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1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1978th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 978th year of the 2nd millennium, the 78th year of the 20th century, and the 9th year of the 1970s decade.

Events
January January 1Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. • January 5Bülent Ecevit, of CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). • January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. • January 10Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Somoza's government. • January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. • January 22Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany persona non grata. • January 24Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. • Rose Dugdale and Eddie Gallagher become the first convicted prisoners to marry in prison since the establishment of the Republic of Ireland. • January 2527 – The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes, killing 70. February February 1 – Film director Roman Polanski skips bail in the United States and flees to France, after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl. • February 2 - the Reunion Tower opens in Dallas Texas. • February 57 – The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area, killing about 100, and causing over US$520 million in damage. • February 6King Dragon operation in Arakan: Burmese General Ne Win targets Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara. • February 8United States Senate proceedings are broadcast on radio for the first time. • February 9 – The Budd Company unveils its first SPV-2000 self-propelled railcar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. • February 11Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737-200, crashes in Cranbrook, British Columbia, killing 44 of the 50 people on board. • Somalia mobilizes its troops to deal with an apparent Ethiopian attack. • The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. • February 13Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing: A bomb explodes outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing a policeman and two civilians, and injuring several other people. • February 15Rhodesia, one of only two remaining white-ruled African nations (the other being South Africa), announces that it will accept multiracial democracy within 2 years. • February 19Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport: Egyptian Special Forces attempt to rescue several hostages in Larnaca, Cyprus; 20 Egyptian commandos are injured or killed. • February 25 – The first Legislative Assembly election is held in Arunachal Pradesh, India. • February 27 – The first global positioning satellite, the Rockwell International-built Navstar 1, is launched by the United States. March March 1Charlie Chaplin's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland. • March 2Soyuz 28 (Aleksei Gubarev, Vladimír Remek) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6, with the first cosmonaut from a country other than the US or USSR (Czechoslovak Vladimír Remek). • March 3Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuban soldiers, against Somalian troops in the Ogaden. • Rhodesian Bush War: Rhodesia attacks Zambia. • The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik's book The Cloning of Man, about a supposed cloning of a human being. • March 8 – The first radio episode of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. • March 10Soyuz 28 lands. • March 11Coastal Road massacre: Palestinian terrorists kill 34 Israelis. • Claude François, French entertainer born 1939, dies by electrocution in his home in Paris. • March 14Operation Litani: Israeli forces invade Lebanon. • March 15Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethio-Somali War. • March 16 – Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades; 5 bodyguards are killed. • March 17 – An oil tanker, Amoco Cadiz, runs aground on the coast of Brittany. • March 18Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan, is sentenced to death by hanging, for ordering the assassination of a political opponent. • California Jam II is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting more than 300,000 fans. • March 22Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies, after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. • March 26 – The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport, which were scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged in a terrorist attack by New Left activists, forcing a rescheduling of its opening date to May 20. • March 28San Francisco's City Council signs the United States's most comprehensive gay rights bill. • Stump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5–3 decision, in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity. April April 1New Zealand National Airways Corporation (the domestic airline of New Zealand) is merged with New Zealand's international airline, Air New Zealand. • Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour. • The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, is converted to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. • April 2Dallas debuts on CBS, and gives birth to the modern day primetime soap opera. • April 3 – The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Annie Hall winning Best Picture. • April 7 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb, a weapon that kills people with radiation, but leaves buildings relatively intact. • April 9Somali military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested. • April 14 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against an attempt by Soviet authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language. • April 18 – The U.S. Senate votes, 68–32, to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999. • April 1830 – The Khmer Rouge massacres 3,157 civilians in Ba Chúc, Vietnam. • April 20 – A Soviet air defense plane shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902; the plane makes an emergency landing on a frozen lake. • April 22 • Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for Israel with their song A-Ba-Ni-Bi. • The One Love Peace Concert is held at National Heroes Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. • April 25St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the second U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance, after Anita Bryant's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Miami-Dade County, Florida. • April 27Saur RevolutionAfghanistan's president Mohammad Daoud Khan and his family are murdered; Nur Muhammad