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1965 (MCMLXV) was
a common year starting
on Friday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1965th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 965th year of the 2nd millennium, the 65th year of
the 20th century,
and the 6th year of the 1960s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1965 January 20: Lyndon B. Johnsonbegins
full term as President of the United States ·
January 1 – Canadian ship SS Catala is driven onto
the beach in Ocean Shores,
Washington, stranding her. ·
January 4 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims
his "Great Society"
during his State of the
Union address. ·
January 9 – The Mirzapur Cadet
College formally opens for academic activities in East
Pakistan (now Bangladesh). ·
January 14 – The Prime Minister
of Northern Ireland and
the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet
for the first time in 43 years. ·
January 19 – The unmanned Gemini 2 is launched on a
suborbital test of various spacecraft systems. ·
Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn
in for a full term as President of the United States. ·
Indonesian President Sukarno announces
the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. ·
January 26 – Anti-Hindi agitations
break out in India, because of which Hindi does not get "National
Language" status and remains one of the 23 official languages of India. ·
January 30 – The state funeral of
Sir Winston Churchill takes
place in London with the largest assembly of statesmen in the world until the
2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.[1] February[edit] Main article: February 1965 ·
February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post
as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Academy of
Sciences in the Soviet Union and Lysenkoist theories subjected to criticism
as pseudoscience.[2][3] ·
February 6 – English footballer
Sir Stanley Matthews plays
his final First
Division game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days. ·
The
African and Malagasy Common
Organization (Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache; OCAM) is formed as successor to the
Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (Union Africaine et Malgache
de Cooperation Economique;
UAMCE), formerly the African and
Malagasy Union (Union Africaine et Malgache; UAM). ·
Malcolm X visits Smethwick following the racially
charged 1964 general election.[4] ·
February 15 – A new red and white maple leaf design is inaugurated as
the flag of Canada,
replacing the Union Flagand
the Canadian Red Ensign. ·
February 18 – The Gambia becomes independent from the
United Kingdom. ·
Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of
photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts. ·
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü forms the new (interim) government
of Turkey (29th government). ·
February 21 – African-American Muslim
minister and human rights activist Malcolm X is assassinated in New York
City. ·
February 22 – A new, revised, color
production of Rodgers and
Hammerstein's Cinderella airs
on CBS. Lesley Ann Warren makes
her TV debut in the title role. The show becomes an annual tradition. The newly adopted Flag of Canada Flag of the newly independent Gambia March[edit] Main article: March 1965 ·
March 2 ·
Vietnam War: Operation
Rolling Thunder – The United States Air
Force 2nd Air Division, United States Navy and South
Vietnamese air force begin a 3½-year aerial bombardment
campaign against North Vietnam. ·
The
film of The Sound of
Music premieres at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. ·
March 7 – Bloody Sunday:
Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators
in Selma, Alabama,
as they attempt to march to the
state capitol of Montgomery. ·
March 8 – Vietnam War: Some 3,500 United States
Marines arrive in Da Nang, South Vietnam, becoming the first American
ground combat troops in Vietnam. ·
March 9 – The second attempt to march
from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama,
under the leadership of Martin Luther
King, Jr., stops at the bridge that was the site of Bloody Sunday,
to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order. White supremacists beat
up white Unitarian
Universalist minister James J. Reeb later that day in Selma. ·
March 10 ·
An
engagement is announced between Princess
Margriet of the Netherlands and Pieter van
Vollenhoven, who will become the first commoner and the first
Dutchman to marry into the Dutch Royal Family. ·
Goldie, a London Zoo golden eagle, is recaptured 12 days after her
escape. ·
March 11 – White Unitarian
Universalist minister James J. Reeb, beaten by White supremacists in Selma, Alabama, on March 9 following the second march from
Selma, dies in a hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. ·
March 15 – President Lyndon B. Johnson
makes his "We Shall Overcome" speech. ·
March 16 – Police clash with 600 SNCC marchers
in Montgomery, Alabama. ·
March 17 ·
In Montgomery, Alabama,
1,600 civil rights marchers demonstrate at the Courthouse. ·
In
response to the events of March 7 and 9 in Selma, Alabama, President Lyndon B. Johnson sends
a bill to Congress that forms the basis for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. It
is passed by the Senate May 26, the House July 10, and signed into law by
President Johnson August 6. ·
March 18 ·
Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes
the first person to walk in space. ·
A United States
federal judge rules that SCLC has
the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama,
to petition for 'redress of grievances'. ·
March 19 – The wreck of the SS Georgiana, reputed to have
been the most powerful Confederate cruiser ever built, is discovered off
the Isle of
Palms, South Carolina, by teenage diver E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after she
was sunk with a million dollar cargo, while attempting to run past the Union
blockade into Charleston. ·
March 20 ·
"Poupée de
cire, poupée de son", sung by France Gall (music and lyrics by Serge Gainsbourg) wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1965 for Luxembourg. ·
The Indo-Pakistani
War of 1965 begins. ·
March 21 ·
Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, which is the last in a series
of unmanned lunar space probes. ·
Martin Luther
King, Jr. leads 3,200 civil rights activists
in the third march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery. ·
March 22 – Nicolae
Ceaușescu becomes the first secretary of the Romanian
Communist Party, after the sudden death of previous leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu
Dej on March 19 that year. ·
March 23 ·
Events of March
23, 1965: Large student demonstration in Morocco, joined by
discontented masses, meets with violent police and military repression. ·
Gemini 3: NASA launches the
United States' first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom, John Young)
into Earth orbit. ·
The
first issue of The Vigilant is
published from Khartoum. ·
March 25 – Martin Luther
King, Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end
the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery. ·
March 30 ·
Funeral
services are held for Detroit homemaker Viola Liuzzo, who was shot dead by 4
Klansmen as she drove marchers back to Selma at night after the civil rights
march. ·
The
second ODECA charter, signed on 12 December
1962, becomes effective. April[edit] Main article: April 1965 ·
April 3 – The world's first space
nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A, is launched by the United
States from Vandenberg AFB, California. The reactor operates for 43 days and
remains in low Earth orbit. ·
April 5 – At the 37th Academy Awards, My Fair Lady wins
8 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Rex Harrison wins an Oscar for Best Actor. Mary Poppins takes
home 5 Oscars. Julie Andrews wins
an Academy
Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title
role. Sherman Brothers receives
2 Oscars including Best
Song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee". ·
April 6 ·
The Intelsat I ("Early
Bird") communications
satellite is launched. It becomes operational May 2 and is placed in commercial
service in June. ·
The
British Government announces the cancellation of the TSR-2 aircraft project. ·
April 9 ·
The
West German parliament extends the statute of
limitations on Nazi war crimes. ·
In Houston, the Harris County Domed Stadium
(more commonly known as the Astrodome) opens. ·
Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang appear on the cover
of Time. ·
April 11 – The 1965
Palm Sunday tornado outbreak: An estimated 51 tornadoes (47
confirmed) hit in 6 Midwestern states, killing between 256 and 271 people and
injuring some 1,500 more. ·
April 14 – In Cold Blood killers Richard Hickock and Perry Smith,
convicted of murdering 4 members of the Herbert Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, are executed by hanging at
the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Lansing, Kansas. ·
April 17 – The first Students
for a Democratic Society march against the Vietnam War draws
25,000 protestors to Washington, D.C. ·
April 18 – Consecration of Saint Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox
Cathedral in Toronto, Canada. ·
April 21 – The New York
World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York, reopens. ·
April 23 – The Pennine Way officially opens. ·
April 24 ·
The 1965 Yerevan
demonstrations start in Yerevan, demanding recognition of
the Armenian Genocide. ·
The
bodies of Portuguese opposition politician Humberto Delgado and his secretary
Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno,
Spain (they were killed February 12). ·
In
the Dominican Republic,
officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny
against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional
government. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed
government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out,
although the new government retains its hold on power. ·
April 25 – Teenage sniper Michael Clark kills 3 and wounds
others shooting at cars from a hilltop along Highway 101 just south of Orcutt, California.
Sixteen-year-old Clark kills himself as police rush the hilltop. ·
April 26 – Rede Globo, the 3rd largest TV broadcaster
of the world, is founded, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ·
April 28 ·
U.S. troops occupy the Dominican Republic. ·
Vietnam War: Prime Minister of
Australia Robert Menzies announces
that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of
the Saigon government (it is later revealed
that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the
behest of the Americans). ·
April 29 – Australia announces that it
is sending an infantry battalion
to support the South Vietnam government. May[edit] Main article: May 1965 ·
May 1 ·
Bob Askin replaces Jack Renshaw as Premier of New South Wales. ·
The Battle of Dong-Yin occurs
as a conflict between Taiwan and the
People's Republic of China. ·
Liverpool
wins the FA Cup Final,
beating Leeds Utd 2–1. ·
May 5 – Forty men burn their draft cards at
the University
of California, Berkeley, and a coffin is marched to the
Berkeley Draft
Board. ·
May 6 – A tornado
outbreak near the Twin Cities in Minnesota kills 13 and injures 683. ·
May 7 – The U.S. Steel freighter SS Cedarville collides with
the SS Topdalsfjord and sinks near the Mackinac Bridge, killing 25. 10 are rescued
from the Cedarville, the 3rd largest lake ship to sink after its
sister the SS Carl D.
