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Gregorian Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was
a leap year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1972nd year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 972nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 72nd year of
the 20th century,
and the 3rd year of the 1970s decade. Within the context of Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as
two leap secondswere
added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated.
(If its start and end are defined using mean solar time [the legal time scale],
its duration was 31622401.141 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or Ephemeris Time), which is slightly shorter
than 1908).[1] Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] Main article: January 1972 ·
January 1 – Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary-General
of the United Nations. ·
January 2 – Pierre Hotel Robbery:
Six men rob the safe deposit boxes of The Pierre hotel in New York City of at
least $4 million. ·
January 3 – MGM's 1951 Show Boat is
presented on television by NBC for the first time.
This marks the first complete network telecast of any version of Show
Boat (it had already been filmed as a part-talkie in 1929, and as a
full-sound musical in 1936). ·
The
first scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) is introduced (price $395). ·
Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman
judge at the Old Bailey in
London. ·
January 5 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the development of
a Space Shuttle
program. ·
Iberia
Airlines Flight 602 crashes into a 462-meter peak on the
island of Ibiza; 104 are killed. ·
Howard Hughes speaks to the press by
telephone to denounce Clifford Irving's hoax biography of him. ·
January 9 – The RMS Queen
Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbor. ·
January 10 – Sheikh Mujibur
Rahman returns to Bangladesh after spending over nine
months in prison in Pakistan. ·
January 11 – East Pakistan renames
itself Bangladesh. ·
January 13 – Prime Minister of Ghana Kofi Abrefa Busia is
overthrown in a military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu
Acheampong. ·
January 14 – Queen Margrethe II of
Denmark succeeds her father, King Frederick IX,
on the throne of Denmark, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first
Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513. ·
January 19 – The Libertarian enclave Minerva on
a platform in the South Pacific, sponsored by the Phoenix Foundation,
declares independence. Soon neighboring Tonga annexes the area and dismantles
the platform. ·
President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto announces
that Pakistan will immediately begin a nuclear weapons program. ·
Fears
are growing about the economy of the United Kingdom, where unemployment is
now exceeding 1 million for the first time since World War II.[2] ·
A
New Delhi bootlegger sells wood alcohol to a wedding party; 100
die. ·
Tripura, part of the former
independent Twipra Kingdom,
becomes a full state
of India. ·
January 24 – Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in Guam;
he had spent 28 years in the jungle. ·
January 25 – Shirley Chisholm, the first African American Congresswoman,
announces her candidacy for President. ·
Yugoslavian air
stewardess Vesna Vulović is
the only survivor when her plane crashes in Czechoslovakia. She survives after falling
10,160 meters (33,330 feet) in the tail section of the aircraft. ·
The Aboriginal Tent
Embassy is set up on the lawn of Parliament
House in Canberra. ·
January 27 – Two New York
City Police Department officers, Gregory Foster and Rocco
Laurie, are assassinated by members of the Black Liberation
Army (BLA) while on foot patrol in New York's East Village
area. ·
Bloody Sunday:
The British Army kills 14 unarmed nationalist civil
rights marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland. ·
Pakistan withdraws from the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
January 31 – King Birendra succeeds
his father as King of Nepal. February[edit] Main article: February 1972 ·
A
bomb explodes at the British Yacht Club in West Berlin, killing Irwin Beelitz, a German
boat builder. ·
The
German militant group 2 June Movement announces its support
of the Provisional
Irish Republican Army. ·
Anti-British
riots take place throughout Ireland. The British Embassy in Dublin is burned to the ground, as are
several British-owned businesses. ·
The
last draft lottery is held, a watershed event in the wind-down of military conscription
in the United States during the Vietnam era. These draft
candidates are never called to duty. ·
February 3–13 – The 1972 Winter Olympics are
held in Sapporo, Japan. ·
February 4 – Mariner 9 sends pictures as it
orbits Mars. ·
U.S.
airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage. ·
Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall
of Fame. ·
February 9 – The British government
declares a state of emergency over
a miners' strike. ·
President
of Ecuador José María
Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time. ·
Phonorecords are
granted U.S. federal copyright protection
for the first time. ·
February 17 – Volkswagen Beetle sales
exceed those of the Ford Model T when
the 15,007,034th Beetle is produced. ·
February 18 – The California
Supreme Court voids the state's death penalty, commuting all death sentences
to life in prison. ·
February 19 – Asama-Sansō
incident: Five United Red Army members break into a
lodge below Mount Asama,
taking the wife of the lodge keeper hostage. ·
February 21 – The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon. ·
February 21 – February 28 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon makes an
unprecedented 8-day visit to
the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong. ·
Aldershot Bombing:
An Official IRA bomb
kills seven in Aldershot, England. ·
Lufthansa Flight 649 is
hijacked and taken to Aden. Passengers are
released the following day after a ransom of 5 million US dollars is agreed. ·
February 23 – Angela Davis is released from jail.
A Caruthers,
California farmer, Rodger McAfee, helps her make bail. ·
February 24 – North Vietnamese
negotiators walk out of the Paris Peace Talks to protest U.S. air raids. ·
A coal sludge spill kills
125 people in Buffalo
Creek, West Virginia. ·
Luna 20 comes back to Earth with 55 grams (1.94 oz) of
lunar soil. ·
February 28 – The Asama-Sanso incident
ends in a standoff between 5 members of the Japanese United Red Army and the
authorities, in which two policemen are killed and 12 injured. March[edit] Main article: March 1972 ·
March 1 ·
The
Thai province Yasothon is
created after being split off from the Ubon Ratchathani
Province. ·
The Club of Rome publishes its report The Limits to Growth. ·
Juan María
Bordaberry is sworn in as President of Uruguay amid
accusations of election fraud. ·
March 2 ·
The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched
from Cape Kennedy, to
be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system. ·
Jean-Bédel Bokassa becomes
President of the Central African
Republic. ·
March 3 ·
Sculpted
figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are
completed at Stone Mountain in
the U.S. state of Georgia. ·
Mohawk
Airlines Flight 405 crashed into a house on Edgewood Avenue
in Albany, New York,
killing 16 of the 47 persons on board, and one person in an upstairs
apartment. The impact happened at 8:48 pm after the commuter plane lost power
during a snowstorm. ·
Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull is
released, a concept album supposedly written by an 8-year-old boy, Gerald Bostock. ·
March 4 ·
Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty. ·
The Organisation
of the Islamic Conference Charter is signed (effective 28
February 1973). ·
March 5 – Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves
the Greek Communist
Party. ·
March 13 ·
The
United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China elevate diplomatic
exchanges to the ambassadorial level after 22 years. ·
Clifford Irving admits to a New York
court that he had fabricated Howard Hughes' "autobiography". ·
March 15 – The Godfather has its premiere at
the Loew's
State Theatre in New York City. ·
March 16 – The first building of
the Pruitt–Igoe housing
development in St. Louis is
destroyed. ·
March 19 – India and Bangladesh sign the Indo-Bangladeshi Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and
Peace. ·
March 22 – The 92nd U.S. Congress votes
to send the proposed Equal Rights
Amendment to the states for ratification. ·
March 24 – The British government
announces the prorogation of the Parliament
of Northern Ireland and the introduction of 'Direct
Rule' of Northern Ireland, after the Unionist government
refuses to cede security powers. ·
March 25 – Après toi sung by Vicky Leandros (music by Klaus Munro
& Mario Panas, lyric by Klaus Munro & Yves Dessca) wins the Eurovision
Song Contest 1972for Luxembourg. ·
March 26 ·
An avalanche on Mount Fuji kills 19 climbers. ·
The
last trolleybus system in the United Kingdom closes in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire after
over 60 years of operation. ·
After
14 years, the last of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's
Concerts is telecast by CBS. This last concert is devoted
to Gustav Holst's The Planets. ·
March 27 – The First Sudanese
Civil War ends. ·
March 30 ·
Vietnam War: The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam ·
The Parliament
of Northern Ireland is suspended. April[edit] Main article: April 1972 ·
April 7 – Vietnam War veteran Richard McCoy, Jr. hijacks
a United Airlines jet
and extorts $500,000; he is later captured. ·
April 10 ·
The
U.S. and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing the Biological
Weapons Convention, an agreement to ban biological warfare. ·
Tombs containing bamboo slips,
among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise,
are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong. ·
The
6.7 Mw Qir earthquake shook
southern Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing
5,374 people in the province of Fars. ·
The
44th Annual Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy
Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. ·
April 12 – The X-rated animated
movie Fritz the Cat is
released. ·
April 13 – The Universal Postal
Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as
the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan. ·
April 16 ·
Apollo 16 (John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charlie Duke) is launched. During the
mission, the astronauts achieve a lunar rover speed record of
18 km/h. ·
Vietnam War – Nguyen Hue Offensive:
Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive,
the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. ·
April 17 – The first Boston Marathon in which women are
officially allowed to compete. ·
April 22 – Sylvia Cook and John Fairfax finish
rowing across the Pacific. ·
April 26 – The Lockheed L-1011
TriStar enters service with Eastern Airlines. ·
April 27 ·
The Burundian Genocide against
the Hutu begins; more than 500,000 Hutus
die. ·
A
no-confidence vote against German
Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure
circumstances. ·
April 29 – The fourth anniversary of
the Broadway musical Hair is celebrated with a free
concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons.
