Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the

1973 oil crisis The 1973 oil crisis or first oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC), led by Saudi Arabia, proclaimed an oil embargo. The embargo was targeted at nations that had su ...

and the resignation of

United States President The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United Stat ...

Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a representative and senator from California and was ...

following the

Watergate scandal The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Richard Nixon from 1972 to 1974 that led to Nixon's resignation. The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's contin ...

. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973

Yom Kippur War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by E ...

determined politics; following

Israeli Prime Minister The prime minister of Israel ( he, רֹאשׁ הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה, Rosh HaMemshala, Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: he2, רה״מ; ar, رئيس الحكومة, ''Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma'') is the head of government and chief exe ...

Golda Meir Golda Meir, ; ar, جولدا مائير, Jūldā Māʾīr., group=nb (born Golda Mabovitch; 3 May 1898 – 8 December 1978) was an Israeli politician, teacher, and '' kibbutznikit'' who served as the fourth prime minister of Israel from 1969 to ...

's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by

Yitzhak Rabin Yitzhak Rabin (; he, יִצְחָק רַבִּין, ; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77, and from 1992 until h ...

. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the

Cyprus dispute The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus dispute, Cyprus issue, Cyprus question or Cyprus conflict, is an ongoing dispute between Greek Cypriots in the south and Turkish Cypriots in the north. Initially, with the occupation of the island ...

, the

Carnation Revolution The Carnation Revolution ( pt, Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April ( pt, 25 de Abril, links=no), was a military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime on 25 April 1974 in Lisbo ...

took place in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of th ...

, and

Chancellor of West Germany The chancellor of Germany, officially the federal chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany,; often shortened to ''Bundeskanzler''/''Bundeskanzlerin'', / is the head of the federal government of Germany and the commander in chief of the Ger ...

Willy Brandt Willy Brandt (; born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm; 18 December 1913 – 8 October 1992) was a German politician and statesman who was leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from 1964 to 1987 and served as the chancellor of West Ger ...

resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary

Günter Guillaume Günter Guillaume (1 February 1927 – 10 April 1995) was a German spy who gathered intelligence as an agent for East Germany's secret service, the Stasi, in West Germany. Guillaume became West German chancellor Willy Brandt's secretary, a ...

. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the

FIFA World Cup The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the ' ( FIFA), the sport's global governing body. The tournament has ...

West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 ...

, in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as

The Rumble in the Jungle George Foreman vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as ''The Rumble in the Jungle'', was a heavyweight championship boxing match on October 30, 1974, at the 20th of May Stadium (now the Stade Tata Raphaël) in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of t ...

, a boxing match between

Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali (; born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.; January 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016) was an American professional boxer and activist. Nicknamed "The Greatest", he is regarded as one of the most significant sports figures of the 20th century, ...

and

George Foreman George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American former professional boxer, entrepreneur, minister and author. In boxing, he was nicknamed "Big George" and competed between 1967 and 1997. He is a two-time world heavyweight champi ...

Zaire Zaire (, ), officially the Republic of Zaire (french: République du Zaïre, link=no, ), was a Congolese state from 1971 to 1997 in Central Africa that was previously and is now again known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zaire was, ...

Events

January–February

January 26 Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. * 1531 – The 6.4–7.1 Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. * 1564 – The Council of T ...

–

Bülent Ecevit Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (; 28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002. He served as prime minister in ...

of CHP forms the new government of

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula ...

(37th government, partner MSP). *

February 1 Events Pre-1600 * 1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. * 1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), ...

Fire Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material (the fuel) in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. At a certain point in the combustion reaction, called the ignition point, flames ...

breaks out in the

Joelma Building ''Edifício Praça da Bandeira'', formerly known as the Joelma Building, is a 25-story building in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, completed in 1971, located at Avenida 9 de Julho, 225. On 1 February 1974, an air conditioning unit on the twelfth flo ...

São Paulo São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...

, Brazil; 177 die, 293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries. **

Kuala Lumpur , anthem = ''Maju dan Sejahtera'' , image_map = , map_caption = , pushpin_map = Malaysia#Southeast Asia#Asia , pushpin_map_caption = , coordinates = , sub ...

, the capital of

Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federal constitutional monarchy consists of thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two regions: Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo's East Mal ...

, is declared a

Federal Territory A federal territory is an administrative division under the direct and usually exclusive jurisdiction of a federation's national government. A federal territory is a part of a federation, but not a part of any federated state. The states constit ...

. *

February 8 Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 1238 – The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir. * 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of ...

– After a record 84 days in

orbit In celestial mechanics, an orbit is the curved trajectory of an object such as the trajectory of a planet around a star, or of a natural satellite around a planet, or of an artificial satellite around an object or position in space such as ...

, the crew of ''

Skylab 4 Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station. The mission began on November 16, 1973, with the launch of Gerald P. Carr, Edward Gibson, and Wil ...

'' returns to Earth. *

February 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1370 – Northern Crusades: Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights meet in the Battle of Rudau. * 1411 – Following the successful campaigns during the Ottoman Interregnum, Musa Çelebi, one of the sons ...

–

Zamalek disaster A stampede occurred on 17 February 1974 when fans were crushed before the kick-off of a football friendly match at the Zamalek Stadium in Cairo between Zamalek of Egypt and Dukla Prague Dukla Prague ( cz, Dukla Praha) was a Czech football cl ...

: a

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

stampede occurs in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metr ...

, killing 49. *

February 28 Events Pre-1600 * 202 BC – Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople closes. * 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is execut ...

– The British election ended in a

hung parliament A hung parliament is a term used in legislatures primarily under the Westminster system to describe a situation in which no single political party or pre-existing coalition (also known as an alliance or bloc) has an absolute majority of legisla ...

after the

Jeremy Thorpe John Jeremy Thorpe (29 April 1929 – 4 December 2014) was a British politician who served as the Member of Parliament for North Devon from 1959 to 1979, and as leader of the Liberal Party from 1967 to 1976. In May 1979 he was tried at the ...

-led

Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. __TOC__ Active liberal parties This is a li ...

achieves its biggest vote.

March–April

March 3 Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. *1575 ...

–

Turkish Airlines Flight 981 Turkish Airlines Flight 981 was a scheduled flight from Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport to London Heathrow Airport, with an intermediate stop at Orly Airport in Paris. On 3 March 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-10 operating the flight crashed in ...

, travelling from Paris to London, crashes in the woods near Paris, killing all 346 aboard. This becomes the deadliest single aircraft accident with no survivors. *

March 4 Events Pre-1600 * AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a ...

** Following a

in the United Kingdom general election,

Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization in ...

prime minister

Edward Heath Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 191617 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath a ...

resigns and is succeeded by Labour's

Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He ...

, who previously led the country from

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...

. *

March 18 Events Pre-1600 * 37 – Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ''(aka Caligula = Little Boots)'' emperor.Tacitus, ''Annals'' V.10. * 1068 – An earthquake in the Levant and the Ara ...

–End of five-month

oil An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is composed primarily of hydrocarbons and is hydrophobic (does not mix with water) & lipophilic (mixes with other oils). Oils are usually flammable and surface active. Most oils are unsaturated ...

embargo Economic sanctions are commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries against a targeted self-governing state, group, or individual. Economic sanctions are not necessarily imposed because of economic circumstances—they m ...

by most

OPEC The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC, ) is a cartel of countries. Founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela), it has, since 1965, been headqua ...

nations against the United States, Europe, and Japan which had caused the

. *

March 26 Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. *1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, ...

– A group of peasant women in

Chamoli district Chamoli district is a district of the Uttarakhand state of India. It is bounded by the Tibet region to the north, and by the Uttarakhand districts of Pithoragarh and Bageshwar to the east, Almora to the south, Pauri Garhwal to the southwest, ...

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

, India, use their bodies to surround trees to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the

Chipko movement The Chipko movement ( hi, chipko andolan, italic=yes, lit= reehugging movement) is a forest conservation movement in India. The movement originated in 1973 at the Himalayan region of Uttarakhand (then part of Uttar Pradesh) and went on to bec ...

. *

March 29 Events Pre-1600 * 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving. * 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of ...

** The

Terracotta Army The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor ...

Qin Shi Huang Qin Shi Huang (, ; 259–210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of a unified China. Rather than maintain the title of " king" ( ''wáng'') borne by the previous Shang and Zhou rulers, he ruled as the First Empero ...

is discovered at

Xi'an Xi'an ( , ; ; Chinese: ), frequently spelled as Xian and also known by other names, is the capital of Shaanxi Province. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain, the city is the third most populous city in Western China, after Chongqi ...

, China. ** Launch of the

Volkswagen Golf The Volkswagen Golf () is a compact car/small family car (C-segment) produced by the German automotive manufacturer Volkswagen since 1974, marketed worldwide across eight generations, in various body configurations and under various nameplates ...

, a modern front-wheel drive hatchback which is expected to replace the iconic

Volkswagen Beetle The Volkswagen Beetle—officially the Volkswagen Type 1, informally in German (meaning "beetle"), in parts of the English-speaking world the Bug, and known by many other nicknames in other languages—is a two-door, rear-engine economy car, ...

, holder of the world record for the car with the most units produced. *

April 3 Events Pre-1600 * 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. *1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. *1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. * ...

– 4 – An enormous

tornado outbreak __NOTOC__ A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically are at least six to ten, with at least two rotational ...

strikes the central parts of the United States, killing around 319 and injuring about 5,484. *

April 6 Events Pre–1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus. * 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. *13 ...

–

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

pop group

ABBA ABBA ( , , formerly named Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid or Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Frida) are a Swedish supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The grou ...

's song '' Waterloo'' wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe ...

, UK. *

April 11 Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. *1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. *1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferrare ...

– The

Kiryat Shmona massacre The Kiryat Shmona massacre was an attack by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command on civilians in the Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona on 11 April 1974. Eighteen people were killed, nearly half of the ...

takes place in

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. *

April 24 Events Pre-1600 * 1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). *1183 BC – Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy ...

– ''

Guillaume Affair The Guillaume affair () was an espionage scandal in Germany during the Cold War. The scandal revolved around the exposure of an East German spy within the West German government and had far-reaching political repercussions in Germany, the most p ...

'': exposure of an

East German East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

spy

within the West German government, leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor

. *

April 25 Events Pre-1600 *404 BC – Admiral Lysander and King Pausanias of Sparta blockade Athens and bring the Peloponnesian War to a successful conclusion. * 775 – The Battle of Bagrevand puts an end to an Armenian rebellion against the ...

– ''

'': A left-wing military coup in Portugal restores

democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation (" direct democracy"), or to choose g ...

