1967 (
MCMLXVII) was a
common year starting on
Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1967
January
- January 1 – Canada begins a year-long
celebration of the 100th anniversary of the British North America Act, 1867,
featuring the Expo 67 World's Fair.
- January 4 – The
Doors' self-titled debut album is released.
- January 5 – Spain
and Romania
sign in
Paris
an agreement establishing full consular and
commercial relations (not diplomatic ones).
- January 5 – Charlie Chaplin opens his last film,
A Countess From Hong
Kong, in England.
- January 6 – Vietnam War: USMC and ARVN troops launch
Operation Deckhouse
Five in the Mekong River
Delta.
- January 8 – Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.
- January 10 –
Segregationist Lester Maddox is sworn in as Governor of Georgia
.
- January 12 – Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be
cryonically preserved with the intent of
future resuscitation.
- January 13 – A
military coup occurs in Togo
under the
leadership of Etienne
Eyadema.
- January 14 – The New York Times reports that the
U.S. Army is
conducting secret germ warfare
experiments.
- January 14 – The
Human Be-In takes place in Golden Gate
Park
, San
Francisco
; the event
sets the stage for the Summer of
Love.
- January 15 –
Louis Leakey announces the discovery of
pre-human fossils in Kenya
; he names
the species Kenyapitchecus
africanus.
- January 15 – The
United
Kingdom
enters the first round of negotiations for European Economic Community
membership in Rome.
- January 15 –
Super Bowl I: The Green Bay Packers
defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10 at the Los Angeles
Memorial Coliseum
.
- January 18 – Albert DeSalvo (The Boston Strangler) is convicted of
numerous crimes and sentenced to life in prison.
- January 18 – Jeremy Thorpe becomes leader of the UK's
Liberal Party.
- January 23 – In
Munich
, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of
82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when
he led German security police during the German occupation of the
Netherlands
. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in
prison.
- January 23 – The
new town of Milton
Keynes
(England) is founded by Order in Council.
- January 26 – The
Parliament of the United
Kingdom
decides to nationalize 90% of the British steel industry.
- January 27 – Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out
in their Apollo spacecraft during a
launch pad test.
- January 27 – The
United
States
, Soviet
Union
and United Kingdom
sign the Outer Space
Treaty.
- January 31 –
West
Germany
and Romania
establish
diplomatic
relations.
February
- February 2 – The American Basketball
Association is formed.
- February 3 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in
Australia, for murdering a guard while
escaping from prison in December 1965.
- February 4 – The
Soviet
Union
protests the demonstrations before its embassy in
Peking.
- February 5 –
NASA
launches Lunar
Orbiter 3.
- February 5 –
Italy
's first guided
missile cruiser, the Vittorio Veneto , is
launched.
- February 5 –
General Anastasio Somoza
Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua
.
- February 6 –
Aleksei Kosygin arrives in the
UK
for an 8-day
visit. He meets the Queen on February 9.
- February 7 – The Chinese government
announces that it can no longer guarantee the safety of Soviet
diplomats outside the Soviet Embassy building.
- February 7 –
Serious bushfires in southern Tasmania
claim 62 lives, and destroys 2,642.7 square
kilometres (653,025.4 acres) of land.
- February 7 – Mazenod College, Victoria opens in
Australia.
- February 10 – The 25th Amendment
to the United States Constitution (presidential succession and
disability) is ratified.
- February 13 –
American
researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of
Spain.
- February 14 – Respect is recorded by Aretha Franklin (to be released in
April).
- February 15 – The
Soviet
Union
announces that it has sent troops near the Chinese
border.
- February 18 –
China
sends 3 People's Liberation Army divisions
to Tibet.
- February 18 –
New
Orleans
District Attorney Jim
Garrison claims he will solve the John F. Kennedy
assassination, and that a conspiracy was planned in New
Orleans.
- February 22 –
Suharto takes power from Sukarno in Indonesia
(see Transition to the New Order and
Supersemar).
