1974

1974 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1974; MCMLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2727
Armenian calendar	1423; ԹՎ ՌՆԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6724
Baháʼí calendar	130–131
Balinese saka calendar	1895–1896
Bengali calendar	1381
Berber calendar	2924
British Regnal year	22 Eliz. 2 – 23 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2518
Burmese calendar	1336
Byzantine calendar	7482–7483
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox); 4671 or 4464; — to —; 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger); 4672 or 4465
Coptic calendar	1690–1691
Discordian calendar	3140
Ethiopian calendar	1966–1967
Hebrew calendar	5734–5735
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2030–2031
- Shaka Samvat	1895–1896
- Kali Yuga	5074–5075
Holocene calendar	11974
Igbo calendar	974–975
Iranian calendar	1352–1353
Islamic calendar	1393–1394
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 49; (昭和４９年)
Javanese calendar	1905–1906
Juche calendar	63
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4307
Minguo calendar	ROC 63; 民國63年
Nanakshahi calendar	506
Thai solar calendar	2517
Tibetan calendar	阴水牛年; (female Water-Ox); 2100 or 1719 or 947; — to —; 阳木虎年; (male Wood-Tiger); 2101 or 1720 or 948
Unix time	126230400 – 157766399

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century; 20th century ; 21st century;
Decades:	1950s; 1960s; 1970s ; 1980s; 1990s;
Years:	1971; 1972; 1973; 1974 ; 1975; 1976; 1977;

1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1974th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 974th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1970s decade.

Events

January

January 11 – David, Elizabeth, Emma, Grant, Jason and Nicolette Rosenkowitz are born in Cape Town, the first sextuplets in the world where all six babies survive.
January 17 – Two commercial divers, Pier Skipness and Robert John Smyth, die from rapid decompression and drowning in the Norwegian Sector of the North Sea after their diving bell abruptly surfaces from a depth of 320 feet (98 m).^[1]^[2]
January 20 – The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon makes its first flight at Edwards Air Force Base, California.
January 26 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (37th government, partner MSP).

February

February 1
- Fire breaks out in the Joelma Building in São Paulo, Brazil; 177 die, 293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
- Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia, is declared a Federal Territory.
February 4 – Heiress Patty Hearst is kidnapped outside her Berkeley, California apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
February 8 – After a record 84 days in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
February 12 – The first episode of children's television series Bagpuss airs in Britain.
February 17 – Zamalek disaster: a soccer stampede occurs in Cairo, killing 49.

March

March 3 – Turkish Airlines Flight 981 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard. This becomes the deadliest single aircraft accident with no survivors.
March 4
- Following a hung parliament in the United Kingdom general election, Conservative prime minister Edward Heath resigns and is succeeded by Labour's Harold Wilson, who previously led the country from 1964 to 1970.^[3]
- People magazine's first issue released in the U.S. with Mia Farrow on the cover.
March 8
- Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
- The Brady Bunch is cancelled after 5 seasons on ABC.
- Queen releases Queen II with the single Seven Seas of Rhye.
March 10 – Japanese holdout: A Japanese World War II soldier, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the Philippines.
March 18
- End of five month oil embargo by most OPEC nations against the United States, Europe and Japan which had caused the 1973 oil crisis.
- After 23 consecutive years on television, Lucille Ball airs the finale of Here's Lucy.
March 26 – A group of peasant women in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, India, use their bodies to surround trees in order to prevent loggers from felling them, giving rise to the Chipko movement.
March 29
- The Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang is discovered at Xi'an, China.^[4]
- Launch of the Volkswagen Golf in West Germany, a modern front-wheel drive hatchback which is expected to replace the iconic Volkswagen Beetle, holder of the world record for the car with the most units produced.

April

April – The world population reaches 4 billion people estimated by the United States Census Bureau.

April 2 – French president Georges Pompidou, dies of cancer at 63. Alain Poher succeeds him immediately; Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins the presidential contest in May 1974.
April 3–4 – An enormous tornado outbreak strikes the central parts of the United States, killing around 319 people. Known as the "1974 Super Outbreak", the event was the largest of its kind until the 2011 Super Outbreak.
April 4 – Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth for the all-time home run record with his 714th at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
April 5 – Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel.
April 6
- Swedish pop group ABBA's song "Waterloo" wins the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England, UK.
- California Jam is held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California, attracting 250,000 fans.
April 8 – Hank Aaron became the all-time MLB home run leader with his 715th at Atlanta in front of a national television audience.
April 11 – The Kiryat Shmona massacre takes place in Israel.
April 15 – As "Tania", Patty Hearst is photographed wielding an M1 carbine while robbing the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco.
April 24 – Guillaume Affair: exposure of an East German spy Günter Guillaume within the West German government, leading to the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt.^[5]
April 25 – Carnation Revolution: A left-wing military coup in Portugal restores democracy, ending 48 years of Estado Novo and Ditadura Nacional dictatorship in the country. Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano flees to Brazil and is granted political asylum by Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel.

