1977
1977 (MCMLXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1977th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 977th  year of the 2nd millennium, the 77th  year of the 20th century, and the  8th   year of the 1970s decade.

Events
January
January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group.
January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo).
January 17
49 marines from the USS Trenton and USS Guam are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain.
January 18
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of 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.
January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board.
January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President of the United States.
January 23 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India calls for fresh elections to the Lok Sabha, and releases all political prisoners.
January 24 – The Massacre of Atocha occurs, during the Spanish transition to democracy.

February
February 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.
February 3 – In northern Japan a blizzard piles snow on rooftops, causing many to collapse killing at least 31 people.
February 4 – Eleven CTA commuters are killed when an elevated train derails from the Loop in central Chicago, United States.
February 7 – The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 24 (Viktor Gorbatko, Yury Glazkov) to dock with the Salyut 5 space station.
February 18 – American Space Shuttle program: First test flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise mated to the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
February 23 – Óscar Romero, an outspoken opponent of violence, becomes Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.
February 28 – Queen Elizabeth II opens the Parliament of New Zealand.

March
March 4 – The 1977 Vrancea earthquake in the Vrancea Mountains of Romania kills 1,500.
March 8 – The Australian parliament is opened by Elizabeth II in her capacity as Queen of Australia.
March 9 – Hanafi Siege: Approximately a dozen armed 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).
March 10 – The rings of Uranus are discovered.
March 12 – The Centenary Test between Australia and England begins at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
March 19 – Results of elections to the Indian Parliament are declared. Indira Gandhi's Congress Party is routed by the opposition Janata alliance.
March 21 – Prime Minister Indira Gandhi withdraws the state of emergency which was implemented on June 25, 1975.
March 27 – Tenerife disaster: A collision between KLM and Pan Am Boeing 747s at Tenerife, Canary Islands, kills 583 people. This becomes the deadliest accident in aviation history.

April
April 2 – Horse racing: Red Rum wins a record third Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in the UK.
April 4 – Southern Airways Flight 242 crashes on a highway in New Hope, Georgia, United States, killing 72 people.
April 7 – German Federal Prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light near his home in Karlsruhe. The "Ulrike Meinhof Commando" later claims responsibility.April 9 – Spain legalizes the Communist Party of Spain, which had been outlawed since 1939.
April 11 – London Transport's Silver Jubilee AEC Routemaster buses are launched.
April 17 – Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans' Christian Social Party gains eight seats in the lower house in parliamentary elections.
April 18 - An annular solar eclipse was visible in Africa, and was the 29th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 138.
April 24 – In northern Bangladesh, a cyclone kills 13 people and injures about 100 others.
April 28 – A federal court in Stuttgart, West Germany, sentences Red Army Faction members Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, and Jan-Carl Raspe to life imprisonment.
April 30 – The Cold War between Cambodia and Vietnam evolves into the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.

May
May 1 – The Taksim Square massacre in Istanbul results in 34 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
May 12 – Portugal and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
May 14
The 1977 IAS Cargo Boeing 707 airplane crash in Lusaka, Zambia kills all six 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 of the hooded man shooting in the middle of the street appears in many magazines around the world.
The Montreal Canadiens sweep the Boston Bruins in four games to win their second straight Stanley Cup.
May 16 – A 20-passenger S-61L topples sideways at takeoff from the roof of the Pan Am Building in Midtown Manhattan. Four passengers are killed by the turning rotors and a woman at street level is killed by a falling blade.
May 17 – The Likud Party, led by Menachem Begin, wins the national elections in Israel.
May 23
Scientists report using bacteria in a lab to make insulin via gene splicing.
Moluccan 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. The children are released on May 26.  On June 11, Dutch Royal Marines storm the train, and six terrorists and two hostages are killed.
May 25 The film Star Wars  premiered in 32 movie theaters across the United States  before reaching other cinemas nationwide. Critics who had previewed the film gave it good reviews, with Time magazine dubbing it "the year's best movie". Charles Champlin called it "the year's most razzle-dazzling family movie, an exuberant and technically astonishing space adventure". Gene Siskel commented that "'Star Wars' is not a great movie in the sense that it describes the human condition. It simply is a fun picture," with "spectacular visual effects, the best since Stanley Kubrick's 2001.  Some hated the film, with one calling it "frequently boring with its fairy-tale plot", "relentlessly childish", and "no more sophisticated or believable than an old Spider Man comic book." Star Wars would go on to break the record for highest-grossing film (surpassing Jaws, The Godfather and The Sound of Music) 
May 27
The 1977 Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 airplane crash in Cuba kills 69 people.
A demonstration and coup attempt in Angola takes place. Thousands are killed by the government and Cuban forces.
May 28 – The Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky, is engulfed in fire; 165 are killed inside.
May 29 – Indianapolis 500: A. J. Foyt becomes the first driver to win the race four times.

