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1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1969th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 969th year of the 2nd millennium, the 69th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1960s decade.

Events
JanuaryJanuary 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. • January 5Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. • January 12 – The New York Jets defeat the Baltimore Colts 16–7 in Super Bowl III. • January 14An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314. • January 16 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4. • January 18 – Failure of Soyuz 5's service module to separate correctly causes a near-fatal re-entry (not publicly acknowledged until 1997) but the module makes a hard landing in the Ural Mountains. • January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. • January 20Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th president of the United States of America. • January 22Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured; Brezhnev escapes unharmed. Very little is publicly admitted about the incident by the Soviet authorities at this time. • January 27 • Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. • Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Irish Unionist leader and founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is jailed for three months for illegal assembly. • January 281969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970. FebruaryFebruary 4 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress. • February 8 • The Allende meteorite explodes over Mexico. • After 147 years, the last weekly issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published in the United States. (The magazine is later briefly resurrected as a monthly magazine.) • February 9 – The Boeing 747 "jumbo jet" is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at Everett, Washington. • February 13Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorists bomb the Montreal Stock Exchange. • February 14Pope Paul VI issues Mysterii Paschalis, a motu proprio, deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints (including Valentine, who was celebrated on this day). • February 17Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair the SEALAB III habitat off San Clemente Island, California. • February 24 – The Mariner 6 Mars probe is launched from the United States. • February 28 – The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits Portugal, Spain and Morocco. MarchMarch 2 • In Toulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted. • Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River. • March 3Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, Rusty Schweickart, David Scott) to test the lunar module. • In a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy. • March 13Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. • March 16Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground. • March 17Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel. • The Longhope life-boat is lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the Pentland Firth between Orkney and the northern tip of Scotland; the entire crew of 8 die. • March 18 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is the 49th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129. • March 20 • One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a United Arab Airlines flight, most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to Aswan from Mecca, are killed when the Ilyushin-18 turboprop crashes during a sandstorm. • John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-in" for peace in Amsterdam. • March 22 • UCLA wins its third consecutive NCAA basketball championship by defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72. • The landmark art exhibition When Attitudes become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann, opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, Switzerland. • March 25 - Ayub Khan resigns as President of Pakistan and transfers the power to Yahya Khan. • March 26 - Yahya Khan imposes Martial Law on Pakistan. • March 28Pope Paul VI increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134. • March 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France. • March 30 – The body of former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is brought by caisson to the United States Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C. • March 31 – The Barroterán coal mine disaster kills 153 coal miners in Mexico. AprilApril 3 – The Mass of Paul VI is promulgated in the Catholic Church by the Pope. • April 4Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart. • April 7RFC series begins with Network Working Group RFC 1 on ARPANET host software. • April 8 – The Montreal Expos become Major League Baseball's first team outside the United States. • April 9 – Fermín Monasterio Pérez is murdered by ETA in Biscay, Spain; the 4th victim in the name of Basque nationalism. • April 15 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a US reconnaissance aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board. • April 17Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is found guilty of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. • April 20 – British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary. • April 22 – English sailor Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping. • April 28Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before. MayMay 10 – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War. • May 13May 13 Incident: Race riots occur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. • May 14 – Colonel Muammar Gaddafi visits Mecca, Saudi Arabia. • May 15 – An American teenager known as 'Robert R.' dies in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. • May 16Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 5 lands on Venus. • May 17 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus's atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure. • May 18Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford, John Young) is launched. It is to be a full rehearsal for the Moon landing, stopping 15 kilometers short of actually reaching the lunar surface. • May 20United States National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California. • May 21Rosariazo: Civil unrest breaks out in Rosario, Argentina, following the death of a 15-year-old student. • May 22 – Apollo program: Apollo 10's lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the Moon's surface. • May 26 • The Andean Pact (Andean Group) is established. • Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first crewed Moon landing. • May 26June 2John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second bed-in. