Wikipedia / 1987
Wikipedia / 1987
1987 was the last year to have four unique digits or no repeating numbers until 2013.
Events
January
January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade.
January 3 – Afghan leader Mohammad Najibullah says that Afghanistan's 1978 Communist revolution is "not reversible," and that any opposition parties will have to align with Communist goals.
1987 Maryland train collision: An Amtrak train en route from Washington, D.C. to Boston collides with Conrail engines at Chase, Maryland, United States, killing 16 people.
Televangelist Oral Roberts announces to his viewers that unless they donate $8 million to his ministry by March 31, God will "call [him] home."
January 15 – Hu Yaobang, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, is forced into retirement by political conservatives.
January 16 – León Febres Cordero, president of Ecuador, is kidnapped for 11 hours by followers of imprisoned general Frank Vargas, who successfully demand the latter's release.
January 17 – The Jumalan teatteri ("The theatre of God") theatre students' group cause a huge scandal at the Oulu City Theatre in Oulu, Finland by throwing excrement, eggs and yoghurt on the audience during their two-minute performance.
January 20 – Terry Waite, the special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lebanon, is kidnapped in Beirut (released November 1991).
January 24 – 1987 Forsyth County protests: About 20,000 protestors marched in a civil rights demonstration in Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.
January 28 – The United States establishes diplomatic relations with Mongolia.
February
February 6 – The Soviet oil tanker Antonio Gramsci suffers a minor shipwreck in Finnish waters en route to the Neste oil refinery in Porvoo, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 570–650 tons.
British Airways is privatised and listed on the London Stock Exchange.
The new Constitution of the Philippines goes into effect. This new constitution adds Spanish and Arabic as optional languages of the Philippines.
February 20 – A second Unabomber bomb explodes at a Salt Lake City computer store parking lot in the United States, injuring the owner's son.
February 23 – SN 1987A, the first "naked-eye" supernova since 1604, is observed.
Beginning of the Phosphorite War protest movement in the Estonian SSR.
The U.S. Supreme Court rules in United States v. Paradise that affirmative action is lawful if the organization in question has a history of pervasive racial discrimination in hiring practices; in this case, police departments in the state of Alabama. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. rules that the government is "justified by a compelling governmental interest in eradicating the Department's pervasive, systematic, and obstinate discriminatory exclusion of blacks."
February 26 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes U.S. President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his National Security Council staff.
February 28 – A Rüppell's vulture chick is hatched at the Milwaukee County Zoo, the first time the animal has been successfully bred in North America.
March
March 1 – The first Starbucks outside of the US is opened in Vancouver, Canada.
March 4 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan addresses the American people on the Iran–Contra affair, acknowledging that his overtures to Iran had "deteriorated" into an arms-for-hostages deal.
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake occurs in Napo Province in northeast Ecuador, killing roughly 1,000 people.
Zeebrugge disaster: Roll-on/roll-off cross-channel ferry capsizes off Zeebrugge harbor in Belgium; 193 people die.
March 7 – 1987 Lieyu massacre: The Republic of China Army execute 19 unarmed Vietnamese refugees on Donggang beach, Lieyu, Kinmen off Mainland China.
March 18 – Woodstock of physics: A marathon session of the American Physical Society's meeting features 51 presentations concerning the science of high-temperature superconductors.
March 20 – AZT is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for use in the treatment of HIV/AIDS.
March 24 – Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and French Prime Minister and future President of France, Jacques Chirac, sign an agreement to construct the Euro Disney Resort (now called Disneyland Paris) and to develop the Val d'Europe area of the new town Marne-la-Vallée in Paris, France.
March 28 – The 1987 Aegean crisis, which occurred near the Greek island of Thasos, was a confrontation between Greece and Turkey that was ultimately resolved peacefully. Turkey agreed to withdraw its vessels under the condition of Greece not pursue oil drills beyond its territorial waters.
The World Wrestling Federation (later WWE) produces WrestleMania III from the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan. The event is particularly notable for the record attendance of 93,173, the largest recorded attendance for a live indoor sporting event in North America until February 14, 2010, when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game has an attendance of 108,713 at AT&T Stadium.
A hybrid solar eclipse is the second hybrid solar eclipse in less than one year, the first being on October 3, 1986. It is annular visible in southern Argentina, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan (part of the path of annularity crossed today's South Sudan), Ethiopia, Djibouti and northern Somalia and totally visible in Atlantic Ocean, lasting just 7.57 seconds.
March 30 – The 59th Academy Awards take place in Los Angeles, with Platoon winning Best Picture.
