1976

Events

January

January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.
January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.
January 18 – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War.
January 27
* The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state.
* Western Sahara War: The First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.

February

February 4
* The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria.
* The 7.5 Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX, leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured.
February 9 – The Australian Defence Force is formed by unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.
February 13 – General Murtala Mohammed of Nigeria is assassinated in a military coup.
February 24 – Cuba's constitution of 1976 is enacted.
February 26 – The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara.
February 27 – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara's national liberation movement, declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic".

March

March – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
March 1
* U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
* Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
March 4
* The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in Direct rule over Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom in London.
* The Maguire Seven are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions were overturned in 1991.
March 9 – A cable car disaster occurs when a supporting cable breaks in Cavalese, Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.
March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky.
March 16 – Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974.
March 24
* Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Perón.
* A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of the Congo.
March 26
* The Body Shop, the retail chain for skin care products and cosmetics founded by Anita Roddick, opens its first branch in Brighton, England.
March 27
* The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah.
* The first of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina.
March 31 – The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that patient in a persistent vegetative state in the Karen Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.

April

April 1
* Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California.
* Conrail is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.
* The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
April 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
April 5
* James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
* Segovia prison break: in Spain's largest prison break since the Spanish Civil War, 29 political prisoners escape from Segovia prison.
April 12
* The 1976 West Bank local elections were held.
April 13
* The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosion in Lapua, Finland kills 40.
* The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
April 16 – As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
April 19 – A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least by the tornado and survived uninjured.
April 21 – The Great Bookie Robbery in Melbourne, Australia: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
April 25 – Portugal's new constitution is enacted.
April 29 – Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese. The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.

May

May 1 – Neville Wran becomes Premier of New South Wales.
May 4
* The first LAGEOS is launched.
* A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
May 6 – An earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
May 11
*U.S. President Gerald Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act.
* An accident involving a tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia takes place in Houston, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 7 people.
May 13 – The Atari video arcade game Breakout is released.
May 16 – The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers in four games to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey.
May 21 – The Yuba City bus disaster, the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
May 24
* Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
* The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
May 25 – U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.
May 30 – Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or.
May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it has previously supported.

June

June 1 – The United Kingdom and Iceland end the Third Cod War, with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
June 2
* A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
* The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.
June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association Finals at the Boston Garden. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the US, killing 11 people.
June 6 – The Double Six Crash, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, kills everyone on board, including Sabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
June 12 – Alberto Demicheli, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay after Juan María Bordaberry is deposed by the military.
June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan.
June 16 – The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins.
June 20
* Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
* General elections are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party in a general election.
* Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
June 25 – Strikes start in Poland after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.
June 26 – The CN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
June 27
* G-6 is renamed "Group of 7" with the inclusion of Canada.
* Palestinian militants hijack an Air France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.
June 29
* Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom.
* The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.

July

July 2 – North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional Government of South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
July 3
* Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning the Furman v. Georgia case of 1972.
* The great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
July 4
* The U.S. celebrates its bicentennial, in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
* Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
July 7
* German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin.
* David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe.
July 10
* Four mercenaries, three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in Angola, following the Luanda Trial.
* Seveso disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
July 12 – In the United States:
* California State University, Fullerton massacre: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a mass shooting on campus at California State University, Fullerton.
* Price Club, as predecessor of Costco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in California.
July 15
* Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
* Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.
July 16–20 – Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice, France.
July 17
* The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
* East Timor is declared the 27th province of Indonesia.
July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
July 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.
July 20
* Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
* American criminal Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
July 21 – A Republican Army">Republican Party (United States)">Republican Army bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
July 27
* The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.
* Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreak of Legionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
July 28 – The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
July 30
* Bruce Jenner wins the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.
* In Santiago, Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions in Association football.
July 31
* NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
* The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.