June
June 5 – A bloodless coup installs France-Albert René as President of the Seychelles.
June 10 – The first Apple II series computers go on sale.
June 15 – Spain has its first democratic elections, after 41 years of Francoist Spain.
June 21 – Bülent Ecevit, of 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's 13–12 victory over Great Britain at the Sydney Cricket Ground before about 24,450 spectators.
June 27
Djibouti receives its independence from France.
Constitution for the Federation of Earth, also known as Earth Constitution, was adopted by the second session of the World Constituent Assembly, held at Innsbruck, Austria.
June 30 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization is permanently disbanded.

July
July 1
The East African Community is dissolved.
The Championships, Wimbledon (tennis) – Virginia Wade wins the women's singles title in the centenary year of the tournament, Wade's first and only Wimbledon title and her third and final Grand Slam title overall; she 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 9 – The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile organises the youth event of Acto de Chacarillas, a ritualised act reminiscent of Francoist Spain.
July 10 – A temperature of 48.0 °C (118.4 °F), a record for continental Europe, is recorded in Greece.
July 13
Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ethio-Somali War.
New York City is affected by a complete electricity blackout lasting through the following day that results in citywide looting and other criminal activity, including arson.
July 21 – 24 – The Libyan–Egyptian War, sparked by a Libyan raid on Sallum, begins.
July 21 – Süleyman Demirel, of AP forms the new government of Turkey (41st government a three-party coalition, so-called second national front (Turkish: Milliyetçi cephe)).
July 22 – The purged Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is restored to power nine months after the "Gang of Four" was expelled from power in a coup d'état.
July 27 – The 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 30 – Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and Christian Klar assassinate Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.

August
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 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 Congress.
August 12 – The NASA Space Shuttle, named 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 17 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.
August 20 – Voyager program: The United States launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
August 26 – The National Assembly of Quebec passes the Charter of the French Language (Law 101, La charte de la langue française) making French the official language of the Canadian province of Quebec.

September
September 4 – The Golden Dragon massacre takes place in San Francisco, United States.
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 three 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 copyright infringement 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 (at Marseille) and the last legal beheading in the western world.
September 11 – Atari, Inc. releases its Video Computer System in North America.
September 15 – Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic, as an Italian company in Turin, Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecomunicazioni (CSELT) begins operation of two telephone exchanges.
September 18 – Courageous (U.S.), skippered by Ted Turner, sweeps the Australian challenger Australia in the 24th America's Cup yacht race.
September 19
Under pressure from the Carter Administration, President of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza Debayle lifts the state of siege in Nicaragua.
North Korean agents abduct Yutaka 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 28 – The Porsche 928 debuts at the Geneva Motor Show.

October
October 1 – Energy Research and Development Administration combines with the Federal Energy Administration to form United States Department of Energy.
October 7
The Soviet Union adopts its third Constitution. The Soviet National Anthem's lyrics are returned after a 24-year period, with Joseph Stalin's name omitted.
Pelé plays his final professional football game, as a member of the New York Cosmos.
October 13 – German Autumn: Four Palestinians hijack Lufthansa Flight 181 to Somalia and demand the release of 11 Red Army Faction members.
October 17 – 18 – German Autumn: GSG 9 troopers storm the hijacked Lufthansa passenger plane in Mogadishu, Somalia; three of the four 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.
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, three days after the release of their fifth studio album Street Survivors.
October 21 – The European Patent Institute is founded.
October 23 – The president of Catalonia, Josep Tarradellas, returns to Barcelona from exile and the autonomous government of Catalonia, the Generalitat, is restored.
October 26
The last natural smallpox case is discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, a great success of vaccination and, by extension, of modern science.
Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise, over California.
October 27 – British punk band Sex Pistols release Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols on the Virgin Records label. Despite refusal by major retailers in the UK to stock it, it enters the UK Album Charts at number one the week after its release.
October 28 –  Hong Kong police attack the ICAC headquarters.

