1969

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century 20th century 21st century
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
Years:	1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972

1969 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1969 MCMLXIX
Ab urbe condita	2722
Armenian calendar	1418 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԸ
Assyrian calendar	6719
Baháʼí calendar	125–126
Balinese saka calendar	1890–1891
Bengali calendar	1376
Berber calendar	2919
British Regnal year	17 Eliz. 2 – 18 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2513
Burmese calendar	1331
Byzantine calendar	7477–7478
Chinese calendar	戊申年 (Earth Monkey) 4666 or 4459 — to — 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4667 or 4460
Coptic calendar	1685–1686
Discordian calendar	3135
Ethiopian calendar	1961–1962
Hebrew calendar	5729–5730
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2025–2026
- Shaka Samvat	1890–1891
- Kali Yuga	5069–5070
Holocene calendar	11969
Igbo calendar	969–970
Iranian calendar	1347–1348
Islamic calendar	1388–1389
Japanese calendar	Shōwa44 (昭和44年)
Javanese calendar	1900–1901
Juche calendar	58
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4302
Minguo calendar	ROC58 民國58年
Nanakshahi calendar	501
Thai solar calendar	2512
Tibetan calendar	阳土猴年 (male Earth-Monkey) 2095 or 1714 or 942 — to — 阴土鸡年 (female Earth-Rooster) 2096 or 1715 or 943

January

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January 14: Explosion kills 27 on USS Enterprise

January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over IfnitoMorocco.
January 5 – Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants.^[1]
January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 28 and injures 314.
January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests.
January 20 – Richard Nixonissworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed.
January 27
- Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executedinBaghdad for spying for Israel.
- Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Irish Unionist leader and founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.
January 28 – 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowoutonUnion Oil's Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara CountyinSouthern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara's harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Dayin1970.

February

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February 4 – In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is elected Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
February 8
- The Allende meteorite explodes over Mexico.
- After 147 years, the last weekly issue of The Saturday Evening Post is published in the United States. (The magazine is later briefly resurrected as a monthly magazine.)
February 9 – The Boeing 747 "jumbo jet" is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at Everett, Washington.
February 13 – Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorists bomb the Montreal Stock Exchange.
February 14 – Pope Paul VI issues Mysterii Paschalis, a motu proprio, deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints (including Valentine, who was celebrated on this day).
February 17 – Aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair the SEALAB III habitat off San Clemente Island, California.
February 24 – The Mariner 6 Mars probe is launched from the United States.
February 28 – The 1969 Portugal earthquake hits Portugal, Spain and Morocco.

March

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March 2
- InToulouse, France the first Concorde test flight is conducted.
- Soviet and Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the Ussuri River.
March 3
- Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, Rusty Schweickart, David Scott) to test the lunar module.
- In a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
March 16 – Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami; all 84 people on board the DC-9 jet are killed along with 71 people on the ground.^[2]
March 17
- Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.
- The Longhope life-boat is lost after answering a mayday call during severe storms in the Pentland Firth between Orkney and the northern tip of Scotland; the entire crew of 8 die.^[3]
March 18 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and is the 49th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 129.
March 20
- One hundred of the 105 passengers and crew on a United Arab Airlines flight, most of them Muslim pilgrims returning to Aswan from Mecca, are killed when the Ilyushin-18 turboprop crashes during a sandstorm.
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-In" for peace in Amsterdam.
March 22
- UCLA wins its third consecutive NCAA basketball championship by defeating Purdue University, 92 to 72.
- The landmark art exhibition When Attitudes become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann, opens at the Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, Switzerland.
March 28 – Pope Paul VI increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134.
March 29 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1969 is held in Madrid, and results in four co-winners, with 18 votes each, from Spain, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and France.
March 30 – The body of former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower is brought by caisson to the United States Capitol to lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda; Eisenhower had died two days earlier, after a long illness, in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.
March 31 – The Barroterán coal mine disaster kills 153 coal miners in Mexico.

April

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April 3 – The Mass of Paul VIispromulgated in the Catholic Church by the Pope.^[4]
April 4 – Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
April 8 – The Montreal Expos become Major League Baseball's first team outside the United States.
April 9 – Fermín Monasterio Pérez is murdered by the ETAinBiscay, Spain; the 4th victim in the name of Basque nationalism.
April 15 – The EC-121 shootdown incident: North Korea shoots down a US reconnaissance aircraft over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 on board.^[5]
April 17 – Sirhan Bishara Sirhan is found guilty of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
April 20 – British troops arrive in Northern Ireland to reinforce the Royal Ulster Constabulary.
April 22 – English sailor Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world solo without stopping.
April 28 – Charles de Gaulle steps down as president of France after suffering defeat in a referendum the day before.