, ending 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship in the country. Portuguese Prime Minister

Marcelo Caetano Marcelo José das Neves Alves Caetano (; 17 August 1906 – 26 October 1980) was a Portuguese politician and scholar. He was the second and last leader of the Estado Novo after succeeding António Salazar. He served as prime minister from 196 ...

flees to

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

and is granted political asylum by Brazilian President

Ernesto Geisel Ernesto Beckmann Geisel (, ; 3 August 1907 – 12 September 1996) was a Brazilian Army officer and politician, who was President of Brazil from 1974 to 1979, during the Brazilian military regime. Early life and family Ernesto Geisel was born ...

May–June

May 4 Events Pre-1600 * 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''. * 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus ar ...

** An all-female Japanese team summits

Manaslu Manaslu ( ne, मनास्लु, also known as Kutang; muh-NAA-slu) is the eighth-highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It is in the Mansiri Himal, part of the Nepalese Himalayas, in the west-central part of Nepal. The name Man ...

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

, becoming the first women to climb an peak. ** The

Expo '74 Expo '74, officially known as the International Exposition on the Environment, Spokane 1974, was a world's fair held May 4, 1974, to November 3, 1974 in Spokane, Washington in the northwest United States. It was the first environmentally themed ...

world's fair A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large international exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations. These exhibitions vary in character and are held in different parts of the world at a specif ...

opens in

Spokane, Washington Spokane ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Spokane County, Washington, United States. It is in eastern Washington, along the Spokane River, adjacent to the Selkirk Mountains, and west of the Rocky Mountain foothills, south of the ...

. *

May 7 Events Pre-1600 * 351 – The Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus breaks out after his arrival at Antioch. * 558 – In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses, twenty years after its construction. Justinian I imm ...

–

, West Germany's chancellor, resigns. *

May 11 Events 1601–1900 * 1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. * 1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route acr ...

: A violent 7.1 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of

Zhaotong Zhaotong () is a prefecture-level city located in the northeast corner of Yunnan province, China, bordering the provinces of Guizhou to the south and southeast and Sichuan to the northeast, north, and west. History Zhaotong has historic and ...

causing between 1,600 and 20,000 deaths. *

May 16 Events Pre-1600 * 946 – Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan. * 1204 – Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire. * 1 ...

–

Helmut Schmidt Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt (; 23 December 1918 – 10 November 2015) was a German politician and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), who served as the chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982. Before becoming Ch ...

becomes the new Chancellor of West Germany. *

May 17 Events Pre-1600 *1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army. *1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. * 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Flo ...

–

Dublin and Monaghan bombings Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ce ...

: The

Ulster Volunteer Force The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former British Army soldier from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign ...

(UVF), explode four car bombs in

Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 ...

and

Monaghan Monaghan ( ; ) is the county town of County Monaghan, Ireland. It also provides the name of its civil parish and barony. The population of the town as of the 2016 census was 7,678. The town is on the N2 road from Dublin to Derry and Let ...

in the

Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ga, Éire ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. The capital and largest city is Dublin, on the eastern side of the island. ...

. The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, the highest number of casualties in any single day during "

The Troubles The Troubles ( ga, Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is sometimes described as an "i ...

". * May 18 **

1974 Australian federal election The 1974 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 18 May 1974. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives and all 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution. The incumbent Labor Party led by Prime ...

Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam (11 July 191621 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. The longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1967 to 1977, he was notable for being the h ...

Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the la ...

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is re-elected with a reduced majority, defeating the

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Coalition A coalition is a group formed when two or more people or groups temporarily work together to achieve a common goal. The term is most frequently used to denote a formation of power in political or economical spaces. Formation According to ''A Gui ...

led by

Billy Snedden Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, (31 December 1926 – 27 June 1987) was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Repres ...

. Whitlam consequently becomes the first Labor

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is ...

to be re-elected in his own right. The Democratic Labor Party meanwhile loses all five of their

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

seats, effectively wiping them out as a political force. **

Nuclear weapons testing Nuclear weapons tests are experiments carried out to determine nuclear weapons' effectiveness, yield, and explosive capability. Testing nuclear weapons offers practical information about how the weapons function, how detonations are affected by ...

: Under Project

Smiling Buddha Operation Smiling BuddhaThis test has many code names. Civilian scientists called it "Operation Smiling Buddha" and the Indian Army referred to it as ''Operation Happy Krishna''. According to United States Military Intelligence, ''Operation H ...

, India successfully detonates its first

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, becoming the 6th nation to do so. *

June 13 Events Pre-1600 * 313 – The decisions of the Edict of Milan, signed by Constantine the Great and co-emperor Valerius Licinius, granting religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire, are published in Nicomedia. * 1325 – Ibn Battuta ...

– The

1974 FIFA World Cup The 1974 FIFA World Cup was the tenth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams, and was played in West Germany (and West Berlin) between 13 June and 7 July. The tournament marked the first time that the ...

soccer tournament begins in West Germany. *

June 17 Events Pre-1600 * 653 – Pope Martin I is arrested and taken to Constantinople, due to his opposition to monothelitism. *1242 – Following the Disputation of Paris, twenty-four carriage loads of Jewish religious manuscripts were bur ...

– A bomb explodes in

Westminster Hall The Palace of Westminster serves as the meeting place for both the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Informally known as the Houses of Parli ...

, the oldest part of the British Houses of Parliament. The hall's annex, housing offices, and a canteen are destroyed by the bombing, attributed by police to the Provisional wing of the

Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various paramilitary organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dedicated to irredentism through Irish republicanism, the belief th ...

. *

June 29 Events Pre-1600 * 226 – Cao Rui succeeds his father as emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. *1149 – Raymond of Poitiers is defeated and killed at the Battle of Inab by Nur ad-Din Zangi. *1194 – Sverre is crowned King of Norway, ...

–

Isabel Perón Isabel Martínez de Perón (, born María Estela Martínez Cartas, 4 February 1931), also known as Isabelita, is an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was one of the first female republican heads ...

is sworn in as the first female

President of Argentina The president of Argentina ( es, Presidente de Argentina), officially known as the president of the Argentine Nation ( es, Presidente de la Nación Argentina), is both head of state and head of government of Argentina. Under the national cons ...

, replacing her sick husband

Juan Perón Juan Domingo Perón (, , ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine Army general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President of a military dictatorship, he was elected ...

, who dies 2 days later.

July–August

July 7 Events Pre-1600 * 1124 – The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks. * 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution. * 1520 – Spanish ''conquistad ...

–

beats

the Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

2–1 to win the

. The West German football team is awarded the new

FIFA World Cup Trophy The World Cup is a solid gold trophy that is awarded to the winners of the FIFA World Cup association football tournament. Since the advent of the World Cup in 1930, two trophies have been used: the Jules Rimet Trophy from 1930 to 1970, before ...

. *

July 15 Events Pre-1600 *484 BC – Dedication of the Temple of Castor and Pollux in ancient Rome * 70 – First Jewish–Roman War: Titus and his armies breach the walls of Jerusalem. ( 17th of Tammuz in the Hebrew calendar). * 756 – ...

– The

Greek military junta The Greek junta or Regime of the Colonels, . Also known within Greece as just the Junta ( el, η Χούντα, i Choúnta, links=no, ), the Dictatorship ( el, η Δικτατορία, i Diktatoría, links=no, ) or the Seven Years ( el, η Ε ...

sponsors a

coup d'état A coup d'état (; French for 'stroke of state'), also known as a coup or overthrow, is a seizure and removal of a government and its powers. Typically, it is an illegal seizure of power by a political faction, politician, cult, rebel group, m ...

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is ...

, replacing President

Makarios III Makarios III ( el, Μακάριος Γ΄; born Michael Christodoulou Mouskos) ( Greek: Μιχαήλ Χριστοδούλου Μούσκος) (13 August 1913 – 3 August 1977) was a Cypriot politician, archbishop and primate who served as ...

with

Nikos Sampson Nikos Sampson (born Nikos Georgiadis, el, Νίκος Γεωργιάδης; 16 December 1935 – 9 May 2001) was the ''de facto'' president of Cyprus who succeeded Archbishop Makarios, appointed as the president of Cyprus by the Greek military ...

. *

July 19 Events Pre-1600 * AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city. * 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is ...

–

Railcar A railcar (not to be confused with a railway car) is a self-propelled railway vehicle designed to transport passengers. The term "railcar" is usually used in reference to a train consisting of a single coach (carriage, car), with a dri ...

explosion in

Decatur, Illinois Decatur ( ) is the largest city and the county seat of Macon County in the U.S. state of Illinois, with a population of 70,522 as of the 2020 Census. The city was founded in 1829 and is situated along the Sangamon River and Lake Decatur in C ...

. A tanker car collides with a

Norfolk & Western The Norfolk and Western Railway , commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence. Its motto was "Precisi ...

boxcar. Seven people are killed, 349 are injured and $18 million in property damage. *

July 20 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots. * 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defea ...

– The

Turkish invasion of Cyprus The Turkish invasion of Cyprus began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and in response to a Greek junta-s ...

occurs. *

July 23 Events Pre-1600 * 811 – Byzantine emperor Nikephoros I plunders the Bulgarian capital of Pliska and captures Khan Krum's treasury. *1319 – A Knights Hospitaller fleet scores a crushing victory over an Aydinid fleet off Chios. 1 ...

– The

is replaced by a civilian government, the ''

metapolitefsi The Metapolitefsi ( el, Μεταπολίτευση, , " regime change") was a period in modern Greek history The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek peop ...

''. *

August 4 Events Pre-1600 * 598 – Goguryeo-Sui War: In response to a Goguryeo (Korean) incursion into Liaoxi, Emperor Wéndi of Sui orders his youngest son, Yang Liang (assisted by the co-prime minister Gao Jiong), to conquer Goguryeo during th ...

– A bomb explodes in a train between Italy and West Germany, killing twelve and wounding 48. Italian neo-fascists take responsibility. *

: **

August 8 Events Pre-1600 * 685 BC – Spring and Autumn period: Battle of Qianshi: Upon the death of the previous Duke of Qi, Gongsun Wuzhi, Duke Zhuang of Lu sends an army into the Duchy of Qi to install the exiled Qi prince Gongzi Jiu as the ...

- U.S. President

announces his resignation on August 8, effective at noon on August 9. **

August 9 Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. * 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens ...

- Vice President

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. ( ; born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977. He was the only president never to have been elected ...

is sworn in as the 38th President of the United States upon Nixon's resignation. *

August 14 Events Pre-1600 *74 BC – A group of officials, led by the Western Han minister Huo Guang, present articles of impeachment against the new emperor, Liu He, to the imperial regent, Empress Dowager Shangguan. The articles, enumerating th ...

invades Cyprus for the second time, occupying 37% of the island's territory. **

Greece Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders wi ...

withdraws its forces from

NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two N ...

's military command structure, as a result of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. *

August 30 Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod's Temple. * 1282 – Peter III of Aragon lands at Trapani to intervene in the War of the Sicilian Vespers. *1363 – The five-week Battle of Lake ...