Bradley, and the SS Edmund
Fitzgerald. ·
May 9 – Pianist Vladimir Horowitz returns
to the stage after a 12-year absence, performing a legendary concert in Carnegie Hall in New York. ·
May 12 ·
West
Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations. ·
The
Italian liner SS Michelangelo enters
service. ·
May 13 – A West German court of appeals condemns the behavior
of ex-defense minister Franz Josef Strauss during
the Spiegel scandal. ·
May 21 – The largest antiwar teach-in to date begins at Berkeley, California,
attended by 30,000. ·
May 22 ·
Several
hundred Vietnam War protesters in Berkeley, California, march to the Draft
Board again to burn 19 more cards. Lyndon Johnson is hung in effigy. ·
The
first skateboarding championship
is held. ·
May 25 – Muhammad Ali knocks out Sonny Liston in the first round of
their championship rematch with the "Phantom
Punch" at the Central Maine
Civic Center in Lewiston. ·
May 27 – Internazionale beats Benfica 1-0 at the San Siro, Milan and wins the 1964-65 European Cup (football). ·
May 29 – A mining accident in Dhanbad, India kills 274. ·
May 31 – Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship
in the same year. June[edit] Main article: June 1965 Green Library at Florida
International University in Miami, Florida. ·
June 1 ·
Florida
International University is founded in Miami. ·
A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan, kills 237. ·
June 2 – Vietnam War: The first contingent of
Australian combat troops arrives in South Vietnam. ·
June 3 – Gemini 4: Astronaut Ed White makes
the first U.S. space walk. ·
June 6 – The single "(I Can't
Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones is
released. It becomes the band's first number one in the United States and is
often thought to be one of the greatest rock 'n' roll songs of all time. ·
June 7 – Kakanj mine disaster:
A mining accident in Kakanj, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, results in 128 deaths. ·
June 10 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dong Xoai:
About 1,500 Viet Cong mount
a mortar attack on Đồng Xoài,
overrunning its military headquarters and the adjoining militia compound. ·
June 16 – A planned anti-Vietnam War protest at The Pentagon becomes a teach-in, with
demonstrators distributing 50,000 leaflets in and around the building. ·
June 19 – Houari Boumediene's
Revolutionary Council ousts Ahmed Ben Bella, in a bloodless coup in Algeria. ·
June 20 – Police in Algiers break up demonstrations by
people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed
President Ahmed Ben Bella. ·
June 22 – The Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the
Republic of Korea is signed in Tokyo. ·
June 25 – A U.S. Air Force Boeing C-135
Stratolifter bound for Okinawa crashes just after takeoff
at MCAS El Toro in Orange County,
California, killing all 85 on board. ·
June 26 – Ian Chesterton and Barbara
Wright return to "London 1965!" On the planet Earth in the Dalek
Time Machine following The Daleks' defeat. (Doctor Who: "The Chase") ·
June 28 – The DeFeo family moves from
Brooklyn, New York, to 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, Long Island, New York,
in the United States. The murder of all but one of the DeFeos nine years
later, on November 13, 1974, by the oldest son, Ronald/Ronnie "Butch" DeFeo Jr.,
and the subsequent claims of a haunting at 112 Ocean Avenue by the Lutz
family, would lead to The Amityville
Horror franchise of books and movies. July[edit] Main article: July 1965 ·
July
– The Commonwealth secretariat
is created. ·
July 14 – U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars,
becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the Red Planet. ·
July 15 – Greek Prime minister Georgios Papandreou and
his government are dismissed by King Constantine II. ·
July 16 – The Mont Blanc Tunnel is
inaugurated by presidents Giuseppe Saragat and Charles de Gaulle. ·
July 24 – Vietnam War: Four F-4C Phantoms escorting a bombing raid at
Kang Chi are targeted by antiaircraft
missiles, in the first such attack against American planes in the
war. One is shot down and the other 3 sustain damage. ·
July 25 – Bob Dylan elicits controversy among
folk purists by "going electric" at the Newport Folk
Festival. ·
July 26 – The Maldives receive full independence from
Great Britain. ·
July 27 – Edward Heath becomes Leader of the
British Conservative
Party. ·
July 28 – Vietnam War: U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson announces
his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000,
and to more than double the number of men drafted per month - from 17,000 to
35,000. ·
July 29 – The Beatles second movie Help! premieres. ·
July 30 – War on Poverty: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
the Social
Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid. August[edit] Main article: August 1965 ·
August 1 – Cigarette advertising is
banned on British television. ·
August 6 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
the Voting Rights
Act of 1965 into law, outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory
voting practices that have been responsible for widespread disfranchisement of African Americans. ·
August 7 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister
of Malaysia, recommends the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation of
Malaysia, negotiating its separation with Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore. ·
August 9 ·
Singapore is expelled from the Federation
of Malaysia, which recognises it as a sovereign nation. Lee Kuan Yew announces Singapore's
independence and assumes the position of Prime Minister of the new island
nation – a position he holds until 1990. ·
An
explosion at an Arkansas missile
plant kills 53. ·
Indonesian president Sukarno collapses in public. ·
August 11 – The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles,
ending on the 16th after resulting in 34 deaths and over 3,000 arrests. ·
August 13 – The rock group Jefferson Airplane debuts
at the Matrix in San Francisco and
begins to appear there regularly. ·
August 15 – The Beatles perform the first stadium
concert in the history of music, playing before 55,600 persons at Shea Stadium in New York City. ·
August 18 – Vietnam War – Operation Starlite:
5,500 United States
Marines destroy a Viet Cong stronghold on the Van Tuong
peninsula in Quảng
Ngãi Province, in the first major American ground battle of the
war. The Marines were tipped-off by a Viet Cong deserter who said that there
was an attack planned against the U.S. base at Chu Lai. ·
August 19 – At the conclusion of
the Frankfurt
Auschwitz trials, 66 ex-SS personnel
receive life sentences,
15 others smaller ones. ·
August 20 – Jonathan Myrick
Daniels, an Episcopal seminarian
from Keene, New Hampshire,
is murdered in Hayneville, Alabama,
while working in the civil rights movement. ·
August 21 – Gemini 5 (Gordon Cooper, Pete Conrad) is launched on the first 1-week
flight, as well as the first test of fuel cells for electrical power. ·
Casey Stengel announces his retirement
after 55 years in baseball. ·
Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential
album Highway 61 Revisited,
featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone". ·
An avalanche buries a dam construction
site at Saas-Fee, Switzerland, killing 90 workers. ·
August 31 – President Johnson signs a
law penalizing the burning of draft cards with up to 5 years in prison and a
$1,000 fine. September[edit] Main article: September 1965 ·
September 2 – Pakistani troops enter the Indian
sector of Kashmir, while Indian troops try to
invade Lahore. ·
September 6 – The Islamic
Republic of Pakistan observes its Defence Day, on account of successful
defence of Lahore and other important areas against
India. ·
Pakistan celebrates Air Force Day on
account of heavy retaliations to India. ·
The
People's Republic of China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the
Indian border. ·
Vietnam War: In a follow-up to
August's Operation Starlite, United States
Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate
Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula, 23 miles (37 km) south of
the Chu Lai Marine base. ·
India
opens 2 additional fronts against Pakistan. ·
The
Pakistan Navy raids Indian coasts without any resistance in Operation Dwarka (Pakistan
celebrates Victory Day annually). ·
Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers pitches
a perfect game in
a baseball match against the Chicago Cubs. The opposing pitcher, Bob Hendley, allows only 1 run, which is
unearned, and only one hit, making this the lowest-hit game (1) in baseball
history. It is Koufax's fourth no-hitter in as many seasons. ·
U.N.