Taraki succeeds him, beginning the Afghan conflict. • Willow Island disaster – In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia. • April 30 – The "Democratic Republic of Afghanistan" is proclaimed, under pro-communist leader Nur Muhammad Taraki. May May 4South African Border War: The Battle of Cassinga occurs in southern Angola. • Communist activist Henri Curiel is murdered in Paris. • May 8 • Norway opens a natural gas field, in the Polar Sea. • Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria) make the first ascent of Mount Everest, without supplemental oxygen. • May 9 – In Rome, the corpse of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, is found in a red Renault 4. • May 12Shaba II: In Zaire, rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi, the mining centre of the province of Shaba. The Zairean government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order. • May 1213 – A group of mercenaries, led by Bob Denard, oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros; ten local soldiers are killed. Denard forms a new government. • May 15 • Students of the University of Tehran riot in Tabriz; the army stops the riot. • First Timezone Opens in Perth, Western AustraliaMay 17Charlie Chaplin's coffin is found some from the cemetery from which it was stolen, near Lake Geneva. • June 20 – The 6.2 Thessaloniki earthquake shakes Northern Greece with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Fifty people were killed. • June 21 • A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army in Northern Ireland leaves one civilian and three IRA men dead. • 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: Iranian helicopters stray into Soviet airspace and are shot down. • June 22Charon, a satellite of Pluto, is discovered. • June 24 – The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney, Australia to mark the 9th Anniversary of the Stonewall riots (which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras; later incorporating a festival). • June 25Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3–1 after extra time to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup. • The rainbow flag of the LGBT movement flies for the first time (in its original form) at the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade. • June 26 – A bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in the Palace of Versailles. • June 30Ethiopia begins a massive offensive in Eritrea. July July 1 – Australia's Northern Territory is granted self-government. • July 3 – The Amazon Co-operation Treaty (ACT) is signed. • July 7 – The Solomon Islands become independent from the United Kingdom. • July 11 – At least 217 tourists die in an explosion of a tanker-truck at a campsite in Costa Daurada, Spain. • July 24 – In Acapulco, Mexico, Margaret Gardiner of South Africa is crowned Miss Universe. • July 25Louise Brown, the world's first test tube baby, is born in Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK. August August 6Pope Paul VI dies at Castel Gandolfo. • August 12 – The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is concluded. • August 17Double Eagle II becomes the first balloon to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean, flying from Presque Isle, Maine, to Miserey, France. • August 22Sandinistas seize the Nicaraguan National Palace. • Kenya's first president and founding father, Jomo Kenyatta, dies aged 89 in Mombasa. • August 26Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope. September : Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin meet on the Aspen Cabin patio at Camp David. • September 5Camp David Accords: Hosted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat met at Camp David in Maryland to discuss a peace agreement between the two nations. • September 7 – In London, UK, a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, fatally poisons Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov; he dies four days later. • September 8 – Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in Tehran, killing 122, wounding over 200. • September 12 – The Declaration of Alma Ata is signed and released in the Capital City of Kazakh, USSR. Known as the core document on Primary Health Care Practices and Equity in Healthcare, it paved the way for the modern-day State-sponsored Healthcare System. • September 16 • The 7.4 Tabas earthquake killed at least 15,000 people in the city of Tabas in Iran. The quake was measured with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). • General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan. • September 17 – The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt. • September 19 • Police in the West Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary. • The Solomon Islands join the United Nations. • September 20 – General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of martial law Governor of Balochistan. • September 23California Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock is shot to death at age 27 while visiting friends in Gary, Indiana during an Angels' road trip in Chicago, Illinois. • September 24Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one. • September 25PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego, California; 144 are killed. • September 27 – The last Forest Brother guerrilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia. • September 28Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days as the Roman Catholic Pontiff. • September 30Finnair Flight 405 aircraft is hijacked by Aarno Lamminparras in Oulu, Finland. • September – Attempted poisoning of 500 members of the African National Congress by South African government infiltrators. • September – Serial criminal Lawrence Singleton commits heinous crime against Mary Vincent. October October 1Vietnam attacks Cambodia. • Tuvalu becomes independent from the United Kingdom. • October 2Mommie Dearest, written by Christina Crawford that discusses her adoptive mother Joan Crawford's abusive nature, is published. It is the first celebrity tell-all memoir. • October 7Wranslide in New South Wales: the Wran government is re-elected with an increased majority. • October 8 – Australia's Ken Warby sets the current world water speed record of 317.6 mph (511.13 km/h) at Blowering Dam, Australia. • October 9P.W. Botha succeeds John Vorster as Prime Minister of South Africa. • A massive short circuit in Seasat's electrical system ends the satellite's scientific mission. • United States President Jimmy Carter signs a bill that authorizes the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar. • October 13 – The Soviet Union launches a major Russification campaign