November
November 1 – 2060 Chiron, first of the outer Solar System asteroids known as Centaurs, is discovered by Charlie Kowal.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, United States, fails, killing 39 people.
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 – 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 soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever is released.  Featuring five new Bee Gees compositions, it will go on to become the then best selling album of all time.
November 19
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first 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.
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 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 6 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
December 10 – 1977 Australian federal election: Malcolm Fraser's Liberal/National Country Coalition government is re-elected with a slightly reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Consequently, Whitlam resigned as ALP leader after holding the job for nearly 11 years; he would be replaced by former Treasurer Bill Hayden.
December 13 – a chartered Douglas DC-3 aircraft carrying the University of Evansville basketball team to Nashville, Tennessee, 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 – Saturday Night Fever is released in theaters and becomes the biggest dancing movie of all time. The movie launches the career of its star John Travolta and catapults the Bee Gees — who performed several songs on the soundtrack — to newfound success.
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 19 – The Mw  5.9 Bob–Tangol earthquake rocks Iran, killing at least 584 people and injuring 1,000.
December 20 – Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations.
December 22 – A grain elevator explodes in Westwego, Louisiana, United States, killing 36 people.

Births
January
January 1
Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer
Jerry Yan, Taiwanese singer
January 3 – Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress
January 4 – Irán Castillo, Mexican actress and singer
January 11
Anni Friesinger-Postma, German speed skater
Devin Ratray, American actor
January 13 – Orlando Bloom, British actor
January 14 – Narain Karthikeyan, Indian Formula One driver
January 15 – Giorgia Meloni, Italian politician
January 17 – Leigh Whannell, Australian actor and writer
January 20 – Melody, Belgian singer
January 21 – Jerry Trainor, American actor, comedian and musician
January 22 – Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
January 23 – Kamal Heer, Punjabi singer and musician
January 24 – Johann Urb, Estonian-born American actor
January 25
Christian Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian singerHatem Trabelsi, Tunisian footballer
January 26
Nicholaus Arson, Swedish guitarist and songwriter
Vince Carter, American basketball player
January 28 – Takuma Sato, Japanese racing driver
January 31 – Kerry Washington, African-American actress

February
February 2 – Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter and musician
February 3 – Daddy Yankee, Puerto Rican singer
February 5 – Ben Ainslie, British sailor
February 7 – Mariusz Pudzianowski, Polish strongman
February 11 – Mike Shinoda, American musician, singer and rapper
February 18
Ike Barinholtz, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
László Nemes, Hungarian film director and screenwriter
February 19 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer
February 20
Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler and actress
February 21
Cyrine Abdelnour, Lebanese singer, actress, and model
Jonathan Safran Foer, American author
Steve Francis, American basketball player
February 23 – Kristina Šmigun-Vähi, Estonian skier
February 24 – Floyd Mayweather Jr., American boxing champion
February 25 – Hakan Yakin, Turkish football player and coach
February 26
Olsi Baze, columnist, writer and human rights activist.
Shane Williams, Welsh rugby player
February 28
Jason Aldean, American country music singer
Rafael Amaya, Mexican model, singer, and actor

