1961

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1961

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1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1961st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 961st year of the 2nd millennium, the 61st year of the 20th century, and the 2nd year of the 1960s decade.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964

1961 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1961 MCMLXI
Ab urbe condita	2714
Armenian calendar	1410 ԹՎ ՌՆԺ
Assyrian calendar	6711
Baháʼí calendar	117–118
Balinese saka calendar	1882–1883
Bengali calendar	1368
Berber calendar	2911
British Regnal year	9 Eliz. 2 – 10 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2505
Burmese calendar	1323
Byzantine calendar	7469–7470
Chinese calendar	庚子年 (Metal Rat) 4657 or 4597     — to — 辛丑年 (Metal Ox) 4658 or 4598
Coptic calendar	1677–1678
Discordian calendar	3127
Ethiopian calendar	1953–1954
Hebrew calendar	5721–5722
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2017–2018
- Shaka Samvat	1882–1883
- Kali Yuga	5061–5062
Holocene calendar	11961
Igbo calendar	961–962
Iranian calendar	1339–1340
Islamic calendar	1380–1381
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 36 (昭和３６年)
Javanese calendar	1892–1893
Juche calendar	50
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4294
Minguo calendar	ROC 50 民國50年
Nanakshahi calendar	493
Thai solar calendar	2504
Tibetan calendar	阳金鼠年 (male Iron-Rat) 2087 or 1706 or 934     — to — 阴金牛年 (female Iron-Ox) 2088 or 1707 or 935

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Events

January

Main article: January 1961

• January 3
  • United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
  • Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country.
• January 5
  • Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  • After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th government).
• January 7 – Following a four-day conference in Casablanca, five African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves the Casablanca Group: Morocco, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali.
• January 8 – In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies on independence for Algeria.
• January 9 – British authorities announce they have uncovered a large Soviet spy ring, the Portland Spy Ring, in London.
• January 17
  • President Dwight Eisenhower gives his final State of the Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "military–industrial complex."
  • Patrice Lumumba of the Republic of Congo is assassinated.
• January 20 – John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the 35th President of the United States.
• January 24 – A B-52 Stratofortress, with two nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
• January 25
  • In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the two surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane, shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea on July 1, 1960 (see RB-47H shot down).
  • Acting to halt 'leftist excesses', a junta composed of two army officers and four civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for three months.
• January 28 – Supercar, the first family sci-fi TV series filmed in Supermarionation, debuts on ATV in the UK.
• January 30 – President John F. Kennedy delivers his first State of the Union Address.
• January 31 – Ham, a 37-pound (17-kg) male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury spacecraft, designed to carry United States astronauts into space.

February

Main article: February 1961

• February 1 – The United States tests its first Minuteman I intercontinental ballistic missile.^[1]
• February 4 – The Portuguese Colonial War begins in Angola.
• February 5–9 – In Congo, President Joseph Kasa-Vubu names Joseph Iléo as the new Prime Minister.
• February 9 – The Beatles at The Cavern Club: Lunchtime – The Beatles perform under this name at The Cavern Club for the first time following their return to Liverpool from Hamburg, George Harrison's first appearance at the venue. On March 21 they begin regular performances here.
• February 12 – The USSR launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
• February 13 – The Congo government announces that villagers have killed Patrice Lumumba.
• February 14 – Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized in Berkeley, California.
• February 15
  • United States President John F. Kennedy warns the Soviet Union to avoid interfering with the United Nations' pacification of the Congo.^[2]
  • Sabena Flight 548 crashes near Brussels, Belgium, killing 73, including the entire United States figure skating team and several coaches.
  • The total solar eclipse of February 15, 1961, visible in the southern part of Europe, occurs.
• February 26 – Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.

March

Main article: March 1961

• March–April – Drilling for Project Mohole is undertaken off the coast of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
• March 1 – United States President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
• March 3 – Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.
• March 8
  • Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.
  • The first U.S. Polaris submarines arrive at Holy Loch in Scotland.
• March 11 – "Barbie" gets a boyfriend, when the "Ken" doll is introduced in the United States.^[3]
• March 13
  • Black and white £5 notes cease to be legal tender in the UK.
  • 1961 Kurenivka mudslide: A dam bursts in Kiev, USSR, killing 145.
  • United States delegate to the United Nations Security Council Adlai Stevenson votes against Portuguese policies in Africa.
  • United States President John F. Kennedy proposes a long-term "Alliance for Progress", between the United States and Latin America.^[4]
  • Cyprus joins the Commonwealth of Nations, becoming the first small country in the Commonwealth.^[5]
  • Monash University in Melbourne, Australia takes in its first students.
  • A second B-52 crashes near Yuba City, California, after cabin pressure is lost and the fuel runs out. Two nuclear weapons are found unexploded.
• March 15
  • South Africa announces it will withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations, upon becoming a republic (31 May). The nation rejoins the organization in 1994.
  • The Union of Peoples of Angola, led by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of Angola. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with Portugal.
• March 18
  • A ceasefire takes effect in the Algerian War of Independence.
  • Nous les amoureux by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for Luxembourg.
• March 29 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote in presidential elections.
• March 30 – The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.

April

Main article: April 1961

 

April 12: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin through outer space.

• April 5 – The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed.
• April 8 – British India Steam Navigation Company passenger ship MV Dara blows up and sinks off Dubai; 238 passengers and crew are killed.^[6]
• April 11 – The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
• April 12
  • Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once before parachuting to the ground.
  • Albert Kalonji takes the title Emperor Albert I Kalonji of South Kasai.
  • Bernard Schwarz gets the patent for the body electrode.
• April 13 – In Portugal, a coup attempt against António de Oliveira Salazar fails.
• April 17
  • The Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19.
  • The 33rd Academy Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California: The Apartment (1960) wins most awards, including Best Picture.
• April 18 – Portugal sends its first military reinforcement to Angola.
• April 20 – Fidel Castro announces that the Bay of Pigs Invasion has been defeated.
• April 22 – Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose de Gaulle's policies in Algeria fail in a coup attempt.
• April 23 – Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
• April 24 – Swedish warship Vasa, sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is recovered from Stockholm Harbor.
• April 27
  • President Kennedy urges newspapers to consider national interest in times of struggle against "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy", in an address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association.^[7]
  • Sierra Leone becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

May

Main article: May 1961

• May 4 – U.S. Freedom Riders begin interstate bus rides, to test the new U.S. Supreme Court integration decision.
• May 5 – Mercury program: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, aboard Mercury-Redstone 3.
• May 6 – Tottenham Hotspur F.C. becomes the first team in the 20th century to win the English league and cup double. As of 2020^[update], this is the last time Tottenham have won the English League.
• May 8 – Briton George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying.
• May 9 – In a speech on "Television and the Public Interest" to the National Association of Broadcasters, FCC chairman Newton N. Minow describes commercial television programming as a "vast wasteland".
• May 14 – Civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members.
• May 15 – J. Heinrich Matthaei alone performs the Poly-U-Experiment, and is the first person to recognize and understand the genetic code. This is the birthdate of modern genetics.^[8]
• May 16 – Park Chung-hee takes over in a military coup, in South Korea.
• May 19 – Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (however, the probe loses contact with Earth a month earlier, and does not send back any data).
• May 21 – Civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order, after race riots break out.
• May 22 – An earthquake rocks New South Wales.
• May 24 – Civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace", after disembarking from their bus.
• May 25 – Apollo program: President Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of Congress, his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.
• May 27 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaya, holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of Malaysia, comprising Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo (Sabah).
• May 28 – Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This is later considered the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
• May 30 – Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, ruler of the Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush.
• May 31
  • In France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  • South Africa becomes a republic, and officially leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
  • President John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle meet in Paris.
  • Benfica beats Barcelona 3–2 at Wankdorf Stadium, Bern and wins the 1960–61 European Cup (football).

