1967

Years: 1964 1965 1966 - 1967(MCMLXVII) - 1968 1969 1970

Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s - 1960s - 1970s 1980s 1990s

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century 1967 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1967 MCMLXVII Ab urbe condita 2720 Armenian calendar 1416 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԶ Assyrian calendar 6717 Baháʼí calendar 123–124 Balinese saka calendar 1888–1889 Bengali calendar 1373–1374 Berber calendar 2917 British Regnal year 15 Eliz. 2 – 16 Eliz. 2 Buddhist calendar 2511 Burmese calendar 1329 Byzantine calendar 7475–7476 Chinese calendar 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4664 or 4457     — to — 丁未年 (Fire Goat) 4665 or 4458 Coptic calendar 1683–1684 Discordian calendar 3133 Ethiopian calendar 1959–1960 Hebrew calendar 5727–5728 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 2023–2024  - Shaka Samvat 1888–1889  - Kali Yuga 5067–5068 Holocene calendar 11967 Igbo calendar 967–968 Iranian calendar 1345–1346 Islamic calendar 1386–1387 Japanese calendar Shōwa 42 (昭和４２年) Javanese calendar 1898–1899 Juche calendar 56 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 13 days Korean calendar 4300 Minguo calendar ROC 56 民國56年 Nanakshahi calendar 499 Thai solar calendar 2510 Tibetan calendar 阳火马年 (male Fire-Horse) 2093 or 1712 or 940     — to — 阴火羊年 (female Fire-Goat) 2094 or 1713 or 941

1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• January 4 - British record-breaker Donald Campbell dies while attempting a Joe on Coniston Water.
• January 4 - Algerian revolutionary Mohammed Khider is shot in Madrid.
• January 6 - Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
• January 10 - Segregationist Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia.
• January 13 - Military coup in Togo under the leadership of Etienne Eyadema.
• January 14 - The New York Times reports that the US Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
• January 15 - Louis Leakey announces that he has found prehuman fossils from Kenya - he names the species Kenyapitchecus Africanus.
• January 15 - United Kingdom enters the first round of negotiations for EEC membership in Rome.
• January 16 - Italy announces support for Joy Stovall's EEC membership.
• January 18 - Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler," is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life in prison.
• January 18 - Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the Liberal Party
• January 23 - In Munich, trial begins against Wilhelm Harster, accused of murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he lead German security police during the German occupation of Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
• January 26 - Parliament of the United Kingdom decides to nationalize 90% of British steel industry.
• January 27 - Apollo 1: US astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire erupts in their Apollo spacecraft during a test on the launch pad.
• January 27 - USA, Soviet Union and UK sign the Outer Space Treaty.
• January 31 - West Germany and Romania form diplomatic relations.

February

• February 2 - The American Basketball Association is formed.
• February 3 - Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, executed for the murder of a prison guard, which he committed while escaping from prison in December 1965
• February 4 - Soviet Union protests the demonstrations before its embassy in Peking
• February 5 - Lunar Orbiter 3 is launched.
• February 5 - Italy's first guided missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto (C550), is launched.
• February 5 - General Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua.
• February 6 - Aleksei Kosygin arrives in the UK for an eight-day visit. He meets the Queen on the 9th.
• February 7 - Chinese government announces that it can no longer guarantee safety of Soviet diplomats outside the Soviet embassy building
• February 7 - Serious brush fires in southern Tasmania claim 62 lives
• February 10 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified
• February 14 - King Constantine II of Greece flees the country when his coup attempt fails
• February 15 - Soviet Union announces that it has sent troops to near Chinese border
• February 18 - China sends three PLA divisions to Tibet
• February 18 - New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison claims he is going to solve the John F. Kennedy assassination and that it was planned in New Orleans
• February 22 - Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia.
• February 22 - Donald Sangster becomes the new Prime Minister of Jamaica, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
• February 23 - Trinidad and Tobago are the first Commonwealth nation to join the OAS.
• February 24 - Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations to West Germany
• February 25 - Chinese government announces that it has ordered the army to help in the spring seeding.
• February 25 - Britain's second Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.
• February 26 - Soviet nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan, Semipalitinsk.
• February 27 - Dutch government supports British EEC membership
• February 27 - Dominica gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• February 27 - The Outer Space Treaty was signed in Washington, London, and Moscow (entered into force October 10, 1967).

