1971

• May 1
  • Amtrak begins intercity rail passenger service in the United States.
  • The
    Ceylonese government promises amnesty for guerillas who surrender before May 5
    .
• Ceylon
  , left-wing guerillas launch a series of assaults against public buildings.
• May 3
  • Tottenham Hotspur, with Ray Kennedy scoring the winner. (Arsenal will go on to win the league and cup 'double' six days later by defeating Liverpool in the FA Cup
    final).
  • The Harris Poll finds that 60% of Americans are against the Vietnam War.
  • East German leader Walter Ulbricht resigns as Socialist Unity Party leader but retains the position of head of state.
  • 1971 May Day Protests: Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington, D.C.
    ; police and military units arrest as many as 12,000, most of whom are later released.
• May 5
  • The
    currency markets and especially threatens the Deutsche Mark
    ; the central banks of Austria, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland stop the currency trading.
  • FedEx, the logistics and delivery service, founded in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States.^[24]
• Ceylon begins a major offensive against the People's Liberation Front
  .
• May 9
  • Arsenal FC beats Liverpool F.C. 2–1 to win the English FA Cup
    , thus completing the league and cup 'double'.
  • Mariner 8 fails to launch.
• May 12 – An earthquake in Turkey destroys most of the city of Burdur.
• May 15 – Israeli ambassador to Turkey Efraim Elrom is kidnapped; he is found killed in Istanbul May 25.
• May 16 – A coup attempt is exposed and foiled in Egypt.
• May 18
  • The U.S. Congress formally votes to end funding for the American Supersonic Transport program.
  • The
    NHL history to win the Cup in Game 7 on the road, and did so after the home team had won each of the previous six games in the series. This also marked Jean Béliveau
    's last NHL game.
• Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union
  .
• May 22 – An earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of Bingöl, Turkey; more than 1,000 are killed and 10,000 are made homeless.
• May 23 – Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes at Rijeka Airport, Yugoslavia, killing 78 people, mostly British tourists.
• May 26
  • Austria and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
  • Qantas agrees to pay $500,000 to bomb hoaxer/extortionist Mr. Brown (Peter Macari), who is later arrested.
• May 27
  • Six armed passengers hijack a Romanian passenger plane and force it to fly to Vienna.
  • Christie's auctions a diamond known as Deepdene; it is later found to be artificially colored.
• May 28 – Portugal resigns from UNESCO.
• May 30 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched toward Mars.
• May 31 – The birth of Bangladesh is declared by the government in exile in territory formerly part of Pakistan.

June

• June – Massachusetts passes its Chapter 766 laws enacting special education.
• June 1 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia, speak against war protests.
• June 6
  • Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev
    ) is launched.
  • A midair collision between
    McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet fighter near Duarte, California
    claims 50 lives.
• June 10
  • The U.S. ends its
    trade embargo
    of China.
  • Corpus Thursday: A student rally on the streets of Mexico City is roughly dispersed.
  • Amtrak had its first fatal accident when 11 people were killed and 163 injured in the derailment of the City of New Orleans train near Tonti, Illinois.^[25][26]
• Indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament
  .
• June 13
  • Vietnam War: The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers.^[27]
  • Racing drivers Gijs van Lennep of the Netherlands and Helmut Marko of Austria win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Martini Racing Porsche 917K.
• June 14 – Norway begins oil production in the North Sea.
• June 17
  • Representatives of Japan and the United States sign the
    Okinawa.^[28]
  • President
    War on Drugs
    .
• June 18 – Southwest Airlines, a low-cost carrier, begins its first flights between Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.
• June 20 – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoli Fedoseyev has been granted asylum.
• June 21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.
• June 25 – Madagascar accuses the U.S. of conspiring to oust the government; the U.S. recalls its ambassador.
• June 27 – Concert promoter Bill Graham closes the legendary Fillmore East, which first opened on 2nd Avenue in New York City on March 8, 1968.
• Italian-American
  rally, putting him in a coma.
• June 30
  • U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Pentagon Papers may be published, rejecting government injunctions as unconstitutional prior restraint
    .
  • After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first human-occupied space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft die after their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.

July

Main article: July 1971

• July – Nordic Council secretariat inaugurated.
• July 3 – Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, dies of a heart failure at the age of 27 in the bathtub of his apartment on the 3rd floor of the Rue Beautreillis 17 in Paris, France.
• July 4
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign's mainframe computer, the origin of Project Gutenberg.^[29]
  • The first plane lands at Seychelles International Airport in Victoria, Seychelles (Mahe).^[30]
• 26th Amendment to the United States Constitution, formally certified by President Richard Nixon
  , lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
• President for Life of Malawi
  .
• July 9 – The United Kingdom increases the number of its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.
• July 10–11 – Coup attempt in Morocco: 1,400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement).
• July 10 – Gloria Steinem makes her Address to the Women of America.
• July 11 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
• July 13
  • Ólafur Jóhannesson forms a government in Iceland.
  • Jordanian army troops launch an offensive against Palestinian guerillas in Jordan.
  • The Yugoslavian government begins allowing foreign companies to take their profits from the country.
  • Detroit
    .
• Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco
  .
• 1972 visit to China
  .
• July 17 – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the dispute (Südtirolfrage) regarding South Tyrol.
• July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf.
• July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at 1,362 feet (415 m), making it the second-tallest building in the world.
• July 19–23 – Major Hashem al-Atta ousts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in Sudan. Fighting continues until July 22, when pro-Nimeiri troops regain power. Al-Atta and three officers are executed.
• July 22
  • A
    BOAC flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi, Libya, where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed.^[31]
  • A partial solar eclipse is visible from Asia and North America, and is the 70th and final solar eclipse of Solar Saros 116.
• July 24 – Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971.
• Debussy works in Munich for Deutsche Grammophon
  , his fifth recording.
• July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin) is launched.
• July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub, Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.
• July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
• July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed.
• July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle, a day after landing on the Moon.

