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== Events ==
=== December ===
* December – The world's first personal all-in-one computer (keyboard/screen/tape storage), the [[Commodore PET]], is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in [[Chicago]]
* [[December 1]] – The Australian state of Queensland abolishes the [[inheritance tax]].
* [[December 3]] – [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] is incorporated.
* [[December 6]] – Record company [[EMI]] sacks the controversial United Kingdom [[punk rock]] group the [[Sex Pistols]].<ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/jan/07/sex-pistols-emi-end-contract-1977</ref>
* [[December 8]] – [[1977 Moscow bombings|Three bombs]] explode in [[Moscow]] within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an [[Armenia]]n separatist group.
* [[December 10]]
** [[Mount Nyiragongo]] erupts in eastern [[Zaire]] (now the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]).
** [[Ocean Park, Hong Kong|Ocean Park]] opens in Hong Kong.
[[File:Oceanpark-entrance.JPG|100px|thumb|[[December 10]]: [[Ocean Park, Hong Kong]]]]
* [[December 15]] – [[Kälvesta air disaster]]: A Swedish airliner crashes into a residential area of [[Stockholm]], killing all 22 on board.
* [[December 17]] – [[Gary Gilmore]] is executed by [[firing squad]] in [[Utah]] (the first execution after the reintroduction of the death penalty in the U.S.).
* [[December 18]]
** Scientists identify a previously unknown [[Bacteria|bacterium]] as the cause of the mysterious [[Legionnaires' disease]].
** Australia's worst [[Granville rail disaster|railway disaster at Granville]], near Sydney, leaves 83 people dead.
** [[SFR Yugoslavia]] Prime minister [[Džemal Bijedić]], his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]].
* [[December 19]]
** U.S. President [[Gerald Ford]] pardons [[Iva Toguri D'Aquino]] (aka "[[Tokyo Rose]]").
** Snow falls in [[Miami]] (despite its ordinarily [[tropical climate]]) for the only time in its history. Snowfall has occurred farther south in the United States only on the high mountains of the state of Hawaii.
* [[December 20]] – [[Jimmy Carter]] succeeds [[Gerald Ford]] as the 39th [[President of the United States]].
* [[December 21]] – U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] pardons [[Vietnam War]] draft evaders.
* [[December 23]]– Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] of India calls for fresh elections to the [[Lok Sabha]] and releases all political prisoners.
* [[December 23]] – ''[[Roots (TV miniseries)|Roots]]'' begins its phenomenally successful run on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
* [[December 24]] – The [[1977 Massacre of Atocha|Massacre of Atocha]] occurs during the [[Spanish transition to democracy]].
* [[December 26]] – [[Katimavik]] is founded as a volunteer service organization for Canadian youths.
* [[December 28]] – The [[Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977]] hits Buffalo, New York, and the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario.
* [[December 31]] – The [[Centre Georges Pompidou]] is officially opened by French President [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]].
=== November ===
* [[November 2]] – The Congress party of India, led by [[Indira Gandhi]], splits with [[Jagjivan Ram]] and other senior leaders, forming [[Congress for Democracy]]. This party later merges with the [[Janata Party]].
* [[November 4]] – [[Fleetwood Mac]]'s [[Grammy]]-winning album ''[[Rumours (album)|Rumours]]'' is released.
* [[November 7]]
** – The [[Soviet Union]] launches ''[[Soyuz 24]]'' ([[Viktor Gorbatko]], [[Yury Glazkov]]) to dock with the ''[[Salyut 5]]'' space station.
** – London’s International Times proclaims for the first time the famous quote; “punk is dead.”
* [[November 15]] – [[Space Shuttle program]]: First test taxi flight of [[Space Shuttle Enterprise]].
* [[November 18]] – Prog 1 of [[2000 AD (comics)|2000 AD]] is launched (issue dated 26 November 1977).
* [[November 23]] – [[Óscar Romero]] becomes Archbishop of San Salvador.
* [[November 28]] – Queen [[Elizabeth II]] opens the [[Parliament of New Zealand]].
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=== October ===
* [[October 4]] – The [[1977 Vrancea earthquake|1977 Bucharest Earthquake]] kills 1,500.
* [[October 5]] – [[Formula One]] driver [[Tom Pryce]] dies after colliding with a [[track marshal]] at the [[South African Grand Prix]] in [[Kyalami]].
* [[October 8]] – The [[Parliament of Australia|Australian parliament]] is opened by [[Elizabeth II]], Queen of Australia.
* [[October 9]] – [[1977 Hanafi Siege|Hanafi Siege]]: Approximately a dozen armed [[Nation of Islam|Hanafi Movement]] members take over 3 buildings in Washington, D.C., killing 1 person and taking more than 130 hostages (the hostage situation ends 2 days later).
* [[October 10]] – The [[rings of Uranus]] are discovered.
* [[October 12]] – The [[Centenary Test]] between Australia and England begins at the [[Melbourne Cricket Ground]].
* [[October 15]] – Tenor [[Luciano Pavarotti]] and the [[PBS]] opera series ''[[Live from the Met]]'' both make their American television debuts. Pavarotti stars in a complete production of [[Puccini]]'s ''[[La Boheme]]''.
* [[October 19]] – Results of elections to the [[Indian Parliament]] are declared. [[Indira Gandhi]]'s [[Congress (I)|Congress Party]] is routed by the opposition parties later to form the [[Janata Party]].
* [[October 26]] – [[Focus on the Family]] is founded by Dr. [[James Dobson]].
* [[October 27]] – [[Tenerife airport disaster|Tenerife disaster]]: A collision between [[KLM]] and [[Pan American World Airways|Pan Am]] [[Boeing 747]]s at [[Tenerife]], [[Canary Islands]], kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.
* [[October 28]] – [[Marquette University]] wins the men's NCAA basketball tournament with a win over the [[University of North Carolina]] 67-59.
=== April ===
* [[April 1]] – The small market town of [[Hay-on-Wye]] declares independence from the UK, as a [[publicity stunt]].
* [[April 2]] – [[Horse racing]] – [[Red Rum]] wins a record third [[Grand National]] at [[Aintree Racecourse]].
* [[April 4]]
** [[Grundy, Virginia]] experiences a major flood that causes around $15 million in damages to 228 residential and commercial structures (to date the town is still recovering).
** [[Southern Airways Flight 242]] crashes on a highway in [[New Hope, Georgia]], killing 72 people.
* [[April 7]]
** German Federal Prosecutor [[Siegfried Buback]] and his driver are shot by 2 [[Red Army Faction]] members while waiting at a red light near his home in [[Karlsruhe]]. The "[[Ulrike Meinhof]] Commando" later claims responsibility.
** The [[Toronto Blue Jays]] play their first game of [[baseball]] against the [[[[Chicago]] White Sox]].
** The [[Seattle Mariners]] play their first-ever game of [[baseball]] against the [[Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim|California Angels]].
[[File:Silver Routemaster SRM3.jpg|thumb|[[April 11]]: UK [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] (25 red buses painted silver).]]
* [[April 8]] – The punk band [[The Clash]]'s debut album ''[[The Clash (album)|The Clash]]'' is released in the UK on [[Columbia Records|CBS Records]].
* [[April 11]] – [[London Transport Executive (GLC)|London Transport]]'s [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Silver Jubilee]] [[Routemaster|buses]] are launched.
* [[April 21]] – Residents of [[Dover, Massachusetts]] report sightings of an [[Dover Demon|eerie monster]].
* [[April 22]] – [[Optical fiber]] is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
* [[April 27]] – The [[Guatemala City air disaster]] kills 28 people.
* [[April 28]] – A federal court in [[Stuttgart]] sentences [[Red Army Faction]] members [[Andreas Baader]], [[Gudrun Ensslin]], and [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] to life imprisonment.
* [[April 30]] – [[Led Zeppelin]] sets a new world record attendance for an indoor solo attraction at the [[Pontiac Silverdome]] when 76,229 persons attend a concert here on the group's [[Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1977|1977 North American Tour]].
=== May ===
* [[May 1]] – The [[Taksim Square massacre]] in [[Istanbul]] results in 34 deaths, hundreds of injuries.
* [[May 3]] – The [[light aircraft carrier]] ''[[HMS Invincible (R05)|HMS Invincible]]'' is launched at [[Barrow-in-Furness]] by [[Elizabeth II]].
* [[May 12]] – Portugal and Israel establish [[Foreign relations of Israel#Portugal|diplomatic relations]].
* [[May 14]]
** The [[1977 Dan-Air Boeing 707 crash|1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash]] in [[Lusaka]], [[Zambia]] kills all 6 on board.
** In [[Milan]], Italy, during a far-left demonstration, a hooded person shoots at the police, killing a policeman, Antonio Custra. The scene is photographed and the picture<ref>[http://img135.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=32481_2_122_540lo.jpg Im135.imageavenue.com]</ref> of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street appears in many magazines around the world.
* [[May 17]]
** The [[Likud]] Party, led by [[Menachem Begin]], wins the national elections in [[Israel]].
** [[Elizabeth II]] commences her [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|1977 Silver Jubilee]] tour in [[Glasgow]], Scotland.
* [[May 23]]
** Scientists report using [[bacteria]] in a lab to make [[insulin]] via [[gene splicing]].
** [[Molucca]]n terrorists take over a school in [[Bovensmilde]], northern Netherlands (105 hostages), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde–[[Assen]] route nearby (90 hostages) at the same time. On [[June 11]], [[Dutch Royal Marines]] storm the train, and 6 terrorists and 2 hostages are killed.
* [[May 25]] – ''[[Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope|Star Wars]]'' opens in cinemas and later becomes the historic highest grossing film for that time.
* [[May 26]] – [[George Willig]] climbs the South Tower of the [[World Trade Center]].