May

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May 10 – The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War.
May 13 – May 13 Incident: Race riots occur in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
May 14 – Colonel Muammar Gaddafi visits Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
May 15 – An American teenager known as 'Robert R.' dies in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDSinNorth America.
May 16 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 5 lands on Venus.
May 17 – Venera program: Soviet space probe Venera 6 begins to descend into Venus's atmosphere, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
May 18 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Gene Cernan, Tom Stafford, John Young) is launched. It is to be a full rehearsal for the Moon landing, stopping 15 kilometers short of actually reaching the lunar surface.
May 20 – United States National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California.
May 21 – Rosariazo: Civil unrest breaks out in Rosario, Argentina, following the death of a 15-year-old student.
May 22 – Apollo program: Apollo 10's lunar module flies to within 15,400 m of the Moon's surface.
May 26
- The Andean Pact (Andean Group) is established.
- Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first crewed Moon landing.
May 26–June 2 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono conduct their second Bed-In. The follow-up to the Amsterdam event is held at the Queen Elizabeth HotelinMontreal, Quebec. Lennon composes and records the song "Give Peace a Chance" during the event.
May 29 – Cordobazo: A general strike and civil unrest break out in Córdoba, Argentina.
May 30 – RiotsinCuraçao mark the start of an Afro-Caribbean civil rights movement on the island.

June

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June 3 – While operating at sea on SEATO maneuvers, the Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne accidentally rams and slices into the American destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in the South China Sea, killing 74 American seamen.
June 5 – An international communist conference begins in Moscow.
June 8
- Francisco Franco orders the closing of the Gibraltar–Spain border and communications between Gibraltar and Spain in response to the 1967 Gibraltar sovereignty referendum.^[6] The border remains closed until a partial reopening on December 15, 1982.
- U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet at Midway Island. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September.
June 15 – Georges Pompidou is elected President of France.^[7]
June 17 – After a 23-game match, Boris Spassky defeats Tigran Petrosian to become the World Chess Champion in Moscow.
June 24 – The United Kingdom and Rhodesia sever diplomatic relations, after the Rhodesian constitutional referendum.
June 27 – Gay intercourse is officially legalized in Canada.^[8]
June 28 – The Stonewall riots, a milestone in the modern gay rights movement in the United States, began in New York City.

July

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July 16: The Saturn V rocket is launched

July 20: Buzz Aldrin descends a ladder to become the second human to step onto the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 11 program

July 7 – French is made equal to English throughout the Canadian national government.
July 8 – Vietnam War: The first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
July 14
- Football War: After Honduras loses an association football match against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20.
- The Act of Free Choice for West Irian commences in Merauke, Indonesia.
July 16 – Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins) lifts off from Cape Kennedy in Florida towards the first crewed landing on the Moon.
July 19
- Chappaquiddick incident: US Senator Edward M. Kennedy drives off a bridge into a tidal pond after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing Mary Jo Kopechne. Kennedy does not report the accident for nine or ten hours.
- John Fairfax lands in Hollywood Beach, Florida, United States and becomes the first person to row across an ocean solo, after 180 days spent at sea on board the 25' ocean rowboat Britannia (left Gran Canaria on January 20, 1969).
July 20
- Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC) Apollo 11's Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon's surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), an estimated 650 million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his first historic steps on the surface.^[9]
- 1969 Tour de France: Belgian Eddy Merckx wins the cycle race for the first time.
July 22 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death.
July 24
- Apollo program: Apollo 11 returns from the first successful Moon landing and the astronauts are placed in biological isolation for several days in case they may have brought back lunar germs. The airless lunar environment is later determined to rule out microscopic life.
- The Soviet Union returns British lecturer Gerald Brooke to the United Kingdom freed from a Soviet prison in exchange for their spies Peter and Helen Kroger (Morris and Lona Cohen).
July 26 – A 6.4 earthquake shakes the Chinese city of Yangjiang destroying thousands of homes and killing 3,000 people.
July 30 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam, meeting with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
July 31 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning PopetoAfrica.^[10]

August

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August 15–18: Woodstock Festival is held

August 2 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits Romania, becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to visit a communist state since the start of the Cold War.^[11]
August 4 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, U.S. representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. They eventually fail since the two sides cannot agree to any terms.
August 5 – Mariner program: Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometres (2,190 mi)).
August 9 – On orders from Charles Manson, members of the Manson Family invade the Los Angeles home of film director Roman Polanski, and murder his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and four others.
August 10 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles.
August 13 – Serious border clashes occur between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.
August 14 – The Troubles: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland to restore order following three days of political and sectarian violence, marking the beginning of the 37-year Operation Banner.^[12]
August 15–18 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
August 17 – Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the Mississippi coast of the United States, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 USD).
August 21 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
August 29 – A Trans World Airlines flight from Rome to Tel Aviv is hijacked and diverted to Syria.

September

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September 1
- 1969 Libyan coup d'état: A bloodless coup in Libya ousts King Idris and brings Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to power.
- For Brazil, the Jornal Nacional was created on Monday, 1 September 1969.
September 2 – Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam, dies at the age of 79.
September 5 – Lieutenant William Calley is charged with six counts of premeditated murder for the 1968 My Lai Massacre deaths of 109 Vietnamese civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.
September 9 – Allegheny Airlines Flight 853, a DC-9 airliner, collides in flight with a small Piper PA-28 airplane, and crashes near Fairland, Indiana, killing all 83 people in both aircraft.
September 11 – An annular solar eclipse is visible in Pacific Ocean and South America, and is the 41st solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134.
September 22–25 – An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli claim of ownership of Jerusalem.
September 23 – China carries out an underground nuclear bomb test.
September 25 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference is founded.
September 28 – 1969 West German federal election: The Social Democrats, led by Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt, and the Free Democrats led by Walter Scheel, formed a coalition government with Brandt as Chancellor, after the Social Democrats severed their relationship with Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger's Christian Democratic Union.

