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Gregorian Year
1977 (MCMLXXVII) was
a common year starting
on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar,
the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE)
and Anno Domini (AD)
designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of
the 20th century,
and the 8th year of the 1970s decade. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January[edit] January 20: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United
States ·
January
– The world's first all-in-one home computer (keyboard/screen/tape storage),
the Commodore PET,
is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago ·
January 1 – The Australian state of
Queensland abolishes the inheritance tax. ·
January 3 – Apple Computer is incorporated. ·
January 6 – Record company EMI drops
the controversial United Kingdom punk rock group the Sex Pistols.[1] ·
January 8 – Three bombs explode
in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing
seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. ·
Rock
band Toto is founded
by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro in Van Nuys, Los Angeles. ·
After
having the best record in the National
Football League since Al Davis took over his team in 1963,
the Oakland Raiders finally
won their first World Championship by beating the Minnesota Vikings 32-14
in Super Bowl XI. ·
Mount Nyiragongo erupts in
eastern Zaire (now the Democratic
Republic of the Congo). ·
Ocean Park opens
in Hong Kong. ·
January 15 – Linjeflyg Flight 618 crashes
into the Kälvesta area
of Stockholm, killing all 22 on board. ·
Gary Gilmore is executed by
firing squad in Utah (the
first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the U.S.). ·
49
marines from the USS Trenton and USS Guam perished in the
waters of the Barcelona harbour [1]. ·
Scientists
identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the
mysterious Legionnaires'
disease. ·
Australia's
worst railway disaster
at Granville, near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ·
SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić,
his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. ·
U.S.
President Gerald Ford, on
his final full day in office, pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka
"Tokyo Rose"). ·
Snow
falls in Miami (despite its ordinarily tropical climate) for the only time in its
history. Snowfall has occurred farther south in the United States only on the
high mountains of the state of Hawaii. ·
January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as
the 39th President of the United States. ·
January 21 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons Vietnam War draft evaders. ·
January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls for fresh
elections to the Lok Sabha and
releases all political prisoners. ·
January 23 – Roots begins
its run on ABC. ·
January 24 – The Massacre of
Atocha occurs during the Spanish
transition to democracy. ·
January 26 – Katimavik is founded as a volunteer
service organization for Canadian youths. ·
January 28 – The Great Lakes
Blizzard of 1977 hits Buffalo, New York, and the Niagara
Region of Southern Ontario. ·
January 31 – The Centre Georges
Pompidou is officially opened by French President Valéry Giscard
d'Estaing. February[edit] ·
February 2 – The Congress party of
India, led by Indira Gandhi,
splits with Jagjivan Ram and
other senior leaders, forming Congress for
Democracy. This party later merges with the Janata Party. ·
February 3 – In northern Japan a blizzard piled snow on
rooftops, causing many to collapse, killing at least 31 people. ·
Fleetwood Mac's Grammy-winning album Rumours is released in the United
States. ·
Eleven CTA commuters
are killed when an elevated train
derails from the Loop in central Chicago. ·
February 7 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station. ·
February 12 – Actress Christa Helm is
fatally stabbed on a sidewalk in West Hollywood. The perpetrator is never
identified. ·
February 18 – American Space Shuttle
program: First test flight of Space
Shuttle Enterprise mated to the Boeing 747Shuttle Carrier
Aircraft. ·
February 23 – Óscar Romero becomes Archbishop of San
Salvador. ·
February 28 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the Parliament of
New Zealand. March[edit] ·
March 4 – The 1977 Vrancea
earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills 1,500. ·
March 5 – Formula One driver Tom Pryce dies after colliding with
a track marshal at
the South African
Grand Prix in Kyalami. ·
March 8 – The Australian
parliament is opened by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. ·
March 9 – Hanafi Siege:
Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement members take over 3
buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130
hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later). ·
March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered. ·
March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and
England begins at the Melbourne
Cricket Ground. ·
March 15 – Tenor Luciano Pavarotti and
the PBS opera series Live from the Met both
make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production
of Puccini's La Boheme. ·
March 18 – United States lifts ban on travel by
U.S. citizens to Cambodia, Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam. ·
March 19 – Results of elections to
the Indian Parliament are
declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the
opposition parties later to form the Janata Party. ·
March 21 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi withdraws the state of emergency which
was implemented on June 25, 1975. ·
March 26 – Focus on the Family is
founded by Dr. James Dobson. ·
March 27 – Tenerife
disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This
becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history. April[edit] ·
April 1 – The small market town
of Hay-on-Wye declares independence from
the UK, as a publicity stunt. ·
April 2 – Horse racing: Red Rum wins a record third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse. ·
April 4 ·
Grundy, Virginia experiences a major
flood that causes around $15 million in damages to 228 residential and
commercial structures (to date the town is still recovering). ·
Southern
Airways Flight 242 crashes on a highway in New Hope, Georgia,
killing 72 people. ·
April 5 – Beginning of demonstrations
in 10 cities across the U.S., the longest being the 3.5 week sit-in the San Francisco
Federal Building to persuade President Jimmy Carter to
implement the first Federal civil rights law for people with disabilities,
Section 504 of the 1973 Rehabilitation Act, without reinstituting the
"separate but equal" doctrine. ·
April 7 ·
German
Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are
shot by 2 Red Army Faction members
while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later
claims responsibility. ·
The Toronto Blue Jays play
their first game of baseball against
the Chicago White Sox. ·
The Seattle Mariners play their first-ever
game of baseball against the California
Angels. April 11: UK Silver
Jubilee (25 red buses painted silver). ·
April 9 – Spain legalizes the Communist Party, which had been outlawed
since 1939. ·
April 11 – London
Transport's Silver
Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. ·
April 17 – Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans' Christian Social Party gains
eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections. ·
April 21 – Residents of Dover, Massachusetts report
sightings of an eerie monster. ·
April 22 – Optical fiber is first used to carry
live telephone traffic. ·
April 24 – In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone killed 13 people and
injuring about 100 others. ·
April 27 – The Guatemala
City air disaster kills 28 people. ·
April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment. ·
April 30 ·
The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese
War. ·
Led Zeppelin sets a new world record
attendance for an indoor solo attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when
76,229 persons attend a concert here on the group's 1977
North American Tour. May[edit] "May 1977"
redirects here. For the Grateful Dead album, see May 1977 (album). ·
May 1 – The Taksim Square
massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths, hundreds
of injuries. ·
May 3 – The light aircraft
carrier HMS Invincible is
launched at Barrow-in-Furness by Elizabeth II. ·
May 8 – Suzanne Lacy's extended performance piece
about rape, Three Weeks in May begins
in Los Angeles and continues until May 24.[2] ·
May 12 – Portugal and Israel
establish diplomatic
relations. ·
May 14 ·
The 1977 IAS
Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all six on board. ·
In Milan, Italy, during a far-left
demonstration, a hooded person shoots at the police, killing a policeman,
Antonio Custra. The scene is photographed and the picture[3] of
the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street appears in many magazines
around the world. ·
May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from
the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan.
Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level
is fatally struck by a fallen blade. ·
May 17 ·
The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections
in Israel. ·
Elizabeth II commences her 1977
Silver Jubilee tour in Glasgow, Scotland. ·
Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza
Time Theatre first opens in San Jose, California. ·
May 23 ·
Scientists
report using bacteria in a lab
to make insulin via gene splicing. ·
Moluccan terrorists take over a school
in Bovensmilde,
northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the
Bovensmilde–Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the
same time. On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm
the train, and six terrorists and two hostages are killed. ·
May 25 – George Lucas's Star Wars opens in cinemas and
becomes the highest-grossing film of its time. It also makes sci-fi films
very popular. ·
May 26 – George Willig climbs the South Tower of
the World
Trade Center. ·
May 27 ·
Elizabeth II opens the new Air Terminal
Building at the Edinburgh Airport. ·
The 1977 Aeroflot
Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills
69 people. ·
Space Mountain opens at Disneyland and to this day remains as
one of the park's most popular attractions. ·
A demonstration and coup attempt in Angola takes
place. Afterward thousands were killed by the government and Cuban forces.[4] ·
May 28 – The Beverly
Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky,
is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside. ·
May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to
win the race four times. June[edit] ·
June 5 ·
A
bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as
President of the Seychelles. ·
The Portland Trail
Blazers defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107
to win the National
Basketball Association finals four games to two. Bill Walton
is selected as the MVP of the series. ·
June 6–9 – Jubilee celebrations
are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate 25 years of Elizabeth II's reign. ·
June 7 – After campaigning by Anita Bryant and her "Save Our
Children" crusade, Miami-Dade
County, Florida voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the
county's "gay rights" ordinance. ·
June 10 ·
The
first Apple II series computers
go on sale.[5] ·
James Earl Ray escapes from the Brushy
Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee;
he is recaptured on June 13. ·
June 12 – The Supremes perform their final
concert together at Drury Lane, London, and then disband permanently. ·
June 15 – Spain has its first
democratic elections, after 41 years under the Franco regime. ·
June 16 – The Oracle Corporation is
incorporated in Redwood
Shores, California as Software Development Laboratories
by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner, and Ed Oates. ·
June 20 ·
The U.S. Supreme Court rules
that the states are not required to spend Medicaid funds on elective abortions. ·
Anglia Television broadcasts
the fake documentary Alternative 3, which enters into the
conspiracy theory canon. ·
June 21 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms
the new government of Turkey (40th
government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive
the vote of confidence). ·
June 25 ·
The 1977 Rugby
League World Cup culminates in Australia's
13–12 victory over Great
Britain at the Sydney Cricket
Ground before about 24,450 spectators. ·
American Roy Sullivan is struck by lightning for
the seventh time. ·
June 26 ·
Elvis Presley holds his last concert
at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis. ·
Some
200,000 protesters march through the streets of San Francisco, protesting Anita Bryant's anti-gay remarks and the
murder of Robert Hillsborough. ·
16-year-old
shop assistant Jayne Macdonald is murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper in Leeds, England. ·
June 27 – Djibouti receives its independence from
France. ·
June 30 ·
The Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded. ·
The Women Marines are
disbanded, and the women are integrated into regular Marine Corps. ·
U.S.
President Jimmy Carter announces
the cancellation of the B-1 Bomber program (it is later revived
by the Reagan
Administration). July[edit] ·
July 1 ·
CKO (a
Canadian all news radio network,
defunct since 1989) begins broadcasting. ·
The East African
Community is dissolved. ·
The
Championships, Wimbledon (tennis) – Virginia Wade wins the women's singles
title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only
Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she remains
the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon. ·
July 5 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrows Zulfikar Ali Bhutto,
the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. ·
July 10 – A temperature of 48.0 °C
(118.4 °F), a record for
continental Europe, is recorded in Greece.[6] ·
July 13 ·
Somalia declares war on Ethiopia,
starting the Ethio-Somali War. ·
The New York
City blackout of 1977 lasts for 25 hours, resulting in
looting and other disorder. ·
July 15 – Anti-drug campaigner Donald
Mackay disappears near Griffith, New
South Wales (presumed murdered). ·
July 19 – 20 – Flooding in Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, caused by massive rainfall, kills over 75 people and
causes billions in damage. ·
July 21–24 – The Libyan–Egyptian War,
sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins. ·
July 21 – Süleyman Demirel,
of AP forms
the new government of Turkey (41st
government a three-party coalition, so-called second national front (Turkish: Milliyetçi cephe)). ·
July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power nine
months after the "Gang of Four"
was expelled from power in a coup d'état. ·
July 24 – Led Zeppelin presents its last American
concert in Oakland, California,
at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's
crew and the staff of the promoter Bill Graham,
resulting in criminal assault charges for several members of the Led Zeppelin
group including the drummer John Bonham. ·
July 27 – The Soviet Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of
Russia and his family were shot in 1918.
Yeltsin eventually calls this a barbarian act. ·
July 28 ·
The
first oil through the Trans-Alaska
Pipeline System reaches Valdez, Alaska. ·
Emanuel Jaques, 12, is abducted after being
lured into an apartment building under false pretenses on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto. His strangled body is found several
days later under a pile of wood on the building’s rooftop. Four men are
apprehended for the crime. ·
July 30 – Left-wing German
terrorists Susanne Albrecht,[7] Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar assassinate Jürgen Ponto,[8] chairman
of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany. August[edit] ·
August 3 ·
United States Senate hearings
on Project MKUltra are
held. ·
The Tandy Corporation TRS-80 Model I computer is announced at
a press conference. ·
August 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating
the United
States Department of Energy. ·
August 7 – Mount Usu volcano in Japan erupts. ·
August 9 – The military-controlled
government of Uruguay announces
that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections
in 1981 for a President and Congress. ·
August 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York,
after over a year of murders in New York City as the "Son of Sam". ·
August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise,
makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle
Carrier Aircraft. ·
The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State
University as part of the SETI project,
receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by a
volunteer on the project. ·
Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome. ·
Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll", dies in his home
in Graceland at age 42. 75,000 fans line
the streets of Memphis for
his funeral, which occurred on August 18, but was not televised until August
20.[citation needed] August 16: Elvis Presleydies. His funeral in Memphis
attracts 75,000 fans. ·
Supertanker Pierre
Guillaumat is launched at Saint-Nazaire; she is the all-time world's
largest ship (by deadweight tonnage and length overall) at launch. ·
The
Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes
the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. ·
New York City ban on Concorde test flights is overturned. ·
August 19 – Comedian Groucho Marx dies of pneumonia at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center in Los Angeles, at the age of 86 (born 1890). ·
August 20 – Voyager program: The United States launches
the Voyager 2 spacecraft. ·
August 21 – Actor/dancer Danny Lockin is murdered by a man he
met in a Garden Grove, California, bar just hours after taping a winning skit
on The Gong Show. ·
August 26 – The National
Assembly of Quebec passes the Charter of
the French Language (Law 101, La charte de la langue
française) making French the official language of
the Canadian province of Quebec. September[edit] ·
September
– Evangelical pastor Oral Roberts publishes
plans to build the 'City of God Hospital'
in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The towers are completed in 1981 for $120m ($299m, in 2012)[9] ·
September 3 – The Commodore PET computer is first sold. ·
September 4 – The Golden Dragon
massacre takes place in San Francisco. ·
Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief
delay. ·
German Autumn: Employers Association President Hanns Martin
Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill
three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release
of Red Army Faction prisoners. ·
September 7 – Treaties between Panama and the United States on the
status of the Panama Canal are
signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end
of the 20th century. ·
September 8 – Interpol issues a resolution against
the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material, which is still
cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs. ·
September 10 – Hamida Djandoubi's is the last guillotine execution in France. ·
September 11 – Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America. ·
September 12 – South African
activist Steve Biko dies
after suffering a massive head injury in police custody in Pretoria. ·
September 13 – Soap debut
on ABC and
launch the career of Billy Crystal. ·
September 18 – Courageous (U.S.),
skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps
the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht
race. ·
Under
pressure from the Carter
Administration, President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza
Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua. ·
North Korean agents abduct Yutaka Kume
from Noto Peninsula starting
the North
Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. ·
September 20 – The Petrozavodsk
phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European
countries. ·
September 23 – Jazz-rock group Steely Dan releases their sixth studio
album Aja; it
becomes their highest charting album in the United States at No. 3 and goes
on to sell over 5 million copies. ·
September 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show. ·
Singer-songwriter Billy Joel releases his fifth studio
album The Stranger;
it becomes the first of several hit albums, spawning five hit singles, going
10× platinum in the US, and later ranking at No. 70 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. ·
The
modern Food Stamp Program begins
when the Food Stamp Act of
1977 is enacted. October[edit] ·
October 1 – Energy Research and Development Administration combined
with the Federal
Energy Administration to form United
States Department of Energy. ·
The
Soviet Union adopts its third Constitution after a prolonged campaign by
Brezhnev Supporters to have it passed before the Supreme Soviet dissolves for
the end of the parliamentary session. ·
Pelé plays his final professional
football game as a member of the New York Cosmos. ·
October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of
11 Red Army Faction members. ·
October 14 – Anita Bryant is hit with pies by four
gay rights activists during a press conference in Des Moines, Iowa. ·
October 15 – World's End Murders:
Christine Eadie and Helen Scott, both 17, disappear after leaving the World's
End pub in Edinburgh, Scotland. Their bodies are found tied and strangled in
the countryside the next day. In 2014, serial killer Angus Sinclair is
convicted of the crime. ·
October 17 – 18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four hijackers die. ·
German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in
Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails
(their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried on October 27. ·
Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada,
opens the third session of the 30th Canadian
Parliament. ·
Reggie Jackson blasts three home runs
to lead the New York Yankees to
a World Series victory
over the Los Angeles Dodgers. ·
October 19 – German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin
Schleyer is found murdered in Mulhouse, France. ·
October 20 – Three members of the rock
band Lynyrd Skynyrd die
in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg,
Mississippi, three days after the release of their fifth studio
album Street Survivors. ·
October 21 – The European Patent
Institute is founded. ·
October 23 – The president of
Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas,
returns to Barcelona from
exile and the autonomous government of Catalonia, the Generalitat,
is restored. ·
The
last natural smallpox case is
discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and
the CDC consider
this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success
of vaccination and,
by extension, of modern science. ·
Space Shuttle
program: Last test taxi flight of Space
Shuttle Enterprise, over California. ·
October 27 – British punk band Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols on
the Virgin Records label.
Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it debuts at number
one on the UK Album Charts the
week after its release. ·
Hong
Kong police forces attack the ICAC headquarters. ·
British
rock band Queen release
the album News of the
World. November[edit] ·
November 1 – 2060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs,
is discovered by Charlie Kowal. November 19: Sadatmeets Menachem Beginin Israel. November 22: TCP/IP links 3 of 111 ARPANET nodes. ·
November 2 – The worst storm in Athens' modern history causes havoc across
the Greek capital and kills 38 people. ·
November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls
Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia fails, killing 39. ·
Greek
archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers
the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. ·
San Francisco elects City
Supervisor Harvey Milk, the
first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S. ·
November 9 – Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military
government of Bolivia, announces that
the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead
of 1980 as previously provided. ·
November 10 – The soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever is
released. Featuring five new Bee Gees compositions, it will go on to
become the then best selling album of all time. ·
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit
to Israel, when he meets with Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin,
seeking a permanent peace settlement. ·
TAP Portugal
Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving
33 survivors. ·
British Airways inaugurates regular
London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. ·
The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting
3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what
eventually becomes the Internet protocol.[10] ·
November 28 – Jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp records "On Green
Dolphin Street", the first digitally recorded album to be released
commercially in the USA. ·
November 30 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations. December[edit] ·
December
– the Colombo Plan for
Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (CESDAP)
is implemented. ·
Lockheed's
top-secret stealth aircraft project,
designated Have Blue and
precursor to the U.S. Lockheed F-117
Nighthawk, makes its first flight. ·
The
first children's cable channel The Pinwheel Network (later
known as Nickelodeon), is launched. ·
Jean-Bédel Bokassa,
president of the Central African
Republic, crowns himself Emperor. ·
Malaysian
Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and
crew on board. ·
December 6 – South Africa grants
independence to Bophuthatswana,
although it is not recognized by any other country. ·
December 10 – Australian
federal election, 1977: Malcolm Fraser's Liberal/National
Country Coalition Government is
re-elected with a slightly reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led
by former Prime
Minister Gough Whitlam.
Consequently, Whitlam resigned as ALP leader after holding the job for nearly
11 years; he would be replaced by former Treasurer Bill Hayden. ·
December 11 – after losing 26 games,
the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of
the US National
Football League record their very first win; against
the New Orleans Saints. ·
December 13 – a chartered Douglas DC-3
aircraft carrying the University of
Evansville basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, crashes in rain
and dense fogabout 90 seconds after takeoff from Evansville
Regional Airport; 29 people die in the crash, including 14 members
of the team and head coach Bob Watson. ·
Mikhail Baryshnikov's
1976 production of Tchaikovsky's
ballet The Nutcracker comes
to CBS a year after premiering onstage at the Kennedy Center. This adaptation will become
the most popular television production of the work. ·
Saturday Night Fever is released in theaters and becomes
the biggest dancing movie of all time. The movie launches the career of its
star John Travolta and
catapults the Bee Gees — who
performed several songs on the soundtrack —
to newfound success. ·
December 18 – SA de
Transport Aérien Flight 730, an international charter service from
Zurich to Funchal Airport (Madeira), hits the sea during a landing attempt.
Many of the 36 who die drown, trapped inside the sinking aircraft. Twenty-one
people survive with the help of rescuers and by swimming to the shore. ·
December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations. ·
December 22 – A grain elevator explodes in Westwego, Louisiana,
killing 36. ·
December 25 – English comedian and
silent film actor, Charlie Chaplin dies at his home
in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland from a stroke at the age of
88. Date unknown[edit] Enterprise flies
atop Boeing 747 over U.S. ·
Portugal's traditional naming conventions change
such that children's surnames can come from either the mother or the father,
not just from the father. ·
The Soviet National
Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted. ·
Mormon sex in
chains case with the alleged abduction in England of a
young Mormon missionary. ·
The WAVES are disbanded; women integrated
into the regular Navy. ·
Mount Ngauruhoe in New Zealand makes
its latest eruption in Tongariro
National Park Births[edit] January[edit] ·
Donna Ares, Bosnian singer (d. 2017) ·
Axel, Argentine singer and songwriter ·
Lasha Bugadze, Georgian novelist and
playwright ·
Mahmadu Alphajor Bah,
Sierra Leonean footballer (d. 2016) ·
Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian ·
Jerry Yan, Taiwanese singer ·
Gavin Mahon, English footballer ·
Aleš Píša, Czech ice
hockey player ·
A. J. Burnett, American baseball player ·
Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress ·
Jim Shearer, American VJ and television
personality ·
January 5 – Matej Ferjan, Slovenian motorcycle speedway
(d. 2011) ·
January 9 – Scoonie Penn, American basketball player ·
Anni
Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater ·
Devin Ratray, American actor ·
January 12 – Piolo Pascual, Filipino actor ·
Orlando Bloom, British actor ·
Mehdi Sadaghdar, Iranian-Canadian YouTube
personality ·
Ruco Chan, Hong Kong actor ·
Narain Karthikeyan,
Indian Formula One driver ·
January 15 – Giorgia Meloni, Italian politician ·
January 17 – Leigh Whannell, Australian actor and writer ·
January 19 – Taliesin Jaffe, American voice actor and
actor ·
January 20 – Melody,
Belgian singer ·
January 22 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer ·
January 23 – Kamal Heer, Punjabi singer and musician ·
January 24 – Johann Urb, American actor ·
Christian
Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian singer ·
Hatem Trabelsi, Tunisian footballer ·
Nicholaus Arson, Swedish guitarist and
songwriter ·
Vince Carter, American basketball player ·
Daunte Culpepper, American football player ·
Joey Fatone, American musician ·
Lyle Overbay, American baseball player ·
Dion Basco, American actor ·
Sam Jaeger, American actor ·
Mark Dutiaume, Canadian hockey player ·
Bobby Moynihan, American actor and comedian ·
Kerry Washington, American actress February[edit] ·
February 1 – Lari Ketner, American professional
basketball player (d. 2014) ·
Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter and
musician ·
Jessica Wahls, German pop singer ·
Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer ·
Maitland Ward, American actress ·
Bruno
Castanheira, Portuguese cyclist. (d. 2014) ·
Gavin DeGraw, American singer-songwriter ·
Adam Everett, American baseball player ·
Ahmad Merritt, American football player ·
Ben Ainslie, British sailor ·
February 6 – Jim Conroy, North American voice artist ·
Paul Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Hillary Wolf, American child actress ·
Mariusz Pudzianowski,
Polish strongman ·
Phoenix, American musician ·
Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist ·
Barry Hall, Australian
rules footballer ·
February 10 – Morihiro Hashimoto,
Japanese darts player (d. 2017) ·
Randy Moss, American football player ·
Mike Shinoda, American rock musician ·
February 14 – Elmer Symons, motorcycle enduro racer
(d. 2007) ·
February 15 – Brooks Wackerman American drummer ·
Ian
Clarke, Irish computer scientist ·
Paul Brittain, American actor and comedian ·
Ike Barinholtz, American actor, comedian and
screenwriter ·
László Nemes,
Hungarian film director and screenwriter ·
February 19 – Gianluca Zambrotta,
Italian footballer ·
Stephon Marbury, American basketball player ·
Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model ·
Gail Kim, American professional wrestler and
actress ·
Cyrine Abdelnour, Lebanese singer, actress,
and model ·
Jonathan Safran Foer,
American author ·
Steve Francis, American basketball player ·
Kevin Rose, American television host ·
February 23 – Kristina Šmigun-Vähi,
Estonian skier ·
Floyd Mayweather Jr.,
boxing champion ·
Jason Akermanis, Australian
rules footballer ·
Greg Rikaart, American actor ·
Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player ·
February 27 – Ji Sung, South Korean actor ·
Jason Aldean, American country music singer ·
Rafael Amaya, Mexican model, singer, and actor March[edit] ·
March 1 – Rens Blom, Dutch athlete ·
March 2 ·
Chris Martin, British rock musician ·
Heather McComb, American actress ·
March 3 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer ·
March 4 ·
Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete ·
Daniel Klewer, German footballer ·
March 5 – Wally Szczerbiak, Spanish-born basketball
player ·
March 6 ·
Paquillo Fernández,
Spanish race walker ·
Santino Marella, Canadian wrestler ·
March 7 ·
Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player ·
Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer ·
March 8 ·
Reagan Pasternak, Canadian actress ·
James Van Der Beek,
American actor ·
March 9 ·
Lydia Mackay, American voice actress ·
Bree Turner, American actress ·
Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer ·
Shannon Miller, American gymnast ·
Rita Simons, English actor ·
Robin Thicke, American-Canadian R&B
singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor ·
March 11 ·
Becky Hammon, American basketball player ·
Jason Greeley, Canadian singer ·
March 12 – Rachel Wilson, Canadian actress ·
March 14 – Kim Nam-il, South Korean footballer ·
March 15 ·
Adrian Burnside, Australian baseball player ·
Brian Tee, Japanese American actor ·
Norifumi Yamamoto,
Japanese mixed martial artist ·
March 16 ·
Richard
Swift, American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist,
producer and short-film maker (d. 2018) ·
Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer ·
Ismael La Rosa, Peruvian actor ·
March 18 ·
Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist ·
Zdeno Chára, Czechoslovakian (now Slovakia) hockey player ·
March 23 ·
Sammy Morris, American football player ·
Edwin Siu, Hong Kong actor and singer ·
March 24 ·
Jessica Chastain, American actress ·
Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league
player ·
March 25 – Édgar Ramírez,
Venezuelan actor ·
March 26 – Bianca Kajlich, American actress ·
March 27 ·
Vítor Meira, Brazilian race car driver ·
Roger Velasco, American actor ·
March 28 – Annie Wersching, American actress April[edit] ·
April 1 – Paul Kalanithi, Indian-American neurosurgeon
and writer (d. 2015) ·
April 2 ·
Michael Fassbender,
Irish-German actor ·
Nicki Pedersen, Danish motorcycle rider ·
April 4 ·
Adam Dutkiewicz, American musician ·
Stephen Mulhern, British musician and
television presenter ·
April 5 – Daniel
Majstorović, Swedish soccer player ·
April 8 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist
(d. 2008) ·
April 9 – Gerard Way, American musician and comic book
writer ·
April 10 – Stephanie Sheh, American voice actress ·
April 11 – DJ Fresh, English DJ and music producer ·
April 12 ·
Tobias Angerer, German cross-country skier ·
Sarah Monahan, Australian actress ·
Sarah Jane
Morris, American actress ·
April 14 ·
Sarah Michelle
Gellar, American actress ·
Nate Fox, American professional basketball
player (d. 2014) ·
Rob McElhenney, American actor ·
April 15 ·
Matt Holt, American heavy metal singer
(d. 2017) ·
Dejan Milojevic,
Serbian basketball player ·
April 16 ·
Fredrik Ljungberg,
Swedish footballer ·
Tameka Empson, English actress ·
April 17 – Frederik Magle, Danish composer, concert
organist, and pianist ·
April 19 – Bryan Spears, American film and television
producer ·
April 21 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater ·
April 22 ·
Anna Eriksson, Finnish pop-rock singer ·
Steven Price,
British film composer ·
April 23 ·
Arash, Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer
and producer ·
John Cena, American professional WWE wrestler,
actor and rapper ·
Eric Edelstein, American actor and voice
actor ·
Andruw Jones, Antillean baseball player ·
John Oliver, British comedian and television
personality ·
Kal Penn, American actor, producer, and
former civil servant ·
April 24 ·
Carlos Beltrán,
Puerto Rican baseball player ·
Rebecca Mader, English actress ·
April 25 – Manolo Cardona, Colombian actor ·
April 26 ·
Jason Earles, American actor ·
Tom Welling, American actor ·
April 27 – Dai Fujikura, Japanese composer ·
April 30 ·
Robert Evans,
Welsh playwright ·
Alexandra Holden, American actress ·
Ole Jřrn Myklebust,
Norwegian jazz musician May[edit] ·
May 2 – Alessandro D'Avenia,
Italian writer ·
May 3 ·
Eric Church, American country music singer ·
Ryan Dempster, Canadian baseball player ·
Ben Olsen, American footballer ·
May 4 – Emily Perkins, Canadian actress ·
May 5 ·
Choi Kang-hee,
South Korean actress ·
Virginie Efira, Belgian actress and
television anchor ·
Jessica Schwarz, German film and television
actress ·
May 8 ·
Pepe Sánchez,
Argentine basketball player ·
Chiaki
Takahashi, Japanese voice actress ·
May 10 ·
Nick Heidfeld, German race car driver ·
Chas Licciardello,
Australian comedian ·
May 11 ·
Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper ·
Victor Matfield, South African rugby player ·
May 12 ·
Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player ·
Rebecca Herbst, American actress ·
Maryam Mirzakhani,
Iranian mathematician (d. 2017) ·
Rachel Wilson, Canadian actress ·
May 13 ·
Samantha Morton, English actress ·
Christopher Ralph,
Canadian actor ·
May 14 ·
Roy Halladay, American baseball player
(d. 2017) ·
Ada Nicodemou, Australian actress ·
May 16 ·
Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress ·
Emilíana Torrini,
Icelandic singer ·
May 17 – Welles Crowther, American investment banker.
