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January 1 January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in the Gregorian Calendar; 364 days remain until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events ...
– The
United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...
, the
Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. ...
and
Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...
enter Enter or ENTER may refer to: * Enter key, on computer keyboards * Enter, Netherlands, a village * ''Enter'' (magazine), an American technology magazine for children 1983–1985 * ''Enter'' (Finnish magazine), a Finnish computer magazine * Enter ...
the
European Economic Community The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organisation created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisbo ...
, which later becomes the
European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are Geography of the European Union, located primarily in Europe. The u ...
. *
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 * 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in I ...
- The 16-0
Miami Dolphins The Miami Dolphins are a professional American football team based in the Miami metropolitan area. The Dolphins compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the American Football Conference (AFC) AFC East, East division. The team ...
defeated the
Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) NFC East, East ...
in
Super Bowl VII Super Bowl VII was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Miami Dolphins and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Washington Redskins to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for ...
, with the Dolphins ending the season a perfect 17-0. This marked the first and only time that an
NFL The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league in the United States. Composed of 32 teams, it is divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The N ...
team has had a perfect undefeated season, an achievement the team holds to this day. *
January 15 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Roman emperor, Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. *1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to set ...
Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...
: Citing progress in peace negotiations, U.S. President
Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until Resignation of Richard Nixon, his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican ...
announces the suspension of offensive action in
North Vietnam North Vietnam, officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV; ; VNDCCH), was a country in Southeast Asia from 1945 to 1976, with sovereignty fully recognized in 1954 Geneva Conference, 1954. A member of the communist Eastern Bloc, it o ...
. *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 peopl ...
Ferdinand Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, dictator, and Kleptocracy, kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled the c ...
becomes President for Life of the
Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...
. *
January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Heraclius 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 b ...
** '' The Sunshine Showdown'':
George Foreman George Edward Foreman (January 10, 1949 – March 21, 2025) was an American professional boxer, businessman, minister, and author. In boxing, he competed between 1967 and 1997, and was nicknamed "Big George". He was a two-time world heavyweig ...
defeats
Joe Frazier Joseph William Frazier (January 12, 1944November 7, 2011) was an American professional boxer who competed from 1965 to 1981. Nicknamed "Smokin' Joe", he is widely regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He was known for ...
to win the heavyweight world
boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art. Taking place in a boxing ring, it involves two people – usually wearing protective equipment, such as boxing glove, protective gloves, hand wraps, and mouthguards – throwing Punch (combat), punch ...
championship in
Kingston, Jamaica Kingston is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island. It faces a natural harbour protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit (landform), sand spit which connects the town of Por ...
. ** A
Royal Jordanian Royal Jordanian Airlines (formerly known as Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines) is the flag carrier of Jordan with its head office in the capital, Amman. The airline operates scheduled international services over four continents from its main base at ...
Boeing 707 The Boeing 707 is an early American long-range Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner, the first jetliner developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Developed from the Boeing 367-80 prototype, the initial first flew on Decembe ...
flight from
Jeddah Jeddah ( ), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; , ), is a List of governorates of Saudi Arabia, governorate and the largest city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located ...
crashes in
Kano Kano may refer to: Places *Kano State, a state in Northern Nigeria *Kano (city), a city in Nigeria, and the capital of Kano State ** Kingdom of Kano, a Hausa kingdom between the 10th and 14th centuries ** Sultanate of Kano, a Hausa kingdom betwee ...
,
Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...
; 176 people are killed. *
January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...
– U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam w ...
ends with the signing of the
Paris Peace Accords The Paris Peace Accords (), officially the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Viet Nam (), was a peace agreement signed on January 27, 1973, to establish peace in Vietnam and end the Vietnam War. It took effect at 8:00 the follo ...
.


February

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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 ...
– A military insurrection in
Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
poses an institutional challenge to President
Juan María Bordaberry Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (; 17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011), was an Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher who served as the 34th President of Uruguay from 1972 until his resignation in 1976 and the 1st President of the Civic-Military Dic ...
. *
February 21 Events Pre-1600 * 452 or 453 – Severianus, Bishop of Scythopolis, is martyred in Palestine. * 1245 – Thomas, the first known Bishop of Finland, is granted resignation after confessing to torture and forgery. * 1440 – The ...
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 (
Boeing 727 The Boeing 727 is an American Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner that was developed and produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. After the heavier Boeing 707, 707 quad-jet was introduced in 1958, Boeing addressed the demand for shorter ...
) is shot down by
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
i
fighter aircraft Fighter aircraft (early on also ''pursuit aircraft'') are military aircraft designed primarily for air-to-air combat. In military conflict, the role of fighter aircraft is to establish air supremacy, air superiority of the battlespace. Domina ...
over the
Sinai Desert Sinai commonly refers to: * Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Mount Sinai, a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt * Biblical Mount Sinai, the site in the Bible where Moses received the Law of God Sinai may also refer to: * Sinai, South Dakota, a place ...
, after the passenger plane is suspected of being an enemy military plane. There are 108 fatalities, and only five people on board survive (one crew member and four passengers). *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...
– The
Republic of Ireland Ireland ( ), also known as the Republic of Ireland (), is a country in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 Counties of Ireland, counties of the island of Ireland, with a population of about 5.4 million. ...
general election is held.
Liam Cosgrave Liam Cosgrave (13 April 1920 – 4 October 2017) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977, Leader of Fine Gael from 1965 to 1977, Leader of the Opposition from 1965 to 1973, Minister for External Affairs fro ...
becomes the new
Taoiseach The Taoiseach (, ) is the head of government or prime minister of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. The office is appointed by the President of Ireland upon nomination by Dáil Éireann (the lower house of the Oireachtas, Ireland's national legisl ...
.


March

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March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem '' Shahnameh''. * 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between ...
The Troubles The Troubles () were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it began in the late 1960s and is usually deemed t ...
: A
referendum A referendum, plebiscite, or ballot measure is a Direct democracy, direct vote by the Constituency, electorate (rather than their Representative democracy, representatives) on a proposal, law, or political issue. A referendum may be either bin ...
is held in
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...
over whether to reunite with the Republic of Ireland or to stay a part of the UK. The result was 98% remain. The
Provisional Irish Republican Army The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; ) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland ...
responds to the referendum by planting four car bombs in London on the same day, two of which went off, causing one death and injuring over 200 people. *
March 10 Events Pre-1600 * 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. * 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes ...
– Sir
Richard Sharples Sir Richard Christopher Sharples, (6 August 1916 – 10 March 1973) was a British politician and Governor of Bermuda who was shot dead by assassins linked to a small militant Bermudian Black Power group called the Black Beret Cadre. The former ...
, Governor of
Bermuda Bermuda is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. The closest land outside the territory is in the American state of North Carolina, about to the west-northwest. Bermuda is an ...
, is assassinated outside Government House, along with his aide-de-camp. *
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 Ar ...
Comet Kohoutek is discovered. *
March 20 Events Pre-1600 *1206 – Michael IV of Constantinople, Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. *1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish n ...
– A British government White Paper on
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...
proposes the re-establishment of an Assembly elected by proportional representation, with a possible All-Ireland council. *
March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the '' Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas ...
– The
Lofthouse Colliery disaster The Lofthouse Colliery disaster was a mining accident in Lofthouse, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, on Wednesday 21 March 1973, in which seven mine workers died when workings flooded. Disaster Lofthouse Colliery was in Lofthouse G ...
occurs in Great Britain. Seven miners are trapped underground; none survive. *
March 27 Events Pre-1600 * 1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...
– At the 45th Academy Awards, ''
The Godfather ''The Godfather'' is a 1972 American Epic film, epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo's best-selling The Godfather (novel), 1969 novel. The film stars an ensemble cast inc ...
'' wins best picture.


