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1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1973rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 973rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 73rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1970s decade.

Events[]

January[]

  • January 1
    • The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union.
    • CBS sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led by George Steinbrenner (3.2 million dollars less than CBS bought the Yankees for).
  • January 4 – The pilot episode of the longest-running TV comedy series in the world, Last of the Summer Wine, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
  • January 7Mark Essex kills 9 people at the Howard Johnson's hotel in downtown New Orleans.
  • January 14
    • Elvis Presley's concert in Hawaii. The first worldwide telecast by an entertainer watched by more people than watched the Apollo moon landings.
    • Super Bowl VII: The Miami Dolphins defeat the Washington Redskins, 14–7, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, to complete the NFL's first Perfect Season in front of 90,182 fans.
  • January 15Vietnam War: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President Richard Nixon announces the suspension of offensive action in North Vietnam.
  • January 17Ferdinand Marcos becomes President for Life of the Philippines.
  • January 18 – Eleven Labour Party councillors in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England, are ordered to pay £6,985 for not enforcing the Housing Finance Act.
  • January 20 – U.S. President Richard Nixon is inaugurated for his second term.
  • January 21 – The Communist League is founded in Denmark.
  • January 22
    • Roe v. Wade: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns state bans on abortion.
    • George Foreman defeats Joe Frazier to win the heavyweight world boxing championship.
    • A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria; 176 people are killed.
    • Former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson dies at his Stonewall, Texas ranch, leaving no former U.S. President living until the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.
  • January 23
  • January 25 – English actor Derren Nesbitt is convicted of assaulting his wife Anne Aubrey.
  • January 27 – U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
  • January 31Pan American and Trans World Airlines cancelled their options to buy 13 Concorde airliners.

February[]

  • February 6 – Toronto: Construction on the CN Tower begins.
  • February 8 – A military insurrection in Uruguay poses an institutional challenge to President Juan María Bordaberry.
  • February 11Vietnam War: The first American prisoners of war are released from Vietnam.
  • February 12Ohio becomes the first U.S. state to post distance in metric on signs (see Metric system in the United States).
  • February 13 – The United States dollar is devalued by 10%.
  • February 16 – The Court of Appeal of England and Wales rules that the Sunday Times can publish articles on Thalidomide and Distillers Company, despite ongoing legal actions by parents (the decision is overturned in July by the House of Lords).
  • February 21Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (Boeing 727) is shot down by Israeli fighter aircraft over the Sinai Desert, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. Only 5 (1 crew member and 4 passengers) of 113 survive.
  • February 22Sino-American relations: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to mainland China, the United States and the People's Republic of China agree to establish liaison offices.
  • February 26Edward Heath's British government publishes a Green Paper on prices and incomes policy.
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Flag of the American Indian Movement

  • February 27 – The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
  • February 28
    • The Republic of Ireland general election is held. Liam Cosgrave becomes the new Taoiseach.
    • The landmark postmodern novel Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is published.

March[]

  • March 1
    • Dick Taverne, having resigned from the Parliament of the United Kingdom on leaving the Labour Party, is re-elected as a 'Democratic Labour' candidate.
    • Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, one of rock's landmark albums, is released in the US. It is released in the UK on March 24.
  • March 3Tottenham Hotspur wins the Football League Cup final at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0.
  • March 7Comet Kohoutek is discovered.
  • March 8
    • Northern Ireland sovereignty referendum (the "Border Poll"): 98.9% of those voting in the province want Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom. Turnout is 58.7%, although less than 1% for Catholics.[1] This is the first referendum on regional government in the U.K.
    • Provisional Irish Republican Army bombs explode in Whitehall and the Old Bailey in London.
  • March 10 – Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated in Government House.
  • March 12 - Last episode of original Laugh-In airs on NBC. The show would continue with re-runs until May 14, 1973.
  • March 17
    • Elizabeth II opens the modern London Bridge.
    • Many of the few remaining United States soldiers begin to leave Vietnam. One reunion of a former POW with his family is immortalized in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy.
  • March 20 – A British government White Paper on Northern Ireland proposes the re-establishment of an Assembly elected by proportional representation, with a possible All-Ireland council.
  • March 21 – The Lofthouse Colliery disaster occurs in Great Britain. Seven miners are trapped underground; none survive.[2]
  • March 23Watergate scandal (United States): In a letter to Judge John Sirica, Watergate burglar James W. McCord, Jr. admits that he and other defendants have been pressured to remain silent about the case. He names former Attorney General John Mitchell as 'overall boss' of the operation.
  • March 29 – The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam.

April[]

  • April 2 – The LexisNexis computerized legal research service begins.
  • April 3 – The first handheld mobile phone call is made by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City.
  • April 4 – The World Trade Center officially opens in New York City with a ribbon cutting ceremony.
  • April 5
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    The launch of the Atlas-Centaur carrying the Pioneer G (11) spacecraft on April 5, 1973.