March
March 1 – Rens Blom, Dutch athlete
March 2 – Chris Martin, British rock musician
March 3 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer
March 4 – Ana Guevara, Mexican track and field athlete and politician
March 5 – Wally Szczerbiak, Spanish-born basketball player
March 6
Paquillo Fernández, Spanish race walker
Santino Marella, Canadian professional wrestler
March 7
Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
March 8 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
March 9
Bree Turner, American actress
Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
Shannon Miller, American gymnast
March 10 – Robin Thicke, American-Canadian R&B singer-songwriter and actor
March 11
Becky Hammon, American basketball player
Jason Greeley, Canadian singer
March 14
Matthew Booth, South African footballer
Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (d. 2011)
Kim Nam-il, South Korean footballer
March 15 – Brian Tee, Japanese American actor
March 16 – Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer
March 18
Arkady Babchenko, Russian journalist
Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
Willy Sagnol, French football player and coach
March 19 – Robert Lindstedt, Swedish tennis player
March 22 – Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, Venezuelan film director and screenwriter
March 24 – Jessica Chastain, American actress
March 25 – Édgar Ramírez, Venezuelan actor
March 26 – Bianca Kajlich, American actress
March 27 – Vítor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
March 28 – Annie Wersching, American actress (d. 2023)

April
April 1
Vitor Belfort, Brazilian mixed martial artist
Paul Kalanithi, Indian-American neurosurgeon and writer (d. 2015)
April 2
Michael Fassbender, Irish-German actor
Nicki Pedersen, Danish motorcycle rider
April 5
Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player
Daniel Majstorović, Swedish soccer player
April 8 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (d. 2008)
April 9 – Gerard Way, American musician and comic book writer
April 10 – Cristiano Zanetti, Italian footballer
April 12
Tobias Angerer, German cross-country skier
Gemma Mengual, Spanish synchronised swimmer
April 14
Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress
Nate Fox, American professional basketball player (d. 2014)
Rob McElhenney, American actor
April 15 – Dejan Milojevic, Serbian basketball player
April 16 – Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
April 17 – Frederik Magle, Danish composer, concert organist, and pianist
April 21 – Jamie Salé, Canadian figure skater
April 22
Mark van Bommel, Dutch football player and coach
Anna Eriksson, Finnish pop-rock singer
Steven Price, British film composer
April 23
Arash, Iranian-Swedish singer, entertainer and producer
John Cena, American professional wrestler, actor and rapper
John Oliver, British-American comedian and host
Kal Penn, American actor, producer, and former civil servant
April 24
Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player
Rebecca Mader, English actress
April 25 – Manolo Cardona, Colombian actor
April 26
Jason Earles, American actor, comedian, and martial artist
Tom Welling, American actor, director, producer, and model
April 29
Daisuke Amaya, Japanese indie game developer
April 30
Alexandra Holden, American actress
Ole Jørn Myklebust, Norwegian jazz musician

May
May 3 – 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 television actress
May 9 – Marek Jankulovski, Czech footballer
May 10 – Nick Heidfeld, German racing driver
May 11
Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
Victor Matfield, South African rugby player
May 12
Graeme Dott, Scottish snooker player
Maryam Mirzakhani, Iranian mathematician (d. 2017)
May 13
Samantha Morton, English actress
Tarik Sektioui, Moroccan footballer
May 14 – Roy Halladay, American baseball player (d. 2017)
May 16
Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
Emilíana Torrini, Icelandic singer
May 23
Richard Ayoade, British actor and presenter
Ilia Kulik, Russian figure skater
Yevgeny Rodionov, Russian soldier (d. 1996)
May 24
Jeet Gannguli, Indian singer, music director and score composer
Tamarine Tanasugarn, Thai tennis player
May 25 – Alberto Del Rio, Mexican professional wrestler
May 26
Misaki Ito, Japanese actress
Luca Toni, Italian footballer
May 27
Abderrahmane Hammad, Algerian athlete
Tommie van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player
May 29 – Massimo Ambrosini, Italian football player
May 31
Domenico Fioravanti, Italian swimmer
Joachim Olsen, Danish athlete and politician
Moses Sichone, Zambian footballer

