1977

Events

January

January 8 – 1977 [Moscow bombings|Three bombs] explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire.
January 11 – The first episode of Finnish children's TV show Pikku Kakkonen is aired on Yle TV2.
January 17 – 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain.
January 18
* Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
* Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
* SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board.
January 20 - Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States after defeating Gerald Ford in the 1976 election.
January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls for fresh elections to the Lok Sabha, and releases all political prisoners.
January 24 – The Massacre of Atocha occurs, during the Spanish transition to democracy.

February

February 2 – The Congress Party of India, led by Indira Gandhi, splits with Jagjivan Ram and other senior leaders, forming Congress for Democracy. This party later merges with the Janata Party.
February 3 – In northern Japan a blizzard piles snow on rooftops, causing many to collapse killing at least 31 people.
February 4 – Eleven CTA commuters are killed when an Loop derailment|elevated train derails] from the Loop in central Chicago, United States.
February 7 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.
February 18
February 23 – Óscar Romero, an outspoken opponent of violence, becomes Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.
February 28 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the New Zealand Parliament in person, after Parliament is summoned for a special short session to allow her to deliver the Speech from the Throne.

March

March 4 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills over 1,500 people.
March 8 – The Australian parliament is opened by Elizabeth II in her capacity as Queen of Australia.
March 9 – Hanafi Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking 149 hostages.
March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered.
March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
March 19 – Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance.
March 21 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi withdraws the state of emergency which was implemented on June 25, 1975.
March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.

April

April 2 – Horse racing: Red Rum wins a record third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in the UK.
April 4 – Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes on a highway in New Hope, Georgia, United States, killing 72 people.
April 7 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility.

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April 9 – Spain legalizes the Communist Party of Spain, which had been outlawed since 1939.
April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
April 17 – Belgian prime minister Leo Tindemans' Christian Social Party gains eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections.
April 18 – An Solar eclipse of [April 18, 1977|annular solar eclipse] was visible in Africa, and was the 29th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 138.
April 24 – In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone kills 13 people and injures about 100 others.
April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart, West Germany, sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.
April 30 – The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

May

May 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
May 12 – Portugal and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
May 14 – An IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia, kills all six on board.
May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade.
May 17 – The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel.
May 23
* Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin via gene splicing.
* Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands, and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde–Assen route nearby at the same time. The children are released on May 26. On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train, and six terrorists and two hostages are killed.
May 25 - Star Wars is released in the United States by director George Lucas, It immediately became a major pop culture phenomenon, and became a major box office hit for the next 6 years.
May 27
* The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills 69 people.
* A coup d'état attempt|demonstration and coup attempt in Angola] takes place. Thousands are killed by the government and Cuban forces.
May 28 – The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, United States, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside.
May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

June

June 5 – A bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as President of the Seychelles.
June 15 – Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years of Francoist Spain.
June 21 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
June 25 – The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13–12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators.
June 27
* Djibouti receives its independence from France.
* Constitution for the Federation of Earth is adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.
June 30 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded.

July

July 1
* The East African Community is dissolved.
* The Championships, Wimbledon – Virginia Wade wins the women's singles title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon.
July 5 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrows Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
July 9 – The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
July 10 – A temperature of, a record for continental Europe, is recorded in Greece.
July 13
* Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethio-Somali War.
* New York City is affected by a complete electricity blackout lasting through the following day that results in citywide looting and other criminal activity, including arson.
July 21–24 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins.
July 21 – Süleyman Demirel, of AP forms the new government of Turkey ).
July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power nine months after the "Gang of Four" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.
July 27 – The Politburo of the [Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Politburo] orders Boris Yeltsin to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918. Yeltsin later refers to this as a barbarian act.
July 30 – Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar assassinate Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.

August

August 4 – U.S. president Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy.
August 9 – The military-controlled government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a president and Congress.
August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
August 15
* The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
* Nazi war criminal Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome.
August 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
August 20 – Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
August 26 – The National Assembly of Quebec passes the French Language">French language">French Language making French the official language of the Canadian province of Quebec.