    • Fahri Korutürk becomes the sixth president of Turkey.
    • Pioneer 11 is launched on a mission to study the Solar System.
  • April 6Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees becomes the first designated hitter in Major League Baseball.
  • April 7Tu te reconnaîtras by Anne-Marie David (music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 for Luxembourg.
  • April 10Israeli commandos raid Beirut, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Saib Salam, a Sunni Muslim.
  • April 11 – The British House of Commons votes against restoring capital punishment by a margin of 142 votes.
  • April 12 – The Labour Party wins control of the Greater London Council.
  • April 15Naim Talu, a former civil servant, forms the new government of Turkey (36th government)
  • April 17
    • The German counter-terrorist force GSG 9 is officially formed.
    • Federal Express officially begins operations, with the launch of 14 small aircraft from Memphis International Airport. On that night, Federal Express delivers 186 packages to 25 U.S. cities from Rochester, New York, to Miami, Florida.
    • The Morganza Spillway on the Mississippi River is opened for the first time to prevent catastrophic flooding of New Orleans.
  • April 20 – An Indian Pacific train en route to Perth derails near Broken Hill, New South Wales, destroying a quarter mile of track.
  • April 26 – The first day of trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange
  • April 28
    • The last section of the IRT 3rd Avenue Elevated Line from 149th Street to Gun Hill Road in the Bronx is closed.
    • Six Irishmen, including Joe Cahill, are arrested by the Irish Naval Service off County Waterford, on board a coaster carrying 5 tons of weapons destined for the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
  • April 30Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon announces that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and others have resigned.

May[]

  • May 1 – An estimated 1,600,000 workers in the United Kingdom stop work in support of a Trade Union Congress "day of national protest and stoppage" against the Government's anti-inflation policy.
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Sears Tower

  • May 3 – The Sears Tower in Chicago is finished, becoming the world's tallest building at 1,451 feet.
  • May 5
    • Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
    • Sunderland AFC defeats Leeds United A.F.C. in the FA Cup final.
    • Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby.
    • Led Zeppelin plays before 56,800 persons at Tampa Stadium on the band's 1973 North American Tour, thus breaking the August 15, 1965 record of 55,600 set by The Beatles at Shea Stadium.
  • May 8 – A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and American Indian Movement activists who were occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, ends with the surrender of the militants.
  • May 10
    • The Polisario Front, a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Spanish Sahara, is formed.
    • The New York Knicks defeat the Los Angeles Lakers, 102–93 in Game 5 of the NBA Finals to win the NBA title.
  • May 13
    • Bobby Riggs challenged and defeated Margaret Court, the world's #1 women's player, in a nationally-televised tennis match set in Ramona, CA northeast of San Diego. Riggs won 6-2, 6-1 which led to the huge Battle of the Sexes match against Billie Jean King later in the year on September 20.
  • May 14
    • Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
    • The British House of Commons votes to abolish capital punishment in Northern Ireland.
  • May 17Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
  • May 18Cod War: Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 50-mile limit round Iceland.
  • May 19Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes.
  • May 22Lord Lambton resigns from the British government over a 'call girl' scandal.
  • May 24Earl Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords in Britain, resigns over a separate prostitution scandal.
  • May 25
    • Skylab 2 (Pete Conrad, Paul Weitz, Joseph Kerwin) is launched on a mission to repair damage to the recently launched Skylab space station.
    • Héctor José Cámpora becomes democratic president of the Argentine Republic ending the 1966 to 1973 Revolución Argentina military dictatorship.
  • May 27 – By virtue of the non-retroactivity of Soviet copyright laws, all works published before this date are public domain. This applies worldwide.Template:NoMention
  • May 30Gordon Johncock wins the Indianapolis 500 in the Patrick Racing Special Eagle-Offenhauser, after only 133 laps, due to rain. (The race was begun May 28 but called due to rain.)

June[]

  • June 1 – The Greek military junta abolishes the monarchy and proclaims a republic.
  • June 3 – A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed.
  • June 4 – A patent for the ATM is granted to Donald Wetzel, Tom Barnes and George Chastain.
  • June 9Secretariat wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing winner since 1948.
  • June 10
    • Henri Pescarolo and co-driver Gérard Larrousse (both France) win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra MS670B.
    • The grandson of J. Paul Getty is kidnapped in Rome.Template:NoMention
  • June 16 – U.S. President Richard Nixon begins several talks with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
  • June 17 – The submersible Johnson Sea Link becomes entangled on the wreckage of the USS Fred T. Berry off Key West, Florida. The submersible is brought to the surface the following day, but 2 of the 4 men aboard die of carbon dioxide poisoning.
  • June 20 – The Ezeiza massacre occurs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot at left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300.
  • June 22W. Mark Felt ("Deep Throat") retires from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  • June 23 – A house fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, which kills a 6-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 fire deaths caused over the next 7 years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
  • June 24 – Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first to do so.
  • June 25
    • Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE)
    • Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the 4th President of Ireland.
    • Watergate scandal: Former White House counsel John Dean begins his testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee.
  • June 26 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome, 9 persons are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket.
  • June 27Coup d'état in Uruguay: pressed by the military, President Juan María Bordaberry dissolves Parliament; a 12-year-long civic-military dictatorship begins.
  • June 28 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between unionists and nationalists in Northern Ireland for the first time.
  • June 30 – A very long total solar eclipse occurs. During the entire 2nd millennium, only 7 total solar eclipses exceeded 7 minutes of totality.