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.
May 6 – Willy Brandt West Germany's chancellor resigns; replaced by Helmut Schmidt
May 17 – Dublin and Monaghan bombings: The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), explode four car bombs in Dublin and Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland. The attacks kill 33 civilians and wound almost 300, the highest number of casualties in any single day during "The Troubles".
- A massive, two-hour shootout between the Los Angeles Police Department and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army leaves six SLA members, including SLA leader Donald DeFreeze, dead.
May 18
- Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the 6th nation to do so.
- The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the second tallest structure ever built (it collapses on August 8, 1991).
May 19 – The Philadelphia Flyers defeat the Boston Bruins to become the first team from the 1967 NHL expansion class to win the Stanley Cup in the North American National Hockey League.
May 30 – NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched.

June

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 13 – The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins in West Germany.
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 Perón is sworn in as the first female President of Argentina, replacing her sick husband Juan Perón, who dies 2 days later.
- America Sings attraction opens to the public for the first time at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

July

July 7 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2–1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup. The West German football team are awarded the new FIFA World Cup Trophy.
July 8 – Two weeks after the attraction's opening, an 18-year-old employee is crushed to her death while working on America Sings at Disneyland. This is the first casualty to occur to an employee at a Disney Park.
July 15 – News anchor Christine Chubbuck commits suicide during a live broadcast on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida.
July 16 – Elmer Wayne Henley is sentenced to life imprisonment for assisting Dean Corll in murdering 28 Texas boys from 1970 to 1973.
July 19 – Railcar explosion in Decatur, Illinois. A tanker car collides with a Norfolk & Western boxcar. Seven people are killed, 349 are injured and $18 million in property damage.^[6]
July 20 – The Turkish invasion of Cyprus occurs.
July 23 – The Greek military junta of 1967–74 is replaced by a civilian government, the metapolitefsi.

August

August 4 – A bomb explodes in a train between Italy and West Germany, killing 12 and wounding 48. Italian neo-fascists take responsibility.
August 7 – Philippe Petit crosses between Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City high-wire walking
August 8 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective August 9).
August 9 – Vice President Gerald Ford becomes the 38th President of the United States, upon President Nixon's resignation.
August 14 – Turkey invades Cyprus for the second time, occupying 37% of the island's territory.
August 30 – An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.

September

September 8
- 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.
- President Gerald Ford pardons former president Richard Nixon.
September 10 – The Portuguese military junta grants independence to Guinea-Bissau.
September 12 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by the Derg, bringing an end to the Solomonic dynasty's rule since 1270. The Ethiopian Civil War begins.
September 13 – Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands.
September 20 – The Kootenai War is declared, and 10-cent tolls are charged on U.S. Highway 95.
September 23 – Ceefax (one of the first public service information systems) is started by the BBC.

October

October 11 – The UK Labour government of Harold Wilson wins the second general election of the year, forming a three-seat majority. Wilson, who has led the party for a total of 11 years, has now won four of the five general elections he has contested.^[7]
October 30 – The Rumble in the Jungle takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, where Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in 8 rounds to regain the Heavyweight title, which had been stripped from him 7 years earlier.

November

November 1
- The World Tourism Organization (WTO or WToO) is established.
- The German electronic band Kraftwerk releases their studio album Autobahn.
November 5 – The Democratic Party makes big gains nationwide in House, Senate and Gubernatorial elections.
November 13
- Ronald DeFeo, Jr., murders his entire family in their home in Amityville on Long Island, an event that inspires the story of The Amityville Horror.
- McDonald's open their first UK restaurant in Woolwich, South East London.^[8]
November 16 – Arecibo message: The radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory on Puerto Rico sends an interstellar radio message towards Messier 13, the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. The message will reach its destination around the year 27,000.
November 21 – Birmingham pub bombings: In Birmingham, England, two pubs are bombed, killing 21 people in an attack widely believed at the time to be linked to the Provisional Irish Republican Army. The Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this, but their convictions are quashed after a lengthy campaign.^[9]
November 18 – The International Energy Agency is founded.
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 26 – Anneline Kriel is crowned as Miss World 1974, the second South African to hold the title after Penny Coelen in 1958, when Helen Morgan resigns four days after winning the 24th Miss World pageant.
November 28 – In a rare public performance, former Beatle John Lennon joins Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

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 9 – The Paris summit, reuniting the European Communities' heads of state and government, commences.
December 13 – Malta becomes a republic.
December 17 – The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
December 24–25 – Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
December 30 – Japanese holdout: The last Japanese World War II soldier, Taiwan-born Private Teruo Nakamura, surrenders on the Indonesian island of Morota, 34 years after beginning service in the Imperial Japanese Army.