- February 22 –
Donald Sangster becomes the new
Prime Minister of Jamaica
, succeeding Alexander Bustamante.
- February 23 –
Trinidad and
Tobago
is the first Commonwealth nation to join the
Organization of American
States
.
- February 23 – The 25th Amendment
to the United States Constitution is enacted.
- February 24 –
Moscow
forbids its
satellite states to form diplomatic
relations with West
Germany
.
- February 25 – The Chinese government
announces that it has ordered the army to help in the spring
seeding.
- February 25 – Britain's second
Polaris missile submarine, HMS Renown, is launched.
- February 26 – A
Soviet nuclear test is conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site
, Eastern Kazakhstan
.
- February 27 – The
Dutch
government
supports British EEC
membership.
March
- March 1 – The city of
Hatogaya
, Saitama
, Japan
is
founded.
- March 1 – Brazilian
police arrest Franc Paul Stangli, ex-commander of
Treblinka
and Sobibór
concentration
camps.
- March 1 – The Red Guards return to schools in
China.
- March 1 – The
Queen
Elizabeth Hall
is opened in London.
- March 4 – The first
North
Sea
gas is pumped ashore at Easington,
East Riding of Yorkshire
.
- March 4 – The
Queens Park Rangers become the
first 3rd Division side to win the League Cup at Wembley
Stadium
, defeating West Bromwich Albion
3–2.
- March 7 – Jimmy
Hoffa begins his 8-year sentence for attempting to bribe a
jury.
- March 9 – Joseph Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the
USA
via the
U.S. Embassy in New Delhi
.
- March 12 – The
Indonesian
State Assembly takes all presidential powers from
Sukarno and names Suharto as acting president.
- March 13 – Moise Tshombe, ex-prime minister of Congo
, is sentenced to death in
absentia.
- March 14 – The body of U.S.
President
John F. Kennedy is moved to a
permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery
.
- March 14 – Nine
executives of the German
pharmaceutical company Grunenthal are charged for breaking German
drug laws because of thalidomide.
- March 16 – In the
Aspida case in Greece
, 15
officers are sentenced to 2–18 years in prison, accused of treason
and intentions of staging a coup.
- March 18 – The
supertanker Torrey
Canyon
runs aground in between Land's End
and the Scilly Isles
.
- March 19 – A
referendum in French
Somaliland
favors the connection to France.
- March 21 – A
military coup takes place in Sierra Leone
.
- March 26 – 10,000 gather for the
Central Park Be-In.
- March 28 – Pope
Paul VI issues the encyclical
Populorum
Progressio.
- March 29 – A 13-day TV strike begins in
the U.S.
- March 29 – The first French nuclear
submarine, Le Redoutable, is
launched.
- March 29 – The SEACOM telephone cable is
inaugurated.
- March 29 – Royal Air Force planes bomb the Torrey Canyon
and sink her.
- March 31 – U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular
Treaty.
April
- April 2 – A United Nations delegation arrives in Aden
due to
approaching independence. They leave April 7, accusing British authorities of lack of
cooperation. The British say the delegation did not contact
them.
- April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. denounces
the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City
.
- April 6 – Georges Pompidou begins to form the next
French government.
- April 7 – Six Day War (approach): Israeli
fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.
- April 8 – Puppet
On A String by Sandie Shaw (music and text by Bill Martin and
Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967
for United
Kingdom
.
- April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden
flight.
- April 10 – The AFTRA strike is settled
just in time for the 39th Academy
Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob
Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All
Seasons.
- April 12 – The
Ahmanson
Theatre
opens in Los Angeles.
- April 13 – Conservatives win the Greater London Council
elections.
- April 14 – In
San
Francisco
, 10,000
march against the Vietnam
War.
- April 15 – Large
demonstrations are held against the Vietnam
War in New York
City
and San
Francisco
.