April

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April 1 Events Pre-1600 * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. * 1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his tro ...
**India launches the wildlife conservation program
Project Tiger Project Tiger is a wildlife conservation movement initiated in India to protect the endangered tiger. The project was initiated in 1973 by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change of the Government of India. As of March 2025, there ...
. **Value Added Tax (VAT) is introduced in the United Kingdom. *
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. ...
– The first handheld
mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...
call is made by Martin Cooper of
Motorola Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928 and had been named Motorola since 1947. Many of Motorola's products had been ...
in New York City. *
April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &nd ...
— The
World Trade Center (1973–2001) The original World Trade Center (WTC) was a complex of seven buildings in the Financial District, Manhattan, Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Built primarily between 1966 and 1975, it was dedicated on April 4, 1973, and ...
was officially dedicated. *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921), second Fatimid invasion of Medieval Egypt, Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, Al-Qa'im (Fa ...
**
Fahri Korutürk Fahri Sabit Korutürk (15 August 1903 – 12 October 1987) was a Turkish people, Turkish admiral, diplomat and politician who was the sixth president of Turkey from 1973 to 1980. Before his presidency, he served as the List of commanders of the ...
becomes the sixth president of
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
. ** ''
Pioneer 11 ''Pioneer 11'' (also known as ''Pioneer G'') is a NASA robotic space probe launched on April 5, 1973, to study the asteroid belt, the environment around Jupiter and Saturn, the solar wind, and cosmic rays. It was the first probe to Exploration ...
'' is launched on a mission to study the
Solar System The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies. The International Astronomical Union, the authoritative body regarding astronomical nomenclature, specifies capitalizing the names of all individual astronomical objects but uses mixed "Sola ...
. *
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. * ...
Ron Blomberg Ronald Mark Blomberg (born August 23, 1948), nicknamed "Boomer", is an American former professional baseball player and minor league manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a designated hitter, first baseman, and right fielder. He played ...
of the
New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Am ...
becomes the first
designated hitter The designated hitter (DH) is a baseball player who bats in place of another position player, most commonly the pitcher. Unlike other players in a team's lineup, they generally only play as an offensive player and usually do not play defense as ...
in
Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...
. *
April 7 Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Attila the Hun captures Metz in France, killing most of its inhabitants and burning the town. * 529 – First '' Corpus Juris Civilis'', a fundamental work in jurisprudence, is issued by Eastern Roman Em ...
– ''
Tu te reconnaîtras "Tu te reconnaîtras" (; "You'll Recognise Yourself"), is a song recorded by French singer Anne-Marie David, with music composed by and lyrics written by . It in the Eurovision Song Contest 1973 held in Luxembourg, winning the contest. Back ...
'' by
Anne-Marie David Anne-Marie David (born 23 May 1952) is a French singer. She has represented both Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest, Luxembourg and France in the Eurovision Song Contest, France at the Eurovision Song Contest, winning in Eurovision Song ...
(music by Claude Morgan, text by Vline Buggy) wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1973 The Eurovision Song Contest 1973 was the 18th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, following the country's victory at the with the song " Après toi" by Vicky Leandros. Organised by the European ...
for
Luxembourg Luxembourg, officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a landlocked country in Western Europe. It is bordered by Belgium to the west and north, Germany to the east, and France on the south. Its capital and most populous city, Luxembour ...
. *
April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 140 ...
** Operation Spring of Youth:
Israel Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in West Asia. It Borders of Israel, shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. Isr ...
i commandos raid
Beirut Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...
, assassinating 3 leaders of the Palestinian Resistance Movement. The Lebanese army's inaction brings the immediate resignation of Prime Minister
Saeb Salam Saeb Salam (17 January 1905 – 21 January 2000) () was a Lebanese politician, who served as Prime Minister six times between 1952 and 1973. Following his death, the Lebanese daily ''As-Safir'' described Salam as "most successful in dealing ...
, a
Sunni Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam and the largest religious denomination in the world. It holds that Muhammad did not appoint any successor and that his closest companion Abu Bakr () rightfully succeeded him as the caliph of the Mu ...
Muslim. ** The Islamic Republic of
Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
introduced its new constitution, its supreme law. *
April 15 Events Pre-1600 * 769 – The Lateran Council ends by condemning the Council of Hieria and anathematizing its iconoclastic rulings. * 1071 – Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guisca ...
Naim Talu Mehmet Naim Talu (22 July 1919 – 15 May 1998) was a Turkish economist, banker, politician and former prime minister of Turkey. Biography Naim Talu was born in Istanbul in 1919. He was educated at Kabataş Erkek Lisesi. After graduatin ...
, a former civil servant, forms the new government of
Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...
(36th government). *
April 17 Events Pre-1600 * 1080 – Harald III of Denmark dies and is succeeded by Canute IV, who would later be the first Dane to be canonized. * 1349 – The rule of the Bavand dynasty in Mazandaran is brought to an end by the murder of H ...
– The German counter-terrorist force
GSG 9 , formerly , is the police tactical unit of the German Federal Police (Bundespolizei). The unit is responsible for combatting terrorism and violent crime, including organized crime. In addition to its headquarters location in Sankt Augustin-H ...
is officially formed in response to the Munich massacre.


May

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May 3 Events Pre-1600 * 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. * 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties ...
– The
Sears Tower The Willis Tower, formerly and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110- story, skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan ...
in Chicago, United States, is topped-out, becoming the world's tallest building at . *
May 5 Events Pre-1600 * 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins. * 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. * 1260 – ...
Shambu Tamang becomes the youngest person to climb to the summit of
Mount Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...
. * May 10 – The Polisario Front, a Sahrawi movement dedicated to the independence of Spanish Sahara, is formed. * May 11 – The Data Act (Sweden), Data Act (Sw. ''Datalagen'') − the world's first national data protection law − is enacted in Sweden. * May 14 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched. * May 18 – Second Cod War: Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed limit around Iceland. * May 25 ** Skylab 2 (Pete Conrad, Paul J. Weitz, Paul Weitz, Joseph P. Kerwin, Joseph Kerwin) is launched on a mission to repair damage to the recently launched Skylab space station. ** Héctor José Cámpora becomes democratic president of the Argentine Republic ending the 1966 to 1973 Revolución Argentina military dictatorship.