March 31 – Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, conducts a 45-minute interview on Soviet television.
April
April 5 – Schoharie Creek Bridge Collapse: I-90 bridge collapse near Fort Hunter leaves 10 people dead. Investigators conclude that the bridge's piers had been weakened by structural flaws and significant scour. The accident leads to stricter safety standards in bridge design and inspection. The body of the 10th victim will ultimately be recovered from the Mohawk River more than two years later.
April 13 – The governments of the Portuguese Republic and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau will be returned to China in 1999.
April 14 – Turkey applied for membership to the European Economic Community (now the European Union).
April 15 – An insurrection in Sri Lanka by the Marxist–Leninist group, JVP, begins.
April 19 – The Simpsons cartoon first appears as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
April 21 – In Colombo, Sri Lanka, the Central Bus Station Bombing kills 113 civilians.
April 27 – The United States Department of Justice declares incumbent Austrian president Kurt Waldheim an "undesirable alien".
April 30 – Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the Provincial Premiers agree in principle to the Meech Lake Accord which would bring Quebec into the constitution.
May
May 4 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Rotary Int'l v. Rotary Club of Duarte that local Rotary Clubs do not have a constitutional right to deny membership to women. Other clubs thereafter comply with the ruling: Lions International begins admitting women in June, and Kiwanis Club in July.
May 8 – Loughgall ambush: A 24-man unit of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) ambushed eight members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) as they mounted an attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks. All IRA members were killed as well as one civilian.
May 9 – A Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-62 airliner, operated by LOT Polish Airlines, crashes into a forest just outside Warsaw, killing all 183 people on board.
May 11 – Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.
May 14 – Lieutenant Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka executes a bloodless coup in Fiji.
May 17 – Iran–Iraq War: is hit by two Iraqi-owned Exocet AM39 air-to-surface missiles killing 37 sailors.
The Hashimpura massacre occurs in Meerut, India.
The inaugural Rugby World Cup hosted by both New Zealand and Australia kicks off. In the opening match of the new tournament, New Zealand beat Italy in the pool stage.
At the Prater Stadium of Vienna, Porto of Portugal defeats Bayern München of West Germany 2–1 and wins its first European Cup.
In one of the densest concentrations of humanity in history, a crowd of 800,000+ packed shoulder-to-shoulder onto the Golden Gate Bridge and its approaches for its 50th Anniversary celebration.
May 28 – Eighteen-year-old West German pilot Mathias Rust evades Soviet air defenses and lands a private plane on Red Square in Moscow. He is immediately detained (released on August 3, 1988).
June
June 3 – The Vanuatu Labour Party is founded.
June 8 – The New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act is passed, the first of its kind in the world.
June 11 – The Conservative Party of the United Kingdom, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected for a third term at the 1987 general election.
June 12 – During a visit to Berlin, Germany, U.S. President Ronald Reagan challenges Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
June 13 – At the Paris Air Show, Boeing announces the sale of their 1,842nd Boeing 737, making the 737 the best-selling airliner of all time.
June 17 – With the death of the last known individual, the dusky seaside sparrow, a subspecies native to the US state of Florida, becomes extinct.
Teddy Seymour is officially designated the first black man to sail around the world, when he completes his solo sailing circumnavigation in Frederiksted, St. Croix, of the United States Virgin Islands.
Edwards v. Aguillard: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that a Louisiana law requiring that creation science be taught in public schools whenever evolution is taught is unconstitutional.
Hipercor bombing: the Basque terrorist group ETA perpetrate a car-bomb attack at an Hipercor market in Barcelona, killing 21 and wounding 45.
June 20 – New Zealand wins the inaugural Rugby World Cup after beating France in the final.
June 27 – A commercial HS 748 (Philippine Airlines Flight 206) crashes near Baguio, Philippines, killing 50.
Iraqi warplanes drop mustard-gas bombs on the Iranian town of Sardasht in two separate bombing rounds, on four residential areas. This is the first time a civilian town has been targeted by chemical weapons.
An accidental explosion at the Hohenfels Training Area in West Germany kills 3 U.S. troops.
June 29 – South Korean politician, presidential candidate of the ruling party Roh Tae-woo makes a speech promising a wide program of nationwide reforms, the result of the June Democracy Movement.
June 30 – Canada introduces a one-dollar coin, nicknamed the "Loonie".
July
July 1 – The Single European Act is passed by the European Community.
July 3 – Greater Manchester Police in England recover the body of 16-year-old Pauline Reade from Saddleworth Moor, after her killers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley help them in their search, almost exactly 24 years since Pauline was last seen alive.