* [[May 27]]
** [[Elizabeth II]] opens the new Air Terminal Building at the [[Edinburgh Airport]].
** The [[Aeroflot Flight 331|1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash]] in [[Cuba]] kills 69 people.
** [[Space Mountain]] opens at [[Disneyland]] and to this day remains as one of the parks most popular attractions.
** A [[Fraccionismo|demonstration and coup attempt in Angola]] takes place. Afterward thousands were killed by the government and Cuban forces.<ref>{{cite book|title=In the Name of the People: Angola's Forgotten Massacre|date=2014|isbn=978-1780769059|author=Lara Pawson|authorlink=Lara Pawson}}</ref>
* [[May 28]] – The [[Beverly Hills Supper Club fire|Beverly Hills Supper Club]] in [[Southgate, Kentucky]], is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside.
* [[May 29]] – [[1977 Indianapolis 500|Indianapolis 500]]: [[A. J. Foyt]] becomes the first driver to win the race 4 times.
=== June ===
* [[June 5]]
** A bloodless [[Coup d'état|coup]] installs [[France-Albert René]] as President of the [[Seychelles]].
** The first [[Apple II series]] computers go on sale.
** The [[Portland Trail Blazers]] defeat the Philadelphia 76ers 109–107 to win the [[National Basketball Association]] finals four games to two. Bill Walton is selected as the MVP of the series.
* [[June 6]] – [[June 9|9]] – [[Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Jubilee]] celebrations are held in the United Kingdom to celebrate 25 years of [[Elizabeth II]]'s reign.
* [[June 7]] – After campaigning by [[Anita Bryant]] and her anti-gay "Save Our Children" crusade, [[Miami-Dade County, Florida]] voters overwhelmingly vote to repeal the county's "gay rights" ordinance.
* [[June 10]] – [[James Earl Ray]] escapes from the [[list of Tennessee state prisons|Brushy Mountain State Prison]] in [[Petros, Tennessee]]; he is recaptured on [[June 13]].
* [[June 12]] – [[The Supremes]] perform their final concert together at Drury Lane in London, England and then disband permanently.
* [[June 15]] – Spain has [[Spanish general election, 1977|its first democratic election]]s, after 41 years under the [[Francisco Franco|Franco]] regime.
* [[June 16]] – The [[Oracle Corporation]] is incorporated in [[Redwood Shores, California]] as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by [[Larry Ellison]], [[Bob Miner]], and [[Ed Oates]].
* [[June 20]]
** The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] rules that the states are not required to spend [[Medicaid]] funds on elective abortions.
** [[Anglia Television]] broadcasts the fake documentary ''[[Alternative 3]]'', which enters into the conspiracy theory canon.
* [[June 21]] – [[Bülent Ecevit]], of [[Republican People's Party (Turkey)|CHP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (40th government since the founding of the Turkish republic, but fails to receive the vote of confidence).
* [[June 25]]
** The [[1977 Rugby League World Cup]] culminates in [[Australia national rugby league team|Australia]]'s 13 – 12 victory over [[Great Britain national rugby league team|Great Britain]] at the [[Sydney Cricket Ground]] before about 24,450 spectators.
** American [[Roy Sullivan]] is struck by lightning for the seventh time.
* [[June 26]]
** [[Elvis Presley]] holds his last concert at [[Market Square Arena]] in [[Indianapolis]].
** Some 200,000 protesters march through the streets of [[San Francisco]], protesting [[Anita Bryant]]'s antigay remarks and the murder of Robert Hillsborough.
** 16-year-old shop assistant Jayne Macdonald is murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper in [[Leeds]], England.
* [[June 27]] – [[Djibouti]] receives its independence from France.
* [[June 30]]
** The [[Southeast Asia Treaty Organization]] is permanently disbanded.
** The [[U.S. Marine Corps|Women Marine]]s are disbanded, and the women are integrated into regular [[U.S. Marine Corps|Marine Corps]].
** U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] announces the cancellation of the [[B-1 Lancer|B-1 Bomber]] program (it is later revived by the [[Reagan Administration]]).
===July===
* [[July 1]]
** [[CKO]] (a now-defunct Canadian all [[news radio]] network since [[1989]]) begins broadcasting.
** The [[East African Community|EAC]] is dissolved.
** [[The Championships, Wimbledon|Wimbledon]] - [[Virginia Wade]] wins women's singles title in centenary year of the tournament - It was Wade's first and only Wimbledon title, third and final Grand Slam title overall. Wade remains the last British woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon.
* [[July 5]] – General [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq]] overthrows [[Zulfikar Ali Bhutto]], the first elected Prime Minister of [[Pakistan]].
* [[July 13]] – [[Somalia]] declares war on Ethiopia, starting the [[Ethio-Somali War]].
* [[July 13]] – The [[New York City blackout of 1977]] lasts for 25 hours, resulting in looting and other disorder.
* [[July 15]] – Anti-drug campaigner [[Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)|Donald Mackay]] disappears near [[Griffith, New South Wales]] (presumed murdered).
* [[July 19]]–[[July 20|20]] – Flooding in [[Johnstown, Pennsylvania]], caused by massive rainfall, kills over 75 people and causes billions in damage.
* [[July 21]]–[[July 24|24]] – The [[Libyan–Egyptian War]], sparked by a Libyan raid on [[Sallum]], begins.
* [[July 21]] – [[Süleyman Demirel]], of [[Justice Party (Turkey)|AP]] forms the new government of [[Turkey]] (41st government a three-party coalition, so-called second national front ({{lang-tr|Milliyetçi cephe}})).
* [[July 22]] – The purged [[Chinese Communist]] leader [[Deng Xiaoping]] is restored to power 9 months after the "[[Gang of Four]]" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.
* [[July 24]] – [[Led Zeppelin]] presents its last American concert in [[Oakland, California]], at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. A brawl erupts between Led Zeppelin's crew and the staff of the promoter [[Bill Graham (promoter)|Bill Graham]], resulting in criminal assault charges for several members of the Led Zeppelin group including the drummer [[John Bonham]].
* [[July 27]] – The [[Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet Politburo]] orders [[Boris Yeltsin]] to demolish the [[Ipatiev House]], where Tsar [[Nicholas II of Russia]] and his family were shot in [[1918]]. Yeltsin eventually calls this a barbarian act.
* [[July 28]] – The first oil through the [[Trans-Alaska Pipeline System]] reaches [[Valdez, Alaska]].
* [[July 30]] – Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht,<ref>[http://www.baader-meinhof.com/who/terrorists/raf/albrechtsusanne.html Baader-Meinhof.com]</ref> [[Brigitte Mohnhaupt]] and a third person assassinate Jürgen Ponto,<ref>[http://www.dresdner-bank.com/content/03_unternehmen/05_gesellschaftliches_engagement/02_ponto_stiftung/ Dresdner-Bank.com]</ref> chairman of the [[Dresdner Bank]] in [[Oberursel]], West Germany.
=== August ===
[[File:Elvis grave Graceland.jpg|thumb|170px|right|[[August 16]]: [[Elvis Presley]] dies. His funeral in Memphis attracts 75,000 fans.]]
* [[August 3]]
** [[United States Senate]] hearings on [[Project MKUltra]] are held.
** The [[Tandy Corporation]] [[TRS-80]] Model I computer is announced at a press conference.
* [[August 4]] – U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] signs legislation creating the [[United States Department of Energy]].
* [[August 7]] – [[Mount Usu]] volcano in Japan erupts.
* [[August 9]] – The military-controlled government of [[Uruguay]] announces that it will return the nation to civilian rule through general elections in [[1981]] for a President and [[General Assembly of Uruguay|Congress]].
* [[August 10]] – [[David Berkowitz]] is captured in [[Yonkers]], New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the [[Son of Sam]].
* [[August 12]] – The [[NASA]] [[Space Shuttle]], named ''[[Space Shuttle Enterprise|Enterprise]]'', makes its first test free-flight from the back of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
* [[August 15]]
** [[The Big Ear]], a [[radio telescope]] operated by [[Ohio State University]] as part of the [[SETI]] project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the [[Wow! signal]] for a notation made by a volunteer on the project.
** [[Herbert Kappler]] escapes from the [[Caelian Hill]] military hospital in Rome.
* [[August 16]]
** [[Elvis Presley]], the "king of [[rock and roll]]", dies in his home in [[Graceland]] at age 42. 75,000 fans line the streets of [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] for his funeral.<ref>[http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5934884/elvis_presley_19351977_funeral_in_memphis Elvis Presley (1935–1977): Funeral in Memphis] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090704082350/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5934884/elvis_presley_19351977_funeral_in_memphis |date=2009-07-04 }}.</ref>
** [[Supertanker]] ''[[Pierre Guillaumat (supertanker)|Pierre Guillaumat]]'' is launched at [[Saint-Nazaire]]; she is the all-time world's largest ship (by [[deadweight tonnage]] and [[length overall]]) at launch.
* [[August 17]] – The Soviet icebreaker ''[[Arktika (icebreaker)|Arktika]]'' becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
* [[August 19]] – [[Groucho Marx]], comedic legend, star of stage and screen, dies of [[pneumonia]] at [[Cedars-Sinai Medical Center]] in Los Angeles, at the age of 86 (born [[1890]]).
* [[August 20]] – [[Voyager program]]: The United States launches the [[Voyager 2]] [[spacecraft]].
=== September ===
* September. Evangelical pastor [[Oral Roberts]] publishes plans to build the '[[CityPlex Towers|City of God Hospital]]' in [[Tulsa, Oklahoma]]. The towers are completed in 1981 for $120M ($299M, in 2012)<ref>UPI. [http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/20/us/four-years-of-donations-built-120-million-hospital-of-faith.html 'Four years of built $120 Million hospital of faith']. ''New York Times'' Oct 20, 1981, retrieved October 23, 2013</ref>
* [[September 3]] – The [[Commodore PET]] computer is first sold.
* [[September 4]] – The [[Golden Dragon massacre]] takes place in [[San Francisco]].
* [[September 5]]
** [[Voyager program]]: ''[[Voyager 1]]'' is launched after a brief delay.
** [[German Autumn]]: Employers Association President [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]] is kidnapped in [[Cologne]], West Germany. The kidnappers kill 3 escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of [[Red Army Faction]] prisoners.