June

Main article: June 1961

• June 1 – Ethiopia experiences its most devastating earthquake of the 20th century, with a magnitude of 6.7. The town of Majete is destroyed, 45% of the houses in Karakore collapse, 17 kilometers (11 mi) of the main road north of Karakore are damaged by landslides and fissures, and 5,000 inhabitants in the area are left homeless.
• June 4 – Vienna summit: John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev meet during two days in Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament and Germany.
• June 16 – Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in France, while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet.
• June 17
  • A Paris-to-Strasbourg train derails near Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
  • The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded, with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
• June 19 – The British protectorate ends in Kuwait and it becomes an emirate.
• June 22 – Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of his connection to the murder of Patrice Lumumba.
• June 23 – The Antarctic Treaty comes into effect.
• June 25 – Iraqi president Abd al-Karim Qasim announces his intention to annex newly independent Kuwait (such an annexation will occur in 1990).
• June 27 – Kuwait requests British help against the Iraqi threat; the United Kingdom sends in troops.

July

Main article: July 1961

• July 4 – Soviet submarine K-19 suffers a reactor leak in the North Atlantic.
• July 5 – The first Israeli rocket, Shavit 2, is launched.^[9][10]
• July 8 – A mine explosion in Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead.
• July 12
  • A Czechoslovakian Ilyushin Il-18 crashes while attempting to land at Casablanca, Morocco, killing all 72 people on board.
  • Two dams that supplied water to the City of Pune, India burst, causing death of more than 1000 residents.
• July 17 – Baseball legend Ty Cobb dies at the age of 74, at Emory University Hospital.
• July 21 – Mercury program: Virgil I. Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4 spacecraft Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space (sub-orbital). After splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the spacecraft sinks (it is recovered in 1999).
• July 25 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives a widely watched TV speech on the Berlin crisis, warning "we will not be driven out of Berlin." Kennedy urges Americans to build fallout shelters, setting off a four-month debate on civil defense.
• July 31
  • At Fenway Park in Boston, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game tie occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until 2002).
  • Ireland submits the first application from a non-founding country to join the European Economic Community.

August

Main article: August 1961

• August – The United States founds the Alliance for Progress.
• August 1 – The Six Flags Over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.
• August 6 – Vostok 2: Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human to orbit the Earth, and the first to be in outer space for more than one day.
• August 7 – Vostok 2 lands in the Soviet Union.
• August 10 – The United Kingdom applies for membership in the European Economic Community.
• August 11 – An annular solar eclipse is visible from the Southern Ocean.
• August 13 – Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe. On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 people to die at the Wall.
• August 21 – Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in Kenya.
• August 25 – João Goulart replaces Jânio Quadros as President of Brazil (he is ousted in 1964).
• August 30 – The Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness is signed at the United Nations in New York, coming into effect December 13, 1975.^[11]

September

Main article: September 1961

• September 1
  • The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins, with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
  • The first meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement is held. The Soviet Union resumes nuclear testing, escalating fears over the ongoing Berlin crisis.
• September 7 – Tom and Jerry make a return with their first cartoon short since 1958, Switchin' Kitten. The new creator, Gene Deitch, makes 12 more Tom and Jerry shorts through 1962.
• September 10 – During the F1 Italian Grand Prix on the circuit of Monza, German Wolfgang von Trips, driving a Ferrari, crashes into a stand, killing 14 spectators and himself.
• September 12 – The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
• September 14
  • The new military government of Turkey sentences 15 members of the previous government to death.
  • The Focolare Movement opens its first North American center in New York.
• September 17
  • Military rulers in Turkey hang former prime minister Adnan Menderes, together with the former Minister of Foreign Affairs Fatin Rüştü Zorlu and former Minister of Finance Hasan Polatkan.
  • The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• September 18 – United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash, en route to Katanga, Congo.
• September 21 – In France, the OAS slips an anti-de Gaulle message into TV programming.
• September 24
  • The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house, as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
  • In the U.S., the Walt Disney anthology television series, renamed Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, moves from ABC to NBC after seven years on the air, and begins telecasting its programs in color for the first time. Years later, after Disney's death, the still-on-the-air program will be renamed The Wonderful World of Disney.
• September 28 – A military coup in Damascus, Syria effectively ends the United Arab Republic, the union between Egypt and Syria.
• September 30 – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is formed to replace the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC).

October

Main article: October 1961

• October 1 – Baseball player Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, setting a new record for the longer baseball season. The record for the shorter season is still held by Babe Ruth.
• October 5 – Breakfast at Tiffany's (film) was theatrically released by Paramount Pictures, to critical and commercial success.
• October 10 – A volcanic eruption on Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated to Britain, where they will remain until 1963.
• October 12 – The death penalty is abolished in New Zealand.
• October 17 – Paris massacre of 1961: French police in Paris attack about 30,000 protesting a curfew applied solely to Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.
• October 18 – West Side Story is released as a film in the United States.
• October 19 – The Arab League takes over protecting Kuwait; the last British troops leave.
• October 25 – The first edition of Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, is published.
• October 26 – Cemal Gürsel becomes the fourth president of Turkey (his former title is head of state and government; he is elected as president by constitutional referendum).
• October 27
  • An armistice begins in Katanga, Congo.
  • Mongolia and Mauritania join the United Nations.
  • Confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie: A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.
  • Fahrettin Özdilek becomes the acting prime minister of Turkey.
• October 29
  • DZBB-TV Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.
  • Devrim, the first ever car designed and produced in Turkey, is released. The project has been completed in only 130 days almost from scratch, a period including decision on the project, research, design, development and production of four vehicles.
• October 30
  • Nuclear weapons testing: The Soviet Union detonates a 58-megaton yield hydrogen bomb known as Tsar Bomba, over Novaya Zemlya (it remains the largest ever man-made explosion).
  • The Note Crisis: The Soviet Union issues a diplomatic note to Finland, proposing military co-operation.
• October 31
  • Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. After the hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of Belmopan.
  • Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum.

November

Main article: November 1961

• November 1
  • The Hungry generation Movement is launched in Calcutta, India.
  • The Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.
• November 2 – Kean opens at Broadway Theater in New York City for 92 performances.
• November 3 – The United Nations General Assembly unanimously elects Burmese diplomat U Thant to the position of acting Secretary-General.
• November 6 – The US government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith.
• November 8
  • Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8 crashes while attempting to land at Richmond, Virginia, killing 77 people on board.
  • KVN, Russia's longest running TV show, airs for the first time on Soviet television.
• November 9 – Robert White records a world air speed record of 4,093 mph (6,587 km/h), in an X-15.
• November 10 – Catch-22 by Joseph Heller is first published, in the US.
• November 11
  • Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots.
  • Stalingrad is renamed Volgograd.
• November 14 – Yves Saint Laurent, a luxury fashion brand of France, founded in Rue La Boetie, Paris.^{[citation needed]}
• November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.
• November 18 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
• November 19 – Rebellion of the Pilots: A military uprising overthrows the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic.
• November 20 – İsmet İnönü of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey (26th government, first coalition in Turkey, partner AP).
• November 21 – The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, the first revolving restaurant in the United States.
• November 24 – The World Food Programme (WFP) is formed as a temporary United Nations program.^[12]
• November 30 – The Soviet Union vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership.