throughout all union republics. • October 14 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs a bill into law which allows homebrewing of beer in the United States. • October 16Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523). • October 18Thorbjörn Fälldin steps down as Prime Minister of Sweden, and is succeeded by Ola Ullsten, the Leader of the liberal People's Party ("Folkpartiet"). • October 20 – The first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras is held as a protest march and commemoration of the Stonewall riots. • October 21 – Australian civilian pilot Frederick Valentich vanishes in a Cessna 182 Skylane over the Bass Strait south of Melbourne, after reporting contact with an unidentified aircraft. • October 27 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin win the Nobel Peace Prize for their progress toward achieving a Middle East accord. • October 31 – The South African Railways sets a still unbeaten world rail speed record on Cape gauge. November November 2: 8:00 pm – The Republic of Ireland's second television channel RTÉ 2 goes on air (renamed Network 2, 1988; RTÉ Network Two, 1995; N2, 1997; and RTÉ Two in 2004). • November 3Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom. • November 5Indira Gandhi is elected to the Indian parliament for the first time in 20 months after winning a by-election. • November 18 – In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder–suicide in his commune, Jonestown, that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Representative Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand. • November 24 – China starts an experimental "household responsibility system", in Anhui Province. • November 26 – Two British commercial divers, Michael Ward and Tony Prangley, die of hypothermia and drowning in the East Shetland Basin after their diving bell plunges to the seabed at a depth of over . • November 27Moscone-Milk assassinations: San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by disgruntled former Supervisor Dan White. December December 4Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered George Moscone, to become the first woman mayor of San Francisco; she will remain in office until January 8, 1988. • December 6Spanish transition to democracy: The Spanish Constitution officially restores the country's democratic government. • December 11Lufthansa heist: Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. • Iranian Revolution: Two million demonstrate against the Shah in Iran. • December 15Superman: The Movie is released in cinemas in the United States. • December 16 • Train 87 from Nanjing to Xining collides with train 368 from Xi'an to Xuzhou near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218. • The Mystery of Mamo is released in cinemas in Japan. • December 19 – Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament. • December 22 • The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party is held in Beijing, with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue the reform and opening up. • Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy, who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men and boys committed between 1972 and 1978, is arrested. • Argentina begins Operation Soberanía against Chile, but Argentinian forces quickly withdraw. • December 25Vietnam launches a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia. • December 27 – The Constitution of Spain is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military dictatorship. Date unknown Myriodontium keratinophilum is first isolated in Italy during the screening of soil microbes. • Synthetic insulin is developed. • Romanian painter Doina Bumbea is abducted by the North Korean government. • Abortion is legalized in Italy for the first time. • In Seoul, South Korea, construction begins on Seoul Subway Line 2. == Births ==
Births
January January 1Philip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer • January 2Megumi Toyoguchi, Japanese voice actress • January 2Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian-American dancer • January 3Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model, clothing designer and actress • Park Sol-mi, South Korean actress • January 4Karine Ruby, French snowboarder (d. 2009) • January 5Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver • January Jones, American actress • January 7Emilio Palma, Argentine citizen, first human born in Antarctica • Israel Keyes, American serial killer (d. 2012) • January 9Matt Beard, English football manager (Burnley F.C. Women, Liverpool F.C. Women) (d. 2025) • Gennaro Gattuso, Italian football player • Chad Johnson, American football player • AJ McLean, American singer • January 10Kanako Mitsuhashi, Japanese voice actress • January 11Emile Heskey, English footballer • January 12Hannah Gadsby, Australian comedian • January 13Ashmit Patel, Indian actor • Mohit Sharma Indian Army Officer • January 14Shawn Crawford, American sprinter • January 15Eddie Cahill, American actor • Franco Pellizotti, Italian cyclist • January 16Vijay Sethupathi, Indian actor • January 17Susanne Schaper, German politician • Ricky Wilson, British vocalist (Kaiser Chiefs) • January 18Thor Hushovd, Norwegian cyclist • Katja Kipping, German politician • January 20Omar Sy, French actor and comedian • January 24Kristen Schaal, American actress, comedian, and writer • January 25Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian politician and comedian, President of Ukraine • January 28Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer • Jamie Carragher, English footballer • Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer (d. 2020) • Sheamus, Irish professional wrestler • Vanessa Villela, Mexican actress February February 1Karen Martello, Venezuelan singer and television presenter. • February 2Nelson Chamisa, Zimbabwean politician • Barry Ferguson, Scottish footballer and coach • February 3Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer • Amal Clooney, British-Lebanese barrister, activist and author • February 4Danna García, Colombian actress and model • February 5Brian Russell, American football player • Samuel Sánchez, Spanish road bicycle racer • February 6Danny Buderus, Australian rugby league player • Olena Zelenska, Ukrainian first lady and former model • Yael Naim, Israeli-French singer and songwriter • February 7Omotola Jalade Ekeinde, Nigerian actress, singer, philanthropist and former model • Ashton Kutcher, American actor • Ivan Leko, Croatian football player and coach • Daniel Van Buyten, Belgian footballer • February 10Isabella Eklöf, Swedish screenwriter and film director • Don Omar (stage name for William