* [[September 7]] – Treaties between [[Panama]] and the United States on the status of the [[Panama Canal]] are signed. The U.S. agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
* [[September 8]] – [[Interpol]] issues a resolution against the piracy of video tapes and other material, which is still cited in warnings on opening pre-credits of videocassettes and DVDs.
* [[September 10]] – [[Hamida Djandoubi]]'s is the last [[guillotine]] execution in France.
* [[September 11]] – [[Atari, Inc.]] releases its [[Atari 2600|Video Computer System]] in North America.
* [[September 12]] – South African activist [[Steve Biko]] dies after suffering a massive head injury in police custody in [[Pretoria]].
* [[September 16]] – [[Glam rock]] pioneer [[Marc Bolan]] dies in a car crash in [[Barnes, London]].
* [[September 18]] – ''[[Courageous (yacht)|Courageous]]'' (U.S.), skippered by [[Ted Turner]], sweeps the Australian challenger ''Australia'' in the [[1977 America's Cup|24th America's Cup]] yacht race.
* [[September 19]]
** Under pressure from the [[Carter Administration]], President of Nicaragua [[Anastasio Somoza Debayle]] lifts the [[State of emergency|state of siege]] in [[Nicaragua]].
** [[North Korea]]n agents abduct Yutuka Kume from [[Noto Peninsula]] starting the [[North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens]].
* [[September 20]] – The [[Petrozavodsk phenomenon]] is observed in the [[Soviet Union]] and some northern European countries.
* [[September 21]] – A nuclear non-proliferation pact is signed by 15 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union.
* [[September 28]] – The [[Porsche 928]] debuts at the [[Geneva Motor Show]].
* [[September 29]] – The modern [[Food Stamp Program]] begins when the [[Food Stamp Act of 1977]] is enacted.
=== October ===
* [[October 1]]
** [[Energy Research and Development Administration]] part of [[United States Department of Energy|Department of Energy]].
** [[Pelé]] plays his final professional football game as a member of the [[New York Cosmos]].
* [[October 13]] – [[German Autumn]]: Four [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]]s hijack a [[Lufthansa|Lufthansa Airlines]] flight to [[Somalia]] and demand the release of 11 [[Red Army Faction]] members (see [[Lufthansa Flight 181]]).
* [[October 14]]
** The [[Atari 2600]] game system is released.
** [[Anita Bryant]] is famously pied by four gay rights activists during a press conference in [[Des Moines, Iowa]]. This event resulted in her political fallout from anti-gay activism.
* [[October 17]] – [[October 18|18]] – [[German Autumn]]: [[GSG 9]] troopers storm a hijacked [[Lufthansa]] passenger plane in [[Mogadishu]], [[Somalia]]; 3 of the 4 hijackers die.
* [[October 18]]
** [[German Autumn]]: [[Red Army Faction]] members [[Andreas Baader]], [[Jan-Carl Raspe]] and [[Gudrun Ensslin]] commit suicide in Stammheim prison; [[Irmgard Möller]] fails (their supporters still claim they were murdered). They are buried on [[October 27]].
** [[Elizabeth II]], [[Monarchy of Canada|Queen of Canada]], opens the third session of the [[30th Canadian Parliament]].
** [[Reggie Jackson]] blasts 3 home runs to lead the [[New York Yankees]] to a [[World Series]] victory over the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]].
[[File:Smallpox.jpg|thumb|160px|[[October 26]]: Last natural [[smallpox]] case (in [[Somalia]])]]
* [[October 19]] – [[German Autumn]]: Kidnapped industrialist [[Hanns Martin Schleyer]] is found murdered in [[Mulhouse]], France.
* [[October 20]] – Three members of the rock band [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] die in a charter plane crash outside [[Gillsburg, Mississippi]], 3 days after the release of their fifth studio album ''[[Street Survivors]]''.
* [[October 21]] – The [[European Patent Institute]] is founded.
* [[October 25]] – [[Seychelles]] recognizes the [[Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic]] (SADR).
* [[October 26]]
** The last natural [[smallpox]] case is discovered in Merca district, [[Somalia]]. The [[WHO]] and the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention|CDC]] consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of [[vaccination]] and, by extension, of modern science.
** [[Space Shuttle program]]: Last test taxi flight of [[Space Shuttle Enterprise]].
* [[October 27]]
** British punk band [[Sex Pistols]] release "Nevermind the Bollocks: Here's The Sex Pistols", which was instantly banned.
* [[October 28]]
** Hong Kong police forces attack the [[Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong)|ICAC]] headquarters.
** ''[[Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols]]'' is released in the United Kingdom.
=== November ===
* [[November 1]] – [[2060 Chiron]], first of the outer [[Solar System]] [[asteroid]]s known as [[Centaur (minor planet)|Centaur]]s, is discovered by [[Charles T. Kowal|Charlie Kowal]].
[[File:Sadat Camp David.jpg|thumb|140px|[[November 19]]: [[Anwar El Sadat|Sadat]] meets [[Menachem Begin]] in Israel.]]
[[File:IP stack connections.svg|thumb|130px|[[November 22]]: [[TCP/IP]] links 3 of 111 [[ARPANET]] nodes.]]
* [[November 2]] – The worst storm in [[Athens]]' modern history causes havoc across the Greek capital and kills 38 people.
* [[November 6]] – The [[Kelly Barnes Dam]], located above [[Toccoa Falls Bible College]] near [[Toccoa, Georgia]] fails, killing 39.
* [[November 8]]
** Greek archaeologist [[Manolis Andronikos]] discovers the tomb of [[Philip II of Macedon]] at [[Vergina]].
** [[San Francisco]] elects City Supervisor [[Harvey Milk]], the first openly gay elected official of any large city in the U.S.
* [[November 9]] – [[Hugo Banzer|Gen. Hugo Banzer]], president of the military government of [[Bolivia]], announces that the constitutional democracy will be restored in [[1978]] instead of [[1980]] as previously provided.
* [[November 10]] – The [[Bee Gees]] release the [[Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track|soundtrack]] to ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'', which will go on to become the then best selling album of all time.
* [[November 19]]
** [[Egypt]]ian President [[Anwar Sadat]] becomes the first [[Arab people|Arab]] leader to make an official visit to [[Israel]], when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]], seeking a permanent peace settlement.
** [[TAP Portugal Flight 425]] crashes at [[Madeira Airport]], [[Funchal]], Portugal, killing 131 and leaving 33 survivors.
* [[November 22]]
** [[British Airways]] inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic [[Concorde]] service.
** The [[TCP/IP]] test succeeds, connecting 3 [[ARPANET]] nodes (of 111), in what eventually becomes the [[Internet]] protocol.<ref>"TCP/IP", LivingInternet, 2008, webpage: [http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_tcpip.htm LivingI-tcpip].</ref>
* [[November 27]] – The [[Rankin/Bass]] made-for-TV animated film ''[[The Hobbit (1977 film)|The Hobbit]]'' premieres on [[NBC]] in the United States.
* [[November 30]] – The [[International Fund for Agricultural Development]] (IFAD) is founded as a specialized agency of the [[United Nations]].
=== December ===
* December – the [[Colombo Plan]] for Co-operative Economic and Social Development in Asia and the Pacific (CESDAP) is implemented.
* [[December 1]]
** [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]]'s top-secret [[stealth aircraft]] project, designated ''[[Have Blue]]'' and precursor to the U.S. [[Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk]], makes its first flight.
** The first children's cable channel [[The Pinwheel Network]] (later known as [[Nickelodeon]]), is launched.
* [[December 4]]
** [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]], president of the [[Central African Republic]], crowns himself Emperor.
** [[Malaysian Airline System Flight 653]] is hijacked and crashes in [[Tanjung Kupang]], [[Johor]], [[Malaysia]], killing all 100 passengers and crew on board.
* [[December 11]] – after losing 26 games, the [[Tampa Bay Buccaneers]] of the US [[National Football League]] record their very first win; against the [[New Orleans Saints]].
* [[December 13]] – a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft carrying the [[University of Evansville]] basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, [[University of Evansville men's basketball team plane crash|crashes in rain and dense fog]] about 90 seconds after takeoff from [[Evansville Regional Airport]]; 29 people die in the crash, including 14 members of the team and head coach Bob Watson.
* [[December 16]] – [[Mikhail Baryshnikov]]'s 1976 production of [[Tchaikovsky]]'s beloved ballet ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' comes to CBS a year after premiering onstage at the [[Kennedy Center]]. This adaptation will become the most popular television production of the work.
* [[December 18]] – [[SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730]], an international charter service from Zurich to Funchal Airport (Madeira), hits the sea during a landing attempt. Many of the 36 who die drown, trapped inside the sinking aircraft. Twenty-one people survive with the help of rescuers and by swimming to the shore.
* [[December 20]] – [[Djibouti]] and [[Vietnam]] join the [[United Nations]].
=== Date unknown ===
[[File:Shuttle Enterprise at Ellington Airfield 1978 4.jpg|thumb|140px|[[Space Shuttle Enterprise|''Enterprise'']] flies atop Boeing 747 over U.S.]]
* Portugal's [[Portuguese names|traditional naming conventions]] change such that children's surnames can come from either the mother or the father, not just from the father.
* The [[Soviet National Anthem]]'s lyrics are returned after a 24 year period, with [[Joseph Stalin]]'s name omitted.
* [[Mormon sex in chains case]] with the alleged abduction in England of a young [[Mormon missionary]].
* The [[WAVES]] are disbanded; women integrated into the regular [[United States Navy|Navy]].
