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1963 (MCMLXIII) was
a common year starting
on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1963rd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 963rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 63rd year of
the 20th century,
and the 4th year of the 1960s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1963 ·
Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atomu (Astro Boy),
Japan's first serialized animated series based on the popular manga, debuts on Japanese television
station Fuji Television. ·
Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret
Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. ·
The Camden railway line closes. January 8: Mona Lisa in Washington, D.C. ·
January 2 – Vietnam War: The Viet Cong win their first major victory
in the Battle of Ap Bac. ·
January 8 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the
United States for the first time, at the National Gallery
of Art in Washington, D.C. ·
January 13 - Coup d'état in Togo results
in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio. ·
George Wallace becomes governor
of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he
defiantly proclaims "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and
segregation forever!"[1][2] ·
The
steam locomotive Flying
Scotsman (British Railways No. 60103) makes its last
scheduled run, before going into the hands of Alan Pegler for preservation. ·
January 18 – Due to severe winter
conditions the twelfth elfstedentocht skating tour in the
Netherlands turns into an almost total disaster. Of the 9,294 participants
only more than 60 manage to finish, making this the heaviest elfstedentocht ever
held. ·
January 22 – France and West Germany
sign the Élysée Treaty. ·
January 26 – The Australia Day shootings rock Perth; 2 people are shot dead and 3 others
injured by Eric Edgar Cooke. ·
January 28 – Black student Harvey Gantt enters Clemson University in South Carolina, the last U.S. state to hold out against racial
integration. ·
January 29 – French President Charles de Gaulle vetoes
the United Kingdom's entry into the European Common
Market. February[edit] Main article: February 1963 ·
February 5 – The European Court
of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der
Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the basic tenets
of European Union law. ·
February 8 – Travel, financial and
commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are
made illegal by the John F. Kennedy Administration. ·
February 10 – Five Japanese cities
located on the northernmost part of Kyūshū are merged and become
the city of Kitakyūshū,
with a population of more than 1 million. ·
The Central
Intelligence Agency's Domestic Operations Division is created in
the United States. ·
The Beatles record their debut
album Please Please Me in
a single day at the Abbey Road Studios in
London. ·
American-born
poet Sylvia Plath commits
suicide in London. ·
February 12 – Northwest
Airlines Flight 705 crashes in the Florida Everglades, killing all 43 aboard. ·
February 14 – Harold Wilson becomes leader of the
opposition Labour Party in
the United Kingdom;[3] in
October 1964 he becomes prime minister. ·
February 19 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine
Mystique launches the reawakening of the Women's Movement in
the United States as women's organizations and consciousness
raising groups spread. ·
February 21 – The 5.6 Mw Marj earthquake affected
northern Libya with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe),
causing 290–375 deaths and 375–500 injuries. ·
Juan Bosch takes
office as the 41st president of the Dominican Republic. ·
Female suffrage is
enacted in Iran. ·
February 28 – Dorothy Schiff resigns from the New
York Newspaper Publishers' Association, feeling that the city needs at least
one paper as New York's 83-day newspayer strike ensued. Her paper, the New York Post, resumes publication on
March 4. March[edit] Main article: March 1963 ·
March
– The divorce case of The
Duke and Duchess
of Argyll causes scandal in the United Kingdom. ·
March 4 – In Paris, six people are
sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle.
De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator, Jean Bastien-Thiry,
is executed by firing squad several
days later. ·
March 5 – In Camden, Tennessee,
country music superstar Patsy Cline (Virginia Patterson
Hensley) is killed in a plane crash along with fellow performers Hawkshaw
Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and Cline's manager and pilot Randy Hughes, while
returning from a benefit performance in Kansas City, Kansas,
for country radio disc jockey "Cactus" Jack Call. ·
March 17 – Mount Agung erupts on Bali,
killing approximately 1,500. ·
March 18 – Gideon v. Wainwright:
The Supreme
Court of the United States rules that state courts are
required to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who cannot
afford to pay their own attorneys. ·
March 21 – The Alcatraz
Federal Penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay closes;
the last 27 prisoners are transferred elsewhere at the order of United
States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. ·
March 22 – The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, in the United Kingdom. ·
March 23 – Dansevise by
Grethe & Jørgen Ingmann (music by Otto Francker, text by Sejr
Volmer-Sørensen) wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1963 for Denmark. March 27: British Rail network, as it would
have become, if "Beeching axe"
plans had been fully implemented (only bolded rail lines would have
remained). ·
March 27 – In Britain, Dr. Richard
Beeching issues a report, The Reshaping of British
Railways, calling for huge cuts to the country's rail
network. ·
March 28 – Director Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds is released in the United
States. ·
March 30 – Indigenous
Australians are legally allowed to drink alcohol in New South Wales.[4] ·
March 31 – The 1962–63
New York City newspaper strike ends after 114 days. April[edit] Main article: April 1963 ·
April 1 – The long-running soap opera General Hospital debuts on ABC Television
in the United States. ·
April 3 – Southern
Christian Leadership Conference volunteers kick off the Birmingham campaign (Birmingham, Alabama)
against racial
segregation in the United States with a sit-in. ·
April 7 – Yugoslavia is
proclaimed to be a socialist republic,
and Josip Broz Tito is
named President for Life. ·
April 8 – The 35th Academy Awards ceremony
is held. Lawrence of
Arabia wins Best
Picture. ·
April 9 – British statesman Sir Winston Churchill becomes
an honorary
citizen of the United States. ·
April 10 – The U.S. nuclear
submarine Thresher sinks
220 mi (190 nmi; 350 km) east of Cape Cod; all 129 aboard (112 crewmen plus
yard personnel) die. ·
April 12 ·
Martin Luther King
Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and
others are arrested in a Birmingham, Alabama protest for "parading
without a permit". ·
The
Soviet nuclear powered submarine K-33 collides
with the Finnish merchant vessel M/S Finnclipper in the
Danish Straits. Although severely damaged, both vessels make it to port. ·
April 14 – The Institute
of Mental Health (Belgrade) is established. ·
April 15 – 70,000 marchers arrive in
London from Aldermaston, to
demonstrate against nuclear weapons. ·
April 16 – Martin Luther King, Jr.
issues his "Letter from
Birmingham Jail". ·
April 20 – In Quebec, Canada, members of the terrorist
group Front de
libération du Québec bomb a Canadian Army recruitment center,
killing night watchman Wilfred V. O'Neill. ·
April 21–April 23 – The first election of the
Supreme Institution of the Bahá'í Faith (known
as the Universal
House of Justice, whose seat is at the Bahá'í World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel) is held. ·
April 22 – Lester Bowles
Pearson becomes the 14th Prime Minister
of Canada. ·
April 28 – A general
election is held in Italy. ·
April 29 – Buddy Rogers becomes
the first WWWF
Champion. May[edit] Main article: May 1963 ·
May 1 – The Coca-Cola
Company introduces its first diet drink, Tab cola. ·
May 2 ·
Thousands
of black people, many of them children, are arrested while protesting
segregation in Birmingham, Alabama.
Public Safety Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor later
unleashes fire hoses and police dogs on the demonstrators. ·
Berthold Seliger launches near Cuxhaven a 3-stage rocket with a
maximum flight altitude of more than 62 miles (the only sounding rocket
developed in Germany). ·
May 4 – The Le Monde Theater fire in
Dioirbel, Senegal kills 64. ·
May 8 ·
Dr. No, the first James Bond film, is shown in U.S. theaters. ·
Huế Phật Đản shootings: The Army of
the Republic of Vietnam opens fire on Buddhists who defy a
ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha, killing 9. Earlier,
President Ngô Đình
Diệm allowed the flying of the Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archbishop Ngô Đình
Thục, triggering the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam. ·
CVS Pharmacy opens in Lowell,
Massachusetts. ·
May 13 – A smallpox outbreak hits Stockholm, Sweden, lasting until July. ·
May 14 – Kuwait becomes the 111th
member of the United Nations. ·
May 15 – Project Mercury: NASA launches Gordon Cooper on Mercury-Atlas 9, the last mission (on June 12 NASA Administrator James E. Webb tells Congress the
program is complete). ·
May 22 – A.C. Milan beats Benfica 2-1 at Wembley Stadium,
London and wins the 1962–63 European Cup (football). ·
May 23 – Fidel Castro visits the Soviet Union. ·
May 25 – The Organisation
of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. ·
May 27 – The
Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is singer-songwriter Bob Dylan's second studio album, and most influential, opening
with the song "Blowin' in the Wind",
released by Columbia Records in
the United States. June[edit] Main article: June 1963 ·
June 3 ·
Huế
chemical attacks: The Army of
the Republic of Vietnam rains liquid chemicals on the heads of
Buddhist protestors, injuring 67 people. The United States threatens to cut
off aid to the regime of Ngô Đình
Diệm. ·
Pope John XXIII dies. ·
June 4 – President John F. Kennedy signs Executive Order
11110, authorizing the Secretary of
the Treasury to issue silver
certificates. ·
June 5 – The first annual National Hockey
League Entry Draft is
held in Montreal. ·
June 10 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his American
University speech, "A Strategy of Peace", in Washington,
D.C. ·
June 10 – The University
of Central Florida is established by the Florida legislature. ·
June 10 – President John F. Kennedy
signed the Equal Pay Act into law. ·
June 11 Thích Quảng Đức's
self-immolation ·
In Saigon, Buddhist monk Thích
Quảng Đức commits self-immolation to protest the
oppression of Buddhists by the Ngô Đình
Diệm administration. ·
Alabama
Governor George Wallace stands
in the door of the University of
Alabama to protest against integration, before stepping aside
and allowing black students James Hood and Vivian Malone to enroll. ·
President John F. Kennedy broadcasts a
historic Civil Rights Address,
in which he promises a Civil Rights Bill, and asks for "the kind of
equality of treatment that we would want for ourselves". ·
June 12 ·
Medgar Evers is murdered in Jackson, Mississippi.