– An express train bound for Germany from

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. Nearly 1,166,763 mi ...

derails in

Zagreb Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital (political), capital and List of cities and towns in Croatia#List of cities and towns, largest city of Croatia. It is in the Northern Croatia, northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slop ...

Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label= Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavij ...

(now

Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = " Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , map_caption = , capi ...

), killing more than 150 passengers.

September–October

September 8 Events Pre-1600 * 617 – Battle of Huoyi: Li Yuan defeats a Sui dynasty army, opening the path to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty. *1100 – Election of Antipope Theodo ...

- TWA Flight 841 crashes into the

Ionian Sea The Ionian Sea ( el, Ιόνιο Πέλαγος, ''Iónio Pélagos'' ; it, Mar Ionio ; al, Deti Jon ) is an elongated bay of the Mediterranean Sea. It is connected to the Adriatic Sea to the north, and is bounded by Southern Italy, including ...

18 minutes after takeoff from

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates a ...

, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people. *

September 10 Events Pre-1600 * 506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. *1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France. * 1509 – An eart ...

– The Portuguese military junta grants independence to

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...

. *

September 12 Events Pre-1600 *490 BC – Battle of Marathon: The conventionally accepted date for the Battle of Marathon. The Athenians and their Plataean allies defeat the first Persian invasion force of Greece. * 372 – Sixteen Kingdoms: Jin ...

– Emperor

Haile Selassie Haile Selassie I ( gez, ቀዳማዊ ኀይለ ሥላሴ, Qädamawi Häylä Səllasé, ; born Tafari Makonnen; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as Regent Plenipotentiary of Ethiopia (' ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

is deposed by the

Derg The Derg (also spelled Dergue; , ), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), was the military junta that ruled Ethiopia, then including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when the military leadership formally " ...

, bringing an end to the

Solomonic dynasty The Solomonic dynasty, also known as the House of Solomon, was the ruling dynasty of the Ethiopian Empire formed in the thirteenth century. Its members claim lineal descent from the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Tradition asser ...

's rule since

1270 Year 1270 ( MCCLXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1270th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 270th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th ...

. The Ethiopian Civil War begins. *

–

African Youth Amílcar Cabral African Youth Amílcar Cabral ( pt, Juventude Africana Amílcar Cabral) is the youth wing of PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. JAAC was founded on September 12, 1974, in Boé. After the separation of PAICV from PAIGC, the Cape Verdean section of JAAC bec ...

is founded in

. *

September 13 Events Pre-1600 * 585 BC – Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia. * 509 BC – The Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hi ...

–

Japanese Red Army The was a militant communist organization active from 1971 to 2001. It was designated a terrorist organization by Japan and the United States. The JRA was founded by Fusako Shigenobu and Tsuyoshi Okudaira in February 1971 and was most active i ...

members seize the French Embassy in

The Hague The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital o ...

, Netherlands. *

September 20 Events Pre-1600 *1058 – Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland. *1066 – At the Battle of Fulford, Harald Hardrada defeats earls Morcar and Edwin. *1187 – Saladin b ...

– The

Kootenai War Amelia "Amy" Cutsack Trice (April 26, 1936 – July 21, 2011) was a Native American leader from Idaho. Born in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Trice was the chairwoman of the Kootenai Tribal Council. In 1974, while chairman, the Kootenai tribe declared ...

is declared, and 10-cent tolls are charged on

U.S. Highway 95 US Route 95 (US 95) is a major north–south US Highway in the western United States. It travels through the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, and Idaho, staying inland from the Pacific Coast. US 95 begins in San Luis ...

. *

October 11 Events Pre-1600 *1138 – A massive earthquake strikes Aleppo; it is one of the most destructive earthquakes ever. *1142 – A peace treaty ends the Jin–Song wars. * 1311 – The peerage and clergy restrict the authority of Engl ...

– The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested. *

October 26 Events Pre-1600 * 1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. * 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally b ...

Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña The Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (English: ''Armed Forces of National Liberation'', FALN) was a Puerto Rican clandestine paramilitary organization that, through direct action, advocated independence for Puerto Rico. It carried out more ...

(FALN) sets off 5 bombs in Manhattan, with their largest bomb set off in the Financial District.

November–December

November 1 Events Pre-1600 *365 – The Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities. * 996 – Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, ...

– The

World Tourism Organization The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations specialized agency entrusted with the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Its headquarters are in Madrid, Spain. UNWTO is the leading inter ...

(WTO) is established. * November 5 – The Democratic Party makes big gains nationwide in House, Senate, and Gubernatorial elections. *

November 16 Events Pre-1600 * 951 – Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom. *1272 – Whi ...

–

Arecibo message The Arecibo message is an interstellar radio message carrying basic information about humanity and Earth that was sent to the globular cluster Messier 13 in 1974. It was meant as a demonstration of human technological achievement, rather than ...

: The

radio telescope A radio telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are the main observing instrument used in radio astronomy, which studies the radio frequency ...

at the

Arecibo Observatory The Arecibo Observatory, also known as the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) and formerly known as the Arecibo Ionosphere Observatory, is an observatory in Barrio Esperanza, Arecibo, Puerto Rico owned by the US National Science ...

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...

sends an interstellar radio message towards

Messier 13 Messier 13 or M13, also designated NGC 6205 and sometimes called the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules or the Hercules Globular Cluster, is a globular cluster of several hundred thousand stars in the constellation of Hercules. Discovery and vis ...

, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000. * November 17 – The

1974 Greek legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 17 November 1974.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p830 They were the first after the end of the military junta of 1967–1974, and took place during the ...

, the first election since the fall of the Greek junta of 1967–1974, is held and the newly formed

New Democracy New Democracy, or the New Democratic Revolution, is a concept based on Mao Zedong's Bloc of Four Social Classes theory in post-revolutionary China which argued originally that democracy in China would take a path that was decisively distinc ...

party wins 220 of 300 seats in the

Hellenic Parliament The Hellenic Parliament ( el, Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο, Elliniko Kinovoulio; formally titled el, Βουλή των Ελλήνων, Voulí ton Ellínon, Boule of the Hellenes, label=none), also known as the Parliament of the He ...

. *

November 18 Events Pre-1600 * 326 – The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated by Pope Sylvester I. * 401 – The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy. * 1095 – The Council of Clermont begins: called ...

– The

International Energy Agency The International Energy Agency (IEA) is a Paris-based autonomous intergovernmental organisation, established in 1974, that provides policy recommendations, analysis and data on the entire global energy sector, with a recent focus on curbing car ...

is founded. *

November 20 Events Pre-1600 * 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor. * 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels. *1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henr ...

–

Lufthansa Flight 540 Lufthansa Flight 540 was a scheduled commercial flight for Lufthansa, serving the Frankfurt–Nairobi–Johannesburg route. On 20 November 1974, the Boeing 747-130 that was operating as Flight 540 was carrying 157 people (140 passenge ...

crashes in

Nairobi Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper ...

Kenya ) , national_anthem = " Ee Mungu Nguvu Yetu"() , image_map = , map_caption = , image_map2 = , capital = Nairobi , coordinates = , largest_city = Nairobi , ...

due to a mechanical failure, killing 59 of its 157 passengers. * November 21 –

Birmingham pub bombings The Birmingham pub bombings were carried out on 21 November 1974, when bombs exploded in two public houses in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others. The Provisional Irish Republican Army never officially admitted respo ...

: In

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the We ...

, England, two

pub A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

s are bombed, killing 21 people in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the

Provisional Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA; ), also known as the Provisional Irish Republican Army, and informally as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reu ...

. The

Birmingham Six The Birmingham Six were six Irishmen who were each sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the C ...

are later sentenced to life in prison for this, but their convictions are quashed after a lengthy campaign. *

November 22 Events Pre-1600 * 498 – After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore. * 845 – The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Fr ...

– The

United Nations General Assembly The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; french: link=no, Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN. Curr ...

grants the

Palestine Liberation Organization The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO; ar, منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية, ') is a Palestinian nationalist political and militant organization founded in 1964 with the initial purpose of establishing Arab unity and sta ...

observer status Observer status is a privilege granted by some organizations to non-members to give them an ability to participate in the organization's activities. Observer status is often granted by intergovernmental organizations (IGO) to non-member parties and ...

. *

November 24 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Theodosius I makes his '' adventus'', or formal entry, into Constantinople. *1190 – Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. * 1221 – Genghis Khan d ...

– A skeleton from the

hominid The Hominidae (), whose members are known as the great apes or hominids (), are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: '' Pongo'' (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); ''Gorilla'' (the ...

species ''

Australopithecus afarensis ''Australopithecus afarensis'' is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would no ...

'' is discovered and named

Lucy Lucy is an English feminine given name derived from the Latin masculine given name Lucius with the meaning ''as of light'' (''born at dawn or daylight'', maybe also ''shiny'', or ''of light complexion''). Alternative spellings are Luci, Luce, Lu ...

. * November 26 –

Anneline Kriel Anneline Kriel (born 28 July 1955) is a South African actress, model, and beauty queen. She won Miss South Africa and Miss World in 1974 after the UK's Helen Morgan resigned only four days after her victory. Kriel is the second South African ...

is crowned as

Miss World 1974 Miss World 1974, the 24th edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 22 November 1974 at the Royal Albert Hall in London, United Kingdom. The event was viewed by an estimated 30 million people, and was a "Wide World Special" on the ABC Tel ...

, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan resigns four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant. *

December 1 Events Pre-1600 * 800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III. *1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France. * ...

– A

Boeing 727 The Boeing 727 is an American narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After the heavy 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter flight lengths from smaller air ...

carrying

TWA Flight 514 Trans World Airlines Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on Sunday, 1974. All 92 aboard, ...

crashes northwest of

Dulles International Airport Washington Dulles International Airport , typically referred to as Dulles International Airport, Dulles Airport, Washington Dulles, or simply Dulles ( ), is an international airport in the Eastern United States, located in Loudoun County and F ...

during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board. *

December 9 Events Pre-1600 * 536 – Gothic War: The Byzantine general Belisarius enters Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flees the capital. * 730 – Battle of Marj Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate an Umayyad army and kill its commander, ...

– The Paris summit, reuniting the

European Communities The European Communities (EC) were three international organizations that were governed by the same set of institutions. These were the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the European Atomic Energy Community (EAEC or Euratom), and the ...

' heads of state and government, commences. *

December 13 Events Pre-1600 *1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. * 1545 – The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. * 1577 & ...

–

Malta Malta ( , , ), officially the Republic of Malta ( mt, Repubblika ta' Malta ), is an island country in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago, between Italy and Libya, and is often considered a part of Southern Europe. It lies ...

becomes a republic. *

December 17 Events Pre-1600 *497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated in ancient Rome. * 546 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Byzantine garrison. * 920 – Romanos I Lekape ...

– The

World Intellectual Property Organization The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; french: link=no, Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishi ...

(WIPO) becomes a specialized agency of the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...

