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January 20: Richard M. Nixon becomes the
37th President of the United States 1969 (MCMLXIX) was
a common year starting
on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of
the 20th century,
and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade. The year is associated
with the first manned landing on the Moon (Apollo 11) and creation of the internet. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1969 ·
January 1 – Ohio State defeats USC in
the Rose Bowl to
win the national college football championship for the 1968 season. ·
Australian
media baron Rupert Murdoch purchases
the largest-selling British Sunday newspaper, The News of the World. ·
People's
Democracy begins a march from Belfast to Derry City, Northern Ireland to gain publicity and
to promote its cause. ·
January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. ·
January 5 – ·
Ariana
Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its
approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people
on board and two of the home's occupants. ·
The Soviet Union launches Venera 5 toward Venus. ·
January 6 – The final passenger train
traverses the Waverley Line,
which subsequently closes to passengers. ·
January 10 – The Soviet Union launches Venera 6 toward Venus. ·
Led Zeppelin, the first Led Zeppelin album, is released in the
United States. ·
Martial law is declared in Madrid, as the University is closed and over
300 students are arrested. ·
American football:
The New York Jets upset
the Baltimore
Colts in Super Bowl III, 16-7. Joe Namath is the MVP of the game. ·
An
explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. ·
The
Soviet Union launches Soyuz 4. ·
January 15 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 5, which docks with Soyuz 4 for a
transfer of crew. ·
January 16 – ·
Two
cosmonauts transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4 via a spacewalk while the two
craft are docked together, the first time such a transfer takes place. The
two spacecraft undock and return to Earth two days later.[1] ·
Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire
in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet
invasion of Czechoslovakia; 3
days later he dies. ·
January 18 – In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian
Institution displays the art of Winslow Homer for 6 weeks. ·
January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn
in as the 37th President of the United States. ·
January 22 – An
assassination attempt is carried out on Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor
Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. ·
January 26 – Elvis Presley steps into American
Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine",
thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions
for the albums From Elvis in
Memphis and Back in Memphis. The sessions
yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious
Minds", "In the Ghetto", and "Kentucky Rain". ·
Fourteen
men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ·
Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Irish Unionist leader
and founder of the Free
Presbyterian Church of Ulster is jailed for three months for
illegal assembly. ·
The
modern-day powerhouse of the Hetch Hetchy Project at Moccasin,
California, rated at 100,000 kVA, is completed and placed in
operation. On February 7, the original is removed from service. ·
January 28 – 1969 Santa
Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to
100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California;
on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's
harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the
first Earth Day in 1970. ·
January 30 – The Beatles give their last public
performance, of several tracks on the roof of Apple Records, London(featured in Let It Be (1970 film)). February[edit] Main article: February 1969 ·
February 4 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine
Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian
National Congress. ·
February 5 – The controversial
television show Turn-On premieres
on the ABC network in the United States and is canceled after one episode
following protests by viewers and ABC affiliate stations. ·
The Allende meteorite explodes
over Mexico. ·
After
147 years, the last weekly issue of The Saturday
Evening Post is published. The magazine is later
resurrected, briefly, as a monthly magazine. ·
February 9 – The Boeing 747 "jumbo jet" is
flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at Everett, Washington. ·
February 13 – Front de
libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorists bomb the Montreal Stock Exchange. ·
February 14 – Pope Paul VI issues Mysterii Paschalis,
a motu proprio,
deleting many names from the Roman calendar
of saints (including Valentine, who was celebrated on this day). ·
February 17 – Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide
poisoning while attempting to repair the SEALAB III habitat off San
Clemente Island, California. ·
The Mariner 6 Mars probe is launched from
the United States. ·
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School
District: The Supreme
Court of the United States rules that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution applies
to public schools. March[edit] Main article: March 1969 January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise ·
March 2 ·
In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted. ·
Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a
border outpost on the Ussuri River. ·
March 3 ·
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart)
to test the lunar module. ·
In
a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed
presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. ·
The
United States Navy establishes the Navy Fighter Weapons School (also known
as Top Gun) at Naval
Air Station Miramar. ·
March 4 – Arrest warrants are issued by
a Florida court for Jim Morrison on
charges of indecent exposure during a Doorsconcert three days earlier.[2] ·
March 10 ·
In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to
assassinating Martin Luther King
Jr. (he later retracts his guilty plea). ·
The
novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo is first distributed to
booksellers by the publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons.[3] ·
March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after
testing the Lunar Module. ·
March 16 – Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a
neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off
for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet
are killed along with 71 people on the ground.[4] ·
March 17 ·
Golda Meir becomes the first female
prime minister of Israel. ·
The Longhope life-boat is
lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the Pentland Firth between Orkney and the northern tip of
Scotland; the entire crew of 8 die.[5] ·
March 18 – Operation Breakfast,
the covert bombing of Cambodia by U.S. planes, begins. ·
March 19 ·
British
paratroopers and Marines land on the island of Anguilla, ending its unrecognized
independence. ·
A
385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV mast
at Emley Moor, England, collapses due to ice build-up. ·
March 20 ·
One
hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a United
Arab Airlines flight, most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to
Aswan from Mecca, are killed when the Ilyushin-18 turboprop crashes during a
sandstorm. ·
John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon
"Bed-In" for peace in Amsterdam. ·
March 22 ·
UCLA
wins its third consecutive NCAA basketball championship by
defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72. ·
The
landmark art exhibition When Attitudes become Form, curated
by Harald Szeemann,
opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in
Bern, Switzerland. ·
March 28 – Pope Paul VI increases the number of
Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134. ·
March 29 – The Eurovision
Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four
co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, and France. ·
March 30 – The body of former United
States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is
brought by caisson to the United States
Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower
had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter
Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. ·
March 31 – The Barroterán
coal mine disaster kills 153 coal miners in Mexico April[edit] Main article: April 1969 ·
April 1 – The Hawker Siddeley
Harrier enters service with the Royal Air Force. ·
April 4 – Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first
temporary artificial heart. ·
April 8 – The Montreal Expos debut as Major League
Baseball's first team outside the United States. ·
April 9 ·
The Harvard University Administration
Building is seized by close to 300 students, mostly members of the Students for a Democratic Society. Before
the takeover ends, 45 will be injured and 184 arrested. ·
Fermín
Monasterio Pérez is murdered by the ETA in Biscay, Spain; the 4th victim in the name of Basque nationalism. ·
April 13 – Queensland: The Brisbane Tramways end
service after 84 years of operation. ·
April 15 – The EC-121
shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down the aircraft
over the Sea of Japan,
killing all 31 on board. ·
April 20 ·
British
troops arrive in Northern Ireland to
reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary. ·
A
grassroots movement of Berkeley community members seizes an empty lot owned
by the University of
California, to begin the formation of "People's Park". ·
April 22 – Robin Knox-Johnston becomes
