworn in as the 38th President of the United States upon Nixon's resignation. ·
Turkey invades Cyprus
for the second time, occupying 37% of the island's territory. ·
Greece withdraws its forces from NATO's
military command structure, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. ·
August 30 – An express train bound for
Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers. September[edit] ·
TWA Flight 841 crashes
into the Ionian Sea 18
minutes after take off from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo
hold, and kills 88 people. ·
President Gerald Ford pardons former
president Richard Nixon. ·
September 10 – The Portuguese military
junta grants independence to Guinea-Bissau. ·
September 12 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by the Derg,
bringing an end to the Solomonic dynasty's
rule since 1270. The Ethiopian Civil Warbegins. ·
September 12 - African
Youth Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau. ·
September 13 – Japanese Red Army members seize
the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. ·
September 20 – The Kootenai War is declared, and 10-cent
tolls are charged on U.S. Highway 95. ·
September 23 – Ceefax (one of the first public service
information systems) is started by the BBC. October[edit] ·
October 11 – The UK Labour government
of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat
majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won
four of the five general elections he has contested.[7] ·
October 30 – The Rumble in
the Jungle takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, where Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in eight rounds to
regain the Heavyweight title,
which had been stripped from him seven years earlier. November[edit] ·
The World Tourism
Organization (WTO or WToO) is established. ·
The
German electronic band Kraftwerk releases their studio
album Autobahn. ·
November 5 – The Democratic
Party makes big gains nationwide in House,
Senate and Gubernatorial elections. ·
Ronald DeFeo, Jr.,
murders his entire family in their home in Amityville on Long Island, an event that inspires the
story of The Amityville
Horror. ·
McDonald's open their first UK
restaurant in Woolwich, South East London.[8] ·
November 16 – Arecibo message: The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory on Puerto Rico sends an interstellar radio
message towards Messier 13, the
Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The message will reach its destination
around the year 27,000. ·
November 18 – The International
Energy Agency is founded. ·
November 21 – Birmingham pub
bombings: In Birmingham, England, two pubs are
bombed, killing 21 people in an attack widely believed at the time to be
linked to the Provisional
Irish Republican Army. The Birmingham Six are later sentenced to
life in prison for this, but their convictions are quashed after a lengthy
campaign.[9] ·
November 22 – The United
Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine
Liberation Organization observer status. ·
November 24 – A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus
afarensis is discovered and named Lucy. ·
November 26 – Anneline Kriel is crowned as Miss World 1974, the second South African to
hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958,
when Helen Morgan resigns
four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant. ·
November 28 – In a rare public
performance, former Beatle John Lennon joins Elton John on stage at Madison Square
Garden in New York City. December[edit] ·
December 1 – A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 40 kilometres
(25 mi) northwest of Dulles International
Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board. ·
December 9 – The Paris summit,
reuniting the European Communities'
heads of state and government, commences. ·
December 13 – Malta becomes a republic. ·
December 17 – The World
Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) becomes a
specialized agency of the United Nations. ·
December 24–25 – Darwin, Australia is
almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy. Date unknown[edit] ·
Rubik's Cube puzzle is
invented by Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik.[10] ·
Dungeons &
Dragons fantasy tabletop
role-playing game, designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, is first released, in the
United States. ·
PepsiCo becomes the first American
company to sell products in the Soviet Union.[11] Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Reem Maged, Egyptian journalist ·
January 3 – Alessandro Petacchi,
Italian road cyclist ·
January 9 – MF Doom, English recording artist and producer ·
January 10 – Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood actor ·
Melanie Chisholm, English singer-songwriter
(Spice Girls) ·
Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country
skier ·
January 16 – Kate Moss, English model ·
Derrick Mason, American football player ·
Keith Robinson,
American actor and R&B singer ·
Gustavo Kupinski, Argentine guitarist
(d. 2011) ·
Maulik Pancholy, American actor ·
January 19 – Éva Novodomszky,
Hungarian journalist and presenter ·
January 20 – Rae Carruth, American football player ·
January 21 – Maxwell Atoms, American animator ·
January 22 – Joseph Muscat, 13th Prime Minister of Malta ·
January 23 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress ·
January 24 – Ed Helms, American actor and stand-up
comedian ·
January 27 – Ole Einar Bjørndalen,
Norwegian biathlete ·
January 28 – Kari Traa, Norwegian freestyle skier ·
Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player ·
Kōji Wada, Japanese rock singer
(d. 2016) ·
Christian Bale, English actor ·
Olivia Colman, English actress ·
January 31 – Anna Silk, Canadian actress February[edit] ·
February 3 – Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer ·
Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress ·
Shahab Hosseini, Iranian actor and film
director ·
February 6 – Aljo Bendijo, Filipino journalist,
broadcaster, TV/radio host ·
Cheryl Cosim, Filipino journalist, news
anchor, TV host ·
J Dilla, American record producer and rapper
(d. 2006) ·
Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player ·
Nujabes, Japanese record producer and DJ
(d. 2010) ·
Seth Green, American actor and comedian ·
Guy-Manuel de
Homem-Christo, French musician and record producer ·
Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-born American boxer
and mixed martial artist (d. 2016) ·
Elizabeth Banks, American actress and film
director ·
Ivri Lider, Israeli singer ·
February 12 – Naseem Hamed, British boxer ·