October

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October 1
- InSweden, Olof Palme is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Worker's Party, replacing Tage ErlanderasPrime MinisteronOctober 14.
- The Beijing Subway begins operation.
October 2 – A 1.2 megaton thermonuclear device is tested at Amchitka Island, Alaska. This test is code-named Project Milrow, the 11th test of the Operation Mandrel 1969–1970 underground nuclear test series. This test is known as a "calibration shot" to test if the island is fit for larger underground nuclear detonations.
October 5 – Sazae-san first airs on Fuji Television.
October 9–12 – Days of Rage: In Chicago, the Illinois National Guard is called in to control demonstrations involving the radical Weathermen, in connection with the "Chicago Eight" Trial.
October 11 – The Zodiac Killer shoots and kills taxi driver Paul Stine in the Presidio Heights neighborhood of San Francisco; this is the serial killer's last known murder.
October 11–16 – The New York Mets upset the Baltimore Orioles four games to one in the World Series.
October 15 – Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam demonstrations across the United States.
October 17 – Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the CCDatBell Laboratories (30 years later, this technology is widely used in digital cameras).
October 20 – Experimental research showing that protons were composed of smaller particles, the first evidence of quarks, is published.^[13]
October 21
- Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.
- General Siad Barre comes to power in Somalia in a coup, 6 days after the assassination of President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.
October 25 – 1969 Australian federal election: John Gorton's Liberal/Country Coalition government is narrowly re-elected with a sharply reduced majority, defeating a resurgent Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. Prime Minister Gorton survived a leadership challenge by his deputy William McMahon as well as David Fairbairn in the immediate aftermath of the election.
October 29 – The first electronic message is sent between two computers connected via ARPANET between University of California, Los Angeles and SRI International in California at around 10:30pm local time, the initial forerunning technology to the Internet.

November

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November 3 – Süleyman DemirelofAP forms the new government of Turkey (31st government).
November 14
- Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean), the second crewed mission to the Moon.
- The SS United States, the last active United States Lines passenger ship, is withdrawn from service.
November 15 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
November 17 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
November 19
- Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms"), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
- Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
- Vietnam War: A Cleveland, Ohio newspaper, The Plain Dealer, publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai MassacreinVietnam.
- Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers to Alcatraz Island and begins a 19 month long occupation, lasting until June 1971.
November 21
- U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.
- The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the global Internet).
November 24 – Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to the Moon.

December

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December 1 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held. September 14 is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random".
December 2 – The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its first passenger flight. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York City.
December 6 – Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert, an event which came to be viewed as the end of the hippie era and the de facto conclusion of late-1960s American youth culture.
December 12 – The Piazza Fontana bombinginMilan, Italy, kills 17 people and injures 88.
December 24
- Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.
- The oil company Phillips Petroleum made the first oil discovery in the Norwegian sector of North Sea.
- Nigerian troops capture Umuahia. The last Biafran capital before its dissolution becomes Owerri.
December 27 – The Liberal Democratic Party wins 47.6% of the votes in the 1969 Japanese general election. Future prime ministers Yoshirō Mori and Tsutomu Hata and future kingmaker Ichirō Ozawa are elected for the first time.

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Summer – Invention of Unix under the potential name "Unics" (after Multics).^[14]
Common African, Malagasy and Mauritian Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established.
International Convention on Civil Liability for Oil Pollution Damage, a maritime treaty, is adopted.

Births
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January

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January 1 – Verne Troyer, American actor (d. 2018)
January 2
- Robby Gordon, American racing driver
- Tommy Morrison, American boxer (d. 2013)^[15]
- Christy Turlington, American fashion model
January 3 – Michael Schumacher, German seven-time Formula One world champion
January 5
- Marilyn Manson, American rock musician
- Shea Whigham, American actor
January 6 – Norman Reedus, American actor
January 7
- Alfredo Romero, Venezuelan activist^[16]
- Rex Lee, American comedian
January 11
- Kyōko Hikami, Japanese voice actress
- Kyle Richards, American actress
January 13
- Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, Mexican writer, wife of Andrés Manuel López Obrador^[17]
- Stephen Hendry, British snooker player
January 14
- Jason Bateman, American actor, director and producer
- Dave Grohl, American rock drummer and composer
January 15 – Meret Becker, German actress and musician
January 16
- Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
- Dead, Swedish vocalist (d. 1991)
January 17
- Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
- Tiësto, Dutch DJ and music producer
January 18 – Dave Bautista, actor and professional wrestler
January 19
- Predrag Mijatović, Montenegrin footballer^[18]
- Robert Prosinečki, Croatian football player and coach^[19]
January 27
- Cornelius, Japanese rock musician, singer and producer
- Patton Oswalt, American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and voice artist^[20]
January 28 – Kathryn Morris, American actress
January 29 – Hyde, Japanese rock musician, singer and guitarist
January 31 – Bill Huizenga, American politician^[21]

