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1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1968th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 968th year of the 2nd millennium, the 68th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1960s decade.

Events
January–February January – The I'm Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously. • January 5Prague Spring: Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. • January 10John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. • January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. • January 21Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. • 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. • January 23North Korea seizes the , claiming the ship violated its territorial waters while spying. • January 25Israeli submarine sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 69. • January 28French submarine Minerve sinks in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 52. • January 30Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begins as Viet Cong forces launch a series of surprise attacks across South Vietnam. • January 31Viet Cong soldiers attack the Embassy of the United States, Saigon. • Nauru president Hammer DeRoburt declares independence from Australia, Britain and New Zealand. • February 1Vietnam War: Execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém – A Viet Cong officer is summarily executed by Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, a South Vietnamese National Police Chief. The event is photographed by Eddie Adams. The photo makes headlines around the world, eventually winning the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, and sways U.S. public opinion against the war. • The Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Central Railroad merge to form Penn Central, the largest ever corporate merger up to this date. • February 618 – The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France. • February 8Civil rights movement in the United States: Orangeburg Massacre – A civil rights demonstration on a college campus to protest de facto racial segregation in South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; three African American students are killed, the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American campus. • February 12Vietnam War: Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre. • February 19 – The television series ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood'' premieres on National Educational Television in the United States and becomes one of the longest running children's shows ever. • February 24Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive is halted; South Vietnam recaptures Huế. • February 25Vietnam War: Hà My massacre. March–April March 1Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 further reduces right of entry for citizens from the British Commonwealth to the United Kingdom. • First performance of an Andrew Lloyd WebberTim Rice musical, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in its original form as a "pop cantata", by pupils of a private school in London. • March 2Baggeridge Colliery closes marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country of England. • March 3Air France Flight 212, a Boeing 707, crashes in Guadeloupe while approaching an airport. As a result, 63 people die. • March 6 – Un-recognized Rhodesia executes 3 black citizens, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation. • March 7Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon ends. • March 8 • The first student protests spark the 1968 Polish political crisis. • The Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sinks with all 98 crew members, about 90 nautical miles (104 miles or 167 km) southwest of Hawaii. • March 1011Vietnam War: Battle of Lima Site 85, the largest single ground combat loss of United States Air Force members (12) during the (at this time) secret war later known as the Laotian Civil War. • March 11 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson mandates that all computers purchased by the federal government support the ASCII character encoding. • March 12Mauritius achieves independence from British rule. • U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson barely edges out antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, a vote which highlights the deep divisions in the country, and the party, over Vietnam. • March 13 – The first Rotaract club is chartered in North Charlotte, North Carolina. • March 14 • Late this evening, the U.K. government at the request of the U.S. agrees that the London Gold Pool will be closed from tomorrow. George Brown, the British Foreign Secretary, apparently drunk, is absent from meetings to discuss the crisis and is forced to resign from the government on March 15. • Nerve gas leaks from the U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground near Skull Valley, Utah. • March 16Vietnam WarMy Lai massacre: American troops kill between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians and rape women and children. The story, initially covered up as a military victory, will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam. • U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. • March 18Gold standard: The United States Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back U.S. currency. • Jabidah massacreMarch 1923Afrocentrism, Black Power, Vietnam War: Students at Howard University in Washington, D.C., signal a new era of militant student activism on college campuses in the U.S. Students stage rallies, protests and a 5-day sit-in, laying siege to the administration building, shutting down the university in protest over its ROTC program and the Vietnam War, and demanding a more Afrocentric curriculum. • March 22Daniel Cohn-Bendit ("Danny the Red") and 7 other students occupy the administrative offices of the new Nanterre campus of the University of Paris as part of protests over a rigid educational system, setting in motion a chain of 'May 68' events that lead France to the brink of revolution. • March 24Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashes en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew. • March 28Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students. The aftermath of his death is one of the first major events against the military dictatorship. • April 2 – Bombs explode at midnight in two department stores in Frankfurt-am-Main; Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin are later arrested and sentenced for arson. • April 4Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.: Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. King-assassination riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards. • Apollo program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 (Apollo 6) is launched, as the second and last uncrewed test-flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle. • AEK Athens wins the FIBA European Cup Winners Cup Final in basketball against Slavia Prague, in front of a record