June

* June 1 – The Greek junta, Greek military junta abolishes the Monarchy of Greece, monarchy and proclaims a Third Hellenic Republic, republic. * June 3 – A Tupolev Tu-144 crashes at the Paris air show; 15 are killed. * June 10 – Henri Pescarolo and co-driver Gérard Larrousse (both France) win the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans, 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Equipe Matra Sports, ''Equipe Matra'' Matra MS670, MS670B. * June 20 – The Ezeiza massacre occurs in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Snipers shoot at left-wing Peronists, killing at least 13 and injuring more than 300. * June 24 ** Leonid Brezhnev addresses the American people on television, the first Soviet leader to do so. ** UpStairs Lounge arson attack, an as-yet unsolved attack on a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, in which 32 patrons are killed. * June 25 – Erskine Hamilton Childers is elected the 4th President of Ireland. * June 26 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome, nine people are killed in the explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. * June 27 – 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état, Coup d'état in
Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
: pressed by the military, President
Juan María Bordaberry Juan María Bordaberry Arocena (; 17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011), was an Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher who served as the 34th President of Uruguay from 1972 until his resignation in 1976 and the 1st President of the Civic-Military Dic ...
dissolves Parliament; a 12-year-long Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay, civic-military dictatorship begins. * June 28 – Elections are held for the Northern Ireland Assembly, 1973, Northern Ireland Assembly, which will lead to power-sharing between Unionism in Ireland, unionists and Irish nationalism, nationalists in
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...
for the first time. * June 30 – A Solar eclipse of June 30, 1973, very long total solar eclipse occurs. During the entire second millennium, only seven total solar eclipses exceeded seven minutes of totality.


July

* July 3 – Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). * July 5 – The catastrophic BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion) occurs in Kingman, Arizona, United States, following a fire that broke out as propane was being transferred from a railroad car to a storage tank, killing 11 firefighters. This explosion becomes a classic incident, studied in fire department training programs worldwide. * July 10 – The Bahamas gains full independence within the Commonwealth of Nations. * July 11 – Varig Flight 820 crashes near Orly, France; 123 people are killed. * July 16 – Watergate scandal: Former White House aide Alexander Butterfield informs the United States Senate Watergate Committee that President
Richard Nixon Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913April 22, 1994) was the 37th president of the United States, serving from 1969 until Resignation of Richard Nixon, his resignation in 1974. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican ...
had secretly recorded potentially incriminating conversations. * July 17 – King Mohammed Zahir Shah of Afghanistan is 1973 Afghan coup d'état, deposed by his cousin Mohammed Daoud Khan while in Italy undergoing eye surgery. * July 20 – France resumes nuclear bomb tests in Mururoa Atoll, over the protests of Australia and New Zealand. * July 21 – Lillehammer affair: Agents of Mossad, the Israeli secret intelligence agency, shoot and kill a Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, Norway, mistakenly believing him to be a senior member of the Palestinian Black September Organization. * July 23 – The Avianca Building in Bogotá, Colombia, suffers a serious fire, in which four people are killed. * July 25 – The Soviet Union, Soviet ''Mars 5'' space probe is launched. * July 28 – Skylab 3 (Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, Alan Bean) is launched, to conduct various medical and scientific experiments aboard Skylab. * July 31 – A Delta Air Lines DC-9 aircraft flying as Delta Air Lines Flight 173 lands short of Logan Airport runway at Boston, United States, in poor visibility, striking a sea wall about 165 feet (50 m) to the right of the runway centerline and about 3000 feet (914 m) short. All 6 crew members and 83 passengers are killed; one of the passengers died several months after the accident.


August

image:Flag of CARICOM.svg, 150px, Flag of CARICOM * August 1 – Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is inaugurated. * August 2 – A flash fire kills 51 at the Summerland disaster, Summerland amusement centre at Douglas, Isle of Man. * August 5 ** Black September Organization, Black September members open fire at the Athens airport; 3 people are killed, 55 injured. ** Mars 6, also known as 3MP No. 50P, is launched by the Soviet Union to explore Mars. * August 8 – South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung is kidnapped in Tokyo by the National Intelligence Service (South Korea), KCIA. * August 15 – The U.S. bombing of Cambodia ends, officially halting 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia according to the Case–Church Amendment-an act that prohibits military operations in Laos, Cambodia, and North Vietnam, North and South Vietnam, South Vietnam as a follow-up of the
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. * August 23 – The Norrmalmstorg robbery occurs, famous for the origin of the term Stockholm syndrome. * August 25 – Disappearance of Joanne Ratcliffe and Kirste Gordon: Two Australian girls go missing whilst attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval, never to be seen again.


September

* September 9 – Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart becomes List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions, World Drivers' Champion when his Tyrrell Racing, Tyrrell Tyrrell 003, 003-Cosworth finishes fourth in the 1973 Italian Grand Prix at Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza. * September 11 – Chile's democratically elected government is overthrown in 1973 Chilean coup d'état, a violent military coup after serious political instability. President Salvador Allende allegedly Death of Salvador Allende, commits suicide during the coup in the La Moneda Palace, presidential palace and General Augusto Pinochet heads a US-backed military junta that governs Chile for the next 17 years. * September 15 – Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, becomes King of Sweden following the death of his grandfather, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, King Gustaf VI Adolf. * September 18 – The two German Republics, the West Germany, Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), are admitted to the United Nations. * September 20 ** Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in a singles tennis match billed as the "Battle of the Sexes". ** Jim Croce, Maury Muehleisen and four others are killed in a plane crash shortly after takeoff following a concert at Northwestern Louisiana University in Natchitoches. * September 27 ** Soviet space program: Soyuz 12 (Vasily Lazarev, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Oleg Makarov), the first Soviet manned flight since the Soyuz 11 tragedy in 1971, is launched. ** Luís Cabral declares the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from the Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo regime in Portugal. It is later granted in September 1974.


