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1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.

Events[edit]

January[edit]

• January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force.^[1]
• January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea.^[2]
• January 18 – Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War.^[3]
• January 27
  • The United States vetoes a United Nations resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian state.^[4]
  • The First Battle of Amgala breaks out between Morocco and Algeria in the Spanish Sahara.^[5]

February[edit]

• February 4
  • The 1976 Winter Olympics begin in Innsbruck, Austria.
  • The 7.5 M_w Guatemala earthquake affects Guatemala and Honduras with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 23,000 dead and 76,000 injured.
• February 9 – The Australian Defence Force is formed by unification of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force.
• February 13 – General Murtala MohammedofNigeria is assassinated in a military coup.
• February 19 – Former Tower of Power vocalist Rick Stevens is arrested in the United States for murdering three men during a botched drug deal. He ultimately serves 36 years of a life sentence.
• February 24 – Cuba's constitution of 1976 is enacted.
• February 26 – The Spanish Armed Forces withdraw from Western Sahara.
• February 27 – The Polisario Front, Western Sahara's national liberation movement, declares independence of the territory under the name "Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic". On February 28, Madagascar becomes the first country to recognise it.

March[edit]

• March – The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research, with the first purchaser being the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in Los Alamos, New Mexico.^[6]
• March 1
  • U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland.
  • Bradford Bishop allegedly murders five of his family members in Bethesda, Maryland. The crime goes undiscovered for 10 days and the suspect is never caught. From 2014 to 2018 he is on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
• March 4
  • The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland, resulting in Direct rule over Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom in London.
  • The Maguire Seven are found guilty in London of possessing explosives for use by the Provisional Irish Republican Army and subsequently jailed for 14 years; their convictions will be overturned in 1991.
• March 9 – A cable car disaster occurs when a supporting cable breaks in Cavalese, Italy, resulting in 43 deaths.^[7]
• March 9–11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in Letcher County, Kentucky.
• March 16 – Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• March 17 – American boxer Rubin Carter is retried in New Jersey for murder; his conviction is upheld on this occasion but will be overturned in 1985.
• March 20 – Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974.
• March 22 – Star Wars begins filming in Tunisia.
• March 24
  • Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Perón.
  • Ageneral strike takes place in the People's Republic of the Congo.
• March 26
  • The Toronto Blue Jays are created as a baseball team.
  • The Body Shop, the retail chain for skin care products and cosmetics founded by Anita Roddick, opens its first branch in Brighton, England.^[8]
• March 27
  • The South African Defence Force withdraws from Angola and concludes Operation Savannah.
  • The first 7.4 kilometres (4.6 mi) of the Washington Metro subway system opens.
• March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina.
• March 31 – The New Jersey Supreme Court rules that patient in a persistent vegetative state in the Karen Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.

April[edit]

• April 1
  • Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak in California.
  • Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that have filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.
  • The Jovian–Plutonian gravitational effect is first reported by British astronomer Patrick Moore.
• April 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
• April 3 – The Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me.
• April 5
  • James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
  • Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai. Poems against the Gang of Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
  • Segovia prison break: in Spain's largest prison break since the Spanish Civil War, 29 political prisoners escape from Segovia prison.
• April 13
  • The Lapua Cartridge Factory explosioninLapua, Finland kills 40.
  • The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve NoteonThomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
• April 16 – As a measure to curb population growth, the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
• April 19 – A violent F5 tornado strikes around Brownwood, Texas, injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured.^[9][10]
• April 21 – The Great Bookie RobberyinMelbourne: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
• April 25 – Portugal's new constitution is enacted.
• April 29 – Sino-Soviet split: A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.^[11] The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.^[11]

May[edit]

• May 1 – Neville Wran becomes Premier of New South Wales.
• May 4
  • The first LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
  • A train crash in Schiedam, the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
• May 6 – An earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
• May 9 – Ulrike Meinhof of the Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
• May 11
  • U.S. President Gerald Ford signs the Federal Election Campaign Act.
  • An accident involving a tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia takes place in Houston, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 7 people.^[12][13]
• May 13 – The Atari video arcade game Breakout is released.
• May 16 – The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Philadelphia Flyers in four games to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey. Flyers forward Reggie Leach became the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
• May 21 – The Yuba City bus disaster, the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
• May 24
  • Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
  • The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
• May 25 – U.S. President Gerald Ford defeats challenger Ronald Reagan in 3 Republican presidential primaries: Kentucky, Tennessee and Oregon.
• May 30 – Indianapolis 500 automobile race: Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 kilometres (254 mi).
• May 31 – Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which it has previously supported.