There, 13 Black Panther protesters
and the show's co-author, Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the
peace and for using marijuana. May[edit] Main article: May 1972 ·
May 2 – Fire at the Sunshine Mine, a silver mine in Idaho, kills 91. ·
May 5 – An Alitalia DC-8 crashes west
of Palermo, Sicily; 115 die. ·
May 7 – General
elections are held in Italy. ·
May 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the mining of Haiphong Harbor in Vietnam. ·
May 10 – Operation Linebacker and Operation Custom
Tailor begin with large-scale bombing operations against
North Vietnam by tactical fighter aircraft. ·
May 13 – A fire
in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in Osaka, Japan, kills 115. ·
May 15 ·
Okinawa is returned to Japan after 27
years of United States occupation. ·
Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama is shot and paralyzed by Arthur Bremer at a Laurel, Maryland, political rally. ·
May 16 – The first financial
derivatives exchange, the International
Monetary Market (IMM), opens on the Chicago
Mercantile Exchange. ·
May 18 – Four troopers of the
British Special Air Service and Special Boat Service are
parachuted onto the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 1,600
kilometres (1,000 mi) across the Atlantic after a bomb threat and ransom
demand which turn out to be bogus. ·
May 19 – Three out of six bombs explode
in the Axel Springer AG media
company offices in Hamburg, Germany,
injuring 17; the Red Army Faction claims
responsibility. ·
May 21 – In St. Peter's Basilica (Vatican City), Laszlo Toth attacks Michelangelo's Pietà statue
with a geologist's hammer,
shouting that he is Jesus Christ. ·
May 22 ·
The Dominion of Ceylon becomes
the republic of Sri Lanka under
prime minister Sirimavo
Bandaranaike, when its new constitution is ratified. ·
Ferit Melen forms the new (interim)
government of Turkey (35th
government) ·
May 23 – The Tamil United Front (later
known as Tamil
United Liberation Front), a pro-Tamil organization, is founded in Sri
Lanka. ·
May 24 ·
Scottish Association football club Rangers F.C. win the UEFA Cup Winners'
Cup, defeating FC Dynamo Moscow 3-2 in the final at Camp Nou in Barcelona(Spain). A pitch invasion by their supporters
leads to the team being banned from defending the trophy the following
season. ·
A Red Army Faction bomb explodes in
the Campbell Barracks of
the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, West Germany; three U.S.
soldiers (Clyde Bonner, Ronald Woodard and Charles Peck) are killed. ·
The Magnavox Odyssey video game system is
first demoed, marking the dawn of the video game age; it goes on sale to the
public in August. ·
May 26 ·
Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT I treaty in Moscow, as well as
the Anti-Ballistic
Missile Treaty and other agreements. ·
Wernher von Braun retires
from NASA, frustrated by the agency's
unwillingness to pursue a manned trans-orbital space program. ·
Willandra
National Park is established in Australia. ·
May 27 – Mark Donohue wins the Indianapolis 500 in
the Penske Racing McLaren–Offenhauser. ·
May 30 ·
The Angry Brigade goes
on trial in the United Kingdom. ·
Three Japanese Red Army members
kill 24 and injure 100 in Lod Airport, Israel. June[edit] Main article: June 1972 ·
June
– Iraq nationalizes the Iraq Petroleum
Company. ·
June 2 – Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Holger Meins and some other members of
the Red Army Faction are
arrested in Frankfurt am Main after
a shootout. ·
June 3 – Sally Priesand becomes the first female
U.S. rabbi. ·
June 4 – Angela Davis is found not guilty of
murder. ·
June 5–16 – The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment is
held in Stockholm, Sweden ·
June 8 ·
Seven
men and three women hijack a plane from Czechoslovakia to West Germany. ·
Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of a naked
nine-year-old Phan Thi Kim Phuc running
down a road after being burned by napalm. ·
June 9 – The Black Hills flood kills
238 in South Dakota. ·
June 11 – Henri Pescarolo (France) and co-driver
former World
Drivers' Champion Graham Hill (Britain) win the 24 Hours of Le
Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670. ·
June 14–23 – Hurricane Agnes kills 117 on the U.S.
East Coast. ·
June 14 ·
Japan Airlines
Flight 471 crashes outside of New Delhi airport, killing 82
of 87 occupants. ·
The
first Popeyes fried chicken restaurant opens
in the New Orleans suburb
of Arabi, Louisiana. ·
June 15 – Ulrike Meinhof and Gerhard Müller of
the Red Army Faction are
arrested in a teacher's apartment in Langenhagen, West Germany. ·
June 15–18 – The first U.S. Libertarian
Party National Convention is held in Denver, Colorado. ·
June 16 – 108 die as two passenger
trains hit the debris of a collapsed railway tunnel near Soissons, France. ·
June 17 ·
Watergate scandal:
Five White House operatives
are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the Democratic
National Committee. ·
The
United States returns Okinawa, occupied and
governed since the World War II Battle of Okinawa,
to Japan. ·
Chilean president Salvador Allende forms a new
government. ·
June 18 ·
Staines air disaster:
118 die when a Trident 1 jet
airliner crashes two minutes after take off from London Heathrow
Airport. ·
West
Germany beats the Soviet Union 3–0
to win Euro
72. ·
Hong
Kong's worst flooding and landslides in recorded history with 653.2
millimetres (25.72 in) of rainfall in the previous three days. 67 people
die due to building collapses in Mid-levels districts landslide and building
collapses, with a further 83 due to flooding-related fatalities. It is the
second worst fatality due to building collapses, and the worst flooding in
Hong Kong's recorded history. ·
June 23 – Watergate scandal:
U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about
using the C.I.A. to
obstruct the F.B.I.'s
investigation into the Watergate break-ins. ·
June 26 – Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney co-found Atari. ·
June 28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that no new
draftees will be sent to Vietnam. ·
June 29 – Furman v. Georgia:
The Supreme
Court of the United States rules that capital punishment is
unconstitutional. ·
June 30 – The International
Time Bureau adds the first leap second (23:59:60) to Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC) at the end of the month. July[edit] Main article: July 1972 ·
July –
U.S. actress Jane Fonda tours North Vietnam, during which she is
photographed sitting on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. ·
July 1 ·
The
Canadian ketch Vega, flying
the Greenpeace III banner, collides with
the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters,
to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific. ·
The Bureau
of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms becomes independent from
the IRS. ·
July 2 – Following Pakistan's surrender to India in the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1971, both nations sign the historic Simla Agreement, agreeing to settle their
disputes bilaterally. ·
July 4 – The first Rainbow Gathering is
held in Colorado. ·
July 8 – The U.S. sells grain to the Soviet Union for $750
million. ·
July 10 – India's news agency reports
that at least 24 people have been killed in separate incidents, in the
Chandka Forest in India, by elephants crazed by heat and drought. ·
July 10–14 – The Democratic
National Convention meets in Miami Beach. Senator George McGovern, who backs the immediate and
complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam, is nominated for President.
He names fellow Senator Thomas Eagleton as his running mate. ·
July 15 – The Pruitt–Igoe housing development is
demolished in St. Louis, Missouri. ·
July 18 – Anwar Sadat expels 20,000 Soviet
advisors from Egypt. ·
July 21 ·
Bloody Friday:
22 bombs planted by the Provisional IRA explode in Belfast, Northern Ireland; nine people are killed and
130 seriously injured.[3] ·
Comedian George Carlin is arrested by Milwaukee police for public obscenity, for reciting his "Seven
Words You Can Never Say On Television" at Summerfest. ·
A
collision between two trains near Seville, Spain kills 76 people. ·
July 23 – The United States
launches Landsat 1, the first
Earth-resources satellite. ·
July 24 – King Jigme Singye
Wangchuck succeeds his father Jigme Dorji
Wangchuck as king of Bhutan. ·
July 25 – U.S. health officials admit
that African-Americans were used as guinea pigs in the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. ·
July 27 – The McDonnell
Douglas F-15 Eagle makes its first flight. ·
July 28 – A national dock strike begins
in Britain. ·
July 31 – The Troubles, Northern Ireland: ·
Operation Motorman 4:00 AM: The British Army begins to regain control of the "no-go areas" established by Irish republican paramilitaries in Belfast, Derry("Free Derry") and Newry.[3] ·
Claudy bombing ("Bloody
Monday"), 10:00 AM: Three car bombs in Claudy, County Londonderry,
kill nine. It becomes public knowledge only in 2010 that
a local Catholic priest was
an IRA officer
believed to be involved in the bombings but his role was covered up by the
authorities.[4] August[edit] Main article: August 1972 ·
August 1 – U.S. Senator Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic
vice-presidential nominee, withdraws from the race after revealing he was
once treated for mental illness. ·
August 4 ·
Arthur Bremer is jailed for 63 years
for shooting George Wallace. ·
Dictator Idi Amin declares that Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with
British passports to Britain within 3 months. ·
A
huge solar flare (one
of the largest ever recorded) knocks out cable lines in U.S. It begins with
the appearance of sunspots on August 2; an August 4 flare kicks off high levels
of activity until August 10. ·
August 10 – A brilliant, daytime meteor skips
off the Earth's atmosphere due to an Apollo asteroid streaking over the
western US into Canada.[5] ·
August 12 – Oil tankers Oswego-Guardian and Texanita collide
near Stilbaai, South Africa. ·
August 14 – An East German Ilyushin airliner crashes near East Berlin; all 156 on board perish. ·
August 16 – As part of a coup attempt,
members of the Royal Moroccan
Air Force fire upon, but fail to bring down, Hassan II of Morocco's
plane while he is traveling back to Rabat. ·
August 19 – The first daytime episode
of the second incarnation of American game show The
Price Is Right is taped at CBS Television City,
to be aired on September 4.[6] ·
August 21 – The Republican
National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida renominates
U.S. President Richard Nixon and
Vice President Spiro Agnew for
a second term. ·
Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for
its racist policies. ·
John Wojtowicz, 27, and Sal Naturile, 18,
hold several Chase Manhattan Bank employees hostage for 17 hours in
Gravesend, Brooklyn, N.Y. (an event later dramatized in the film Dog Day Afternoon). ·
In
the Almirante Zar Naval Base, Argentina, 16 detainees are executed by firing
squad in the Trelew massacre. ·
August 26 – September 10 – The 1972 Summer Olympics are
held in Munich, West Germany. September[edit] Main article: September 1972 ·
Bobby Fischer defeats Boris Spassky in a chess match in Reykjavík, Iceland, becoming the first
American world chess
champion. ·
The Second Cod War begins between the
United Kingdom and Iceland. ·
September 4 – The first daytime episode
of the second incarnation of American game show The
Price Is Right, hosted by Bob Barker, is aired on CBS. Gambit and The
Joker's Wild also premiere. ·
September 5–6 – Munich massacre: Eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich are murdered after eight members
of the Arab terrorist group Black
September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one
policeman are also killed in a failed hostage rescue. ·
September 10 – The Brazilian
driver Emerson Fittipaldi wins
the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and becomes the
youngest Formula One World
Champion. ·
September 14 – West Germany and Poland
renew diplomatic relations. ·
Uganda announces that there are Tanzanian troops in its territory. ·
The
television series M*A*S*H begins
its run on CBS. ·
September 18 – São Paulo Metro is
inaugurated in Brazil. ·
September 19 – A parcel bomb sent to the Israeli Embassy in London kills one
diplomat. ·
September 23 – Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos announces on national
television the issuance of Proclamation No.
