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1967 (MCMLXVII) was
a common year starting
on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1967th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 967th year of the 2nd millennium, the 67th year of
the 20th century,
and the 8th year of the 1960s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths · 5Sources Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1967 ·
January 1 – Canada begins a year-long
celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North
America Act, 1867, featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair. ·
January 2 – Ronald Reagan, past movie actor and future
President of the United States, is inaugurated the new governor of California. ·
January 4 – The Doors release their début
album The Doors,
which contains "Light My Fire". ·
Spain
and Romania sign an agreement in Paris
establishing full consular and commercial relations (not diplomatic ones). ·
Charlie Chaplin launches his last
film, A Countess from
Hong Kong, in the UK. ·
January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops
launch Operation
Deckhouse Five in the Mekong Delta. ·
January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar
Falls starts. ·
January 10 – Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor
of Georgia. ·
January 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person
to be cryonically preserved with the intent
of future resuscitation. ·
January 13 – A military coup occurs in Togo under
the leadership of Étienne Eyadema. ·
The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is
conducting secret germ warfare experiments. ·
The Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco; the event sets the stage for
the Summer of Love. ·
Louis Leakey announces the discovery of
pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the
species Kenyapithecus africanus. ·
American football:
The Green Bay Packers defeat
the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10
in the First AFL-NFL World
Championship Game at the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum. ·
Albert DeSalvo is convicted of numerous
crimes and sentenced to life in prison. ·
Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the
UK's Liberal Party. ·
In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of
82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he
led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands.
He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.[citation needed] ·
Milton Keynes (England) is founded as
a new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to
become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three
existing towns and twenty one villages. The area to be developed was largely
farmland, with evidence of
permanent settlement dating back to the Bronze Age. ·
The Parliament
of the United Kingdom decides to nationalise 90% of the
nation's steel industry. ·
Chicago's
largest-ever blizzard begins. ·
Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White,
and Roger Chaffee are
killed when fire breaks out in their Apollospacecraft during a launch pad test. ·
The
United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty (ratified
by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting weapons of
mass destruction from space. ·
January 31 – West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations. February[edit] Main article: February 1967 ·
February 2 – The American
Basketball Association is formed. ·
February 3 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged
in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December
1965. ·
February 4 – The Soviet Union protests the
demonstrations before its embassy in Beijing. ·
NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3. ·
Italy's
first guided missile
cruiser, the Vittorio
Veneto, is launched. ·
General Anastasio Somoza
Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua. ·
February 6 – Alexei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an
8-day visit. He meets The Queen on February 9. ·
The
Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee the safety of
Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet Embassy building. ·
Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives, and destroys
2,642.7 square kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land. ·
Mazenod
College, Victoria, opens in Australia. ·
February 10 – The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (presidential
succession and disability) is ratified. ·
February 11 – Burgess Ice Rise, lying off the west coast
of Alexander Island,
Antarctica, is first mapped by the British
Antarctic Survey (BAS). ·
February 13 – American researchers
discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in
the National
Library of Spain.[1] ·
February 15 – The Soviet Union announces that it has sent
troops near the Chinese border. ·
February 18 – New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he will solve the
John F. Kennedy assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New
Orleans. ·
Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia (see Transition to
the New Order and Supersemar). ·
Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime
Minister of Jamaica,
succeeding Alexander Bustamante. ·
Trinidad and Tobago is
the first Commonwealth nation
to join the Organization
of American States. ·
The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is
enacted. ·
February 24 – Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic
relations with West Germany. ·
The
Chinese government announces that it has ordered the army to help in the
spring seeding. ·
Britain's
second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched. ·
February 26 – A Soviet nuclear test is
conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test
Site, Eastern Kazakhstan. ·
February 27 – The Dutch government supports British EEC membership. March[edit] Main article: March 1967 ·
March 1 ·
The
city of Hatogaya, Saitama,
Japan, is founded. ·
Brazilian police arrest Franz Stangl, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór
extermination camps. ·
The Red Guards return
to schools in China. ·
The Queen Elizabeth Hall is
opened in London. ·
Óscar Gestido is
sworn in as President of Uruguay after
15 years of collegiate
government. ·
March 4 ·
The
first North Sea gas is
pumped ashore at Easington,
East Riding of Yorkshire. ·
Queens Park
Rangers become the first 3rd Division side to win the
English Football League Cup at Wembley Stadium,
defeating West Bromwich
Albion 3–2. ·
March 5 – Mohammad Mosaddegh (or
Mosaddeq; Persian: مُحَمَد
مُصَدِق; IPA: [mohæmˈmæd(-e) mosædˈdeɣ] ( ·
March 6 – Mark Twain Tonight starring Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, premieres
on CBS television in the United States. ·
March 7 – U.S. labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence
for attempting to bribe a jury. ·
March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva,
defects to the United States via the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. ·
March 11 – The first phase of the Cambodian Civil War begins
between the Kingdom of Cambodia and
the Khmer Rouge. ·
March 12 ·
The Indonesian State Assembly takes all
presidential powers from Sukarno and
names Suharto as acting president (Suharto
resigned in 1998). ·
The Velvet
Underground's first album, The
Velvet Underground & Nico, is released in the United
States. It is initially a commercial failure but receives widespread critical
and commercial acclaim in later years. ·
March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo,
is sentenced to death in absentia. ·
March 14 ·
The
body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent
burial place at Arlington National
Cemetery. ·
Nine
executives of the German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for
breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide. ·
March 16 – In the Aspida case in
Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2–18 years in prison, accused of treason
and intentions of staging a coup. ·
March 18 ·
Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs
aground between Land's End and
the Scilly Isles off
the coast of Britain. ·
The
classic Pirates
of the Caribbean attraction opens at Disneyland, California. ·
March 19 – A referendum in French Somaliland favors
the connection to France. ·
March 21 ·
A
military coup takes place in Sierra Leone. ·
Vietnam War: In ongoing campus unrest, Howard University students
protesting the Vietnam War, the ROTC program
on campus and the draft, confront Gen. Lewis Hershey,
then head of the U.S. Selective
Service System, and as he attempts to deliver an address, shout
him down with cries of "America is the Black man's battleground!" ·
Charles Manson is released from Terminal Island. Telling the authorities
that prison had become his home, he requested permission to stay. Upon his
release, he relocates to San Francisco where he spends the Summer of Love.[2] ·
March 26 ·
In
New York City, 10,000 gather for the Central Park be-in. ·
Jim Thompson,
co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands. ·
March 28 – Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum progressio. ·
March 29 ·
A
13-day TV strike begins in the United States. ·
The
first French nuclear submarine, Le
Redoutable, is launched. ·
The SEACOM Asian
telephone cable is inaugurated. ·
Torrey Canyon oil spill: British Fleet Air Arm and Royal Air Force aircraft bomb and sink
the grounded supertanker SS Torrey Canyon. ·
March 31 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular
Treaty. April[edit] Main article: April 1967 ·
April 2 – A United Nations delegation arrives
in Aden as its independence approaches.