February 13 – Robbie Williams, British singer ·
Philippe Léonard,
Belgian footballer ·
Valentina Vezzali,
Italian fencer ·
Miranda July, American author, director,
actor, musician and spoken-word artist ·
Mr Lordi, Finnish singer ·
Alexander Wurz, Austrian racing driver ·
Gina Lynn, American porn actress ·
February 16 – Mahershala Ali, American actor and rapper ·
February 17 – Jerry O'Connell, American actor ·
February 18 – Jillian Michaels, American personal trainer
and TV personality ·
February 19 – Lezley Zen, American porn actress ·
February 22 – James Blunt, English singer ·
February 24 – Bonnie Somerville,
American actress ·
Divya Bharti, Indian actress ·
Chad Hugo, American musician and producer ·
Sébastien Loeb,
French rally driver ·
Mikee
Cojuangco-Jaworski, Filipino actress and equestrienne ·
February 27 – Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japanese speed skater March[edit] ·
March 1 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar,
American actor ·
March 3 – David Faustino, American actor ·
March 4 ·
Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player ·
Garamond Ortega, Argentine football player ·
March 5 ·
Jens Jeremies, German footballer ·
Matt Lucas, English comedian ·
Eva Mendes, American actress and model ·
Barbara Schöneberger,
German actress, singer, and TV host ·
Hiten Tejwani, Indian model and actor ·
March 6 ·
Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional
wrestler ·
Cooper Manning, television host ·
March 7 ·
Jenna Fischer, American actress ·
Antonio de la Rúa,
Argentine lawyer ·
March 8 ·
Danny Corkill, American child actor ·
Cesar Velasco Broca,
Spanish actor ·
March 12 ·
Hekiru Shiina, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
Jama Williamson, American actress ·
March 14 – Grace Park,
Canadian actress ·
March 15 – Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player ·
March 20 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer ·
March 21 – Ted Kravitz, British presenter and reporter ·
March 22 ·
Marcus Camby, American basketball player ·
Kidada Jones, American actress ·
Bassem Youssef, Egyptian journalist ·
March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress ·
March 25 – Lark Voorhies, American actress and singer ·
March 28 ·
Daisuke Kishio, Japanese voice actor ·
Scott Mills, British radio DJ and television
presenter ·
March 29 – Miguel Gómez,
Colombian photographer ·
March 30 – Miho Komatsu, Japanese pop singer and
songwriter ·
March 31 – Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer April[edit] ·
April 1 – Marcos Balter, Brazilian composer ·
April 2 – Håkan Hellström,
Swedish musician ·
April 8 – Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013) ·
April 9 – Jenna Jameson, American pornographic actress ·
April 11 ·
Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model ·
Alexander Kuoppala,
Finnish guitarist ·
April 12 – Marley Shelton, American actress ·
April 13 – Marta Jandová, Czech musician and actress ·
April 15 ·
Danny Pino, Cuban American actor ·
Tim Thomas,
American ice hockey goaltender ·
April 16 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director ·
April 17 ·
Mikael Åkerfeldt,
Swedish musician (Opeth) ·
Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion
designer ·
April 18 ·
Lorraine Pilkington,
Irish actress ·
Edgar Wright, English film director ·
April 20 – Tina Cousins, English singer ·
April 21 – Faust, Norwegian drummer ·
April 22 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born rock bassist ·
April 23 – Barry Watson,
American actor ·
April 24 – Jennifer Paz, Filipino actress ·
April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and model ·
April 29 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Kellie Crawford, Australian singer and
actress ·
Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch runner ·
May 2 ·
Matt Berry, English actor and singer ·
Horacio Carbonari,
Argentinian footballer and manager ·
Garðar Thór Cortes,
Icelandic tenor and actor ·
Andy
Johnson, English-Welsh footballer ·
Janek Meet, Estonian footballer ·
May 3 ·
Peter Everitt, Australian footballer and
radio host ·
Princess
Haya bint Al Hussein of Jordan ·
May 4 ·
Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and
coach ·
Tony McCoy, Irish jockey and sportscaster ·
May 6 ·
Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner ·
Daniela Bártová,
Czech pole vaulter and gymnast ·
Faruk Namdar, German-Turkish footballer ·
Patrick Tang, Hong Kong actor and singer ·
May 7 ·
Lawrence
Johnson, American pole vaulter ·
Breckin Meyer, American actor ·
Ian Pearce, English footballer and manager ·
May 8 ·
Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer ·
Korey Stringer, American football player
(d. 2001) ·
Jon Tickle, English television host ·
May 10 ·
Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player ·
Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer ·
May 11 – Adam Kaufman,
American actor ·
May 14 – Chantal Kreviazuk,
Canadian singer-songwriter ·
May 16 ·
Laura Pausini, Italian singer ·
Adam Richman,
American actor and television personality ·
Sonny Sandoval, American vocalist ·
May 17 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer ·
May 20 ·
Mikael Stanne, Swedish singer ·
Colette Wong, Singaporean sports anchor ·
Shiboprosad
Mukherjee, Indian film director, writer and actor ·
May 21 – Fairuza Balk, American actress ·
May 22 ·
Sean Gunn, American actor ·
A. J. Langer, American actress ·
Henrietta Onodi, Hungarian artistic gymnast ·
May 23 – Jewel, American singer ·
May 26 – Lars Frölander,
Swedish swimmer ·
May 28 – Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer ·
May 29 – Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and
actor ·
May 30 ·
Big L, American rapper (d. 1999) ·
CeeLo Green, American singer ·
May 31 – Kenan Doğulu, Turkish pop musician June[edit] ·
June 1 – Alanis Morissette,
Canadian-American singer ·
June 2 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player ·
June 3 ·
Kelly Jones, Welsh singer-songwriter ·
Martín Karpan, Argentinian actor ·
June 7 ·
Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player ·
Bear Grylls, British survivalist ·
June 9 – Samoth, Norwegian musician ·
June 13 ·
Katharina
Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter. ·
Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor ·
Selma,
Icelandic singer ·
Steve-O, American actor ·
June 19 – Bumper Robinson, American actor and voice
actor ·
June 21 ·
Natasha Beaumont, Malaysian actress and
model ·
Patrick Downey, American football player ·
Craig Lowndes, Australian race car driver ·