July[]

  • July 1 – The United States Drug Enforcement Administration is founded.
  • July 2 – The United States Congress passes the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA) mandating Special Education federally.
  • July 4MLB: The New York Mets fall 12½ games back in last place of the National League Eastern Division.
  • July 5
    • The Isle of Man Post begins to issue its own postage stamps.
    • The catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) in Kingman, Arizona, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, kills 11 firefighters. This explosion has become a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide.
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Saint Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore

  • July 6St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore is gazetted as a national monument.
  • July 10 – The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • July 11Varig Flight 820 crashes near Orly, France; 123 are killed.
  • July 121973 National Archives Fire: A major fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • July 16Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate Watergate Committee that President Richard Nixon had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations.
  • July 17 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery.
  • July 20
    • France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll, over the protests of Australia and New Zealand.
    • Bruce Lee, American actor, philosopher, founder of Jeet Kune Do, dies in Hong Kong of cerebral edema. Six days later his final film Enter the Dragon is released.
  • July 21 – The Philippines receives its second Miss Universe title, with Margarita Moran as the winner.
  • July 23 – The Avianca Building in Bogotá, Colombia suffers a serious fire.
  • July 25 – The Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched.
  • July 28
    • The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, a massive rock festival featuring the Grateful Dead, The Allman Brothers Band and The Band, attracts over 600,000 music fans.
    • Skylab 3 (Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, Alan Bean) is launched, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard Skylab.
  • July 29Formula One racing driver Roger Williamson dies in an accident, witnessed live on European television, during the 1973 Dutch Grand Prix.
  • July 30 – An 11-year legal action for the victims of Thalidomide ends.Template:NoMention
  • July 31
    • Militant protesters led by Ian Paisley disrupt the first sitting of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
    • A Delta Air Lines Flight 173 DC9-31 aircraft lands short of Boston's Logan Airport runway in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3,000 feet (914 m) short. All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed, 1 of the passengers dying several months after the accident.

August[]

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Flag of CARICOM

  • August 1Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) inaugurated.
  • August 2 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man.Template:NoMention
  • August 5Black September members open fire at the Athens airport; 3 are killed, 55 injured.
  • August 8
    • South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung is kidnapped in Tokyo by the KCIA.
    • The death of Dean Corll leads to the discovery of the Houston Mass Murders: 28 boys were killed by 3 men.
  • August 15 – The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
  • August 23 – The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurs, famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome.

September[]

  • September 3 – The British Trade Union Congress expels 20 members for registering under the Industrial Relations Act 1971.
  • September 9Jackie Stewart places fourth at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza, becoming World Drivers' Champion, in the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth.
  • September 11Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in a military coup after serious instability. President Salvador Allende allegedly commits suicide during the coup in the presidential palace, and General Augusto Pinochet heads a U.S.-backed military junta that governs Chile for the next 16 years.
  • September 11Art Garfunkel finally releases his solo debut album Angel Clare, 17 years after starting his career.
  • September 15Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden dies. His grandson, Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes king.
  • September 18 – The two German Republics, the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations.
  • September 20The Battle of the Sexes: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in a televised tennis match, 6–4, 6–4, 6–3, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. With an attendance of 30,492, this remains the largest live audience ever to see a tennis match in US history. The global audience that viewed on television in 36 countries was estimated at 90 million.
  • September 22Henry Kissinger, United States National Security Advisor, starts his term as United States Secretary of State.
  • September 23 – The Oakland Raiders defeat the Miami Dolphins 12-7, ending the Dolphins unbeaten streak at 18. It was the Miami Dolphins' first loss since January 16, 1972 in Super Bowl VI.
  • September 27Soviet space program: Soyuz 12, the first Soviet manned flight since the Soyuz 11 tragedy in 1971, is launched.
  • September 28 – The ITT Building in New York City is bombed in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the September 11, 1973 coup d'état in Chile.
  • September 30Yankee Stadium, known as "The House That Ruth Built", closes for a two year renovation at a cost of $160 million. The New York Yankees play all of their home games at Shea Stadium in 1974 and 1975.

October[]

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October 20: Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II

  • October 6
    • Yom Kippur War begins: The fourth and largest ArabIsraeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur.
    • French Formula One driver François Cevert is killed in the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth during the U.S. Grand Prix. Cevert's teammate, World Champion Jackie Stewart, announces his retirement after the event.
  • October 8LBC Radio begins broadcasting on 97.3 FM in London.
  • October 10
    • Spiro T. Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States and then, in federal court in Baltimore, Maryland, pleads no contest to charges of income tax evasion on $29,500 he received in 1967, while he was governor of Maryland. He is fined $10,000 and put on 3 years' probation.
    • The New York Mets win baseball's National League pennant, defeating the heavily favored Cincinnati Reds 3 games to 2.
  • October 14Students revolt in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • October 15 - Typhoon Ruth crossed Luzon, Philippines killing 27 people and causing $5 million in damage
  • October 17 – The Arab Oil Embargo against several countries which support Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis.
  • October 20
    • The Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President Richard Nixon orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event raises calls for Nixon's impeachment.
    • The Sydney Opera House is opened by Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work.
  • October 21 – The Oakland Athletics win baseball's World Series, defeating the New York Mets 4 games to 3.
  • October 26
    • Yom Kippur War ends.
    • The United Nations recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau.
  • October 27 – The Canon City meteorite, a 1.4 kilogram chondrite type meteorite, strikes Earth in Fremont County, Colorado.
  • October 30 – The Bosporus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time in history.
  • October 31Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape: Three Provisional Irish Republican Army members escape from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, Republic of Ireland after a hijacked helicopter lands in the exercise yard.

November[]

  • November 1Watergate scandal: Acting Attorney General Robert Bork appoints Leon Jaworski as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.Template:NoMention
  • November 3
    • Pan Am cargo flight 160, a Boeing 707-321C, crashes at Logan International Airport, Boston, killing 3 people.
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Mariner 10 Space probe, on U.S. Stamps, Space Exploration History, Issue of 1975

    • Mariner program: NASA launches Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974 it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet).
  • November 7 – The Congress of the United States overrides President Richard Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
  • November 8Millennium '73, a festival hosted by Guru Maharaj Ji at the Astrodome, is called by supporters the "most significant event in human history".
  • November 11Egypt and Israel sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord.
  • November 14 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips in Westminster Abbey (they divorce in 1992).
  • November 16
    • Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 (Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an 84-day mission.
    • U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
  • November 17
  • November 21 – U.S. President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, reveals the existence of an 18½-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
  • November 25 – Greek dictator George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
  • November 27 – The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States.
  • November 29 – 104 people are killed in a Taiyo department store fire in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan.