attendance of 80,000 spectators. It is the first major European trophy won at club level of any sport in Greece. • April 613th Eurovision Song Contest is held in the Royal Albert Hall, London, UK. The winning song, Spain's "La, la, la" (music and lyrics by Manuel de la Calva and Ramón Arcusa) is sung in Spanish by Massiel after Spanish authorities refuse to allow Joan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan. The United Kingdom finishes in second place, one point behind, with the song "Congratulations" sung by Cliff Richard, which goes on to outsell the winning Spanish entry throughout Europe. • A shootout between Black Panthers and police in Oakland, California, United States, results in several arrests and deaths, including 17-year-old Panther Bobby Hutton. • Richmond, Indiana explosion: A double explosion in downtown Richmond caused by a methane leak kills 41 and injures 150. • April 7 – British racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim. • April 10 – The ferry strikes a reef at the mouth of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand, with the loss of 53 lives, in Cyclone Giselle, which has created the windiest conditions ever recorded in New Zealand. • April 11Josef Bachmann tries to assassinate Rudi Dutschke, leader of the left-wing movement (APO) in Germany, and tries to commit suicide afterwards, failing in both, although Dutschke dies of his brain injuries 11 years later. • German left-wing students blockade the Springer Press headquarters in Berlin and many are arrested (one of them Ulrike Meinhof). • April 18London Bridge is sold to U.S. entrepreneur Robert P. McCulloch for reconstruction at Lake Havasu City, Arizona. • April 20Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes the 15th Prime Minister of Canada. • Conservative British politician Enoch Powell makes a controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech in Birmingham deploring the effects of immigration; he is dismissed from the Shadow Cabinet the following day. • South African Airways Flight 228 a Boeing 707 crashed shortly after take-off killing 123 people on board. • April 23 • President Mobutu releases captured mercenaries in the Congo. • Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain. • The United Methodist Church is created by the union in Dallas, Texas, of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches. • April 2330Vietnam War: Columbia University protests of 1968 – Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university. • April 26 – The nuclear weapon "Boxcar" is tested at the Nevada Test Site in the biggest detonation of Operation Crosstie. May–June May 1CARIFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Association, is formally created as an agreement between Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago. • May 2 • The Israel Broadcasting Authority commences television broadcasts. • May 68: Authorities close the Nanterre campus of the University of Paris and the focus of protest moves to the Sorbonne. • May 3Braniff Flight 352 crashes near Dawson, Texas, United States, killing all 85 people on board. • May 6May 68: Student protestors begin battling with police on the streets of Paris. • May 13May 68: Major left trade union federations in France call a 1-day general strike and join student protesters in a million-strong march through the streets of Paris. • Manchester City wins the 1967–68 Football League First Division by 2 clear points, over English club rivals Manchester United. • May 16Ronan Point, a 23 floor tower block in Canning Town, east London, partially collapses after a gas explosion, killing 5. • May 17 – The Catonsville Nine enter the Selective Service offices in Catonsville, Maryland, take dozens of selective service draft records, and burn them with napalm as a protest against the Vietnam War. • May 18Mattel's Hot Wheels toy cars are introduced in the United States. • West Bromwich Albion win the English Football Association Cup, defeating Everton 1–0 after extra time. The winning goal is scored by Jeff Astle. • May 191968 Italian general election. • Nigerian forces capture Port Harcourt and form a ring around the Biafrans. This contributes to a humanitarian disaster as the surrounded population already suffers from hunger and starvation. • May 22 – The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. • May 27May 68: Grenelle agreements concluded in France, giving a large increase in minimum wages, but are rejected by trade unions. • May 29May 68: President de Gaulle of France leaves Paris without telling his prime minister, Georges Pompidou, where he is going – which is in fact to the headquarters of the French Forces in Germany at Baden-Baden to assure himself of military support. • Manchester United F.C. wins the European Cup Final, becoming the first English team to do so. • May 30May 68: With hundreds of thousands marching on the streets of Paris, President de Gaulle calls an election, which has the effect of calming the situation. George Pompidou leads the party through the campaign but resigns as prime minister afterwards. The public unrest of May 68 subsides. • June 26 • The Bonin Islands are returned to Japan after 23 years of occupation by the United States Navy. • The "March of the One Hundred Thousand" takes place in Rio de Janeiro as crowds demonstrate against the Brazilian military government. July–August July 1 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for signature. • July 4 – English yachtsman Alec Rose, 59, receives a hero's welcome as he sails into Portsmouth, after his 354-day solo round-the-world trip. • July 17Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a ''coup d'état''. • July 18 – The semiconductor company Intel is founded in what becomes known as the Silicon Valley of California. • July 20 – The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, Ill, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities. • July 2328 – Black militants led by Fred (Ahmed) Evans engage in a fierce gunfight with police in the Glenville Shootout of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States, leaving 7 people killed. • July 25Pope Paul VI publishes the encyclical Humanae vitae, reaffirming the Catholic Church's opposition to artificial birth control. • July 25- Tysons Corner Center one of the largest malls in the U.S. opens to the public and the Washington DC area. • July 26 – Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to 5 years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war. • July 29Arenal Volcano erupts in Costa Rica for the first time in centuries. • August 1 – The Municipal University of São Caetano do Sul is established in São Caetano do Sul, São Paulo. • August 2 – The magnitude () 7.6 Casiguran earthquake affects the Aurora province in the Philippines with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing at least 207 and injuring 261. • August 58 – The Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida nominates Richard Nixon for U.S. president and Spiro Agnew for vice president. • August 11 – The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and