(d. 2001) ·
May 19 ·
Brandon Inge, American baseball player ·
Kelly Sheridan, Canadian voice actress ·
May 20 ·
Chad Muska, American skateboarder ·
Katrin Pärn, Estonian actress and singer ·
May 23 ·
Richard Ayoade, British actor ·
Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater ·
Yevgeny Rodionov, Russian soldier (d. 1996) ·
Heather Wahlquist,
American actress ·
May 24 ·
Tamarine Tanasugarn,
Thai tennis player ·
Jeet Gannguli, Indian singer, music director
and score composer ·
May 26 ·
Misaki Ito, Japanese actress ·
Luca Toni, Italian footballer ·
May 27 ·
Abderrahmane Hammad,
Algerian athlete ·
Tommie van der
Leegte, Dutch soccer player ·
May 28 – Elisabeth Hasselbeck,
American talk show host ·
May 29 ·
Massimo Ambrosini,
Italian football player ·
Rory Albanese, American comedian, comedy
writer and television producer ·
May 31 ·
Phil Devey, Canadian baseball player ·
Domenico Fioravanti,
Italian swimmer ·
Greg Leeb, Canadian ice hockey player ·
Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete ·
Eric Christian Olsen,
American actor ·
Joel Ross, British radio DJ and presenter ·
June Sarpong, British television presenter ·
Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer ·
Petr Tenkrát, Czech ice hockey player June[edit] ·
June 1 ·
Sarah Wayne Callies,
American actress ·
Jónsi,
Icelandic singer ·
June 2 ·
A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler ·
Zachary Quinto, American actor ·
June 3 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player ·
June 5 – Nourhanne, Lebanese singer ·
June 7 – Chen Luyun, Chinese basketball (d. 2015) ·
June 8 – Kanye West, American rapper and record
producer ·
June 9 – Peja Stojaković,
Serbian basketball player ·
June 10 ·
Adam Darski, Polish musician (aka Nergal,
Holocausto) ·
Takako Matsu, Japanese singer-songwriter and
actress ·
June 11 ·
Ryan Dunn, American television personality
(d. 2011) ·
Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer ·
Shane Meier, Canadian actor ·
June 12 ·
Ana Tijoux, French-Chilean musician ·
Richard Ayoade, English actor and comedian ·
June 14 – Chris McAlister, American football player ·
June 16 – Kerry Wood, American baseball player ·
June 18 – Majed Moqed, Saudi Arabian terrorist
(d. 2001) ·
June 19 ·
Peter Warrick, American football player ·
Veronika
Vařeková, Czech model ·
Maria Cioncan, distance runner from Romania
(d. 2007) ·
June 20 – Aaron Moule, Australian rugby league player ·
June 21 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player ·
June 22 ·
Ryōko Ono, Japanese voice actress ·
Bernadette Heerwagen,
German actress ·
Denis Moschitto, German actor ·
June 23 ·
Gladys Reyes, Filipina actress ·
Antoine Winfield, American football player ·
Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter ·
June 24 – Mal Michael, Papua New Guinean footballer ·
June 25 ·
Layla El, English dancer, model, and retired
professional wrestler ·
Naoya Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast ·
June 26 ·
William Kipsang, Kenyan long-distance runner ·
Tite Kubo, Japanese manga artist who
created BLEACH ·
June 27 ·
Arkadiusz Radomski,
Polish footballer ·
Raúl,
Spanish footballer ·
June 28 – Harun Tekin, Turkish rock vocalist and
guitarist (Mor ve Ötesi) ·
June 29 ·
Jeff Baena, American screenwriter and film
director ·
Will Kemp,
English actor and dancer ·
Zuleikha Robinson,
British actress and singer ·
Bradley Stryker, American actor July[edit] Victoria,
Crown Princess of Sweden ·
July 1 ·
Tom Frager, French-born singer and surfer ·
Jarome Iginla, Canadian hockey player ·
Liv Tyler, American actress ·
July 2 – Carl Froch, British boxer ·
July 5 – Steven Sharp Nelson,
American cellist ·
July 6 – Audrey Fleurot, French actress ·
July 8 ·
Maciej Jachowski, Polish actor and singer ·
Belinda Lee,
Singaporean television host and actress ·
Milo Ventimiglia, American actor ·
Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player ·
July 9 – Noppadol Sangnil, Thai snooker player ·
July 10 ·
Cary Fukunaga, American film director,
writer, and cinematographer ·
Schapelle Corby, Australian convicted drug
smuggler ·
Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor ·
July 11 ·
Casper Crump, Danish actor ·
Finau Maka, Tongan rugby union footballer ·
Edward Moss,
American impersonator ·
July 12 ·
Jejomar Binay Jr.,
Filipino politician ·
Steve Howey,
American actor ·
Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler ·
Peter
Schaefer, Canadian ice hockey player ·
July 13 ·
Ashley Scott, American actress ·
Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress ·
July 14 ·
Victoria,
Crown Princess of Sweden ·
Jed Madela, Filipino recording artist and TV
host ·
July 15 ·
Lana Parrilla, American actress ·
Ray Toro, American rock guitarist ·
July 18 ·
Alfian Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and
playwright ·
Alexander Morozevich,
Russian chess Grandmaster ·
Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet
and playwright ·
July 19 – Jean-Sébastien Aubin,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
July 21 – Paul Casey, English golfer ·
July 24 ·
Danny Dyer, English actor ·
Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player ·
July 26 ·
Tony Sampson, Canadian voice and television
actor ·
Rebecca St. James,
Australian-born Christian musician ·
July 27 ·
Martha Madison, American actress ·
Jonathan Rhys Meyers,
Irish actor ·
Jason Zimbler, American actor ·
July 28 ·
Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player ·
Rahman
"Rock" Harper, American personality, restaurateur ·
Allan Hawco, Canadian actor and producer ·
July 30 – Jaime Pressly, American actress ·
July 31 – Tim Couch, American football player August[edit] ·
August 2 – Edward Furlong, American actor ·
August 3 – Tom Brady, American football player and
entrepreneur ·
August 7 – Charlotte Ronson and Samantha Ronson, British designer and DJ,
respectively (twin sisters) ·
August 8 ·
Michael Chernus, American actor ·
Marílson Gomes
dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner ·
Lindsay Sloane, American actress ·
August 9 – Chamique Holdsclaw,
American basketball player ·
August 11 – Pablo Lucio Vasquez,
American murderer, execution by lethal injection (d. 2016) ·
Plaxico Burress, American football player ·
Park Yong-ha, South Korean actor and singer
(d. 2010) ·
Michael Klim, Australian swimmer ·
Miho Konishi, Japanese actress ·
Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player ·
Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast ·
Nicole Paggi, American actress ·
Anthony Rocca, Australian
rules footballer ·
August 16 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter and
actor ·
Ahmed al-Nami, Saudi Arabian terrorist
(d. 2001) ·
Tarja Turunen, Finnish operatic soprano ·
Claire Richards, English singer ·
Thierry Henry, French footballer ·
William Gallas, French footballer ·
August 18 – Lukáš Bauer, Czech cross-country skier ·
August 19 – Callum Blue, English actor ·
Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player ·
Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player ·
Henning Stensrud, Norwegian ski jumper ·
August 22 – JP Auclair, Canadian freeskiier. (d. 2004) ·
Nicole Bobek, American figure skater ·
Kenta Miyake, Japanese voice actor ·
Per Gade, Danish footballer ·
Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer ·
John Green,
American author, vlogger, and editor ·
Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009) ·
Masumi Asano, Japanese voice actress ·
Lawrence Leung, Australian comedian, writer,
and director ·
August 26 – Morris Peterson, American basketball player ·
August 29 – Martha Ehlin, Swedish sports teacher
(d. 2016) ·
Shaun Alexander, American football player ·
Jens Ludwig, German guitarist ·
Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer ·
Sayori Ishizuka, Japanese voice actress ·
Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler ·
Ian Harte, Irish footballer ·
Craig Nicholls, Australian rock musician and
songwriter September[edit] ·
Kathleen de Leon
Jones, Filipino-Australian actress, dancer, and singer (Hi-5) ·
Adrienne Wilkinson,
American actress ·
Frédéric Kanouté,
Malian soccer player ·
Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriter ·
Ian Grushka, American bassist (New Found Glory) ·
Lucie Silvas, English singer ·
Kia Stevens, American professional wrestler
and actress ·
September 6 – Kiyoshi Hikawa, Japanese enka singer ·
September 7 – Molly Holly, American professional wrestler ·
September 9 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003) ·
Jackie Buscarino, American voice actress,
writer and producer ·
Ludacris, American rapper and actor ·
2 Chainz, American rapper ·
James McCartney, English musician and
songwriter ·
Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter ·
September 13 – Fiona Apple, American singer ·
Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
Kenny Blank, American actor and musician ·
Tom Hardy, English actor ·
Jason Terry, American basketball player ·
September 18 – Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman ·
September 19 – Ryan Dusick, American musician (former Maroon 5) ·
September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer ·
September 21 – Hank Fraley, American football player ·
September 22 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league player ·
Nozomi Momoi, Japanese AV idol, and murder
victim (d. 2002) ·
Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer, actress, and
murder victim (d. 2008) ·
Elizabeth Bogush, American actress ·
Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila,
American football player ·
Clea DuVall, American actress ·
Robbie Jones,
American actor ·
Joel David Moore, American actor ·
September 26 – Sirena Irwin, American actress and voice
actress ·
Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower ·
Mike Maronna, American actor ·
Se-Ri Pak, South Korean golfer ·
Kristal Tin, Hong Kong actress ·
Heath Bell, American professional baseball ·
Jorgito Vargas Jr.,
Canadian actor ·
September 30 – Roy Carroll, Irish footballer October[edit] ·
October 2 – Didier Défago, Swiss Olympic alpine skier ·
October 5 – Hugleikur Dagsson,
Icelandic artist ·
October 6 – Daniel Bričre, Canadian ice hockey player ·
October 8 – Anne-Caroline
Chausson, French mountain bicycle racer ·
Matt Bomer, American film, stage, and
television actor ·
Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and
newsreader ·
October 12 – Bode Miller, American skier ·
Paul Pierce, American basketball player ·
Quincy Carter, American football player ·
Kiele Sanchez, American actress ·
Kelly Schumacher, American basketball and
volleyball player ·
Oleg Velyky, Ukrainian and German handball
player World champion 2007 (d. 2010) ·
Jeff Sutphen, American actor and producer ·
David Trezeguet, French footballer ·
October 16 – John Mayer, American musician and record
producer ·
Alimi Ballard, American television actor ·
André Villas-Boas,
Portuguese football manager ·
Jyothika, Indian actress ·
Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer ·
Paul Stalteri, Canadian footballer ·
Jennifer Hall, American actress ·
Stewart Petrie, Scottish actor ·
Sam Witwer, American actor and musician ·
October 25 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer ·
Louis Crayton, Swiss/Liberian footballer ·
Jon Heder, American actor and voice artist ·
Mat Lucas, American voice actor ·
Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer ·
October 28 – Jonas Rasmussen, Danish badminton player ·
October 29 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor November[edit] ·
November 1 – Alistair Griffin, British singer and
songwriter ·
November 2 – Randy Harrison, American actor ·
November 3 – Greg Plitt, American fitness model, actor
and former Army Ranger (d. 2015) ·
November 4 – Larry Bigbie, American baseball player ·
Dušan Kecman, Serbian basketball player ·
Patrícia Tavares,
Portuguese actress ·
Bucky Covington, American country singer ·
Nick Punto, Italian-American baseball player ·
Joăo Rodrigo
Silva Santos, Brazilian soccer player (d. 2013) ·
Josh Barnett, American mixed martial artist ·
Brittany Murphy, American actress (d. 2009) ·
Lea Moreno Young, American actress ·
Scoot McNairy, American actor ·
Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (d. 2002) ·
Chanel Cole, New Zealand-born singer ·
Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer ·
November 15 – Sean Murray,
American actor ·
Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater ·
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
American actress ·
November 17 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer ·
Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league
player ·
Miranda Raison, British actress ·
Reid Scott,
American actor ·
Kerri Strug, American gymnast ·
Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer ·
Josh Turner, American country music singer ·
November 21 – Jonas Jennings, American football player ·
November 22 – Michael
Preston, English footballer ·
Christopher Amott,
Swedish musician ·
David Lucas,
English footballer ·
November 24 – Colin Hanks, American actor ·
November 27 – Mika Tan, Asian-American adult film actress ·
November 28 – DeMya Walker, American basketball player ·
November 29 – Chadwick Boseman, American actor ·
November 30 – Nelsan Ellis, American film and television
actor and playwright (d. 2017) December[edit] ·
Adam Małysz, Polish ski jumper ·
Troy Evans,
American football player ·
Lindsey Alley, American actress and singer ·
Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer ·
Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer ·
Miwa Yasuda, Japanese voice actress ·
Fernando Vargas, American boxer ·
Luke Donald, English golfer ·
Dominic Howard Drummer in English
rock-trio Muse ·
Elsa Benítez, Mexican model and television
host ·
Sébastien Chabal,
French rugby union player ·
Ryan Newman,
American race car driver ·
Matthias Schoenaerts,
Belgian actor and producer ·
December 10 – Emmanuelle Chriqui,
Canadian actress ·
December 11 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player ·
December 12 – Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler and Olympic
gold medalist ·
KaDee Strickland, American actress ·
Jamie Peacock, English rugby league player ·
Kevin Gillespie,
American comic book artist ·
Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player ·
December 20 – Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer ·
Gregor Horvatič,
Slovenian politician ·
Emmanuel Macron, 25th President of France ·
Alge Crumpler, American football player ·
Matt Baker,
British television presenter ·
Jari Mäenpää,
Finnish musician ·
December 24 – Domingo Vega, also known as Américo,
Chilean singer ·
December 25 – Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress ·
Sam Talbot, American chef ·
Jacqueline Pillon,
Canadian actress ·
Laveranues Coles, American football player ·
Katherine Moennig,
American actress ·
Laila Ali, American boxer ·
Scott Lucas,
Australian rules footballer ·
Kenyon Martin, American basketball player ·
Saša
Ilić, Serbian football player ·
Donald Trump Jr., American business heir ·
Psy,
South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and record producer Date unknown[edit] ·
Faris al-Zahrani, Saudi Arabia's list of 26
'most-wanted' suspected terrorists. (d. 2016) ·
Kristian Ealey, British actor and musician
(d. 2016) Deaths[edit] January[edit] ·
Adam Fox, Indian-born British male tennis
player (b. 1883) ·
Michael
Hogan, British screenwriter (b. 1893) ·
January 2 – Erroll Garner, American musician (b. 1921) ·
Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and
theatre critic (b. 1889) ·
Onslow Stevens, American actor (b. 1902) ·
January 6 – William Gropper, American artist (b. 1897) ·
Hilder F. Smith, American pioneer aviator
(b. 1890) ·
Henry Cronin, British civil engineer and
army officer (b. 1894) ·
Anthony Eden, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897) ·
Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916) ·
Džemal Bijedić,
Yugoslavian politician, 27th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1917) ·
Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright
(b. 1896) ·
January 19 – Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress
(b. 1895) ·
January 20 – Dimitrios