The delegation leaves April 7, accusing
British authorities of lack of cooperation. The British say the delegation
did not contact them. ·
April 4 – Martin Luther King
Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during his sermon at the
Riverside Church in New York City. ·
April 6 – Georges Pompidou begins to form the
next French government. ·
April 7 – Six-Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7
Syrian MIG-21s. ·
April 8 – Puppet on a String by
Sandie Shaw (music and lyrics by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1967 for the United Kingdom. ·
April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its
maiden flight. ·
April 10 ·
The
AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony
to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best
Picture goes to A Man
for All Seasons. ·
Oral
arguments begin in the landmark Supreme
Court of the United States case Loving v. Virginia,
388 U.S. 1 (1967), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to
prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial
classifications.[citation needed] ·
April 12 – The Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles. ·
April 13 – Conservatives win
the Greater London
Council elections. ·
April 14 – In San Francisco, 10,000 march against
the Vietnam War. ·
April 15 ·
Large
demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco. The march, organized by the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in
Vietnam, from Central Park to the United Nations drew hundreds of
thousands of people, including Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr., Harry Belafonte, James Bevel, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, who marched and spoke at the
event. A simultaneous march in San Francisco was attended by Coretta Scott King.[citation needed] ·
Scotland
defeats England 3–2 at Wembley Stadium, with goals from Law, Lennox and
McCalligog, in the British Championships. This is England's first defeat
since they won the World Cup, and ends a 19-game unbeaten run. ·
April 20 ·
The Surveyor 3 probe lands
on the Moon. ·
A
Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop
crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.[3][4] ·
April 21 ·
Greece
suffers a military coup by a group of military officers, who establish
a military
dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos;
future-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou remains
a political prisoner to December 25. The dictatorship ends in 1974. ·
An
outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the United States
(in particular the Chicago area, including the suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn, Illinois,[citation needed] where 33 people are killed and 500
injured). ·
April 23 – A group of young leftist
radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan
Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist
Workers Party (POS). ·
April 24 ·
Soyuz 1: Vladimir Komarov becomes
the first Soviet cosmonaut to die,
when the parachute of his space capsule fails during re-entry. ·
In
the NBA, the Philadelphia 76ers defeat
the San Francisco
Warriors 125-122 in game six to win the title. Some say this
team is arguably the greatest of all time. ·
April 27 – Montreal, Quebec, Expo 67, a World's Fair to coincide with the Canadian
Confederation centennial, officially opens with Prime
Minister Lester B. Pearsonigniting
the Expo Flame in the Place des Nations. ·
April 28 ·
In Houston, Texas, boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
He is stripped of his boxing title and barred from professional boxing for
the next three years. ·
Expo 67 opens to the public, with over
310,000 people attending. Al Carter from Chicago is the first visitor as
noted by Expo officials. ·
The
U.S. aerospace
manufacturer McDonnell Douglas is
formed through a merger of McDonnell Aircraft and Douglas Aircraft (it
becomes part of The Boeing Company three
decades later). ·
April 29 – Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual
property belongs to the people and that Cuba intends
to translate and publish technical literature without compensation. ·
April 30 – Moscow's 537 m tall TV tower is finished. May[edit] Main article: May 1967 ·
May 1 ·
Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are
married in Las Vegas. ·
GO Transit, Canada's first interregional
public transit system, is established. ·
May 2 ·
The Toronto Maple Leafs win
the Stanley Cup. It is
their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It will turn out
to be the last game in the Original Sixera. Six more teams will be
added in the fall. ·
Harold Wilson announces that the United
Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership. ·
May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the
United States. ·
May 6 ·
Dr. Zakir Hussain is
the first Muslim to become president of India. ·
Four
hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College,
now Cheyney
University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher
education for African Americans.[why?] ·
Hong Kong 1967 riots:
Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800. ·
May 8 – The Philippine
province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental. ·
May 10 – The Greek military government
accuses Andreas Papandreou of
treason. ·
May 11 – The United Kingdom and Ireland
apply officially for European
Economic Community membership. ·
May 12 – The Jimi
Hendrix Experience release their debut album, Are You Experienced. ·
May 15 – The Waiting
period leading up to the Six-Day War begins ·
May 17 ·
Syria mobilizes against Israel. ·
President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the
peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in
the Sinai. U.N.
Secretary-General U Thant complies
(May 18). ·
May 18 ·
Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the
"Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the Scopes Trial). ·
In
Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins guerrilla warfare in
Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero. ·
NASA announces
the crew for the Apollo 7 space
mission (first manned Apollo flight): Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. ·
May 19 — Yuri Andropov becomes KGB chief
in the Soviet Union. ·
May 20 — The Spring Mobilization
Conference, a gathering of 700 antiwar activists is held in Washington D.C.
to chart the future moves for the U.S. antiwar movement ·
May 22 – The Innovation department
store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium,
burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in
323 dead and missing and 150 injured.[5] ·
May 23
The Sun on 23 May 1967, 1840 UT ·
·
A
significant worldwide geomagnetic flare unfolded. Radio emissions coming from
the Sun jammed military surveillance radars.[6] ·
Egypt
closes the Straits of Tiran to
Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Seacoastline. ·
May 25 ·
Celtic F.C. becomes the first Northern European football club to win
the European Cup (now
Champions League). ·
May 27 ·
Naxalite Guerrilla War:
Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this
Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The
guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the
government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy
landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.[7] ·
The Australian
referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support,
removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences
referring to Indigenous
Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in
recognising Indigenous rights. ·
The folk rock band Fairport Convention plays
their first gig in Golders Green,
North London. ·
May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence, which
is not recognized. June[edit] Main article: June 1967
June 5: Six-Day War, Israel defeats Arab countries. ·
June – Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Minister of Defense. ·
June 1 – The Beatles release Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nicknamed "The
Soundtrack of the Summer of Love";
it will be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967. ·
June 2 ·
Protests
in West Berlin against
the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn
into fights, during which 27-year-old Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police
officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement. ·
Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution
in the United States. ·
June 4 – Stockport air
disaster: British Midland flight
G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew. ·
June 5 ·
Six-Day War begins: Israel
launches Operation Focus,
a preemptive strike on Egyptian Air Force air
fields; the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq,
and Jordan invade Israel. Battle of
Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian
campaign ·
Murderer Richard Speck is sentenced to death in
the electric chair for killing 8 student nurses in Chicago. ·
June 7 – ·
Capture
of East Jerusalem in a battle conducted by Israeli forces without the use of
artillery in order to avoid damage to the Holy City. ·
Two Moby Grape members are arrested for
contributing to the delinquency of minors. ·
June 8 – USS Liberty incident ·
June 10 ·
Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. ·
The Soviet Union severs diplomatic
relations with Israel. ·
Margrethe,
heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de
Laborde de Monpezat. ·
June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death
of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The
unrest lasts several days. ·
June 12 ·
Loving v. Virginia: The United States
Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to
be unconstitutional.[8] ·
Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union (the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return
data). ·
June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is
nominated as the first African American justice of the United States
Supreme Court.[9] ·
June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus. ·
June 14–15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in
New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition). ·
June 16 – The Monterey Pop
Festival begins and is held for 3 days. ·
June 17 – The People's Republic of
China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[10] ·
June 18 – Eighteen British soldiers are
killed in the Aden police mutiny.[11] ·
June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets
with Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New
Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro
Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at
the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters
clashed with L.A. police.[12] ·
June 25 – 400 million viewers
watch Our World,
the first live, international, satellite television production. It features
the live debut of The Beatles' song
"All You Need Is Love". ·
June 26 ·
Pope Paul VI ordains 27 new cardinals
(one of whom is the future Pope Saint John
Paul II). ·
The Buffalo Race Riot begins,
lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests.
Plaque commemorating installation of world's
first bank cash machine ·
June 27 – The first automatic cash
machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of Barclays Bank in Enfield, England. ·
June 28 – Israel declares the annexation of
East Jerusalem. ·
June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former President of Katanga and former prime minister of
the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria. July[edit] Main article: July 1967 ·
July 1 ·
Canada
celebrates its first one hundred
years of Confederation. ·
The EEC joins
with the European
Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Community,
to form the European Communities (from
the 1980s usually known as European Community [EC]). ·
Seaboard
Air Line Railroad merges with Atlantic Coast Line railroad, to become
Seaboard Coast Line railroad, first step to today's CSX Transportation. ·
The
first UK colour television broadcasts
begin on BBC2. The first one is from the Wimbledon
tennis championships. A full colour service begins on BBC2
on December 2. ·
American Samoa's first constitution becomes
effective. ·
July 3 – A military rebellion led by
Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins
in Katanga, Democratic
Republic of the Congo. ·
July 4 – The British Parliament
decriminalizes homosexuality. ·
July 5 – Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control
of Stanleyville, Congo. ·
July 6 ·
Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade the
secessionist Biafra May 30. ·
A level crossing collision between a
train loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg, East Germany kills 94 people, mostly
children. ·
July 7 – All You Need Is Love is
released in the UK. ·
July 10 ·
Heavy
massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371. ·
New
Zealand decimalises its currency from pound to dollar at
£1 to $2 ($1 = 10/-). ·
July 12 ·
The
Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship. ·
1967 Newark riots:
After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally
driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riotsbreak out in Newark, New Jersey,
lasting 5 days and leaving 26 dead. ·
July 14 ·
The Bee Gees release their first
international album Bee Gees' 1st in the UK. ·
Near
Newark, New Jersey, the Plainfield, NJ,
riots take place. ·
July 16 – A prison riot in Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead. ·
July 18 – The United Kingdom announces
the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the U.S.