- April 20 – The Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
- April 20 – A Globe
Air Bristol Britannia turboprop
crashes at Nicosia
, Cyprus
, killing
126 people. [6148]
- April 21 – Greece
is taken
over by a military
dictatorship led by George
Papadopoulos; ex-Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou political prisoner to
December 25.
- April 21 – An
outbreak of tornadoes strikes the upper Midwest section of the
United States (in particular the Chicago area, including the
suburbs of Belvidere and Oak Lawn,
Illinois
, where 33 people are killed and 500
injured).
- April 23 – A group of young radicals
are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN).
This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party
(POS).
May
- May 1 – Elvis
Presley and Priscilla
Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
- May 1 – GO
Transit, Canada's first interregional public transit system, is
established.
- May 2 – The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It was their last Stanley cup and
last finals appearance to date. It would turn out to be the last
game in the original six era. Six more teams would be added in the
fall.
- May 2 – Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom
has decided to apply for EEC membership.
- May 4 – Lunar
Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.
- May 6 – Dr. Zakir Hussain is the first
Muslim to become president of India
.
- May 6 – Four hundred
students seize the administration building at Cheyney State
College, now Cheyney University of
Pennsylvania
, the oldest institute for higher education for
African Americans.
- May 6 – Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between
striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
- May 8 – The Philippine
province of Davao is split into
three: Davao del
Norte
, Davao del
Sur
, and Davao Oriental
.
- May 10 – The Greek military government
accuses Andreas Papandreou of
treason.
- May 11 – The United Kingdom
and Ireland
apply officially for European Economic Community
membership.
- May 17 – Syria
mobilizes
against Israel
.
- May 17 – President
Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt
demands
withdrawal of the peacekeeping UN
Emergency Force in the Sinai
.
U.N. Secretary-General U Thant complies
(May 18).
- May 18 – Tennessee
Governor Ellington
repeals the "Monkey Law" (officially the Butler Act; see the
Scopes Trial).
- May 18 – In Mexico
,
schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas
begins guerrilla warfare in Atoyac
de Alvarez, west of Acapulco
, in the state of Guerrero
.
- May 18 – NASA
announces
the crew for the Apollo 7 space
mission (first manned Apollo flight): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele,
and R. Walter Cunningham.
- May 19 – The Soviet Union
ratifies a treaty with the United States
and the United Kingdom
, banning nuclear weapons from outer
space.
- May 19 – Yuri Andropov becomes KGB
chief.
- May 22 – The
Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels
, Belgium
burns down. It is the most devastating fire
in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150
injured.
- May 22 – The Monkees release Headquarters, which is #1 on the album
charts for one week, until the release of Sgt.
Pepper by the Beatles.
- May 23 – Egypt closes
the Straits of
Tiran
to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel
's southern
port of Eilat
.
- May 25 – Celtic
F.C. becomes the first British team to reach a European Cup final and also the first
to win it, beating Inter
Milan 2–1.
- May 25 – The 25th Amendment is added to the
Constitution.
- May 27 – Naxalite
Guerrilla War: Beginning with a
peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist
rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas
operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the
government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded
by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of
Andhra
Pradesh
, Maharashtra
, Orissa
and
Madhya
Pradesh
.
- May 27 – The Australian referendum,
1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from
the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring
to Indigenous Australians. It
signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous
rights.
- May 28 – The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first
gig in London
.
- May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria
, announces its independence.
June
- Moshe Dayan
becomes Israel
's
Secretary of Defense.
- June 1 – The
Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band, nicknamed "The Soundtrack of the Summer of
Love"; it would be number one on the albums charts throughout the
summer of 1967.
- June 2 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during
which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed
by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the
terrorist group Movement 2 June.
- June 2 – Luis
Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the
United States.
- June 4 – Stockport
Air Disaster
: British Midland
flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport
, killing 72 passengers and crew.
- June 5 – Murderer
Richard Speck is sentenced to death in
the electric chair for killing eight student nurses in Chicago
.