August

August 1
* The 1976 Summer Olympics ends in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
* Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic, replacing Elizabeth II as its head of state with President Ellis Clarke.
* Defending F1 World Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix after a huge accident that nearly cost him his life.
August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people, and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
August 5 – The clock of "Big Ben" at the Palace of Westminster in London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
August 6 – Former United Kingdom Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
August 7 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
August 8 – As part of the American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger, a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
August 11 – A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas on a Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.
August 14
* Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.
* The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
August 17 – The 8.0 Moro Gulf earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.
August 18 – At Panmunjom, North Korea, two United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view.
August 19 – U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
August 24 – In Uruguay, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
August 25
* Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre.
* Landslide disaster in Sau Mau Ping, Hong Kong.
August 26
* The first known outbreak of Ebola virus occurs in Yambuku, Zaire.
* Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.
August 30 – James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

September

September 1
* Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.
* Aparicio Méndez, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay in the framework of a dictatorship.
* The state of emergency in the Republic of Ireland legally still in force since 1939 is lifted.
September 3
* Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface.
* A Lockheed C-130 Hercules of the Venezuelan Air Force crashed near Lajes Field, Azores Islands, Portugal, killing all 68 occupants on board.
September 6
* Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.
* Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in Las Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first time in over 20 years.
September 9 – Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong dies in Beijing after a series of heart attacks.
September 10 – Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing all 176 aboard.
September 15 – Darryl Sittler scores the winning goal in the 1976 Canada Cup for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey.
September 16
* Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
* Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the Argentine dictatorship takes place.
September 17 – The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a hangar in Palmdale, California, United States.
September 21
* The Seychelles join the United Nations.
* Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
September 24 – Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974.

October

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October 4: The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.

October 4 – The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
October 6
* Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.
* Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
* In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald Ford incorrectly declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe".
* The Cultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of Four.
October 8 – Thorbjörn Fälldin replaces Olof Palme as Prime Minister of Sweden.
October 10 – Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-min is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from a heart attack.
October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974, the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country.
October 19
* The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.
* The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
* The Chimpanzee is placed on the list of endangered species.
October 20 – The Mississippi River ferry MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, Louisiana to Luling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.
October 22 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5th President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
October 26 – Transkei gains "independence" from South Africa.

November

November 2 – 1976 United States presidential election: Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
November 6 - Uttawar forced sterilisations: Mass vasectomy of nearly 800 men of Uttawar village, Palwal district, Haryana during India's Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi.
November 12 – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.
November 15 – The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oahu in Hawaii.
November 19 – Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
November 24 – 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake: Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3 earthquake at Van and Muradiye in eastern Turkey.
November 26
* Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
* The Warsaw Treaty Organization joint secretariat is established.

December

December 1
* Angola joins the United Nations.
* José López Portillo takes office as President of Mexico.
* Sir Douglas Nicholls is appointed the 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.
December 3 – Patrick Hillery is sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland.
December 5 – The Japanese general election takes place, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses its majority in the 511-member House of Representatives, but remains the largest party with 249 seats.
December 6 – The Viet Cong is disbanded, and its former members become a part of the Vietnam People's Army.
December 8 – The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Río.
December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
December 15
* Samoa joins the United Nations.
* Denis Healey announces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from the International Monetary Fund.
December 23 – A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire.

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Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria.
The first laser printer is introduced by IBM.
The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada.

Births

January

January 2 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress
January 3 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer
January 4 – August Diehl, German actor
January 6 – Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
January 13
* Michael Peña, American actor
* Mario Yepes, Colombian football player
January 16 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer
January 21 – Emma Bunton, English musician
January 23
* Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteer
* Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
January 27 – Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer and television personality
January 28 – Rick Ross, American rapper

February

February 1
* Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic politician, 28th Prime Minister of Iceland
* Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper
February 2
* Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
* James Hickman, British swimmer
February 3
* Isla Fisher, Australian actress
* Tim Heidecker, American comedian
* Tijana, Macedonian singer
February 4 – Cam'ron, African-American rapper
February 5
* Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
* Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
* Brian Moorman, American football player
February 6 – Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
February 9 – Charlie Day, American actor
February 10 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor
February 12 – Silvia Saint, Czech actress
February 14 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress
February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American singer-songwriter and author
February 16
* Kyo, Japanese rock musician
* Adam Simpson, Australian rules footballer
* Janet Varney, American actress and comedian
February 17 – Svein Berge, Norwegian musician
February 18 – Chanda Rubin, American tennis player
February 20
* Johanna Beisteiner, Austrian guitarist
* Chris Cillizza, American journalist
February 21 – Michael McIntyre, British stand-up comedian
February 23
* Aaron Aziz, Singaporean-born Malaysian actor
* Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
February 24 – Zach Johnson, American golfer
February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model and musician
February 27 – Sergei Semak, Russian football player and coach
February 27 – Michael Barrett, American Fireman
February 28
* Ali Larter, American actress and model
* Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
February 29
* Ja Rule, American rapper
* Mark Pollock, blind Irish adventurer and author