Kiousopoulos, Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1892) ·
Billy Down, English professional association
footballer (b. 1898) ·
Ibrahim
bin Abdullah Al Suwaiyel, Saudi Arabian diplomat (b. 1916) ·
January 23 – Toots Shor, American restaurateur (b. 1903) ·
January 24 – Eli Lilly,
American pharmaceutical industrialist and philanthropist from Indianapolis
(b. 1885) ·
January 26 – Dietrich von
Hildebrand, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1889) ·
Walter Baldwin, prolific character actor
(b. 1889) ·
Eero Nelimarkka, Finnish painter (b. 1891) ·
January 28 – Burt Mustin, American actor (b. 1884) ·
January
29 - Freddie Prinze - Actor of stand up and television - (b. 1954) February[edit] ·
February 3 – Pauline Starke, American actress (b. 1901) ·
February 4 – Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904) ·
February 5 – Oskar Klein, Swedish theoretical physicist
(b. 1894) ·
February 6 – George John Park, New Zealand teacher and
technical college principal (b. 1880) ·
February 8 – Olinda Bozán, Argentinian actress (b. 1894) ·
February 9 – Queen Alia, Queen of Jordan (b. 1948) ·
Herman Dooyeweerd,
Dutch juridical scholar by training (b. 1894) ·
Henry Jordan, American football player and
member of the Pro Football
Hall of Fame (b. 1935) ·
February 13 – Alberto Diena, Italian philatelist (b. 1894) ·
February 14 – Bill Tilman, English mountaineer and
explorer (b. 1898) ·
February 15 – Herman Johannes Lam,
Dutch botanist (b. 1892) ·
Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician
(b. 1905) ·
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (b. 1897) ·
February 17 – Mary Anne Reidy, New Zealand civilian and
military nurse, community leader (b. 1880) ·
February 18 – Chandabai, Indian Jain scholar and women's
education pioneer (b. 1880) ·
February 19 – Anthony Crosland, British author and
politician (b. 1918) ·
Ralph Hungerford, American naval officer,
33rd Governor of
American Samoa (b. 1896) ·
Christoffel Venter,
South African military commander (b. 1892) ·
Yisrael Alter, 4th Rebbe of the Hasidic
dynasty of Ger (b. 1895) ·
February 21 – John Hubley, American animator (b. 1914) ·
February 22 – Anthony Nicholls,
British actor (b. 1902) March[edit] ·
March 1 – Diallo Telli, Guinean diplomat and
politician, 1st Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity (b. 1925) ·
March 2 ·
Eugénie Brazier,
French chef considered the mother of modern French cooking (b. 1895) ·
Paul Rohmer, Alsacian physician considered
the father of modern pćdiatrics (b. 1876) ·
March 3 ·
Brian Faulkner, 6th Prime Minister of
Northern Ireland (b. 1921) ·
Percy Marmont, American stage and screen
actor (b. 1883) ·
March 4 ·
Andrés Caicedo,
Colombian writer (b. 1951) ·
Ola Solberg, Norwegian newspaper editor and
politician (b. 1886) ·
Lutz Graf
Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official
(b. 1887) ·
March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula race car driver
(b. 1949) ·
March 8 – Henry Hull, American actor (b. 1890) ·
March 10 ·
E. Power Biggs, English-American organist
(b. 1906) ·
Léonce-Henri Burel,
French cinematographer (b. 1892) ·
William G. James, Australian pianist and
composer (b. 1892) ·
Willem Schermerhorn,
Dutch politician and civil engineer, 28th Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1894) ·
March 11 – Ulysses S. Grant IV,
American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1893) ·
March 14 ·
Black Mike Winage,
Serbian-Canadian miner and pioneer (b. 1870) ·
Mae Carden, American educator who developed
the Carden Method (b. 1894) ·
March 15 – Antonino Rocca, Italian professional
wrestler (b. 1921) ·
March 17 – Claude Roger-Marx,
French writer, and playwright (b. 1888) ·
March 18 – Marien Ngouabi, 3rd President of Congo (assassinated)
(b. 1938) ·
March 19 – William L. Laurence,
Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist (b. 1888) ·
March 20 – Charles
Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General
of New Zealand (b. 1909) ·
March 28 ·
Andries Mac Leod, Belgian-born Swedish
philosopher and mathematician (b. 1891) ·
Frithiof Nevanlinna,
Finnish mathematician (b. 1894) ·
Marion Clyde
McCarroll, writer and journalist (b. 1891) ·
March 29 ·
Charles Nicoletti,
American gangster (b. 1916) ·
Eugen Wüster, industrialist and
terminologist (b. 1898) ·
March 30 – Abdel Halim Hafez,
Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929) ·
March 31 ·
Yasuji Kamada, Japanese photographer
(b. 1883) ·
Eric Grant Miles, served as an officer with
the British Army (b. 1891) ·
Jean Bachelet, French cinematographer
(b. 1894) April[edit] ·
April 2 – He Tianjian, Chinese painter (b. 1891) ·
April 2 – John Whitaker,
British gymnast (b. 1886) ·
April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás,
11th President of Cuba (b. 1903) ·
April 6 ·
Isaac B. Mitchell,
American farmer and politician (b. 1888) ·
Frank Rooney,
Austro-Hungarian Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1884) ·
April 7 – Karl Ritter,
German film producer and director (b. 1888) ·
April 11 – Jacques Prévert,
French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900) ·
April 12 – Philip K. Wrigley,
American chewing gum manufacturer
and Major League
Baseball executive (b. 1894) ·
April 14 – Francisco Maria
da Silva, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1910) ·
April 16 – Harwood Sturtevant,
Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac (b. 1888) ·
April 17 – William Conway,
Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1913) ·
April 20 ·
Wilmer Allison, American tennis champion
(b. 1904) ·
Bryan Foy, American film producer and
director (b. 1896) ·
April 21 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian
(b. 1892) ·
April 23 – Charles D. Herron,
general in the United States Army (b. 1877) ·
April 26 – Jack Ayre, Canadian pianist (b. 1894) ·
April 27 – Stanley Adams,
American actor (b. 1915) ·
April 28 ·
Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1899) ·
Sepp Herberger, German soccer coach
(b. 1897) ·
Viktor Novak, Yugoslav historian of Croat
descent (b. 1889) ·
Ernesto Pérez Acosta,
Paraguayan Salesian priest
and servant of God (b. 1889) ·
April 29 – William Arthur
Whitlock, New Zealand journalist (b. 1891) May[edit] Nicholas Magallanes,
Maria Tallchief in The Nutcracker(1954). ·
May 2 – Nicholas Magallanes,
American principal dancer and charter member of the New York City Ballet (b. 1922) ·
May 4 – Richard Pike Bissell,
English novelist (b. 1913) ·
May 5 ·
Ludwig Erhard, German politician, 28th Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1897) ·
Sam Lanin, American 1920s bandleader (b. 1891) ·
May 7 – Prince
Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish Carlist pretender (b. 1889) ·
May 9 – James Jones,
American writer (b. 1921) ·
May 10 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. 1904) ·
May 13 – Otto Deßloch, German World War II Luftwaffe
general (b. 1889) ·
May 15 ·
Benedetta Cappa, Italian artist (b. 1897) ·
Herbert Wilcox, British film director and
producer (b. 1892) ·
René Roy, French economist (b. 1894) ·
Torsten Tegnér,
Swedish athlete and journalist (b. 1888) ·
Yang Sen,
Chinese Sichuan clique warlord and general
(b. 1884) ·
May 16 – Modibo Keďta, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915) ·
May 17 – Robert Maynard
Hutchins, American educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law
School (b. 1899) ·
May 18 – Czesław Wycech,
Polish activist, politician and historian (b. 1899) ·
May 25 – Máire Gill, President of the Irish Camogie Association (b. 1891) ·
May 31 ·
William Castle, American film director
(b. 1914) ·
Herbert
Marshall, Canadian academic, statistician and third Dominion
Statistician (b. 1888) ·
Stephen
Sanford, American heir and polo champion (b. 1898) June[edit] ·
June 2 ·
Forrest Lewis, American actor (b. 1899) ·
Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish film actor
(b. 1931) ·
June 3 ·
Archibald Hill, English physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1886) ·
Roberto Rossellini,
Italian film director (b. 1906) ·
June 5 – Ward Melville, American philanthropist and
businessman (b. 1887) ·