return – the journey is known as the Fifteen Guinea Special. • August 18 – Two charter buses are forced into the Hida River on National Highway Route 41 in Japan in an accident caused by heavy rain; 104 are killed. • August 2021Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia: The 'Prague Spring' of political liberalization ends, as 750,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 6,500 tanks with 800 aircraft invade Czechoslovakia, the largest military operation in Europe since the end of World War II. • August 24Canopus (nuclear test): France explodes its first hydrogen bomb in a test at Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia. • August 22301968 Democratic National Convention protests: Police clash with anti-Vietnam War protesters in Chicago outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which nominates Hubert Humphrey for U.S. president and Edmund Muskie for vice president. The riots and subsequent trials are an essential part of the activism of the Youth International Party. • August 29Crown Prince Harald of Norway marries Sonja Haraldsen, the commoner he has dated for 9 years. September–October September 6Swaziland (later known as Eswatini) becomes independent of the United Kingdom. • September 7 – The crash of Air France Flight 1611 kills 95 people, including French Army General René Cogny, as the Caravelle jetliner plunges into the Mediterranean Sea following a fire while making its approach to Nice following its departure from the island of Corsica. • September 11 • The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is founded. • John Eliot Gardiner conducts Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine with the Monteverdi Choir at the BBC Proms in London. • September 13Albania officially withdraws from the Warsaw Pact upon the Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, having already ceased to participate actively in Pact activity since 1962. • September 17 – The D'Oliveira affair: The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of Basil D'Oliveira, a Cape Coloured, in the England side. • September 21 – The Soviet Zond 5 uncrewed lunar flyby mission returns to Earth, with its first-of-a-kind biological payload intact. • September 23Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive comes to an end in South Vietnam. • September 27Marcelo Caetano becomes prime minister of Portugal. • September 29 – A referendum in Greece gives more power to the military junta. • October 2Tlatelolco massacre: A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the 1968 Summer Olympics. 300-400 are estimated to have been killed. • October 3 – In Peru, Juan Velasco Alvarado takes power in a revolution. • October 8Vietnam War: Operation Sealords – United States and South Vietnamese forces launch a new operation in the Mekong Delta. • October 10 – The Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series in baseball in seven games. • October 11Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham). Mission goals include the first live television broadcast from orbit and simulating lunar module rendezvous and docking, using the S-IVB rocket stage as a test target. • In Panama, a military ''coup d'état'', led by Col. Boris Martinez and Col. Omar Torrijos, overthrows the democratically elected (but highly controversial) government of President Arnulfo Arias. Within a year, Torrijos ousts Martinez and takes charge as de facto Head of Government in Panama. • October 1227 – The 1968 Summer Olympics are held in Mexico City, Mexico. • October 12Equatorial Guinea receives its independence from Spain. • October 14Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will send about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours. • October 161968 Olympics Black Power salute: In Mexico City, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a Black Power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men's 200 metres (with the support of Australian silver medallist Peter Norman). • Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney Riots, provoked by the banning of Guyanese-born academic and activist Walter Rodney from the country. • October 18 – U.S. athlete Bob Beamon breaks the long jump world record by 55 cm / 21 ins at the Olympics in Mexico City. His record stands for 23 years, and remains the second longest jump in history. • October 25 – Rock band Led Zeppelin make their first live performance, at Surrey University in England • October 31Vietnam War: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks (which began on May 13), U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1. • October 31 – Great Drought of 1968: Amidst a collapse of hydropower President of Chile Eduardo Frei Montalva decrees the establishment of daylight saving time. November–December November 51968 United States presidential election: Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeats the Democratic candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and American Independent Party candidate George Wallace. • Luis A. Ferré of the newly formed New Progressive Party is elected Governor of Puerto Rico by beating incumbent governor Roberto Sánchez Vilella of the People's Party, Luis Negrón López of the Popular Democratic Party and Antonio J. Gonzalez of the Puerto Rican Independence Party; he also becomes the first "statehooder" governor of the Island. • November 7 – Start of the 1968 movement in Pakistan, which leads to the resignation of General Ayub Khan, and ultimately the split of the country and formation of Bangladesh. • November 8 – The Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals is signed and ratified. • November 11 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives. • November 15Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt is initiated to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam. By the end of the operation, 3 million tons of bombs are dropped on Laos, slowing but not seriously disrupting trail operations. • November 17British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. • The "Heidi Game": NBC cuts off the final 1:05 of an Oakland RaidersNew York Jets football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled Heidi. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest. • November 19 – In Mali, President Modibo Keïta's regime is overthrown in a bloodless military coup led by Moussa Traoré. • November 20 – The Farmington Mine disaster in Farmington, West Virginia, kills seventy-eight men. • November 22The Beatles ("The White Album") and The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society are released. • Japan Air Lines Flight 2, flying from Tokyo to San Francisco International Airport ditches in San Francisco Bay due to pilot error; all 107 on board survive without injury. • November 24 – 4 men hijack Pan Am Flight 281 from JFK International Airport, New York to Havana, Cuba. • December 9Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering hypertext system, NLS, in San Francisco, together with the computer mouse, at what becomes retrospectively known as "The Mother of All Demos". • December 10 – Japan's biggest heist, the never-solved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo. • December 11 – The film Oliver! based on the hit London and Broadway musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in the UK. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. • December 13 – Prompted by growing unrest and a perceived proliferation of "pro-communist" violent actions, Brazilian president Artur da Costa e Silva enacts the so-called AI-5, the fifth of a series of non-constitutional emergency decrees allegedly to help "stabilize" the country after the turmoils of the early 1960s. • December 20 – The first known Zodiac Killer murder takes place in Lake Herman Road, Vallejo, California. • December 22Mao Zedong advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in the countryside. It marks the start of the "Up to the mountains and down to the villages" movement. • December 24Apollo program: The crewed U.S. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographs Earthrise. The crew also give a reading from the Book of Genesis. • December 281968 Israeli raid on Lebanon: Israeli forces fly into Lebanese airspace, launching an attack on the airport in Beirut and destroying more than a dozen aircraft. Dates unknown • The Khmer Rouge is officially formed in Cambodia as an offshoot movement of the Vietnam People's Army from North Vietnam to bring communism to the nation. A few years later, they will become bitter enemies. • Drainage of the Flevopolder in the Netherlands is completed, creating by some definitions the largest artificial island in the world. • An oil field is confirmed in Northern Alaska: the Prudhoe Bay Oil Field. == Births ==
Births
January January 1Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer • January 2Oleg Deripaska, Russian businessman • Cuba Gooding Jr., American actor • Anky van Grunsven, Dutch equesterian • January 5DJ BoBo, Swiss singer-songwriter and dancer • Andrzej Gołota, Polish boxer • Carrie Ann Inaba, American choreographer, game show host and singer • January 6John Singleton, African-American film director and writer (d. 2019) • January 9Silver King, Mexican luchador (d. 2019) • January 10Nurul Amin, Bangladeshi politician • January 11Benjamin List, German organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry • January 12Rachael Harris, American actress and comedian • January 13Pat Onstad, Canadian soccer player • January 14LL Cool J, African-American rapper and actor • January 16Atticus Ross, English musician, songwriter, record producer and audio engineer • January 17Svetlana Masterkova, Russian athlete • January 18David Ayer, American filmmaker • January 24Michael Kiske, German musician • Mary Lou Retton, American gymnast • January 26Novala Takemoto, Japanese author and fashion designer • January 27Mike Patton, American singer • January 28Sarah McLachlan, Canadian singer • January 29Edward Burns, American actor • January 30 – King Felipe VI of Spain February February 1Lisa Marie Presley, American singer-songwriter, daughter of Elvis Presley (d. 2023) • Mark Recchi, Canadian ice hockey player • February 3Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player • February 5Marcus Grönholm, Finnish rally driver • Qasim Melho, Syrian television actor • February 7Peter Bondra, Slovak ice hockey player • Porntip Nakhirunkanok, Miss Universe 1988 • February 8Gary Coleman, African-American actor (d. 2010) • April Stewart, American voice actress • February 10Laurie Foell, New Zealand/Australian actress • Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster • February 11Lavinia Agache, Romanian artistic gymnast • Mo Willems, American children's book author • February 12Josh Brolin, American actor • February 13Kelly Hu, American actress and voice artist, previously fashion model and beauty queen • Niamh Kavanagh, Irish singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1993 winner • February 14Jules Asner, American model and television personality • February 15Gloria Trevi, Mexican singer and actress • February 18Molly Ringwald, American actress • Dennis Satin, German film director • February 21Pellom McDaniels, American football player (d. 2020) • February 22Bradley Nowell, American musician (d. 1996) • Jeri Ryan, American actress • February 23Jagath Wickramaratne, Sri Lankan politician and 23rd Speaker of the Parliament • February 24Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (d. 2005) • February 29Sam Sneed, American producer and rapper March March 1Kat Cressida, American voice actress • Kunjarani Devi, Indian weightlifter • Muho Noelke, German Zen master • March 2Daniel Craig, British actor • March 3Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player • March 4Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player • Patsy Kensit, British actress • Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (2019–present) • March 5Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian Prime Minister • Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, 10th Prime Minister of Eswatini (d. 2020) • March 6Moira Kelly, American actress • March 7Jeff Kent, American baseball player • March 9Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer • Rexy Mainaky, Indonesian badminton player • March 11Lisa Loeb, American singer • March 12Aaron Eckhart, American actor • Tammy Duckworth, US Senator • March 13Gillian Keegan, British politician • Masami Okui, Japanese singer • March 14Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress • James Frain, British actor • March 15Mark McGrath, American singer • Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician • Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer • March 16David MacMillan, Scottish-born organic chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry • Trevor Wilson, American basketball player • March 20 • Carlos Almeida, Cape Verdean long-distance runner • Ultra Naté, American singer-songwriter, record producer, DJ and promoter • March 22Euronymous, Norwegian musician (d. 1993) • March 23Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter and musician • Mike Atherton, English cricketer • Fernando Hierro, Spanish football player and coach • March 26Kenny Chesney, American country music singer • James Iha, American rock musician • March 27Ben Koldyke, American actor • March 28Iris Chang, American author (d. 2004) • March 29Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer • March 30Celine Dion, Canadian singer • March 31César Sampaio, Brazilian football player and coach April April 1Julia Boutros, Lebanese singer • Andreas Schnaas, German director • Alexander Stubb, 43rd Prime Minister of Finland • April 5Paula Cole, American singer • Stephen Bardo, American basketball player • Stewart Lee, English stand-up comedian • April 7Jože Možina, Slovenian historian, sociologist and journalist • April 8Patricia Arquette, American actress • Shawn Fonteno, American actor and rapper • April 9Tom Brands, American Olympic wrestler • April 11CB Milton, Dutch electronic music vocalist • April 12Ott, English musician and record producer • Neil