Omar Landrón Rivera), Puerto Rican American rapper known as the "King of Reggaeton"; in San JuanFebruary 12Gethin Jones, Welsh television presenter • Silver Meikar, Estonian politician • February 13Niklas Bäckström, Finnish hockey player • February 14Richard Hamilton, American basketball player • Danai Gurira, American actress and playwright • Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player • February 15Rafał Romanowski, Polish politician • February 16Tia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete • John Tartaglia, American actor • Yekaterina Volkova, Russian middle-distance runner • February 19Kenyatta Wright, American football player • Immortal Technique, Peruvian-American rapper • February 20Julia Jentsch, German actress • Ken Takeuchi, Japanese voice actor • February 21Kim Ha-neul, South Korean actress • Kumail Nanjiani, Pakistani-American actor and comedian • Miki Sakai, Japanese actress • February 22Jenny Frost, English singer • February 23Dan Snyder, Canadian hockey player (d. 2003) • February 24Gary, South Korean musician, entertainer • February 25Yuji Nakazawa, Japanese footballer • February 27Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer and politician, Mayor of Tbilisi • February 28Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter • Yasir Hameed, Pakistani cricketer • Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier March March 1Jensen Ackles, American actor • Liya Kebede, Ethiopian model and fashion designer • Sakura Nogawa, Japanese voice actress • March 2Tomáš Kaberle, Czech hockey player • Sebastian Janikowski, American football player • March 3Tanishaa Mukerji, Indian actress • March 4Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer • March 6Sage Rosenfels, American football player • Mike Jackson, American politician • March 11Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer • Ha Jung-woo, South Korean actor and director • March 12Neal Obermeyer, American editorial cartoonist • Claudio Sanchez, American writer and musician • March 13Tom Danielson, American cyclist • Kenny Watson, American football player • March 14Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer • Carl Johan Bergman, Swedish biathlete • Moon Hee-joon, Korean singer • March 15Flavio Furtado, Cape Verdean boxer • March 16Matthew Montgomery, American actor • Brooke Burns, American fashion model and actress • March 17Pilar Rubio, Spanish reporter and TV presenter • Patrick Seitz, American voice actor • March 18Fernandão, Brazilian footballer (d.2014) • Antonio Margarito, Mexican-American boxer • Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player • March 19Lenka, Australian singer and actress • March 21Rani Mukerji, Indian actress • March 22Josh Heupel, American football player and coach • Vanessa Senior, Venezuelan comedian and actress. • March 23Nicholle Tom, American actress • Perez Hilton, American actor and blogger • March 24Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer • March 27Romesh Ranganathan, English-Pakistani comedian and actor • March 29Igor Rakočević, Serbian basketball player April April 2Nick Berg, American businessman (d. 2004) • April 3Matthew Goode, English actor • Tommy Haas, German tennis player • John Smit, South African rugby union player • April 4Sam Moran, Australian singer • April 5Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer • Arnaud Tournant, French track cyclist • April 6Tim Hasselbeck, American football player • Myleene Klass, British singer, pianist, and model • Martín Méndez, Uruguayan musician and songwriter • Lauren Ridloff, African-American actress • April 7Duncan James, English singer • Adrienne Haan, German-Luxembourgish actress, singer, writer and producer • April 9Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer • Takashi Ohara, Japanese voice actor • Rachel Stevens, English singer • April 10Rokhaya Diallo, French writer and filmmaker • April 12Guy Berryman, Scottish musician • Cheeming Boey, Malaysian artist • Riley Smith, American actor • April 13Kyle Howard, American television and movie actor • Sylvie Meis, Dutch model and television host • April 15Luis Fonsi, Puerto Rican singer and songwriter • April 16Lara Dutta, Indian actress and beauty queen • Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer • April 17Juan Guillermo Castillo, Uruguayan goalkeeper • Jason White, Scottish rugby union player • April 19James Franco, American actor • Gabriel Heinze, Argentine football player and coach • April 20Matthew Wilkas, American actor, playwright and reality television personality • Matt Austin, Canadian actor • Alessandro Rigotti, Italian voice actor • April 21Jukka Nevalainen, Finnish drummer • April 25Duncan Kibet, Kenyan long-distance runner • April 26Stana Katic, Canadian-American actress • Shinnosuke Tachibana, Japanese voice actor • April 29Bob and Mike Bryan, American doubles tennis team • Tyler Labine, Canadian actor May May 4Daisuke Ono, Japanese voice actor • Ognjen Jovanić, Croatian chess grandmaster • May 6Tony Estanguet, French slalom canoeist • Aleksandr Fyodorov, Russian bodybuilder • May 8Lúcio, Brazilian footballer • May 10Kenan Thompson, African-American actor and comedian • Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco, former princess consort of Morocco • May 11Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress • Judy Ann Santos, Filipino actress • May 12Hossein Rezazadeh, Iranian weightlifter • Jason Biggs, American actor • Aya Ishiguro, Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer • Malin Åkerman, Swedish-Canadian actress • May 13Barry Zito, American baseball player • May 14Elisa Togut, Italian volleyball player • May 15Dwayne De Rosario, Canadian soccer player • Caroline Dhavernas, French-Canadian actress • Krzysztof Ignaczak, Polish volleyball player • May 16Lionel Scaloni, Argentine football coach and former football player • May 18Ricardo Carvalho, Portuguese footballer • Cindy Parlow Cone, American soccer player • May 19Marcus Bent, English footballer *** • May 22Katie Price (Jordan), English model and television personality • Ginnifer Goodwin, American actress • May 25Adam Gontier, Canadian singer • May 28Jake Johnson, American actor and comedian • Tomohiko Ito, Japanese footballer • May 29Pelle Almqvist, Swedish singer-songwriter • Sébastien Grosjean, French tennis player • May 30Lyoto Machida, Brazilian mixed martial artist • May 31Sara Duterte, 15th Vice President of the Philippines June June 1Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high-jumper • June 2Nikki Cox, American actress • Dominic Cooper, English actor • Justin Long, American actor • June 4Simone Maludrottu, Italian boxer • Scott Cawthon, video game developer, creator