June[edit]

• June 1 – The United Kingdom and Iceland end the Third Cod War, with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
• June 2
  • A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles.
  • The Philippine government opens relations with the Soviet Union.
• June 4 – The Boston Celtics defeat the Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the National Basketball Association Finals at the Boston Garden. In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
• June 5 – The Teton Dam collapses in southeast Idaho in the US, killing 11 people.
• June 6 – The Double Six Crash, a plane crash in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, kills everyone on board, including Sabahan Chief Minister Tun Fuad Stephens.
• June 12 – Alberto Demicheli, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay after Juan María Bordaberry is deposed by the military.
• June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa, spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado that destroys the town of Jordan.
• June 14 – The trial begins at Oxford Crown Court in England of Donald Neilson, the multiple killer known as the Black Panther. He will be convicted and serve the remainder of his life in prison.
• June 16 – The Soweto uprising in South Africa begins.
• June 17 – The National Basketball Association and the American Basketball Association agree on the ABA–NBA merger.
• June 20
  • Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut and taken to safety in Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
  • General elections are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
  • Czechoslovakia beats West Germany 5–3 on penalties to win Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
• June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (Ursus, Radom, Płock) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.
• June 26 – The CN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
• June 27
  • G-6 is renamed "Group of 7" (G-7) with the inclusion of Canada.
  • Palestinian militants hijackanAir France plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe, Uganda.
• June 28 – Inauguration of the north lane of the Rodovia dos Imigrantes.
• June 29
  • Seychelles gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • The Conference of Communist and Workers Parties of Europe convenes in East Berlin.

July[edit]

• July 2 – North Vietnam dissolves the Provisional GovernmentofSouth Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the Socialist RepublicofVietnam.
• July 3
  • Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment overturning the Furman v. Georgia case of 1972.
  • The great heat wave in the United Kingdom, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
• July 4
  • The U.S. celebrates its bicentennial, in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the 1776 adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom.
  • Entebbe Raid: Israeli airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe Airport; Yonatan Netanyahu and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
• July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval AcademyinAnnapolis, Maryland.
• July 7
  • German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin.
  • David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out Jeremy Thorpe.
• July 10
  • Four mercenaries, three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in Angola, following the Luanda Trial.
  • Seveso disaster: An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
• July 12 – In the United States:
  • California State University, Fullerton massacre: seven people are shot and killed, and two others are wounded in a mass shooting on campus at California State University, Fullerton.
  • Price Club, as predecessor of Costco, a worldwide membership-registration-only retailer, is founded in California.^[14]
• July 15
  • Jimmy Carter is nominated for U.S. president at the Democratic National Convention in New York City.
  • Twenty-six Chowchilla schoolchildren and their bus driver are abducted and buried in a box truck within a quarry in Livermore, California. The captives dig themselves free after 16 hours. The quarry-owner's son and two accomplices are arrested for the crime.
• July 16–20 – Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in Nice, France.
• July 17
  • The 1976 Summer Olympics begin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • East Timor is declared the 27th provinceofIndonesia.
• July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• July 19 – Sagarmatha National ParkinNepal is created.
• July 20
  • Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
  • American criminal Gary Gilmore is arrested for murdering two men in Utah.
• July 21 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
• July 26 – In Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away from President Gerald Ford.
• July 27
  • The United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with its former colony Uganda in response to the hijacking of Air France Flight 139.
  • Delegates attending an American Legion convention at The Bellevue-Stratford HotelinPhiladelphia, US, begin falling ill with a form of pneumonia: this will eventually be recognised as the first outbreakofLegionnaires' disease and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees.
• July 28 – The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
• July 29 – In New York City, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
• July 30
  • Bruce Jenner wins the gold medal in the men's decathlon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[15]
  • InSantiago, Chile, Cruzeiro from Brazil beats River Plate from Argentina and are the Copa Libertadores de América champions in Association football.
• July 31
  • NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
  • The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses and killing 143 people.

