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1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 977th year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1970s decade.

Events
JanuaryJanuary 8Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. • January 10Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). • January 11 – The first episode of Finnish children's TV show Pikku Kakkonen ("Little Number Two") is aired on Yle TV2. • January 17 – 49 Navy and Marine enlisted members on a landing craft from the and are killed by a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. • January 18 • Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. • Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. • SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. • January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. • January 20 - Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States after defeating Gerald Ford in the 1976 election. • January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls for fresh elections to the Lok Sabha, and releases all political prisoners. • January 24 – The Massacre of Atocha occurs, during the Spanish transition to democracy. FebruaryFebruary 2 – The Congress Party of India, led by Indira Gandhi, splits with Jagjivan Ram and other senior leaders, forming Congress for Democracy. This party later merges with the Janata Party. • February 3 – In northern Japan a blizzard piles snow on rooftops, causing many to collapse killing at least 31 people. • February 4 – Eleven CTA commuters are killed when an elevated train derails from the Loop in central Chicago, United States. • February 7 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station. • February 18 :*American Space Shuttle program: First test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise mated to the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. :*The Xinjiang 61st Regiment Farm fire started during Chinese New Year when a firecracker ignites wreaths to the late Mao Zedong, killing 694 people, mostly children. It remains the deadliest fire in China. • February 23Óscar Romero, an outspoken opponent of violence, becomes Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. • February 28 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the New Zealand Parliament in person, after Parliament is summoned for a special short session to allow her to deliver the Speech from the Throne. MarchMarch 4 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills over 1,500 people. • March 8 – The Australian parliament is opened by Elizabeth II in her capacity as Queen of Australia. • March 9Hanafi Siege: Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Movement members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking 149 hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later). • March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered. • March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. • March 19Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance. • March 21 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi withdraws the state of emergency which was implemented on June 25, 1975. • March 27Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history. AprilApril 2Horse racing: Red Rum wins a record third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in the UK. • April 4Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes on a highway in New Hope, Georgia, United States, killing 72 people. • April 7 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility. : UK Silver Jubilee (25 red buses painted silver) • April 9Spain legalizes the Communist Party of Spain, which had been outlawed since 1939. • April 11London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched. • April 17 – Belgian prime minister Leo Tindemans' Christian Social Party gains eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections. • April 18 – An annular solar eclipse was visible in Africa, and was the 29th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 138. • April 24 – In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone kills 13 people and injures about 100 others. • April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart, West Germany, sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment. • April 30 – The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. MayMay 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths and hundreds of injuries. • May 12 – Portugal and Israel establish diplomatic relations. • May 14 – An IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia, kills all six on board. • May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade. • May 17 – The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel. • May 23 • Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin via gene splicing. • Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde–Assen route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. The children are released on May 26. On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train, and six terrorists and two hostages are killed. • May 25 - Star Wars is released in the United States by director George Lucas, It immediately became a major pop culture phenomenon, and became a major box office hit for the next 6 years. • May 27 • The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills 69 people. • A demonstration and coup attempt in Angola takes place. Thousands are killed by the government and Cuban forces. • May 28 – The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, United States, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside. • May 29Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times. JuneJune 5 – A bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as President of the Seychelles. • June 15 – Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years of Francoist Spain. • June 21Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (40th government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive the vote of confidence). • June 25 – The 1977 Rugby League World Cup culminates in Australia's 13–12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators. • June 27Djibouti receives its independence from France. • Constitution for the Federation of Earth is adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria. • June 30 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded. JulyJuly 1 • The East African Community is dissolved. • The Championships, Wimbledon (tennis) – Virginia Wade wins the women's singles title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon. • July 5 – General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq overthrows Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. • July 9 – The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain. • July 10 – A temperature of , a record for continental Europe, is recorded in Greece. • July 13Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethio-Somali War. • New York City is affected by a complete electricity blackout lasting through the following day that results in citywide looting and other criminal activity, including arson. • July 2124 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins. • July 21Süleyman Demirel, of AP forms the new government of Turkey (41st government a three-party coalition, so-called second national front ()). • July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power nine months after the "Gang of Four" was expelled from power in a coup d'état. • July 27 – The Soviet Politburo orders Boris Yeltsin to demolish the Ipatiev House, where Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family were shot in 1918. Yeltsin later refers to this as a barbarian act. • July 30 – Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar assassinate Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany. AugustAugust 4 – U.S. president Jimmy Carter signs legislation creating the United States Department of Energy. • August 9 – The military-controlled government of Uruguay announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in 1981 for a president and Congress. • August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named Enterprise, makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. • August 15The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the Wow! signal for a notation made by a volunteer on the project. • Nazi war criminal Herbert Kappler escapes from the Caelian Hill military hospital in Rome. • August 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. • August 20Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. • August 26 – The National Assembly of Quebec passes the Charter of the French Language (Law 101, La charte de la langue française) making French the official language of the Canadian province of Quebec. September September 4 – The Golden Dragon massacre, involving rival Chinatown gangs, takes place in San Francisco, United States. Five are killed. • September 5Voyager program: Voyager 1 is launched after a brief delay. • German Autumn: Employers Association President Hanns Martin Schleyer is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners. • September 7Torrijos-Carter treaties: Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century. • September 8Interpol issues a resolution against the copyright infringement of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs. • September 10 – Murderer Hamida Djandoubi is the last person executed by guillotine in France (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the Western world. • September 15Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic, as an Italian company in Turin, Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni (CSELT) begins operation of two telephone exchanges. • September 18Courageous (U.S.), skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht race at Newport, Rhode Island. • September 19 • Under pressure from the Carter Administration, President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua. • North Korean agents abduct Yutaka Kume from Noto Peninsula starting the North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens. • September 20 – The Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed in the Soviet Union and some northern European countries. • September 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show. October October 1Energy Research and Development Administration combines with the Federal Energy Administration to form United States Department of Energy. • October 7 • The Soviet Union adopts its third Constitution. The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted. • Pelé plays his final professional football game, as a member of the New York Cosmos. • October 13German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members. • October 1718German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four hijackers die. • October 18German Autumn: Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe and Gudrun Ensslin commit suicide in Stammheim prison; Irmgard Möller fails (their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried on October 27. • October 19German Autumn: Kidnapped industrialist Hanns Martin Schleyer is found murdered in Mulhouse, France. • October 20 – Three members of the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd die in a charter plane crash outside Gillsburg, Mississippi, three days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors. • October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded. • October 23 – The president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returns to Barcelona from exile and the autonomous government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, is restored. • October 26 • The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science. • Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise, over California. • October 27 – British punk band Sex Pistols release ''Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols'' on the Virgin Records