June
June 1
Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress
Jónsi, Icelandic singer
June 2 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
June 7
Chen Luyun, Chinese basketball player (d. 2015)
Donovan Ricketts, Jamaican footballer
June 8 – Kanye West, American rapper and record producer
June 9 – Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player
June 11
Kim Hee-sun, South Korean actress
Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
June 12 – Ana Tijoux, French-Chilean musician
June 17 – Bartosz Brożek, Polish philosopher and jurist
June 18
Kaja Kallas, 19th Prime Minister of Estonia
Majed Moqed, Saudi Arabian terrorist (d. 2001)
June 19
Peter Warrick, American football player
Veronika Vařeková, Czech model
Maria Cioncan, distance runner from Romania (d. 2007)
June 21 – Jochen Hecht, German ice hockey player
June 23 – Jason Mraz, American singer-songwriter
June 24 – Mal Michael, Papua New Guinean star in Australian rules football
June 25
Layla El, English dancer, model, and retired professional wrestler
Naoya Tsukahara, Japanese gymnast
June 26
William Kipsang, Kenyan long-distance runner
Tite Kubo, Japanese manga artist who created BLEACH
June 27
Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footballer
Raúl, Spanish footballer
June 28 – Harun Tekin, Turkish rock vocalist and guitarist (Mor ve Ötesi)
June 29
Jeff Baena, American screenwriter and film director
Will Kemp, English actor and dancer
Zuleikha Robinson, British actress and singer
Bradley Stryker, American actor
June 30 – Justo Villar, Paraguayan footballer

July
July 1
Tom Frager, French-born singer and surfer
Liv Tyler, American actress
July 2 – Carl Froch, British boxer
July 5 – Nicolas Kiefer, German tennis player
July 6
Audrey Fleurot, French actress
Max Mirnyi, Belarusian tennis player
July 8
Maciej Jachowski, Polish actor and singer
Belinda Lee, Singaporean television host and actress
Milo Ventimiglia, American actor
Wang Zhizhi, Chinese basketball player
July 9 – Noppadol Sangnil, Thai snooker player
July 10
Cary Joji Fukunaga, American film director, writer, and cinematographer
Chiwetel Ejiofor, English actor
Li Zimeng, Chinese host
July 11
Casper Crump, Danish actor
Finau Maka, Tongan rugby union footballer
July 12
Steve Howey, American actor
Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler and former mixed martial artist
July 13
Jonah Lotan, Israeli actor
Kari Wahlgren, American voice actress
July 14 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
July 15 – Lana Parrilla, American actress
July 18
Alfian Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
Alexander Morozevich, Russian chess Grandmaster
Alfian bin Sa'at, Singaporean writer, poet and playwright
July 21
Paul Casey, English golfer
Allison Wagner, American swimmer
July 24
Danny Dyer, English actor
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
July 30 – Jaime Pressly, American actress

August
August 2 – Edward Furlong, American actor
August 3 – Tom Brady, American football player and entrepreneur
August 5 – David Chang, American restaurateur and author
August 8 – Marílson Gomes dos Santos, Brazilian long-distance runner
August 9 –  Chamique Holdsclaw, American basketball player
August 12
Jesper Grønkjær, Danish footballer
Iva Majoli, Croatian tennis player
August 13 – Michael Klim, Australian swimmer
August 15
Martin Biron, Canadian hockey player
Igor Cassina, Italian gymnast
August 16 – Tamer Hosny, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actor
August 17
Tarja Turunen, Finnish operatic soprano
Thierry Henry, French footballer
William Gallas, French footballer
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 24
Denílson, Brazilian footballer
Jürgen Macho, Austrian footballer
John Green, American author, vlogger, and editor
Robert Enke, German footballer (d. 2009)
August 27 – Deco, Brazilian born-Portuguese footballer
August 30
Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
Félix Sánchez, American-Dominican athlete
August 31
Jeff Hardy, American professional wrestler
Ian Harte, Irish footballer