March

March 3
*Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
*Isabel Granada, Filipino actress and singer
March 5 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
March 6 – Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
March 8
* Sergej Ćetković, Montenegrin singer
* Gaz Coombes, English musician and singer-songwriter
* Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
March 9 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinean model
March 10 – Miroslav Kostadinov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter
March 12 – Zhao Wei, Chinese singer and actress
March 13 – Danny Masterson, American actor
March 14 – Merlin Santana, American actor
March 16
* Nick Spano, American actor
* Blu Cantrell, American R&B singer
* Pál Dárdai, Hungarian football player and manager
* Kim Johnsson, Swedish hockey player
* Zhu Chen, Chinese chess grandmaster
March 17
* Stephen Gately, Irish singer
* Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
March 18
* Emma Willis, English television presenter and former model
* FanFan, American-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter
* Eric Sorensen, American meteorologist and politician
March 19
* Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
* Andre Miller, American basketball player
* Alessandro Nesta, Italian football player
March 20 – Chester Bennington, American singer
March 21 – Rachael MacFarlane, American actress and singer, sister of Seth MacFarlane
March 22
* Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
* Shawty Lo, American rapper
* Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress
* Reese Witherspoon, American actress
March 23
* Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist
* Keri Russell, American actress
* Sa Beining, Chinese host
March 24
* Aaron Brooks, American football player
* Peyton Manning, American football player
March 26 – Amy Smart, American actress
March 27
*Brandon Johnson, American politician, mayor-elect of Chicago
*Liu Limin, Chinese swimmer
March 29 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
March 30
* Jessica Cauffiel, American actress and singer
* Ty Conklin, American ice-hockey player
* Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress

April

April 1
* Troy Baker, American actor and musician
* David Oyelowo, English-American actor
April 2
* Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
* Daisuke Namikawa, Japanese voice actor
* Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
April 3 – Will Mellor, English actor
April 4
* Emerson, Brazilian footballer
* James Roday Rodriguez, American actor, director and screenwriter
* Paula Yacoubian, Lebanese politician and journalist
April 5
* Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
* Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
* Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
* Sterling K. Brown, African-American actor
April 6 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress
April 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer
April 12 – Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
April 13
* Glenn Howerton, American actor
* Jonathan Brandis, American actor, director and screenwriter
April 14 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
April 15
* Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey player
* Steve Williams, British rower
April 16
* David Lyons, Australian actor
* Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and vocalist
* Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
April 18
* Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
* Sean Maguire, British actor and singer
April 19
*Wyatt Cenac, American actor, writer and director
*Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
April 20
* Joey Lawrence, American actor
* Shay Given, Irish football goalkeeper
April 21 – Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
April 22 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
April 23 – Darren Huckerby, English footballer
April 25
* Tim Duncan, American basketball player
* Denis Kartsev, Russian professional ice hockey player
* Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
* Kim Jong-kook, South Korean singer, television personality
April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
April 28 – Joseph N'Do, Cameroonian international footballer
April 29 – Kanaka Herath, Sri Lankan politician

May

May 1
* Darius McCrary, American actor
* Michele Frangilli, Italian archer
May 3
* Beto, Portuguese footballer
* Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
May 4 – Anza, Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of Sailor Moon in some Sailor Moon musical
May 5 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster
May 8 – Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American folk-pop singer
May 10
* Rhona Bennett, American actress, singer and model
* Rogério Oliveira da Costa, Brazilian-born football striker
May 14 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer
May 15
* Mark Kennedy, Irish footballer
* Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
* Anže Logar, Slovenian politician, minister of foreign affairs
May 17 – Mayte Martínez, Spanish athlete
May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
May 23 – Ricardinho, Brazilian football player and coach
May 25
* Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper
* Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
* Erinn Hayes, American actress
* Nadine Heredia, Peruvian politician, First Lady of Peru
May 26 – Paul Collingwood, English cricketer
May 28
* Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
* Liam O'Brien, American actor
May 31
* Colin Farrell, Irish actor
* Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norwegian ski jumper

