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1962 (MCMLXII) was
a common year starting
on Monday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1962nd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 962nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 62nd year of
the 20th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1960s decade. Contents · 1Events o 1.3March o 1.4April o 1.5May o 1.6June o 1.7July · 2Births o 2.3March o 2.4April o 2.5May o 2.6June o 2.7July · 3Deaths o 3.3March o 3.4April o 3.5May o 3.6June o 3.7July Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1962 ·
January
– Stena Line established as a ferry
operator by Sten A. Olsson in Gothenburg, Sweden. ·
Western Samoa became independent
from New Zealand. ·
The United States
Navy SEALs, elite special forces, are activated.Navy Seal 1 is
commissioned in the Pacific Fleetand
SEAL Team Two in the Atlantic
Fleet. ·
The Beatles audition for Decca Records but are rejected. ·
NBC introduces
the "Laramie peacock"
before a midnight showing of the series Laramie in
the United States. ·
January 2 – NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins praises U.S.
President John F. Kennedy's
"personal role" in advancing civil rights. ·
January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. ·
January 4 – New York City introduces a subway train
that operates without a crew on board. ·
January 8 – Harmelen train
disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster. ·
January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact. ·
January 10 – An avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in
Peru causes 4,000 deaths. ·
January 12 – The Indonesian Army
confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian. ·
January 13 – Albania allies itself with the People's
Republic of China. ·
January 15 – Portugal abandons
the U.N.
General Assembly due to the debate over Angola. ·
January 16 – A military coup occurs in the Dominican Republic. ·
January 19 – A counter-coup occurs in
the Dominican Republic; the old government returns except for the new
president Rafael
Filiberto Bonnelly. ·
January 22 – The Organization
of American States suspends Cuba's membership. The suspension
is lifted in 2009(47 years later). ·
The East German government readopts conscription. ·
The Organisation
armée secrète (OAS) bombs the French Foreign Ministry. ·
January 26 – Ranger 3 is launched to study the
Moon; it later misses the Moon by 22,000 mi (35,000 km). ·
January 27 – The Soviet government changes all place
names honoring Molotov, Kaganovich and Georgy Malenkov. ·
January 30 – Two of the high-wire
"Flying Wallendas"
are killed, when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a
performance in Detroit. February[edit] Main article: February 1962 ·
February 3 – The United
States embargo against Cuba is announced. ·
February 4 – The Sunday Times in the United
Kingdom became the first paper to print a colour supplement. ·
February 4–February 5 – During a new moon and solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of
the classical planets occurs
(it includes all five of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and
Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on the ecliptic. ·
February 5 – French President Charles de Gaulle calls
for Algeria to be granted independence. ·
February 6 – Negotiations between U.S. Steel and the United
States Department of Commerce begin. ·
The United
States embargo against Cuba comes into effect, prohibiting
all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports. ·
Luisenthal Mine
Disaster: A coal mine explosion in Saarland, West Germany kills 299. ·
February 9 – The Taiwan Stock Exchange
Corporation opens. ·
February 10 – Captured American spy
pilot Francis Gary Powers is
exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel in Berlin. ·
February 11 – The inaugural 24 Hours of Daytona sports
car endurance race is run as a 3-hour event at Daytona Beach,
Florida. ·
February 12 – Six members of the
Committee of 100 of the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament in the U.K. are found guilty of a
breach of the Official Secrets Act. ·
February 14 – First
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes
television viewers on a tour of the White House. ·
February 15 – Urho Kekkonen is re-elected president of
Finland. ·
February 16 – Heavy storms flood
Germany's North Sea coast,
mainly around Hamburg; more than 300
people die and thousands lose their homes. ·
February 18 – 1962 NHRA
Winternationals: Carol Cox becomes the first woman
allowed to race at a National Hot
Rod Association national event; she wins in the Super Stock class ·
February 20 – Project Mercury: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn became the first American to
orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. ·
February 21 – Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev first dance together in
a Royal Ballet performance
of Giselle in London. February 23: Friendship 7 inspected by President Kennedy and Astronaut John Glenn March[edit] Main article: March 1962 ·
March 1 ·
American
Airlines Flight 1 (a Boeing 707) crashes on takeoff at New
York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an
uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the
loss of all 95 on board. ·
The
S. S. Kresge Company opens its first Kmart discount store in Garden City,
Michigan. ·
March 2 ·
A
military coup in Burma brings
General Ne Win to power. ·
Wilt
Chamberlain's 100-point game: Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a
single National
Basketball Association basketball game. ·
March 7 – Ash Wednesday Storm:
A snow storm batters the Mid-Atlantic. ·
March 8–12 – In Geneva, France and the Algerian FLN begin
negotiations. ·
March 15 – Katangan Prime Minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations to
rejoin the Congo. ·
March 16 – Flying Tiger
Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049H
Super Constellation chartered by the United States Military
Air Transport Service and carrying mainly United States Army personnel
bound for South Vietnam,
vanishes over the western Pacific Ocean with the loss of all 107 on board. No
wreckage or bodies are ever found. ·
March 18 ·
Évian Accords: France and Algeria sign an
agreement in Évian-les-Bains ending
the Algerian War. ·
Un
premier amour, sung by Isabelle Aubret (music by Claude-Henri
Vic, lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade), wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1962 for France. ·
March 19 ·
An armistice begins in Algeria; however, the OAS continues
its terrorist attacks against Algerians. ·
Bob Dylan's debut album is
released in the United States. ·
March 21 – Taco Bell fast food restaurant chain is
founded by Glen Bell in Downey, California. ·
March 23 – The Scandinavian States of
the Nordic Council sign
the Helsinki Convention on Nordic
Co-operation. ·
March 24 – OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is arrested in Oran. ·
March 26 ·
France
shortens the term for military service from 26 months to 18. ·
Baker v. Carr: The U.S. Supreme Court rules
that federal courts can order state legislatures to reapportion seats. April[edit] Main article: April 1962 ·
April 3 – Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto
Prime Minister of India. ·
April 4 – James Hanratty is hanged in Bedford
Gaol (England) for the A6 murder; many
believe he was innocent. ·
April 6 ·
Belgium
reestablishes diplomatic relations with
the Congo. ·
New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962: Leonard Bernstein causes
controversy with his remarks before a concert featuring Glenn Gould with the New York
Philharmonic, when he (Bernstein) announces that although he
disagrees with Gould's style of playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, he
finds Gould's ideas fascinating and will conduct the piece anyway.