disapprove. ·
July 19 ·
A
race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street
during the Minneapolis
Aquatennial Parade; businesses are vandalized and fires break
out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However,
the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads
to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages
totaling 4.2 million. Two more such incidents occur during the following two
weeks.[citation needed] ·
Eighty-two
people are killed in a collision between Piedmont
Airlines Flight 22 and a Cessna 310 near Hendersonville,
North Carolina. ·
July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first
Viareggio-Versile prize. ·
July 21 – The town of Winneconne,
Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it
is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed
the next day. ·
July 23–31 – 12th Street Riot:
In Detroit, one of the worst riots in United
States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are
killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned. ·
July 24 – During an official state
visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares
to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec
libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement,
interpreted as support for Quebec independence,
delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians. ·
July 29 ·
An
explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in
the Gulf of Tonkin leaves
134 dead. ·
Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where
he receives political asylum. ·
An earthquake in Caracas, Venezuela leaves 240 dead. ·
July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee race
riots begin, lasting through August 3 and leading to a
ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1. August[edit] Main article: August 1967 ·
August 1 – Race riots in the United States spread
to Washington, D.C.. ·
August 2 – The Turkish football
club Trabzonspor is
established in Trabzon. ·
August 5 – Pink Floyd releases their debut
album The Piper
at the Gates of Dawn in the United Kingdom. ·
August 6 – A pulsar is noted by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish. The discovery is first
recorded in print in 1968: "An entirely novel kind of star came to light
on Aug. 6 last year [...]". The date of the discovery
is not recorded.[citation needed] ·
August 7 ·
Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China
agrees to give North Vietnam an
undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant. ·
A
general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification
of the city. ·
August 8 – The Association
of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded in Bangkok, Thailand. ·
August 9 – Vietnam War – Operation Cochise: United States
Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley. ·
August 10 – Belgian mercenary Jean
Schramme's troops take the Congolese border town of Bukavu. ·
August 13 – The first line-up of Fleetwood Mac makes their live debut at
the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival. ·
August 14 – Wonderful Radio
London shuts down at 3:00 PM in anticipation of
the Marine
Broadcasting Offences Act. Many fans greet the staff upon their
return to London that evening with placards reading "Freedom died with
Radio London".[citation needed] ·
August 15 – The United Kingdom Marine
Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in
offshore pirate radio illegal. Radio Caroline defies the Act and
continues broadcasting. ·
August 19 – West Germany receives
36 East German prisoners
it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen
and Wartha. ·
A
truce is declared in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. ·
Two
U.S. Navy jets stray into the airspace of the People's Republic of China
following an attack on a target in North Vietnam and are shot down. Lt. Robert J. Flynn, the only survivor, is
captured alive and will be held prisoner by China until 1973. ·
August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln
Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia. ·
The East
Coast Wrestling Association is established. ·
Beatles
manager Brian Epstein is
found dead in his locked bedroom. ·
August 29 – The final episode of The Fugitive airs
on ABC.
The broadcast attracts 78 million viewers, one of the largest audiences for a
single episode in U.S. television history. ·
August 30 – Thurgood Marshall is
confirmed as the first African American Justice of the United
States Supreme Court. September[edit] Main article: September 1967 ·
The Khmer–Chinese
Friendship Association is banned in Cambodia. ·
Ilse Koch, known as the "Witch of
Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach. ·
Nguyễn
Văn Thiệu is elected President of South Vietnam. ·
At
5:00 a.m. local time, all road traffic in Sweden switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand
traffic.[13][14] ·
September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States
Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quảng Nam and Quảng Tín provinces.
The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese. ·
September 5 – The television series The Prisoner has its world
broadcast premiere on the CTV Television
Network in Canada. ·
September 10 – In a Gibraltar
sovereignty referendum, only 44 voters out of 12,182 in the
British Crown colony of Gibraltar support union with Spain. ·
A
riot during a football match in Kayseri, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600
injured. ·
Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors
on The Ed Sullivan Show,
when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked
not to. ·
September 18 – Love
Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime
television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial
relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial
and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit. ·
September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives
in Southampton at
the end of her last transatlantic
crossing. ·
Tangerine Dream is founded by Edgar Froese in West-Berlin. ·
The
classic sci-fi TV series Captain
Scarlet and the Mysterons broadcasts on ITV. ·
September 30 – In the United
Kingdom, BBC Radio completely
restructures its national programming: the Light Programme is split between new
national pop station Radio 1 (modelled
on the successful pirate station Radio London)
and Radio 2; the
cultural Third Programme is
rebranded as Radio 3; and the
primarily-talk Home Service becomes Radio 4. October[edit] Main article: October 1967 ·
October 3 – An X-15 research
aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes
an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7. ·
Omar Ali Saifuddin
III of Brunei abdicates in
favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah. ·
The Shag Harbour
UFO incident occurs. ·
October 6 – Southern California's Pacific Ocean Park,
known as the "Disneyland By The Sea", closes down. ·
October 8 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured
in Bolivia; they are executed the following
day. ·
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news
conference that, because of North Vietnam's opposition, proposals by
the U.S.
Congressfor peace initiatives are futile. ·
The Naked Ape, by Desmond Morris, is published.[15] ·
October 14 – Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves
the Liberal Party. ·
October 16 – Thirty-nine people,
including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland,
California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction
center. ·
The
musical Hair opens
off-Broadway. It moves to Broadway the following April. ·
Vietnam War: The Battle of Ong Thanh takes
place. ·
Vietnam War: Students at the University
of Wisconsin–Madison protest over recruitment by Dow Chemical on the University campus;
76 are injured in the resulting riot. ·
Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated
feature The Jungle
Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney,
is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a
double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life
adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.[citation needed] ·
The Venera 4 probe descends through
the Venusian atmosphere. ·
October 19 – The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus. ·
October 20 – Patterson–Gimlin
film: Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin's famous film of an
unidentified animate cryptid, thought to
be Bigfoot or Sasquatch, is recorded at Bluff Creek,
California. ·
Approximately
70,000 Vietnam War protesters
march in Washington, D.C. and rally at the Lincoln Memorial; in a successive
march that day, 50,000 people march to the Pentagon, where Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin symbolically
chant to "levitate" the building and "exorcise the evil
within." ·
An Egyptian surface-to-surface missile
sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat,
killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries
along the Suez Canal. ·
October 23 – Charles de Gaulle becomes
the first French Co-Prince of Andorra to
visit his Andorran subjects. In addition to being President of France,
de Gaulle is a joint ruler (along with Spain's Bishop of Urgel of the tiny nation
located in the mountains between France and Spain, pursuant to the 1278 agreement
creating the nation.[16] ·
October 25 – The Abortion Act 1967 passes
in the British Parliament and receives royal assent two days later. ·
The
coronation ceremony of Shah Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi of Iran, ruler of the nation since 1941, takes place. ·
U.S.
Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and
taken prisoner. His capture is confirmed two days later, and he remains a
prisoner of war for more than five years. ·
French
President Charles de Gaulle vetoes
British entry into the European
Economic Community for the second time in the decade. ·
London
criminal Jack McVitie is
murdered by the Kray twins, a crime
that eventually leads to their imprisonment and downfall. ·
President
Joseph Mobutu of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo launches an offensive against
mercenaries in Bukavu. ·
Expo 67 closes in Montreal, after having attracted more than
50 million visitors in six months. ·
October 30 – Hong Kong 1967 riots:
British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China and
Hong Kong. November[edit] Main article: November 1967 ·
November
– Islamabad officially becomes Pakistan's political capital,
replacing Karachi. ·
November 2 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds
a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders
("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American
people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should
be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.[citation needed] ·
November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Đắk Tô (located about
280 miles north of Saigon near
the Cambodian border), heavy casualties are
suffered on both sides; U.S. troops narrowly win the battle on November 22. ·
November 4–5 – In the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw
from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda. ·
November 6 – The Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws. ·
U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs
the Public
Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting. ·
Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of
Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American elected mayor of a
major United States city. ·
The
50th anniversary of the Great
October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the Soviet Union. ·
November 8 – The BBC's
first local radio station
(BBC Radio Leicester)
is launched. ·
November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches
the first Saturn V rocket,
successfully carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy into Earth orbit. ·
November 11 – Vietnam War: In a ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war
are released by the Viet Cong and
turned over to American "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden. ·
November 14 – The Congress of Colombia,
in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa
Salavarrieta, declares this day as the "Day of the Colombian
Woman". ·
General Georgios Grivas and his 10,000 strong
Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by
the Greek
Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios
Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties
into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.[citation needed] ·
Test
pilot Michael Adams is
killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of
control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates. ·
Vietnam
War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells
the nation that, while much remains to be done, "We are inflicting
greater losses than we're taking ... We are making progress." (Two
months later the Tet Offensive by
the Viet Cong is widely reported as a Viet Cong victory by the U.S. press and
thus as a major setback to the U.S.)[citation needed] ·
French
author Régis Debray is
sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia. (He will be released in 1970 after
less than three years imprisonment.) ·
November 18 – The UK pound is devalued from £1 = US$2.80
to £1 = US$2.40. ·
November 19 – The establishment
of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in
Hong Kong. ·
November 20 – The "population
clock" of the United States
Census Bureau records the U.S. population at 200 million
people at 11:03 a.m. Washington, D.C. time.[17] ·
November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells
news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy
was winning, today he is certainly losing."[citation needed] ·
November 22 – UN
Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council,
establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement. ·
November 25 – Australian
Senate election, 1967: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led by Prime
Minister Harold Holt lost
two seats, while the Labor Partyled
by Gough Whitlam failed
to make any gains. The Democratic
Labor Party won the two seats from the Liberals and gained the
sole balance of power in the Senate. ·
November 26 – Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462. ·
November 27 – The Beatles release Magical
Mystery Tour in the U.S. as a full album. The songs added
to the original six songs on the double EP include "All You Need Is Love",
"Penny Lane", "Strawberry
Fields Forever", "Baby, You're a
Rich Man" and "Hello, Goodbye". Release as a double EP
will not take place in the UK until December.[citation needed] ·
November 28 – The first pulsar to be discovered by Earth
observers is found in the constellation of Vulpecula by astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, and is given the name PSR B1919+21. ·
November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his
resignation to become president of the World Bank. McNamara's resignation follows
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's
outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze
troop levels, stop the bombing of North Vietnam, and hand over ground fighting
to South Vietnam.[citation needed] ·
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto founds
the Pakistan People's
Party and becomes its first chairman. It has gone on to
become one of Pakistan's major political parties (alongside the Pakistan Muslim
League) that is broken into many factions, bearing the same
name under different leaders, such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party
Parliamentarians (PPPP). ·
The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes
independent of the United Kingdom. ·
Pro-Soviet
communists in the Philippines establish Malayang
Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing. ·
U.S.
Senator Eugene McCarthy announces
his candidacy for the Democratic
Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent
President Lyndon B. Johnsonover
the Vietnam War. December[edit] Main article: December 1967
December 3: Doctor Christiaan Barnard carries
out first heart transplant. ·
The Jimi
Hendrix Experience releases Axis: Bold as Love. ·
The RMS Queen Mary is retired.
Her place is taken by the RMS Queen
Elizabeth 2. ·
December 3 – Christiaan Barnard carries
out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur
Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. ·
At
6:50 PM, a volcano erupts
on Deception Island in
Antarctica. ·
Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong
Viet Cong battalion are killed). ·
December 5 – In New York City, Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for
protesting against the Vietnam War. ·
December 6 – Vice President Jorge Pacheco Areco is
sworn in as President
of Uruguay after President Oscar Gestido dies in office. ·
December 8 – Magical
Mystery Tour is released by The Beatles as a double EP in the UK,
while the only psychedelic rock album by The Rolling Stones, Their
Satanic Majesties Request, is released in the UK and in the
USA. ·
Nicolae
Ceaușescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State
Council, making him the de facto leader of Romania. ·
Jim Morrison is arrested on stage
in New Haven,
Connecticut for attempting to spark a riot in the audience
during a concert. ·
December 11 – Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France. ·
December 12 – Guess Who's
Coming to Dinner, one of the seminal race relations films of
the 1960s, is released to theaters. ·
December 13 – King Constantine II
of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails. ·
December 15 – The Silver Bridge over
the Ohio River in Point
Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses, killing 46 people. ·
December 17 – Harold Holt, 17th Prime
Minister of Australia, disappears when
swimming at Cheviot Beach,
60 km from Melbourne. He was
briefly replaced as Prime Minister by John McEwen, until the Liberal Party elected Minister
for Education and
Science John Gorton as
leader. ·
December 19 – Professor John Archibald
Wheeler coined the astronomical term black hole. ·
December 26 – The Beatles' film Magical
Mystery Tour receives its world première on BBC Television in the UK. ·
The
Green Bay Packers become the first team in the modern era to win their third
consecutive NFL Championship, 21-17 over the Dallas Cowboys in what became
known as "The Ice Bowl". ·
Motorcycle
daredevil Evel Knievel attempts
to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip. Knievel crashes on landing
and the accident is caught on film. Date unknown[edit] ·
Warner Bros. becomes a wholly owned
subsidiary of Seven Arts
Productions, thus becoming Warner
Bros.-Seven Arts. ·
The Jari project begins in the Amazon. ·
Albania is officially declared an atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha. ·
The University of
Winnipeg is founded in Canada. ·
Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona. ·
St Christopher's
Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South
London by Dame Cicely Saunders with
the support of Albertine Winner.[18] ·
PAL is
first introduced in Germany. ·
Gunsmoke, after 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets
cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members
of Congress and
especially William S. Paley,
the head of the network, lead the network to move the series from its
longtime late Saturday time slot to early Mondays for the
fall—displacing Gilligan's Island,
which initially had been renewed for a fourth season but is cancelled
instead. Gunsmoke would remain on CBS until 1975.[citation needed] ·
Lech Wałęsa goes to work
in Gdańsk shipyards. ·
The
Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri. ·
Parker Morris
Standards become mandatory for all housing built in new towns
in the United Kingdom. ·
Sabon typeface, designed by Jan Tschichold, introduced. ·
Gabriel García
Márquez's influential novel One Hundred
Years of Solitude is published (in Spanish). ·
The
first edition of the book, A Short
History of Pakistan, is published by Karachi University, Pakistan. ·
Fernand Braudel begins publication
of Civilisation matérielle, économie et capitalisme, XVe-XVIIIe siècle. ·
The National Hockey
League adds six more teams, doubling its size. The teams are
the St. Louis Blues, Oakland Seals, Minnesota North
Stars, Los Angeles Kings, Philadelphia Flyers,
and Pittsburgh Penguins. Births[edit] January[edit]
·
January 1 – Sunny Chan, Hong Kong actor ·
January 2 – Tia Carrere, American actress ·
January 4 – Marina Orsini, Canadian actress ·
Nick Clegg, British politician ·
Mark Lamarr, British comedian, TV and radio
presenter ·
Małgorzata
Foremniak, Polish actress ·
R. Kelly, American R&B singer and
songwriter ·
Dale Gordon, English footballer ·
Dave Matthews, South African–born American
musician ·
January 11 – Michael Healy-Rae,
Irish politician ·
January 12 – Vendela Kirsebom, Norwegian supermodel ·
January 13 – Suzanne Cryer, American actress ·
Kerri Green, American actress and film
director ·
Leo Ortolani,
Italian comic book author ·
Emily Watson, English actress ·
January 15 – Lisa Lisa, American actress and singer ·
January 16 – Andrea James, American producer and author ·
January 17 – Song Kang-ho, Korean actor ·
January 18 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer ·
Wigald Boning, German actor, singer, writer
and television presenter ·
Kellyanne Conway, American pollster,
political consultant, and pundit ·
January 21 – Artashes Minasian,
Armenian chess grandmaster ·
January 23 – Naim
Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter (d. 2017) ·
Phil LaMarr, American actor and comedian ·
John Myung, American musician ·
Nozomu Sasaki, Japanese voice actor ·
Voltaire,
Cuban singer ·
January 28 – Bongani Mayosi, South African cardiology
professor (d. 2018) ·
January 29 – Khalid Skah, Moroccan long-distance runner ·
Randy Bernard, former CEO of Professional
Bull Riders and IndyCar, current co-manager of Garth Brooks ·
Fat Mike, American musician and producer ·
Roberto Palazuelos,
Mexican actor ·
Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress February[edit]
·
February 1 – Meg Cabot, American teen author ·
Doc Hammer, American actor and voice artist ·
Jenny Lumet, American actress ·
Frederick Pitcher,
Nauruan politician ·
February 5 – Chris Parnell, American actor and comedian ·
February 6 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard)
(d. 2007) ·
February 7 – Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress ·
Todd Pratt, American baseball player ·
Dan Shulman, Canadian sports announcer ·
Laura Dern, American actress ·
Vince Gilligan, American writer, director
and producer ·
Armand Serrano, Filipino animator ·
Hank Gathers, American college basketball
player (d. 1990) ·
Paul McLoone, Irish radio presenter, voice
actor, former radio producer and frontman with The Undertones ·
Sophie Fiennes, English film director and
producer ·
Chitravina N.
Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician ·
February 13 – Carolyn Lawrence, American actress and voice
actress ·
Mark Rutte, Dutch politician, 50th Prime
Minister of the Netherlands since 2010. ·
Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou,
British-Greek entrepreneur ·
Dan Farr, American entrepreneur, Founder
of Salt Lake Comic Con ·
Trond Egil Soltvedt,
Norwegian footballer ·
Marco
Aurélio, Brazilian footballer ·
Roberto Baggio, Italian football player ·
Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican-American
actor ·
John Valentin, American baseball player ·
Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994) ·
David Herman, American actor ·
Andrew Shue, American actor and activist ·
Kath Soucie, American voice actress ·
Lili Taylor, American actress ·
Bentley Mitchum, American actor ·
Paul Lieberstein, American screenwriter and
actor ·
February 25 – Oleg Babak, Soviet army officer (d. 1991) ·
Currie Graham, Canadian actor ·
Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer ·
February 27 – Jonathan Ive, Apple Corporation designer March[edit]
·
March 1 ·
George Eads, American actor ·
Rosyam Nor, Malaysian actor ·
March 3 – Hans Teeuwen, Dutch comedian ·
March 4 ·
Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer ·
Tim Vine, English comedian and actor ·
March 6 ·
Connie Britton, American actress ·
Glenn Greenwald, American journalist and
author ·
Mihai Tudose, Prime Minister
of Romania ·
March 7 – Jean-Pierre Barda,
Swedish singer (Army of Lovers) ·
March 10 – Omer Tarin, Pakistani/South Asian poet,
writer and scholar ·
March 11 ·
John Barrowman, Scottish-American actor and
singer ·
George
Gray, American comedian and game show announcer ·
March 12 – Massimiliano
Frezzato, Italian comic writer ·
March 13 – Andrés Escobar,
Colombian football player (d. 1994) ·
March 15 – Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist ·
March 16 ·
Lauren Graham, American actress and singer ·
John Mangum, American professional football
player ·
March 17 – Billy Corgan, American musician and
songwriter ·
March 18 ·
Taiten Kusunoki, Japanese actor and voice
artist ·
Andre Rison, American pro football player ·
March 21 ·
Jonas Berggren, Swedish musician ·
Adrian Chiles, British television and radio
presenter ·
March 22 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist ·
March 25 ·
Matthew Barney, American sculptor,
photographer and filmmaker ·
Debi Thomas, American figure skater ·
March 26 – Mark Carroll,
Australian rugby league footballer ·
March 27 ·
Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
Talisa Soto, American actress ·
March 29 ·
Brian Jordan, American baseball player ·
Randy Myers,
American animator and director ·
March 30 ·
Albert-László
Barabási, Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist ·
Christopher Bowman,
American figure skater (d. 2008) ·
Megumi Hayashibara,
Japanese actress and voice actress April[edit]
Willem-Alexander
of the Netherlands
·
April 2 – Renée Estevez, American actress and writer ·
April 3 – Andy Parsons, English comedian and writer ·
April 5 ·
Anu Garg, Indian-American writer and speaker ·
Troy Gentry, American country musician (Montgomery Gentry)
(d. 2017) ·
April 6 ·
Kathleen Barr, Canadian voice actress ·
Jonathan Firth, English actor ·
Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler ·
April 9 ·
Sam Harris, American neuroscientist and
political podcast host ·
Alex Kahn, American artist ·
April 11 – Liina Olmaru, Estonian actress ·
April 14 ·
Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 1999) ·
Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler ·
April 15 ·
Frankie Poullain, British rock bassist ·
Dara Torres, American swimmer ·
April 17 ·
Henry Ian Cusick, American actor ·
Kimberly Elise, African-American actress ·
Marquis Grissom, American baseball player ·
Liz Phair, American musician ·
April 18 – Maria Bello, American actress ·
April 20 ·
Mike Portnoy, American musician ·
Raymond van
Barneveld, Dutch darts player ·
April 22 ·
Sheryl Lee, American actress ·
Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and TV show
host ·
April 23 – Melina Kanakaredes,
American actress ·
April 26 ·
Glenn Jacobs (aka "Kane"),
American professional wrestler ·
Marianne
Jean-Baptiste, English actress, singer-songwriter, composer and
director ·
April 27 – Willem-Alexander
of the Netherlands ·
April 28 – Kevin Jubinville, Canadian actor ·
April 29 ·
Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player ·
Rachel Williams, American model, actress and
television presenter ·
April 30 ·
Philipp Kirkorov, Soviet-Russian pop singer,
actor and producer ·
Steven Mackintosh,
English actor May[edit]
·
May 1 ·
Scott Coffey, American actor and director ·
Kenny Hotz, Canadian entertainer ·
Tim McGraw, American country singer ·
May 4 ·
Ana Gasteyer, American actress ·
Akiko Yajima, Japanese voice actress ·
May 5 ·
Takehito Koyasu, Japanese voice actor ·
Bill Ward,
English actor ·
May 8 – Angus
Scott, British sports television presenter ·
May 10 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and
sportscaster ·
May 11 – Géza Röhrig, Hungarian actor and poet ·
May 12 ·
Brent Forrester, American writer and
producer ·
Bill Shorten, Australian politician ·
May 13 ·
Chuck Schuldiner, American singer and
guitarist (d. 2001) ·
Melanie Thornton, American singer (La Bouche) (d. 2001) ·
May 14 – Tony Siragusa, American football player ·
May 15 ·
Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress ·
John Smoltz, American baseball player ·
May 19 ·
Geraldine Somerville,
Irish actress ·
Massimo Taccon, Italian painter, sculptor
and writer ·
May 21 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler
(d. 2007) ·
May 22 – Brooke Smith,
American actress ·
May 24 ·
Andrey Borodin, Russian banker ·
Eric Close, American actor ·
Heavy D, Jamaican-born American rapper,
singer, record producer, and actor (d. 2011) ·
Bruno Putzulu, French actor ·
May 25 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author ·
May 26 ·
Stacy Compton, American racing driver ·
Eddie McClintock, American actor ·
Kristen Pfaff, American bassist (d. 1994) ·
May 27 ·
Paul Gascoigne, English footballer ·
Kai Pflaume, German television presenter and
game show host ·
Kristen Skjeldal, Norwegian Olympic skier ·
May 28 – Glen Rice, American basketball player ·
May 29 – Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis) ·
May 31 ·
Sandrine Bonnaire,
French actress ·
Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-born television
host (The Amazing Race) ·
Kenny Lofton, American baseball player June[edit]
·
June 1 – Roger Sanchez, American DJ ·
June 3 ·
Anderson Cooper, American television
journalist ·
Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer ·
Christopher
Walker, Gibraltarian triathlete and cyclist ·
June 5 ·
Joe DeLoach, American athlete ·
Ron Livingston, American actor ·
June 6 ·
Max Casella, American actor ·
Tristan Gemmill, English actor ·
Paul Giamatti, American actor ·
June 7 ·
Olli Mustonen, Finnish pianist and composer ·
Dave Navarro, American guitarist and singer
(Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili
Peppers) ·
June 8 ·
Efan Ekoku, Nigerian footballer ·
Jasmin Tabatabai, German/Iranian actress and
musician ·
June 9 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner ·
June 10 ·
Darren Robinson,
African-American rapper (The Fat Boys) (d. 1995) ·
Emma Anderson, British musician and
songwriter (Lush (band) and Sing-Sing (band)) ·
June 15 ·
Fred Tatasciore, American voice actor ·
Yūji Ueda, Japanese voice actor ·
June 16 – Jürgen Klopp, German footballer ·
June 17 – Sikêra Júnior,
Brazilian radio journalist, journalist and television presenter ·
June 19 ·
Bjørn Dæhlie,
Norwegian Olympic skier ·
Mia Sara, American actress ·
June 20 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian
actress ·
June 21 ·
Jim Breuer, former Saturday Night Live cast
member and stand-up comedian ·
Yingluck Shinawatra,
Thai politician, 28th Prime Minister
of Thailand ·
June 22 – Lane Napper, American actor ·
June 23 – Yoko Minamino, Japanese Idol star
and actress ·
June 24 ·
Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Michael Kessler, German actor, comedian and
author ·
Richard Z. Kruspe,
German rock musician (Rammstein) ·
Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director ·
June 26 ·
Kaori Asoh, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
Luisito Espinosa, Filipino boxer ·
June 28 ·
Gil Bellows, Canadian film and television actor ·
Lars Riedel, German Olympic athlete ·
June 29 ·
Jeff Burton, American race car driver ·
Melora Hardin, American actress and singer ·
June 30 ·
Quốc Bảo, Vietnamese songwriter
and record producer ·
Sture Fladmark, Norwegian football manager
and player ·
Robert
Więckiewicz, Polish film and television actor July[edit]
·
July 1 ·
Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress and model ·
Luca Bottale, Italian voice actor ·
Ritchie Coster, English film, television,
and theatre actor ·
Kim Komando, American talk radio program
host ·
Peter Plate, German musician, singer,
songwriter and record producer ·