February

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February 1
- Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
- Andrew Breitbart, American writer and publisher (d. 2012)
February 2 – Dambisa Moyo, Zambian-born economist
February 3
- Retief Goosen, South African golfer
- Beau Biden, American politician, lawyer, and son of Joe Biden (d. 2015)
February 5
- Bobby Brown, African-American singer
- Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
February 6 – David Hayter, Canadian-American actor, voice actor, screenwriter, director, and producer
February 7 – Andrew Micallef, Maltese painter and musician^[22]
February 11 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress, director, producer and businesswoman
February 12
- Darren Aronofsky, American filmmaker
- Hong Myung-bo, South Korean footballer
- Brad Werenka, Canadian ice-hockey player
February 13
- Ahlam, Emirati singer
- JB Blanc, French voice actor
February 14 – Adriana Behar, Brazilian volleyball player^[23]
February 15
- Roberto Balado, Cuban boxer (d. 1994)
- Birdman, American rapper, entertainer, and record producer
February 17 – Dorothee Schneider, German dressage rider
February 20 – Keiji Takayama, Japanese professional wrestler
February 21
- James Dean Bradfield, Welsh singer-songwriter
- Bosson, Swedish singer-songwriter
- Petra Kronberger, Austrian alpine skier
- Tony Meola, American soccer player^[24]
- Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, American actress
February 22 – Clinton Kelly, American TV personality, author, and consultant
February 23
- Michael Campbell, New Zealand golfer
- Marc Wauters, Belgian cyclist
- Daymond John, American businessman, investor, and television personality
February 28
- Robert Sean Leonard, American actor^[25]
- Pat Monahan, American singer

March

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March 1 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
March 4
- Annie Yi, Taiwanese actress
- Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
March 10 – Paget Brewster, American actress
March 11
- Terrence Howard, American actor and singer
- Soraya, Colombian singer and multi-instrumentalist (d. 2006)
March 12
- Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and painter
- Akemi Okamura, Japanese voice actress
- Jake Tapper, American journalist, author, and cartoonist
March 13 – Susanna Mälkki, Finnish conductor
March 15
- Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
- Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey
March 16 – Markus Lanz, German-Italian television presenter
March 17 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (d. 2010)
March 18
- Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan politician, 37th President of Guatemala
March 19 – Patrick Tam, Hong Kong actor
March 21 – Ali Daei, Iranian football player
March 22 – Tony Fadell, American engineer, inventor, designer and entrepreneur (Nest Labs, Apple Inc)^[26]
March 24 – Stephan Eberharter, Austrian alpine skier
March 25 – Jeffrey Walker, British musician
March 26 – Suroosh Alvi, Canadian journalist and filmmaker
March 27
- Mariah Carey, American pop singer
- Kevin Corrigan, American actor
- Pauley Perrette, American actress
March 28
- Rodney Atkins, American country music singer
- Brett Ratner, American film director and producer
March 29 – Chiaki Ishikawa, Japanese singer (See-Saw)

April

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April 1
- Fadl Shaker, Lebanese singer
- Andrew Vlahov, Australian basketball player
April 2 – Ajay Devgn, Indian actor, director and producer
April 3
- Ben Mendelsohn, Australian actor
- Lance Storm, Canadian professional wrestler
April 6
- Paul Rudd, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
- Anne-Marie Trevelyan, British politician
April 11
- Oriol Junqueras, Catalan-Spanish politician
- Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
- Caren Miosga, German journalist and television presenter
- Chisato Moritaka, Japanese singer
- Dustin Rhodes, American professional wrestler
April 16 – Dawn Brancheau, American senior animal trainer (d. 2010)
April 18
- Shannon Lee, Chinese-American actress
- Susan Polgár, Hungarian chess player
April 19 – Dana Nessel, American politician and lawyer
April 20 – Marietta Slomka, German journalist
April 21 – Toby Stephens, English actor
April 22 – Dion Dublin, English footballer
April 23 – Yelena Shushunova, Soviet gymnast (d. 2018)
April 25
- Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist
- Gina Torres, American actress
- Renée Zellweger, American Academy Award-winning actress and producer

May

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May 1 – Wes Anderson, American filmmaker
May 2
- Brian Lara, Trinidadian cricketer.
- Corinna Schumacher, German animal rights activist and accomplished horse rider
May 4 – Rabindra Prasad Adhikari, Nepalese politician (d. 2019)
May 5 – Hideki Irabu, Japanese baseball player (d. 2011)
May 6 – Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
May 7 – Katerina Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player^[27]
May 9 – Amber, German musician
May 8 – Akebono Tarō, American-born Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2024)
May 10 – Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch footballer^[28]
May 13
- Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host
- Brian Carroll (aka Buckethead), American guitarist
May 14 – Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
May 15
- Assala, Syrian singer
- Emmitt Smith, American football player
May 16
- David Boreanaz, American actor
- Tucker Carlson, American political commentator
- Steve Lewis, American athlete^[29]
May 19 – Teresa Ribera, Spanish politician
May 21 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d. 2000)
May 25 – Anne Heche, American actress (d. 2022)
May 26 – Siri Lindley, American triathlete
May 28 – Rob Ford, Canadian politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (d. 2016)