(His killer, Byron De La Beckwith,
would be convicted in 1994.) ·
The
film Cleopatra is
released. ·
June 13 ·
The
cancellation of Mercury-Atlas 10 effectively
ends the United States' manned spaceflight Project Mercury. ·
The
New York Commodity Exchange begins trading silver futures contracts. ·
June 15 – The AC Cobra makes its first appearance at
the 24 Hours of Le
Mans. It would go on to win its class the following
year. ·
June 16 – Vostok 6 carries Soviet
cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova,
the first woman into space. ·
June 17 – Abington
School District v. Schempp: The U.S. Supreme Court rules
that state-mandated Bible reading in public schools is unconstitutional. ·
June 19 – Valentina Tereshkova the
first woman in space, returns to Earth. ·
June 20 ·
Establishment
of the Moscow–Washington
hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL;
unofficially, the "red telephone"; and in fact a teleprinterlink) is authorized by signing of
a Memorandum of Understanding in Geneva by representatives of the Soviet
Union and the United States.[5][6] ·
Swedish
Air Force Colonel Stig Wennerström is
arrested as a spy for the Soviet Union. ·
June 21 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista
Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as
the 262nd pope. ·
June 23 – Walt
Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room opens at Disneyland, premiering the first Audio-Animatronics in
the park. ·
June 26 – John F. Kennedy gives his "Ich bin ein Berliner"
speech in West Berlin, East Germany. July[edit] Main article: July 1963 ·
July 1 – ZIP codes are introduced by the United
States Postal Service. ·
July 5 – Diplomatic relations between
the Israeli and the Japanese governments
are raised to embassy level. ·
July 7 – Double Seven Day
scuffle: Secret police loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu,
brother of President Ngô Đình
Diệm, attack American journalists including Peter Arnett and David Halberstam at a demonstration
during the Buddhist crisis in
South Vietnam. ·
July 11 – South Africa: police
raid Liliesleaf Farm to
the north of Johannesburg,
arresting a group of African
National Congress leaders. ·
July 12 – Pauline Reade (16) is
abducted by Ian Brady and
Myra Hindley in Manchester, England, the first victim of
the Moors murders;
her remains are located in July 1987. ·
July 19 – American test pilot Joe Walker, flying the X-15,
reaches an altitude of 65.8 miles (105.9 kilometers), making it a sub-orbital
spaceflight by recognized international standards. ·
July 26 ·
An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day Republic of
Macedonia) leaves 1,800 dead. ·
NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary (synchronous) satellite. ·
July 30 – The Soviet newspaper Izvestia reports that British
diplomat and double agent Kim Philby has been given asylum in
Moscow. August[edit] August 28: March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Main article: August 1963 ·
August 5 – The United States, United
Kingdom and Soviet Union sign
the Partial
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.[7] ·
August 8 – The Great Train
Robbery takes place in Buckinghamshire, England. ·
August 15 – Trois Glorieuses:
President Fulbert Youlou is
overthrown in the Republic of Congo after
a three-day uprising in the capital, Brazzaville. ·
August 18 – American
civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first black
person to graduate from the University of
Mississippi. ·
August 21 – Xá Lợi
Pagoda raids: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal
to Ngô Đình Nhu,
brother of President Ngô Đình
Diệm, vandalise Buddhist pagodas across South Vietnam,
arresting thousands and leaving an estimated hundreds dead. In the wake of
the raids, the Kennedy
administration by Cable 243 orders the United
States Embassy, Saigon to explore alternative leadership in
the country, opening the way towards a coup against Diệm. ·
August 22 – American test pilot Joe Walker again achieves a sub-orbital
spaceflight according to international standards, this time by piloting
the X-15 to an altitude of 67.0 miles
(107.8 kilometers). ·
August 24 – First games played in
the Bundesliga, the primary professional Association football league
in West Germany,
replacing the Oberliga.[citation needed] ·
August 28 – Martin Luther King
Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of
the Lincoln Memorial to
an audience of at least 250,000, during the March
on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest
protest in American history. September[edit] Main article: September 1963 ·
September 1 – Establishment
of language areas and facilities in Belgium comes into
effect. This will become the foundation for further state reform in
Belgium. ·
September 5 – British showgirl Christine Keeler is arrested for perjury for her part in the Profumo affair. On December 6 she is sentenced to 9 months
in prison. ·
September 6 – The Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI)
is founded. ·
September 7 – The Pro Football
Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members. ·
September 10 – Sicilian Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is
indicted for murder (he is captured 43 years later, on April 11, 2006). ·
September 15 – American
civil rights movement: The 16th
Street Baptist Church bombing, in Birmingham, Alabama,
kills 4 and injures 22. ·
September 16 – Malaysia is formed through the merging
of the Federation of Malaya and
the British crown colony of Singapore, North Borneo (renamed Sabah) and Sarawak. ·
September 18 – Rioters burn down the
British Embassy in Jakarta, to protest the
formation of Malaysia. ·
September 23 – King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals is
established by a Saudi Royal Decree as the College of Petroleum and Minerals. ·
September 24 – The United States Senate ratifies
the Partial
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. ·
The
Denning Report on the Profumo affair is published in Great
Britain. ·
In
the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch is
deposed by a coup d'état led by the military with civilian support. ·
The
second period of the Second Vatican
Council in Rome opens. ·
The University of East
Anglia is established in Norwich, England. October[edit] Main article: October 1963 ·
October 1 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy toasts Emperor Haile Selassie at a luncheon in Rockville, Maryland. ·
Nigeria becomes a republic; The 1st Republican
Constitution is established. ·
The Presidential Commission on the Status of Women in
the United States issues its final reports to President Kennedy. ·
October 3 – 1963 Honduran
coup d'état: A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13
election, ends a period of reform under President Ramón Villeda
Morales and begins two decades of military rule under
General Oswaldo López
Arellano. ·
October 4 – Hurricane Flora, one of the worst Atlantic
storms in history, hits Hispaniola and Cuba,
killing nearly 7,000 people. ·
October 8 – Sam Cooke and his band are arrested after
trying to register at a "whites only" motel in Louisiana. In the
months following, he records the song "A Change Is Gonna
Come". ·
October 9 – In northeast Italy, over
2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water
to overtop it. ·
The Partial
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, signed on August 5, takes effect.[7] ·
The
second James Bond film, From Russia
with Love, opens in the UK. ·
October 14 – A revolution starts
in Radfan, South Yemen, against British colonial rule. ·
October 16 – The thousandth day of John F. Kennedy's presidency. ·
October 19 – Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom. ·
October 24 – Fire at the Soviet
Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome in
an R-9 Desna underground
missile silo; seven people are killed. ·
October 28 – Demolition of the 1910 Pennsylvania
Station begins in New York City, continuing until 1966. ·
October 30 – The car manufacturing
firm Lamborghini is
founded in Italy. ·
October 31 – 74 die in a gas explosion
during a Holiday on Ice show
at the Indiana State Fair
Coliseum in Indianapolis. November[edit] Main article: November 1963 ·
November 1 – Arecibo Observatory,
a radio telescope,
officially begins operation in Puerto Rico. ·
November 2 – 1963 South
Vietnamese coup: Arrest
and assassination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the South Vietnamese President. ·
November 6 – 1963 South
Vietnamese coup: Coup leader General Dương
Văn Minh takes over as leader of South Vietnam. ·
November 7 – 11 German miners are
rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days in what becomes known as the
"Wunder von Lengede"
("miracle of Lengede"). ·
November 8 – Finnair aircraft OH-LCA crashes before
landing at Mariehamn Airport on
the Åland Islands. ·
November 9 – Two disasters in Japan: ·
Miike coal mine explosion: A coal mine explosion kills 458 and sends
839 carbon monoxide
poisoning victims to hospital. ·
Tsurumi rail
accident: A triple train disaster in Yokohama kills 161. ·
November 10 – Malcolm X makes an historic speech
in Detroit, Michigan ("Message to the
Grass Roots"). ·
November 14 – A volcanic eruption under
the sea near Iceland creates a
new island, Surtsey. ·
November 16 – A newspaper strike begins
in Toledo, Ohio. ·
November 18 – The first push-button
telephone is made available to AT&T customers
in the United States. November 22: President Lyndon B. Johnson being
sworn in, after assassination of John F. Kennedy. ·
Assassination
of John F. Kennedy: In a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, U.S. President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot
by Lee Harvey Oswald,
and Governor of Texas John Connally is seriously wounded.