1081 placing the entire country under martial law.[7][8] September 23: Martial law in the Philippines. ·
September 24 – An F-86 fighter
aircraft leaving an air show at Sacramento
Executive Airport fails to become airborne and crashes into
a Farrell's Ice
Cream Parlour, killing 12 children and 11 adults.[9] ·
September 25 – Norwegian
EC referendum, 1972: Norway rejects membership in the European
Economic Community. ·
September 28 – The Canadian
national men's hockey team defeats the Soviet
national ice hockey team in Game 8 of the 1972 Summit Series (French: La Série du
Siècle, Russian:
Суперсерия
СССР — Канада),
6–5, to win the series 4–3–1. ·
September 29 – Sino-Japanese
relations: The Joint Communiqué of the Government of Japan and the
Government of the People's Republic of China is signed in Beijing, which
normalizes diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China after
breaking official ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan). October[edit] Main article: October 1972 ·
October – The government of former
President of Somalia Mohamed Siad Barre formally
introduces the Somali alphabet as Somalia's official writing script.[10] ·
The
first publication reporting the production of a recombinant DNA molecule
marks the birth of modern molecular biology methodology.[11] ·
Alex Comfort's bestselling manual The Joy of Sex is published. ·
October 2 – Denmark joins the European Community;
the Faroe Islands stay
out. ·
October 5 – The United Reformed
Church is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches. ·
October 6 – A train crash in Saltillo, Mexico kills 208 people.[12] ·
A
major breakthrough occurs in the Paris peace talks between Henry Kissinger and Lê
Đức Thọ. ·
R. Sargent Shriver is
chosen to replace Thomas Eagleton as
the U.S. vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic
Party. ·
October 12 – En route to the Gulf of Tonkin, an anti-war protest,
the USS Kitty
Hawk riot led by African-Americans and interpreted
by some as a race riot involving
more than 200 sailors, breaks out aboard the United States Navy aircraft
carrier USS Kitty
Hawk; nearly 50 sailors are injured. ·
October 13 – Uruguayan
Air Force Flight 571: A Fairchild FH-227D passenger aircraft transporting a rugby union team crashes at about
14,000 feet (4,300 m) in the Andes mountain range, near the
Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive December 20 but they have had to resort
to cannibalism to
survive. ·
A
plane carrying U.S. Congressman Hale Boggs of Louisiana and three other
men vanishes in Alaska. The wreckage has never been found, despite a massive
search at the time. ·
Rioting Maze Prison inmates cause a fire that
destroys most of the camp. ·
October 17 – Elizabeth II visits Yugoslavia. ·
The
first female FBI agents
are hired. ·
Belgian Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in cycling in Mexico City. ·
October 26 – Following a visit to South Vietnam, U.S.
National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger suggests that
"peace is at hand." ·
October 28 – The Airbus A300 flies for the first time. ·
October 29 – Lufthansa Flight 615 is
hijacked and threats are made to be blown up if the three surviving
perpetrators of the Munich massacre are not released from
prison in West Germany. The demands are accepted, leading to fierce
condemnation by Israel.[13] ·
U.S.
President Richard Nixon approves
legislation to increase Social
Security spending by US$5.3 billion. ·
A commuter train collision in Chicago
kills 45, injures hundreds. November[edit] Main article: November 1972 ·
November ·
At
a scientific meeting in Honolulu, Herbert Boyer and Stanley N. Cohen conceive the concept
of recombinant DNA.
They publish their results in November 1973 in PNAS.
Separately in 1972, Paul Berg also
recombines DNA in a test tube. Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically
changed the field of biological sciences, especially biotechnology, and opened the door to genetically
modified organisms. ·
The Nishitetsu Lions baseball
club, part of the NPB's Pacific League, is sold to the Fukuoka Baseball Corporation, a subsidiary
of Nishi-Nippon
Railroad. The team is renamed the Taiheiyo Club Lions. ·
November 5 – A group of Amerindians
occupies the Bureau of Indian Affairs. ·
November 7 – U.S.
presidential election, 1972: Republican incumbent Richard Nixon defeats Democratic Senator George McGovern in a landslide (the
election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948, with only 55 percent of the
electorate voting). ·
November 11 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The United States Army turns
over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam. ·
November 14 – The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the
first time. ·
November 16 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection
of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage[14] ·
November 19 – Seán Mac Stíofáin,
a leader of the Provisional
Irish Republican Army, is arrested in Dublin after giving an interview
to RTÉ. ·
November 22 – Vietnam War: The United States loses its
first B-52 Stratofortress of
the war. ·
November 28 – The last executions in
Paris, France. Roger Bontems and Claude Buffet – the Clairvaux Mutineers –
are guillotined at La Santé Prison by
chief executioner André Obrecht. Bontems had been found
innocent of murder by the court, but as Buffet's accomplice is condemned to
death anyway. President Georges Pompidou, in private an abolitionist,
upholds both death sentences in deference to French public opinion. ·
Atari kicks off the first generation
of video games with the release of their
seminal arcade version
of Pong, the first game to achieve
commercial success. The arcade version
of Pong is released. ·
The
"tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the Amstel River in Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale
of cannabis in
the Netherlands.[15] ·
Vietnam
War: White House Press
Secretary Ron Ziegler tells
the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning United
States troop withdrawals from Vietnam, due to the fact that troop levels
are now down to 27,000. ·
Cod War: British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home says
that Royal Navy ships
will be stationed to protect British trawlers off Iceland. December[edit] Main article: December 1972 ·
December 2 – Australian
federal election, 1972: The Labor Party led
by Gough Whitlam defeats
the Liberal/CountryCoalition Government led
by Prime Minister William McMahon. Consequently, Whitlam
becomes the first Labor Prime
Minister of Australia since the defeat of Ben Chifley in 1949.