December

Main article: December 1961

• December 1 – Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag, and changes its name to West Papua.
• December 2 – Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro announces he is a Marxist–Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt socialism.
• December 5 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy gives support to the Volta Dam project in Ghana.
• December 9
  • Tanganyika gains independence as a Commonwealth realm, with Julius Nyerere as its first Prime Minister, with Queen Elizabeth II as Queen of Tanganyika, and represented locally by the Governor-General of Tanganyika.
  • 1961 Australian federal election: Robert Menzies' Liberal/Country Coalition Government is re-elected with a one-seat majority, narrowly defeating the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell. One of the closest election results in Australian history, such a result will not be replicated again until 2016. Notably, former Prime Minister Earle Page loses his seat, although he dies a few days later, never knowing the result.
• December 10 – The Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Albania.
• December 11
  • American involvement in the Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon, along with 400 U.S. personnel.
  • Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of three Israeli judges, and sentenced to death.
• December 14 – Walt Disney's first live-action Technicolor musical, Babes in Toyland, a remake of the famous Victor Herbert operetta, is released, but flops at the box office.
• December 15 – An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences Adolf Eichmann to death, for his part in The Holocaust.
• December 17 – A circus tent fire in Niterói, Brazil kills 323.^[13]
• December 18 – India opens hostilities in its annexation of Portuguese India, the colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu.
• December 19
  • The Portuguese surrender Goa to India, after 400 years of Portuguese rule.
  • Indonesian president Sukarno announces that he will take West Irian by force, if necessary.
• December 21 – In Congo, Katangan prime minister Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution.
• December 23 – Luxembourg's national holiday, the Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.
• December 30 – Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of South Kasai (who soon escapes).
• December 31 – Ireland's first national television station, Telefís Éireann (later Raidió Teilifís Éireann), begins broadcasting.

Births

January

 

Gabrielle Carteris

 

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

 

Wayne Gretzky

• January 2
  • Gabrielle Carteris, American actress, and trade union leader^[14]
  • Todd Haynes, American film director^[15]
• January 7 – Supriya Pathak, Indian actress
• January 8 – Calvin Smith, American athlete
• January 11
  • Lars-Erik Torph, Swedish rally driver (d. 1989)
  • Karl Habsburg-Lothringen, Austrian politician, noble
• January 13 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress, producer and comedian
• January 14
  • Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (d. 1996)
  • Mike Tramp, Danish rock singer (White Lion)
• January 17 – Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
• January 18
  • Peter Beardsley, English footballer
  • Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player
• January 22
  • Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter, musician and artist (d. 2019)
  • Shigeru Nakahara, Japanese voice actor
• January 24 – Guido Buchwald, German footballer
• January 25 – Vivian Balakrishnan, Singaporean politician
• January 26 – Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player
• January 27 – Saifuddin Abdullah, Malaysian politician
• January 28 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic writer
• January 29 – Petra Thümer, German swimmer

February

 

David Graeber

 

Henry Rollins

 

Mark Latham

• February 1 – Volker Fried, German field hockey player
• February 3 – Jim Balsillie, Canadian CEO and philanthropist
• February 4
  • Aleksandr Nikitin, Russian football coach and player (d. 2021)
  • Denis Cyr, Canadian-American ice hockey player and politician^[16]
• February 5 – Flordelis, Brazilian pastor, singer and politician
• February 6 – Yuko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• February 9 – Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
• February 11 – Mary Docter, American speed skater
• February 12 – David Graeber, American anthropologist, anarchist activist and author (d. 2020)^[17]
• February 13 – Henry Rollins, American musician and activist^[18]
• February 14 – Maria do Carmo Silveira, Prime Minister of São Tomé and Príncipe
• February 15 – Benoît Chamoux, French alpinist (d. 1995)
• February 16 – Niko Nirvi, Finnish journalist^[19]
• February 17
  • Meir Kessler, Israeli rabbi
  • Andrey Korotayev, Russian anthropologist, economic historian and sociologist
• February 18 – Hironobu Kageyama, Japanese singer
• February 19 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
• February 20
  • Dwayne McDuffie, American writer of comics and television (d. 2011)
  • Phil Powers, American alpinist
  • Imogen Stubbs, British actress and playwright
• February 21
  • Christopher Atkins, American actor
  • Abhijit Banerjee, Indian-born economist, recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
  • Geoff Moore, American Christian musician
• February 22 – Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
• February 27 – James Worthy, American basketball player and analyst
• February 28 – Richard Waugh, Canadian voice actor

March

 

Laurel Clark

 

Kassie DePaiva

 

Yanis Varoufakis

 

Amy Sedaris

• March 3
  • Milorad Mandić, Serbian actor (d. 2016)
  • Mary Page Keller, American actress
  • John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning American biographer
• March 4
  • Ray Mancini, American boxer
  • Roger Wessels, South African golfer
• March 5 – Charles Poliquin, Canadian strength coach
• March 9
  • Mike Leach, American college football coach
  • Rick Steiner, American professional wrestler
• March 10
  • Mike Bullard, American hockey player
  • Laurel Clark, American astronaut (d. 2003)
  • Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast
• March 11 – Elias Koteas, Canadian film and television actor
• March 13 - Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter at the Chernobyl disaster (d. 1986)
• March 14
  • Kim Boyce, American Christian musician
  • Gary Dell'Abate, American radio producer
  • Marc Koska, English businessman and inventor
  • Hiro Matsushita, Japanese Businessman and Former Racing driver
• March 16
  • Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league player
  • Todd McFarlane, Canadian comic book creator and entrepreneur
  • Michiru Ōshima, Japanese composer
• March 17
  • Umayya Abu-Hanna, Palestine-born Finnish writer and politician
  • Alexander Bard, Swedish musician (Army of Lovers)
  • Sam Bowie, American basketball player
  • Dana Reeve, American actress, singer and activist (d. 2006)
  • Casey Siemaszko, American actor
• March 18
  • Tom Emmer, United States House of Representatives Majority Whip, Representative from Minnesota's 6th Congressional District
• March 21
  • Kassie DePaiva, American actress
  • Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
• March 22
  • Simon Furman, British comic book writer^[20]
• March 23
  • Norrie McCathie, Scottish footballer (d. 1996)
  • Ali Hewson, Irish activist and businesswoman
  • Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
• March 24
  • Mitsuru Ogata, Japanese voice actor
  • Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, Greek Finance Minister
• March 25
  • Reggie Fils-Aimé, American businessman
  • Vitalijus Satkevičius, Lithuanian politician
• March 26 – William Hague, former UK Foreign Secretary and former Leader of the UK Conservative Party
• March 27 – Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
• March 28 – Byron Scott, American basketball player and coach
• March 29
  • Amy Sedaris, American actress, comedian and writer
  • Gerardo Teissonniere, Puerto Rican pianist
• March 30 – Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
• March 31 – Gary Winick, American filmmaker (d. 2011)