September
September 1
David Albelda, Spanish footballer
Kathleen de Leon Jones, Filipino-Australian actress, dancer, singer and television performer (Hi-5)
September 2
Frédéric Kanouté, Malian soccer player
Elitsa Todorova, Bulgarian singer-songwriterSeptember 4 – Lucie Silvas, English singer
September 5 – Sin Cara, Mexican-American professional wrestler
September 6 – Katalin Novák, Hungarian politician
September 9 – Soulja Slim, American rapper (d. 2003)
September 11 – Ludacris, American rapper and actor
September 12
2 Chainz, American rapper
James McCartney, English musician and songwriter
Idan Raichel, Israeli singer-songwriter
September 13 – Fiona Apple, American singer
September 15
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian author
Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter
Tom Hardy, English actor
Jason Terry, American basketball player
September 18 – Kieran West, British Olympic oarsman
September 20 – Namie Amuro, Japanese singer
September 21 – Marc de Hond, Dutch television presenter and wheelchair basketball player (d. 2020)
September 22 – Paul Sculthorpe, English rugby league player
September 23 – Suzanne Tamim, Lebanese singer, actress, and murder victim (d. 2008)
September 24 – Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, American football player
September 25
Clea DuVall, American actress
Joel David Moore, American actor
September 27 – Andrus Värnik, Estonian javelin thrower
September 28
Se-Ri Pak, South Korean golfer
Kristal Tin, Hong Kong actress
September 30
Roy Carroll, Irish footballer
Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer

October
October 2 – Didier Défago, Swiss Olympic alpine skier
October 3 – Antonio Di Natale, Italian football player and coach
October 4 – Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, French politician
October 6 – Daniel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player
October 8 – Anne-Caroline Chausson, French mountain bicycle racer
October 11
Matt Bomer, American film, stage, and television actor
Claudia Palacios, Colombian journalist and newsreader
October 12 – Bode Miller, American skier
October 13
Paul Pierce, American basketball player
Kiele Sanchez, American actress
October 14
Kelly Schumacher, American basketball and volleyball player
Oleg Velyky, Ukrainian and German handball player World champion 2007 (d. 2010)
October 15 – David Trezeguet, French footballer
October 16 – John Mayer, American musician and record producer
October 17
Dudu Aouate, Israeli footballer
André Villas-Boas, Portuguese football manager
October 18
Jyothika, Indian actress
Ryan Nelsen, New Zealand footballer
Peter Sohn, American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and film director
Paul Stalteri, Canadian soccer player
October 19 – Raúl Tamudo, Spanish footballer
October 25 – Birgit Prinz, German footballer
October 26
Jon Heder, American actor and voice artist
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

November
November 10 – Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (d. 2009)
November 11
Maniche, Portuguese footballer
Scoot McNairy, American actor
November 13 – Huang Xiaoming, Chinese actor and singer
November 15 – Sean Murray, American actor
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
Mette Frederiksen, Danish politician
Kerri Strug, American gymnast
November 20 – Daniel Svensson, Swedish drummer
November 21 – Tobias Sammet, German singer and songwriter
November 24 – Colin Hanks, American actor
November 28 – Fabio Grosso, Italian football player and coach
November 30 – Nelsan Ellis, African-American film and television actor and playwright (d. 2017)

December
December 1 – Brad Delson, American musician (Linkin Park)
December 2 – Nancy Mace, American politician
December 6 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
December 7 – Luke Donald, English golfer
December 8
Elsa Benítez, Mexican model and television host
Sébastien Chabal, French rugby union player
Ryan Newman, American race car driver
Matthias Schoenaerts, Belgian actor and producer
December 10 – Andrea Henkel, German professional biathlete
December 11 – Peter Stringer, Irish rugby union player
December 12 – Adam Saitiev, Chechen wrestler, Olympic gold medalist
December 16
Anu Nieminen, Finnish badminton player
René Redzepi, Danish chef
December 17 – Oxana Fedorova, Russian model
December 20 – Sonja Aldén, Swedish pop singer
December 21
Gregor Horvatič, Slovenian politician
Emmanuel Macron, 25th President of France
December 23 – Jari Mäenpää, Finnish musician
December 24 – Domingo Vega, also known as Américo, Chilean singer
December 25 – Uhm Ji-won, South Korean actress
December 30
Laila Ali, American boxer
Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
December 31
Psy, South Korean singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and record producer
Donald Trump Jr., American businessman and son of former U.S. President Donald Trump