. *

December 24 Events Pre-1600 * 502 – Chinese emperor Xiao Yan names Xiao Tong his heir designate. * 640 – Pope John IV is elected, several months after his predecessor's death. * 759 – Tang dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, whe ...

– 25 –

Darwin, Australia Darwin ( ; Laragiya language, Larrakia: ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia. With an estimated population of 147,255 as of 2019, the city contains the majority of the residents of the spa ...

is almost completely destroyed by

Cyclone Tracy Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated the city of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, from 24 to 26 December 1974. The small, developing easterly storm had been observed passing clear of the city i ...

Date unknown

Rubik's Cube The Rubik's Cube is a Three-dimensional space, 3-D combination puzzle originally invented in 1974 by Hungarians, Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. Originally called the Magic Cube, the puzzle was licensed by Rubik t ...

puzzle A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together ( or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct or fun solution of the puzzl ...

is invented by Hungarian architecture professor

Ernő Rubik Ernő Rubik (; born 13 July 1944) commonly known by his nickname, "Little Man", is a Hungarian inventor, architect and professor of architecture. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including the Rubik's Cube (1974), Rub ...

Births

January

Olivia Colman at Moet BIFA 2014 (cropped)

January 3 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – The Roman legions on the Rhine refuse to declare their allegiance to Galba, instead proclaiming their legate, Aulus Vitellius, as emperor. * 250 – Emperor Decius orders everyone in the Roman Empire (ex ...

–

Alessandro Petacchi Alessandro Petacchi (born 3 January 1974) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1996 and 2015. A specialist Cycling sprinter, sprinter, Petacchi has won 48 Grand Tour (cycling), grand tour stages ...

, Italian road cyclist *

January 9 Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Twelfth Council of Toledo: King Erwig of the Visigoths initiates a council in which he implements diverse measures against the Jews in Spain. *1127 – Jin–Song Wars: Invading Jurchen soldiers from the Jin ...

–

Farhan Akhtar Farhan Akhtar (born 9 January 1974) is an Indian actor, director, screenwriter, playback singer, producer, and television host who works in Hindi films. Born in Mumbai to screenwriters Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani, he grew up under the influe ...

, Indian film director, screenwriter, actor, singer, producer, and television host *

January 10 Events Pre-1600 * 49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. * 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end of the dynasty and the ...

–

Hrithik Roshan Hrithik Roshan (; born 10 January 1974) is an Indian actor who works in Hindi films. He has portrayed a variety of characters and is known for his dancing skills. One of the highest-paid actors in India, he has won many awards, including six ...

, Indian actor *

January 12 Events Pre-1600 * 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople, and his general, Basiliscus gains control of the empire. * 1528 – Gustav I of Sweden is crowned King of Sweden, having already rei ...

Melanie C Melanie Jayne Chisholm (12 January 1974 - 25 December 2022), better known as Melanie C or Mel C, is an English singer-songwriter and media personality. She is best known as one of the five members of the Spice Girls, during which time she was ni ...

, English pop singer (

Spice Girls The Spice Girls are a British girl group formed in 1994, consisting of Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B ("Scary Spice"); Melanie Chisholm, or Melanie C ("Sporty Spice"); Emma Bunton ("Baby Spice"); Geri Halliwell ("Ginger Spice"); and ...

) **

Tor Arne Hetland Tor Arne Hetland (born 12 January 1974) is a Norwegian cross-country skiing coach and a former professional cross-country skier. Hetland was born in Stavanger. He now lives in Trondheim. While active he represented Byåsen IL ski club. He was c ...

, Norwegian cross-country skier *

January 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1236 – King Henry III of England marries Eleanor of Provence. *1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary. 1601–1900 * 1639 – The " Fundamental Orders", the first written c ...

– Kevin Durand, Canadian-American actor and singer *

January 16 Events Pre-1600 * 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. * 378 – General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Sp ...

–

Kate Moss Katherine Ann Moss (born 16 January 1974) is a British model. Arriving at the end of the "supermodel era", Moss rose to fame in the early 1990s as part of the heroin chic fashion trend. Her collaborations with Calvin Klein brought her to fas ...

, English model *

January 18 Events Pre-1600 * 474 – Seven-year-old Leo II succeeds his maternal grandfather Leo I as Byzantine emperor. He dies ten months later. * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople fail. *1126 – Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chin ...

–

David Dorby David Dorby (born 18 January 1974) is a Seychellois football player. He is a midfielder on the Seychelles national football team. See also *Seychelles Football Federation The Seychelles Football Federation (SFF) is the governing body of foot ...

, Seychellois footballer *

January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor ('' Caesar'') by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. * 871 – Battle of Basing: The West Saxons led by King Æthelred I are defeated by the Danelaw ...

–

Joseph Muscat Joseph Muscat (born 22 January 1974) is a Maltese politician who served as the prime minister of Malta from 2013 to 2020, and as the leader of the Labour Party from June 2008 to January 2020. Muscat was re-elected as prime minister in the ...

, 13th Prime Minister of Malta *

January 23 Events Pre-1600 * 393 – Roman emperor Theodosius I proclaims his eight-year-old son Honorius co-emperor. * 971 – Using crossbows, Song dynasty troops soundly defeat a war elephant corps of the Southern Han at Shao. * 1264 & ...

–

Tiffani Thiessen Tiffani Amber Thiessen (born January 23, 1974) is an American actress who starred as Kelly Kapowski on NBC's ''Saved by the Bell'' (1989–1993), as Valerie Malone on Fox's ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' (1994–98), and as Lori on Netflix's ''Alexa ...

, American actress *

January 24 Events Pre-1600 * 41 – Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula. * 914 – Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt. *1438 – The Counc ...

–

Ed Helms Edward Parker Helms (born January 24, 1974) is an American actor and comedian. From 2002 to 2006, he was a correspondent on Comedy Central's '' The Daily Show with Jon Stewart''. He played paper salesman Andy Bernard in the NBC sitcom '' The Off ...

, American actor and stand-up comedian *

January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor; under his rule the Roman Empire will reach its maximum extent. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to bec ...

–

Ole Einar Bjørndalen Ole Einar Bjørndalen () (born 27 January 1974) is a retired Norwegian professional biathlete and coach, often referred to by the nickname, the "King of Biathlon". With 13 Winter Olympic Games medals, he is second on the list of multiple medal ...

, Norwegian biathlete *

January 28 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession ...

–

Kari Traa Kari Traa (born 28 January 1974) is a Norwegian former Olympic freestyle skier. She won the Olympic title in the moguls event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, finished second at the 2006 games, and finished third at the 1998 games. Accomplishmen ...

, Norwegian freestyle skier *

January 29 Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, rul ...

Michael Andersen Michael Dahl Andersen (born 29 January 1974), is a retired Danish professional basketball player. He is 2.13 m (7'0") in height and he plays at the position of center. Honours Prokom Sopot * 2-time Polish League championship as a player for ...

, Danish basketball player **

Kōji Wada was a Japanese pop singer. He was best known for performing theme songs for several installments of the ''Digimon'' anime television series, including his recording debut in 1999 with his first and most famous single, " Butter-Fly", the theme so ...

, Japanese rock singer (d.

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

) *

January 30 Events Pre-1600 * 1018 – Poland and the Holy Roman Empire conclude the Peace of Bautzen. *1287 – King Wareru founds the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and proclaims independence from the Pagan Kingdom. 1601–1900 * 1607 – An estimat ...

Christian Bale Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor. Known for his versatility and physical transformations for his roles, he has been a leading man in films of several genres. He has received various accolades, includin ...

, British actor **

Olivia Colman Sarah Caroline Sinclair ( Colman; born 30 January 1974), known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. Known for her comedic and dramatic roles in film and television, she has received various accolades, including an Academy A ...

, English actress

February

Roberto Heras Roberto Heras Hernández (born 1 February 1974) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer who won the Vuelta a España a record four times. Between 1997 and 2005 he finished in the top 5 of the Vuelta every year except 1998 when he f ...

, Spanish road cyclist *

February 3 Events Pre-1600 *1112 – Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. * 1451 – Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. * 1488 – ...

–

Miriam Yeung Miriam Yeung (born 3 February 1974) is a Hong Kong actress and Cantopop diva. As of 2020, she has released more than 35 albums and has starred in more than 40 films. In 2012, Yeung won the Award for Best Actress at the 32nd Hong Kong Film Awards ...

, Hong Kong actress and singer *

February 4 Events Pre–1600 * 211 – Following the death of the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling ...

Urmila Matondkar Urmila Matondkar (born 4 February 1974) is an Indian actress and politician. Known for her work primarily in Hindi films, in addition to Telugu, Malayalam, Marathi and Tamil films, she has received numerous accolades, including the Filmfa ...

, Indian actress **

Shahab Hosseini Seyyed Shahabedin Hosseini Tonekaboni ( fa, سید شهاب الدین حسینی تنکابنی; born February 3, 1974) is an Iranian actor, producer and director. He is known for his collaborations with Iranian Academy Award-winning director ...

, Iranian actor and film director *

February 7 Events Pre-1600 * 457 – Leo I becomes the Eastern Roman emperor. * 987 – Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. *1301 &nda ...

J Dilla J, or j, is the tenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its usual name in English is ''jay'' (pronounced ), with a now-uncommon vari ...

, American record producer and rapper (d.

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro votes to declare independence from Serbia; The 2006 ...

) **

Steve Nash Stephen John Nash (born 7 February 1974) is a Canadian professional basketball coach and former player who most recently served as head coach of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 18 seasons in the NBA, ...

, Canadian basketball player **

Nujabes , better known by his stage name , was a Japanese record producer, audio engineer, DJ, composer and arranger best known for his atmospheric instrumental mixes sampling from hip hop, soul, and jazz, as well as incorporating elements of trip hop, b ...

, Japanese record producer and DJ (d.

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

) *

Seth Green Seth Benjamin Green ( ''né'' Gesshel-Green; born February 8, 1974) is an American actor, producer, and writer. Green's film debut came with a role in the comedy-drama film '' The Hotel New Hampshire'' (1984), and he went on to have supportin ...

, American actor and comedian **

Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Guillaume Emmanuel "Guy-Manuel" de Homem-Christo (; born 8 February 1974) is a French musician, record producer, singer, songwriter, DJ and composer. He is known as one half of the former French house music duo Daft Punk, along with Thomas B ...

, French musician and record producer ** Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-born American boxer and mixed martial artist (d.

) *

February 10 Events Pre-1600 *1258 – Mongol invasions: Baghdad falls to the Mongols, bringing the Islamic Golden Age to an end. * 1306 – In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, sparki ...

Elizabeth Banks Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Irene Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is known for playing Effie Trinket in ''The Hunger Games'' film series (2012–2015) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the ''Pitch Perf ...

, American actress and film director **

David Datuna David Datuna ( ka, დეივიდ დათუნა; February 10, 1974 – May 23, 2022) was a Georgian-born American artist who lived in New York City. His ''Viewpoint of Millions'' series explores the sources and meaning of cultural ide ...