label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it enters the UK Album Charts at number one the week after its release. • October 28 – Hong Kong police attack the ICAC headquarters. November November 12060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal. : Anwar Sadat meets Menachem Begin in Israel. : TCP/IP links 3 of 111 ARPANET nodes. • November 2 – The worst storm in Athens' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people. • November 6 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, United States, fails, killing 39 people. • November 8 • Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina. • San Francisco elects City Supervisor Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S. • November 9Gen. Hugo Banzer, president of the military government of Bolivia, announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in 1978 instead of 1980 as previously provided. • November 19Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to make an official visit to Israel, when he meets with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin, seeking a permanent peace settlement. • TAP Portugal Flight 425 crashes at Madeira Airport, Funchal, Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors. • November 22British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. • The TCP/IP test succeeds, connecting 3 ARPANET nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the Internet protocol. See Packet Radio VanNovember 30 – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is founded as a specialized agency of the United Nations. December • December – The Colombo Plan for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (CESDAP) is implemented. • December 4Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself emperor. • Malaysian Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjung Kupang, Johor, Malaysia, killing all 100 passengers and crew on board. • December 6 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country. • December 101977 Australian federal election: Malcolm Fraser's Liberal/National Country Coalition government is re-elected with a slightly reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Consequently, Whitlam resigns as ALP leader after holding the job for nearly 11 years; he is replaced by former treasurer Bill Hayden. • December 13 – a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft carrying the University of Evansville basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, crashes in rain and dense fog about 90 seconds after takeoff from Evansville Regional Airport; 29 people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson. • December 18SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730, an international charter service from Zurich to Funchal Airport (Madeira), hits the sea during a landing attempt. Many of the 36 who die drown, trapped inside the sinking aircraft. Twenty-one people survive with the help of rescuers and by swimming to the shore. • December 19 – The 5.9 Bob–Tangol earthquake rocks Iran, killing at least 584 people and injuring 1,000. • December 20Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations. • December 22 – A grain elevator explodes in Westwego, Louisiana, United States, killing 36 people. ==Births==
Births
JanuaryJanuary 1Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer • January 3Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress • January 4Irán Castillo, Mexican actress and singer • January 11Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater • Devin Ratray, American actor • January 13Orlando Bloom, British actor • January 14Narain Karthikeyan, Indian Formula One driver • January 15Giorgia Meloni, Italian politician • January 17Leigh Whannell, Australian actor and writer • January 21Jerry Trainor, American actor, comedian and musician • January 22Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer • January 25Hatem Trabelsi, Tunisian footballer • January 26Vince Carter, American basketball player • January 28Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver • January 31Bobby Moynihan, American actor, comedian, producer and writer • Kerry Washington, African-American actress FebruaryFebruary 2Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter and musician • February 5Ben Ainslie, British sailor • February 7Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman • February 11Mike Shinoda, American musician, singer and rapper • February 18Ike Barinholtz, American actor, comedian and screenwriter • László Nemes, Hungarian film director and screenwriter • Elke Slagt-Tichelman, Dutch politician • February 19Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer • February 20Stephon Marbury, American basketball player • Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler and actress • February 21Jonathan Safran Foer, American author • February 23Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier • February 24Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxing champion • February 25Hakan Yakin, Turkish football player and coach • February 26Olsi Baze, columnist, writer and human rights activist. • Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player • February 28Jason Aldean, American country music singer • Rafael Amaya, Mexican model, singer, and actor March |150x150px • March 1Rens Blom, Dutch athlete • March 2Chris Martin, British rock musician • March 3Ronan Keating, Irish singer • March 4Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete and politician • March 6Paquillo Fernández, Spanish race walker • Santino Marella, Canadian professional wrestler • March 7Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player • March 8James Van Der Beek, American actor (d. 2026) • March 9Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer • Shannon Miller, American gymnast • March 10Robin Thicke, American-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actor • March 11Becky Hammon, American basketball player • March 14Matthew Booth, South African footballer • Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011) • Kim Nam-il, South Korean footballer • March 15Brian Tee, Japanese American actor • March 16Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer • March 18Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist • Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player • Willy Sagnol, French football player and coach • March 19Robert Lindstedt, Swedish tennis player • March 24Jessica Chastain, American actress • March 25Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor • March 28Annie Wersching, American actress (d. 2023) AprilApril 1Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist • April 2Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor • Nicki Pedersen, Danish speedway rider • April 5Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player • Daniel Majstorović, Swedish soccer player • April 9Gerard Way, American musician and comic book writer • April 10Cristiano Zanetti, Italian footballer • April 12Tobias Angerer, German cross-country skier • Gemma Mengual, Spanish synchronised swimmer • April 14Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress • Rob McElhenney, American actor • April 16Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer • April 17Frederik Magle, Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist • April 21Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater • April 22Mark van Bommel, Dutch football player and coach • Steven Price, British film composer • April 23Arash, Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer and producer • John Cena, American professional wrestler, actor and rapper • John Oliver, British-American comedian and host • Kal Penn, American actor, producer, and former civil servant • Matt Huuki, American politician and former member of the Michigan House of Representatives in 2011 and 2012 • April 24Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player • Rebecca Mader, English actress • April 25Manolo Cardona, Colombian actor • April 26Jason Earles, American actor, comedian, and martial artist • Tom Welling, American actor, director, producer, and model • April 30Alexandra Holden, American actress MayMay 4Emily Perkins, Canadian actress • May 5Choi Kang-hee, South Korean actress • Virginie Efira, Belgian actress and television anchor • Jessica Schwarz, German film and television actress • May 9Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer • May 10Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver • May 11Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper • Victor Matfield, South African rugby player • May 12Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017) • May 13Samantha Morton, English actress • Tarik Sektioui, Moroccan footballer • May 14Roy Halladay, American baseball player (d. 2017) • May 16Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress • Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer • May 23Richard Ayoade, British actor and presenter • Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater • Yevgeny Rodionov, Russian soldier (d. 1996) • May 24Jeet Gannguli, Indian singer, music director and score composer • Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thai tennis player • May 25Alberto Del Rio, Mexican professional wrestler • May 26Luca Toni, Italian footballer • May 27Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete • Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player • May 29Massimo Ambrosini, Italian football player • May 30Katharina Slanina, German politician • May 31Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer • Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer JuneJune 1Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress • Jónsi, Icelandic singer • June 2Zachary Quinto, American actor • June 7Chen Luyun, Chinese basketball player (d. 2015) • Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican footballer • June 8Kanye West, American rapper and record producer • June 9Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player • June 11Kim Hee-sun, South Korean actress • Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer • June 12Ana Tijoux, French-Chilean musician • June 17Bartosz Brożek, Polish philosopher and jurist • June 18Kaja Kallas, 19th prime minister of EstoniaJune 19Veronika Vařeková, Czech model • June 21Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player • June 23Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter • June 25Layla El, English dancer, model, and retired professional wrestler • Naoya Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast • June 26William Kipsang, Kenyan long-distance runner • Tite Kubo, Japanese manga artist who created BLEACHJune 27Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer • Raúl, Spanish footballer • June 29Will Kemp, English actor and dancer • Zuleikha Robinson, British actress • June 30Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer JulyJuly 1Liv Tyler, American actress • July 2Carl Froch, British boxer • July 5Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player • July 6Audrey Fleurot, French actress • Max Mirnyi, Belarusian tennis player • July 8Milo Ventimiglia, American actor • Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player • July 10Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor • July 11Finau Maka, Tongan rugby union footballer • July 12Steve Howey, American actor • Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist • July 13Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress • July 14Victoria, Crown Princess of SwedenJuly 15Lana Parrilla, American actress • July 18Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess Grandmaster • July 21Paul Casey, English golfer • Allison Wagner, American swimmer • July 24Danny Dyer, English actor • Mehdi Mahdavikia, Iranian football player • July 26Rebecca St. James, Australian-born Christian musician • July 27Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Irish actor • July 28Manu Ginóbili, Argentine basketball player • July 30Jaime Pressly, American actress AugustAugust 2Edward Furlong, American actor • August 3Tom Brady, American football player and entrepreneur • August 8Marílson Gomes dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner • August 9Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player • August 12Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer • Iva Majoli, Croatian tennis player • August 13Michael Klim, Australian swimmer • August 15Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player • Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast • August 16Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor • August 17Tarja Turunen, Finnish operatic soprano • Thierry Henry, French footballer • William Gallas, French footballer • August 18Lukáš Bauer, Czech cross-country skier • August 20Felipe Contepomi, Argentine rugby player • Manuel Contepomi, Argentine rugby player • Henning Stensrud, Norwegian ski jumper • August 24Denílson, Brazilian footballer • Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer • John Green, American author, vlogger, and editor • Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009) • August 27Deco, Brazilian born-Portuguese footballer • August 30Jens Ludwig, German guitarist • Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican athlete • August 31Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler • Ian Harte, Irish footballer September |135x135px • September 1David Albelda, Spanish footballer • Kathleen de Leon Jones, Filipino-Australian actress, dancer, singer and television performer (Hi-5) • September 2Frédéric Kanouté, Malian soccer player • Sam Rivers, American musician (d. 2025) • Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriter • September 4Lucie Silvas, English singer • September 5Sin Cara, Mexican-American professional wrestler • September 6Katalin Novák, Hungarian politician • September 9Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003) • September 11Ludacris, American rapper and actor • September 122 Chainz, American rapper • Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter • September 13Fiona Apple, American singer • September 15Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author • Tom Hardy, English actor • Jason Terry, American basketball player • September 18Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman • September 20Namie Amuro, Japanese singer • September 21Marc de Hond, Dutch television presenter and wheelchair basketball player (d. 2020) • September 23Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer, actress, and murder victim (d. 2008) • September 25Joel David Moore, American actor • September 27Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower • September 28Se-Ri Pak, South Korean golfer • September 30Roy Carroll, Irish footballer • Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer OctoberOctober 1 - Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader • October 2Didier Défago, Swiss Olympic alpine skier • October 3Antonio Di Natale, Italian football player and coach • October 4Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French politician • Bowie Jane, Australian DJ, singer, producer, lawyer and contestant on Big Brother Season 25October 6Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player and executive • October 8Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain bicycle racer • October 10Brandon Vera, Filipino-American retired mixed martial artist and former ONE Heavyweight World ChampionOctober 11 - Matt Bomer, American film, stage, and television actor • October 12Bode Miller, American skier • October 13Paul Pierce, American basketball player • Kiele Sanchez, American actress • October 14Kelly Schumacher, American basketball and volleyball player • Oleg Velyky, Ukrainian and German handball player World champion 2007 (d. 2010) • October 15David Trezeguet, French footballer • October 16John Mayer, American musician and record producer • October 17Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer • André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager • October 18Jyothika, Indian actress • Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer • Peter Sohn, American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and film director • Paul Stalteri, Canadian soccer player • October 19Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer • October 25Birgit Prinz, German footballer • October 26Jon Heder, American actor and voice artist • Louis Crayton, Swiss/Liberian footballer • October 27Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer • October 28Jonas Rasmussen, Danish badminton player • October 29Brendan Fehr, Canadian actor NovemberNovember 10Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (d. 2009) • November 11Maniche, Portuguese footballer • Scoot McNairy, American actor • November 13Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer • November 15Sean Murray, American actor • November 16Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater • Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress • November 17Ryk Neethling, South African swimmer • November 18Trent Barrett, Australian rugby league player • November 19Mette Frederiksen, Danish politician • Kerri Strug, American gymnast • November 20Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer • November 21Tobias Sammet, German singer and songwriter • November 24Colin Hanks, American actor • November 28Fabio Grosso, Italian football player and coach • November 30Nelsan Ellis, African-American film and television actor and playwright (d. 2017) DecemberDecember 1Brad Delson, American musician (Linkin Park) • December 2Nancy Mace, American politician • December 6Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer • December 7Luke Donald, English golfer • December 8Elsa Benítez, Mexican model and television host • Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union player • Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor and producer • December 10Andrea Henkel, German