1971 (MCMLXXI ) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar , the 1971st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 971st year of the 2nd millennium , the 71st year of the 20th century , and the 2nd year of the 1970s decade.
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The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25 , July 22 and August 20 ) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10 , and August 6 ).
The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history.[1]
January
January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland.
January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground .
January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay , in Montevideo , keeping him captive until September.
January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day.
January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom All in the Family , starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker , debuts on CBS .
January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are released in Santiago , Chile; Giovanni Enrico Bucher is released January 16 .
January 15 – The Aswan High Dam officially opens in Egypt.
January 18
January 19 – Representatives of 23 western oil companies begin negotiations with OPEC in Tehran to stabilize oil prices; February 14 they sign a treaty with 6 Khalij el-Arab countries.
January 24 – The Guinean government sentences to death 92 Guineans who helped Portuguese troops in the failed landing attempts in November 1970 ; 72 are sentenced to hard labor for life; 58 of the sentenced are hanged the next day.
January 25
January 31 – Apollo program : Apollo 14 (carrying astronauts Alan Shepard , Stuart Roosa , and Edgar Mitchell ) lifts off on the third successful lunar landing mission.
January 15 : Aswan Dam opens in Egypt .
February
February 4
In Britain, Rolls-Royce goes bankrupt and is nationalised.
The Nasdaq stock exchange is founded in New York City.
February 5 – Apollo 14 lands on the Moon.
February 6 – The 4.6 Mb Tuscania earthquake shakes the Italian province of Viterbo with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe ), causing 24 deaths, 150 injuries and extreme damage.
February 7
Switzerland gives women voting rights in state elections, but not in all canton -specific ones.
Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.
February 8 – A new stock market index called the Nasdaq Composite debuts in the United States.
February 9
February 10 – A total lunar eclipse is visible from Pacific, Americas, Europe and Africa, and is the 50th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 123 .
February 11 – The US, UK, USSR and others sign the Seabed Treaty , outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.
February 11 –12 – Palestinian and Jordanian fighters clash in Amman .
February 13 – Vietnam War : Backed by American air and artillery support, South Vietnamese troops invade Laos .
February 15 – Decimal Day : The United Kingdom and Ireland both switch to decimal currency (see also decimalisation ).[2]
February 16 – In Italy, a local parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria ; residents of Reggio di Calabria riot for 5 days because of the decision.
February 20 – The U.S. Emergency Broadcast System sends an erroneous warning across the nation's radio and television stations, meant to be a standard weekly test conducted by NORAD in Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. Some stations cease broadcasting until the message is rescinded, as required by federal rules, while most ignore it.[3]
February 21
February 23 – Operation Lam Son 719 : South Vietnamese General Do Cao Tri is killed in a helicopter crash en route to taking control of the faltering campaign.[4]
February 25 – A partial solar eclipse is visible from Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 18th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 149 .
February 26 – Secretary General U Thant signs the United Nations proclamation of the March equinox (March 21) as Earth Day .
February 27 – Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (Mildredhuis in Arnhem ) start to perform abortions .
February 28 – Evel Knievel sets a world record and jumps 19 cars on a motorbike in Ontario, California .
February 5 : Apollo 14 on Moon
February 6 : Earthquake in Tuscania , Italy.
February 21 : Tornadoes kill over 100 in the U.S. state of Mississippi .
June
June – Massachusetts passes its Chapter 766 laws enacting special education .
June 1 – Vietnam War : Vietnam Veterans for a Just Peace, claiming to represent the majority of U.S. veterans who served in Southeast Asia , speak against war protests.
June 6
June 10
June 11 – Neville Bonner becomes the first Indigenous Australian to sit in the Australian Parliament .
June 13
June 14 – Norway begins oil production in the North Sea .
June 17
June 18 – Southwest Airlines , a low-cost carrier , begins its first flights between Dallas , Houston and San Antonio .
June 20 – Britain announces that Soviet space scientist Anatoly Fedoseyev has been granted asylum.[28]
June 21 – Britain begins new negotiations for EEC membership in Luxembourg.