Deaths
January
January 2 – Erroll Garner, American musician (b. 1921)
January 4 – Ibrahim Biçakçiu, Albanian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Albania leader of World War II (b. 1905)
January 5 – Artur Adson, Estonian poet, writer and theatre critic (b. 1889)
January 14
Anthony Eden, British politician, 62nd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1897)
Peter Finch, English-born actor (b. 1916)
Anaïs Nin, French diarist and writer (b. 1903)
January 17 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (b. 1940)
January 18
Džemal Bijedić, Yugoslavian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1917)
Carl Zuckmayer, German writer and playwright  (b. 1896)
January 19 – Yvonne Printemps, French singer and actress (b. 1894)
January 20 – Dimitrios Kiousopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1892)
January 23 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine world Flyweight boxing champion (b. 1926)
January 26 – Dietrich von Hildebrand, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1889)
January 28 – Burt Mustin, American actor (b. 1884)
January 29 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)

February
February 3 – Pauline Starke, American actress (b. 1901)
February 4 – Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
February 5 – Oskar Klein, Swedish theoretical physicist (b. 1894)
February 9 – Alia Al-Hussein, Queen consort of Jordan (b. 1948)
February 15 – Herman Johannes Lam, Dutch botanist (b. 1892)
February 16
Rózsa Péter, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1905)
Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (b. 1897)
February 27 – John Dickson Carr, American crime novelist (b. 1906)

March
March 1 – Diallo Telli, Guinean diplomat and politician, 1st Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity (b. 1925)
March 3
Brian Faulkner, last Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (b. 1921)
Percy Marmont, American stage and screen actor (b. 1883)
March 4
Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and senior government official, last führer of Nazi Germany (b. 1887)
March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula One racing driver (b. 1949)
March 8 – Henry Hull, American actor (b. 1890)
March 10
E. Power Biggs, English-American organist (b. 1906)
Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch politician and civil engineer, 28th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1894)
March 14 – Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
March 15 – Antonino Rocca, Italian professional wrestler (b. 1921)
March 18 – Marien Ngouabi, 3rd President of Congo (b. 1938)
March 19 – William L. Laurence, Jewish Lithuanian-American journalist (b. 1888)
March 20 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
March 29 – Eugen Wüster, industrialist and terminologist (b. 1898)
March 30 – Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)

April
April 2 – John Whitaker, British gymnast (b. 1886)
April 5 – Carlos Prío Socarrás, 11th President of Cuba (b. 1903)
April 7 – Karl Ritter, German film producer and director (b. 1888)
April 11 – Jacques Prévert, French poet and screenwriter (b. 1900)
April 17 – William Conway, Northern Irish cardinal (b. 1913)
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 27
Stanley Adams, American actor (b. 1915)
Charles Alston, American artist and sculptor (b. 1907)
April 28
Ricardo Cortez, American actor (b. 1899)
Sepp Herberger, German footballer and manager (b. 1897)

May
May 5 – Ludwig Erhard, German politician, 28th Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) (b. 1897)
May 7 – Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, Spanish Carlist pretender (b. 1889)
May 9 – James Jones, American writer (b. 1921)
May 10 – Joan Crawford, American actress (b. c. 1904)
May 13 – Otto Deßloch, German World War II Luftwaffe general (b. 1889)
May 15 – Herbert Wilcox, British film director and producer (b. 1892)
May 16 – Modibo Keïta, 1st President of Mali (b. 1915)
May 17 – Claude Roger-Marx, French writer, and playwright (b. 1888)
May 25 – Willoughby Norrie, British army general and Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1893)
May 31 – William Castle, American film director (b. 1914)

June
June 2 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
June 3
Archibald Hill, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886)
Roberto Rossellini, Italian film director (b. 1906)
June 13 – Matthew Garber, English child actor (b. 1956)
June 14 – Alan Reed, American actor (b. 1907)
June 16 – Wernher von Braun, German and American rocket scientist (b. 1912)
June 22 – Marston Morse, American mathematician (b. 1892)
June 25 – Olave Baden-Powell, founder of Scouting and Girl Guides (b. 1889)
June 26 – Sergei Lemeshev, Russian operatic lyric tenor (b. 1902)
June 30 – Paul Hartmann, American actor (b. 1889)

July
July 2 – Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-born American writer (b. 1899)
July 9 – Alice Paul, American women's rights activist (b. 1885)
July 15 – Konstantin Fedin, Russian writer (b. 1892)
July 20 – Carter DeHaven, American actor (b. 1886)
July 25 – David Toro,  35th President of Bolivia (b. 1898)
July 26 – Prince Charles of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg (b. 1927)
July 30 – Jean de Laborde, French admiral (b. 1878)
July 31 – Giuseppe Castellano, Italian general (b. 1893)