Upon Kennedy's death, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson becomes
the 36th President of the United States. A few hours later, President Johnson
is sworn
in aboard Air Force One, as Kennedy's body is flown
back to Washington, D.C. Stores and businesses shut down for the next four
days, in tribute. ·
English-born
writer Aldous Huxley,
author of Brave New World,
dies of cancer in the United States. ·
Irish-born
theologian and writer C. S. Lewis,
author of works including The Chronicles
of Narnia, The Screwtape
Lettersand Mere Christianity,
dies of renal failure at
his home in Oxford (England). ·
Phil Spector's A
Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector is released. ·
The Beatles' second UK album, With the Beatles, is released. ·
Moors murders: John Kilbride (12) is
abducted by Ian Brady and
Myra Hindley in England. ·
The first episode of
the BBC television series Doctor Who is broadcast in the
United Kingdom. ·
The Golden Age
Nursing Home fire kills 63 elderly people near Fitchville, Ohio. ·
Lee Harvey Oswald,
assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, an event seen on live national
television. ·
Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B.
Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and
economically. ·
November 25 – State
funeral of John F. Kennedy: President Kennedy is buried at Arlington
National Cemetery. Schools around the nation cancel classes that
day; millions watch the funeral on live international television. ·
U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes
the Warren Commission to
investigate the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. ·
Trans-Canada
Air Lines Flight 831, a Douglas DC-8 crashes into a wooded
hillside after taking-off from Dorval
International Airport near Montreal, killing all 118 on board, the worst air
disaster for many years in Canada's history. ·
Foundation
stone for Mirzapur Cadet
College is laid in East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh). ·
November 30 – Australian
federal election, 1963: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with an increased majority to an unprecedented eighth term in
office, defeating the Labor Party led
by Arthur Calwell.
(This would be the final lower house election won by Menzies, who would
retire from office during the term as the longest-serving Prime
Minister in Australian history; he would be replaced by Harold Holt.) December[edit] Main article: December 1963 ·
December 3 – The Warren Commission begins
its investigation into the assassination
of John F. Kennedy. ·
December 4 – The second period of
the Second Vatican
Council closes. ·
December 5 – The Seliger
Forschungs-und-Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH demonstrates rockets for military
use to military representatives of non-NATO-countries near Cuxhaven. Although these rockets land via
parachute at the end of their flight and no allied laws are violated,
the Soviet Union protests
this action. ·
December 7 – Tony Verna, a CBS-TV director, debuts an
improved version of instant replay during his direction of
a live televised sporting event, the Army–Navy Game of college football played in
Philadelphia. This instance is notable as it was the first instant replay
system to use videotape instead
of film. ·
A
lightning strike causes the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 near Elkton, Maryland, killing 81 people. ·
Frank Sinatra, Jr. is
kidnapped at Harrah's Lake Tahoe. ·
In
the United States, the X-20 Dyna-Soar spaceplane program is cancelled. ·
Chuck Yeager narrowly escapes death
while testing an NF-104A rocket-augmented aerospace trainer when his aircraft
goes out of control at 108,700 feet (nearly 21 miles up) and crashes. He
parachutes to safety at 8,500 feet after vainly battling to gain control of
the powerless, rapidly falling craft. In this incident he becomes the first
pilot to make an emergency ejection in the full pressure suit needed for high
altitude flights. ·
December 12 – Kenya gains independence from the
United Kingdom, with Jomo Kenyatta as prime minister. ·
December 19 – Zanzibar gains independence from the
United Kingdom, as a constitutional monarchy under Sultan Jamshid
bin Abdullah. ·
December 21 – Cyprus Emergency: Inter-communal fighting
erupts between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. ·
December 22 – The cruise ship TSMS Lakonia burns 180
miles (290 km) north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives. ·
Walt Disney releases his 18th
feature-length animated motion picture The Sword
in the Stone, about the boyhood of King Arthur. It is the penultimate animated
film personally supervised by Disney. ·
İsmet
İnönü of the Republican
People's Party (CHP) forms the new government of Turkey (28th government, coalition
partners; independents, İnönü has served 10 ten times as a prime
minister, this is his last government). ·
December 26 – The Beatles' "I Want to Hold
Your Hand" and "I Saw Her
Standing There" are released in the United States, marking
the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level. ·
December 31 – Federation
of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolves. Date unknown[edit] ·
David H. Frisch and J.H. Smith prove
that the radioactive decay of mesons is slowed by their motion
(see Einstein's special relativity and general relativity). ·
The Semi-Automatic
Ground Environment for the defense of the United States is
fully deployed. ·
The TAT-3 transatlantic
communications cable goes into operation. ·
Ivan Sutherland writes the
revolutionary Sketchpad program
and runs it on the Lincoln TX-2 computer
at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. ·
Construction
of Moscow's Ostankino Tower begins. ·
The IEEE Computer
Society is founded. ·
The Urdu keyboard is standardised by the
Central Language Board in Pakistan. ·
Harvey Ball invents the
ubiquitous smiley face symbol. ·
The
iconic Porsche 911 is
first produced. ·
The Reformed
Druids of North America is founded. ·
The
1955 film Oklahoma!,
an adaptation of the famed Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is re-released. ·
Hergé's The Castafiore
Emerald is published. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Linda Henry, English actress ·
David Cone, American baseball player ·
Edgar Martínez,
American baseball player ·
Dave Foley, Canadian actor and comedian ·
Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein) ·
January 5 – Jiang Wen, Chinese actor, film director and
screenwriter ·
January 6 – Tony Halme, Finnish boxer and politician
(d. 2010) ·
January 7 – Rand Paul, U.S Senator from Kentucky ·
January 11 – Teal Marchande, American actress ·
January 14 – Steven Soderbergh,
American film director ·
January 15 – Mathias Döpfner,
journalist and chief executive officer of German media group Axel Springer SE ·
January 16 – James May, English motoring journalist and
television show host ·
January 18 – Ian Crook, English footballer ·
January 17 – Kai Hansen, German power metal guitarist and singer ·
January 19 – Caron Wheeler, British singer-songwriter (Soul II Soul) ·
January 20 – Firebreaker Chip, American professional
wrestler ·
Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player ·
Detlef Schrempf, German basketball player ·
January 23 – Gail O'Grady, American actress ·
January 24 – Arnold Vanderlyde,
Dutch boxer ·
January 25 – Fernando Haddad, Brazilian academic and
politician ·
Chin Siu-ho, Hong Kong actor ·
Jazzie B, British DJ, music producer (Soul II Soul) ·
José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager ·
Andrew Ridgeley, English singer ·
January 29 – Octave
Octavian Teodorescu, Romanian composer, vanguard rock musician,
multi-instrumentist ·
Daphne Ashbrook, American actress ·
Thomas Brezina, Austrian author ·
Shōko Tsuda, Japanese voice actress February[edit] ·
Eva Cassidy, American vocalist (d. 1996) ·
Stephen McGann, English actor ·
February 3 – Gretel Killeen, Australian journalist ·
February 4 – Pirmin Zurbriggen,
Swiss alpine skier ·
Joshua Kadison, American singer-songwriter ·
Gene Steratore, American football official ·
February 10 – Smiley Culture, British reggae singer
(d. 2011) ·
February 11 – Diane Franklin, American actress ·
Brent Jones, American football player ·
John Michael Higgins,
American actor and voice actor ·
Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor ·
John R. Dilworth, American animator and
producer ·
D'wayne Wiggins, American singer-songwriter
and record producer (Tony! Toni! Toné!) ·
February 15 – Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist
(d. 2018) ·
Michael Jordan, American basketball player ·
Larry the Cable Guy,
American actor and comedian ·
February 18 – Rob Andrew, English rugby union player ·
Joey Diaz, Cuban-American comedian, actor,
and podcaster ·
Seal, English singer ·
Jessica Tuck, American actress ·
Charles Barkley, American basketball player ·
Oliver Mark, German photographer ·
February 21 – William Baldwin, American actor ·
Vijay Singh, Fiji golfer ·
Don Wakamatsu, American baseball player ·