Secretary General U Thant negotiates with Pakistan
President Ayub
Khan. ·
U Thant recommends China for United Nations membership. ·
Hurricane Betsy roars ashore near New Orleans with winds of 145 mph
(233 km/h), causing 76 deaths and $1.42 billion in damage. The storm is
the first hurricane to cause $1 billion in unadjusted damages, giving it the
nickname "Billion Dollar Betsy". It is the last major hurricane to
strike New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina 40
years later. ·
The United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development is established. ·
The
fourth and final period of the Second Vatican
Council opens. ·
The
infamous "bad sitcom" My Mother The Car premieres
on NBC. ·
China
protests against Indian provocations in its border region. ·
In Iraq,
Prime Minister Arif Abd ar-Razzaq's
attempted coup fails. ·
September 17 – King Constantine II
of Greece forms a new government with Prime Minister Stephanos
Stephanopoulos, in an attempt to end a 2-year-old political
crisis. ·
In
Denmark, Palle Sørensen shoots
4 policemen in pursuit; he is apprehended the same day. ·
Comet Ikeya–Seki is
first sighted by Japanese astronomers. ·
Soviet
Premier Alexei Kosygin invites
the leaders of India and Pakistan to meet in the Soviet Union to negotiate. ·
September 20 – Vietnam War: An USAF F-104 Starfighter piloted
by Captain Philip Eldon Smith is shot down by a Chinese MiG-19 Farmer.
The pilot is held until 15 March 1973. ·
September 21 – Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of
the United Nations. ·
September 22 – Radio Peking announces that Indian
troops have dismantled their equipment on the Chinese side of the border. ·
Fighting
resumes between Indian and Pakistani troops. ·
The
British governor of Aden cancels the
constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad
security situation. ·
September 25 – The Tom & Jerry cartoon series
makes its world broadcast premiere on CBS. ·
September 27 – The largest tanker ship
at this time, Tokyo Maru, is launched in Yokohama, Japan. ·
Fidel Castro announces that anyone who
wants to can emigrate to the United States. ·
Taal Volcano in Luzon, Philippines, erupts, killing hundreds. ·
The Indonesian army, led by General Suharto, crushes an alleged communist coup
attempt (see Transition to
the New Order and 30 September
Movement). ·
The
classic family sci-fi show Thunderbirds debuts
on ITV in
the United Kingdom. October[edit] Main article: October 1965 ·
Fidel Castro announces that Che Guevara has resigned and left the
country. ·
U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
the Immigration
and Nationality Act of 1965 which ends quotas based on national origin. ·
At
least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ·
Prime
minister Ian Smith of Rhodesia and Arthur Bottomley of the Commonwealth of
Nations begin negotiations in London. ·
Pope Paul VI visits the United States.
He appears for a Mass in Yankee Stadium and
makes a speech at the United Nations. ·
The University
of California, Irvine opens its doors. ·
October 5 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with Malaysia because of their disagreement
in the UN. ·
October 6 – Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk
from Hyde in Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking
to death (with a hatchet) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at
a house on the Hattersley housing estate. ·
October 7 – Seven Japanese fishing
boats are sunk off Guam by super typhoon
Carmen; 209 are killed. ·
Indonesian
mass killings of 1965–1966: The Indonesian army instigates the
arrest and execution of communists which last until next March.[citation needed] ·
The
7 Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and
Red Crescent are adopted at the XX International Conference
in Vienna, Austria. ·
The International
Olympic Committee admits East Germany as a member. ·
The Post Office Tower opens
in London. ·
Yale University presents the Vinland map. ·
A
brigade of South Korean soldiers arrive in South Vietnam. ·
October 10 – The first group of Cuban refugees
travels to the U.S. ·
Per Borten forms a government in
Norway. ·
The
U.N. General Council recommends that the United Kingdom try everything to
stop a rebellion in Rhodesia. ·
October 13 – Congo President Joseph Kasavubu fires Prime
Minister Moise Tshombe and
forms a provisional government, with Évariste Kimba in
a leading position. ·
October 15 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker
Movement stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One draft
card burner is arrested, the first under the new law. ·
Moors murders: Police find a girl's body
on Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire. The body is quickly identified
as that of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey,
who disappeared on Boxing Day the
previous year from a fairground in the Ancoats area of Manchester. Ian Brady, arrested for the murder of a
17-year-old man in nearby Hattersley, is charged with murdering
Lesley, as is his 23-year-old girlfriend Myra Hindley. ·
Anti-war
protests draw 100,000 in 80 U.S. cities and around the world. ·
October 17 – The New York
World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, closes. Due to financial
losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize. ·
October 18 – The Indonesian government
outlaws the Communist
Party of Indonesia.[citation needed] ·
October 20 – Ludwig Erhard is re-elected Chancellor
of West Germany (he had first been elected in 1963). ·
Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches
perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers from the sun. ·
The Organization
of African Unity meets in Accra, Ghana. ·
French
authors André Figueras and Jacques Laurent are fined for their
comments against Charles de Gaulle. ·
African
countries demand that the United Kingdom use force to prevent Rhodesia from declaring unilateral
independence. ·
Colonel Christophe Soglo stages a second coup
in Dahomey. ·
British
Prime Minister Harold Wilson and
Commonwealth Secretary Arthur Bottomley travel to Rhodesia for negotiations. ·
British
police find the decomposed body of a boy on Saddleworth Moor. ·
October 25 – The Soviet Union declares
its support of African countries in case Rhodesia unilaterally declares
independence. ·
October 26 – Anti-government
demonstrations occur in the Dominican Republic. ·
Brazilian president Humberto
de Alencar Castelo Branco removes power from parliament,
legal courts and opposition parties. ·
Süleyman Demirel of AP forms
the new government of Turkey (30th
government). The Gateway Arch ·
French Foreign
Minister Maurice Couve
de Murville travels to Moscow. ·
Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, a "Declaration on
the Relation of the (Roman Catholic) Church with Non-Christian
Religions" by the Second Vatican
Council which includes a statement that Jews are not
collectively responsible for the death of Jesus (Jewish deicide). ·
In St. Louis, Missouri,
the 630-foot (190 m)-tall inverted weighted catenary steel Gateway Arch is completed. ·
Mehdi Ben Barka, a Moroccan politician, is
kidnapped in Paris and never seen again. ·
Moors murders: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley appear in court, charged
with the murders of Edward Evans (17), Lesley Ann Downey (10), and John
Kilbride (12) from Manchester. ·
An
80-kiloton nuclear device is detonated at Amchitka Island, Alaska, as part of
the Vela Uniform program,
code-named Project Long Shot. ·
Vietnam War: Near Da Nang, United States
Marines repel an intense attack by Viet Cong forces, killing 56
guerrillas. A sketch of Marine positions is found on the dead body of a
13-year-old Vietnamese boy who
sold drinks to the Marines the day before. ·
In
Washington, D.C., a pro-Vietnam War march draws 25,000. November[edit] Main article: November 1965 ·
November 1 – A trolleybus plunges into the Nile at Cairo, killing 74 passengers. ·
Republican John Vliet Lindsay is elected mayor of New York
City. ·
Quaker Norman Morrison, 32, sets himself on fire in
front of The Pentagon; he
dies of his injuries. ·
November 3 – French President Charles de Gaulle announces
(just short of his 75th birthday) that he will stand for re-election. ·
November 5 – Martial law is announced in Rhodesia. The United
Nations General Assembly accepts British intent to use force
against Rhodesia if necessary by a vote of 82–9. ·
November 6 – Freedom Flights
begin: Cuba and the United States formally
agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States
(by 1971 250,000 Cubans take advantage of
this program). ·
November 7 – The Pillsbury Company's
mascot, the Pillsbury Doughboy,
is created in the United States. ·
Vietnam War – Operation Hump: The United States Army 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over
1,200 Viet Cong. ·
The British
Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches islands (on June 23, 1976
Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches are returned to the Seychelles). ·
The Murder
(Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent,
suspending the death penalty for
murder in the United Kingdom; renewal of the Act in 1969 makes the abolition
permanent. ·
The soap opera Days of Our Lives debuts
on NBC in the United States. ·
Northeast
blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY and
portions of NJ) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13½ hours. ·
Vietnam War: In New York City,
22-year-old Catholic Worker
Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte sets
himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest
against the war. ·
In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government
of Ian Smith unilaterally declares de facto independence ('UDI'). ·
United
Airlines Flight 227 a Boeing 727-22, crashes short of the runway
and catches fire at Salt
Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City; 43 out of 91 passengers and
crew perish. ·
November 12 – A UN
Security Council resolution (voted 10–0) recommends that
other countries not recognize independent Rhodesia. ·
The SS Yarmouth
Castle burns and sinks 60 miles (97 km) off Nassau, Bahamas, with the loss of 90 lives. ·
British
theatre critic Kenneth Tynan says
"fuck" during a discussion on BBC satirical
programme BBC-3 for
what many believed was the first time on British television. The corporation
later issues a public apology. ·
November 14 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ia Drang:
In the Ia Drang Valley of
the Central
Highlands in Vietnam, the first major engagement of the
war between regular United States and North Vietnamese forces begins. ·
November 15 – U.S. racer Craig Breedlove sets a new land speed record of
600.601 mph (966.574 km/h). ·
November 16 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe from Baikonur, Kazakhstan toward Venus (on March 1, 1966, it becomes the
first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet). ·
November 20 – The United
Nations Security Council recommends that all states stop
trading with Rhodesia. ·
November 21 (Sunday) – Mireille Mathieu sings on
France's Télé-Dimanche and
begins her successful singing career. ·
Man of La Mancha opens in a Greenwich Village theatre
in New York City and eventually becomes one of the longest-running and most
iconic Broadway musical hits of all time. ·
The United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is established as a
specialized agency of the United Nations. ·
November 23 – Soviet general Mikhail
Kazakov assumes command of the Warsaw Pact. ·
November 24 – Congolese lieutenant general Mobutu ousts Joseph Kasavubu and declares himself
president. ·
November 26 – At the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant A rocket with its first satellite, Astérix-1 on
board, becoming the third country to enter outer space. ·
Tens
of thousands of Vietnam War protesters picket the White House, then march on the Washington Monument. ·
Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that
if planned major sweep operations to neutralize Viet Cong forces during the next year
are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from
120,000 to 400,000. ·
November 28 – Vietnam War: In response
to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's
call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President-elect Ferdinand Marcosannounces he will send
troops to help fight in South Vietnam. ·
November 29 – The Canadian
satellite Alouette 2 is
launched. December[edit] Main article: December 1965 December 8: End of the 2nd Vatican
Council. December 30: Ferdinand E. Marcos is
the 10th President of
the Philippines. ·
December 1 – The Border Security
Force is established in India as a special force to guard the
borders. ·
The
first British aid flight arrives in Lusaka; Zambia had asked for British help
against Rhodesia. ·
Members
of the Organization
of African Unity decide to sever diplomatic relations with
the United Kingdom, unless the British Government ends
the rebellion of Rhodesia by mid-December. ·
The
Beatles release their sixth album Rubber Soul. ·
The
first album by The Who, My Generation,
is released in the United Kingdom. An edited version was released in the
United States under the title The Who Sings My Generation on
25 April 1966. ·
Charles de Gaulle is
re-elected as French president with 10,828,421 votes. ·
The
"Glasnost Meeting"
in Moscow becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the
first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union. ·
Rhodesian
prime minister Ian Smith warns
that Rhodesia will resist a trade embargo by neighboring countries
with force. ·
The Race Relations
Act becomes the first legislation to address racial
discrimination in the UK. ·
The Second Vatican
Council closes. ·
December 9 – A Charlie Brown
Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts
on CBS, quickly becoming an annual tradition. ·
The Caribbean
Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) is formed. ·
Tanzania and Guinea sever diplomatic relations with
the United Kingdom. ·
Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 perform the first
controlled rendezvous in Earth orbit. ·
December 17 – The British government
begins an oil embargo against Rhodesia; the United States joins the effort. ·
December 20 – The World Food Programme is
made a permanent agency of the United Nations. ·
The Soviet Union announces that it has
shipped rockets to North Vietnam. ·
In
West Germany, Konrad Adenauer resigns
as chairman of the Christian Democratic Party. ·
The United Nations adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination. ·
A
new 1-hour German-American production of the ballet The Nutcracker, with an international
cast that includes Edward Villella in the title role,
makes its U.S. television debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next
3 years but after that is virtually forgotten until issued on DVD in 2009 by
Warner Archive. ·
International Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted. ·
A military coup is launched in Dahomey. ·
A
70 mph (110 km/h) speed limit is imposed on British
roads. ·
David Lean's film of Doctor Zhivago,
starring Omar Sharif and Julie Christie, is released. ·
December 25 – The Yemeni Nasserist
Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz. ·
December 27 – The British oil platform Sea Gem collapses
in the North Sea. ·
December 28 – Italian Foreign Minister
Amintore Fanfani resigns. ·
President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia announces that Zambia and the
United Kingdom have agreed on a deadline before which the Rhodesian white
government should be ousted. ·
Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of
the Philippines. ·
December 31 – Bokassa takes power in the Central African
Republic. Date unknown[edit] Dallas in 1965 ·
Tokyo
officially becomes the largest city of the world, taking the lead from New
York City.[5] ·
The Council
for National Academic Awards is established in the UK. ·
TAT-4 cable goes into operation. ·
Aborigines
are given the vote in Queensland. World population[edit]
Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Beth Gibbons, English singer, lead singer of
the band Portishead ·
Julia Ormond, British actress ·
Aditya Pancholi, Indian actor ·
Vinnie Jones, British
footballer-turned-actor ·
Patrik Sjöberg,
Swedish high jumper ·
January 6 – Konnan, Cuban-born professional wrestler ·
Haddaway, German singer ·
Farah Khan, Indian choreographer, film
director ·
Joely Richardson, British actress ·
January 10 – Butch Hartman, American animator and voice
actor ·
Nikolai Borschevsky,
Russian professional ice hockey player (retired) ·
Maybrit Illner, German television journalist
and presenter ·
Rob Zombie, American musician ·
January 13 – Rod Rosenstein, American officeholder (Deputy Attorney
General) and lawyer ·
Shamil Basayev, Chechen terrorist (d. 2006) ·
Marc Delissen, Dutch field hockey player ·
Bob Essensa, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Hugh
Fearnley-Whittingstall, British chef ·
James Nesbitt, Northern Irish actor ·
Jill Saward, English rape victim and
activist (d. 2017) ·
Adam Jones,
American musician, guitarist of metal band Tool ·
Dave Attell, American comedian ·
Paudge Behan, Irish actor ·
January 20 – Sophie,
Countess of Wessex, wife of Prince
Edward, Earl of Wessex ·
January 21 – Jam Master Jay, American DJ, rapper and
producer (d. 2002) ·
DJ Jazzy Jeff, African-American rapper and
actor ·
Diane Lane, American actress ·
January 24 – Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler
(d. 2007) ·
Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player ·
Mark Jordon, English actor ·
January 26 – Natalia Yurchenko,
Soviet artistic gymnast ·
Alan Cumming, Scottish actor ·
Ignacio Noé, Argentine artist ·
Anton Gubankov, Russian journalist and civil
servant (d. 2016) ·
Dominik Hašek, Czech hockey player February[edit] ·
Dave Callaghan, South African cricketer ·