Date unknown

Rubik's Cube puzzle is invented by Hungarian architecture professor Ernő Rubik.^[10]
Dungeons & Dragons fantasy tabletop role-playing game, designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, is first released, in the United States.
PepsiCo becomes the first American company to sell products in the Soviet Union.^[11]

Births

January

January 1 – Reem Maged, Egyptian journalist
January 3 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian professional road cyclist
January 6 – Shelbee Myne, American former pornographic actress
January 9 – MF Doom, English recording artist and producer
January 10 – Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood actor
January 12
- Melanie Chisholm, English singer-songwriter (Spice Girls)
- Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skier
January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
January 18 – Maulik Pancholy, American actor
January 18 – Gustavo Kupinski, Argentine guitarist (d. 2011)
January 19 – Éva Novodomszky, Hungarian journalist and presenter
January 20 – Rae Carruth, former NFL wide receiver
January 21 – Maxwell Atoms, American animator
January 22 – Joseph Muscat, 13th Prime Minister of Malta
January 23 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
January 24 – Ed Helms, American actor and stand-up comedian
January 27 – Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Norwegian biathlete
January 28 – Kari Traa, Norwegian freestyle skier
January 29
- Kōji Wada, Japanese rock singer (d. 2016)
- Michael Andersen, Danish basketball player
January 30
- Christian Bale, English actor
- Olivia Colman, English actress

February

February 4 – Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress
February 6 – Aljo Bendijo, Filipino journalist, broadcaster, TV/radio host
February 7
- Cheryl Cosim, Filipino journalist, news anchor, TV host
- J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, African-American hip-hop producer (d. 2006)
- Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
- Jun Seba, also known as Nujabes, Japanese hip-hop producer (d. 2010)
February 8
- Seth Green, American actor and comedian
- Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French musician and record producer (Daft Punk)
- Kimbo Slice, Bahamian-born American boxer and mixed martial artist (d. 2016)
February 10
- Elizabeth Banks, American actress and film director
- Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
February 12 – Naseem Hamed, British professional boxer
February 13 – Robbie Williams, Singer of British pop group Take That
February 14
- Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
- Valentina Vezzali, Italian fencer
February 15
- Miranda July, American author, director, actor, musician and spoken-word artist
- Mr Lordi, Finnish rock singer (Lordi)
- Alexander Wurz, Austrian racing driver
- Gina Lynn, American porn actress
February 16 – Mahershala Ali, American actor and rapper
February 17 – Jerry O'Connell, American actor
February 18 – Jillian Michaels, American personal trainer, businesswoman, author and TV personality
February 19 – Lezley Zen, American porn actress
February 22 – James Blunt, English singer
February 25
- Divya Bharti, Indian actress
- Chad Hugo, American rock musician and producer
- Bonnie Somerville, American actress
February 26
- Sébastien Loeb, French rally driver
- Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, Filipino actress and equestrienne
February 27 – Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japanese speed skater

March

March 1 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
March 3 – David Faustino, American actor
March 4
- Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player
- Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
March 5
- Jens Jeremies, German footballer
- Matt Lucas, English comedian
- Eva Mendes, American actress and model
- Barbara Schöneberger, German actress, singer, and TV host
- Hiten Tejwani, Indian model and actor
March 6
- Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional wrestler
- Cooper Manning, television host, brother of football players Peyton and Eli Manning
March 7
- Jenna Fischer, American actress
- Antonio de la Rúa, Argentine lawyer
March 8
- Danny Corkill, American child actor
- Cesar Velasco Broca, Spanish actor
March 12 – Hekiru Shiina, Japanese voice actress and J-pop singer
March 14 – Grace Park, American born Canadian actress
March 15 – Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player
March 20 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
March 21 – Ted Kravitz, British presenter and Formula One pit-lane reporter
March 22
- Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- Kidada Jones, American actress
- Bassem Youssef, Egyptian journalist
March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
March 25 – Lark Voorhies, American actress and singer
March 28
- Daisuke Kishio, Japanese voice actor
- Scott Mills, British radio DJ, television presenter and occasional actor
March 29 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian photographer
March 30 – Miho Komatsu, Japanese pop singer and songwriter
March 31 – Jani Sievinen, Finnish former swimmer

April

April 1 – Marcos Balter, Brazilian composer
April 2 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
April 9 – Jenna Jameson, American pornographic actress
April 8 – Chris Kyle, most lethal sniper in American military history (d. 2013)
April 11
- Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
- Alexander Kuoppala, Finnish guitarist (ex-Children of Bodom)
April 12 – Marley Shelton, American actress
April 13 – Marta Jandová, Czech musician and actress
April 15
- Danny Pino, Cuban American actor
- Tim Thomas, American ice hockey goaltender
April 16 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress and director
April 17
- Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth)
- Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer
April 18 – Edgar Wright, English film director
April 20 – Tina Cousins, English singer
April 21 – Faust, Norwegian drummer
April 22 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born rock bassist (System of a Down)
April 23 – Barry Watson, American actor
April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress and model
April 29 – Anggun, Indonesian-French singer-songwriter