August[edit]

• August 1
  • The 1976 Summer Olympics ends in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • Trinidad and Tobago becomes a republic, replacing Elizabeth II as its head of state with President Ellis Clarke.
  • Defending F1 World Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix after a huge accident that nearly cost him his life.
• August 2 – A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas. T. Cullen Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
• August 5 – The clock of "Big Ben" at the Palace of Westminster in London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
• August 6 – Former United Kingdom Postmaster General John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
• August 7 – Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
• August 8 – As part of the American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger, a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
• August 11 – A sniper rampage in Wichita, Kansas on a Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.^[16]
• August 14
  • Around 10,000 Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.
  • The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
• August 17 – The 8.0 M_w  Moro Gulf earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.^[17]
• August 18 – At Panmunjom, North Korea, two United States soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view.
• August 19 – U.S. President Gerald Ford edges out challenger Ronald Reagan to win the Republican Party presidential nomination in Kansas City.
• August 24 – In Uruguay, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
• August 25
  • Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre.
  • Landslide disaster in Sau Mau Ping, Hong Kong.
• August 26
  • The first known outbreak of Ebola virus occurs in Yambuku, Zaire.
  • Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.
• August 30 – James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first chief minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

September[edit]

• September 1
  • Cigarette and tobacco advertising is banned on Australian television and radio.
  • Aparicio Méndez, a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian de facto President of Uruguay in the framework of a dictatorship.
  • The state of emergency in the Republic of Ireland legally still in force since 1939 is lifted.^[18]
• September 3 – Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia PlanitiaonMars, taking the first close-up color photographs of the planet's surface.
• September 6
  • Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.
  • Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA TelethoninLas Vegas, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
• September 10 – Zagreb mid-air collision: A British Airways Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia (modern-day Zagreb, Croatia), killing all 176 aboard.
• September 15 – Darryl Sittler scores the winning goal in the 1976 Canada Cup for Canada to win over Czechoslovakia in overtime, to win the first Canada Cup in ice hockey.
• September 16
  • Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
  • Beginning with the Night of the Pencils, a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances followed by torture, rape, and murder of students under the Argentine dictatorship takes place.
• September 17 – The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out of a hangar in Palmdale, California, United States.
• September 21
  • The Seychelles join the United Nations.
  • Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
• September 24 – Patty Hearst is sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in the armed robbery of a San Francisco bank in 1974 (an executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22 months).
• September 25 – Irish rock band U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.
• September 28 – American singer Stevie Wonder releases his hit album Songs in the Key of Life.

October[edit]

• October 4 – The InterCity 125 high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
• October 6
  • Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados; all 73 people on board are killed.^[19]
  • Students gathering at Thammasat UniversityinBangkok, Thailand are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
  • InSan Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald Ford incorrectly declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
  • The Cultural Revolution in China concludes upon the capture of the Gang of Four.
• October 8 – Thorbjörn Fälldin replaces Olof PalmeasPrime MinisterofSweden.
• October 10 – Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-min is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
• October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao ZedongasChairman of the Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from a heart attack.
• October 13 – The United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory).
• October 19
  • The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon.
  • The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 19 years in the United States.
  • The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
• October 20 – The Mississippi River ferry MVGeorge Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, LouisianatoLuling, Louisiana, killing 78 passengers and crew.
• October 22 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5th President of Ireland, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
• October 26 – Transkei gains "independence" from South Africa.

November[edit]

• November 2 – 1976 United States presidential election: Jimmy Carter narrowly defeats incumbent Gerald Ford, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
• November 12 – Disappearance of Renee MacRae and her 3-year-old son Andrew from Inverness in Scotland; this becomes Britain's longest-running missing persons case.^[20]
• November 15 – The first megamouth shark is discovered off Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi.
• November 19 – Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
• November 24 – 1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye earthquake: Between 4,000 and 5,000 are killed in a 7.3 M_s earthquake at Van and Muradiye in eastern Turkey.
• November 26
  • Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
  • The Warsaw Treaty Organization joint secretariat is established.