April

 

Eddie Murphy

 

Vincent Gallo

 

Robert Carlyle

 

Greg Gianforte

 

George Lopez

• April 1
  • Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
  • Kujira, Japanese voice actress
• April 2 – Christopher Meloni, American actor
• April 3
  • Elizabeth Gracen, American beauty queen, actress and model
  • Eddie Murphy, African-American actor and comedian
  • Edward Highmore, English actor
• April 5 – Lisa Zane, American actress
• April 6 – Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2000)
• April 7
  • DONDI, American graffiti artist (d. 1998)
  • Thurl Bailey, American basketball player
• April 9
  • Mick Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 2019)
  • April Boy Regino, Filipino musician (d. 2020)
• April 10 – Rudy Dhaenens, Belgian road bicycle racer (d. 1998)
• April 11 – Vincent Gallo, American actor
• April 12 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
• April 14
  • Robert Carlyle, Scottish film and television actor
  • Neil Dougherty, American basketball coach (d. 2011)
  • Humberto Martins, Brazilian actor
• April 17
  • Igor Lavrinenko, Belarusian politician (d. 2021)
  • Frank J. Christensen, American labor leader
  • Boomer Esiason, American football player and color commentator
  • Greg Gianforte, U.S. Representative from Montana's at large district
  • Daphna Kastner, Canadian actress
• April 18 – Jane Leeves, English actress
• April 20
  • Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
  • Don Mattingly, American baseball player
• April 21
  • John Jairo Arias Tascón 'Pinina', Colombian criminal (d. 1990)
  • Cathy Cavadini, American voice actress
• April 22 – Alo Mattiisen, Estonian musician and composer (d. 1996)
• April 23
  • Dirk Bach, German actor and comedian (d. 2012)
  • George Lopez, American actor and comedian
• April 26
  • Mike Francis, Italian singer and composer (d. 2009)
  • Anthony Cumia, American radio personality
• April 27 – Moana Pozzi, Italian pornographic actress, television personality and politician (d. 1994)
• April 28 – Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese serial killer
• April 29 – Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese voice actor
• April 30 – Isiah Thomas, African-American basketball player, coach and team owner

May

 

Joe Murray

 

Wally Wingert

 

George Clooney

 

John Corbett

 

Tim Roth

 

Kevin McDonald

• May 1 – Marilyn Milian, American judge
• May 2 – Steve James, English snooker player
• May 3
  • Joe Murray, American animator
  • David Vitter, U.S. Senator (R-LA)
• May 4
  • Jay Aston, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
  • Mary Elizabeth McDonough, American actress, producer, director and author
• May 5 – Hiroshi Hase, Japanese professional wrestler
• May 6
  • George Clooney, American actor
  • Wally Wingert, American actor and voice actor
  • Frans Timmermans, Dutch politician and European Commissioner
• May 7 – Robert Spano, American conductor and pianist
• May 8
  • Akira Taue, Japanese professional wrestler
• May 9
  • Rene Capo, American judoka (d. 2009)
  • John Corbett, American actor and country music singer
• May 10 – Danny Carey, American drummer (Tool, Pigmy Love Circus)
• May 11
  • Paul Begala, American political commentator
  • Lar Park Lincoln, American actress
• May 12 – Billy Duffy, British guitarist (The Cult)
• May 13 – Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
• May 14
  • Urban Priol, German Kabarett artist and comedian
  • Tim Roth, English actor and director
• May 16
  • Solveig Dommartin, French actress (d. 2007)
  • Kevin McDonald, Canadian actor, voice actor and comedian
  • Charles Wright, American professional wrestler
• May 17 – Enya, Irish musician
• May 18 – Jim Bowden, American baseball executive
• May 20 – Clive Allen, British footballer
• May 21 – Brent Briscoe, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2017)
• May 22
  • Mike Breen, American sports announcer
  • Ann Cusack, American actress
• May 23
  • Mitar Subotić, Serbian musician and composer (d. 1999)
  • Karen Duffy, American actress
• May 24 – Ilaria Alpi, Italian journalist (d. 1994)
• May 27 – Peri Gilpin, American actress
• May 28 – Roland Gift, British singer and musician (Fine Young Cannibals)
• May 29 – Melissa Etheridge, American musician
• May 30
  • Ralph Carter, American actor
  • Harry Enfield, English comedian, actor, writer and director
• May 31
  • Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Lea Thompson, American actress

June

 

Sam Harris

 

Michael J. Fox

 

Boy George

 

Bidya Devi Bhandari

 

Joko Widodo

 

Ricky Gervais

• June 1
  • Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
  • Dilipkumar Viraji Thakor, Indian politician
• June 2 – Dez Cadena, American musician
• June 3
  • Lawrence Lessig, American academic and political activist
  • Ed Wynne, English musician (Ozric Tentacles)
• June 4
  • El DeBarge, American urban singer; was member of American urban group DeBarge
  • Sam Harris, American actor and pop musician
• June 5
  • Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
  • Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
  • Rosie Kane, Member of Scottish Parliament
• June 6 – Tom Araya, Chilean-born rock musician (Slayer)
• June 8 – Katy Garbi, Greek singer
• June 9
  • Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer and author
  • Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright
• June 10
  • Kim and Kelley Deal, American musicians
  • Maxi Priest, born Max Elliott, British reggae singer
• June 12 – Yuri Rozanov, Russian sports TV commentator (d. 2021)
• June 14 – Boy George, born George O'Dowd, British singer-songwriter and music producer
• June 15
  • Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
  • Greg Kouri, Lebanese-Canadian investor, real estate businessman, and co-founder of Zip2
• June 17
  • Muslimgauze, British ethnic electronica and experimental musician (d. 1999)
  • Kōichi Yamadera, Japanese voice actor
• June 18
  • Sakahoko Nobushige, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2019)
  • Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan baseball player
  • Alison Moyet, English singer-songwriter
• June 19 – Bidhya Devi Bhandari, 2nd President of Nepal
• June 20 – Karin Kania, German speed skater
• June 21
   

  Iztok Mlakar
  • Iztok Mlakar, Slovenian singer-songwriter and theatre actor
  • Joko Widodo, 7th President of Indonesia
• June 23
  • Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
  • David Leavitt, American novelist
• June 24
  • Raja Yong Sofia, Malaysian aristocrat
  • Lisa Bevill, American Christian musician
  • Iain Glen, Scottish actor
  • Curt Smith, British singer and keyboardist
• June 25
  • Jamil Khir Baharom, Malaysian politician and former military officer
  • Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, writer, director, and singer in Seona Dancing
• June 26 – Greg LeMond, American cyclist
• June 27
  • Tim Whitnall, English playwright, screenwriter and actor
  • Meera Syal, British-Indian comedian and actress
• June 28
  • Jeff Malone, American basketball player
  • Eliezer Melamed, Israeli rabbi
• June 29
  • Greg Hetson, American rock guitarist
  • Sharon Lawrence, American actress, singer and dancer

July

 

Diana, Princess of Wales

 

Forest Whitaker

 

António Costa

 

Zbigniew Zamachowski

 

Elizabeth McGovern

 

Milind Gunaji

 