== Births ==
=== December ===
[[File:Orlando Bloom at Venice Festival.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Orlando Bloom]]]]
[[File:Leigh Whannell Saw 3D premiere.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Leigh Whannell]]]]
* [[December 1]]
** [[Craig Reucassel]], Australian comedian
* [[December 2]]
** [[Gavin Mahon]], English footballer
** [[Aleš Píša]], Czech ice hockey player
* [[December 3]]
** [[Mayumi Iizuka]], Japanese voice actress
** [[A. J. Burnett]], American baseball player
** [[Jim Shearer]], American VJ ([[MTV2]] & [[VH1]]) and television personality
* [[December 4]] – [[Tim Wheeler]], Irish musician
* [[December 7]]
** [[John Gidding]], American actor and architect
** [[Dustin Diamond]], American actor
* [[December 8]] – [[Amber Benson]], American actress
* [[December 11]] – [[Anni Friesinger-Postma]], German speed skater
* [[December 12]] – [[Piolo Pascual]], Filipino actor
* [[December 13]] – [[Orlando Bloom]], British actor
* [[December 14]] – [[Ruco Chan]], Hong Kong actor
* [[December 17]] – [[Leigh Whannell]], Australian actor and writer
* [[December 19]] – [[Taliesin Jaffe]], American voice actor and actor
* [[December 20]] – [[Melody (Belgian singer)|Melody]], Belgian singer
* [[December 21]] – [[Jerry Trainor]], American actor
* [[December 22]] – [[Hidetoshi Nakata]], Japanese footballer
* [[December 23]] – [[Kamal Heer]], Punjabi singer and musician
* [[December 24]] – [[Johann Urb]], American actor
* [[December 25]]
** [[Hatem Trabelsi]], Tunisian footballer
** [[The-Dream]], American singer
** [[Christian Ingebrigtsen]], Norwegian singer ([[A1 (band)|A1]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Vince Carter]], American basketball player
* [[December 27]] – [[Jermaine Jackson|Jermaine Jackson, Jr.]], African-American actor
* [[December 28]]
** [[Lyle Overbay]], American baseball player
** [[Daunte Culpepper]], American football player
** [[Joey Fatone]], American musician ([['N Sync]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Mark Dutiaume]], Canadian hockey player
=== November ===
[[File:Shakira Rio 03.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Shakira]]]]
[[File:Barry hall.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Barry Hall]]]]
* [[November 2]]
** [[Shakira]], Colombian musician
** [[Jessica Wahls]], German pop singer
* [[November 4]] – [[Gavin DeGraw]], singer/songwriter
* [[November 5]]
** [[Adam Everett]], American baseball player
** [[Ahmad Merritt]], American football player
** [[Ben Ainslie]], British sailor
* [[November 7]] – [[Paul Comrie]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[November 8]]
** [[Yucef Merhi]], Venezuelan artist
** [[Barry Hall]], [[Australian rules football]]er
* [[November 9]] – [[Ledina Çelo]], Albanian singer and model
* [[November 11]]
** [[Randy Moss]], American football player
** [[Mike Shinoda]], American rock musician (Linkin Park)
* [[November 16]] – [[Ian Clarke (computer scientist)|Ian Clarke]], Irish computer scientist
* [[November 18]] – [[Ike Barinholtz]], American actor, comedian and screenwriter
* [[November 19]] – [[Gianluca Zambrotta]], Italian footballer
* [[November 20]]
** [[Stephon Marbury]], American basketball player
** [[Amal Hijazi]], Lebanese singer and model
* [[November 21]]
** [[Jonathan Safran Foer]], American author
** [[Kevin Rose]], American television host
* [[November 23]] – [[Kristina Šmigun-Vähi]], Estonian skier
* [[November 24]]
** [[Floyd Mayweather Jr.]], boxing champion
** [[Jason Akermanis]], [[Australian rules football]]er
* [[November 27]] – [[Ji Sung]], South Korean actor
* [[November 28]] – [[Jason Aldean]], American country music singer
=== October ===
[[File:Chris Martin-viva-cropped.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Chris Martin]]]]
[[File:JAMES VAN DER BEEK sansierra studio cropped.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[James Van Der Beek]]]]
[[File:Jessica Chastain Cannes 2012 (revised).jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Jessica Chastain]]]]
* [[October 1]] – [[Rens Blom]], Dutch athlete
* [[October 2]]
** [[Chris Martin]], British rock musician ([[Coldplay]])
** [[Heather McComb]], American actress
* [[October 3]] – [[Ronan Keating]], Irish singer ([[Boyzone]])
* [[October 4]]
** [[Ana Guevara]], Mexican track and field athlete
** [[Daniel Klewer]], German footballer
** [[Christian Jessen]], TV presenter/doctor ''[[Embarrassing Bodies]]''
* [[October 5]] – [[Wally Szczerbiak]], Spanish-born basketball player
* [[October 6]]
** [[Paquillo Fernández]], Spanish race walker
** [[Santino Marella]], Canadian wrestler
* [[October 7]]
** [[Ronan O'Gara]], Irish rugby player
** [[Mitja Zastrow]], German-born swimmer
** [[Paul Cattermole]], English singer ([[S Club 7]])
* [[October 8]] – [[James Van Der Beek]], American actor
* [[October 9]] – [[Lydia Mackay]], American voice actress
* [[October 10]]
** [[Peter Enckelman]], Finnish footballer
** [[Shannon Miller]], American gymnast
** [[Rita Simons]], English Actor
** [[Robin Thicke]], American-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter, musician, composer, and actor
* [[October 11]]
** [[Becky Hammon]], American basketball player
** [[Jason Greeley]], Canadian singer
* [[October 14]] – [[Kim Nam-il]], South Korean footballer
* [[October 15]]
** [[Norifumi Yamamoto]], Japanese mixed martial artist
** [[Adrian Burnside]], Australian baseball player
* [[October 18]] – [[Zdeno Chára]], Czechoslovakian (now [[Slovakia]]) hockey player
* [[October 23]]
** [[Sammy Morris]], American football player
** [[Edwin Siu]], Hong Kong actor and singer
* [[October 24]]
** [[Jessica Chastain]], American actress
** [[Darren Lockyer]], Australian rugby league player
* [[October 27]]
** [[Vitor Meira]], Brazilian race car driver
** [[Roger Velasco]], American actor
=== April ===
[[File:Sarah Michelle Gellar.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Sarah Michelle Gellar]]]]
[[File:Frederik Magle conducting 2011 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Frederik Magle]]]]
[[File:John Cena 134616.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[John Cena]]]]
* [[April 1]] – [[Vitor Belfort]], Brazilian mixed martial artist
* [[April 4]] – [[Stephen Mulhern]], British musician, TV presenter
* [[April 5]] – [[Daniel Majstorović]], Swedish soccer player
* [[April 9]] – [[Gerard Way]], American rock singer ([[My Chemical Romance]])
* [[April 11]] – [[DJ Fresh]], English DJ, [[drum and bass]] and [[dubstep]] producer
* [[April 12]]
** [[Tobias Angerer]], German cross-country skier
** [[Sarah Monahan]], Australian actress
** [[Sarah Jane Morris (actress)|Sarah Jane Morris]], American actress
* [[April 14]]
** [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], American actress
** [[Chandra Levy]], American federal government intern (d. [[2001]])
** [[Rob McElhenney]], American actor
* [[April 15]] – [[Dejan Milojević|Dejan Milojevic]], Serbian basketball player
* [[April 16]] – [[Fredrik Ljungberg]], Swedish footballer
* [[April 17]] – [[Frederik Magle]], Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist
* [[April 21]] – [[Jamie Salé]], Canadian figure skater
* [[April 22]]
** [[Anna Eriksson]], Finnish pop-rock singer
** [[Steven Price (composer)|Steven Price]], British film composer
* [[April 23]]
** [[Arash (singer)|Arash]], Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer and producer
** [[Mariusz Pudzianowski]], Polish strongman
** [[Andruw Jones]], Antillean baseball player
** [[John Cena]], American professional wrestler, actor and rapper
** [[Kal Penn]], American actor, producer and civil servant
* [[April 24]]
** [[Carlos Beltrán]], Puerto Rican baseball player
** [[Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ]], Belarusian writer
* [[April 26]]
** [[Jason Earles]], American actor
** [[Tom Welling]], American actor
* [[April 27]] – [[Dai Fujikura]], Japanese composer
* [[April 30]]
** [[Ole Jørn Myklebust]], Norwegian Jazz musician
** [[Robert Evans (writer)|Robert Evans]], Welsh playwright
=== May ===
[[File:Ilse de Lange BFO 2011.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Ilse DeLange]]]]
[[File:Melanie Lynskey at TIFF 2009.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Melanie Lynskey]]]]
* [[May 3]]
** [[Ben Olsen]], American footballer
** [[Ryan Dempster]], Canadian baseball player
* [[May 4]] – [[Emily Perkins]], Canadian actress
* [[May 5]]
** [[Choi Kang-hee]], South Korean actress
** [[Virginie Efira]], Belgian actress and television anchor
** [[Jessica Schwarz]], German film and TV actress
* [[May 8]] – [[Juan Ignacio Sánchez|Pepe Sánchez]], Argentine basketball player
* [[May 9]] – [[Choi Jung-yoon]], South Korean actress
* [[May 10]]
** [[Nick Heidfeld]], German race car driver
** [[Chas Licciardello]], Australian comedian (''[[The Chaser]]'')
* [[May 11]]
** [[Victor Matfield]], South African rugby player
** [[Janne Ahonen]], Finnish ski jumper
* [[May 12]]
** [[Graeme Dott]], Scottish snooker player
** [[Rebecca Herbst]], American actress
* [[May 13]]
** [[Ilse DeLange]], Dutch country and pop singer, member of [[The Common Linnets]], [[Eurovision Song Contest]] [[Eurovision Song Contest 2014|2014]] runner-up
** [[Samantha Morton]], British actress
* [[May 14]]
** [[Roy Halladay]], American baseball player
** [[Ada Nicodemou]], Australian actress
* [[May 16]]
** [[Melanie Lynskey]], New Zealand actress
** [[Emiliana Torrini]], Icelandic singer
* [[May 17]] – [[Lisa Kelly]], Irish singer
* [[May 19]]
** [[Brandon Inge]], American baseball player
** [[Kelly Sheridan]], Canadian voice actress
* [[May 20]] – [[Chad Muska]], American skateboarder
* [[May 23]]
** [[Ilia Kulik]], Russian figure skater
** [[Yevgeny Rodionov]], Russian soldier (d. [[1996]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Tamarine Tanasugarn]], Thai tennis player
* [[May 26]]
** [[Misaki Ito]], Japanese actress
** [[Luca Toni]], Italian footballer
* [[May 27]]
** [[Abderrahmane Hammad]], Algerian athlete
** [[Tommie van der Leegte]], Dutch soccer player
* [[May 28]] – [[Elisabeth Hasselbeck]], American talk show host
* [[May 29]] – [[Massimo Ambrosini]], Italian football player
* [[May 31]]
** [[Phil Devey]], Canadian baseball player
** [[Domenico Fioravanti]], Italian swimmer
** [[Greg Leeb]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Joachim Olsen]], Danish athlete
** [[Eric Christian Olsen]], American actor
** [[June Sarpong]], British television presenter
** [[Moses Sichone]], Zambian footballer
** [[Petr Tenkrát]], Czech ice hockey player
=== June ===