Bernstein's action receives a withering review from The New York
Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg. ·
April 7 – Milovan Đilas, author and former
vice-president of Yugoslavia is
re-arrested. ·
April 8 – In France, the Évian Accords are adopted in a
referendum with a majority of 90%. ·
April 9 – The 34th Academy Awards ceremony
is held; West Side Story wins Best
Picture. ·
April 10 – In Los Angeles, the first MLB baseball game is
played at Dodger Stadium. ·
April 13 – OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is sentenced to death in
France. ·
April 14 – A Cuban military tribunal convicts
1,179 Bay of Pigs attackers. ·
April 18 – The Commonwealth Immigration
Bill in the United Kingdom removes free immigration from the citizens of member
states of the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
April 20 – OAS leader Raoul Salan is arrested in Algiers. ·
April 21 – The Century 21
Exposition World's Fair opens in Seattle. ·
April 26 – The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into
the Moon. May[edit] Main article: May 1962 ·
May
– Larry Allen Abshier defects
to North Korea becoming
the first of six (possibly seven) American defectors to the country. ·
May 1 ·
Norwich City F.C. wins
the English Football League Cup,
beating Rochdale in
the final. ·
Dayton
Hudson Corporation opens the first of its Target discount
stores in Roseville, Minnesota. ·
May 2 ·
An
OAS bomb explodes in Algeria – this and
other attacks kill 110 and injure 147. ·
S.L. Benfica beats FC Barcelona 5-3 at the Olympic
Stadium (Amsterdam) to win the 1961–62 European Cup in
association football. ·
May 3 – Mikawashima train
crash: 160 die in a triple-train disaster near Tokyo. ·
May 5 – Twelve East Germans escape via a tunnel under
the Berlin Wall. ·
May 6 ·
Antonio Segni is elected President
of the Italian Republic. ·
A
test of a W47 warhead fired from a Polaris missile, the only time a
nuclear missile has been test fired with its warhead detonated, occurs
near Palmyra Atollsouth
of Hawaii. ·
May 14 ·
Juan Carlos of Spain marries
the Greek Princess Sophia in
Athens. ·
Milovan Đilas is given a further
sentence in Yugoslavia for publishing Conversations
with Stalin. ·
May 22 – Continental
Airlines Flight 11 crashes near Unionville, Missouri,
after the in-flight detonation of a bomb near the rear lavatory. All 45
passengers and crew aboard are killed. ·
May 23 ·
Drilling
for the new Montreal subway commences. ·
Raoul Salan, founder of the French
terrorist Organisation
armée secrète, is sentenced to life imprisonment in France. ·
May 24 – Project Mercury: Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3
times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. ·
May 25 – The new Coventry Cathedral is
consecrated in England. ·
May 26 – Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the
Shore" becomes the first British recording to reach number
one in the US Billboard Hot 100. ·
May 27 – The Centralia mine fire is
ignited in Pennsylvania. ·
May 29 – Negotiations between the OAS
and the FLA lead to a real armistice in Algeria. ·
May 30 – The beginning of the 1962 FIFA World Cup in
Chile. ·
May 31 – Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is hanged at a prison
in Ramla, Israel. His body is cremated and his
ashes scattered over the Mediterranean. June[edit] Main article: June 1962 ·
June
– Rachel Carson's Silent Spring begins serialization
in The New Yorker;
it is released as a book on September 27 in the U.S., giving rise to the
modern environmentalist movement. ·
June 3 – Air France Flight
007 (a Boeing 707) crashes
on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 people on board are
killed, 2 flight attendants survive.
Most victims are cultural and civic leaders of Atlanta. ·
June 6 – President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement
address at the United
States Military Academy at West Point, New York. ·
June 11 ·
President
John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at Yale University. ·
Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from the Alcatraz Island prison; the men are
never heard from again. ·
June 15 – Students
for a Democratic Society in the United States complete
the Port Huron Statement. ·
June 17 ·
The OAS signs
a truce with the FLN in
Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf
of French Algerians. ·
Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3–1
to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup. ·
June 22 – Air France Flight
117 (a Boeing 707 jet)
crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on
board, the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third
fatal 707 crash of the year. ·
June 25 ·
Engel v. Vitale: The United States
Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools
are unconstitutional. ·
MANual
Enterprises v. Day: The United States
Supreme Court rules that photographs of nude men are not
obscene, decriminalizing nude male pornographic magazines. ·
İsmet
İnönü of CHP forms
the new government of Turkey (27th
government, coalition partners; YTP and CKMP) ·
June 26 – A 2-day steel strike begins in Italy in support of
increased wages and a five-day working week. ·
June 28 – The United
Lutheran Church in America, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, American
Evangelical Lutheran Church and Augustana
Evangelical Lutheran Church merge to form the Lutheran
Church in America. ·
June 30 – The last soldiers of
the French Foreign
Legion leave Algeria. July[edit] Main article: July 1962 ·
July 1 ·
Rwanda and Burundi gain independence. ·
Algerian
independence referendum, 1962: Supporters of Algerian independence
win 99% majority in a referendum. ·
A
heavy smog develops over London. ·
Helsinki
Convention on Nordic Co-operation of March 23 comes into force in the Nordic
countries. ·
July 2 ·
Charles de Gaulle accepts
Algerian independence; France recognizes it the next day. ·
The
first Walmart store, at this time known
as Wal-Mart (which remains the corporate name), opens for
business in Rogers, Arkansas. ·
July 5 – Algeria becomes independent from
France. ·
July 6 – Gay Byrne presents the first edition
of The Late
Late Show on RTÉ in
the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the
longest period through which any individual hosts a televised talk show anywhere in the world, and
the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show. ·
July 9 – American artist Andy Warhol premieres his Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit
in Los Angeles. ·
July 10 – AT&T's Telstar, the world's first
commercial communications
satellite, is launched into orbit and activated the next day. ·
July 12 – The Rolling Stones make their debut at
London's Marquee Club,
opening for Long John Baldry. ·
July 13 – In what the press dubs "the Night
of the Long Knives", United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses one-third of
his Cabinet. ·
July 14 – Norma Nolan of Argentina will crown Miss Universe 1962. ·
July 17 – Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy"
test shot Little Feller I became
the last atmospheric test detonation at the Nevada Test Site. ·
July 19 – The first annual Swiss &
Wielder Hoop and Stick Tournament
is held. ·
July 20 – France and Tunisia reestablish diplomatic relations. ·
July 22 – Mariner program: The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies
erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. ·
July 23 – Telstar relays the first live
trans-Atlantic television
signal. ·
July 25 ·
The
first armed helicopter company
of the United States Army is
formed at Okinawa, Japan.[1] ·
The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is
signed in Geneva. ·
July 31 ·
Algeria proclaims independence; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President. ·
A
crowd assaults the rally of Sir Oswald Mosley's right-wing Union Movement in London. August[edit] Main article: August 1962 ·
August 5 ·
Death of Marilyn
Monroe: Marilyn Monroe is
found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate at her home
in Brentwood, Los
Angeles; officially ruled a "probable suicide" (the
exact cause has been disputed). ·
Nelson Mandela is arrested by the South
African government near Howick and
charged with incitement to rebellion. ·
August 6 – Jamaica becomes independent. ·
August 15 – The New York Agreement is
signed, trading the West New Guinea colony
to Indonesia. ·
August 16 – Algeria joins the Arab League. ·
August 17 – East German border guards kill
18-year-old Peter Fechter as
he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin. ·
August 22 – A assassination attempt is
made against French President Charles de Gaulle. ·
August 24 – A group of armed Cuban exile terrorists fire at a hotel
in Havana from a speedboat. ·
August 27 – NASA launches
the Mariner 2 space
probe. ·
August 31 – Trinidad and Tobago becomes
independent. September[edit] Main article: September 1962 ·
A referendum in Singapore supports the
Malayan Federation. ·
Typhoon
Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600. ·
September 2 – The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to
Cuba. ·
September 8 – Newly independent
Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution. ·
September 12 – President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S.
will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. ·
September 19 – Atlantic College opens its doors for
the first time in Wales, marking the birth
of the pioneering United World College educational movement.[2] ·
September 21 – A border conflict
between China and India erupts into fighting. ·
September 22 – 21-year-old Bob Dylan premieres one of his most
preeminent songs, "A Hard Rain's
a-Gonna Fall", in the U.S. ·
September 23 – The animated
sitcom The Jetsons premieres
on ABC in
the U.S. ·
September 25 – Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson two minutes into the
first round of his fight for the boxing world title in Chicago. ·
September 26 – North Yemen Civil
War erupts. ·
September 27 – A flash flood in Barcelona, Spain, kills more than 440
people. ·
September 29 – The Canadian Alouette 1, the first satellite built
outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from Vandenberg Air
Force Base in California. ·
September 30 – CBS broadcasts
the final episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly,
Johnny Dollar, marking the end of the Golden Age of Radio in
the United States. October[edit] Main article: October 1962 October 14: Pictures of Soviet missile silos
in Cuba, taken by US spy planes ·
The
first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of
Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals. ·
Johnny Carson takes over as permanent
host of NBC's The Tonight Show in the U.S., a
post he will hold for
30 years. ·
Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance returned to TV with The Lucy Show, two years after the end
of I Love Lucy.