July 4 – A court in Lyon sentences former Gestapo boss Klaus Barbie to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
July 8 – A Delta Air Lines L-1011 strays 60 miles off course and nearly collides with a Continental Airlines 747 over the Atlantic Ocean. The two planes are carrying nearly 600 total passengers and may have come within 100 feet of each other.
1987 Australian federal election: Bob Hawke's Labor government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Liberal Party led by John Howard and the National Party led by Ian Sinclair.
World population is estimated to have reached five billion people, according to the United Nations.
July 15 – Martial law in Taiwan ends after 38 years.
July 17 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 2,500 mark for the first time, at 2,510.04.
July 22 – Palestinian cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali is shot in London; he dies August 28.
July 23 – The United States Census Bureau reports the biggest population gains in metropolitan U.S. areas of over 1 million people since 1980: Phoenix (population increase of 26%); Dallas-Fort Worth (+25%); Atlanta (+20%); San Antonio (+19%) Tampa-Saint Petersburg (+19%); San Diego (+18%); Sacramento (+17%); and Houston (+17%). The largest population losses were in Rust Belt cities: Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland.
July 25 – The East Lancashire Railway, a heritage railway in the North West of England, is opened between Bury and Ramsbottom.
July 27 – Salvage dives begin on the wreck of the Titanic; survivor Eva Hart likens the salvage teams to "vultures."
Four hundred pilgrims are killed in clashes between demonstrating Iranian pilgrims and Saudi Arabian security forces in Mecca.
Docklands Light Railway in London, the first driverless railway in Great Britain, is formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
An F4-rated tornado devastates eastern Edmonton, Alberta; hardest hit are an industrial park and a trailer park. 27 people are killed and hundreds injured, with hundreds more left homeless and jobless.
August
The World Commission on Environment and Development, also known as the Brundtland Commission, publishes its report, Our Common Future.
The Federal Communications Commission rescinds the Fairness Doctrine, which had required radio and television stations to present alternative views on controversial issues.
The Colombian frigate Caldas enters Venezuelan waters near the Los Monjes Archipelago, sparking the Caldas frigate crisis between both nations.
American Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim the Bering Strait, crossing from Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in 2 hours and 5 minutes.
August 9 – Hoddle Street massacre in Australia: Julian Knight, 19, goes on a shooting rampage in the Melbourne suburb of Clifton Hill, Victoria, killing 7 people and injuring 19 before surrendering to police.
August 11 – Apple introduces Hypercard, a precursor to the World Wide Web.
All the children held at Kai Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon, Australia, run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
Angolan Civil War: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale begins in Angola and further intensifies the South African Border War.
August 15 – Great Basin National Park is dedicated; it is the 49th national park in the United States and the first in the state of Nevada.
Northwest Airlines Flight 255 (a McDonnell Douglas MD-82) crashes on takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan, just west of Detroit, killing all but one (4-year-old Cecelia Cichan) of the 156 people on board.
The followers of the Harmonic Convergence claim it is observed around the world.
August 17 – Rudolf Hess is found dead in his cell in Spandau Prison. Hess, 93, is believed to have committed suicide by hanging himself with an electrical flex. He was the last remaining prisoner at the complex, which is soon to be demolished.
Hungerford massacre: Sixteen people die in an apparently motiveless mass shooting in the United Kingdom, carried out by Michael Ryan.
ABC News' chief Middle East correspondent Charles Glass escapes his Hezbollah kidnappers in Beirut, Lebanon, after 62 days in captivity.
The Order of the Garter is opened to women.
August 22 – The Parliament of Zimbabwe votes to eliminate the 20 seats reserved for the white minority.
August 23 – The Hirvepark meeting is organized as the first unsanctioned political meeting in Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic, in commemoration of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
August 24 – Mozert v. Hawkins decision: The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the class readings assigned by public schools in Hawkins County, Tennessee do not violate Christian students' First Amendment rights.
August 26 – Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County decision: The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the earlier ruling of a lower court which found that certain public school textbooks promoted the "religion" of secular humanism; in this final ruling, the court finds that the plaintiffs have not proven that the state is presenting secular humanism as a religious ideology.
August 31 – Michael Jackson releases Bad, his first studio album since Thriller, the best-selling album of all time. The album would produce five number one singles in the US, a record which has not been broken.
September
September 1 – Honda announces plans to build a second U.S. assembly plant, the East Liberty Auto Plant.
September 2 – In Moscow, USSR, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
September 3 – In a coup d'état in Burundi, President Jean-Baptiste Bagaza is deposed by Major Pierre Buyoya.