August

Main article: August 1971

• August –
  Puerto Rican motorist by city police. Also in 1971, Philadelphia International Records
  is established, with Camden native Leon Huff as co-founder.
• August 1 – In New York City, 40,000 attend The Concert for Bangladesh.
• J. C. Penney debuts its trademark Helvetica
  wordmark which has been used ever since.
• August 5
  • The
    South Pacific Forum
    (SPF) is established.
  • The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 enters service with American Airlines.
• August 6 – A total lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed, visible from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and is the 38th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 128.
• August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth.
• August 9
  • India signs a 20-year treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union.
  • Long Kesh
    prison; 20 people die in the riots that follow.
• August 10 – Mr. Tickle, the first book in the Mr. Men series is first published.^[32]
• Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans
  .
• August 12 – Syria severs diplomatic relations with Jordan because of border clashes.
• August 14
  • British troops are stationed on the Ireland border to stop arms smuggling.
  • Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain (As of 2018^[update] officially the Kingdom of Bahrain).
• August 15
  • Jackie Stewart becomes Formula One World Drivers' Champion in the Tyrrell 003-Cosworth.
  • The number of British troops in Northern Ireland is raised to 12,500.
  • President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will no longer convert dollars to gold at a fixed value, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. He also imposes a 90-day freeze on wages, prices and rents.
• August 16 – Hastings Banda, President of Malawi, becomes the first black president to visit South Africa.^[33]
• August 18
  • Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand decide to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
  • British troops are engaged in a firefight with the IRA in Derry, Northern Ireland.
• August 19–22 – A right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia. Miners and students join troops to support president Juan José Torres, but eventually Hugo Banzer takes over.
• August 20
  • International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (Intelsat) (effective February 12, 1973).
  • The USS Manatee spills 1,000 US gallons (3,800 L) of fuel oil on President Nixon's Western White House beach in San Clemente, California.
  • A partial solar eclipse is visible from Southern Ocean, and is the 4th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 154.
• August 21 – A bomb made of two hand grenades by alleged communist rebels^[a] explodes in the Liberal Party campaign party in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila the Philippines, injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates.
• August 25
  • Border clashes occur between Tanzania and Uganda.
  • Bangladesh and eastern Bengal are flooded; thousands flee the area.
• August 26 – A civilian government takes power in Greece.
• Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election, ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta
  .

September

Main article: September 1971

• September – Operation Sourisak Montry VIII opens when forces of the Royal Thai Army recapture several positions in the territory of Laos on the south bank of the Mekong in response to an encroaching Chinese presence to the north.
• Arab Republic of Egypt
• September 3
  • Qatar gains independence from the United Kingdom. Unlike most nearby emirates, Qatar declines to become part of either the United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia.
  • Manlio Brosio resigns as NATO Secretary General.
• September 4
  • A Boeing 727 (Alaska Airlines Flight 1866) crashes into the side of a mountain near Juneau, Alaska, killing all 111 people on board.
  • The
    Free State of Christiania
    is founded.
• September 8 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
• September 9 – English musician John Lennon releases his second studio album Imagine. Worldwide sales of the title track will exceed 5 million.
• United States National Guard
  storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.
• Hugo L. Black retires as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
  after serving for 34 years, at this time a record for longevity; Black dies eight days later.
• September 19 – Trams in Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) cease to run.
• September 21 – Pakistan declares a state of emergency.
• September 24 – Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.
• September 27–October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.
• September 28 – Cardinal József Mindszenty, who has taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest since 1956, is allowed to leave Hungary.
• September 29 – A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, in the Indian state of Orissa, kills 10,000.

October

Main article: October 1971

• October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
• October 4–7 – Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii.
• October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles 4–3 in Game 4 of the World Series at home in the first ever Major League Baseball postseason game played at night. The Pirates defeat the Orioles 2–1 in the decisive Game 7 at Baltimore four days later.
• October 14 – Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• October 14 – The largest state banquet in history is held at the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran, marking the symbolic Celebration of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire.
• October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles to win the 1971 World Series.
• October 18 – In New York City, the Knapp Commission begins public hearings on police corruption.
• October 21
  • U.S. President
    U.S. Supreme Court
    .
  • The Clarkston explosion in Scotland, caused by a gas leak, kills 22 people.
• October 24 – Texas Stadium opens in Irving, Texas. In the inaugural game, the host Dallas Cowboys defeat the New England Patriots 44–21.
• Republic of China
  (or Taiwan).
• October 27 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
• October 28
  • The House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes 356–244 in favour of joining the European Economic Community.
  • The United Kingdom becomes the sixth nation successfully to launch a satellite into orbit using its own
    Prospero (X-3) experimental communications satellite, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Woomera, South Australia
    .
  • The Khedivial Opera House in Cairo, Egypt, burns down.
• October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).
• October 30
  • Rev. Ian Paisley founds the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland.
  • Meddle, the critically acclaimed album by progressive rock band Pink Floyd, is released.
• October 31 – A bomb explodes at the top of the Post Office Tower in London.