(Vance was the first person to portray a divorcée on a weekly series.) ·
October 3 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 8 – Walter Schirra orbits the Earth six times in the Sigma 7 space capsule. ·
The French National
Assembly censures the proposed referendum to sanction presidential
elections by popular mandate; Prime Minister Georges Pompidou resigns, but President de Gaulle asks
him to stay in office. ·
The Beatles' first single in their own right, "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love
You", is released in the U.K. on EMI's Parlophonelabel.[3] This
version was recorded on September 4 at Abbey Road Studios in London with Ringo Starr as drummer. ·
Dr. No, the first James Bond film,
premieres at the London Pavilion,
featuring Sean Connery as
the hero. ·
The
German magazine Der Spiegel publishes
an article about the Bundeswehr's poor
preparedness; the Spiegel scandal erupts. ·
Algeria is accepted into the United Nations. ·
October 9 – Uganda becomes independent
within the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
October 11 – Second Vatican
Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the
first ecumenical council of
the Roman Catholic
Church in 92 years. ·
The
infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes
the U.S. Pacific Northwest with wind gusts up to 170 mph
(270 km/h); 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet (26 million m³) of
timber is blown down, with US$230 million in damage. ·
Jazz bassist/composer Charles Mingus invites the public to a
live recording session at The Town
Hall (New York City), but the public is expecting a formal
concert. Along with technical problems the event is the worst moment of his
career. ·
October 13 – Broadway debut of Edward Albee's drama Who's
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. ·
October 14 – The beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis:
A U-2 flight
over Cuba in the Caribbean photographs
Soviet nuclear weapons being
installed. A stand-off then ensues for another 12 days after President Kennedy is told of the
pictures, between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world
with nuclear war. ·
October 20 – The beginning of Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving
two of the world's largest nations (India and the People's Republic of
China). ·
October 22 – Cuban Missile Crisis:
In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces to the
nation the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba. ·
October 24 – Cuban Missile Crisis:
First confrontation between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel. The
vessel changes course. ·
October 26 – Spiegel scandal:
German police occupy the offices of Der Spiegel in Hamburg. ·
The
end of the Cuban Missile Crisis:
Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces
that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret
deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S.
missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal was not made public makes it
look as though the Soviets have backed down.[dubious – discuss] ·
A
referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal
suffrage. ·
October 31 – The United
Nations General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend
enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), but
it comes into effect on November 1. November[edit] Main article: November 1962 ·
November
– Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn's novella One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Russian: Оди́н
день Ива́на
Дени́совича, Odin den' Ivana Denisovicha),
the author's semi-autobiographical account of life in the gulag, is published in Novy Mir in an unprecedented
acknowledgement of the Soviet Union's Stalinist past. ·
The
Soviets begin dismantling their missiles in Cuba. ·
First
appearance of comic book antihero Diabolik in Italy. ·
November 3 – Earliest recorded use of
the term "personal computer"
in the report of a speech by computing pioneer John Mauchly in The New York Times.[4] ·
Franz Josef Strauß,
the West German defense minister, is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel scandal,
due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine. ·
Saudi
Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of
unrest partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt. ·
A
coal mining disaster in Ny-Ålesund killed 21 people. The
Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident in
August 1963. ·
November 6 – Apartheid: The United
Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South
Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN
member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. ·
November 7 – Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his
concession speech, he states that this is "Richard
Nixon's last press conference" and "you won't have Nixon
to kick around any more". ·
November 17 – Dulles
International Airport in Washington, D.C., dedicated by
President John F. Kennedy. ·
November 20 – Cuban missile crisis:
In response to the Soviet Union agreeing
to remove its missiles from Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade
of the island. ·
November 21 – The Sino-Indian War ends with a Chinese
ceasefire. ·
November 23 – United
Airlines Flight 297 crashes in Columbia, Maryland,
killing all 17 on board. ·
November 24 – The first episode of the
groundbreaking satirical comedy program That Was the
Week That Was, hosted by David Frost is broadcast on BBC Television in the U.K. ·
Spiegel scandal:
German police end their occupation of Der Spiegel's offices. ·
Mies Bouwman starts presenting the
first live TV-marathon fundraising show (Open Het Dorp in the Netherlands),
which lasts 23 hours non-stop. ·
November 27 – French President Charles
De Gaulle orders Georges Pompidou to
form a government. ·
November 29 – An agreement is signed
between Britain and France to develop the Concorde supersonic airliner. ·
November 30 – The United
Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new Secretary-General
of the United Nations. December[edit] Main article: December 1962 ·
December 2 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the
request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority
Leader Mike Mansfield becomes
the first American official to make a non-optimistic public comment on the
war's progress. ·
December 7 – Rainier
III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution,
devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and
legislative councils. ·
The
first period of the Second Vatican
Council closes. ·
The
North Kalimantan National
Army revolts in Brunei, in the first
stirrings of the Indonesian
Confrontation. ·
The 1962–63
New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the
city's major newspapers; It will last for 114 days. ·
Queen Wilhelmina
of the Netherlands, who died on November 28, is buried at
the Nieuwe Kerk (Delft). ·
December 9 – Tanganyika
(modern-day Tanzania) becomes a
republic within the Commonwealth of
Nations, with Julius Nyerere as president. ·
December 10 – David Lean's epic film Lawrence of
Arabia, featuring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Anthony Quinn, premieres in London. Six days
later it opens in the U.S. ·
In
West Germany, a coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian
Socialists and Free Democrats is formed. ·
The
last execution by hanging in Canada ·
U.S.
spacecraft Mariner 2 passes
by Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to
transmit data of another planet. ·
Leonardo da Vinci's
early 16th-century painting the Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance
purposed at US$100 million before touring the United States for several
months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However,
the Louvre, its owner, chooses to spend the
money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security
instead. ·
December 15 – Storm over the North Sea: Belgian pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel
is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again. ·
December 19 – Britain acknowledged the
right of Nyasaland (modern-day Malawi) to secede from the Central
African Federation. ·
December 21 – Britain agrees to
purchase Polaris missiles
from the U.S. ·
Winter
of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom: The "Big Freeze"