October

* October 6 – Yom Kippur War begins: The fourth and largest Arab–Israeli conflict begins, as Egyptian and Syrian forces attack Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights on Yom Kippur. * October 10 – Spiro Agnew resigns as Vice President of the United States. * October 14 – 1973 Thai popular uprising, Thai popular uprising: Students revolt in Bangkok – In the Thammasat student uprising over 100,000 people protest in Thailand against the Thanom military government, 77 are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. * October 15 – 1973 Pacific typhoon season#Typhoon Ruth .28Narsing.29, Typhoon Ruth crosses Luzon,
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, killing 27 people and causing $5 million in damage. * October 17 – An OPEC oil embargo against several countries supporting Israel triggers the 1973 energy crisis. * October 20 ** The Saturday Night Massacre: U.S. President
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orders Attorney General Elliot Richardson to dismiss Watergate scandal, Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refuses and resigns, along with Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus. Solicitor General Robert Bork, third in line at the United States Department of Justice, Department of Justice, then fires Cox. The event prompts calls for Nixon's impeachment. ** The Sydney Opera House in Australia is opened by Queen Elizabeth II after 14 years of construction work. * October 25 – The Yom Kippur War ends. * October 26 – The United Nations recognizes the independence of Guinea-Bissau. * October 30 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus Strait for the first time in history.


November

* November 3 ** Pan Am Flight 160, Pan Am flight 160, a Boeing 707#Notable accidents, Boeing 707-321C, crashes at Logan International Airport, Boston, killing three people. ** Mariner program: NASA launches ''Mariner 10'' toward Mercury (planet), Mercury (on March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet). * November 7 – The Congress of the United States overrides President
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's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval. * November 8 – Millennium '73, a festival hosted by Prem Rawat, Guru Maharaj Ji at the Astrodome, is called by supporters the "most significant event in human history". * November 11 – Egypt and
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sign a United States-sponsored cease-fire accord. * November 16 ** Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 (Gerald P. Carr, Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission. ** U.S. President
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signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. * November 17 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurs against the military regime in Athens, Greece. * November 25 – Greek dictator Georgios Papadopoulos is ousted in a military coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis. * November 27 – The United States Senate votes 92–3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. * November 29 – 104 people are killed in a Taiyo department store fire in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan. * November – Sisowath Kossamak, Queen Sisowath Kossamak of Cambodia is released from house arrest to Beijing.


December

* December – Chile breaks Chile–Sweden relations, diplomatic contacts with Sweden. * December 1 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia. * December 3 – Pioneer program: ''Pioneer 10'' sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter. * December 6 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; he is sworn in the same day. * December 14 – Rhodesia executes two Blacks at Salisbury Central Prison for murder. * December 18 ** Soviet space program: Soyuz 13 (Pyotr Klimuk, Valentin Lebedev) is launched. ** The Islamic Development Bank is created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) (effective August 12, 1974). * December 20 – Spanish prime minister Luis Carrero-Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero-Blanco, Luis Carrero Blanco is assassinated in Madrid by the separatist organization ETA (separatist group), ETA. * December 28 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States. * December 30 – Terrorist Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, Carlos fails in his attempt to assassinate British businessman Joseph Sieff.


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Births


January

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– Shelda Bede, Brazilian beach volleyball player * January 9 ** Sean Paul, Jamaican singer ** Wang Junxia, Chinese long-distance runner * January 11 – Rahul Dravid, Indian cricket player and coach. * January 12 – Hande Yener, Turkish singer * January 13 – Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player *
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 * 1761 – The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in I ...
– Giancarlo Fisichella, Italian racing driver *
January 15 Events Pre-1600 *AD 69, 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Roman emperor, Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. *1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to set ...
** Essam El Hadary, Egyptian goalkeeper ** Tomáš Galásek, Czech football player *
January 17 Events Pre-1600 * 38 BC – Octavian divorces his wife Scribonia and marries Livia Drusilla, ending the fragile peace between the Second Triumvirate and Sextus Pompey. * 1362 – Saint Marcellus' flood kills at least 25,000 peopl ...
** Cuauhtémoc Blanco, Mexican footballer and politician, Governor of Morelos 2018-2024 ** Johnny Hajjar, French politician * January 19 ** Ann Kristin Aarønes, Norwegian footballer ** Yevgeny Sadovyi, Russian swimmer * January 20 – Queen Mathilde of Belgium *
January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Heraclius 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 b ...
– Rogério Ceni, Brazilian football player and coach * January 26 – Brendan Rodgers, Northern Irish football manager *
January 27 Events Pre-1600 * 98 – Trajan succeeds his adoptive father Nerva as Roman emperor. * 945 – The co-emperors Stephen and Constantine are overthrown and forced to become monks by Constantine VII, who becomes sole emperor of the ...
– Shadmehr Aghili, Iranian pop singer, musician and composer * January 29 – Louise Hindsgavl, Danish artist * January 30 – Jalen Rose, American basketball player * January 31 – Portia de Rossi, Australian-American actress


February

* February 1 ** Yuri Landman, Dutch artist and musician ** Óscar Pérez Rojas, Mexican football goalkeeper * February 4 – Oscar De La Hoya, American boxer * February 5 ** Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch pop singer ** Deng Yaping, Chinese table tennis player * February 7 – Juwan Howard, American basketball player * February 9 ** Ferdy Sambo, former Indonesian police officer ** Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast * February 10 – Gunn-Rita Dahle, Norwegian mountain biker * February 11 ** Jeon Do-yeon, South Korean actress ** Mishal Husain, British news presenter ** Varg Vikernes, Norwegian rock musician * February 12 – Tara Strong, Canadian actress and voice actress * February 15 ** Anna Dogonadze, German trampoline gymnast ** Amy Van Dyken, American swimmer ** Sarah Wynter, Australian actress * February 16 – Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete * February 18 – Claude Makélélé, French footballer * February 22 – Shota Arveladze, Georgian football player and coach * February 24 ** Alexei Kovalev, Russian ice hockey player ** Yordan Yovchev, Bulgarian gymnast * February 25 – Julio Iglesias Jr., Spanish singer * February 26 ** ATB (DJ), ATB, German DJ and music producer ** Ole Gunnar Solskjær, Norwegian footballer ** Jenny Thompson, American swimmer * February 27 ** Peter Andre, English singer and television personality ** Li Bingbing, Chinese actress *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...
– Eric Lindros, Canadian hockey player


March

* March 1 ** Jack Davenport, English actor ** Chris Webber, American basketball player * March 2 – Vidya Malvade, Indian actress * March 3 – Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player * March 4 – Penny Mordaunt, British politician * March 9 – Matteo Salvini, Italian politician *
March 10 Events Pre-1600 * 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. * 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes ...
– Eva Herzigová, Czech model and actress * March 13 ** Edgar Davids, Dutch footballer ** David Draiman, American singer and songwriter ** Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Icelandic actor * March 17 – Caroline Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs) * March 19 – Magnus Hedman, Swedish footballer * March 23 ** Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer ** Jason Kidd, American basketball player * March 24 ** Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer ** Jim Parsons, American actor and comedian * March 25 – Anders Fridén, Swedish musician * March 26 – Larry Page, American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Google (2011-2015) * March 28 – Umaga (wrestler), Umaga, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2009) * March 29 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer * March 30 – Jan Koller, Czech footballer