Brandon Lee, Chinese-American actor
(d. 1993) ·
Sherilyn Fenn, American actress ·
Princess
Stéphanie of Monaco ·
Mattanya Cohen, Israeli diplomat ·
Maura Tierney, American actress ·
Jerome Brown, American football player
(d. 1992) ·
Julianne Buescher,
American actress and voice actor ·
February 5 – Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer ·
February 7 – Chris Rock, African-American actor,
comedian, and film director ·
February 8 – Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor ·
February 9 – Keith Wickham, English voice actor ·
February 11 – Stephen Gregory,
American actor ·
February 12 – Brett Kavanaugh, American attorney and
Supreme Court nominee ·
February 13 – Andy Buckley, American actor ·
February 15 – Héctor Beltrán Leyva,
Mexican drug lord (d. 2018) ·
February 16 – Adama Barrow, Gambian politician, 3rd President of Gambia ·
February 17 – Michael Bay, American film director ·
February 18 – Dr. Dre, African-American rapper and music
producer ·
February 22 – Dean Karr, American director and
photographer ·
Kristin Davis, American actress ·
Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer ·
February 25 – Sylvie Guillem, French ballerina ·
February 27 – Joakim Sundström,
Swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician ·
February 28 – Park Gok-ji, South Korean film editor March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Jack Tu, Taiwanese-Canadian cardiologist
(d. 2018) ·
Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey ·
Booker Huffman, American professional
wrestler ·
March 3 – Dragan
Stojković, Serbian footballer and coach ·
March 4 ·
Paul W. S. Anderson,
British filmmaker, producer and screenwriter ·
Ron Gant, American baseball player ·
March 7 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer ·
March 8 – Kenny Smith, American basketball player ·
March 9 ·
Antonio Saca, 43rd President of El
Salvador ·
Benito Santiago, American baseball player ·
March 10 ·
Rod Woodson, American football player ·
Randy Weiner, American playwright, producer
and theater and nightclub owner ·
March 11 ·
Wallace Langham, American actor ·
José de Anchieta
Júnior, Brazilian politician (d. 2018) ·
Jesse Jackson, Jr.,
African-American politician ·
Laurence
Llewelyn-Bowen, British designer and television presenter ·
Andy Sturmer, American musician ·
March 12 ·
Steve Finley, American baseball player ·
Liza Umarova, Chechen singer and actress ·
March 14 ·
Kevin
Brown, American baseball player ·
Aamir Khan, Indian film director, producer,
film and scriptwriter and actor ·
March 19 ·
Jeff Pidgeon, American animator and voice
actor ·
Joseph D. Kucan, American video game
developer ·
March 20 – Taeko Kawata, Japanese voice actress ·
March 21 – Wakana Yamazaki, Japanese voice actress ·
March 23 – Marti Pellow, Scottish singer (Wet Wet Wet) ·
March 24 – The Undertaker, American professional
wrestler ·
March 25 ·
Avery Johnson, American basketball player
and coach ·
Stefka Kostadinova,
Bulgarian high jumper and president of the Bulgarian
Olympic Committee ·
Sarah Jessica Parker,
American actress ·
March 27 – Francisco Ribeiro,
Portuguese musician and composer (Madredeus) (d. 2010) ·
March 29 – Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete ·
March 30 ·
Juliet Landau, American actress and producer ·
Piers Morgan, British journalist and
television personality April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Bekir Bozdağ, Turkish theologian,
lawyer, and politician ·
Mark Jackson,
American basketball coach ·
April 3 – Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer (d. 2000) ·
April 4 – Robert Downey Jr.,
American actor ·
April 6 ·
Frank Black, American musician ·
Rica Reinisch, German swimmer ·
April 7 – Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian ·
April 9 – Paulina Porizkova,
Swedish-American model and actress ·
April 11 – Eelco van Asperen,
Dutch computer scientist ·
April 12 ·
Kim Bodnia, Danish actor and director ·
Tom O'Brien,
American actor-producer ·
Jonathan Fahn, American voice actor ·
April 13 – Patricio Pouchulu,
Argentine architect ·
April 15 – Linda Perry, American musician ·
April 16 ·
Jon Cryer, American actor ·
Martin Lawrence, African-American actor,
comedian, and producer ·
April 19 – Suge Knight, American record producer ·
April 23 ·
Tommy DeCarlo, American singer and
songwriter ·
Leni Robredo, 14th Vice
President of the Philippines ·
April 25 – Édouard Ferrand,
French politician (d. 2018) ·
April 26 – Kevin James, American comedian and actor ·
April 30 – Adrian Pasdar, American actor and voice
artist May[edit] ·
May 3 – Gary Mitchell, Irish playwright ·
May 4 – Aykut Kocaman, Turkish footballer ·
May 7 ·
Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
(d. 1999) ·
Norman Whiteside, Northern Irish football
player ·
May 8 ·
Momoko Sakura, Japanese manga artist (Chibi Maruko-chan)
(d. 2018) ·
May 9 – Steve Yzerman, Canadian hockey player ·
May 10 ·
Linda Evangelista,
Canadian supermodel ·
Kiyoyuki Yanada, Japanese voice actor ·
May 11 – Monsour del Rosario,
Filipino Olympic athlete and actor ·
May 12 – Renée Simonsen,
Danish model and writer ·
May 13 ·
Tim Chapman, American bounty hunter ·
José Antonio Delgado,
Venezuelan mountain climber (d. 2006) ·
Hikari Ōta, Japanese comedian ·
Lari White, American country singer
(d. 2018) ·
May 14 – Eoin Colfer, Irish novelist ·
May 16 ·
Rodica Dunca, Romania artistic gymnast ·
Krist Novoselic, American rock bassist (Nirvana) ·
May 17 – Trent Reznor, American rock musician (Nine Inch Nails) ·
May 19 ·
Maile Flanagan, American actress ·
Philippe Dhondt, French singer ·
May 23 ·
Manuel Sanchís
Hontiyuelo, Spanish footballer ·
Kappei Yamaguchi, Japanese actor and voice
actor ·
May 24 ·
Carlos Franco, Paraguayan golfer ·
John C. Reilly, American actor ·
Shinichirō
Watanabe, Japanese anime director ·
May 25 – Yahya Jammeh, President of the
Gambia ·
May 27 – Todd Bridges, American actor and comedian ·
May 28 – Robbi Chong, Canadian actress ·
May 31 ·
Brooke Shields, American actress and model ·
Yōko Sōmi, Japanese voice actress June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Larisa Lazutina, Russian cross-country skier ·
Nigel Short, English chess player ·
June 2 – Steve and Mark Waugh, Australian cricketers ·
June 4 – Mick Doohan, Australian motorcycle racer ·
June 6 ·
Cam Neely, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Megumi Ogata, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
June 7 ·
Mick Foley, American professional wrestler ·
Jean-Pierre François,
French footballer and singer ·
Damien Hirst, British artist ·
Christine Roque, French singer ·
June 8 ·
Chris Chavis ("Tatanka"),
American professional wrestler ·
Frank Grillo, American actor ·
Kevin Farley, American actor ·
Kevin Ritz, American baseball pitcher ·
June 10 ·
Veronica Ferres, German actress ·
Scott Graham, American sportscaster ·
Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress ·
June 11 – Manuel Uribe, morbidly obese Mexican
(d. 2014) ·
June 15 – Bernard Hopkins, American boxer ·
June 17 ·
Dan Jansen, American speedskater ·
Dara O'Kearney, Irish ultra runner and
professional poker player ·
June 21 ·
Yang Liwei, Chinese major general, military
pilot and China National Space Administration astronaut ·
Gabriella Selmeczi,
Hungarian jurist and politician ·
Tim Lajcik, Czech American mixed martial
artist, stuntman, actor and writer ·
Michael Dolan, American theatre and film
actor, director and educator ·
June 22 ·
Just-Ice, American rapper ·
Anubhav Sinha, Indian film director ·
Robb Cullen, American film and television
writer, actor and producer ·
Maurice Core, British boxer ·
J. J. Cohen, American actor ·
June 23 ·
Manuel Andrack, German journalist,
television show editor, television host and author ·
Paul Arthurs, British rock guitarist (Oasis) ·
Sylvia Mathews
Burwell, American government ·
Fernanda Tapia, Mexican announcer,
presenter, producer, screenwriter, lecturer, singer and voice actress ·
June 24 ·
Chris Barnes,
American child actor ·
Lakei Heimuli, Tongan footballer ·
Son Hyun-joo, South Korean actor ·
Richard Lumsden, English actor, writer,
composer and musician ·
Vladimir Luxuria, Italian trans actress, writer,
politician and television host ·
Danielle
Spencer, American actress ·
Akiko Yagi, Japanese free announcer,
tarento, television presenter, newscaster and actress ·
June 25 ·
Joseph Hii Teck
Kwong, Malaysian bishop ·
Stan Longinidis, Australian heavyweight
kickboxer ·
Anne McElvoy, British journalist ·
Andrew Dan-Jumbo, Nigerian television
presenter ·
June 26 ·
Randy Hembrey, American manager ·
Jana Hybášková,
Czech politician and diplomat ·
Catherine White,
British swimmer ·
June 27 ·
Frédéric Lemoine,
French businessman ·
S. Manikavasagam, Malaysian politician ·
June 28 ·
Saul Davies, British musician ·
Belayneh Dinsamo, Ethiopian long-distance
runner ·
Sonny Strait, American voice actor and
director ·
June 29 ·
Véronique Laury,
French businesswoman ·
Dado Villa-Lobos, Brazilian musician ·
Matthew Weiner, American television writer,
director and producer ·