June 25 – Madagascar accuses the U.S. of conspiring to oust the government; the U.S. recalls its ambassador.
June 27 – Concert promoter Bill Graham closes the legendary Fillmore East , which first opened on 2nd Avenue in New York City on March 8, 1968.
June 28 – Assassin Jerome A. Johnson shoots Joe Colombo , boss of his eponymous crime family, in the head during an Italian-American rally, putting him in a coma.
June 30
July
World Trade Center , Lower Manhattan, 1971
July – Nordic Council secretariat inaugurated.
July 3 – Jim Morrison , lead singer of The Doors , dies of a heart failure at the age of 27 in the bathtub of his apartment on the 3rd floor of the Rue Beautreillis 17 in Paris , France .
July 4
July 5 – Right to vote : The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution , formally certified by President Richard Nixon , lowers the voting age from 21 to 18.
July 6 – Hastings Banda is proclaimed President for Life of Malawi .
July 9 – The United Kingdom increases the number of its troops in Northern Ireland to 11,000.
July 10 –11 – Coup attempt in Morocco : 1,400 cadets take over the king's palace for three hours and kill 28 people; 158 rebels die when the king's troops storm the palace (ten high-ranking officers are later executed for involvement).
July 10 – Gloria Steinem makes her Address to the Women of America .
July 11 – Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
July 13
July 14 – Libya severs its diplomatic ties with Morocco .
July 15 – American President Richard Nixon announces his 1972 visit to China .
July 17 – Italy and Austria sign a treaty that ends the dispute (Südtirolfrage ) regarding South Tyrol .
July 18 – The Trucial States are formed in the Persian Gulf .
July 19 – The South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City tops out at 1,362 feet (415 m) , making it the second-tallest building in the world.
July 19 –23 – Major Hashem al-Atta ousts Jaafar Muhammad al-Nimeiri in a military coup in Sudan . Fighting continues until July 22 , when pro-Nimeiri troops regain power. Al-Atta and three officers are executed.
July 22
A BOAC flight from London to Khartoum is ordered to land at Benghazi, Libya , where two leaders of the unsuccessful Sudanese coup, travelling as passengers, are forced to leave the plane and are subsequently executed.[31]
A partial solar eclipse is visible from Asia and North America, and is the 70th and final solar eclipse of Solar Saros 116 .
July 24 – Georgina Rizk of Lebanon is crowned Miss Universe 1971 .
July 25 –30 – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli records two Debussy works in Munich for Deutsche Grammophon , his fifth recording.
July 26 – Apollo 15 (carrying astronauts David Scott , Alfred Worden and James Irwin ) is launched.
July 28 – Abdel Khaliq Mahjub , Sudanese communist leader, is hanged.
July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.
July 30 – In Japan, an All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet; 162 people are killed.
July 31 – Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin become the first to ride in the Lunar Roving Vehicle , a day after landing on the Moon.
August
August – Camden, New Jersey erupts in race riots , with looting and arson, following the beating death of a Puerto Rican motorist by city police. Also in 1971, Philadelphia International Records is established, with Camden native Leon Huff as co-founder.
August 1 – In New York City, 40,000 attend The Concert for Bangladesh .
August 2 – U.S. department store chain J. C. Penney debuts its trademark Helvetica wordmark which has been used ever since.
August 5
August 6 – A total lunar eclipse lasting 1 hour, 40 minutes, and 4 seconds is observed, visible from South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia, and is the 38th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 128 .
August 7 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth .
August 9
August 10 – Mr. Tickle , the first book in the Mr. Men series is first published, in the U.K.[32]
August 11 – Construction begins on the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans .
August 12 – Syria severs diplomatic relations with Jordan because of border clashes.
August 14
British troops are stationed on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to stop arms smuggling.
Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain (As of 2018 [ update] officially the Kingdom of Bahrain).