July 2 ·
Maïtena Biraben,
French-Swiss television presenter and producer ·
Sue Devaney, English actress ·
Paul Wekesa, Kenyan tennis player ·
July 3 – Brian Cashman, American baseball executive ·
July 4 ·
Vinny Castilla, Mexican Major League
Baseball player ·
Andy Walker,
Canadian television personality ·
July 5 ·
Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist ·
Steffen Wink, German actor ·
July 6 ·
Wendell Lawrence, Bahamian triple jumper ·
Heather Nova, Bermudian singer-songwriter ·
July 7 ·
Tom
Kristensen, Danish racing car driver ·
Shamsurin Abdul Rahman, Malaysian footballer ·
July 8 ·
Jordan Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
Henry McKop, Zimbabwean football defender ·
July 9 ·
Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician ·
Mark Stoops, American football coach ·
July 10 ·
Tom Meents, American monster truck driver ·
Ikki Sawamura, Japanese model, film and
television actor, and television presenter ·
July 11 ·
Andy Ashby, American baseball player ·
John Henson,
American TV show host ·
Jhumpa Lahiri, British-born Indian-American
author ·
Simon
Jutras, American actor ·
July 12 ·
Richard Herring, British comedian and writer ·
Martin Lynes, Australian actor ·
John Petrucci, American musician ·
Count
Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth ·
July 13 ·
Benny Benassi, Italian DJ, record producer
and remixer ·
Akira Hokuto, Japanese women's professional
wrestler ·
July 14 ·
Patrick J. Kennedy,
American politician ·
Robin Ventura, American baseball player ·
July 15 ·
Christopher Golden,
American novelist ·
Adam Savage, American TV show host ·
Michael Tse, Hong Kong actor ·
July 16 ·
Jonathan
Adams, American actor and voice actor ·
Brian Baker,
American actor ·
Will Ferrell, American actor, comedian, and
screenwriter ·
Mihaela Stanulet, Romanian artistic gymnast ·
July 17 – Regina Lund, Swedish actress and singer ·
July 18 – Vin Diesel, American actor and film director ·
July 19 – Rageh Omaar, broadcaster ·
July 20 – Reed Diamond, American actor ·
July 22 ·
Irene Bedard, American actress ·
Jeremy Callaghan, Papua New Guinean actor ·
Rhys Ifans, Welsh actor and musician ·
July 23 – Philip Seymour
Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014) ·
July 25 ·
Matt LeBlanc, American actor ·
Wendy Raquel
Robinson, American actress ·
Margarita Zavala, Mexican lawyer and
politician, First Lady of Mexico ·
July 26 – Jason Statham, English actor, martial
artist, and former diver ·
July 28 ·
Jakob Augstein, German journalist and
publisher ·
Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder) ·
July 30 ·
Marisol Espinoza, Peruvian politician,
1st Vice President of
Peru ·
A. W. Yrjänä,
Finnish rock musician and poet ·
July 31 ·
Rodney Harvey, American actor and model
(d. 1998) ·
Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical
actress (d. 2005) ·
Elizabeth Wurtzel,
author and feminist August[edit]
·
August 3 – Mathieu Kassovitz,
French movie director and actor ·
August 4 ·
Michael Marsh,
American athlete ·
Tom Anderson,
American partner at Optima Public Relations ·
August 5 ·
Patrick
Baumann, Swiss basketball executive and player and coach (d. 2018) ·
Thomas Lang, Austrian drummer ·
August 7 – Charlotte Lewis, English actress ·
August 8 ·
Yūki Amami, Japanese actress ·
Sable, American wrestler, model and actress ·
August 9 – Deion Sanders, African-American pro football
and baseball player ·
August 10 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer ·
Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer-songwriter ·
Collin Chou, Taiwanese martial arts actor ·
Joe Rogan, American comedian and television
host ·
Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
Emil Kostadinov, Bulgarian football player ·
Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer ·
August 13 – Amélie Nothomb,
Belgian writer ·
August 15 – Brahim Boutayeb, Moroccan long-distance
runner ·
Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television
personality ·
Pamela Smart, American murderer ·
August 18 – Daler Mehndi, Indian singer ·
August 19 – Satya Nadella, Indian-American businessman
and current CEO of Microsoft ·
Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress ·
Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (System of a Down) ·
Adewale
Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Nigerian-British actor and model ·
Ty Burrell, American actor and comedian ·
Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (d. 1986) ·
Layne Staley, American rock musician (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002) ·
Tom Hollander, English actor ·
Eckart von
Hirschhausen, German physician and comedian ·
August 27 – Ogie Alcasid, Filipino singer-songwriter,
comedian, parodist, and actor ·
August 28 – Masaaki Endoh, Japanese singer ·
Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court since 2017 ·
Anton Newcombe, American musician (The Brian
Jonestown Massacre) ·
August 30 – Frederique van der
Wal, Dutch supermodel September[edit]
·
Drena De Niro, American actress ·
Luis Gonzalez,
American baseball player ·
Koichi Morishita, Japanese long-distance
runner ·
Arnel Pineda, Filipino singer-songwriter (Journey) ·
Matthias Sammer, German football player ·
Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player ·
September 6 – Macy Gray, American urban musician ·
September 9 – Akshay Kumar, Bollywood actor ·
September 11 – Harry Connick Jr.,
American singer and actor ·
Louis C.K., American comedian and actor ·
Rob Renzetti, American animator and director ·
Michael
Johnson, American athlete ·
Tim
"Ripper" Owens American rock singer (Judas Priest, Iced Earth, Yngwie Malmsteen) ·
September 18 – Tara Fitzgerald, British actress ·
September 19 – Aleksandr Karelin,
Russian Greco-Roman wrestler ·
September 20 – Kristen Johnston, American actress ·
September 21 – Faith Hill, American country singer ·
Félix Savón, Cuban boxer ·
Michelle Ruff, American voice actress ·
Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer ·
Jenna Stern, American actress ·
Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Melissa de Sousa, American actress ·
Audrey Wasilewski,
American actress and voice actress ·
September 27 – Debi Derryberry, American voice actress ·
Mira Sorvino, American actress ·
Moon Unit Zappa, American actress, musician
and author ·
Paul Boyd,
American animator (d. 2007) ·
Emmanuelle Houdart,
Swiss artist ·
Andrea Roth, Canadian actress October[edit]
·
October 2 – Frankie Fredericks,
Namibian athlete ·
Tiara Jacquelina, Malaysian actress ·
Rob Liefeld, American author and illustrador ·
Denis Villeneuve, Canadian film director and
writer ·
October 4 – Liev Schreiber, American actor and film
director ·
October 5 – Guy Pearce, English-born Australian actor ·
Bruno Bichir, Mexican actor ·
Sergi López Segú,
Spanish footballer (d. 2006) ·
October 7 – Toni Braxton, African-American R&B
singer ·
October 9 – Eddie Guerrero, Mexican-American
professional wrestler (d. 2005) ·
Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and
radio personality ·
David Starr, American racecar driver ·
Tazz,
American professional wrestler and commentator ·
Peter Thiel, German-American entrepreneur
and venture capitalist ·
Joshua Braff, American writer ·
Trevor Hoffman, American Major League
Baseball player ·
Hannu Lintu, Finnish conductor ·
Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper ·
Kate Walsh,
American actress ·
October 16 – Davina McCall, British TV presenter and
UK Big Brother host ·
René Dif, Danish-Algerian singer (Aqua) ·
Venus Terzo, Canadian actress and voice
actress ·
October 18 – Eric Stuart, American voice actor and voice
director ·
October 21 – Ming Zhu, Chinese artist
and economic philosopher ·
Salvatore Di
Vittorio, Italian composer-conductor ·
Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier
(d. 1994) ·
Carlos Mencia, Latino-American actor and
standup comedian ·
October 24 – Jacqueline McKenzie,
Australian actress ·
October 26 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born Australian
country music singer ·
October 27 – Scott Weiland, American musician (d. 2015) ·
Julia Roberts, American actress ·
Sophie,
Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein ·
Joely Fisher, American actress ·
Péter Kun, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1993) ·
Rufus Sewell, English actor ·
Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Ty Detmer, American NFL quarterback; 1990
Heisman Trophy winner ·
Gavin Rossdale, English singer-songwriter
and actor ·
Vanilla Ice, American rapper ·
Buddy Lazier, American race car driver November[edit]
·
November 1 – Tina Arena, Australian singer-songwriter ·
Akira Ishida, Japanese voice actor ·
Scott Walker,
American legislator and politician; 45th Governor of Wisconsin (2011–present) ·
November 3 – Steven Wilson, British musician ·
November 4 – Keith English,
American politician (d. 2018) ·
November 5 – Judy Reyes, American actress ·
November 6 – Rebecca Schaeffer,
American actress (d. 1989) ·
Father Paulo Ricardo,
Brazilian Catholic priest, TV host, writer, and professor ·
David Guetta, French DJ and songwriter ·
Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer-songwriter ·
November 8 – Courtney
Thorne-Smith, American actress ·
November 11 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver ·
Juhi Chawla, Indian former beauty queen and
actress ·
Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk
show host ·
Steve Zahn, American actor ·
Letitia Dean, English actress ·
Mary Woodvine, British actress ·
November 15 – François Ozon, French writer and director ·
November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress ·
November 20 – Teoman, Turkish rock singer and songwriter ·
November 21 – Ken Block, American racing driver ·
Boris Becker, German tennis player ·
Mark Ruffalo, American actor ·
Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater ·
November 23 – Salli Richardson, American actress ·
November 25 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer ·
November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith,
American model and actress (d. 2007) December[edit]
·
Nestor Carbonell, American actor ·
Reggie Sanders, American Major League
Baseball outfielder ·
December 4 – Adamski, English dance music producer ·
December 5 – Knez, Montenegrin singer ·
December 6 – Judd Apatow, American screenwriter and
producer ·
Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
Tino Martinez, American baseball player ·
December 8 – Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese voice actress ·
Joshua Bell, American violinist ·
Caryn Kadavy, American figure skater ·
December 10 – Arnold Pinnock, Canadian actor ·
DJ Yella, American DJ and Record Producer ·
Mo'Nique, African-American actress and comedian ·
Peter Kelamis, Australian voice actor ·
December 12 – John Randle, American football player ·
Jamie Foxx, African-American actor and
singer ·
Yūji Oda, Japanese singer and actor ·
Ewa
Białołęcka, Polish writer ·
Louise Lear, BBC Weather Prestnter ·
December 15 – Mo Vaughn, American Baseball player ·
Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete ·
Miranda Otto, Australian actress ·
December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ ·
Robert Wahlberg, American actor ·
Toine van
Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist ·
Criss Angel, American musician, magician,
illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer ·
Charles Austin, American Olympic athlete ·
December 20 – Eugenia Cauduro, Mexican actress and model ·
December 21 – Mikheil Saakashvili,
Georgian politician, 3rd President of Georgia and Governor of
Odessa Oblast ·
Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer ·
Juan Manuel Bernal,
Mexican actor ·
Richey Edwards, Welsh musician (d. 1995) ·
December 23 – Carla Bruni, Italian-French model,
singer-songwriter, former First Lady of France ·
December 24 – Richard Manning, British cycling legend,
Ironman ·
December 26 – Timo Karppinen, Finnish orienteer Date unknown[edit] ·
András Rosztóczy,
Hungarian gastroenterologist ·
John Smith,
British comics writer ·
Joan Vizcarra, Spanish artist Deaths[edit] January[edit]
·
January 1 – Moon Mullican, American country singer
(b. 1909) ·
Mary Garden, Scottish-American opera singer
(b. 1874) ·
Jack Ruby, American nightclub owner and
convicted criminal, best-known as the assassin of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911) ·
Donald Campbell, English water and land
speed record seeker (b. 1921) ·
Mohamed Khider, Algerian politician
(b. 1912) ·
January 9 – Waldo Frank, American novelist and historian
(b. 1889) ·
January 12 – Holland Smith, American general (b. 1882) ·
January 14 – Miklós Kállay,
34th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1887) ·
Evelyn Nesbit, American actress and model
(b. 1884) ·
Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909) ·
January 18 – Harry Antrim, American actor (b. 1884) ·
January 21 – Ann Sheridan, American actress (b. 1915) ·
January 24 – Luigi Federzoni, Italian Fascist politician
(b. 1878) ·
Crew
of Apollo 1 (launch pad fire): ·
Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (b. 1935) ·
Gus Grissom, American astronaut (b. 1926) ·
Ed White,
American astronaut (b. 1930) ·
David
Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir, British politician, lawyer, and
judge (b. 1900) ·
Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888) ·
Luigi Tenco, Italian singer-songwriter
(b. 1938) ·
January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908) February[edit]
·
February 2 – Jack Carr,
American actor and animator (b. 1906) ·
February 4 – Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation
Army (b. 1886) ·
Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920) ·
Henry Morgenthau Jr., United
States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891) ·
February 7 – David Unaipon, Australian author and
inventor (b. 1872) ·
February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893) ·
February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884) ·
February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887) ·
February 16 – Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911) ·
February 17 – Ciro Alegría, Peruvian journalist,
politician, and novelist (b. 1909) ·
February 18 – J. Robert
Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904) ·
February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929) ·
Franz Waxman, German-American composer
(b. 1906) ·
Hilliard Almond
Wilbanks, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1933) ·
February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898) March[edit]
·
March 2 ·
Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885) ·
José Martínez Ruiz,
'Azorín', Spanish writer (b. 1873) ·
March 5 ·
Mischa Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905) ·
Mohammad Mosaddegh,
Iranian politician, 35th Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1882) ·
Georges Vanier, Canadian Governor General
(b. 1888) ·
March 6 ·
John Haden Badley,
English author (b. 1865) ·
Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor
(b. 1901) ·
Zoltán Kodály,
Hungarian composer (b. 1882) ·
March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American personality
(b. 1877) ·
March 11 ·
Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882) ·
Hanns Lothar, German actor (b. 1929) ·
March 21 – Marcellus Boss, American politician, member
of the Kansas Senate and
the 5th Civilian
Governor of Guam (b. 1901) ·
March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský,
Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) ·
March 30 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894) ·
March 31 – Don Alvarado, American actor (b. 1904) April[edit]
·
April 2 – Laura
Evangelista Alvarado Cardozo, Venezuelan Roman Catholic religious professed and
blessed (b. 1875) ·
April 4 ·
Guy Chamberlin, American football player and
coach and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1894) ·
Al Lewis,
American songwriter (b. 1901) ·
April 5 – Hermann Joseph
Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890) ·
April 12 ·
Buster Bailey, American jazz clarinetist
(b. 1902) ·
Cornelis de Langen,
Dutch physician (b. 1887) ·
April 13 – Luis Somoza Debayle,
26th President of Nicaragua (b. 1922) ·
April 15 – Totò, Italian actor (b. 1898) ·
April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908) ·
April 18 – Friedrich Heiler, German theologian and
historian (b. 1892) ·
April 19 ·
Konrad Adenauer, German statesman,
27th Chancellor of the
Federal Republic of Germany and Christian Democratic leader
(b. 1876) ·
William
Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery, British Admiral (b. 1873) ·
April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904) ·
April 23 – Edgar Neville, Spanish playwright and film
director (b. 1899) ·
April 24 ·
Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut
(parachute failure) (b. 1927) ·
Jacques Brunius, French actor and director
(b. 1906) ·
Frank Overton, American actor (b. 1918) ·
April 25 ·
Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth
officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1884) ·
Benjamin Foulois, American Brigadier General
(USAF), first rated U.S. military pilot (b. 1879) ·
April 27 – William Douglas Cook,
founder of Eastwoodhill
Arboretum and Pukeiti,
(New Zealand) (b. 1884) ·
April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director
(b. 1906) May[edit]
·
May 6 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885) ·
May 7 – Judith Evelyn, American actress (b. 1913) ·
May 8 ·
Laverne Andrews,
American singer (b. 1911) ·
Elmer Rice, American playwright (b. 1892) ·
May 9 – Philippa Schuyler,
American journalist (b. 1931) ·
May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver
(b. 1935) ·
May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist
(b. 1878) ·
May 15 ·
Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882) ·
Italo Mus, Italian painter (b. 1892) ·
May 18 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892) ·
May 21 ·
Géza Lakatos, Hungarian general and
politician, 36th Prime Minister
of Hungary (b. 1890) ·
Rexhep Mitrovica, Albanian politician,
18th Prime Minister