Maggie Siff, American actress ·
Hitoshi Uematsu, Japanese short track speed
skater ·
June 22 ·
Devayani,
Indian actress ·
Donald Faison, American actor ·
Amber O'Neal, American professional wrestler ·
B. V. S. Ravi, Indian writer ·
Tu Tamarua, Cook Islands rugby union flanker ·
Vijay, Indian actor ·
Lyndsay Walker, Australian cricketer ·
June 23 ·
Meg-John Barker, English author, academic,
activist and psychotherapist ·
Joel Edgerton, Australian actor ·
Kim Young-chul,
South Korean comedian and singer ·
Andi Vasluianu, Romanian actor ·
June 24 ·
Magnus Carlsson, Swedish singer ·
Andrea De Cruz, Singaporean actress ·
Ruffa Gutierrez, Filipino model, beauty
queen and actress ·
June 25 ·
Jeff Cohen,
American attorney and former child actor ·
Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress ·
Tereza Pergnerová,
Czech actress, singer and television presenter ·
June 26 ·
Jason Craig, American artist ·
Derek Jeter, American baseball player ·
Ecija Ojdanić, Croatian actress ·
Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress ·
Kristofer Steen, Swedish musician ·
Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
and commentator ·
June 27 – Christopher O'Neill,
British-American businessman ·
June 28 ·
Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder ·
Nelson Mariano II,
Filipino chess Grandmaster ·
June 29 – Pua Khein-Seng, Malaysian businessman ·
June 30 ·
Kelli Ali, British vocalist ·
Tony Rock, American actor ·
Hezekiél Sepeng,
South African middle distance athlete July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Timmy Hung, Hong Kong actor ·
Jefferson Pérez,
Ecuadorean race walker ·
July 2 ·
Michael Budd, Australian actor ·
Rocky Gray, American musician ·
Kiyohiko Shibukawa,
Japanese fashion model actor ·
Moon So-ri, South Korean actress, film
director and screenwriter ·
July 3 ·
Taiga Ishikawa, Japanese politician and LGBT
activist ·
Corey Reynolds, American musical theatre,
television, and film actor ·
Marko Milošević,
Serbian fugitive and refugee ·
July 4 ·
Kevin Hanchard, Canadian actor ·
Karole Rocher, French actress ·
Mick Wingert, American actor and voice actor ·
July 7 – Jennifer Jones,
Canadian curler ·
July 8 ·
Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, actress,
model and socialite (d. 2015) ·
Dragoslav
Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer ·
July 11 – Alanas Chošnau,
Lithuanian singer and songwriter ·
July 12 ·
Parvin Dabas, Indian actor, model and director ·
Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer ·
Hurricane Helms, American professional
wrestler ·
Ryan Lizza, American journalist ·
July 14 ·
Martina Hill, German actress, comedian and
impersonator ·
David Mitchell,
British comedian and actor ·
July 15 – Maszlee Malik, Malaysian politician ·
July 16 – Jeremy Enigk, American singer-songwriter ·
July 18 – Michael Dante
DiMartino, American animator ·
July 20 ·
Doug Ithier, Australian footballer ·
Simon Rex, American actor, rapper, and VJ ·
July 21 – Terry Coldwell, English singer ·
July 22 ·
Franka Potente, German actress ·
Johnny Strong, American actor and musician ·
July 23 ·
Maurice Greene,
American athlete ·
Kathryn Hahn, American actress ·
Stephanie March, American actress ·
Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian road racing cyclist ·
July 25 – Lauren Faust, American animator ·
July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player ·
July 28 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician ·
July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor ·
July 30 – Hilary Swank, American actress ·
July 31 – Emilia Fox, English actress August[edit] ·
August 4 – Wasabi Mizuta, Japanese voice actress ·
August 5 – Kajol, a Bollywood actress ·
August 6 – Ever Carradine, American actress ·
August 7 ·
Chico Benymon, American actor ·
Michael Shannon, American actor ·
August 8 – Brian Harvey, English singer ·
August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player ·
August 12 – Karl Stefanovic, Australian TV host ·
August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician ·
August 14 – Christopher Gorham,
American actor ·
August 15 – Natasha Henstridge,
Canadian actress and model ·
Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier ·
Krisztina Egerszegi,
Hungarian swimmer ·
Amy Adams, American actress ·
Misha Collins, American actor ·
Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist ·
Jenna Leigh Green,
American actress and singer ·
Lee Sheppard,
Australian cartoonist ·
Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist ·
Ovi,
Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician ·
Shifty Shellshock,
American singer ·
August 24 – Jennifer Lien, American actress ·
August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer September[edit] ·
September 1 – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book writer
and cartoonist ·
September 3 – Jen Royle, American sports reporter and chef ·
September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer ·
Tim Henman, English tennis player ·
Mylene Dizon, Filipino actress and musician ·
Nina Persson, Swedish singer ·
Sarah Strange, Canadian actress and voice
actress ·
September 7 – Glenn Ljungström,
Swedish guitarist ·
Mirko Filipović,
Croatian kickboxer; mixed martial arts fighter ·
Kerry Harvick, American singer ·
Ryan Phillippe, American actor ·
Ben Wallace, American basketball player ·
Elizabeth
Jasicki, British actress ·
September 12 – Jennifer Nettles, American musician ·
September 13 – Fiona Avery, comic book and television
writer ·
September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj,
Moroccan athlete ·
September 15 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer, musician, and
songwriter ·
Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player ·
Austin St. John, American actor and martial
artist ·
Sol Campbell, English footballer ·
Xzibit, American rapper ·
Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and
television personality ·
Victoria Silvstedt,
Swedish model ·
September 22 – Wayne Grayson, American voice actor and
director ·
September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler ·
Niels Brinck, Danish singer and songwriter ·
Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer ·
Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer ·
Joo Jin-mo, South Korean actor ·
September 29 – James Lance, English actor ·
September 30 – Yul Bürkle, Venezuelan actor and model October[edit] ·
October 1 – Keith Duffy, Irish singer ·
October 2 – Rachana Banerjee, Indian film actress ·
October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater ·