June 30 ·
Bobby Vitale, American pornographic actor ·
Dietmar Drabek, Austrian football referee ·
Cho Jae-hyun, South Korean actor ·
Adam
Roberts, British science fiction and fantasy novelist ·
Philippe Duquesne,
French actor July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Harald Zwart, Norwegian film director ·
Teddy McCarthy, hurler and Gaelic footballer ·
Carl Fogarty, motorcycle racer ·
Tom Hodges,
American actor and film producer ·
Oscar Pelliccioli,
Italian cyclist ·
Mohammed Abdul
Hussein, Iraqi former footballer ·
Simon Youl, Australian professional tennis
player ·
July 2 ·
Tim Breacker, English footballer and current
football coach ·
James Turner,
English tennis player ·
Fredrik Sejersted,
Norwegian jurist ·
July 3 ·
Komsan Pohkong, Thai lawyer ·
Shinya Hashimoto, Japanese professional
wrestler (d. 2005) ·
Connie Nielsen, Danish actress ·
Tommy Flanagan,
Scottish actor ·
July 4 ·
Horace Grant, American basketball player ·
Harvey Grant, American basketball player ·
Jay Crawford, American sports journalist ·
Gérard Watkins,
English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter ·
July 5 ·
Kathryn Erbe, American actress ·
Eyran
Katsenelenbogen, Israeli jazz pianist ·
July 7 ·
Paula Devicq, Canadian actress ·
Irina Berezina, Australian chess
international Master and trainer ·
Jeremy Kyle, English radio and television
presenter ·
July 8 ·
Lee Tergesen, American actor ·
Corey Parker,
American actor and coach ·
July 9 – David O'Hara, Scottish actor ·
July 10 ·
Princess
Alexia of Greece and Denmark ·
David Ross,
English businessman ·
Dominic Hannigan, Irish politician ·
July 11 ·
Michael Wayne McGray,
Canadian serial killer ·
Ernesto Hoost, Dutch kickboxer ·
July 12 – Mama Kandeh, Gambian politician ·
July 14 – Lou Savarese, American boxer ·
July 15 ·
Dafna Rechter, Israeli actress and singer ·
Scott Livingstone,
American professional baseball player ·
Bobby Gustafson, American guitarist ·
David Miliband, British politician ·
July 16 ·
Daryl Mitchell,
American actor ·
Gianni Faresin, Italian road bicycle racer ·
July 17 ·
Ken Evraire, Canadian television journalist,
host and former professional football league player with Hamilton Tiger Cats ·
Martin Kelly
(Heavenly), British musician, music manager, record label boss,
music publisher and author ·
Craig Morgan, American country music artist ·
Santiago Segura, Spanish actor,
screenwriter, producer and director ·
Rosa Gumataotao Rios,
43rd Treasurer of the United States ·
Alex Winter, American actor ·
Muhamad Radhi Mat
Din, Malaysian coach and footballer ·
July 18 ·
Eva Ionesco, French actress, film director
and screenwriter ·
Rosanan Samak, Bruneian football coach ·
Michael Sharrett, American actor ·
Jim Bob Duggar, American real estate agent,
politician, and television personality ·
July 19 ·
Dame Evelyn Glennie, Scottish virtuoso
percussionist ·
Hailemariam Desalegn,
15th Prime Minister of Ethiopia ·
Stuart Scott, American sports reporter
and ESPN anchor (d. 2015) ·
July 20 ·
Laurent Lucas, French actor ·
Anthony Shriver, American activist ·
July 21 ·
Tom Gulager, American actor ·
Guðni Bergsson,
Icelandic footballer ·
July 22 – Shawn Michaels, American professional
wrestler ·
July 23 ·
Grace Mugabe, First Lady of Zimbabwe ·
Slash (Saul Hudson), American rock
musician ·
July 24 ·
Brian Blades, American National Football League
wide receiver ·
Kadeem Hardison, American actor and director ·
July 25 – Illeana Douglas, American actress and
producer ·
July 26 ·
Vladimir Cruz, Cuban actor ·
Jeremy Piven, American actor ·
Jimmy Dore, American comedian and political
commentator ·
July 27 ·
José Luis Chilavert,
Paraguayan footballer ·
Trifon Ivanov, Bulgarian footballer
(d. 2016) ·
July 28 – Daniela Mercury, Brazilian singer,
songwriter, dancer, producer, actress and television host ·
July 31 – J. K. Rowling, English author August[edit] ·
August 1 – Sam Mendes, English film director ·
August 2 ·
Sandra Ng, Hong Kong actress ·
Hisanobu Watanabe,
Japanese baseball player and coach ·
August 4 ·
Dennis Lehane, American crime writer ·
Fredrik Reinfeldt,
Swedish Prime Minister ·
August 6 ·
David
Robinson, American basketball player ·
Mark Speight, British television presenter
(d. 2008) ·
August 9 ·
Darren Millane, Australian rules football
player (d. 1991) ·
Chin Ka-lok, Hong Kong actor ·
Claudia Christian,
American actress, writer, singer, musician, and director ·
Mike E. Smith, American jockey ·
John Starks,
American basketball player ·
Viola Davis, African-American actress ·
Duane Martin, American actor ·
August 13 – Deborah Falconer, American actress ·
August 14 – Terry Richardson, American fashion
photographer ·
Vincent Kuk, Hong Kong director and actor ·
Mark Labbett, British mathematician ·
Rob Thomas,
American author, producer, director and screenwriter ·
August 16 – Michael
O'Gorman, American coxswain (d. 2018) ·
Kōji Kikkawa, Japanese singer ·
Ikue Ōtani, Japanese voice actress ·
Kevin Dillon, American actor ·
Kyra Sedgwick, American actress ·
James Tomkins,
Australian rower ·
August 25 – Mia Zapata, American singer (d. 1993) ·
August 26 – Azela Robinson, Mexican actress ·
Satoshi Tajiri, Japanese video game designer
and Pokémon creator ·
Amanda Tapping, Canadian actress ·
Shania Twain, Canadian country singer and
songwriter ·
August 30 – Peter
Grant, Scottish football player and manager September[edit] ·
September 1 – Craig McLachlan, Australian actor and singer ·
September 2 – Lennox Lewis, British boxer ·
September 3 – Charlie Sheen, American actor and producer ·
September 7 – Jörg Pilawa, German television presenter ·
Tutilo Burger, German Benedictine monk and
abbot ·
Darlene Zschech, Australian singer and
worship leader ·
Dan Majerle, American basketball player ·
Charles Esten, American actor ·
Constance Marie, American actress ·
September 10 – Marco Pastors, Dutch politician ·
Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria ·
Paul Heyman, American wrestling promoter,
ECW ·
Moby,
American musician ·
September 12 – Einstein Kristiansen,
Norwegian cartoonist, designer, and television host ·
September 13 – Jeff Ross, American stand-up comedian,
writer, and actor ·
Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia ·
Ron Pearson, American actor, comedian and
juggler ·
September 15 – Fernanda Torres, Brazilian actress ·
September 16 – Katy Kurtzman, American actress, director
and producer ·
September 17 – Kyle Chandler, American actor ·
Sabine Paturel, French singer ·
Tshering Tobgay, Prime Minister
of Bhutan ·
September 20 – Robert Rusler, American actor ·
Cheryl Hines, American actress ·
Johanna Vuoksenmaa,
Finnish film director ·
David Wenham, Australian actor ·
September 23 – Mark Woodforde, Australian tennis player ·
September 25 – Scottie Pippen, American basketball player ·
Alexei Mordashov, Russian businessman ·
Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine ·
Steve Kerr, American basketball player ·
Peter MacKay, Canadian politician ·
September 28 – Scott Fellows, American animator ·
Kathleen Madigan, American comedian ·
Daron Norwood, American country singer
(d. 2015) October[edit] ·
Andreas Keller, German field hockey player ·
Cliff Ronning, Canadian ice hockey player ·
October 2 – Gerardo Reyero, Mexican voice actor ·
October 3 – Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player ·
Marcus Bentley, British actor, broadcaster
and voice-over artist ·
John Melendez, American television announcer ·
Michiko Neya, Japanese voice actress ·
Rykers Solomon, Nauruan politician ·
Micky Ward, American boxer ·
Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player ·
October 7 – Kumiko Watanabe, Japanese voice actress ·
October 8 – C. J. Ramone, American musician ·
October 9 – Dionicio Cerón,
Mexican long-distance runner ·
October 10 – Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006) ·
Julianne McNamara,
American artistic gymnast ·
Ronit Roy, Indian film and television actor ·
Ivo Uukkivi, Estonian actor, singer and
producer ·
Kalpana,
Indian film actress (d. 2016) ·
Bill Odenkirk, American comedy writer ·
Steve Coogan, British comedian and actor ·
Constantine Koukias,
Australian composer ·
October 15 – Stephen Tompkinson,
English actor ·
Kang Kyung-ok, South Korean artist ·
Steve Lamacq, British radio DJ ·
October 17 – Aravinda de Silva,
Sri Lankan cricketer ·
Zakir Naik, Indian doctor and Islamic
activist ·
Curtis Stigers, American jazz vocalist and
saxophonist ·
October 19 – Ty Pennington, American television presenter ·
October 20 – Mikhail Shtalenkov,
Russian ice hockey player ·
Aaron Kwok, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
Kelly Rowan, Canadian actress ·
Kenneth
Rutherford, New Zealand cricketer ·
October 29 – Christy Clark, Canadian politician ·
October 31 – Rob Rackstraw, English Voice Artist November[edit] ·
November 1 – Mia Korf, American actress ·
November 2 – Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor,
film/television producer and television presenter ·
November 3 – Ann Scott, French novelist ·