professional biathlete • December 11Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player • December 12Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic gold medalist • December 14Thoriqul Haq, Indonesian politician • December 16Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player • René Redzepi, Danish chef • December 17Oxana Fedorova, Russian model • December 20Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer • December 21Gregor Horvatič, Slovenian politician • Emmanuel Macron, 25th president of France • December 23Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician • December 24Domingo Vega, also known as Américo, Chilean singer • December 25Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress • December 30Laila Ali, American boxer • Kenyon Martin, American basketball player • December 31Psy, South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and record producer • Donald Trump Jr., American businessman and son of former U.S. president Donald Trump ==Deaths==
Deaths
January January 2Erroll Garner, American musician (b. 1921) • January 4Ibrahim Biçakçiu, Albanian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Albania leader of World War II (b. 1905) • January 5Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. 1889) • January 14Anthony Eden, British politician, 62nd prime minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897) • Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916) • Anaïs Nin, French-born American diarist and writer (b. 1903) • January 17Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940) • January 18Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslavian politician, 27th prime minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1917) • Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright (b. 1896) • January 19Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (b. 1894) • January 20Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892) • January 23Pascual Pérez, Argentine world Flyweight boxing champion (b. 1926) • January 26Dietrich von Hildebrand, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1889) • January 28Burt Mustin, American actor (b. 1884) • Talib Haji Hamzah, Malaysian armed robber executed in Singapore (b. 1953) • January 29Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954) • Johnny Franz, English record producer (b. 1922) FebruaryFebruary 3Pauline Starke, American actress (b. 1901) • February 4Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904) • February 5Oskar Klein, Swedish theoretical physicist (b. 1894) • February 9Alia Toukan, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1948) • February 11Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, Indian lawyer and statesman, 5th president of India (b. 1905) • Louis Beel, prime minister of the Netherlands (b. 1902) • February 16Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905) • February 18Newsboy Brown, American boxer (b. 1905) • Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905) • February 27John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist (b. 1906) • Allison Hayes, American actress (b. 1930) • February 28Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor (b. 1905) MarchMarch 1Diallo Telli, Guinean diplomat and politician, 1st secretary general of the Organisation of African Unity (b. 1925) • March 3Brian Faulkner, last prime minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1921) • Percy Marmont, American stage and screen actor (b. 1883) • March 4Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951) • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official, last führer of Nazi Germany (b. 1887) • March 5Tom Pryce, British Formula One racing driver (b. 1949) • March 8Henry Hull, American actor (b. 1890) • March 10E. Power Biggs, English-American organist (b. 1906) • Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician and civil engineer, 28th prime minister of the Netherlands (b. 1894) • March 14Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917) • March 15Antonino Rocca, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1921) • March 18Marien Ngouabi, 3rd president of Congo (b. 1938) • March 19William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist (b. 1888) • March 20Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909) • March 22Ernest Gugenheim, French rabbi (b. 1916) • March 27Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936) • March 29Eugen Wüster, industrialist and terminologist (b. 1898) • March 30Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929) April April 2John Whitaker, British gymnast (b. 1886) • April 5Carlos Prío Socarrás, 11th president of Cuba (b. 1903) • April 7Karl Ritter, German film producer and director (b. 1888) • April 11Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900) • April 17William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1913) • April 20Wilmer Allison, American tennis champion (b. 1904) • Bryan Foy, American film producer and director (b. 1896) • April 21Gummo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1892) • April 27Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915) • Charles Alston, American artist and sculptor (b. 1907) • April 28Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1899) • Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager (b. 1897) MayMay 5Ludwig Erhard, German politician, 28th Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1897) • May 7Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish Carlist pretender (b. 1889) • May 9James Jones, American writer (b. 1921) • May 10Joan Crawford, American actress (b. c. 1904) • May 13Otto Deßloch, German World War II Luftwaffe general (b. 1889) • May 15Herbert Wilcox, British film director and producer (b. 1892) • May 16Modibo Keïta, 1st president of Mali (b. 1915) • May 25Willoughby Norrie, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1893) • May 26Shewalul Mengistu, Ethiopian poet and political activist (b. 1944) • May 30Paul