Woody Harrelson

 

Gary Cherone

 

Katherine Kelly Lang

 

Laurence Fishburne

• July 1
  • Diana, Princess of Wales, born The Hon. Diana Spencer, English princess consort as first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales (d. 1997)^[21]
  • Vito Bratta, American rock guitarist
  • Ivan Kaye, English actor
  • Jefferson King, British bodybuilder and wrestler
  • Carl Lewis, American athlete
  • Fredy Schmidtke, German track cyclist (d. 2017)
  • Michelle Wright, Canadian country music artist
• July 2
  • Tetchie Agbayani, Filipina actress
  • Jimmy McNichol, American child actor
  • Samy Naceri, French actor
  • Ram Chiang, Hong Kong actor and singer-composer
• July 3
  • Tatiana Aleshina, Russian composer, singer-songwriter, theater artist and poet
  • Mosi Alli, Tanzanian sprinter
  • Suzanne Dando, English Olympic gymnast
  • Joe Moreira, Brazilian jiu-jitsu practitioner and mixed martial artist
• July 4
  • Charles Hector, Malaysian human rights advocate and activist
  • Andrew Zimmern, American television personality (Bizarre Foods)
• July 5 – Patrizia Scianca, Italian voice actress
• July 6
  • Richard Mofe-Damijo, Nigerian actor
  • Rick Price, Australian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
• July 7
  • Peter Michael Escovedo, American percussionist and musical director
  • Eric Jerome Dickey, American writer
• July 8
  • Toby Keith, American country music singer
  • Andy Fletcher, English musician. (d. 2022)
  • Olaf Johannessen, Faroese stage and actor
• July 9 – Raymond Cruz, American actor
• July 10
  • Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
  • Lee Heung-sil, South Korean footballer
  • Liyel Imoke, Nigerian politician
  • Killion Munyama, Zambian-Polish economist, academic lecturer and politician
• July 11
  • João Donizeti Silvestre, Brazilian businessman, historian, biologist and politician
  • Ron Luce, American writer
  • Ophir Pines-Paz, Israeli politician
  • Sylvester Tung Kiem San, Indonesian bishop
• July 12 – Mark McGann, English actor, director, writer and musician
• July 13 – Stelios Manolas, Greek footballer
• July 14 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
• July 15
  • Forest Whitaker, African-American actor and film director
  • David Cicilline, American politician
• July 16
  • Li Ruiying, Chinese media personality and politician
  • J. Alan Brogan, Irish programmer
• July 17
  • António Costa, Portuguese politician, 119th Prime Minister (2015–present)
  • Jeremy Hardy, English comedian (d. 2019)
  • Guru, American rapper (Gang Starr) (d. 2010)
  • Zbigniew Zamachowski, Polish actor
• July 18 – Elizabeth McGovern, American actress and musician
• July 19
  • Noriyuki Abe, Japanese anime director
  • Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
  • Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
  • Lisa Lampanelli, American stand-up comedian, actress and insult comic
  • Campbell Scott, American actor, director, producer and voice artist
• July 21
  • Kenji Haga, Japanese entertainment talent, actor and businessperson
  • Mokgweetsi Masisi, 5th President of Botswana
• July 22
  • Masumi Hayashi, Japanese serial killer
  • Porfirije, born Prvoslav Perić, Serbian Patriarch^[22]
  • Irina Rozanova, Russian actress
  • Keith Sweat, American singer
• July 23
  • Martin Gore, British musician and songwriter
  • Michael Durant, American military pilot
  • Milind Gunaji, Indian actor, model, television show host
  • Woody Harrelson, American actor and comedian
  • David Kaufman, American actor and voice actor
• July 24
  • Bruno Colmant, Belgian economist and author
  • Joseph Kony, Ugandan insurgent, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army
• July 25
  • Katherine Kelly Lang, American actress
  • Hugo Teufel III, American lawyer and government official, 2nd Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security
• July 26
  • Raquel Dodge, General Prosecutor of Brazil
  • Gary Cherone, American rock singer-songwriter
  • David Heyman, English film producer, founder of Heyday Films
  • Keiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer
  • Dimitris Saravakos, Greek footballer
• July 27
  • Ed Orgeron, American football coach
  • Erez Tal, Israeli television host
• July 28
  • Mustafa El Haddaoui, Moroccan footballer
  • Aleksandr Kurlovich, Soviet-Belarusian Olympic weightlifter (d. 2018)
• July 30 – Laurence Fishburne, African-American actor and film director

August

 

Barack Obama

 

Lauren Tom

 

Mercedes Aráoz

 

Brad Gilbert

 

John Key

 

Koji Kondo

 

Manuel Merino

 

Billy Ray Cyrus

• August 1 – Danny Blind, Dutch footballer
• August 2 – Pete de Freitas, English musician and producer (d. 1989)
• August 3
  • Art Porter Jr., American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
  • Molly Hagan, American actress
  • Nick Harvey, English politician
• August 4
  • Pumpuang Duangjan, Thai megastar singer and actress (d. 1992)
  • Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State of Missouri
  • Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
  • Lauren Tom, American actress and voice artist
• August 5
  • Mercedes Aráoz, 1st Vice President of Peru
  • Janet McTeer, English actress
  • Hishamuddin Hussein, Malaysian politician
• August 7
  • Ileen Getz, American actress (d. 2005)
  • Brian Conley, English actor, comedian, singer and presenter
  • Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
  • Maggie Wheeler, American actress
• August 8
  • The Edge, Irish rock guitarist (U2)
  • Bruce Matthews, American football player
  • Rikki Rockett, American rock drummer (Poison)
• August 9
  • Brad Gilbert, American tennis player^[23]
  • John Key, 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• August 10 – Beatrice Alda, American actress and filmmaker
• August 11
  • Suniel Shetty, Indian actor, producer and entrepreneur
  • Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (d. 2000)
• August 12 – Lawrence, English musician
• August 13
  • Mahesh Anand, Indian actor (d. 2019)
  • Dawnn Lewis, American voice actress
  • Koji Kondo, Japanese video game composer (Nintendo)
• August 14 – Susan Olsen, American actress
• August 15 – Suhasini Maniratnam, Indian actress
• August 16
  • Elpidia Carrillo, Mexican-American actress
  • Urara Takano, Japanese voice actress
• August 17 – Uwe Schmitt, German sprinter and hurdler (d. 1995)
• August 18
  • Huw Edwards, BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist and presenter
  • Bob Woodruff, American television journalist and activist
• August 19 – Tony Longo, American actor (d. 2015)
• August 20
  • Plamen Nikolov, Bulgarian footballer
  • Linda Manz, American actress (d. 2020)
  • Manuel Merino, Peruvian politician, 68th President of Peru
• August 21 – Stephen Hillenburg, American marine biologist, cartoonist and animator (d. 2018)
• August 22 – Roland Orzabal, British musician and songwriter
• August 23
  • Bhupesh Baghel, Indian politician and current Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh
  • Alexandre Desplat, French film composer
• August 24 – Jared Harris, English actor
• August 25
  • Billy Ray Cyrus, American actor and singer
  • Benjamin Bwalya, Zambian footballer and coach (d. 1999)
• August 27 – Tom Ford, American fashion designer and film director
• August 28
  • Jennifer Coolidge, American actress and comedian
  • Deepak Tijori, Indian actor and director
• August 30 – Brian Mitchell, South African boxer
• August 31 – Saleem, Malaysian singer (d. 2018)