December[]

  • December – Chile breaks diplomatic contacts with Sweden.Template:NoMention
  • December 1Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
  • December 3Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.
  • December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day.
  • December 14 - Rhodesia executes two Blacks at Salisbury Central Prison for murder.[3]
  • December 15Gay rights: The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its DSM-II.
  • December 16O.J. Simpson of the Buffalo Bills became the first running back to rush for 2,000 yards in a pro football season.
  • December 18Islamic Development Bank created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) (effective 12 August 1974).
  • December 20 – Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the terrorist organization ETA.
  • December 23OPEC doubles the price of crude oil.Template:NoMention
  • December 28 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
  • December 30 – Terrorist Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.Template:NoMention
  • December 31 – In the United Kingdom, due to coal shortages caused by industrial action, the Three-Day Week electricity consumption reduction measure comes into force.

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  • ODECA functions suspended.
  • Economist E. F. Schumacher publishes his book Small is Beautiful.
  • The National House Building Council is formed in the United Kingdom.
  • The COSC The Swiss Official Chronometer testing Institute is founded in Switzerland by 5 Watch Cantons & Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH.
  • The title Queen of Australia is created by the Royal Style and Titles Act.
  • A large Song Dynasty trade ship of c. 1277 A.D. is dredged up from the waters near the southern coast of China with 12 compartments in its hull. It confirm the descriptions of bulkheaded hull compartments for junks in Zhu Yu's Pingzhou Table Talks of 1119.
  • Sentosa Musical Fountain opens alongside the Fountain Gardens in Sentosa, Singapore.
  • 5 teams tie for rugby championship: Wales, England, France, Ireland, and Scotland.
  • Lite Beer is introduced in the U.S. by the Miller Brewing Company.

Births[]

January[]

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Sean Paul

  • January 1
    • Danny Lloyd, American actor
    • Bryan Thao Worra, Lao writer
  • January 4Greg de Vries, Canadian ice hockey player
  • January 5 - Diamond Foxxx, American pornographic actress
  • January 6Scott Ferguson, Canadian ice hockey player
  • January 7Jonna Tervomaa, Finnish singer
  • January 9Sean Paul, Jamaican singer
  • January 10Ryan Drummond, American actor
  • January 12
    • Hande Yener, Turkish singer
    • Joseph M. Smith, American actor, writer and producer
  • January 13
    • Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian hockey player
    • Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actress
  • January 14Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian race car driver
  • January 15
    • Tomáš Galásek, Czech football player
    • Maksim Martynov, Russian engineer
  • January 16
    • Josie Davis, American actress
    • Scott Greenall, musician, recording engineer / Producer and performance artist.
  • January 17Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican football player
  • January 18Crispian Mills, British musician (The Jeevas, Kula Shaker)
  • January 19
    • Antero Manninen, Finnish cellist
    • Karen Lancaume, French actress (d. 2005)
    • Ann-Kristin Aarønes, Norwegian footballer
    • Aaron Yonda, American YouTube celebrity
    • Wang Junxia, Chinese long-distance runner
    • Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer
  • January 21Chris Kilmore, American rock DJ (Incubus)
  • January 22Abi Tucker, Australian actor and singer
  • January 29Jason Schmidt, American baseball player
  • January 30Jalen Rose, American basketball player
  • January 31Shingo Katayama, Japanese golfer

February[]

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Oscar de la Hoya

  • February 1
    • Yuri Landman, Dutch artist and musician
    • Nick Mitchell, American wrestler
  • February 2Aleksander Tammert, Estonian discus thrower
  • February 3Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist
  • February 4
    • Oscar de la Hoya, American boxer
    • James Hird, Australian rules footballer
  • February 5Deng Yaping, Chinese table tennis player
  • February 7
    • Kate Thornton, British TV presenter
    • Angel Aquino, Filipina model, actress and host
  • February 8Sonia Deol, British-Asian presenter
  • February 9Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
  • February 10Gunn-Rita Dahle, Norwegian mountain biker
  • February 11
    • Varg Vikernes, Norwegian rock musician (Burzum)
    • Craig Jones, American rock sampler (Slipknot)
  • February 12Tara Strong, Canadian-born voice actress
  • February 14Steve McNair, American football player (d. 2009)
  • February 15Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer
  • February 16Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
  • February 18Claude Makélélé, French footballer
  • February 20Kimberley Davies, Australian actress
  • February 22
    • Shota Arveladze, Georgian football player
    • Gustavo Assis-Brasil, Brazilian guitarist
    • Scott Phillips, American rock drummer (Creed, Alter Bridge)
  • February 24
    • Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player
    • Yordan Yovchev, Bulgarian gymnast
  • February 26
    • Anders Björler & Jonas Björler, heavy metal guitarists
    • Marshall Faulk, American football player
    • Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer
    • Jenny Thompson, American swimmer
  • February 27 - Peter Andre, English singer and television personality
  • February 28
    • Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player
    • Masato Tanaka, Japanese professional wrestler

March[]