August 15
August 15 –September 5 – The 1971 Women's World Cup in Association football (an event not recognized by FIFA) is staged in Mexico: Denmark will be the winners.[33]
August 16 – Hastings Banda , President of Malawi , becomes the first black president to visit South Africa.[34]
August 18
August 19 –22 – A right-wing coup ignites a rebellion in Bolivia . Miners and students join troops to support president Juan José Torres , but eventually Hugo Banzer takes over.
August 20
August 21 – A bomb made of two hand grenades by alleged communist rebels[lower-alpha 1] explodes in the Liberal Party campaign party in Plaza Miranda in Quiapo, Manila the Philippines , injuring several anti-Marcos political candidates.
August 25
August 26 – A civilian government takes power in Greece.
August 30 – The Progressive Conservatives under Peter Lougheed defeat the Social Credit government under Harry E. Strom in a general election , ending 36 years of uninterrupted power for Social Credit in Alberta .
September
September – Operation Sourisak Montry VIII opens when forces of the Royal Thai Army recapture several positions in the territory of Laos on the south bank of the Mekong in response to an encroaching Chinese presence to the north.
September 2 – The United Arab Republic is renamed to the Arab Republic of Egypt
September 3
September 4
September 8 – In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein 's Mass .
September 9 – English musician John Lennon releases his second studio album Imagine . Worldwide sales of the title track will exceed 5 million.
September 9 –13 – Attica Prison riot : A revolt breaks out at the maximum-security prison in Attica, New York . In the end, state police and the United States National Guard storm the facility; 42 are killed, 10 of them hostages.
September 17 – Hugo L. Black retires as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States after serving for 34 years, at this time a record for longevity; Black dies eight days later.
September 19 – Trams in Ballarat (Victoria, Australia) cease to run.
September 21 – Pakistan declares a state of emergency .
September 24 – Britain expels 90 KGB and GRU officials; 15 are not allowed to return.
September 27 –October 11 – Japanese Emperor Hirohito travels abroad.
September 28 – Cardinal József Mindszenty , who has taken refuge in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest since 1956 , is allowed to leave Hungary.
September 29 – A cyclone in the Bay of Bengal , in the Indian state of Orissa , kills 10,000.
October
October 1 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida .
October 4 –7 – Pink Floyd record their groundbreaking film, Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at the Amphitheatre of Pompeii .
October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles 4–3 in Game 4 of the World Series at home in the first ever Major League Baseball postseason game played at night. The Pirates defeat the Orioles 2–1 in the decisive Game 7 at Baltimore four days later.
October 14 – Greenpeace is founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
October 14 – The largest state banquet in history is held at the ancient city of Persepolis in Iran , marking the symbolic Celebration of the 2,500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire .
October 17 – The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles to win the 1971 World Series .
October 18 – In New York City, the Knapp Commission begins public hearings on police corruption.
October 21
October 24 – Texas Stadium opens in Irving, Texas . In the inaugural game, the host Dallas Cowboys defeat the New England Patriots 44–21.
October 25 – The United Nations General Assembly admits the People's Republic of China and expels the Republic of China (or Taiwan).
October 27 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire .
October 28
October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization : The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196,700 (the lowest since January 1966).
October 30
October 31 – A bomb explodes at the top of the Post Office Tower in London.
November
Erin Pizzey establishes the world's first domestic violence shelter in Chiswick , London.[35]
November 3 – The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published.
November 6 – Operation Grommet : The U.S. tests a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named Project Cannikin. At around 5 megatons , it is the largest ever U.S. underground detonation .
November 8 – Led Zeppelin release their fourth studio album Led Zeppelin IV , which goes on to sell 23,000,000 copies in the United States.
November 9 – A Royal Air Force C-130 crashes into the Ligurian Sea near Leghorn, Italy , killing all 51 people on board.
November 10 – In Cambodia , Khmer Rouge forces attack Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging 9 airplanes .
November 12 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization : U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam .
November 13 – Mariner program : Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to enter Mars orbit successfully.
