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Gregorian Year
1981 (MCMLXXXI) was
a common year starting
on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1981st year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 981st year of the 2nd millennium, the 81st year of
the 20th century,
and the 2nd year of the 1980s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1981 January 20: Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United
States ·
January
– The subterranean Sarawak Chamber is discovered in Borneo. ·
Greece enters the European
Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ·
Palau becomes a self-governing
territory. ·
January 2 – One of the largest
investigations by a British police force ends when serial killer Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire
Ripper", is arrested in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. ·
January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War:
The FMLN launches
its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments. ·
January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives
a delegation led by Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican. ·
January 16 – Loyalists shoot and
seriously wound Irish nationalist activist Bernadette
Devlin McAliskey and her husband. ·
January 17 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos lifts martial law. ·
January 19 – United States and Iranian officials
sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity. ·
January 20 – Iran releases
the 52 Americans held for 444 days minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn
in as the 40th President of the United States, ending
the Iran hostage crisis. ·
January 21 – The first DeLorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. ·
January 23 – An earthquake of M 6.8
magnitude in Sichuan, China kills
150. ·
Jiang Qing ("Madame Mao") is sentenced to death in the
People's Republic of China. ·
In
South Africa the largest part of the town Laingsburg is
swept away within minutes by one of the strongest floods ever experienced in
the Great Karoo. ·
January 27 – The Indonesian passenger ship Tamponas
2 catches fire and capsizes in the Java Sea, killing 580. February[edit] Main article: February 1981 ·
February 4 – Gro Harlem
Brundtland becomes Prime Minister
of Norway. ·
February 8 – 20 fans of Olympiacos and one fan of AEK Athens die, while 54 are injured,
after a stampede at the Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, possibly because Gate 7 does not
open immediately after the end of the game. ·
February 9 – Polish Prime
Minister Józef Pińkowski resigns
and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski. ·
Stardust fire: A fire at the Stardust
nightclub in Artane, Dublin, Ireland in
the early hours kills 48 people and injures 214. ·
Australia
withdraws recognition of the Pol Pot regime in Cambodia. ·
February 17–22 – Pope John Paul II visit
to the Philippines. ·
February 23 – Antonio Tejero, with members of the Guardia Civil,
enters the Spanish
Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo
Calvo-Sotelo is about to be named president of the
government. The coup d'état fails thanks to King Juan Carlos. ·
February 24 – A
powerful, M 6.7 magnitude earthquake hits Athens, killing 22 people, injuring 400
people and destroying several buildings and 4,000 houses, mostly in Corinth and the nearby towns of Loutraki, Kiato and Xylokastro. March[edit] Main article: March 1981 ·
March 1 – Bobby Sands, a Provisional
Irish Republican Army member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison. He died May 5, the first of 10 men. ·
March 11 – Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet is sworn in as President of Chile for
another 8-year term. ·
March 17 – In Italy the Propaganda Due Masonic Lodge is discovered. ·
March 19 – Three workers are killed and
5 injured during a test of the Space
Shuttle Columbia. ·
March 29 – The first London Marathon starts with 7,500
runners. ·
March 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot
in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.;
2 police officers and Press Secretary James Brady are also wounded. April[edit] Main article: April 1981 ·
April 1 – Daylight saving time is
introduced in the Soviet Union. ·
April 4 – UK pop group Bucks Fizz's
song Making Your Mind Up wins
the 1981
Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. ·
April 11 – 1981 Brixton riot:
Rioters in south London throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops. ·
April 12 – The Space Shuttle program: Space
Shuttle Columbia with NASA astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen launches on the STS-1 mission, returning to Earth
on April 14. It is the first time a manned
reusable spacecraft has returned from orbit. April 12: First Space Shuttle launch: Columbia,
April 12, 1981. ·
April 15 – The first Coca-Cola bottling plant in China is
opened.[1] ·
April 18 – A Minor League
Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and
the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode
Island, becomes the longest
professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25
minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23). ·
April 26 – French
presidential election: A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard
d'Estaing and François Mitterrand. May[edit] Main article: May 1981 ·
May
– Daniel K. Ludwig abandons
the Jari project in
the Amazon basin. ·
May 1 – The new Chilean pension
system, based on private pension funds, begins. ·
May 4 – The European
Law Students' Association (ELSA) was founded in Vienna by law
students from Austria, West Germany, Poland and Hungary. ·
May 5 – Bobby Sands, Provisional Irish Republican
Army volunteer and abstentionist Member of Parliament of the House
of Commons, dies, aged 27, on hunger strike in prison. ·
May 6 – A jury of architects and
sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorialfrom 1,421 other entries. ·
May 11 – Jamaican singer Bob Marley dies aged 36 from cancer. ·
May 13 – Pope John Paul II is shot
and nearly killed by Mehmet Ali Ağca,
a Turkish gunman who is allegedly on
orders from the Soviet KGB to
shoot him, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Vatican City to address a general
audience. The Pope recovers. ·
May 15 – Donna Payant is murdered by serial
killer Lemuel Smith, the
first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United
States. ·
May 21 – In France, Socialist François Mitterrand becomes
the first socialist President of the French Fifth
Republic. ·
May 22 – Peter Sutcliffe is found guilty of
being the Yorkshire Ripper.
He is sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of
attempted murder. ·
May 25 – In Riyadh, the Gulf Cooperation
Council is created between Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Alain Robert scales the Willis Tower in Chicago. ·
May 26 – The Italian government resigns
over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due. ·
May 30 – Bangladesh President Ziaur Rahman is assassinated in Chittagong. ·
May 31 – Burning of
Jaffna library, one of the most violent examples of ethnic
biblioclasm of the 20th century. June[edit] Main article: June 1981 ·
June 5 – The Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention report that 5 homosexual men in Los Angeles have a
rare form of pneumonia seen
only in patients with weakened immune systems (the first recognized
cases of AIDS). ·
June 6 – Bihar train disaster:
Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into
the Bagmati River in Bihar, India, killing between 500 and 800. ·
June 7 – The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor killing ten
Iraqi troops and a French technician. ·
June 12 – Raiders of the
Lost Ark is released in theaters. ·
June 13 – At the Trooping the Colour ceremony
in London, Marcus Sarjeant fires
6 blank shots at Elizabeth II. ·
June 18 ·
The Organization
of Eastern Caribbean States is founded. ·
The Lockheed F-117
Nighthawk Stealth Fighter makes its first flight at Groom Lake (Area 51), NV. ·
June 22 – Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr is
deposed. ·
June 27 ·
The
first game of paintball is played in Henniker, New
