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Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a parliamentary republic and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the hosts won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire.

Events

January–February

January 25 – Bülent Ecevit of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (37th government, partner MSP).

January 31

The South Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong announced that they would resume prisoner of war exchanges on February 8, after a suspension of seven months.
Two members of the Japanese Red Army (JRA) and two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) made a failed attempt to blow up oil tanks at the Shell oil refinery complex on Pulau Bukom at Singapore. The terrorists then hijacked the ferry Laju and took its five crew members hostage.
The People's Republic of China released Gerald Emil Kosh, a U.S. civilian captured during the Battle of the Paracel Islands.

February 1

Fire breaks out in the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil; 177 die, 293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, is declared a Federal Territory.
February 8 – After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
February 17 – Zamalek disaster: A soccer stampede occurs in Cairo, killing 49.
February 28 – The British election ended in a hung parliament after the Jeremy Thorpe-led Liberal Party achieves its biggest vote.

March–April

March 3 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981, travelling from Paris to London, crashes in the woods near Paris, killing all 346 aboard. This was the deadliest aircraft accident in history up to this time, and remains the deadliest single aircraft accident with no survivors.
March 4 – Following a hung parliament in the United Kingdom general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.

March 18

In West Germany, the Bundestag passes the Bundes-Immissionsschutzgesetz ("Federal Emission Control Act").
End of five-month oil embargo by most OPEC nations against the United States, Europe, and Japan which had caused the 1973 oil crisis.
March 26 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, use their bodies to surround trees to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.

March 29

The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang is discovered at Xi'an, China.
Launch of the Volkswagen Golf in West Germany, a modern front-wheel drive hatchback which is expected to replace the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, holder of the world record for the car with the most units produced.
April 3–4 – An enormous tornado outbreak strikes the central parts of the United States, killing around 319 and injuring about 5,484.
April 5 – Carrie, the debut novel by Stephen King, is published.
April 6 – Swedish pop group ABBA's song "Waterloo" wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, UK.
April 6 – The first California Jam festival takes place at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California. Co-headlined by Deep Purple and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The festival set what were then records for the loudest amplification system ever installed, the highest paid attendance, and highest gross in history.
April 8 – In Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th home run, surpassing Babe Ruth as the all-time home run king.
April 11 – The Kiryat Shmona massacre takes place in Israel.
April 24 – Guillaume Affair: exposure of an East German spy Günter Guillaume within the West German government, leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.
April 25 – Carnation Revolution: A left-wing military coup in Portugal restores democracy, ending 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship in the country. Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano flees to Brazil and is granted political asylum by Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel.

May–June

May 4

An all-female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an peak.
The Expo '74 world's fair opens in Spokane, Washington.
May 7 – West German chancellor Willy Brandt, resigns after four years in office.
May 11 – A violent 7.1 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Zhaotong causing between 1,600 and 20,000 deaths.
May 16 – Helmut Schmidt becomes the new Chancellor of West Germany.
May 17 – The Troubles: The Dublin and Monaghan bombings are carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force, when they explode four car bombs in counties Dublin and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, the highest number of casualties in any single event during the conflict.

May 18

1974 Australian federal election: Gough Whitlam's Labor government is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the Liberal/Country Coalition led by Billy Snedden. Whitlam consequently becomes the first Labor Prime Minister to be re-elected in his own right. The Democratic Labor Party meanwhile loses all five of their Senate seats, effectively wiping them out as a political force.
Nuclear weapons testing: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.
June 1 - In an informal article in a medical journal, Henry Heimlich introduced the concept of abdominal thrusts, commonly known as the Heimlich maneuver, to treat victims of choking.
June 13 – The 1974 FIFA World Cup Association football tournament began in West Germany.
June 17 – A bomb explodes in Westminster Hall, the oldest part of the British Houses of Parliament. The hall's annex, housing offices, and a canteen are destroyed by the bombing, attributed by police to the Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army.
June 27 – The head of the Chilean Military Junta, Army General Augusto Pinochet, assumes the office of "Supreme Chief of the Nation". On December 17, via a Supreme Decree amendment, he will be formally designated President of Chile.
June 29 – Isabel Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her sick husband Juan Perón, who dies 2 days later.