November 14 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned.
November 15
November 18 – Oman gains independence from the United Kingdom .
November 20 – A bridge still under construction, called Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, falls over the Paulo de Frontin Avenue, in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ; 48 people are killed and several injured. Reconstructed, the bridge is a part of the Linha Vermelha elevate.
November 22 – In Britain's worst mountaineering tragedy, the Cairngorm Plateau disaster , five children and one of their leaders are found dead from exposure in the Scottish mountains.
November 23 – The People's Republic of China takes the Republic of China 's seat on the United Nations Security Council (see China and the United Nations ).
November 24
During a severe storm over Washington State, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he had hijacked, with US$200,000 in ransom money, and is never seen again (as of November 2022, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history).
A Brussels court sentences pretender Alexis Brimeyer to 18 months in jail for falsely using a noble title; Brimeyer has already fled to Greece.
November 28 – The 59th Grey Cup Game sees the Calgary Stampeders beat the Toronto Argonauts 14–11.
November 30 – Iranian forces occupy the Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa (joint occupation by agreement with Sharjah ) and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs (taken by force from Ras Al Khaimah ).[36]
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January
Jeremy Renner
Mary J. Blige
Regina King
Kid Rock
Pep Guardiola
January 1 – Sammie Henson , American wrestler, Olympic silver medalist[42]
January 2
January 7
January 11 – Mary J. Blige , American singer[46]
January 12
January 14 – Lasse Kjus , Norwegian alpine skier[49]
January 15 – Regina King , American actress[50]
January 16 – Sergi Bruguera , Spanish tennis player[51]
January 17 – Kid Rock , American rock singer
January 18
January 19 – Shawn Wayans , American actor[54]
January 20 – Gary Barlow , British singer-songwriter[55]
January 23 – Julie Foudy , American soccer player and commentator
January 27
January 31 – Patricia Velásquez , Venezuelan actress and model
March
Jon Hamm
Johnny Knoxville
Method Man
Keegan-Michael Key
Ewan McGregor
March 1
March 2
March 4 – Jovan Stanković , Serbian footballer
March 5 – Yuri Lowenthal , American actor, producer and screenwriter
March 6 – Val Venis , Canadian professional wrestler
March 7
March 9 – Diego Torres , Argentine singer
March 10 – Jon Hamm , American actor, director and producer[71]
March 11 – Johnny Knoxville , American actor, comedian, and stunt performer[72]
March 16 – Alan Tudyk , American actor[73]
March 22 – Karen McDougal , American model and actress
March 24 – Victoria Prentis , British politician
March 26 – Rennae Stubbs , Australian tennis player[75]
March 27
March 29 – Villem Lüüs , Estonian draughts player and World Draughts Federation master (d. 2020)
March 30 – Mark Consuelos , American actor
March 31
April
Shannen Doherty
David Tennant
April 1
April 2
April 3
April 5 – Haifa El Aissami , Venezuelan lawyer[83]
April 7 – Guillaume Depardieu , French actor (d. 2008 )[85]
April 8 – Kim Byung-ji , South Korean goalkeeper
April 9 – Jacques Villeneuve , Canadian 1997 Formula 1 world champion, 1995 Indy 500 and series champion.[86]
April 10 – Nana Smith , American born-Japanese tennis player[87]
April 11
April 12
April 14 – Miguel Calero , Colombian footballer (d. 2012 )
April 16
April 17 – José Francisco Cevallos , Ecuadorian footballer
April 18 – David Tennant , Scottish actor[90]
April 20 – Carla Geurts , Dutch swimmer
April 23 – D.B. Weiss , American television producer and writer, and novelist
April 24 – Alejandro Fernández , Mexican singer[91]
April 28