Hampshire. ·
The E-mu Emulator sampler keyboard with
floppy disk operation is unveiled at NAMM international Sound & Music
Expo, Chicago. Production Model Serial Number 001 is issued to Stevie Wonder[2] July[edit] Main article: July 1981 ·
July 2 – The Wonderland Gang is brutally murdered in
a massacre involving Eddie Nash. ·
July 3 – The Toxteth riots in Liverpool, UK start after a mob saves a
youth from being arrested. Shortly afterward, the Chapeltown riots in Leeds start after increased racial
tension. ·
July 7 – United States President Ronald Reagan nominates the first
woman, Sandra Day O'Connor,
to the Supreme
Court of the United States. ·
July 8 – Irish republican volunteer Joe
McDonnell dies at the Long Kesh Internment Camp after a
61-day hunger strike. ·
July 9 – Donkey Kong is
released, marking the first Donkey Kong title and Mario title arcade smash
hit game developed by Nintendo. ·
July 10 ·
Mahathir bin Mohamad becomes
the 4th Prime Minister
of Malaysia. ·
Urban rioting hits
several parts of the United Kingdom, including Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham. ·
July 16–21 – England become the first team this
century to win a Test match after following on when they beat Australia
by 18 runs at Headingley cricket
ground, Leeds, England. ·
July 17 ·
Hyatt
Regency walkway collapse: Two skywalks filled with people at the
Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City,
Missouri collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114. ·
Israeli aircraft bomb Beirut, destroying multi-story
apartment blocks containing the offices of PLO associated
groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide
condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.[3] ·
July 19 – The 1981 Springbok Tour commences
in New Zealand, amid controversy over the support of apartheid. ·
July 21 – Tohui The Panda is born in Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City, the
first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside of China. ·
July 29 – A worldwide television
audience of over 700 million people watch the Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana
Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in
London. ·
July 30 – As many as 50,000
demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food
ration shortages in Communist
Poland. August[edit] Main article: August 1981 ·
August 1 – The first 24-hour video
music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched and
airs its first video, Video Killed
the Radio Star by The Buggles. ·
August 9 – Major League
Baseball resumes from the
strike with the All-Star
Game in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. ·
August 12 – The original Model
5150 IBM PC (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 processor) is released in
the United States at a base price of $1,565. ·
Gulf of
Sidra incident: Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi sends two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept
two U.S. Navy fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. The U.S. jets destroy the
Libyan fighters. ·
August 23 – South African troops
attack SWAPO bases in Xangongo and Ongiva, Angola during Operation Protea. ·
August 24 – Mark David Chapman is
sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, after pleading guilty to
murdering John Lennon in Manhattan eight months earlier. ·
August 27 – North Korea fires a
surface-to-air missile at a U.S. SR-71 Blackbird spy plane flying in South
Korean and international airspace. The missile missed and the airplane was
unharmed.[4] ·
August 30 – Mohammad-Ali Rajai,
2nd President and 76th Prime Minister of Iran & Mohammad-Javad
Bahonar, 77th Prime Minister of Iran were killed in terroristic
explosion by People's
Mujahedin of Iran. ·
August 31 – A bomb explodes at
the U.S. Air Force base in
Ramstein, West Germany, injuring 20 people. September[edit] Main article: September 1981 ·
September 1 – Gregorio Conrado
Álvarez is inaugurated as a military de facto
President of Uruguay. ·
September 4 – An explosion at a mine in Záluží, Czechoslovakia,
kills 65 people. ·
September 8 – The first episode of the
extremely popular British sitcom Only Fools and
Horses, Big
Brother is shown on BBC One. ·
September 10 – Picasso's painting Guernica is
moved from New York to Madrid. ·
September 15 – Our Lady of Akita cries
for the last time, on the "Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows". ·
September 15 – The John Bull becomes
the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world, at 150
years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, D.C. ·
September 16 – Postman Pat is first aired on BBC One. ·
September 17 – Ric Flair defeats Dusty Rhodes to
win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in Kansas City. ·
September 18 – France abolishes capital
punishment. ·
September 19 – Simon &
Garfunkel perform The Concert
in Central Park, a free concert in New York in front of
approximately half a million people. ·
September 19 – Solidarity Day march,
in support of organized labor, draws approximately 250,000 people in
Washington, D.C. ·
September 20 – The Brazilian river
boat Sobral Santos capsizes in the Amazon River, Óbidos, Brazil,
killing at least 300. ·
Sandra Day O'Connor takes
her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. ·
The Rolling Stones begin
their Tattoo
You tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. ·
The Boeing 767 airliner makes its first
flight. ·
The Sydney Tower opens to the public. ·
September 27 – TGV high-speed
rail service between Paris and Lyon,
France begins. ·
September 27–29 – Iran–Iraq War –
Iranian forces break the Siege of Abadan in Operation
Samen-ol-A'emeh. ·
September 28 – The classic animated
comedy espionage TV series Danger
Mouse debuts on ITV in the U.K. October[edit] Main article: October 1981 ·
October 2 – English rock band The Police releases Ghost
in the Machine. ·
October 5 – Raoul Wallenberg becomes a posthumously
honorary citizen of the United States. ·
October 6 – Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a
parade by army members who belong to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization
led by Khalid Islambouli;
they opposed his negotiations with Israel. ·
October 10 – The Ministry for Education
of Japan issues the jōyō kanji. ·
October 14 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President
of Egypt, one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated. ·
October 16 – Gas explosions at a coal
mine at Hokutan, Yūbari,
Hokkaidō, Japan kill 93. ·
October 18 – Joey Menning helped the
police to arrest 32 black serial killers from Nigeria who killed 26 white
women (excluding his older sister Maurice)[clarification
needed]. ·
October 21 – Andreas Papandreou becomes Prime Minister
of Greece. ·
October 22 – The founding congress of
the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization faction
led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins. ·
October 27 – Soviet submarine
S-363 runs aground outside the Karlskrona, Sweden military base. November[edit] Main article: November 1981 November 1: Antigua and Barbuda. ·
November 1 – Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom. ·
November 9 – Edict No. 81-234
abolishes slavery in
Mauritania. ·
November 12 – The Church of England General Synod votes to admit women to
holy orders. ·
November 16 – Luke and Laura marry on
the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the
highest-rated hour in daytime television history. ·
November 18 – COMDEX Fall, IBM
introduces the IBM PC; Scientific Solutions announces the first PC add-in
cards. ·
November 22 – The Edmonton Eskimos (14-1-1) barely stave
off defeat and win a record 4th consecutive Grey Cup, at the 69th Grey Cup at Montréal's Olympic Stadium defeating the Ottawa Rough Riders (5-11-0)
26-23 in the final three seconds; after being down 20–1 at halftime.[5] ·
November 23 – Iran–Contra affair:
U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs
the top secret National
Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), authorizing the Central
Intelligence Agency to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua. ·