June

June 2
* Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
* Tim Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer
* Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
June 3 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
June 4
* Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and political activist
* Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player
June 5
* Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist
* Marc Worden, Canadian actor and voice actor
June 6
* Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian actress and singer
* Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
June 7
* Necro, American rapper
* Nora Salinas, Mexican actress and model
* Mirsad Türkcan, Serbian born-Turkish basketball player
June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
June 10
* Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
* Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress
June 12 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish football goalkeeper
June 13
* Kym Marsh, British singer and actress
* Jason "J" Brown, British singer
June 14 – Alan Carr, English comedian
June 16 – Tom Lenk, American actor
June 17
* Estelle Folest, French politician
* Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
June 18
* Petri Haapimaa, Finnish footballer and coach
* Brady Haran, Australian-British founder and cast of Numberphile channel
* Blake Shelton, American singer
June 19 – Ryan Hurst, American actor
June 20 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
June 21 – Antonio Cochran, American football player
June 22 – Mike O'Brien, American actor, writer and comedian
June 23
* Brandon Stokley, American football player
* Paola Suárez, Argentine tennis player
* Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
* Patrick Vieira, French footballer
* Gavin Williamson, British politician, Secretary of State for Education
June 25 – Maurren Maggi, Brazilian athlete and politician
June 26
* Cédric Jimenez, French film producer, film director and screenwriter
* Wilson Lima, Brazilian politician and journalist
* Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel
June 27 – Joseph Sikora, American actor
June 28
* Nawaf Al-Temyat, Saudi Arabian football player
* David Palmer, Australian squash player
* Hesha Withanage, Sri Lankan politician
June 29
* Annette Beutler, Swiss professional racing cyclist
* Katsutoshi Domori, Japanese football player
* Angelo Lekkas, Australian rules footballer
June 30
* Tamara Sedmak, Swiss television presenter, model and actress
* Jason Bostic, American football defensive back
* Christine Schürrer, German serial killer
* Gilbert Yvel, Dutch mixed martial artist

July

July 1
* Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
* Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch footballer
July 2
* Kon Arimura, Malaysian-Japanese radio personality, film critic and film commentator
* Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian footballer
* Tommy Pistol, American actor and director
July 3
* Shane Lynch, Irish singer
* Wanderlei Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist
* Bobby Skinstad, Zimbabwean rugby union player
* Andrea Barber, American actress
* Henry Olonga, Zambian-Zimbabwean cricketer
July 4
* Jo Chen, American-Taiwanese comic book artist and writer
* Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer
July 5
* Jamie Elman, Canadian-American actor
* Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer
* Rufus Johnson, American rapper also known as Bizarre
July 7
* Lina Teoh, Malaysian actress, television host and model
* Bérénice Bejo, Argentine actress
* Hamish Linklater, American actor and playwright
July 8
* Ellen MacArthur, English yachtswoman
* Grettell Valdez, Mexican television and film actress and fashion model
July 9
* Fred Savage, American actor and director
* Arturo Carmona, Mexican actor
* Elliot Cowan, English actor
July 10
* Edmílson, Brazilian footballer
* Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
* Adrian Grenier, American actor, musician and director
* Elissa Slotkin, American politician
July 11 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball player
July 12
* Anna Friel, English actress
* Tracie Spencer, American R&B singer
* Kyrsten Sinema, American politician
July 14 – Geraint Jones, Papua New Guinea cricketer
July 15
* Diane Kruger, German actress
* Gabriel Iglesias, American actor, voice actor and comedian
July 16
* Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
* Bobby Lashley, American professional wrestler
July 17
* Luke Bryan, American country music singer-songwriter
* Marcos Senna, Brazilian born-Spanish footballer
* Eric Winter, American actor and fashion model
July 18 – Elsa Pataky, Spanish actress and model
July 19
* Diether Ocampo, Filipino actor, singer and model
* Benedict Cumberbatch, English actor
* Eric Prydz, Swedish DJ and producer
July 20 – Alex Yoong, Malaysian racing driver
July 21
* Cori Bush, American politician
* Tatyana Lebedeva, Russian long jumper
* Jaime Murray, English actress
July 23 – Judit Polgár, Hungarian chess player
July 25 – Timur Mutsurayev, Chechen bard
July 26 – Pável Pardo, Mexican footballer
July 28 – Jacoby Shaddix, American singer
July 31 – Paulo Wanchope, Costa Rican footballer