begins; there are no frost-free nights until March 5, 1963. ·
"Telstar",
by The Tornados,
becomes the first single by a British group to reach No.1 on the US charts,
predating The Beatles by thirteen months. ·
December 24 – Cuba releases
the last 1,113 participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion to
the U.S., in exchange for food worth $53 million. ·
United Nations troops occupy the last
rebel positions in Katanga; Moise Tshombe moves to South Rhodesia. ·
An
unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to
miss a publication date for the only time in history. The same day, also the
Netherlands were covered with several feet of snow. Date unknown[edit] ·
American
advertising man Martin K. Speckter invents
the interrobang, a new
English-language punctuation mark. ·
Publication
of Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the
Single Girl in the U.S. ·
Irish
folk band The Dubliners is
formed at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin. ·
Invention
of the laser diode. ·
Slavery in Yemen is abolished. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 3 – Guy Pratt, English musician and songwriter ·
Patrick Cassidy,
American actor ·
Peter Steele, American musician (d. 2010) ·
Natalya Bochina, Russian athlete ·
January 5 – Suzy Amis Cameron,
American actress and model ·
January 6 – Mark
Ellis, English footballer ·
Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress ·
Hallie Todd, American actress ·
January 10 – C. Martin Croker, American animator and
voice actor (d. 2016) ·
Kim Coles, American actress and comedian ·
Melanie Hill, English actress ·
January 12 – Alfred Schön, German manager and former
footballer ·
Trace Adkins, American country music singer ·
Kevin Mitchell,
American baseball player ·
January 14 – Michael McCaul, American politician ·
Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian ·
Denis O'Hare, American-Irish actor ·
Mike Lynch,
American cartoonist ·
Alison Arngrim, Canadian-American actress
and comedian ·
Sakiko Tamagawa, Japanese voice actress ·
Sophie Thompson, English actress ·
Tyler Cowen, American economist ·
Marie Trintignant,
French actress (d. 2003) ·
Mizan Zainal Abidin, Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia ·
Lyudmila Dzhigalova,
Russian athlete ·
Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and
manager ·
Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor ·
Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player ·
Christopher Coppola,
American film director and producer ·
January 26 – Anna LaCazio, American singer (Cock Robin) ·
Creflo Dollar, American evangelist ·
Hamish McColl, British comedian, writer and
actor ·
January 30 – King Abdullah II of
Jordan February[edit] ·
February 1 – Takashi Murakami, Japanese pop artist ·
Kátia Abreu, Brazilian politician ·
Andy Fordham, English darts player ·
Michael T. Weiss, American actor ·
Clint Black, American country musician ·
John Gordon Sinclair,
Scottish actor ·
Jennifer Jason Leigh,
American actress ·
Martin Nievera, Filipino singer ·
Nemat Shafik, Egyptian-born international
banker ·
February 6 – Axl Rose, American rock singer ·
Garth Brooks, American country musician ·
David Bryan, American musician (Bon Jovi) ·
Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian ·
Malorie Blackman, British author of young
adult fiction ·
Timothy Britten
Parker, American actor ·
Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000) ·
Dany Roland, Brazilian drummer, sound
designer, film director and record producer ·
Cliff Burton, American bassist (d. 1986) ·
Bobby Czyz, American boxer ·
February 11 – Sheryl Crow, American singer-songwriter ·
Nana Ioseliani, Georgian chess player ·
Jimmy Kirkwood, Irish-born field hockey
player ·
Michele Greene, American actress ·
Aníbal Acevedo Vilá,
Puerto Rican politician ·
February 14 – Ken Oosterbroek, South African
photojournalist (d. 1994) ·
February 17 – Lou Diamond Phillips,
American actor ·
February 18 – Julie Strain, American actress and model ·
Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter ·
Chuck Palahniuk, American author ·
David Foster Wallace,
American writer (d. 2008) ·
Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist and TV
personality (d. 2006) ·
Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder ·
Ethan Wayne, American actor ·
Birgit Fischer, German kayaker ·
Junko Ogata, Japanese serial killer ·
February 26 – Domingos Montagner,
Brazilian actor, playwright and entrepreneur (d. 2016) ·
Adam Baldwin, American actor ·
Grant Show, American actor ·
February 28 – Angela Bailey, Canadian athlete March[edit] ·
March 2 ·
Jon Bon Jovi, American musician ·
Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player
and coach ·
March 3 ·
Jackie Joyner-Kersee,
American athlete ·
Herschel Walker, American football player ·
March 4 – Simon Bisley, British comic book artist ·
March 6 ·
Andreas Felder, Austrian ski jumper ·
Erika Hess, Swiss alpine skier ·
March 7 – Taylor Dayne, American singer ·
March 8 ·
Leon Robinson, American actor and singer ·
Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress ·
March 10 ·
Jasmine Guy, American actress ·
Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer and
songwriter ·
Dan O'Shannon, American television writer
and producer ·
March 11 – Jeffrey Nordling, American actor ·
March 12 ·
Julia Campbell, American actress ·
Chris Sanders, American animator and voice
actor ·
Darryl Strawberry,
American baseball player ·
March 14 – Tsvetanka Khristova,
Bulgarian athlete (d. 2008) ·
March 16 – Branco Mello, Brazilian singer, actor and
writer ·
March 17 – Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut (d. 2003) ·
March 18 ·
Thomas Ian Griffith,
American actor ·
Mike Rowe, American television personality
and presenter ·
March 19 – Iván Calderón,
Puerto Rican Major League
Baseball player (d. 2003) ·
March 20 – Stephen Sommers, American film director ·
March 21 ·
Matthew Broderick,
American actor ·
Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress and
comedian ·
Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, actress,
talk-show host, and activist ·
March 23 ·
Sir Steve Redgrave, English rower ·
Jenny Wright, American actress ·
March 24 – Star Jones, American talk show host and
publisher ·
March 25 – Marcia Cross, American actress ·
March 26 ·
Chris Bailey,
American animator and film director ·
John Stockton, American basketball player ·
March 27 ·
Jann Arden, Canadian singer ·
John O'Farrell,
British author and broadcaster ·
March 29 – Ted Failon, Filipino broadcast journalist
and radio commentator ·
March 30 – MC Hammer, American rapper April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player ·
Phillip Schofield,
British television presenter ·
April 2 ·
Clark Gregg, American actor ·
Mark Shulman,
American children's author ·
April 3 – Mike Ness, American musician ·
April 6 – Steven Levitan, American director, writer,
and producer ·
April 7 – Hugh O'Connor, American actor (d. 1995) ·
April 9 – Imran Sherwani, British field hockey player ·
April 10 ·
Rick Florian, American Christian musician
and real estate agent ·
Steve Tasker, American football player ·
April 12 ·
Carlos Sainz, Spanish rally driver ·
Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts
fighter and professional wrestler ·
April 13 ·
Jennifer Rubin,
American actress and model ·
Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist (Red Hot Chili
Peppers) (d. 1988) ·
April 15 ·
Nick Kamen, English singer, songwriter,
musician and model ·
Tom Kane, American voice actor ·
Nawal El Moutawakel,
Moroccan hurdler ·
April 17 – Bill Kopp, American actor, voice actor and
animator ·
April 18 – Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist ·
April 19 ·
Al Unser Jr., American race car driver ·
Dorian Yates, English former professional
bodybuilder ·
April 20 – Hank the
Angry Drunken Dwarf (Henry Joseph Nasiff Jr.), American
comedian (d. 2001) ·
April 21 – Craig
Robinson, American college basketball coach ·
April 23 – John Hannah,
Scottish actor ·
April 24 – Steve Roach,
Australian champion rugby league prop
forward ·
April 25 – Petya Dubarova, Bulgarian poet (d. 1979) ·
April 26 ·
Colin
Anderson, English footballer ·
Michael Damian, American actor and singer ·
April 29 – Stephan Burger, German Roman Catholic
archbishop ·
April 30 – Tom Fahn, American voice actor May[edit] ·
May 2 ·
Elizabeth
Berridge, American actress ·
Jimmy White, British snooker player ·