the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping. ·
April 24 – Recently formed British Leyland launches their first
new model, the Austin Maxi in Portugal. ·
April 28 – Charles de Gaulle steps
down as president of France after
suffering defeat in a referendum
the day before. May[edit] Main article: May 1969 ·
May 10 ·
Zip to Zap, a gathering of more than 2,000
people students and young adults at the remote town of at Zap, North Dakota,
ends with the dispersal and eviction of the revelers by the North Dakota
National Guard. ·
The
Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill,
begins during the Vietnam War. ·
May 13 – May 13 Incident: Race riots occur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ·
May 14 – Colonel Muammar Gaddafi visits Mecca, Saudi Arabia. ·
May 15 – An American teenager known as 'Robert R.' dies in St. Louis, Missouri,
of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the
earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. ·
May 16 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus. ·
May 17 – Venera program: Soviet probe Venera 6 begins to descend
into Venus's atmosphere, sending back atmospheric
data before being crushed by pressure. ·
May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young)
is launched as a full rehearsal for the Moon landing,
but stops 15 kilometers short of actually reaching the lunar surface. ·
May 20 – United
States National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder
on anti-war protesters in California. ·
May 21 – Rosariazo: Civil unrest breaks out
in Rosario, Argentina,
following the death of a 15-year-old student. ·
May 22 – Apollo program: Apollo 10's lunar module flies to within
15,400 m of the Moon's surface. ·
May 25 – Midnight Cowboy, an X-rated, Oscar-winning John Schlesinger film, is released. ·
May 26 ·
The Andean Pact (Andean Group) is
established. ·
Apollo
program: Apollo 10 returns
to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all
the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing. ·
May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second Bed-In. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event
is held at the Queen Elizabeth
Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the
song Give Peace a Chance during
the Bed-In. ·
May 29 ·
Cordobazo: A general strike and civil unrest break out in Córdoba, Argentina. ·
May 30 – Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an
Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement
on the island. June[edit] Main article: June 1969 ·
June 3 – While operating at sea on
SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally
rams and slices into the American destroyer USS Frank
E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American
seamen. ·
June 5 – An international communist conference begins
in Moscow. ·
June 7 – The rock group Blind Faith plays its first gig in
front of 100,000 people in London's Hyde Park. ·
June 8 – Francisco Franco orders the closing of
the Gibraltar–Spain
border and communications between Gibraltar and Spain in response to
the 1967 Gibraltar
sovereignty referendum. [6] The border is remains closed until a partial reopening
on December 15, 1982. ·
June 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn
Văn Thiệu meet at Midway Island. Nixon announces that 25,000
U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September. ·
June 15 – Georges Pompidou is elected President
of France. [7] ·
June 17 – After a 23-game match, Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become the World
Chess Champion in Moscow. ·
June 18–22 – The National Convention of
the Students
for a Democratic Society, held in Chicago, collapses, and the Weatherman faction
seizes control of the SDS National Office. Thereafter, any activity run from
the National Office or bearing the name of SDS is Weatherman-controlled. ·
June 22 ·
The Cuyahoga River fire helps spur an
avalanche of water pollution control
activities resulting in the Clean Water Act, Great
Lakes Water Quality Agreement and the creation of the
federal Environmental Protection Agency. ·
Judy Garland dies of a drug overdose in
her London home. ·
June 23 – Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief
Justice of the United States by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren. ·
June 24 – The United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic ties,
after Rhodesian
constitutional referendum. ·
June 28 – The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the
modern gay rights movement in
the U.S. July[edit] Main article: July 1969 Neil Armstrong descends a ladder to
become the first human to step onto the surface of the Moon during Apollo 11 ·
July 1 – Charles, Prince
of Wales, is invested with his title at Caernarfon. ·
July 3 – Brian Jones, musician and founder of The Rolling Stones,
drowns in his swimming pool at his home in Sussex, England. ·
July 4 – Michael Mageau and Darlene
Ferrin are shot at Blue Rock Springs in
California. They are the second (known) victims of the Zodiac Killer. Mageau survives the attack
while Ferrin is pronounced dead-on-arrival at Kaiser
Foundation Hospital - Richmond. ·
July 5 – Tom Mboya, Kenyan Minister of Development, is
assassinated. ·
July 7 – French is made equal to
English throughout the Canadian national government. ·
July 8 – Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop
withdrawals are made. ·
July 10 – Donald Crowhurst's trimaran Teignmouth Electron is
found drifting and unoccupied. It is assumed that Crowhurst might have
committed suicide. ·
July 14 ·
Football War: After Honduras loses a soccer game
against El Salvador,
rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the
300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled,
prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works
out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes
effect on July 20. ·
The Act of Free Choice commences
in Merauke, West Irian. ·
The
United States' $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially
withdrawn from circulation. ·
July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael
Collins) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon. ·
July 18 – Chappaquiddick
incident – Edward M. Kennedy drives
off a bridge on his way home from a party on Chappaquiddick
Island, Massachusetts. Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign aide to
his brother, dies in the early morning hours of July 19 in the submerged car. ·
July 19 ·
John Fairfax lands
in Hollywood Beach,
Florida near Miami and becomes the first person to
row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board 25' ocean
rowboat 'Britannia' (left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969). ·
July 20 – Apollo program: The lunar module Eagle/Apollo 11 lands on the lunar surface.
An estimated 500 million people worldwide watch in awe as Neil Armstrongtakes his historic first steps
on the Moon at
10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), the largest television audience for a
live broadcast at that time.[8][9] ·
July 22 – Spanish dictator and head of
state Francisco Franco appoints
Prince Juan Carlos his
successor. ·
July 24 ·
The Apollo 11 astronauts return from the
first successful Moon landing, and are placed in biological isolation for
several days, on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs. The
airless lunar environment is later determined to preclude microscopic life. ·
The Soviet Union returns Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom in
exchange for spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris and Lona Cohen). ·
July 25 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United
States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military
defense. This starts the "Vietnamization" of the war. ·
July 26 – The New York Chapter of
the Young Lords is
founded. ·
July 30 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled
visit to South Vietnam,
meeting with President Nguyễn
Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders. ·
July 31 ·
The
old halfpenny ceases
to be legal tender in
the UK. ·
Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a
reigning Pope to Africa.[10] August[edit] Main article: August 1969 ·
August 4 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French
intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese
representative Xuan Thuy begin
secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since both sides cannot agree
to any terms. ·
August 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by
of Mars (3,524 kilometers). ·
August 8 ·
The Beatles at 11:30 have
photographer Iain Macmillan take
their photo on a zebra crossing on Abbey Road. ·
A
fire breaks out in Bannerman's Castle in
the Hudson River;
most of the roof collapses and crashes down to the lower levels. ·
August 9 ·
Members
of the Manson Family invade
the home of actress Sharon Tate and
her husband Roman Polanski in Los Angeles. The followers kill Tate (who was 8 months pregnant),
and her friends: Folgers coffee
heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski,
and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring. Also killed is Steven Parent, leaving from a visit to the
Polanski's caretaker. More than 100 stab wounds are found on the victims,
except for Parent, who had been shot almost as soon as the Manson Family
entered the property. ·
The Haunted Mansion attraction
opens at Disneyland in
Anaheim, California. Later versions open in Florida, Tokyo and Paris. ·
August 10 – The Manson Family
kills Leno and Rosemary LaBianca,
wealthy Los Angeles businessman and his wife. ·
August 12 – Violence erupts after
the Apprentice Boys
of Derry march in Derry, Northern Ireland, resulting in a three-day