July–August

July 7 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup. The West German football team is awarded the new FIFA World Cup Trophy.
July 15 The Greek military junta sponsors a coup d'état in Cyprus, replacing President Makarios III with Nikos Sampson. On that same day, reporter Christine Chubbuck commits suicide for the first-time-ever on live television.
July 19 – Railcar explosion in Decatur, Illinois. A tanker car collides with a Norfolk & Western boxcar. Seven people are killed, 349 are injured and $18million in property damage.
July 20 – The Turkish invasion of Cyprus occurs.
July 23 – The Greek military junta is replaced by a civilian government, the metapolitefsi.
August 4 – A bomb explodes in a train between Italy and West Germany, killing twelve and wounding 48.

Watergate scandal:

August 8 – U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation on August 8, effective at noon on August 9.
August 9 – Vice President Gerald Ford becomes the 38th president of the United States upon Nixon's resignation.

August 14

Turkey invades Cyprus for the second time, occupying 37% of the island's territory.
Greece withdraws its forces from NATO's military command structure, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

August 30

An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building in Tokyo is bombed by radical far-left terrorists, killing 8 and wounding more than 376.

September–October

September 8

TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea 18 minutes after takeoff from Athens on an Israel–New York flight after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people.
President Gerald Ford signs Proclamation 4311, granting a full and unconditional pardon to Richard Nixon, his predecessor.
September 10 – The Portuguese military junta grants independence to Guinea-Bissau.

September 12

Ethiopian Revolution: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by the Derg, bringing an end to the Solomonic dynasty's rule since 1270. The Ethiopian Civil War begins.
African Youth Amílcar Cabral is founded in Guinea-Bissau.
September 13 – Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands.
September 20 – The Kootenai War is declared, and 10-cent tolls are charged on U.S. Highway 95.
October 11 – The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested.
October 26 – Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN) sets off 5 bombs in Manhattan, with their largest bomb set off in the Financial District.

November–December

November 1 – The World Tourism Organization (WTO) is established.
November 5 – The Democratic Party makes big gains nationwide in House, Senate, and Gubernatorial elections.
November 13 – Ronald Joseph DeFeo Jr. shoots and kills all six of his family members while they sleep in their beds inside the family's Amityville, New York, home.
November 16 – Arecibo message: The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory on Puerto Rico sends an interstellar radio message towards Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000.
November 17 – The 1974 Greek legislative election, the first election since the fall of the Greek junta of 1967–1974, is held and the newly formed New Democracy party wins 220 of 300 seats in the Hellenic Parliament.
November 18 – The International Energy Agency is founded.
November 20 – Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes in Nairobi, Kenya, due to a mechanical failure, killing 59 of its 157 occupants.
November 21 – Birmingham pub bombings: In Birmingham, England, two pubs are bombed, killing 21 people in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this, but their convictions are quashed after a lengthy campaign.
November 22 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
November 24 – A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.
November 26 – Anneline Kriel is crowned as Miss World 1974, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan resigns four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant.
December 1 – Two Boeing 727s, TWA Flight 514 and Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crash on the same day in the Eastern United States resulting in a combined deaths of 95 people.
December 8 – 1974 Greek republic referendum: Greeks vote in a 2 to 1 margin to reject the monarchy, solidifying the country's republican form of government.
December 9 – The Paris summit, reuniting the European Communities' heads of state and government, commences.
December 13 – Malta becomes a republic.
December 17 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
December 24–25 – Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.

Date unknown

Rubik's Cube puzzle is invented by Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik.
Skittles was created and released by a British company in the United Kingdom.
The first Standing Conference of Eastern, Central, and Southern African Library and Information Associations (SCECSAL) occurred in Dar es Salaam.