May 3 – Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder ·
May 5 ·
Manoj Sood, Canadian actor ·
Kaoru Wada, Japanese composer ·
May 6 - Harry LaRosiliere,
American businessman and officeholder (Mayor of Plano, Texas) ·
May 8 – Natalia Molchanova,
Russian free-diver ·
May 9 ·
Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter ·
Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter ·
Sean McNamara,
American film director, film producer, actor, and screenwriter ·
May 12 – Emilio Estevez, American actor ·
May 13 ·
Paul McDermott, Australian comedian ·
Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (d. 2003) ·
May 14 ·
Ian Astbury, English singer ·
Danny Huston, American actor and film
director ·
May 17 ·
Lise Lyng Falkenberg,
Danish writer ·
Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American actor,
comedian, and television host ·
Kim Mulkey, American basketball player/coach ·
Arturo Peniche, Mexican actor ·
May 18 ·
Karel Roden, Czech actor ·
Sandra, German pop singer ·
May 19 – Frances Ondiviela,
Spanish/Mexican actress ·
May 20 ·
Aleksandr Dedyushko,
Russian actor (d. 2007) ·
Mike Jeffries,
American soccer coach ·
May 21 – Cam Brainard, American voice actor and
narrator ·
May 22 – Brian Pillman, American professional
wrestler (d. 1997) ·
May 24 – Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003) ·
May 26 ·
Black, English singer-songwriter (d. 2016) ·
Genie Francis, American actress ·
Bobcat Goldthwait,
American comedian ·
May 27 – Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer ·
May 28 ·
Brandon Cruz, American child actor and punk
rocker ·
François-Henri
Pinault, French businessman ·
May 30 – Timo Soini, Finnish politician ·
May 31 ·
Corey Hart,
Canadian singer ·
Noriko Hidaka, Japanese voice actress June[edit] ·
June 1 – Sherri Howard, American athlete ·
June 3 – David Cole,
American record producer and songwriter (d. 1995) ·
June 4 ·
Paul Baloche, American Christian worship
leader ·
John P. Kee, American gospel singer ·
June 5 – Jeff Garlin, American comedian ·
June 6 – Alex Datcher, American actress ·
June 7 – Thierry Hazard, French singer and songwriter ·
June 8 – Suzy Gorman, American photographer ·
June 10 ·
Gina Gershon, American actress ·
Ralf Schumann, German sport shooter ·
Ahmed Khaled Tawfik,
Egyptian author and physician (d. 2018) ·
June 11 ·
Olga Charvátová,
Czech alpine skier ·
Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist ·
Toshihiko Seki, Japanese voice actor ·
Harry
Chase, American actor ·
June 12 ·
Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical
psychologist and professor of psychology ·
Camilla Scott, Canadian actress ·
Jodi Thelen, American actress ·
June 13 ·
Ally Sheedy, American actress ·
Hannah Storm, American television anchor and
presenter ·
Bence Szabó, Hungarian fencer ·
June 14 – Emilija
Erčić, Yugoslav (Serbian) handball player ·
June 15 – Andrea Rost, Hungarian lyric soprano ·
June 16 – Arnold Vosloo, South African actor ·
June 17 – Bap Kennedy, Northern Irish
singer-songwriter (d. 2016) ·
June 18 ·
Lisa Randall, American theoretical physicist ·
Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional
wrestler (d. 2009) ·
June 19 – Paula Abdul, American dancer, choreographer
and singer ·
June 20 – Alex Di Gregorio, Italian editorial
cartoonist ·
June 21 ·
Pipilotti Rist, Swiss video artist ·
Viktor Tsoi, Soviet underground singer and
songwriter (d. 1990) ·
June 22 ·
Campino, German singer ·
Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director ·
Clyde Drexler, American basketball player ·
June 23 ·
Mark DeCarlo, American actor ·
Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player ·
Billy Wirth, American actor, film producer
and artist ·
June 24 ·
Harry van Bommel, Dutch politician,
anti-globalisation activist, and educator ·
Juan Fernando Brügge,
Argentine politician ·
Sean Vincent Gillis,
American serial killer ·
Andrew Patrick
Gordon, American judge ·
June 25 ·
Pavla Tomicová,
Czech actress ·
Ricardo Iorio, Argentine heavy metal
musician ·
Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (d. 2006) ·
Anthony Allen Shore,
American serial killer and child molester (d. 2018) ·
June 26 ·
Morten Skogstad, Norwegian drummer ·
Hubert Strolz, Austrian alpine skier ·
June 27 ·
Emel Heinreich, Turkish-Austrian actress,
author and film-director ·
Michael Ball,
British stage actor and singer ·
Ollanta Humala, Peruvian politician,
65th President of Peru ·
Tony Leung Chiu-wai,
Hong Kong actor ·
Mambury Njie, Gambian politician ·
June 28 – Don Chambers, American newspaper comic strip
artist ·
June 29 ·
Mario Castañeda,
Mexican voice actor and dubbing director ·
Amanda Donohoe, English actress ·
George D. Zamka, American astronaut ·
Guy Lecluyse, French comedian and actor ·
June 30 ·
Florence Pernel, French actress ·
Deirdre Lovejoy, American actress ·
Julianne Regan, British singer/songwriter ·
Predrag Bjelac, Serbian actress July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Andre Braugher, American actor ·
Rafał Bruski, Polish politician ·
Dominic Keating, English actor ·
July 2 ·
Doug Benson, American comedian, marijuana
rights advocate, television host, actor and judge ·
Roberto Blades, Panamanian Salsa singer ·
Mahasweta Ray, Indian actress ·
July 3 ·
Tom Cruise, American actor ·
Thomas Gibson, American actor ·
Hunter Tylo, American actress, author and
former model ·
July 4 ·
Neil Morrissey, English actor and voice
artist ·
Pam Shriver, American tennis player ·
July 5 ·
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim,
Indonesian terrorist (d. 2008) ·
John Marshall Jones,
American actor ·
July 6 ·
Djarot Saiful
Hidayat, Indonesian politician and former governor of Jakarta ·
Gilbert Lam, Hong Kong actor ·
Natalia Dicenta, Spanish actress ·
Christopher Chaplin,
Swiss-English composer and actor ·
July 7 ·
Vadivukkarasi, Indian actress ·
Tom Conroy, American state legislator ·
Klaus Tange, Danish actor ·
MC Jazzy Jeff, American rapper ·
July 8 ·
Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter ·
Frank Gallagher,
Scottish actor ·
July 9 ·
Sukhbir Singh Badal,
Indian politician ·
Nikola Čuturilo,
Serbian rock musician ·
Roni Ben-Hur, Israeli jazz guitarist ·
July 10 – Trond Helleland, Norwegian politician ·
July 11 – Pauline McLynn, Irish actress ·
July 12 ·
Dan Murphy,
American rock guitarist ·
Dean Wilkins, English football manager ·
July 13 ·
Tom Kenny, American voice actor and comedian ·
Zlata Petrović,
Serbian pop singer ·
Erry Yulian
Triblas Adesta, Indonesian Academic figure ·
July 14 ·
Jeff Olson,
American percussionist (Trouble) ·
Patricio Toledo, Chilean footballer ·
July 15 ·
Glen Edward Rogers,
American serial killer ·
Tommy Soeharto, Indonesian businessman,
convicted murderer and politician ·
Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer ·
July 16 ·
Mathias Herrmann, German actor ·
Grigory Leps, Russian singer ·
July 18 ·
Lee Arenberg, American actor ·
Jack Irons, American drummer ·
Shaun Micallef, Australian actor, comedian,
and writer ·
July 19 ·
Anthony Edwards, American actor and director ·
Cynthia Farrelly
Gesner, American actress ·
Aya Kitō, Japanese diarist (d. 1988) ·
July 20 ·
Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and
comedian ·
Abdulai Hamid Charm,
Sierra Leonean judge ·
Primož Ulaga, Yugoslavian/Slovenian former
ski jumper ·
Emmanuel Niyonkuru,
Burundian politician (d. 2017) ·
July 21 ·
Gabi Bauer, German journalist and television
presenter ·
Ike Eisenmann, American actor and voice
artist ·
July 22 – Roman Madyanov, Russian actor ·
July 23 ·
Eriq La Salle, American actor ·
Bruce
Marshall, American ice hockey coach (d. 2016) ·
July 24 ·
Federico Franco, Paraguayan politician,
49th President of
Paraguay ·
Johnny O'Connell,
American race car driver ·
July 26 ·
Galina Chistyakova,
Ukrainian athlete ·
Sergey Kiriyenko, Russian politician and
statesman, 31st Prime Minister
of Russia ·
July 28 – Ray Shero, American hockey manager ·
July 29 – Scott Steiner, American professional
wrestler ·
July 30 ·
Kaveinga
Faʻanunu, Tongan politician (d. 2011) ·
Alton Brown, American chef and television
show host ·
Lavinia Greenlaw, British poet and novelist ·
July 31 ·
Damien Frawley, Australian rugby union
player ·
John Laurinaitis, American professional
wrestler ·
Wesley Snipes, American actor and martial
artist August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Robert Clift, British field hockey player ·