September 4 – In a village in Rajasthan, an 18-year-old widow, Roop Kanwar is burned alive on her husband's funeral pyre, in a banned practice known as Sati. Though the woman's father-in-law is arrested by authorities, thousands of Hindu pilgrims travel to the cremation site in support of the act.
September 7–21 – The world's first conference on artificial life is held at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States.
September 7 – Erich Honecker makes a visit to Bonn, the first (and last) visit by an East German head of state to West Germany.
September 11 – Chadian–Libyan War: Chad and Libya sign a ceasefire under supervision of the Organisation of African Unity, officially ending the 14-year territorial conflict. Sporadic fighting will continue.
September 13 – Goiânia accident: Metal scrappers open an old radiation source abandoned in a hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, causing the worst radiation accident ever in an urban area.
September 23 – The United States and Poland agree to exchange ambassadors after a four-year break in relations.
October
October 3 – The Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement is reached but still requires ratification. This agreement would be a precursor to NAFTA.
Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India.
The U.S. Department of Education announces new guidelines for teaching about AIDS in public schools, emphasizing the importance of abstinence and "appropriate moral and social conduct."
October 8 – Gaddafi announces that Algeria and Libya have "agreed in principle" to a proposed union of the two states, which Gaddafi suggests should be named "Algibya."
October 8–November 8 – The 1987 Cricket World Cup is held in India and Pakistan with Australia defeating England in the final.
October 15 – In Burkina Faso, a military coup is orchestrated by Blaise Compaoré against incumbent President Thomas Sankara.
October 15–16 – The Great storm of 1987 strikes southern Great Britain and northwestern France. It is one of the strongest storms to affect the region in the past 200 years.
Black Monday: Stock market levels fall sharply on Wall Street and around the world.
Operation Earnest Will: US warships destroy two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf.
Two commuter trains collide head-on on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia; 102 are killed.
October 22 – The pilot of a British Aerospace BAE Harrier GR5 registered ZD325 accidentally ejects from his aircraft. The jet continues to fly until it runs out of fuel and crashes into the Irish Sea.
British champion jockey Lester Piggott is jailed for three years after being convicted of tax evasion.
On a vote of 58–42, the United States Senate rejects President Ronald Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
October 25 – The Minnesota Twins won 4 games to 3 in the 1987 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals.
November
November 1 – The InterCity 125 breaks the world speed record for a diesel-powered train, reaching 238km/h (147.88mph).
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali assumes the Presidency of Tunisia.
The Soviet Union celebrates the 70th Anniversary of The October Revolution with a Parade on Moscow's Red Square.
Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) system in Singapore opens for passenger service.
November 8 – Enniskillen bombing: Twelve people are killed by a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb at a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen.
November 12 – The first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Mainland China opens in Beijing, near Tiananmen Square.
November 15 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime led by Nicolae Ceaușescu.
November 16 – The Parlatino Treaty of Institutionalization is signed.
November 17 – A tsunami hits the Gulf of Alaska.
The King's Cross fire on the London Underground kills 31 people and injures a further 100.
Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Senate and House panels release reports charging President Ronald Reagan with 'ultimate responsibility' for the affair.
November 22 – Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion – unknown perpetrators hijack the signal of WGN-TV for about 20seconds, and WTTW for about 90seconds, and displays a video of a man in a Max Headroom mask.
November 25 – Category 5 Typhoon Nina smashes the Philippines with winds and a devastating storm surge, causing destruction and 812 deaths.
November 28 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius, due to a fire in the cargo hold; the 159 passengers and crew perish.
November 29 – Korean Air Flight 858 is blown up over the Andaman Sea, killing 115 crew and passengers. North Korean agents are responsible for the bombing.
December
NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.
December 7 – Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, United States, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-supervisor on the flight, then shoots both pilots.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. It expired in 2019.
Alianza Lima air disaster: A Peruvian Navy Fokker F27 crashes near Ventanilla, Peru, killing 43.
December 9 – General Rahimuddin Khan retires from the Pakistan Army, along with the cabinet of the country's military dictatorship.
December 15 – Production I.G is founded by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Takayuki Goto.
December 17 – Gustáv Husák resigns as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
December 20 – In history's worst peacetime sea disaster, the passenger ferry MV Doña Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official).
December 21 – Turgut Özal of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (46th government).
December 22 – In Zimbabwe, the political parties ZANU and ZAPU reach an agreement that ends the violence in the Matabeleland region known as the Gukurahundi.