June 7 – Raymond Cannon,
American actor (b. 1892) ·
June 14 – Alan Reed, American actor and voice artist
(b. 1907) ·
June 16 – Wernher von Braun,
American-German aerospace engineer (b. 1912) ·
June 22 ·
Marston Morse, American mathematician
(b. 1892) ·
Georges Miquelle, French cellist (b. 1894) ·
June 25 – Olave Baden-Powell,
founder of Scouting and Girl Guides, by over 35 years (b. 1889) ·
June 30 – Paul Hartmann,
American actor (b. 1889) July[edit] ·
July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American writer
(b. 1899) ·
July 7 – María Romero Meneses,
Nicaragua Roman Catholic religious
professed and blessed (b. 1902) ·
July 9 ·
Dame Harriette Chick, British protein scientist
and nutritionist (b. 1875) ·
Alice Paul, American women's rights activist
(b. 1885) ·
Willoughby Weaving,
British writer and poet (b. 1885) ·
July 15 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (b. 1892) ·
July 20 ·
Carter DeHaven, American actor (b. 1886) ·
Grenfell Price, Australian geographer,
historian and educationist (b. 1892) ·
July 25 – David Toro, 35th President of Bolivia (b. 1898) ·
July 26 – Gena Branscombe, Canadian pianist, composer,
music educator and choir conductor (b. 1881) ·
July 30 – Jean de Laborde, French admiral (b. 1878) ·
July 31 – Giuseppe Castellano,
Italian general (b. 1893) August[edit] ·
August 2 – Manuel
Gonçalves Cerejeira, Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1888) ·
August 3 – Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892) ·
August 4 ·
Edgar
Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1889) ·
Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher
(b. 1885) ·
August 5 – Waldo L. Schmitt, American biologist
(b. 1887) ·
August 6 – Alexander Bustamante,
Jamaican politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Jamaica (b. 1884) ·
August 9 – George Kenney, World War II United States
Army Air Forces general (b. 1889) ·
August 13 – Henry Williamson, English naturalist, farmer
and prolific ruralist (b. 1895) ·
August 16 – Elvis Presley, American actor, musician and
singer-songwriter (b. 1935) ·
August 17 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and
director (b. 1904) ·
John Harlow,
English film director (b. 1896) ·
Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian
(b. 1890) ·
August 22 – Sebastian Cabot,
English actor (b. 1918) ·
August 23 – Naum Gabo, prominent Russian sculptor
(b. 1890) September[edit] ·
September 1 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress
(b. 1896) ·
September 2 – Stephen Dunne,
American actor (b. 1911) ·
September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German statistician and
economist (b. 1885) ·
September 6 – John Edensor
Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885) ·
September 8 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915) ·
September 13 – Leopold Stokowski,
English conductor (b. 1882) ·
Marc Bolan, British singer and guitarist
(b. 1947) ·
Maria Callas, Greek soprano (b. 1923) ·
Alexandre
Constantinovich Chnéour, Russian entomologist and herpetologist
(b. 1884) ·
Francis Shurrock, notable New Zealand
sculptor and art teacher (b. 1887) ·
September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888) ·
September 23 – John Nash,
British artist and painter (b. 1893) ·
Piet Zwart, Dutch photographer, typographer
and industrial designer.(b. 1885) ·
Frederick Merk, American historian (b. 1887) ·
George Merritt,
English actor (b. 1890) ·
Czesław Wycech,
Polish activist, politician and historian (b. 1899) ·
Robert McKimson, American animator and
director (b. 1910) ·
Zacharias Mar
Athanasios, Indian Syro-Malankara
Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. 1909) October[edit] ·
October 2 – Joseph William
Woodrough, American federal judge (b. 1873) ·
October 3 – Tay Garnett, American film director
(b. 1894) ·
October 8 – Joe Greenstein, Polish-born American
strongman (b. 1893) ·
October 10 – Jean Duvieusart, 36th Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1900) ·
October 12 – Dorothy Davenport,
American actress (b. 1895) ·
October 14 – Bing Crosby, American singer and actor
(b. 1903) ·
October 15 – Arthur Morris,
British Anglican bishop (b. 1898) ·
October 17 – Sir Michael Balcon, English film producer
(b. 1896) ·
October 20 – Three members of American
rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd,
killed in plane crash: ·
Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer (b. 1948) ·
Cassie Gaines, lead singer (b. 1948) ·
Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist
(b. 1949) ·
October 22 – Boye Schlytter, Norwegian businessman and
mountain climber (b. 1891) ·
October 25 – Félix Gouin, French Socialist politician,
caretaker head of State as 2nd chairman of the Provisional Government of the French Republic (b. 1884) ·
James M. Cain, American writer (b. 1892) ·
Miguel Mihura, Spanish playwright (b. 1905) November[edit] David
V, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia ·
November 3 – Florence Vidor, American actress (b. 1895) ·
November 4 – Betty Balfour, English screen actress
(b. 1903) ·
René Goscinny, French comic book writer
(b. 1926) ·
Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader
(b. 1902) ·
Alice May Palmer, New Zealand public servant
(b. 1886) ·
November 8 – Bucky Harris, American baseball manager and
member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1896) ·
Gertrude Astor, American actress (b. 1887) ·
David
V, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (b. 1903) ·
November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English writer (b. 1897) ·
A.
C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader,
founder-acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness,
ISKCON (b. 1896) ·
Ferdinand Heim, German general, branded the
"Scapegoat of Stalingrad" (b. 1897) ·
November 15 – Princess
Charlotte of Monaco (b. 1898) ·
November 16 – José Acosta,
starting pitcher in Major League Baseball (b. 1891) ·
November 17 – André Perugia, French shoe designer
(b. 1893) ·
Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888) ·
Kurt Schuschnigg, 11th Chancellor of
Austria (b. 1897) ·
November 21 – Richard Carlson,
American actor (b. 1912) December[edit] ·
December 3 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower
(b. 1899) ·
December 4 – Tom Senier, Irish melodeon (single row
diatonic accordion) player (b. 1895) ·
Katherine Milhous,
American artist, illustrator, and writer (b. 1894) ·
Aleksandr Vasilevsky,
Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895) ·
December 12 – Clementine Churchill,
Wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885) ·
December 13 – Sir Charles Petrie,
British historian (b. 1895) ·
December 15 – Wilfred Kitching, 7th (British) General of
The Salvation Army (b. 1893) ·
Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the
Church of Sweden (b. 1879) ·
Yngve Larsson, Swedish Ph.D., Municipal
commissioner (Borgarrĺd), Member of Parliament and statesman (b. 1881) ·
December 18 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian actor and director
(b. 1897) ·
Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889) ·
Nellie Tayloe Ross,
American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 (b. 1876) ·
Karl John,
German actor (b. 1905) ·
Johannes
Pedersen, Danish theologian and linguist (b. 1883) ·
December 24 – Juan Velasco
Alvarado, 58th President of Peru (b. 1910) ·
Charlie Chaplin, British actor, producer and
director (b. 1889) ·
Oliver P. Smith, American general (b. 1893) ·
December 26 – Howard Hawks, American film director
(b. 1896) ·
December 27 – Mildred Bendall, French active force of the
avant-garde (b. 1891) ·
Karen Grech, Maltese terrorism victim
(b. 1962) ·
Charlotte Greenwood,
American actress (b. 1890) Nobel Prizes[edit] ·
Physics – Philip Warren
Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck
Van Vleck ·
Physiology
or Medicine – Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Yalow ·
Literature – Vicente Aleixandre ·
Peace – Amnesty
International ·
Economics – Bertil Ohlin, James Meade References[edit] |
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