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the song "Give Peace a Chance" during the event. • May 29Cordobazo: A general strike and civil unrest break out in Córdoba, Argentina. • May 30Riots in Curaçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island. JuneJune 3 – While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally rams and slices into the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen. • June 5 – An international communist conference begins in Moscow. • June 8Francisco Franco orders the closing of the Gibraltar–Spain border and communications between Gibraltar and Spain in response to the 1967 Gibraltar sovereignty referendum. The border remains closed until a partial reopening on December 15, 1982. • U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet at Midway Island. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September. • June 15Georges Pompidou is elected President of France. • June 17 – After a 23-game match, Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow. • June 24 – The United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic relations, after the Rhodesian constitutional referendum. • June 27 – Gay intercourse is officially legalized in Canada. • June 28 – The Stonewall riots, a milestone in the modern gay rights movement in the United States, began in New York City. JulyJuly 7 – French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government. • July 8Vietnam War: The first U.S. troop withdrawals are made. • July 14Football War: After Honduras loses an association football match against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20. • The Act of Free Choice for West Irian commences in Merauke, Indonesia. • July 16Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy in Florida towards the first crewed landing on the Moon. • July 19Chappaquiddick incident: US Senator Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy does not report the accident for nine or ten hours. • John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida, United States and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board the 25' ocean rowboat Britannia (left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969). • July 20Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC) Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon's surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), an estimated 650 million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his first historic steps on the surface. • 1969 Tour de France: Belgian Eddy Merckx wins the cycle race for the first time. • July 22 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death. • July 24Apollo program: Apollo 11 returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life. • The Soviet Union returns British lecturer Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris and Lona Cohen). • July 26 – A 6.4 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Yangjiang destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people. • July 30Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam, meeting with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders. • July 31Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa. AugustAugust 2 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits Romania, becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to visit a communist state since the start of the Cold War. • August 4Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since the two sides cannot agree to any terms. • The Zodiac Killer adopts his persona in a letter in which he introduces himself with the phrase, "This is the Zodiac speaking." • August 5Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (). • August 9 – On orders from Charles Manson, members of the Manson Family invade the Los Angeles home of film director Roman Polanski, and murder his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and four others. • August 10 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles. • August 13Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. • August 14The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland to restore order following three days of political and sectarian violence, marking the beginning of the 37-year Operation Banner. • August 1518 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. • August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD). • August 21 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. • August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria. SeptemberSeptember 11969 Libyan coup d'état: A bloodless coup in Libya ousts King Idris and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power. • For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969. • September 2Ho Chi Minh, the president of Democratic Republic of Vietnam, died at the age of 79. • September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six counts of premeditated murder for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam. • September 9Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a DC-9 airliner, collides in flight with a small Piper PA-28 airplane, and crashes near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 people in both aircraft. • September 11 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in Pacific Ocean and South America, and is the 41st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134. • September 13Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premieres on CBS, starting the Scooby-Doo franchise. • September 2225 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem. • September 23 – China carries out