April

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April 1 Events Pre-1600 * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. * 1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his tro ...
** Stephen Fleming, New Zealand cricket captain ** Rachel Maddow, American political commentator * April 2 – Roselyn Sánchez, Puerto Rican-American actress *
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. ...
– Jamie Bamber, English actor *
April 4 Events Pre-1600 * 503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 &nd ...
** David Blaine, American magician ** Loris Capirossi, Italian motorcycle racer *
April 5 Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The Fatimid invasion of Egypt (919–921), second Fatimid invasion of Medieval Egypt, Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, Al-Qa'im (Fa ...
** Élodie Bouchez, French actress ** Pharrell Williams, American musician and producer *
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. * ...
– Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress and singer * April 8 ** Emma Caulfield, American actress ** Christof May, German theologian *
April 10 Events Pre-1600 * 428 – Nestorius becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople. * 837 – Halley's Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). * 140 ...
– Roberto Carlos, Brazilian footballer * April 11 – Jennifer Esposito, American actress * April 12 ** Juan Caguaripano, Venezuelan military officer and torture victim ** Christina Moore, American actress ** Amr Waked, Egyptian film, television and stage actor * April 13 – Sergey Shnurov, Russian singer * April 14 ** Roberto Ayala, Argentine footballer ** Adrien Brody, American actor * April 16 – Akon, Senegalese Americans, Senegalese American rapper, R&B singer-songwriter and record producer * April 18 – Haile Gebrselassie, Ethiopian long-distance runner * April 19 – George Gregan, Australian rugby union footballer * April 21 – Katsuyuki Konishi, Japanese voice actor * April 23 – Cem Yılmaz, Turkish comedian and actor * April 24 ** Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer ** Lee Westwood, English golfer * April 27 – Sharlee D'Angelo, Swedish guitarist * April 28 ** Jorge Garcia, American actor and comedian ** Pauleta, Portuguese footballer ** Elisabeth Röhm, German-American actress * April 29 – David Belle, French actor and stunt performer


May

* May 1 ** Paul Burke (rugby union, born 1973), Paul Burke, Irish rugby player ** Diana Hayden, Miss World and Indian actress ** Oliver Neuville, German footballer * May 2 – Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, German director *
May 3 Events Pre-1600 * 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. * 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties ...
– Michael Reiziger, Dutch footballer * May 4 – Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer *
May 5 Events Pre-1600 * 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins. * 1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. * 1260 – ...
– Johan Hedberg ("Moose"), Swedish hockey goaltender * May 7 – Paolo Savoldelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist * May 8 – Hiromu Arakawa, Japanese manga artist * May 9 – Tegla Loroupe, Kenyan long-distance runner * May 10 ** Keylla Hernández, Puerto Rican television reporter (d. 2018) ** Rüştü Reçber, Turkish football goalkeeper * May 12 – Robert Tinkler, Canadian voice actor * May 14 ** Natalie Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints (group), All Saints) ** Shanice, African-American singer * May 16 ** Jason Acuña, American skateboarder and actor ** Tori Spelling, American actress * May 17 ** Sasha Alexander, American actress ** Josh Homme, American musician * May 20 – Elsa Lunghini, French actress and singer * May 21 – Noel Fielding, British comedian * May 24 ** Bartolo Colón, Dominican baseball player ** Ruslana, Ukrainian pop star, activist, Eurovision Song Contest 2004 winner ** Vladimír Šmicer, Czech footballer * May 25 ** Jean-Pierre Canlis, American glass artist ** Demetri Martin, American actor and comedian * May 27 – Jack McBrayer, American actor and comedian * May 31 – Dominique van Roost, Belgian tennis player


June

* June 1 ** Fred Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer ** Adam Garcia, Australian actor and singer ** Heidi Klum, German model ** Derek Lowe, American baseball player * June 2 ** Carlos Acosta, Cuban-born ballet dancer ** Kevin Feige, American film producer and president of Marvel Studios * June 8 – Lexa Doig, Canadian actress * June 9 – Tedy Bruschi, American football player * June 10 – Faith Evans, American singer * June 14 – Ceca (singer), Ceca, Serbian folk singer * June 15 ** Neil Patrick Harris, American actor, comedian, singer, presenter and host ** Dean McAmmond, Canadian hockey player ** Greg Vaughan, American actor * June 16 – Federica Mogherini, Italian politician * June 17 ** Aurélie Filippetti, French politician and novelist ** Leander Paes, Indian tennis player * June 19 – Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer * June 20 – Josh Shapiro, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania * June 21 – Zuzana Čaputová, Slovak politician, President of Slovakia * June 22 ** Carson Daly, American television personality, host of NBC's ''The Voice (U.S. TV series), The Voice'' and ''Last Call with Carson Daly'' ** Giorgio Pasotti, Italian actor and martial arts athlete * June 23 ** Davies Chisopa, Zambian politician ** Steffen Dittes, German politician ** Marija Naumova (Marie N), Latvian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2002 winner * June 24 – Jonathan Lambert (actor), Jonathan Lambert, French actor and comedian * June 25 – Jamie Redknapp, English footballer * June 26 – Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor * June 27 ** Olve Eikemo, Norwegian musician ** Gonzalo López-Gallego, Spanish film director * June 28 ** Adrián Annus, Hungarian athlete ** Kjetil-Vidar Haraldstad, Frost, Norwegian musician ** Andre Lange, German Olympic bobsledder


July

* July 1 – Akhilesh Yadav, Indian politician * July 3 – Patrick Wilson, American actor * July 4 – Gackt, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor * July 5 – Marcus Allbäck, Swedish footballer and coach * July 7 – Yoon Kyung-shin, South Korean handball player * July 8 – Kathleen Robertson, Canadian actress and producer * July 11 – Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete * July 12 ** Inoke Afeaki, Tongan rugby union footballer ** Christian Vieri, Italian footballer * July 13 ** Roberto Martínez, Spanish football manager ** Danny Williams (boxer), Danny Williams, British professional boxer * July 14 ** Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter ** Candela Peña, Spanish actress * July 15 – Yasemin Şamdereli, Turkish-German actress, screenwriter and film director * July 16 ** Stefano Garzelli, Italian professional road racing cyclist ** Sandra Pires, Brazilian beach volleyball player * July 17 – Daimaou Kosaka, Japanese comedian * July 18 – Chi In-jin, South Korean boxer * July 19 ** Aílton (footballer, born 1973), Aílton, Brazilian football player ** Raja Krishnamoorthi, Indian born-American politician and lawyer ** Saïd Taghmaoui, French-American actor and screenwriter * July 20 ** Omar Epps, American actor ** Peter Forsberg, Swedish hockey player ** Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway * July 22 ** Rufus Wainwright, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and composer ** Jaime Camil, Mexican actor and singer * July 23 ** Fran Healy (musician), Fran Healy, Scottish singer-songwriter ** Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern * July 26 – Kate Beckinsale, English actress * July 30 ** Markus Näslund, Swedish ice hockey player ** Sonu Nigam, Indian singer