Brady, Canadian ice hockey player • April 13Necrobutcher, Norwegian musician • April 14Anthony Michael Hall, American actor and singer • April 15Stacey Williams, American model • April 16Greg Baker, American actor and musician • Martin Dahlin, Swedish football player • Vickie Guerrero, American professional wrestler • April 17Julie Fagerholt, Danish fashion designer • Adam McKay, American film director, producer, screenwriter, comedian and actor • April 18David Hewlett, English-born Canadian actor, writer and director • April 19Ashley Judd, American actress • April 20J. D. Roth, American television host • Yelena Välbe, Russian cross-country skier • April 22Zarley Zalapski, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017) • April 23Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (d. 2001) • April 24Stacy Haiduk, American actress • Jorge Medina, Bolivian civil rights activist and politician (d. 2022) • Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler • April 28Howard Donald, British singer (Take That) • April 29Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, President of Croatia (2015–2020) • Michael Herbig, German film director, actor and author • Darren Matthews, English professional wrestler May May 1Oliver Bierhoff, German footballer • May 2Jeff Agoos, American soccer player • Hikaru Midorikawa, Japanese voice actor • May 3Nina Paley, American cartoonist • Li Yong, Chinese host (d. 2018) • Amy Ryan, American actress • May 4Julian Barratt, English comedian, actor, musician and music producer • Momoko Kikuchi, Japanese actress and singer • Eric Xun Li, Chinese venture capitalist • May 5John Soko, Zambian footballer (d. 1993) • May 7Eagle-Eye Cherry, Swedish-born musician • Traci Lords, American actress • May 8Mickaël Madar, French footballer • Éric Martineau, French politician • May 9Carla Overbeck, American soccer player • Marie-José Pérec, French athlete • Nataša Pirc Musar, Slovenian politician, attorney, author, journalist and 5th President of SloveniaMay 10Al Murray, English comedian • May 12Tony Hawk, American skateboarder • May 13Sonja Zietlow, German television presenter • Scott Morrison, 30th Prime Minister of Australia • May 14Greg Davies, English actor, comedian and presenter • May 16Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress • May 17Constance Menard, French professional dressage rider • May 18Vanessa Leggett, American freelance journalist, author, lecturer and First Amendment advocate • May 19Kyle Eastwood, American jazz bass musician • May 20Timothy Olyphant, American actor • Waisale Serevi, Fijian rugby player • May 22Michael Kelly, American actor • Graham Linehan, Irish television writer and director • May 23John Ortiz, American actor • May 24Charles De'Ath, English actor • May 26King Frederik X of DenmarkMay 27Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player • Frank Thomas, American baseball player • May 28Kylie Minogue, Australian actress and singer • May 30Zacarias Moussaoui, French-Moroccan 9/11 conspirator June June 1Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer • June 2Beetlejuice, American entertainer, member of the Wack Pack (The Howard Stern Show) • Jon Culshaw, English impressionist • June 4Scott Wolf, American actor • June 5Sandra Annenberg, Brazilian newscaster, previously actress • Mel Giedroyc, English comedian and presenter • June 9Aleksandr Konovalov, Russian lawyer and politician • June 10Bill Burr, American comedian • Nobutoshi Canna, Japanese voice actor • June 14Yasmine Bleeth, American actress • Raj Thackeray, Indian politician • June 16Mariana Mazzucato, Italian born-American economist • June 20Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish banker and politician, 17th Prime Minister of PolandJune 22Lohan Ratwatte, Sri Lankan politician, MP (2010–2024) (d. 2025) • June 24Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster • June 25Albert Fulivai, Tongan rugby league player • June 26Paolo Maldini, Italian football player • Jovenel Moïse, 42nd President of Haiti (d. 2021) • Iwan Roberts, Welsh footballer • June 27Isabel Saint Malo, Panamian politician • June 28Chayanne, Puerto Rican-American singer • Adam Woodyatt, English actor • June 29Theoren Fleury, Canadian ice hockey player • June 30Phil Anselmo, American heavy metal vocalist July July 5Ken Akamatsu, Japanese manga artistDarin LaHood, American attorney and politician • Michael Stuhlbarg, American actor • July 6Rashid Sidek, Malaysian badminton player and coach • July 7Jorja Fox, American actress • Allen Payne, American actor • Jeff VanderMeer, American writer • July 8Billy Crudup, American actor • Akio Suyama, Japanese voice actorJosephine Teo, Singaporean politician • Michael Weatherly, American actor • July 9Eduardo Santamarina, Mexican actor • July 10Hassiba Boulmerka, Algerian athlete • July 11Conrad Vernon, American voice actor and director • July 13Robert Gant, American actor • Omi Minami, Japanese voice actress • July 14Samantha Gori, Italian basketball player • July 15Leticia Calderón, Mexican actress • Rosalinda Celentano, Italian actress • Eddie Griffin, American actor and comedian • July 16Dhanraj Pillay, Indian field hockey player • Barry Sanders, American football player • Olga de Souza, Brazilian-Italian singer, model and dancer • July 17Darren Day, British actor and TV presenter • Beth Littleford, American actress and comedian • July 18Grant Bowler, New Zealand-born Australian actor • July 19Robert Flynn, American vocalist and guitarist (Machine Head) • July 20Jimmy Carson, American ice hockey player • July 23Elden Campbell, American basketball player (d. 2025) • Gary Payton, American basketball player • Stephanie Seymour, American model and actress • July 24Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer • Troy Kotsur, American actor • Laura Leighton, American actress • July 25John Grant, American singer-songwriter • July 27Cliff Curtis, New Zealand actor • Julian McMahon, Australian actor (d. 2025) • July 30Terry Crews, American actor, television host and artist, previously American football player • Robert Korzeniowski, Polish athlete August August 1Pavo Urban, Croatian photographer (d. 1991) • August 3Rod Beck, American baseball player (d. 2007) • August 4Lee Mack, English actor and stand-up comedian • Olga Neuwirth, Austrian composer • August 5Patricia Tarabini, Argentine tennis player • Marine Le Pen, French politician • Colin McRae, Scottish rally car driver (d. 2007) • August 6August 7Lynn Strait, American musician (d. 1998) • August 8Kimberly Brooks, American actress and voice artist • August 9Gillian Anderson, American actress • Eric Bana, Australian actor • James Roy, Australian author • August 11Vladimir Kosterin, Ukrainian businessman and foundation president • August 12Pablo Rey, Spanish painter • Paul Tucker, English songwriter and record producer • Kōji Yusa, Japanese voice actor • August 14Catherine Bell, American actress • Darren Clarke, Northern Irish golfer • Jennifer Flavin, businesswoman, previously model • Jason Leonard, English rugby union player • August 15Debra Messing, American actress • August 16Arvind Kejriwal, Indian