[[File:Zachary Quinto 2011.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Zachary Quinto]]]]
[[File:Kanye West at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Kanye West]]]]
* [[June 1]]
** [[Danielle Harris]], American actress
** [[Sarah Wayne Callies]], American actress
** [[Jón Jósep Snæbjörnsson|Jónsi]], Icelandic singer
* [[June 2]] – [[Zachary Quinto]], American actor
* [[June 3]] – [[Travis Hafner]], American baseball player
* [[June 4]] – [[Jordan Bratman]], American celebrity
* [[June 5]] – [[Nourhanne]], Lebanese singer
* [[June 7]] – [[Marcin Baszczyński]], Polish footballer
* [[June 8]] – [[Kanye West]], African-American rapper and record producer
* [[June 9]]
** [[Peja Stojakovic]], Serbian basketball player
* [[June 10]] – [[Adam Darski]], Polish musician (aka Nergal, Holocausto)
* [[June 11]]
** [[Ryan Dunn]], American television personality (d. [[2011]])
** [[Geoff Ogilvy]], Australian golfer
** [[Shane Meier]], Canadian actor
* [[June 12]] – [[Ana Tijoux]], French-Chilean musician
* [[June 14]] – [[Chris McAlister]], American football player
* [[June 16]] – [[Kerry Wood (baseball player)|Kerry Wood]], American baseball player
* [[June 19]]
** [[Peter Warrick]], American football player
** [[Veronica Varekova]], Czech model
** [[Maria Cioncan]], distance runner from Romania (d. [[2007]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Aaron Moule]], Australian rugby league player
* [[June 21]] – [[Jochen Hecht]], German ice hockey player
* [[June 22]] – [[Ryōko Ono]], Japanese voice actress
* [[June 23]]
** [[Antoine Winfield]], American football player
** [[Jason Mraz]], American singer/songwriter
* [[June 25]] – [[Naoya Tsukahara]], Japanese gymnast
* [[June 26]]
** [[William Kipsang]], Kenyan long-distance runner
** [[Noriaki Kubo|Tite Kubo]], Japanese manga artist who created [[BLEACH]]
* [[June 27]]
** [[Raúl González Blanco|Raúl]], Spanish footballer
** [[Arkadiusz Radomski]], Polish footballer
* [[June 28]] – [[Harun Tekin]], Turkish rock vocalist and guitarist ([[Mor ve Ötesi]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Zuleikha Robinson]], British actress and singer
=== July ===
[[File:Jarome Iginla. 2008.JPG|thumb|right|150px|[[Jarome Iginla]]]]
[[File:Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden 1 2013.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden]]]]
[[File:JonathanRhysMeyersApr06.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Jarome Iginla]], Canadian hockey player
** [[Liv Tyler]], American actress
** [[Tom Frager]], French-born singer and surfer
* [[July 2]] – [[Ricardo Medina, Jr.]], American actor
* [[July 8]]
** [[Milo Ventimiglia]], American actor
** [[Wang Zhizhi]], Chinese basketball player
* [[July 10]] – [[Schapelle Corby]], Australian convicted drug smuggler
* [[July 11]] – [[Edward Moss (impersonator)|Edward Moss]], American impersonator
* [[July 12]]
** [[Peter Schaefer (ice hockey)|Peter Schaefer]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Brock Lesnar]], American professional wrestler
* [[July 13]] – [[Kari Wahlgren]], American voice actress
* [[July 14]] – [[Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden]]
* [[July 15]] – [[Ray Toro]], American rock guitarist (''[[My Chemical Romance]]'')
* [[July 18]] – [[Alfian Sa'at|Alfian bin Sa'at]], Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
* [[July 19]] – [[Jean-Sébastien Aubin]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[July 21]] – [[Paul Casey]], English golfer
* [[July 24]] – [[Mehdi Mahdavikia]], Iranian football player
* [[July 26]] – [[Rebecca St James]], Australian-born Christian musician
* [[July 27]] – [[Jonathan Rhys Meyers]], Irish actor
* [[July 28]]
** [[Manu Ginóbili]], Argentine basketball player
** [[Rahman "Rock" Harper]], American personality, restauranteur
* [[July 30]] – [[Jaime Pressly]], American actress
* [[July 31]] – [[Tim Couch]], American football player
=== August ===
[[File:Edward Furlong image 2.JPG|thumb|right|150px|[[Edward Furlong]]]]
[[File:Tom Brady 8-28-09 Patriots-vs-Redskins.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Tom Brady]]]]
* [[August 2]] – [[Edward Furlong]], American actor
* [[August 3]]
** [[Angela Beesley Starling]], British Internet entrepreneur
** [[Tom Brady]], American football player
* [[August 7]] – Twins [[Samantha Ronson]] and [[Charlotte Ronson]], British DJ and designer
* [[August 8]] – [[Marilson Gomes dos Santos]], Brazilian long-distance runner
* [[August 9]] – [[Chamique Holdsclaw]], American basketball player
* [[August 10]] – [[Danny Griffin]], Irish footballer
* [[August 12]]
** [[Plaxico Burress]], African-American football player
** [[Park Yong-ha]], South Korean actor and singer (d. [[2010]])
* [[August 13]]
** [[Michael Klim]], Australian swimmer
** [[Miho Konishi]], Japanese actress
* [[August 15]]
** [[Martin Biron]], Canadian hockey player
** [[Igor Cassina]], Italian gymnast
** [[Anthony Rocca]], [[Australian rules football]]er
* [[August 16]] – [[Tamer Hosny]], Egyptian singer/actor
* [[August 17]]
** [[Thierry Henry]], French footballer
** [[Tarja Turunen]], Finnish operatic soprano
** [[Claire Richards]], English singer ([[Steps (group)|Steps]])
* [[August 18]] – [[Lukáš Bauer]], Czech cross-country skier
* [[August 20]]
** [[Felipe Contepomi]], Argentine rugby player
** [[Manuel Contepomi]], Argentine rugby player
** [[Henning Stensrud]], Norwegian ski jumper
* [[August 22]] – [[Miho Kanno]], Japanese actress and singer
* [[August 23]]
** [[Nicole Bobek]], American figure skater
** [[Kenta Miyake]], Japanese voice actor
* [[August 24]]
** [[Robert Enke]], German footballer (d. [[2009]])
** [[Per Gade]], Danish footballer
** [[Jürgen Macho]], Austrian footballer
* [[August 25]] – [[Masumi Asano]], Japanese voice actress
* [[August 26]] – [[Morris Peterson]], American basketball player
* [[August 27]] – [[Deco]], Portuguese footballer
* [[August 30]]
** [[Shaun Alexander]], American football player
** [[Jens Ludwig]], German guitarist
** [[Kamil Kosowski]], Polish footballer
** [[Sayori Ishizuka]], Japanese voice actress
* [[August 31]]
** [[Jeff Hardy]], American professional wrestler
** [[Barry Winchell]], infantry soldier in the United States Army (d. [[1999]])
** [[Craig Nicholls]], Australian rock musician and songwriter
=== September ===
[[File:Ludacris 2008.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Ludacris]]]]
[[File:Tom Hardy Locke Premiere.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Tom Hardy]]]]
* [[September 2]]
** [[Frédéric Kanouté]], Mali [[soccer]] player
** [[Elitsa Todorova]], Bulgarian singer-songwriter
* [[September 4]]
** [[Ian Grushka]], American bassist ([[New Found Glory]])
** [[Lucie Silvas]], English singer
* [[September 6]] – [[Kiyoshi Hikawa]], Japanese enka singer
* [[September 11]] – [[Ludacris]], African-American rapper
* [[September 12]] - [[Idan Raichel]], Israeli singer-songwriter
* [[September 13]] – [[Fiona Apple]], American singer
* [[September 15]]
** [[Angela Aki]], Japanese singer-songwriter
** [[Tom Hardy]], English actor
** [[Jason Terry]], American basketball player
* [[September 18]] – [[Kieran West]], British Olympic oarsman
* [[September 19]]
** [[Ryan Dusick]], American musician (former [[Maroon 5]])
** [[Ioana Maria Lupascu]], Romanian pianist
* [[September 20]] – [[Namie Amuro]], Japanese singer
* [[September 21]] – [[Hank Fraley]], American football player
* [[September 22]] – [[Paul Sculthorpe]], English rugby league player
* [[September 23]]
** [[Matthieu Descoteaux]], Canadian ice hockey player
** [[Susan Tamim]], Lebanese singer, actress, and murder victim (d. [[2008]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila]], American football player
* [[September 25]]
** [[Adam Lovell]], Founder & Owner [[WriteAPrisoner.com]]
** [[Clea DuVall]], American actress [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245112/]
* [[September 27]] – [[Andrus Värnik]], Estonian javelin thrower
* [[September 28]]
** [[Ivana Božilović]], Serbian model and actress
** [[Se-Ri Pak]], South Korean golfer
** [[Kristal Tin]], Hong Kong actress
* [[September 30]] – [[Roy Carroll]], Irish footballer
=== October ===
[[File:6.7.11MattBomerByLuigiNovi1.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Matthew Bomer]]]]
[[File:Jon Heder by Gage Skidmore.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Jon Heder]]]]
* [[October 5]] – [[Hugleikur Dagsson]], Icelandic artist
* [[October 6]] – [[Daniel Brière]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[October 7]] – [[Meighan Desmond]], New Zealand actress
* [[October 8]] – [[Anne-Caroline Chausson]], French mountain bicycle racer
* [[October 9]]
** [[Hicham Chami]], Moroccan financier and musician
** [[Yafeu Fula]] (aka Yaki Kadafi), rapper from [[Tupac Shakur]]'s group [[The Outlawz]] (d. [[1996]])
* [[October 11]]
** [[Claudia Palacios]], Colombian journalist and newsreader
** [[Matthew Bomer]], American film, stage, and television actor
* [[October 12]] – [[Bode Miller]], American skier
* [[October 13]]
** [[Paul Pierce]], American basketball player
** [[Quincy Carter]], American football Player
* [[October 14]]
** [[Adam Pengilly]], British skeleton racer
** [[Bianca Beauchamp]], Canadian latex model
** [[Kelly Schumacher]], American basketball and volleyball player
* [[October 15]] – [[David Trezeguet|David Sergio Trezeguet]], French footballer
* [[October 16]] – [[John Mayer]], American musician and record producer
* [[October 17]] – [[André Villas-Boas]], Portuguese football manager
* [[October 18]]
** [[Ryan Nelsen]], New Zealand footballer
** [[Paul Stalteri]], Canadian footballer
* [[October 20]] – [[Stewart Petrie]] Scottish actor
* [[October 25]] – [[Birgit Prinz]], German footballer
* [[October 26]]
** [[Jon Heder]], American actor and screenwriter (''[[Napoleon Dynamite]]'')
** [[Louis Crayton]], Swiss/Liberian footballer
* [[October 27]] – [[Kumar Sangakkara]], Sri Lankan cricketer
* [[October 28]] – [[Jonas Rasmussen]], Danish badminton player
* [[October 29]] – [[Brendan Fehr]], Canadian actor
* [[October 30]] – [[Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappearance|Charmian Faulkner]], missing Australian toddler
=== November ===
[[File:Maggie Gyllenhaal Golden Globes 2009.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Maggie Gyllenhaal]]]]