Whitlam would be sworn in on December 5th; his first action using executive
power was to withdraw all Australian personnel from the Vietnam War. McMahon resigned from the
Liberal leadership almost immediately; he would be replaced by outgoing Treasurer Billy Snedden. ·
Apollo 17 (Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt), the last manned Moon mission
to date, is launched and "The Blue Marble" photograph of
the Earth is taken. ·
The Provisional
Irish Republican Army kidnaps Jean McConville in Belfast. ·
Imelda Marcos is stabbed and seriously
wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot him. ·
United
Airlines Flight 553 crashes short of the runway, killing 43
of 61 passengers and two people on the ground. ·
Over
$10,000 cash is found in the purse of Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt's wife. ·
International
Human Rights Day is proclaimed by the United Nations. ·
December 11 – Apollo 17 lands on the Moon. ·
December 14 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to
walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and
final Extra-vehicular
activity (EVA) of Apollo 17. This is the last manned
mission to the moon of the 20th century. ·
The
Commonwealth of Australia ordains equal pay for women. ·
The United
Nations Environment Programme is established as a specialized
agency of the United Nations. ·
The Constitution
of Bangladesh comes into effect. ·
The
Portuguese army kills 400 Africans in Tete, Mozambique. ·
December 19 – Apollo program: Apollo 17 returns to Earth, concluding the program of lunar
exploration. ·
East Germany and West Germany recognize
each other. ·
ZANLA troopers attack Altera Farm in
north-east Rhodesia. ·
Australia
establishes diplomatic relations with China and East Germany. ·
A
peace delegation that includes singer-activist Joan Baez and human rights
attorney Telford Taylor visit Hanoi to deliver Christmas mail to
American prisoners of war (they
will be caught in the Christmas bombing
of North Vietnam). ·
The
6.2 Mw Nicaragua
earthquake kills 5,000–11,000 people in the capital Managua. President Anastasio Somoza
Debayle is later accused of not distributing millions of
dollars worth of foreign aid. ·
The
Pittsburgh Steelers win their first ever post-season NFL game,
defeating the Oakland Raiders 13–7, on a last second play that becomes known
as The Immaculate Reception. ·
Swedish Prime minister Olof Palme compares the American
bombings of North Vietnam to Nazi massacres. The U.S. breaks diplomatic
contact with Sweden. ·
December 25 – The Christmas bombing
of North Vietnam causes widespread criticism of the U.S. and
President Richard Nixon. ·
December 26 – Former United
States President Harry S. Truman dies in Kansas City,
Missouri. ·
December 28 – The bones of Martin Bormann are identified in
Berlin. ·
December 29 – Eastern Air
Lines Flight 401 crashes into the Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of
176 on board. It is the first hull-loss of a wide-body aircraft. ·
Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash
off the coast of Puerto Rico while
en route to deliver aid to Nicaraguan earthquake victims. ·
For
the first and last time, a 2nd leap second is added (23:59:60) to a
year, making 1972 366 days and two seconds long, the longest year ever within
the context of UTC. ·
The
US ban on the pesticide DDT takes effect. Date unknown[edit] ·
The International
Year of the Book is designated by UNESCO. ·
The last
major epidemic of smallpox in Europe breaks out in Yugoslavia. ·
The
United Kingdom begin to train Special Air Service for
anti-terrorist duties in response to the Munich massacre ·
The
first women are admitted to Dartmouth College in
the United States. ·
Colombian looters find Ciudad Perdida but keep it a secret
until the government reveals it in 1975. ·
The Yellow River dries up for the first
time in known history. ·
Worship
of Norse gods is
officially approved in Iceland. ·
The Climatic Research
Unit is founded by climatologist Hubert Lamb at the University of
East Anglia. ·
The Socialist
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia bans the cultural
organization Matica hrvatska,
founded in 1842. ·
The
German company SAP AG is founded. ·
Kadir Nurman introduces a sandwich made
with döner kebab meat
as a fast-food item in Berlin.[16][17] ·
Burt Reynolds poses nude for the
centerfold of the April edition of Cosmopolitan. ·
Film
director Stanley Kubrick asks Warner Bros. to withdraw A Clockwork
Orange from exhibition in the UK following death threats
made against his family. The film does not receive a public viewing in the
country for another 27 years. ·
Motown moves all of its operations from Detroit to Los Angeles in June. Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Yoon Chan, South Korean actor ·
Jennifer Hale, American voice actress ·
Barron Miles, Canadian defensive back for
the BC Lions in the CFL ·
Lilian Thuram, French football player ·
January 4 – Brad Zavisha, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Jang Seo-hee, South Korean actress ·
Sakis Rouvas, Greek recording, film and
television artist; model; businessman and former pole vaulter ·
January 9 – Mat Hoffman, American BMX rider ·
January 10 – Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country
skier ·
January 11 – Amanda Peet, American actress ·
Espen Knutsen, Norwegian hockey player ·
Toto Wolff, Austrian former race car driver,
team principal ·
Nicole Eggert, American actress ·
Yukiko Iwai, Japanese voice actress ·
Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast ·
Il Mi Chung, South Korean golfer ·
Claudia Winkleman,
British television presenter ·
Yang Yong-eun, South Korean golfer ·
Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer ·
Ang Christou, Australian rules footballer ·
Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor and voice
actor ·
Yuri Alekseevich
Drozdov, Russian footballer ·
Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer ·
Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner ·
Joe Horn, American football player ·
Greg Page,
Australian musician and actor ·
Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer ·
January 17 – Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter ·
January 18 – Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player ·
January 19 – Angham, Egyptian singer, record producer and
actress ·
January 20 – Nikki Haley, Indian-American
politician, Governor of
South Carolina (2010-2017) and current U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations ·
January 21 – Billel Dziri, Algerian footballer ·
Gabriel Macht, American actor ·
Romi Park, Japanese voice actress ·
Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor ·
Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer ·
January 25 – Chantal Andere, Mexican actress ·
Wynne Evans, Welsh operatic tenor ·
Mark Owen, British pop singer (Take That) ·
Keith Wood, Irish rugby player ·
January 29 – Matt Brandstein, American writer February[edit] ·
Dana International,
Israeli transsexual singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1998 winner ·
Klára Dobrev, wife of Hungarian Prime
Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány ·
Hendrick Ramaala, South African
long-distance runner ·
Hisashi Tonomura,
Japanese musician ·
February 3 – Jesper Kyd, Danish video game composer ·
February 4 – Giovanni Silva
de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer ·
Mary,
Crown Princess of Denmark ·
Koriki Chōshū,
Japanese comedian ·
Kristopher Carter,
American composer ·
Robyn Lively, American actress ·
Jamie Shannon, Canadian actor and director ·
February 8 – Big Show, American professional wrestler ·
Crispin Freeman, American voice actor ·
Norbert Rózsa, Hungarian swimmer ·
Craig Jones,
American musician ·
Steve McManaman, British footballer ·
Kelly Slater, American professional surfer ·
Drew Bledsoe, American football player ·
Rob Thomas,
American singer-songwriter (Matchbox Twenty) ·
February 15 – Jaromír Jágr,
Czech hockey player ·
February 16 – Jerome Bettis, American football player ·
Billie Joe Armstrong,
American rock musician and lead singer/guitarist (Green Day) ·
Philippe Candeloro,
French figure skater ·
Yuki Isoya, Japanese singer ·
Ralphie May, American comedian (d. 2017) ·
Valeria Mazza, Argentinean model and
businesswoman ·
February 18 – Olexandra Timoshenko,
Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast ·
February 19 – Malky Mackay, Scottish footballer ·
February 21 – Seo Taiji, Korean musician ·
Michael Chang, American tennis player ·
Claudia Pechstein,
German speed-skater ·
Pooja Bhatt, Indian actress ·
Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (d. 2001) ·
James Bachman, English comedian, actor and
writer ·
February 25 – Jaak Mae, Estonian cross-country skier ·
February 26 – Keith
Ferguson, American voice actor ·
Antonio Sabàto, Jr.,
Italian actor ·
Sylvie Lubamba, Italian showgirl ·
Dave Williams,
American musician and singer of Drowning Pool (d. 2002) ·
Saul Williams, American singer, poet and
actor ·
Pedro Sánchez, Prime Minister of
Spain March[edit] ·
March 3 ·
Darren Anderton, English footballer ·
March 4 ·
Nocturno Culto, Norwegian musician ·
Pae Gil-su, North Korean gymnast ·
Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican-American actress,
singer-songwriter and record producer ·
Jos Verstappen, Dutch race car driver ·
March 6 ·
Shaquille O'Neal,
African-American basketball player ·
Jaret Reddick, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
March 9 ·
Ronald Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