an underground nuclear bomb test. • September 25 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is founded. • September 26The Beatles release their eleventh studio album, Abbey Road in the United Kingdom • September 281969 West German federal election: The Social Democrats, led by Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt, and the Free Democrats led by Walter Scheel, formed a coalition government with Brandt as Chancellor, after the Social Democrats severed their relationship with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger's Christian Democratic Union. OctoberOctober 1 • In Sweden, Olof Palme is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Worker's Party, replacing Tage Erlander as Prime Minister on October 14. • The Beijing Subway begins operation. • October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations. • October 5Sazae-san first airs on Fuji Television. • October 912Days of Rage: In Chicago, the Illinois National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial. • October 11 – The Zodiac Killer shoots and kills taxi driver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco; this is the serial killer's last known murder. • October 1116 – The New York Mets upset the Baltimore Orioles four games to one in the World Series. • October 15 – • DZKB-TV Channel 9, the Philippines' sixth TV station, is launched. • Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations across the United States. • October 17 – Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the CCD at Bell Laboratories (30 years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras). • October 18th - Carravagio's Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence is stolen from the oratory of San Lorenzo in Palermo, Sicily.October 20 – Experimental research showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks, is published. • October 21Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany. • General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke. • October 251969 Australian federal election: John Gorton's Liberal/Country Coalition government is narrowly re-elected with a sharply reduced majority, defeating a resurgent Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. Prime Minister Gorton survived a leadership challenge by his deputy William McMahon as well as David Fairbairn in the immediate aftermath of the election. • October 29 – The first electronic message is sent between two computers connected via ARPANET between University of California, Los Angeles and SRI International in California at around 10:30pm local time, the initial forerunning technology to the Internet. NovemberNovember 3Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (31st government). • November 10 – The television series Sesame Street premiered on National Educational Television, becoming the most famous preschool television series of all time. • November 14Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second crewed mission to the Moon. • The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger ship, is withdrawn from service. • November 15Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea. • November 17Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. • November 19Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. • Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal. • Vietnam War: A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer, publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. • Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers to Alcatraz Island and begins a 19 month long occupation, lasting until June 1971. • November 21 • U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free. • The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the global Internet). • November 24Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to the Moon. DecemberDecember 1Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held. September 14 is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random". • December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City. • December 3Air France Flight 212, a Boeing 707 registered as F-BHSZ, crashed shortly after takeoff from Venezuela killing all 62 occupants on board. The cause of the accident is not yet known since the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) did not publish an investigation report. It will not be released until 2029, sixty years after the accident. • December 6Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert, an event which came to be viewed as the end of the hippie era and the de facto conclusion of late-1960s American youth culture. • December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan, Italy, kills 17 people and injures 88. • December 24Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial. • The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea. • Nigerian troops capture Umuahia. The last Biafran capital before its dissolution becomes Owerri. • December 27 – The Liberal Democratic Party wins 47.6% of the votes in the 1969 Japanese general election. Future prime ministers Yoshirō Mori and Tsutomu Hata and future kingmaker Ichirō Ozawa are elected for the first time. Date unknown • Summer – Invention of Unix under the potential name "Unics" (after Multics). • Common African, Malagasy and Mauritian Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established. • International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, a maritime treaty, is adopted. ==Births==
Births
