Wikipedia / 1975
Wikipedia / 1975
It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.
Events
January
January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier , causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths.
January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11.
February
February 4 – The Haicheng earthquake in Haicheng, Liaoning, China, kills 2,041 and injures 27,538, but much of the city has been evacuated in a claimed example of earthquake prediction.
February 5 – The Argentinian president Isabel Perón decrees Operativo Independencia, aiming to neutralize or annihilate the "subversive elements" in the province of Tucuman. She assumes extraordinary powers.
Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership of the opposition UK Conservative Party. Thatcher, 49, is Britain's first female leader of any political party.
Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated.
February 27 – The 2 June Movement kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.
The National Liberation Front of Angola (FNLA) approaches the South African Embassy in London and requests 40 to 50 artillery pieces to assist their cause in the Angolan Civil War.
March
Aston Villa win the English Football League Cup at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0 in the final.
Australian television switches to full-time colour.
Algiers Agreement: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement in their border dispute.
A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of Springer publishers. The March 6 Group (connected to the Red Army Faction) demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
March 9 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in South Vietnam on their way to capturing Saigon.
An extended portion of Sanyō Shinkansen between Okayama Station and Hakata Station opens, giving the Japanese Shinkansen high speed rail network access to the country's second island, Kyushu.
March 11 – The leftist military government in Portugal defeats a rightist coup attempt involving former president António de Spínola, who flees to Brazil.
March 13 – Vietnam War: South Vietnam President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu orders the Central Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians (the "Convoy of Tears").
March 15 – In Brazil, Guanabara State merges into the state of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niterói to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
March 22 – "Ding-a-dong" by Teach-In (music by Dick Bakker, lyrics by Will Luikinga and Eddy Ouwens) wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975 (staged in Stockholm) for the Netherlands.
March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.
March 27 – The South African government announces that it will consolidate the 113 separate homeland areas into 36.
March 28 – A fire in the maternity wing at Kučić Hospital in Rijeka, Yugoslavia (Croatia), kills 25 people.
March 31 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (39th government), a four-party coalition, the so-called First National Front ().
April
Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft (at this time known as Micro-Soft) in Albuquerque, New Mexico and release their Altair BASIC interpreter. (Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976.)
April 5 – The Soviet crewed space mission (Soyuz 18a) ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging at an altitude of 192km, resulting in the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle. Both cosmonauts (Vasily Lazarev and Oleg Makarov) survive.
April 9 – Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in the People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese Civil War which lasts until 1990.
A coup d'état in Chad led by the military overthrows and kills President François Tombalbaye.
April 17 – The Khmer Republic surrenders, when the Communist Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh ending the Cambodian Civil War, with mass evacuation of American troops and Cambodian civilians.
April 18 – The Khmer Rouge begins a forcible mass evacuation of the city and starts the Cambodian genocide.
April 19 – Nico Diederichs becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa.
April 20 – Taman Mini Indonesia Indah opens to the public in Jakarta, Indonesia.
April 24 – West German Embassy siege in Stockholm: Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police.
April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 29 – Vietnam War: North Vietnam concludes its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands that were being held by South Vietnam.
April 30 – Vietnam War Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War concludes as Communist forces from North Vietnam take over Saigon, resulting in mass evacuation of the remaining American troops and South Vietnam civilians. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally and is replaced with a temporary Provisional Government.
May
May 3 – West Ham United win the FA Cup at Wembley, beating Fulham 2–0 in the final.
May 6 – The South African government announces that it will provide all Black children with free and compulsory education.
May 15 – Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
Sikkim accedes to India after a referendum and abolishes the Chogyal, its monarchy.
Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
May 25 – Bobby Unser wins the Indianapolis 500 for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, race.
May 27 – The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, results in 32 deaths (the highest toll in a United Kingdom road accident).
May 28 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.
June
June 5 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
June 6 – The Georgetown Agreement, formally creating the ACP Group, is signed.
June 9 – The Order of Australia is awarded for the first time.
June 11 – After a referendum and seven years of military rule, modern-day Greece is established as the Hellenic Republic.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.
July
July 1 – The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission (trading as Telecom Australia) and the Australian Postal Commission (trading as Australia Post).