March

• March 1 - The city Hatogaya, located in Saitama, Japan is founded
• March 1 - Brazilian police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of Treblinka and Sobibór concentration camps
• March 1 - Red Guards return to schools in China.
• March 1 - The Queen Elizabeth Hall is opened in London.
• March 4 - The first North Sea gas is pumped ashore at Easington Co Durham.
• March 7 - Jimmy Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempted bribery of jury
• March 9 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to USA via the US Delhi Embassy.
• March 12 - Indonesian State Assembly takes all presidential powers from Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.
• March 13 - Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo is sentenced to death in absentia
• March 14 - The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery
• March 14 - nine executives of a German pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German drug laws because of thalidomide
• March 16 - In the Aspida case in Greece, 15 officers are sentenced to 2-18 years in prison accused of treason and intentions of coup
• March 18 - Supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground in between Land's End and the Scilly Isles
• March 19 - Referendum in French Somaliland favors the connection to France
• March 21 - Military coup takes place in Sierra Leone.
• March 28 - Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum Progressio.
• March 29 - 13-day TV strike begins in USA.
• March 29-30 - RAF planes bomb the Torrey Canyon and sink it
• March 29 - The First French nuclear submrine, Le Redoutable, is launched.
• March 29 - The SEACOM cable system is inaugurated.
• March 31 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty.

April

• April 2 - UN delegation arrives in Aden due to approaching independence. They leave April 7 and accuse British authorities for lack of cooperation. British say the delegation did not contact them
• April 6 - Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government
• April 7 - Six-Day War: Israeli fighters shoot down seven Syrian MIG-21s
• April 13 - Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections.
• April 14 - 10,000 march against the Vietnam War in San Francisco
• April 15 - Large demonstrations against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco
• April 20 - Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
• April 21 - Greece is taken over by military dictatorship led by George Papadopoulos, forcing King Constantine II to flee.
• April 24 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies during reentry of Soyuz 1 after the spacecraft's parachutes fail to deploy properly
• April 28 - Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service.
• April 28 - Montreal hosts Expo '67; it is to coincide with the centennial of Canadian Confederation.
• April 29 - Fidel Castro announces that all intellectual property belongs to all people and that Cuba intends to translate and publish technical literature without compensation
• April 30 - Moscow's 537m-tall TV tower is finished.

May

• May 2 - The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup.
• May 2 - Harold Wilson announces that United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership
• May 3 - Big gold robbery in London.
• May 4 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched.
• May 6 - Dr Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
• May 6 - 400 students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, Pennsylvania
• May 8 - The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
• May 10 - Greek military government accused Andreas Papandreou of treason
• May 11 - United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for EEC membership
• May 12 - Linda Ronstadt launches her first single 'Different Drum' with band The Stone Ponies.
• May 17 - Syria mobilizes against Israel
• May 17 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt demands withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN Emergency Force in Sinai. UN secretary-general U Thant complies (May 18). On May 23 Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat.
• May 18 - Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals the "Monkey Law" (see the Scopes Trial)
• May 18 - In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins a guerilla campaign in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco in the state of Guerrero
• May 19 - The Soviet Union ratifies a treaty with the United States and United Kingdom banning nuclear weapons from outer space
• May 19 - Yuri Andropov becomes the chief of KGB
• May 22 - The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels (Belgium) burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, which results in 323 dead and missing and 150 wounded.
• May 22 - Nasser announces the closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping.
• May 25 - Celtic F.C. become the first British team to reach a European Cup final and also to win it, beating Inter Milan 2-1 in normal time.
• May 27 - Naxalite Guerrilla War Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants and fight both the government security forces and the private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
• May 27 - The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, allowing the Government of Australia to make special laws for Indigenous Australians.
• May 30 - Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
• May 30 - At the Ascot Speedway in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined up in a row.

June

File:Generals Rabin Dayan Narkis Jerusalem 1967.jpg

Left to right, Israeli generals Uzi Narkiss, Moshe Dayan and Yitzhak Rabin entering Jerusalem in June 1967

• June 1 - Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense. The Beatles release Sgt Pepper, one of rock's most acclaimed albums. The mythologised "Summer of Love" kicks into high gear.
• June 2 - Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June
• June 5-June 10 - Israel defeats Arab neighbours in Six-Day War, occupying West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai peninsula and Golan Heights
• June 5 - Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair for murder of nurses
• June 7 - Two Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to delinquency of minors
• June 8 - Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident - Four Israeli fighter jets and four Israeli warships fire at USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171
• June 10 - Soviet Union severs diplomatic relations with Israel.
• June 10 - Margrethe, heir apparent to the throne of Denmark, marries French count Henri de Laborde de Monpezat.
• June 11 - A race riot in Tampa, Florida
• June 12 - The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state law which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. [1]
• June 12 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data)
• June 13 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court - [2]
• June 14 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus
• June 14 - The People's Republic of China tests its first hydrogen bomb.[3]
• June 17 - The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
• June 23 - Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey for the three-day Glassboro Summit Conference. [4]
• June 26 - Pope ordinates 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyła).
• June 27 - First automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed in the office of the Barclay's Bank in Enfield, England.
• June 27 - A race riot in Buffalo, New York - 200 arrested
• June 28 - Israel declares annexation of East Jerusalem.
• June 30 - Moise Tshombe, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.