February 23 – Bobby Bonilla, American baseball player ·
February 26 – Chase Masterson, American actress and singer ·
February 27 – Virginie Boutaud, Brazilian singer and
actress (Metrô, Virginie
& Fruto Proibido) March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Thomas Anders, German singer ·
Russell Wong, American actor ·
March 2 – Tuff Hedeman, American PRCA World Champion
Bull Rider ·
March 3 – Martín Fiz, Spanish long-distance runner ·
March 4 ·
Jason Newsted, American bassist ·
Daniel Roebuck, American actor ·
March 5 – Joel Osteen, American pastor and
televangelist ·
March 6 ·
Kathy Kelly,
American musician ·
Gary Stevens,
American jockey ·
March 7 – Kim Ung-yong, Korean child prodigy ·
March 8 – Jim Nelson,
American editor-in-chief ·
March 10 – Rick Rubin, American music producer ·
March 11 – Alex Kingston, English actress ·
March 12 ·
Farahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian princess ·
Jake Weber, British actor ·
Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner ·
John Andretti, American race car driver ·
March 13 – Fito Páez, Argentine musician ·
March 14 ·
Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer ·
Mike Rochford, Major League Baseball pitcher ·
Andrew Fleming, American film director ·
Mahiro Maeda, Japanese animators ·
March 15 – Bret Michaels, American rock singer (Poison) ·
March 16 ·
Kevin
Smith, New Zealand actor (d. 2002) ·
Jerome Flynn, English actor and singer ·
March 17 ·
Lise Simms, American actress ·
Alex Fong,
Hong Kong actor ·
March 18 ·
Jeff LaBar, American rock guitarist ·
Ratna Pathak, Indian film actress ·
Vanessa Williams, African-American beauty
queen, actress and singer ·
March 19 – Mary Scheer, American actress and comedian ·
March 20 ·
Paul Annacone, American tennis player and
coach ·
Kathy Ireland, American model and actress ·
David Thewlis, English actor ·
March 21 ·
Shawn Lane, American musician (d. 2003) ·
Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player and
manager ·
March 22 ·
Martín Vizcarra,
Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru ·
Susan Ann Sulley, British musician ·
March 23 – Jose Miguel Gonzalez
Martin del Campo, Spanish football player ·
March 24 – John T. Chisholm, American prosecutor;
District Attorney of Milwaukee
County, Wisconsin (2007–present) ·
March 25 ·
Andrew O'Connor,
English actor, comedian, magician, television presenter and executive
producer ·
Robbie Fulks, American alternative country
singer-songwriter and instrumentalist ·
March 26 – Natsuhiko Kyogoku,
Japanese writer ·
March 27 ·
Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician ·
Dave Koz, American jazz musician ·
Quentin Tarantino,
American actor, director, writer and producer ·
Xuxa,
Brazilian television personality ·
March 28 – Chieko Honda, Japanese voice actress
(d. 2013) April[edit] ·
April 3 ·
Karl Beattie, British director, husband
of Yvette Fielding ·
Criss Oliva, American metal guitarist (Savatage) (d. 1993) ·
April 3 – Sarah Woodward, English actress ·
April 4 ·
Siraj Raisani, Pakistani politician
(d. 2018) ·
Jack Del Rio, American football player and
coach ·
Dale Hawerchuk, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Graham Norton, Irish comedian and talk show
host ·
Frank Yallop, Canadian footballer ·
April 6 ·
Rafael Correa, President of Ecuador ·
Clark Spencer, American film producer,
businessman and studio executive ·
April 8 – Julian Lennon, British musician, son
of John Lennon ·
April 9 – Joe Scarborough, American newscaster ·
April 10 ·
Warren DeMartini, American rock guitarist ·
Doris Leuthard, Swiss politician and lawyer ·
Dean Norris, American actor ·
April 11 – Chris Ferguson, American poker player ·
April 12 ·
Michael
English, American Christian musician ·
Tracy Camilla Johns,
American actress ·
Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
April 13 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player ·
April 15 ·
Beata Szydło, Prime Minister
of Poland ·
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuelan politician ·
April 16 – Jimmy Osmond, American singer ·
April 17 – Joel Murray, American actor ·
April 18 ·
Universo 2000, Mexican professional wrestler
(d. 2018) ·
Eric McCormack, Canadian actor ·
Conan O'Brien, American television
entertainer and talk show host ·
April 19 – Valerie Plame, United States CIA Operations
officer ·
April 21 ·
Ken Caminiti, American baseball player
(d. 2004) ·
Roy Dupuis, Canadian actor ·
April 22 – Sean Lock, English comedian and actor ·
April 24 – Tõnu Trubetsky,
Estonian rock musician (Vennaskond) ·
April 25 – Pascal of Bollywood,
French singer ·
April 26 ·
Jet Li, Chinese martial artist and actor ·
Colin Scotts, Australian-born American
football player ·
April 27 ·
Yammie Lam, Hong Kong actress (d. 2018) ·
Russell T. Davies,
Welsh television producer and writer ·
Cali Timmins, Canadian actress ·
April 29 – Mike Babcock, Canadian ice hockey coach ·
April 30 – Michael Waltrip, American race car driver May[edit] ·
May 1 – Benjamin LaGuer, American prisoner
proclaiming innocence for more than two decades ·
May 2 – Ray Traylor, American professional wrestler
("Big Boss Man") (d. 2004) ·
May 5 – James LaBrie, Canadian vocalist (Dream Theater) ·
May 8 – Anthony Field, Australian musician, actor,
songwriter and producer (The Wiggles) ·
May 9 – Gary Daniels, British martial artist and
actor ·
May 10 ·
A. Raja, Indian politician ·
Rich Moore, American film and television
animation director, screenwriter and voice actor ·
May 11 – Natasha Richardson,
British-American actress (d. 2009) ·
May 12 – Jerry Trimble, American actor and martial
artist ·
May 16 ·
Jon Coffelt, American artist ·
Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and
politician ·
May 21 – Kevin Shields, Irish-American singer (My Bloody
Valentine) ·
May 23 – Wally Dallenbach Jr.,
American race car driver and announcer ·
May 24 ·
Ken Flach, American tennis player (d. 2018) ·
Michael Chabon, American author ·
Joe Dumars, American basketball player ·
Rich Rodriguez, American football coach ·
May 25 ·
Mike Myers, Canadian actor and comedian ·
Eha Rünne, Estonian shot putter and discus
thrower ·
May 26 ·
Clive Cowdery, English insurance
entrepreneur ·
Musetta Vander, South African actress ·
May 29 ·
Lisa Whelchel, American actress, singer and
writer ·
Tracey E. Bregman,
American actress and designer ·
May 29 – Débora Bloch, Brazilian actress ·
May 31 ·
Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister
of Hungary ·
Wesley Willis, American outsider musician
(d. 2003) June[edit] ·
June 1 – David Westhead, English actor and producer ·
June 2 – Bernard Cazeneuve, Prime Minister
of France ·
June 4 – Sean Fitzpatrick, New Zealand rugby union
player ·
June 5 – Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer ·
June 6 ·
Jason Isaacs, British actor ·
Anthony Starke, American actor ·
Eric Cantor, American politician, lawyer,
and banker ·
June 9 – Johnny Depp, American actor and film
director ·
June 11 – Cal Worsham, American mixed martial artist
(d. 2018) ·
June 12 ·
Warwick Capper, Australian rules footballer ·
Tim DeKay, American character actor ·
Jerry Lynn, American professional wrestler ·
June 13 ·
Bettina Bunge, German tennis player ·
Greg Daniels, American television comedy
writer, producer, and director ·
June 14 – Rambo Amadeus, Montenegrin singer-songwriter ·
June 15 – Helen Hunt, American actress ·
June 16 – The Sandman,
American professional wrestler ·
June 17 – Greg Kinnear, American actor ·
June 18 ·
Juan Chioran, Argentine-Canadian actor ·
Rumen Radev, President of
Bulgaria ·
Bruce Smith,
American football player ·
June 20 – Amir Derakh, American musician ·
June 21 ·
Cherie Gil, Filipino actress ·
Tiger Huang, Taiwanese popular singer ·
Ignasius Jonan, Indonesian Minister ·
Rene Medvešek, Croatian actor ·
Jan Pinkava, Czech director and writer ·
Rene Medvešek, Croatian actor ·
June 22 ·
Randy Couture, American mixed martial arts fighter
and actor ·
Hokutoumi Nobuyoshi,
Japanese sumo wrestler ·
John Tenta, Canadian wrestler (d. 2006) ·
June 23 ·
Marianne Berglund,
Swedish road racing cyclinst ·
Laureen Harper, wife of Prime Minister of
Canada Stephen Harper ·
Shin Ji-ho, South Korean politician ·
Liu Cixin, Chinese science fiction writer ·
Márcio França,
Brazilian lawyer and politician ·
Colin Montgomerie,
Scottish golfer ·
June 24 ·
Preki, Serbia-born American footballer ·
Sükhbaataryn Batbold,
Mongolian politician ·
Mike Wieringo, American comic-book artist
(d. 2007) ·
Jascha Richter, Danish single and
songwriter, frontman of Michael Learns to
Rock ·
June 25 ·
Doug Gilmour, Canadian hockey player ·
Yann Martel, Canadian author ·
George Michael, British pop musician, lead
singer of Wham! (d. 2016) ·
John Benjamin Hickey,
American actor ·
June 26 ·
Mikhail Khodorkovsky,
Russian businessman, activist and oligarch ·
Farukh Ruzimatov, Russian ballet dancer ·
June 27 ·
Gerrit Plomp, Dutch football defender ·
Miroslav Šindelka,
Slovak director, writer and producer ·
June 28 – Wisit Sasanatieng,
Thai film director and screenwriter ·
June 29 ·
Anne-Sophie Mutter,
German violinist ·
Thomas W.