September

September 4 – The Golden Dragon massacre, involving rival Chinatown gangs, takes place in San Francisco, United States. Five are killed.
September 5
* Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay.
* German Autumn: Employers Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.
September 7 – Torrijos-Carter treaties: Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
September 8 – Interpol issues a resolution against the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs.
September 10 – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is the last person executed by guillotine in France and the last legal beheading in the Western world.
September 15 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic, as an Italian company in Turin, Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni begins operation of two telephone exchanges.
September 18 – Courageous, skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island.
September 19
* Under pressure from the Carter Administration, President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua.
* North Korean agents abduct Yutaka Kume from Noto Peninsula starting the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.
September 20 – The Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries.
September 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show.

October

October 1 – Energy Research and Development Administration combines with the Federal Energy Administration to form United States Department of Energy.
October 7
* The Soviet Union adopts its third Constitution. The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.
* Pelé plays his final professional football game, as a member of the New York Cosmos.
October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members.
October 17–18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four hijackers die.
October 18 – German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails. They are buried on October 27.
October 19 – German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer is found murdered in Mulhouse, France.
October 20 – Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, three days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.
October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded.
October 23 – The president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returns to Barcelona from exile and the autonomous government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, is restored.
October 26
* The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.
* Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise, over California.
October 27 – British punk band Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols on the Virgin Records label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it enters the UK Album Charts at number one the week after its release.
October 28 – Hong Kong police attack the ICAC headquarters.

November

November 1 – 2060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.

November 2 – The worst storm in Athens' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people.
November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, United States, fails, killing 39 people.
November 8
* Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
* San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.
November 9 – Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military government of Bolivia, announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously provided.
November 19
* Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement.
* TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.
November 22
* British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
* The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes, in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol. See Packet Radio Van
November 30 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations.

December

December – The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific is implemented.
December 4
* Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself emperor.
* Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.
December 6 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
December 10 – 1977 Australian federal election: Malcolm Fraser's Liberal/National Country Coalition government is re-elected with a slightly reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Consequently, Whitlam resigns as ALP leader after holding the job for nearly 11 years; he is Labor Party leadership election|replaced] by former treasurer Bill Hayden.
December 13 – a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft carrying the University of Evansville basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, crashes in rain and dense fog about 90 seconds after takeoff from Evansville Regional Airport; 29 people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson.
December 18 – SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730, an international charter service from Zurich to Funchal Airport, hits the sea during a landing attempt. Many of the 36 who die drown, trapped inside the sinking aircraft. Twenty-one people survive with the help of rescuers and by swimming to the shore.
December 19 – The 5.9 Bob–Tangol earthquake rocks Iran, killing at least 584 people and injuring 1,000.
December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
December 22 – A grain elevator explodes in Westwego, Louisiana, United States, killing 36 people.

Births

January

January 1 – Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer
January 3 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress
January 4 – Irán Castillo, Mexican actress and singer
January 11
* Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
* Devin Ratray, American actor
January 13 – Orlando Bloom, British actor
January 14 – Narain Karthikeyan, Indian Formula One driver
January 15 – Giorgia Meloni, Italian politician
January 17 – Leigh Whannell, Australian actor and writer
January 21 – Jerry Trainor, American actor, comedian and musician
January 22 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
January 25 – Hatem Trabelsi, Tunisian footballer
January 26 – Vince Carter, American basketball player
January 28 – Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver
January 31
* Bobby Moynihan, American actor, comedian, producer and writer
* Kerry Washington, African-American actress

February

February 2 – Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter and musician
February 5 – Ben Ainslie, British sailor
February 7 – Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman
February 11 – Mike Shinoda, American musician, singer and rapper
February 18
* Ike Barinholtz, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
* László Nemes, Hungarian film director and screenwriter
* Elke Slagt-Tichelman, Dutch politician
February 19 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
February 20
* Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
* Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler and actress
February 21 – Jonathan Safran Foer, American author
February 23 – Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
February 24 – Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxing champion
February 25 – Hakan Yakin, Turkish football player and coach
February 26
* Olsi Baze, columnist, writer and human rights activist.
* Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player
February 28
* Jason Aldean, American country music singer
* Rafael Amaya, Mexican model, singer, and actor