October 6 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh,
Vietnamese sports shooter ·
Allison Munn, American actress ·
Charlotte Perrelli,
Swedish singer ·
Alexander Polinsky,
American actor and voice actor ·
October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower ·
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.,
American race car driver ·
Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player ·
Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player ·
Greg Poehler, American actor ·
October 14 – Jessica Drake, American porn actress ·
October 15 – Shumon Basar, British writer and editor ·
Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer ·
Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player ·
October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen,
English actor ·
Jeremy Scahill, American journalist ·
Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer ·
Mohammad Sidique
Khan, Islamic terrorist who led the 7 July 2005
London bombings[12] ·
Bashar Rahal, American actor ·
October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer and pianist ·
Aravind Adiga, Indian-Australian author ·
Sander Westerveld,
Dutch soccer player ·
October 24 – Catherine Sutherland,
Australian actress ·
Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer ·
Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican actor ·
Akashdeep Saigal, Indian television actor
and model ·
Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and
politician ·
October 31 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and reggae singer
(d. 2007) November[edit] ·
Nelly, American rapper ·
Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017) ·
Cedric Bixler-Zavala,
Mexican-American singer ·
Louise Nurding, English singer ·
Carl Steven, American child actor (d. 2011) ·
Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter ·
Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player ·
Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer ·
Masashi Kishimoto,
Japanese manga author ·
Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor ·
Alessandro Del Piero,
Italian football player ·
Manav Gohil, Indian television actor ·
November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio,
American actor ·
November 13 – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect ·
November 15 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer ·
November 16 – Paul Scholes, English football player ·
November 18 – Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver ·
Drew Ginn, Australian rower ·
Kurt Krömer, German television presenter,
comedian and actor ·
November 21 – Tiit Sukk, Estonian actor, director and
television presenter ·
November 24 – Stephen Merchant, English comedian and actor ·
Wendy Houvenaghel,
British racing cyclist ·
Zsófia Polgár,
Hungarian-born chess player ·
Federico Gutiérrez,
Colombian politician ·
November 29 – Ferenc Merkli, Hungarian Slovene priest,
writer and translator ·
November 30 – Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer December[edit] ·
December 1 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer ·
December 4 – Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player ·
December 5 – Kid Koala, Canadian DJ, turntablist,
musician and graphic novelist ·
December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer ·
December 9 – Luisa Bradshaw-White,
English actress ·
December 10 – Meg White, American drummer ·
Rey Mysterio, American wrestler ·
Ben Shephard, English television presenter ·
Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner ·
December 12 – Michelle Saram, Singaporean singer and
actress ·
December 13 – Nick McCarthy, English guitarist ·
Sarah Paulson, American actress ·
Giovanni Ribisi, American actor ·
Kari Byron, American artist and television
personality ·
Viki Miljković,
Serbian singer ·
Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian footballer ·
Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer ·
Paul Linger, English footballer ·
Jacqui Oatley, British sports presenter ·
Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer ·
Ryan Seacrest, American television
personality ·
Fumiko Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
Alena Vinnitskaya,
Ukrainian singer ·
December 28 – Jocelyn Enriquez, American singer ·
December 29 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor ·
December 31 – Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Jimmy Smith,
American Major League Baseball infielder
(b. 1895) ·
January 2 – Tex Ritter, American country musician and
actor (b. 1905) ·
Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901) ·
Red Snapp, American baseball player
(b. 1888) ·
January 5 – Dewey Mayhew, American football coach
(b. 1898) ·
Lech Pijanowski, Polish screenwriter, film
critic, broadcaster and director (b. 1928) ·
David Alfaro
Siqueiros, Mexican painter (b. 1896) ·
January 7 – Wang Shusheng, Chinese general (b. 1905) ·
January 8 – Charles-Édouard
Ferland, Canadian jurist, Liberal politician and Senator (b. 1892) ·
January 10 – Charles G. Bond, U.S. House of
Representatives from New York (b. 1877) ·
January 11 – Antonio Bautista, Filipino pilot with
the Philippine Air Force (b. 1937) ·
January 12 – Jack Jacobs, American-born National
Football League and Canadian
Football League player (b. 1919) ·
January 14 – Joseph Dippolito, Italian American Mafia member of the Los
Angeles crime syndicate (b. 1914) ·
January 15 – Harold D. Cooley, U.S. House of
Representatives (b. 1897) ·
January 17 – Clara Edwards,
American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1880) ·
January 18 – Bill Finger, American comic strip and book
writer (b. 1914) ·
January 19 – Edward Seago, British artist (b. 1910) ·
January 20 – Leonard Freeman, American actor Hawaii
Five-0 (b. 1920) ·
January 20 – Robert Guy Howarth,
Australian scholar, literary critic and poet (b. 1906)[13] ·
January 22 – Oskar Herman, Croatian Jewish painter
(b. 1886) ·
January 25 – William Fawcett,
American character actor, mostly in B-movies (b. 1884) ·
January 26 – Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor (b. 1898) ·
Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel
(b. 1898) ·
Leo Geyr von
Schweppenburg, German general (b. 1886) ·
January 28 – Oswald Cornwallis,
English cricketer (b. 1894) ·
January 29 – H. E. Bates, English writer and author (b. 1905) ·
Pina Gallini, Italian actress (b. 1888) ·
Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film
studio executive (b. 1879) ·
Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1912) February[edit] ·