Gabrielsson, Swedish actor ·
Tom Butcher, English actor ·
Cathy Konrad, American film and television
producer ·
June 30 ·
Mark Bourneville, New Zealand rugby league player ·
Rupert Graves, English actor ·
Jaddy Simai Jaddy,
Tanzanian CCM politician ·
Yngwie Malmsteen, Swedish guitarist,
composer and bandleader ·
Paul Newallo, Trinidad and Tobago swimmer ·
Vladimir
Vermezović, Serbian football player and coach July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Rick Hunolt, American heavy metal guitarist ·
Mike Joyce,
English drummer ·
Kenneth Erskine, British serial killer ·
Naser Khader, Danish-Syrian politician ·
Igor Zhelezovski, Belarusian speed skater ·
Zhang Zhicheng, Chinese fencer ·
July 2 – Faiq Al Sheikh Ali,
Iraqi lawyer and politician ·
July 3 – Zainudin Nordin, Singaporean politician ·
July 4 – R.S. Thanenthiran,
Malaysian politician and businessman ·
July 5 ·
Edie Falco, American actress ·
Zbigniew Hoffmann,
Polish politician ·
Dorien Wilson, American actor ·
July 6 – Miguel
Garikoitz Aspiazu Rubina, Basque separatist ·
July 7 ·
Othman Abdul, Malaysian politician ·
Vonda Shepard, American pop/rock singer,
songwriter and actress ·
Doug Dunakey, American golfer ·
Fermín Alvarado
Arroyo, Mexican politician ·
Janni Larsen, Danish female darts player ·
José María Larrañaga,
Peruvian swimmer ·
Rakeysh Omprakash
Mehra, Indian filmmaker and screenwriter ·
July 8 ·
Luis de Jesús
Rodríguez, Dominican attorney, businessman and entrepreneur ·
Dmitry Pevtsov, Russian actor ·
July 9 ·
Adrian Flook, British politician ·
Marc Mero, American amateur boxer and
professional wrestler ·
John Mark Ainsley,
English lyric tenor ·
July 10 ·
Fatemeh Goudarzi, Iranian actress ·
Ian Lougher, British motorcycle racer ·
John Altschuler, American television and
film producer and writer ·
July 11 – Lisa Rinna, American actress ·
July 12 ·
Bertus Servaas, Polish entrepreneur ·
Thierry Tulasne, French tennis player ·
Aleksandr Domogarov,
Russian actor ·
Andrés Roemer, Mexican diplomat ·
July 13 ·
Kenny Johnson, American actor, producer, and
model ·
Spud Webb, American basketball player ·
July 14 ·
Paulo Macedo, Portuguese business manager
and politician ·
Wouter Bos, Dutch politician ·
July 15 ·
Brigitte Nielsen, Danish actress ·
Joy Smithers, Australian actress ·
July 16 ·
Phoebe Cates, American actress ·
Mikael Pernfors, Swedish tennis player ·
July 17 ·
Suha Arafat, widow of Yasser Arafat ·
King Letsie III of
Lesotho ·
Regina Belle, American singer–songwriter and
actress ·
Matti Nykänen, Finnish ski jumper ·
July 18 ·
Sandy Fox, American voice actress ·
Martín Torrijos, President of Panama ·
Al Snow, American professional wrestler ·
July 20 – Gbenga Aluko, Nigerian politician ·
July 21 – Giant Silva, Brazilian national basketball
player, mixed martial artist and professional wrestler ·
July 22 ·
Rob Estes, American actor ·
Emilio Butragueño,
Spanish football player ·
July 24 ·
Julie Krone, American jockey ·
Karl Malone, American basketball player ·
July 27 – Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor and martial
artist ·
July 28 – Beverley Craven, British singer-songwriter ·
July 29 ·
Jim Beglin, Irish football commentator ·
Graham Poll, English football referee ·
July 30 ·
Lisa Kudrow, American actress ·
Chris Mullin,
American basketball player and executive ·
Mandakini (aka
Yasmeen Joseph), Indian Bollywood actress August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Coolio, African-American rapper ·
Demián Bichir, Mexican actor ·
August 2 – Laura Bennett, American fashion designer ·
August 3 ·
Tasmin Archer, English singer ·
James Hetfield, American musician ·
Lisa Ann Walter, American actress and
producer ·
August 5 ·
Mark Strong, English actor ·
Doris Schröder-Köpf,
German journalist ·
August 6 – Kevin Mitnick, American computer hacker ·
August 7 ·
Ramon Estevez, American actor ·
Hiroaki Hirata, Japanese voice actor ·
Harold Perrineau, American actor ·
Wendy van der Plank,
Welsh actress ·
August 8 ·
Rica Fukami, Japanese voice actress ·
Emi Shinohara, Japanese voice actress ·
Stephen Walkom, Canadian ice hockey official
and executive ·
August 9 – Whitney Houston, African-American singer
(d. 2012) ·
August 10 – Andrew Sullivan, British-born American
blogger and political commentator ·
Sridevi, Indian actress (d. 2018) ·
Steve Higgins, American writer, producer,
announcer, actor and comedian ·
Édouard
Michelin, French businessman (d. 2006) ·
August 14 – Emmanuelle Béart,
French actress ·
Alejandro
González Iñárritu, Mexican film director, producer and
screenwriter ·
Valery Levaneuski,
entrepreneur, politician and political prisoner ·
August 16 – Christine Cavanaugh,
American voice actress (d. 2014) ·
August 17 – James Whitbourn, British composer ·
August 18 – Heino Ferch, German actor ·
John Stamos, American actor ·
Joey Tempest, Swedish singer-songwriter (Europe) ·
Richmond Arquette,
American actor ·
King Mohammed VI of
Morocco ·
August 22 – Tori Amos, American singer ·
Glória Pires, Brazilian actress ·
Hans-Henning
Fastrich, German field hockey player ·
Park Chan-wook, South Korean film director
and screenwriter ·
Kenny Wallace, American race car driver ·
August 24 – Hideo Kojima, Japanese director,
screenwriter, video game designer and video game producer ·
August 25 – Miro Cerar, 10th Prime Minister
of Slovenia ·
Liu Huan, Chinese singer ·
Michael Tao, Hong Kong actor ·
Michael Chiklis, American actor ·
Phil Mills, British race car driver ·
Todd Carty, Irish actor ·
Egyptian Lover, African-American rapper, DJ
and producer September[edit] ·
September 1 – Carola Smit, Dutch musician ·
September 6 – Geert Wilders, Dutch politician ·
Eazy-E, African-American rapper (d. 1995) ·
Karen Dianne Baldwin, Miss Universe 1982 ·
September 8 – Li Ning, Chinese gymnast ·
September 9 – Markus Wasmeier, German alpine-skier ·
September 10 – Randy Johnson, American baseball player ·
September 11 – Joey Dedio, American actor ·
Norberto Barba, American cinematographer and
film director ·
Michael McElhatton,
Irish actor and writer ·
September 14 – Robert Herjavec, Canadian businessman,
investor and television personality ·
September 15 – Stephen C. Spiteri,
Maltese military historian ·
Leslie Wing, American actress ·
Andréa Beltrão,
Brazilian actress ·
Richard Marx, American pop/rock singer ·
James Urbaniak, American actor and voice
actor ·
Masahiro Chono, Japanese professional wrestler ·
Christopher
Heyerdahl, Canadian actor ·
Dan Povenmire, American animator, producer
and voice actor ·
Jarvis Cocker, English rock musician (Pulp) ·
David Seaman, English football goalkeeper ·
Cecil Fielder, American baseball player ·
Angus Macfadyen, Scottish actor ·
Mamoru Samuragochi,
Japanese impostor ·
September 25 – Tate Donovan, American actor and director ·
September 26 – Joe Nemechek, American race car driver ·
Steve Blackman, American professional
wrestler ·
Elliot Levine, Keyboardist (Heatwave) ·
Dave Andreychuk, Canadian hockey player ·
Les Claypool, American bassist (Primus) October[edit] ·
Mark McGwire, American baseball player ·
Iriana Joko Widodo,
7th First Lady of Indonesia,
wife of Joko Widodo ·
Dame Laura Davies, English golfer ·
Ronni Le Tekrø,
Norwegian guitarist (TNT) ·
October 6 – Elisabeth Shue, American actress ·
Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003) ·
Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002) ·
Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer ·
Mabi de Almeida, Angolan football coach