of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise • June 5Nick Kroll, American actor and comedian • June 6Konstantīns Konstantinovs, Latvian powerlifter (d. 2018) • Mariana Popova, Bulgarian singer • Judith Barsi, American child actress (d. 1988) • June 7Mini Andén, Swedish model • Bill Hader, American actor and comedian • June 8Maria Menounos, American actress, journalist, and television presenter • Eun Ji-won, South Korean rapper and singer • June 9Michaela Conlin, American actress • Miroslav Klose, German footballer • Matt Bellamy, British musician and singer • June 10Han Hee-won, South Korean golfer • Subhash Khot, Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist • DJ Qualls, American actor, producer, and model • Shane West, American actor • June 11Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor • June 13Faizal Yusof, Malaysian actor (d. 2011) • Vishwananda, Hindu guru • June 14Nikola Vujčić, Croatian basketball player and team manager of Maccabi Tel AvivJune 15Wilfred Bouma, Dutch footballer • June 16Daniel Brühl, German actor • June 18Tara Platt, American actress and author • June 19Mía Maestro, Argentine actress • Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player • Zoe Saldaña, American actress • June 20Frank Lampard, English footballer • June 21Thomas Blondeau, Belgian writer (d. 2013) • Ignacio Corleto, Argentine rugby union player • Erica Durance, Canadian actress • Jean-Pascal Lacoste, French singer, actor and television host • June 22Diederik Boomsma, Dutch politician • Tim Driesen, Belgian actor • Dan Wheldon, English racing driver (d. 2011) • June 23Gladys Reyes, Filipino actress • Frédéric Leclercq, French musician • June 24Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish musician • Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer • Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer • June 25Aramis Ramírez, Dominican baseball player • Aftab Shivdasani, Indian actor • June 26Daniel Constantin, Romanian politician • Cristian Lucchetti, Argentine footballer • June 28Ha Ji-won, South Korean actress and singer • June 29Luke Kirby, Canadian actor • Nicole Scherzinger, American singer • Steve Savidan, French footballer July July 1Aleki Lutui, Tongan rugby player • Liu Kwok Man, Chinese footballer • Mark Hunter, British rower • July 2Ganesh, Indian actor and television presenter • Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer • Jüri Ratas, Estonian politician and 18th Prime Minister of EstoniaJuly 3Ian Anthony Dale, American actor • Jesse Leach, American vocalist • Mizuki Noguchi, Japanese long-distance runner • July 4Becki Newton, American actress • July 5Andreas Baum, German politician • Nandamuri Kalyan Ram, Indian actor and film producer • July 6Danil Khalimov, Kazakh Greco-Roman wrestler • Tia and Tamera Mowry, African-American actresses • July 7Chris Andersen, American basketball player • DJ Manian, German music producer and DJ • July 8Erin Morgenstern, American artist and author • July 9Mark Medlock, German singer • Linda Park, Korean-born actress • Gulnara Samitova-Galkina, Russian middle-distance runner • July 10Ray Kay, Norwegian director and photographer • Jesse Lacey, American singer-songwriter • July 11Kim Kang-woo, South Korean actor • Mattias Gustafsson, Swedish handball player • July 12Topher Grace, American actor • Michelle Rodriguez, American actress • July 13Gary David, Filipino professional basketball player • July 14Roger Clark, American actor • July 15Matt Mitrione, American mixed martial artist • Greg Sestero, French-American actor and model • July 16Ahmede Hussain, Bangladeshi writer • July 17Panda Bear, American musician • Justine Triet, French film director and screenwriter • July 18Shane Horgan, Irish rugby player • Virginia Raggi, Italian lawyer, politician • Joo Sang-wook, South Korean actor • Vladimir Tintor, Serbian film actor • July 20Pavel Datsyuk, Russian ice hockey player • Tamsyn Manou, Australian athlete • July 21Josh Hartnett, American actor • Kyoko Iwasaki, Japanese swimmer • July 22A. J. Cook, Canadian actress • Kyōko Hasegawa, Japanese model and actress • Dennis Rommedahl, Danish footballer • July 23Stefanie Sun, Singapore singer • July 25Louise Brown, British citizen, first human born through in vitro fertilisationGerard Warren, American football player • Asma Lamnawar, Moroccan singer • July 26Jehad Muntasser, Libyan footballer • Eve Myles, Welsh actress • July 28Mine Tugay, Turkish actress • Hitomi Yaida, Japanese singer • July 29Ayşe Hatun Önal, Turkish singer, actress, model and beauty pageant • July 31Nick Sorensen, American football player and sportscaster • July – Caucher Birkar, born Fereydoun Derakhshani, Kurdish-born mathematician August August 1Oliver Dowden, British politician • August 3Mariusz Jop, Polish football player and coach • August 4Kurt Busch, American race car driver • August 5Carolina Duer, Argentine boxer • Harel Levy, Israeli tennis player • August 6Marisa Miller, American supermodel • Peng Cheng-min, Taiwanese baseball player • August 7Alexandre Aja, French director • Vanness Wu, Taiwanese singer • August 8Natsuko Kuwatani, Japanese voice actress • Louis Saha, French footballer • August 10Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono, Indonesian politician and former military officer • August 11Leszek Laszkiewicz, Polish ice hockey player and executive • August 15Jennie Eisenhower, American actress • Kerri Walsh Jennings, American beach volleyball player • August 17Vibeke Stene, Norwegian rock singer • Jelena Karleuša, Serbian pop singer • August 18Andy Samberg, American actor and comedian • August 20Noah Bean, American actor • August 21Reuben Droughns, American football player • Alan Lee, Irish footballer • August 22Vitaliy Balytskyi, Ukrainian football player and manager (d. 2018) • James Corden, British comedian and television personality • August 23Kobe Bryant, American basketball player (d. 2020) • August 25Kel Mitchell, American actor, stand-up comedian, musician, singer, and rapper • August 26Amanda Schull, American actress • August 27Suranne Jones, English actress • August 28Pablo Echenique, Argentine born-Spanish politician • Kelly Overton, American actress • Sam Wills, New Zealand comic • August 29Danielle Hampton, Canadian actress • August 31Ido Pariente, Israeli mixed martial artist • Jennifer Ramírez Rivero, Venezuelan model and businesswoman (d. 2018) September September 1Manju Warrier, Indian actress • September 2Tatiana Okupnik, Polish singer and composer • September 3Tinkara Kovač, Slovenian singer and musician • September 4Wes Bentley, American actor • Frederik Veuchelen, Belgian cyclist • September 5Chris Hipkins, New Zealand Prime Minister • September 