, Georgian-American artist (d.

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretariat; The global monkeypo ...

) **

Ivri Lider Ivri Lider ( he, עברי לידר) is an Israeli pop star and part of the duo TYP, also known as The Young Professionals. He served as a judge on the first season of '' The X Factor Israel''. Music career In October 2005 Lider received ...

, Israeli singer *

February 11 Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

–

Alex Jones Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American far-right and alt-right radio show host and prominent conspiracy theorist. He hosts ''The Alex Jones Show'' from Austin, Texas, which the Genesis Communications Network broadcas ...

, American radio host, conspiracy theorist, author and filmmaker *

February 12 Events Pre-1600 * 1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. * 1429 – English forces und ...

–

Naseem Hamed Naseem Hamed (born 12 February 1974), nicknamed Prince Naseem and Naz, is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2002.. Retrieved 25 February 2016. He held multiple featherweight world championships, including the WBO ti ...

, British boxer *

February 13 Events Pre-1600 * 962 – Emperor Otto I and Pope John XII co-sign the ''Diploma Ottonianum'', recognizing John as ruler of Rome. * 1322 – The central tower of Ely Cathedral falls on the night of 12th–13th. * 1462 – The ...

–

Robbie Williams Robert Peter Williams (born 13 February 1974) is an English singer and songwriter. He found fame as a member of the pop group Take That from 1990 to 1995, and achieved commercial success after launching a solo career in 1996. His debut stud ...

, British singer *

February 14 Events Pre-1600 * 748 – Abbasid Revolution: The Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani take Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. * 842 – Charles the Bald and Louis t ...

** Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer **

Valentina Vezzali Maria Valentina Vezzali (; born 14 February 1974) is an Italian politician and retired fencer. As a fencer, Vezzali won six Olympic gold medals and was a 16-time World Champion in foil. She is one of only five athletes in the history of the Summ ...

, Italian fencer *

February 15 Events Pre-1600 * 438 – Roman emperor Theodosius II publishes the law codex Codex Theodosianus * 590 – Khosrau II is crowned king of Persia. * 706 – Byzantine emperor Justinian II has his predecessors Leontios and Tib ...

Mr Lordi Tomi Petteri Putaansuu (born 15 February 1974), best known by his stage names Mr Lordi or Mr L, is a Finnish musician, businessman, special effect make-up artist, songwriter, painter, comics artist and graphic designer. He is best known as the ...

, Finnish singer **

Alexander Wurz Alexander Georg Wurz (born 15 February 1974) is an Austrian former professional racing driver, driver training expert and businessman. He competed in Formula One from until , and is also a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours. He is current ...

, Austrian racing driver *

February 16 Events Pre-1600 * 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. * 1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of K ...

– Mahershala Ali, American actor and rapper *

–

Jerry O'Connell Jerry O'Connell (born February 17, 1974) is an American actor and television host. He is known for his roles as Quinn Mallory in the television series ''Sliders'', Andrew Clements in ''My Secret Identity'', Vern Tessio in the film '' Stand by M ...

, American actor *

February 22 Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferd ...

–

James Blunt James Blunt (born James Hillier Blount; 22 February 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and musician. A former reconnaissance officer in the Life Guards regiment of the British Army, he served under NATO during the 1999 Kosovo War. After ...

, English singer *

February 25 Events Pre-1600 *138 – Roman emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius as his son, effectively making him his successor. * 628 – Khosrow II, the last great Shah of the Sasanian Empire (Iran), is overthrown by his son Kavadh II. * ...

Divya Bharti Divya Bharti (; 25 February 1974 – 5 April 1993) was an Indian actress who worked predominantly in Hindi and Telugu films. Known for her acting versatility and beauty, she was considered one of the most popular and highest paid Indian actre ...

, Indian film actress (d.

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefu ...

) **

Dominic Raab Dominic Rennie Raab (; born 25 February 1974) is a British politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Secretary of State for Justice, and Lord Chancellor since October 2022, having previously served from 2021 t ...

, British politician,

Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom The deputy prime minister of the United Kingdom is a minister of the Crown and a member of the British Cabinet. The office is not always in use, and prime ministers may use other offices, such as First Secretary of State, to indicate the se ...

February 26 Events Pre-1600 * 747 BC – According to Ptolemy, the epoch (origin) of the Nabonassar Era began at noon on this date. Historians use this to establish the modern BC chronology for dating historic events. * 364 – Valentinian I is ...

–

Sébastien Loeb Sébastien Loeb (; born 26 February 1974) is a French professional rallying, rally, auto racing, racing and rallycross driver. He is the most successful driver in the World Rally Championship (WRC), having won the world championship a record nin ...

, French rally driver *

February 27 Events Pre-1600 * 380 – Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity. * 425 – The University of Constantin ...

– Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japanese speed skater

March

Grace Park @ Battlestar Galactica Orchestra concert 02

Karol Kučera Karol Kučera (born 4 March 1974) is a retired ATP professional male tennis player from Slovakia. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 6 in September 1998, reaching the semi-finals of the Australian Open the same year. In 20 ...

, Slovak tennis player **

Ariel Ortega Ariel Arnaldo Ortega (born 4 March 1974) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. His nickname is "El Burrito" (''The Little Donkey''), thus he is called "Burrito Ortega". Ariel Ortega first played f ...

, Argentine football player *

March 5 Events Pre-1600 * 363 – Roman emperor Julian leaves Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death. *1046 – Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern j ...

Jens Jeremies Jens Jeremies (born 5 March 1974) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Best known for his tackling abilities, he played for three clubs during his professional career, most notably Bayern Munich which ...

, German footballer **

Matt Lucas Matthew Richard Lucas (born 5 March 1974) is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television presenter. He is best known for his work with David Walliams on the BBC sketch comedy series ''Little Britain'' (2003–2006, 2020) and '' Come Fl ...

, British actor and comedian **

Eva Mendes Eva de la Caridad Méndez (, ; born March 5, 1974), known professionally as Eva Mendes, is an American actress, model and fashion designer. Her acting career began in the late 1990s, with a series of roles in films such as '' Children of the Cor ...

, American actress and model **

Hiten Tejwani Hiten Tejwani is an Indian television actor known for his work in several fictional shows. Personal life Hiten Tejwani was born into a Sindhi family. Hiten Tejwani married his ''Kutumb'' and ''Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi'' co-star Gauri ...

, Indian model and actor *

March 6 Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. * 845 & ...

– Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional wrestler *

March 7 Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. * 1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Co ...

Jenna Fischer Regina Marie "Jenna" Fischer (born March 7, 1974) is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Pam Beesly on the NBC sitcom ''The Office'' (2005–2013), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Suppor ...

, American actress ** Antonio de la Rúa, Argentine lawyer *

March 14 Events Pre-1600 * 1074 – Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. *1590 – Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Hugu ...

– Grace Park, Canadian actress *

March 15 Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. * 44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 &ndash ...

–

Percy Montgomery Percival Colin Montgomery OIS (born 15 March 1974) is a South African former professional rugby union player. When he ended his international career in August 2008, he held the all-time records for both caps and points for South Africa's nati ...

, South African

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...

player *

March 20 Events Pre-1600 * 673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka. * 1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. * 1600 – The Link ...

– Carsten Ramelow, German footballer *

March 22 Events Pre-1600 * 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. * 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. * 871 – Æthelr ...

Marcus Camby Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to: * Marcus (name), a masculine given name * Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name Places * Marcus, a main belt asteroid, also known as (369088) Marcus 2008 GG44 * Mărcuş, a village in Dobârl ...

, American basketball player ** Kidada Jones, American actress ** Bassem Youssef, Egyptian journalist * March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress * March 28 – Daisuke Kishio, Japanese voice actor *

– Miguel Gómez (photographer), Miguel Gómez, Colombian photographer * March 30 – Miho Komatsu, Japanese pop singer and songwriter * March 31 ** Natali (singer), Natali, Russian singer, composer and songwriter ** Jani Sievinen, Finnish swimmer

April

* April 1 – Marcos Balter, Brazilian composer * April 2 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician * April 8 – Chris Kyle, American sniper (d. 2013) *

– Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model * April 12 – Marley Shelton, American actress * April 13 – Marta Jandová, Czech musician and actress * April 15 – Danny Pino, Cuban American actor * April 16 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director * April 17 ** Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth)Mikael Åkerfeldt
, Opeth – Official Website, Retrieved 3 June 2012 ** Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer * April 18 ** Lorraine Pilkington, Irish actress ** Edgar Wright, English film director * April 21 – Oleksiy Zhuravko, Ukrainian politician (d.

) * April 23 – Jennifer Paz, Filipino actress *

– Stephen Wiltshire, British architectural artist and autistic savant * April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and model * April 29 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter

May

Laura Pausini 19 - Bercy - Avril 2012 (6930185910)

* May 1 – Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch runner * May 2 ** Matt Berry, English actor and singer ** Horacio Carbonari, Argentinian footballer and manager ** Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor and actor ** Janek Meet, Estonian footballer * May 3 – Princess Haya bint Al Hussein of Jordan *

** Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach ** Tony McCoy, Irish jockey and sportscaster * May 6 ** Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner ** Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast ** Faruk Namdar, German-Turkish footballer *

** Lawrence Johnson (athlete), Lawrence Johnson, American pole vaulter ** Breckin Meyer, American actor * May 8 – Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer * May 9 – Brian Deegan (motorcyclist), Brian Deegan, American Motocross Racer * May 10 ** Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player ** Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer * May 14 – Chantal Kreviazuk, Canadian singer-songwriter *

– Laura Pausini, Italian singer *

– Andrea Corr, Irish singer * May 19 ** Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player ** Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indian film actor * May 20 ** Mikael Stanne, Swedish singer ** Colette Wong, Singaporean sports anchor * May 21 – Fairuza Balk, American actress and musician * May 22 ** Sean Gunn, American actor ** Henrietta Ónodi, Hungarian artistic gymnast * May 23 – Jewel (singer), Jewel, American singer * May 26 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer * May 28 – Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer * May 29 – Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and actor * May 30 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999) * May 31 – Kenan Doğulu, Turkish pop musician

June

Coventry Scouts groups have a visit from Bear Grylls

* June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer * June 2 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player * June 3 – Martín Karpan, Argentinian actor * June 7 ** Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player ** Bear Grylls, British survivalist *

** Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter. ** Selma Björnsdóttir, Selma, Icelandic singer ** Steve-O, American actor * June 21 ** Natasha Beaumont, Malaysian actress and model ** Maggie Siff, American actress ** Hitoshi Uematsu, Japanese short track speed skater * June 22 ** Devayani (actress), Devayani, Indian actress ** Donald Faison, American actor ** B. V. S. Ravi, Indian writer ** Tu Tamarua, Cook Islands rugby union flanker ** Vijay (actor), Vijay, Indian actor * June 23 ** Joel Edgerton, Australian actor and filmmaker ** Kim Young-chul (comedian), Kim Young-chul, South Korean comedian and singer ** Andi Vasluianu, Romanian actor * June 24 ** Andrea De Cruz, Singaporean actress ** Ruffa Gutierrez, Filipino model, beauty queen and actress * June 25 ** Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress ** Tereza Pergnerová, Czech actress, singer and television presenter * June 26 ** Derek Jeter, American baseball player ** Ecija Ojdanić, Croatian actress ** Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress ** Kristofer Steen, Swedish musician ** Matt Striker, American professional wrestler and commentator * June 27 – Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman, Swedish royal * June 28 – Nelson Mariano II, Filipino chess Grandmaster *

– Pua Khein-Seng, Malaysian businessman * June 30 – Hezekiél Sepeng, South African middle-distance athlete

July

Hilary Swank at 28th Tokyo International Film Festival

* July 1 ** Timmy Hung, Hong Kong actor ** Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorean race walker * July 2 – Moon So-ri, South Korean actress, film director and screenwriter * July 3 ** Taiga Ishikawa, Japanese politician and LGBT activist ** Marko Milošević, Serbian fugitive and refugee * July 4 ** Kevin Hanchard, Canadian actor ** Karole Rocher, French actress *

– Jennifer Jones (curler), Jennifer Jones, Canadian curler * July 8 ** Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, actress, model and socialite (d. 2015) ** Dragoslav Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer * July 12 ** Parvin Dabas, Indian actor, model and director ** Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer * July 14 ** Martina Hill, German actress, comedian and impersonator ** David Mitchell (comedian), David Mitchell, British comedian and actor *

– Doug Ithier, Australian footballer * July 22 ** Franka Potente, German actress and singer ** Johnny Strong, American actor *

** Maurice Greene (sprinter), Maurice Greene, American athlete ** Kathryn Hahn, American actress ** Stephanie March, American actress ** Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian road racing cyclist * July 24 ** Eva Aridjis, Mexican-American director and screenwriter * July 25 – Lauren Faust, American animator * July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player * July 28 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician * July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor * July 30 – Hilary Swank, American actress * July 31 – Emilia Fox, English actress

August

Amy Adams UK Nocturnal Animals Premiere (cropped)

* August 5 – Kajol, Indian actress * August 6 – Ever Carradine, American actress * August 7 – Michael Shannon, American actor *

– Derek Fisher, American basketball player * August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician *

– Christopher Gorham, American actor * August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model * August 16 ** Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier ** Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer * August 20 ** Amy Adams, American actress ** Misha Collins, American actor ** Maxim Vengerov, Russian-Israeli violinist * August 22 ** Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer ** Lee Sheppard (cartoonist), Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist * August 23 ** Ray Park, Scottish actor and martial artist ** Ovidiu Cernăuțeanu, Ovi, Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician ** Shifty Shellshock, American singer * August 24 – Jennifer Lien, American actress * August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German footballer

September

Jimmy Fallon, Montclair Film Festival, 2013

* September 3 – Jen Royle, American sports reporter and chef * September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer * September 6 ** Tim Henman, English tennis player ** Nina Persson, Swedish singer * September 7 – Glenn Ljungström, Swedish guitarist *

** Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer; mixed martial arts fighter ** Ryan Phillippe, American actor ** Ben Wallace (basketball), Ben Wallace, American basketball player * September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete * September 15 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer, musician, and songwriter * September 17 ** Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player ** Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist * September 18 ** Sol Campbell, English footballer ** Xzibit, American rapper * September 19 ** Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and television personality ** Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model * September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler * September 24 – Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer * September 26 – Joo Jin-mo, South Korean actor * September 30 – Yul Bürkle, Venezuelan actor and model

October

Charlotte Perrelli, Melodifestivalen 2017 (cropped)

Joaquin Phoenix at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival

* October 2 – Rachana Banerjee, Indian film actress * October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater * October 4 – Kiti Kokkonen, Finnish film, television and voice actress, and author * October 6 – Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese sports shooter * October 7 – Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer * October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower * October 10 ** Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver ** Oded Kattash, Israeli basketball player and coach ** Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player *

– Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player * October 16 ** Aurela Gaçe, Albanian singer ** Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player * October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor * October 18 – Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer * October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer and pianist * October 23 ** Aravind Adiga, Indian-Australian author ** Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player * October 24 – Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress * October 28 ** Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer ** Joaquin Phoenix, American actor born in Puerto Rico * October 29 ** Akashdeep Saigal, Indian television actor and model ** Yenny Wahid, Indonesian activist and politician

November

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* November 2 – Nelly, American rapper * November 5 ** Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter ** Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player * November 8 ** Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer ** Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author ** Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor * November 9 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian football player * November 10 – Chris Lilley (comedian), Chris Lilley, Australian comedian and actor * November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor, producer and environmentalist * November 13 – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect * November 15 ** Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer ** Ingrida Šimonytė, Prime Minister of Lithuania *

– Paul Scholes, English football player *

– Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver *

** Drew Ginn, Australian rower ** Kurt Krömer, German television presenter, comedian and actor *

– Stephen Merchant, English actor and comedian * November 27 ** Wendy Houvenaghel, British racing cyclist ** Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player * November 29 – Ferenc Merkli, Hungarian Slovene priest, writer and translator * November 30 – Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer

December

– Costinha, Portuguese footballer * December 5 – Kid Koala, Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and graphic novelist * December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer * December 10 – Meg White, American drummer * December 11 ** Rey Mysterio, American wrestler ** Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner * December 12 – Michelle Saram, Singaporean singer and actress *

** Sarah Paulson, American actress ** Giovanni Ribisi, American actor * December 18 ** Kari Byron, American artist and television personality **Mutassim Gaddafi, Libyan Army commander (d. 2011) ** Viki Miljković, Serbian singer * December 19 ** Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian footballer ** Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer * December 20 – Paul Linger, English footballer *

** Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer ** Ryan Seacrest, American television personality * December 27 – Alena Vinnitskaya, Ukrainian singer * December 29 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor * December 31 – Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver

Deaths

January

* January 1 – Jimmy Smith (baseball, born 1895), Jimmy Smith, American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1895) * January 2 – Tex Ritter, American actor and country musician (b. 1905) *

** Gino Cervi, Italian actor (b. 1901) ** Red Snapp, American baseball player (b. 1888) * January 6 ** David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mexican painter and muralist (b. 1896) ** Dewey Mayhew, American football coach (b. 1898) ** Lech Pijanowski, Polish screenwriter, film critic, broadcaster and director (b. 1928) ** Margit Slachta, Hungarian politician (b. 1884) * January 7 – Wang Shusheng, Chinese general (b. 1905) * January 8 – Charles-Édouard Ferland, Canadian jurist, Liberal politician and Senator (b. 1892) *

– Charles G. Bond, U.S. House of Representatives from New York (state), New York (b. 1877) * January 11 – Antonio Bautista, Filipino pilot with the Philippine Air Force (b. 1937) *

** Jack Jacobs, American-born National Football League and Canadian Football League player (b. 1919) ** Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886) *

– Joseph Dippolito, Italian American Mafia member of the Los Angeles crime syndicate (b. 1914) * January 15 – Harold D. Cooley, U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1897) * January 17 – Clara Edwards (composer), Clara Edwards, American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1880) *

– Bill Finger, American comic strip and book writer (b. 1914) * January 19 – Edward Seago, British artist (b. 1910) * January 20 – Leonard Freeman, American television writer and producer (''Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), Hawaii Five-0'') (b. 1920) * January 21 – Robert Guy Howarth, Australian scholar, literary critic and poet (b. 1906 in poetry, 1906) *

– Oskar Herman, Croatian Jewish painter (b. 1886) *

– Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor (b. 1898) *

** Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1898) ** Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (b. 1886) *

– Oswald Cornwallis, English cricketer (b. 1894) *

– H. E. Bates, English writer and author (b. 1905) *

– Bill Whitty, Australian cricketer (b. 1886) * January 31 ** Pina Gallini, Italian actress (b. 1888) ** Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879) ** Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete (b. 1912)

February

– Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894) *

** Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887) ** George W. Snedecor, American mathematician and statistician (b. 1881) *

– Anita Bush, African American stage and silent film actress and playwright. Known as "The Little Mother of Colored Drama" *

– Ralph W. Gerard, American neurophysiologist and behavioural scientist (b. 1900) * February 21 – Tim Horton, Canadian ice hockey player and co-founder of the Tim Hortons restaurant chain (b. 1930) * February 23 ** Harry Ruby, American musician, composer and writer (b. 1885) ** George Van Biesbroeck, American-born Belgian astronomer (b. 1880) * February 24 ** Margaret Leech, American historian and fiction writer (b. 1893) ** Robert A. Stemmle, German screenwriter and film director (b. 1903)

March

* March 1 ** Hüseyin Kemal Gürmen, Turkish theatre and cinema actor (b. 1901) ** Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935) * March 2 – Péter Schell, Hungarian politician (b. 1898) *

** Barbara Ruick, American actress and singer (b. 1930) ** Frank Wilcox, American character actor (b. 1907) *

– Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903) *

** John Samuel Bourque, French-Canadian politician, Cabinet Minister, military member, and businessman from Québec, Canada (b. 1894) ** Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (b. 1907) *

– Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and writer; who won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for his book ''The Denial of Death'' (b. 1924) *

** Moriji Mochida, last person ever awarded the 10th dan rank in kendo (b. 1885) ** Hans Sachs (poster collector), Hans Sachs, Holocaust survivor and poster collector (b. 1881) * March 8 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (b. 1889) * March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915) * March 10 – Alexander John Majeski, American architect and Naval Lieutenant (b. 1920) * March 12 – Oleksii Shovkunenko, Ukrainian painter (b. 1884) * March 13 – Red Wing (actress), Red Wing, American actress (b. 1873) *

– Maulana Shams-ud-din Harifal, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1944) *

– José Tohá, Chilean Socialist politician, minister (assassinated) (b. 1927) * March 17 – Louis Kahn, Russian-born American architect (b. 1901) * March 19 – Edward Platt, American actor known as "Get Smart, The Chief" on NBC/CBS's ''Get Smart'' (b. 1916) *

– Chet Huntley, American television reporter (b. 1911) * March 21 – Candy Darling, American actress (b. 1944) *

– Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939) * March 24 – Lewie G. Merritt, U.S. Marine, major general and aviator (b. 1897) * March 27 ** Wilhelm Herget, German Luftwaffe flying ace (b. 1910) ** Eduardo Santos Montejo, Eduardo Santos, Colombian publisher and politician, 15th President of Colombia (b. 1888) * March 28 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1904) *

** Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (''Two Women, La ciociara'') (b. 1916) ** Joe Stecher, American professional wrestler (b. 1893) * March 31 – Frank Seno, American football running back and defensive back (b. 1921)

April

* April 2 ** Douglass Dumbrille, Canadian actor (b. 1889) ** Georges Pompidou, 100th Prime Minister of France and 19th President of France, Co-Prince of Andorra (b. 1911) *