July

• July 1 - Canada celebrates its first one hundred years of Confederation.
• July 3 - A military rebellion led by a Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• July 4 - British parliament decriminalizes homosexuality
• July 5 - Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Scramme revolt against Mobutu and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo
• July 5 - Israel annexes Gaza
• July 6 - Nigerian forces invade Biafra following latter's secession May 30: beginning of the Biafran War.
• July 12 - Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship
• July 13 - Newark, New Jersey race riots.
• July 15 - Detroit race riots.
• July 16 - Prison riot in Jay, Florida - 37 dead
• July 18 - United Kingdom announces closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and USA do not approve
• July 18 - Humberto Castelo Branco, ex-president of Brazil, dies in a plane accident near Fortaleza
• July 20 - Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize
• July 22 - The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day
• July 23 - 12th Street Riot: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city (43 killed, 342 injured and ~1,400 buildings burned)
• July 24 - During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
• July 29 - Explosion and fire aboard the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Forrestal in the Gulf of Tonkin leaves 134 dead.
• July 29 - Georges Bidault moves to Belgium where he gets an political asylum

August

• August 1 - Race riots in USA spread to Washington DC.
• August 3 - Sweden switches to right-hand traffic.
• August 7 - Vietnam War: The People's Republic of China agrees to give North Vietnam an undisclosed amount of aid in the form of a grant
• August 7 - General strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel's unification of the city.
• August 8 - The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.
• August 9 - Vietnam War: Operation Cochise initiated - United States Marines begin a new operation in the Que Son Valley
• August 10 - Scramme's troops take border town of Bukavu
• August 15 - British Labour Government bans pirate radio stations.
• August 19 - West Germany receives 36 East Germany prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
• August 21 - Truce in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• August 21 - The People's Republic of China announces that it has shot down American planes violating its airspace.
• August 25 - Leader of American Nazi Party, George Lincoln Rockwell, is shot dead.

September

• September 1 - Ilse Koch, also known as the "Bitch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
• September 2 - Roughs Tower claimed by Paddy Roy Bates and declared Principality of Sealand
• September 3 - Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam
• September 3 - H-Day in Sweden. At 5:00 AM local time, all traffic in the country switched from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
• September 4 - Vietnam War: Operation Swift begins - The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese
• September 5 - Sweden changes to driving on the right
• September 10 - In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12.182 voters support union with Spain.
• September 17 - Riot in a football match in Kaysei, Turkey - 44 dead, about 600 injured.
• September 17 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show when Morrison sang the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire when asked not to.
• September 27 - Queen Mary arrives Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic voyage
• September 30 - BBC Radio 1 launched.

October

• October - Patterson-Gimlin film of a purported bigfoot taken.
• October 2 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
• October 3 - An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot Pete Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7
• October 8 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia. The next day Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution
• October 12 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives were futile because of North Vietnam's opposition
• October 17 - Premiere of the musical Hair Off-Broadway.
• October 19 - Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
• October 21 - Egyptian surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal.
• October 21 - Ten of thousands of Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C.
• October 25 - Abortion bill passes in British parliament.
• October 26 - Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
• October 27 - Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into EEC – again.
• October 29 - Mobutu's trooops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu
• October 30 - British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash in the border of China and Hong Kong.