August
August 1 – Francis Gary Powers, American U-2 spy plane pilot (b. 1929)
August 2 – Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1888)
August 3
Alfred Lunt, American actor (b. 1892)
Makarios III, Greek-Cypriot archbishop, 1st President of Cyprus (b. 1913)
August 4
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)
Ernst Bloch, German Marxist philosopher (b. 1885)
August 6 – Alexander Bustamante, Jamaican politician, 1st Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1884)
August 8 – Son Ngoc Thanh, 2nd Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1908)
August 13 – Henry Williamson, English naturalist, farmer and prolific ruralist (b. 1895)
August 16 – Elvis Presley, American actor, musician and singer-songwriter (b. 1935)
August 17 – Delmer Daves, American screenwriter and director (b. 1904)
August 19 – Groucho Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1890)
August 22 – Sebastian Cabot, English actor (b. 1918)
August 23 – Naum Gabo, Russian sculptor (b. 1890)
August 29 – Jean Hagen, American actress (b. 1923)

September
September 1 – Ethel Waters, American singer and actress (b. 1896)
September 4 – E. F. Schumacher, German statistician and economist (b. 1885)
September 6 – John Edensor Littlewood, British mathematician (b. 1885)
September 8 – Zero Mostel, American actor (b. 1915)
September 10 - Adolph Rupp, American college basketball coach (b. 1901)
September 12 – Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1946)
September 13 – Leopold Stokowski, English conductor (b. 1882)
September 16
Marc Bolan, British singer and guitarist (b. 1947)
Maria Callas, Greek soprano  (b. 1923)
September 18 – Paul Bernays, Swiss mathematician (b. 1888)
September 29 – Robert McKimson, American animator and director (b. 1910)

October
October 3 – Tay Garnett, American film director (b. 1894)
October 10 – Jean Duvieusart, Belgian politician, 36th Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1900)
October 12 – Dorothy Davenport, American actress (b. 1895)
October 14 – Bing Crosby, American pop singer and actor (b. 1903)
October 17 – Sir Michael Balcon, English film producer (b. 1896)
October 20 – Three members of American rock group, Lynyrd Skynyrd, killed in plane crash:
Ronnie Van Zant, lead singer (b. 1948)
Cassie Gaines, lead singer (b. 1948)
Steve Gaines, lead singer and guitarist (b. 1949)
October 25 – Félix Gouin, French Socialist politician (b. 1884)
October 27
James M. Cain, American writer (b. 1892)
Miguel Mihura, Spanish playwright (b. 1905)

November
November 3 – Florence Vidor, American actress (b. 1895)
November 4 – Betty Balfour, English screen actress (b. 1902)
November 5
René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
Guy Lombardo, Canadian-American bandleader (b. 1902)
November 9 – Gertrude Astor, American actress (b. 1887)
November 10 – Dennis Wheatley, English writer (b. 1897)
November 14
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian religious leader (b. 1896)
Ferdinand Heim, German general, branded the "Scapegoat of Stalingrad" (b. 1897)
November 15 – Princess Charlotte of Monaco (b. 1898)
November 18
Victor Francen, Belgian actor (b. 1888)
Kurt Schuschnigg, 11th Chancellor of Austria (b. 1897)
November 21 – Richard Carlson, American actor (b. 1912)
November 30 – Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (b. 1884)

December
December 3 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower (b. 1899)
December 5 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
December 12 – Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885)
December 16
Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (b. 1879)
Yngve Larsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1881)
December 19
Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889)
Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (b. 1876)
December 24 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, 58th President of Peru (b. 1910)
December 25 – Sir Charlie Chaplin, British actor, producer and director (b. 1889)
December 26 – Howard Hawks, American film director (b. 1896)
December 28 – Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (b. 1890)

Nobel Prizes
Physics – Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
Chemistry – Ilya Prigogine
Physiology or Medicine – Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Yalow
Literature – Vicente Aleixandre
Peace – Amnesty International
Economics – Bertil Ohlin, James Meade


== References ==