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Jim Parsons

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Adam Goldstein

  • March 1
    • Jack Davenport, English actor
    • Chris Webber, American basketball player
    • Anton Gunn, American politician
  • March 2Asi Taulava, Filipino-Tongan basketball player
  • March 3Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
  • March 4Jennifer Cole, American actress, model and game show hostess
  • March 5Ryan Franklin, American baseball pitcher
  • March 6 - Rumi Ochiai, Japanese voice actress
  • March 7Rick Emerson, American talk show host and author
  • March 9Aaron Boone, American baseball player
  • March 10
    • Dan Swanö, Swedish musician
    • Eva Herzigova, Czech model and actress
    • John LeCompt, American musician
  • March 13
    • Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer
    • David Draiman song writer and lead singer for the band Disturbed
  • March 15Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor & model
  • March 17Caroline Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
  • March 18 - Luci Christian, American voice actress
  • March 19
    • Magnus Hedman, Swedish footballer
    • Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Australian actor
  • March 20Arjun Atwal, Indian golfer
  • March 23Jason Kidd, American basketball player
  • March 24
    • Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
    • Jim Parsons, American actor
  • March 25 - Anders Fridén, Swedish musician
  • March 26
    • T. R. Knight, American actor
    • Larry Page, American entrepreneur
  • March 28Matt Nathanson, American singer-songwriter
  • March 29Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
  • March 30Adam Goldstein, American DJ (d. 2009)

April[]

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Adrien Brody

  • April 1
    • Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricket captain
    • Kris Marshall, British actor
    • Rachel Maddow, News anchor
  • April 2Roselyn Sanchez, Puerto Rican actress
  • April 3
    • Jamie Bamber, English actor
    • Matthew Ferguson, Canadian actor
  • April 4
    • David Blaine, American magician
    • Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer
  • April 5
  • April 6Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and singer
  • April 8 - Emma Caulfield, American actress
  • April 10Roberto Carlos, Brazilian football player
  • April 11Jennifer Esposito, American actress
  • April 13Sergei Shnurov, Russian singer
  • April 14Adrien Brody, Academy Award-winning American actor
  • April 15Emanuel Rego, Brazilian beach volleyball player
  • April 16Akon, Senegalese American rapper, R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer
  • April 18Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian long-distance runner
  • April 19George Gregan, Australian rugby union footballer
  • April 22Christopher Sabat, American voice actor
  • April 24
    • Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
    • Lee Westwood, English golfer
  • April 25Fredrik Larzon, Swedish rock musician (Millencolin)
  • April 27Sharlee D'Angelo, Swedish guitarist
  • April 28
  • April 30
    • Jeff Timmons, American singer
    • Akon, Senegalese-American hip hop and R&B singer

May[]

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Tori Spelling

  • May 1
    • Oliver Neuville, German footballer
    • Paul Burke, Irish rugby player
  • May 2Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German director
  • May 3
    • Brad Martin, American musician
    • Michael Reiziger, Dutch footballer
  • May 4Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer
  • May 7Paolo Savoldelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
  • May 8
    • Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist
    • Marcus Brigstocke, British comedian
  • May 9Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan long-distance runner
  • May 10
    • Gareth Ainsworth, English footballer
    • Rüştü Reçber, Turkish football goalkeeper
  • May 12Forbes March, American actor
  • May 14
    • Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints)
    • Shanice, American singer
  • May 16
    • Jason Acuna, American skateboarder and actor
    • Tori Spelling, American actress
  • May 17
    • Joshua Homme, American musician
    • Sasha Alexander, American actress
  • May 18Kazuhiro Hayashi, Japanese professional wrestler
  • May 19Dario Franchitti, Scottish race car driver
  • May 21Noel Fielding, British comedian
  • May 23Jacopo Gianninoto, Italian musician
  • May 24Dermot O'Leary, British TV presenter
  • May 25
    • Demetri Martin, American comedian
    • Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist
  • May 30Leigh Francis, British comedian
  • May 31Dominique van Roost, Belgian tennis player

June[]

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Heidi Klum

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Neil Patrick Harris

  • June 1
    • Fred Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer
    • Heidi Klum, German model
    • Derek Lowe, American baseball player
  • June 6Kat Swift, American presidential candidate
  • June 8Lexa Doig, Canadian actress
  • June 9Tedy Bruschi, American football player
  • June 10Faith Evans, American singer
  • June 12Darryl White, Australian footballer
  • June 13
    • Sam Adams, American football player
    • Cheryl "Coko" Clemons, American singer (SWV)
  • June 14Ceca Raznatovic, Serbian Folk singer
  • June 15
  • June 19Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
  • June 20Chino Moreno, American musician
  • June 21Juliette Lewis, American actress
  • June 22Carson Daly, American talk show host
  • June 24Alexander Beyer, German actor
  • June 26Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
  • June 27Olve Eikemo, Norwegian musician
  • June 28Adrián Annus, Hungarian athlete
  • June 30Chan Ho Park, Korean Major League Baseball player

July[]

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Peter Forsberg

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Kate Beckinsale

  • July 3Emma Cunniffe, British actress
  • July 4Gackt, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
  • July 7Natsuki Takaya, Japanese manga artist
  • July 9Kelly Holcomb, American football player
  • July 11Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
  • July 12Christian Vieri, Italian soccer player
  • July 14Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
  • July 15
  • July 16
    • Stefano Garzelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist
    • Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
  • July 17
    • Eric Moulds, American football player
    • Liam Kyle Sullivan, American comedian
  • July 19
    • Garrett Meredith, American Krispy Kreme Doughnut Champion
  • July 20
    • Peter Forsberg, Swedish hockey player
    • HRH Crown Prince Haakon of Norway
  • July 22
    • Daniel Jones, Australian musician and record producer
    • Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian musician
  • July 23
    • Nomar Garciaparra, American baseball player
    • Monica Lewinsky, American former White House intern
    • Omar Epps, American Actor
  • July 25
    • Kevin Phillips, English footballer
    • Tony Vincent, American actor and singer
  • July 26Kate Beckinsale, English actress
  • July 27Gorden Tallis, Australian rugby league player
  • July 28Steve Staios, Canadian ice hockey player
  • July 29Wanya Morris, American singer (Boyz II Men)
  • July 30
    • Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player
    • Sonu Nigam, Indian singer