Spencer Howson, Australian radio announcer ·
Travis Lane Stork,
American emergency room physician and television personality ·
Kerr Smith, American actor ·
Jean Louisa Kelly,
American actress ·
March 10 ·
Takashi Fujii (Matthew
Minami), Japanese television performer ·
Matt Kenseth, American race car driver ·
Michael Lucas,
Russian gay pornographic actor and director ·
Timbaland, American record producer,
songwriter and rapper ·
March 13 ·
Leigh-Allyn Baker,
American actress ·
Common, African-American rapper and actor ·
Trent Dilfer, American football player ·
March 15 – Mark Hoppus, American musician and bassist (blink-182) ·
March 17 ·
Mia Hamm, American soccer player ·
Paige Hemmis, American television
personality ·
March 18 – Dane Cook, American comedian ·
March 21 ·
Chris Candido, American professional
wrestler (d. 2005) ·
Balázs Kiss, Hungarian Olympic athlete ·
Derartu Tulu, Ethiopian long-distance runner ·
March 22 ·
Shawn Bradley, American basketball player ·
Cory Lidle, American baseball player
(d. 2006) ·
Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater ·
March 23 ·
Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer ·
Judith Godrèche,
French actress ·
March 26 – Leslie Mann, American actress and comedian ·
March 27 ·
Ignacio Garrido, Spanish golfer ·
Charlie Haas, American professional wrestler ·
Jimmy Floyd
Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer ·
Ben Richards,
British actor, better known for his role in The Bill ·
March 28 ·
Nick Frost, English actor, comedian and
screenwriter ·
Eby J. Jose, Indian journalist and human
rights activist ·
March 29 ·
Hera Björk, Icelandic singer ·
Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor ·
March 30 – Karel Poborský,
Czech Republic football player April[edit] ·
April 3 – Jennie Garth, American actress ·
April 4 ·
Tag
Adams, American pornographic film actor ·
Bastian Pastewka, German comedian and actor ·
Lisa Ray, Canadian model and actress ·
April 5 – Junko Takeuchi, Japanese voice actress ·
April 6 – Jason Hervey, American actor ·
April 8 ·
Garamond Hernandez,
Cuban boxer ·
Sung Kang, Korean actor ·
April 7 – Tim Peake, British astronaut ·
April 9 – Bernard Ackah, Ivorian mixed martial artist
and comedian ·
April 10 ·
Vincent Zhao, Chinese actor and martial
artist ·
Adrian Martinez,
American comedian and actor ·
April 11 ·
Balls Mahoney, American professional
wrestler (d. 2016) ·
Jason Varitek, American baseball player ·
April 12 – Şebnem Ferah, Turkish singer and
songwriter ·
April 13 – Mariusz Czerkawski,
Polish ice hockey player ·
April 14 – Dean Potter, American free climber (d. 2015) ·
April 15 – Arturo Gatti, Canadian boxer (d. 2009) ·
April 16 – Conchita Martínez,
Spanish tennis player ·
April 17 ·
Tony Boselli, American football player ·
Jennifer Garner, American actress ·
Muttiah Muralitharan,
Sri Lankan cricketer ·
Terran Sandwith, Canadian ice hockey player ·
April 19 – Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer ·
April 20 ·
Lê
Huỳnh Đức, Vietnamese footballer ·
Carmen Electra, American actress and singer ·
Željko
Joksimović, Serbian singer, composer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist
and producer ·
Marko Kon, Serbian composer, producer and
singer ·
Stephen Marley,
Jamaican-American musician ·
April 23 ·
Amira Medunjanin, singer from Bosnia and
Herzegovina ·
Choky Ice, Hungarian porn actor ·
April 24 ·
Chad I Ginsburg, American musician and
record producer (CKY) ·
Chipper Jones, American baseball player ·
April 26 – Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer ·
April 27 – David Lascher, American actor ·
April 29 – Fredrik Kempe, Swedish songwriter and opera
and pop singer ·
April 30 – Takako Tokiwa, Japanese actress May[edit] ·
May 1 – Julie Benz, American actress ·
May 2 ·
Paul Adcock, English footballer ·
Dwayne Johnson, American professional
wrestler and actor ·
May 3 – Vyacheslav Kozlov,
Russian hockey player ·
May 4 – Mike Dirnt, American rock musician and
bassist (Green Day) ·
May 5 – James Cracknell, British Olympic winning
rower ·
May 6 ·
Janne Blomqvist, Finnish swimmer ·
Martin Brodeur, Canadian hockey goaltender ·
Naoko Takahashi, Japanese long-distance
runner ·
May 7 – Asghar Farhadi, Iranian film director ·
May 8 ·
Darren Hayes, Australian musician ·
Ray Whitney,
Canadian former NHL player ·
May 9 ·
Lisa Ann, American pornographic actress ·
Daniela Silivaș,
Romanian gymnast ·
May 10 ·
Radosław Majdan,
Polish goalkeeper ·
Katja Seizinger, German alpine skier ·
May 14 – Amma Asante,
Dutch politician ·
May 15 – Richard Blackwood,
English comedian, actor and rapper ·
May 16 ·
Derek Mears, American actor/stuntman ·
Khary Payton, American actor ·
May 17 ·
Tyson Cane, American gay pornographic actor ·
Roman Genn, Russian artist ·
May 19 ·
Jenny Berggren, Swedish rock singer (Ace of Base) ·
Claudia Karvan, Australian actress ·
Stephanie Nadolny,
American voice actress and singer ·
May 20 ·
Andreas Lundstedt,
Swedish singer and actor (Alcazar) ·
Busta Rhymes, African-American rapper and
actor ·
May 21 ·
The Notorious B.I.G.,
African-American rapper (d. 1997) ·
Kaoru Fujino, Japanese voice actress ·
May 22 ·
Max Brooks, American horror author and
screenwriter ·
Alison Eastwood, American actress ·
May 23 – Rubens Barrichello,
Brazilian race car driver ·
May 25 ·
Karan Johar, Indian film director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
Jules Jordan, American pornographic movie director,
actor, and producer ·
May 26 – Ahmad Dhani, Indonesian rock musician,
songwriter, arranger, and producer ·
May 27 – Ivete Sangalo, Brazilian singer, songwriter,
actress and television show host ·
May 28 – Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist ·
May 29 – Stanislas Renoult,
French singer ·
May 30 – Manny Ramírez, Dominican baseball player ·
May 31 ·
Frode Estil, Norwegian cross-country skier ·
Dave Roberts,
American baseball player June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Daniel Casey, English actor ·
Rick Gomez, American actor and voice actor ·
June 2 ·
Wayne Brady, African-American comedian ·
Wentworth Miller, American actor and
screenwriter ·
June 4 ·
Derian Hatcher, American ice hockey player ·
Debra Stephenson, English actress ·
Stoja, Serbian pop-folk singer ·
June 5 ·
Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler ·
Paweł Kotla, Polish conductor ·
Chokoleit, Filipino comedian and actor ·
Yogi Adityanath, Indian priest and
politician ·
June 6 ·
Noriaki Kasai, Japanese ski jumper ·
Cristina Scabbia, Italian singer ·
June 7 – Karl Urban, New Zealand actor ·
June 8 – Chapman To, Hong Kong actor ·
June 10 – Steven Fischer, American film producer and
director ·
June 14 – Matthias Ettrich, German computer scientist ·
June 15 – Andy Pettitte, American baseball player ·
June 16 – John Cho, Korean-American actor and musician ·
June 17 ·
Rikrok, British-Jamaican singer ·
Iztok Čop, Slovenian rower ·
C. H. Greenblatt, American animator ·
June 18 – Roger "Infernus" Tiegs, Norwegian
black metal musician, original member of Gorgoroth ·
June 19 ·
Jean Dujardin, French actor, comedian, and
film director ·
Rayveness, American porn actress ·
June 20 – Shane Hamman, American Olympic weightlifter
and powerlifter ·
June 21 – Irene van Dyk, South African and New Zealand
netball player ·
June 22 – Miguel del Toro, Mexican baseball player ·
June 23 – Zinedine Zidane, French-Algerian footballer
and manager ·
June 24 ·
Robbie McEwen, Australian professional road
bicycle racer ·
Denis Žvegelj, Slovenian rower ·
Kim Yeo-jin, South Korean actress and
activist ·
June 25 – Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player ·
June 28 ·
Maria Butyrskaya, Russian figure skater ·
Jon Heidenreich, American professional
wrestler ·
June 29 ·
Samantha Smith, American peace activist
(d. 1985) ·
Nawal Al Zoghbi, Lebanese singer ·
June 30 – Molly Parker, Canadian actress July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
Christopher
Smiyh, British film director and screenwriter ·
Steve Little,
American actor and comedian ·
July 2 ·
Darren Shan, British author ·
Coster Balakasi, Zimbabwean sculptor ·
July 3 ·
Henrik Fritzon, Swedish politician ·
Aleksei Kulashko, New Zealand chess player ·
July 4 ·
Nina Badrić, Croatian pop singer ·
Alexei Shirov, Spanish chess Grandmaster ·
Craig Spearman, New Zealand cricketer ·
Shira Arad, Israeli film editor and musical
supervisor ·
July 5 ·
Robert Esmie, American Olympic athlete ·
Gilles Lellouche, French actor ·
July 6 ·
Isabelle Boulay, French Canadian singer ·
Mark Gasser, British concert pianist ·
Levent Üzümcü,
Turkish actor ·
July 7 ·
Lisa Leslie, American basketball player ·
Stoney Case, American football player ·
Kirsten Vangsness,
American actress and writer ·
July 8 ·
Shōsuke
Tanihara, Japanese actor ·
Sourav Ganguly, Indian cricketer ·
Victor Mikhalevski,
Israeli chess grandmaster ·
July 10 ·
Rosnah Shirlin, Malaysian politician ·
Sofía Vergara, Colombian actress and model ·
Peter Serafinowicz,
English actor, voice actor, comedian, and writer ·
Tilo Wolff, German musician ·
John Viener, American actor, voice actor,
writer, and comedian ·
Julián Legaspi,
Uruguayan-Peruvian actor ·
Christoph
Hochhäusler, German film director and screenwriter ·
July 11 – Michael Rosenbaum,
American actor, producer and comedian ·
July 12 ·
Gabriel Garko, Italian actor and fashion
model ·
Travis Best, American basketball player ·
Nenad Jezdić, Serbian actor ·
Jake Wood, English actor ·
July 13 – Sean Waltman, American professional wrestler ·
July 14 – Masami Suzuki, Japanese voice actress ·
July 15 ·
Scott Foley, American actor, director and