November 25–26 – A group of mercenaries led by Mike Hoare take over Mahe airport
in the Seychelles in
a coup attempt. Most of the mercenaries
escape by a commandeered Air India passenger jet; six are later
arrested. ·
November 30 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United
States and the Soviet Union begin
negotiating intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe;
the meetings end inconclusively on Thursday, December 17. December[edit] Main article: December 1981 ·
December 1 – An Inex-Adria Aviopromet McDonnell Douglas
MD-80 strikes
a mountain peak and crashes while approaching Ajaccio
Airport in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board. ·
December 4 – South Africa grants Ciskei independence, not recognized
outside South Africa. ·
December 7 – Rotary International charters
the Rotary Club of Grand Baie, Mauritius. ·
The No. 21 Mine
explosion in Whitwell, Tennessee kills
13. ·
Arthur Scargill becomes President-elect
of the National Union of Mineworkers. ·
December 10 – During the Ministerial
Session of the North Atlantic
Council in Brussels, Spain signs the Protocol of Accession to NATO. ·
Boxing: Muhammad Ali loses to Trevor Berbick; this proves to be Ali's
last-ever fight. ·
El Mozote massacre:
In El Salvador, army
units kill 900 civilians. ·
December 13 – Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in
Poland, to prevent the dismantling of the communist system
by Solidarity. ·
December 15 – A car bomb destroys the Iraqi Embassy
in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 61 people; Syrian intelligence is blamed. ·
December 17 – American Brigadier
General James L. Dozier is
kidnapped in Verona by the
Italian Red Brigades. ·
December 20 – The Penlee lifeboat
disaster occurs off the coast of South-West Cornwall. ·
December 21 – Preferential Trade Area
for Eastern and Southern Africa (PTA). ·
December 28 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan
Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia. ·
December 31 – A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and
replaces it with the PNDC led
by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. Date unknown[edit] ·
January
to March – Heavy snow causes many houses and buildings to collapse in
northwestern Japan; 152 are killed. ·
Cuba suffers
a major outbreak of Dengue fever,
with 344,203 cases.[6] ·
Use
of crack cocaine, a
smokeable form of the drug, first reported in the United States and Caribbean.[7] ·
Luxor AB presents the ABC 800 computer. ·
Polybius,
an urban legend game, is said to have been released in Portland, Oregon; there is no evidence for
its existence. ·
The State Council of the People's Republic of China lists
the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Guilin as those where the protection of
historical and cultural heritage, as well as natural scenery, should be
treated as a priority project. ·
The
Millennium translation of Saint Edward the Martyr's
relics from Wareham to Shaftesbury in England is observed in a
reenactment. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Zsolt Baumgartner,
Hungarian race car driver ·
Mladen Petrić, Croatian football player ·
Eden Riegel, American actress ·
January 2 – Maxi Rodríguez,
Argentine footballer ·
January 3 – Eli Manning, American football player ·
Silvy De Bie, Belgian singer ·
Aaron
Schwartz, American actor ·
Deadmau5 (Joel Zimmerman), Canadian
DJ/producer ·
Brooklyn Sudano, American actress ·
Mike Jones,
American rapper ·
Rinko Kikuchi, Japanese actress ·
Jérémie Renier,
Belgian actor ·
January 7 – Alex Auld, Canadian ice hockey goaltender ·
Xie Xingfang, Chinese badminton player ·
Genevieve Cortese,
American actress ·
Jeff Francis, Canadian pitcher ·
Caroline Lufkin, American singer ·
Euzebiusz Smolarek,
Polish footballer ·
January 10 – Jared Kushner, American investor ·
Jamelia, British singer ·
Tom Meighan, British singer and songwriter ·
January 12 – Quentin Griffin, American football player ·
Howie Day, American singer and songwriter ·
El Hadji Diouf, Senegalese footballer ·
Pitbull, American hip-hop musician and
record producer ·
January 16 – Marta Roure, Andorran singer and actress ·
Scott Mechlowicz, American actor ·
Ray J, American rapper and singer ·
January 18 – Otgonbayar Ershuu,
Mongolian visual artist ·
Lucho González,
Argentine footballer ·
Bitsie Tulloch, American actress ·
Thaila Zucchi, English singer and actress ·
Brendan Fevola, Australian rules footballer ·
Owen Hargreaves, Canadian-born English
footballer ·
Jason Richardson, American basketball player ·
Dany Heatley, German-born hockey player ·
Izabella Miko, Polish actress and dancer ·
Mohd Amri Yahyah, Malaysian footballer ·
Chantelle Anderson,
American basketball player ·
Willa Ford, American singer, television
hostess, and actress ·
Beverley Mitchell,
American actress ·
Ben Moody, American guitarist ·
January 24 – Carrie Coon, American actress ·
Alicia Keys, American singer, pianist and
actress ·
Toše Proeski, Macedonian singer (d. 2007) ·
January 26 – Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan conductor ·
Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player ·
Greg Owens, Australian soccer player ·
January 28 – Elijah Wood, American actor and music
producer ·
Rachna Khatau, Indian-American actress and
singer ·
Jonny Lang, American musician ·
Dimitar Berbatov, Bulgarian footballer ·
Chieko Higuchi, Japanese voice actress ·
January 31 – Justin Timberlake,
American actor and musician February[edit] ·
February 1 – John Gemberling, American actor and comedian ·
February 2 – Emily Rose,
American actress ·
February 3 – Alisa Reyes, American actress ·
February 4 – Matchstik, American rapper, singer and
songwriter ·
Lee Eon, South Korean actor and model
(d. 2008) ·
Nora Zehetner, American actress ·
Sara Foster, American actress ·
February 6 – Alison Haislip, American actress and former
TV personality ·
February 8 – Ralf Little, English actor ·
Tom Hiddleston, British actor ·
Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan, American
drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
(d. 2009) ·
Uzo Aduba, American actress ·
Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer ·
Holly Willoughby, British television
presenter ·
Kelly Rowland, American singer and actress ·
Edoardo Molinari, Italian golfer ·
Lisa Hannigan, Irish singer, songwriter, and
musician ·
Selena Li, Hong Kong actress ·
February 13 – Durahim Jamaluddin,
Malaysian footballer (d. 2018) ·
February 14 – Erin Torpey, American actress ·
Jenna Morasca, American television
personality ·
Olivia, American singer ·
Joseph Gordon-Levitt,
American actor and film director ·
Paris Hilton, American model, heiress, and
socialite ·
Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player ·
Ivan Sproule, British footballer ·
Adrian Lamo, American computer hacker
(d. 2018) ·
Chris Thile, American mandolinist ·
Majandra Delfino, American actress ·
Josh Gad, American actor ·
Mai Nakahara, Japanese voice actress ·
Paleo, American singer-songwriter ·
Dylan Ryder, American former pornographic
actress ·
February 24 – Lleyton Hewitt, Australian tennis player ·
Park Ji-sung, South Korean footballer ·
Shahid Kapoor, Indian Bollywood actor ·
February 26 – Maria Sansone, American journalist and
Internet personality ·
Josh Groban, American singer ·
Mat Yeung, Hong Kong actor March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Ana Hickmann, Brazilian model ·
Adam LaVorgna, American actor ·
Will Power, Australian racing driver ·
Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player ·
March 2 ·
Lance Cade, American professional wrestler
(d. 2010) ·
Bryce Dallas Howard,
American actress ·
March 3 ·
Julius Malema, South African politician ·
Lil' Flip, American rapper ·
Shada Hassoun, Iraqi singer ·
László Nagy,
Hungarian handball player ·
Cristina Scarlat, Moldovan singer ·
March 5 – Hanna Alström, Swedish actress ·
March 6 – Ellen Muth, American actress ·
March 8 – Adam
Jones, Welsh rugby union player ·
March 9 – Antonio Bryant, American football player ·
March 10 ·
Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer ·
Kristen Maloney, American gymnast ·
March 11 ·
David Anders, American actor ·
Lee Evans,
American football player ·
LeToya Luckett, American singer ·