December[edit]

• December 1
  • Angola joins the United Nations.
  • José López Portillo takes office as President of Mexico.
  • Sir Douglas Nicholls is appointed the 28th Governor of South Australia, the first Australian Aboriginal appointed to vice-regal office.
• December 3
  • Attempted assassination of Bob Marley (and his manager Don Taylor) in a shooting at his home in Kingston, Jamaica.
  • Patrick Hillery is sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland.
• December 5 – The Japanese general election takes place, and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party loses its majority in the 511-member House of Representatives, but remains the largest party with 249 seats.
• December 6 – The Viet Cong is disbanded, and its former members become a part of the Vietnam People's Army.
• December 8 – The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas, Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Baltasar Corrada del Río.
• December 10 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
• December 15
  • Samoa joins the United Nations.
  • Denis Healey announces to the British Parliament that he has successfully negotiated a £2.3bn loan from the International Monetary Fund.
• December 23 – A new volcano, Murara, erupts in eastern Zaire.

Date unknown[edit]

• Random breath testing is introduced in Victoria (Australia).
• The first laser printer is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800).
• The New Jersey Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor Brendan Byrne declares "The mob is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada.

Births[edit]

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January[edit]

• January 2 – Paz Vega, Spanish actress^[21]
• January 3 – Angelos Basinas, Greek footballer^[22]
• January 4 – August Diehl, German actor^[23]
• January 6 – Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor and musician^[24]
• January 13
  • Michael Peña, American actor^[25]
  • Mario Yepes, Colombian football player^[26]
• January 16 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak swimmer^[27]
• January 21 – Emma Bunton, English musician^[28]
• January 23
  • Anne Margrethe Hausken, Norwegian orienteer^[29]
  • Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer^[30]
• January 27
  • Ahn Jung-hwan, South Korean footballer and television personality^[31]
  • Clint Ford, American screenwriter and voice actor^{[citation needed]}
• January 28 – Rick Ross, American rapper^[32]

February[edit]

• February 1
  • Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Icelandic politician, 28th Prime Minister of Iceland
  • Muteba Kidiaba, Congolese football goalkeeper
• February 2
  • Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
  • James Hickman, British swimmer
  • Lori Beth Denberg, American actress and comedian
• February 3
  • Isla Fisher, Australian actress
  • Tim Heidecker, American comedian
  • Tijana, Macedonian singer
• February 4 – Cam'ron, African-American rapper
• February 5
  • Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
  • Tony Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
  • Brian Moorman, American football player
• February 6 – Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast
• February 9 – Charlie Day, American actor
• February 10 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
• February 11 – Brice Beckham, American actor
• February 12 – Silvia Saint, Czech actress
• February 14 – Erica Leerhsen, American actress
• February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American singer-songwriter and author
• February 16
  • Kyo, Japanese rock musician (Dir En Grey)
  • Adam Simpson, Australian rules footballer
  • Janet Varney, American actress and comedian
• February 17 – Svein Berge, Norwegian musician (Röyksopp)
• February 18 – Chanda Rubin, American tennis player^[33]
• February 20
  • Johanna Beisteiner, Austrian guitarist
  • Chris Cillizza, American journalist
• February 21 – Michael McIntyre, British stand-up comedian
• February 23
  • Aaron Aziz, Singaporean-born Malaysian actor
  • Jeff O'Neill, Canadian hockey player
  • Kelly Macdonald, Scottish actress
• February 24 – Zach Johnson, American golfer
• February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer, model and musician
• February 27 – Sergei Semak, Russian football player and coach^[34]
• February 28
  • Ali Larter, American actress and model
  • Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
• February 29
  • Ja Rule, American rapper
  • Mark Pollock, blind Irish adventurer and author

March[edit]