– Ossie Newton-Thompson, South African cricketer and politician (b. 1920) * April 5 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven (b. 1882) *

** Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch modernist architect (b. 1884) ** Roy Wood (baseball), Roy Wood, American professional baseball player (b. 1892) * April 8 – K. A. C. Creswell, English architectural historian (b. 1879) * April 9 - Marvin L. Kline, Republican politician (b. 1903) * April 10 – Patricia Collinge, Irish-born American actress (b. 1892) *

– Edward Alexander Bott, psychologist at the University of Toronto (b. 1887) * April 14 ** Howard Pease, American adventure novelist (b. 1894) ** Michael Whalen (actor), Michael Whalen, American actor (b. 1902) * April 18 ** Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897) ** Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895) * April 19 – Ayub Khan (general), Ayub Khan, Pakistanian general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (b. 1907) * April 20 – Peter Lee Lawrence, German actor in Spaghetti Westerns; such as ''For a Few Dollars More'' (b. 1944) * April 21 – Mirja Mane, Finnish actress (b. 1929) * April 23 – Cy Williams, American baseball player (b. 1887) *

** Bud Abbott, American comedian (b. 1895) ** Franz Jonas, Austrian political figure, 7th President of Austria (b. 1899) *

– Gustavo R. Vincenti, Maltese architect and developer (b. 1888) * April 27 – Hans W. Petersen, Danish actor of over 40 films (b. 1897) * April 28 – Paul Page (actor), Paul Page, American actor of the 1920s and 1930s (b. 1903) * April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)

May

1912 Athletics men%27s 110 metre hurdles - Frederick Kelly

* May 1 – Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor (b. 1906) * May 2 ** James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878) ** William Wantling, American ex-Marine, poet and novelist (b. 1933) * May 3 ** Nasir Khan (actor), Nasir Khan, Indian actor (b. 1924) ** Ralph McCabe, Canadian-born Major League Baseball player (b. 1918) *

– Ludwig Karl Koch, German broadcaster and sound recordist (b. 1881) * May 6 – Robert Maestri, Mayor of New Orleans (b. 1889) *

** Abu Bakar of Pahang, Fourth Sultan of Pahang (b. 1904) ** Fred Kelly (athlete), Fred Kelly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891) * May 8 – Fred Conyngham, Australian actor (b. 1901) * May 10 – Takeshi Sakamoto, Japanese actor (b. 1899) * May 12 – Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player (b. 1944) * May 13 – Jaime Torres Bodet, Mexican public servant, 2nd Director-General of the UNESCO (b. 1902) * May 14 – Jacob L. Moreno, Romanian-American psychiatrist and psychosociologist (b. 1889) * May 15 – Guy Simonds, Canadian Lieutenant-General, commander of the Canadian Armed Forces in World War II (b. 1903) *

– Billy Welu, American professional bowler (b. 1932) *

– Symbionese Liberation Army shootout with the Los Angeles Police Department ** Angela Atwood, American founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1949) ** Donald DeFreeze, American leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army who went by the ''nom de guerre'' "Field Marshal Cinque" (b. 1943) ** Camilla Hall, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, one of main kidnappers of heiress Patricia Hearst (b. 1945) ** Nancy Ling Perry, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1947) ** Patricia Soltysik, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1950) * May 18 – Harry Ricardo, Sir Harry Ricardo, English mechanical engineer (b. 1885) * May 19 – Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, poet, writer and scholar (b. 1910) * May 20 – Jean Daniélou, French Catholic cardinal, theologian and academic (b. 1905) * May 21 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1890) * May 24 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899) * May 25 ** Donald Crisp, English-American actor, film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1882) ** Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer, politician and philosopher (b. 1901) * May 26 – Kitty Gordon, English stage and silent film actress. (b. 1878) * May 27 – Rudolf Altstadt, German soldier in World War II (b. 1914) * May 28 – Francesco Fausto Nitti, Italian journalist (b. 1899) * May 31 ** Adelle Davis, American author and nutritionist (b. 1904) ** Frederick George Topham, Canadian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1917)

June

* June 1 – Henry Clay Sevier, American lawyer and member from Louisiana House of Representatives (b. 1896) * June 2 – Roger C. Slaughter, American lawyer and U.S. Representative from Missouri (b. 1905) * June 3 – Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player (b. 1912) * June 4 ** Smokey Harris, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890) ** Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 43rd President of Bolivia (b. 1895) * June 5 – Larry Cabrelli, American football player and assistant coach Philadelphia Eagles (b. 1917) * June 7 – Abdul Rahman Hashim, Malaysian Inspector-General of Police (b. 1925) * June 9 ** Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) ** Katharine Cornell, Berlin-born, American stage actress, writer, theatre owner, and producer (b. 1893) ** Carlo Pisacane (actor), Carlo Pisacane, Italian actor (b. 1889) * June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 11th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900) * June 11 ** Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883) ** Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898) * June 12 – André Marie, French Radical politician, 65th Prime Minister of France (b. 1897) * June 14 – Knud Jeppesen, Danish musicologist, composer, and songwriter (b. 1892) * June 15 – Kevin Gately, English mathematics student at University of Warwick involved in the Red Lion Square disorders (b. 1953) * June 16 ** Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (b. 1894) ** Mauritz Hugo, Swedish-born American film and television actor (b. 1909) *

** Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923) ** Austin Gunsel, 3rd commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1909) * June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet Army marshal and Minister of Defence (Soviet Union), Minister of Defence (b. 1896) * June 21 – Katsutaro Kouta, Japanese female geisha and ryūkōka singer (b. 1904) * June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892) * June 23 – Calvin B. Hoover, noted U.S. economist and professor (b. 1897) * June 24 – József Juhász, Hungarian stage and film actor (b. 1908) * June 25 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893) * June 26 – Ernest Gruening, American journalist, Governor of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1953, and United States Senator from 1959 to 1969 (b. 1887) * June 27 – Fred DeStefano, American football player and physician; who won the National Football League title with the Chicago Cardinals of 1925 (b. 1900) * June 28 ** Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor and science administrator (b. 1890) ** Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923) *

– José Maria Ferreira de Castro, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1898) * June 30 – Alberta Williams King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King, Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King Jr. (b. 1904)

July

* July 1 –

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(b. 1895) * July 2 ** Sonia Holm, English actress (b. 1920) ** Edith L. Sharp, Canadian writer (b. 1911) * July 4 ** Georgette Heyer, British writer (b. 1902) ** André Randall, French actor (b. 1892) * July 6 – Joseph Baldacchino, Maltese archaeologist (b. 1894) *

** Leon Shamroy, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer (b. 1901) ** Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, American publisher and member of the Vanderbilt Family (b. 1898) * July 8 ** Mário Simões Dias, Portuguese violinist (b. 1902) ** Margaret Furse, British Academy Award-winning costume designer for ''Anne of the Thousand Days'' (b. 1911) * July 9 – Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891) * July 10 – Nancy Wickwire, American soap opera actress (b. 1925) * July 11 ** Edward Beck (British Army officer), Edward Beck, British army officer (b. 1880) ** Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) * July 12 – Sonja Ludvigsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1928) * July 13 ** Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897) ** Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (1898–1974), Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1898) * July 14 **Dame Sibyl Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark (b. 1884) ** Carl Andrew Spaatz, United States Air Force, U.S. Air Force general (b. 1891) *

** William Albrecht, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri (b. 1888) ** Christine Chubbuck, American TV personality (b. 1944) ** Victor Negus, British surgeon (b. 1887) * July 17 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1910) *

– Joe Flynn (US actor), Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924) *

– Charles Rudolph d'Olive, American World War I ace (b. 1896) * July 22 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer, politician, and United States Senator from Oregon (1945–1969) (b. 1900) *

– Peter Lei, Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, Bishop of Hong Kong (b. 1922) * July 24 – Sir James Chadwick, British physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891) * July 25 – Robert Hanbidge, Canadian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Kerrobert and 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (b. 1891) * July 27 – Joop Pelser, Dutch footballer (b. 1892) * July 29 ** Cass Elliot, American vocalist (b. 1941) ** Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899) * July 30 – Lev Knipper, Soviet composer (b. 1898)

August

* August 2 – Cyril Smith (pianist), Cyril Smith, English virtuoso concert pianist (b. 1909) * August 3 ** Edna Murphy, American actress of the silent era (b. 1899) ** Almira Sessions, American character actress (b. 1888) *

– Józef Kondrat, Polish stage and film actor (b. 1902) * August 5 – Friedrich F. Tippmann, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1894) * August 6 – Gunboat Smith, Irish-born American boxer and referee (b. 1887) * August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Méxican poet and author (b. 1925) *

– Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907) * August 11 ** José Falcón, Portuguese matador (gored to death by bull) (b. 1944) ** Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (b. 1902) * August 13 – Ernst Forsthoff, German jurist (b. 1902) *

– Romuald Bourque, French-Canadian politician from Québec (b. 1889) * August 15 – Edmund Cobb, American actor (b. 1892) * August 17 – Aldo Palazzeschi, Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist (b. 1885) * August 18 – J. C. Winslow, British missionary to India for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (b. 1882) * August 19 – Rodger Davies, American diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1921) * August 20 – Magda Sonja, Austrian actress (b. 1886) * August 21 – Buford Pusser, American Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee (b. 1937) * August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. 1908) * August 23 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. 1888) * August 24 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1894) * August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (''Spirit of St. Louis'') (b. 1902) * August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician (b. 1897) * August 28 – ** Aleksandar Sekulović, Montenegrin cinematographer (b. 1918) ** Harlan County, USA, Lawrence Jones, American UMWA member who was martyred after being slain by a strikebreaker (b. 1950) * August 29 ** Judith Furse, English actress (b. 1912) ** Fred W. Preller, American politician (b. 1902) *

– Kenneth Anderson (writer), Kenneth Anderson, Indian-British writer and hunter (b. 1910) * August 31 ** Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1895) ** Norman Kirk, New Zealander politician, 29th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1923) ** Gianna Manzini, Italian writer (b. 1896)

September

* September 1 – Mary Broadfoot Walker, Scottish physician (b. 1888) * September 2 – Walter Strenge, American cinematographer (b. 1898) * September 3 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901) * September 4 ** Creighton Abrams, American general (b. 1914) ** Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899) * September 6 ** Olga Baclanova, Soviet stage and screen actress, operatic singer, and ballerina (b. c. 1893) ** Otto Kruger, American actor of German descent (b. 1885) * September 7 – Juan Antonio Ipiña, Spanish football manager (b. 1912) *

** Dhani Nivat, Prince of Thailand (b. 1885) ** Bert Niehoff, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1884) ** Jimmy Swinnerton, American cartoonist, ''Little Jimmy'' (b. 1875) *

– Melchior Wańkowicz, Polish army officer, writer, journalist, and publisher (b. 1892) * September 11 – Robert Nodar Jr., American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician from New York (state), New York and its member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1916) *