(d. 2010) ·
Lane Frost, American bull rider (d. 1989) ·
Satoshi Kon, Japanese anime director
(d. 2010) ·
Dave Legeno, English actor and mixed martial
artist (d. 2014) ·
Alan
McDonald, Northern Irish footballer ·
Lori Petty, American actress, director and
screenwriter ·
October 19 – Sinitta, Anglo-American singer ·
Domingos Simões
Pereira, 16th Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau ·
John Storgårds,
Finnish conductor and violinist ·
October 22 – Brian Boitano, American figure skater ·
Thomas Di Leva, Swedish singer ·
Wilson Yip, Hong Kong actor and director ·
October 25 – John Levén, Swedish bassist (Europe) ·
Ted Demme, American director and producer
(d. 2002) ·
Tom Cavanagh, Canadian actor and director ·
Natalie Merchant, American singer,
songwriter and musician ·
Johnny Adair, Northern Irish/Ulster loyalist ·
Feyyaz Uçar, Turkish footballer ·
Farin Urlaub, German singer, band Die Ärzte ·
Marla Maples, American actress and
television personality ·
October 28 – Lauren Holly, American actress ·
Johnny Marr, English musician ·
Fred McGriff, American baseball player ·
Dermot Mulroney, American actor ·
Rob Schneider, American actor, comedian and
film director ·
Sarah Jane Brown, wife of British Prime
Minister Gordon Brown November[edit] ·
Rick Allen,
British rock musician (Def Leppard) ·
Mark Hughes, Welsh football player &
manager ·
Katja Riemann, German actress ·
Valdemiro Santiago,
Brazilian evangelical pastor ·
Bobby Dall, American rock bassist (Poison) ·
Craig Saavedra, American filmmaker ·
November 4 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish entertainer
(d. 1999) ·
Tatum O'Neal, American actress ·
Gabby Concepcion, Filipino actor ·
November 6 – Rozz Williams, American singer (d. 1998) ·
November 7 – John Barnes,
Jamaican-born English footballer ·
November 8 – Paul
Butcher, American football linebacker ·
Hugh Bonneville, British actor ·
Tommy Davidson, American actor ·
November 11 – Billy Gunn, American professional wrestler ·
November 13 – Vinny Testaverde, American football player ·
November 15 – Benny Elias, Australian rugby player ·
Len Bias, American basketball player
(d. 1986) ·
Dante Bichette, American baseball player ·
Jon Potter, British field hockey player ·
Terry Farrell,
American actress ·
Peter Schmeichel, Danish football player ·
November 20 – Ming-Na Wen, Macanese-American actress ·
November 21 – Nicollette Sheridan,
English actress ·
November 22 – Winsor Harmon, American actor ·
Troy Hurtubise, Canadian inventor ·
Yoshino Takamori, Japanese voice actress ·
Holly Cole, Canadian jazz singer ·
Bernie Kosar, American football player ·
Kevin Chamberlin, American actor ·
November 28 – Matt Parkinson, Australian comedian, actor,
radio presenter, and game show personality December[edit] ·
December 2 – Ann Patchett, American novelist ·
December 3 – Terri Schiavo, American right-to-die cause
célèbre (d. 2005) ·
December 4 – Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter ·
Mark Bowen,
Welsh footballer ·
Paul Dobson,
British voice actor ·
Greg Howe, American guitarist ·
Toshiaki Kawada, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
December 9 – Bárbara Palacios, Miss Universe 1986 ·
Juan Carlos Varela,
Panamian politician and 37th President of Panama ·
Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress ·
Uwe-Jens Mey, German speed skater ·
Jake White, South African rugby coach ·
Cynthia Gibb, American actress ·
Vytautas Juozapaitis,
Lithuanian baritone, professor and television host ·
December 15 – Helen Slater, American actress ·
Benjamin Bratt, American actor ·
Jeff Carson, American singer ·
Bärbel Schäfer,
German television presenter and talk show host ·
Pauline Ester, French singer ·
Rikiya Koyama, Japanese voice actor ·
Charles Oakley, American basketball player ·
Brad Pitt, American actor and film producer,
co-founder of Plan B Entertainment ·
Jennifer Beals, American actress ·
Til Schweiger, German actor ·
December 20 – Joel Gretsch, American actor ·
Govinda Ahuja, Indian actor and politician ·
Jacques Simonet, Belgian politician
(d. 2007) ·
Vladimir Flórez, Colombian cartoonist ·
Bryan Gunn, Scottish footballer ·
Russell Lewis, British child actor and
television writer ·
Luna H. Mitani, Japanese-American Surrealist
painter ·
Donna Tartt, American author ·
Jess Harnell, American voice actor and
musician ·
Jim Harbaugh, American football player and
coach ·
Sanjay Mehrotra, Indian entrepreneur ·
Caroline Aherne, English actress, comedienne
and writer (d. 2016) ·
December 26 – Lars Ulrich, Danish rock drummer (Metallica) ·
Graciano Rocchigiani,
German professional boxer (d. 2018) ·
Francisco Bustamante,
Filipino billiard player ·
Sean Payton, American football coach ·
December 30 – Kim Hill,
American Christian singer Date unknown[edit] ·
Wei Brian, Chinese entrepreneur ·
Gregory Henriquez,
Canadian architect Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
Filippo Del Giudice,
Italian film producer (b. 1892) ·
Robert S. Kerr, American businessman and
politician (b. 1896) ·
Jack Carson, Canadian actor (b. 1910) ·
Al Mamaux, baseball player and manager
(b. 1894) ·
Dick Powell, American actor (b. 1904) ·
Rogers Hornsby, American baseball player, (St. Louis Cardinals)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1896) ·
Erik Strandmark, Swedish film actor
(b. 1919) ·
Frank Tuttle, American film director
(b. 1892) ·
Stark Young, American teacher, playwright,
novelist, painter, literary critic and essayist (b. 1881) ·
January 7 – Erik Lundqvist, Swedish athlete (b. 1908) ·
Boris Morros, American movie producer and
FBI double agent (b. 1891) ·
Jack Okey, American art director (b. 1889) ·
Kay Sage, American poet (b. 1898) ·
January 9 – Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-born American
aerospace engineer and aviation pioneer (b. 1888) ·
January 10 – Franz Planer, European film cinematographer
(b. 1894) ·
January 11 – Arthur Nock, English classicist, theologian
and Harvard University professor
(b. 1902) ·
Sonny Clark, American jazz pianist (b. 1931) ·
Sylvanus Olympio, Togolese politician,
1st President of Togo (assassinated)
(b. 1902) ·
Ramón Gómez de la
Serna, Spanish writer (b. 1888) ·
January 14 – Gustav Regler, German Socialist novelist
(b. 1898) ·
January 15 – Cesare Fantoni, Italian actor (b. 1905) ·
Gilardo Gilardi, Argentine composer, pianist
and conductor (b. 1889) ·
Mario
Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Poggio Suasa (b. 1867) ·
Hugh Gaitskell, British politician, leader
of the Labour Party (b. 1906) ·
Edward Charles
Titchmarsh, British mathematician (b. 1899) ·
January 20 – Fyodor Terentyev, Soviet Olympic
cross-country skier (b. 1925) ·
January 21 – Al St. John, American actor (b. 1893) ·
Mohammad Ali Bogra,
Pakistani statesman, politician and diplomat, 3rd Prime Minister
of Pakistan (b. 1909) ·
Józef
Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908) ·
Otto Harbach, American lyricist and
librettist (b. 1873) ·
Kenneth Western, part of The Western
Brothers (b. 1899) ·
January 25 – Marion Sunshine, American actress (b. 1894) ·
January 26 – Ole Olsen,
American actor (b. 1892) ·
Jean Piccard, Swiss-born chemist and
engineer (b. 1884) ·
Evelyn Francisco, silent film actress
(b. 1904) ·
January 28 – John Farrow, American film director
(b. 1904) ·
Anthony Coldeway, American screenwriter
(b. 1887) ·
Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874) ·
Lee Meadows, baseball player (b. 1894) ·