May

May 1
- Kellie Crawford, Australian singer and actress (Hi-5 and Teen Queens)
- Lornah Kiplagat, Kenyan-Dutch runner
May 2
- Matt Berry, English actor and singer
- Horacio Carbonari, Argentinian footballer and manager
- Garðar Thór Cortes, Icelandic tenor and actor
- Andy Johnson, English-Welsh footballer
- Janek Meet, Estonian footballer
May 3
- Princess Haya bint Al Hussein of Jordan
- Peter Everitt, Australian footballer and radio host
May 4
- Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player and coach
- Tony McCoy, Irish jockey and sportscaster
May 6
- Bernard Barmasai, Kenyan runner
- Daniela Bártová, Czech pole vaulter and gymnast
- Faruk Namdar, German-Turkish footballer
- Patrick Tang, Hong Kong actor and singer
May 7
- Breckin Meyer, American actor
- Lawrence Johnson, American pole vaulter
- Ian Pearce, English footballer and manager
May 8
- Marge Kõrkjas, Estonian swimmer
- Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
- Jon Tickle, English television host
May 10
- Liu Fang, Chinese pipa player
- Sylvain Wiltord, French footballer
May 16
- Laura Pausini, Italian singer
- Adam Richman, American actor and television personality
May 17 – Andrea Corr, Irish singer
May 20
- Colette Wong, Singaporean sports anchor
- Mikael Stanne, Swedish singer
May 22 – Henrietta Onodi, Hungarian artistic gymnast
May 23 – Jewel, American singer
May 26 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
May 28 – Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer
May 29 – Steve Cardenas, American martial artist and retired actor
May 30 – Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
May 31 – Kenan Doğulu, Turkish pop musician

June

June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer
June 2 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
June 3 – Martín Karpan, Argentinian actor
June 7
- Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- Bear Grylls, British survivalist
June 9 – Samoth, Norwegian musician
June 13
- Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter.
- Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
- Selma, Icelandic singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1999 runner-up
- Steve-O, American actor
June 19 – Bumper Robinson, American actor
June 22
- Jo Cox, British Labour Party politician (d. 2016)
- Donald Faison, American actor
- Vijay, Indian actor
June 23 – Joel Edgerton, Australian actor
June 25 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
June 26
- Jason Craig, American artist
- Derek Jeter, American baseball player
- Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer and actress
June 27 – Christopher O'Neill, British-American businessman; husband of Princess Madeleine of Sweden
June 28 – Rob Dyrdek, American skateboarder
June 30 – Hezekiél Sepeng, South African middle distance athlete

July

July 1 – Jefferson Pérez, Ecuadorean Olympic athlete
July 2 – Rocky Gray, American musician
July 3 – Taiga Ishikawa, Japanese politician and LGBT activist
July 7 – Jennifer Jones, Canadian Olympic curling champion
July 8
- Dragoslav Jevrić, Montenegrin footballer
- Jeanna Friske, Russian singer, actress, model and socialite (d. 2015)
July 12
- Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer
- Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
July 14
- David Mitchell, British comedian and actor
- Martina Hill, German actress, comedian and impersonator
July 16 – Jeremy Enigk, American singer-songwriter
July 18 – Michael Dante DiMartino, American animator
July 21 – Terry Coldwell, English singer (East 17)
July 22 – Franka Potente, German actress
July 23
- Kathryn Hahn, American actress
- Maurice Greene, American athlete
- Stephanie March, American actress
- Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist
July 25 – Lauren Faust, American cartoonist
July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
July 28 – Alexis Tsipras, Greek politician
July 29 – Josh Radnor, American actor
July 30 – Hilary Swank, American actress
July 31 – Emilia Fox, English actress

August

August 5 – Kajol, a Bollywood actress
August 7 – Michael Shannon, American actor
August 8 – Brian Harvey, English singer (East 17)
August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
August 12 – Karl Stefanovic, Australian TV host
August 13 – Niklas Sundin, Swedish musician
August 14 – Christopher Gorham, American actor
August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
August 16
- Didier Cuche, Swiss alpine skier
- Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian Olympic champion swimmer
August 20
- Amy Adams, American actress
- Misha Collins, American actor
- Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
August 22
- Jenna Leigh Green, American actress and singer
- Lee Sheppard, Australian cartoonist
August 23
- Ray Park, Scottish actor, martial artist
- Ovi, Romanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, producer and musician
- Shifty Shellshock, American singer (Crazy Town)
August 24 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German soccer player

September

September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer
September 6
- Tim Henman, English tennis player
- Nina Persson, Swedish singer
September 7 – Glenn Ljungström, Swedish guitarist
September 10
- Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer; mixed martial arts fighter
- Kerry Harvick, American singer
- Ryan Phillippe, American actor
- Ben Wallace, American basketball player
September 12 – Jennifer Nettles, American country music artist (Sugarland)
September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
September 15 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer, musician, and songwriter
September 17
- Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
- Austin St. John, American actor and martial artist
September 18
- Sol Campbell, English footballer
- Xzibit, American rapper
September 19
- Jimmy Fallon, American actor, comedian, and television personality
- Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
September 24
- Niels Brinck, Danish singer and songwriter
- Kati Wolf, Hungarian singer
September 26
- Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
- Joo Jin-mo, South Korean actor
September 30 – Yul Bürkle, Venezuelan actor and model