Jesse Borrego, American actor ·
Cesar Montano, Filipino actor ·
August 2 ·
Lee Mavers, American musician ·
Cynthia Stevenson,
Canadian-American actress ·
August 4 – Roger Clemens, American baseball player ·
August 5 – Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born basketball
player ·
August 6 – Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong
actress ·
August 7 ·
Doon Mackichan, British actress and comedian ·
Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer ·
August 8 ·
Yūji Machi, Japanese voice actor ·
Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player ·
August 11 – Rob Minkoff, American filmmaker ·
August 13 – John Slattery, American actor and film
director ·
August 14 – Kevin Harris, Canadian skateboarder ·
August 15 – Tom Colicchio, American chef ·
Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter
(d. 2018) ·
Steve Carell, American actor and comedian ·
August 17 – Pierre
Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director ·
August 18 – Felipe Calderón,
Mexican politician, 50th President of Mexico ·
Eric Lutes, American actor ·
Valérie Kaprisky,
French actress ·
August 20 – James Marsters, American actor and musician ·
Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer
(d. 2008) ·
Gilberto Santa Rosa,
Puerto Rican salsa singer ·
Shaun Ryder, English musician,
singer-songwriter, actor ·
Tamao
Hayashi, Japanese voice actress ·
Dean Karnazes, American ultramarathon runner ·
David Koechner, American actor ·
Mary Ellen Weber, American astronaut ·
Theresa Andrews, American swimmer ·
Tommy Blacha, American comedy writer ·
Princess
Lalla Meryem of Morocco ·
Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney ·
August 27 – Vic Mignogna, American actor and voice actor ·
Craig Anton, American actor and comedian ·
David Fincher, American director and
producer ·
Ian James Corlett,
Canadian voice actor and producer ·
Jutta Kleinschmidt,
German rally driver ·
Lycia Naff, American actress and journalist ·
August 30 – Alexander Litvinenko,
Russian ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel (d. 2006) ·
Dee Bradley Baker,
American comedian, announcer, and voice artist ·
Mark L. Walberg, American television
personality and show host September[edit] ·
September 1 – Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer ·
September 4 – Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and
researcher ·
September 5 – Brian A. Joyce, American politician
(d. 2018) ·
September 6 – Chris Christie, American politician and
55th Governor of New
Jersey ·
September 7 – Kylie InGold, Australian fantasy artist ·
September 8 – Thomas Kretschmann,
German actor ·
Victoria Poleva, Ukrainian composer ·
Kristy McNichol, American actress ·
Andrew Jackson,
Canadian voice actor ·
Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer-songwriter,
musician and producer ·
Amy Yasbeck, American actress ·
September 13 – Hisao Egawa, Japanese voice actor ·
September 14 – Robert Herjavec, Croatian-born Canadian
businessman, investor, and author ·
François Bloemhof,
South African author ·
Dina Lohan, American television personality ·
Scott McNeil, Australian voice actor ·
Rebecca Miller, American actress and director ·
September 16 – Stephen Jones,
English singer and musician ·
Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director ·
Hesham Qandil, 51st Prime Minister of
Egypt ·
Don Rogers,
American football player (d. 1986) ·
Shaharuddin
Badaruddin, Malaysian politician (d. 2018) ·
Cheri Oteri, American comic actress ·
Gottfried von
Bismarck, German aristocrat and socialite (d. 2007) ·
September 21 – Rob Morrow, American actor ·
September 22 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer
(d. 2016) ·
Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress ·
Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer and pundit ·
Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress ·
September 25 – Aida Turturro, American actress ·
Melissa Sue Anderson,
American actress ·
Gregory Crewdson, American photographer ·
Steve Moneghetti, Australian long-distance
runner ·
Al Pitrelli, American guitarist ·
September 28 – Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player ·
September 29 – Roger Bart, American actor and singer ·
September 30 – Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and
manager October[edit] ·
Fernando Albán
Salazar, Venezuelan lawyer and politician (d. 2018) ·
Esai Morales, American actor ·
Tawfiq Titingan, Malaysian politician
(d. 2018) ·
Jeff Bennett, American voice actor and
singer ·
James Hunter,
English singer ·
October 3 – Tommy Lee, American rock musician and
drummer ·
Michael Andretti, American race car driver ·
Caron Keating, British television presenter
(d. 2004) ·
October 6 – Rich Yett, American baseball player ·
October 7 – Micky Flanagan, English comedian ·
October 8 – Richard Lintern, English actor ·
October 11 – Joan Cusack, American actress and comedian ·
Carlos Bernard, American actor ·
Branko Crvenkovski, President
of Macedonia ·
Chris Botti, American trumpeter and composer ·
Deborah Foreman, American actress ·
T'Keyah Crystal
Keymáh, American actress and comedian ·
Margareth Menezes,
Brazilian singer ·
Kelly Preston, American actress ·
Jerry Rice, American football player ·
October 14 – Trevor Goddard, English actor (d. 2003) ·
Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player and
activist (d. 2010) ·
Flea, Australian rock bassist ·
Dmitri Hvorostovsky,
Russian baritone (d. 2017) ·
Tamara McKinney, American alpine skier ·
October 17 – Mike Judge, American actor, animator and
producer ·
Tracy Chevalier, American author ·
Evander Holyfield,
American boxer ·
October 20 – Anatoly Khrapaty, Soviet Olympic
weightlifter (d. 2008) ·
October 21 – Miki Itō, Japanese voice actress ·
October 22 – Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian ·
Doug Flutie, American football player ·
Mike Tomczak, American football player ·
October 24 – Jay Novacek, American football player ·
David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker, director
and producer ·
Nick Hancock, English actor and television
presenter ·
Darlene Vogel, American actress ·
October 26 – Cary Elwes, English actor and writer ·
Jun'ichi Kanemaru,
Japanese voice actor ·
Ang Peng Siong, Singaporean sportsman ·
October 28 – Daphne Zuniga, American actress ·
October 29 – Debra Sandlund, American actress ·
Stefan Kuntz, German former football player,
and currently coach ·
Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer ·
Kristina Wagner, American actress November[edit] ·
Sharron Davies, British swimmer/television
presenter ·
Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian musician (A-ha) ·
Anthony Kiedis, American rock singer (Red Hot Chili
Peppers) ·
Phil Katz, American computer programmer
(d. 2000) ·
Gabe Newell, American business executive ·
Jacqui Smith, British politician ·
Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya,
Russian pilot and former cosmonaut ·
Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian TV host ·
November 7 – Bettina Hoy, German equestrienne ·
November 9 – Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress ·
Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist ·
Demi Moore, American actress ·
James Morrison,
Australian musician ·
Nicole P. Stott, American astronaut ·
Neal Shusterman, American author ·
Naomi Wolf, American author, feminist, and
political consultant ·
November 13 – Steve Altes, American humorist ·
Laura San Giacomo,
American actress ·
Atsuko
Tanaka, Japanese voice actress ·
Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor
and comedian ·
Mark Acres, American basketball player and
educator ·
Judy Gold, American comedian and actress ·
November 17 – Jamie Moyer, American baseball player ·
Jodie Foster, American actress and director ·
Sean Parnell, American politician ·
November 21 – Steven Curtis
Chapman, American Christian musician ·
November 22 – Sumi Jo, Korean operatic soprano ·
November 23 – Nicolás Maduro,
63rd President of
Venezuela ·
November 24 – John Kovalic, American cartoonist ·
Marumi Shiraishi, Japanese actress ·
Davey Boy Smith, British professional
wrestler (d. 2002) ·
Emma Walton Hamilton,
English actress ·
Jane Sibbett, American actress and producer ·
Jon Stewart, American actor, comedian, media
critic, television personality, and former host of The Daily Show (1999-2015) ·
Ronny Jordan, English guitarist (d. 2014) ·
Andrew McCarthy, American actor ·