communal riot known as the Battle of the
Bogside. ·
August 13 – Serious
border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic
of China. ·
August 14 – British troops are deployed
in Northern Ireland following
the three-day Battle of the Bogside. ·
August 15 – Captain D's is founded as "Mr. D's
Seafood and Hamburgers" by Ray Danner with its first location opening
in Donelson, Tennessee. ·
August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is
held near White Lake, New York,
featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. ·
August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille,
the most powerful tropical cyclonic system at landfall in history, hits
the Mississippi coast,
killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars). ·
August 18 – Long John Silver's restaurant
chain opens its first store in Lexington, Kentucky. ·
August 20 – Florissant
Fossil Beds National Monument is established in Florissant, Colorado,
U.S. ·
Donald
and Doris Fisher open the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San
Francisco. ·
Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets
the Al-Aqsa Mosque on
fire. ·
Strong
violence on demonstration in Prague and Brno,
Czechoslovakia. Military force contra citizens. Prague spring finally beaten. ·
August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight
from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and
diverted to Syria. September[edit] Main article: September 1969 ·
September 1 – 1969 Libyan coup
d'état: A bloodless coup in Libya ousts King Idris, and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power. ·
The
first automatic teller
machine in the United States is installed in Rockville
Centre, New York. ·
Ho Chi Minh, the president of the North
Vietnam, dies at the age of 79. ·
September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six
counts of premeditated murder, for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam. ·
September 9 – Allegheny
Airlines Flight 853, a DC-9 airliner, collides in flight with
a small Piper PA-28 airplane,
and crashes near Fairland, Indiana,
killing all 83 persons in both aircraft. ·
September 13 – Scooby-Doo airs its first episode
on the CBS network in the United States. ·
September 14 – Persons who were born
during the years from 1944 to 1951, and who celebrate their birthdays on this
day, mark the occasion without being aware that September 14 will be the
first date selected in the new U.S. draft lottery on December 1. ·
At
a meeting between The Beatles (minus George Harrison) and business manager Allen Klein), John Lennon announces his intention
to quit the group. ·
The
very last theatrical Warner Bros. cartoon is released: the Merrie Melodies short Injun Trouble. ·
September 22 – San Francisco Giant Willie Mays becomes the first major
league baseball player since Babe Ruth to hit 600 career home runs. ·
September 22–25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque
fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem. ·
China
carries out an underground
nuclear bomb test. ·
Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford) opens to limited release in
the United States. ·
September 24 – The Chicago Eight trial begins in Chicago, Illinois. ·
September 25 – The Organisation
of the Islamic Conference is founded. ·
The Beatles release their Abbey Road album which is an
enormous commercial success and, although receiving mixed reviews at this
time, comes to be viewed by many as the group's best. ·
The Brady Bunch is broadcast for the first time
on ABC. ·
September 28 – West
German federal election, 1969: The Social
Democrats, led by Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt, and the Free
Democrats led by Walter Scheel, formed a coalition government
with Brandt as Chancellor, after the Social Democrats severed their
relationship with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger's
Christian Democratic Union. October[edit] ·
In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Leader of the
Social Democratic Worker's Party, replacing Tage Erlander as Prime Minister on October 14. ·
The Beijing Subway begins operation. ·
October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested
at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project
Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground
nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to
test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations. ·
Monty
Python's Flying Circus first airs on BBC One. ·
Sazae-san first airs on Fuji Television. ·
October 9–12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the Illinois National
Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the
radical Weathermen,
in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial. ·
October 11–16 – The New York Mets defeat
the Baltimore
Orioles four games to one in one of the greatest World Series upsets
in baseball history. ·
An unofficial
strike amongst British mineworkers begins over the working
hours of surface workers. ·
DZKB-TV Channel
9, the Philippines TV station, owner by Roberto S. Benedicto, is
launched. ·
Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people
take part in Moratorium
to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations across the United States. ·
Willard
S. Boyle and George Smith invent the CCD at Bell Laboratories (30
years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras). ·
Fourteen
black athletes are kicked off the University of
Wyoming football team for wearing black armbands into
their coach's office. ·
Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor
of West Germany. ·
General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the
assassination of President Abdirashid Ali
Shermarke. ·
October 22 – Led Zeppelin release Led Zeppelin II to critical acclaim
and commercial success. ·
October 25 – Australian
federal election, 1969: John Gorton's Liberal/Country Coalition Government is
narrowly re-elected with a sharply reduced majority, defeating a
resurgent Labor Party led
by Gough Whitlam. Prime
Minister Gorton survived a leadership challenge by his
deputy William McMahon as
well as David
Fairbairn in the immediate aftermath of the election. ·
October 29 – The first message is sent
over ARPANET, the forerunner of the internet. ·
Wal-Mart incorporates as Wal-Mart
Stores, Inc. ·
The disappearance of Patricia Spencer and Pamela Hobley occurs. November[edit] ·
Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon addresses the nation on
television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in
solidarity with the Vietnam War effort,
and to support his policies. Vice President Spiro Agnew denounces the President's
critics as 'an effete corps of impudent snobs' and 'nattering nabobs of
negativism'. ·
Süleyman Demirel of AP forms
the new government of Turkey (31st government). ·
November 7 – Pink Floyd release their Ummagumma album. ·
November 9 – A group of American
Indians, led by Richard Oakes,
seizes Alcatraz Island for
19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform. ·
November 10 – Sesame Street aired its first
episode on the NET network. ·
November 12 – Vietnam War – My Lai Massacre: Independent investigative
journalist Seymour Hersh breaks
the My Lai story. ·
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second manned mission to
the Moon. ·
The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger
ship, is withdrawn from service. ·
Cold War: The Soviet submarine
K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in
the Barents Sea. ·
Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C.,
250,000–500,000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war,
including a symbolic "March Against Death". ·
Regular colour television broadcasts
begin on BBC1 and ITV in the United Kingdom. ·
Dave Thomas opens
his first restaurant in a former steakhouse in downtown Columbus, Ohio. He names the chain Wendy's after his 8-year-old
daughter, Melinda Lou (nicknamed "Wendy" by her siblings). ·
November 17 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting
the number of strategic weapons on both sides. ·
Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean
of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. ·
Soccer
great Pelé scores his 1,000th goal. ·
Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit
photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. ·
Richard Oakes returns
with 90 followers and offers to buy Alcatraz for $24 (he leaves the island
January 1970). ·
U.S.
President Richard Nixon and
Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree
in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972.
Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases
on the island, but they must be nuclear-free. ·
The
first ARPANET link is established (the
progenitor of the global Internet). ·
The United States Senate votes
down the Supreme
Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth,
the first such rejection since 1930. ·
November 22 – College Football: Michigan ends Ohio State's 22-game
winning streak with a 24-12 upset at Ann Arbor,
denying the Buckeyes their
second consecutive national championship. ·
November 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down
safely in the Pacific Ocean,
ending the second manned mission to the Moon. ·
November 25 – John Lennon returns his MBE medal
to protest the British government's involvement in the Nigerian Civil War. December[edit] ·
December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in
the United States is held since World War II. September 14 is the first of the 366
days of the year selected, meaning that those persons who were born on
September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned.