politician • August 17Ed McCaffrey, American football player • Bruno van Pottelsberghe, Belgian economist • Helen McCrory, English actress (d. 2021) • August 20Klas Ingesson, Swedish footballer (d. 2014) • Yuri Shiratori Japanese actress and singer • Bai Yansong, Chinese host • August 21Dina Carroll, British singer • Stretch, American rapper and record producer (d. 1995) • August 24Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler • Hiroshi Kitadani, Japanese singer • Tim Salmon, American baseball player • Daniel Pollock, Australian actor (d. 1992) • August 25Rachael Ray, American television chef and host • August 27Bong Rivera, Filipino politician and businessman • Luis Tascón, Venezuelan politician (d. 2010) • August 28Billy Boyd, Scottish actor • Tom Warburton, American animator • August 31Valdon Dowiyogo, Nauruan politician and Australian football player • Hideo Nomo, Japanese baseball player September September 1Mohamed Atta, 9/11 ringleader of the hijackers and pilot of American Airlines Flight 11 (d. 2001) • Atsuko Yuya, Japanese voice actress • September 2Francisco Acevedo, American serial killer • September 3Raymond Coulthard, English actor • September 4John DiMaggio, American voice actor and comedian • Mike Piazza, American baseball player • September 5Thomas Levet, French golfer • September 7Marcel Desailly, French footballer • September 9Julia Sawalha, English actress • September 10Big Daddy Kane, American hip-hop artist • Guy Ritchie, British film director • September 11Kay Hanley, American musician • Tetsuo Kurata, Japanese actor model • September 13Laura Cutina, Romanian artistic gymnast • September 15Danny Nucci, American actor • September 16Marc Anthony, American actor and singer • September 17Anastacia, American singer-songwriter • Tito Vilanova, Spanish football manager (d. 2014) • September 18Toni Kukoč, Croatian basketball player • September 20Van Jones, African-American author • September 21Lisa Angell, French singer • Kevin Buzzard, British mathematician • Ricki Lake, American actress, producer and television presenter • September 22Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu, 62nd Prime Minister of Romania • September 23Michelle Thomas, American actress (d. 1998) • September 25Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, (d. 2013) • John A. List, American economist • Will Smith, African-American actor and rapper • September 26James Caviezel, American actor • Michelle Meldrum, American guitarist (d. 2008) • Tricia O'Kelley, American actress • Ben Shenkman, American television, film and stage actor • September 27Mari Kiviniemi, 62nd Prime Minister of FinlandShofiqul Haque Milon, Bangladeshi politician • Paul Rudish, American voice actor and animator • September 28Mika Häkkinen, Finnish double Formula 1 world champion • Naomi Watts, British actress and film producer • September 29Patrick Burns, American paranormal investigator and television personality • Luke Goss, English singer and actor • Alex Skolnick, American jazz/heavy metal guitarist • Samir Soni, Indian film and TV actor • September 30Bennet Omalu, Nigerian pathologist October October 1Kevin Griffin, American singer-songwriter, frontman of Better Than EzraMark Durden-Smith, British television presenter • Jay Underwood, American actor • October 2Lucy Cohu, English actress • Victoria Derbyshire, English broadcast presenter • Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player (d. 2017) • October 3Nadia Calviño, Spanish politician • October 7Luminița Anghel, Romanian dance/pop recording artist, songwriter, television personality and politician • Thom Yorke, British singer-songwriter • October 8Daniela Castelo, Argentine journalist (d. 2011) • Emily Procter, American actress • October 9Troy Davis, American high-profile death row inmate and human rights activist (d. 2011) • Pete Docter, American animator, director • October 10Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountainbiker • Feridun Düzağaç, Turkish rock singer-songwriter • October 11Tiffany Grant, American voice actress • Jane Krakowski, American actress • Brett Salisbury, American football quarterback • October 12Paul Harragon, Australian rugby league player • Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, singer and producer • October 13Preet Bharara, Indian-American politician • Tisha Campbell-Martin, American actress and singer • October 14Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer • October 15Didier Deschamps, French footballer • Jyrki 69, Finnish singer • Nashwa Mustafa, Egyptian actress • October 16Michael Stich, German tennis player • October 20Damien Timmer, British joint-managing director, television producer, television executive producer • October 22Shaggy, Jamaican singer • October 24Mark Walton, American story artist, actor • October 27Alain Auderset, Swedish writer • October 28Juan Orlando Hernández, 55th President of HondurasOctober 29Johann Olav Koss, Norwegian speed skater • Tsunku, Japanese singer, music producer and song composer • John Farley, American actor and comedian • October 30Moira Quirk, English actress and voice actress • Jack Plotnick, American film and television actor, writer and producer November November 1Silvio Fauner, Italian cross-country skier • November 4Lee Germon, New Zealand cricketer • Daniel Landa, Czech composer, singer and actor • Miles Long, American pornographic actor and directorNovember 5Mr. Catra, Brazilian musician (d. 2018) • Sam Rockwell, American actor • Seth Gilliam, African-American actor • Penny Wong, Australian politician, Foreign Minister • November 6Kelly Rutherford, American actress • November 7Ignacio Padilla, Mexican writer (d. 2016) • November 8Parker Posey, American actress • Zara Whites, Dutch actress • November 9Nazzareno Carusi, Italian classical pianist • November 10Tracy Morgan, African-American actor and comedian • November 12Kathleen Hanna, American musician and activist • Aya Hisakawa, Japanese voice actress • Sammy Sosa, Dominican Major League Baseball player • November 13Pat Hentgen, American baseball player • November 15Fausto Brizzi, Italian screenwriter and film director • Ol' Dirty Bastard, American rapper (d. 2004) • November 16Tammy Lauren, American actress • November 18Barry Hunter, Northern Irish footballer and football manager • Luizianne Lins, Brazilian politician • Owen Wilson, American actor and comedian • November 20Chew Chor Meng, Singaporean Chinese television actor • Tarique Rahman - Bangladeshi politician, 11th Prime Minister of BangladeshJules Trobaugh, American artist and photographer • November 21Qiao Hong, Chinese table tennis player • Sean Schemmel, American voice actor • November 24Phil Starbuck, English footballerAwie, Malaysian rock singer • yukihiro, Japanese musician • November 25Tunde Baiyewu, British singer • Jill Hennessy, Canadian actress • November 27Michael Vartan, French actor • November 29Hayabusa, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2016) • Jonathan Knight, American singer • November 30Rica Matsumoto, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer December December 2Lucy Liu, American