March 12 ·
Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
Katarina Srebotnik,
Slovenian tennis player ·
March 15 – Young Buck, American rapper ·
March 16 ·
Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer ·
Johannes Aigner, Austrian footballer ·
March 17 – Kyle Korver, American basketball player ·
March 18 ·
Fabian Cancellara,
Swiss road bicycle racer ·
Vanessa Lee Evigan,
American actress ·
March 19 ·
Declan Bennett, English singer-songwriter ·
Kolo Touré, Ivorian football player ·
March 22 ·
Tiffany Dupont, American actress ·
MIMS, American rapper ·
March 24 – Philip Winchester,
American actor ·
March 27 ·
Lin Jun Jie, Chinese singer ·
Terry McFlynn, British footballer ·
March 28 ·
Gareth David-Lloyd,
Welsh actor ·
Lindsay Frimodt, American model ·
Dan Petronijevic, Canadian actor ·
Julia Stiles, American actress ·
March 29 ·
Alain Moussi, Gabonese actor and stuntman ·
Megan Hilty, American actress and singer ·
PJ Morton, American musician, singer, and
producer ·
Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer
(d. 2018) ·
March 31 ·
Gerard McCarthy, British actor ·
Ryōko Shintani,
Japanese voice actress ·
Maarten van der
Weijden, Dutch Olympic swimmer April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Aslı Bayram, Turkish German model and
actress ·
Aimee Chan, Chinese-Canadian actress ·
Hannah Spearritt, British singer (S Club 7) and actress ·
Nolan Yonkman, Canadian hockey player ·
April 2 ·
Bethany Joy Lenz, American actress and
singer ·
Raghav, Canadian singer ·
April 3 – Arfius Arf, British artist ·
April 5 – Michael A. Monsoor,
American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2006) ·
April 6 ·
Eliza Coupe, American actress ·
Robert Earnshaw, Welsh footballer ·
April 7 – Suzann Pettersen, Norwegian golfer ·
April 8 ·
Taylor Kitsch, Canadian actor and model ·
Frédérick Bousquet,
French swimmer ·
April 9 ·
Milan Bartovič,
Slovak hockey player ·
Eric Harris,
American murderer (d. 1999) ·
Ireneusz Jeleń,
Polish footballer ·
April 10 ·
Gretchen Bleiler, American snowboarder ·
Laura Bell Bundy, American actress and
singer ·
Liz McClarnon, British singer ·
Michael Pitt, American actor ·
April 11 – Alessandra Ambrosio,
Brazilian model ·
April 12 – Paul Rust, American actor and comedian ·
April 13 – Courtney Peldon, American actress ·
April 17 – Hanna Pakarinen, Finnish singer ·
April 18 ·
Jang Na-ra, Korean actress and singer ·
Audrey Tang, Taiwanese software programmer ·
April 19 ·
Saskia de Brauw, Dutch model and artist ·
Hayden Christensen,
Canadian-American actor ·
Troy Polamalu, American football player ·
Catalina Sandino
Moreno, Colombian actress ·
April 21 ·
Mike Christie,
English musician ·
Stephanie Larimore,
American model ·
April 22 – Ken Dorsey, American football player ·
April 25 ·
Felipe Massa, Brazilian race car driver ·
John McFall,
British paralympic sprinter ·
Anja Pärson, Swedish alpine skier ·
April 26 – Matthieu Delpierre,
French football player ·
April 27 – Sandy Mölling, German pop singer ·
April 28 – Jessica Alba, American actress and
businesswoman ·
April 29 ·
Alex Vincent,
American actor ·
Kunal Nayyar, British-Indian actor ·
George McCartney, British footballer ·
April 30 – Emma Pierson, American Television Actress May[edit] ·
May 1 ·
Alexander Hleb, Belarusian football player ·
Wes Welker, American football player ·
May 2 ·
Robert Buckley, American actor ·
Rina Satō, Japanese voice actress ·
May 3 ·
Farrah Franklin, American singer ·
Natalie Tong, Hong Kong actress ·
U;Nee, South Korean singer and actress
(d. 2007) ·
May 4 ·
Jason Kander, American politician and
podcaster ·
Jacques Rudolph, South African cricketer ·
May 5 ·
Craig David, English singer ·
Danielle Fishel, American actress ·
Zach McGowan, American actor ·
May 8 ·
Stephen Amell, Canadian actor ·
Andrés Romero, Argentine golfer ·
May 11 ·
Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player ·
Daisuke Matsui, Japanese football player ·
Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist and
reporter in Hungary ·
Terry Pheto, South African actress ·
Austin O'Brien, American actor and
photographer ·
May 12 ·
Rami Malek, American actor ·
Kentaro Sato,
Japanese composer ·
Dennis Trillo, Filipino actor ·
May 13 ·
Sunny Leone, Canadian pornstar and Bollywood
actress ·
Rebecka Liljeberg,
Swedish actress ·
Jimmy Wang Yang, Korean professional
wrestler ·
May 15 ·
Patrice Evra, Senegalese-born French
footballer ·
Justin Morneau, Canadian baseball player ·
Jamie-Lynn Sigler,
American actress ·
Zara Tindall, British elite equestrienne ·
May 16 – Joseph Morgan,
English actor ·
May 17 – Shiri Maimon, Israeli pop/R&B singer, TV
show host and actress ·
May 18 – Adam Green,
American singer-songwriter ·
May 19 ·
Sani
Bečirovič, Slovenian basketball player ·
Bong Tae-gyu, South Korean actor ·
Klaas-Erik Zwering,
Dutch swimmer ·
Georges St-Pierre,
Canadian mixed martial arts fighter ·
May 20 ·
Iker Casillas, Spanish footballer ·
Sean Conlon, English musician (5ive) ·
Rachel Platten, American singer-songwriter ·
Lindsay Taylor, American basketball player ·
Mark Winterbottom,
Australian race car driver ·
May 21 ·
Josh Hamilton, American baseball player ·
Anna Rogowska, Polish pole vaulter ·
May 22 ·
Daniel Bryan, American professional wrestler ·
Melissa Gregory, American figure skater ·
May 23 – Tim Robinson,
American actor and comedian ·
May 24 – Penny Taylor, Australian baseball player ·
May 25 – Logan Tom, American volleyball player. ·
May 26 – Isaac Slade, American singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
May 27 – Alina Cojocaru, Romanian ballerina ·
May 28 ·
Laura Bailey,
American voice actress ·
Aaron Schock, American politician ·
May 29 ·
Justin Chon, American actor ·
Chris Violette, Canadian actor ·
Andrey Arshavin, Russian football player ·
Brian Simnjanovski,
American football player (d. 2009) ·
Alton Ford, American basketball player
(d. 2018) ·
May 30 – Remy Ma, American rapper ·
May 31 – Jake Peavy, American baseball player June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan baseball player ·
Brandi Carlile, American singer and
songwriter ·
Amy Schumer, American comedian, actress, and
screenwriter ·
Johnny Pemberton, American actor and
comedian ·
June 3 – Mike Adam, Canadian curler ·
June 4 ·
Jennifer
Carroll, Canadian swimmer ·
T.J. Miller, American comedian, actor, and
screenwriter ·
Giourkas Seitaridis,
Greek footballer ·
Natalia Vodopyanova,
Russian basketball player ·
June 5 – Jade Goody, British reality show star
(d. 2009) ·
June 6 – Johnny Pacar, American actor ·
June 7 ·
Enzo Fortuny, Mexican voice actor ·
Larisa Oleynik, American actress ·
Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player ·
June 8 ·
Alex Band, American musician ·
Sara Watkins, American violinist ·
Ai Nonaka, Japanese voice actress ·
June 9 ·
Vic Chou, Taiwanese actor, singer, and model ·
Celina Jaitly, Indian actress ·
Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress ·
Anoushka Shankar, British musician and
daughter of Ravi Shankar ·
June 10 ·
Hoku Ho, Hawaiian singer and musician ·
Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer ·
Arwind Santos, Filipino professional
basketball player ·
Jonathan Bennett,
American actor and model ·
June 12 ·
John Gourley, American musician and singer ·
Adriana Lima, Brazilian model ·
June 13 – Chris Evans,
American actor ·
June 14 – Lonneke Engel, Dutch model ·
June 15 ·
Veljo Reinik, Estonian actor ·
Haley Scarnato, American singer ·
Maxey Whitehead, American voice actress ·
June 16 ·
Ben Kweller, American musician ·
Joe Saunders, American baseball player ·
June 17 – Amrita Rao, Indian actress ·
June 18 ·
Ella Chen, Taiwanese singer ·
Yurin, Japanese actress, voice actress and
singer ·
June 20 – Alisan Porter, American singer and actress ·
June 21 ·
Simon Delestre, French equestrian ·
Brandon Flowers, American singer and
keyboardist ·
June 22 ·
Monty Oum, American animator, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
Chris Urbanowicz, British guitarist ·
June 23 ·
Antony Costa, English singer ·
Shi Xin Hui, Malaysian singer ·
June 24 ·
Júnior Assunção,
Brazilian mixed martial artist ·
Tilky Jones, American singer and actor ·
Cris Lankenau, American actor ·
Vanessa Ray, American actress and singer ·