July 4 – Zion Square refrigerator bombing. A terrorist attack in downtown Jerusalem kills 15 civilians and wounds 77.
July 5 – Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
July 6 – The Comoros declares and is granted its independence from France.
July 9 – The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a multi-party system (albeit highly restricted).
July 12 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
July 17 – Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: A crewed American Apollo spacecraft and the crewed Soviet Soyuz spacecraft for the Soyuz 19 mission dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
July 21 The Parliament of India votes to approve Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's declaration of a state of emergency, with a 301–76 vote in the lower house and a 147–32 vote in the upper house.
July 30 – Typhoon Nina forms over the Philippine Sea.
August
The first Cuban forces arrive in Angola to join Soviet personnel who are there to assist the MPLA that controls less than a quarter of Angolan territory. The United States, Zaire and Zambia request South Africa to provide training and support for the FNLA and UNITA forces.
August 1 – The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
August 8 – The Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, fails after Typhoon Nina; over 200,000 people perish.
August 11 – Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese East Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
Founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup led by Major Syed Faruque Rahman.
Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Armageddon will occur this year based on the group's chronology and some sell their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believe will be created when Jesus establishes God's Kingdom on Earth.
August 20 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
August 24 – Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.
August 25 – The Victoria Falls Conference between Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and the United African National Council is held in a South African Railways coach on the Victoria Falls Bridge, officiated by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and South African Prime Minister John Vorster.
September
September–October – In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people, in support of Maori claims to their land.
In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
The London Hilton Hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; two people are killed and 63 injured.
September 6 – An earthquake of magnitude kills at least 2,085 in Diyarbakır and Lice, Turkey.
September 14 – Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
September 15 – The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).
Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
September 19 – General Vasco Gonçalves is ousted as Prime Minister of Portugal.
September 20 – The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.
September 21 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra of Kelantan, becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 22 – In San Francisco, Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
September 27 – Francoist Spain executes five ETA and FRAP members, the last executions in Spain to date.
The Hughes Helicopters (later McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing IDS) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
(US time) Home Box Office becomes the first pay television network to deliver a continuous signal via satellite by broadcasting the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing match live.
October
October 1 – "Thrilla in Manila": Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. The fight is viewed live by well over 100 million people worldwide.
The South African Defence Force invades Angola during Operation Savannah in support of the FNLA and UNITA prior to the Angolan elections scheduled for November 11.
A British Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
The "Balibo Five", Australian television journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesian Army special forces in the buildup to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
The last naturally occurring case of smallpox is diagnosed and treated, the victim being two-year-old Rahima Banu in Bangladesh.
October 30 – Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state after General Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern. His death on November 20 effectively marks the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.
The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 takes effect in Australia.
Tun Mustapha resigns as Chief Minister of Sabah, a state in Malaysia, bringing to an end speculation that he would attempt to lead secession for Sabah to become an independent nation.
November
November 6 – The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
November 7 – A vapor cloud explosion at a petroleum cracking facility in Geleen, Netherlands, leaves 14 dead and 109 injured, with fires lasting for five days.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72–35 (with 32 abstentions), the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The resolution provokes an outcry among Zionists. It is repealed in 1991.
The Treaty of Osimo is signed between Italy and Yugoslavia, resolving their dispute over Trieste. Under the agreement, a majority of the land area and residents go to Italy.
The -long freighter sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board (an event immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot).
Lev Leshchenko revives "Den Pobedy", one of the most popular World War II songs in the Soviet Union.
Angola becomes independent from Portugal and civil war erupts.
Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr controversially dismisses the Whitlam Labor government and commissions Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal/National Country Coalition as caretaker Prime Minister.
The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.
November 12 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
November 14 – Madrid Accords: Spain agrees to hand over power of the Spanish Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania by the end of February 1976.
November 15 – The "Group of 6" industrialized nations (G-6) is formed and holds its 1st summit at the Château de Rambouillet in France.
November 16 – Beginning of the Third Cod War between UK and Iceland, which lasts until June 1976.
November 19 – The United States Congress approves the Clark Amendment, ending aid to the FNLA and UNITA.
November 22 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of General Francisco Franco; he will reign until his abdication in 2014.
Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
A failed military coup d'état by far-left activists occurs in Portugal.
Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.
South African Navy frigates evacuate 26 SADF members from behind enemy lines at Ambrizete, north of Luanda in Angola.
While disabled, the submarine tender discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.
1975 New Zealand general election: The New Zealand National Party led by Robert Muldoon defeats the incumbent New Zealand Labour Party led by Prime Minister Bill Rowling.
December
December 2 – In Laos, the Second Indochina War ends, when the communist party of the Pathet Lao takes over Vientiane and defeats the Kingdom of Laos, forcing King Sisavang Vatthana to abdicate and creating the Lao People's Democratic Republic. This ends the Laotian Civil War, with mass evacuation of American troops and Laotian civilians, but effectively begins the Insurgency in Laos with the Pathet Lao fighting the Hmong people, Royalist-in-exile and the Right-wings.
December 3 – Wreck of (sunk by mine 1916) is found in the Kea Channel by Jacques Cousteau.
December 7 – Indonesian invasion of East Timor: Indonesia invades East Timor; the occupation continues until 1999 when U.N. peacekeepers take control, which they did until 2002.
1975 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Country Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser defeats the recently dismissed Labor government led by Gough Whitlam. The Fraser government achieves what is so far the largest parliamentary majority in federal Australian political history. Whitlam would subsequently survive a leadership challenge against him.
The United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness (1961) comes into effect.
December 18 – The Algerian president Houari Boumediene orders the expulsion of all Moroccans from Algeria.
December 21 – Six people, including Carlos the Jackal, kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna.
December 29 – A bomb explosion at LaGuardia Airport in New York City kills 11 people.
Date unknown
The Spanish Army quits Spanish Sahara (modern-day Western Sahara), last remnant of the Spanish Empire. The Sahrawi Republic (RASD) is created. Morocco invades the former territory.
Benoit Mandelbrot coins the mathematical term fractal.
Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment.
South Australia becomes the first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.
World population
Births
January
Sonali Bendre, Indian actress
Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
Dax Shepard, American actor
Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, Ukrainian footballer
Vladyslav Vashchuk, Ukrainian footballer
Danica McKellar, American actress and education advocate
Thomas Bangalter, French musician and record producer
January 5 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
Laura Berg, American softball player and coach
Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball player
January 15 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player
January 23 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial arts fighter
Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
Tim Montgomery, American athlete
January 29 – Sara Gilbert, American actress
January 30 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
January 31 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress and entrepreneur
February
February 2 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
February 3 – Brad Thorn, New Zealand-Australian rugby player
February 4 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer
February 5 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer and coach
February 9 – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball pitcher
February 14 – Malik Zidi, French actor
Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2012)
Václav Prospal, Czech hockey player
Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
Gary Neville, English footballer
February 20 – Brian Littrell, American pop singer
February 22 – Drew Barrymore, American actress and film producer
Wilfred Kibet Kigen, Kenyan long-distance runner
Callan Mulvey, New Zealand-born Australian actor
February 25 – Chelsea Handler, American comedian and television host
March
March 1 – Valentina Monetta, Sammarinese singer
March 5 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
March 6 – Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress, singer and model
Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
Lisa Miskovsky, Swedish musician
Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
March 10 – Jamie Arnold, American-Israeli basketball player
Buvaisar Saitiev, Chechen wrestler
David Cañada, Spanish cyclist (d. 2016)
Eva Longoria, American actress
Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
will.i.am, American rapper and singer
Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor (d. 2021)
Natalie Zea, American actress
March 18 – Sutton Foster, American actress
Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
Le Jingyi, Chinese swimmer
Fabricio Oberto, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
Mark Williams, Welsh professional snooker player
March 22 – Guillermo Díaz, American actor
Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
Albin Kurti, prime minister of Kosovo
Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player
Melanie Blatt, English singer
Fergie, American singer and actress
Mihaela Melinte, Romanian hammer thrower