screenwriter ·
Chitalu Chilufya, Zambian doctor and
politician ·
July 18 – Fredrik Åkesson,
Swedish guitarist ·
July 19 – Daedalus Howell, American writer and
filmmaker ·
July 20 – Jozef Stümpel, Slovak professional ice
hockey ·
July 21 ·
Justin Edwards,
English actor and writer ·
Catherine Ndereba,
Kenyan long-distance runner ·
Josué Guébo, Ivorian acamedic ·
July 22 ·
Andrew Holness, 9th Prime Minister
of Jamaica ·
Keyshawn Johnson, American football player ·
July 23 – Marlon Wayans, American actor, comedian,
producer, and screenwriter ·
July 26 – Nathan Buckley, Australian rules footballer ·
July 27 ·
Takako Fuji, Japanese actress ·
Maya Rudolph, American actress, comedian ·
Takashi Shimizu, Japanese director ·
Sheikh Muszaphar
Shukor, Malaysian orthopaedic surgeon and the first commercial
astronaut ·
July 28 ·
Elizabeth Berkley,
American actress ·
Yum Jung-ah, South Korean actress ·
July 29 – Wil Wheaton, American actor ·
July 31 – Tami Stronach, Iranian-born dancer and
former actress August[edit] ·
August 1 ·
Marc Costanzo, Canadian musician ·
Devon Hughes, American professional wrestler ·
August 2 ·
Chris Bender,
American musician (d. 1991) ·
Kelly Richardson, Canadian contemporary
artist ·
August 3 – Patrik Isaksson,
Swedish singer and songwriter ·
August 6 – Geri Halliwell, British pop singer (Spice Girls) ·
August 7 ·
Sarah Cawood, British television presenter ·
Karen Disher, American film director ·
Brad Patton, Swedish pornographic actor ·
August 9 – A-mei, Taiwanese singer ·
August 10 – Angie Harmon, American actress ·
August 11 – Jonathon Prandi, American model and actor ·
Demir Demirkan, Turkish rock musician and
songwriter ·
Jonathan Coachman,
American World Wrestling Entertainment announcer ·
Kevin Plank, American entrepreneur (Under Armour) ·
Michael
Sinterniklaas, French-born American voice actor ·
Takako Honda, Japanese voice actress ·
Yoo Jae-suk, South Korean comedian and
television comedy show host ·
Ed O'Bannon, American basketball player ·
Ben Affleck, American actor and film
director ·
Mikey Graham, Irish singer (Boyzone) ·
Jonathan Slinger, British actor ·
Frankie Boyle, Scottish comedian ·
Emily Robison, American country music
performer (Dixie Chicks) ·
August 17 – Ken Ryker, American pornographic actor ·
August 18 – Leo Ku, Hong Kong actor and singer ·
August 19 – Sammi Cheng, Hong Kong singer and actress ·
August 20 – Chaney Kley, American actor (d. 2007) ·
August 23 – Anthony Calvillo, Canadian Football League
quarterback ·
August 25 – Marvin Harrison, American football player ·
August 26 – Samar Kokash, Syrian actress and voice
actress ·
Denise Lewis, English track and field
athlete, ·
Jimmy Pop, American musician ·
Mike Smith,
Canadian actor ·
The Great Khali, (Dalip Singh Rana), Indian promoter, actor,
powerlifter and professional wrestler ·
August 29 – Bae Yong-joon, South Korean actor ·
Cameron Diaz, American actress ·
Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer September[edit] ·
September 2 – Sergejs Žoltoks,
Latvian hockey player (d. 2004) ·
September 4 – Françoise Yip, Chinese-Canadian actress ·
Idris Elba, English actor ·
Martin Gooch, English filmmaker ·
Anika Noni Rose, American actress ·
September 7 – Sean Daley, American hip-hop musician (Atmosphere) ·
Giovanni Frezza, Italian actor ·
Lisa Kennedy
Montgomery, American disc jockey and political satirist ·
Os du Randt, South African rugby player ·
Tomokazu Seki, Japanese voice actor ·
September 9 – Natasha Kaplinsky,
English newsreader ·
Sara Groves, American Christian musician ·
Bledar Sejko, Albanian guitarist, composer,
and singer ·
Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete ·
Rio Tahara, Japanese snowboarder ·
September 12 – Budi Putra, Indonesian journalist, writer
and blogger ·
September 13 – Kelly Chen, Hong Kong actress and singer ·
Jimmy Carr, British comedian ·
Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician ·
Alessandro "Lord
Vampyr" Nunziati, Italian singer, record producer and writer
(Theatres des
Vampires, Cain, Lord Vampyr's
Shadowsreign) ·
Vebjørn Rodal, Norwegian Olympic athlete ·
September 17 – Bobby Lee, Asian-American comedian ·
Jim Druckenmiller,
National Football League quarterback ·
Ashot Nadanian, Armenian chess player,
theoretician and coach ·
Victor Ponta, 3-Time Prime Minister of
Romania ·
Sergio Di Zio, Canadian actor ·
Jon Kitna, American football player ·
Liam Gallagher, British singer (Oasis) ·
Erin Fitzgerald, Canadian-American voice
actress ·
Dana Vespoli, American porn actress and
director ·
Matthew
Rush, American gay pornographic actor ·
Ana Marie Cox, American author and blogger ·
Karl Pilkington, English radio producer ·
Pierre Amine Gemayel,
Lebanese politician (d. 2006) ·
September 24 – Karyn Bosnak, American author ·
Beto O’Rourke,
American politician, representative of Texas 16th congressional district ·
Shawn Stockman, American singer and musician
(Boyz II Men) ·
Sylvia Crawley, American basketball player ·
Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress ·
September 28 – Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist ·
September 29 – Robert Webb, comedian and actor ·
Ari Behn, Norwegian author ·
José Lima, Dominican baseball player
(d. 2010) ·
Shaan, Indian singer October[edit] ·
October 1 – Jean Paulo Fernandes,
Brazilian footballer ·
October 2 – Konstantinos
Papadakis, Greek pianist ·
Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor (d. 2017) ·
Guy Oseary, Israeli-American businessman ·
October 4 – Van Darkholme, Vietnamese-American gay
pornographic actor, director, and photographer ·
Aaron Guiel, Canadian baseball player ·
Grant Hill, African-American basketball
player ·
Anders Iwers, Swedish musician ·
Ko So-young, South Korean actress ·
J. J. Stokes, American football player ·
October 8 – Kim Myung-min, South Korean actor ·
October 9 – Etan Patz, missing American schoolboy ·
October 10 – Jun Lana, Filipino playwright and
screenwriter ·
October 11 – Claudia Black, Australian actress ·
October 13 – Danny Lloyd, American actor ·
October 12 – Mechele Linehan, American murderer ·
October 15 – Sandra Kim, Belgian singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1986 winner ·
Eminem, American rapper and actor ·
Sharon Leal, American actress and director ·
Tarkan, Turkish singer ·
October 19 – Sayaka Aoki,
Japanese voice actress ·
Evgeny Afineevsky,
Russian-born American film director and producer ·
Masakazu Morita, Japanese voice actor ·
Evhen Tsybulenko, Ukrainian professor of
international law ·
October 22 – Saffron Burrows, British actress ·
Kim Ji-soo,
South Korean actress ·
Scott Peterson, American convicted murderer ·
Pat
Williams, American football player ·
Lee Clark,
English footballer ·
Elissa,
Lebanese singer ·
Marika Krook, Finnish singer (Edea) ·
Maria de Lurdes
Mutola, Mozambican athlete ·
Brad Radke, American baseball player ·
Terrell Davis, American football player ·
Brad Paisley, American country music singer-songwriter ·
Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur ·
Tracee Ellis Ross,
American actress ·
Gabrielle Union, American actress ·
October 31 – Matt Dawson, English rugby player and TV
personality November[edit] ·
Mario Barth, German comedian ·
Toni Collette, Australian actress, singer,
and musician ·
Jenny McCarthy, American actress and model ·
Naoki Yanagi, Japanese voice actor ·
Vladimir Vorobiev,
Russian ice hockey player ·
Samantha Womack, British actress ·
Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer ·
Julissa Gomez, American gymnast (d. 1991) ·
November 5 – Krassimir Avramov,
Bulgarian singer and songwriter ·
Adonis Georgiades,
Greek historian and politician, Greek Minister of Health ·
Thandie Newton, British actress ·
Rebecca Romijn, American actress and model ·
Danny Grewcock, British rugby player ·
Christopher
Daniel Barnes, American actor and voice actor ·
Gretchen Mol, American actress ·
Maja Marijana, Serbian pop-folk singer ·
Eric Dane, American actor ·
Doug Russell, American sports media
personality ·
Naomi Shindō, Japanese voice actor ·
Lou Brutus, American radio host, musician
and photographer ·
Shawn Green, American baseball player ·
Trevor Devall, Canadian actor and voice
actor ·
November 11 – Adam Beach, Canadian actor ·
November 13 – Takuya Kimura, Japanese actor ·
Matt Bloom, American wrestler ·
Josh Duhamel, American actor and model ·
November 15 – Jonny Lee Miller, English-American actor ·
Aurelia Dobre, Romanian artistic gymnast ·
Missi Pyle, American actress and singer ·
November 21 – Rain Phoenix, American actress ·
Veronica Avluv, American porn actress ·
Alf-Inge Håland,
Norwegian footballer ·
November 26 – Arjun Rampal, Indian actor ·
November 28 – Jesper Strömblad,
Swedish musician ·
November 29 – Andreas Goldberger,
Austrian ski jumper ·
November 30 – Christopher
Fitzgerald, American actor December[edit] ·
Marc Bator, German journalist and television
presenter ·
Yūko Miyamura, Japanese voice actress,
actress and singer ·
December 5 – Cole Youngblood, American pornographic actor ·
December 6 – Mónica Santa María,
Peruvian model and TV host (d. 1994) ·
Hermann Maier, Austrian skier ·
Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestling manager
and personality ·
Jason Winer, American actor, comedian,
writer, director and producer ·
December 9 – Tré Cool, American rock musician and drummer
(Green Day) ·
December 10 – Brian Molko, American musician (Placebo) ·
Daniel Alfredsson,
Swedish-Canadian former ice hockey player ·
LaMont Smith, American Olympic athlete ·
Wilson Kipketer, Kenyan-Danish athlete ·
Brandon Teena, American murder victim (d.