September

 

Eugenio Derbez

 

E.G. Daily

 

Virginia Madsen

 

Dave Mustaine

 

James Gandolfini

 

Chi McBride

 

Julia Gillard

• September 1
  • Bam Bam Bigelow, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
  • Boney James, American saxophonist, songwriter and record producer
• September 2
  • Eugenio Derbez, Mexican actor, comedian and filmmaker
  • Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
  • Ron Wasserman, American composer
  • Anthony Wong Chau-sang, Hong Kong actor
• September 3
  • Andy Griffiths, Australian author
  • Iwan Fals, Indonesian singer-songwriter
  • Yermi Kaplan, Israeli musician
• September 5 – Marc-André Hamelin, Canadian pianist and composer^[24]
• September 6
  • Bruce W. Smith, American animator, director and producer
  • Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian rock musician and songwriter (A-ha)
• September 7 – Kevin Kennedy, British actor
• September 11
  • E.G. Daily, American actress, voice actress and singer
  • Virginia Madsen, American actress
• September 12 – Mylène Farmer, Canadian singer and songwriter
• September 13 – Dave Mustaine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• September 14 – Martina Gedeck, German actress
• September 15
  • Terry Lamb, Australian rugby league player and coach
  • Dan Marino, American football player
  • Colin McFarlane, British actor and voice actor
  • Lidia Yusupova, Chechen human-rights lawyer
• September 16 – Jen Tolley, American-Canadian actress and singer
• September 17 – Jim Cornette, American author and podcaster
• September 18 – James Gandolfini, American actor and producer (d. 2013)^[25]
• September 20 – Lisa Bloom, American lawyer
• September 22
  • Bonnie Hunt, American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer
  • Catherine Oxenberg, American actress
• September 23
  • Chi McBride, American actor
  • William C. McCool, U.S. Navy Commander and astronaut (d. 2003)
• September 24
  • Fiona Corke, Australian actress
  • Michael Tavera, American composer
• September 25
  • Heather Locklear, American actress
  • Steve Scott, British journalist and presenter
• September 26 – Wes Hopkins, American football player (d. 2018)
• September 27
  • Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
  • Melissa Newman, American artist and singer
• September 28
  • Yordanka Donkova, Bulgarian athlete
  • Wayne Westner, South African golfer (d. 2017)
• September 29 – Julia Gillard, 27th Prime Minister of Australia^[26]
• September 30
  • Crystal Bernard, American actress and singer
  • Gary Coyne, Australian rugby league player
  • Eric Stoltz, American actor and director^[27]
  • Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress

October

 

Jodi Benson

 

Rachel De Thame

 

Kim Wayans

 

Robert Torti

 

Dylan McDermott

 

Randy Jackson

 

Peter Jackson

• October 1
  • Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
  • Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
  • Michael Righeira, Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor
• October 3 – Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer and musicologist
• October 4
  • Philippe Russo, French singer
  • Jon Secada, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
• October 5 – Matthew Kauffman, American journalist, George Polk Award winner
• October 6 – Mark Shasha, American artist, author and illustrator
• October 10 – Jodi Benson, American actress and singer
• October 11
  • Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
  • Steve Young, American football player
• October 12 – Diego García, Spanish long-distance athlete (d. 2001)
• October 13
  • Rachel De Thame, English gardener and television presenter
  • Doc Rivers, American basketball player and coach
• October 14 – Jim Burns, British science-fiction illustrator
• October 15 – Meera Sanyal, Indian banker (d. 2019)
• October 16
  • Chris Doleman, American football player (d. 2020)
  • Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (d. 1998)
  • Paul Vaessen, English footballer (d. 2001)
  • Randy Vasquez, American actor
  • Kim Wayans, American actress, comedian, producer, writer and director
• October 18
  • Wynton Marsalis, African-American trumpeter and composer
  • Rick Moody, American writer
  • Gladstone Small, Barbadian-English cricketer
• October 19 – Cliff Lyons, Australian rugby league player
• October 20
  • Les Stroud, Canadian survival expert, filmmaker and musician
  • Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
• October 22
  • Todd Oldham, American designer
  • Robert Torti, American actor and singer
• October 24 – Dave Meltzer, American wrestling journalist
• October 25
  • Ward Burton, American NASCAR driver
  • Pat Sharp, British radio DJ and host
  • Chad Smith, American musician
• October 26 – Dylan McDermott, American actor
• October 29 – Randy Jackson, African-American pop singer (The Jackson 5)
• October 30 – Dmitry Muratov, Russian campaigning journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• October 31
  • Alonzo Babers, American runner
  • Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
  • Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish rock drummer (U2)

November

 

Ralph Macchio

 

Nadia Comăneci

 

Meg Ryan

 

Mariel Hemingway

• November 1
  • Anne Donovan, American basketball player and coach (d. 2018)
  • Heng Swee Keat, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
• November 2
  • Lisa de Cazotte, American soap opera producer (d. 2019)
  • k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter
• November 3 – David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon
• November 4
  • Daron Hagen, American composer
  • Dominic Heale, British journalist and newsreader
  • Ralph Macchio, American actor
  • Jeff Probst, American television personality
  • Jerry Sadowitz, American-born British stand-up comic and card magician
  • Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
• November 5 – Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
• November 9
  • Jill Dando, British journalist and television presenter (d. 1999)^[28]
  • Jackie Kay, Scottish poet and novelist
• November 12 – Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast
• November 14
  • Ben Coleman, American basketball player (d. 2019)
  • Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d. 2007)
  • D. B. Sweeney, American actor
• November 16
  • Andrea Prodan, Scottish-Italian film actor, composer and musician
  • Corinne Hermès, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1983 winner
• November 18
  • Michael Hawley, American academic and artist (d. 2020)
  • Steven Moffat, Scottish screenwriter
  • Anthony Warlow, Australian singer
• November 19 – Meg Ryan, American actress and film director
• November 20 – Dave Watson, English footballer
• November 21 – Maria Kawamura, Japanese voice actress
• November 22
  • Mariel Hemingway, American actress
  • Stephen Hough, British-Australian pianist
  • Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
• November 24 – Arundhati Roy, Indian writer and activist
• November 25 – Matthias Freihof, German television actor and director

November 27 Lieselotte Lauer, (child family name: Schröder) German company SEL (Standard Elektrik Lorenz) Reported missing since July 1992

• November 28 – Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer
• November 29
  • Kim Delaney, American actress
  • Tom Sizemore, American actor

December

 

Matthew Waterhouse

 