June

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June 3 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician, composer and writer
June 4 – Rob Huebel, American comedian
June 5 – Brian McKnight, American musician
June 7
- Alina Astafei, Romanian-German high jumper
- Prince Joachim of Denmark
- Kim Rhodes, American actress
June 8 – J. P. Manoux, American actor
June 11
- Peter Dinklage, American actor
- Steven Drozd, American rock drummer
- Anatoliy Povedenok, Kazakh football player
June 12
- Zsolt Daczi, Hungarian rock guitarist (d. 2007)
- Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician
June 13 – Søren Rasted, Danish musician
June 14
- Eugene Chung, Korean-American football player
- Steffi Graf, German tennis player
June 15
- Ice Cube, African-American rapper and actor
- Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper
- Jansher Khan, Pakistani squash player
June 16 – MC Ren, American rapper
June 17 – Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
June 18 – Haki Doku, Albanian para-cyclist
June 19 – Trine Pallesen, Danish actress
June 20
- Alexander Schallenberg, current Chancellor of Austria^{[citation needed]}
- Paulo Bento, Portuguese football player and coach
June 23
- Noa, Israeli singer
- Andrey Antonischak, Ukrainian politician (d. 2024)
- Fernanda Ribeiro, Portuguese long-distance runner
- Evie Tamala – Indonesian dangdut singer and actress
June 24 – Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
June 30 – Sanath Jayasuriya, Sri Lankan cricketer

July

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July 2
- Jenni Rivera, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, producer and actress (d. 2012)
- Tim Rodber, English rugby player
July 3
- Gedeon Burkhard, German actor
- Shawnee Smith, American actress
July 5 –
- John LeClair, American hockey player
- RZA, American rapper
July 7
- Sylke Otto, German luger
- Joe Sakic, Canadian hockey player
- Cree Summer, American-Canadian actress and singer
July 8 – Sugizo, Japanese guitarist and singer
July 9 – Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, Mongolian-German sport shooter
July 10
- Gale Harold, American actor
- Hossan Leong, Singaporean stage and screen actor, television host, radio deejay and comedian
- Jonas Kaufmann, German operatic tenor
- Rami Makhlouf, Syrian businessman
July 11 – David Tao, Taiwanese singer-songwriter
July 13 – Ken Jeong, American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer and former physician
July 14 – Billy Herrington, American gay pornographic actor (d. 2018)
July 16
- Björn Dunkerbeck, Danish windsurfer
- Sahra Wagenknecht, German politician
July 17
- Jason Clarke, Australian actor
- Ravi Kishan, Indian actor
- Kazuki Kitamura, Japanese actor
July 18 – The Great Sasuke, Japanese wrestler
July 20
- Josh Holloway, American actor
- Johnny Ngauamo, Tonga rugby union player
July 21
- Avraam Russo, Russian singer
- Isabell Werth, German equestrian
July 22
- Jason Becker, American heavy metal guitarist, formerly of Cacophony
- Anne Le Hénanff, French politician
- James Arnold Taylor, American voice actor
- Despina Vandi, Greek singer
July 23 – Raphael Warnock, American pastor and junior senator from Georgia^[30]
July 24 – Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
July 25 – Annastacia Palaszczuk, Australian politician, Premier of Queensland^[31]
July 26 – Tanni Grey-Thompson, born Carys Grey, British Paralympian
July 27
- Dacian Cioloș, 64th Prime Minister of Romania
- Bryan Fuller, American writer, producer, and director
- Pavel Hapal, Czech footballer
- Jonty Rhodes, South African cricketer
- Triple H, American wrestler
July 28
- Michael Amott, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
- Alexis Arquette, American actress, cabaret performer, underground cartoonist, and activist (d. 2016)^[32]
- Dana White, American businessman and president of Ultimate Fighting Championship
July 30 – Simon Baker, Australian-American actor and director
July 31 – Antonio Conte, Italian football player and manager

August

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August 2
- Jan Axel Blomberg, Norwegian drummer
- Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
August 3 – Anne Marie DeLuise, Canadian actress
August 4
- Max Cavalera, Brazilian musician and singer (Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy, ex-Sepultura)
- Michael DeLuise, American actor
August 6 – Elliott Smith, American musician (d. 2003)
August 8 – Faye Wong, Hong Kong singer and actress
August 10 – Brian Drummond, Canadian voice actor
August 11
- Vanderlei de Lima, Brazilian long-distance runner^[33]
- Ashley Jensen, British actress
August 12 – Tanita Tikaram, German-born British singer-songwriter
August 13 – Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
August 14 – Chris Pérez, American guitarist
August 15
- Justin Broadrick, British musician
- Kevin Cheng, Hong Kong television actor and singer
- Bernard Fanning, Australian musician (Powderfinger)
- John Fetterman, American politician, Senator of Pennsylvania^[34]
August 17
- Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress^[35]
- Christian Laettner, American professional basketball player
- Dick Togo, Japanese professional wrestler
- Donnie Wahlberg, American singer and actor (New Kids on the Block)
August 18
- Edward Norton, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and social activist
- Christian Slater, American actor and producer
- Timothy Snyder, American author and historian
August 19
- Nate Dogg, African-American rapper (d. 2011)
- Matthew Perry, American actor (d. 2023)
August 20 – Santeri Kinnunen, Finnish actor^[36]
August 23 – Jean-Marc Tellier, French politician^[37]
August 28 – Jack Black, American actor and musician
August 29 – Lucero, Mexican singer and actress
August 30 – Kent Osborne, American actor and producer