February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose,
Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894) ·
February 7 – Edward
Beck, British Army (b. 1880) ·
Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887) ·
George W. Snedecor,
American mathematician and statistician (b. 1881) ·
February 17 – Ralph W. Gerard, American neurophysiologist
and behavioural scientist (b. 1900) ·
February 21 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and
co-Founder of the Tim Hortons restaurant
chain (b. 1930) ·
February 23 – George Van
Biesbroeck, American-Belgian astronomer (b. 1880) ·
Margaret Leech, American historian and
fiction writer (b. 1893) ·
Robert A. Stemmle,
German screenwriter and film director (b. 1903) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Hüseyin Kemal Gürmen,
Turkish theatre and cinema actor (b. 1901) ·
Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist and
composer (b. 1935) ·
March 2 – Péter Schell, Hungarian politician (b. 1898) ·
March 3 ·
Barbara Ruick, American actress and singer
(b. 1930) ·
Frank Wilcox, American character actor
(b. 1907) ·
March 4 – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract
expressionist painter (b. 1903) ·
March 5 ·
John Samuel Bourque,
French-Canadian politician, Cabinet Minister, military member, and businessman
from Québec, Canada (b. 1894) ·
Billy De Wolfe, American character actor
(b. 1907) ·
March 6 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and
writer; who won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for his
book The Denial of Death (b. 1924) ·
March 7 ·
Moriji Mochida, last person ever awarded the
10th dan rank in kendo (b. 1885) ·
Hans Sachs,
Holocaust survivor and poster collector (b. 1881) ·
March 8 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (b. 1889) ·
March 9 – Earl Wilbur
Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1915) ·
March 10 – Alexander John
Majeski, American architect and Naval Lieutenant (b. 1920) ·
March 12 ·
Oleksii Shovkunenko,
Ukrainian painter (b. 1884) ·
Red Wing,
American actress (b. 1873) ·
March 14 – Maulana
Shams-ud-din Harifal, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1944) ·
March 15 – José Tohá, Chilean Socialist politician,
minister (assassinated) (b. 1927) ·
March 17 – Louis Kahn, Russian-born American architect
(b. 1901) ·
March 19 – Edward Platt, American actor known as,
"The Chief" on NBC/CBS's Get Smart (b. 1916) ·
March 20 – Chet Huntley, American television reportor
(b. 1911) ·
March 21 – Candy Darling, American actress (b. 1944) ·
March 22 – Peter Revson, American race car driver
(b. 1939) ·
March 24 – Lewie G. Merritt, U.S. Marine, major general
and aviator (b. 1897) ·
March 27 ·
Wilhelm Herget, German Luftwaffe flying ace (b. 1910) ·
Eduardo Santos, Colombian publisher and
politician, 15th President of
Colombia (b. 1888) ·
March 29 ·
Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (La ciociara) (b. 1916) ·
Joe Stecher, American professional wrestler
(b. 1893) ·
March 31 – Frank Seno, American football running back
and defensive back (b. 1921) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Douglass Dumbrille,
Pioneering Canadian actor in Hollywood (b. 1889) ·
Georges Pompidou, 100th Prime Minister
of France and 19th President of France (b. 1911) ·
April 3 – Ossie
Newton-Thompson, South African cricketer and politician (b. 1920) ·
April 5 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and a
founding member of the Group of Seven (b. 1882) ·
April 6 ·
Willem Marinus Dudok,
Dutch modernist architect (b. 1884) ·
Roy Wood,
American professional baseball player (b. 1892) ·
April 8 – K. A. C. Creswell,
English architectural historian (b. 1879) ·
April 10 – Patricia Collinge,
Irish-born American actress (b. 1892) ·
April 11 – Edward Alexander
Bott, psychologist at the University of Toronto (b. 1887) ·
April 14 ·
Howard Pease, American adventure novelist
(b. 1894) ·
Michael Whalen,
American actor (b. 1902) ·
April 18 ·
Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897) ·
Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895) ·
April 19 – Ayub Khan,
Pakistanian general and politician, 2nd President of
Pakistan (b. 1907) ·
April 20 – Peter Lee Lawrence,
German actor in Spaghetti Westerns;
such as For a Few Dollars
More (b. 1944) ·
April 21 – Mirja Mane, Finnish actress (b. 1929) ·
April 23 – Cy Williams, American baseball player
(b. 1887) ·
April 24 ·
Bud Abbott, American comedian (b. 1895) ·
Franz Jonas, Austrian political figure,
7th President of Austria (b. 1899) ·
April 27 – Hans W. Petersen, Danish actor of over 40
films (b. 1897) ·
April 28 – Paul Page,
American actor of the 1920s and 1930s (b. 1903) ·
April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor
(b. 1906) ·
May 2 ·
James O. Richardson,
American admiral (b. 1878) ·
William Wantling, American ex-Marine, poet
and novelist (b. 1933) ·
May 3 ·
Nasir Khan,
Indian actor (b. 1924) ·
Ralph McCabe, Canadian-born Major League
Baseball player (b. 1918) ·
May 4 – Ludwig Karl Koch, German broadcaster and
sound recordist (b. 1881) ·
May 6 – Robert Maestri, mayor of New Orleans (b. 1889) ·
May 7 ·
Abu Bakar of Pahang,
Fourth Sultan of Pahang (b. 1904) ·
Fred Kelly,
American Olympic athlete (b. 1891) ·
May 8 – Fred Conyngham, Australian actor (b. 1901) ·
May 10 – Takeshi Sakamoto, Japanese actor (b. 1899) ·
May 12 – Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey
League player (b. 1944) ·
May 13 – Jaime Torres Bodet,
Mexican public servant, 2nd Director-General of the UNESCO (b. 1902) ·
May 14 – Jacob L. Moreno, Romanian-American
psychiatrist and psychosociologist (b. 1889) ·
May 15 – Guy Simonds, Canadian Lieutenant-General,
commander of the Canadian Armed
Forces in World War II (b. 1903) ·
May 16 – Billy Welu, American profession bowler
(b. 1932) ·
May 17 – Symbionese
Liberation Army Los Angeles police shootout of its members ·
Angela Atwood, American founding member of
the Symbionese
Liberation Army (b. 1949) ·
Donald DeFreeze, American leader of
the Symbionese
Liberation Army; who went by the nom de guerre "Field Marshall
Cinque" (b. 1943) ·
Camilla Hall, American member of the Symbionese
Liberation Army; one of main kidnappers of heiress Patricia Hearst (b. 1945) ·
Nancy Ling Perry, American member of
the Symbionese
Liberation Army (b. 1947) ·
Patricia Soltysik,
American member of the Symbionese
Liberation Army (b. 1950) ·
May 18 – Harry Ricardo, engineer (b. 1885) ·
May 19 – Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, poet,
writer and scholar (b. 1910) ·
May 20 – Jean Daniélou, French Catholic cardinal,
theologian and academic (b. 1905) ·