- June 5 – Six-Day War: Israel
occupies
the West
Bank
, Gaza
Strip
, Sinai
peninsula
and
Golan
Heights
after defeating its Arab
neighbours.
- June 7 – Two Moby
Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency
of minors.
- June 8 – Six-Day
War – USS Liberty incident:
Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the USS Liberty off Gaza, killing
34 and wounding 171.
- June 10 – Israel
and
Syria
agree to a United
Nations-mediated cease-fire.
- June 10 – The
Soviet
Union
severs diplomatic relations with Israel
.
- June 10 – Margrethe, heir apparent to the
throne of Denmark
, marries French count Henri de Laborde de
Monpezat.
- June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida
after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by
police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest
lasts several days.
- June 12 – Loving v. Virginia: The United
States Supreme Court
declares all U.S. state
laws prohibiting interracial
marriage to be unconstitutional.
- June 12 – Venera program: Venera 4 is launched by the Soviet Union
(the first space probe
to enter another planet's atmosphere and
successfully return data).
- June 13 – Solicitor
General Thurgood Marshall is
nominated as the first African
American justice of the United States Supreme Court
. [6149]
- June 14 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus.
- June 14 – The
People's
Republic of China
tests its first hydrogen
bomb.[6150]
- June 14–June 15 –
Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City
(his only recording of a Prokofiev
composition).
- June 16 – The
Monterey Pop
Festival
begins and is held for 3 days.
- June 17 – The
People's
Republic of China
announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
- June 23 – Cold
War: U.S. President Lyndon B.
Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro,
New Jersey
, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit
Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner
at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of
war protesters clashed with L.A. police. [6151]
- June 25 – 400 million viewers watch
Our World, the first live, international,
satellite television production. It features the live debut of
The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love."
- June 26 – Pope
Paul VI ordains 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyła).
- June 26 – The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until
July 1; leads to 200 arrests.
- June 27 – The first
automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office
of the Barclays Bank in Enfield
, England
.
- June 28 – Israel
declares
the annexation of East Jerusalem
.
- June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former President of Katanga and former prime minister of the
Democratic Republic of the
Congo
, is kidnapped to Algeria
.
July
- July 1 – Canada
celebrates its first
one hundred years of Confederation.
- July 1 – The first UK colour television broadcasts begin on
BBC2. The first one is from the tennis championship at Wimbledon
. A full colour service begins on BBC2 on December 2.
- July 1 – American
Samoa
's first constitution becomes effective.
- July 3 – A military
rebellion led by Belgian mercenary Jean
Schramme begins in Katanga
, Democratic Republic of the
Congo
.
- July 4 – The British Parliament
decriminalizes homosexuality.
- July 5 – Troops of
Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control
of Stanleyville, Congo
.
- July 6 – Biafran War: Nigerian
forces invade Biafra,
following the latter's secession May
30.
- July 6 – A level crossing collision between a train
loaded with children and a tanker-truck near Magdeburg
, East
Germany
kills 94 people, mostly children.
- July 10 – Heavy
massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and
Kure, Hiroshima, Japan
, kill at
least 371.
- July 12 – The Greek military regime
strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
- July 12 – After the
arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally
driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark,
New Jersey
, and these riots
last for six days.
- July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the
Plainfield, NJ, riots also
occur.
- July 16 – A prison
riot in Jay,
Florida
leaves 37 dead.
- July 18 – The
United
Kingdom
announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia
and Singapore
. Australia and the
U.S.
disapprove.
- July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the
North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade and
business are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although
the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a
shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to
18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and
damages totaling 4.2 million. There will be two more such incidents
in the following two weeks.
- July 20 – Chilean
poet Pablo Neruda
receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.
- July 21 – The town
of Winneconne, Wisconsin
, announces secession from the United
States
because it is not included in the official maps and
declares war. Secession is repealed the next day.