Births

January

January 3

Robert-Jan Derksen, Dutch golfer
Alessandro Petacchi, Italian road cyclist
Katie Porter, American politician
January 9 – Farhan Akhtar, Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, singer, producer, and television host

January 10

Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor
Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor

January 12

Melanie C, English pop singer (Spice Girls)
Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier

January 14

Kevin Durand, Canadian-American actor and singer
January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
January 19 – Natassia Malthe, Norwegian actress and model
January 21 – Elaine Quijano, American journalist
January 22 – Joseph Muscat, 13th Prime Minister of Malta

January 23

Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
Norah O'Donnell, American television journalist
January 24 – Ed Helms, American actor and stand-up comedian
January 25 – Emily Haines, American-Canadian singer
January 27 – Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete
January 28 – Kari Traa, Norwegian freestyle skier

January 29

Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player
Kōji Wada, Japanese rock singer (d. 2016)

January 30

Christian Bale, British actor
Olivia Colman, English actress

February

February 1 – Roberto Heras, Spanish road cyclist

February 3

Shahab Hosseini, Iranian actor and film director
Ayanna Pressley, American politician
Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer

February 4

Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress

February 7

J Dilla, American record producer and rapper (d. 2006)
Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
Nujabes, Japanese record producer and DJ (d. 2010)
Femke Zeedijk-Raeven, Dutch politician

February 8

Seth Green, American actor and comedian
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French musician and record producer
Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-born American boxer and mixed martial artist (d. 2016)

February 10

Elizabeth Banks, American actress and film director
David Datuna, Georgian-American artist (d. 2022)
Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
February 11 – Alex Jones, American radio host, conspiracy theorist, author and filmmaker
February 12 – Naseem Hamed, British boxer
February 13 – Robbie Williams, British singer

February 14

Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencer

February 15

Mr Lordi, Finnish singer
Alexander Wurz, Austrian racing driver
February 16 – Mahershala Ali, American actor and rapper

February 17

Jerry O'Connell, American actor

February 18

Nadine Labaki, Lebanese film director, actress and activist

February 22

James Blunt, English singer
David Pelletier, Canadian pair skater

February 25

Divya Bharti, Indian film actress (d. 1993)
Dominic Raab, British politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
February 26 – Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver

February 27

Carte Goodwin, former United States senator from West Virginia
Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japanese speed skater

March

March 4

Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player
Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player

March 5

Jens Jeremies, German footballer
Matt Lucas, British actor and comedian
Eva Mendes, American actress and model
Hiten Tejwani, Indian model and actor
March 6 – Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional wrestler

March 7

Jenna Fischer, American actress
Antonio de la Rúa, Argentine lawyer
March 9 – Nalbert Bitencourt, Brazilian volleyball player
March 14 – Grace Park, Canadian actress

March 13

Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player
Vampeta, Brazilian football player and coach
March 15 – Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player
March 19 – Vida Guerra, Cuban born-American model and actress
March 20 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
March 21 – Rhys Darby, New Zealand actor and comedian

March 22

Marcus Camby, American basketball player
Kidada Jones, American actress
Bassem Youssef, Egyptian journalist and comedian
March 23 – Jaume Collet-Serra, Spanish-American film director and producer
March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
March 26 – Laurel Lee, American politician and lawyer
March 28 – Daisuke Kishio, Japanese voice actor
March 29 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian photographer
March 30 – Miho Komatsu, Japanese pop singer and songwriter

March 31

Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter
Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer

April

April 2 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
April 6 – Robert Kovač, Croatian football player and coach
April 8 – Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013)
April 9 – Jenna Jameson, American adult actress and model

April 11

Àlex Corretja, Spanish tennis player
Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model

April 12

Marley Shelton, American actress
Sylvinho, Brazilian footballer
April 13 – Marta Jandová, Czech musician and actress

April 15

Danny Pino, Cuban American actor
Tim Thomas, American Ice Hockey player
April 16 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director

April 17

Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth)
Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer

April 18

Lorraine Pilkington, Irish actress
Edgar Wright, English film director
April 21 – Oleksiy Zhuravko, Ukrainian politician (d. 2022)
April 23 – Jennifer Paz, Filipino actress
April 24 – Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist and autistic savant
April 25 – Grant Achatz, American chef and restaurateur
April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and model
April 29 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter

May

May 1 Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch runner
May 2 Matt Berry, English actor and singer
May 3 Princess Haya bint Al Hussein of Jordan

May 7

Lawrence Johnson, American pole vaulter
Breckin Meyer, American actor
May 8 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer
May 9 Brian Deegan, American motocross racer