May 21 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater
(b. 1890) ·
May 24 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and
bandleader (b. 1899) ·
May 25 ·
Donald Crisp, English-American actor, film
director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1882) ·
Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer,
politician and philosopher (b. 1901) ·
May 26 – Kitty Gordon, English stage and silent film
actress. (b. 1878) ·
May 27 – Rudolf Altstadt, German soldier in World War II (b. 1914) ·
May 28 – Francesco Fausto
Nitti, Italian journalist (b. 1899) ·
May 31 ·
Adelle Davis, American author and
nutritionist (b. 1904) ·
Frederick George
Topham, Canadian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1917) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Henry Clay Sevier,
American lawyer and member from Louisiana
House of Representatives (b. 1896) ·
June 2 – Roger C. Slaughter,
American lawyer and U.S. Representative from Missouri (b. 1905) ·
June 3 – Rashid Nezhmetdinov,
Soviet chess player (b. 1912) ·
June 4 ·
Smokey Harris, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1890) ·
Mamerto
Urriolagoitía, 50th President of Bolivia (b. 1895) ·
June 5 – Larry Cabrelli, American football player and
assistant coach Philadelphia Eagles (b. 1917) ·
June 7 – Abdul Rahman Hashim,
Malaysian Inspector-General of Police (b. 1925) ·
June 9 ·
Miguel Ángel
Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1890) ·
Katharine Cornell,
Berlin-born, American stage actress, writer, theatre owner, and producer
(b. 1893) ·
Carlo Pisacane,
Italian actor (b. 1889) ·
June 10 – Prince
Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 11th Governor-General
of Australia (b. 1900) ·
June 11 ·
Eurico Gaspar Dutra,
Brazilian marshal and 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883) ·
Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898) ·
June 12 – André Marie, French Radical politician,
86th Prime Minister
of France (b. 1897) ·
June 14 – Knud Jeppesen, Danish musicologist, composer, and songwriter
(b. 1892) ·
June 15 – Kevin Gately, English mathematics student
at University of
Warwick involved in the Red Lion Square
disorders (b. 1953) ·
June 16 ·
Amalie Sara
Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894) ·
Mauritz Hugo, Swedish-born American film and
television actor (b. 1909) ·
June 17 ·
Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923) ·
Austin Gunsel, 3rd commissioner of the National
Football League (b. 1909) ·
June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Army marshal and Minister
of Defence (b. 1896) ·
June 21 – Katsutaro Kouta, Japanese female geisha and
ryūkōka singer (b. 1904) ·
June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892) ·
June 23 – Calvin B. Hoover, noted U.S. economist and
professor (b. 1897) ·
June 24 – József Juhász,
Hungarian stage and film actor (b. 1908) ·
June 25 – Cornelius Lanczos,
Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893) ·
June 26 – Ernest Gruening, American journalist, Governor of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1953,
and United States
Senator from 1959 to 1969 (b. 1887) ·
June 27 – Fred DeStefano, American football player and
physician; who won the National
Football League title with the Chicago Cardinals of 1925 (b. 1900) ·
June 28 ·
Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor
and science administrator (b. 1890) ·
Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923) ·
June 29 – José Maria
Ferreira de Castro, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1898) ·
June 30 – Alberta Williams
King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther
King, Sr., and mother of Martin Luther
King, Jr. (Shot) (b. 1904) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Juan Perón, Argentine army general and
politician, 2-time President of
Argentina (b. 1895) ·
July 2 ·
Sonia Holm, English actress (b. 1920) ·
Edith L. Sharp, Canadian writer (b. 1911) ·
July 4 ·
Georgette Heyer, British writer (b. 1902) ·
André Randall, French actor (b. 1892) ·
July 6 – Joseph Baldacchino,
Maltese archaeologist (b. 1894) ·
July 7 ·
Leon Shamroy, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer
(b. 1901) ·
Cornelius
Vanderbilt IV, American publisher and member of the Vanderbilt Family (b. 1898) ·
July 8 ·
Mário Simões Dias,
Portuguese violinist (b. 1902) ·
Margaret Furse, British Academy Award-winning costume designer
for Anne of the
Thousand Days (b. 1911) ·
July 9 – Earl Warren, Governor of California
and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891) ·
July 10 – Nancy Wickwire, American soap opera actress
(b. 1925) ·
July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist,
Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1891) ·
July 12 – Sonja Ludvigsen, Norwegian politician
(b. 1928) ·
July 13 ·
Patrick
Blackett, Baron Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1897) ·
Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1898) ·
July 14 ·
Dame Sibyl Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark (b. 1884) ·
Carl Andrew Spaatz, U.S. Air Force
general (b. 1891) ·
July 15 ·
William Albrecht, Chairman of the Department
of Soils at the University of Missouri (b. 1888) ·
Christine Chubbuck,
American TV personality (b. 1944) ·
Victor Negus, British surgeon (b. 1887) ·
July 16 – Oduvaldo Vianna
Filho, Brazilian playwright (b. 1936) ·
July 17 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1910) ·
July 19 – Joe Flynn,
American actor (b. 1924) ·
July 20 – Charles Rudolph
d'Olive, American World War I ace (b. 1896) ·
July 22 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer, politician,
and United States
Senator from Oregon (1945–1969) (b. 1900) ·
July 23 – Peter Lei, Bishop
of Hong Kong (b. 1922) ·
July 24 – Sir James Chadwick, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1891) ·
July 25 – Robert Hanbidge, Canadian lawyer and
politician, Mayor of Kerrobert and
12th Lieutenant-Governor
of Saskatchewan (b. 1891) ·
July 27 ·
Lightnin' Slim, American blues musician
(b. 1913) ·
Joop Pelser, Dutch footballer (b. 1892) ·
July 28 – Truman Bradley,
American radio actor (b. 1905) ·
July 29 ·
Cass Elliot, American vocalist (b. 1941) ·
Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899) ·
July 30 – Lev Knipper, Soviet composer (b. 1898) August[edit] ·
August 2 – Cyril Smith,
English virtuoso concert pianist (b. 1909) ·
August 3 ·
Edna Murphy, American actress of the silent era (b. 1899) ·
Almira Sessions, American character actress
(b. 1888) ·
August 4 – Józef Kondrat, Polish stage and film actor
(b. 1902) ·
August 5 – Friedrich F.