March 28 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
March 31 – Mirtha Vásquez, Peruvian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Peru
April
Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
Kristine Quance, American swimmer
Nate Huffman, American basketball player (d. 2015)
Pedro Pascal, Chilean-American actor
Adam Rodriguez, American actor
April 3 – Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball pitcher
John Hartson, Welsh footballer
Juicy J, American rapper, songwriter, and record producer
Zach Braff, American actor
Sónia Lopes, Cape Verdean runner
April 9 – Robbie Fowler, English footballer
April 10 - David Harbour, American actor
Jasey-Jay Anderson, Canadian snowboarder
Tatiana Navka, Ukrainian born-Russian Ice dancer
Lita, American professional wrestler
Anderson Silva, Brazilian UFC fighter
April 19 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish football player and coach
April 21 – Danyon Loader, New Zealand swimmer
Greg Moore, Canadian racing driver (d. 1999)
Carlos Sastre, Spanish road bicycle racer
April 26 – Joey Jordison, American metal drummer for Slipknot (d. 2021)
April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper
April 30 – Johnny Galecki, Belgian-born American actor
May
May 1 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer (d. 2003)
David Beckham, English footballer
Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer
May 3 – Christina Hendricks, American actress
May 7 – Roxana Maracineanu, Romanian born-French politician and swimmer
Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer
Jussi Markkanen, Finnish hockey player
May 9 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
May 10 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian racing driver
May 12 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
May 13 – Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress
Ray Lewis, American football player
Janne Seurujärvi, Finnish Sami politician, and the first Sami to be elected to the Finnish Parliament.
John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter
Irina Karavayeva, Russian trampolinist
Jonas Renkse, Swedish musician
Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
Zhang Ning, Chinese badminton player
May 20 – Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
May 21 – Anthony Mundine, Australian rugby league player and boxer
May 22 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish hockey player
Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician
Lauryn Hill, American singer
André 3000, American musician, record producer, and actor
Jamie Oliver, English chef, restaurateur and television personality
May 28 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
David Burtka, American actor and professional chef
Mel B, English singer, songwriter, rapper, television personality, actress and author
Daniel Tosh, American comedian
May 31 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper
June
Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian politician, Prime Minister of Armenia
Frauke Petry, German politician
Russell Brand, English actor and comedian
Angelina Jolie, American actress
Allen Iverson, American basketball player
Ekta Kapoor, Indian actress
June 8 – Shilpa Shetty, Bollywood actress
Andrew Symonds, British-born Australian cricketer (d. 2022)
Ameesha Patel, Indian actress and model
Lord Villanueva, Filipino associate justice of the Sandiganbayan
June 11 – Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
June 15 – Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
June 16 – Anabel Conde, Spanish singer
June 18 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
Oksana Chusovitina, German artistic gymnast
Anthony Parker, American basketball player
Ed Coode, British rower
June 23 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter
June 24 – Christie Pearce, American footballer
Linda Cardellini, American actress
Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
June 26 – Florence Loiret Caille, French actress
Mufti Menk, Zimbabwean Muslim cleric and Mufti
Tobey Maguire, American actor
Mosese Rauluni, Fijian rugby union footballer
June 28 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer (d. 2006)
James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer
Ralf Schumacher, German racing driver
July
July 1 – Sufjan Stevens, American musician
July 2 – Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby union player
July 3 – Ryan McPartlin, American actor
Zander de Bruyn, South African cricketer
Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor and model
Alessandro Juliani, Canadian actor and singer
50 Cent, rapper, actor, and businessman
Amara, Indonesian actress, model, and singer
Régis Laconi, French motorcycle racer
Květa Peschke, Czech tennis player
Elias Viljanen, Finnish musician
Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
Gaizka Garitano, Spanish football player and coach
Damián Szifron, Argentine director and screenwriter
Jack White, American singer and guitarist
Martina Colombari, Italian actress, model and television presenter
Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor (d. 2018)
Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress and model
Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
Darude, Finnish DJ and record producer
Cécile de France, Belgian actress
Loretta Harrop, Australian triathlete
Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician
July 18 – Daron Malakian, Armenian-American guitarist
July 19 – Hélène Tigroudja, French jurist and international law expert.