May 10

Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player
Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
May 11 – Simon Aspelin, Swedish tennis player
May 14 – Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter
May 16 – Laura Pausini, Italian singer

May 17

Andrea Corr, Irish singer
Tamara Rojo, Spanish ballet dancer
May 18 – Ikke Nurjanah, Indonesian dangdut singer and actress

May 19

Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player
Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indian film actor
May 20 – Mikael Stanne, Swedish singer
May 21 – Fairuza Balk, American actress and musician

May 22

Sean Gunn, American actor
Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian artistic gymnast
May 23 – Jewel, American singer
May 26 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer

May 27

Marjorie Taylor Greene, American politician
Gürkan Uygun, Turkish actor

May 28

Hans-Jörg Butt, German footballer
Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
May 29 – Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and actor
May 30 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
May 31 – Kenan Doğulu, Turkish pop musician

June

June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer

June 2

Gata Kamsky, American chess player
M. M. Thahir, Sri Lankan politician

June 3

Kelly Jones, Welsh singer and musician, (Stereophonics)
Martín Karpan, Argentinian actor

June 7

Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
Helen Vollam, Principal Trombone Player for the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Bear Grylls, British survivalist

June 13

Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter.
Selma, Icelandic singer
Steve-O, American actor
June 18 – Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Turkish actor and model
June 19 – Rossella Erra, Italian television personality

June 21

Natasha Beaumont, Malaysian actress and model
Maggie Siff, American actress
Hitoshi Uematsu, Japanese short track speed skater

June 22

Devayani, Indian actress
Donald Faison, American actor
B. V. S. Ravi, Indian writer
Tu Tamarua, Cook Islands rugby union flanker
Vijay, Indian actor

June 23

Joel Edgerton, Australian actor and filmmaker
Kim Young-chul, South Korean comedian and singer
Andi Vasluianu, Romanian actor

June 24

Andrea De Cruz, Singaporean actress
Ruffa Gutierrez, Filipino model, beauty queen and actress

June 25

Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
Tereza Pergnerová, Czech actress, singer and television presenter

June 26

Derek Jeter, American baseball player
Ecija Ojdanić, Croatian actress
Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress
Kristofer Steen, Swedish musician
Matt Striker, American professional wrestler and commentator
June 27 – Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman, Swedish royal

June 28

Nelson Mariano II, Filipino chess Grandmaster
Rob Dyrdek, American entrepreneur, television personality and former skateboarder
June 29 – Pua Khein-Seng, Malaysian businessman
June 30 – Hezekiél Sepeng, South African middle-distance athlete

July

July 1

Timmy Hung, Hong Kong actor
Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorean race walker
July 2 – Moon So-ri, South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter

July 3

Taiga Ishikawa, Japanese politician and LGBT activist
Marko Milošević, Serbian fugitive and refugee

July 4

Kevin Hanchard, Canadian actor
Karole Rocher, French actress
Jammi German American football player
July 6 – Zé Roberto, Brazilian footballer
July 7 – Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler

July 8

Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, actress, model and socialite (d. 2015)
Dragoslav Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer

July 12

Parvin Dabas, Indian actor, model and director
Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer

July 14

Martina Hill, German actress, comedian and impersonator
David Mitchell, British comedian and actor
July 16 – Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby league and rugby union player
July 20 – Doug Ithier, Australian footballer

July 22

Franka Potente, German actress and singer
Johnny Strong, American actor

July 23

Maurice Greene, American athlete
Stephanie March, American actress
Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian road racing cyclist

July 24

Olimpia Ajakaiye, Polish interior designer, actress and television presenter
Eva Aridjis, Mexican-American director and screenwriter
July 25 – Lauren Faust, American animator
July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player

July 28

Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician
July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor
July 30 – Hilary Swank, American actress
July 31 – Emilia Fox, English actress

August

August 5 – Kajol, Indian actress

August 6

Todd Blanche, American attorney and prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney General
Ever Carradine, American actress
August 7 – Michael Shannon, American actor
August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician
August 14 – Christopher Gorham, American actor
August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model

August 16

Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier
Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer

August 20

Amy Adams, American actress
Misha Collins, American actor
Deborah Gravenstijn, Brazilian judoka
Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist

August 22

Cory Gardner, American politician
Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist

August 23

Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist
Ovi, Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician
Shifty Shellshock, American rapper, singer-songwriter and vocalist (d. 2024)
August 24 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer

September

September 3 – Jen Royle, American sports reporter and chef
September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer

September 6

Tim Henman, English tennis player
Nina Persson, Swedish singer
September 9 – Leah O'Brien, American softball player

September 10

Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer; mixed martial arts fighter
Ryan Phillippe, American actor
Ben Wallace, American basketball player

September 12

Kenichi Suzumura, Japanese voice actor
September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
September 15 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer, musician, and songwriter
September 16 – Loona, Dutch singer

September 17

Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist
Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player

September 18

Sol Campbell, English footballer
Xzibit, American rapper

September 19

Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and television personality
Hidetaka Miyazaki, Japanese video game designer and executive
Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
September 20 – Jon Bernthal, American actor
September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
September 24 – Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer
September 26 – Joo Jin-mo, South Korean actor
September 30 – Yul Bürkle, Venezuelan actor and model

October

October 2 – Rachana Banerjee, Indian film actress
October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
October 6 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese sports shooter

October 7

Shannon MacMillan, American soccer player
Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer
October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower

October 10

Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
Oded Kattash, Israeli basketball player and coach
Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player
October 11 – Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player
October 13 – Nimal Lanza, Sri Lankan politician, MP and cabinet minister
October 14 – Shaggy 2 Dope, American rapper
October 15 – Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish politician

October 16

Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer
Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor

October 18

Susana Díaz, Spanish politician
Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer

October 23

Aravind Adiga, Indian-Australian author
Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
October 24 – Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
October 25 – Nevenka Fernández, Spanish economist.

October 28

Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer
Joaquin Phoenix, American actor born in Puerto Rico

October 29

Akashdeep Saigal, Indian television actor and model
Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician

November

November 2 – Nelly, American rapper

November 5

Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
Dado Pršo, Croatian footballer
Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player

November 8

Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer
Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
November 9 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian football player
November 10 – Chris Lilley, Australian comedian and actor
November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor, producer and environmentalist
November 13 – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect
November 14 – Chip Gaines, an American actor, producer, television personality, and author

November 15

Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of Lithuania
November 16 – Paul Scholes, English football player

November 18

Chloë Sevigny, American actress
Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver

November 20

Drew Ginn, Australian rower
Kurt Krömer, German television presenter, comedian and actor
November 24 – Stephen Merchant, English actor and comedian
November 26 – Roman Šebrle, Czech decathlete

November 27

Wendy Houvenaghel, British racing cyclist
Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player
November 29 – Ferenc Merkli, Hungarian Slovene priest, writer and translator
November 30 – Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer

December

December 1 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
December 4 – Anke Huber, German tennis player

December 5

Kid Koala, Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and graphic novelist
Ben McAdams, American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021 in Utah
December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer
December 10 – Meg White, American drummer

December 11

Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner
Ben Shephard, TV presenter and journalist
December 12 – Michelle Saram, Singaporean singer and actress
December 13 - Nick McCarthy, English-German guitarist singer (Franz Ferdinand)

December 17

Sarah Paulson, American actress
Giovanni Ribisi, American actor

December 18

Kari Byron, American artist and television personality
Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan Army commander (d. 2011)
Viki Miljković, Serbian singer
Nelly Karim, Egyptian actress
December 19 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
December 20 Paul Linger, English footballer

December 24

Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
Ryan Seacrest, American television personality
Paal Nilssen-Love, Norwegian drummer and composer
December 27 Alena Vinnitskaya, Ukrainian singer
December 29 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor

December 30

Dr. Jitheshji, Indian Speed Cartoonist and Pictorial Orator

December 31

Tan Tolga Demirci, Turkish director and writer
Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver

Deaths

January

January 2 – Tex Ritter, American actor and country musician (b. 1905)
January 3 – Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901)
January 4 - David Yaras, Chicagoan mobster.