October

October 1 – Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone)
October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
October 6 – Hoang Xuan Vinh, Vietnamese shooter
October 7
- Allison Munn, American actress
- Charlotte Perrelli, Swedish singer and occasional television host, Eurovision Song Contest 1999 winner
October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
October 10
- Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver
- Chris Pronger, Canadian hockey player
October 11 – Jason Arnott, Canadian hockey player
October 14 – Jessica Drake, American porn actress
October 15 – Shumon Basar, British writer and editor
October 16
- Aurela Gaçe, Award-winning Albanian singer
- Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
October 17 – Matthew Macfadyen, English actor
October 18
- Jeremy Scahill, writer and documentary film maker
- Zhou Xun, Chinese actress and singer
October 20 – Bashar Rahal, American actor
October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer and pianist
October 23
- Aravind Adiga, Indian-Australian author
- Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
October 24 – Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
October 28
- Nelly Ciobanu, Moldovan singer
- Joaquin Phoenix, Puerto Rican actor and music video director
October 29
- Akashdeep Saigal, Indian television actor and model
- Yenny Wahid, a political activist and Islamic Indonesia
October 31 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and reggae singer (d. 2007)

November

November 2
- Nelly, American rapper
- Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017)
November 4
- Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mexican-American singer/lyricist
- Louise Nurding, English singer
- Carl Steven, former American child actor
November 5
- Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
- Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
November 8
- Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer
- Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
- Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor
November 9
- Alessandro Del Piero, Italian football player
- Manav Gohil, Indian television actor
November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
November 13 – Kerim Seiler, Swiss artist and architect
November 15 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
November 16 – Paul Scholes, English football player
November 18 – Petter Solberg, Norwegian rally driver
November 20 – Kurt Krömer, German television presenter, comedian and actor
November 21 – Tiit Sukk, Estonian actor, director and television presenter
November 24 – Stephen Merchant, English comedian and actor
November 27
- Wendy Houvenaghel, British racing cyclist
- Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player
November 29 – Ferenc Merkli, Hungarian Slovene priest, writer, translator
November 30 – Wallace Chung, Hong Kong actor and singer

December

December 1 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
December 4 – Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player
December 5 – Kid Koala, Canadian DJ, turntablist, musician and graphic novelist
December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints)
December 9 – Luisa Bradshaw-White, English actress
December 10 – Meg White, American rock drummer
December 11
- Ben Shephard, English television presenter
- Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
- Gete Wami, Ethiopian long-distance runner
December 12 – Michelle Saram, Chindian Singaporean singer and actress
December 13 – Nick McCarthy, English rock guitarist
December 17 – Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
December 18
- Kari Byron, American artist and television personality
- Viki Miljković, Serbian singer
December 19
- Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian footballer
- Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
December 20 – Jacqui Oatley, British sports presenter
December 24
- Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
- Ryan Seacrest, American television personality
December 27
- Fumiko Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
- Alena Vinnitskaya, Ukrainian singer (Nu Virgos)
December 29 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor
December 31 – Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver

Deaths

January

January 1 – Jimmy Smith, American Major League Baseball infielder (b. 1895)
January 2 – Tex Ritter, American country musician and actor (b. 1905)
January 3 – Red Snapp, American baseball player (b. 1888)
January 5 – Dewey Mayhew, American football coach (b. 1898)
January 6 – Lech Pijanowski, Polish screenwriter, film critic, broadcaster and director (b. 1928)
January 7 – Wang Shusheng, Chinese general (b. 1905)
January 8 – Charles-Édouard Ferland, Canadian jurist, Liberal politician and Senator (b. 1892)
January 10 – Charles G. Bond, U. S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1877)
January 11 – Antonio Bautista, Filipino pilot with the Philippine Air Force (b. 1937)
January 12 – Jack Jacobs, American-born National Football League and Canadian Football League player (b. 1919)
January 14 – Joseph Dippolito, Italian American Mafia member of the Los Angeles crime syndicate (b. 1914)
January 15 – Harold D. Cooley, U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1897)
January 17 – Clara Edwards, American singer, pianist and composer (b. 1880)
January 18 – Bill Finger, American comic strip and book writer (b. 1914)
January 19 – Edward Seago, British artist (b. 1910)
January 20 – Leonard Freeman, American actor Hawaii Five-0 (b. 1920)
January 22 – Oskar Herman, Croatian Jewish painter (b. 1886)
January 25 – William Fawcett, American character actor, mostly in B-movies (b. 1884)
January 26 – Julius Patzak, Austrian tenor (b. 1898)
January 27
- Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1898)
- Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, German general (b. 1886)
January 28 – Oswald Cornwallis, English cricketer (b. 1894)
January 29 – H. E. Bates, English writer and author (b. 1905)
January 31
- Pina Gallini, Italian actress (b. 1888)
- Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879)
- Einar Texas Ljungberg, Swedish Socialist politician (b. 1880)
- Glenn Morris, American Olympic athlete (b. 1912)