Judy Greer, American actress and author
Ray Allen, American basketball player
July 21 – David Dastmalchian, American actor
July 25 – Evgeni Nabokov, Kazakh-Russian hockey goaltender
July 26 – Liz Truss, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
July 27 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player and businessman
July 28 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer
August
August 1 – Danny Chan Kwok-kwan, Hong Kong actor
Wael Gomaa, Egyptian footballer
Evika Siliņa, Latvian politician, prime minister
Jason Crump, Australian motorcycle speedway rider
Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist
August 6 – Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
Gaahl (Kristian Eivind Espedal), Norwegian musician
Megan Gale, Australian model and actress
Charlize Theron, South African-born American actress
August 9 – Mahesh Babu, Indian actor
August 12 – Casey Affleck, American actor and film director
August 13 – Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani fast bowler
August 15 – Kara Wolters, American basketball player
August 16 – Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian
August 17 – Ian Casocot, Filipino writer
August 18 – Kaitlin Olson, American actress
August 22 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
August 25 – Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer
August 29 – Dante Basco, American film, television and voice actor
August 30 – Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
August 31 – Sara Ramirez, Mexican-American actress
September
Sarah Mintz, Colombian actress and model
Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
Scott Speedman, Canadian actor
September 3 – Redfoo, American disc jockey
September 4 – Mark Ronson, English DJ, record producer, and singer
September 6 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka
September 7 – Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (died 2007)
September 8 – Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
September 9 – Michael Bublé, Canadian musician
Peter Ho, American-Taiwanese singer and actor
Idan Tal, Israeli footballer
September 16 – Gal Fridman, Israeli windsurfer
September 17 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
September 18 – Jason Sudeikis, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
Asia Argento, Italian actress, singer, and director
Moon Bloodgood, American actress
Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian racing driver
September 22 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian hockey player
September 23 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
Marion Cotillard, French actress, singer, songwriter, and musician
Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author and journalist
October
October 1 – Bimba Bosé, Spanish model, actress and singer (d. 2017)
October 3 – Alanna Ubach, American actress and singer
Parminder Nagra, British actress
Kate Winslet, British actress
Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese actress
Martin Jørgensen, Danish footballer and coach
Peter Pellegrini, Slovak politician, President of Slovakia
October 8 – Marc Molinaro, American politician
October 9 – Sean Lennon, British-American musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist
October 10 – Ihsahn, Norwegian musician
October 12 – Marion Jones, American athlete
Floyd Landis, American cyclist
Shaznay Lewis, English singer
October 15 – Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer
October 16 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
October 21 – Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
Zadie Smith, English writer
Antony Starr, New Zealand actor
October 28 – Krisztián Zahorecz, Hungarian football player (d. 2019)
November
November 2 – Danny Cooksey, American actor and comedian
November 3 – Marta Domínguez, Spanish athlete
Éric Fichaud, Canadian hockey player
Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (d. 2010)
Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer
Tara Reid, American actress
November 10 – Markko Märtin, Estonian racing driver
Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby union player
Angélica Vale, Mexican-American actress, singer, and comedian
Jason Lezak, American swimmer
Amy Neighbors, American politician
November 13 – Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer
Luizão, Brazilian footballer
Gary Vaynerchuk, American-Belarusian entrepreneur and internet personality
Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter, actor and singer
David Ortiz, Dominican-American baseball player
November 19 – Sushmita Sen, Indian actress and model, former Miss Universe.