April 29
April 30 – John Boyne , Irish novelist
May
Sofia Coppola
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands
Matt Stone
George Osborne
Paul Bettany
May 1 – Ajith Kumar , Indian film actor[92]
May 6 – Yolanda Díaz , Spanish politician and lawyer
May 7 – Serhii Gordiienko , Ukrainian boxing trainer
May 10 – Kim Jong-nam , eldest son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (d. 2017 )
May 14 – Sofia Coppola , American filmmaker
May 17 – Queen Máxima of the Netherlands [93]
May 18 – Brad Friedel , American soccer player[94]
May 20 – Tony Stewart , American stock car racing driver and team owner
May 21 – Aditya Chopra , Indian film director, producer and distributor
May 23 – George Osborne , British politician
May 25 – Kristina Orbakaitė , Lithuanian-Russian singer and actress
May 26 – Matt Stone , American actor, animator, writer, producer, and composer[95]
May 27
May 28
May 30
June
Joseph Kabila
Mark Wahlberg
Bobby Jindal
Elon Musk
June 1 – Mario Cimarro , Cuban actor and singer
June 3 – Luigi Di Biagio , Italian footballer
June 4
June 5
June 8 – Jeff Douglas , Canadian actor
June 10
June 12 – Mark Henry , American professional wrestler, Olympian
June 16 – Tupac Shakur , African-American rapper and actor (d. 1996 )[99]
June 17 – Paulina Rubio , Mexican singer
June 18 – Jen Kiggans , American politician and nurse[100]
June 20 – Josh Lucas , American actor
June 21 – Anette Olzon , Swedish singer (Nightwish , Alyson Avenue )
June 22 – Kurt Warner , American football player[101]
June 24
June 25
June 26 – Max Biaggi , Italian motorcycle racer
June 27
June 28
June 29 – Nawal El Zoghbi , Lebanese singer
June 30 – Monica Potter , American actress
July
Missy Elliott
Julian Assange
Corey Feldman
Sukhwinder Singh
Sandra Oh
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
July 1
July 3
July 7 – Christian Camargo , American actor, producer, writer and director
July 8
July 11
July 12 – Kristi Yamaguchi , American figure skater
July 13 – MF Doom , British rapper (d. 2020 )[106]
July 14
July 16 – Corey Feldman , American actor
July 17
July 18
July 19 – Vitali Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer and politician
July 20 – Sandra Oh , Korean actress
July 21 – Charlotte Gainsbourg , French actress and singer-songwriter
July 22 – Kristine Lilly , American soccer player
July 23
July 26 – Khaled Mahmud , Bangladeshi cricketer
July 28 – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi , Iraqi Islamic extremist leader (d. 2019 )
July 30 – Mzukisi Sikali , South African triple world champion boxer (d. 2005 )[111]
August
Jeff Gordon
Roy Keane
Richard Armitage
Pete Sampras
Thalía
August 1 – Juan Camilo Mouriño , Mexican politician (d. 2008 )[112]
August 4
August 5 – Valdis Dombrovskis , Latvian Prime Minister and European Commissioner[113]
August 9 – James Kim , American television personality and technology analyst (d. 2006 )
August 10
August 12
August 13
August 14 – Peter Franzén , Finnish actor[115]
August 17 – Jorge Posada , Puerto Rican baseball player
August 18 – Aphex Twin , Irish-born British electronic musician
August 19 – Mary Joe Fernández , American tennis player[116]
August 20
August 21 – Robert Harvey , Australian rules footballer
August 22
August 23 – Gretchen Whitmer , American politician and 49th Governor of Michigan[117]
August 25 – Ayumi Miyazaki , Japanese singer
August 26 – Thalía , Mexican actress and singer
August 27 – Julian Cheung , Hong Kong actor and singer
August 28 – Janet Evans , American swimmer[118]
August 29 – Carla Gugino , American actress
August 31
September
David Arquette
Martin Freeman
Amy Poehler
Lance Armstrong
Jada Pinkett Smith
September 1
September 2
September 4
September 5 – Kevin McAleenan , American government official, former United States Secretary of Homeland Security
September 6 – Dolores O'Riordan , Irish singer (The Cranberries ) (d. 2018 )