December 23 – Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe's bassist overdoses on heroin and is declared clinically dead for two minutes before a paramedic revives him with two syringes full of adrenaline.
December 30 – Pope John Paul II issues the encyclical Sollicitudo rei socialis (On Social Concern).
Births
January
January 1 – Meryl Davis, American figure skater
Shelley Hennig, American actress and model
Loïc Rémy, French professional footballer
Kristin Cavallari, American actress, fashion designer, and author
Brian Mushana Kwesiga – Ugandan-born entrepreneur, engineer, and civic leader
Jason Mitchell, American actor
Zaraah Abrahams, English actress
Davide Astori, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress
Sirusho, Armenian singer
January 8 – Freddie Stroma, English actor and model
Lucas Leiva, Brazilian football player
Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer
Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
January 10 – César Cielo, Brazilian swimmer
January 11 – Jamie Vardy, English footballer
January 12 – Naya Rivera, American actress and singer (d. 2020)
Dennis Aogo, German footballer
Kosala Jayaweera, Sri Lankan politician (d. 2025)
Greg Inglis, Australian rugby league player
Tsegaye Kebede, Ethiopian long-distance runner
Kelly Kelly, American professional wrestler
Michael Seater, Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
January 17 – Oleksandr Usyk, Ukrainian boxer
January 18 – Johan Djourou, Ivorian born-Swiss footballer
January 19 – Arkadiy Vasilyev, Russian decathlete
Robert Farah, Colombian tennis player
Evan Peters, American actor
Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle road racer (d. 2011)
Serguey Torres, Cuban canoeist
January 21 – Pablo Caballero González, Uruguayan footballer
Ray Rice, American football player
Shane Long, Irish footballer
Astrid Uhrenholdt Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier and Olympic gold medalist
Ruth Bradley, Irish television and film actress
Wayne Hennessey, Welsh football player
Luis Suárez, Uruguayan football player
Sebastian Giovinco, Italian football player
Gojko Kačar, Serbian footballer
January 27 – Hannah Teter, American snowboarder
January 28 – Jacek Krasicki, Polish music producer aka. DekoderBeats
January 29 – José Abreu, Cuban baseball player
Becky Lynch, Irish professional wrestler
Arda Turan, Turkish footballer
February
Heather Morris, American actress and dancer
Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
Ronda Rousey, American martial arts expert, actress and professional wrestler
Faydee, Australian singer
Gerard Piqué, Spanish footballer
February 4 – Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player
Darren Criss, American singer and actor
Henry Golding, Malaysian-English actor, model, and television host
Özge Gürel, Turkish actress
February 7 – Joel Freeland, British basketball player
February 8 – Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
Michael B. Jordan, American actor and producer
Rose Leslie, Scottish actress
Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
Choi Siwon, South Korean recording artist
Poli Genova, Bulgarian singer, songwriter, actress, and television presenter
Yuja Wang, Chinese pianist
José Callejón, Spanish footballer
Ellen van Dijk, Dutch road and track cycling world champion
February 13 – Eljero Elia, Dutch footballer
Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer
Yulia Savicheva, Russian singer
José Miguel Cubero, Costa Rican footballer
Tom Pyatt, Canadian ice hockey player
Fabian Schönheim, German professional footballer
David Wheater, English footballer
Candice Wiggins, American basketball player
Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (d. 2008)
Mauricio Henao, Colombian actor
Jon Ossoff, American politician, senior senator from Georgia
Raffi Ahmad, Indonesian actor and comedian
Ísis Valverde, Brazilian actress
February 18 – Carla Hernández, Mexican actress
February 20 – Miles Teller, American actor
Ashley Greene, American actress
Elliot Page, Canadian actor
Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress
Sergio Romero, Argentine footballer
February 24 – Tina Desai, Indian actress and model
February 25 – Andrew Poje, Canadian figure skater
February 26 – Johan Sjöstrand, Swedish handball player
February 27 – Valeriy Andriytsev, Ukrainian wrestler
March
March 2 – Solomon Okoronkwo, Nigerian footballer
March 3 – Elnur Hüseynov, Azerbaijani singer
March 5 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian professional tennis player
Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer
Alexey Mochanov, Russian free diver
Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress, Emmy winner