- July 23 – 12th
Street Riot/Detroit Race Riots
: In Detroit, Michigan
, one of the worst riots in
United States history begins
on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed,
342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
- July 24 – During an
official state visit to Canada
, French
President Charles de
Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal
: Vive le Québec
libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement,
interpreted as support for Quebec
independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian
government and many English
Canadians.
- July 29 – An explosion and fire aboard
the U.S. Navy aircraft
carrier USS
Forrestal
in the
Gulf of
Tonkin
leaves 134 dead.
- July 29 – Georges Bidault moves to Belgium
where he receives political asylum.
- July 29 – An
earthquake in Caracas
, Venezuela
leaves 240 dead.
- July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee race riots
begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown
of the city from August 1.
August
September
- September 1 –
Ilse Koch, also known as the "Witch of
Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian
prison of Aichach
.
- September 2 –
Paddy Roy Bates occupies Roughs
Tower and establishes the Principality of Sealand
.
- September 3 – Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of
South Vietnam.
- September 3 –
H-Day in Sweden
: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the
country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand
traffic.
- September 4 –
Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search
and destroy mission in Quang Nam
and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing
4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
- September 9 –
Fashion Island, one of California
's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in
Newport
Beach
.
- September 10 –
In Gibraltar
, only 44 out of 12,182 voters support union
with Spain
.
- September 17 – A riot during a
football match in Kayseri, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600
injured.
- September 17 – Jim Morrison and The
Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when
Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked
not to.
- September 18 – Love Is a Many
Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is
the first soap opera to deal with an
interracial relationship. CBS censors find it
too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show
creator Irna Phillips to quit.
- September 27 –
The arrives in Southampton
, at the end of her last transatlantic
voyage.
- September 30 – BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio
2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 are all launched.
October
- October 2 –
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as
the first black justice of the U.S.
Supreme Court
.
- October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world
fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.
- October 4 –
Omar Ali Saifuddin III of
Brunei
abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty
Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah.
- October 8 –
Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men
are captured in Bolivia
.
- October 9 – Che Guevara is
executed.
- October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that
proposals by the U.S.
Congress for peace
initiatives are futile, because of North
Vietnam's opposition.
- October 14 – Quebec Nationalism:
René Lévesque leaves the
Liberal Party.
- October 16 – Thirty-nine people,
including singer-activist Joan Baez, are
arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that
city's military induction center.
- October 17 – The musical Hair opens off-Broadway. It moves to
Broadway the following April.
- October 18 – Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature
The Jungle
Book, the last animated film personally supervised by
Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical
success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less
well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome
Cougar.
- October 19 – The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
- October 21 – Tens
of thousands of Vietnam War protesters
march in Washington, D.C.
. Allen
Ginsberg symbolically chants to 'levitate' The
Pentagon
.
- October 21 – An
Egyptian
surface-to-surface missile sinks the Israeli
destroyer Eilat, killing 47 Israeli
sailors. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian
refineries along the Suez
Canal
.
- October 25 – An
abortion bill passes in the British
Parliament.
- October 26 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran
is officially crowned.
- October 26 – U.S. Navy pilot John
McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and made a POW. His
capture will be announced in the NY Times
and Washington Post two days
later.
- October 27 – Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry
into the European Economic
Community again.
- October 27 – London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual
imprisonment and downfall.
- October 29 –
Mobutu's troops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu
, Congo
.
- October 29 – The
Montreal
, Quebec
Expo 67 closes, having
received over 50 million attendees.
- October 30 –
Hong Kong 1967 riots: British
troops and Chinese
demonstrators clash on the border of China
and Hong Kong
.
November
- November 2 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a
group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and
asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the
war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given
more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
- November 3 –
Vietnam War – Battle
of Dak To
: Around Dak To
(located about 280 miles north of Saigon
near the Cambodian
border), heavy casualties are suffered on both
sides (the Americans
narrowly win the battle on November 22).
- November
4–5 – Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from
Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda
.
- November 6 – The Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
- November 7 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of
1967, establishing the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting.
- November 7 – Carl B. Stokes is
elected mayor of
Cleveland, Ohio
, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United
States city.