September 7
September 8
September 9 – Henry Thomas , American actor
September 11 – Alessandra Rosaldo , Mexican actress, singer and dancer
September 13
September 14 – André Matos , Brazilian singer (d. 2019 )
September 15 – Josh Charles , American actor
September 16 – Amy Poehler , American actress
September 17
September 18
September 19 – Sanaa Lathan , African-American actress[122]
September 20
September 21
September 23 – Lee Mi-yeon , South Korean actress
September 27 – Horacio Sandoval , Mexican artist
September 29
September 30
October
Kevin Richardson
Sacha Baron Cohen
Snoop Dogg
Winona Ryder
October 1 – Gigi Lai , Hong Kong actress and singer[125]
October 2
October 3 – Kevin Richardson , American pop singer
October 4 – Ridwan Kamil , Indonesian architect, politician and current governor of West Java
October 6 – Emily Mortimer , English actress and screenwriter
October 7
October 8 – Mayrín Villanueva , Mexican actress and model
October 10 – Evgeny Kissin , Russian pianist[126]
October 11 – Aman Verma , Indian television anchor and actor
October 12 – Đàm Vĩnh Hưng , Vietnamese singer
October 13
October 14 – Jorge Costa , Portuguese footballer
October 15 – Niko Kovač , German-Croatian football player and coach[127]
October 17 – Andy Whitfield , Welsh actor and model (d. 2011 )
October 18 – Yoo Sang-chul , South Korean footballer and manager (d. 2021 )
October 20
Snoop Dogg , African-American rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, media personality, entrepreneur, and actor
Dannii Minogue , Australian singer
October 21 – Ted Budd , American politician[128]
October 22
October 23 – Bohuslav Sobotka , 11th Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
October 24
October 25
October 26 – Anthony Rapp , American actor and singer
October 29
November
Tabu
Joel McHale
Chris Hardwick
Christina Applegate
November 3 – Unai Emery , Spanish football coach
November 4 – Tabu , Indian actress
Marco Büchel – Swiss-born Liechtenstein retired alpine ski racer
November 5 – Jonny Greenwood , English musician and composer
November 6 – Laura Flessel-Colovic , French fencer and politician[133]
November 7 – Rituparna Sengupta , Indian actress
November 8 – Tech N9ne , American rapper
November 9 – Melinda Kinnaman , Swedish-born American actress
November 10
November 12
November 13 – Ulla Pirttijärvi-Länsman , Finnish joik singer
November 14 – Adam Gilchrist , Australian cricketer
November 15 – Delsa Solórzano , Venezuelan lawyer and politician[135]
November 16
November 18 – Özlem Tekin , Turkish singer
November 20
Dion Nash , New Zealand cricket captain[137]
Joel McHale , Italian-born American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host
November 22 – Cecilia Suárez , Mexican actress and activist
November 23 – Chris Hardwick , American actor, comedian, and television host
November 25 – Christina Applegate , American actress
November 27 – Albert Demchenko , Russian luger
November 28 – Fenriz , Norwegian musician
November 30
December
Ricky Martin
Justin Trudeau
Jared Leto
December 2 – Francesco Toldo , Italian footballer[139]
December 3 – Frank Sinclair , Jamaican footballer
December 5
December 6
December 7
December 11 – Erkan Petekkaya , Turkish actor[142]
December 12
December 13 – Sakis Arnaoutoglou , Greek politician
December 15 – Necati Şaşmaz , Turkish actor[143]
December 16
December 17
December 18
December 19
December 21 – Natalie Grant , American singer and songwriter
December 22 – Khalid Khannouchi , Moroccan long-distance runner
December 23 – Corey Haim , Canadian actor (d. 2010 )
December 24
December 25
December 26 – Jared Leto , American actor and musician (Thirty Seconds to Mars )
December 27 – Sergei Bodrov Jr. , Russian actor (d. 2002 )
December 31 – Brent Barry , American basketball player[147]
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January