Dierks Bentley, American country music singer
Joshua Gomez, American actor
Cherie Johnson, American actress
Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian drummer
November 28 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
November 30 – Mindy McCready, American country music singer (d. 2013)
December
Sofi Marinova, Bulgarian singer
Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player
Paula Patton, American actress
December 6 – Ashin, Taiwanese singer
Mia Love, American political commentator and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 in Utah, the first and to date only black woman elected to congress as a republican
December 10 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
Mayim Bialik, Israeli-American actress and neuroscientist
Houko Kuwashima, Japanese voice actress
December 13 – Tom DeLonge, American musician, author, and UFOlogist
Nick Dinsmore, American professional wrestler
Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan athlete
Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born American actress and model
Mara Carfagna, Italian politician and model
Sia, Australian singer-songwriter and music video director
Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler and model
December 20 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
Charles Michel, Belgian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council
December 23 – Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
December 24 – Maria Zakharova, Russian politician and diplomat
Ed Stafford, English explorer
Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
December 27 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress (d. 1988)
December 29 – Shawn Hatosy, American actor
December 30 – Tiger Woods, American golfer
Deaths
January
January 3 – Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher (b. 1880)
January 5 – Gottlob Berger, German Nazi senior official (b. 1896)
Richard Tucker, American tenor (b. 1913)
David Marshall Williams, American inventor (b. 1900)
January 9 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
January 14 – Georgi Traykov, head of State of Bulgaria (b. 1898)
January 17 – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (b. 1900)
January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, American artist (b. 1889)
Larry Fine, American actor and comedian, The Three Stooges (b. 1902)
Erich Kempka, German chauffeur, bodyguard of Adolf Hitler (b. 1910)
Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak Communist leader and 7th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1904)
Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
February
February 3 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (b. 1904)
February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
February 6 – Sir Keith Park, New Zealand-born British air chief marshal (b. 1892)
Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
Jan Mukařovský, Czech literary, linguistic and aesthetic theorist. (b. 1891)
February 9 – Sir Ivan Stedeford, British industrialist (b. 1897)
February 10 – Dave Alexander, American musician (b. 1947)
February 12 – Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat and humanitarian (b. 1895)
February 13 – André Beaufre, French general (b. 1902)
Sir Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
Sir P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
February 17 – Hugo Österman, Finnish general (b. 1892)
February 18 – Chivu Stoica, 48th Prime Minister of Romania and head of State (b. 1908)
February 19 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
February 22 – Lionel Tertis, English violist (b. 1876)
February 24 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, American Nation of Islam leader (b. 1897)
February 28 – Sir Neville Cardus, British cricket and music writer (b. 1888)
March
March 2 – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer (b. 1876)
March 3 – Therese Giehse, German actress (b. 1898)
March 4 – Bill Phillips, New Zealand economist (b. 1914)
March 6 – Glenn Hardin, American athlete (b. 1910)
March 7 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. 1895)
George Stevens, American director, producer and cinematographer (b. 1904)
Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist (b. 1892)
Shirley Ross, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
March 11 – Margarita Fischer, American silent film actress (b. 1886)
March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
March 14 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
March 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1906)
March 16 – T-Bone Walker, American blues performer (b. 1910)
March 21 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
Michèle Girardon, French actress (b. 1938)
March 27 – Sir Arthur Bliss, British composer and Master of the Queen's Music (b. 1891)
March 30 – Boots Adams, American business magnate, president of Phillips Petroleum Company (b. 1899)
April
Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese nationalist general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
Harold Osborn, American Olympic athlete (b. 1899)
Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician and jurist, 40th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1917)
Walker Evans, American photographer (b. 1903)
Marjorie Main, American actress (b. 1890)
April 12 – Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer and activist (b. 1906)
April 13 – Larry Parks, American actor (b. 1914)
April 14 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
April 17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India (b. 1888)
April 19 – Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist (b. 1899)
April 21 – Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, 2-time President of Brazil (b. 1910)
April 23 – William Hartnell, English actor (b. 1908)
April 24 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
May
May 4 – Moe Howard, American actor and comedian, The Three Stooges (b. 1897)
May 8 – Avery Brundage, American administrator, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1887)
May 9 – Philip Dorn, Dutch actor (b. 1901)
May 13 - Marguerite Perey, French physicist, discovered the element francium (b. 1909)
May 14 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born American television pioneer (b. 1878)
Leroy Anderson, American composer (b. 1908)
Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician (b. 1914)
May 20 – Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist (b. 1903)
Lefty Grove, American baseball player (b. 1900)
Torben Meyer, Danish actor (b. 1884)
May 23 – Moms Mabley, African-American comedian (b. 1894)
Ezzard Charles, American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. 1921)
Lung Chien, Chinese screenwriter and film director (b. 1916)
Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner (b. 1951)
Michel Simon, Swiss actor (b. 1895)
June
Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer (b. 1906)
June 4 – Evelyn Brent, American actress (b. 1895)
June 9 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat (b. 1892)
June 12 – Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Guatemalan writer (b. 1884)
June 13 – José María Guido, 33rd President of Argentina (b. 1910)
June 15 – William Austin, English actor (b. 1884)
June 18 – Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. 1883)
June 19 - Sam Giancana, 67, Chicago mafia boss murdered in his own home.