August

August 1
* Iván Duque, Colombian politician, 33rd President of Colombia
* Don Hertzfeldt, American animator
* Nwankwo Kanu, Nigerian footballer
* Hasan Şaş, Turkish football player and coach
* Amar Upadhyay, Indian television actor and model
August 2
* Sam Worthington, English-Australian actor and producer
* Kati Wilhelm, German biathlete
* Pritam Singh, Singaporean lawyer and politician
August 4
* Paul Goldstein, American tennis player
August 5 – Napoleon Beazley, juvenile offender
August 6
* Andero Ermel, Estonian actor
* Soleil Moon Frye, American actress, director and screenwriter
* Melissa George, Australian actress
* Travis Kalanick, American businessman and computer programmer; co-founder of Uber
August 8 – JC Chasez, American singer
August 9
* Jessica Capshaw, American actress
* Audrey Tautou, French actress
August 11
* Iván Córdoba, Colombian football player and manager
* Will Friedle, American actor, voice actor, writer and comedian
* Jhong Hilario, Filipino actor, dancer, television host, and politician
August 12
* Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock guitarist
* Lina Rafn, Danish singer
August 14 – Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
August 15
* Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopian Prime Minister, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football player
August 18
* Lee Seung-yeop, South Korean baseball player
* Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
August 21 – Liezel Huber, South African born-American tennis player
August 25 – Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
August 27
* Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
* Carlos Moyá, Spanish tennis player
* Mark Webber, Australian racing driver
August 29
* Luana Piovani, Brazilian actress and model
* Jon Dahl Tomasson, Danish footballer
August 30 – Cristian Gonzáles, Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer
August 31 – Roque Júnior, Brazilian footballer

September

September 1
* Marcos Ambrose, Australian racing driver
* Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
* Sebastián Rozental, Chilean footballer
September 3
* Jevon Kearse, American football player
* Samuel Kuffour, Ghanaian footballer
* Vivek Oberoi, Indian actor
September 4 – Brian Myrow, American baseball player
September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
September 6
* Naomie Harris, British actress
* Mark Wilkerson, American musician
* Robin Atkin Downes, English actor and voice actor
September 7 – Stevie Case, American video game celebrity
September 8 – Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
September 9
* Mick Blue, Austrian pornographic actor and director
* Emma de Caunes, French actress
* Lúcia Moniz, Portuguese singer and actress
September 10 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis player
September 11 – Marco Rose, German football player and coach
September 12 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
September 13 – Puma Swede, Swedish pornographic actress
September 15 – Rob Wiethoff, American actor
September 16 – Tina Barrett, English singer
September 17 – Nicole Reinhart, American track and road racing cyclist
September 18 – Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
September 19
* Raja Bell, American basketball player
*Isha Koppikar, Indian actress
* Alison Sweeney, American actress
* Sergey Tsinkevich, Belarusian footballer and referee
September 20
* Jon Bernthal, American actor
* Yui Horie, Japanese voice actress
* Enuka Okuma, Canadian actress
September 23 – Rob James-Collier, British actor and model
September 24 – Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestling promoter
September 25
* Chauncey Billups, American basketball player
* Chiara Siracusa, Maltese singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2005 runner-up
September 26
* Michael Ballack, German footballer
* Kersti Heinloo, Estonian actress
September 27 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
September 28 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian footballer

October

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state
October 1 – Danielle Bisutti, American actress and singer
October 2 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player
October 2 - Qaisar Mahmood
October 3 – Seann William Scott, American actor and producer
October 4
* Mauro Camoranesi, Argentine born-Italian footballer
* Alicia Silverstone, American actress
* Ueli Steck, Swiss mountaineer
October 5 – Ramzan Kadyrov, Head of the Chechen Republic
October 6
* Freddy García, Venezuelan baseball player
* Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
October 7
* Taylor Hicks, American singer
* Pekka Kuusisto, Finnish violinist
* Gilberto Silva, Brazilian football player
* Santiago Solari, Argentine football player and coach
October 9
* Sam Riegel, American voice actor and director
* Nick Swardson, American actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter
October 10
* Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
* Shane Doan, Canadian ice hockey player
October 11 – Emily Deschanel, American actress
October 12 – Kajsa Bergqvist, Swedish high jumper
October 14 – Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
October 15 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress
October 18 – Galder, Norwegian musician
October 19
* Joe Duplantier, French musician
* Dan Smith, Canadian ice-hockey player
* Michael Young, American baseball player
* Desmond Harrington, American actor
* Omar Gooding, American actor
October 20
* Dan Fogler, American actor, comedian and writer
* Plamen Goranov, Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader
October 21
* Jeremy Miller, American actor
* Andrew Scott, Irish actor
October 23
* Cat Deeley, British television presenter
* Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
October 25
* Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
* Anton Sikharulidze, Russian figure skater
October 26
* Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey player
* Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed skater
* Thurop Van Orman, American animator and voice actor
October 29
*Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish footballer
*Mark Sheehan, Irish guitarist
October 31
* Guti, Spanish football player and coach
* Piper Perabo, American actress