Tippmann, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1894) ·
August 6 – Gunboat Smith, Irish-born American boxer and
referee (b. 1887) ·
August 7 – Rosario Castellanos,
Méxican poet and author (b. 1925) ·
August 8 – Baldur von Schirach,
Nazi German Hitler Youth leader
(b. 1907) ·
José Falcón, Portuguese matador (gored to
death by bull) (b. 1944) ·
Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer
(b. 1902) ·
August 14 – Romuald Bourque, French-Canadian politician
from Québec (b. 1889) ·
August 15 – Edmund Cobb, American actor (b. 1892) ·
August 17 – Aldo Palazzeschi, Italian novelist, poet,
journalist and essayist (b. 1885) ·
August 18 – J. C. Winslow, British missionary to India
for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (b. 1882) ·
August 19 – Rodger Davies, American diplomat
(assassinated) (b. 1921) ·
August 20 – Magda Sonja, Austrian actress (b. 1886) ·
August 21 – Buford Pusser, American Sheriff of McNairy County,
Tennessee (b. 1937) ·
August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-Jewish British
mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. 1908) ·
August 23 – Roberto Assagioli,
Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. 1888) ·
August 24 – Alexander P. de
Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1894) ·
August 26 – Charles Lindbergh,
American aviator (Spirit of St. Louis) (b. 1902) ·
August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician
(b. 1897) ·
August 28 – Aleksandar
Sekulović, Montenegrin cinematographer (b. 1918) ·
Judith Furse, English actress (b. 1912) ·
Fred W. Preller, American politician
(b. 1902) ·
August 30 – Kenneth
Anderson, Indian-British writer and hunter (b. 1910) ·
Ali bin
Abdullah Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1895) ·
Norman Kirk, 29th Prime Minister of New
Zealand (b. 1923) ·
Gianna Manzini, Italian writer (b. 1896) September[edit] Prince
Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia ·
September 1 – Mary Broadfoot
Walker, Scottish physician (b. 1888) ·
September 2 – Walter Strenge, American cinematographer
(b. 1898) ·
September 3 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901) ·
Creighton
Williams Abrams, American general (b. 1914) ·
Marcel Achard, French playwright and
scriptwriter (b. 1899) ·
Olga Baclanova, Soviet stage and screen
actress, operatic singer, and ballerina (b. c. 1893) ·
Otto Kruger, American actor of German
descent (b. 1885) ·
September 7 – Juan Antonio Ipiña,
Spanish football manager (b. 1912) ·
Dhani Nivat, Thai politician (b. 1885) ·
Bert Niehoff, American Major League
Baseball player (b. 1884) ·
Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist, Little Jimmy (b. 1875) ·
September 10 – Melchior
Wańkowicz, Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and
publisher (b. 1892) ·
September 11 – Robert Nodar, Jr.,
American Republican politician
from New York and
its member of the United
States House of Representatives (b. 1916) ·
Prince
Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1900) ·
Craig Woods, American actor (b. 1918) ·
September 15 – René Capistrán Garza,
Méxican Association of Catholic Youth leader, lawyer, screenwriter, and film
critic (b. 1898) ·
September 16 – Phog Allen, American basketball and baseball
player (b. 1885) ·
September 17 – Claudia Morgan, American actress, The Edge of Night in
the 1950s (b. 1912) ·
September 18 – Edna Best, British actress (b. 1900) ·
Tránsito Cocomarola,
Argentine musician and folklorist (b. 1918) ·
Zack Taylor,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1898) ·
September 20 – Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, Mexican Franciscan friar, singer, and actor
(b. 1896) ·
September 21 – Walter Brennan, American actor; 3-time Best
Supporting Academy Award-winning
actor (1936, 1938,
and 1940) (b. 1894) ·
Winfried Otto
Schumann, German physicist (b. 1888) ·
George Spahn, American rancher connected to
the Manson family (b. 1889) ·
September 23 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian who
created the character Charlie Weaver (b. 1905) ·
September 24 – Dorothy Stone,
American actress (b. 1905) ·
September 26 – Jean Gale, American vaudeville performer (b. 1912) ·
Silvio Frondizi, Argentine intellectual and
lawyer (b. 1907) ·
James R. Webb, American soldier and
screenwriter who won the 1963 Academy Award for How the West
Was Won (b. 1909) ·
September 28 – Arnold Fanck, German film director who
pioneered in the mountain film genre
(b. 1889) ·
Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician
(assassinated) (b. 1915) ·
Sofía Cuthbert,
wife of Carlos Prats (b. 1918) October[edit] ·
Stephen Latchford,
American diplomat and aviation expert (b. 1883) ·
Frederick
Moosbrugger, American admiral (b. 1900) ·
October 2 – Vasily Shukshin, Soviet actor, writer,
screenwriter, and director from the Altai region (b. 1929) ·
October 3 – Bessie Louise Pierce,
American historian (b. 1888) ·
Robert Lee Moore, American mathematician
(b. 1882) ·
Anne Sexton, American poet and writer
(b. 1928) ·
October 5 – Virgil Miller, American cinematographer
(b. 1886) ·
October 6 – V. K. Krishna Menon,
Indian statesman, diplomat and nationalist (b. 1896) ·
October 7 – Henry J. Cadbury, American biblical scholar
and Quaker (b. 1883) ·
October 8 – Harry Carney, American jazz musician
(b. 1910) ·
Theodore Foley, American Roman Catholic priest and servant of
God (b. 1913) ·
Oskar Schindler, Sudetgerman businessman
(b. 1908) ·
October 10 – Werner Heyking, Danish actor, Willy
Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) (b. 1913) ·
October 11 – Frank Kowalski, American soldier United States Army and United
States Representatives from Connecticut (b. 1907) ·
Josef Krips, Austrian conductor and
violinist (b. 1902) ·
Sam Rice, American baseball player (Washington
Senators) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1890) ·
Ed Sullivan, American television host
(b. 1901) ·
October 14 – Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani landscape
painter (b. 1909) ·
October 16 – Vlasta Dekanova, Czechoslovakian artistic
gymnast (b. 1909) ·
Johannes Krahn, German architect (b. 1908) ·
Tomotaka Tasaka, Japanese film director
(b. 1902) ·
October 18 – Anders Lange, Norwegian politician (b. 1902) ·
Farrukh Ahmad, Bangladeshi poet and writer
(b. 1918) ·
Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian jurist, musician, and
spiritual thinker (b. 1895) ·
October 20 – Élie Lescot, 29th President of Haiti,
leader of the World War II (b. 1883) ·
October 21 – Donald Goines, American writer of urban fiction (b. 1936) ·
October 23 – Melchior Lengyel, Hungarian writer,
dramatist, and film screenwriter (b. 1880) ·
October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist
(b. 1908) ·
October 25 – Fahrettin Altay, Ottoman military officer
(b. 1880) ·
October 26 – Bidia Dandaron, Buryat Buddhist practitioner
in the USSR (b. 1914) ·