June 26 – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1902)
June 27 – G. I. Taylor, British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory (b. 1886)
June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter and narrator (b. 1924)
June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1947)
July
July 2 – James Robertson Justice, British actor (b. 1907)
July 4 – Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1893)
July 5 – Otto Skorzeny, Austrian-born German lieutenant colonel (b. 1908)
July 10 – Achille Van Acker, 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1898)
July 13 – Thomas Walter Swan, American jurist and judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1926 until 1975 (b. 1877)
July 14 – Madan Mohan, Indian music director (b. 1924)
July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
Lefty Frizzell, American singer (b. 1928)
Charles Alan Pownall, American admiral, 3rd Military Governor of Guam (b. 1887)
July 21 – Billy West, American actor (b. 1892)
July 23 – Emlen Tunnell, American football player and coach (b. 1924)
July 30 – James Blish, American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. 1921)
August
Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet (b. 1901)
Jack Molinas, American basketball player (b. 1931)
August 6 – Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, Spanish prince, military aviator (b. 1886)
August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet and Russian composer (b. 1906)
August 10 – Anthony McAuliffe, American general (b. 1898)
August 11 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel (b. 1885)
August 15 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (b. 1920)
August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner (b. 1927)
Mark Donohue, American race car driver (b. 1937)
Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (b. 1882)
Frank Shields, American tennis player (b. 1909)
August 23 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter (b. 1902)
August 25 – Joseph Kane, American film director and producer (b. 1894)
August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor (b. 1896)
August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor (b. 1907)
Charles C. Bass, American physician and medical researcher (b. 1875)
Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach (b. 1882)
August 31 – Pierre Blaise, French film actor (b. 1955)
September
September 5 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist (b. 1881)
Minta Durfee, American actress (b. 1889)
Ethel Griffies, British actress (b. 1878)
September 10 – Sir George Paget Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
September 15 – Pavel Sukhoi, Soviet aerospace engineer, twice Hero of Socialist Labour (b. 1895)
September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress (b. 1917)
Doria Shafik, Egyptian feminist, poet, writer and editor (b. 1908)
Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor (b. 1900)
September 26 – C. H. Waddington, British biologist, paleontologist, geneticist and philosopher (b. 1905)
Mark Frechette, American actor (b. 1947)
September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager (b. 1890)
October
October 3 – Guy Mollet, 94th Prime Minister of France (b. 1905)
October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion (b. 1887)
October 10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912)
October 16 – Don Barclay, American actor and artist (b. 1892)
October 21 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete (b. 1889)
October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (b. 1889)
Peregrino Anselmo, Uruguayan football player (b. 1902)
October 28 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894)
October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
November
November 1 – C. S. Wright, Canadian explorer (b. 1887)
November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922)
November 4 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (b. 1893)
Edward Tatum, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909)
Lionel Trilling, American literary critic (b. 1905)
Ernst Hanfstaengl, German-born American businessman and politician (b. 1887)
Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1886)
November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English writer (b. 1896)
November 17 – Kay Johnson, American actress (b. 1904)
November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and politician, Caudillo of Spain (b. 1892)
Tony Brise, English racing driver (b. 1952)
Graham Hill, English racing driver (b. 1929)
December
December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906)
December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
December 8 – Plínio Salgado, Brazilian politician and writer (b. 1895)
December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director (b. 1896)
December 10 – Boy Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
December 11 – Nihal Atsız, Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet (b. 1905)
December 12 – Saadi Al Munla, 4th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1890)
December 13 – Addie Viola Smith, American lawyer and trade commissioner (b. 1893)
December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894)
Alex Aronson, Jewish-Dutch aid worker (b. 1934)
Shigeyoshi Inoue, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
December 17 – Noble Sissle, American jazz composer (b. 1889)
December 18 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1900)
December 19 – René Maheu, French professor and administrator, 6th Director-General of UNESCO (b. 1905)
December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor (b. 1914)
December 21 – Rowland V. Lee, American film director (b. 1891)
December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (b. 1911)
December 30 – Elene Akhvlediani, Soviet painter (b. 1901)
Date unknown
Sisowath Monireth, 3rd Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1909)
Nobel Prizes
References