November

Main article: November 1971

• Erin Pizzey establishes the world's first domestic violence shelter in Chiswick, London.^[34][35]
• November 3 – The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.
• underground detonation
  .
• November 8 – Led Zeppelin release their fourth studio album Led Zeppelin IV, which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies in the United States.
• Leghorn, Italy
  , killing all 51 people on board.
• November 10 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging 9 airplanes.
• Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam
  .
• November 13 – Mariner program: Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully.
• November 14 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned.
• November 15
  • Intel releases the world's first microprocessor, the Intel 4004.
  • International Organization and System of Space Communications (Intersputnik) is founded (effective July 12, 1972).
• November 18 – Oman gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• November 20 – A bridge still under construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 48 people are killed and several injured. Reconstructed, the bridge is a part of the Linha Vermelha elevate.
• November 22 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau disaster, five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
• Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations
  ).
• November 24
  • During a severe storm over
    Northwest Orient Airlines
    plane he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again (as of November 2022, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history).
  • A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
• November 28 – The 59th Grey Cup Game sees the Calgary Stampeders beat the Toronto Argonauts 14–11.
• November 30 – Iranian forces occupy the Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa (joint occupation by agreement with Sharjah) and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs (taken by force from Ras Al Khaimah).^[36]

December

Main article: December 1971

• December 1 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray, 10 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh.
• December 2
  • Six of the seven Trucial States combine in an act of union to found the United Arab Emirates.
  • The Soviet Mars 3 lander reaches the surface of Mars, transmits for a few seconds and then goes silent. It is the first spacecraft to reach the planet.
• Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins with Operation Chengiz Khan
  as Pakistan launches preemptive attacks on nine Indian airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.
• December 3–4 – The Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi (former USS Diablo) sinks mysteriously near the Indian coast while laying mines.
• December 4
  • The Montreux Casino burns down during a Frank Zappa concert (the event is memorialized in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water"). The casino is rebuilt in 1975.
  • The McGurk's Bar bombing by the Ulster Volunteer Force in Belfast kills 15.
• December 7 – Battle of Sylhet rages between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.^[37]
• December 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon orders the 7th Fleet to move towards the Bay of Bengal in the Indian Ocean.
• Crisler Arena, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  .
• December 11 – Nihat Erim forms the new government of Turkey (34th government; Nihat Erim has served two times as prime minister).
• Victory Day of Bangladesh: The Pakistan Army in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) surrenders to the joint forces of India and the Bengali nationalist separatists, ending the Bangladesh Liberation War.^[38]
• December 18
  • The
    U.S. dollar is devalued
    for the second time in history.
  • The world's largest
    hydroelectric plant in Krasnoyarsk, Soviet Union
    , begins operations.
• December 19
  • Clube Atlético Mineiro wins the Brazil Football Championship.
  • Intelsat IV (F3) is launched; it enters commercial service over the Atlantic Ocean February 18, 1972.
  • The controversial dystopian crime film A Clockwork Orange, directed by Stanley Kubrick is released in New York City.
• December 20 – Two groups of French doctors involved in humanitarian aid merge to form Médecins Sans Frontières.
• December 24
  • President of the Italian Republic
    .
  • Juliane Koepcke survives a fall of 10,000 feet following disintegration of LANSA Flight 508.
• December 25
  • In the longest American football game in National Football League history, the Miami Dolphins beat the Kansas City Chiefs 27–24 after 82 minutes, 40 seconds of playing time. Garo Yepremian kicked the winning 37-yard field goal after 7:40 of the second overtime period.
  • Daeyeonggak Hotel fire: A fire at a 22-story hotel in Seoul, South Korea, kills 158 people.
• December 26
  • Former teacher Patrick Critton hijacks Air Canada Flight 932, diverting the flight from Canada to Cuba. He would remain a fugitive for almost 30 years.^[39]
  • The first reported sighting of the Nullarbor Nymph in Australia was made. The story traveled around the world until it was proven to be a hoax in 1972.
• December 29 – The United Kingdom gives up its military bases in Malta.
• December 30 – The first McDonald's in Australia opens in Yagoona, Sydney.

Date unknown

• e-mail between host computers,^[40] in late 1971.^[41]
• The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia bans the cultural organization Matica hrvatska (founded in 1842), soon after December 20.
• The Center for Science in the Public Interest is established in the United States.
• Bulanti motorcar built in Australia.
• continental United States
  at approximately 4.5 million barrels per day (720,000 m³/d).

Births

January

• January 1 – Sammie Henson, American wrestler, Olympic silver medalist^[42]
• January 2
  • Taye Diggs, American actor^[43]
  • Renée Elise Goldsberry, American actress, singer and songwriter^[44]
• January 7
  • DJ Ötzi, Austrian entertainer and singer
  • Jeremy Renner, American actor, singer and producer^[45]
• January 11 – Mary J. Blige, American singer^[46]
• January 12
  • Arman Alizad, Iranian-born Finnish tailor and television presenter^[47]
  • Peter Madsen, Danish entrepreneur, engineer, and convicted murderer^[48]
• January 14 – Lasse Kjus, Norwegian alpine skier^[49]
• January 15 – Regina King, American actress^[50]
• January 16 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player^[51]
• January 17 – Kid Rock, American rock singer
• January 18
  • Pep Guardiola, Spanish football player and manager of Manchester City F.C.^[52]
  • Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan writer (d. 2019)^[53]
• January 19 – Shawn Wayans, American actor^[54]
• January 20 – Gary Barlow, British singer-songwriter^[55]
• January 23 – Julie Foudy, American soccer player and commentator
• January 27
  • Sudantha Dias, Sri Lankan former cricketer^[56]
  • Fann Wong, Singporean actress and singer
• January 31 – Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan actress and model