November

November 1
* Chad Lindberg, American actor
* Sam Presti, American basketball executive, general manager of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder since 2007
November 2 – Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper
November 5
* Oleh Shelayev, Ukrainian footballer
* Sean Brown, Canadian ice-hockey player
* Sebastian Arcelus, American actor
November 6
* Pat Tillman, American football player, victim of friendly fire
* Troy Hambrick, American football player
* Wiley Wiggins, American actor
November 7 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis player
November 8 – Brett Lee, Australian cricketer
November 9
* Josh Kaufman, American singer-songwriter, winner of The Voice season 6
* Federica De Bortoli, Italian voice actress
November 11 – Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
November 12
* Tevin Campbell, American singer and actor
* Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish footballer
November 13 – Janine Leal, Venezuelan nutritionist, television presenter and model.
November 15 – Virginie Ledoyen, French actress
November 17 – Diane Neal, American actress
November 18 – Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician
November 19
* Jack Dorsey, American software architect, businessman, co-founder of Twitter
* Benny Vansteelant, Belgian duathlete
November 20
* Dominique Dawes, African-American Olympic gymnast
* Ji Yun-nam, North Korean footballer
* Laura Harris, Canadian actress
November 22
* Torsten Frings, German footballer
* Ville Valo, Finnish rock singer
November 24
* Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
* Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice-hockey player
November 25
* Donovan McNabb, American football player
* Hienadz Shutau, Belarusian demonstrator
November 26 – Maia Campbell, American actress and singer
November 27 – Jaleel White, African-American actor
November 28 – Ryan Kwanten, Australian actor and comedian
November 29
* Chadwick Boseman, American actor and playwright
* Anna Faris, American actress
* Ehren McGhehey, American stunt performer and actor

December

December 1
* Matthew Shepard, American murder victim
* Laura Ling, American journalist imprisoned by North Korea in 2009
December 3
* Cornelius Griffin, American football player
* Marcos Denner, Brazilian footballer
December 4 – Amie Comeaux, American country music singer
December 5
* Amy Acker, American actress
* Rafaela Crespín Rubio, Spanish politician
* Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
December 6 – Alicia Machado, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss Universe 1996
December 7
* Mark Duplass, American actor, screenwriter and director
* Georges Laraque, Canadian ice-hockey player
* Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model
December 8
* Zoe Konstantopoulou, Greek lawyer and politician
* Dominic Monaghan, English-German actor
December 13
* Mark Paston, New Zealand footballer
* Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
December 14 – Leland Chapman, American bail bondsman
December 16 – Osamu Sato, Japanese former professional boxer
December 17
* Takeo Spikes, American football player
* Dan Hageman, American screenwriter and television producer
December 18
* Koyuki, Japanese actress
December 21 – Mirela Maniani, Greek javelin thrower
December 23
* Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
* Amjad Sabri, Pakistani Qawwali singer
* Christopher Pizzey, English actor and comedian
December 24 – Ángel Matos, Cuban taekwondo athlete
December 25
* Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish metal keyboardist
* Armin van Buuren, Dutch music producer and DJ
December 26
* Nadia Litz, Canadian actress and producer
* Dmitri Tertyshny, Russian professional ice hockey
December 27 – Fernando Pisani, Canadian ice-hockey player
December 28 – Joe Manganiello, American actor
December 29 – Danny McBride, American actor, comedian and writer