Desmond, American jazz saxophonist and composer (b. 1924) • May 31William Castle, American film director (b. 1914) JuneJune 2Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931) • June 3Archibald Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886) • Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906) • June 13Tom C. Clark, American lawyer and politician (b. 1899) • Matthew Garber, English child actor (b. 1956) • June 14Alan Reed, American actor (b. 1907) • June 16Wernher von Braun, German-born American rocket scientist (b. 1912) • June 22Marston Morse, American mathematician (b. 1892) • June 25Olave Baden-Powell, first Chief Guide for Britain (b. 1889) • June 26Sergei Lemeshev, Russian operatic lyric tenor (b. 1902) • June 30Paul Hartmann, American actor (b. 1889) JulyJuly 2Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American writer (b. 1899) • July 9Loren Eiseley, American anthropologist and author (b. 1907) • Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (b. 1885) • July 20Carter DeHaven, American actor (b. 1886) • July 21Lee Miller, American model and wartime photojournalist (b. 1907) • July 25David Toro, 35th president of Bolivia (b. 1898) • July 26Prince Charles of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg (b. 1927) • July 30Jean de Laborde, French admiral (b. 1878) • July 31Giuseppe Castellano, Italian general (b. 1893) AugustAugust 1Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 spy plane pilot (b. 1929) • August 2Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1888) • August 3Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892) • Makarios III, Greek-Cypriot archbishop, 1st president of Cyprus (b. 1913) • August 4Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889) • Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher (b. 1885) • August 6Sir Alexander Bustamente, Jamaican politician, 1st prime minister of Jamaica (b. 1884) • August 8Son Ngoc Thanh, 2nd prime minister of Cambodia (b. 1908) • August 9Beryl May Dent, English mathematical physicist (b. 1900) • August 13Henry Williamson, English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist (b. 1895) • August 14Alexander Luria, Russian neuropsychologist (b. 1902) • August 16Elvis Presley, American actor, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1935) • August 23Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918) • Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890) • August 29Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923) SeptemberSeptember 1Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896) • September 4E. F. Schumacher, German statistician and economist (b. 1885) • September 6John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885) • September 8Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915) • September 12Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946) • September 13Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882) • September 16Marc Bolan, British singer and guitarist (b. 1947) • Maria Callas, Greek soprano (b. 1923) • September 18Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888) • September 29Robert McKimson, American animator and director (b. 1910) OctoberOctober 3Tay Garnett, American film director (b. 1894) • October 10Jean Duvieusart, Belgian politician, 36th prime minister of Belgium (b. 1900) • October 11MacKinlay Kantor, American writer and historian (b. 1904) • October 12Dorothy Davenport, American actress (b. 1895) • October 14Bing Crosby, American pop singer and actor (b. 1903) • October 17Sir Michael Balcon, English film producer (b. 1896) • October 20 – Three members of American rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, killed in plane crash: • Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer (b. 1948) • Cassie Gaines, lead singer (b. 1948) • Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist (b. 1949) • October 25Félix Gouin, French politician (b. 1884) • October 27James M. Cain, American writer (b. 1892) • Miguel Mihura, Spanish playwright (b. 1905) NovemberNovember 3Florence Vidor, American actress (b. 1895) • November 4Betty Balfour, English screen actress (b. 1902) • November 5René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926) • Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader (b. 1902) • November 9Gertrude Astor, American actress (b. 1887) • November 10Dennis Wheatley, English writer (b. 1897) • November 14A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader (b. 1896) • Ferdinand Heim, German general, branded the "Scapegoat of Stalingrad" (b. 1897) • November 16Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois (b. 1898), Monégasque princess • November 18Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888) • Kurt Schuschnigg, 11th chancellor of Austria (b. 1897) • November 21Richard Carlson, American actor (b. 1912) • November 30Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (b. 1884) December December 3Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower (b. 1899) • December 5Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895) • December 9Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist (b. 1920) • December 10Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (b. 1901) • December 12Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885) • December 16Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (b. 1879) • Yngve Larsson, Swedish politician (b. 1881) • December 19Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889) • Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (b. 1876) • Jacques Tourneur, French-American filmmaker (b. 1904) • December 24Juan Velasco Alvarado, 58th president of Peru (b. 1910) • December 25 • Sir Charlie Chaplin, British actor, producer and director (b. 1889) • Oliver P. Smith, American general (b. 1893) • December 26Howard Hawks, American film director (b. 1896) • December 28Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (b. 1890) == Nobel Prizes ==
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