February

February 2 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1922)
February 3 – Juan de Orduña, Spanish director Pequeñeces (1950) (b. 1900)
February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894)
February 5 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian martial arts Master (b. 1899)
February 7 – Edward Beck, British Army (b. 1880)
February 8 – Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer (b. 1898)
February 9 – Raymond A. Wheeler, Lieutenant-General United States Armed Forces (b. 1885)
February 11 – Ghantasala, Indian playback singer and music composer (b. 1922)
February 15
- Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
- George W. Snedecor, American mathematician and statistician (b. 1881)
February 16 – Horace Kallen, American philosopher (b. 1882)
February 17 – Ralph W. Gerard, American neurophysiologist and behavioural scientist (b. 1900)
February 18
- Manuel A. Odría, Peruvian military officer, 34th President of Peru (b. 1896)
- Duncan Archibald Graham, Canadian physician (b. 1882)
February 21 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey defenseman with Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Buffalo Sabres. Co-Founder of the Tim Hortons restaurant chain. (b. 1930)
February 22 – Samuel Byck, American airplane hijacker and murderer (b. 1930)
February 23
- William F. Knowland, American politician and newspaper owner (b. 1908)
- George Van Biesbroeck, Belgian-born American astronomer (b. 1880)
February 24
- Margaret Leech, American historian and fiction writer (b. 1893)
- Robert A. Stemmle, German screenwriter and film director (b. 1903)
February 27 – Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia, Russian great-granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (b. 1901)
February 28 – Carole Lesley, British actress (b. 1935)

March

March 1
- Hüseyin Kemal Gürmen, Turkish theatre and cinema actor (b. 1901)
- Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1935)
March 2 – Péter Schell, Hungarian politician (b. 1898)
March 3
- Barbara Ruick, American actress and singer (b. 1930)
- Frank Wilcox, American character actor (b. 1907)
March 4 – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903)
March 5
- John Samuel Bourque, French-Canadian politician, Cabinet Minister, military member, and businessman from Québec, Canada (b. 1894)
- Billy De Wolfe, American character actor (b. 1907)
March 6 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and writer; who won the 1974 Pulitzer Prize (posthumously) for his book The Denial of Death (b. 1924)
March 7
- Moriji Mochida, last person ever awarded the 10th dan rank in kendo (b. 1885)
- Hans Sachs, Holocaust survivor and poster collector (b. 1881)
March 8 – Martha Wentworth, American actress (b. 1889)
March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
March 10 – Alexander John Majeski, American architect and former Naval Lieutenant (b. 1920)
March 12 – Oleksii Shovkunenko, Soviet painter (b. 1884)
March 14 – Maulana Shama-ud-din Harifal, Pakistani Islamic scholar (b. 1944)
March 15 – José Tohá, Chilean Socialist politician, former minister (assassinated) (b. 1927)
March 17 – Louis Kahn, Soviet architect (b. 1901)
March 19 – Edward Platt, American actor known as, "The Chief" on NBC/CBS's Get Smart (b. 1916)
March 20 – Chet Huntley, American television reportor (b. 1911)
March 21 – Candy Darling, American actress (b. 1944)
March 22 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
March 24 – Lewie G. Merritt, U. S. Marine, major general and aviator (b. 1897)
March 27 – Wilhelm Herget, German Luftwaffe flying ace (b. 1910)
March 29
- Andrea Checchi, Italian actor (La ciociara) (b. 1916)
- Joe Stecher, American professional wrestler (b. 1893)
March 31 – Frank Seno, American football running back and defensive back (b. 1921)

April

April 2
- Douglass Dumbrille, Pioneering Canadian actor in Hollywood (b. 1889)
- Georges Pompidou, 100th Prime Minister of France and 19th President of France (b. 1911)
April 3 – Ossie Newton-Thompson, South African cricketer and politician (b. 1920)
April 5 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven (b. 1882)
April 6
- Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch modernist architect (b. 1884)
- Roy Wood, American professional baseball player (b. 1892)
April 8 – K. A. C. Creswell, English architectural historian (b. 1879)
April 10 – Patricia Collinge, Irish-born American actress (b. 1892)
April 11 – Edward Alexander Bott, psychologist at the University of Toronto (b. 1887)
April 14 – Howard Pease, American adventure novelist (b. 1894)
April 18
- Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897)
- Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895)
April 19 – Ayub Khan, Pakistanian general and politician, 2nd President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
April 20 – Peter Lee Lawrence, German actor in Spaghetti Westerns; such as (For a Few Dollars More) (b. 1944)
April 21 – Mirja Mane, Finnish actress (b. 1929)
April 23 – Cy Williams, American baseball player (b. 1887)
April 24
- Bud Abbott, American comedian (b. 1895)
- Franz Jonas, Austrian political figure, 7th President of Austria (b. 1899)
April 27 – Hans W. Petersen, Danish actor of over 40 films (b. 1897)
April 28 – Paul Page, American actor of the 1920s and 1930s (b. 1903)
April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)