September

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September 3 – Robert Karlsson, Swedish golfer
September 4
- Giorgi Margvelashvili, politician; 4th President of the Republic of Georgia
- Noah Taylor, Australian actor
- Alexander Paul Coe, Welsh DJ and record producer
September 6
- Michellie Jones, Australian triathlete^[38]
- Cece Peniston, American musician
September 7 – Diane Farr, American actress
September 8 – Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 2011)
September 8 – Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
September 12
- Ángel Cabrera, Argentine golfer
- Shigeki Maruyama, Japanese golfer
September 13
- Tyler Perry, American actor, film director and screenwriter
- Shane Warne, Australian cricketer (d. 2022)
September 14 – Bong Joon-ho, South Korean film director and screenwriter
September 17
- Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
- Keith Flint, English singer/dancer in the band The Prodigy (d. 2019)
September 19
- Simona Păucă, Romanian gymnast
- LeRoy Whitfield, African-American freelance journalist (d. 2005)
September 21 – Billy Porter, American actor and singer
September 22 – Sue Perkins, English actress and comedian
September 24 – Shawn Crahan, American rock percussionist
September 25
- Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d. 2002)
- Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
- Hal Sparks, American comedian, actor, musician, and political commentator
September 29 – Erika Eleniak, American model and actress
September 30 – Jackie Traverse, Canadian artist and activist
- Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)

October

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Sir Steve McQueen

October 1
- Zach Galifianakis, American actor and stand-up comedian
- Marcus Stephen, President of Nauru
- Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
October 3
- Gwen Stefani, American singer, actress and television host
- Tetsuya, Japanese rock musician
October 5 – Elizabeth Azcona Bocock, Honduran politician
October 6
- Muhammad V of Kelantan, 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and Sultan of Kelantan
- Ogün Temizkanoğlu, Turkish footballer
October 7 – Benny Chan Ho Man, Hong Kong actor
October 9
- Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler
- PJ Harvey, British singer-songwriter
- Steve McQueen, English film director, producer and screenwriter
- Chan Chun Sing, Singaporean politician
October 10
- Brett Favre, American football player
- Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
October 11 – Merieme Chadid, Moroccan born-French astronomer
October 12 – Judit Mascó, Spanish model, television host and writer
October 13
- Rhett Akins, American country singer
- Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
- Cady McClain, American actress and director
October 15
- Kim Raver, American actress
- Dominic West, English actor, director and musician
October 16 – Wendy Wilson, American singer and television personality
October 17
- Ernie Els, South African golfer
- Jesús Ángel García, Spanish race walker
- Wood Harris, American actor
- Wyclef Jean, Haitian rapper
- Nancy Sullivan, American actress
October 19
- Pedro Castillo, 63rd President of Peru^[39]
- Vanessa Marshall, American actress and voice actress
- Trey Parker, American actor, voice actor, animator, writer, producer, director and composer
October 20
- Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league player
- Juan González, American baseball player
October 21 – Michael Hancock, Australian rugby league player
October 22 – Spike Jonze, American director and filmmaker
October 24
- Peter Dolving, Swedish metal musician
- Adela Noriega, Mexican actress
October 25
- Samantha Bee, Canadian comedian, writer, producer and political commentator
- Josef Beránek, Czech ice hockey player
- Oleg Salenko, Russian footballer^[40]
October 26 – Sarina Wiegman, Dutch footballer and manager
October 28
- Steven Chamuleau, Dutch cardiologist^[41]
October 30
- Stanislav Gross, 5th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (d. 2015)
- Snow, Canadian reggae singer
October 31 – Kim Rossi Stuart, Italian actor and director

November

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November 1 – Gary Alexander, American basketball player^[42]
November 2
- Reginald Arvizu (aka Fieldy Snuts), American bassist
- Madhushree, Indian playback singer
November 3 – Robert Miles, Swiss-born Italian record producer and DJ (d. 2017)
November 4
- Sean Combs, American rapper and entrepreneur
- Matthew McConaughey, American actor
November 7
- Michelle Clunie, American actress
- Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
November 8 – Jonathan Slavin, American actor and activist
November 9 – Allison Wolfe, American musician
November 10
- Faustino Asprilla, Colombian football player
- Jens Lehmann, German football player
- Ellen Pompeo, American actress
November 12
- Tomas N'evergreen, Danish singer
- Rob Schrab, American actor and comic book creator
November 13
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Somali-born Dutch American activist^[43]
- Gerard Butler, Scottish actor^[44]
November 14
- Butch Walker, American musician
- Daniel Abraham, American novelist, author, screenwriter, and producer
November 17 – Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
November 18
- Kathleen van Brempt, Belgian politician
- Sam Cassell, American basketball player
- Ahmed Helmy, Egyptian actor
November 19
- Ertuğrul Sağlam, Turkish football coach and former player
- Viktor Skrypnyk, Ukrainian football coach and former player^[45]
November 21 – Ken Griffey Jr., American baseball player
November 22 – Katrin Krabbe, German sprinter^[46]
November 23 – Robin Padilla, Filipino actor
November 24 – David Adeang, Nauruan politician
November 26 – Kara Walker, American artist^[47]
November 27
- Elizabeth Marvel, American actress
- Carina Ricco, Mexican actress and singer
November 28
- Colman Domingo, African-American actor
- Lexington Steele, African-American actor and film director
November 29
- Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
- Kasey Keller, American Major League Soccer player
- Mariano Rivera, Panamanian-American professional baseball player^[48]
November 30
- Trina Gulliver, English darts player
- Chris Weitz, American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor

December

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December 1 – Richard Carrier, American historian
December 4 – Jay-Z, African-American rapper
December 5
- Sajid Javid, British Pakistani politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer^[49]
- Catherine Tate, English actress, comedian, and writer
December 9
- Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer^[50]
- Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter
December 11 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess grandmaster
December 16 – Michelle Smith, Irish swimmer
December 17
- Laurie Holden, Canadian and American actress, producer and human rights activist
- Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial arts fighter
- Ismail Qasim Naji, Somali politician
December 18
- Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
- Irvin Duguid, Scottish rock keyboard player (Stiltskin)
- Mille Petrozza, German-Italian rock vocalist and guitarist (Kreator)
- Joe Randa, American Major League Baseball player and radio talk-show host
December 19
- Richard Hammond, British television presenter
- Lauren Sánchez, American news anchor
- Kristy Swanson, American actress
December 21
- Julie Delpy, French-American actress
- Magnus Samuelsson, Swedish bodybuilder, World's Strongest Man
December 22 – Dagmar Hase, German swimmer
December 23 – Jim Bankoff, American CEO of Vox Media
December 24
- Milan Blagojevic, Australian retired soccer player
- Pernille Fischer Christensen, Danish film director
- Leavander Johnson, American lightweight boxer (d. 2005)
- Sean Cameron Michael, South African actor and singer
- Ed Miliband, English academic and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
- Mark Millar, Scottish author
- Luis Musrri, Chilean footballer
- Oleg Skripochka, Russian cosmonaut
- Gintaras Staučė, Lithuanian footballer
- Chen Yueling, American race walker
- Jonathan Zittrain, American professor
December 25 – Nicolas Godin, French musician
December 27
- Chyna, American professional wrestler (d. 2016)
- Sarah Vowell, American historian, author, journalist, essayist, social commentator and actress
December 28 – Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
December 30
- Kersti Kaljulaid, 5th President of Estonia
- Jay Kay, English singer (Jamiroquai)

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January

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Dominique Pire

January 1
- Barton MacLane, American actor (b. 1902)^[51]
- Bruno Söderström, Swedish athlete (b. 1881)
January 3 – Commodore Cochran, American Olympic athlete (b. 1902)
January 4 – Paul Chambers, American jazz bassist (b. 1935)
January 6 – Shalva Nutsubidze, Georgian philosopher, historian, rustvelologist, literary critic, translator, and public figure (b. 1888)
January 8 – Albert Hill, British athlete (b. 1889)
January 19 – Jan Palach, Czech student (b. 1948)
January 27 – Charles Winninger, American actor (b. 1884)
January 29 – Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. 1893)
January 30 – Dominique Pire, Belgian Dominican friar, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1910)
January 31 – Meher Baba, Indian spiritual master (b. 1894)

April 2 – Fortunio Bonanova, Spanish actor and singer (b. 1895)
April 5
- Alberto Bonucci, Italian actor and director (b. 1918)
- Rómulo Gallegos, Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th President of Venezuela (b. 1884)^[57]
April 10 – Harley Earl, American designer and executive (b. 1893)
April 15 – Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg, Queen consort of Spain (b. 1887)
April 20 – Vjekoslav Luburić, Croatian Ustaše official and concentration camp administrator (b. 1914)
April 26 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
April 27 – René Barrientos , Bolivian general and statesman, 47th President of Bolivia (helicopter crash) (b. 1919)

May

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Franz von Papen

Jeffrey Hunter

May 2 – Franz von Papen, 22nd Chancellor of Germany and 26th Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1879)
May 3
- Karl Freund, German cinematographer (b. 1890)
- Zakir Hussain, Indian politician, 3rd President of India (b. 1897)
May 4 – Sir Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b. 1892)^[58]
May 6 – Don Drummond, Jamaican ska musician (b. 1934)
May 14
- Enid Bennett, American actress (b. 1893)
- Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b. 1880)
May 15 – Robert Rayford, American HIV/AIDS victim (b. 1953)
May 18 – Camille Drevet, French anti-colonialist, feminist activist and pacifist (b. 1881)
May 21 – William Lincoln Bakewell, American explorer (b. 1888)
May 23 – Jimmy McHugh, American composer (b. 1894)
May 24 – Mitzi Green, American actress (b. 1920)
May 26 – Paul Hawkins, Australian racing driver (b. 1937)
May 27
- Muhammad Fareed Didi, Sultan of Maldives (b. 1901)
- Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (b. 1926)
May 28 – Rhys Williams, Welsh actor (b. 1897)

June

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Judy Garland

June 1 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (b. 1904)
June 4 – Rafael Osuna, Mexican professional tennis player (b. 1938)
June 8 – Robert Taylor, American actor (b. 1911)
June 11 – John L. Lewis, President of the United Mine Workers of America (b. 1889)
June 12 – Aleksandr Deyneka, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1899)
June 16 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, British field marshal and 17th Governor General of Canada (b. 1891)
June 18 – Edgar Anderson, American botanist (b. 1897)
June 19 – Natalie Talmadge, American actress (b. 1896)
June 20 – Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi, Egyptian Qur'anic reciter (b. 1920)
June 22 – Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b. 1922)^[59]
June 23 – Volmari Iso-Hollo, Finnish athlete (b. 1907)

