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Template:C20YearInTopicX Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. Template:C20YearTOCtempleton
Events of 1974
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- January 4 - Citing executive privilege, U.S. President Richard Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents which have been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
- January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, Daylight Saving Time commences nearly 4 months early in the United States.
- January 19 - In college (men's) basketball, Notre Dame defeats UCLA 71-70, ending the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak.
- January 27 - Brisbane Qld Australia is flooded.
- January 30
- G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of Watergate charges.
- In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Richard Nixon declares, "One year of Watergate is enough."
February
- February 1 - Fire breaks out in the Joelman Bank Building in São Paulo, Brazil; 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their injuries. Article: Joelma Fire
- February 3 - In the second Bathurst Gaol riot, prisoners destroy much of the facility with petrol bombs.
- February 4 - The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst.
- February 8 - After 94 days in outer space, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
- February 8 The self-titled debut album from KISS is released.
- February 12 - U.S. District Court Judge George Boldt rules that Native American tribes in Washington State are entitled to half of the legal salmon and steelhead catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the U.S. government.
- February 13 - Nobel Prize winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Soviet Union (he returns May 27, 1994).
- February 17 - A soccer stampede occurs in Cairo, killing 49.
- February 21 - The long-running comic strip "Sazae-san" is published in the Asahi Shimbun for the final time, after 28 years of daily installments.
- February 22 - The Second Islamic Summit Conference by Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was held in Lahore, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, from 29 Moharram to 1st Safar, 1394 H, (22-24 February, 1974).
- February 23 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- February 28
- The United Kingdom general election results in an almost dead-heat. Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister again, despite his Labour Party having received fewer votes than the Conservative Party.
- Ethiopian prime minister Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold, who had held the position since 1961, is dismissed by Emperor Haile Selassie and replaced with Endelkachew Makonnen.
March
- March 1
- Watergate scandal: Seven former White House officials are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as Prime Minister of France.
- March 3 - A Turkish Airlines DC-10 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
- March 8 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- March 10 - Japanese World War II soldier, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the Philippines.
- March 18 - Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
- March 18 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a 5-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
- March 20 - Ian Ball fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace.
- March 29 - Mariner 10 approaches Mercury.
April
- April 1 - The Local Government Act 1972 comes into effect in England and Wales, creating six new metropolitan counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map.
- April 2 - French President Georges Pompidou dies; Senate President Alain Poher becomes Acting President for the second time.
- April 3 - The Super Outbreak, the largest series of tornadoes in history, hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province. By the time the last of 149 tornadoes hit early the following morning, 315 die and over 5,000 are injured.
- April 6 - ABBA win the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England.
- April 8 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home-run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
- April 10 - In Israel, Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister.
- April 15 - In San Francisco, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army rob a branch of the Hibernia National Bank, joined by Patricia Hearst, their erstwhile captive.
- April 24 - Stephen King publishes his first novel, Carrie, under his own name.
- April 25 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.
May
- May 4
- An all female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
- The Expo '74 World's Fair opens in Spokane, Washington.
- The FA Cup Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0 to win the FA Cup final at Wembley.
- May 7 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
- May 9 - The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.
- May 12 - Fire damages the carousel in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Canada, damaging 20 animals.
- May 15 - West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel is elected President of Germany for a term beginning July 1.
- May 16 - Helmut Schmidt is elected West German Chancellor.
- May 17 - Los Angeles, California police raid Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, killing 6 members, including Camilla Hall.
- May 17 - Thirty-three people die and over three-hundred are wounded in the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in the Republic of Ireland. Members of the loyalist, Ulster Volunteer Force are behind the blast, allegedly in collusion with members of the British intelligence service.
- May 18
- Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the sixth nation to do so.
- The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the tallest structure ever built (it collapses on August 8, 1991).
- May 19
- In the second round of the presidential elections in France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins over François Mitterrand, but by a close margin.
- The Philadelphia Flyers defeat the Boston Bruins, thereby becoming the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup.
- May 28 - The Italian fascist organization Ordine Nuovo bombs demonstrators in Brescia, killing 6 people.
- May 30 - NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched.
June
- June 1 - Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK, kills 28 people.
- June 4 - The Cleveland Indians stage an ill-advised Ten Cent Beer Night for a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
- June 6 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated, making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
- June 13 - The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins in West Germany.
- June 15 - Red Lion Square disorders: Members of the fascist National Front clash with leftist counter-protesters in London's West End; one student is killed.
- June 17 - A bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London, damaging Westminster Hall. The Provisional Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for planting the bomb.