JanuaryJanuary 1Verne Troyer, American actor (d. 2018) • January 2Robby Gordon, American racing driver • Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013) • Christy Turlington, American fashion model • January 3Michael Schumacher, German seven-time Formula One world champion • January 5Marilyn Manson, American rock musician • January 6Norman Reedus, American actor • January 7Alfredo Romero, Venezuelan activist • January 11Kyōko Hikami, Japanese voice actress • Kyle Richards, American actress • January 13Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López ObradorStephen Hendry, British snooker player • January 14Jason Bateman, American actor, director and producer • Dave Grohl, American rock drummer and composer • January 15Meret Becker, German actress and musician • Nishantha Jayaweera, Sri Lankan politician, MP • January 16Dead, Swedish vocalist (d. 1991) • January 17Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director • January 18Dave Bautista, American pro wrestler and actor • January 19Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer • Robert Prosinečki, Croatian football player and coach • January 27Cornelius, Japanese rock musician, singer and producer • Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice artist • January 28Kathryn Morris, American actress • January 29Hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist • January 31Bill Huizenga, American politician FebruaryFebruary 1Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer • Andrew Breitbart, American writer and publisher (d. 2012) • February 2Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist • February 3Retief Goosen, South African golfer • February 5Bobby Brown, African-American singer • Michael Sheen, Welsh actor • February 6David Hayter, Canadian-American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, and producer • February 7Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician • February 9Priyantha Weerasooriya, Sri Lankan police officer and 37th Inspector general • February 11Jennifer Aniston, American actress, director, producer and businesswoman • February 12Darren Aronofsky, American filmmaker • Hong Myung-bo, South Korean footballer • Brad Werenka, Canadian ice-hockey player • February 13Ahlam, Emirati singer • JB Blanc, French voice actor • February 14Adriana Behar, Brazilian volleyball player • February 15Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (d. 1994) • Birdman, American rapper, entertainer, and record producer • February 21James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter • Bosson, Swedish singer-songwriter • Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skier • Tony Meola, American soccer player • February 23Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer • Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist • February 28Robert Sean Leonard, American actor • Pat Monahan, American singer, lead vocals of Train MarchMarch 1Javier Bardem, Spanish actor • March 4Annie Yi, Taiwanese actress • Patrick Roach, Canadian actor • March 7Brian Jamieson, American rower • March 10Paget Brewster, American actress • March 11Terrence Howard, American actor and singer • Soraya, Colombian singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2006) • March 12Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter • Akemi Okamura, Japanese voice actress • March 13Susanna Mälkki, Finnish conductor • March 15Kim Raver, American actress • Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician • Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey • March 16Markus Lanz, German-Italian television presenter • March 17Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (d. 2010) • March 18Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess grandmaster • Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan politician, 37th President of GuatemalaMarch 19Patrick Tam, Hong Kong actor • March 20Nalin Pradeep Udawela, Sri Lankan actor and politician (d. 2025) • March 21Ali Daei, Iranian football player • March 22Tony Fadell, American engineer, inventor, designer and entrepreneur (Nest Labs, Apple Inc) • March 24Stephan Eberharter, Austrian alpine skier • March 25Jeffrey Walker, British musician • March 26Suroosh Alvi, Canadian journalist and filmmaker • March 27Mariah Carey, American pop singer • Kevin Corrigan, American actor • Pauley Perrette, American actress • March 28Rodney Atkins, American country music singer • March 29Chiaki Ishikawa, Japanese singer (See-Saw) • March 31Annabelle Neilson, British socialite (d. 2018) AprilApril 1Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer • Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player • April 2Ajay Devgn, Indian actor, director and producer • April 3Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor • Lance Storm, Canadian professional wrestler • April 6Paul Rudd, American actor, comedian, writer and producer • April 11Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer • Caren Miosga, German journalist and television presenter • Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer • April 16Dawn Brancheau, American animal trainer (d. 2010) • April 18Shannon Lee, Chinese-American actress • Susan Polgár, Hungarian chess player • April 20Marietta Slomka, German journalist • April 21Toby Stephens, English actor • April 23Yelena Shushunova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2018) • April 25Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist • Gina Torres, American actress • Renée Zellweger, American Academy Award-winning actress and producer • April 27Stas Mikhaylov, Russian singer and songwriter • Cory Booker, US Senator from New Jersey MayMay 1Wes Anderson, American filmmaker • May 2Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer. • Corinna Schumacher, German animal rights activist and accomplished horse rider • May 4Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, Nepalese politician (d. 2019) • May 5Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011) • May 6Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer • May 7Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player • May 9Amber, German musician • May 10Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer • May 13Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host • Brian Carroll (aka Buckethead), American guitarist • May 14Cate Blanchett, Australian actress • May 16David Boreanaz, American actor • Tucker Carlson, American political commentator • Steve Lewis, American athlete • May 19Teresa Ribera, Spanish politician • May 21Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000) • May 25Hassan de Zé Cocá, Brazilian politician • May 26Siri Lindley, American triathlete • May 28Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (d. 2016) JuneJune 3Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer and writer • June 4Rob Huebel, American comedian • June 5Brian McKnight, American musician • June 7Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper • Prince Joachim of DenmarkKim Rhodes, American actress • June 8J. P. Manoux, American actor • June 11Peter Dinklage, American actor • Steven Drozd, American rock drummer • Anatoliy Povedenok, Kazakh football player • June 12Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (d. 2007) • Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician • June 13Søren Rasted, Danish musician • June 14Eugene Chung, Korean-American football player • Steffi Graf, German tennis player • June 15Ice Cube, African-American rapper and actor • Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper • Jansher Khan, Pakistani squash player • June 16MC Ren, American rapper • June 17Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete • June 18Haki Doku, Albanian para-cyclist • June 19Trine Pallesen, Danish actress • June 20Alexander Schallenberg, current Chancellor of AustriaPaulo Bento, Portuguese football player and coach • June 23Noa, Israeli singer • Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance runner • June 24Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer • Nicodemo Gentile, Italian lawyer and TV personality • June 30Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer JulyJuly 2Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012) • Tim Rodber, English rugby player • July 3Gedeon Burkhard, German actor • Shawnee Smith, American actress • July 5John LeClair, American hockey player • RZA, American rapper and record producer • July 7Sylke Otto, German luger • Joe Sakic, Canadian hockey player • Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress and singer • July 8Sugizo, Japanese guitarist and singer • July 9Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, Mongolian-German sport shooter • July 10Gale Harold, American actor • Hossan Leong, Singaporean stage and screen actor, television host, radio deejay and comedian • Jonas Kaufmann, German operatic tenor • Rami Makhlouf, Syrian businessman • July 11David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter • July 14Billy Herrington, American gay pornographic actor (d. 2018) • July 16Björn Dunkerbeck, Danish windsurfer • Sahra Wagenknecht, German politician • July 17Jason Clarke, Australian actor • Ravi Kishan, Indian actor • Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor • July 18The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler • July 20Josh Holloway, American actor • Johnny Ngauamo, Tonga rugby union player • July 21Avraam Russo, Russian singer • Isabell Werth, German equestrian • July 22Jason Becker, American heavy metal guitarist, formerly of Cacophony • James Arnold Taylor, American voice actor • Despina Vandi, Greek singer • July 23Raphael Warnock, American pastor and junior senator from Georgia • July 24Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer • July 25Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland • July 26Tanni Grey-Thompson, born Carys Grey, British Paralympian • July 27Dacian Cioloș, 64th Prime Minister of RomaniaBryan Fuller, American writer, producer, and director • Pavel Hapal, Czech footballer • Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer • Triple H, American wrestler • July 28Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter • Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (d. 2016) • Dana White, American businessman and president of Ultimate Fighting ChampionshipJuly 30Simon Baker, Australian-American actor and director • July 31Antonio Conte, Italian football player and manager AugustAugust 1Graham Thorpe, English cricketer (d. 2024) • August 2Jan Axel Blomberg, Norwegian drummer • Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer • August 3Anne Marie DeLuise, Canadian actress • August 4Max Cavalera, Brazilian musician and singer (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura) • Michael DeLuise, American actor • August 6Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003) • August 8Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress • August 10Brian Drummond, Canadian voice actor • Emily Symons, Australian actress • August 11Vanderlei de Lima, Brazilian long-distance runner • Ashley Jensen, British actress • August 12Tanita Tikaram, German-born British singer-songwriter • August 13Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater • August 14Chris Pérez, American guitarist • August 15Justin Broadrick, British musician • Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong television actor and singer • Bernard Fanning, Australian musician (Powderfinger) • John Fetterman, American politician, Senator of Pennsylvania • August 17Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress • Christian Laettner, American professional basketball player • Donnie Wahlberg, American singer and actor (New Kids on the Block) • August 18Edward Norton, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and social activist • Christian Slater, American actor and producer • Timothy Snyder, American author and historian • August 19Nate Dogg, African-American rapper (d. 2011) • Matthew Perry, American actor (d. 2023) • August 20Neil Fitzmaurice, English actor, comedian and writer • Santeri Kinnunen, Finnish actor • August 23Jean-Marc Tellier, French politician • August 28Jack Black, American actor and musician • August 29Lucero, Mexican singer and actress SeptemberSeptember 3Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer • September 4Giorgi Margvelashvili, politician; 4th President of the Republic of GeorgiaNoah Taylor, Australian actor • Alexander Paul Coe, Welsh DJ and record producer • September 6Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete • Cece Peniston, American musician • September 7Diane Farr, American actress • September 8Mojtaba Khamenei, Iranian politician and Shia cleric, Supreme leader • Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2011) • September 8Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress • September 12Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer • Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer • September 13Tyler Perry, American actor, film director and screenwriter • Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (d. 2022) • September 14Bong Joon-ho, South Korean film director and screenwriter • September 17Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player • Keith Flint, English singer/dancer in the band The Prodigy (d. 2019) • September 19Simona Păucă, Romanian gymnast • September 21Billy Porter, American actor and singer • September 22Sue Perkins, English actress and comedian • September 24Shawn Crahan, American rock percussionist • September 25Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002) • Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress • Hal Sparks, American comedian, actor, musician, and political commentator • September 29Erika Eleniak, American model and actress • Aleks Syntek, Mexican singer and songwriter • September 30Jackie Traverse, Canadian artist and activist • Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991) OctoberOctober 1Zach Galifianakis, American actor and stand-up comedian • Marcus Stephen, President of Nauru • Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player • October 3Gwen Stefani, American singer, actress and television host • Tetsuya, Japanese rock musician • October 5Elizabeth Azcona Bocock, Honduran politician • M. A. Muhit, Bangladeshi politician • October 6Muhammad V of Kelantan, 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Sultan of KelantanOgün Temizkanoğlu, Turkish footballer • October 7Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor • October 9Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler • PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter • Steve McQueen, English film director, producer and screenwriter • Chan Chun Sing, Singaporean politician • October 10Brett Favre, American football player • Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress • October 11Merieme Chadid, Moroccan born-French astronomer • October 12Judit Mascó, Spanish model, television host and writer • October 13Rhett Akins, American country singer • Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater • Cady McClain, American actress and director • October 15Dominic West, English actor, director and musician • October 16Wendy Wilson, American singer and television personality • October 17Ernie Els, South African golfer • Jesús Ángel García, Spanish race walker • Wood Harris, American actor • Wyclef Jean, Haitian rapper • Nancy Sullivan, American actress • October 19Pedro Castillo, 63rd President of Peru • Vanessa Marshall, American actress and voice actress • Trey Parker, American actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director and composer • October 20Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player • Juan González, American baseball player • October 21Michael Hancock, Australian rugby league player • October 22Spike Jonze, American director and filmmaker • October 24Peter Dolving, Swedish metal musician • Adela Noriega, Mexican actress • October 25Samantha Bee, Canadian comedian, writer, producer and political commentator • Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player • Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer • October 26Sarina Wiegman, Dutch footballer and manager • October 28Steven Chamuleau, Dutch cardiologist • October 30Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015) • Snow, Canadian reggae singer • October 31Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and director NovemberNovember 1Gary Alexander, American basketball player • November 2Reginald Arvizu (aka Fieldy Snuts), American bassist • Madhushree, Indian playback singerNovember 3Robert Miles, Swiss-born Italian record producer and DJ (d. 2017) • November 4Tony Burke, Australian politician, Leader of the House (2022-present) • Sean Combs, American rapper and entrepreneur • Matthew McConaughey, American actor • November 7Michelle Clunie, American actress • Hélène Grimaud, French pianist • November 8Jonathan Slavin, American actor and activist • November 9Allison Wolfe, American musician • November 10Faustino Asprilla, Colombian football player • Jens Lehmann, German football player • Ellen Pompeo, American actress • November 12Tomas N'evergreen, Danish singer • Rob Schrab, American actor and comic book creator • November 13Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born Dutch American activist • Gerard Butler, Scottish actor • November 14Butch Walker, American musician • Daniel Abraham, American novelist, author, screenwriter, and producer • November 17Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player • November 18Sam Cassell, American basketball player • Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor • November 19Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish football coach and former player • Viktor Skrypnyk, Ukrainian football coach and former player • November 21Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player • November 22Katrin Krabbe, German sprinter • November 23Robin Padilla, Filipino actor • November 24David Adeang, Nauruan politician • November 26Kara Walker, American artist • November 27Elizabeth Marvel, American actress • Carina Ricco, Mexican actress and singer • November 28Colman Domingo, African-American actor • Lexington Steele, African-American actor and film director • November 29Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer • Kasey Keller, American Major League Soccer player • Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American professional baseball player • November 30Trina Gulliver, English darts player • Chris Weitz, American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor DecemberDecember 1Richard Carrier, American historian • December 4Jay-Z, African-American rapper • December 5Sajid Javid, British Pakistani politician, Chancellor of the ExchequerCatherine Tate, English actress, comedian, and writer • December 9Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer • Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter • December 11Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster • December 16Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer • December 17Laurie Holden, Canadian and American actress, producer and human rights activist • Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial arts fighter • Ismail Qasim Naji, Somali politician • December 18Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer • Mille Petrozza, German-Italian