- November 8 – The BBC's very first local radio
station (BBC Radio
Leicester) is launched.
- November 9 –
Apollo program: NASA
launches a
Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned
Apollo 4 test spacecraft from
Cape Kennedy.
- November 11 –
Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in
Phnom
Penh
, Cambodia
, 3 United States
prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar
activist Tom Hayden.
- November 14 – The Congress of Colombia in commemoration
of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this
day as the "Day of the Colombian Woman".
- November 15 – General Grivas and his
10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after
24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are
killed by the Greek Cypriot
National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios
Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies
sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her
border with Greece.
- November 17 – Vietnam War: Acting on
optimistic reports he was given on November
13, U.S. President Lyndon B.
Johnson tells his nation that,
while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses
than we're taking...We are making progress (2 months later the
Tet Offensive makes him regret his
words)."
- November 17 –
French author Regis Debray is sentenced
to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia
.
- November 19 –
The UK
pound is devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40
USD.
- November 21 –
Vietnam War: United States
General William
Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain
that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly
losing."
- November 22 –
UN Security Council
Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set
of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli
peace settlement.
- November 26 –
Major floods hit Lisbon
, Portugal
, killing 462.
- November 27 – The Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour in the UK as a
double EP. The release as a full album will not take place until
December, when five more songs will be added to the original
six-song release.
- November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to
become president of the World Bank. This
action is due to U.S. President Lyndon
B. Johnson's outright
rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze
troop levels, stop bombing North
Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.
- November 30 – Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto founds the Pakistan
People's Party and becomes its first chairman. Today it is one of
the major political parties in Pakistan (alongside the Pakistan
Muslim League) that is broken
into many factions, bearing the same name under different leaders,
such as the Pakistan's Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP).
- November 30 –
The People's
Republic of South Yemen
becomes
independent of the United
Kingdom
.
- November 30 – U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy announces his candidacy for
the Democratic
Party presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President
Lyndon B. Johnson over the Vietnam War.
December
- December 1 – The
RMS
Queen Mary
is retired. Her place is taken by the
RMS Queen Elizabeth
2.
- December 3 –
Christian Barnard carries out the
world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital
in Cape
Town
.
- December 4 – At
1850 hours, a volcano erupts on Deception Island
in Antarctica
.
- December 4 – Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta (235 of the 300-strong Viet Cong
battalion are killed).
- December 5 – In
New York
City
, Benjamin Spock
and Allen Ginsberg are arrested for
protesting against the Vietnam
War.
- December 8 – Magical Mystery Tour is released by the
Beatles as an eleven-song album in the U.S.
The
songs added to the original six songs on the double EP include
All You Need Is Love, Penny Lane
, Strawberry
Fields Forever, Baby, You're
a Rich Man and Hello,
Goodbye.
- December 9 –
Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes the
Chairman of the Romanian State Council, making him the de-facto
leader of Romania
.
- December 11 –
The Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse
, France
.
- December 13 – King Constantine II of Greece flees the
country when his coup attempt fails.
- December 15 –
The Silver Bridge over the Ohio River in
Point
Pleasant, West Virginia
, collapses, killing 46 dead. It has been
linked to the so-called Mothman
mystery.
- December 17 –
Harold
Holt
, Australian prime
minister, disappears when swimming at a beach 60 km from
Melbourne
.
- December 19 – Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term
Black Hole for the first
time.
Undated
- Warner Bros. Pictures becomes a wholly owned
subsidiary of Seven Arts
Productions, thus becoming Warner Bros.-Seven Arts.
- The Jari project begins in the
Amazon.
- Albania
is officially declared an atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha.
- The
University of Winnipeg
is founded in Canada.
- Lonsdaleite (the
rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater
, Arizona
.
- A
lost city is discovered on the island of
Thera
, buried under volcanic
debris. It has been suggested that Plato may have heard legends about this, and used them
as the germ of his story of Atlantis.