** Prince Nikita Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1900) ** Craig Woods, American actor (b. 1918) * September 15 – René Capistrán Garza, Méxican Association of Catholic Youth leader, lawyer, screenwriter, and film critic (b. 1898) * September 16 – Phog Allen, American basketball and baseball player (b. 1885) * September 17 – Claudia Morgan, American actress, ''The Edge of Night'' in the 1950s (b. 1912) * September 18 – Edna Best, British actress (b. 1900) * September 19 ** Tránsito Cocomarola, Argentine musician and folklorist (b. 1918) ** Zack Taylor (baseball), Zack Taylor, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898) *

** José Mojica, Fray José de Guadalupe Mojica, Mexican Franciscan friar, singer, and actor (b. 1896) ** Arthur Rylah, Sir Arthur Rylah, Australian lawyer and politician. (b. 1909) * September 21 ** Walter Brennan, American actor; 3-time Best Supporting Academy Award-winning actor (1936, 1938, and 1940) (b. 1894) ** Jacqueline Susann, American writer and actress (b. 1918) * September 22 ** Winfried Otto Schumann, German physicist (b. 1888) ** George Spahn, American rancher connected to the Manson family (b. 1889) * September 23 – Cliff Arquette, American comedian who created the character ''Charlie Weaver'' (b. 1905) * September 24 – Dorothy Stone (actress), Dorothy Stone, American actress (b. 1905) * September 26 – Jean Gale, American vaudeville performer (b. 1912) * September 27 ** Silvio Frondizi, Argentine intellectual and lawyer (b. 1907) ** James R. Webb, American soldier and screenwriter who won the 1963 Academy Award for ''How the West Was Won (film), How the West Was Won'' (b. 1909) * September 28 – Arnold Fanck, German film director who pioneered in the mountain film genre (b. 1889) * September 30 ** Carlos Prats, Chilean general and politician (assassinated) (b. 1915) ** Sofía Cuthbert, wife of Carlos Prats (b. 1918)

October

* October 1 ** Stephen Latchford, American diplomat and aviation expert (b. 1883) ** Frederick Moosbrugger, American admiral (b. 1900) * October 2 – Vasily Shukshin, Soviet actor, writer, screenwriter, and director from the Altai Krai, Altai region (b. 1929) * October 3 – Bessie Louise Pierce, American historian (b. 1888) * October 4 ** Robert Lee Moore, American mathematician (b. 1882) ** Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (b. 1928) * October 5 ** Virgil Miller, American cinematographer (b. 1886) ** Zalman Shazar, 3rd President of Israel (b. 1889) * October 6 – V. K. Krishna Menon, Indian statesman, diplomat and nationalist (b. 1896) * October 7 – Henry J. Cadbury, American biblical scholar and Quaker (b. 1883) * October 8 – Harry Carney, American jazz musician (b. 1910) * October 9 ** Theodore Foley, American Roman Catholic priest and servant of God (b. 1913) ** Oskar Schindler, Sudetgerman businessman (b. 1908) * October 10 – Werner Heyking, Danish actor, ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'' (1971) (b. 1913) *

– Frank Kowalski, American soldier United States Army and United States representative from Connecticut (b. 1907) * October 13 ** Josef Krips, Austrian conductor and violinist (b. 1902) ** Sam Rice, American baseball player (History of the Washington Senators (1901–60), Washington Senators) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1890) ** Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901) * October 14 – Sattar Bahlulzade, Azerbaijani people, Azerbaijani landscape painter (b. 1909) * October 16 – Vlasta Dekanova, Czechoslovak artistic gymnast (b. 1909) * October 17 ** Johannes Krahn, German architect (b. 1908) ** Tomotaka Tasaka, Japanese film director (b. 1902) * October 18 – Anders Lange, Norwegian politician (b. 1902) * October 19 ** Farrukh Ahmad, Bangladeshi poet and writer (b. 1918) ** Nur Ali Elahi, Iranian jurist, musician, and spiritual thinker (b. 1895) * October 20 – Élie Lescot, 29th President of Haiti, leader of the World War II (b. 1883) * October 21 – Donald Goines, American writer of urban fiction (b. 1936) * October 23 – Melchior Lengyel, Hungarian writer, dramatist, and film screenwriter (b. 1880) * October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908) * October 25 – Fahrettin Altay, Ottoman military officer (b. 1880) *

– Bidia Dandaron, Buryat Buddhist practitioner in the USSR (b. 1914) * October 27 ** Paul Frankeur, French actor (b. 1905) ** C. P. Ramanujam, Indian mathematician (b. 1938) * October 30 – Begum Akhtar, Indian singer (b. 1914) * October 31 – Mikheil Chiaureli, Soviet Georgia (country), Georgian filmmaker (b. 1894)

November

– Ralf Harolde, American character actor (b, 1899) * November 2 ** Richard Kroner, German neo-Hegelian philosopher (b. 1884) ** Farid-ud-Din Qadri, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1918) * November 3 – Mamá Tingó, Dominican activist (b. 1921) * November 4 – Harry Fritz (baseball), Harry Fritz, American baseball player Chicago Whales (b. 1890) * November 5 ** Marguerite Namara, American lyric soprano (b. 1888) ** Stafford Repp, American actor noted for his work on the ''Batman (TV Series)'' (b. 1918) * November 7 ** Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican-born American actor (b. 1920) ** Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899) * November 8 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American rhythm & blues singer, songwriter, and pianist (b. 1914) * November 9 – Egon Wellesz, British composer, teacher and musicologist (b. 1885) * November 13 ** Vittorio De Sica, Italian actor and film director (b. 1901) ** Karen Silkwood, American chemical technician and labor union activist (b. 1946) * November 14 – Johnny Mack Brown, American football star and actor (b. 1904) * November 15 ** Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma (b. 1909) ** Konstantin Shayne, Russian-born, American actor (b. 1888) *

– Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (b. 1882) * November 17 ** Erskine Hamilton Childers, Irish politician, 4th President of Ireland (b. 1905) ** Clive Brook, English actor (b. 1887) *

– Gösta Lilliehöök (1884–1974), Gösta Lilliehöök, Swedish pentathlete and 1912 Olympic Games champion (b. 1884) * November 19 – Alessandro Momo, Italian actor (b. 1956) * November 21 ** Julia Navarrete Guerrero, Mexican Roman Catholic religious professed and venerable (b. 1881) ** Frank Martin (composer), Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890) *

– Ilie Antonescu, Romanian general (b. 1894) * November 23 ** Cornelius Ryan, Irish-born American writer (b. 1920) ** Massacre of the Sixty in Ethiopia of government and military officials. *** Abiye Abebe, politician and army officer (b. 1918) *** Aklilu Habte-Wold, politician and 6th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1912) *** Aman Andom, army officer and 1st List of Presidents of Ethiopia, President of Ethiopia (b. 1924) *** Asrate Medhin Kassa, aristocrat and army officer (b. 1922) *** Endelkachew Makonnen, politician and 4th Prime Minister of Ethiopia (b. 1927) * November 25 ** Nick Drake, British musician (b. 1948) ** U Thant, Burmese diplomat and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1909) * November 27 – T. A. Madhuram, Tamil stage & film actress and film producer (b. 1918) * November 28 – Konstantin Melnikov, Soviet architect (b. 1890) * November 29 ** James J. Braddock, American boxer (b. 1905) ** Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b. 1898)

December

Saint Maravillas de Jesús - Catedral de la Almudena

Nanny and the Professor Richard Long 1970

Silent film actor Robert Ellis (SAYRE 23350)

– Anita Brenner, Mexican anthropologist, historian and author (b. 1905) * December 2 ** Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Russian-born, Canadian composer, virtuoso pianist, & violinist (b. 1899) ** Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (b. 1900) ** Max Weber (Swiss politician), Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897) * December 3 – Hans Leibelt, German film actor (b. 1885) * December 4 – Lee Kinsolving, American actor (b. 1938) * December 5 ** Pietro Germi, Italian actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1914) ** Zaharia Stancu, Romanian prose writer (b. 1902) ** Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (b. 1886) * December 6 ** Einar Texas Ljungberg, Swedish Socialist politician (b. 1880) ** Frederik Jacobus Johannes Buytendijk, Dutch anthropologist, biologist and psychologist (b. 1887) ** Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsov, Russian admiral (b. 1904) ** Luigi Salvatorelli, Italian historian and publicist (b. 1886) * December 7 – Ariyavangsagatayana, 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Member of the Chetupon Temple (b. 1896) * December 8 – Nadia Benois, Russian painter and stage designer; also the mother of English actor Peter Ustinov (b. 1896) *

** Hans Traut, German General-Lieutenant in the Nazi Wehrmacht in World War II (b. 1895) ** Ludwig Weber, Austrian bass (b. 1899) * December 10 – Paul Richards (actor), Paul Richards, American actor, ''Beneath the Planet of the Apes'' (b. 1924) * December 11 ** Maravillas de Jesús, Spanish Roman Catholic professed member of the Discalced Carmelites and saint (b. 1891) ** Reed Hadley, American radio, television and film actor (b. 1911) * December 12 – Booker McDaniels, American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues with (Kansas City Monarchs) (b. 1913) *

– John G. Bennett, British mathematician (b. 1897) * December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and journalist (b. 1889) * December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (b. 1902) * December 16 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (b. 1884) *

** Luis Almarcha Hernández, Spanish cleric, politician and Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1887) ** Bing Slamet, Indonesian singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. 1927) * December 18 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887) * December 19 ** Bernd von Brauchitsch, German air force officer (b. 1911) ** Catrano Catrani, Italian-born Argentine director & producer (b. 1910) * December 20 – André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905) * December 21 – Richard Long (actor), Richard Long, American actor (b. 1927) * December 22 – Gordon Purdy, Canadian Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal politician (b. 1888) * December 23 – Jules Rykovich, Croatian-born, American football player (b. 1923) *

– Sentarō Ōmori, Japanese admiral (b. 1892) * December 25 – Gorman Kennedy, Canadian executive and general manager of the Montreal Alouettes from (1957 to 1959) (b. 1907) * December 26 ** Jack Benny, American actor (b. 1894) ** Frank Hussey, American Olympic athlete (b. 1905) * December 27 ** Bob Custer, American film actor (b. 1898) ** Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898) ** Ned Maddrell, last surviving first language, native speaker of the Manx language (b. 1877) * December 28 – Zachary Cope, British physician and surgeon (b. 1881) * December 29 ** Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892), Robert Ellis, American actor (b. 1892) ** William Charles Fuller, Welsh soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1884) * December 30 ** George Howard Earle III, American politician and diplomat; served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939 (b. 1890) ** Sid Terris, American boxer (b. 1904) * December 31 ** Dogen Handa, Japanese professional Go player (b. 1914) ** Robert Pache, Swiss footballer (b. 1897)

Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Paul Flory * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George Emil Palade * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Seán MacBride, Eisaku Satō * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich Hayek

References

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