Coco Chanel
Jacobo Árbenz
January 3 – Carlo Braga , Filipino Roman Catholic priest, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1889 )[149]
January 4 – Arthur Ford , American psychic spiritual medium and clairaudient (b. 1896 )[150]
January 5 – Douglas Shearer , Canadian film sound engineer (b. 1899 )
January 10 – Coco Chanel , French fashion designer (b. 1883 )[151]
January 11 – Hussein Al Oweini , 18th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1900 )[152]
January 12 – John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey , British admiral (b. 1885 )
January 14 – Guillermo de Torre , Spanish Dadaist author (b. 1900 )
January 15 – John Dall , American actor (b. 1920 )
January 17 – Lothar Rendulic , Austrian-born German general (b. 1887 )
January 20 – Broncho Billy Anderson , American actor, director, writer, and producer (b. 1880 )
January 24 – Bill W. , co-founder Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1895 )[153]
January 25 – Hermann Hoth , German general (b. 1885 )[154]
January 27 – Jacobo Árbenz , 19th President of Guatemala (b. 1913 )
January 28 – Donald Winnicott , British psychoanalyst (b. 1896 )
February
Mátyás Rákosi
February 1 – Raoul Hausmann , Austrian artist (b. 1886 )[155]
February 3 – Jay C. Flippen , American actor (b. 1899 )[156]
February 4 – Brock Chisholm , Canadian physician, 1st Director-General of World Health Organization (b. 1896 )[157]
February 5 – Mátyás Rákosi , 43rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1892 )[158]
February 6 – Shigeru Fukudome , Japanese admiral (b. 1891 )
February 12 – James Cash Penney , American businessman, founder of J. C. Penney (b. 1875 )[159]
February 17 – Adolf A. Berle , American lawyer, educator, author and diplomat (b. 1895 )
February 18 – Jaime de Barros Câmara , Brazilian archbishop (b. 1894 )
February 19 – Ibrahim Mohammad Jahfar , Bruneian politician (b. 1902 )
February 25 – Theodor Svedberg , Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884 )
May
Glenda Farrell
Audie Murphy
May 1 – Glenda Farrell , American actress (b. 1904 )
May 5 – Violet Jessop , Argentine-born British RMS Titanic survivor (b. 1887 )[168]
May 6 – Helene Weigel , German actress (b. 1900 )[169]
May 8 – Godfrey Huggins, 1st Viscount Malvern , English-born Rhodesian politician and physician, Prime Minister of Rhodesia (b. 1883 )
May 11 – Seán Lemass , 4th Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1899 )
May 12 – Tor Johnson , Swedish wrestler and actor (b. 1903 )
May 19
May 27 – Chips Rafferty , Australian actor (b. 1909 )
May 28
May 30 – Marcel Dupré , French composer (b. 1886 )
June
Carlos P. Garcia
Wendell Meredith Stanley
June 1
June 4 – György Lukács , Hungarian Marxist philosopher, aesthetician, literary historian, and critic (b. 1885 )[172]
June 10 – Michael Rennie , English actor (b. 1909 )
June 14 – Carlos P. Garcia , 8th President of the Philippines (b. 1896 )
June 15 – Wendell Meredith Stanley , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904 )
June 18
June 19 – Garfield Wood , American motorboat racer (b. 1880 )
June 25 – John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr , Scottish physician and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1880 )
June 29
June 30 – Herbert Biberman , Jewish-American screenwriter and film director (b. 1900 )
July
Jim Morrison
Louis Armstrong
July 1
July 3 – Jim Morrison , American singer (The Doors ) (b. 1943 )
July 4
July 6 – Louis Armstrong , African-American jazz trumpeter (b. 1901 )
July 7 – Ub Iwerks , American animator (b. 1901 )
July 13 – Michel Saint-Denis , French actor, theatre director, drama theorist and radio broadcaster (b. 1897 )[175]
July 17 – Cliff Edwards , American actor (b. 1895 )
July 19 – John Jacob Astor, 1st Baron Astor of Hever , American-born British businessman (b. 1886 )
July 21 – Michael Somogyi , Hungarian-American biochemist (b. 1883 )[176]