March

March 1 – Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
March 2 – Chris Martin, British rock musician
March 3 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer
March 4 – Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete and politician
March 6
* Paquillo Fernández, Spanish race walker
* Santino Marella, Canadian professional wrestler
March 7
* Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
March 9
* Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
* Shannon Miller, American gymnast
March 10 – Robin Thicke, American-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actor
March 11 – Becky Hammon, American basketball player
March 14
* Matthew Booth, South African footballer
* Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer
* Kim Nam-il, South Korean footballer
March 15 – Brian Tee, Japanese American actor
March 16 – Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer
March 18
* Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist
* Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
* Willy Sagnol, French football player and coach
March 19 – Robert Lindstedt, Swedish tennis player
March 24 – Jessica Chastain, American actress
March 25 – Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
March 28 – Annie Wersching, American actress

April

April 1 – Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist
April 2
* Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor
* Nicki Pedersen, Danish speedway rider
April 5
* Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player
* Daniel Majstorović, Swedish soccer player
April 9 – Gerard Way, American musician and comic book writer
April 10 – Cristiano Zanetti, Italian footballer
April 12
* Tobias Angerer, German cross-country skier
* Gemma Mengual, Spanish synchronised swimmer
April 14
* Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
* Rob McElhenney, American actor
April 16 – Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
April 17 – Frederik Magle, Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist
April 21 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
April 22
* Mark van Bommel, Dutch football player and coach
* Steven Price, British film composer
April 23
* Arash, Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer and producer
* John Cena, American professional wrestler, actor and rapper
* John Oliver, British-American comedian and host
* Kal Penn, American actor, producer, and former civil servant
* Matt Huuki, American politician and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives in 2011 and 2012
April 24
* Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player
* Rebecca Mader, English actress
April 25 - Manolo Cardona, Colombian actor
April 26
* Jason Earles, American actor, comedian, and martial artist
* Tom Welling, American actor, director, producer, and model
April 30 – Alexandra Holden, American actress

May

May 4 – Emily Perkins, Canadian actress
May 5
* Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress
* Virginie Efira, Belgian actress and television anchor
* Jessica Schwarz, German film and television actress
May 9 – Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
May 10 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
May 11
* Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
* Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
May 12 – Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician
May 13
* Samantha Morton, English actress
* Tarik Sektioui, Moroccan footballer
May 14 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player
May 16
* Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
* Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
May 23
* Richard Ayoade, British actor and presenter
* Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
* Yevgeny Rodionov, Russian soldier
May 24
* Jeet Gannguli, Indian singer, music director and score composer
* Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thai tennis player
May 25 – Alberto Del Rio, Mexican professional wrestler
May 26 – Luca Toni, Italian footballer
May 27
* Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
* Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player
May 29 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian football player
May 30 – Katharina Slanina, German politician
May 31
* Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
* Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer

June

June 1
* Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
* Jónsi, Icelandic singer
June 2 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
June 7
* Chen Luyun, Chinese basketball player
* Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican footballer
June 8 – Kanye West, American rapper and record producer
June 9 – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
June 11
* Kim Hee-sun, South Korean actress
* Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
June 12 – Ana Tijoux, French-Chilean musician
June 17 – Bartosz Brożek, Polish philosopher and jurist
June 18 – Kaja Kallas, 19th prime minister of Estonia
June 19 – Veronika Vařeková, Czech model
June 21 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
June 23 – Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter
June 25
* Layla El, English dancer, model, and retired professional wrestler
* Naoya Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast
June 26
* William Kipsang, Kenyan long-distance runner
* Tite Kubo, Japanese manga artist who created BLEACH
June 27
* Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
* Raúl, Spanish footballer
June 29
* Will Kemp, English actor and dancer
* Zuleikha Robinson, British actress
June 30 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer

July

July 1 – Liv Tyler, American actress
July 2 – Carl Froch, British boxer
July 5 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
July 6
* Audrey Fleurot, French actress
* Max Mirnyi, Belarusian tennis player
July 8
* Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
* Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
July 10 – Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
July 11 – Finau Maka, Tongan rugby union footballer
July 12
* Steve Howey, American actor
* Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist
July 13 – Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress
July 14 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
July 15 – Lana Parrilla, American actress
July 18 – Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess Grandmaster
July 21
* Paul Casey, English golfer
* Allison Wagner, American swimmer
July 24
* Danny Dyer, English actor
* Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player
July 26 – Rebecca St. James, Australian-born Christian musician
July 27 – Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor
July 28 – Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player
July 30 – Jaime Pressly, American actress

August

August 2 – Edward Furlong, American actor
August 3 – Tom Brady, American football player and entrepreneur
August 8 – Marílson Gomes dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner
August 9 – Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
August 12
* Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
* Iva Majoli, Croatian tennis player
August 13 – Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
August 15
* Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player
* Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
August 16 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor
August 17
* Tarja Turunen, Finnish operatic soprano
* Thierry Henry, French footballer
* William Gallas, French footballer
August 18 – Lukáš Bauer, Czech cross-country skier
August 20
* Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
* Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player
* Henning Stensrud, Norwegian ski jumper
August 24
* Denílson, Brazilian footballer
* Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
* John Green, American author, vlogger, and editor
* Robert Enke, German footballer
August 27 – Deco, Brazilian born-Portuguese footballer
August 30
* Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
* Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican athlete
August 31
* Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
* Ian Harte, Irish footballer

September

September 1
* David Albelda, Spanish footballer
* Kathleen de Leon Jones, Filipino-Australian actress, dancer, singer and television performer
September 2
* Frédéric Kanouté, Malian soccer player
* Sam Rivers, American musician
* Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriter
September 4 – Lucie Silvas, English singer
September 5 – Sin Cara, Mexican-American professional wrestler
September 6 – Katalin Novák, Hungarian politician
September 9 – Soulja Slim, American rapper
September 11 – Ludacris, American rapper and actor
September 12
* 2 Chainz, American rapper
* Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter
September 13 – Fiona Apple, American singer
September 15
* Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author
* Tom Hardy, English actor
* Jason Terry, American basketball player
September 18 – Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman
September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
September 21 – Marc de Hond, Dutch television presenter and wheelchair basketball player
September 23 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer, actress, and murder victim
September 25 – Joel David Moore, American actor
September 27 – Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
September 28 – Se-Ri Pak, South Korean golfer
September 30
* Roy Carroll, Irish footballer
* Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer

October

October 1 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader
October 2 – Didier Défago, Swiss Olympic alpine skier
October 3 – Antonio Di Natale, Italian football player and coach
October 4
* Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French politician
* Bowie Jane, Australian DJ, singer, producer, lawyer and contestant on Big Brother Season 25
October 6 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
October 8 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain bicycle racer
October 10 – Brandon Vera, Filipino-American retired mixed martial artist and former ONE Heavyweight World Champion
October 11 - Matt Bomer, American film, stage, and television actor
October 12 – Bode Miller, American skier
October 13
* Paul Pierce, American basketball player
* Kiele Sanchez, American actress
October 14
* Kelly Schumacher, American basketball and volleyball player
* Oleg Velyky, Ukrainian and German handball player World champion 2007
October 15 – David Trezeguet, French footballer
October 16 – John Mayer, American musician and record producer
October 17
* Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
* André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager
October 18
* Jyothika, Indian actress
* Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
* Peter Sohn, American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and film director
* Paul Stalteri, Canadian soccer player
October 19 – Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
October 25 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer
October 26
* Jon Heder, American actor and voice artist
* Louis Crayton, Swiss/Liberian footballer
October 27 – Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer
October 28 – Jonas Rasmussen, Danish badminton player
October 29 – Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor

November

November 10 – Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer
November 11
* Maniche, Portuguese footballer
* Scoot McNairy, American actor
November 13 – Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
November 15 – Sean Murray, American actor
November 16
* Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater
* Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
November 17 – Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer
November 18 – Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league player
November 19
* Mette Frederiksen, Danish politician
* Kerri Strug, American gymnast
November 20 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer
November 21 – Tobias Sammet, German singer and songwriter
November 24 – Colin Hanks, American actor
November 28 – Fabio Grosso, Italian football player and coach
November 30 – Nelsan Ellis, African-American film and television actor and playwright

December

December 1 – Brad Delson, American musician
December 2 – Nancy Mace, American politician
December 6 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
December 7 – Luke Donald, English golfer
December 8
* Elsa Benítez, Mexican model and television host
* Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union player
* Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor and producer
December 10 – Andrea Henkel, German professional biathlete
December 11 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player
December 12 – Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
December 14 – Thoriqul Haq, Indonesian politician
December 16
* Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player
* René Redzepi, Danish chef
December 17 – Oxana Fedorova, Russian model
December 20 – Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer
December 21
* Gregor Horvatič, Slovenian politician
* Emmanuel Macron, 25th president of France
December 23 – Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician
December 24 – Domingo Vega, also known as Américo, Chilean singer
December 25 – Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress
December 30
* Laila Ali, American boxer
* Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
December 31
* Psy, South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and record producer
* Donald Trump Jr., American businessman and son of former U.S. president Donald Trump

Deaths

January

January 2 – Erroll Garner, American musician
January 4 – Ibrahim Biçakçiu, Albanian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Albania leader of World War II
January 5 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic
January 14
* Anthony Eden, British politician, 62nd prime minister of the United Kingdom
* Peter Finch, English-born actor
* Anaïs Nin, French-born American diarist and writer
January 17 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer
January 18
* Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslavian politician, 27th prime minister of Yugoslavia
* Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright
January 19 – Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress
January 20 – Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece
January 23 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine world Flyweight boxing champion
January 26 – Dietrich von Hildebrand, German philosopher and theologian
January 28
*Burt Mustin, American actor
*Talib Haji Hamzah, Malaysian armed robber executed in Singapore
January 29
*Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian
*Johnny Franz, English record producer

February

February 3 – Pauline Starke, American actress
February 4 – Brett Halliday, American writer
February 5 – Oskar Klein, Swedish theoretical physicist
February 9 – Alia Toukan, Queen consort of Jordan
February 11
* Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and statesman, 5th president of India
* Louis Beel, prime minister of the Netherlands
February 16 – Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician
February 18
* Newsboy Brown, American boxer
* Andy Devine, American actor
February 27
* John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist
* Allison Hayes, American actress
February 28 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor

March

March 1 – Diallo Telli, Guinean diplomat and politician, 1st secretary general of the Organisation of African Unity
March 3
* Brian Faulkner, last prime minister of Northern Ireland
* Percy Marmont, American stage and screen actor
March 4
* Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer
* Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official, last führer of Nazi Germany
March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula One racing driver
March 8 – Henry Hull, American actor
March 10
* E. Power Biggs, English-American organist
* Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician and civil engineer, 28th prime minister of the Netherlands
March 14 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist
March 15 – Antonino Rocca, Italian professional wrestler
March 18 – Marien Ngouabi, 3rd president of Congo
March 19 – William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist
March 20 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand
March 22 – Ernest Gugenheim, French rabbi
March 27 – Diana Hyland, American actress
March 29 – Eugen Wüster, industrialist and terminologist
March 30 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor

April

April 2 – John Whitaker, British gymnast
April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, 11th president of Cuba
April 7 – Karl Ritter, German film producer and director
April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter
April 17 – William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal
April 20
* Wilmer Allison, American tennis champion
* Bryan Foy, American film producer and director
April 21 – Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian
April 27
* Stanley Adams, American actor
* Charles Alston, American artist and sculptor
April 28
* Ricardo Cortez, American actor
* Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager

May

May 5 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician, 28th Chancellor of Germany
May 7 – Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish Carlist pretender
May 9 – James Jones, American writer
May 10 – Joan Crawford, American actress
May 13 – Otto Deßloch, German World War II Luftwaffe general
May 15 – Herbert Wilcox, British film director and producer
May 16 – Modibo Keïta, 1st president of Mali
May 25 – Willoughby Norrie, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand
May 26 – Shewalul Mengistu, Ethiopian poet and political activist
May 30 – Paul Desmond, American jazz saxophonist and composer
May 31 – William Castle, American film director

June

June 2 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor
June 3
* Archibald Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director
June 13
* Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and politician
* Matthew Garber, English child actor
June 14 – Alan Reed, American actor
June 16 – Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist
June 22 – Marston Morse, American mathematician
June 25 – Olave Baden-Powell, first Chief Guide for Britain
June 26 – Sergei Lemeshev, Russian operatic lyric tenor
June 30 – Paul Hartmann, American actor

July

July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American writer
July 9
* Loren Eiseley, American anthroplogist and author
* Alice Paul, American women's rights activist
July 20 – Carter DeHaven, American actor
July 21 – Lee Miller, American model and wartime photojournalist
July 25 – David Toro, 35th president of Bolivia
July 26 – Prince Charles of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
July 30 – Jean de Laborde, French admiral
July 31 – Giuseppe Castellano, Italian general

August

August 1 – Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 spy plane pilot
August 2 – Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal
August 3
* Alfred Lunt, American actor
* Makarios III, Greek-Cypriot archbishop, 1st president of Cyprus
August 4
* Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher
August 6 – Sir Alexander Bustamente, Jamaican politician, 1st prime minister of Jamaica
August 8 – Son Ngoc Thanh, 2nd prime minister of Cambodia
August 9 – Beryl May Dent, English mathematical physicist
August 13 – Henry Williamson, English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist
August 14 – Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist
August 16 – Elvis Presley, American actor, musician and singer-songwriter
August 17 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and director
August 19 – Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian
August 23
* Sebastian Cabot, English actor
* Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor
August 29 – Jean Hagen, American actress

September

September 1 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress
September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German statistician and economist
September 6 – John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician
September 8 – Zero Mostel, American actor
September 12 – Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist
September 13 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor
September 16
* Marc Bolan, British singer and guitarist
* Maria Callas, Greek soprano
September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician
September 29 – Robert McKimson, American animator and director

October

October 3 – Tay Garnett, American film director
October 10 – Jean Duvieusart, Belgian politician, 36th prime minister of Belgium
October 11 – MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian
October 12 – Dorothy Davenport, American actress
October 14 – Bing Crosby, American pop singer and actor
October 17 – Sir Michael Balcon, English film producer
October 20 – Three members of American rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, killed in plane crash:
* Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer
* Cassie Gaines, lead singer
* Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist
October 25 – Félix Gouin, French politician
October 27
* James M. Cain, American writer
* Miguel Mihura, Spanish playwright

November

November 3 – Florence Vidor, American actress
November 4 – Betty Balfour, English screen actress
November 5
* René Goscinny, French comic book writer
* Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader
November 9 – Gertrude Astor, American actress
November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English writer
November 14
* A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader
* Ferdinand Heim, German general, branded the "Scapegoat of Stalingrad"
November 16 – Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois, Monégasque princess
November 18
* Victor Francen, Belgian actor
* Kurt Schuschnigg, 11th chancellor of Austria
November 21 – Richard Carlson, American actor
November 30 – Olga Petrova, English-born American actress

December

December 3 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower
December 5 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union
December 9 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist
December 10 – Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach
December 12 – Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill
December 16
* Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden
* Yngve Larsson, Swedish politician
December 19
* Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral
* Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician
* Jacques Tourneur, French-American filmmaker
December 24 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, 58th president of Peru
December 25
* Sir Charlie Chaplin, British actor, producer and director
* Oliver P. Smith, American general
December 26 – Howard Hawks, American film director
December 28 – Charlotte Greenwood, American actress

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Chemistry – Ilya Prigogine
Physiology or Medicine – Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
Literature – Vicente Aleixandre
Peace Prize|Peace] – Amnesty International
Economics – Bertil Ohlin, James Meade