November 4 – Wayne Static, American singer (d. 2014) ·
November 6 – Greg Graffin, American rock singer (Bad Religion) ·
Sigrun Wodars, German athlete ·
Steve Parkin, English former footballer and
manager ·
November 9 – Bryn Terfel, Welsh baritone ·
November 10 – Eddie Irvine, Northern Irish racecar driver ·
November 13 – Rick Roberts,
Canadian actor ·
November 16 – Walter Stern,
English music video and film director ·
Paulo Barreto,
Brazilian cryptographer ·
Laurent Blanc, French football player and
manager ·
Michael Diamond, American rapper ·
Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese rock composer,
piano and drummer ·
Takeshi Kusao, Japanese voice actor ·
Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter and
musician ·
Magnus Fiennes, English composer ·
Alexander Siddig, Sudanese-British actor ·
Yuriko
Yamaguchi, Japanese voice actress ·
November 22 – Mads Mikkelsen, Danish actor ·
– Wendy Moten, American singer ·
Don Frye, American professional
wrestler and mixed martial arts fighter ·
Radion Gataullin, Uzbek-Russian pole-vaulter ·
November 24 – Shirley Henderson,
Scottish actress ·
November 25 – Cris Carter, American football player ·
November 26 – Scott Adsit, American actor ·
November 28 – Peter Beagrie, English footballer ·
November 29 – Lauren Child, American author ·
Ben Stiller, American actor ·
Tashi Tenzing, Indian mountaineer December[edit] ·
Steve Harris,
American actor ·
Katarina Witt, German figure skater ·
Carlton Palmer, English footballer ·
Johnny Rzeznik, American rock singer and
guitarist ·
Teruyuki Kagawa, Japanese actor ·
Jeffrey Wright,
American actor ·
December 8 – David Harewood, English actor ·
December 9 – Brad Savage, American actor ·
J Mascis, American rock singer, guitarist
and drummer ·
Greg Giraldo, American comedian (d. 2010) ·
Stephanie Morgenstern,
Canadian actress ·
Craig Biggio, American baseball player ·
Ted Raimi, American actor, producer and
writer ·
Luis Fabián Artime,
Argentine footballer ·
Ted Slampyak, American comic strip
cartoonist ·
December 16 – J. B. Smoove, American actor ·
December 18 – John Moshoeu, South African footballer ·
December 19 – Jessica Steen, Canadian actress ·
Andy Dick, American actor and comedian ·
Anke Engelke, German comedian, actress and
voice-over actress ·
December 22 – Lee Rogers Berger American-born
explorer and paleoanthropologist ·
Martin Kratt, American educational nature
show host ·
Andreas Kappes, German cyclist (d. 2018) ·
December 24 – Ian Gomez, American actor ·
December 27 – Salman Khan, Indian actor, television
presenter ·
December 28 – Allar Levandi, Estonian Nordic combined
skier ·
Heidi Fleiss, American madam ·
Kelli Maroney, American actress ·
Nicholas Sparks, American author ·
Gong Li, Chinese actress Date unknown[edit] ·
Niko Barun, Croatian artist ·
Jeffrey Colwell, American lawyer ·
Antonio Helguera, Mexican cartoonist ·
Bradley Joseph, American composer, pianist
and keyboardist ·
John
Parry, American football official Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 4 – T. S. Eliot, American-British poet, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
January 7 – Ludwig Hirschfeld
Mack, German-Australian artist (b. 1883) ·
Nahim Abraham, Lebanese-American merchant
(b. 1885) ·
Antonín
Bečvář, Czechoslovak astronomer (b. 1901) ·
Frederick Fleet, British sailor and lookout
aboard the RMS Titanic (b. 1887) ·
January 12 – Lorraine Hansberry,
American writer (b. 1930) ·
January 14 – Jeanette MacDonald,
American actress and singer (b. 1903) ·
January 20 – Alan Freed, American disc jockey (b. 1922) ·
January 24 – Winston Churchill,
British politician and statesman, 2-time Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom, leader of the World War II, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Literature (b. 1874) ·
Hassan Ali Mansur,
Iranian politician, 69th Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1923) ·
Abraham Walkowitz,
American painter (b. 1878) ·
Taimur bin Feisal, Sultan of
Muscat and Oman (b. 1886) ·
Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888) ·
Maxime Weygand, French general (b. 1867) ·
January 31 – Konstantin Muraviev,
31st Prime Minister
of Bulgaria (b. 1893) February[edit] ·
February 4 – J. B. Danquah, Ghanaian scholar and
opposition leader (b. 1895) ·
February 5 – Irving Bacon, American actor (b. 1893) ·
February 6 – Frederick,
Prince of Hohenzollern (b. 1891) ·
February 7 – Nance O'Neil, American stage and film
actress (b. 1874) ·
Khan Bahadur
Ahsanullah, Pakistani educationist, philosopher, social reformer and
Sufi thinker (b. 1874) ·
Joaquin Miguel
Elizalde, Filipino statesman (b. 1896) ·
February 10 – Arthur C. Davis, American admiral (b. 1893) ·
February 11 – Loyal Blaine Aldrich,
American astronomer (b. 1884) ·
Humberto Delgado, Portuguese general and
opposition politician (assassinated) (b. 1906) ·
Gloria Morgan
Vanderbilt, Swiss-born socialite (b. 1904) ·
February 15 – Nat King Cole, American singer and musician
(b. 1919) ·
Koreshige Inuzuka,
Japanese military officer (b. 1890) ·
Forrest Taylor, American stage, film and
television actor (b. 1883) ·
Tom Wilson,
American actor (b. 1880) ·
February 20 – Théophile Marie
Brébant, French army officer (b. 1889) ·
Mariano Simon
Garriga, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1886) ·
Malcolm X, American activist (assassinated)
(b. 1925) ·
February 22 – Felix Frankfurter, U.S.
Supreme Court Justice (b. 1882) ·
February 23 – Stan Laurel, British actor (b. 1890) ·
February 24 – Takeo Itō, Japanese general (b. 1889) ·
February 28 – Adolf Schärf, Austrian politician, 6th President of Austria (b. 1890) March[edit] King Farouk of Egypt ·
March 5 – Salvador
Castaneda Castro, 31st President of El
Salvador (b. 1888) ·
March 6 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889) ·
March 7 – Louise Mountbatten,
Queen of Sweden and second wife of King Gustaf VI
Adolf (b. 1889) ·
March 8 – Francesco Carnelutti,
Italian jurist and lawyer (b. 1879) ·
March 13 ·
Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884) ·
Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet and
politician, 13th Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1882) ·
March 17 ·
Nancy Cunard, English writer, heiress, and
political activist (b. 1896) ·
Amos Alonzo Stagg,
American baseball, basketball and football player and coach (b. 1862) ·
March 18 ·
King Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920) ·
Jack Quinlan, American Chicago Cubs radio
broadcaster (b. 1927) ·
March 19 – Gheorghe
Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian communist leader, 47th Prime Minister
of Romania (b. 1901) ·
March 22 – Fidel Dávila,
Spanish general and minister (b. 1878) ·
March 23 – Mae Murray, American actress (b. 1889) ·
March 28 ·
Richard Beesly, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (b. 1907) ·
Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood (b. 1897) ·
Jack Hoxie, American actor, rodeo performer
(b. 1885) ·
March 30 – Philip Showalter
Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896) April[edit] ·
April 3 ·
Ray Enright, American film director
(b. 1896) ·
Ernst Kirchweger, Austrian resistance
fighter and Communist activist (b. 1897) ·
April 6 – William M. Branham,
American Christian minister (b. 1909) ·
April 8 – Lars Hanson, Swedish actor (b. 1886) ·
April 10 – Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923) ·
April 14 – Perry Smith (b. 1928)
and Dick Hickock (b. 1931),
American convicted murderers (executed) ·
April 16 – Sydney Chaplin, American actor (b. 1885) ·
April 18 – Guillermo
González Camarena, Mexican inventor (b. 1917) ·
April 19 – George Davis,
Dutch-American actor (b. 1889) ·
April 21 – Edward Victor
Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1892) ·
April 23 – George Adamski, Polish-American UFO writer
(b. 1891) ·
April 24 ·
Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878) ·
Owney Madden, British-born American gangster
(b. 1891) ·
April 27 – Edward R. Murrow, American journalist
(b. 1908) ·
April 30 – Helen Chandler, American actress (b. 1906) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Spike Jones, American musician and
bandleader (b. 1911) ·
May 7 – Charles Sheeler, American photographer
(b. 1883) ·
May 9 – Leopold Figl, 14th Chancellor of
Austria and acting President of Austria (b. 1902) ·
May 10 – Hubertus van Mook,
Acting Governor-General
of the Dutch East Indies from 1942 to 1948 (b. 1894) ·
May 13 – Ignacio Barraquer,
Spanish ophthalmologist (b. 1884) ·
May 14 – Frances Perkins, First woman appointed as a
United States Presidential cabinet member (Labor) (b. 1880) ·
May 15 – Yisrael Bar-Yehuda,
Zionist activist and Israel politician (b. 1895) ·
May 16 – Maria Dąbrowska,
Polish writer (b. 1886) ·
May 18 – Eli Cohen, Israeli spy (b. 1924) ·
May 22 ·
Anastasius,
Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox
Church (b. 1873) ·
Christopher
Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (b. 1882) ·
May 23 ·
Rosina Anselmi, Italian actress (b. 1880) ·
David Smith,
American sculptor (b. 1906) ·