6Mathew Horne, English actor • Homare Sawa, Japanese footballer • Peter van Huffel, Canadian jazz musician • September 7Devon Sawa, Canadian actor • September 9Gina Gogean, Romania artistic gymnast • September 11Ed Reed, American football player • Ben Lee, Australian singer • Yevgeny Popov, Russian politician and journalist • Else-Marthe Sørlie Lybekk, Norwegian handball player • Dejan Stanković, Serbian football player and coach • September 12Ruben Studdard, American singer • Ben McKenzie, American actor • September 13Megan Henning, American actress • September 14Ben Cohen, English rugby union player • Ron DeSantis, American politician, 46th Governor of FloridaCarmen Kass, Estonian supermodel • September 15Eiður Guðjohnsen, Icelandic football player • September 16Stephanie Murphy, American politician • September 18Billy Eichner, American actor and comedian • September 19Mariano Puerta, Argentine tennis player • September 20Jason Bay, Canadian baseball player • Patrizio Buanne, Italian singer • Sarit Hadad, Israeli pop singer • September 21Doug Howlett, New Zealand rugby union player • Josh Thomson, American mixed martial artist • September 22Harry Kewell, Australian footballer • September 23Anthony Mackie, American actor • Worm Miller, American screenwriter, director and actor • Keri Lynn Pratt, American actress • September 24Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer • September 25Jodie Kidd, English model • Rossif Sutherland, Canadian actor • September 27Ani Lorak, Ukrainian singer • September 28Dane Boedigheimer, American Internet personality • Pastora Soler, Spanish singer • September 29Kurt Nilsen, Norwegian singer • September 30Candice Michelle, American professional wrestler and model • Daniel Grossberg, American politician October October 1Katie Aselton, American actress • October 2Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer • October 3Jake Shears, American singer and songwriter • Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer • Gerald Asamoah, German footballer • Christian Coulson, English actor • Shannyn Sossamon, American actress • October 4Dana Davis, American actress • Mark Day, Canadian actor • Phillip Glasser, American actor and producer • Kei Horie, Japanese actor • October 5Shane Ryan, Irish Gaelic footballer • James Valentine, American musician • October 6Ricky Hatton, British professional boxer (d. 2025) • October 9Nicky Byrne, Irish musician (Westlife) • October 10Caroline Evers-Swindell, New Zealand sailor • Georgina Evers-Swindell, New Zealand sailor • October 14Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006) • Usher, American singer and actor • October 15Boško Balaban, Croatian footballer • October 17Isabel Díaz Ayuso, Spanish politician • Pablo Iglesias Turrión, Spanish politician • October 20Tomohiko Ito, Japanese anime director • Michael Johns, Australian singer (d. 2014) • Kira, German singer • Dionne Quan, American voice actress • Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer • October 21Joey Harrington, American football player • October 24Carlos Edwards, Trinidadian footballer • October 25Russell Anderson, Scottish footballer • Zachary Knighton, American actor • David T. Little, American composer and drummer • October 26CM Punk, American professional wrestler • October 27David Walton, American actor • Vanessa-Mae, Singaporean violinist • October 28Byron Donalds, American politician • Marta Etura, Spanish actress • Justin Guarini, American singer • October 29Travis Henry, American football player • October 30Matthew Morrison, American actor and singer November November 1Jessica Valenti, American blogger and writer • Mary Kate Schellhardt, American actress • November 4Shaun Berrigan, Australian rugby league player • November 5Bubba Watson, American golfer • Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011) • November 6Nicole Dubuc, American actress and writer • Taryn Manning, American actress • Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress • November 7Mohamed Aboutrika, Egyptian footballer • Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer • Mark Read, English singer (A1) • November 8Moses Michael Levi Barrow (born Jamal Michael Barrow), better known by his stage name Shyne, Belizean rapper and politician • Ali Karimi, Iranian football player • November 9Sisqó, American actor and singer • November 10Nadine Angerer, German footballer • Kyla Cole, Czech model • Diplo, American DJ and music producer • Eve, African-American rapper • Destra Garcia, female Trinidadian soca singer • November 12Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, Pakistani journalist, activist and filmmaker • November 13Hsu Wei Lun, Taiwanese actress (d. 2007) • November 14Bobby Allen, American ice hockey player • Xavier Nady, American baseball player • November 16Santiago Peña, President of ParaguayNovember 17Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress • Reggie Wayne, American football player • November 18Damien Johnson, Northern Irish footballer • Aldo Montano, Italian fencer • Ebru Özkan, Turkish actress • November 19Mahé Drysdale, New Zealand rower • November 22Karen O, American singer-songwriter and musician • November 23Destin Daniel Cretton, American film director • November 24Katherine Heigl, American actress • November 25Shiina Ringo, Japanese singer and musician • November 26Jun Fukuyama, Japanese voice actor • November 27Mike Skinner, English musician • Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player • November 30Clay Aiken, American singer-songwriter and author • Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor • Robert Kirkman, American comic book writer December December 1Stefan Kapičić, Serbian actor • Jen Psaki, American television political analyst and former government official • December 2Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter • Alo Kõrve, Estonian actor • December 4Lars Bystøl, Norwegian ski jumper • December 5Neil Druckmann, Israeli-American video game writer and programmer, founder of Naughty Dog • Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player • December 7Shiri Appleby, American actress • December 8Ian Somerhalder, American actor • December 9Gastón Gaudio, Argentine tennis player • December 10Summer Phoenix, American actress • December 11Courtney Henggeler, American former actress • December 12Monica Bîrlădeanu, Romanian actress • December 14Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player • December 16Veronica Schneider, Venezuelan actress and model • December 17Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor, architect, producer and entrepreneur • Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician • December 18Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player • Josh Dallas, American actor • Katie Holmes, American actress • December 19Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor • December 20Geremi, Cameroon footballer • Jacqueline Saburido, Venezuelan-American social activist (d. 2019) • December 21Shaun Morgan, South African musician and singer-songwriter • December 22Edo Maajka, Bosnian rapper • Emmanuel Olisadebe, Polish-Nigerian footballer • Joanne Kelly, Canadian actress • December 23Víctor Martínez, Venezuelan baseball player • Estella Warren, Canadian swimmer, model, and actress • December 24Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer • December 25Paula Seling, Romanian singer and radio DJ • Jeremy Strong, American actor • Miyuki Takahashi, Japanese volleyball player • December 26Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player • December 28Feng Kun, Chinese volleyball player • John Legend, African-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor • December 29Alexis Amore, Peruvian actress, dancer, and model • Angelo Taylor, American athlete • December 30Tyrese Gibson, African-American singer, songwriter, rapper, actor, model, and screenwriter • Inferno, Polish musician • December 31Yulia Barsukova, Russian rhythmic gymnast == Deaths ==
Deaths
January January 2Cyril King, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (b. 1921) • January 6Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (b. 1899) • January 13Hubert Humphrey, 38th Vice President of the United States (b. 1911) • January 14Harold Abrahams, British athlete (b. 1899) • Kurt Gödel, Austrian-born American logician, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1906) • January 18John Lyng, Norwegian politician, prime minister (b. 1905) • January 22Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894) • January 23Terry Kath, American rock musician (Chicago) (b. 1946) • Jack Oakie, American actor (b. 1903) • January 26Leo Genn, English actor and barrister (b. 1905) • January 27Oscar Homolka, Austrian actor (b. 1898) • January 29Tim McCoy, American actor (b. 1891) • January 30Marie-Louise Damien, French actress (b. 1889) February February 10Redento Maria Gauci, Maltese Carmelite bishop (b. 1920) • February 11James B. Conant, American chemist (b. 1893) • Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) • February 15Ilka Chase, American actress (b. 1905) • Tadeusz Chyliński, Polish aircraft designer and constructor (b. 1911) • February 17Artemiy Artsikhovsky, Soviet archaeologist and historian (b. 1902) • February 18Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928) • February 19Pankaj Mullick, Indian composer and singer (b. 1905) • February 20Vitorino Nemesio, Portuguese poet and author (b. 1901) • February 24Alma Thomas, African-American painter (b. 1891) • February 28Philip Ahn, Korean-American actor (b. 1905) March March 1Paul Scott, English writer (b. 1920) • March 11Claude François, French entertainer (b. 1939) • March 13John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935) • March 17Eddie Aikau, American lifeguard and surfer (b. 1946) • Giacomo Violardo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1898) • March 18Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892) • March 19Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893) • March 21Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, Irish barrister, judge and 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911) • March 22Isidro Ayora, 22nd President of Ecuador (b. 1879) • March 24André Lallemand, French astronomer (b. 1904) • March 31Astrid Allwyn, American actress (b. 1905) • Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899) April April 8Lon L. Fuller, American legal philosopher (b. 1902) • April 9Vivian McGrath, Australian tennis player (b. 1916) • April 13Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian suffragist and women's rights activist (b. 1900) • April 16Lucius D. Clay, American military governor of Germany after World War II (b. 1898) • Marie Ahnighito Peary, American writer and philanthropist; daughter of Robert Peary (b. 1893) • Philibert Tsiranana, Malagasy leader and politician, 1st President of Madagascar (b. 1912) • April 21Sandy Denny, British singer-songwriter (b. 1947) • April 22Will Geer, American actor (b. 1902) • April 27John Doeg, American tennis player (b. 1908) • April 28Mohammed Daoud Khan, 5th Prime Minister of Afghanistan and 1st President of Afghanistan (b. 1909) May May 1Aram Khachaturian, Soviet-Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1903) • May 6Ethelda Bleibtrey, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902) • May 8Duncan Grant, Scottish painter (b. 1885) • May 9Aldo Moro, Italian Christian Democratic politician and statesman, 38th Prime Minister of Italy (assassinated) (b. 1916) • May 13Alby Roberts, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1909) • May 15Sir Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) • May 16William Steinberg, German-American conductor (b. 1899) • May 17Armin T. Wegner, German human rights activist (b. 1886) • May 18Selwyn Lloyd, Baron Selwyn-Lloyd, English politician (b. 1904) • May 20Ernest Cadine, French weightlifter, Olympic champion (1920) (b. 1893) • P. S. Subrahmanya Sastri, Indian Sanskrit scholar (b. 1890) • May 22Joseph Colombo, American gangster (b. 1923) • Aubrey Fitch, American admiral (b. 1883) • May 26Tamara Karsavina, Soviet ballerina (b. 1885) • Jorge Icaza Coronel, Ecuadorean novelist (b. 1906) • May 31József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (b. 1925) • José Gonzalvo, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920) June June 2Santiago Bernabéu, Spanish footballer, player and president of Real Madrid C.F. (b. 1895) • June 4Jorge de Sena, Portuguese novelist and poet (b. 1919) • June 7Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) • June 9Prince Nicholas of Romania (b. 1903) • June 12Guo Moruo, Chinese archaeologist, historian, poet, politician, and writer (b. 1892) • June 17Robert B. Williams, American actor (b. 1904) • June 20Mark Robson, Canadian film director (b. 1913) • June 21Luther W. Youngdahl, American politician, Governor of Minnesota from 1947 to 1951, and a United States district judge from 1951 to 1978 (b. 1896) • June 22Tom Gorman, Australian rugby league footballer (b. 1901) • June 24Ahmad al-Ghashmi, 4th President of the Yemen Arab Republic (b. 1935) • June 27Josette Day, French actress (b. 1914) • June 28Clifford Dupont, 1st President of Rhodesia (b. 1905) • June 29Bob Crane, American actor, drummer, radio host, and disc jockey (b. 1928) July July 1Kurt Student, Luftwaffe general, commander of the German airborne forces