July

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Brian Jones

Walter Gropius

July 2 – Mikio Naruse, Japanese film director (b. 1905)
July 3 – Brian Jones, British rock musician (b. 1942)
July 5
- Ben Alexander, American actor (b. 1911)
- Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (b. 1884)
- Walter Gropius, German architect (b. 1883)
- Lambert Hillyer, American film director (b. 1889)
- Tom Mboya, Kenyan politician (b. 1930)
- Leo McCarey, American film director (b. 1898)
July 9 – Raizō Tanaka, Japanese admiral (b. 1892)
July 15 – Peter van Eyck, German actor (b. 1911)
July 17 – Ichikawa Raizō VIII, Japanese actor (b. 1931)
July 20 – Roy Hamilton, American singer (b. 1929)
July 24 – Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b. 1904)^[60]
July 25 – Otto Dix, German painter (b. 1891)
July 28
- Frank Loesser, American songwriter (b. 1910)
- Ramón Grau, president of Cuba (b. 1882)^[61]

August

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Theodor W. Adorno

Sharon Tate

August 5 – Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg (b. 1873)
August 6 – Theodor W. Adorno, German sociologist and philosopher (b. 1903)
August 8 – Choi Seung-hee, Korean modern dancer (b. 1911)
August 9
- Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- Constantin Ion Parhon, Romanian politician (b. 1874)
- Jay Sebring, American celebrity hair stylist (b. 1933)
- Sharon Tate, American actress and model (b. 1943)
August 13 – Nicolás Fasolino, Argentine Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1887)
August 14 – Leonard Woolf, English writer (b. 1880)
August 17
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German-American architect (b. 1886)
- Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
August 18 – Mildred Davis, American actress (b. 1901)
August 20 – Marty Barry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1905)
August 26 – Ismail al-Azhari, 2nd Prime Minister, 3rd President of Sudan (b. 1900)
August 27
- Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b. 1884)
- Erika Mann, German writer (b. 1905)
August 31 – Rocky Marciano, American professional boxer (b. 1923)

September

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Ho Chi Minh

September 2
- Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese Communist politician, 1st Prime Minister of North Vietnam and 1st President of North Vietnam (b. 1890)
- Norman Manley, Premier of Jamaica (b. 1893)^[62]
September 3 – John Lester, American cricketer (b. 1871)^[63]
September 6 – Arthur Friedenreich, Brazilian footballer (b. 1892)
September 8
- Bud Collyer, American radio and television personality (b. 1908)
- Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer (b. 1868)
September 12 – Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr., American general (b. 1888)^[64]
September 19 – Rex Ingram, American actor (b. 1895)
September 22
- Adolfo López Mateos, Mexican politician, 48th President of Mexico, 1958-1964 (b. 1909)^[65]
- Aleksandras Stulginskis, Lithuanian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Lithuania (b. 1885)
September 27 – Nicolas Grunitzky, 2nd President of Togo (b. 1913)
September 28 – Nicolae Dăscălescu, Romanian general (b. 1884)^[66]

October

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Sonja Henie

October 3 – Skip James, American blues singer (b. 1902)
October 6 – Walter Hagen, American golf champion (b. 1892)
October 7
- Natalya Lisenko, Russian actress (b. 1884)
- Ture Nerman, Swedish communist leader (b. 1886)^[67]
October 8 – Eduardo Ciannelli, Italian actor and singer (b. 1888)
October 12 – Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b. 1912)
October 16 – Leonard Chess, Polish-American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (b. 1917)
October 21
- Jack Kerouac, American author (b. 1922)^[68]
- Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician (b. 1882)
October 26 – Gyula Mándi, Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1899)
October 29 – Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich, 34th President of Costa Rica (b. 1907)
October 31 – Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río, 26th President of Ecuador, leader during World War II (b. 1893)

November

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Iskander Mirza

November 1 – Pauline Bush, American actress (b. 1886)
November 5 – Lloyd Corrigan, American actor (b. 1900)
November 8
- Dave O'Brien, American actor (b. 1912)
- Vesto Slipher, American astronomer (b. 1875)
November 12 – William F. Friedman, American cryptanalyst (b. 1891)
November 13 – Iskander Mirza, Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan (b. 1899)
November 18 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American politician (b. 1888)
November 21
- Norman Lindsay, Australian painter (b. 1879)
- Mutesa II of Buganda, Kabaka of Buganda and 1st President of Uganda (b. 1924)

December

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Kliment Voroshilov

Spencer Williams Jr.

December 1 – Magic Sam, American musician (b. 1937)
December 2 – Kliment Voroshilov, Soviet military commander (b. 1881)
December 4 – Fred Hampton, American activist (b. 1948)
December 5
- Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)^[69]
- Claude Dornier, German airplane builder, founder of Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
December 6 – João Cândido Felisberto, Brazilian sailor, led the Revolt of the Lash (b. 1880)^[70]
December 7 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and restaurateur (b. 1897)^[71]
December 8 – Karl Fiehler, German Nazi politician and Lord Mayor of Munich (b. 1895)
December 13
- Spencer Williams Jr., American actor (b. 1893)
- Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral (b. 1886)
December 21 – Georges Catroux, French Army general and colonial governor (b. 1877)
December 22
- Josef von Sternberg, Austrian film director (b. 1894)
- Enrique Peñaranda , Bolivian general, 38th President of Bolivia, leader during World War II (b. 1892)
December 29 – Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango, 11th President of Panama, leader during World War II (b. 1899)

Physics – Murray Gell-Mann
Chemistry – Derek Barton, Odd Hassel
Medicine – Max Delbrück, Alfred Hershey, Salvador Luria
Literature – Samuel Beckett
Peace – International Labour Organization
Economics – Ragnar Frisch, Jan Tinbergen

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