on January 4, 1970, The New York Times will
run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not
Random". ·
December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first
passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and
photographers, from Seattle, to New York
City. ·
December 4 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are
shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. ·
December 5 – The Rolling Stones album Let It Bleed is released. ·
College football: #1 ranked Texas rallies
from 14-0 deficit with two fourth quarter touchdowns to edge #2 Arkansas 15-14
at Fayetteville in
a game attended by President
of the United States Richard Nixon and several high-ranking
government dignitaries, including future President George H.W. Bush. The victory clinches the
national championship of the coaches poll for the Longhorns; they would win
the Associated Press national championship by defeating Notre
Dame21-17 in the Cotton Bowl on New Year's Day. ·
The Altamont Free
Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway in northern
California. Hosted by The Rolling Stones,
it is an attempt at a "Woodstock West" and is best known for the
uproar of violence that occurred. It is viewed by many as the "end of
the sixties." ·
December 7 – The animated Rankin Bass
Christmas special Frosty the
Snowman premiers on CBS. ·
December 12 – The Piazza Fontana
bombing in Italy (Strage di Piazza Fontana) takes place. ·
December 14 – The murder of Diane
Maxwell takes place, when the 25-year-old phone operator is
found sexually assaulted and killed (the case remains unsolved until 2003). ·
Charles Manson is allowed to defend
himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. ·
The
oil company Phillips Petroleum made
the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector
of North Sea. ·
Nigerian
troops capture Umuahia, the last Biafran capital before its dissolution
became Owerri ·
December 27 – The Liberal
Democratic Party wins 47.6% of the votes in the Japanese
general election, 1969. Future prime ministers Yoshirō Mori and Tsutomu Hata and future kingmaker Ichirō Ozawa are elected for the
first time. ·
December 28 – The Young Lords take over the First Spanish
Methodist Church in East Harlem. ·
December 30 – The Linwood bank robbery leaves
two police officers dead. Date unknown[edit] ·
Summer
– Invention of Unix under the potential name
"Unics" (after Multics).[11] ·
Fall
– Second-generation Dodge Challenger automobile introduced
in the United States. ·
Common African, Malagasy and Mauritian Organization (OCAMM)
(Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established. ·
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil
Pollution Damage, a maritime treaty, is adopted. ·
The
first strain of the AIDS virus (HIV)
migrates to the United States via Haiti.[12] ·
Women
are allowed membership in the Future Farmers of America (the later National FFA
Organization). ·
Arthur Treacher's Fish
and Chips is founded by S. Robert Davis and Dave Thomas and its first
location in Columbus, Ohio opens
for business. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Mr. Lawrence, American voice actor and show
writer ·
Verne Troyer, American actor (d. 2018) ·
Robby Gordon, American race car driver ·
Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013) ·
Christy Turlington,
American fashion model ·
January 3 – Michael Schumacher,
German seven-time Formula 1 world
champion ·
Marilyn Manson, American rock musician ·
Shea Whigham, American actor ·
January 6 – Norman Reedus, American actor ·
January 11 – Kyōko Hikami, Japanese voice actress ·
Beatriz
Gutiérrez Müller, writer ·
Stephen Hendry, British snooker player ·
Jason Bateman, American actor, director and
producer ·
Dave Grohl, American rock drummer and
composer ·
January 15 – Meret Becker, German actress and musician ·
Roy Jones Jr., American boxer ·
Per Yngve
Ohlin, Norwegian vocalist (d. 1991) ·
January 17 – Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director ·
Dave Bautista, American actor, professional
mixed martial artist and professional wrestler ·
Jesse L. Martin, American actor and singer ·
January 19 – Junior Seau, American NFL player (d. 2012) ·
January 20 – Patrick K. Kroupa,
American writer, hacker ·
Cornelius,
Japanese rock musician, singer and producer ·
Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian,
writer, actor and voice artist ·
Kathryn Morris, American actress ·
Mo Rocca, American humorist, journalist and
actor ·
January 29 – Hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and
guitarist February[edit] ·
Gabriel Batistuta,
Argentine footballer ·
Andrew Breitbart, American writer and
publisher (d. 2012) ·
February 2 – Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist ·
Beau Biden, 44th Attorney General of
Delaware (d. 2015) ·
Retief Goosen, South African golfer ·
Bobby Brown, African-American singer ·
Michael Sheen, Welsh actor ·
February 6 – David Hayter, Canadian-American voice actor ·
February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and
musician[13] ·
Ian Eagle, American sports announcer ·
Tom Scharpling, American comedian,
television writer and producer ·
Jennifer Aniston, American actress,
director, producer and businesswoman ·
Lee Tockar, Canadian voice actor ·
Bill
Warner, American motorcycle racer (d. 2013) ·
Darren Aronofsky, American film director ·
Meja,
Swedish singer-songwriter ·
Hong Myung-bo, South Korean footballer ·
Brad Werenka, Canadian ice-hockey player ·
Ahlam, Arabic singer ·
JB Blanc, French voice actor ·
Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (d. 1994) ·
Birdman, American rapper, entertainer, and
record producer ·
February 19 – Burton C. Bell, American rock
vocalist/lyricist ·
February 20 – Keiji Takayama, Japanese professional
wrestler ·
James Dean Bradfield,
Welsh singer-songwriter ·
Bosson, Swedish singer-songwriter ·
Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skier ·
Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer ·
Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist ·
February 24 – Christine Ng, Hong Kong actress ·
Robert Sean Leonard,
American actor ·
Patrick Monahan, American musician and
singer ·
Benjamin Yeaten, Liberian militant, military
commander, and mercenary March[edit] ·
March 1 ·
Javier Bardem, Spanish actor ·
Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh rock drummer ·
Litefoot, Native American actor ·
March 4 ·
Chaz Bono, American child actor and LGBT
rights activist ·
Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress ·
Patrick Roach, Canadian actor ·
March 7 – Todd Williams,
American long-distance runner ·
March 10 – Paget Brewster, American actress ·
March 11 ·
Terrence Howard, American actor and singer ·
Soraya,
Colombian singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2006) ·
March 12 ·
Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter,
multi-instrumentalist and painter ·
Akemi Okamura, Japanese voice actress ·
Jake Tapper, American journalist ·
March 13 – Susanna Mälkki,
Finnish conductor ·
March 15 ·
Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician ·
Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey ·
March 16 – Markus Lanz, German-Italian television
presenter ·
March 17 – Alexander McQueen,
British fashion designer (d. 2010) ·
March 18 ·
Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess
grandmaster ·
Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan politician,
37th President of
Guatemala ·
March 19 ·
Patrick Tam,
Hong Kong actor ·
Connor Trinneer, American actor ·
March 21 – Ali Daei, Iranian football player ·
March 24 – Stephan Eberharter,
Austrian alpine skier ·
March 25 – Jeffrey Walker, English musician ·
March 27 ·
Mariah Carey, American pop singer ·
Kevin Corrigan, American actor ·
Pauley Perrette, American actress ·
March 28 ·
Rodney Atkins, America country music
singer-songwriter ·
Laurie Brett, Scottish actress ·
March 29 – Chiaki Ishikawa, Japanese singer (See-Saw) April[edit] ·
April 1 ·
Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer ·
Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player ·
April 2 – Ajay Devgan, Bollywood actor ·
April 3 ·
Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor ·
Lance Storm, Canadian professional wrestler ·
April 6 ·
Bret Boone, American baseball player ·
Paul Rudd, American actor, comedian, writer
and producer ·
April 9 ·
Barnaby Kay, English actor ·
Debbie Schlussel, political commentator and
film critic ·
April 10 – Billy Jayne, American actor ·
April 11 ·
Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer ·
Caren Miosga, German journalist and
television presenter ·
Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer ·
April 12 – Michael
Jackson, former NFL wide
receiver (d. 2017) ·
April 19 ·
Shannon Lee, Chinese-American actress ·
Susan Polgar, Hungarian chess player ·
April 20 – Marietta Slomka, German journalist ·
April 21 – Toby Stephens, English actor ·
April 22 – Dion Dublin, English footballer ·
April 23 – Yelena Shushunova,
Soviet gymnast ·
April 25 ·
Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist ·
Gina Torres, American actress ·
Renée Zellweger,
American Academy Award-winning
actress and producer ·
April 27 – Cory Booker, American politician and U.S.