- June 26 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
- June 29 - Isabel Peron becomes interim president of Argentina, when Juan Peron falls seriously ill.
- June 30 - Alberta Williams King, mother of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., is killed during a church service in Atlanta, Georgia.
July
- July 1 - Juan Peron, President of Argentina dies. He's succeeded by his wife, Vice President Isabel Peron. She becomes the first female Head of State in South America.
- July 7 - West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
- July 15 - Christine Chubbuck, U.S. television presenter for WXLT-TV, draws a revolver and shoots herself in the head during a live broadcast. She dies in a hospital 14 hours later.
- July 15 - A military coup overthrows President Makarios in Cyprus.
- July 17 - An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the White Tower at the Tower of London, killing 1 person and injuring 41. Another bomb explodes outside a government building in South London.
- July 20 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after the coup d'etat by EOKA B.
- July 22 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen is replaced with Mikael Imru.
- July 23 - The Greek military junta government collapses.
- July 24
- Constantine Karamanlis is sworn in as interim Prime Minister of Greece.
- Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules (United States v. Nixon) that President Richard Nixon can not withhold subpoenaed White House tapes, and orders him to surrender them to the Watergate special prosecutor.
- July 27-July 30 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee adopts 3 articles of impeachment charging President Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee.
August
- August 4 - A bomb explodes in an Italicus Expressen train between Italy and West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility.
- August 5 - Watergate scandal: The "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972 is revealed, in which U.S. President Richard Nixon and H.R. Haldeman discuss using the Central Intelligence Agency to block a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into Watergate. Nixon's support in Congress collapses.
- August 7 - Three Republican congressional leaders (Barry Goldwater, Hugh Scott and John Rhodes) visit President Richard Nixon in the White House. They inform him that he lacks the votes to escape impeachment in the United States House of Representatives and conviction in the Senate. French acrobat Philippe Petit walks across a high wire slung between the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York.
- August 8 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective August 9).
- August 9 - Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by impeachment in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. Vice President Gerald Ford, becomes the 38th President, taking the oath of office in the East Room of the White House.
- August 14 - Turkey invades for the second time in Cyprus, occupying 37% of the island's territory.
- August 15 - Seoul Metropolitan Subway Line 1 is opened.
- August 28 - Geir Hallgrímsson becomes Prime Minister of Iceland.
- August 30
- An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.
- Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
September
- September 1 - Daredevil Bob Gill fails a world-record attempt to jump Appalachia Lake in West Virginia.
- September 8
- Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
- Professional stuntman Evel Knievel fails to cross the Snake River Canyon in Idaho, when a drogue parachute deploys prematurely on his rocket-powered Skycycle X-2.
- TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea 18 minutes after take off from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people.
- 12 September - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by the Derg. The imperial throne is offered to his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen on the condition that the Crown Prince returns to Ethiopia.
- September 13 - Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. They secure the release of member Yatuka Fumiya, $300,000 and a flight to Aden.
- September 16 - Courageous Newport, Rhode Island, America's Cup defender "Courageous", skippered by Ted Hood, wins over Australian challenger "Southern Cross" .
- September 23 - Ceefax is started by the BBC - one of the first public service information systems.
October
- October 5 - The Guildford pub bombings at The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars kill 5 people, and lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the Guildford Four the next year.
- October 8 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
- October 10 - The second United Kingdom general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Labour, still led by Harold Wilson.
- October 15 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signs a federal campaign reform bill, which sets new regulations in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
- October 20 - Ending nine years of nearly constant touring, the Grateful Dead begin an extended hiatus after finishing their Fall U.S. tour at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
- October 30 - The "Rumble in the Jungle" between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire. Using his new "rope-a-dope" strategy, Ali knocks out an exhausted Foreman after 8 rounds, regaining the Heavyweight Boxing Title. Eduardo Cortez is born.
November
- November 5 - Democrats make significant gains in the U.S. Congressional midterm elections, as voters punish the Republican Party over the Watergate scandal.
- November 7
- Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan disappears in England.
- A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the Kings Arms, Woolwich.
- November 8 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
- November 10 - Movement 2 June members try to kidnap Günter von Drenkmann, the president of West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home, but he is fatally shot during the attempt.
- November 13 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his parents and his four siblings in what would later become known as "The Amityville Horror House".
- November 16 - The Arecibo radio telescope sends an interstellar radio message towards the M13 Great Globular Cluster. The message will reach its destination around the year 27000.
- November 17 - In Dublin, Ireland, President Erskine H. Childers dies suddenly of a heart attack in the middle of a public speech.