February

• February 1
  • Michael C. Hall, American actor
  • Adriana Lessa, Brazilian actress
  • Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
• February 3 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)^[57]
• February 4
  • Fatmir Limaj, Albanian politician^[58]
  • Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
• February 5 – Sara Evans, American country music singer
• February 8 – Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier^[59]
• February 10
  • Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress (d. 2015)
  • Lisa Marie Varon, American professional wrestler
• February 11
  • Damian Lewis, English actor and producer^[60]
  • Susi Susanti, Indonesian badminton player
• February 13 – Mats Sundin, Swedish ice hockey player
• February 14
  • Kris Aquino, Filipina actress^[61]
  • Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
  • Viscera, American professional wrestler (d. 2014)
  • Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer and actress
• February 15
  • Alex Borstein, American actress, voice artist, producer and screenwriter
  • Renee O'Connor, American actress
• February 16
  • Jack Rose, American guitarist (d. 2009)
  • Amanda Holden, British actress
• February 17 – Denise Richards, American actress
• February 18 – Thomas Bjørn, Danish golfer
  • Hiep Thi Le, Vietnamese-American actress and restaurateur (d. 2017)
• February 19
  • Gil Shaham, Israeli/American violinist^[62]
  • Jeff Kinney, American author
• February 20
  • Calpernia Addams, American actress
  • Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer
  • Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby football player (d. 2017)
• February 22
  • Lisa Fernandez, American softball player^[63]
  • Lea Salonga, Filipino singer and actress
• February 24
  • Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver
  • Gillian Flynn, American author, comic book writer, and screenwriter
• February 25
  • Sean Astin, American actor, voice actor, director, and producer^[64]
  • Nova Peris, Australian athlete and politician^[65]
  • Daniel Powter, Canadian rock musician
• February 26
  • Erykah Badu, American singer-songwriter and record producer
  • Max Martin, Swedish music producer and songwriter
• February 27
  • David Rikl, Czech tennis player^[66]
  • Rozonda Thomas, African-American singer

March

• March 1
  • Allen Johnson, American Olympic athlete^[67]
  • Ma Dong-seok, Korean American actor^[68]
• March 2
  • Method Man, American rapper, record producer, and actor^[69]
  • Karel Rada, Czech footballer
• March 4 – Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer
• March 5 – Yuri Lowenthal, American actor, producer and screenwriter
• March 6 – Val Venis, Canadian professional wrestler
• March 7
  • Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and manager^[70]
  • Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
• March 9 – Diego Torres, Argentine singer
• March 10 – Jon Hamm, American actor, director and producer^[71]
• March 11 – Johnny Knoxville, American actor, comedian, and stunt performer^[72]
• March 16 – Alan Tudyk, American actor^[73]
• March 22 – Karen McDougal, American model and actress
  • Iben Hjejle, Danish actress^[72]
  • Keegan-Michael Key, American actor, writer, and comedian^[74]
• March 24 – Victoria Prentis, British politician
• March 26 – Rennae Stubbs, Australian tennis player^[75]
• March 27
  • David Coulthard, Scottish racing driver^[76]
  • Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor^[77]
• March 29 – Villem Lüüs, Estonian draughts player and World Draughts Federation master (d. 2020)
• March 30 – Mark Consuelos, American actor
• March 31
  • Pavel Bure, Russian ice hockey player^[78]
  • Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor

April

• April 1
  • Jessica Collins, American actress^[79]
  • Daniel Vacek, Czech tennis player^[80]
• April 2
  • Francisco Arce, Paraguayan footballer
  • Todd Woodbridge, Australian tennis player^[81]
• April 3
  • Shireen Abu Akleh, Palestinian/American journalist (d. 2022)^[82]
• April 5 – Haifa El Aissami, Venezuelan lawyer^[83]
  • Picabo Street, American skier^[84]
• April 7 – Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (d. 2008)^[85]
• April 8 – Kim Byung-ji, South Korean goalkeeper
• Formula 1 world champion, 1995 Indy 500 and series champion.^[86]
• April 10 – Nana Smith, American born-Japanese tennis player^[87]
• April 11 – Oliver Riedel, German musician (Rammstein)
• April 12
  • Shannen Doherty, American actress^[88]
  • Eyal Golan, Israeli singer
• April 14 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (d. 2012)
• April 16
  • Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
  • Selena, American singer (d. 1995)
  • Natasha Zvereva, Belarusian tennis player^[89]
• José Francisco Cevallos
  , Ecuadorian footballer
• April 18 – David Tennant, Scottish actor^[90]
• April 20 – Carla Geurts, Dutch swimmer
• D.B. Weiss
  , American television producer and writer, and novelist
• April 24 – Alejandro Fernández, Mexican singer^[91]
• April 28
  • Markus Beyer, German Olympic boxer (d. 2018)
  • Bridget Moynahan, American actress
• April 29
  • Leonid Kudayev, former Russian professional football player
  • Darby Stanchfield, American actress
• April 30 – John Boyne, Irish novelist

May

• May 1 – Ajith Kumar, Indian film actor^[92]
• May 6 – Yolanda Díaz, Spanish politician and lawyer
• May 7 – Serhii Gordiienko, Ukrainian boxing trainer
• Kim Jong-il (d. 2017
  )
• May 14 – Sofia Coppola, American filmmaker
• May 17 – Queen Máxima of the Netherlands^[93]
• May 18 – Brad Friedel, American soccer player^[94]
• May 20 – Tony Stewart, American stock car racing driver and team owner
• May 21 – Aditya Chopra, Indian film director, producer and distributor
• May 23 – George Osborne, British politician
• May 25 – Kristina Orbakaitė, Lithuanian-Russian singer and actress
• May 26 – Matt Stone, American actor, animator, writer, producer, and composer^[95]
• May 27
  • Paul Bettany, British actor^[96]
  • TLC) (d. 2002
    )
• May 28
  • Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Ice dancer
  • Marco Rubio, American politician^[97]
• May 30
  • Idina Menzel, American singer, songwriter and actress
  • John Ross Bowie, American actor and comedian