Senator (New Jersey) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Wes Anderson, American director, producer,
screenwriter and actor ·
May 2 – Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer ·
May 3 – Daryl F. Mallett, American author and actor ·
May 4 – Christina Billotte,
American musician ·
May 5 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player
(d. 2011) ·
May 6 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer ·
May 7 ·
Anies Baswedan, Indonesian academic,
activist, politician and current governor of Jakarta. ·
Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish-born musician ·
May 9 ·
Amber, German musician ·
Benjamín Rivera,
Mexican voice actor ·
May 10 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch soccer player ·
May 12 – Kim Fields, American actress ·
May 13 ·
Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host ·
Brian Carroll (a.k.a. Buckethead),
American guitarist ·
May 14 ·
Cate Blanchett, Australian actress ·
Danny Wood, American singer ·
May 15 – Emmitt Smith, American football player ·
May 16 ·
David Boreanaz, American actor ·
Tucker Carlson, American political
commentator ·
Steve Lewis,
American athlete ·
May 18 – Martika, American singer ·
May 21 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist
(d. 2000) ·
May 25 ·
Anne Heche, American actress ·
Stacy London, American fashion consultant
and media personality ·
May 26 – Siri Lindley, American triathlete ·
May 28 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician (d. 2016) June[edit] ·
June 2 – Jamie Thraves, English film writer, director
and music video director ·
June 3 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer
and writer ·
June 4 – Rob Huebel, American comedian ·
June 7 ·
Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper ·
Kim Rhodes, American actress ·
June 8 – J. P. Manoux, American actor ·
June 11 ·
Peter Dinklage, American actor ·
Steven Drozd, American rock drummer ·
June 12 ·
Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist
(d. 2007) ·
Heinz-Christian
Strache, Austrian politician ·
June 13 – Søren Rasted, Danish musician ·
June 14 ·
Brooks Ashmanskas,
American stage actor ·
Eugene Chung, Korean-American football
player ·
Steffi Graf, German tennis player ·
June 15 ·
Ice Cube, African-American rapper and actor ·
Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper ·
Jansher Khan, Pakistani squash player ·
Maurice Odumbe, Kenyan cricketer ·
June 16 ·
Sam Register, American television producer
and businessman ·
MC Ren, American rapper ·
June 17 ·
Amy Keating Rogers,
American television producer and writer ·
Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete ·
June 18 – Haki Doku, Albanian para-cyclist ·
June 19 – Trine Pallesen, Danish actress ·
June 20 – Paulo Bento, Portuguese football player and
coach ·
June 21 – Pat Sansone, American guitarist ·
June 23 ·
Martin Klebba, American actor ·
Noa, Israeli singer ·
Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance
runner ·
June 24 ·
Rich Eisen, American television journalist ·
Sissel Kyrkjebø,
Norwegian singer ·
June 25 – Storm Large, American singer and actor ·
June 26 – Mike Myers,
American baseball pitcher ·
June 28 ·
Sandiaga Uno, Indonesian businessman,
investor, and politician ·
Tichina Arnold, American actress ·
June 30 ·
Anastasiya
Nemolyaeva, Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, designer ·
Sanath Jayasuriya,
Sri Lankan cricketer July[edit] ·
July 2 ·
Matthew Cox, American criminal ·
Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American
singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012) ·
Tim Rodber, English rugby player ·
July 3 ·
Gedeon Burkhard, German actor ·
Shawnee Smith, American actress ·
July 4 – Jordan Sonnenblick,
American teacher and novelist ·
July 5 – John LeClair, American hockey player ·
July 6 ·
Beverly McClellan,
American singer and reality talent show finalist (The Voice)
(d. 2018) ·
Brian Van Holt, American actor ·
July 7 ·
Sylke Otto, German luger ·
Joe Sakic, Canadian hockey player ·
Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress and
singer ·
July 8 ·
George Fisher,
American vocalist, Cannibal Corpse ·
Sugizo, Japanese guitarist and singer ·
July 9 – Munkhbayar Dorjsuren,
Mongolian-German sport shooter ·
July 10 ·
Gale Harold, American actor ·
Hossan Leong, Singaporean stage and screen
actor, television host, radio deejay and comedian ·
Jonas Kaufmann, German operatic tenor ·
Rami Makhlouf, Syrian businessman ·
July 11 – David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter ·
July 13 – Ken Jeong, American actor, comedian and
physician ·
July 14 – Billy Herrington, American gay pornographic
actor (d. 2018) ·
July 15 – Chris Wyse, American bassist of Owl and The
Cult ·
July 16 – Sahra Wagenknecht,
German politician ·
July 17 ·
Jason Clarke, Australian actor ·
Ravi Kishan, Indian actor ·
Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor ·
July 18 ·
Masanori Murakawa, Japanese wrestler ·
Elizabeth Gilbert,
American author, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and memoirist ·
July 19 ·
Chris Kratt, American educational nature
show host ·
Courtenay Taylor, American voice actress ·
July 20 ·
Josh Holloway, American actor ·
Johnny Ngauamo, Tonga rugby union player ·
July 21 ·
Godfrey,
American comedian and actor ·
Avraam Russo, Russian singer ·
Isabell Werth, German equestrian ·
July 22 ·
Jason Becker, American heavy metal
guitarist, formerly of Cacophony ·
James Arnold Taylor,
American voice actor ·
Despina Vandi, Greek singer ·
July 23 ·
John Cariani, American actor and playwright ·
Phil
Edge, British Theatre Lighting Designer ·
July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer ·
July 25 – Jason Harris Katz,
American voice actor and television host ·
July 26 – Tanni Grey-Thompson,
born Carys Grey, British Paralympian ·
July 27 ·
Dacian Cioloș, 64th Prime Minister
of Romania ·
Pavel Hapal, Czech footballer ·
Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer. ·
Triple H (aka Paul Levesque), American
wrestler ·
July 28 ·
Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and
songwriter ·
Alexis Arquette, American actress (d. 2016) ·
Dana White, American businessman and
president of Ultimate
Fighting Championship ·
July 29 – Timothy Omundson, American actor ·
July 30 – Simon Baker, Australian-American actor and
director ·
July 31 – Antonio Conte, Italian football player and
manager August[edit] ·
August 1 – David Wain, American comedian, writer,
actor, and director ·
August 2 ·
Jan Axel Blomberg,
Norwegian drummer ·
Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer ·
August 3 – Anne Marie DeLuise,
Canadian actress ·
August 4 ·
Max Cavalera, Brazilian musician and singer
(Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy,
ex-Sepultura) ·
Michael DeLuise, American actor ·
August 5 – Kenny Irwin Jr., NASCAR Driver (d. 2000) ·
August 6 ·
Jonathan
Aibel, American script writer ·
Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003) ·
August 8 ·
Song Sung-il, South Korean wrestler
(d. 1995) ·
Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress ·
August 9 – Troy Percival, American baseball player ·
August 10 – Brian Drummond, Canadian voice actor ·
Vanderlei de Lima,
Brazilian long-distance runner ·
Ashley Jensen, British actress ·
August 12 – Tanita Tikaram, German-born British
singer-songwriter ·
August 13 – Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater ·
Justin Broadrick, British musician ·
Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong television actor and
singer ·
August 16 – Kate Higgins, American voice actress ·
Dick Togo, Japanese professional wrestler ·
Donnie Wahlberg, American singer (New Kids on the
Block) ·
Everlast,
American singer, rapper, and songwriter ·
Edward Norton, American actor, film
director, screenwriter, and social activist ·
Christian Slater, American actor ·
Timothy Snyder, American author and
historian ·
Nate Dogg, African-American rapper (d. 2011) ·
Doug Langdale, American screenwriter,
producer and actor ·
Paula Jai Parker, American actress and
comedian ·
Matthew Perry, American actor ·
Clay Walker, American singer ·
August 21 – Oliver Geissen, German television presenter ·
August 26 – Glenn
Berger, American scriptwriter ·
August 28 – Jack Black, American actor and musician ·
Lucero,
Mexican singer and actress ·
Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player ·
August 30 – Kent Osborne, American actor and producer September[edit] ·
Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American
singer ·
Dave Naz, American photographer ·
September 3 – Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer ·
Giorgi
Margvelashvili, politician; 4th President of the Republic of Georgia ·
Kristen Wilson, American actress ·
September 5 – Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician ·
Jean-Benoît Dunckel,
French musician ·
Angie Everhart, American actress and model ·
Diane Farr, American actress ·
Jimmy Urine, American singer ·
September 8 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager
(d. 2011) ·
September 9 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress ·
September 10 – Ai Jing, Chinese singer ·
September 11 – Crystal Lewis, American Christian musician ·
Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer ·
Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer ·
Dominic Fumusa, American actor ·
Tyler Perry, American actor, film director,
and screenwriter ·
Shane Warne, Australian cricketer ·
September 14 – Bong Joon-ho, South Korean screenwriter and
film director ·
Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player ·
Matthew Settle, American actor ·
Simona
Păucă, Romanian gymnast ·
Michael Symon, American chef and television
personality ·
Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American
rock percussionist ·
DeVante Swing, American music producer ·
Yves Amyot, Québécois actor ·
Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer
(d. 2002) ·
Bill Simmons, American sports columnist ·
Hal Sparks, American actor, writer,
comedian, and political commentator ·
Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Welsh actress ·
Victor
N'Gembo-Mouanda, Congolese author ·
Paul Warhurst, English football player ·
September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American model and actress October[edit] ·
Zach Galifianakis,
American actor and stand-up comedian ·
Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player ·
Marcus Stephen, Former President of Nauru ·
October 2 – Mitch English, American actor and television
host ·
Gwen Stefani, American singer, actress, and
television host ·
Tetsuya,
Japanese musician ·
October 5 – Elizabeth Azcona
Bocock, Honduran politician ·
Muhammad V of
Kelantan, current Yang di-Pertuan
Agong of Malaysia and Sultan of Kelantan ·
Ogün
Temizkanoğlu, Turkish football player ·
Benny Chan Ho Man,
Hong Kong actor ·
Benny Chan
Muk-Sing, Hong Kong film director ·
October 8 – Julia Ann, American pornographic actress ·
Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler ·
PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter ·
Steve McQueen,
English film director, producer and screenwriter ·
Manu Bennett, New Zealand actor ·
Loren Bouchard, American voice actor,
animator and producer ·
Brett Favre, American football player ·
Molly Kiely, American cartoonist ·
Wendi McLendon-Covey,
American actress ·
October 12 – Judit Mascó, Spanish model, television host
and writer ·
Rhett Akins, American country singer ·
Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater ·
Cady McClain, American actress and director ·
Kosuke Okano, Japanese voice actor ·
David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999) ·
October 15 – Kim Raver, American actress ·
Roy Hargrove, American Grammy-winner jazz
trumpeter (d. 2018) ·
Wendy Wilson, American singer and television
personality ·
Ernie Els, South African golfer ·
Jesús Ángel
García, Spanish race walker ·
Wood Harris, American actor ·
Wyclef Jean, Haitian rapper ·
Nancy
Sullivan, American actress ·
Vanessa Marshall, American actress and voice
actress ·
Trey Parker, American voice actor, comedian,
screenwriter, composer, director and producer ·
Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player ·
Juan González,
American baseball player ·
October 21 – Michael
Hancock, Australian rugby league footballer ·
October 22 – Spike Jonze, American director and filmmaker ·
Peter Dolving, Swedish musician ·
Adela Noriega, Mexican actress ·
Samantha Bee, Canadian comedian, writer,
producer, and political commentator ·
Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player ·
Nika Futterman, American actress and voice
artist ·
Oleg Salenko, Russian football player ·
Alex Webster, American bassist ·
Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime
Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015) ·
Snow, Canadian singer ·
Kylie Kwong, Australian chef, author,
television presenter, and restaurateur ·
Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and director November[edit] ·
November 1 – Diane Parish, English actress ·
November 2 – Reginald Arvizu (aka Fieldy Snuts),
American bassist ·
November 3 – Robert Miles, Italian record producer and DJ
(d. 2017) ·
Sean Combs, American rapper and entrepreneur ·
Matthew McConaughey,
American actor ·
Michelle Clunie, American actress ·
Hélène Grimaud,
French pianist ·
November 8 – Jonathan Slavin, American actor and activist ·
Sandra Denton, African-American rapper ·
Allison Wolfe, American musician ·
Faustino Asprilla,
Colombian football player ·
Jens Lehmann, German football player ·
Ellen Pompeo, American actress ·
Ian Bremmer, American political scientist ·
Tomas N'evergreen,
Danish singer ·
Rob Schrab, American actor and comic book
creator ·
Gerard Butler, Scottish actor ·
Stephen Full, American actor and comedian ·
Josh Mancell, American freelance composer
and multi-instrumentalist ·
Ryōtarō
Okiayu, Japanese voice actor ·
Jean-Michel Saive,
Belgian table tennis player ·
Kathleen van Brempt,
Belgian politician ·
Sam Cassell, American basketball player ·
Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor ·
Rocket Ismail, American football player ·
Erika Alexander, American actress ·
Ertuğrul
Sağlam, Turkish football coach and former player ·
Sakura,
Japanese musician ·
Dabo Swinney, American college football
coach ·
November 21 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player ·
November 23 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor ·
November 24 – David Adeang, Nauruan politician ·
November 27 – Carina Ricco, Mexican actress and singer ·
November 28 – Lexington Steele, American actor and film
director ·
Chris Baker,
American race car driver ·
Pierre van Hooijdonk,
Dutch footballer ·
Kasey Keller, American Major League Soccer player ·
Mariano Rivera, Panamanian Major League
Baseball player ·
November 30 – Trina Gulliver, English darts player December[edit] ·
Richard Carrier, American historian ·
Rino Romano, Canadian voice actor ·
December 3 – Bill Steer, English musician ·
December 4 – Jay Z, African-American rapper ·
December 5 – Alex Kapp Horner, American actress ·
December 7 – Patrice O'Neal, American comedian and radio
personality (d. 2011) ·
December 8 – Kerry Earnhardt, American race car driver ·
Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter ·
Lori Greiner, American investor,
entrepreneur, and television personality ·
Viswanathan Anand,
Indian chess grandmaster ·
Sean Grande, American basketball announcer ·
Phil Spencer, UK television property
percenter and estate agent ·
December 13 – Hideo Ishikawa, Japanese voice actor ·
December 14 – Archie Kao, Chinese-American film and
television actor ·
December 15 – Rick Law, American illustrator and producer ·
December 16 – Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer ·
Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial arts fighter ·
Michael V., Filipino comedian and actor ·
Irvin Duguid, Scottish rock keyboard player
(Stiltskin) ·
Mille Petrozza, German-Italian rock vocalist
and guitarist (Kreator) ·
Joe Randa, American Major League
Baseball player and radio talk-show host ·
Richard Hammond, British TV presenter ·
Lauren Sánchez,
American news anchor ·
Kristy Swanson, American actress ·
December 20 – Chisa Yokoyama, Japanese voice actress ·
Julie Delpy, French actress ·
Magnus Samuelsson,
Swedish bodybuilder, World's Strongest
Man ·
Greg Biffle, American race car driver ·
Martha Byrne, American actress and singer ·
Rob Pelinka, American sports agent ·
Brad Anderson,
American wrestler ·
Milan
Blagojevic, Australian soccer player ·
Pernille
Fischer Christensen, Danish film director ·
Taro Goto, Japanese soccer player ·
Leavander Johnson,
American lightweight boxer (d. 2005) ·
Ryuji Kato, Japanese soccer player ·
Nick Love, English film director and writer ·
Miyuki Matsushita,
Japanese voice actress ·
Clinton
McKinnon, American musician ·
Sean Cameron Michael,
South African actor and singer ·
Ed Miliband, English academic and
politician, Minister
for the Cabinet Office ·
Mark Millar, Scottish author ·
Luis Musrri, Chilean soccer player ·
Mariko Shiga, Japanese voice actress
(d. 1989) ·
Oleg Skripochka, Russian cosmonaut ·
Gintaras
Staučė, Lithuanian soccer player ·
Chen Yueling, American race walker ·
Jonathan Zittrain,
American professor ·
Michael Zucchet, American economist and
politician, Mayor of San Diego ·
December 25 – Nicolas Godin, French musician ·
Chyna, American professional wrestler
(d. 2016) ·
Sarah Vowell, American historian, author,
journalist, essayist, social commentator, and actress ·
December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer ·
Matt Goldman, American record producer ·
Jay Kay, English singer (Jamiroquai) ·
Kersti Kaljulaid, 5th President of Estonia ·
December 31 – Dominik Diamond, Scottish presenter and
newspaper columnist Date unknown[edit] ·
Russ Kick, American writer and founder
of The Memory
Hole. Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
January 1 – Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902) ·
January 2 – Gilbert Miller, American theatrical producer
(b. 1884) ·
Commodore Cochran,
American Olympic athlete (b. 1902) ·
Howard McNear, American actor (b. 1905) ·
January 8 – Albert Hill,
British athlete (b. 1889) ·
January 25 – Irene Castle,
English dancer (b. 1893) ·
Anukulchandra
Chakravarty, revered Indian godman (b. 1888) ·
Charles Winninger,
American actor (b. 1884) ·
January 29 – Allen Dulles, American director of the
Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1893) ·
January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master
(b. 1894) February[edit] King Saud bin Abdulaziz
Al Saud ·
February 2 – Boris Karloff, British actor (b. 1887) ·
Eduardo Mondlane, leader of the Mozambique nationalist
organization FRELIMO (b. 1920) ·
Al Taliaferro, Disney comic artist (b. 1905) ·
Conrad Hilton Jr.,
American soldier and heir (b. 1926) ·
Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902) ·
February 9 – Gabby
Hayes, American actor (b. 1885) ·
February 12 – Paltiel Daykan, Russian-born Israeli jurist
(b. 1885) ·
February 13 – Florence Mary Taylor,
Australia's first female architect (b. 1879) ·
February 14 – Vito Genovese, Italian-American mobster
(b. 1897) ·
February 15 – Pee Wee Russell, American jazz musician
(b. 1906) ·
February 17 – Paul Barbarin, American jazz musician
(b. 1899) ·
February 23 – Saud bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902) ·
Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister
of Israel (b. 1895) ·
Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and
philosopher (b. 1883) ·
Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer
(b. 1889) ·
John Boles,
American actor (b. 1895) March[edit] ·
March 3 ·
Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi,
11th Prime Minister of
Iraq (b. 1886) ·
Fred Alexander, American tennis player
(b. 1880) ·
Martin Lucas, Indian Syro-Malabar
Catholic archbishop (b. 1894) ·
March 4 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film
impresario (b. 1881) ·
March 6 ·
Keisai Aoki, Japanese missionary (b. 1893) ·
Óscar Osorio, Salvadorian military leader,
32nd President of El
Salvador (b. 1910) ·
March 9 ·
Charles Brackett, American novelist and
screenwriter (b. 1892) ·
Richard Crane,
American actor (b. 1918) ·
March 11 ·
Daniel E. Barbey, American admiral (b. 1889) ·
John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903) ·
March 14 – Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American artist
(b. 1898) ·
March 18 – Barbara Bates, American actress (b. 1925) ·
March 21 – Pinky Higgins, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1909) ·
March 24 – Joseph Kasavubu, 1st President of Congo-Léopoldville (b. 1910) ·
March 25 ·
Billy Cotton, English entertainer and
bandleader (b. 1899) ·
Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883) ·
Alan Mowbray, English actor (b. 1896) ·
March 28 – Dwight D. Eisenhower,
American general and politician, 34th President
of the United States (b. 1890) ·
March 31 – George de la Warr,
British alternative physician (b. 1904) April[edit] ·
April 2 – Fortunio Bonanova,
Spanish actor and singer (b. 1895) ·
April 4 – Félix Conde Falcón,
American army soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (b. 1938) ·
April 5 ·
Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director
(b. 1918) ·
Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi war criminal
(b. 1903) ·
Shelby Storck, American television producer
(b. 1917) ·
April 6 – Gabriel Chevallier,
French writer (b. 1895) ·
April 7 ·
Aleksandra
Artyukhina, Russian revolutionary hero (b. 1889) ·
Rómulo Gallegos,
Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th President of
Venezuela (b. 1884) ·
April 10 – Harley Earl, American designer and executive
(b. 1893) ·
April 14 – Matilde Muñoz
Sampedro, Spanish actress (b. 1900) ·
April 15 – Victoria
Eugenie of Battenberg, former Queen consort of Spain (b. 1887) ·
April 17 – Abu Hussain Sarkar,
Bengali politician (b. 1894) ·
April 20 – Benny Benjamin, American urban and jazz
musician (b. 1925) ·
April 22 – Husain
Bey, Crown Prince of Tunisia (b. 1893) ·
April 26 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and
founder of aikido (b. 1883) ·
April 27 – René Barrientos,
Bolivian general and statesman, 56th and 58th President of Bolivia (plane
crash) (b. 1919) May[edit] ·
May 1 – Ella Logan, Scottish-American actress and
singer (b. 1910) ·
May 2 – Franz von Papen, Prussian-German nobleman,
general and politician, 22nd Chancellor
of Germany and 26th Prime Minister
of Prussia (b. 1879) ·
May 3 ·
Karl Freund, German cinematographer
(b. 1890) ·
Amy Ashwood Garvey,
Jamaican pan-African activist
(b. 1897) ·
Zakir Hussain,
Indian politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897) ·
May 6 – Don Drummond, Jamaican ska musician
(b. 1932) ·
May 9 – Vincenzo Musolino,
Italian actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
May 11 – Salomão Barbosa
Ferraz, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and bishop
(b. 1880) ·
May 12 – Martin Lamble, British folk rock musician
(b. 1949) ·
May 14 ·
Enid Bennett, American actress (b. 1893) ·
Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1888) ·
May 15 ·
William Gould,
Canadian-American actor (b. 1886) ·
Robert Rayford, American HIV/AIDS victim
(b. 1953) ·
May 20 – Fred Sherman,
American actor (b. 1905) ·
May 21 – William Lincoln
Bakewell, American aboard (b. 1888) ·
May 23 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (b. 1894) ·
May 24 ·
Mitzi Green, American actress (b. 1920) ·
Paul Birch,
American actor (b. 1912) ·
May 27 ·
Muhammad Fareed Didi, Sultan of Maldives (b. 1901) ·
Jeffrey Hunter, American film and television
actor (b. 1926) ·
May 28 – Emilio Bigi, Paraguayan musician (b. 1910) June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian Olympic speed
skater (b. 1904) ·
Attilio Degrassi, Italian scholar (b. 1887) ·
June 4 ·
Rafael Osuna, Mexican professional tennis
player and winner of the 1963 U.S. Open and three Grand Slam doubles titles,
in the crash of Mexicana Flight 704. (b. 1938) ·
June 8 – Robert Taylor,
American actor (b. 1911) ·
June 11 – John L. Lewis, President of the United
Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960 (b. 1889) ·
June 12 – Aleksandr Deyneka,
Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899) ·
June 15 – Sargis Abrahamyan,
Russian writer (b. 1915) ·
June 16 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British
field marshal and Government official, 17th Governor
General of Canada (b. 1891) ·
June 18 – Edgar Anderson, American botanist (b. 1897) ·
June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, American actress (b. 1898) ·
June 20 – Mohamed Siddiq
El-Minshawi, Egyptian Qur' anic reciter (b. 1920) ·
June 22 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer
(b. 1922) ·
June 28 ·
Charles
Carpenter, American Episcopal Diocese bishop (b. 1899) ·
Gerald
Fitzgerald, American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1894) ·
June 30 ·
Roman Richard
Atkielski, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1899) ·
Max Fabian, Polish-born Israeli
cinematographer (b. 1891) July[edit] ·
July 2 ·
Mikio Naruse, Japanese film director
(b. 1905) ·
Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (b 1923) ·
July 3 – Brian Jones, British rock musician (b. 1942) ·
July 5 ·
Ben Alexander,
American actor (b. 1911) ·
Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883) ·
Lambert Hillyer, American film director
(b. 1889) ·
Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (assassinated)
(b. 1930) ·
Leo McCarey, American film director
(b. 1898) ·
July 6 – Laura
Latorre Mendoza, Filipino Roman Catholic widow, catechist and
saint (b. 1877) ·
July 7 ·
Charlotte Armstrong,
American author (b. 1905) ·
Gladys Swarthout, American opera singer
(b. 1900) ·
July 9 – Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral
(b. 1892) ·
July 13 – Muhammad Shahidullah,
Bengali educationist (b. 1885) ·
July 17 – Harry Benham, American actor (b. 1884) ·
July 18 ·
Mary Jo Kopechne, American teacher,
secretary, and political campaign specialist (b. 1940) ·
Barbara Pepper, American actress (b. 1915) ·
July 20 – Cathy Wayne, entertainer; first Australian
woman killed in the Vietnam War (b. 1949) ·
July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz,
Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904) ·
July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter (b. 1891) ·
July 26 ·
Andrés Soler, Mexican actor (b. 1898) ·
Raymond Walburn, American actor (b. 1887) ·
July 28 – Frank Loesser, American songwriter (b. 1910) August[edit] ·
August 1 – Donald Keith,
American actor (b. 1903) ·
August 2 – Leslie Cliff,
British pair figure skater (b. 1908) ·
August 5 – Duke
Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (b. 1873) ·
August 6 – Theodor W. Adorno,
German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903) ·
August 8 – Choi Seung-hee, Korean modern dancer
(b. 1911) ·
August 9 ·
Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1903) ·
Jay Sebring, American celebrity hair stylist
(murdered) (b. 1933) ·
Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered)
(b. 1943) ·
August 13 – Nicolás Fasolino,
Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal
(b. 1887) ·
August 14 – Leonard Woolf, English writer (b. 1880) ·
Ludwig Mies van
der Rohe, German-American architect (b. 1886) ·
Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1888) ·
August 18 – Mildred Davis, American actress (b. 1901) ·
Marty Barry, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1905) ·
Dudley D. Watkins,
Scottish illustrator for D. C. Thomson
& Co. (b. 1907) ·
Alejandro G.