- November 20 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and the Bell System.
- November 21 - In Birmingham, England, 2 pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this).
- November 22 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
- November 24 - A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.
- November 27 - The Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed in the United Kingdom.
December
- December 1 - A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
- December 8 - Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
- December 19
- Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle.
- Former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
- December 23 - Former British minister John Stonehouse, who faked his drowning in Florida, is arrested in Melbourne, Australia.
- December 24-December 25 - Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
- December 31 - Restrictions on holding private gold within the United States, implemented by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, are removed.
Undated
- The Milgram experiment first described by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.
- Baltimore police strike.
- Volkswagen's Golf automobile first enters production. VW will go on to sell 22 million Golfs, and the model is still in full scale production as of 2008.
- The Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra is founded by Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Victor Feldbrill
- World population reached 4 billion people.
- Urdu typewriter keyboard layout modified using frequency tables and bifurcation (balancing load on typist's fingers) techniques, in Pakistan.
Ongoing
Births
January-February
- January 3 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian professional road cyclist
- January 7 - John Rich, American guitarist and bassist (Big & Rich)
- January 10 - Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood actor
- January 11 - The Rosenkowitz sextuplets (Cape Town, South Africa), the first sextuplets known to survive their infancy.
- January 11 - Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
- January 12 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skiier
- January 12 - Melanie Chisholm, English singer-songwriter
- January 16 - Kate Moss, English model
- January 17 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
- January 21 - Rove McManus Australian talk show host
- January 24 - Tim Biakabutuka, former National Football League player
- January 23 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
- January 24 - Melissa Tkautz, Australian singer and actress
- January 27 - Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
- January 28 - Tony Delk, National Basketball Association player
- January 30 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
- January 31 - Ian Huntley, English murderer
- February 4 - Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer
- February 7 - Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
- February 7 - J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, American hip-hop producer (d. 2006)
- February 8 - Seth Green, American actor
- February 8 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey
- February 11 - D'Angelo, American singer
- February 12 - Naseem Hamed, British boxer
- February 13 - Robbie Williams, English singer
- February 14 - Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
- February 15 - Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer Lordi
- February 15 - Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- February 15 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d. 2002)
- February 15 - Alexander Wurz, Austrian Formula 1 driver
- February 22 - Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
- February 22 - James Blunt, English Singer
- February 24 - Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)
March-April
- March 1 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
- March 4 - Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player
- March 4 - Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
- March 4 - Tommy Phelps, South Korean professional baseball player
- March 5 - Eva Mendes, American actress
- March 5 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
- March 6 - Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
- March 6 - Anthony Carelli, professional wrestler
- March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
- March 7 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
- March 8 - Fardeen Khan, Bollywood actor
- March 10 - Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
- March 11 - Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- March 11 - Russ Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
- March 14 - Jeppe Kofod, Danish politician
- March 15 - Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player
- March 20 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress
- March 20 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
- March 20 - Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
- March 22 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- March 22 - Kidada Jones, American actress, model, fashion designer
- March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, American actress
- March 25 - Lark Voorhies, American actress
- March 25 - Tapani Mokko, Finnish artist
- March 31 - Angela Dotchin, New Zealand actress
- April 1 - Richard Christy, American musician and radio writer
- April 2 - Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
- April 4 - Dave Mirra, American athlete
- April 9 - Jenna Jameson, American actress
- April 11 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
- April 11 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
- April 12 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
- April 12 - Shelton, American actress
- April 14 - Da Brat, American rapper
- April 15 - Josh Todd, American musician and singer (Buckcherry)
- April 16 - Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
- April 17 - Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls)
- April 17 - Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth)
- April 20 - Jonathan Roberts, American ballroom dancer (Dancing with the Stars)
- April 22 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)
- April 22 - Diego Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- April 23 - Kirill Seleznyov, Russian businessman
- April 27 - Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
- April 28 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
- April 28 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
- April 28 - Vernon Kay, English presenter
May-June
- May 4 - Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player
- May 8 - Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
- May 11 - Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler
- May 13 - Tim McMahon, American singer Mouthpiece
- May 16 - Laura Pausini, Italian singer
- May 16 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer for Payable on Death, aka. P.O.D.
- May 17 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
- May 19 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player
- May 21 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
- May 21 - Eduardo Verástegui, Mexican actor.