Bo Jackson, American football and baseball
player ·
Daniel Keys Moran,
American writer December[edit] ·
Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater ·
Shōzō
Hayashiya IX, Japanese rakugoka, tarento and voice actor ·
December 3 – Tammy Jackson, American basketball player ·
Julie Lemieux, Canadian voice actress ·
Anna
Walker, British television presenter ·
December 5 – José Cura, Argentine tenor ·
December 6 – Janine Turner, American actress ·
Albert Grajales, INTERPOL Director of Puerto
Rico and martial artist ·
Felicity Huffman, American actress ·
Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and
businessman (d. 2015) ·
Scott Capurro, American comedian ·
Ben Browder, American actor ·
Denise Biellmann, Swiss figure skater ·
Jasper Britton, English actor ·
Tracy Austin, American tennis player ·
Arturo Barrios, Mexican long-distance runner ·
Peter Bergen, American journalist ·
Max Raabe, German singer ·
December 14 – Yvonne Ryding, Swedish pageant winner (Miss Universe 1984) ·
December 16 – Maruschka Detmers,
Dutch actress ·
Paul Dobson,
English footballer ·
Richard Jewell, American security guard and
media figure (d. 2007) ·
Galina Malchugina,
Russian athlete ·
Rocco Mediate, American golfer ·
December 18 – James Sie, American actor and voice actor ·
December 19 – Jill Talley, American actress ·
December 21 – Steven Mnuchin, 77th United
States Secretary of the Treasury ·
December 22 – Ralph Fiennes, English actor ·
December 23 – Keiji Mutoh, Japanese professional wrestler ·
December 24 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer
(d. 2018) ·
December 25 – Francis Dunnery, English musician,
singer-songwriter, record producer, and record label owner ·
Mark Few, American basketball coach ·
Bill Self, American basketball coach ·
Sherri Steinhauer,
American golfer ·
Joe Mantello, American actor and director ·
Michelle Cameron, Canadian synchronised
swimmer ·
Choi Soo-jong, South Korean actor ·
Michel Petrucciani,
French jazz pianist and composer (d. 1999) ·
December 30 – Alessandra Mussolini,
Italian politician ·
Don Diamont, American actor ·
Lance Reddick, American actor Date unknown[edit] ·
Gunnar Krantz,
Swedish comic artist Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Diego Martínez
Barrio, Spanish politician, 2-time Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1883) ·
January 4 – Hans Lammers, German Nazi minister (b. 1879) ·
January 6 – Marziyya Davudova,
Soviet actress (b. 1901) ·
January 13 – Ernie Kovacs, American TV comedian (b. 1919) ·
January 16 – R. H. Tawney, English historian and social
critic (b. 1880) ·
January 17 – Gerrit Achterberg,
Dutch poet (b. 1905) ·
January 19 – Snub Pollard, American actor (b. 1889) ·
January 20 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet (b. 1887) ·
January 21 – Arturo Bragaglia, Italian actor (b. 1893) ·
January 22 – José María Beltrán,
Spanish cinematographer (b. 1898) ·
January 26 – Lucky Luciano, American gangster (b. 1897) ·
January 29 – Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875) February[edit] ·
February 1 – Carey Wilson,
American screenwriter (b. 1889) ·
February 2 – Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-born Israeli
biochemist (b. 1914) ·
February 4 – Daniel Halévy, French historian (b. 1872) ·
February 5 – Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890) ·
Roy Atwell, American actor, comedian and
composer (b. 1878) ·
Cândido Portinari,
Brazilian painter (b. 1903) ·
February 7 – Clara Nordström,
German writer and translator (b. 1886) ·
February 10 – Eduard von Steiger,
Swiss politician, 51st President
of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1881) ·
February 11 – Indalecio Prieto, Spanish Socialist politician
(b. 1891) ·
February 13 – Hugh Dalton, British Labour politician
(b. 1887) ·
Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907) ·
Bruno Walter, German conductor (b. 1876) ·
James Barton,
American actor (b. 1890) ·
Georgios
Papanikolaou, Greek inventor (b. 1883) ·
February 20 – Halliwell Hobbes, English-born film actor (b. 1877) ·
February 24 – Hu Shih, Chinese philosopher (b. 1891) ·
February 25 – María Ludovico De
Angelis, Italian Roman Catholic professed sister and
blessed (b. 1880) ·
February 27 – Willie Best, American actor (b. 1916) ·
February 28 – Chic Johnson, American actor (b. 1891) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Roscoe Ates, American actor (b. 1895) ·
Richard L. Conolly,
American admiral (b. 1892) ·
W. Alton Jones, American industrialist and
philanthropist (b. 1891) ·
Arnold Kirkeby, American hotelier, art
collector and real estate investor (b. 1901) ·
Louise
Lindner Eastman, American wife of Lee Eastman and mother of Linda McCartney (b. 1911) ·
Emelyn Whiton, American Olympic sailor
(b. 1916) ·
March 2 – Walt Kiesling, American football player (Chicago Cardinals)
and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1903) ·
March 3 – Pierre Benoit,
French novelist (b. 1886) ·
March 14 – Giovanna Berneri, Italian educationalist and
anarchist (b. 1897) ·
March 15 – Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1892) ·
March 20 ·
C. Wright Mills, American sociologist
(b. 1916) ·
A. E. Douglass, American astronomer and
founder of dendrochronology (b. 1867) ·
March 24 ·
Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician
(b. 1899) ·
Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, aeronaut
and explorer (b. 1884) ·
March 27 – Augusta Savage, American sculptor (b. 1892) April[edit] ·
April 1 – Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major (b. 1910) ·
April 3 – Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer (died
as result of injuries
in the ring; b. 1937) ·
April 8 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1892) ·
April 10 ·
Michael Curtiz, Austrian-born film director
(b. 1886) ·
Manton S. Eddy, American general (b. 1892) ·
Stuart Sutcliffe, British artist and rock
guitarist, The Beatles (b. 1940) ·
April 13 – Culbert Olson, American politician, Governor of
California (b. 1876) ·
April 15 ·
Clara Blandick, American actress (b. 1880) ·
Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and
sportswriter (b. 1911) ·
April 17 – Louise Fazenda, American actress (b. 1895) ·
April 20 – Grover Whalen, American politician (b. 1886) ·
April 21 – Sir Frederick Handley
Page, English aircraft manufacturer (b. 1885) ·
April 22 – Vera Reynolds, American actress (b. 1899) ·
April 24 – Milt Franklyn, American film composer
(b. 1897) ·
April 27 – Josefa Toledo de
Aguirre, Nicaraguan pioneer educator (d. 1866) ·
April 28 – Gianna Beretta Molla,
Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician
and saint (b. 1922) ·
April 29 – Hajime Tanabe, Japanese philosopher
(b. 1885) May[edit] ·
May 5 – Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer
(b. 1889) ·
May 10 – Shunroku Hata, Marshal of the Imperial
Japanese Army (b. 1879) ·
May 12 – Pedro Pablo Ramirez,
Argentine military general, 26th President of
Argentina, leader of the World War II (b. 1884) ·
May 13 ·
Henry Trendley Dean,
American dental researcher (b. 1893) ·
Franz Kline, American painter (b. 1910) ·
May 26 – Wilfrid Wilson
Gibson, English poet (b. 1878) ·
May 27 – Egon Petri, German pianist (b. 1881) ·
May 28 – Robert
Francis Anthony Studds, American admiral and engineer, fourth
Director of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey (b. 1896) ·
May 31 – Henry Fountain
Ashurst, American politician (b. 1874) June[edit] ·
June 1 – Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer and a
major organiser of the Holocaust (executed) (b. 1906) ·
June 2 – Vita Sackville-West,
English writer and landscape gardener (b. 1892) ·
June 4 – Charles William
Beebe, American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist and
entomologist (b. 1877) ·
June 6 ·
Abba Ahimeir, Soviet-born Israeli journalist
(b. 1897) ·
Yves Klein, French painter (b. 1928) ·
Guinn Williams,
American actor (b. 1899) ·
Joe Profaci, Italian-American mobster
(b. 1897) ·
June 7 – Korneli Kekelidze,
Georgian philologist (b. 1879) ·
June 8 – Eugène Freyssinet,
French civil engineer (b. 1879) ·
June 12 – John Ireland,
English composer (b. 1879) ·
June 13 – Sir Eugene
Goossens, English composer (b. 1893) ·
June 15 ·
Eugeniusz Baziak, Polish Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1890) ·
Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor
(b. 1877) ·
June 16 – Aleksei Antonov, General of the Soviet Army
(b. 1896) ·