Milana Vayntrub, Uzbek-born American actress
Tobe Nwigwe, American rapper and actor
Liu Shishi, Chinese actress
Tuukka Rask, Finnish ice hockey player
Emeli Sandé, Scottish recording artist and songwriter
Igor Levit, Russian-German pianist
Estefanía Villarreal, Mexican actress
Ngonidzashe Makusha, Zimbabwean sprinter and long jumper
Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player
Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
Chris Seitz, American soccer player
Mauro Zárate, Argentine footballer
Marco Andretti, American racing driver
Aravane Rezaï, Iranian-French tennis player
Robert Clark, American-born Canadian actor, real estate investor
March 16 – Alexandr Smyshlyaev, Russian freestyle skier
March 17 – Federico Fazio, Argentine footballer
March 18 – Gabriel Mercado, Argentine footballer
AJ Lee, American professional wrestler
Josie Loren, American actress
March 21 – Yuri Ryazanov, Russian artistic gymnast (d. 2009)
March 22 – Alexander Shatilov, Israeli artistic gymnast
March 23 – Alan Toovey, Australian rules footballer
Juan Diego Covarrubias, Mexican actor
Ramires, Brazilian footballer
Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer
Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
March 26 – Larisa Korobeynikova, Russian fencer
Polina Gagarina, Russian singer, songwriter, actress, and model
Benjamin Savšek, Slovenian canoeist
March 29 – Dénes Varga, Hungarian water polo player
March 31 – Humpy Koneru, Indian chess grandmaster
April
Mackenzie Davis, Canadian actress
Ding Junhui, Chinese snooker player
Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress
Sami Khedira, German footballer
Océane Zhu, Chinese actress
April 7 – Martín Cáceres, Uruguayan footballer
April 8 – Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer
Sarah, Crown Princess of Brunei, wife of the Crown Prince of Brunei, Al-Muhtadee Billah
Paddy Barnes, Irish boxer
Blaise Matuidi, French footballer
Sara Petersen, Danish hurdler
Hayley Westenra, New Zealand soprano
Shay Mitchell, Canadian actress and model
Joss Stone, English singer and actress
Lights Poxleitner, Canadian musician
Luiz Adriano, Brazilian footballer
Brooklyn Decker, American fashion model and actress
Brendon Urie, American musician
April 15 – Samira Wiley, American actress and model
April 16 – Aaron Lennon, English footballer
Medhi Benatia, French born-Moroccan footballer
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, Canadian actress
April 18 – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, English supermodel
Joe Hart, English footballer
Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player
Oksana Akinshina, Russian actress
Anastasia Prikhodko, Ukrainian folk rock and traditional pop singer
Pepe Herrera, Filipino actor and comedian
David Luiz, Brazilian footballer
Mikel John Obi, Nigerian footballer
Varun Dhawan, Indian actor
Serdar Tasci, German footballer
Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
April 25 − Arijit Singh, Indian playback singer
April 26 − Jarmila Wolfe, Slovak born-Australian tennis player
Anne Suzuki, Japanese actress
Emma Taylor-Isherwood, Canadian actress
William Moseley, English actor
Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Indian film actress and model
Daequan Cook, American basketball player
Zoran Tošić, Serbian footballer
April 29 – Sara Errani, Italian tennis player
April 30 – Rohit Sharma, Indian cricketer
May
Leonardo Bonucci, Italian footballer
Matt Di Angelo, British Actor
Shahar Pe'er, Israeli tennis player
May 2 – Nana Kitade, Japanese singer
May 3 – Damla Sönmez, Turkish actress
Cesc Fàbregas, Spanish football player
Jorge Lorenzo, Spanish triple MotoGP world champion
Zbigniew Bartman, Polish volleyball player
Dries Mertens, Belgian footballer
Moon Geun-young, Korean actress
Albulena Haxhiu, Kosovo Albanian politician
Enikő Mihalik, Hungarian model
Kamaru Usman, Nigerian born-American mixed martial artist
Robbie Rogers, American soccer player
Lance Lynn, American baseball player
Kieron Pollard, Trinidadian cricketer
Darren Randolph, Irish footballer
Lee Wai-sze, Hong Kong cyclist
Liu Hong, Chinese racewalker
Antonio Adán, Spanish footballer
Hunter Parrish, American actor and singer
Candice King, American actress and singer
Marianne Vos, Dutch multiple cyclist
Thaísa Menezes, Brazilian volleyball player
Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
May 17 – Ott Lepland, Estonian singer
May 18 – Luisana Lopilato, Argentine actress and singer
Julian Wright, American basketball player
Syazwan Zulkifly, Malaysian actor, born in South Korea
Arturo Vidal, Chilean footballer
Novak Djokovic, Serbian tennis player
May 24 – Fabio Fognini, Italian tennis player