- May 23 - Ken Jennings, American game show winner
- May 23 - Jewel, American singer
- May 23 - Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer
- May 23 - Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
- May 24 - Daniel Lorenz Johnson, social activist/artist
- May 26 - Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
- May 27 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player
- May 30 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
- May 31 - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
- June 1 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- June 2 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
- June 2 - Matt Serra, American mixed martial arts fighter
- June 7 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- June 12 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
- June 13 - Steve-O, American actor
- June 14 - Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress
- June 20 - Steve Juon, American webmaster and writer
- June 21 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
- June 22 - Donald Faison, American actor
- June 22 - Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
- June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- June 26 - Derek Jeter, baseball player
- June 28 - Rob Dyrdek, pro skateboader
- June 30 - Melanie Lambert, American ice skater
July-August
- July 2 - Matthew Reilly, Australian writer
- July 2 - Rocky Gray, American musician
- July 4 - La'Roi Glover, National Football League defensive lineman
- July 4 - Gackt, Japanese singer
- July 8 - Allen Skillicorn, American race car driver
- July 8 - Dragoslav Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer
- July 12 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
- July 18 - Alan Morrison, British poet
- July 19 - Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby player
- July 19 - Preston Wilson, Major League Baseball player
- July 22 - Daddy Kev, American record producer
- July 22 - Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
- July 23 - Maurice Greene, American athlete
- July 23 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist
- July 26 - Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
- July 27 - Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
- July 28 - Justin Lee Collins, English comedian, TV and radio presenter
- July 30 - Hilary Swank, American actress
- July 31 - Emilia Fox, English actress
- July 31 - Jonathan Ogden, National Football League offensive lineman
- August 2 - Jeremy Castle, American singer and songwriter
- August 2 - Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
- August 7 - Sek Loso, Thai singer, songwriter and guitarist
- August 8 - Brian Harvey, a British singer and lead singer of pop/dance band East 17
- August 9 - Matt Morris, baseball player
- August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
- August 16 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer
- August 16 - Andrew Cameron, Really, really ridiculously good looking sex god
- August 16 - Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian Olympic champion swimmer
- August 19 - David Patten, National Football League wide receiver
- August 20 - Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian footballer
- August 20 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
- August 22 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
- August 23 - Ray Park, Scottish actor, martial artist
- August 24 - Andrew Clark, Australian Footballer (Central Coast Mariners)
- August 24 - Jennifer Lien, American actress
- August 25 - Eric Millegan, American actor
- August 25 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
- August 27 - Jose Vidro, Major League Baseball player
- August 28 - Carsten Jancker, German soccer player
September-October
- September 1 - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
- September 4 - Carmit Bachar, singer (The Pussycat Dolls)
- September 4 - Nona Gaye, American actress and singer
- September 6 - Tim Henman, English tennis player
- September 6 - Nina Persson, Swedish singer
- September 10 - Ben Wallace, National Basketball Association guard
- September 10 - Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter
- September 11 - DeLisha Milton-Jones, American basketball player
- September 13 - Stephen Lawrence, young black teenager murdered in 1993
- September 14 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
- September 15 - Jamie Stevens, German pop singer
- September 17 - Rasheed Wallace, National Basketball Association player
- September 18 - Sol Campbell, English footballer
- September 18 - Xzibit, American rapper
- September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
- September 21 - Katharine Merry, English sprinter
- September 23 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
- September 26 - Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
- September 29 - Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer
- October 1 - Mats Lindgren, National Hockey League player
- October 10 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver
- October 11 - Jason Arnott, National Hockey League player
- October 11 - Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
- October 11 - Kane Kosugi, Japanese-American martial artist/actor
- October 14 - Shaggy 2 Dope, Juggalo Rapper
- October 16 - Paul Kariya, National Hockey League player
- October 16 - Deo Grech, Maltese songwriter & presenter
- October 19 - Kristen Vyas, Dating Consultant
- October 21 - Nakia Burrise, American actress
- October 21 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer & pianist
- October 23 - Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
- October 24 - Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
- October 24 - Ali Ahmed, Mechanical Engineer
- October 26 - Lisa, Japanese musician
- October 29 - Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
November-December
- November 1 - VVS Laxman, Indian cricketer
- November 2 - Beverley Mahood, Canadian singer and songwriter
- November 2 - Nelly, American rapper
- November 3 - Mick Thomson, lead guitarist for Slipknot
- November 4 - Louise Redknapp, English singer
- November 4 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mexican-American singer/lyricist
- November 5 - Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
- November 5 - Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
- November 8 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
- November 9 - Uncle Kracker, American singer
- November 9 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer and
- November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
- November 11 - Bettina Goislard, French UN worker (d. 2003)
- November 14 - Adam Walsh, American murder victim, son of John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted (d. 1981)
- November 15 - Chad Kroeger, singer
- November 16 - Paul Scholes, English football player
- November 21 - Kelsi Marie Osborn, American Singer (SHeDAISY)
- November 22 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
- November 24 - Stephen Merchant, British comedian
- November 27 - Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player
- December 1 - Costinha, Portuguese footballer
- December 6 - Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
- December 7 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints)
- December 7 - Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