rock vocalist and guitarist (Kreator) • December 19Richard Hammond, British television presenter • Lauren Sánchez, American news anchor • Kristy Swanson, American actress • December 20Nicușor Dan, president of Romania • December 21Julie Delpy, French-American actress • Magnus Samuelsson, Swedish bodybuilder, World's Strongest ManDecember 22Dagmar Hase, German swimmer • December 24Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish film director • Sean Cameron Michael, South African actor and singer • Ed Miliband, English academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet OfficeMark Millar, Scottish author • Luis Musrri, Chilean footballer • Oleg Skripochka, Russian cosmonaut • Gintaras Staučė, Lithuanian footballer • Chen Yueling, American race walker • December 25Nicolas Godin, French musician • December 27Chyna, American professional wrestler (d. 2016) • Sarah Vowell, American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress • December 28Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer • December 30Kersti Kaljulaid, 5th President of EstoniaJay Kay, English singer (Jamiroquai) ==Deaths==
Deaths
JanuaryJanuary 1Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902) • January 3Commodore Cochran, American Olympic athlete (b. 1902) • January 4Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (b. 1935) • January 6Shalva Nutsubidze, Georgian philosopher, historian, rustvelologist, literary critic, translator, and public figure (b. 1888) • January 8Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889) • January 12Roberto Noble, Argentine politician, journalist and publisher (b. 1902) • January 19Jan Palach, Czech student (b. 1948) • January 27Charles Winninger, American actor (b. 1884) • January 29Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1893) • January 30Dominique Pire, Belgian Dominican friar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1910) • January 31Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894) FebruaryFebruary 2Boris Karloff, English actor (b. 1887) • February 3Eduardo Mondlane, leader of the Mozambique nationalist organization FRELIMO (b. 1920) • Al Taliaferro, American Disney comics artist (b. 1905) • C. N. Annadurai, Indian politician and Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1909) • February 5Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1902) • February 9George "Gabby" Hayes, American actor (b. 1885) • February 13Florence Mary Taylor, English-born Australian architect (b. 1879) • February 14Vito Genovese, Italian-American mobster (b. 1897) • February 18Dragiša Cvetković, 13th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893) • February 19Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899) • February 20Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883) • February 23 • King Saud of Saudi Arabia, (b. 1902) • Madhubala, Indian actress (b. 1933) • February 25Jan Zajíc, Czech student (b. 1950) • February 26Levi Eshkol, 3rd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895) • Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist and philosopher (b. 1883) • February 27John Boles, American actor (b. 1895) MarchMarch 3Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi, 11th Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1886) • Fred Alexander, American tennis player (b. 1880) • March 6Óscar Osorio, Salvadorian military leader, 32nd President of El Salvador (b. 1910) • March 11Daniel E. Barbey, American admiral (b. 1889) • John Wyndham, English author (b. 1903) • March 14Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American artist (b. 1898) • March 15Miles Malleson, English actor (b. 1888) • March 24Joseph Kasavubu, 1st President of Congo-Léopoldville (b. 1917) • March 25Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883) • March 26John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937) • March 28Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890) AprilApril 2Fortunio Bonanova, Spanish actor and singer (b. 1895) • April 5Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (b. 1918) • Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th President of Venezuela (b. 1884) • April 9FS Hussain, Pakistani aerobatic pilot who fought in World War II (b. 1924) • April 10Harley Earl, American designer and executive (b. 1893) • April 15Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1887) • April 20Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914) • April 26Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883) • April 27René Barrientos, Bolivian general and statesman, 47th President of Bolivia (helicopter crash) (b. 1919) MayMay 2Franz von Papen, 22nd Chancellor of Germany and 26th Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1879) • May 3Karl Freund, German cinematographer (b. 1890) • Zakir Hussain, Indian politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897) • May 4Sir Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892) • May 14Enid Bennett, American actress (b. 1893) • Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1880) • May 15Robert Rayford, American HIV/AIDS victim (b. 1953) • May 18Camille Drevet, French anti-colonialist, feminist activist and pacifist (b. 1881) • May 21William Lincoln Bakewell, American explorer (b. 1888) • May 23Jimmy McHugh, American composer (b. 1894) • May 24Mitzi Green, American actress (b. 1920) • Fritz Skullerud, Norwegian long-distance runner and station master (b. 1885) • May 26Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937) • May 27Muhammad Fareed Didi, Sultan of Maldives (b. 1901) • Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926) • May 28Rhys Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1897) JuneJune 1Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (b. 1904) • June 4Rafael Osuna, Mexican professional tennis player (b. 1938) • June 8Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911) • June 11John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America (b. 1880) • June 12Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899) • June 13Martita Hunt, Argentine-born British actress (b. 1900) • June 16Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal and 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891) • June 18Edgar