Ilham Aliyev

• December 1 – Salahuddin Ayub, Malaysian politician
• December 3 – Marcelo Fromer, Brazilian guitarist
• December 4
  • Rocky Dennis, American teenager who had craniodiaphyseal dysplasia (d. 1978)
  • Frank Reich, American football player
• December 5
  • Alan Davies, English-Welsh international footballer (d. 1992)
  • Laura Flanders, British born American journalist
• December 6 - Colin Salmon, British actor
• December 8 – Ann Coulter, American author, conservative commentator and attorney
• December 9
  • Beril Dedeoğlu, Turkish politician and academic (d. 2019)
  • David Anthony Higgins, American actor
• December 10
  • Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, Nepalese Buddhist (d. 1993)
  • Nia Peeples, American actress
• December 12
  • Daniel O'Donnell, Irish singer
  • Sarah Sutton, British actress
• December 13
  • Karen Witter, American actress and model
  • Per Øystein Sørensen, Norwegian lead singer Fra Lippo Lippi
• December 15 – Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician
• December 16
  • Bill Hicks, American comedian (d. 1994)
  • Jon Tenney, American actor
  • Sam Robards, American actor
  • Shane Black, American film director
• December 19
  • Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • Matthew Waterhouse, British actor
  • Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
• December 20 – Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor
• December 21 – Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
• December 22 – Kassim Majaliwa, 10th Prime Minister of Tanzania
• December 23 – Ezzat el Kamhawi, Egyptian novelist
• December 24
  • Ilham Aliyev, 7th Prime Minister of Azerbaijan and 4th President of Azerbaijan
  • Wade Williams, American actor
• December 25
  • Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
  • Ghislaine Maxwell, British socialite^[29]
  • David Thompson, 6th Prime Minister of Barbados (d. 2010)
• December 26 – John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
• December 27 – Guido Westerwelle, German politician (d. 2016)
• December 29 – Jim Reid, Scottish musician
• December 30
  • Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
  • Bill English, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Sean Hannity, American radio/television host and conservative commentator
  • Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete

Deaths

January

 

Erwin Schrödinger

 

Patrice Lumumba

• January 3 – Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman (b. 1896)
• January 4 – Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
• January 8 – František Flos, Czech novelist (b. 1864)
• January 9 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1867)
• January 10 – Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)^[30]
• January 13
  • Nino Marchesini, Italian actor (b. 1895)
  • Blanche Ring, American singer and actress (b. 1871)
• January 14 – Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b. 1888)
• January 17 – Patrice Lumumba, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
• January 18 – Thomas Anthony Dooley III, physician (b. 1927)
• January 21
  • Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b. 1887)^[31]
  • John J. Becker, American composer and pianist (b. 1886)
• January 24 – Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b. 1884)
• January 26 – Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b. 1900)
• January 29 – Jesse Wallace, American naval officer, 29th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
• January 30 – Dorothy Thompson, American journalist (b. 1893)^[32]

February

 

Carlos Luz

 

King Mohammed V of Morocco

• February 2 – Anna May Wong, Chinese-American actress (b. 1905)
• February 3 – Viscount Dunrossil, Australian Governor-General (b. 1893)
• February 4
  • Hazel Heald, American writer (b. 1896)
  • Sir Philip Game, British army officer, colonial governor and police officer (b. 1876)
• February 6 – Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland, British politician (b. 1876)
• February 7 – William Duncan, American actor (b. 1879)
• February 9 – Carlos Luz, Brazilian politician, 19th President of Brazil (b. 1894)
• February 12 – Richmond K. Turner, American admiral (b. 1885)
• February 13 – Arthur Ripley, American film director (b. 1897)
• February 15 – Laurence Owen, American figure skater (b. 1944)
• February 16 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1891)
• February 17
  • Horatio Berney-Filkin, British army general (b. 1892)
  • Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1894)
• February 20 – Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
• February 22
  • George de Cuevas, Chilean-American ballet impresario and choreographer (b. 1885)
  • Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
• February 26
  • Uberto De Morpurgo, Italian tennis player (b. 1896)^[33]
  • King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
• February 28 – Aaron S. "Tip" Merrill, American admiral (b. 1890)

March

 

Oswald Rayner

 

Victor d'Arcy

• March 3
  • Azizul Haq, Bengali Islamic scholar (b. 1903)^[34]
  • Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b. 1887)
• March 6
  • George Formby, British singer, comedian and actor (b. 1904)
  • Oswald Rayner, British MI6 agent (b. 1888)
• March 8
  • Sir Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
  • Gala Galaction, Romanian writer (b. 1879)
• March 12
  • Victor d'Arcy, British Olympic athlete (b. 1887)
  • Belinda Lee, English actress (b. 1935)
• March 17 – Susanna M. Salter, first woman mayor in the United States (b. 1860)
• March 22 – Nikolai Massalitinov, Soviet-born Bulgarian actor (b. 1880)
• March 23 – Valentin Bondarenko, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1937)
• March 25 – Arthur Drewry, English administrator, 5th President of FIFA (b. 1891)
• March 26 – Carlos Duarte Costa, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop and saint, founder of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (b. 1888)

April

 

Zog I of Albania

 

Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana

• April 2 – Wallingford Riegger, American music composer (b. 1885)
• April 3 – Eliseo Mouriño, Argentine footballer (b. 1927)
• April 6 – Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
• April 7
  • Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b. 1879)
  • Jesús Guridi, Spanish Basque composer (b. 1886)
  • Marian Driscoll Jordan, American actress and radio personality (b. 1898)
• April 9 – Ahmet Zog/Zog I, Skanderberg III, Albanian political leader, 11th Prime Minister of Albania, 7th President of Albania and King of Albania (b. 1895)
• April 10 – Sir John Hope Simpson, British politician (b. 1868)
• April 11 – Padma Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana, 16th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1882)
• April 12
  • Mbarek Bekkay, 1st Prime Minister of Morocco (b. 1907)
  • Aziz Ezzat Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1869)
• April 19 – Manuel Quiroga, Spanish violinist (b. 1892)
• April 21 – James Melton, American tenor (b. 1904)
• April 24 – Lee Moran, American actor (b. 1888)
• April 25
  • Robert Garrett, American Olympic athlete (b. 1875)
  • George Melford, American actor (b. 1877)
• April 27
  • Roy Del Ruth, American film director (b. 1893)
  • Minoru Sasaki, Japanese general (b. 1893)
• April 30
  • Dickie Dale, English motorcycle road racer (b. 1927)
  • Jessie Redmon Fauset, American editor, writer and educator (b. 1882)^[35]

May

 

Gary Cooper

• May 3
  • Lajos Dinnyés, 41st Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1901)
  • Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (b. 1908)
• May 6 – Lucian Blaga, Romanian poet and philosopher (b. 1895)
• May 13 – Gary Cooper, American actor (High Noon) (b. 1901)
• May 14 – Albert Sévigny, Canadian politician (b. 1881)
• May 16 – George A. Malcolm, American jurist and educator (b. 1881)
• May 22 – Joan Davis, American actress (b. 1912)
• May 30 – Rafael Trujillo, Dominican politician and soldier, 2-time President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1891)

June

 

Carl Jung

 

Jeff Chandler

• June – Constantin Constantinescu-Claps, Romanian general (b. 1884)
• June 6 – Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1875)
• June 9 – Camille Guérin, French bacteriologist and immunologist (b. 1872)
• June 14 – Eddie Polo, Austrian-American actor (b. 1875)
• June 16 – Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b. 1904)
• June 17
  • Jeff Chandler, American actor (b. 1918)
  • Thomas Darden, American Rear admiral, 37th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1900)
• June 18 – Eddie Gaedel, American with dwarfism (b. 1925)
• June 19 – Sir Richard Turner, Canadian general, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1871)^[36]
• June 23 – Nikolai Malko, Soviet conductor (b. 1883)
• June 24
  • William J. Connors, American politician (b. 1891)
  • George Washington Vanderbilt III, American philanthropist (b. 1914)
• June 25 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and pilot (b. 1886)
• June 27
  • Paul Guilfoyle, American actor (b. 1902)
  • Mukhtar Auezov, Kazakh writer (b. 1897)
• June 30 – Lee de Forest, American inventor (b. 1873)