- December 8 - Maya Mishalska, Mexican actress
- December 10 - Meg White, drummer (The White Stripes)
- December 11 - Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
- December 13 - Nicholas McCarthy, English-born guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
- December 14 - Billy Koch, baseball player
- December 16 - Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
- December 17 - Duff Goldman, American celebrity chef
- December 18 - Kari Byron, artist and television personality
- December 18 - Peter Boulware, American football player
- December 18 - Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
- December 19 - Jake Plummer, American football player
- December 19 - Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
- December 21 - Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
- December 23 - Aimee Nezhukumatathil, American poet
- December 24 - Ryan Seacrest, American television host
- December 24 - Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
- December 27 - Bojan Sarcevic, Bosnian-French sculptor
- December 28 - Wilson Kirwa, Kenyan-born Finnish athlete
- December 29 - Richie Sexson, baseball player
- December 29 - Brad Hodge, Australian cricketer
- December 31 - Ryan Sakoda, Japanese American professional wrestler
Unknown
- Banksy, infamous British graffiti artist. Uncertain, but said to have been born in 1974.
- Andrew 'Whitey' White, guitarist of the Kaiser Chiefs.
Deaths
January - March
- January 2 - Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
- January 12 - Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
- January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1879)
- February 2 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1922)
- February 4 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894)
- February 4 - Stuart Buchanan, American actor (b. 1894)
- February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish actress (b. 1888)
- February 14 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
- February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
- February 21 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
- February 23 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
- March 1 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
- March 4 - Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903)
- March 5 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
- March 6 - Ernest Becker, American cultural anthropologist (b. 1925)
- March 9 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- March 12 - George D. Sax, drive-in bank innovator (b. 1904)
- March 20 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
- March 22 - Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
- March 31 - Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu, Chinese tenor (b. 1913)
April - June
- April 2 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
- April 5 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
- April 15 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
- April 19 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
- April 24 - Bud Abbott, American actor (b. 1897)
- April 24 - Franz Jonas, Austrian president (b. 1899)
- April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)
- May 18 - Mary Maguire, Australian actress (b. 1919)
- May 24 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
- June 9 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- June 10 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900)
- June 18 Georgy Zhukov WWII Soviet General. (b. 1896)
- June 22 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
- June 28 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
July - September
- July 1 - Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
- July 9 - Earl Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)
- July 11 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- July 13 - Patrick Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- July 15 - Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter (b. 1944)
- July 19 - Joe Flynn, American character actor (b. 1924)
- July 24 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- July 29 - "Mama Cass" Elliott, American rock music vocalist (b. 1941)
- July 29 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
- August 6 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
- August 26 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator (b. 1902)
- August 31 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
- September 3 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
- September 4 - Creighton Williams Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
- September 4 - Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899)
- September 11 - Víctor Olea Alegría, member of the Chilean Socialist Party, "disappeared".
- September 14 - Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
- September 23 - Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, last Maharaja of Mysore (b. 1919)
- September 27 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A
- September 30 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor
October - December
- October 4 - Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (suicide) (b. 1928)
- October 6 - V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1897)
- October 9 - Oskar Schindler, Saver of Jews in the Holocaust (b. 1908)
- October 13 - Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
- October 16 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, carnatic musician (b. 1895)
- October 24 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
- October 24 - Ekaterina Furtseva, USSR Minster of Culture (b. 1910)
- November 11 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
- November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
- November 17 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth President of Ireland (b. 1905)
- November 19 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
- November 21 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1897)
- November 21 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
- November 24 - Nick Drake, British musician (b. 1948)
- November 24 - Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician (b. 1927)
- November 29 - Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b. 1898)
- November 29 - H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon (b. 1889)
- November 29 - Lawrence Riley, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1896)
- December 2 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
- December 18 - Harry Hooper, baseball player (b. 1887)
- December 20 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
- December 26 - Ahmad Ismail Ali, Egyptian soldier and politician (b. 1917)
- December 26 - Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
- December 27 - Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898)
- December 28 - Paul Dixon, Cincinnati TV personality (b. 1918)
Fields Medalists
Nobel prizes
- Physics - Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
- Chemistry - Paul J. Flory
- Medicine - Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
- Literature - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
- Peace - Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
- Economics - Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek
Templeton Prize
Notes
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