May 25 – Kamil Stoch, Polish ski jumper
May 26 – Tooji, Norwegian-Iranian singer, model and television host
Gervinho, Ivorian footballer
Bella Heathcote, Australian actress
Martina Sáblíková, Czech speed skater
Noah Reid, Canadian actor and musician
Daniela Ryf, Swiss triathlete
May 31 – Shaun Fleming, American actor and musician
June
June 1 – Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter
Tobias Arlt, German Olympic luger
Clayton Bartolo, Maltese politician
Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress
Lalaine, American actress, singer-songwriter, and bassist
Robertlandy Simón, Cuban volleyball player
Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer
Abbey Lee, Australian model
Antonio Barragán, Spanish footballer
June 16 – Tobias Wendl, German Olympic luger
Rebecca Breeds, Australian actress
Kendrick Lamar, American rapper
Ezgi Asaroğlu, Turkish actress
Niels Schneider, French-Canadian actor
Zsuzsanna Tomori, Hungarian handball player
A-fu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
Asmir Begović, Bosnian footballer
Daiana Menezes, Brazilian actress, model, and television host
Khatia Buniatishvili, Georgian concert pianist
Kim Ryeo-wook, South Korean singer
Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer
Joe Dempsie, English actor
Eda Erdem, Turkish volleyball player
Nikita Rukavytsya, Ukrainian born-Australian soccer player
Lee Min-ho, South Korean actor, singer and model
Guillaume Bonnafond, French road bicycle racer
Nando de Colo, French basketball player
Aaron Groom, Fijian rugby league footballer
Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
Pierre Vaultier, French snowboarder
June 25 – Sandrine Gruda, French basketball player
Samir Nasri, French footballer
Wallace de Souza, Brazilian volleyball player
July
July 1 – Ahn Jae-hyun, South Korean model and actor
Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer
Ruslana Korshunova, Kazakhstani model (d. 2008)
July 3 – Sebastian Vettel, German racing driver, 4-time champions in Formula One
David Halaifonua, Tongan rugby union player
Ji Chang-wook, South Korean actor
Chen Xiao, Chinese actor and model
Kate Nash, British singer-songwriter
Caroline Trentini, Brazilian model
Rebecca Sugar, American animator and creator of Steven Universe
Élodie Fontan, French actress
Maximilian Müller, German field hockey player
Cristina Vee, American voice actress
Eva Rivas, Armenian-Russian singer
Ajmal Kasab, Pakistani terrorist (d. 2012)
Sara Canning, Canadian actress
Dan Reynolds, American singer and musician
July 16 – AnnaLynne McCord, American actress
July 18 – Tontowi Ahmad, Indonesian badminton player
Yan Gomes, Brazilian baseball player
Ho Ho Lun, Hong Kong wrestler
July 20 – Owen Cheung, Hong Kong actor
July 22 – Andrey Golubev, Russian born-Kazakhstani tennis player
July 23 – Julian Nagelsmann, German football coach
July 24 – Mara Wilson, American actress and writer
July 25 – Eran Zahavi, Israeli footballer
July 27 – Marek Hamšík, Slovak footballer
Anyer Antonio Blanco, Cuban dissident
Pedro, Spanish footballer
July 29 – Genesis Rodriguez, American actress and model
Brittany Byrnes, Australian actress
Michael Bradley, American soccer player
August
Iago Aspas, Spanish footballer
Marta Walczykiewicz, Polish sprint canoeist
August 4 – Phil Younghusband, British-Filipino footballer
August 6 – Tosaint Ricketts, Canadian soccer player
August 7 – Sidney Crosby, Canadian ice hockey player
August 8 – Katie Leung, Scottish actress
August 11 – Greysia Polii, Indonesian badminton player
Eri Kitamura, Japanese voice actress and singer
Okieriete Onaodowan, Nigerian actor
Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
August 18 – Joanna Jędrzejczyk, Polish mixed martial artist and kickboxer
August 19 – Nico Hülkenberg, German racing driver
Cătălina Ponor, Romanian gymnast
Tulus, Indonesian singer
August 21 – Anton Shipulin, Russian biathlete
August 24 – Anže Kopitar, Slovene ice hockey player
Liu Yifei, Chinese actress
Blake Lively, American actress
Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer and songwriter
Rona Nishliu, Albanian singer, radio presenter, and humanitarian
August 29 – Marko Podraščanin, Serbian volleyball player
August 30 – Roy Krishna, Fijian footballer
September
September 1 – Leonel Suárez, Cuban decathlete
September 2 – Scott Moir, Canadian figure skater
Flora Duffy, Bermudian triathlete
James Neal, Canadian ice hockey player
September 4 – Maryna Linchuk, Belarusian model
September 6 – Anna Pavlova, Russian artistic gymnast
Mohammad Ahsan, Indonesian badminton player
Denis Istomin, Russian born-Uzbek tennis player
Evan Rachel Wood, American actress and singer
Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
Wiz Khalifa, American rapper
Alexandre Bilodeau, Canadian freestyle skier
Afrojack, Dutch DJ and music producer
Ahmed Elmohamady, Egyptian footballer
Andrea Petkovic, Bosnian born-German tennis player
Alex Song, Cameroonian footballer
Clayton Snyder, American actor
Milan Stanković, Serbian pop-folk singer
Elizabeth Henstridge, English actress
Tyler Hoechlin, American actor
Susianna Kentikian, German-Armenian boxer
Ilija Spasojević, Indonesian footballer
September 12 – Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazakhstani tennis player
September 15 – Aly Cissokho, French footballer
September 19 – Danielle Panabaker, American actress
September 21 – Ryan Guzman, American actor
Tom Felton, English actor
Zdravko Kuzmanović, Serbian footballer
September 25 – Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player
September 26 – Jang Keun-suk, South Korean actor, singer and model
September 27 – Luke Campbell, British boxer
September 28 – Hilary Duff, American actress, businesswoman, singer, songwriter, producer, and writer
September 29 – Anaïs Demoustier, French actress
Ramy Ashour, Egyptian squash player
Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano
October
Gibran Rakabuming Raka, Vice President of Indonesia
Ketleyn Quadros, Brazilian judoka
Michaela Coel, British screenwriter and actress
Matthew Daddario, American actor
October 2 – Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
October 3 – Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican beauty queen (Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2006, Miss Universe 2006)
October 5 – Foluke Gunderson, American volleyball player
October 10 – Carla Esparza, American mixed martial artist
Jesse Levine, American-Canadian tennis player
Mizuho Sakaguchi, Japanese woman footballer
Michael Venus, New Zealand tennis player
Zhao Liying, Chinese actress
Zac Efron, American actor and singer
Freja Beha Erichsen, Danish model
October 23 – Carmella, American professional wrestler
October 24 – Charlie White, American figure skater
October 25 – Fabian Hambüchen, German gymnast
Na Yeon Choi, South Korean female professional golfer
Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter
Tove Lo, Swedish singer and songwriter
Makoto Ogawa, Japanese singer
November
November 1 – Ileana D'Cruz, Indian actress
Colin Kaepernick, American football player
Gemma Ward, Australian model
November 4 – T.O.P, Korean rapper
November 5 – Kevin Jonas, American actor and singer-songwriter
Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
November 8 – Kazuchika Okada, Japanese professional wrestler
November 9 – Nouchka Fontijn, Dutch boxer
November 10 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress
November 11 – Yuya Tegoshi, Japanese singer (NEWS, Tegomass)
November 12 – Jason Day, Australian golfer
November 13 – Dana Vollmer, Australian swimmer
November 15 – Sergio Llull, Spanish basketball player
November 22 – Mauro Nespoli, Italian archer
Nicklas Bäckström, Swedish ice hockey player
Kasia Struss, Polish model
Maysoon al-Eryani, Yemeni poet and translator
Jeremain Lens, Dutch footballer
November 26 – Kat DeLuna, American singer
November 28 – Karen Gillan, Scottish actress
November 30 – Daniel Noboa, President of Ecuador and businessman
December
December 1 – Sarah Snook, Australian actress
December 3 – Alicia Sacramone, American gymnast
Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese born-American chess grandmaster
Keri-anne Payne, South African born-British swimmer
December 10 – Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentine footballer
Amir Aliakbari, Iranian wrestler and mix martial artist
Shane Gillis, American stand-up comedian
December 12 – Lao Lishi, Chinese diver
December 15 – Mikey Garcia, American boxer
Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
Ayaka, Japanese singer
Deiveson Figueiredo, Brazilian martial mixed artist
Yuki Furukawa, Japanese actor
Shuko Aoyama, Japanese tennis player
Karim Benzema, French footballer
Ronan Farrow, American activist
December 20 – Emmanuel Ekpo, Nigerian footballer
December 22 – Eder, Portuguese footballer
December 23 – Taťána Kuchařová, Czech dancer, model and beauty queen
December 25 – LJ Reyes, Filipino actress
December 26 – Mikhail Kukushkin, Russian born-Kazakh tennis player
December 27 – Lily Cole, British model
December 29 – Iain De Caestecker, Scottish actor
December 30 – Jeanette Ottesen, Danish swimmer
Seydou Doumbia, Ivorian football player
Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast
Deaths
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry – Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Solow
References