June

• June 1 – Mario Cimarro, Cuban actor and singer
• June 3 – Luigi Di Biagio, Italian footballer
• June 4
  • Joseph Kabila, 4th President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Noah Wyle, American actor
• June 5
  • Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
  • Mark Wahlberg, American actor, producer, businessman, model and rapper
• June 8 – Jeff Douglas, Canadian actor
• June 10
  • Bobby Jindal, American politician
  • Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, Deputy Prime Minister of Spain^[98]
• June 12 – Mark Henry, American professional wrestler, Olympian
• June 16 – Tupac Shakur, African-American rapper and actor (d. 1996)^[99]
• June 17 – Paulina Rubio, Mexican singer
• June 18 – Jen Kiggans, American politician and nurse^[100]
• June 20 – Josh Lucas, American actor
• Alyson Avenue
  )
• June 22 – Kurt Warner, American football player^[101]
• June 24
  • Thomas Helveg, Danish footballer
  • Ji Jin-hee, South Korean actor
• June 25
  • Angela Kinsey, American actress
  • Neil Lennon, Northern Irish footballer and manager
• June 26 – Max Biaggi, Italian motorcycle racer
• June 27
  • King Dipendra of Nepal (d. 2001)^[102]
  • Serginho, Brazilian footballer^[103]
• June 28
  • Fabien Barthez, French football player
  • Kenny Cunningham, Irish football player
  • Elon Musk, South African-born, American entrepreneur and investor^[104]
  • Aileen Quinn, American actress
• June 29 – Nawal El Zoghbi, Lebanese singer
• June 30 – Monica Potter, American actress

July

• July 1
  • Julianne Nicholson, American actress
  • Amira Casar, French actress
  • Missy Elliott, African-American rapper and singer-songwriter
• July 3
  • Julian Assange, Australian activist^[105]
  • Benedict Wong, English actor
• July 7 – Christian Camargo, American actor, producer, writer and director
• July 8
  • Marc Andreessen, American software developer
  • Marcel Blaguet Ledjou, Ivorian Chairman of the Africa Scout Committee
  • Scott Grimes, American actor
  • John Juanda, Indonesian-American professional poker player
• July 11
  • Brett Hauer, American ice hockey player
  • Park Hyuk-kwon, South Korean actor
• July 12 – Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
• July 13 – MF Doom, British rapper (d. 2020)^[106]
• July 14
  • Howard Webb, English football referee^[107]
• July 16 – Corey Feldman, American actor
• July 17
  • Cory Doctorow, Canadian author and activist^[108]
  • Benjamin Herrmann, German film producer and distributor
• July 18
  • Penny Hardaway, American basketball player^[109]
  • Sukhwinder Singh, Indian playback singer
• July 19 – Vitali Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer and politician
• July 20 – Sandra Oh, Korean actress
• July 21 – Charlotte Gainsbourg, French actress and singer-songwriter
• July 22 – Kristine Lilly, American soccer player
• July 23
  • Ahmed Ezz, Egyptian actor
  • Alison Krauss, American country singer^[110]
• July 26 – Khaled Mahmud, Bangladeshi cricketer
• July 28 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Iraqi Islamic extremist leader (d. 2019)
• July 30 – Mzukisi Sikali, South African triple world champion boxer (d. 2005)^[111]

August

• August 1 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (d. 2008)^[112]
• August 4
  • Jeff Gordon, American race car driver
  • Yo-Yo, African-American rapper
• August 5 – Valdis Dombrovskis, Latvian Prime Minister and European Commissioner^[113]
• August 9 – James Kim, American television personality and technology analyst (d. 2006)
• August 10
  • Fábio Assunção, Brazilian actor
  • Roy Keane, Irish footballer and manager
  • Mario César Kindelán Mesa
    , Cuban amateur boxer
  • Justin Theroux, American actor
• August 12
  • Yvette Nicole Brown, African-American actress and comedian
  • Michael Ian Black, American actor and comedian
  • Pete Sampras, American tennis player^[114]
• August 13
  • Moritz Bleibtreu, German actor
  • Heike Makatsch, German actress
• August 14 – Peter Franzén, Finnish actor^[115][116]
• August 17 – Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican baseball player
• August 18 – Aphex Twin, Irish-born British electronic musician
• August 19 – Mary Joe Fernández, American tennis player^[117]
• August 20
  • Ke Huy Quan, Vietnamese actor
  • David Walliams, British actor, author and comedian
• August 21 – Robert Harvey, Australian rules footballer
• August 22
  • Richard Armitage, English actor
  • Benoît Violier, French born-Swiss chef (d. 2016)
• August 23 – Gretchen Whitmer, American politician and 49th Governor of Michigan^[118]
• August 25 – Ayumi Miyazaki, Japanese singer
• August 26 – Thalía, Mexican actress and singer
• August 27 – Julian Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer
• August 28 – Janet Evans, American swimmer^[119]
• August 29 – Carla Gugino, American actress
• August 31
  • Pádraig Harrington, Irish golfer
  • Kinga Preis, Polish actress
  • Chris Tucker, African-American actor and comedian
  • Alicia Villarreal, Mexican singer and songwriter