January 6

David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter and muralist (b. 1896)
Margit Slachta, Hungarian politician (b. 1884)
January 12 – Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
January 18 – Bill Finger, American comic strip and book writer (b. 1914)
January 21 – Lewis Strauss, American businessman, philanthropist, and naval officer (b. 1896)
January 22 – Oskar Herman, Croatian Jewish painter (b. 1886)

January 27

Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1897)
Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (b. 1886)
January 29 – H. E. Bates, English writer and author (b. 1905)
January 30 – Murray Chotiner, American political consultant (b. 1909)

January 31

Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879)
Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete (b. 1912)

February

February 4

Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894)
Stuart Buchanan, American actor (d. 1894)
February 8 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss physicist and astronomer (b. 1898)
February 11 – Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish-born American silent film star (b. 1888)
February 13 – Amir Khan, Indian classical vocal singer (b. 1912)

February 15

Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
George W. Snedecor, American mathematician and statistician (b. 1881)
February 18 – Manuel A. Odría, 79th President of Peru (b. 1896)
February 21 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of the Tim Hortons restaurant chain (b. 1930)

February 23

Harry Ruby, American musician, composer and writer (b. 1895)
George Van Biesbroeck, American-born Belgian astronomer (b. 1880)
February 24 – Robert A. Stemmle, German screenwriter and film director (b. 1903)

March

March 1 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935)

March 3

Barbara Ruick, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
Frank Wilcox, American actor (b. 1907)
March 4 – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903)
March 5 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
March 6 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and writer (b. 1924)
March 8 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (b. 1889)
March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
March 17 – Louis Kahn, Russian-born American architect (b. 1901)
March 19 – Edward Platt, American actor known as "The Chief" on NBC/CBS's Get Smart (b. 1916)
March 20 – Chet Huntley, American television reporter (b. 1911)
March 21 – Candy Darling, American actress (b. 1944)
March 22 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
March 27 – Eduardo Santos Montejo, Colombian publisher and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888)
March 28 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1904)
March 29 – Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (La ciociara) (b. 1916)

April

April 2

Georges Pompidou, 100th Prime Minister of France and 19th President of France, Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1911)
Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian actor (b. 1889)
April 5 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven (b. 1882)
April 6 – Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch modernist architect (b. 1884)
April 8 – K. A. C. Creswell, English architectural historian (b. 1879)
April 10 – Patricia Collinge, Irish-born American actress (b. 1892)
April 14 – Howard Pease, American adventure novelist (b. 1894)

April 18

Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897)
Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895)
April 19 – Ayub Khan, Pakistani general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
April 20 – Peter Lee Lawrence, German actor (b. 1944)

April 24

Bud Abbott, American comedian (b. 1895)
Franz Jonas, Austrian political figure, 7th President of Austria (b. 1899)
April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)

May

May 7 – Fred Kelly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891)
May 10 – Takeshi Sakamoto, Japanese actor (b. 1899)
May 13 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican public servant, 2nd Director-General of the UNESCO (b. 1902)
May 14 – Jacob L. Moreno, Romanian-American psychiatrist and psychosociologist (b. 1889)
May 15 – Guy Simonds, Canadian Lieutenant-General, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces in World War II (b. 1903)
May 18 – Sir Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer (b. 1885)
May 19 – Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, poet, writer and scholar (b. 1910)
May 20 – Jean Daniélou, French Catholic cardinal, theologian and academic (b. 1905)
May 21 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1890)
May 24 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
May 25 – Donald Crisp, English-American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1882)

June

June 3 – Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player (b. 1912)
June 4 – Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 43rd President of Bolivia (b. 1895)

June 9

Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
Katharine Cornell, German-born, American stage actress, writer, theatre owner, and producer (b. 1893)
Carlo Pisacane, Italian actor (b. 1889)
June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 11th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900)

June 11

Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
Georgann Hawkins, American high school student (b. 1955)
June 12 – André Marie, French Radical politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (b. 1897)
June 14 – Knud Jeppesen, Danish musicologist, composer, and songwriter (b. 1892)
June 16 – Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian painter (b. 1894)
June 17 – Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)
June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Army marshal and Minister of Defence (b. 1896)
June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
June 25 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
June 26 – Ernest Gruening, American journalist, Governor of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1953, and United States Senator from 1959 to 1969 (b. 1887)

June 28

Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor and science administrator (b. 1890)
Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
June 29 – José Maria Ferreira de Castro, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1898)
June 30 – Alberta Williams King, American civil rights organizer (b. 1903)