Earl Webb, American baseball player
(b. 1897) ·
May 25 – Sonny Boy
Williamson, American blues musician (b. 1899) June[edit] Prince
Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland ·
June 1 – Curly Lambeau, American football coach (Green Bay Packers)
and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1898) ·
June 5 ·
Eleanor Farjeon, British author of
children's literature (b. 1881) ·
Prince
Wilhelm, Duke of Södermanland (b. 1884) ·
June 7 – Judy Holliday, American actress, comedian,
and singer (b. 1921) ·
June 11 – José Mendes
Cabeçadas, Portuguese navy officer, 94th Prime Minister
of Portugal and 9th President of
Portugal (b. 1883) ·
June 13 – Martin Buber, Austrian-Israeli philosopher
(b. 1878) ·
June 14 – H. V. Kaltenborn, American radio commentator
(b. 1878) ·
June 15 ·
Steve Cochran, American actor (b. 1917) ·
Bill Gardner,
American law enforcement agent and one of Eliot Ness's Untouchables (b. 1884) ·
E. A. Speiser, American Bible scholar (b. 1902) ·
June 20 – Bernard Baruch, American financier and
presidential adviser (b. 1870) ·
June 22 ·
Piaras Béaslaí,
Irish author (b. 1881) ·
Giuseppe Castagnetti,
Italian Roman Catholic layman
and servant of God (b. 1909) ·
David O. Selznick,
American film producer (b. 1902) ·
June 23 – Mary Boland, American actress (b. 1880) ·
June 24 – Kenneth
Macdonald Beaumont, English legal pioneer (b. 1884) ·
June 25 – Burr Shafer, American cartoonist (b. 1899) ·
June 26 – Reginald Beckwith,
English actor (b. 1908) ·
June 28 – Red Nichols, American jazz cornettist
(b. 1905) ·
June 30 – Bessie Barriscale,
American actress (b. 1884) July[edit] ·
July 1 – Wally Hammond, English cricketer (b. 1903) ·
July 5 – Nanavira Thera, English Buddhist monk and
teacher (b. 1920) ·
July 7 – Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister
of Israel (b. 1894) ·
July 11 – Ray Collins,
American actor (b. 1889) ·
July 13 – Laureano Gómez Castro,
43rd President of
Colombia (b. 1889) ·
July 14 ·
Adlai Stevenson,
American politician (b. 1900) ·
Max Woosnam, English sportsman (b. 1892) ·
July 19 ·
Clyde Beatty, American animal trainer
(b. 1903) ·
Ingrid Jonker, South African Afrikaans poet
(b. 1933) ·
Syngman Rhee, Korean statesman, 1st President
of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (b. 1875) ·
July 24 – Constance Bennett,
American actress (b. 1904) ·
July 25 – Freddie Mills, British boxing champion
(b. 1919) ·
July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic
(b. 1894) ·
July 30 ·
Fedor Baranov, Soviet fisherman (b. 1886) ·
Pier Ruggero Piccio,
Italian World War I fighter ace and air force general (b. 1880) ·
Jun'ichirō
Tanizaki, Japanese writer (b. 1886) August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Lillian B. Horace,
American writer (b. 1880) ·
John Miller,
American Olympic rower - Men's eights (b. 1903) ·
August 6 ·
Nancy Carroll, American actress (b. 1903) ·
Everett Sloane, American actor (b. 1909) ·
August 8 – Shirley Jackson, American author (b. 1916) ·
August 9 – Creighton Hale, American actor (b. 1882) ·
August 12 – William Mortensen,
American art photographer (b. 1897) ·
August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Japanese politician,
38th Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1899) ·
August 17 – Guillermo
Fernández-Shaw, Spanish poet and journalist (b. 1893) ·
Moonlight Graham, American baseball player
(b. 1879) ·
Johnny Hayes, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1886) ·
August 26 – Maria Corsini, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman and blessed
(b. 1884) ·
August 27 – Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (b. 1887) ·
Rashid Ali
al-Gaylani, Iraqi politician, 9th Prime Minister of
Iraq (b. 1892) ·
Giulio Racah, Israeli physicist (b. 1909) ·
August 29 – Paul Waner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1903) September[edit] ·
Alfred Bossom, English architect and
politician (b. 1881) ·
Tommy Hampson, British Olympic athlete (b. 1907) ·
Albert Schweitzer, Alsatian physician and missionary,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1875) ·
Dorothy Dandridge,
American actress (b. 1922) ·
Hermann Staudinger,
German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1881) ·
September 10 – Bobby Jordan, American actor (b. 1923) ·
Raja Aziz Bhatti, Pakistan army officer
(b. 1928) ·
Lucian Truscott, American general (b. 1895) ·
September 14 – J. W. Hearne, English cricketer (b. 1891) ·
September 15 – Steve Brown,
American musician (b. 1890) ·
September 16 – Fred Quimby, American animated film producer
(b. 1886) ·
September 17 – Alejandro Casona, Spanish poet and
playwright (b. 1903) ·
September 25 – Henry Hugh Tudor, British general (b. 1871) ·
Clara Bow, American silent film actress
(b. 1905) ·
Sir William Stanier, English steam locomotive
engineer (London,
Midland and Scottish Railway) (b. 1876) October[edit] ·
Katamso Darmokusumo,
Indonesian military officer (b. 1923) ·
Gareth Hughes, Welsh actor (b. 1894) ·
October 3 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914) ·
October 6 – Edward Evans, Murder victim (b. 1948) ·
Dorothea Lange, American photographer
(b. 1895) ·
Walther Stampfli, member
of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1884) ·
October 12 – Samir Al-Rifai, 6-time Prime Minister
of Jordan (b. 1901) ·
October 13 – Paul Hermann Müller,
Swiss chemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) ·
October 14 – Randall Jarrell, American poet (b. 1914) ·
October 15 – Abraham Fraenkel, Israeli mathematician and
recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1891) ·
October 17 – John Barton King, American cricketer
(b. 1873) ·
Oscar
Beregi, Hungarian actor (b. 1876) ·
Henry Travers, English actor (b. 1874) ·
October 19 – Tom Kennedy,
American actor (b. 1885) ·
Bill Black, American musician and bandleader
(b. 1926) ·
Marie McDonald, American actress (b. 1923) ·
October 22 – Paul Tillich, German American Christian
existentialist philosopher and theologian (b. 1886) ·
October 24 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879) ·
October 26 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim
(b. 1949) ·
Miller Anderson,
American Olympic diver (b. 1922) ·
Bill McKechnie, American baseball manager (Cincinnati Reds) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886) ·
October 30 – Arthur M.
Schlesinger, Sr., American historian (b. 1888) ·
October 31 – Rita Johnson, American actress (b. 1913) November[edit] Emir Abdullah
III Al-Salim Al-Sabah ·
Félix Paiva, 28th President of
Paraguay (b. 1877) ·
H.V. Evatt, Australian politician, judge
(b. 1894) ·
November 3 – William Leo
Hansberry, African American Scholar and Uncle of Playwright
Lorraine Hansberry (b. 1894) ·
November 4 – Dickey Chapelle, American photojournalist
(killed in action) (b. 1919) ·
Edgard Varèse, French-born composer
(b. 1883) ·
Clarence
Williams, American musician (b. 1893) ·
November 7 – Mirza
Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of Ahmadiyya
Muslim Community in Islam (b. 1889) ·
Dorothy Kilgallen,
American newspaper columnist and television personality (b. 1913) ·
Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (b. 1874) ·
November 12 – Syedna Taher
Saifuddin, Indian Bohra spiritual leader (b. 1888) ·
Harry Blackstone Sr.,
American magician (b. 1885) ·
W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician, former
president of the Provisional Government and the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (b. 1880) ·
Khalid al-Azm, 5-time Prime Minister of
Syria and acting President of Syria (b. 1903) ·
Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice
President of the United States (b. 1888) ·
November 21 – Astrojildo Pereira,
Brazilian politician (b. 1890) ·
November 24 – Abdullah
III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895) ·
November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890) December[edit] ·
December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1874) ·
Branch Rickey, American baseball executive
(b. 1881) ·
Charles Hurlbut "Dutch" Sterrett,
American professional baseball player (b. 1889) ·
December 10 – Henry Cowell, American composer (b. 1897) ·
December 11 – George
Constantinescu, Romanian scientist (b. 1881) ·
December 16 – W. Somerset Maugham,
English writer (b. 1874) ·
Richard Dimbleby, English broadcaster
(b. 1913) ·
Al Ritz, American actor (b. 1901) ·
John Black,
English businessman and chairman of Standard-Triumph (b. 1895) ·
William M. Branham,
American minister (b. 1909) ·
Lai Chuanzhu, Chinese general (b. 1910) ·
Frank S. Nugent, American journalist
(b. 1908) ·
Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and
conductor (b. 1886) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman ·
Chemistry – Robert Burns
Woodward ·
Physiology
or Medicine – François Jacob, André Michel Lwoff, Jacques Monod ·
Literature – Michail
Aleksandrovich Sholokhov ·
Peace – United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) References |
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