actress, voice actress, director, singer, dancer, model and artist • Rena Sofer, American actress • December 3Brendan Fraser, Canadian-American actor • Montell Jordan, American singer • December 5Margaret Cho, American actress and comedian • Wendi Deng Murdoch, Chinese-American entrepreneur and businesswoman • December 7Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league player • David Kabré, Burkinabe military leader and politician • December 9Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler, 1996 Olympic gold medalist • December 11Emmanuelle Charpentier, French biochemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in ChemistryMonique Garbrecht-Enfeldt, German speed skater • Eula Valdez, Filipino actress • December 18Casper Van Dien, American actor • Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress • December 19Ken Marino, American actor and comedian • December 20Nadia Farès, Moroccan born-French actress • December 21Khrystyne Haje, American actress • December 22Dina Meyer, American actress • December 23Manuel Rivera-Ortiz, American photographer • December 24Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress and model (d. 2008) • December 25Helena Christensen, Danish model • December 28Lior Ashkenazi, Israeli actor • December 30Fabrice Guy, French Olympic skier Unknown date Eleonora Requena, Venezuelan poet. • Martin Ssempa, Ugandan pastor and internet meme. • Isadora Zubillaga, Venezuelan diplomat and activist. == Deaths ==
Deaths
January January 4Armando Castellazzi, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1904) • Joseph Pholien, Belgian politician, 37th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1884) • January 6Karl Kobelt, 2-time President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1891) • January 7Gholamreza Takhti, Iranian wrestler (b. 1930) • Mario Roatta, Italian general (b. 1887) • January 9Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Japanese athlete (b. 1940) • January 10Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Turkish politician (b. 1882) • Eben Dönges, acting Prime Minister of South Africa and elected President of South Africa (b. 1898) • January 15Leopold Infeld, Polish physicist (b. 1898) • January 16Bob Jones Sr., American evangelist, religious broadcaster and founder of Bob Jones University (b. 1883) • January 18John Ridgely, American actor (b. 1909) • January 21Georg Dertinger, German politician (b. 1902) • January 22Aleksandr Arbuzov, Russian chemist (b. 1877) • Duke Kahanamoku, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1890) • January 29Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese-French painter and printmaker (b. 1886) February February 4Eddie Baker, American actor (b. 1897) • Neal Cassady, American author and poet (b. 1926) • February 7Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931) • February 10Pitirim Sorokin, Russian-born American sociologist (b. 1889) • February 11Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b. 1888) • February 13Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1894) • Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer (b. 1880) • Portia White, Canadian opera singer (b. 1911) • February 15Little Walter, American blues musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1930) • February 17 – Sir Donald Wolfit, English actor (b. 1902) • February 19Georg Hackenschmidt, German strongman and professional wrestler (b. 1877) • February 20Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902) • February 21Howard Florey, Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898) • February 22Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904) • February 25Camille Huysmans, Belgian politician, 34th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1871) • February 27Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942) • Hertha Sponer, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895) • February 29Hugo Benioff, American seismologist (b. 1899) March March 6Joseph W. Martin Jr., American politician (b. 1884) • March 8Jerzy Braun, Polish athlete (b. 1911) • March 14Erwin Panofsky, German-Jewish art historian (b. 1892) • March 15Khuang Aphaiwong, 4th Prime Minister of Thailand, country leader during World War II (b. 1902) • March 16Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895) • March 20Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (b. 1889) • March 23Edwin O'Connor, American journalist, novelist and radio commentator (b. 1918) • March 24Alice Guy-Blaché, French filmmaker (b. 1873) • March 27Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space (b. 1934) • March 30Bobby Driscoll, American child actor (b. 1937) April April 1Lev Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908) • April 4Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1929) • Assis Chateaubriand, Brazilian newspaper magnate (b. 1892) • April 7Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver and double Formula One World Champion (b. 1936) • April 12Heinrich Nordhoff, German automotive engineer (b. 1899) • April 15Boris Lyatoshinsky, Ukrainian composer, conductor and teacher (b. 1895) • April 16Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893) • Albert Betz, German physicist (b. 1885) • Edna Ferber, American writer (b. 1885) • April 20Soraya Tarzi, Afghan queen (b. 1899) • April 24Tommy Noonan, American actor (b. 1921) • Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876) • April 26John Heartfield, German visual artist (b. 1891) • April 28Raoul Abatchou, Central African politician and mining operator (b. 1926) May May 5Albert Dekker, American actor (b. 1905) • May 7Lurleen Wallace, American politician (b. 1926) • May 9Finlay Currie, Scottish actor (b. 1878) • Mercedes de Acosta, American poet, playwright and novelist (b. 1892) • Marion Lorne, American actress (b. 1883) • May 10Scotty Beckett, American child actor (b. 1929) • May 11Robert Burks, American cinematographer (b. 1909) • May 14Husband E. Kimmel, American admiral (b. 1882) • May 23Franco Riccardi, Italian fencer, Olympic champion (b. 1905) • May 25Georg von Küchler, German field marshal and war criminal (b. 1881) • May 26Little Willie John, American R&B singer (b. 1937) • May 28Kees van Dongen, Dutch-French painter (b. 1877) • Fyodor Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (b. 1908) June June 1Helen Keller, American activist and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (b. 1880) • June 2R. Norris Williams, American tennis player (b. 1891) • June 4Dorothy Gish, American actress (b. 1898) • Sir Walter Nash, 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1882) • June 6Randolph Churchill, British politician, son of Winston Churchill (b. 1911) • Robert F. Kennedy, American lawyer, politician (United States Senator, U.S. Attorney General) and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate (b. 1925) • June 7Dan Duryea, American actor (b. 1907) • June 8Ludovico Scarfiotti, Italian racing driver (b. 1933) • June 14Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Swedish composer (b. 1916) • Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) • Ernest