Abadilla, Filipino poet (b. 1909) ·
Ismail al-Azhari, 2nd Prime Minister, 3rd
President of Sudan (b. 1900) ·
Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett,
English novelist (b. 1884) ·
Erika Mann, German writer (b. 1905) ·
August 30 – Vladislav Anisovich,
Russian painter and educator (b. 1908) ·
August 31 – Rocky Marciano, American professional boxer
(b. 1923) September[edit] ·
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Communist
revolutionary leader, 1st Prime Minister
of Vietnam, 1st President and Communist
Party leader of Vietnam (b. 1890) ·
September 3 – John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871) ·
September 4 – José Vicente Faria
Lima, Brazilian engineer and politician (b. 1909) ·
September 5 – Mario Berlinguer, Italian lawyer and
politician (b. 1891) ·
September 6 – Arthur Friedenreich,
Brazilian footballer (b. 1892) ·
September 7 – Gavin Maxwell, Scottish naturalist and
author (b. 1914) ·
September 8 – Bud Collyer, American radio and television
personality (b. 1908) ·
September 12 – Terry de la
Mesa Allen Sr., American general (b. 1888) ·
September 15 – Åke Grönberg,
Swedish actor (b. 1914) ·
September 19 – Rex Ingram,
American actor (b. 1895) ·
September 22 – Adolfo López Mateos,
Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico (b. 1909) ·
September 27 – Nicolas Grunitzky,
2nd President of Togo (b. 1913) October[edit] ·
October 4 – Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b. 1912) ·
October 6 – Walter Hagen, American golf champion
(b. 1892) ·
Natalya Lisenko, Russian actress (b. 1884) ·
Johnnie Morris,
American actor (b. 1887) ·
October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli,
Italian actor and singer (b. 1889) ·
October 9 – Mathew Kavukattu, Indian Syro-Malabar
Catholic archbishop and servant of God (b. 1904) ·
October 12 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater
(b. 1912) ·
Arnie Herber, American football player (Green Bay Packers)
and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1910) ·
August Sang, Estonian poet and literary
translator (b. 1914) ·
October 15 – Rod La Rocque, American actor (b. 1898) ·
Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922) ·
Wacław
Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1882) ·
Paul Bailliart, French ophthalmologist
(b. 1877) ·
Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside,
British commander (b. 1893) ·
Pops Foster, American musician (b. 1892) ·
Pavel Mironov, Russian general (b. 1900) ·
Francisco
Orlich Bolmarcich, 34th President of
Costa Rica (b. 1907) ·
October 31 – Carlos
Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador,
leader of the World War II (b. 1893) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Pauline Bush,
American actress (b. 1886) ·
November 4 – Ikbal Ali Shah, Indian-born Afghan diplomat
and author (b. 1894) ·
November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, American actor (b. 1900) ·
Ricardo Aguirre, Venezuelan singer and
composer (b. 1939) ·
Dave O'Brien,
American actor (b. 1912) ·
Vesto Slipher, American astronomer (b. 1875) ·
November 11 – Frank Mills,
American politician in Ohio legislature (b. 1904) ·
November 12 – William F. Friedman,
American cryptanalyst (b. 1891) ·
November 13 – Iskander Mirza, Pakistani politician,
1st President of
Pakistan (b. 1899) ·
Ignacio Aldecoa, Spanish writer (b. 1925) ·
Roy D'Arcy, American actor (b. 1894) ·
November 18 – Joseph P. Kennedy
Sr., American politician (b. 1888) ·
Norman Lindsay, Australian painter (b. 1879) ·
Mutesa II of Buganda, Kabaka of Buganda and
1st President of Uganda (b. 1924) ·
November 24 – Eugenio Duse, Italian actor (b. 1889) ·
November 27 – Malcolm
Barclay-Harvey, British politician, 22nd Governor of
South Australia (b. 1890) ·
November 28 – Roy Barcroft, American actor (b. 1902) December[edit] ·
December
– Swami Ashokananda,
Indian monk (b. 1893) ·
December 1 – Magic Sam, American musician (b. 1937) ·
December 3 – Ruth White,
American actress (b. 1914) ·
Mark Clark,
American Black Panther (b. 1947) ·
Fred Hampton, American Black Panther
(b. 1948) ·
Princess
Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885) ·
Claude Dornier, German airplane builder,
founder of Dornier
Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884) ·
Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player
(b. 1897) ·
Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1901) ·
December 13 – Spencer Williams,
American actor (b. 1893) ·
December 21 – Georges Catroux, French Army general and colonial
governor (b. 1877) ·
Josef von Sternberg,
Austrian film director (b. 1894) ·
Enrique Peñaranda,
Bolivian general, 45th President of Bolivia,
leader of the World War II (b. 1892) ·
December 23 – Donald Foster,
American actor (b. 1889) ·
Stanisław
Błeszyński, Polish entomologist (b. 1927) ·
Cortelia Clark, African American blues
singer and guitarist (b. 1906) ·
Olivia FitzRoy, British author of children's
books (b. 1921) ·
Seabury Quinn, American author (b. 1889) ·
December 29 – Ricardo
de la Guardia, 11th President of Panama,
leader of the World War II (b. 1899) ·
Salvatore Baccaloni,
Italian opera singer (b. 1900) ·
Joseph Yablonski, murdered American labor
leader (b. 1910) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Chemistry – Derek Harold
Richard Barton, Odd Hassel ·
Medicine – Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey, Salvador Luria ·
Peace – International
Labour Organization ·
Economics – Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen |
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