• March 3
  • Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules footballer
  • Isabel Granada, Filipino actress and singer (d. 2017)
• March 5 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• March 6 – Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
• March 8
  • Sergej Ćetković, Montenegrin singer
  • Gaz Coombes, English musician and singer-songwriter (Supergrass)
  • Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
• March 9 – Yamila Diaz-Rahi, Argentinean model
• March 10 – Miroslav Kostadinov, Bulgarian singer and songwriter
• March 12 – Zhao Wei, Chinese singer and actress
• March 13 – Danny Masterson, American actor
• March 14 – Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
• March 16
  • Nick Spano, American actor
  • Blu Cantrell, American R&B singer
  • Pál Dárdai, Hungarian football player and manager
  • Kim Johnsson, Swedish hockey player
  • Zhu Chen, Chinese chess grandmaster
• March 17
  • Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (d. 2009)
  • Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
• March 18
  • Emma Willis, English television presenter and former model
  • FanFan, American-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter
  • Eric Sorensen, American meteorologist and politician^[35]
• March 19
  • Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
  • Andre Miller, American basketball player
  • Alessandro Nesta, Italian football player
• March 20 – Chester Bennington, American singer (Linkin Park) (d. 2017)
• March 21 – Rachael MacFarlane, American actress and singer, sister of Seth MacFarlane
• March 22
  • Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
  • Shawty Lo, American rapper (d. 2016)
  • Kellie Shanygne Williams, American actress
  • Reese Witherspoon, American actress
• March 23
  • Sir Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist^[36]
  • Keri Russell, American actress
  • Sa Beining, Chinese host
• March 24
  • Aaron Brooks, American football player
  • Peyton Manning, American football player^[37]
• March 26 – Amy Smart, American actress
• March 27
  • Brandon Johnson, American politician, mayor-elect of Chicago^[38]
  • Liu Limin, Chinese swimmer^[39]
• March 29 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player^[40]
• March 30
  • Jessica Cauffiel, American actress and singer
  • Ty Conklin, American ice-hockey player
  • Ayako Kawasumi, Japanese voice actress

April[edit]

• April 1
  • Troy Baker, American actor and musician
  • David Oyelowo, English-American actor
• April 2
  • Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
  • Daisuke Namikawa, Japanese voice actor
  • Rory Sabbatini, South African golfer
• April 3 – Will Mellor, English actor
• April 4
  • Emerson, Brazilian footballer
  • James Roday, American actor, director and screenwriter
  • Paula Yacoubian, Lebanese politician and journalist^[41]
• April 5
  • Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
  • Natascha Ragosina, Russian boxer
  • Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer^[42]
  • Sterling K. Brown, African-American actor
• April 6 – Candace Cameron Bure, American actress
• April 10 – Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (d. 2006)
• April 12 – Andrei Lipanov, Russian ice skater
• April 13
  • Glenn Howerton, American actor
  • Jonathan Brandis, American actor, director and screenwriter (d. 2003)^[43]
• April 14 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
• April 15
  • Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey player
  • Steve Williams, British rower
• April 16
  • David Lyons, Australian actor
  • Robert Dahlqvist, Swedish guitarist and vocalist (d. 2017)
  • Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
• April 18
  • Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
  • Sean Maguire, British actor and singer
• April 19
  • Wyatt Cenac, American actor, writer and director
  • Kim Young-oh, South Korean illustrator
• April 20
  • Joey Lawrence, American actor
  • Shay Given, Irish football goalkeeper
• April 21 – Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball player
• April 22 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish footballer
• April 23 – Darren Huckerby, English footballer
• April 25
  • Tim Duncan, American basketball player
  • Denis Kartsev, Russian professional ice hockey player^[44]
  • Rainer Schüttler, German tennis player
  • Kim Jong-kook, South Korean singer, television personality
• April 26 – Elisabet Reinsalu, Estonian actress
• April 27 – Sally Hawkins, English actress
• April 28 – Joseph N'Do, Cameroonian international footballer ^[45]

May[edit]