Stoneman, American country music artist (b. 1893) • June 15Sam Crawford, American baseball player (b. 1880) • Wes Montgomery, American jazz guitarist (b. 1923) • June 17José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1901) • June 18Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, German general and war criminal (b. 1885) • June 25Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924) July July 1Fritz Bauer, German judge and prosecutor (b. 1903) • Virginia Weidler, American actress (b. 1927) • July 2Zaki al-Arsuzi, Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist and historian (b. 1899) • Francis Brennan, American cardinal (b. 1894) • July 7Jo Schlesser, French racing driver (b. 1928) • July 9Alexander Cadogan, British diplomat (b. 1884) • July 12José Bordas Valdez, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1874) • July 13Ilias Tsirimokos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1907) • July 14Konstantin Paustovsky, Russian-Soviet writer (b. 1892) • July 15Cai Chusheng, Chinese film director (b. 1906) • July 18Corneille Heymans, Belgian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) • July 20Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (b. 1908) • July 21Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (b. 1879) • July 22Giovannino Guareschi, Italian journalist (b. 1908) • July 23Luigi Cevenini, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1895) • Sir Henry Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist (b. 1875) • July 27Lilian Harvey, Anglo-German actress and singer (b. 1906) • July 28Otto Hahn, German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879) • Ángel Herrera Oria, Spanish journalist, politician, cardinal and servant of God (b. 1886) August August 3Konstantin Rokossovsky, Soviet officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1896) • August 5Luther Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1928) • August 10Ratna Asmara, Indonesian actress and director (b. 1913) • August 19George Gamow, Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. 1904) • August 25Stan McCabe, Australian cricketer (b. 1910) • August 26Kay Francis, American actress (b. 1905) • August 27Robert Z. Leonard, American film director (b. 1889) • Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (b. 1906) • August 29Ulysses S. Grant III, American soldier and planner (b. 1881) • August 30William Talman, American actor (b. 1915) • August 31Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (b. 1908) September September 3Juan José Castro, Argentine composer and conductor (b. 1895) • September 7Lucio Fontana, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1899) • September 13Frank Barson, English footballer (b. 1891) • September 17Armand Blanchonnet, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1903) • September 18Franchot Tone, American actor (b. 1905) • Francis McDonald, American actor (b. 1891) • September 19Chester Carlson, American physicist and inventor (b. 1906) • Red Foley, American singer (b. 1910) • September 23Padre Pio, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1887) • September 24Virginia Valli, American actress (b. 1898) • September 28Sir Norman Brookes, Australian tennis champion (b. 1877) October October 1Romano Guardini, Italian-German Catholic priest and theologian (b. 1885) • October 2Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887) • October 4Francis Biddle, American politician (b. 1886) • Hitoshi Imamura, Japanese general (b. 1886) • October 13Manuel Bandeira, Brazilian poet, literary critic and translator (b. 1886) • Bea Benaderet, American actress (b. 1906) • October 15Franz Beyer, German general (b. 1892) • Herbert Copeland, American biologist (b. 1902) • October 18Lee Tracy, American actor (b. 1898) • October 20Bud Flanagan, British entertainer and comedian (b. 1896) • October 26Sergei Bernstein, Russian and Soviet mathematician (b. 1880) • October 27Lise Meitner, German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (b. 1878) • October 28Hans Cramer, German general (b. 1896) • October 30Rose Wilder Lane, American author (b. 1886) • Ramon Novarro, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1899) • Conrad Richter, American writer (b. 1890) November November 1Georgios Papandreou, 3-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1888) • November 6Charles Munch, French conductor (b. 1891) • November 7Alexander Gelfond, Soviet mathematician (b. 1906) • November 8Wendell Corey, American actor (b. 1914) • November 9Jan Johansson, Swedish jazz pianist (b. 1931) • Gerald Mohr, American actor (b. 1914) • November 11Jeanne Demessieux, French composer (b. 1921) • November 14Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Spanish philologist and historian (b. 1869) • November 15Charles Bacon, American athlete (b. 1885) • November 16Augustin Bea, German cardinal (b. 1881) • Carl Bertilsson, Swedish gymnast (b. 1889) • November 17Abdul Wahed Bokainagari, Bengali politician (b. 1876) • Mervyn Peake, English writer, artist, poet and illustrator (b. 1911) • November 18Walter Wanger, American film producer (b. 1894) • November 20Helen Gardner, American actress (b. 1884) • November 24István Dobi, prime minister of Hungary (b. 1898) • November 25Upton Sinclair, American writer (b. 1878) • November 26Arnold Zweig, German writer, pacifist and socialist (b. 1887) • November 28Enid Blyton, English writer (b. 1897) • November 30Charles Henry Bartlett, British cyclist (b. 1885) December December 1Hugo Haas, Czech actor, director and writer (b. 1901) • Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, composer, lyricist and guitarist (b. 1921) • December 4Archie Mayo, American actor and director (b. 1891) • December 5Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914) • December 9Enoch L. Johnson, American political boss and racketeer (b. 1883) • December 10Karl Barth, German Protestant theologian (b. 1886) • Thomas Merton, American author (b. 1915) • December 12Tim Ahearne, Irish athlete (b. 1885) • Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (b. 1902) • December 14Dorothy Payne Whitney, American-born philanthropist, social activist (b. 1887) • December 18Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician (b. 1883) • December 19Norman Thomas, American socialist (b. 1884) • December 20Max Brod, Czech-born Israeli composer, writer and biographer (b. 1884) • John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) • December 21Vittorio Pozzo, Italian football player and manager (b. 1886) • December 30Augustus Agar, British naval officer, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1890) • Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, 1st Secretary General of the United Nations (b. 1896) • Bill Tytla, Ukrainian-born American animator (b. 1904) • Kirill Meretskov, Soviet military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1897) • December 31George Lewis, American musician (b. 1900) Date unknown Sami Solh, 5-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1887) == Nobel Prizes ==
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