Jane Gail, American silent movie and stage
actress (b. 1890) ·
Cecil McGivern, British broadcasting
executive and writer (b. 1907) ·
Francis Poulenc, French composer (b. 1899) ·
Alasgar Alakbarov,
Azerbaijani actor (b. 1910) ·
Ossie Vitt, baseball player and manager
(b. 1890) February[edit] ·
Louis D. Lighton, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1895) ·
Wyndham Standing, English actor (b. 1880) ·
February 2 – William Gaxton, American vaudeville, film
and theatre performer (b. 1893) ·
Abd el-Krim, Riffian political and military
leader (b. 1882/83) ·
Piero Manzoni, Italian artist (b. 1933) ·
George Dolenz, American actor (b. 1908) ·
Ernst Glaeser, German writer (b. 1902) ·
February 9 – Abd al-Karim Qasim,
Iraqi general, 24th Prime Minister of
Iraq (executed) (b. 1914) ·
February 11 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and novelist
(b. 1932) ·
Edgardo Donato, Uruguayan tango composer and
orchestra leader (b. 1897) ·
Louis J. Gasnier, French film director
(b. 1875) ·
Bump Hadley, Major League Baseball pitcher
(b. 1904) ·
Else Jarlbak, Danish film actress (b. 1911) ·
László Lajtha,
Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and conductor (b. 1892) ·
Monte Blue, American actor (b. 1887) ·
Beppe Fenoglio, Italian writer (b. 1887) ·
Fernando Tambroni,
Italian politician and 36th Prime Minister of
Italy (b. 1901) ·
Tokugawa Iemasa, Japanese politician, 17th
head of the Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1884) ·
Zareh I, Armenian Catholicos of Cilicia
(b. 1915) ·
February 19 – Benny Moré, Cuban singer (b. 1919) ·
Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor
(b. 1914) ·
Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer
(b. 1879) ·
Bill Hinchman, American baseball player
(b. 1883) ·
February 22 – Arthur Guy Empey, British soldier, author,
screenwriter and actor (b. 1883) ·
February 24 – Herbert Asbury, American journalist and
writer (b. 1889) ·
February 25 – Melville J.
Herskovits, American anthropologist (b. 1895) ·
Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician,
1st President of India (b. 1884) ·
Eppa Rixey, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player
(b. 1893) ·
March 4 – William Carlos
Williams, American writer (b. 1883) ·
March 5 ·
Patsy Cline, American singer plane crash (b. 1932) ·
Cowboy Copas, American country music
singer plane crash (b. 1913) ·
Ludde Gentzel, Swedish film actor (b. 1885) ·
Hawkshaw Hawkins, American country music
singer plane crash (b. 1921) ·
Cyril Smith,
Scottish actor heart attack (b. 1892) ·
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed,
Egyptian intellectual and anti-colonial activist (b. 1872) ·
March 6 – Robert E. Cornish,
scientist (b. 1903) ·
March 7 – Joachim Holst-Jensen,
Norwegian film actor (b. 1880) ·
March 11 ·
Ignat Bednarik, Romanian painter (b. 1882) ·
Joe Judge, American baseball player
(b. 1894) ·
March 16 ·
Archduchess
Elisabeth Marie of Austria (b. 1883) ·
William Beveridge,
British economist (b. 1879) ·
March 17 ·
Thomas
Lennon, screenwriter (b. 1896) ·
Lizzie Miles, African-American blues singer
(b. 1895) ·
March 18 ·
Hubert Gough, British general (b. 1870) ·
Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895) ·
March 20 – Manuel
Arteaga y Betancourt, Cuban cardinal (b. 1879) ·
March 21 – Felice Minotti, Italian film actor (b. 1887) ·
March 22 ·
Cilly Aussem, German tennis champion
(b. 1909) ·
Abraham Ellstein, American composer
(b. 1907) ·
Mihály Székely,
Hungarian bass singer (b. 1901) ·
March 23 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician
(b. 1887) ·
March 25 – Felix Adler,
American screenwriter (b. 1884) ·
March 26 – Jean Bruce, French writer (b. 1921) ·
March 27 – Harry Piel, German actor, film director,
screenwriter and film producer (b. 1892) ·
March 28 ·
Antoine Balpêtré,
French film actor (b. 1898) ·
Frank J. Marion, American motion picture pioneer
(b. 1869) ·
Alec Templeton, Welsh composer, pianist and
satirist ·
March 29 ·
Pola
Gojawiczyńska, Polish writer (b. 1896) ·
Wilcy Moore, American baseball player
(b. 1897) ·
Henry Bordeaux, French writer and lawyer
(b. 1870) ·
March 31 – Harry Akst, American songwriter (b. 1894) April[edit] Saint Gaetano Catanoso ·
April 1 – Agnes Mowinckel, Norwegian actress and stage
producer (b. 1875) ·
April 3 – Alma Richards, American Olympic gold
medalist (b. 1890) ·
April 4 ·
Gaetano Catanoso, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint
(b. 1879) ·
Jason Robards Sr.,
American stage and screen actor, heart attack (b. 1892) ·
Oskari Tokoi, leader of the Social
Democratic Party of Finland (b. 1873) ·
April 6 ·
Mario Fabrizi, comedian and actor, stress-related illness (b. 1924) ·
Otto Struve, Russian–American astronomer
(b. 1897) ·
April 7 – Amedeo Maiuri, Neapolitan archaeologist
(b. 1886) ·
April 9 ·
Eddie Edwards,
American jazz trombonist (b. 1891) ·
Benno Moiseiwitsch,
Jewish-Ukrainian pianist (b. 1890) ·
Xul Solar, Argentine painter, sculptor,
writer (b. 1887) ·
April 11 – Nando Bruno, Italian film actor (b. 1895) ·
April 12 ·
Felix Manalo, 1st Executive Minister,
Iglesia ni Cristo (b. 1886) ·
Herbie Nichols, American jazz pianist and
composer (b. 1919) ·
April 14 ·
Abdel Messih
El-Makari, Egyptian Coptic Orthodox monk, priest and saint
(b. 1892) ·
Arthur Jonath, German Olympic athlete
(b. 1909) ·
Kodō Nomura, Japanese novelist and
music critic (b. 1882) ·
Mahapandit Rahul Sankrityayan,
Indian historian, writer and scholar (b. 1893) ·
April 23 ·
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israel historian and
politician, 2nd President of Israel (b. 1884) ·
Ferruccio Cerio, Italian film writer and
director (b. 1904) ·
Paul Fejos, Hungarian film director
(b. 1897) ·
Harry Harper, American baseball player
(b. 1895) ·
Don C. Harvey, American television and film
actor, cardiac arrest (b. 1911) ·
Frederick Peters,
American film actor (b. 1884) ·
April 24 ·
Rino Corso Fougier,
Italian air force general (b. 1894) ·
Leonid Lukov, Soviet film director and
screenwriter (b. 1909) ·
April 25 – Christopher Hassall,
English actor, dramatist, librettist, lyricist and poet (b. 1912) ·
April 26 – Roland Pertwee, English playwright,
screenwriter, director and actor (b. 1885) ·
April 27 – Kenneth Macgowan, American film producer
(b. 1888) ·
April 30 ·
Giovanni Grasso, Italian film actor
(b. 1888) ·
William C. Mellor,
American cinematographer, heart attack (b. 1903) ·
Bryant Washburn, American film actor, heart attack (b. 1889) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer, Father
of Philippine National
Language and Grammar (b. 1879) ·
May 2 – Van Wyck Brooks, American literary critic
and writer (b. 1886) ·
May 5 – Mohamed Khemisti, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Algeria (assassinated) (b. 1930) ·
May 6 – Monty Woolley, American actor (b. 1888) ·
May 7 ·
Theodore von Kármán,
Hungarian-American engineer and physicist (b. 1881) ·
Max Miller,
British music hall comedian (b. 1894) ·
May 11 – Herbert Spencer
Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1888) ·
May 12 ·
Robert Kerr,
Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1882) ·
A. W. Tozer, American Protestant pastor
(b. 1897) ·
May 16 – Oleg Penkovsky, Soviet military officer
& spy (b. 1919) ·
May 18 – Ernie Davis, American football player, first
African-American to win the Heisman Trophy (b. 1939) ·
May 24 – Elmore James, American blues guitarist
(b. 1918) ·
May 25 – Mehdi Frashëri,