Date unknown

Pedro X. Molina, Nicaraguan caricaturist

Deaths

January

January 3 – John Ainsworth-Davis, Welsh surgeon and athlete
January 5
* John A. Costello, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
* Mal Evans, English road manager to the Beatles
* Károly Takács, Hungarian Olympic shooter
January 8
* Georges Stuttler, French footballer
* Zhou Enlai, 1st Premier of the [People's Republic of China]
January 10 – Howlin' Wolf, American blues singer
January 12 – Agatha Christie, English detective fiction writer
January 13 – Margaret Leighton, English actress
January 14
* Abdul Razak Hussein, Malaysian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Malaysia
* Muhammad Sakizli, 2nd Prime Minister of Libya
January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer
January 22 – Hermann Jónasson, Icelandic politician, 7th Prime Minister of Iceland
January 23 – Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, writer and activist
January 24 – Emil Bodnăraș, Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent
January 25 – Konstantin Anisimovich Pavlov, Latvian iconographer
January 26 – Gabriele Allegra, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed
January 29 – Jesse Fuller, American one-man band musician
January 30 – Arnold Gehlen, German philosopher
January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, American criminal and namesake of the Miranda right

February

February 1
* Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Hans Richter, German artist and filmmaker
* George Whipple, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
February 4 – Roger Livesey, Welsh actor
February 6 – Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali filmmaker and script writer
February 9 – Percy Faith, Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor
February 11
* Lee J. Cobb, American actor
* Alexander Lippisch, German aeronautical engineer
* Dorothy Maud Wrinch, British mathematician and biochemical theorist
February 12 – Sal Mineo, American actor
February 13
* Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian general
* Lily Pons, French-American operatic soprano and actress
February 17 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor
February 20
* René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and faith healer
February 22 – Florence Ballard, American singer
February 23 – L. S. Lowry, British artist
February 26 – Frieda Inescort, Scottish-born actress
February 27 –Michael Barrett, Fireman

March

March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist
March 5 – Otto Tief, Estonian politician and military commander
March 6 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor
March 8 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander
March 10 – Haddon Sundblom, American illustrator and artist
March 14
* Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director
* Jasimuddin, Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer
March 17 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film director
March 19 – Paul Kossoff, British rock guitarist
March 20 - Wilhelm Marschall, German admiral
March 24
* Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal
* E. H. Shepard, English artist and book illustrator
March 25 – Josef Albers, German-American artist
March 28 – Richard Arlen, American actor
March 31 – Paul Strand, American photographer

April

April 1
* Max Ernst, German artist
* Alfred Lennon, father of musician John Lennon
April 4 – Harry Nyquist, American information theory pioneer
April 5 – Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse
April 9
* Margaret Brundage, American illustrator
* Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter
* Renato Petronio, Italian rower, Olympic champion
April 12 – Miriam Cooper, American actress
April 13 – Sabri al-Asali, Syrian politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Syria
April 14 – Mariano Ospina Pérez, Colombian politician, 17th President of Colombia
April 17 – Henrik Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
April 23 – Karl Schäfer, Austrian figure skater
April 25
* Sir Carol Reed, English film director
* Markus Reiner, Israeli scientist
April 26 – Andrei Grechko, Soviet general, Minister of Defence

May

May 9
* Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author
* Ulrike Meinhof, German terrorist
May 11 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect
May 12 – Keith Relf, British rock musician
May 15 – Samuel Eliot Morison, American historian
May 24 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish Olympic athlete
May 26
* Martin Heidegger, German philosopher
* Edgar Moon, Australian tennis player
May 27 – Ruth McDevitt, American actress
May 28 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter
May 30 – Mitsuo Fuchida, Japanese aviator, naval officer and Christian evangelist
May 31 – Jacques Monod, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

June

June 2
* Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Egyptian diplomat and politician, 1st Secretary-General of the Arab League
* Juan José Torres, Bolivian politician and military leader, 50th President of Bolivia
June 6
* J. Paul Getty, American industrialist, founder of Getty Oil
* David Jacobs, Welsh Olympic athlete
* Fuad Stephens, Malaysian politician
* Victor Varconi, Hungarian actor
June 7
* Bobby Hackett, American jazz musician
* Shigetarō Shimada, Japanese admiral during World War II
June 9 – Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress
June 10 – Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born American film producer
June 11 – Toots Mondt, American WWF promoter
June 12 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, 1st Prime Minister of South Vietnam and 1st Vice President of South Vietnam
June 15 – Jimmy Dykes, American baseball player and manager
June 16 – Hector Pieterson, South African activist
June 17 – Richard Casey, Baron Casey, Australian statesman and diplomat
June 23 – DeHart Hubbard, American Olympic athlete
June 24
* Imogen Cunningham, American photographer
* Juliette Elmir, Lebanese-Argentine nurse and political activist
June 25 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter
June 27 – C. Wade McClusky, United States Navy admiral
June 28
* Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and film producer
* Ruby McKim, American quilt designer
June 30 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball pitcher