May

May 1 – Frank Packer, Australian media proprietor (b. 1906)
May 2
- James O. Richardson, American admiral (b. 1878)
- William Wantling, American ex-Marine, poet and novelist (b. 1933)
May 3
- Nasir Khan, Indian actor (b. 1924)
- Ralph McCabe, Canadian-born Major League Baseball player (b. 1918)
May 4 – Ludwig Karl Koch, German-born broadcaster and sound recordist in the United Kingdom (b. 1881)
May 6 – Robert Maestri, American of Italian heritage who served as mayor of New Orleans from (1936 to 1946) (b. 1889)
May 7
- Abu Bakar of Pahang, Fourth Sultan of Pahang (b. 1904)
- Fred Kelly, American Olympic athlete (b. 1891)
May 8 – Fred Conyngham, Australian actor (b. 1901)
May 10 – Takeshi Sakamoto, Japanese versatile actor (b. 1899)
May 12 – Wayne Maki, Canadian National Hockey League player with Chicago, St. Louis, and Vancouver; (died of brain cancer) (b. 1944)
May 14 – Jacob L. Moreno, Austrian-born American leading psychiatrist and psychosociologist (b. 1889)
May 15 – Guy Simonds, English-born, Canadian Lieutenant-General who commanded the Canadian Armed Forces in World War II (b. 1903)
May 16 – Billy Welu, American profession bowler (b. 1932)
May 17 – Symbionese Liberation Army Los Angeles police shootout of its members
- Angela Atwood, American founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1949)
- Donald DeFreeze, American leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army; who went by the nom de guerre "Field Marshall Cinque" (b. 1943)
- Camilla Hall, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army; one of main kidnappers of heiress Patricia Hearst (b. 1945)
- Nancy Ling Perry, An American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1947)
- Patricia Soltysik, American member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (b. 1950)
May 18 – Harry Ricardo, broadcaster and sound recordist (b. 1881)
May 19 – Allal al-Fassi, Moroccan politician, poet, writer, and scholar (b. 1910)
May 21 – Lily Kronberger, Hungarian figure skater (b. 1890)
May 24 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
May 25
- Donald Crisp, British-born American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1882)
- Arturo Jauretche, Argentine writer, politician, and philosopher (b. 1901)
May 26 – Kitty Gordon, English stage and silent film actress. (b. 1878)
May 27 – Rudolf Altstadt, German soldier in World War II (b. 1914)
May 28 – Francesco Fausto Nitti, Italian journalist (b. 1899)
May 31
- Adelle Davis, American author and nutritionist (b. 1904)
- Frederick George Topham, Canadian soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1917)

June

June 1 – Henry Clay Sevier, American lawyer and member from Louisiana House of Representatives (b. 1896)
June 2 – Roger C. Slaughter, American lawyer and U. S. Representative from Missouri (b. 1905)
June 3 – Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Soviet chess player (b. 1912)
June 4
- Smokey Harris, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1890)
- Mamerto Urriolagoitía, 50th President of Bolivia (b. 1895)
June 5 – Larry Cabrelli, American football player and assistant coach Philadelphia Eagles (b. 1917)
June 7 – Abdul Rahman Hashim, Malaysian Inspector-General of Police (b. 1925)
June 9
- Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- Katharine Cornell, Berlin-born, American stage actress, writer, theatre owner, and producer (b. 1893)
June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900)
June 11
- Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (b. 1898)
- Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian marshal and 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
June 12 – André Marie, French Radical politician (b. 1897)
June 14 – Knud Jeppesen, Danish musicologist, composer, and songwriter (b. 1892)
June 15 – Kevin Gately, English mathematics student at University of Warwick involved in the Red Lion Square disorders (b. 1953)
June 16 – Mauritz Hugo, Swedish-born American film and television actor (b. 1909)
June 17 – Austin Gunsel, 3rd commissioner of the National Football League (b. 1909)
June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general (World War II) (b. 1896)
June 21 – Katsutaro Kouta, Japanese female geisha and ryūkōka singer (b. 1904)
June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
June 23 – Calvin B. Hoover, noted U. S. economist and professor (b. 1897)
June 24 – József Juhász, Hungarian stage and film actor (b. 1908)
June 25 – Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician and physicist (b. 1893)
June 26 – Ernest Gruening, American journalist, Governor of Alaska Territory from 1939 to 1953, and United States Senator from 1959 to 1969 (b. 1887)
June 27 – Fred DeStefano, American football player and physician; who won the National Football League title with the Chicago Cardinals of 1925 (b. 1900)
June 28
- Vannevar Bush, American engineer, inventor and science administrator (b. 1890)
- Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
June 29 – José Maria Ferreira de Castro, Portuguese writer and journalist (b. 1898)
June 30 – Alberta Williams King, American civil rights champion, wife of Martin Luther King, Sr., and mother of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Shot) (b. 1904)