August[]

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Vera Farmiga

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Kristen Wiig

  • August 2
    • Miguel Mendonca, Anglo-Azorean writer
    • Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer
  • August 6
    • Asia Carrera, American actress
    • Vera Farmiga, American actress
  • August 9Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer
  • August 11Carolyn Murphy, American model
  • August 12Richard Reid, English terrorist
  • August 14
    • Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer
    • Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer
    • Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian soccer player (footballer)
  • August 15Adnan Sami, music composer, pianist, singer
  • August 16Damian Jackson, baseball player
  • August 18 - Victoria Coren, British writer, presenter and professional poker player
  • August 19
    • HRH Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway
    • Marco Materazzi, Italian football player
  • August 20Todd Helton, American baseball player
  • August 21
    • Steve McKenna, hockey player
    • Nikolai Valuev, Russian heavyweight boxing champion
    • Sergey Brin, Soviet-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of Google
  • August 22
  • August 24
    • Dave Brown, English comedian, photographer, graphic designer, choreographer and naan bread
    • Dave Chappelle, American actor, comedian
    • Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer
    • Carmine Giovinazzo, American actor
  • August 28Kirby Morrow, Canadian voice actor
  • August 30Lisa Ling, American journalist

September[]

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Paul Walker

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Andrew Lincoln

  • September 1Ram Kapoor, Indian actor
  • September 4Jason David Frank, American actor and martial artist
  • September 5Rose McGowan, American actress
  • September 6
    • Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer
    • Greg Rusedski, Anglo-Canadian tennis player
  • September 7Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
  • September 9Kazuhisa Ishii, Japanese baseball player
  • September 12
    • Darren Campbell, British athlete
    • Paul Walker, American actor
  • September 13Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer
  • September 14
    • Andrew Lincoln, British actor
    • Nas, American rapper
  • September 15
    • Julie Cox, English actress
    • Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, né Olof Daniel Westling, Swedish prince, married to Crown Princess Victoria
  • September 17Ada Choi, Hong Kong actress
  • September 18
    • Paul Brousseau, Canadian ice hockey player
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      Nas

    • James Marsden, American actor
    • Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur
    • Ami Onuki, Japanese singer
  • September 19José Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist
  • September 21Oswaldo Sanchez, Mexican footballer
  • September 22
    • Craig McRae, Australian footballer
    • Yoo Chae-yeong, South Korean singer and actress
  • September 24Eddie George, American football player
  • September 25Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, American actress
  • September 29
    • Joe Hulbig, American ice hockey player
    • Alfie Boe, English tenor

October[]

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Mario López

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Seth MacFarlane

  • October 1Christian Borle, American singer and actor
  • October 2
    • Melissa Harris-Perry, American political commentator
    • Lene Nystrøm, Norwegian singer (Aqua)
  • October 3
  • October 4Chris Parks, American professional wrestler
  • October 5Annabelle Chvostek, Canadian singer/songwriter/singer
  • October 6Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
  • October 9
    • Steven Burns, Blues Clues Actor
    • Fabio Lione, Italian singer (Rhapsody of Fire, Vision Divine)
  • October 10Mario López, American actor
  • October 11Takeshi Kaneshiro, Taiwanese/Japanese actor
  • October 13
  • October 14Lasha Zhvania, Georgian Politician
  • October 15
    • Susy Pryde, New Zealand cyclist
    • Dax Riggs, American musician
  • October 19Joaquin Gage, Canadian ice hockey player
  • October 21Beverly Turner, British TV and radio presenter
  • October 22Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
  • October 24Levi Leipheimer, American professional cyclist
  • October 25
    • Lamont Bentley, American actor (d. 2005)
    • Maxi Mounds, American female stripper, largest breasts in the world
  • October 26
    • Seth MacFarlane, American animator and voice actor
    • Taka Michinoku, Japanese professional wrestler
  • October 28MVP, WWE Raw wrestler
  • October 29Robert Pirès, French football player
  • October 30
    • Silvia Corzo, Colombian newsreader
    • Edge, retired Canadian professional wrestler, 4-time WWE Champion

November[]

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Aishwarya Rai

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Ryan Giggs

  • November 1
    • Assia, Algerian singer
    • Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress
    • Li Xiaoshuang, Chinese gymnast
  • November 3Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
  • November 5
    • Johnny Damon, baseball player
    • Peter Emmerich, American illustrator
  • November 9
  • November 10
    • Jacqui Abbott, English singer (The Beautiful South)
    • Róbert Gulya, Hungarian composer
  • November 14
    • Lawyer Milloy, American football player
    • Dana Snyder, American voice actor
  • November 20Sav Rocca, American football player and former Australian rules footballer
  • November 22Cassie Campbell, Canadian ice hockey forward and CBC commentator
  • November 26Peter Facinelli, American actor
  • November 28
    • Jade Puget, American guitarist (AFI)
    • Rob Conway, American professional wrestler
  • November 29
    • Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer
    • Raphael Smith, South African screenwriter and songwriter
  • November 30
    • Im Chang-jung, South Korean actor
    • Jason Reso, Canadian professional wrestler