June 25 ·
Simon Ammann, Swiss ski jumper ·
Carlo Prater, Brazilian mixed martial artist ·
Sheridan Smith, English actress ·
June 27 ·
Sam Hoare,
British actor and director ·
Majida Issa, Colombian actress ·
Cléber Santana,
Brazilian footballer (d. 2016) ·
June 28 – Mara Santangelo, Italian tennis player ·
June 29 ·
Joe Johnson,
American basketball player ·
Maria Maya, Brazilian actress July[edit] ·
July 2 ·
Paul Anthony Finn,
Irish singer and songwriter ·
Alex Koroknay-Palicz,
American activist ·
July 3 – Brandon Jay McLaren,
Canadian actor ·
July 4 – Tahar Rahim, French actor ·
July 5 ·
Gianne Albertoni, Brazilian model ·
Ryan Hansen, American actor ·
July 6 – Nnamdi Asomugha, American football player ·
July 7 ·
Omar Naber, Slovenian singer, songwriter and
guitar player ·
Mahendra Singh Dhoni,
Indian cricketer ·
Synyster Gates, American guitarist ·
July 8 ·
Oka Antara, Indonesian rapper and actor ·
Lance Gross, American actor, model and
photographer ·
Anastasia Myskina,
Russian tennis player ·
July 11 – Andre Johnson, American football player ·
July 12 ·
Bojana Novakovic, Serbian-Australian actress ·
Rebecca Hunter, English singer and actress ·
Maya Sar, Bosnian singer ·
July 13 ·
Hassan Al Kontar, Syrian
refugee ·
Ágnes Kovács,
Hungarian swimmer ·
Fran Kranz, American actor ·
July 14 – Lee Mead, British actor ·
July 15 ·
Taylor Kinney, American actor and model ·
Norhafiz Zamani
Misbah, Malaysian footballer ·
OC Ukeje, Nigerian actor, model and musician ·
July 17 ·
Mélanie Thierry,
French actress ·
Qin Lan, Chinese actress, model, and singer ·
Jeremy Chan, Singaporean actor, singer and
host ·
July 18 – Michiel Huisman, Dutch actor, musician and
singer-songwriter ·
July 19 ·
Didz Hammond, bassist/backing vocalist ·
Nikki Osborne, Australian actress ·
Anderson
Luiz de Carvalho, Brazilian footballer ·
July 20 ·
Damien Delaney, Irish footballer ·
Dayang Nurfaizah, Malaysian singer ·
July 21 ·
Paloma Faith, English singer, songwriter and
actress ·
Stefan Schumacher,
German cyclist ·
Chrishell Stause, American actress ·
July 22 ·
Clive Standen, Northern Irish actor ·
Josh Lawson, Australian actor ·
July 23 ·
Steve Jocz, Canadian drummer ·
Jarkko Nieminen, Finnish tennis player ·
July 24 ·
Summer Glau, American actress ·
Doug Bollinger, Australian cricketer ·
July 25 ·
Jani Rita, Finnish ice hockey player ·
Finn Bálor (aka Fergal Devitt), Irish
professional wrestler ·
July 26 – Maicon Douglas
Sisenando, Brazilian footballer ·
July 27 ·
Li Xiaopeng,
Chinese gymnast ·
Dan Jones,
British historian ·
July 29 ·
Dyana Liu, American actress ·
Fernando Alonso, Spanish double Formula 1 world champion ·
July 30 ·
Chandra Prakash
Gharti, Nepalese politician ·
Lisa Wilhoit, American actress ·
Nicky Hayden, American motorcycle racer
(d. 2017) ·
July 31 ·
M. Shadows, American singer (Avenged Sevenfold) ·
Eric Lively, American actor ·
Vernon Carey, American football player ·
Ira Losco, Maltese singer August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Jordan
Wall, American actor ·
August 3 ·
Fikirte Addis, Ethiopian fashion designer ·
Travis Willingham,
American voice actor ·
August 4 ·
Abigail Spencer, American actress ·
Marques Houston, American singer and actor (IMx) ·
Meghan, Duchess
of Sussex, British princess and American actress ·
Florian Silbereisen,
German singer and television presenter ·
August 5 ·
Anna Rawson, Australian professional golfer ·
Carl Crawford, Major League Baseball
outfielder ·
Rachel Scott, American murder victim
(d. 1999) ·
Kō Shibasaki, Japanese singer and
actress ·
Travie McCoy, American alternative hip-hop
artist ·
August 6 ·
Vitantonio Liuzzi,
Italian race car driver ·
Leslie Odom Jr., American actor and singer ·
August 8 ·
Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player ·
Meagan Good, American actress ·
Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress ·
Bradley McIntosh, English pop singer (S Club 7) ·
Harel Skaat, Israeli singer ·
August 9 – Li Jiawei, Singaporean Olympic table tennis
player ·
Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress ·
Taufik Hidayat, Indonesian badminton player ·
August 11 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer & songwriter ·
Djibril Cissé, French footballer ·
Steve Talley, American actor ·
Ray William Johnson,
American actor, comedian, rapper and YouTuber ·
Kofi Kingston, Ghanaian professional
wrestler ·
Tosyn Bucknor, Nigerian media personality
(d. 2018) ·
Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress ·
Oh Jin-hyek, South Korean archer ·
August 18 – Jan Frodeno, German triathlete ·
August 20 – Ben Barnes,
English actor (Prince Caspian) ·
Jarrod Lyle, Australian golfer (d. 2018) ·
Mai Aizawa,
Japanese voice actress ·
Ross Thomas,
American actor ·
Winklevoss twins, American internet
entrepreneurs and rowers ·
August 22 – Ross Marquand, American actor ·
August 23 – Carmen Luvana, Puerto Rican adult actress ·
Jiro Wang, Taiwanese actor and singer (Fahrenheit) ·
Chad Michael Murray,
American actor ·
Rachel Bilson, American actress ·
Shiva Keshavan, Indian luge pilot ·
August 26 – Nico Muhly, American contemporary classical
composer ·
August 27 – Patrick J. Adams, Canadian actor and
director ·
Charlie Frye, American National Football
League quarterback ·
Jake Owen, American country music
singer-songwriter ·
Jay Ryan, New Zealand actor ·
Karim Darwish, Egyptian squash player September[edit] ·
Park Hyo-shin, Korean singer ·
Clinton Portis, American football player ·
Michael Adamthwaite,
Canadian voice actor ·
September 2 – Chris Tremlett, English cricketer ·
September 3 – Fearne Cotton, British television presenter ·
Jero,
American-born Japanese enka singer ·
Beyoncé, American actress and R&B singer
(Destiny's Child) ·
Lacey Mosley, American lead vocalist (Flyleaf) ·
September 6 – Yumiko Cheng, Hong Kong singer ·
Dan Fredinburg, American Google executive ·
Jonathan Taylor
Thomas, American actor ·
Julie Gonzalo, Argentinian actress ·
Nancy Wu, Hong Kong actress ·
September 10 – Marco Chiudinelli,
Swiss tennis player ·
Dylan Klebold, American mass murderer
(d. 1999) ·
Charles Kelley, American country music
singer-songwriter and founding member of Lady Antebellum ·
Jennifer Hudson, American singer and actress ·
Hosea Chanchez, American actor of The Game ·
September 13 – Angelina Love, Canadian professional
wrestler ·
Ashley Roberts, American singer (The Pussycat Dolls) ·
Miyavi, Japanese musician ·
September 15 – Ben Schwartz, American actor ·
Alexis Bledel, American actress ·
Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress ·
September 18 – Jennifer Tisdale, American actress ·
Nicole Richie, American actress, singer and
socialite ·
Phoenix Marie, American porn actress ·
Sarah Whatmore, English singer-songwriter[9] ·
Ashley Eckstein, American actress ·
Alexei Ramírez,
Cuban baseball player ·
Misti Traya, American actress ·
Natalie Horler, German singer (Cascada) ·
Robert Doornbos, Dutch race car driver ·
Lee Norris, American actor ·
Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player ·
Van Hansis, American actor ·
Shane Tutmarc, American singer-songwriter (Dolour) ·
Christina Milian, American R&B singer
and actress ·
Serena Williams, American tennis player ·
Ayumi Tsunematsu, Japanese voice actress ·
September 28 – Melissa Claire Egan,
American actress ·
September 29 – Suzanne Shaw, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress ·
Cecelia Ahern, Irish author and daughter
of Bertie Ahern,
former Taoiseach ·
Dominique Moceanu,
Romanian-American gymnast ·
Ashleigh Aston Moore,
American child actress (d. 2007) October[edit] ·
Rupert Friend, English actor, director,
screenwriter and producer ·
Roxane Mesquida, French Actress ·
Zlatan
Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer ·
Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress ·
Seth Gabel, American actor ·
October 5 – Enrico Fabris, Italian speed skater ·
Ryuji Sainei, Japanese actor ·
Raffi Torres, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Ruby,
Egyptian singer ·
Zachery Ty Bryan, American actor and
producer ·
Ryoichi Maeda, Japanese footballer ·
October 10 – Una Healy, Irish singer (The Saturdays) ·
October 11 – Beau Brady, Australian actor ·
Engin Akyürek, Turkish actor ·
Tom Guiry, American actor ·