July

July 1 – Juan Perón, Argentine army general and politician, 2-time President of Argentina (b. 1895)
July 2
- Sonia Holm, English actress (b. 1920)
- Edith L. Sharp, Canadian writer (b. 1911)
July 4
- Georgette Heyer, British writer (b. 1902)
- André Randall, French actor (b. 1892)
July 6 – Joseph Baldacchino, Maltese archaeologist (b. 1894)
July 7
- Leon Shamroy, American Academy Award-winning cinematographer (b. 1901)
- Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, American publisher and member of the Vanderbilt Family (b. 1898)
July 8
- Mário Simões Dias, Portuguese violinist (b. 1902)
- Margaret Furse, British Academy Award-winning costume designer for Anne of the Thousand Days (b. 1911)
July 9 – Earl Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)
July 10 – Nancy Wickwire, American soap opera actress (b. 1925)
July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
July 12 – Sonja Ludvigsen, Norwegian politician (b. 1928)
July 13
- Patrick Blackett, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- Prince Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1898)
July 14
- Dame Sibyl Hathaway, Seigneur of Sark (b. 1884)
- Carl Andrew Spaatz, American general (b. 1891)
July 15
- William Albrecht, Chairman of the Department of Soils at the University of Missouri (b. 1888)
- Christine Chubbuck, American TV personality (b. 1944)
- Victor Negus, British surgeon (b. 1887)
July 16 – Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, Brazilian playwright (b. 1936)
July 17 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1910)
July 19 – Joe Flynn, American actor (b. 1924)
July 20 – Charles Rudolph d'Olive, American World War I ace (b. 1896)
July 22 – Wayne Morse, American lawyer, politician, and United States Senator from Oregon (1945–1969) (b. 1900)
July 23 – Peter Lei, Bishop of Hong Kong (b. 1922)
July 24 – Sir James Chadwick, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
July 25 – Robert Hanbidge, Canadian lawyer, {municipal, provincial, & federal} politician; including the Mayor of Kerrobert, and 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Saskatchewan (b. 1891)
July 27
- Lightnin' Slim, American blues musician (b. 1913)
- Joop Pelser, Dutch footballer (b. 1892)
July 28 – Truman Bradley, American radio actor (b. 1905)
July 29
- "Mama Cass" Elliot, American vocalist (b. 1941)
- Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
July 30 – Lev Knipper, Soviet composer (b. 1898)

August

August 2 – Cyril Smith, English virtuoso concert pianist (b. 1909)
August 3
- Edna Murphy, American actress of the silent era (b. 1899)
- Almira Sessions, American character actress (b. 1888)
August 4 – Józef Kondrat, Polish stage and film actor (b. 1902)
August 5 – Friedrich F. Tippmann, Hungarian entomologist (b. 1894)
August 6 – Gunboat Smith, Irish-born American boxer and referee (b. 1887)
August 7 – Rosario Castellanos, Méxican poet and author (b. 1925)
August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907)
August 11
- José Falcón, Portuguese matador (gored to death by bull) (b. 1944)
- Jan Tschichold, German-born typographer (b. 1902)
August 14 – Romuald Bourque, French-Canadian politician from Québec (b. 1889)
August 15 – Edmund Cobb, American actor whose career spanner nearly 55 years (b. 1892)
August 17 – Aldo Palazzeschi, Italian novelist, poet, journalist and essayist (b. 1885)
August 18 – J. C. Winslow, British missionary to India for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (b. 1882)
August 19 – Rodger Davies, American diplomat (assassinated) (b. 1921)
August 20 – Magda Sonja, Austrian actress (b. 1886)
August 21 – Buford Pusser, American Sheriff of McNairy County, Tennessee (b. 1937)
August 22 – Jacob Bronowski, Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist and science historian (b. 1908)
August 23 – Roberto Assagioli, Italian psychiatrist and pioneer (b. 1888)
August 24 – Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-American aviation pioneer and inventor (b. 1894)
August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (Spirit of St. Louis) (b. 1902)
August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician (b. 1897)
August 28 – Aleksandar Sekulović, Montenegrin cinematographer (b. 1918)
August 29
- Judith Furse, English actress (b. 1912)
- Fred W. Preller, American politician (b. 1902)
August 30 – Kenneth Anderson, Indian-born British writer and hunter (b. 1910)
August 31
- Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, Emir of Qatar (b. 1895)
- Gianna Manzini, Italian writer (b. 1896)