Paul Frankeur, French actor (b. 1905) ·
C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician
(b. 1938) ·
October 30 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (b. 1914) ·
October 31 – Mikheil Chiaureli,
Soviet Georgian filmmaker
(b. 1894) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Ralf Harolde, American character actor
(b, 1899) ·
Richard Kroner, German neo-Hegelian
philosopher (b. 1884) ·
Farid-ud-Din Qadri,
Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1918) ·
November 3 – Mamá Tingó, Dominican activist (b. 1921) ·
November 4 – Harry Fritz, American baseball player Chicago Whales (b. 1890) ·
Marguerite Namara,
American lyric soprano (b. 1888) ·
Stafford Repp, American actor noted for his
work on the Batman (TV Series) (b. 1918) ·
Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican-American actor
(b. 1920) ·
Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899) ·
November 8 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American rhythm &
blues singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1914) ·
November 9 – Egon Wellesz, British composer, teacher and
musicologist (b. 1885) ·
November 10 – Jasper Goodwill, American municipal
politician, Mayor of Minden, Louisiana (b. 1889) ·
Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and film
director (b. 1901) ·
Karen Silkwood, American chemical technician
and labour union activist (b. 1946) ·
November 14 – Johnny Mack Brown,
American football star and actor (b. 1904) ·
Robert Hugo,
Duke of Parma (b. 1909) ·
Konstantin Shayne,
Russian-born, American actor (b. 1888) ·
November 16 – Walther Meissner, German technical physicist
(b. 1882) ·
Erskine
Hamilton Childers, Irish politician, 4th President of Ireland (b. 1905) ·
Clive Brook, English actor (b. 1887) ·
November 18 – Gösta Lilliehöök,
Swedish pentathlete and 1912 Olympic Games champion
(b. 1884) ·
November 19 – Alessandro Momo, Italian actor (b. 1956) ·
November 21 – Frank Martin,
Swiss composer (b. 1890) ·
Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born American writer
(b. 1920) ·
Massacre of the
Sixty in Ethiopia of government and military officials. ·
Abiye Abebe, politician and army officer
(b. 1918) ·
Aklilu Habte-Wold,
politician and 6th Prime Minister
of Ethiopia (b. 1912) ·
Aman Andom, army officer and 1st President
of Ethiopia (b. 1924) ·
Asrate Medhin Kassa,
aristocrat and army officer (b. 1922) ·
Endelkachew Makonnen,
politician and 4th Prime Minister
of Ethiopia (b. 1927) ·
Nick Drake, British musician (b. 1948) ·
U Thant, Burmese diplomat and 3rd Secretary-General
of the United Nations (b. 1909) ·
November 27 – T. A. Madhuram, Tamil stage & film
actress and film producer (b. 1918) ·
November 28 – Konstantin Melnikov,
Soviet architect (b. 1890) ·
James J. Braddock,
American boxer (b. 1905) ·
Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b. 1898) December[edit] ·
December 1 – Anita Brenner, Mexican anthropologist,
historian and author (b. 1905) ·
Sophie
Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Russian-born, Canadian composer, virtuoso pianist, & violinist (b. 1899) ·
Max Weber,
Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897) ·
December 3 – Hans Leibelt, German film actor (b. 1885) ·
December 4 – Lee Kinsolving, American actor (b. 1938) ·
Pietro Germi, Italian actor, screenwriter
and director (b. 1914) ·
Zaharia Stancu, Romanian prose writer
(b. 1902) ·
Einar Texas
Ljungberg, Swedish Socialist politician (b. 1880) ·
Frederik
Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk, Dutch anthropologist, biologist and
psychologist (b. 1887) ·
Nikolay
Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Russian admiral (b. 1904) ·
Luigi Salvatorelli,
Italian historian and publicist (b. 1886) ·
December 7 – Ariyavangsagatayana, 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand,
Member of the Chetupon Temple (b. 1896) ·
December 8 – Nadia Benois, Russian painter and stage
designer; also the mother of English actor Peter Ustinov (b. 1896) ·
Hans Traut, German General-Lieutenant in the
Nazi Wehrmacht in World War II (b. 1895) ·
Ludwig Weber, Austrian bass (b. 1899) ·
December 10 – Paul Richards,
American actor, Beneath
the Planet of the Apes (b. 1924) ·
Maravillas de Jesús,
Spanish Roman Catholic professed
member of the Discalced Carmelites and
saint (b. 1891) ·
Reed Hadley, American radio, television,
& film actor (b. 1911) ·
December 12 – Booker McDaniels, American baseball pitcher
in the Negro Leagues with
(Kansas City Monarchs)
(b. 1913) ·
December 13 – John G. Bennett, British mathematician
(b. 1897) ·
December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and
journalist (b. 1889) ·
December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director
(b. 1902) ·
December 16 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (b. 1884) ·
Luis Almarcha
Hernández, Spanish cleric, politician and Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1887) ·
Bing Slamet, Indonesian singer, songwriter,
comedian and actor (b. 1927) ·
December 18 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887) ·
Bernd von
Brauchitsch, German air force officer (b. 1911) ·
Catrano Catrani, Italian-born Argentine
director & producer (b. 1910) ·
December 20 – André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905) ·
December 21 – Richard Long,
American actor (b. 1927) ·
December 22 – Gordon Purdy, Canadian Liberal politician
(b. 1888) ·
December 23 – Jules Rykovich, Croatian-born, American
football player (b. 1923) ·
December 24 – Sentarō
Ōmori, Japanese admiral (b. 1892) ·
December 25 – Gorman Kennedy, Canadian executive and
general manager of the Montréal Alouettes from
(1957 to 1959) (b. 1907) ·
Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894) ·
Frank Hussey, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1905) ·
Bob Custer, American film actor (b. 1898) ·
Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898) ·
Ned Maddrell, last surviving native speaker of the Manx language (b. 1877) ·
December 28 – Zachary Cope, British physician and surgeon
(b. 1881) ·
Robert
Ellis, American actor (b. 1892) ·
William Charles
Fuller, Welsh soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1884) ·
George Howard
Earle III, American politician and diplomat; served as Governor of
Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939 (b. 1890) ·
Sid Terris, American boxer (b. 1904) ·
Dogen Handa, Japanese professional Go player
(b. 1914) ·
Robert Pache, Swiss footballer (b. 1897) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics –
Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish ·
Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade ·
Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson ·
Peace – Seán MacBride, Eisaku Satō ·
Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich Hayek |
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