1993) ·
Quan Yeomans, Australian musician; leader
singer of Regurgitator ·
December 13 – Chris Grant,
Australian footballer ·
December 14 – Miranda Hart, British Comedian and Actress ·
Rodney Harrison, American football player ·
Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor ·
Stuart Townsend, Irish actor ·
December 16 – Angela Bloomfield,
New Zealand actress ·
John Abraham,
Indian actor ·
Laurie Holden, American-Canadian actress and
human rights activist ·
December 18 – Eimear Quinn, Irish Celtic singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1996 winner ·
Alyssa Milano, American actress ·
Rosa Blasi, American actress ·
Warren Sapp, American football player ·
December 20 – Gen Urobuchi, Japanese writer ·
December 22 – Vanessa Paradis, French singer and actress ·
Morgan, Italian singer, composer,
multi-instrumentalist and X Factor (Italy) judge ·
Christian Potenza,
Canadian actor/voice actor ·
December 24 – Klaus Schnellenkamp,
German-Chilean author ·
Josh Freese, American musician and drummer ·
Qu Yunxia, Chinese middle-distance runner ·
December 26 – Shane Meadows, English director ·
December 27 – Colin Charvis, Welsh rugby player ·
Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player ·
Adam Vinatieri, American football player ·
December 29 – Jude Law, British actor ·
December 30 – Kerry Collins, American football player ·
December 31 – Joey McIntyre, American actor and singer (New Kids on the
Block) Date unknown[edit] ·
Imaani, English singer, Eurovision Song
Contest 1998 runner-up ·
Marente de Moor, Dutch writer ·
Artur Żurawski,
Polish cinematographer and director Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
Maurice Chevalier,
French singer and actor (b. 1888) ·
Patriarch Maximus V of
Constantinople, Turkish Orthodox Christian bishop (b. 1897) ·
Jane Morgan,
British-born American actor and singer (b. 1880) ·
January 3 – Frans Masereel, Belgian painter and graphic
artist (b. 1889) ·
January 7 – Emma P. Carr, American spectroscopist
(b. 1880) ·
Edwin Hugh Lundie,
American architect (b. 1886) ·
Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter
(b. 1911) ·
Wesley Ruggles, American film director
(b. 1889) ·
January 9 – Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891) ·
January 16 – Ross Bagdasarian Sr.,
American record producer (Alvin and the
Chipmunks) (b. 1919) ·
Rochelle Hudson, American actress (b. 1916) ·
Betty Smith, American writer (b. 1896) ·
January 18 – Clarence Earl Gideon,
American defendant in civil rights court case (Gideon v. Wainwright)
(b. 1910) ·
January 19 – Mohammad Al-Abbasi, Minister of
Foreign Affairs and 45th Prime Minister
of Jordan (b. 1914) ·
January 24 – Jerome Cowan, American actor (b. 1897) ·
January 25 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal and Luftwaffe officer
(b. 1892) ·
January 26 – Mahalia Jackson, American gospel singer
(b. 1911) ·
January 29 – Hugh McDermott,
British actor and golfer (b. 1908) ·
January 31 – King Mahendra of Nepal (b. 1920) February[edit] ·
February 2 – Jessie Royce Landis,
American actress (b. 1896) ·
February 3 – John Litel, American actor (b. 1892) ·
February 4 – Orlando Ward, American general (b. 1891) ·
February 5 – Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887) ·
Walter Lang, American film director
(b. 1896) ·
Bob Woodward,
American actor (b. 1909) ·
Jan Wils, Dutch architect (b. 1891) ·
Colin Munro MacLeod,
Canadian-American geneticist (b. 1909) ·
February 17 – Gavriil Popov,
Soviet Russian composer (b. 1904) ·
February 19 – John Grierson, Scottish documentary
filmmaker (b. 1898) ·
Maria Goeppert-Mayer,
German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1906) ·
Walter Winchell, American journalist
(b. 1897) ·
February 21 – Zhang Guohua, Chinese general and politician
(b. 1914) ·
Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906) ·
Dan Katchongva, Native American traditional
leader (b. 1860) ·
February 25 – Gottfried Fuchs, German (national
team)-Canadian Olympic football player (b. 1889) ·
February 27 – Pat Brady,
American actor (b. 1914) ·
February 29 – Pietro Ubaldi, Italian author, teacher,
philosopher (b. 1886) March[edit] ·
March 4 – Sir Harold
Barrowclough, New Zealand general, lawyer and chief justice
(b. 1894) ·
March 11 ·
Fredric Brown, American science fiction and
mystery writer (b. 1906). ·
Zack Wheat, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1888) ·
March 13 ·
Len Ford, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1926) ·
Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer
(b. 1941) ·
March 16 – Pie Traynor, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1898) ·
March 20 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921) ·
March 21 – David McCallum, Sr.,
British violinist and father of actor David McCallum (b. 1897) ·
March 23 ·
Cristóbal Balenciaga,
Spanish couturier (b. 1895) ·
Margaret Dale,
American actress (b. 1876) ·
March 27 ·
Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician
(b. 1904) ·
M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898) ·
March 29 – J. Arthur Rank, British industrialist and
film producer (b. 1888) ·
March 31 – Ramon Iglesias i
Navarri, Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1889) April[edit] ·
April 2 ·
Franz Halder, German general (b. 1884) ·
Gil Hodges, American baseball player
(b. 1924) ·
April 3 – Ferde Grofé, American pianist and composer
(b. 1892) ·
April 4 ·
Adam Clayton
Powell, Jr., American politician (b. 1908) ·
Elsa Ratassepp, Estonian actress (b. 1893) ·
Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (b. 1902) ·
April 5 – Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907) ·
April 6 ·
Ralph D. Cornell, American architect
(b. 1890) ·
Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901) ·
Heinrich Lübke,
2nd President
of the Federal Republic of Germany (b. 1894) ·
April 7 ·
Abeid Karume, 1st President of
Zanzibar (assassinated) (b. 1905) ·
August Zaleski, 6th President of Poland (b. 1883) ·
Victor Wong,
American actor (b. 1906) ·
April 9 – James F. Byrnes, United States
Secretary of State and Justice of the Supreme
Court (b. 1879) ·
April 13 – Dorothy Dalton, American actress (b. 1893) ·
April 15 – José Luis de
Oriol y Urigüen, Spanish businessman, architect and politician
(b. 1877) ·
April 20 – Jorge Mistral, Spanish actor (b. 1906) ·
April 21 – Elizabeth Clark,
British author (b. 1875) ·
April 26 – Fernando Amorsolo,
Filipino painter (b. 1892) ·
April 29 – King Ntare V of Burundi (b. 1947) ·
April 30 ·
Gia Scala, British actress (b. 1934) ·
Clara Campoamor, Spanish politician and
suffragist (b. 1888) May[edit] ·
May 2 – J. Edgar Hoover, American civil servant,
1st Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
(b. 1895) ·
May 3 – Bruce Cabot, American actor (b. 1904) ·
May 4 ·
Edward Calvin
Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886) ·
Josep Samitier, Spanish footballer (b. 1902) ·
May 5 – Frank Tashlin, American animation director
(b. 1913) ·
May 6 – Deniz Gezmiş, Turkish Marxist
revolutionary (executed) (b. 1947) ·
May 11 – Lee
Beom-seok, Korean activist, 1st Prime
Minister of South Korea (b. 1900) ·
May 12 – Steve Ihnat, American actor (b. 1934) ·
May 13 – Dan Blocker, American actor (Bonanza)
(b. 1928) ·
May 15 – Nigel Green, South African-English actor
(b. 1924) ·
May 18 – Sidney
Franklin, American film director (b. 1893) ·
May 22 ·
Cecil Day-Lewis, British poet (b. 1904) ·
Dame Margaret Rutherford,
English actress (b. 1892) ·
May 23 – Richard Day,
Canadian art director (b. 1896) ·
May 25 – José Sebastião e
Silva, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1914) ·
May 28 ·
The
Duke of Windsor, former King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) ·
Violette Leduc, French writer (b. 1907) ·
May 29 – Prithviraj Kapoor,
Indian actor and director (b. 1901) ·
May 31 – Walter
Freeman, American physician (b. 1895) June[edit] ·
June 10 – Edward Milford, Australian general (b. 1894) ·
June 12 ·
Saul Alinsky, American political activist
(b. 1909) ·
Ludwig von
Bertalanffy, Austrian biologist (b. 1901) ·
Edmund Wilson, American writer and critic
(b. 1895) ·
June 13 ·
Georg von Békésy,
Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) ·
Stephanie von
Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b. 1891) ·
Clyde McPhatter, American singer (b. 1932) ·
Felix Stump, American admiral (b. 1894) ·
June 17 – Jóhannes Gunnarsson,
Icelandic Roman Catholic prelate
and venerable (b. 1897) ·
June 18 – Milton Humason, American astronomer
(b. 1891) ·
June 22 – Vladimir
Durković, Serbian footballer (b. 1937) ·
June 25 ·
Nicholas Hannen,
British actor (b. 1881) ·
Jan Matulka, American painter (b. 1890) ·