December[]

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Tyra Banks

  • December 2
    • Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player
    • Jan Ullrich, German professional road bicycle racer
  • December 3Holly Marie Combs, American actress
  • December 4
    • Tyra Banks, American supermodel and talk show host
    • Steven Menzies, Australian rugby league player
  • December 5Mikelangelo Loconte, Italian singer
  • December 7
    • Terrell Owens, American football player
    • Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
  • December 8Corey Taylor, American rock vocalist (Slipknot, Stone Sour)
  • December 9Bárbara Padilla American operatic soprano
  • December 10 - Arden Myrin, American comedian
  • December 14
    • Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress (d. 2001)
    • Tomasz Radzinski, Canadian footballer
  • December 15Surya Bonaly, French figure skater
  • December 16Scott Storch, American hip-hop producer
  • December 17Paula Radcliffe, British athlete
  • December 18Darryl Brown, Trinidad and West Indian cricketer
  • December 20Antti Kasvio, Finnish swimmer
  • December 24
  • December 25
    • Chris Harris, American professional wrestler
    • Shalom Harlow, Canadian model and actress
  • December 27
    • Wilson Cruz, American actor
    • Kristoffer Zegers, Dutch composer
  • December 28
    • Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater
    • Seth Meyers, American actor and comedian
  • December 29
    • Theo Epstein, American baseball general manager
    • Pimp C, American rap artist
  • December 30
    • Jason Behr, American actor
    • Ato Boldon, West Indian athlete
  • December 31Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Russian dancer

Date unknown[]

  • Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Brazilian artist

Deaths[]

January[]

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Lyndon B. Johnson

  • January 1
    • Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent (b. 1951)
    • Sir Arthur Elton, pioneer of the British documentary film industry (b. 1906)
  • January 7Mark Essex, American spree killer (b. 1949)
  • January 8Dudley Foster, British actor (b. 1924)
  • January 12 - Turk Edwards, American football player (Washington Redskins) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1907)
  • January 17 - Herbert D. Riley, United States Navy admiral (b. 1904)
  • January 19Max Adrian, Northern Irish actor (b. 1903)
  • January 22Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
  • January 23Kid Ory, American musician (b. 1886)
  • January 24J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1897)
  • January 26Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893)
  • January 28John Banner, Austrian-born actor (b. 1910)
  • January 29Ludwig Stössel, Austrian actor (b. 1883)
  • January 31Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)

February[]

  • February 11Hans D Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)
  • February 15
    • Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
    • Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
  • February 16Francisco Caamaño, Dominican politician (b. 1932)
  • February 19Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
  • February 22
    • Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (b. 1899)
    • Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
  • February 23Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
  • February 28Cecil Kellaway, South African actor (b. 1893)

March[]

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Ken Maynard

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Noël Coward

  • March 3Vera Panova, Soviet-Russian writer (b. 1905)
  • March 6Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
  • March 8Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American rock musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
  • March 10Robert Siodmak, German-American director (b. 1900)
  • March 12 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1898)
  • March 13Melville Cooper, British actor (b. 1896)
  • March 14
    • Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
    • Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
  • March 18
    • Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (b. 1880)
    • Lauritz Melchior, Danish opera singer (b. 1890)
  • March 23Ken Maynard, American actor (b. 1895)
  • March 25Edward Steichen, American photographer (b. 1879)
  • March 26
    • Safford Cape, American composer and musicologist (b. 1906)
    • Noël Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
    • George Sisler, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1893)

April[]

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Pablo Picasso

  • April 8Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881)
  • April 12
    • Arthur Freed, American film producer (b. 1894)
    • Henry Darger, reclusive American outsider artist (b. 1892)
  • April 16
    • Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929)
    • Nino Bravo, singer (b. 1944)
  • April 19Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881)
  • April 20Robert Armstrong, American actor (b. 1890)
  • April 21
    • Merian C. Cooper, American aviator, director, and producer (b. 1893)
    • Arthur Fadden, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894)
  • April 26Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902)
  • April 28Jacques Maritain, Catholic philosopher (b. 1882)
  • April 30Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator (b. 1911)

May[]

  • May 1Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914)
  • May 2Alan Carney, American actor and comedian (b. 1909)
  • May 10Jack E. Leonard, American comedian (b. 1910)
  • May 11Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
  • May 12Frances Marion, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
  • May 14Jean Gebser, German author, linguist, and poet (b. 1905)
  • May 18
    • Dieudonné Costes, French aviator (b. 1892)
    • Jeannette Rankin, first U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1880)
  • May 20Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945)
  • May 21Vaughn Monroe, American singer (b. 1911)
  • May 26Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)

June[]

  • June 1Mary Kornman, American actress (b. 1915)
  • June 3Dory Funk, American professional wrestler (b. 1919)
  • June 4Arna Bontemps, African-American Harlem Renaissance writer (b. 1902)
  • June 5Max Terhune, American actor (b. 1891)
  • June 9Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (b. 1887)
  • June 10William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913)
  • June 18Roger Delgado, English actor (b. 1918)
  • June 23Fay Holden, American actress (b. 1893)
  • June 24Mary Carr, American actress (b. 1874)
  • June 26Ernest Truex, American actor (b. 1889)
  • June 30
    • Nancy Mitford, English novelist (b. 1904)
    • Blessed Vasyl Velychkovsky C.Ss.R, Ukrainian Catholic bishop and martyr (b. 1903)

July[]