September

• September 1
  • Hakan Şükür, Turkish footballer
  • Dave Wittenberg, South African-born American voice actor
• September 2
  • Kjetil André Aamodt
    , Norwegian alpine skier
  • César Sánchez, Spanish footballer
• September 4
  • Mark Knowles, Bahamian tennis player^[120]
  • Anita Yuen, Hong Kong actress
• September 5 – Kevin McAleenan, American government official, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
• September 6 – Dolores O'Riordan, Irish singer (The Cranberries) (d. 2018)
• September 7
  • Shane Mosley, African-American professional boxer
  • Briana Scurry, American soccer player
• September 8
  • David Arquette, American actor, professional wrestler, film director, producer, screenwriter and fashion designer
  • Martin Freeman, English actor^[121]
• September 9 – Henry Thomas, American actor
• September 11 – Alessandra Rosaldo, Mexican actress, singer and dancer
• September 13
  • Goran Ivanišević, Croatian tennis player^[122]
  • Stella McCartney, British fashion designer, daughter of Paul McCartney
• September 14 – André Matos, Brazilian singer (d. 2019)
• September 15 – Josh Charles, American actor
• September 16 – Amy Poehler, American actress
• September 17
  • Edílson, Brazilian footballer
  • Adriana Sklenarikova
    , Slovak fashion model and actress
  • Jens Voigt, German cyclist
• September 18
  • Lance Armstrong, American cyclist
  • Anna Netrebko, Russian operatic soprano
  • Jada Pinkett Smith, African-American actress, singer, and songwriter
• September 19 – Sanaa Lathan, African-American actress
• September 20
  • Henrik Larsson, Swedish footballer and manager
  • Judith Uitermark, Dutch judge and politician
• September 21
  • Alfonso Ribeiro, American actor, television director, dancer, and host of America's Funniest Home Videos
  • Luke Wilson, American actor
• September 23 – Lee Mi-yeon, South Korean actress
• September 24 – Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist and entomologist
• September 27 – Horacio Sandoval, Mexican artist
• September 29 – Sibel Tüzün, Turkish pop/rock/jazz singer
• September 30
  • Jenna Elfman, American actress
  • Jeff Whitty, American playwright
  • Fabiola Zavarce, Venezuelan activist^[123]

October

• October 1 – Gigi Lai, Hong Kong actress and singer^[124]
• October 2
  • Xavier Naidoo, German singer^{[citation needed]}
  • Tiffany Darwish, American singer
  • Jim Root, American guitarist (Slipknot, ex-Stone Sour)
• October 3 – Kevin Richardson, American pop singer
• October 4 – Ridwan Kamil, Indonesian architect, politician and current governor of West Java
• October 6 – Emily Mortimer, English actress and screenwriter
• October 7
  • Yelena Shevchenko, Soviet gymnast
  • Melinda Schneider, Australian singer and songwriter
• October 8 – Mayrín Villanueva, Mexican actress and model
• October 10 – Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist^[125]
• October 11 – Aman Verma, Indian television anchor and actor
• October 12 – Đàm Vĩnh Hưng, Vietnamese singer
• October 13
  • Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian and actor
  • Pyrros Dimas, Greek weightlifter
• Jorge Costa
  , Portuguese footballer
• October 15 – Niko Kovač, German-Croatian football player and coach^[126]
• October 17 – Andy Whitfield, Welsh actor and model (d. 2011)
• October 18 – Yoo Sang-chul, South Korean footballer and manager (d. 2021)
• October 20
  • Snoop Dogg, African-American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, media personality, entrepreneur, and actor
  • Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
• October 21 – Ted Budd, American politician^[127]
• October 22
  • Amanda Coetzer, South African tennis player^[128]
  • Jennifer Lee, American screenwriter, director, Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios
• October 23 – Bohuslav Sobotka, 11th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
• October 24
  • Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
  • Gustavo Jorge, Argentina rugby union player
  • Diane Guthrie-Gresham, Jamaican track and field athletes
• October 25
  • Athena Chu, Hong Kong actress and singer^[129]
  • Midori Gotō, Japanese violinist^[130]
  • Pedro Martínez, Dominican baseball player
  • Craig Robinson, African-American actor, comedian and singer
• October 26 – Anthony Rapp, American actor and singer
• October 29
  • Roman Catholic religious teenager and blessed (d. 1990
    )
  • Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer
  • Ma Huateng, Chinese business magnate, founder of TenCent
  • Winona Ryder, American actress^[131]

November

• November 3 – Unai Emery, Spanish football coach
• November 4 – Tabu, Indian actress
• November 5 – Jonny Greenwood, English musician and composer
• November 6 – Laura Flessel-Colovic, French fencer and politician^[132]
• November 7 – Rituparna Sengupta, Indian actress
• November 8 – Tech N9ne, American rapper
• November 10
  • Big Pun, American/Latin rapper (d. 2000)
  • Fahri Hamzah, Indonesian politician^[133]
  • Niki Karimi, Iranian actress and movie director
  • Mario Abdo Benítez, President of Paraguay
• November 12
  • Yasuo Aiuchi, Japanese snowboarder
  • Chen Guangcheng, Chinese civil rights activist
• November 14 – Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer
• November 15 – Delsa Solórzano, Venezuelan lawyer and politician^[134]
• November 16
  • Justine Clarke, Australian actress
  • Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer^[135]
• November 18 – Özlem Tekin, Turkish singer
• November 20
  • Dion Nash, New Zealand cricket captain^[136]
  • Joel McHale, Italian-born American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host
• November 22 – Cecilia Suárez, Mexican actress and activist
• November 23 – Chris Hardwick, American actor, comedian, and television host
• November 25 – Christina Applegate, American actress
• November 27 – Albert Demchenko, Russian luger
• November 28 – Fenriz, Norwegian musician
• November 30
  • Jessalyn Gilsig, Canadian actress
  • Kristi Noem, American politician^[137]