July 23
July 24 – Alan Rawsthorne , British Composer (b. 1905 )
July 26 – Diane Arbus , American photographer (b. 1923 )
August
Paul Lukas
Margaret Bourke-White
August 5 – Royal Rife , American inventor (b. 1888 )
August 11 – Sir John Cleland , Australian naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist (b. 1878 )
August 13
August 15 – Paul Lukas , Hungarian-born American actor (b. 1894 )
August 17 – Wilhelm List , German field marshal (b. 1880 )
August 21 – George Jackson , American author (b. 1941 )
August 24 – Carl Blegen , American archaeologist (b. 1887 )
August 25 – Ted Lewis , American musician and entertainer (b. 1890 )
August 27
August 28 – Geoffrey Lawrence, 1st Baron Oaksey , British judge during the Nuremberg trials after World War II (b. 1880 )
September
Nikita Khrushchev
September 7 – Spring Byington , American actress (b. 1886 )
September 8 – Emmett Toppino , American Olympic athlete (b. 1909 )
September 10 – Pier Angeli , Italian actress (b. 1932 )
September 11
September 13 – Lin Biao , Chinese defense minister (b. 1907 )
September 14 – Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay , Bangladeshi novelist (b. 1898 )
September 19 – William F. Albright , American archeologist and Biblical scholar (b. 1891 )[181]
September 20 – Giorgos Seferis , Greek writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900 )
September 21 – Bernardo Houssay , Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887 )
September 23
September 25 – Hugo Black , American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1886 )
November
Guillermo León Valencia
József Zakariás
November 1 – Gertrud von Le Fort , German writer of novels, poems and essays (b. 1876 )[182]
November 2 – Martha Vickers , American actress (b. 1925 )
November 4
November 9 – Maude Fealy , American stage and film actor (b. 1883 )
November 10 – Walter Van Tilburg Clark , American novelist (b. 1909 )[184]
November 11 – A. P. Herbert , English humorist, novelist and politician (b. 1890 )[185]
November 14 – Hanna Neumann , German mathematician (b. 1914 )
November 16 – Edie Sedgwick , American actress and model (b. 1943 )
November 17 – Dame Gladys Cooper , British actress (b. 1888 )
November 22 – József Zakariás , Hungarian footballer and manager (b. 1924 )
November 23 – Ryūnosuke Kusaka , Japanese admiral (b. 1893 )
November 25 – Hank Mann , American comedic actor (b. 1887 )
November 26 – James Alberione , Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1884 )
November 28
November 29 – Edith Tolkien , English wife of, and inspiration for, J. R. R. Tolkien (b. 1889 )[186]
November 30 – Ilie Crețulescu , Romanian general (b. 1889 )[187]
December
Ralph Bunche
Roy O. Disney
December 2 – Sir Derwent Hall Caine , English actor (b. 1891 )
December 5 – John Langdon-Davies , British writer (b. 1897 )[188]
December 6 – Mathilde Kschessinska , Russian ballerina (b. 1872 )
December 9 – Ralph Bunche , African-American diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1904 )
December 10 – Gotthard Heinrici , German general (b. 1886 )
December 12
December 15 – Paul Lévy , French mathematician (b. 1886 )
December 18
December 20 – Roy O. Disney , American studio executive (b. 1893 )
December 22 – Godfried Bomans , Dutch writer (b. 1913 )
December 24 – Maria Koepcke , German ornithologist (b. 1924 )
December 26 – Robert Lowery , American actor (b. 1913 )
December 28 – Max Steiner , Austrian-born film composer (b. 1888 )[189]
December 29 – John Marshall Harlan II , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1899 )[190]
December 30
December 31
Though initially to be accused as communists by President Ferdinand Marcos , some theorized that the bombings were staged by pro-Marcos affiliates, but to this day the perpetrators remain unknown.
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