August

* August 1 – Edurne Pasaban, Basque Spanish mountaineer * August 2 – Susie O'Neill, Australian swimmer * August 3 – Stephen Graham, English actor * August 4 – Marcos (footballer, born 1973), Marcos, Brazilian footballer * August 6 ** Asia Carrera, American actress ** Vera Farmiga, American actress, director and producer * August 9 ** Kevin McKidd, Scottish actor ** Filippo Inzaghi, Italian footballer ** Oleksandr Ponomariov, Ukrainian singer * August 10 ** Lisa Raymond, American tennis player ** Javier Zanetti, Argentine football player * August 11 – Carolyn Murphy, American model * August 14 ** Jared Borgetti, Mexican footballer ** Jay-Jay Okocha, Nigerian footballer ** Kieren Perkins, Australian swimmer * August 19 ** Marco Materazzi, Italian football player ** HRH Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway, Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway * August 21 ** Sergey Brin, Russian-born American entrepreneur, co-founder of Google ** Nikolai Valuev, Russian heavyweight boxing champion * August 22 ** Howie D., American singer (Backstreet Boys) ** Kristen Wiig, American actress, comedian and writer * August 24 ** Dave Chappelle, African-American actor and comedian ** Inge de Bruijn, Dutch swimmer ** Grey DeLisle, American voice actress, comedian and singer-songwriter * August 31 – Scott Niedermayer, Canadian ice hockey player


September

* September 1 – Ram Kapoor, Indian actor * September 4 – Diosbelys Hurtado, Cuban boxer * September 5 ** Paddy Considine, British actor, filmmaker and musician ** Rose McGowan, American actress * September 6 ** Carlo Cudicini, Italian footballer ** Greg Rusedski, Canadian-British tennis player ** Merika Coleman, British-American politician and member of the Alabama Legislature since 2002 * September 7 – Shannon Elizabeth, American actress * September 11 – Sohrab Bakhtiarizadeh, Iranian footballer * September 12 ** Tarana Burke, American civil rights activist ** Darren Campbell, British athlete ** Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013) * September 13 – Fabio Cannavaro, Italian footballer * September 14 ** Andrew Lincoln, English actor ** Nas, African-American rapper * September 15 – Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland, né Olof Daniel Westling, Swedish prince, married to Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, Crown Princess Victoria * September 18 ** James Marsden, American actor ** Ami Onuki, Japanese singer ** Mark Shuttleworth, South African entrepreneur * September 19 ** José Azevedo, Portuguese cyclist ** David Zepeda, Mexican actor, model and singer * September 20 – Jo Pavey, English distance runner * September 21 ** Driulis González, Cuban judoka ** Virginia Ruano Pascual, Spanish tennis player ** Oswaldo Sánchez, Mexican footballer * September 25 – Bridgette Wilson-Sampras, American actress * September 29 – Alfie Boe, English tenor


October

* October 2 ** Lene Nystrøm, Norwegian singer (Aqua (band), Aqua) ** Proof (rapper), Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006) ** Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian drag queen, comedian and singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2007 runner-up * October 3 – Neve Campbell, Canadian actress * October 4 – Abyss (wrestler), Chris Parks, American professional wrestler * October 5 – Cédric Villani, French mathematician and politician * October 6 ** Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor ** Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player * October 7 ** Dida (footballer, born 1973), Dida, Brazilian footballer ** Sami Hyypiä, Finnish football player and coach * October 8 – Kari Korhonen, Finnish cartoonist * October 10 – Mario Lopez, American actor * October 11 – Daisuke Sakaguchi, Japanese voice actor * October 13 ** Matt Hughes (fighter), Matt Hughes, American mixed martial arts fighter ** Nanako Matsushima, Japanese actress * October 14 ** George Floyd, African-American victim of police brutality (d. 2020) ** Lasha Zhvania, Georgian politician * October 15 – Susy Pryde, New Zealand cyclist * October 17 – Deniz Uğur, Turkish actress * October 18 – Sergey Bezrukov, Russian screen and stage actor * October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer and pianist * October 22 – Andrés Palop, Spanish football player and coach * October 26 – Seth MacFarlane, American actor, screenwriter, producer, director and singer * October 28 ** Maryam Nawaz, Pakistani politician ** Montel Vontavious Porter, American professional wrestler ** Aleksandar Stanojević, Serbian footballer and manager * October 29 – Robert Pires, French football player * October 30 ** Silvia Corzo, Colombian newsreader ** Edge (wrestler), Edge, Canadian professional wrestler


November

* November 1 ** Assia (singer), Assia, Algerian singer ** Li Xiaoshuang, Chinese gymnast ** Aishwarya Rai, Indian actress, Miss World 1994 * November 2 – Marisol Nichols, American actress * November 3 ** Sticky Fingaz, Kirk Jones, African-American rapper (Onyx (hip hop group), Onyx) ** Mick Thomson, American guitarist * November 4 – Steven Ogg, Canadian actor * November 7 ** Yunjin Kim, South Korean-American film and theater actress ** Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer * November 9 – Nick Lachey, American actor, singer and television personality and host * November 10 – Patrik Berger, Czech footballer * November 17 – Alexei Urmanov, Russian figure skater * November 26 – Peter Facinelli, American actor * November 27 – Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director * November 29 – Ryan Giggs, Welsh footballer * November 30 ** Nimród Antal, Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and actor ** Christian Cage, Christian, Canadian professional wrestler ** Im Chang-jung, South Korean actor


December

* December 2 ** Monica Seles, Hungarian-Yugoslavian tennis player ** Jan Ullrich, German professional road bicycle racer **Grant Wahl, American sports journalist (d. 2022) * December 3 ** Holly Marie Combs, American actress ** Super Crazy, Francisco Islas Rueda, Mexican professional wrestler * December 4 – Tyra Banks, American supermodel, talk show host * December 5 ** Arik Benado, Israeli footballer ** Sorin Grindeanu, 65th Prime Minister of Romania * December 7 ** Terrell Owens, American football player ** Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer ** Nelson Mensah, Ghanaian football player * December 8 – Corey Taylor, American rock vocalist (Slipknot (band), Slipknot, ''Stone Sour'') * December 9 – Bárbara Padilla, American operatic soprano * December 10 – Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan-Mexican actress * December 11 – Mos Def, African-American rapper and actor * December 12 – Paz Lenchantin, Argentine-American musician * December 14 ** Tom S. Englund, Swedish musician ** Tomasz Radzinski, Canadian soccer player ** Thuy Trang, Vietnamese-born actress (d. 2001) * December 15 – Surya Bonaly, French figure skater * December 17 – Paula Radcliffe, British athlete * December 18 – Darryl Brown (cricketer, born 1973), Darryl Brown, Trinidad and West Indian cricketer * December 20 – Antti Kasvio, Finnish swimmer * December 23 – Dmytro Derevytskyy, Ukrainian entrepreneur * December 27 – Wilson Cruz, American actor * December 28 ** Seth Meyers, American actor and comedian ** Ids Postma, Dutch speed skater * December 30 – Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete * December 31 – Nikolay Tsiskaridze, Russian dancer