Albanian politician, 15th Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1872) ·
May 29 – Netta Muskett, British novelist (b. 1887) ·
May 31 – Edith Hamilton, German-born author (b. 1867) June[edit] ·
June 3 ·
Pope John XXIII (b. 1881) ·
Nâzım Hikmet,
Turkish poet (b. 1902) ·
June 6 – William Baziotes, American painter (b. 1912) ·
June 7 – ZaSu Pitts, American actress (b. 1894) ·
June 9 ·
Antony
Thachuparambil, Indian Syro-Malabar
Catholic priest and servant of God (b. 1894) ·
Jacques Villon, French painter (b. 1875) ·
June 10 – Anita King, American actress and race-car
driver (b. 1884) ·
June 11 ·
Thích
Quảng Đức, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (suicide)
(b. 1897) ·
Syed Abdul Rahim, First Indian national
football manager (b. 1909) ·
Alfred V. Kidder, American archaeologist
(b. 1885) ·
June 12 ·
Medgar Evers, African-American civil rights
activist (b. 1925) ·
Andrew Cunningham, British admiral (b. 1883) ·
June 17 ·
Alan
Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, British Field Marshal (b. 1883) ·
Robert James Hudson, Governor of
Southern Rhodesia (b. 1885) ·
John Cowper Powys,
novelist (b. 1872) ·
June 18 – Pedro Armendáriz,
Mexican actor (b. 1912) ·
June 24 – Maria
Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and
saint (b. 1878) ·
June 27 – John Maurice Clark,
American economist (b. 1884) ·
June 28 – Frank Baker, American baseball player (Philadelphia
Athletics) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Sultan Abdullah
bin Khalifa of Zanzibar (b. 1910) ·
July 6 – George, Duke
of Mecklenburg, head of the House of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899) ·
July 10 – Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster
and rugby union player (b. 1893) ·
July 18 – Jack Solomon, American restaurateur
(b. 1896) August[edit] ·
August 4 – Tom Keene,
American actor (b. 1896) ·
August 10 – Estes Kefauver, American politician
(b. 1903) ·
August 11 – Clem Bevans, American actor (b. 1879) ·
August 17 – Richard Barthelmess,
American actor (b. 1895) ·
August 20 – Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (b. 1879) ·
August 22 – William
Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, British businessman and a
philanthropist (b. 1877) ·
August 23 – Larry Keating, American actor (b. 1896) ·
August 24 – James Kirkwood, Sr.,
American film director (b. 1875) ·
W. E. B. Du Bois, American civil rights
activist (b. 1868) ·
Inayatullah
Khan Mashriqi, Indian founder of the Khaksar Movement (b. 1888) ·
August 30 – Guy Burgess, British spy, one of the Cambridge Five (b. 1911) ·
August 31 – Georges Braque, French painter (b. 1882) September[edit] ·
September 4 – Robert Schuman, French statesman, a founding
father of the European Union (b. 1886) ·
September 9 – Edwin Linkomies, 25th Prime Minister
of Finland (b. 1894) ·
September 11 – Suzanne Duchamp, French painter (b. 1889) ·
September 13 – Eduardo Barrios, Chilean writer and poet
(b. 1884) ·
September 12 – Modest Altschuler,
Belarus-born American composer (b. 1873) ·
September 14 – Feng Zhanhai, Chinese military leader and
government official (b. 1899) ·
September 17 – Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and
psychologist (b. 1882) ·
September 19 – David Low,
New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1891) ·
Alexander Sakharoff,
Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1886) ·
Kurt Zeitzler, German Army officer (b. 1895) October[edit] ·
Lloyd Fredendall, American general (b. 1883) ·
Kate Gordon Moore,
American psychologist (b. 1878) ·
October 7 – Gustaf Gründgens,
German actor (b. 1899) ·
October 9 – Friedrich,
Hereditary Prince of Anhalt (b. 1938) ·
October 10 – Édith Piaf, French singer and actress
(b. 1915) ·
October 11 – Jean Cocteau, French writer (b. 1889) ·
October 15 – Alan Goodrich Kirk,
American admiral (b. 1888) ·
October 20 – Diana Churchill, daughter of Winston
Churchill (b. 1909) ·
October 21 – Jean Decoux, French admiral, Governor-General
of French Indochina (1940-1945) (b. 1884) ·
Karl Bühler, German psychologist and
linguist (b. 1879) ·
Beverly Wills, American actress (b. 1933) ·
Roger Désormière,
French conductor (b. 1898) ·
Björn Þórðarson,
9th Prime Minister
of Iceland (b. 1879) ·
Karl von Terzaghi,
Austrian civil engineer and "father of soil mechanics" (b. 1883) ·
October 29 – Adolphe Menjou, American actor (b. 1890) ·
October 31 – Henry Daniell, English actor (b. 1894) November[edit] ·
Elsa Maxwell, American gossip columnist and
hostess (b. 1883) ·
Lê Quang Tung, South Vietnamese military
leader (assassinated) (b. 1923) ·
Ngô Đình
Diệm, Vietnamese politician, 1st President of
South Vietnam (assassinated) (b. 1901) ·
Ngô Đình Nhu,
South Vietnamese military leader (assassinated) (b. 1910) ·
November 4 – Carlos
Magalhães de Azeredo, Brazilian poet and writer (b. 1872) ·
November 5 – Luis Cernuda, Spanish poet (b. 1902) ·
José María Gatica,
Argentine boxer (b. 1925) ·
John R. Hodge, United States Army general
(b. 1893) ·
November 15 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor (b. 1888) ·
November 16 – Albert H. Pearson,
American politician (b. 1920) ·
November 19 – Carmen Amaya, Spanish dancer (b. 1918) ·
November 21 – Robert Stroud, American prisoner, known as
the "Birdman of Alcatraz"
(b. 1890) ·
Wilhelm Beiglböck,
German Nazi physician at Dachau
concentration camp (b. 1905) ·
Aldous Huxley, British writer (Brave New World) (b. 1894) ·
John F. Kennedy, American politician,
35th President
of the United States (assassinated) (b. 1917) ·
C. S. Lewis, Irish-born British critic,
novelist (The Chronicles
of Narnia) and Christian apologist (b. 1898) ·
November 24 – Lee Harvey Oswald,
American assassin of President John F. Kennedy (assassinated) (b. 1939)[8] ·
November 26 – Amelita Galli-Curci,
Italian opera singer (b. 1882) ·
November 28 – Ernesto Lecuona, Cuban composer (b. 1896) ·
Phil Baker,
American comedian and radio personality (b. 1896) ·
Cyril
Newall, 1st Baron Newall, British Air Marshal and State servant,
6th Governor-General
of New Zealand (b. 1886) December[edit] ·
December
– Andy
Kennedy, Northern Ireland footballer (b. 1897) ·
Sabu Dastagir, Indian-American actor
(b. 1924) ·
Thomas Hicks,
American runner (b. 1875) ·
December 5 – Karl Amadeus
Hartmann, German composer (b. 1905) ·
December 10 – K. M. Panikkar, Indian scholar, diplomat and
journalist (b. 1895) ·
Theodor Heuss, German politician, 5th President of Germany (b. 1884) ·
Yasujirō Ozu, Japanese filmmaker
(b. 1903) ·
Hubert Pierlot, Belgian lawyer and jurist,
32nd Prime Minister
of Belgium, leader of the World War II (b. 1883) ·
Dinah Washington, African-American
jazz/blues singer (b. 1924) ·
December 15 – Rikidōzan, Korean-born Japanese
professional wrestler (b. 1924) ·
December 21 – Jack Hobbs, English cricketer (b. 1882) ·
December 25 – Tristan Tzara, French poet (b. 1896) ·
December 26 – Gorgeous George, American professional
wrestler (b. 1915) ·
Paul Hindemith, German composer (b. 1895) ·
A. J. Liebling, American journalist
(b. 1904) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Eugene Wigner, Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen ·
Chemistry – Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Sir John Carew
Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley ·
Literature – Giorgos Seferis ·
Peace – International
Committee of the Red Cross, League of Red Cross Societies References |
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