* [[November 1]] – [[Alistair Griffin]], British singer and songwriter
* [[November 2]] – [[Randy Harrison]], American actor
* [[November 3]] – [[Aria Giovanni]], American model and actress
* [[November 4]] – [[Larry Bigbie]], American baseball player
* [[November 6]]
** [[Patrícia Tavares]], Portuguese actress
** [[Dušan Kecman]], Serbian basketball player
* [[November 8]]
** [[João Rodrigo Silva Santos]], Brazilian soccer player (d. [[2013]])
** [[Bucky Covington]], American country singer
** [[Nick Punto]], Italian-American baseball player
* [[November 10]] – [[Brittany Murphy]], American actress (d. [[2009]])
* [[November 13]]
** [[Chanel Cole]], New Zealand-born singer
** [[Huang Xiaoming]], Chinese actor and singer
* [[November 15]] – [[Peter Phillips]], son of [[Anne, Princess Royal]] and Captain [[Mark Phillips]]
* [[November 16]]
** [[Oksana Baiul]], Ukrainian figure skater
** [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], American actress
* [[November 17]] – [[Ryk Neethling]], South African swimmer
* [[November 18]] – [[Trent Barrett]], Australian rugby league player
* [[November 19]] – [[Kerri Strug]], American gymnast
* [[November 20]]
** [[Daniel Svensson]], Swedish drummer
** [[Josh Turner]], American country music singer
* [[November 21]] – [[Jonas Jennings]], American football player
* [[November 22]] – [[Michael Preston (footballer)|Michael Preston]], English footballer
* [[November 23]] – [[Christopher Amott]], Swedish musician
* [[November 26]] – [[Ivan Basso]], Italian cyclist
* [[November 27]] – [[Mika Tan]], Asian-American adult film actress
* [[November 28]] – [[DeMya Walker]], American basketball player
* [[November 30]] – [[Steve Aoki]], American [[electro house]] DJ and founder of [[Dim Mak Records]]
=== December ===
[[File:EmmanuelleChriqui08TIFF.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Emanuelle Chriqui]]]]
[[File:Psy from acrofan.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Psy]]]]
[[File:Oxana Fedorova1.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Oxana Fedorova]]]]
* [[December 3]]
** [[Adam Małysz]], Polish ski jumper
** [[Troy Evans (American football)|Troy Evans]], American football player
* [[December 6]]
** [[Andrew Flintoff]], English cricketer
** [[Paul McVeigh]], Irish footballer
** [[Miwa Yasuda]], Japanese voice actress
* [[December 7]]
** [[Fernando Vargas]], American boxer
** [[Luke Donald]], English golfer
* [[December 8]]
** [[Elsa Benítez]], Mexican model and television host
** [[Ryan Newman]], American race car driver
** [[Sébastien Chabal]], French rugby union player
* [[December 10]] – [[Emmanuelle Chriqui]], Canadian actress
* [[December 11]] – [[Peter Stringer]], Irish rugby union player
* [[December 12]]
** [[Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm|Dahm triplets]], American models
** [[Adam Saitiev]], Chechen wrestler and Olympic gold medalist
* [[December 14]]
** [[KaDee Strickland]], American actress
** [[Jamie Peacock (rugby player)|Jamie Peacock]], English rugby league player
* [[December 16]]
** [[Kevin Gillespie (comics)|Kevin Gillespie]], American comic book artist
** [[Anu Nieminen]], Finnish badminton player
* [[December 17]] – [[Oxana Fedorova]],Russian personality [[Miss Universe]] 2002(dethroned)
* [[December 20]] – [[Sonja Aldén]], Swedish pop singer
* [[December 21]] – [[Gregor Horvatič]], a Slovenian politician, former president of [[Slovenian Democratic Youth]]
* [[December 23]]
** [[Alge Crumpler]], American football player
** [[Matt Baker (presenter)|Matt Baker]], British television presenter
** [[Jari Mäenpää]], Finnish musician
* [[December 24]] – [[Domingo Vega]], also known as ''Américo'', Chilean singer
* [[December 25]] – [[Uhm Ji-won]], South Korean actress
* [[December 27]]
** [[Jacqueline Pillon]], Canadian actress
** [[Sam Talbot]], American chef
* [[December 29]]
** [[Laveranues Coles]], American football player
** [[Katherine Moennig]], American actress
* [[December 30]]
** [[Laila Ali]], African-American boxer
** [[Scott Lucas (footballer)|Scott Lucas]], Australian rules footballer
** [[Kenyon Martin]], American basketball player
** [[Saša Ilić (footballer born 1977)|Sasa Ilic]], Serbian football player
* [[December 31]]
** [[Donald Trump, Jr.]], American executive vice-president of [[The Trump Organization]]
** [[Psy]], South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer, and record producer
=== Date unknown ===
* [[Hayko]], Armenian singer
* [[Yaakov Shwekey]], Jewish singer
== Deaths ==
=== December ===
[[File:Rt Hon Anthony Eden MP.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Anthony Eden]]]]
* [[December 1]]
** [[Etelka Freund]],Hungarian pianist. (b. [[1879]])
** [[Adam Fox]], Indian born British male tennis player. (b. [[1879]])
** [[Michael Hogan (screenwriter)]], British screenwriter. (b. [[1893]])
** [[Johannes Pedersen (theologian)]], noted theologian and linguist. (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Erroll Garner]], American musician (b. [[1921]])
* [[December 3]]
** [[Carroll Quigley]], American historian, polymath, and theorist of the evolution of civilizations (b. [[1910]])
** [[Hans Reinowski]], German politician (b. [[1900]])
* [[December 5]]
** [[Artur Adson]], Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. [[1889]])
** [[Onslow Stevens]], American actor (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 6]] – [[William Gropper]], American artist (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Hilder F. Smith]], pioneer aviator (b. [[1890]])
** [[Henry Cronin]], British civil engineer and army officer (b. [[1894]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Henri-Georges Clouzot]], French film director (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Henri Langlois]], French film historian (b. [[1914]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Anthony Eden]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1897]])
** [[Peter Finch]], English-born actor (b. [[1916]])
** [[Anaïs Nin]], French author (b. [[1903]])
* [[December 17]] – [[Gary Gilmore]], American murderer (executed) (b. [[1940]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Džemal Bijedić]], [[SFR Yugoslavia|Yugoslavian]] [[Prime Minister]] (b. [[1917]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Yvonne Printemps]], French singer and actress (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Sandro Penna]], Italian poet (b. [[1906]])
* [[December 22]] – [[Billy Down]], English professional association footballer (b. [[1898]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Toots Shor]], New York restaurateur (b. [[1903]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Eli Lilly (industrialist)]], pharmaceutical industrialist and philanthropist from Indianapolis,(b. [[1885]])
* [[December 27]]
** [[Eero Nelimarkka]], Finnish painter (b. [[1891]])
** [[Walter Baldwin]], prolific character actor (b. [[1889]])
* [[December 28]] – [[Burt Mustin]], American actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 29]]
** [[Buster Nupen]], South African cricketer (b. [[1902]])
** [[Freddie Prinze]], American actor and comedian (''Chico and the Man'') (b. [[1954]])
=== November ===
[[File:Queenalia.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Queen Alia]]]]
* [[November 3]] – [[Pauline Starke]], American actress (b. [[1901]])
* [[November 4]] – [[Brett Halliday]], American writer (b. [[1904]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Oskar Klein]], Swedish theoretical physicist (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 6]] – [[George John Park]], New Zealand teacher and technical college principal (b. [[1880]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Olinda Bozán]], was an actress in Argentina (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Alia al-Hussein|Queen Alia]], Queen of Jordan (b. [[1948]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Louis Beel]], [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[November 12]]
** [[Herman Dooyeweerd]], Dutch juridical scholar by training (b. [[1894]])
** [[Henry Jordan]], American football player ([[Green Bay Packers]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1935]])
* [[November 13]] – [[Alberto Diena]], Italy, was an expert on stamps of Italy (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Bill Tilman]], English mountaineer and explorer(b. [[1898]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Herman Johannes Lam]], Dutch botanist (b. [[1892]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Rózsa Péter]], Hungarian mathematician (b. [[1905]])
** [[Carlos Pellicer]], first wave of modernist Mexican poets (b. [[1897]])
* [[November 17]] – [[Mary Anne Reidy]], New Zealand civilian and military nurse, community leader (b. [[1880]])
* [[November 18]]
** [[Andy Devine]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
** [[Ralph Graves]], American actor (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Chandabai]], Jain scholar and a pioneer of women's education in India(b. [[1880]])
* [[November 19]] – [[Anthony Crosland]], British author and politician (b. [[1918]])
* [[November 20]]
** [[Ralph Hungerford]], American naval officer, 33rd [[Governor of American Samoa]] (b. [[1896]])
** [[Christoffel Venter]], South African military commander (b. [[1892]])
** [[Yisrael Alter]], the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger (b. [[1895]])
* [[November 21]] – [[John Hubley]], American animator (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 25]]
** [[Patricia Haines]], British actress (b. [[1932]])
** [[Cuthbert Dukes]], English physician and pathologist and author,(b. [[1890]])
* [[November 26]] – [[Aurel Persu]], Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer (b. [[1890]])
* [[November 27]] – [[Allison Hayes]], American actress (b. [[1930]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Eddie "Rochester" Anderson]], African-American actor (''The Jack Benny Show'') (b. [[1905]])
=== October ===
* [[October 2]] – [[Paul Rohmer]], Alsacian physician considered the father of modern pædiatrics (b. [[1876]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Percy Marmont]], stage & screen actor (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 4]]