of Albania (b. 1888) ·
May 22 – ·
Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902) ·
Josip Plemelj, Slovene mathematician
(b. 1873) ·
May 27 – Johannes Itten, Swiss painter (b. 1888) ·
May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst,
Austrian film director (b. 1885) ·
May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889) ·
May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and
pianist (b. 1915) June[edit]
·
June 3 – Arthur Tedder, British air force general,
Marshal of the Royal Air Force (b. 1890) ·
June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and
educator, and Israel Prize recipient
(b. 1878) ·
June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893) ·
June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900) ·
June 11 – Wolfgang Köhler,
German psychologist (b. 1887) ·
June 13 ·
Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis champion
(b. 1895) ·
Edward Leonard
Ellington, British military officer; Marshal of the Royal Air
Force (b. 1877) ·
June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897) ·
June 16 – Reginald Denny,
English actor (b. 1891) ·
June 17 – Vernon Huber, American admiral and
36th Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1899) ·
June 26 – Françoise Dorléac,
French actress (b. 1942) ·
June 29 ·
Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906) ·
Jayne Mansfield, American actress (car
accident) (b. 1933) July[edit]
·
July 1 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888) ·
July 5 – Shimizugawa
Motokichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1900) ·
July 8 ·
Fatima Jinnah, Pakistan's "Mother of
the Nation" (b. 1893) ·
Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913) ·
July 9 ·
Douglas MacLean, American actor (b. 1890) ·
Eugen Fischer, German professor of medicine,
anthropology and eugenics (b. 1874) ·
July 13 – Tommy Lucchese, Italian-American gangster
(b. 1899) ·
July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880) ·
July 17 ·
John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist
(b. 1926) ·
Cyril Ring, American film actor (b. 1892) ·
July 18 – Humberto
de Alencar Castelo Branco, 26th President of Brazil (plane
crash) (b. 1897) ·
July 20 – Lewis H. Brereton,
American aviation pioneer and air force general (b. 1890) ·
July 21 ·
Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (Philadelphia
Athletics) and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1907) ·
Albert Lutuli, South African politician,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1898) ·
Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892) ·
July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878) ·
July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English writer (b. 1896) August[edit]
·
August 1 ·
Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1900) ·
Adrien Arcand, Canadian politician (b. 1899) ·
August 2 – Walter Terence Stace,
British philosopher (b. 1886) ·
August 9 ·
Joe Orton, English playwright (b. 1933) ·
Anton Walbrook, Austrian actor (b. 1896) ·
August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879) ·
René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898) ·
Manuel Prado
Ugarteche, 50th & 54th President of Peru (b. 1889) ·
Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian
(b. 1907) ·
Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and
publisher (b. 1884) ·
August 22 – Gregory Goodwin
Pincus, American biologist and researcher (b. 1903) ·
August 23 – Nathaniel Cartmell,
American Olympic athlete (b. 1883) ·
Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist
(b. 1882) ·
Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator
(b. 1930) ·
Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1883) ·
Paul Muni, American actor (b. 1895) ·
George Lincoln
Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918) ·
August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1934) ·
August 30 – Ad Reinhardt, American painter (b. 1913) ·
August 31 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891) September[edit]
·
James Dunn,
American actor (b. 1901) ·
Ilse Koch, Nazi German war criminal
(b. 1906) ·
Siegfried Sassoon,
British poet (b. 1886) ·
September 3 – Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer
(b. 1893) ·
September 11 – Tadeusz
Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904) ·
September 12 – Vladimir Bartol, Slovene author (b. 1903) ·
September 13 – Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907) ·
September 16 – Ethel May Halls, American film and stage
actress (b. 1882) ·
September 18 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1897) ·
September 23 – Stanislaus Zbyszko,
professional wrestler (b. 1879) ·
September 27 – Prince Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin
(b. 1887) ·
Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (b. 1900) ·
Carson McCullers, American writer (b. 1917) October[edit]
Emperor Xuantong
·
Woody Guthrie, American folk musician
(Huntington's disease) (b. 1912) ·
Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895) ·
Pinto Colvig, American vaudeville actor,
radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus
performer (original voice of Goofy) (b. 1892) ·
October 4 – Claude C. Bloch, American admiral (b. 1878) ·
October 7 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872) ·
October 8 – Clement Attlee, British politician,
60th Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883) ·
Gordon Allport, American psychologist
(b. 1897) ·
Che Guevara, Argentine communist
revolutionary (b. 1928) ·
Cyril Norman
Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) ·
Joseph Pilates, German physical culturist
and developer of Pilates (b. 1883) ·
Edith Storey, American actress (b. 1892) ·
October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic
wrestler (b. 1895) ·
October 17 – Xuantong
Emperor, last Emperor of China (b. 1906) ·
October 20 – Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese diplomat and
politician, 32nd Prime Minister of
Japan (b. 1878) ·
October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes,
American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (b. 1886) ·
October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director
(b. 1896) November[edit]
·
November 5 – Joseph Kesselring,
American playwright (b. 1902) ·
November 7 – John Nance Garner, 32nd Vice
President of the United States (b. 1868) ·
Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891) ·
Leslie
Brooke, English racing driver (b. 1910) ·
November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895) ·
November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895) ·
Casimir Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884) ·
Charles J. Watters,
U.S. Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927) ·
C. M. Eddy Jr., American writer (b. 1896) ·
Florence Reed, American stage actress
(b. 1883) ·
November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and
lithographer (b. 1890) ·
November 26 – Albert Warner, American film producer
(b. 1884) ·
November 28 – Léon M'ba, 1st President of Gabon (b. 1902) ·
Ferenc Münnich,
47th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1886) ·
Theodore Marcuse, American actor (b. 1920) December[edit]
·
Daniel Jones,
British phonetician (b. 1881) ·
Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895) ·
Harry Wismer, American broadcaster and pro
football owner (b. 1913) ·
December 7 – House Peters, Sr.,
British-born actor (b. 1880) ·
December 10 (in an air crash): ·
Ronnie Caldwell, American musician (b. 1948) ·
Phalon Jones, American musician (b. 1949) ·
Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941) ·
Harold Holt, 17th Prime
Minister of Australia (body never found) (b. 1908) ·
Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896) ·
Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903) ·
Ejnar Hertzsprung,
Danish chemist and astronomer (b. 1873) ·
December 24 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b. 1900) ·
December 26 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873) ·
December 28 – Katharine McCormick,
American feminist (b. 1875) ·
December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b. 1890) ·
December 30 – Vincent Massey, former Canadian Governor
General (b. 1887) ·
December 31 – Rodger Penzabene, Motown songwriter (b. 1944) Date unknown[edit] ·
Fathollah Khan Akbar,
Iranian cabinet minister, 17th Prime Minister of
Iran (b. 1878) ·
Bhikhan Lal Atreya,
Indian writer and scholar (b. 1897) ·
Ali Akbar Bahman, Iranian diplomat and
politician (b. 1883) ·
Ferran Sunyer i
Balaguer, Spanish mathematician (b. 1912) ·
Ken Battefield, American artist (b. 1905) ·
Charles
Exeter Devereux Crombie, Scottish cartoonist (b. 1880) ·
Barbara
Freire-Marreco, British anthropologist and folklorist (b. 1879) Nobel Prizes[edit]
·
Physics – Hans Albrecht Bethe ·
Chemistry – Manfred Eigen, Ronald
George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer
Hartline, George Wald ·
Literature – Miguel Ángel
Asturias ·
Peace –
not awarded Sources[edit] ·
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