Brian J. Smith, American actor ·
Ryan Ashford, English footballer ·
Kele Okereke, English singer (Bloc Party) ·
October 14 – Ruslan Alekhno, Russian-Belarusian singer ·
Elena Dementieva, Russian tennis player ·
Guo Jingjing, Chinese diver ·
Boyd Melson, American boxer ·
Caterina Scorsone,
Canadian actress ·
October 17 – Tsubasa Imai, Japanese actor, singer and
dancer (Tackey & Tsubasa) ·
October 19 – Christian Bautista,
Filipino singer, actor, host, and model ·
Willis McGahee, American football player ·
Stefan Nystrand, Swedish swimmer ·
October 21 – Nemanja Vidić, Serbian football player ·
October 22 – Michael Fishman, American actor ·
Olivier Occéan,
Canadian footballer ·
Huo Siyan, Chinese actress ·
Tila Tequila, Vietnamese-American model and
singer ·
Mallika Sherawat, Indian actress ·
Shaun
Wright-Phillips, English footballer ·
Hiroshi Aoyama, Japanese motorcycle road
racer ·
October 26 – Guy Sebastian, original Australian Idol 2003
singer ·
Milan Baroš, Czech footballer ·
Dwayne Cameron, New Zealand actor ·
Noah Galloway, American former soldier and
contestant from Dancing With The
Stars ·
Jonathan
Brown, Australian rules footballer ·
Amanda Beard, American swimmer ·
Angelika Dela Cruz,
Filipina actress and singer ·
Chris
Clemons, American football player ·
Fiona Dourif, American actress, daughter
of Brad Dourif ·
Jun Ji-hyun, South Korean actress ·
Shaun Sipos, Canadian actor ·
Ivanka Trump, American model ·
Selina Ren, member of Taiwanese
girl-group S.H.E ·
Irina Denezhkina, Russian writer ·
Frank Iero, American guitarist (My Chemical Romance) November[edit] ·
Matt Jones,
American actor and comedian ·
LaTavia Roberson, American singer (Destiny's Child) ·
Tatiana Totmianina,
Russian figure skater ·
Katharine Isabelle,
Candanian actress ·
Blair Chenoweth, American beauty queen ·
Jackie Gayda, American professional wrestler ·
Lakshmi Menon,
Indian model ·
Vince Wilfork, American football player ·
Paul Tucker Canadian
comic-book artist ·
November 6 – Cassie Bernall, American murder victim
(d. 1999) ·
November 7 – George Pilkington,
English footballer ·
Joe Cole, English footballer ·
Azura Skye, American actress ·
November 9 – Scottie Thompson, American actress ·
Tony Blanco, Dominican baseball player ·
Jason Dunham, American Medal of Honor
recipient (d. 2004) ·
Alison Waite, American model ·
Natalie Glebova, Canadian beauty queen ·
Raphael Gualazzi, Italian singer and
pianist, Eurovision Song
Contest 2011 runner-up ·
Susan Kelechi Watson,
American actress ·
Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg ·
Mark Cardona, Filipino basketball player ·
Shawn Yue, Hong Kong actor and singer ·
Kirsten Price,
American porn actress ·
November 14 – Russell Tovey, British actor ·
November 15 – Lorena Ochoa, Mexican golfer ·
November 16 – Caitlin Glass, American voice actress ·
Sarah Harding, British singer (Girls Aloud) ·
Doug Walker,
American actor, comedian, film critic, internet personality, and filmmaker ·
Allison Tolman, American actress ·
Christina Vidal, American actress ·
Nasim Pedrad, Iranian-American actress and
comedian ·
November 19 – Yfke Sturm, Dutch model ·
Scott Hutchison, Scottish singer,
songwriter, guitarist and artist (d. 2018) ·
Kimberley Walsh, British singer (Girls Aloud) ·
Andrea Riseborough,
English actress ·
Bryant McFadden, American football player ·
Ainārs Kovals, Latvian javelin thrower ·
Ben Adams, British singer (A1) ·
Seweryn Gancarczyk,
Polish footballer ·
Song Hye-kyo, South Korean actress ·
November 24 – Lindsey Doe, American sexologist and video
blogger ·
Xabi Alonso, Spanish footballer ·
Barbara Pierce Bush,
daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush ·
Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of U.S. President
George W. Bush ·
Natasha Bedingfield,
British singer ·
Jon Ryan, Canadian National
Football League football player from Regina, Saskatchewan ·
Aurora Snow, American pornographic actress ·
November 27 – Gary Lucy, British actor ·
Kimberly Cullum, American actress ·
Tom Hurndall, British photographer (d. 2004) ·
John Milhiser, American actor and comedian ·
Bakhyt Sarsekbayev,
Kazakh Olympic boxer December[edit] ·
December 1 – Kathryn Drysdale, English actress ·
December 2 – Britney Spears, American singer and
entertainer ·
Liza Lapira, American actress ·
David Villa, Spanish footballer ·
Brian Bonsall, American actor ·
Tyjuan Hagler, American football player ·
Lila McCann, American singer ·
Courtney Cummz, American pornographic
actress ·
December 8 – Philip Rivers, NFL quarterback of the San Diego Chargers ·
December 9 – Dia Mirza, Bollywood actress ·
Zacky Vengeance, American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold) ·
Javier Saviola, Argentine soccer player ·
Kevin Phillips,
American film actor ·
Jeff McComsey, American artist ·
Nikki Benz, Ukrainian-American porn actress ·
Halina Perez, Filipina actress (d. 2004) ·
December 12 – Spencer
Johnson, NFL player ·
Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist
and fiction writer ·
Amy Lee, American pianist/singer-songwriter
(Evanescence) ·
December 14 – Amber Chia, Malaysian model and actress ·
Victoria Summer, English actress ·
Michelle Dockery, British actress ·
Thomas Herrion, American football player
(d. 2005) ·
Donal Coonan, UK presenter for Channel 4's webshow thisisaknife ·
Roman Pavlyuchenko,
Russian soccer player ·
Krysten Ritter, American actress ·
Gaby Moreno, Guatemalan singer ·
A. J. Allmendinger,
American race car driver ·
Lynda Thomas, Mexican eurodance and
alternative rock musician ·
Cristian Zaccardo,
Italian footballer ·
December 24 – Dima Bilan, Russian pop-singer ·
December 26 – Nikolai Nikolaeff,
Australian actor ·
Jay Ellis, American actor ·
Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer ·
Emilie de Ravin, Australian actress ·
Elizabeth Jordan
Carr, first American test-tube baby ·
Sienna Miller, American-born English actress ·
Khalid Boulahrouz,
Dutch footballer ·
Charlotte Riley, English actress ·
Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater ·
Kyle Eckel, American National Football
League player ·
Haley Paige, American porn actress (d. 2007) ·
Ricky Whittle, English actor ·
Matthew Pavlich, former professional
Australian rules footballer Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Mauri Rose, American race car champion
(b. 1906) ·
January 3 – Princess
Alice, Countess of Athlone, the last surviving grandchild of Queen
Victoria (b. 1883) ·
Harold Urey, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1893) ·
Lanza del Vasto, Italian-born philosopher,
poet and activist (b. 1901) ·
January 6 – A. J. Cronin, Scottish novelist (b. 1896) ·
January 7 – John Pascal, American playwright,
screenwriter, author and journalist (b. 1932) ·
January 8 – Matthew Beard,
American actor (b. 1925) ·
Katherine Alexander,
American actress (b. 1898) ·
Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917) ·
Prince Welf
Ernst of Hanover (b. 1947) ·
January 11 – Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1889) ·
January 12 – John Fearns Nicoll,
British colonial governor (b. 1899) ·
January 13 – Robert Kellard, American actor (b. 1915) ·
January 16 – Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908) ·
January 19 – Francesca Woodman,
American photographer (b. 1958) ·
January 21 – Allyn Joslyn, American actor (b. 1901) ·
Samuel Barber, American composer (b. 1910) ·
Lobsang Rampa (Cyril Henry Hoskin), English
author (b. 1910) ·
January 25 – Adele Astaire, American actress (b. 1896) ·
January 27 – Léo Collard, Belgian Socialist politician
(b. 1902) ·
January 29 – Lajos Korányi, Hungarian footballer
(b. 1907) ·
January 30 – John Gordon,
Irish Roman Catholic bishop
(b. 1912) ·
January 31 – Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909) February[edit] ·
Wanda Hendrix, American actress (b. 1928) ·
Ernst Pepping, German composer (b. 1901) ·
Geirr Tveitt, Norwegian composer (b. 1908) ·
February 2 – Hugh Joseph
Addonizio, Italian-born American politician and Mayor of Newark (b. 1914) ·
February 3 – Normand Poirier, French-born American
newspaper editor, journalist and essayist (b. 1928) ·
February 4 – Mario Camerini, Italian film director and
screenwriter (b. 1895) ·
February 6 – Frederica of Hanover, Queen Consort of the Hellenes and wife of King Paul of Greece (b. 1917) ·