July

 

Nasuhi al-Bukhari

 

Ernest Hemingway

 

Ty Cobb

• July 1
  • Nasuhi al-Bukhari, Syrian soldier and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1881)
  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)^[37]
• July 2 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (suicide) (b. 1899)^[38]
• July 4 – Franklyn Farnum, American actor (b. 1878)
• July 6
  • Konstantinos Logothetopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
  • Woodall Rodgers, American politician, 43rd Mayor of Dallas (b. 1890)
• July 9 – Whittaker Chambers, American spy and witness in Hiss case^[39]
• July 15 – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)^[40]
• July 17 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
• July 23
  • Esther Dale, American actress (b. 1885)
  • Valentine Davies, American screenwriter (b. 1905)
  • Princess Teru of Japan (b. 1925)
• July 28 – Harry Gribbon, American actor of silent films (b. 1885)
• July 30 – Sediqeh Dowlatabadi, Persian feminist, women's rights activist and journalist (b. 1882)^[41]

August

 

Sidney Holland

• August 1 – Domingo Pérez Cáceres, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1892)
• August 4
  • Zoltán Tildy, 39th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1889)
  • Maurice Tourneur, French film director (b. 1873)
• August 5 – Sidney Holland, New Zealand politician, 25th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1893)
• August 8 – Mei Lanfang, Beijing opera star (b. 1894)
• August 9 – Walter Bedell Smith, American general and diplomat (b. 1895)
• August 11 – William Jackson, American gangster (b. 1920)
• August 14
  • Henri Breuil, French priest, archaeologist, anthropologist and ethnologist (b. 1877)
  • Clark Ashton Smith, American writer and sculptor (b. 1893)
• August 20 – Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• August 23 – Beals Wright, American tennis player (b. 1879)
• August 26
  • Howard P. Robertson, American physicist (b. 1903)
  • Gail Russell, American actress (b. 1924)
• August 30
  • Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
  • Cristóbal de Losada y Puga, Peruvian mathematician and mining engineer (b. 1894)

September

 

Adnan Menderes

 

Percy Chapman

 

Dag Hammarskjöld

 

Marion Davies

• September 1 – Eero Saarinen, Finnish architect (b. 1910)^[42]
• September 3
  • Richard Mason, British explorer (b. 1934)
• September 4 – Charles D.B. King, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930 (b. 1875)^[43]
• September 7 – Pieter Gerbrandy, Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1940 to 1945 (b. 1885)^[44]
• September 16
  • Percy Chapman, English cricketer (b. 1900)
  • Hasan Fehmi, Turkish politician (b. 1879)
• September 17
  • Miguel Gómez Bao, Spanish-born Argentine actor (b. 1894)
  • Adnan Menderes, Turkish statesman, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (executed) (b. 1899)
• September 18
  • Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish diplomat, politician and author, 2nd Secretary General of the United Nations, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1905)^[45]
• September 21 – Georgia Ann Robinson, community worker and first African American woman to be appointed a Los Angeles police officer (b. 1879)
• September 22 – Marion Davies, American actress (b. 1897)^[46]
• September 23 – Elmer Diktonius, Finnish poet and composer (b. 1896)^[47]
• September 24 – Sumner Welles, American diplomat (b. 1892)
• September 25 – Frank Fay, American vaudeville comedian and film and stage actor (b. 1891)
• September 26
  • Robert L. Eichelberger, American general (b. 1886)
  • Juanita Hansen, American actress (b. 1895)
• September 27 – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), American poet and novelist (b. 1886)^[48]

October

 

Chico Marx

 

Sergio Osmeña

• October 1 – Donald Cook, American actor (b. 1901)
• October 2 – Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (b. 1881)
• October 4 – Max Weber, Polish-American artist (b. 1881)
• October 6 – J. Reuben Clark, American politician and Mormon leader (b. 1871)^[49]
• October 11
  • Lucy Tayiah Eads, Kaw tribal chief (b. 1888)
  • Chico Marx, American comedian (b. 1887)
• October 13
  • Louis Rwagasore, 2nd Prime Minister of Burundi (assassinated) (b. 1932)
  • Maya Deren, Russian-born American filmmaker (b. 1917)
  • Zoltán Korda, Hungarian screenwriter and director (b. 1895)
  • Dun Karm Psaila, Maltese writer (b. 1871)
• October 14
  • Paul Ramadier, French politician, 63rd Prime Minister of France (b. 1888)
  • Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)
• October 19
  • Şemsettin Günaltay, Turkish historian and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1883)
  • Sergio Osmeña, Filipino politician, 4th President of the Philippines (b. 1878)
• October 21 – Karl Korsch, German Marxist theoretician (b. 1886)^[50]
• October 22
  • Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-born film studio executive (b. 1878)
  • Aloys Van de Vyvere, 25th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1871)
• October 26 – Milan Stojadinović, 12th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1888)
• October 30 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of Italy (b. 1874)
• October 31 – Augustus John, Welsh painter (b. 1878)^[51]

November

 

Anselmo Alliegro y Milá

• November 1 – Mordecai Ham, American evangelist (b. 1877)
• November 2
  • James Thurber, American humorist (b. 1894)^[52]
  • Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa I, 12th Hakim of Bahrain (b. 1894)
• November 3 – Thomas Flynn, British Roman Catholic prelate and reverend (b. 1880)
• November 9 – Ferdinand Bie, Norwegian Olympic athlete (b. 1888)
• November 15
  • Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883)
  • Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch plant pathologist (b. 1883)
• November 16 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882)
• November 22 – Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Cuban politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Cuba, leader of World War II (b. 1899)
• November 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (b. 1892)
• November 25 – Adelina de Lara, British composer (b. 1872)
• November 30 – Anna Gould, American heiress and socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould (b. 1875)

December

 

Sir Earle Page

 

Kurt Meyer

• December 2 – Dulcie Mary Pillers, English medical illustrator (b. 1891)
• December 3 – Pat O'Hara Wood, Australian tennis player (b. 1891)
• December 6 – Frantz Fanon, Caribbean philosopher (b. 1925)
• December 7 – Herbert Pitman, British sailor, third officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1877)
• December 10 – Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (b. 1925)
• December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, American naïve painter (b. 1860)
• December 15 – Gioacchino Failla, Italian-born American physicist (b. 1891)
• December 20
  • Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904)
  • Sir Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880)
• December 23
  • Kurt Meyer, German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS and war criminal (b. 1910)^[53]
  • Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist Lieutenant in the Spanish Civil War. (b. 1912)
• December 25 – Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
• December 27 – Bernard McConville, American screenwriter (b. 1887)
• December 28 – Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (b. 1872)
• December 29
  • Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and inventor (b. 1885)
  • Sibyl Morrison, first female barrister in New South Wales, Australia (b. 1895)

Nobel Prizes

 

• Physics – Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer
• Chemistry – Melvin Calvin
• Physiology or Medicine – Georg von Békésy
• Literature – Ivo Andrić
• Peace – Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously)

See also

•  1960s portal

• Upside down year

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