during World War II. (b. 1890) • July 3James Daly, American actor (b. 1918) • July 6Pietro Montana, Italian-born American sculptor, painter and teacher (b. 1890) • July 7Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissau politician, 1st Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939) • July 10Abd ar-Razzaq an-Naif, 31st Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1934) • Joe Davis, English snooker and billiards player (b. 1901) • July 14Gaston Ragueneau, French athlete (b. 1881) • July 16Howard Estabrook, American actor (b. 1884) • July 17Thayer David, American actor (b. 1927) • July 21Susana Calandrelli, Argentine writer (b. 1901) • July 23Kamil Tolon, Turkish industrialist and inventor (b. 1912) • July 27Willem van Otterloo, Dutch conductor, cellist and composer (b. 1907) • July 30Umberto Nobile, Italian aviator and explorer (b. 1885) • July 31Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1902) August August 2Carlos Chávez, Mexican composer (b. 1899) • August 6Pope Paul VI (b. 1897) • Edward Durell Stone, American architect (b. 1902) • August 9James Gould Cozzens, American writer (b. 1903) • August 19Emilio Núñez Portuondo, Cuban diplomat and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Cuba (b. 1898) • August 22Jomo Kenyatta, Kenyan activist, politician and statesman, 1st Prime Minister of Kenya and 1st President of Kenya (b. c.1897) • Ignazio Silone, Italian writer and politician (b. 1900) • August 24Louis Prima, American singer and actor (b. 1910) • August 25George E. Jonas, American philanthropist (b. 1897) • August 26Charles Boyer, French actor (b. 1899) • José Manuel Moreno, Argentine football player (b. 1916) • August 28Kofi Abrefa Busia, Ghanese nationalist leader, 2nd Prime Minister of Ghana (b. 1913) • Bruce Catton, American Civil War historian, Pulitzer Prize winner (b. 1899) • Robert Shaw, British actor (b. 1927) • August 30Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer, Dutch war hero, resistance fighter and humanitarian (b. 1896) September September 3Karin Molander, Swedish actress (b. 1889) • September 4Leonora Cohen, British suffragette and trade unionist (b. 1873) • September 6Adolf Dassler, German founder of Adidas (b. 1900) • September 7Keith Moon, English rock drummer (The Who) (b. 1946) • September 8Ricardo Zamora, Spanish footballer (b. 1901) • September 9Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (b. 1892) • Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American film producer (b. 1892) • September 11Valerian Gracias, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1900) • Georgi Markov, Bulgarian playwright and writer (b. 1929) • Ronnie Peterson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944) • Curtis Shake, American jurist (b. 1887) • September 12Frank Ferguson, American actor (b. 1899) • September 15Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer and manufacturer (b. 1898) • September 21Peter Vogel, German film actor (b. 1937) • September 24Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (b. 1950) • Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general (b. 1897) • September 26Manne Siegbahn, Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886) • September 27Sergei Aslamazyan, Soviet composer (b. 1897) • Dumitru Dămăceanu, Romanian general and politician (b. 1896) • September 28Pope John Paul I (b. 1912) • September 30Edgar Bergen, American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903) October October 1Alfredo Obviar, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop and Servant of God (b. 1889) • October 4Roy L. Dennis, American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (b. 1961) • October 8 – • Karl Swenson, American actor (b. 1908) • Jim Gilliam, American baseball player (b. 1928) • October 9Jacques Brel, Belgian singer (b. 1929) • October 10Ralph Metcalfe, American Olympic athlete (b. 1910) • Hermes Lima, prime minister and foreign minister of Brazil (b. 1902) • October 11Ruthven Todd, Scottish poet, artist, and novelist (b. 1914) • October 12Nancy Spungen, American groupie and girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958) • October 15W. Eugene Smith, American photojournalist (b. 1918) • October 16Dan Dailey, American actor (b. 1915) • October 17Giovanni Gronchi, 3rd president of Italy (b. 1887) • October 19Gig Young, American actor (b. 1913) • October 20Gunnar Nilsson, Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1948) • October 21Anastas Mikoyan, Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman (b. 1895) • October 23Maybelle Carter, American country musician (b. 1909) • October 28Geoffrey Unsworth, British cinematographer (b. 1914) November November 4Arshad al-Umari, 15th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1888) • November 8Norman Rockwell, American artist (b. 1894) • November 10Theo Lingen, German actor (b. 1903) • November 15Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (b. 1901) • November 18Leo Ryan, American politician (b. 1925) • Jim Jones, American cult leader (b. 1931) • November 20Giorgio de Chirico, Italian painter (b. 1888) • November 24Warren Weaver, American scientist and mathematician (b. 1894) • November 27George Moscone, American politician and then-mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929) • November 27Harvey Milk, American politician and activist (b. 1930) December December 3William Grant Still, American composer (b. 1895) • December 4 - Goodie Reeve, British born Australian radio host and musician (b. 1897) • December 7Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and avian palaeontologist (b. 1886) • December 8Golda Meir, Israeli teacher, politician and stateswoman, 4th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898) • December 10Emilio Portes Gil, Acting president of Mexico, (1928–1930) (b. 1890) • Ed Wood, American filmmaker, actor and author (b. 1924) • December 11Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist (b. 1901) • December 12Fay Compton, English actress (b. 1894) • December 14Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist (b. 1886) • December 15Chill Wills, American actor (b. 1902) • December 16Blanche Calloway, American jazz singer (b. 1902) • December 17Don Ellis, American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) • Josef Frings, German cardinal, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1887) • December 27Houari Boumédiènne, 2nd President of Algeria (b. 1932) • Chris Bell, American musician (b. 1951) • December 31Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, East Timorese politician, acting President of East Timor (b. 1946) == Nobel Prizes ==
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