July

July 1 – Juan Perón, Argentine army general and politician, 2-time President of Argentina (b. 1895)
July 4 – Georgette Heyer, British writer (b. 1902)
July 7 – Leon Shamroy, American cinematographer (b. 1901)

July 8

Margaret Furse, British costume designer (b. 1911)
Deborah Gail Stone, Disneyland Employee (b. 1956)
July 9 – Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)
July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

July 13

Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1898)
July 14 – Carl Spaatz, U.S. Air Force general (b. 1891)
July 15 – Christine Chubbuck, American TV personality (b. 1944)

July 17

Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1910)
Piotr Kałwa, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Lublin (b. 1893)
Edith Alice Macia, Arizona pioneer, postmaster, and undercover FBI agent (b. 1884)

July 19 –

Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
Stefano Magaddino, America mafia boss.
July 22 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer, politician, and United States Senator from Oregon (1945–1969) (b. 1900)

July 24

Sir James Chadwick, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)

July 29

Cass Elliot, American vocalist (b. 1941)
Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
July 30 – Lev Knipper, Soviet composer (b. 1898)

August

August 3 – Edna Murphy, American actress (b. 1899)
August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Mexican poet and author (b. 1925)
August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907)
August 11 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)
August 13 – Ida McNeil, American broadcaster and designer of the flag of South Dakota (b. 1888)

August 15 –

Edmund Cobb, American actor (b. 1892)
Clay Shaw, American businessman, best known for being the only person brought to trial for involvement in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
August 17 – Aldo Palazzeschi, Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist (b. 1885)
August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. 1908)
August 23 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. 1888)
August 24 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1894)
August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (b. 1902)
August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician (b. 1897)

August 31

Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1895)
Norman Kirk, New Zealand politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923)

September

September 3 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)

September 4

Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899)

September 6

Olga Baclanova, Soviet stage and screen actress, operatic singer, and ballerina (b. c. 1893)
Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
September 7 – Juan Antonio Ipiña, Spanish football manager (b. 1912)
September 10 – Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. 1892)
September 12 – Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1900)
September 16 – Phog Allen, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1885)
September 18 – Edna Best, British actress (b. 1900)
September 20 José Mojica, Mexican Franciscan friar, tenor and film actor (b. 1896)

September 21

Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
Jacqueline Susann, American writer and actress (b. 1918)
September 22 – Winfried Otto Schumann, German physicist (b. 1888)
September 23 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian who created the character Charley Weaver (b. 1905)
September 26 – Jean Gale, American vaudeville performer (b. 1912)
September 28 – Arnold Fanck, German film director (b. 1889)
September 30 – Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician (assassinated) (b. 1915)

October

October 2 – Vasily Shukshin, Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter and director (b. 1929)

October 4

Robert Lee Moore, American mathematician (b. 1882)
Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (b. 1928)
October 5 – Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (b. 1889)
October 6 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian statesman, diplomat and nationalist (b. 1896)
October 8 – Harry Carney, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1910)
October 9 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman and humanitarian (b. 1908)

October 13

Josef Krips, Austrian conductor and violinist (b. 1902)
Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
October 14 – Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani landscape painter (b. 1909)
October 16 – Vlasta Dekanova, Czechoslovak artistic gymnast (b. 1909)
October 17 – Tomotaka Tasaka, Japanese film director (b. 1902)
October 18 – Anders Lange, Norwegian politician (b. 1904)
October 20 – Élie Lescot, 29th President of Haiti, leader in World War II (b. 1883)
October 23 – Melchior Lengyel, Hungarian writer, dramatist and film screenwriter (b. 1880)
October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
October 26 – Bidia Dandaron, Soviet Buddhist author and teacher (b. 1914)
October 27 – Paul Frankeur, French actor (b. 1905)
October 30 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (b. 1914)
October 31 – Mikheil Chiaureli, Soviet Georgian filmmaker (b. 1894)

November

November 5 – Stafford Repp, American actor (b. 1918)

November 7

Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1920)
Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
November 8 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1914)
November 9 – Egon Wellesz, British composer, teacher and musicologist (b. 1885)
November 11 – Ralf Harolde, American actor (b. 1899)