Anderson, American botanist (b. 1897) • June 19Natalie Talmadge, American actress (b. 1896) • June 20Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi, Egyptian Qur'anic reciter (b. 1920) • June 22Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922) • June 23Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907) JulyJuly 2Mikio Naruse, Japanese film director (b. 1905) • July 3Brian Jones, British rock musician (b. 1942) • July 5Ben Alexander, American actor (b. 1911) • Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884) • Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883) • Lambert Hillyer, American film director (b. 1889) • Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930) • Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898) • July 9Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1892) • July 15Peter van Eyck, German actor (b. 1911) • July 17Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Japanese actor (b. 1931) • July 24Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904) • July 25Otto Dix, German painter (b. 1891) • July 28Frank Loesser, American songwriter (b. 1910) • Ramón Grau, president of Cuba (b. 1882) AugustAugust 5Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (b. 1873) • August 6Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903) • August 8Choi Seung-hee, Korean modern dancer (b. 1911) • August 9C. F. Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) • Constantin Ion Parhon, Romanian politician (b. 1874) • Jay Sebring, American celebrity hair stylist (b. 1933) • Sharon Tate, American actress and model (b. 1943) • August 13Nicolás Fasolino, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1887) • August 14Leonard Woolf, English writer (b. 1880) • August 17Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (b. 1886) • Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) • August 20Marty Barry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905) • August 26Ismail al-Azhari, 2nd Prime Minister, 3rd President of Sudan (b. 1900) • August 27 • Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884) • Erika Mann, German writer (b. 1905) • August 31Rocky Marciano, American professional boxer (b. 1923) SeptemberSeptember 2Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Communist politician, 1st Prime Minister of North Vietnam and 1st President of North Vietnam (b. 1890) • Norman Manley, Premier of Jamaica (b. 1893) • September 3John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871) • September 6Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892) • September 8Bud Collyer, American radio and television personality (b. 1908) • Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer (b. 1868) • September 12Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr., American general (b. 1888) • September 19Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895) • September 22Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico, 1958-1964 (b. 1909) • Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Lithuania (b. 1885) • September 27Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (b. 1913) • September 28Nicolae Dăscălescu, Romanian general (b. 1884) OctoberOctober 3Skip James, American blues singer (b. 1902) • October 6Walter Hagen, American golf champion (b. 1892) • October 7Natalya Lisenko, Russian actress (b. 1884) • Ture Nerman, Swedish communist leader (b. 1886) • October 12Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912) • October 16Leonard Chess, Polish-American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (b. 1917) • October 21Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922) • Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1882) • October 22Vittorio Tur, Italian admiral (b. 1882) • October 23 - Tommy Edwards, American singer-songwriter (b. 1922) • October 26Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1899) • October 29Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, 34th President of Costa Rica (b. 1907) • October 31Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador, leader during World War II (b. 1893) NovemberNovember 1Pauline Bush, American actress (b. 1886) • November 5Lloyd Corrigan, American actor (b. 1900) • November 8Dave O'Brien, American actor (b. 1912) • Vesto M. Slipher, American astronomer (b. 1875) • November 12William F. Friedman, American cryptanalyst (b. 1891) • Liu Shaoqi, President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1898) • November 13Iskander Mirza, Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899) • November 18Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American politician (b. 1888) • November 21Norman Lindsay, Australian painter (b. 1879) • Mutesa II of Buganda, Kabaka of Buganda and 1st President of Uganda (b. 1924) DecemberDecember 1Magic Sam, American musician (b. 1937) • December 2José María Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet and anthropologist (b. 1911) • Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet military commander (b. 1881) • December 4Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948) • December 5Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885) • Claude Dornier, German airplane builder, founder of Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884) • December 6João Cândido, Brazilian sailor, led the Revolt of the Lash (b. 1880) • December 7Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and restaurateur (b. 1897) • Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1901) • December 8Karl Fiehler, German Nazi politician and mayor of Munich (b. 1895) • December 13Spencer Williams Jr., American actor (b. 1893) • Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886) • December 21Georges Catroux, French Army general and colonial governor (b. 1877) • December 22Josef von Sternberg, Austrian film director (b. 1894) • Enrique Peñaranda, Bolivian general, 38th President of Bolivia, leader during World War II (b. 1892) • December 26Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin, French author (b. 1902) • December 29Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango, 11th President of Panama, leader during World War II (b. 1899) ==Nobel Prizes==
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