** [[Andrés Caicedo]], Colombian writer (b. [[1951]])
** [[Ola Solberg]], Norwegian newspaper editor and politician (b. [[1886]])
** [[Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk]], German jurist and senior government official (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 5]] – [[Tom Pryce]], British Formula race car driver (b. [[1949]])
* [[October 8]] – [[Henry Hull]], American actor (b. [[1890]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[E. Power Biggs]], British-born American organist (b. [[1906]])
** [[William G. James]], Australian pianist and composer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Léonce-Henri Burel]], French cinematographer (b. [[1892]])
* [[October 11]] – [[Ulysses S. Grant IV]], American geologist and paleontologist (b. [[1893]])
* [[October 14]]
** [[Black Mike Winage]], Serbian-Canadian miner, pioneer (b. [[1870]])
** [[Mae Carden]], American educator who developed the Carden Method (b. [[1894]])
* [[October 15]] – [[Antonino Rocca]], professional wrestler (b. [[1921]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Kamal Jumblatt]], leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Claude Roger-Marx]], French writer, and playwright (b. [[1888]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Marien Ngouabi]], President of The Republic of the Congo (assassinated) (b. [[1938]])
* [[October 19]] – [[William L. Laurence]], Jewish Lithuanian-born American journalist (b. [[1888]])
* [[October 22]] – [[A. K. Gopalan]], Indian communist leader (b. [[1904]])
* [[October 25]]
** [[Nunnally Johnson]], American screenwriter and director (b. [[1897]])
** [[Joe Stydahar]], American football player ([[[[Chicago]] Bears]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Madeleine Dring]], British composer and actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Diana Hyland]], American actress (b. [[1936]])
* [[October 28]]
** [[Andries Mac Leod]], Belgian-Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. [[1891]])
** [[Frithiof Nevanlinna]], Finnish mathematician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Marion Clyde McCarroll]], writer and journalist (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 29]]
** [[Charles Nicoletti]], American gangster (b. [[1916]])
** [[Eugen Wüster]], industrialist and terminologist (b. [[1898]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Abdel Halim Hafez]], Egyptian singer and actor (b. [[1929]])
* [[October 31]]
** [[Yasuji Kamada]], Japanese photographer (b. [[1883]])
** [[Eric Grant Miles]], served as an officer with the British Army (b. [[1891]])
** [[Jean Bachelet]], French cinematographer (b. [[1894]])
=== April ===
* [[April 2]] – [[He Tianjian]], Chinese painter (b. [[1891]])
* [[April 2]] – [[John Whitaker (gymnast)]], British gymnast (b. [[1886]])
* [[April 6]] – [[Isaac B. Mitchell]], American farmer and politician (b. [[1888]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Karl Ritter (director)]], German film producer and director responsible (b. [[1888]])
* [[April 11]] – [[Jacques Prévert]], French poet and screenwriter (b. [[1900]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Philip K. Wrigley]], American [[chewing gum]] manufacturer and [[Major League Baseball]] executive (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 16]] – [[Harwood Sturtevant]], Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Fond du Lac (b. [[1888]])
* [[April 17]] – [[William Conway (cardinal)|William Conway]], Northern Irish cardinal (b. [[1913]])
* [[April 18]] – [[Stephen Sanford (polo player)]], American heir and polo champion (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 20]]
** [[Wilmer Allison]], American tennis champion (b. [[1904]])
** [[Bryan Foy]], American film producer and director (b. [[1896]])
* [[April 21]] – [[Gummo Marx]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 23]] – [[Charles D. Herron]], general in the United States Army. (b. [[1877]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Jack Ayre]], Canadian pianist (b. [[1894]])
* [[April 27]] – [[Stanley Adams (actor)|Stanley Adams]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[April 28]]
** [[Ricardo Cortez]], American actor (b. [[1899]])
** [[Sepp Herberger]], German soccer coach (b. [[1897]])
** [[Viktor Novak]], Yugoslav historian of Croat descent (b. [[1889]])
* [[April 29]] – [[William Arthur Whitlock]], New Zealand journalist (b. [[1891]])
=== May ===
[[File:Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild-F041449-0007, Hamburg, CDU-Bundesparteitag, Ludwig Erhard.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Ludwig Erhard]]]]
[[File:Desslochotto.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Otto Deßloch]]]]
* [[May 4]] – [[Richard Pike Bissell]], author of short stories and novels (b. [[1913]])
* [[May 5]]
** [[Ludwig Erhard]], [[Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)|Chancellor of Germany]] (b. [[1897]])
** [[Sam Lanin]], American [[1920s]] [[bandleader]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[May 9]] – [[James Jones (author)|James Jones]], American writer (b. [[1921]])
** [[May 10]] –
** [[Joan Crawford]], American actress <!-- best to not put any year of birth, given discrepancies (1904, 1905, 1906, 1908); see article page -->
** [[Frank Rooney (baseball)]], Austro-Hungarian Major League Baseball infielder (b. [[1884]])
** [[Sue Hastings]], American puppeteer (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 13]] – [[Otto Deßloch]], German World War II Luftwaffe general (b. [[1889]])
** [[May 15]] –
** [[Herbert Wilcox]], British film director and producer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Torsten Tegnér]], Swedish athlete and journalist (b. [[1888]])
** [[René Roy]], French economist (b. [[1894]])
** [[Yang Sen (1884–1977)|Yang Sen]], Sichuan warlord and general who excelled himself in his long military career (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 16]] – [[Modibo Keïta]], former [[President of Mali]] (b. [[1915]])
* [[May 17]] – [[Robert Maynard Hutchins]],educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Czesław Wycech]], Polish activist, politician and historian (b. [[1899]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Máire Gill]], political activist who became third and longest-serving president (b. [[1891]])
* [[May 31]]
** [[William Castle]], American film director (b. [[1914]])
** [[Herbert Marshall (statistician)]], Canadian academic, statistician, and third Dominion Statistician (b. [[1888]])
=== June ===
[[File:AlicePaul 1901.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Alice Paul]]]]
** [[June 2]]
** [[Forrest Lewis]], American actor (b. [[1899]])
** [[Stephen Boyd]], American film actor (''Fantastic Voyage'') (b. [[1931]])
* [[June 3]]
** [[Archibald Hill]], English physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1886]])
** [[Roberto Rossellini]], Italian film director (b. [[1906]])
* [[June 5]] – [[Ward Melville]],American philanthropist and businessman (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Walter B. Jones (geologist)]], American geologist and archaeologist (b. [[1895]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Matthew Garber]] English Child actor. (b. [[1956]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Alan Reed]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
** [[Andy York]], English professional footballer (b. [[1894]])
** [[Leonard Barnes]], British anti-colonialist writer, journalist and educationalist. (b. [[1895]])
* [[June 16]] – [[Wernher von Braun]], German-born American rocket scientist (b. [[1912]])
* [[June 19]]
** [[Geraldine Brooks (actress)|Geraldine Brooks]], American actress (b. [[1925]])
** [[Olave Baden-Powell|Lady Olave Baden-Powell]], English Chief Girl Guide (b. [[1889]])
** [[Ali Shariati]], Iranian sociologist (b. [[1933]])
* [[June 22]]
** [[Jacqueline Audry]], French film director (b. [[1908]])
** [[Oscar Olstad]], Norwegian gymnast (b. [[1887]])
** [[Marston Morse]], American mathematician (b. [[1892]])
** [[Georges Miquelle]], studies at the age of five (b. [[1894]])
** [[Joan Evans (art historian)]], British historian (b. [[1893]])
** [[Philip Lindsey Clark]], English sculptor (b. [[1889]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Olave Baden-Powell]], founder of Scouting and Girl Guides, by over 35 years (b. [[1889]])
=== July ===
* [[July 2]] – [[Vladimir Nabokov]], Russian-born writer (''Lolita'') (b. [[1899]])
* [[July 9]]
** [[Loren Eiseley]], American anthropologist and writer (''The Immense Journey'') (b. [[1907]])
** [[Alice Paul]], American women's rights activist (b. [[1885]])
** [[Harriette Chick]], British protein scientist and nutritionist. (b. [[1875]])
** [[Willoughby Weaving]], British writer and poet of the First World War era. (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Carl Gustaf von Rosen|Carl Gustav von Rosen]], Swedish pilot (b. [[1909]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Stephen Sanford (polo player)]], American heir and polo champion (b. [[1899]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Konstantin Fedin]], Russian writer (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 19]] – [[Karl Ristikivi]], Estonian writer (b. [[1912]])
* [[July 20]]
** [[Carter DeHaven]], American actor (b. [[1886]])
** [[Grenfell Price]], Australian geographer, historian and educationist (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Arsenio Erico]], Paraguayan footballer (b. [[1915]])
* [[July 26]] – [[Gena Branscombe]], Canadian pianist, composer, music educator and choir conductor (b. [[1881]])
* [[July 30]] – [[Jean de Laborde]], French admiral, famous for the scuttling of the French fleet in Toulon (b. [[1878]])
=== August ===
<!-- Commented out: [[File:ElvisPresleyAlohafromHawaii.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Elvis Presley]]]] -->
[[File:Groucho Marx.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Groucho Marx]]]]
* [[August 1]] – [[Francis Gary Powers]], American pilot, shot down in [[1960 U-2 incident]] (b. [[1929]])
* [[August 3]]
** [[Alfred Lunt]], American actor (b. [[1892]])
** [[Makarios III]], [[List of Archbishops of Cyprus|Cypriot Archbishop]] and first [[President of Cyprus]] (b. [[1913]])
* [[August 4]]