December

• December 2 – Francesco Toldo, Italian footballer^[138]
• December 3 – Frank Sinclair, Jamaican footballer
• December 5
  • Katherine Haringhton, Venezuelan lawyer^[139]
  • Kali Rocha, American actress
• December 6
  • Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player^[140]
  • Ryan White, American AIDS activist (d. 1990)
  • Craig Brewer, American film director
• December 7
  • Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player
  • Larisa Alexandrovna, Ukrainian-American feminist
• December 11 – Erkan Petekkaya, Turkish actor^[141]
• December 12
  • Sammy Korir, Kenyan long-distance runner
  • Alireza Mansourian, Iranian footballer
• December 15 – Necati Şaşmaz, Turkish actor^[142]
• December 16
  • Scott Booth, Scottish footballer
  • Paul van Dyk, German dance music DJ, musician and record producer^[143][144]
• December 17
  • Alan Khan, South African radio and TV presenter
  • Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
  • Artur Petrosyan, Armenian footballer
• December 18
  • Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player^[145]
  • Li Yanxiu, Taiwanese politician
• December 19
  • Amy Locane, American actress
  • Figen Yüksekdağ, Turkish politician
• December 21 – Natalie Grant, American singer and songwriter
• December 22 – Khalid Khannouchi, Moroccan long-distance runner
• December 23 – Corey Haim, Canadian actor (d. 2010)
• December 24
  • Giorgos Alkaios, Greek recording artist
  • Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican singer
• December 25
  • Dido, English singer
  • Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada^[146]
• December 26 – Jared Leto, American actor and musician (Thirty Seconds to Mars)
• December 27 – Sergei Bodrov Jr., Russian actor (d. 2002)
• December 31 – Brent Barry, American basketball player^[147]

Deaths

January

• Roman Catholic priest, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1889)^[148]
• January 4 – Arthur Ford, American psychic spiritual medium and clairaudient (b. 1896)^[149]
• January 5 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer (b. 1899)
• January 10 – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)^[150]
• January 11 – Hussein Al Oweini, 18th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1900)^[151]
• January 12 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, British admiral (b. 1885)
• January 14 – Guillermo de Torre, Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900)
• January 15 – John Dall, American actor (b. 1920)
• January 17 – Lothar Rendulic, Austrian-born German general (b. 1887)
• January 20 – Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880)
• January 24 – Bill W., co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895)^[152]
• January 25 – Hermann Hoth, German general (b. 1885)^[153]
• January 27 – Jacobo Árbenz, 19th President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
• January 28 – Donald Winnicott, British psychoanalyst (b. 1896)

February

• February 1 – Raoul Hausmann, Austrian artist (b. 1886)^[154]
• February 3 – Jay C. Flippen, American actor (b. 1899)^[155]
• February 4 – Brock Chisholm, Canadian physician, 1st Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1896)^[156]
• February 5 – Mátyás Rákosi, 43rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1892)^[157]
• February 6 – Shigeru Fukudome, Japanese admiral (b. 1891)
• J. C. Penney (b. 1875)^[158]
• February 17 – Adolf A. Berle, American lawyer, educator, author and diplomat (b. 1895)
• February 18 – Jaime de Barros Câmara, Brazilian archbishop (b. 1894)
• February 19 – Ibrahim Mohammad Jahfar, Bruneian politician (b. 1902)
• February 25 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)

March

• March 3 – António Silva, Portuguese actor (b. 1886)
• March 7 – Stevie Smith (Florence Margaret Smith), English poet and novelist (b. 1902)^[159]
• March 8 – Harold Lloyd, American actor and filmmaker (b. 1893)
• March 9
  • Anthony Berkeley Cox, English writer (b. 1893)
  • Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
• March 11
  • Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906
    )
  • C. D. Broad, English philosopher (b. 1887)
• March 12 – David Burns, American actor (b. 1902)
• March 16
  • Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901)
  • Thomas E. Dewey, Governor of New York; American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
• March 22 – Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)
• March 23 – Basil Dearden, English film director (b. 1911)
• March 24 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (b. 1902)

April

• April 3 – Joseph Valachi, American gangster (b. 1904)^[160]
• April 6 – Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)^[161]
• April 12 – Igor Tamm, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)^[162]
• April 15 – Friedebert Tuglas, Estonian writer and critic (b. 1886)^[163]
• April 19 – Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (b. 1895)
• April 20 – Cecil Parker, English actor (b. 1897)^[164]
• April 21
  • François Duvalier, 32nd President of Haiti (b. 1907)^[165]
  • Edmund Lowe, American actor (b. 1890)
• April 25 – T. V. Soong, Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1891)^[166]
• April 30 – Albin Stenroos, Finnish athlete (b. 1889)

May

• May 1 – Glenda Farrell, American actress (b. 1904)
• RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1887)^[167]
• May 6 – Helene Weigel, German actress (b. 1900)^[168]
• Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern, English-born Rhodesian politician and physician, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1883
  )
• May 11 – Seán Lemass, 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1899)
• May 12 – Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (b. 1903)
• May 19
  • Ogden Nash, American poet (b. 1902)^[169]
  • Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete, Olympic champion (1920) (b. 1895)^[170]
• May 27 – Chips Rafferty, Australian actor (b. 1909)
• May 28
  • Buddhist nun (b. 1896
    )
  • Audie Murphy, American World War II hero and actor (b. 1925)
  • Jean Vilar, French stage actor (b. 1912)
• May 30 – Marcel Dupré, French composer (b. 1886)

June

• June 1
  • Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian (b. 1892)
  • Aksel Jacobsen Bogdanoff, Norwegian communist (b. 1922)
• June 4 – György Lukács, Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic (b. 1885)^[171]
• June 10 – Michael Rennie, English actor (b. 1909)
• June 14 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (b. 1896)
• June 15 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
• June 18
  • Thomas Gomez, American actor (b. 1905)
  • Libby Holman, American singer and actress (b. 1904)
  • Paul Karrer, Swiss chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
• June 19 – Garfield Wood, American motorboat racer (b. 1880)
• John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr, Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880
  )
• June 29
  • Crew of Soyuz 11:
    • Georgy Dobrovolsky (b. 1928)
    • Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933)
    • Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935)
• June 30 – Herbert Biberman, Jewish-American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900)