Deaths


January

* January 2 – Eleazar López Contreras, 45th President of Venezuela (b. 1883) * January 11 – Isabel Randolph, American actress (b. 1889) * January 16 – Nellie Yu Roung Ling, Chinese dancer, lady-in-waiting to Qing Imperial Court (b. 1882) * January 19 – Max Adrian, Irish actor (b. 1903) *
January 22 Events Pre-1600 * 613 – Eight-month-old Heraclius 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 b ...
– Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908) * January 23 – Kid Ory, American musician (b. 1886) * January 24 – J. Carrol Naish, American actor (b. 1896) * January 26 – Edward G. Robinson, American actor (b. 1893) * January 28 – John Banner, Austrian-born American actor (b. 1910) * January 30 – Jack MacGowran, Irish film actor (b. 1918) * January 31 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)


February

* February 11 – J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) * February 15 – Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924) * February 16 – Francisco Caamaño, 50th President of the Dominican Republic (executed) (b. 1932) * February 18 – Frank Costello, Italian-American Mafia gangster and crime boss (b. 1891) * February 19 ** Ivan T. Sanderson, Scottish-American naturalist, cryptozoologist and writer (b. 1911) ** Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892) * February 22 ** Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (b. 1899) ** Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900) * February 23 – Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895) *
February 28 Events Pre-1600 *202 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han, Liu Bang is enthroned as the Emperor of China, beginning four centuries of rule by the Han dynasty. * 870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic), Fourth Council of Co ...
– Cecil Kellaway, South African actor (b. 1890)


March

* March 3 – Vera Panova, Soviet-Russian writer (b. 1905) * March 6 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) *
March 8 Events Pre-1600 * 1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem '' Shahnameh''. * 1126 – Following the death of his mother, queen Urraca of León, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of León. * 1262 – Battle of Hausbergen between ...
– Benjamín de Arriba y Castro, Spanish Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal (b. 1886) *
March 10 Events Pre-1600 * 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end. * 298 – Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes ...
** Bull Connor, American politician, civil rights opponent (b. 1897) ** Richard Sharples, Sir Richard Sharples, British politician, Governor of Bermuda (b. 1916) (assassinated) ** Robert Siodmak, German-born American film director (b. 1900) * March 14 – Howard H. Aiken, American computing pioneer (b. 1900) * March 17 – Giuseppe Ferretto, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899) *
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 Ar ...
** Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist (b. 1880) ** Lauritz Melchior, Danish opera singer (b. 1890) *
March 21 Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the '' Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas ...
– Âşık Veysel, Turkish poet, songwriter and saz player (b. 1894) * March 22 – Hilda Geiringer, Austrian mathematician (b. 1893) * March 23 – Ken Maynard, American actor (b. 1895) * March 25 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourg-born American photographer (b. 1879) * March 26 – Sir Noël Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899) * March 30 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish nobleman and aviation pioneer (b. 1903)


April

* April 8 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish artist (b. 1881) * April 12 – Arthur Freed, American film producer (b. 1894) * April 13 ** Henry Darger, American outsider artist and writer (b. 1892) ** Dudley Senanayake, 2nd Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1911) * April 14 – Károly Kerényi, Hungarian philologist and mythologist (b. 1897) * April 16 ** Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944) ** István Kertész (conductor), Istvan Kertesz, Hungarian conductor (b. 1929) * April 19 – Hans Kelsen, Austrian-born legal theorist (b. 1881) * April 21 ** Merian C. Cooper, American aviator, director and producer (b. 1893) ** Arthur Fadden, Sir Arthur Fadden, Australian politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894) * April 25 ** Fouad Chehab, 8th President of Lebanon (b. 1902) ** Frank Jack Fletcher, American admiral (b. 1885) * April 26 – Irene Ryan, American actress (b. 1902) * April 28 – Jacques Maritain, French Catholic philosopher (b. 1882)


May

* May 1 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter (b. 1914) * May 6 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (b. 1933) * May 8 – Alexander Vandegrift, American general (b. 1887) * May 11 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919) * May 12 – Frances Marion, American screenwriter (b. 1888). * May 16 – Jacques Lipchitz, French-American sculptor (b. 1891) * May 18 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician (b. 1880) * May 20 – Jarno Saarinen, Finnish motorcycle racer (b. 1945) * May 21 ** Ivan Konev, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1897) ** Vaughn Monroe, American singer (b. 1911) * May 26 – Karl Löwith, German philosopher (b. 1897) * May 27 – Constantin Daicoviciu, Romanian historian and archaeologist (b. 1898)


June

* June 8 – Emmy Göring, German actress, second wife of Hermann Göring (b. 1893) * June 9 – Erich von Manstein, German field marshal (b. 1887) * June 10 – William Inge, American playwright (b. 1913) * June 30 – Nancy Mitford, English novelist (b. 1904)


July

* July 2 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916) * July 3 – Karel Ančerl, Czechoslovak conductor (b. 1908) * July 6 ** Joe E. Brown, American actor and comedian (b. 1891) ** Otto Klemperer, German conductor (b. 1885) * July 7 ** Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (b. 1895) ** Veronica Lake, American actress (b. 1922) * July 8 ** Arthur Calwell, Australian politician (b. 1896) ** Ben-Zion Dinur, Russian-born Israeli educator, historian and politician (b. 1884) ** Wilfred Rhodes, English cricketer (b. 1877) * July 10 – Cordelia Camp, American educator (b. 1884) * July 11 ** Alexander Mosolov, Russian composer (b. 1900) ** Robert Ryan, American actor (b. 1909) * July 12 – Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (b. 1906) * July 13 ** Willy Fritsch, German actor (b. 1901) ** Turk Scott, American politician (assassinated) * July 18 – Jack Hawkins, English actor (b. 1910) * July 20 ** Mikhail Isakovsky, Russian poet (b. 1900) ** Bruce Lee, Chinese-American martial artist and actor (b. 1940) ** Robert Smithson, American artist (b. 1938) * July 23 – Eddie Rickenbacker, American World War I flying ace and race car driver (b. 1890) * July 24 – Julián Acuña Galé, Cuban botanist (b. 1900) * July 25 ** Dezső Pattantyús-Ábrahám, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1875) ** Louis St. Laurent, 12th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1882) * July 26 – Konstantinos Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and professor, 152nd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1890) * July 29 ** Henri Charrière, French writer (b. 1906) ** Julio Adalberto Rivera Carballo, 34th President of El Salvador (b. 1921) ** Roger Williamson, British racing driver (b. 1948) * July 31 – Annibale Bergonzoli, Italian general (b. 1884)