Charles Sullivan,
American actor (b. 1899) ·
June 30 – Joe Deakin, British Olympic athlete
(b. 1879) July[edit] ·
July 2 – Joseph Fielding
Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1876) ·
July 4 – Enrique Telémaco
Susini, Argentine entrepreneur (b. 1891) ·
July 5 – Raúl Leoni, 55th President of
Venezuela (b. 1905) ·
July 6 – Brandon deWilde, American actor (b. 1942) ·
July 7 ·
Patriarch Athenagoras
I of Constantinople (b. 1886) ·
King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909) ·
July 11 – Celina Guimarães
Viana, Brazilian professor and suffragist (b. 1890) ·
July 15 – Miklós Dudás,
Hungarian Roman Catholic bishop
and servant of God (b. 1902) ·
July 21 ·
Ralph Craig, American Olympic athlete
(b. 1889) ·
King Jigme Dorji
Wangchuck (b. 1929) ·
July 27 – Count Richard
von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian-Japanese politician,
geopolitician and philosopher (b. 1894) ·
July 28 – Helen Traubel, American soprano (b. 1903) ·
July 31 ·
Alfons Gorbach, Austrian politician,
15th Chancellor of
Austria (b. 1898) ·
Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician and
statesman, 31st Prime Minister
of Belgium and 2nd Secretary
General of NATO (b. 1899) August[edit] ·
August 7 ·
Joi Lansing, American actress (b. 1928) ·
Tom Neal, American actor (b. 1914) ·
August 8 – Andrea Feldman, American actress (b. 1948) ·
Teresa Franchini, Italian actress (b. 1877) ·
Max Theiler, South African-born American
virologist, recipient of the Nobel
Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899) ·
Oscar Levant, American pianist and actor
(b. 1906) ·
Jules Romains, French poet and writer
(b. 1885) ·
Pierre Brasseur, French actor (b. 1905) ·
Mohamed Oufkir, Moroccan general
(assassinated) (b. 1920) ·
Rudolf Belling, German sculptor (b. 1886) ·
James Patterson,
American actor (b. 1932) ·
Juan Manuel Gálvez,
39th President of Honduras (b. 1887) ·
Harold Rainsford
Stark, American admiral (b. 1880) ·
August 21 – Heinz Ziegler, German general (b. 1894) ·
August 23 – Salvatore Naturale,
American criminal (b. 1953) ·
August 24 – Jinichi Kusaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1888) ·
August 25 – Juan Carlos Paz, Argentine composer and
music theorist (b. 1901) ·
August 26 – Francis Chichester,
British sailor and aviator (b. 1901) ·
August 27 – Yung Fung-shee, Hong Kong philanthropist
(b. 1900) ·
August 28 – Prince
William of Gloucester (b. 1941) ·
August 29 – René Leibowitz,
French composer (b. 1913) ·
August 30 – Augusto Bertazzoni,
Italian Roman Catholic archbishop
and servant of God (b. 1876) September[edit] ·
September 5 (Munich massacre): ·
Yossef Romano, Israeli weightlifter
(b. 1940) ·
Moshe Weinberg, Israeli wrestling coach
(b. 1939) ·
September 6 (Munich massacre): ·
David Mark Berger,
Israeli weightlifter (b. 1944) ·
Ze'ev Friedman, Israeli weightlifter
(b. 1944) ·
Yossef Gutfreund, Israeli wrestling referee
(b. 1932) ·
Eliezer Halfin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1948) ·
Amitzur Shapira, Israeli athletics coach
(b. 1932) ·
Kehat Shorr, Israeli shooting coach
(b. 1919) ·
Mark Slavin, Israeli wrestler (b. 1954) ·
Andre Spitzer, Israeli fencing coach
(b. 1945) ·
Yakov Springer, Israeli weightlifting judge
(b. 1921) ·
September 8 – Warren Kealoha, American Olympic swimmer
(b. 1904) ·
September 11 – Max Fleischer, American animator (b. 1883) ·
September 12 – William Boyd,
American actor (b. 1895) ·
September 14 – Lane Chandler, American actor (b. 1899) ·
Ásgeir Ásgeirsson,
2nd President of Iceland (b. 1894) ·
Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of
Canterbury (b. 1887) ·
Henry Kent Hewitt,
American admiral (b. 1887) ·
Peter Stephens,
British actor (b. 1920) ·
Thomas L. Sprague,
American admiral (b. 1894) ·
Akim Tamiroff, Soviet actor (b. 1899) ·
September 19 – Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b. 1899) ·
September 21 – Henry de Montherlant,
French writer (b. 1896) ·
Charles Correll, American radio actor
(b. 1890) ·
Robert E. Dolan, American composer (b. 1906) October[edit] ·
October 1 – Louis Leakey, British paleontologist
(b. 1903) ·
October 4 – Taro Shoji, Japanese singer (b. 1898) ·
October 5 – Ivan Yefremov, Soviet paleontologist and
science fiction author (b. 1907) ·
October 6 – Cléo de Verberena,
Brazilian actress and film director (born c. 1909) ·
Prescott Bush, American banker and
politician (b. 1895) ·
José María Cuenco,
Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop
and servant of God (b. 1885) ·
Dave Bancroft, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891) ·
Miriam Hopkins, American actress (b. 1902) ·
October 13 – Jose Villa
Panganiban, Filipino lexicographer (b. 1903) ·
October 16 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor (b. 1886) ·
October 17 – George,
Crown Prince of Serbia (b. 1887) ·
Esma Cannon, British actress (b. 1905) ·
Edward Cook,
American Olympic athlete (b. 1888) ·
October 19 – Fred Keenor, Welsh footballer (b. 1894) ·
October 20 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer
(b. 1885) ·
October 21 – Marcelino Olaechea,
Spanish Roman Catholic religious
professed and servant of God (b. 1889) ·
Jackie Robinson, African-American baseball
player (Brooklyn Dodgers)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1919) ·
Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1892) ·
October 26 – Igor Sikorsky, Soviet aviation engineer
(b. 1889) ·
October 28 – Mitchell Leisen, American film director
(b. 1898) ·
October 29 – Victor Milner, American cinematographer
(b. 1893) November[edit] ·
November 1 – Ezra Pound, American poet (b. 1885) ·
November 3 – Harry Richman, American entertainer
(b. 1895) ·
November 5 – Reginald Owen, English actor (b. 1887) ·
November 12 – Rudolf Friml, Czech composer (b. 1879) ·
Arnold Jackson,
British Olympic athlete (b. 1891) ·
Margaret Webster, American actress (b. 1905) ·
November 14 – Martin Dies, Jr., American politician
(b. 1900) ·
Léopold Dion, Canadian sex offender and
serial killer (b. 1920) ·
Thomas C. Kinkaid,
American admiral (b. 1888) ·
Eugène Minkowski,
French psychiartist (b. 1885) ·
November 18 – Danny Whitten, American musician (b. 1943) ·
November 23 – Marie
Wilson, American actress (b. 1916) ·
Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics
pioneer (b. 1886) ·
Mary M. Crawford, American surgeon (b. 1884) ·
November 28 – Havergal Brian, English composer (b. 1876) ·
November 29 – Carl Stalling, American composer (b. 1891) ·
November 30 – Hans Erich Apostel,
Austrian composer (b. 1901) December[edit] ·
December 3 – Bill
Johnson, American musician (b. 1872) ·
December 6 – Janet Munro, British actress (b. 1934) ·
William Dieterle, German film director
(b. 1893) ·
Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist
(b. 1881) ·
December 12 – Thomas H. Robbins,
Jr., American admiral (b. 1900) ·
December 13 – René Mayer, French politician, 91st Prime Minister
of France (b. 1895) ·
December 15 – Edward Earle, Canadian actor (b. 1882) ·
December 20 – Gabby Hartnett, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1900) ·
December 21 – Paul Hausser, German Waffen SS general (b. 1880) ·
December 22 – Jimmy Wallington, American radio personality
(b. 1907) ·
December 23 – Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer
(b. 1888) ·
Charles Atlas, Italian-born American strongman and sideshow performer (b. 1892) ·
Gisela Richter, English art historian
(b. 1882) ·
Daniel McVey, Australian public servant
(b. 1892) ·
December 25 – C. Rajagopalachari,
Indian politician and freedom-fighter. Last Governor-General
of India (1948–50) (b. 1878) ·
December 26 – Harry S. Truman, 33rd President
of the United States (b. 1884) ·
December 27 – Lester B. Pearson,
Canadian scholar, statesman, soldier and politician, 8th President of the United Nations General Assemblyand
14th Prime Minister
of Canada, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1897) ·
December 28 – Link Lyman, American football player (Chicago Bears) and a member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1898) ·
December 31 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball
player (Pittsburgh Pirates)
and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1934) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – John Bardeen, Leon Neil Cooper, John Robert
Schrieffer ·
Chemistry – Christian B.
Anfinsen, Stanford Moore, William H. Stein ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Gerald M. Edelman, Rodney R. Porter ·
Peace –
not awarded ·
Economics – John Hicks, Kenneth Arrow Other academic awards[edit] ·
Turing Award – Edsger W. Dijkstra References |
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