February 7 – Hermann Esser, German journalist and editor
of the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter (b. 1900) ·
Bill Haley, American rock musician, member
of Bill Haley
& The Comets (b. 1925) ·
Jack Z. Anderson, U.S. Representative from
California (b. 1904) ·
February 10 – Hubert Shirley-Smith,
British civil engineer (b. 1901) ·
February 12 – Bruce
Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape, British admiral (b. 1888) ·
February 15 – Karl Richter,
German conductor (b. 1926) ·
February 17 – David Garnett, British writer (b. 1892) ·
John Knudsen
Northrop, American airplane manufacturer (b. 1895) ·
Ibrahim Abdel
Hady Pasha, Egyptian politician, 28th Prime Minister of
Egypt (b. 1896) ·
February 20 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg,
French magazine editor and playboy (b. 1904) ·
Michael Maltese, American screenwriter
(b. 1908) ·
Curtis Bernhardt, German film director
(b. 1899) ·
Ilo Wallace, wife of Henry A. Wallace, Second
Lady of the United States (b. 1888) ·
Leonard Howell, Founder of Rastafarianism (b. 1898) ·
Gunichi Mikawa, Japanese admiral (b. 1888) ·
Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896) ·
Roger Tonge, British actor (b. 1946) ·
February 27 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician
(b. 1920) March[edit] Roberto
Francisco Chiari Remón ·
March 1 – Roberto
Francisco Chiari Remón, 14th President of Panama (b. 1903) ·
March 4 – Torin Thatcher, American actor (b. 1905) ·
March 5 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896) ·
March 6 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893) ·
March 7 ·
Peter Birch,
Irish Roman Catholic bishop
(b. 1911) ·
Bosley Crowther, American film critic
(b. 1905) ·
Kirill Kondrashin,
Russian conductor (b. 1914) ·
Hilde
Krahwinkel Sperling, American tennis champion (b. 1908) ·
March 8 – Joseph Henry Woodger,
British theoretical biologist (b. 1894) ·
March 9 – Max Delbrück, German biologist, recipient of
the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906) ·
March 10 – Flavio Calzavara, Italian director and
screenwriter (b. 1900) ·
March 14 – Paolo Grassi, Italian actor (b. 1919) ·
March 15 – René Clair, French film director (b. 1898) ·
March 20 – Gerry Bertier, American college football
player (b. 1953) ·
March 22 ·
John S. McCain Jr.,
American admiral (b. 1911) ·
Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and
politician, Senator of the Philippines and Senate President (b. 1907) ·
March 23 ·
Claude Auchinleck,
British field marshal (b. 1884) ·
Mike Hailwood, English motorcycle racer
(b. 1940) ·
Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer
(b. 1941) ·
March 29 – Eric Williams, 1st Prime
Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911) ·
March 30 ·
Sherman Edwards, American songwriter
(b. 1919) ·
Douglas Lowe,
British Olympic athlete (b. 1902) ·
DeWitt Wallace, American magazine publisher
(b. 1889) ·
March 31 – Frank Tieri,
American gangster (b. 1904) April[edit] ·
April 3 – Juan Trippe, Airline entrepreneur (b. 1899) ·
April 4 – Brad
Johnson, American actor (b. 1924) ·
April 5 ·
Bob Hite, American musician (b. 1943) ·
Lucile Godbold, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1900) ·
Maurice Zbriger, Canadian violinist,
composer and conductor (b. 1896) ·
April 6 – Alfredo Guarini, Italian director, producer
and screenwriter (b. 1901) ·
April 7 – Norman Taurog, American film director
(b. 1899) ·
April 8 ·
Gopal Chandra
Bhattacharya, Indian entomologist (b. 1895) ·
Omar N. Bradley, American army general
(b. 1893) ·
April 12 ·
Joe Louis, American boxer (b. 1914) ·
Hendrik Andriessen,
Dutch composer (b. 1892) ·
April 13 – Prince Yasuhiko
Asaka of Japan (b. 1887) ·
April 15 – John Thach, American naval aviator and admiral
(b. 1905) ·
April 17 – Ludwik Sempoliński,
Polish actor (b. 1899) ·
April 18 – James H. Schmitz, German-born writer
(b. 1911) ·
April 22 – Marcia King,
Murder victim (b. 1959) ·
April 23 – Nietta Zocchi, Italian actress (b. 1909) ·
April 26 ·
Jim Davis,
American actor (b. 1909) ·
Madge Evans, American actress (b. 1909) ·
April 27 – John Aspinwall
Roosevelt, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916) ·
April 28 – Cliff Battles, American football player (Boston Redskins) and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1910) May[edit] Dositej,
Metropolitan of Skopje ·
May 1 – Barry Jones,
American actor (b. 1893) ·
May 5 – Bobby Sands, Irish republican hunger striker
(b. 1954) ·
May 6 – Frank O'Grady, Australian public servant
(b. 1900) ·
May 7 – Hiromichi Yahara, Imperial Japanese Army
officer (b. 1902) ·
May 8 ·
Prince
Andrei Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1897) ·
Uri Zvi Greenberg,
Israeli poet and journalist (b. 1896) ·
May 9 ·
Nelson Algren, American author (b. 1909) ·
Ralph Allen,
English footballer (b. 1906) ·
Margaret Lindsay, American actress (b. 1910) ·
May 11 ·
Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1897) ·
Bob Marley, Jamaican rock musician and
guitarist (b. 1945) ·
May 12 – Benjamin Sheares, Singaporean politician and
professor, 2nd President of
Singapore (b. 1907) ·
May 13 – Ben Andrews,
American actor (b. 1942) ·
May 17 – Hugo Friedhofer, German-American film
composer (b. 1901) ·
May 18 ·
Eleonore Baur, German Nazi and only woman to
participate in Munich Beer Hall Putsch (b. 1885) ·
Arthur O'Connell,
American actor (b. 1908) ·
William Saroyan, American author (b. 1908) ·
May 20 – Dositej,
Metropolitan of Skopje (b. 1906) ·
May 21 – Yuki Shimoda, American actor (b. 1921) ·
May 23 – George Jessel,
American actor (b. 1898) ·
May 24 ·
Jaime Roldós
Aguilera, 33rd President of Ecuador (b. 1940) ·
A. Thiagarajah, Sri Lankan Tamil teacher and
politician (b. 1916) ·
Jack Warner,
British actor (b. 1895) ·
May 25 ·
Armando de Armas
Romero, Cuban painter (b. 1914) ·
Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (b. 1897) ·
May 28 ·
John Bryan
Ward-Perkins, British archaeologist (b. 1912) ·
Mary Lou Williams,
American jazz pianist (b. 1910) ·
Stefan
Wyszyński, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop
and Servant of God (b. 1901) ·
May 29 – Soong Ching-ling, Acting head of State of
the People's Republic of China (b. 1893) ·
May 30 ·
Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1955) ·
Peter Lindgren,
Swedish actor (b. 1915) ·
Ziaur Rahman, 7th President of Bangladesh
(b. 1936) ·
May 31 – Giuseppe Pella, Italian politician,
31st Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1902) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Carl Vinson, U.S. Congressman (b. 1883) ·
June 2 – Rino Gaetano, Italian singer-songwriter
(b. 1950) ·
June 5 – Miguel Contreras
Torres, Mexican actor, director, producer and screenwriter
(b. 1899) ·
June 9 – Allen Ludden, American television game show
host (b. 1917) ·
June 10 ·
Jenny Maxwell, American actress (b. 1941) ·
Phelps Phelps, 38th Governor of
American Samoa and United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic (d. 1897) ·
June 12 – Mahmoud Fawzi, Egyptian diplomat and
political figure, 35th Prime Minister of
Egypt (b. 1900) ·
June 13 – George Walsh, American actor (b. 1889) ·
June 14 – Sir Ronald Holmes, British government
official in Hong Kong (b. 1913) ·
June 16 – Sir Thomas Playford,
Australian politician, Premier of
South Australia (b. 1891) ·
June 17 ·
Sir Richard O'Connor,
British general (b. 1889) ·
Zerna Sharp, American writer and educator
(b. 1889) ·
June 18 – Pamela Hansford
Johnson, English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social
critic (b. 1912) ·
June 19 ·
Billy Cook,
American actor (b. 1928) ·
Anya Phillips, American co-founder of New
York City's Mudd Club (b. 1955) ·
Lotte Reiniger, German-born silhouette
animator (b. 1899) ·
June 22 ·
Henri Bouillard, French Jesuit theologian (b. 1908) ·
Lola Lane, American actress and singer
(b. 1906) ·
June 23 – Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer
(b. 1907) ·
June 28 ·
Mohammad Beheshti,
Chief Justice of Iran (b. 1928) ·
Terry Fox, Canadian athlete and cancer
activist (b. 1958) July[edit] Blessed Manuela
de Jesús Arias Espinosa ·
July 1 – Marcel Breuer, Hungarian-born American
architect (b. 1902) ·
July 3 – Ross Martin, American actor (b. 1920) ·