July

July 1
* Anneliese Michel, German Roman Catholic woman who was believed to be possessed by demons
* Zhang Wentian, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
July 4 – Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli commando leader
July 6 – Zhu De, Head of State of China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief
July 7
* Norman Foster, American film director
* Gustav Heinemann, 6th President of the Federal Republic of Germany
July 8 – Gaston Marie Jacquier, French Roman Catholic bishop in Algeria
July 11 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet
July 12 – James Wong Howe, American cinematographer
July 14 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader
July 15 – Paul Gallico, American novelist, short story and sports writer
July 16 – Wilhelmina von Bremen, American sprint runner
July 22 – Sir Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist
July 23 – Basil Hopko, Czechoslovak Roman Catholic bishop and saint
July 24 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter
July 28
* Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer
* Lucie Mannheim, German singer and actress
July 29 – Mickey Cohen, American gangster
July 30 – Rudolf Bultmann, German Lutheran theologian

August

August 2 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer
August 4 – Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor
August 6
* Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian-born American cellist
* Maria Klenova, Russian marine geologist
* Betty Clooney, American singer, sister of singer Rosemary Clooney
August 9 – José Lezama Lima, Cuban writer and poet
August 10 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter
August 12 - Tom Driberg, British politician and journalist
August 22 – Juscelino Kubitschek, 21st President of Brazil
August 25 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature
August 26 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano
August 28 – Anissa Jones, American actress and student
August 29
* Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi national poet
* Jimmy Reed, American blues musician

September

September 5 – Arthur Gilligan, English cricketer
September 9 – Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and political theorist, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter and novelist
September 13 – Camilo Ponce Enríquez, Ecuadorian political figure, 30th President of Ecuador
September 14 – Prince Paul of Yugoslavia,
September 15 – Josef Sudek, Czech photographer
September 16 – Bertha Lutz, Brazilian zoologist, politician, diplomat and feminist
September 19
* Yehezkel Abramsky, Russian-born British rabbi
* Choi Yong-kun, North Korean general and defence minister
* Robert Mellard, American US Army soldier
September 21 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean economist, politician and diplomat
September 26 – Leopold Ružička, Yugoslav chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 28 – Raymond Collishaw, Canadian World War I fighter ace

October

October 5
* Lars Onsager, Norwegian-born American physical theoretical physicist, 1968 Nobel Prize laureate
* Barbara Nichols, American actress
October 6 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher
October 9 – Troy H. Middleton, American general and educator
October 10 – Silvana Armenulić, Yugoslav singer
October 11 - Connee Boswell, American popular and jazz singer
October 14
* Dame Edith Evans, British actress
* Suleiman Nabulsi, Prime Minister of Jordan
October 15 – Carlo Gambino, Italian-American mobster
October 18 – Giacomo Lercaro, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
October 25 – Raymond Queneau, French writer
October 31 – Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer

November

November 3 – Solange d'Ayen, French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist
November 8 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis player
November 9 – Armas Taipale, Finnish Olympic athlete
November 11 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor
November 12 – Walter Piston, American composer
November 15 – Jean Gabin, French actor
November 18 – Man Ray, American artist
November 20 – Trofim Lysenko, Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin
November 23 – André Malraux, French novelist
November 28 – Rosalind Russell, American actress
November 29 – Godfrey Cambridge, American comedian and actor
November 30 – Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union

December

December 2 – Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager
December 3
* Alfredo Dinale, Italian Olympic cyclist
* Angelo Iachino, Italian admiral
* Mary Nash, American actress
December 4
* Tommy Bolin, American guitarist
* Benjamin Britten, English composer
December 6 – João Goulart, Brazilian politician, 24th President of Brazil
December 12 – Jack Cassidy, American actor
December 15 – Grégoire Kayibanda, Rwandan politician, 2nd President of Rwanda
December 20
* Richard J. Daley, American politician
* Ned Washington, American lyricist
December 24 – Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza, pretender to the Portuguese throne
December 28 – Freddie King, American blues guitarist

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Burton Richter, Samuel Chao Chung Ting
Chemistry – William Nunn Lipscomb Jr
Physiology or Medicine – Baruch S. Blumberg, D Carleton Gajdusek
Literature – Saul Bellow
Peace – Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
Economics – Milton Friedman