** [[Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian]], English physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1889]])
** [[Ernst Bloch]], German Marxist philosopher (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Waldo L. Schmitt]], American biologist born in Washington, D.C. (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 9]] – [[George Kenney]], World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. [[1889]])
* [[August 11]] – [[John Howard Lawson]], American screenwriter, one of the [[Hollywood Ten]] (b. [[1894]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Henry Williamson]], English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 14]]
** [[Ron Haydock]], American actor, writer, and musician (b. [[1940]])
** [[Alexander Luria]], Soviet neuropsychologist (b. [[1902]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Elvis Presley]], American singer and actor (b. [[1935]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Delmer Daves]], American screenwriter and director (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 19]]
** [[Groucho Marx]], American actor and comedian (b. [[1890]])
** [[John Harlow (director)]], English film director (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 22]] – [[Sebastian Cabot (actor)|Sebastian Cabot]], English actor (b. [[1918]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Naum Gabo]], prominent Russian sculptor (b. [[1890]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Jean Hagen]], American actress (b. [[1923]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Rick Vallin]], Russian-American actor (b. [[1919]])
=== September ===
[[File:Maria Callas (La Traviata) 2.JPG|thumb|150px|[[Maria Callas]]]]
[[File:Ethel Waters - 1943.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Ethel Waters]]]]
* [[September 1]] – [[Ethel Waters]], African-American singer (b. [[1896]])
* [[September 4]] – [[E. F. Schumacher|E.F. Schumacher]], British economist (b. [[1911]])
* [[September 6]] – [[John Edensor Littlewood]], British mathematician (b. [[1885]])
* [[September 8]] – [[Zero Mostel]], American film and stage actor (''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'') (b. [[1915]])
* [[September 9]] – [["Jungle" Jim Liberman]], Funny Car Drag Racer (b. [[1945]])
* [[September 12]]
** [[Steve Biko]], South African activist (b. [[1946]])
** [[Robert Lowell]], American poet (b. [[1917]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Leopold Stokowski]], English conductor (b. [[1882]])
* [[September 16]]
** [[Marc Bolan]], English musician (b. [[1947]])
** [[Maria Callas]], American-born soprano (b. [[1923]])
** [[Francis Shurrock]], notable New Zealand sculptor and art teacher (b. [[1887]])
** [[Alexandre Constantinovich Chnéour]], Russian entomologist and herpetologist. (b. [[1884]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Paul Bernays]], Swiss mathematician (b. [[1888]])
* [[September 23]] – [[John Nash (artist)]], British painter of landscape and still-life (b. [[1893]])
* [[September 24]]
** [[Piet Zwart]], Dutch photographer, typographer, and industrial designer.(b. [[1885]])
** [[Frederick Merk]], American historian.(b. [[1887]])
* [[September 26]] – [[Ernie Lombardi]], American baseball player ([[Cincinnati Reds]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Czesław Wycech]], Polish activist, politician and historian (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Adam Fox]], Dean of Divinity at Magdalen College, Oxford (b. [[1883]])
=== October ===
[[File:Bing Crosby 1942.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Bing Crosby]]]]
* [[October 2]] – [[Joseph William Woodrough]], United States federal judge (b. [[1873]])
* [[October 3]] – [[Tay Garnett]], American film director (b. [[1894]])
* [[October 8]]
** [[Joe Greenstein]], Polish-born American strongman (b. [[1893]])
** [[Giorgos Papasideris]], [[Greeks|Greek]] [[Country music|country singer]], [[composer]], & [[lyricist]] (b. [[1902]])
** [[Bucky Harris]], Major League Baseball player (b. [[1896]])
* [[October 10]]
** [[Helen Gibson]], American actress (b. [[1892]])
** [[Angelo Muscat]], Maltese actor (b. [[1930]])
* [[October 12]] – [[Dorothy Davenport]], American actress (b. [[1895]])
* [[October 13]] – [[Jackie Condon]], American actor (b. [[1918]])
* [[October 14]] – [[Bing Crosby]], American singer and actor (b. [[1903]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Cal Hubbard]], American football player ([[Green Bay Packers]]) and a member of the [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[October 17]] – [[Michael Balcon]], English film producer (b. [[1896]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Andreas Baader]], West German member of [[Red Army Faction]] (b. [[1943]])
* [[October 20]] – Members of the American southern rock group [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] (killed in a plane crash):
** [[Cassie Gaines]] (b. [[1948]])
** [[Steve Gaines]] (b. [[1949]])
** [[Ronnie Van Zant]] (b. [[1948]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Boye Schlytter]], Norwegian businessperson and mountain climber (b. [[1891]])
* [[October 25]] – [[Félix Gouin]], French Socialist politician (b. [[1884]])
* [[October 27]]
** [[James M. Cain]], American writer (b. [[1892]])
** [[Tony Hulman]], American businessman and racetrack owner (b. [[1901]])
** [[Johannes Pedersen (theologian)]], theologian and linguist (b. [[1883]])
* [[October 30]] – [[Frederick Hamilton October]], Australian soldier and adventurer (b. [[1891]])
=== November ===
* [[November 3]] – [[Florence Vidor]], American actress (b. [[1895]])
* [[November 5]]
** [[René Goscinny]], French comic book writer (b. [[1926]])
** [[Guy Lombardo]], Canadian-American bandleader (b. [[1902]])
** [[Alice May Palmer]], New Zealand public servant (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Bucky Harris]], American baseball manager ([[Washington Senators (1901-1960)|Washington Senators]]) and a member of the [[MLB Hall of Fame]] (b. [[1896]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Gertrude Astor]], American actress (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Dennis Wheatley]], English writer (b. [[1897]])
* [[November 11]]
** [[Greta Keller]], Austrian-born singer and actress (b. [[1903]])
** [[Abraham Sarmiento, Jr.]], Filipino journalist & political activist (b. [[1950]])
* [[November 14]]
** [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]], Indian religious leader, founder-acharya of the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]], ISKCON (b. [[1896]])
** [[Ferdinand Heim]], German general, branded the "[[Battle of Stalingrad|Scapegoat]] of [[Stalingrad]]" (b. [[1897]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois|Princess Charlotte of Monaco]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[November 16]] – [[José Acosta (baseball)]], starting pitcher in Major League Baseball(b. [[1891]])
* [[November 17]] – [[André Perugia]], French shoe designer (b. [[1893]])
* [[November 18]]
** [[Victor Francen]], Belgian actor (b. [[1888]])
** [[Kurt Schuschnigg]], Chancellor of Austria (b. [[1897]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Richard Carlson (actor)|Richard Carlson]], American actor (b. [[1912]])
* [[November 25]] – [[Tommy Prince]], Canadian war hero (b. [[1915]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Terence Rattigan]], English playwright (b. [[1911]])
=== December ===
[[File:Clementine Churchill 1915.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Clementine Churchill]]]]
[[File:Charlie Chaplin.jpg|thumb|150px|[[Charlie Chaplin]]]]
* [[December 3]] – [[Jack Beresford]], British Olympic rower (b. [[1899]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Tom Senier]], Irish melodeon (single row diatonic accordion) player (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 5]]
** [[Katherine Milhous]], American artist, illustrator, and writer (b. [[1894]])
** [[Roland Kirk]], American jazz musician (b. [[1936]])
* [[December 7]] – [[Peter Carl Goldmark]], Hungarian-born engineer and developer of the 33rpm record (b. [[1906]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Ethel Roosevelt Derby]], Youngest daughter of [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill]], Wife of [[Winston Churchill]] (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 13]] – Sir [[Charles Petrie (historian)|Charles Petrie]], British historian (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Wilfred Kitching]], 7th (British) General of The Salvation Army (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 16]]
** [[Gustaf Aulén]], Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden, (b. [[1879]])
** [[Yngve Larsson]], Swedish Ph.D., Municipal commissioner (Borgarråd), Member of Parliament and statesman., (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Cyril Ritchard]], Australian actor and director (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 19]]
** [[Takeo Kurita]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1889]])
** [[Jacques Tourneur]], French director (b. [[1904]])
** [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]], American politician, the 14th Governor of Wyoming from 1925 to 1927 (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Samael Aun Weor]], Colombian writer (b. [[1917]])
* [[December 25]]
** [[Charlie Chaplin|Sir Charles Chaplin]], English-born comedian (b. [[1889]])
** [[Oliver P. Smith]], American general (b. [[1893]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Howard Hawks]], American film director (b. [[1896]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Mildred Bendall]], active force of the avant-garde in Bordeaux (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 28]]
** [[Karin Grech|Karen Grech]], Maltese terrorism victim (b. [[1962]])
** [[Charlotte Greenwood]], American actress (b. [[1890]])
== Nobel Prizes ==
[[File:Nobel medal.png|right|100px]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] – [[Philip Warren Anderson]], Sir [[Nevill Francis Mott]], [[John Hasbrouck Van Vleck]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] – [[Ilya Prigogine]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] – [[Roger Guillemin]], [[Andrew Schally]], [[Rosalyn Yalow]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] – [[Vicente Aleixandre]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] – [[Amnesty International]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] – [[Bertil Ohlin]], [[James Meade]]
== References ==
{{Portal|1970s}}
{{Reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:1977}}
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