July

• July 1
  • Sir Lawrence Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
  • Learie Constantine, Baron Constantine, Trinidadian cricketer (b. 1901)
• July 3 – Jim Morrison, American singer (The Doors) (b. 1943)
• July 4
  • Maurice Bowra, British critic and academic (b. 1898)^[172]
  • August Derleth, American author and anthologist (b. 1909)^[173]
  • Thomas C. Hart, American admiral and politician (b. 1877)
• July 6 – Louis Armstrong, African-American jazz trumpeter (b. 1901)
• July 7 – Ub Iwerks, American animator (b. 1901)
• July 17 – Cliff Edwards, American actor (b. 1895)
• July 19 – John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever, American-born British businessman (b. 1886)
• July 21 – Michael Somogyi, Hungarian-American biochemist (b. 1883)^[174]
• July 23
  • Van Heflin, American actor (b. 1908)
  • William Tubman, 19th president of Liberia (b. 1895)
• July 24 – Alan Rawsthorne, British Composer (b. 1905)
• July 26 – Diane Arbus, American photographer (b. 1923)

August

• August 5 – Royal Rife, American inventor (b. 1888)
• August 11 – Sir John Burton Cleland, Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist (b. 1878)
• August 13
  • W. O. Bentley, English engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1888)^[175]
  • King Curtis, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
• August 15 – Paul Lukas, Hungarian-born American actor (b. 1894)
• August 17 – Wilhelm List, German field marshal (b. 1880)
• August 21 – George Jackson, American author (b. 1941)
• August 24 – Carl Blegen, American archaeologist (b. 1887)
• August 25 – Ted Lewis, American musician and entertainer (b. 1890)
• August 27 – Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer (b. 1904)
• August 28 – Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey, British judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II (b. 1880)

September

• September 7 – Spring Byington, American actress (b. 1886)
• September 8 – Emmett Toppino, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
• September 10 – Pier Angeli, Italian actress (b. 1932)
• September 11
  • Bella Darvi, Polish actress (b. 1928)
  • Percy Helton, American actor (b. 1894)^[176]
  • Joe Jordan, American ragtime composer (b. 1882)^[177]
  • Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader (b. 1894)
• September 13 – Lin Biao, Chinese defense minister (b. 1907)
• September 14 – Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Bangladeshi novelist (b. 1898)
• September 19 – William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (b. 1891)^[178]
• September 20 – Giorgos Seferis, Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• September 21 – Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• September 23
  • James Waddell Alexander II, American mathematician and topologist (b. 1888)
  • Billy Gilbert, American actor (b. 1894)
• September 25 – Hugo Black, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1886)

October

• October 3 – Leah Baird, American actress (b. 1883)
• October 10 – Sir Cyril Burt, British educational psychologist (b. 1883)
• October 11 – Chester Conklin, American actor (b. 1886)
• October 12
  • Dean Acheson, 51st United States Secretary of State (b. 1893)
  • Gene Vincent, American singer (b. 1935)
• October 17 – Sergey Kavtaradze, Soviet politician and diplomat (b. 1885)
• October 19 – Betty Bronson, American actress (b. 1906)
• October 21
  • Raymond Hatton, American actor (b. 1887)
  • Naoya Shiga, Japanese writer (b. 1883)
• October 24 – Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• October 29
  • Allman Brothers Band (b. 1946
    )
  • Arne Tiselius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)

November

• November 1 – Gertrud von Le Fort, German writer of novels, poems and essays (b. 1876)^[179]
• November 2 – Martha Vickers, American actress (b. 1925)
• November 4
  • Ann Pennington, American actress and dancer (b. 1893)^[180]
  • Guillermo León Valencia, 21st President of Colombia (b. 1909)
• November 9 – Maude Fealy, American stage and film actor (b. 1883)
• November 10 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark, American novelist (b. 1909)^[181]
• November 11 – A. P. Herbert, English humorist, novelist and politician (b. 1890)^[182]
• November 14 – Hanna Neumann, German mathematician (b. 1914)
• November 16 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b. 1943)
• November 17 – Dame Gladys Cooper, British actress (b. 1888)
• November 22 – József Zakariás, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1924)
• November 23 – Ryūnosuke Kusaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1893)
• November 25 – Hank Mann, American comedic actor (b. 1887)
• November 26 – James Alberione, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1884)
• November 28
  • Wasfi Tal, three-time prime minister of Jordan (b. 1919)
  • Sir
    Premier of Barbados (b. 1898
    )
• November 29 – Edith Tolkien, English wife of, and inspiration for, J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1889)^[183]
• November 30 – Ilie Crețulescu, Romanian general (b. 1889)^[184]

December

• December 2 – Sir Derwent Hall Caine, English actor (b. 1891)
• December 6 – Mathilde Kschessinska, Russian ballerina (b. 1872)
• December 9 – Ralph Bunche, African-American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904)
• December 10 – Gotthard Heinrici, German general (b. 1886)
• December 12
  • Alan Morton, Scottish footballer (b. 1893)
  • David Sarnoff, American radio and television pioneer (b. 1891)
• December 15 – Paul Levy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
• December 18
  • Bobby Jones, American golfer (b. 1902)
  • Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
• December 20 – Roy O. Disney, American studio executive (b. 1893)
• December 22 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch writer (b. 1913)
• December 24 – Maria Koepcke, German ornithologist (b. 1924)
• December 26 – Robert Lowery, American actor (b. 1913)
• December 28 – Max Steiner, Austrian-born film composer (b. 1888)^[185]
• December 30
  • Jo Cals, Dutch politician and jurist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1965–1966) (b. 1914)
  • Dorothy Comingore, American actress (b. 1913)
• December 31
  • Pete Duel, American actor (b. 1940)
  • Marin Sais, American film actress (b. 1890)^[186]

Date unknown

• Olivér Pittner, Hungarian painter (b. 1911)^[187]

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Dennis Gabor
• Chemistry – Gerhard Herzberg
• Earl W. Sutherland, Jr
• Literature – Pablo Neruda
• Peace – Willy Brandt
• Economics – Simon Kuznets

Notes

References