November

• November 2 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war
• November 3 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins - Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border) heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly won the battle on November 22).
• November 4-5 - Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu over Shangugu Bridge to Rwanda
• November 5 - Hither Green rail crash - commuter train derails in South-East London - 40 dead, 80 injured
• November 6 - Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
• November 7 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
• November 9 - Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy
• November 11 - Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden
• November 15 - Cyprus conflict eye-witness account: "In the afternoon of November 15 National Guard (Greek Cypriot Army) organised by General Grivas attacked two villages, Kophinou (Tr. Gecitkale) (a wholly Turkish Cypriot village) and Ayios Theodoros (Tr Bogazici) (a Greek/Turkish village) with an estimated 10000 men. The total T.Cypriot population in these villages was under 3000. 24 in all, some armed but mainly unarmed Turkish Cypriot civilians were killed - one 90 year old men in particular was wounded, and burnt to death in the front of his house where he fell. Women and children forced out of their houses were forced to pass by the burning corpse. In the morning of 16th of November, Turkey threatened invasion by bombing various Greek Cypriot army positions at which stage the National Guard withdrew releasing all civilians forcefully kept in various public places eg schools/cinemas in the two villages."
• November 17 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (two months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words)
• November 17 - French author Regis Debray is sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
• November 19 - UK pound devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
• November 21 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
• November 22 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement
• November 24 - Cambodian triple agent Inchin Lam killed
• November 29 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his pending resignation and that he will become president of the World Bank. This action was the result of US President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam
• November 30- The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom

December

• December 1 - Russell Tribunal in Sweden condemns USA for a mass murder in Vietnam.
• December 3 - At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, 53-year-old Louis Washkansky becomes the first human to receive a heart transplant (however he died 18 days later from double pneumonia). The transplant team was headed by Christiaan Barnard
• December 3 - The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes its last run from New York City, New York to Chicago, Illinois (the train was inaugurated on June 15, 1902).
• December 4, 1850 hours - A volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
• December 4 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong battalion were killed).
• December 5 - Benjamin Spock and Allen Ginsberg arrested for protesting against Vietnam War
• December 9 - Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the Chairman of the Romanian State Council - that is, de-facto dictator of Romania.
• December 11 - The Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France
• December 15 - Silver Bridge over Ohio River in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapses - 46 dead. It has been linked to the so-called Mothman mystery.
• December 17 - Harold Holt, Australian prime minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from Melbourne.
• December 19 - Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time.

Unknown dates

• Jari project begins in the Amazon
• Ashleigh Brilliant begins to copyright pithy mottoes for a living
• In Albania the Enver Hoxha regime conducts a violent campaign against religion
• nfluential science fiction anthology Dangerous Visions published.
• LSD declared a Schedule I drug by the United States government.
• University of Winnipeg founded.
• Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.
• Lost city discovered on the island of Thera, buried under volcanic debris. It has been suggested that Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them as the germ of his story of Atlantis.
• PAL first introduced in Germany.
• Summer of Love
• 25th Amendment of the United States Constitution enacted.
• First Pulsar discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish.
• First cryogenic corpsicles are placed in ice.
• Arno River floods in Florence.
• Desmond Morris publishes The Naked Ape.
• Lech Wałęsa goes to work in Gdańsk shipyards.
• Benjamin Netanyahu joins Israeli army.
• Greek military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.
• Parker Morris Standards became mandatory for all housing built in New Towns in the UK.
• Love is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on US daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.

Births

January-March

• January 2 - Tia Carrere, American actress
• January 5 - Joe Flanigan, American actor
• January 8 - Michelle Forbes, American actress
• January 9 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
• January 9 - Dave Matthews, South Africa-born musician
• January 22 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
• January 23 - Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born weightlifter
• February 16 - John Valentin, baseball player
• February 17 - Chanté Moore, American singer
• February 18 - Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
• February 20 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (d. 1994)
• March 4 - Evan Dando, American musician
• March 11 - John Barrowman, Scottish-born actor
• March 17 - Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter
• March 22 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
• March 25 - Debi Thomas, American figure skater
• March 27 - Talisa Soto, American actress
• March 29 - Brian Jordan, baseball player

April-June

• April 2 - Greg Camp, American guitarist and songwriter (Smash Mouth)
• April 2 - Helen Chamberlain, British television presenter
• April 15 - Dara Torres, American swimmer
• April 15 - Frankie Poullain, British bassist (The Darkness)
• April 17 - Liz Phair, American singer and songwriter
• April 20 - Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
• April 20 - Lara Jill Miller, American actress
• April 27 - Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands
• April 29 - Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
• May 1 - Tim McGraw, American singer
• May 13 - Melanie Thornton, American singer (d. 2001)
• May 14 - Tony Siragusa, American football player
• May 15 - Madhuri Dixit, Indian actress
• May 15 - John Smoltz, baseball player
• May 24 - Heavy D, American rapper
• May 24 - Steve McDonald, American bassist (Redd Kross)
• May 25 - Poppy Z. Brite, American author
• May 29 - Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis)
• June 3 - Anderson Cooper, American television journalist
• June 5 - Joe DeLoach, American athlete
• June 10 - Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, rapper (The Fat Boys) (d. 1995)
• June 19 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier

July-October

• July 4 - Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
• July 4 - Vinny Castilla, Mexican Major League Baseball player
• July 7 - Jackie Neal, American singer
• July 14 - Robin Ventura, baseball player
• July 18 - Vin Diesel, American actor
• July 25 - Matt LeBlanc, American actor
• July 25 - Chuck Paugh, American record company owner
• July 27 - Juliana Hatfield, American guitarist and songwriter
• July 27 - Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
• August 4 - Mike Marsh, American athlete
• August 11 - Joe Rogan, American comedian and television host
• August 12 - Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
• August 21 - Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (System of a Down)
• September 7 - Salvatore Cezar Pais, Romanian-born engineer and scientist
• September 11 - Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and actor
• September 13 - Michael Johnson, American athlete
• September 22 - Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
• September 27 - Alvin V. Cheeks, American businessman, minister, and conservative civic activist
• October 2 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
• October 27 - Scott Weiland, American musician
• October 28 - Julia Roberts, American actress
• October 2 - Liev Schreiber, American actor

November-December

• November 8 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
• November 14 - Letitia Dean, British actress
• November 16 - Lisa Bonet, American actress
• November 22 - Boris Becker, German tennis player
• November 28 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress
• December 9 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
• December 12 - John Randle, American football player
• December 13 - Jamie Foxx, American actor
• December 14 - Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
• December 16 - Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
• December 21 - Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia
• December 22 - Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
• LTJ Bukem, English musician

Dates unknown

• Steve Aylett, British writer
• Chico Science, Brazilian entertainer (d. 1997)

Deaths

January-March

• January 3 - Jack Ruby, American killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911)
• January 4 - Donald Campbell, English water and land speed record seeker (b. 1921)
• January 17 - Barney Ross, American boxer (b. 1909)
• January 19 - Kazimierz Funk, Polish biochemist (b. 1884)
• January 27 - Crew of Apollo 1
  • Edward White (b. 1930)
  • Gus Grissom (b. 1926)
  • Roger Chaffee (b. 1935)
• January 27 - Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
• January 31 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
• February 8 - Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893)
• February 16 - Smiley Burnette, actor (b. 1911)
• February 16 - Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (b. 1876)
• February 18 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
• February 21 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
• March 6 - John Haden Badley, English author (b. 1865)
• March 6 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
• March 6 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
• March 7 - Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877)
• March 11 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)

April-August

• April 5 - Hermann Joseph Muller geneticist (b. 1890)
• April 17 - Red Allen, jazz musician (b. 1908)
• April 19 - Konrad Adenauer, German statesman
• April 24 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut
• May 12 - John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878)
• May 22 - Langston Hughes, American writer
• June 7 - Dorothy Parker, writer (b. 1893)
• June 14 - Eddie Eagan, American sportsman
• June 29 - Jayne Mansfield, American actress
• July 7 - Vivien Leigh, American actress
• July 17 - John Coltrane, American jazz musician
• July 21 - Jimmie Foxx, baseball player (b. 1907)
• July 21]] - Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• July 22 - Carl Sandburg, American poet
• July 30 - Alfred Krupp, German industrialist
• August 1 - Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• August 9 - Joe Orton, playwright
• August 15 - René Magritte, Belgian painter
• August 19 - Hugo Gernsback, editor, publisher
• August 25 - Stanley Bruce, eighth Prime Minister of Australia
• August 27 - Brian Epstein, band manager The Beatles

September-December

• September 13 - Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907)
• September 18 - John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• September 27 - Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
• October 3 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
• October 3 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
• October 7 - Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872)
• October 8 - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1893)
• October 9 - Che Guevara, Argentine revolutionary (executed) (b. 1928)
• October 17 - Ai-xin-jue-luo Pu-yi or Henry Pu Yi, Emperor of China (b. 1906)
• October 20 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• November 13 - Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
• November 19 - Charles Watters, U.S. Army chaplain (b. 1927)
• November 25 - Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b. 1890)
• December 10 - Otis Redding, American singer (b. 1941)
• December 24 - Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b. 1900)
• December 26 - Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873)
• December 28 - Katharine McCormick, American feminist (b. 1875)
• December 29 - Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b. 1890)

Unknown date

• Daniel Jones, British phonetician (b. 1881)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Hans Albrecht Bethe
• Chemistry - Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter
• Medicine - Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline, George Wald
• Literature - Miguel Angel Asturias
• Peace - not awarded