  • July 1Yosef Alon, Israeli pilot, co-founder of the Israeli Air Force, assassinated in the United States (b. 1929)
  • July 2
    • Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)
    • Chick Hafey, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
    • George Macready, American actor (b. 1899)
    • Swede Savage, American race car driver (b. 1946)
  • July 5Golwalkar, Second sarsanghchalak of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (b. 1906)
  • July 6
    • Otto Klemperer, German-born conductor (b. 1885)
    • Joe E. Brown, American actor (b. 1892)
  • July 7
    • Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895)
    • Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922)
  • July 8
    • Arthur Calwell, Australian labor politician (b. 1896)
    • Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (b. 1884)
    • Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877)
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Eddie Rickenbacker

  • July 11
    • Robert Ryan, American actor (b. 1909)
    • Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer (b. 1900)
  • July 12Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (b. 1906)
  • July 13Willy Fritsch, German actor (b. 1901)
  • July 18Jack Hawkins, British actor (b. 1910)
  • July 20
    • Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938)
    • Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and actor (b. 1940)
  • July 23Eddie Rickenbacker, American World War I flying ace and race car driver (b. 1890)
  • July 29
    • Henri Charrière, French writer (b. 1906)
    • Roger Williamson, British race car driver (b. 1948)

August[]

  • August 1
    • Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882)
    • Walter Ulbricht, East German leader (b. 1893)
  • August 2Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917)
  • August 4Eddie Condon, American jazz musician (b. 1905)
  • August 6
    • James Beck, British actor (b. 1929)
    • Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator (b. 1901)
  • August 9Charles Daniels, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1885)
  • August 10Douglas Kennedy, American actor (b. 1915)
  • August 11Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
  • August 12
    • Dayanand Bandodkar, Chief Minister of Goa (b. 1911)
    • Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881)
  • August 13 - Willy Rey, American model (b. 1949)
  • August 16
    • Veda Ann Borg, American actress (b. 1915)
    • Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888)
  • August 17
    • Conrad Aiken, American writer (b. 1889)
    • Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928)
    • Paul Williams, American singer (b. 1939)
  • August 27 - Tol Avery, American actor (b. 1915)
  • August 30Michael Dunn, American actor (b. 1934)
  • August 31John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)

September[]

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J. R. R. Tolkien

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Salvador Allende

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Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (as Crown Prince)

  • September 2
    • Diana Sands, American actress (b. 1934)
    • J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892)
  • September 11Salvador Allende, President of Chile (b. 1908)
  • September 13
    • Betty Field, American actress (b. 1913)
    • Sajjad Zaheer, Urdu writer and revolutionary (b. 1905)
  • September 15
    • King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882)
    • Victor Jara, Chilean politician and singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
  • September 18Ken Harada, first diplomat from Japan to the Holy See (age 80)
  • September 19Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946)
  • September 20
    • Jim Croce, American songwriter (b. 1943)
    • Glenn Strange, American actor (b. 1899)
  • September 23Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
  • September 24Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (b. 1908)
  • September 26
    • Ralph Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1928)
    • Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)
  • September 29W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)
  • September 28Norma Crane, American actress (b. 1928)
  • September 30Peter Pitseolak, Inuit photographer and author (b. 1902)

October[]

  • October 2
    • Paul Hartman, American dancer and actor (b. 1904)
    • Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
  • October 6
    • Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)
    • François Cevert, French race car driver (b. 1944)
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Pablo Casals

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Abebe Bikila

  • October 8Gabriel Marcel, French Catholic existential thinker (b. 1889)
  • October 10Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881)
  • October 14
    • Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b.1897)
    • Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier, who fought in Yom Kippur (b.1929)
  • October 16Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
  • October 17Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian writer (b. 1926)
  • October 18
    • Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913)
    • Crane Wilbur, American actor (b. 1886)
  • October 19Margaret Caroline Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886)
  • October 22Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist and conductor (b. 1876)
  • October 25Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian long-distance runner (b. 1932)
  • October 27Allan "Rocky" Lane, American actor (b. 1909)
  • October 28Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)

November[]

  • November 2 - Greasy Neale, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
  • November 3Marc Allégret, French film director (b. 1900)
  • November 10David "Stringbean" Akeman, American banjo player (b. 1915)
  • November 11Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
  • November 13Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1905)
  • November 20Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer, and song parodist (b. 1924)
  • November 23
    • Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese-American actor (b. 1886)
    • Constance Talmadge, American actress (b. 1898)
  • November 25Laurence Harvey, English actor (b. 1928)
  • November 27Frank Christian, American musician (b. 1887)
  • November 28John Rostill, English bassist, musician and composer (The Shadows) (b. 1942)

December[]

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David Ben-Gurion

  • December 1David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
  • December 2Richard G. Colbert, American admiral (.b 1915)
  • December 3Emile Christian, American musician (b. 1895)
  • December 4Michael O'Shea, American actor (b. 1906)
  • December 5Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, radar pioneer (b. 1892)
  • December 20
    • Bobby Darin, American singer, songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, impressionist and TV presenter (b. 1936)
    • Luis Carrero Blanco, first minister of Spain (assassinated) (b. 1907)
  • December 24 - Fritz Gause, German historian (b. 1893)
  • December 25
    • Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880)
    • İsmet İnönü, Turkish general, prime minister, and president (b. 1884)
    • Adrian Scott, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1912)
  • December 26
    • William Haines, American actor (b. 1900)
    • Harold B. Lee, American president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)

Nobel prizes[]

Nobel medal
  • PhysicsLeo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson
  • ChemistryErnst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson
  • MedicineKarl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen
  • LiteraturePatrick White
  • PeaceHenry Kissinger, Le Duc Tho
  • EconomicsWassily Leontief

References[]

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