June 19 ·
Frank Borzage, American film director
(b. 1894) ·
Will Wright,
American character actor (b. 1891) ·
June 24 – Lucile Watson, Canadian actress (b. 1879) ·
June 27 – Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, author and
literary critic (b. 1904) ·
June 28 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (Philadelphia
Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1903) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Bidhan Chandra Roy,
Indian physician and politician, Chief
Minister of West Bengal (b. 1882) ·
July 2 ·
Arconovaldo
Bonaccorsi, Italian soldier (b. 1898) ·
Valeska Suratt, American stage actress,
silent film star (b. 1882) ·
July 4 – Rex Bell, American actor (b. 1903) ·
July 6 ·
John Anderson,
British-born Australian philosopher (b. 1893) ·
Paul Boffa, Maltese politician, 5th Prime Minister of
Malta (b. 1890) ·
William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1897) ·
Archduke
Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal and former regent
of Hungary (b. 1872) ·
July 8 – Georges Bataille, French writer and
philosopher (b. 1897) ·
July 10 – Yehuda Leib Maimon,
Bassarabian-born Israeli rabbi and government minister (b. 1875) ·
July 12 – Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader
(b. 1907) ·
July 13 – Jerry Wald, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1911) ·
July 18 – Denjirō
Ōkōchi, Japanese actor (b. 1898) ·
July 21 – G. M. Trevelyan, English historian (b. 1876) ·
July 23 – Victor Moore, American actor (b. 1876) ·
July 26 ·
Raquel Meller, Spanish singer and actress
(b. 1888) ·
George Preca, Maltese Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1880) ·
July 27 – Richard Aldington,
English poet (b. 1892) ·
July 29 ·
Leonardo De Lorenzo,
Italian flautist (b. 1875) ·
Ronald Fisher, English-born statistician and
geneticist (b. 1890) ·
July 30 – Myron McCormick, American actor (b. 1908) August[edit] ·
August 5 ·
Marilyn Monroe, American actress (b. 1926) ·
Ramón Pérez de Ayala,
Spanish writer and diplomat (b. 1880) ·
August 6 – Ángel Borlenghi,
Argentine labor leader and politician (b. 1904) ·
August 9 – Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1877) ·
August 15 – Lei Feng, Chinese soldier (b. 1940) ·
August 18 – Cleo Ridgely, American actress (b. 1893) ·
August 19 – Jean Lucienbonnet,
French racing driver (b. 1923) ·
August 21 – Ahmad bin Ibrahim,
Malaysian-born Singaporean politician (b. 1927) ·
August 22 – Charles Rigoulot, French Olympic
weightlifter (b. 1903) ·
August 23 – Hoot Gibson, American actor and film
director (b. 1892) ·
August 24 – Mykolas Biržiška,
Lithuanian politician (b. 1882) ·
August 26 – Dušan Simović,
Yugoslav general, 18th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1882) ·
August 27 – Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet (b. 1909) ·
August 28 – John Collum, American actor (b. 1926) ·
August 29 – Georgina de
Albuquerque, Brazilian painter (b. 1885) ·
August 31 – Felicjan
Sławoj Składkowski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1885) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Hans-Jürgen von
Arnim, German general (b. 1889) ·
September 3 – E. E. Cummings, American poet (b. 1894) ·
Juan Atilio
Bramuglia, Argentine composer (b. 1903) ·
William Clothier, American tennis player
(b. 1881) ·
September 6 – Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer (b. 1898) ·
Karen Blixen, Danish writer (b. 1885) ·
Morris Louis, American painter (b. 1912) ·
Louis King, American film director (b. 1898) ·
Graham
Walker, English motorcycle racer (b. 1896) ·
September 11 – Kenkichi Ueda, Japanese general (b. 1875) ·
September 18 – Ahmad bin Yahya, King of Yemen (b. 1891) ·
September 19 – Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright (b. 1900) ·
September 20 – Conrad Helfrich, Dutch admiral (b. 1886) ·
September 21 – Ouyang Yuqian, Chinese playwright, director
and Peking opera performer (b. 1889) ·
Louis de Soissons,
Canadian-born English architect (b. 1890) ·
Patrick
Hamilton, English dramatist (b. 1904) ·
Sam McDaniel, American actor (b. 1886) ·
Charles Reisner, American silent film actor
and director (b. 1887) ·
September 30 – Bernard
Rawlings, British admiral (b. 1889) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Ludwig Bemelmans, Austro-Hungarian born
American writer (b. 1898) ·
Henry Louis Larsen,
American Marine Corps general; Governor of
American Samoa and Governor of Guam (b. 1890) ·
Frank Lovejoy, American actor (b. 1912) ·
October 3 – K. Kanagaratnam, Ceylon Tamil civil servant
and politician (b. 1892) ·
October 6 – Tod Browning, American film director
(b. 1882) ·
October 7 – Henri Oreiller, French Olympic alpine skier
(b. 1925) ·
October 9 – Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player
(b. 1885) ·
October 10 – Stancho Belkovski,
Bulgarian architect and lecturer (b. 1891) ·
October 11 – Erich von Tschermak,
Austrian agronomist (b. 1871) ·
October 12 – Alberto Teisaire, Argentine Navy officer
and Vice
President of the Republic (assassinated) (b. 1891) ·
October 14 – Irma Gramatica, Italian actress (b. 1870) ·
October 16 – Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher
(b. 1884) ·
October 17 – Natalia Goncharova,
Russian artist (b. 1881) ·
October 20 – Jesús Herrera,
Spanish international footballer (b. 1938) ·
October 26 – Louise Beavers, American actress (b. 1902) ·
Otto Froitzheim, German tennis player
(b. 1884) ·
Enrico Mattei, Italian politician (plane
crash) (b. 1906) ·
October 31 – Louis Massignon, French Catholic scholar of
Islam (b. 1883) November[edit] Queen Wilhelmina
of the Netherlands ·
November 7 – Eleanor Roosevelt,
American politician, diplomat and activist, First
Lady of the United States (b. 1884) ·
William Bailey,
American actor (b. 1886) ·
Willis H. O'Brien,
American stop motion animator
(b. 1886) ·
November 9 – Carroll McComas, American actress (b. 1886) ·
Alwi bin Thahir
al-Haddad, Yemeni-born Malaysian Islamic scholar (b. 1884) ·
Manuel Gálvez, Argentine writer and
historian (b. 1882) ·
November 15 – Irene Lentz, American costume designer
(b. 1900) ·
Domingo Arrieta León,
Mexican general and statesman (b. 1874) ·
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1885) ·
November 22 – René Coty, 17th President of France (b. 1884) ·
November 23 – Grace Butler, New Zealand artist (b. 1886) ·
November 25 – Forrest Smithson, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1884) ·
Aleksandr
Antonov, Soviet actor (b. 1898) ·
Albert Sarraut, 2-time Prime Minister of
France (b. 1872) ·
K. C. Dey, Indian singer, composer, actor
and teacher (b. 1893) ·
Queen Wilhelmina
of the Netherlands (b. 1880) ·
November 29 – Erik Scavenius, 12th Prime Minister
of Denmark (b. 1877) ·
November 30 – Joseph Lade Pawsey,
Australian radio astronomer. (b. 1908) December[edit] ·
December 6 – Harry Bauler, American politician (b. 1910) ·
December 7 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano
(b. 1895) ·
December 10 – Robert C. Giffen, American admiral (b. 1886) ·
John
Cunningham, British admiral (b. 1885) ·
Ahmad Nami, Prince of the Ottoman Empire,
5th Prime Minister of
Syria and 2nd President of Syria (b. 1879) ·
December 15 – Charles Laughton, English actor and director
(b. 1899) ·
December 16 – Lew Landers, American TV and film director
(b. 1901) ·
December 17 – Thomas Mitchell,
American actor (b. 1892) ·
December 18 – Garrett Mattingly,
American historian (b. 1900) ·
December 20 – Emil Artin, Austrian mathematician (b. 1898) ·
December 23 – José Giral, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister (b. 1879) ·
Wilhelm Ackermann,
German mathematician (b. 1896) ·
Eveline
Adelheid von Maydell, German artist (b. 1890) ·
December 26 – Calcedonio Di Pisa,
Italian criminal (b. 1931) ·
December 28 – Kazimierz
Świtalski, Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military
officer, 18th Prime Minister
of Poland (b. 1886) ·
December 30 – Arthur Lovejoy, American philosopher and
historian (b. 1873) Date Unknown[edit] ·
Fawzi Al-Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan
(b. 1910) ·
Abdallah Beyhum, 10th Prime Minister of
Lebanon (b. 1879) ·
Henry Matthew
Talintyre, British comic strip artist (b. 1893) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Lev Landau ·
Chemistry – Max Perutz, John Kendrew ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins ·
Peace – Linus Pauling References[edit] 1.
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