• May 1
  • Darius McCrary, American actor
  • Michele Frangilli, Italian archer
• May 3
  • Beto, Portuguese footballer
  • Jeff Halpern, American ice hockey player
• May 4 – Anza, Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of Sailor Moon in some Sailor Moon musical
• May 5 – Juan Pablo Sorín, Argentine footballer and sports broadcaster^[46]
• May 7 – Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy SEAL, First recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Afghanistan War (d. 2005)
• May 8 – Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American folk-pop singer
• May 10
  • Rhona Bennett, American actress, singer and model
  • Rogério Oliveira da Costa, Brazilian-born football striker (d. 2006)
• May 14 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress and singer
• May 15
  • Mark Kennedy, Irish footballer
  • Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
  • Anže Logar, Slovenian politician, minister of foreign affairs
• May 17 – Mayte Martínez, Spanish athlete^[47]
• May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan baseball player
• May 23 – Ricardinho, Brazilian football player and coach^[48]
• May 25
  • Stefan Holm, Swedish high jumper^[49]
  • Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
  • Erinn Hayes, American actress
  • Nadine Heredia, Peruvian politician, First Lady of Peru
• May 26 – Paul Collingwood, English cricketer
• May 28
  • Alexei Nemov, Russian gymnast
  • Liam O'Brien, American actor
• May 31
  • Colin Farrell, Irish actor^[50]
  • Roar Ljøkelsøy, Norwegian ski jumper

June[edit]

• June 2
  • Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
  • Tim Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer (Keane)
  • Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
• June 3 – Jamie McMurray, American race car driver
• June 4
  • Alexei Navalny, Russian lawyer and political activist (d. 2024)
  • Nenad Zimonjić, Serbian tennis player^[51]
• June 5
  • Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist
  • Marc Worden, Canadian actor and voice actor
• June 6
  • Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian actress and singer
  • Geoff Rowley, English skateboarder
• June 7
  • Necro, American rapper
  • Nora Salinas, Mexican actress and model
  • Mirsad Türkcan, Serbian born-Turkish basketball player^[52]
• June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis player
• June 10
  • Michel Brown, Argentine actor
  • Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
  • Mariana Seoane, Mexican actress
  • Georg Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, German businessman and the current head of the Prussian branch of the House of Hohenzollern
• June 12 – Thomas Sørensen, Danish football goalkeeper
• June 13
  • Kym Marsh, British singer (Hear'Say) and actress
  • Jason "J" Brown, British singer (5ive)
• June 14
  • Alan Carr, English comedian
  • Lavínia Vlasak, Brazilian actress and model
• June 16 – Tom Lenk, American actor
• June 17
  • Estelle Folest, French politician^[53]
  • Peter Svidler, Russian chess grandmaster
• June 18
  • Petri Haapimaa, Finnish footballer and coach
  • Brady Haran, Australian-British founder and cast of Numberphile channel
  • Blake Shelton, American singer
• June 19 – Ryan Hurst, American actor
• June 20 – Juliano Belletti, Brazilian footballer
• June 21 – Antonio Cochran, American football player
• June 22 – Mike O'Brien, American actor, writer and comedian
• June 23
  • Brandon Stokley, American football player
  • Paola Suárez, Argentine tennis player^[54]
  • Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
  • Patrick Vieira, French footballer
  • Gavin Williamson, British politician, Secretary of State for Education
• June 25 – Maurren Maggi, Brazilian athlete and politician^[55]
• June 26
  • Cédric Jimenez, French film producer, film director and screenwriter
  • Wilson Lima, Brazilian politician and journalist
  • Alexander Zakharchenko, Ukrainian separatist rebel (d. 2018)
• June 27 – Joseph Sikora, American actor
• June 28
  • Nawaf Al-Temyat, Saudi Arabian football (soccer) player
  • David Palmer, Australian squash player
• June 29
  • Annette Beutler, Swiss professional racing cyclist
  • Katsutoshi Domori, Japanese football player
  • Angelo Lekkas, Australian rules footballer
• June 30
  • Tamara Sedmak, Swiss television presenter, model and actress
  • Jason Bostic, American football defensive back
  • Christine Schürrer, German serial killer
  • Gilbert Yvel, Dutch mixed martial artist

July[edit]