August

* August 1 ** Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (b. 1882) ** Walter Ulbricht, East German politician, leader of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Communist Party and 2nd State Council of East Germany, head of State of the GDR (b. 1893) ** Nikos Zachariadis, Greek politician, leader of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1903) * August 2 – Jean-Pierre Melville, French film director (b. 1917) * August 6 ** Fulgencio Batista, 9th and 12th President of Cuba (b. 1901) ** James Beck, British actor (b. 1929) * August 8 – Vilhelm Moberg, Swedish novelist and historian (b. 1898) * August 9 – Charles Daniels (swimmer), Charles Daniels, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1885) * August 10 – Douglas Kennedy (actor), Douglas Kennedy, American actor (b. 1915) * August 11 – Peggie Castle, American actress (b. 1927) * August 12 ** Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1881) ** Karl Ziegler, German chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898) * August 16 ** Selman Waksman, Ukrainian-American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1888) * August 17 ** Conrad Aiken, American writer (b. 1889) ** Jean Barraqué, French composer (b. 1928) ** Paul Williams (The Temptations), Paul Williams, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939) * August 18 ** François Bonlieu, French Olympic alpine skier (b. 1937) ** Basil Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, British politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1888) * August 30 – Michael Dunn (actor), Michael Dunn, American actor (b. 1934) * August 31 – John Ford, American film director (b. 1894)


September

* September 1 – Anne Azgapetian, Russian Red Cross worker (b. 1888) * September 2 – J. R. R. Tolkien, British writer (b. 1892) * September 11 – Salvador Allende, 30th President of Chile (b. 1908) * September 12 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, American businesswoman (b. 1887) * September 13 – Betty Field, American actress (b. 1916) * September 15 – King Gustaf VI Adolf, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (b. 1882) * September 16 ** Rafael Franco, 33rd President of Paraguay (b. 1896) ** Víctor Jara, Chilean political activist and singer-songwriter (b. 1932) ** Al Sherman, American Tin Pan Alley songwriter (b. 1897) * September 18 – Théo Lefèvre, 39th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1914) * September 19 – Gram Parsons, American musician (b. 1946) * September 20 ** Jim Croce, American songwriter (b. 1943) ** Glenn Strange, American actor (b. 1899) * September 22 – Paul van Zeeland, 29th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1893) * September 23 – Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) * September 24 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (b. 1908) * September 26 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908) * September 28 – Norma Crane, American actress (b. 1928) * September 29 – W. H. Auden, English poet (b. 1907)


October

* October 2 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1897) * October 6 – François Cevert, French racing driver (b. 1944) * October 8 – Gabriel Marcel, French Catholic existential thinker (b. 1889) * October 9 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer and guitarist (b. 1915) * October 10 – Ludwig von Mises, Austrian economist (b. 1881) * October 14 – Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897) * October 16 – Gene Krupa, American jazz drummer (b. 1909) * October 17 – Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian poet and author (b. 1926) * October 18 ** Leo Strauss, German-American political philosopher (b. 1899) ** Walt Kelly, American cartoonist (b. 1913) ** Crane Wilbur, American actor (b. 1886) * October 19 – Margaret C. Anderson, American magazine publisher (b. 1886) * October 20 – Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, prime minister of Afghanistan (b. 1921) * October 22 – Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist and conductor (b. 1876) * October 25 – Abebe Bikila, Ethiopian Olympic athlete (b. 1932) * October 26 – Semyon Budyonny, Cossack cavalryman and Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1883) * October 27 – Allan Lane, American actor (b. 1909) * October 28 ** Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1924) ** Taha Hussein, Egyptian writer (b. 1889)


November

* November 3 ** Arturo de Córdova, Mexican actor (b. 1908) ** Marc Allégret, French film director (b. 1900) * November 7 – Kiyohide Shima, Japanese admiral (b. 1890) * November 10 – Morton Deyo, American admiral (b. 1887) * November 11 ** Hassan al-Hudaybi, Egyptian general (b. 1891) ** Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Finnish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895) * November 12 – Wacław Stachiewicz, Polish writer, geologist and general (b. 1894) * November 13 ** B. S. Johnson, English experimental novelist (b. 1933) ** Lila Lee, American actress (b. 1905) ** Bruno Maderna, Italian conductor and composer (b. 1920) ** Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer (b. 1890) * November 16 – Alan Watts, British philosopher (b. 1915) * November 17 – Mirra Alfassa, multi-origined spiritual leader and founder of Auroville, India (b. 1878) * November 18 – Alois Hába, Czech composer and musicologist (b. 1893) * November 20 – Allan Sherman, American comedy writer, television producer and song parodist (b. 1924) * November 23 ** Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese-born American actor and film director (b. 1886) ** Constance Talmadge, American actress (b. 1898) * November 25 ** Albert DeSalvo, American criminal, suspect in the Boston Strangler case (b. 1931) ** Laurence Harvey, English actor (b. 1928) * November 28 – John Rostill, English bassist, musician and composer (The Shadows) (b. 1942)


December

* December 1 – David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886) * December 3 – Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, 47th President of Mexico (b. 1889) * December 4 – Lauri Lehtinen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1908) * December 5 – Sir Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, radar pioneer (b. 1892) * December 12 ** Atilio García, Argentine-born Uruguayan footballer (b. 1914) ** Naokuni Nomura, Japanese admiral and Minister of the Navy (b. 1885) * December 13 – Giuseppe Beltrami, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1889) * December 16 – Sid Barnes, Australian cricketer (b. 1916) * December 17 – Charles Greeley Abbot, American astrophysicist (b. 1872) * December 20 ** Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral and politician, 69th Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1904) ** Bobby Darin, American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, dancer, impressionist and TV presenter (b. 1936) * December 22 – James Anderson (tennis), James Anderson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1894) * December 23 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1905) * December 24 – Fritz Gause, German historian (b. 1893) * December 25 ** İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and statesman, 3-time Prime Minister of Turkey and 2nd President of Turkey during World War II (b. 1884) ** Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880) * December 26 ** William Haines, American actor (b. 1900)William Haines - Muses & the Beau Monde
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Nobel Prizes

* Nobel Prize in Physics, Physics – Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson * Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Chemistry – Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Medicine – Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen * Nobel Prize in Literature, Literature – Patrick White * Nobel Peace Prize, Peace – Henry Kissinger, Lê Đức Thọ * Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Economics – Wassily Leontief


References

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