July 7 – Qahtan Muhammad
al-Shaabi, South Yemenite socialist leader, 1st President of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) (b. 1920) ·
July 8 ·
Joe
McDonnell, Irish republican hunger striker (b. 1951) ·
Isaac Soyer, American painter (b. 1902) ·
July 10 ·
Giorgio De Lullo, Italian actor and director
(b. 1921) ·
Ken Rex McElroy, American murder victim
(b. 1934) ·
July 16 – Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter
(b. 1942) ·
July 22 – Manuela
de Jesús Arias Espinosa, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and
Blessed (b. 1904) ·
July 27 ·
Adam Walsh,
American murder victim, inspired Code Adam (b. 1974) ·
William Wyler, American movie director
(b. 1902) ·
July 28 – Stanley Francis Rother, American priest,
martyr, and Blessed (b. 1935) ·
July 29 – Robert Moses, American urban planner
(b. 1888) ·
July 31 – Omar Torrijos, Panamanian leader (b. 1929) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Paddy Chayefsky, American screenwriter
(b. 1923) ·
August 2 ·
Delfo Cabrera, Argentine athlete (b. 1919) ·
Stefanie Clausen, Danish diver (b. 1900) ·
August 4 – Melvyn Douglas, American actor (b. 1901) ·
August 14 – Karl Böhm, Austrian conductor (b. 1894) ·
Carol Ryrie Brink,
American novelist (b. 1895) ·
Carlo Buscaglia, Italian football player
(b. 1909) ·
Karl Gero, Duke
of Urach, European noble (b. 1899) ·
August 18 – Anita Loos, American screenwriter (b. 1888) ·
August 19 – Jessie Matthews, English dancer, singer and
actress (b. 1907) ·
August 26 – Kelly Keen,
American coyote attack
victim (b. 1978) ·
August 27 – Valeri Kharlamov, Soviet ice hockey player
(b. 1948) ·
August 28 – Béla Guttmann, Hungarian-born Association
football coach (b. 1899) ·
August 29 – Lowell Thomas, American writer (b. 1892) ·
Mohammad-Ali Rajai,
47th Prime Minister of
Iran and 2nd President of Iran (b. 1933) ·
Mohammad-Javad
Bahonar, Iranian theologian and politician, 48th Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1933) ·
Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer
(b. 1921) September[edit] ·
Ann Harding, American actress (b. 1902) ·
Albert Speer, German Nazi architect and war
minister (b. 1905) ·
September 2 – Enid Lyons, Australia politician (b. 1897) ·
September 3 – Alec Waugh, British novelist (b. 1898) ·
September 6 – Christy Brown, Irish author, poet, and
artist (b. 1932) ·
September 7 – Edwin Albert Link,
American pioneer in aviation, underwater archaeology, and submersibles, and
inventor of aeronautical, navigation, and oceanographic equipment (b. 1904) ·
September 8 – Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1907) ·
Jacques Lacan, French psychoanalyst and
psychiatrist (b. 1901) ·
Ricardo Balbín,
Argentine politician, leader of the Radical Civic Union (UCR)
(b. 1904) ·
Sir Robert (Bob) Askin, Premier of New South
Wales (b. 1907) ·
September 11 – Frank McHugh, American actor (b. 1898) ·
September 12 – Eugenio Montale, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1896) ·
September 14 – Charles L. Melson,
American admiral (b. 1904) ·
Harold Bennett, British actor (b. 1899) ·
Rafael Méndez, Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso
(b. 1906) ·
September 21 – Nigel Patrick, English actor (b. 1912) ·
September 22 – Harry Warren, American songwriter (b. 1893) ·
September 23 – Chief Dan George, Canadian actor and writer,
tribal chief of the Tsleil-Waututh
First Nation (b. 1899) ·
September 24 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910) ·
September 27 – Robert
Montgomery, American actor and director (b. 1904) ·
Rómulo Betancourt,
2-time President of
Venezuela (b. 1908) ·
Sir Edward
Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British Conservative cabinet
minister (b. 1923) ·
Javad Fakoori, Iranian military officer,
former minister of Defence (b. 1913) ·
Mousa Namjoo, Iranian military officer,
minister of Defence (b. 1938) ·
Bill Shankly, British football manager
(b. 1913) October[edit] ·
Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902) ·
Hazel Scott, American jazz singer and
pianist (b. 1920) ·
October 3 – Chrysostom
Blashkevich, Soviet Benedict monk
(b. 1915) ·
October 4 – Freddie Lindstrom,
American baseball player (New York Giants)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1905) ·
October 5 – Gloria Grahame, American actress (b. 1923) ·
October 6 – Anwar Sadat, 37th Prime Minister of
Egypt and 3rd President of Egypt,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated)
(b. 1918) ·
Antonio Berni, Argentine painter (b. 1905) ·
Nils Asther, Danish-born actor (b. 1897) ·
Stanley Clements, American actor (b. 1926) ·
Moshe Dayan, Israeli general (b. 1915) ·
October 20 – Mary Coyle Chase, American playwright
(b. 1906) ·
October 22 – Michael Granger,
American actor (b. 1923) ·
October 23 – Reg Butler, English sculptor (b. 1913) ·
October 24 – Edith Head, American costume designer
(b. 1897) ·
October 25 – Barbara Bedford,
American actress (b. 1903) ·
October 27 – John Warburton,
British actor (b. 1899) ·
October 29 – Georges Brassens, French singer and
songwriter (b. 1921) November[edit] ·
November 2 – Wally Wood, American cartoonist (b. 1927) ·
November 3 – Jean Eustache, French film director
(b. 1938) ·
November 7 – Will Durant, American philosopher and writer
(b. 1885) ·
November 10 – Abel Gance, French film director (b. 1889) ·
November 12 – William Holden, American actor (b. 1918) ·
November 13 – Gerhard Marcks, German sculptor (b. 1889) ·
November 14 – Robert
Bradford, Northern Irish footballer and politician (b. 1941) ·
William O. Gallery,
American admiral (b. 1904) ·
Walter Heitler, German physicist (b. 1904) ·
Enid Markey, American actress (b. 1894) ·
Khawar Rizvi, Pakistani poet and scholar
(b. 1938) ·
Maulana Sadr-ud-Din,
Pakistani Islamic missionary ·
November 17 – Wilhelm Pelikan, Austrian chemist (b. 1893) ·
Harry von Zell, American actor (b. 1906) ·
Ejner Federspiel, Danish actor (b. 1896) ·
Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and
biochemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1900) ·
Ilya Bolotowsky, Soviet-born American
painter (b. 1907) ·
November 25 – Jack Albertson, American actor and comedian
(b. 1907) ·
Max Euwe, Dutch chess grandmaster (b. 1901) ·
Regino Sainz de
la Maza, Spanish classical guitarist (b. 1896) ·
November 27 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress
(b. 1898) ·
November 28 – Arthur Jensen,
Danish actor (b. 1897) ·
November 29 – Natalie Wood, American actress (b. 1938) December[edit] ·
December 2 – Wallace Harrison, American architect
(b. 1895) ·
December 3 – Walter Knott, American farmer and theme park
creator (b. 1889) ·
December 6 – Harry Harlow, American psychologist
(b. 1905) ·
December 7 – William Edmunds,
Italian stage and screen character actor (b. 1886) ·
December 8 – Ferruccio Parri, Italian partisan and
politician, 29th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1905) ·
December 10 – Prince
Christian Oscar of Hanover (b. 1919) ·
December 13 – Cornelius Cardew, English composer (b. 1936) ·
Catherine T.
MacArthur, American philanthropist (b. 1909) ·
Karl Struss, American cinematographer
(b. 1886) ·
December 17 – Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician,
23rd Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1913) ·
December 18 – Enrique Hertzog, Bolivian politician,
49th President of Bolivia (b. 1896) ·
Luther H. Evans, American political
scientist and librarian, 3rd Director General of the UNESCO (b. 1902) ·
Reginald Miles
Ansett, Australian businessman and aviator (b. 1909) ·
December 26 – Suat Hayri Urguplu,
Turkish politician, 11th Prime Minister
of Turkey (b. 1903) ·
December 27 – Hoagy Carmichael, American jazz composer
(b. 1899) ·
Allan Dwan, Canadian-born American film
director (b. 1885) ·
Bram van Velde, Dutch painter (b. 1895) ·
December 30 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Ahmad Toukan, Prime Minister of Jordan
(b. 1903) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Nicolaas Bloembergen, Arthur Leonard
Schawlow, Kai Siegbahn ·
Chemistry – Kenichi Fukui, Roald Hoffmann ·
Medicine – Roger Wolcott Sperry, David H. Hubel, Torsten Wiesel ·
Peace – United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ·
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