- PAL is first introduced
in Germany
.
- The Summer of Love is held in San
Francisco.
- Desmond Morris publishes
The Naked Ape.
- Lech
Wałęsa goes to work in Gdańsk
shipyards.
- Benjamin
Netanyahu joins the Israeli
Army.
- The
Greek
military junta exiles Melina Mercouri.
- Parker
Morris Standards become mandatory for all housing built in
New Towns in the UK
.
- The
first edition of the book, A Short History of
Pakistan, is published by Karachi University
, Pakistan
.
- The
turnstile machine gate is introduced at
the North Senri railroad station of
Hankyu Senri Line, on the
outskirts of Osaka, Japan
, for the
first time in the world.
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 1 – Sunny Chan, Hong Kong TVB actor
- January 2 – Tia
Carrere, American actress
- January 4 – Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
- January 5 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
- January 7 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian/TV and radio
presenter
- January 8 – R.
Kelly, American R&B
singer/songwriter/producer
- January 9 – Dave Matthews, South African–born
musician
- January 9 – Dale Gordon, English footballer
- January 11 – Derek Riddell, Scottish actor
- January 12 – Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
- January 14 – Sharon Beshenivsky, West Yorkshire police
constable (d. 2005)
- January 14 – Leonardo "Leo" Ortolani, Italian comic
book author
- January 15 – Lisa Lisa, American singer
- January 17 – Song Kang-ho, Korean actor
- January 18 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
- January 19 – Diane Garnick, American investment
manager
- January 22 – Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
- January 23 – Naim Suleymanoglu, Bulgarian-born
weightlifter
- January 25 – Nozomu Sasaki, Japanese Seiyu
- January 28 – Jan
Lamb, Hong Kong singer and actor
- January 29 – Khalid Skah, Moroccan long-distance runner
- January 31 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
- January 31 – Fat
Mike (Michael Burkett), American rock singer and musician
- January 31 – Chad Channing, American rock drummer (Nirvana)
February
- February 1 – Meg
Cabot, American teen author
- February 5 – Chris Parnell, American actor and comedian
(Saturday Night Live)
- February 5 – Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician
- February 6 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
- February 7 – Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress
- February 9 – Todd Pratt, American baseball player
- February 9 – Dan Shulman, American sports announcer
- February 10 – Laura Dern, American actress
- February 10 – Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
- February 11 – Clay Crosse, American Christian musician
- February 11 – Hank Gathers, American college basketball
player
- February 12 – Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and
musician
- February 15 – Trond Egil Soltvedt, Norwegian
footballer
- February 17 – Chanté Moore, American singer
- February 18 – Roberto Baggio, Italian football player
- February 18 – John Valentin, American baseball player
- February 19 – Benicio del Toro, Puerto Rican actor
- February 19 – Sven Erik Kristiansen Norwegian Black
metal and hardcore punk singer (Maniac)
- February 20 – Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
- February 20 – Andrew Shue, American actor
- February 20 – Lili Taylor, American actress
- February 23 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
- February 26 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
March
- March 1 – George
Eads, American actor
- March 4 – Daryll Cullinan, South African
cricketer
- March 11 – John Barrowman, Scottish-born actor
- March 16 – Lauren Graham, American actress
- March 17 – Billy Corgan, American musician and
songwriter
- March 18 – Miki
Berenyi, British rock lead singer
- March 18 – Andre
Rison, American pro football player
- March 19 – Mary
Scheer, American actress
- March 21 – Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish rock musician
(Ace of Base)
- March 21 – Adrian Chiles, British television and radio
presenter
- March 22 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
- March 25 – Debi
Thomas, American figure skater
- March 26 – Mark Carroll, Australian rugby
league footballer
- March 27 – Talisa Soto, American actress
- March 27 – Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional
wrestler
- March 29 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player
- March 30 – Christopher Bowman, American figure
skater (d. 2008)
April
- April 6 – Jonathan Firth, British actor
- April 6 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
- April 9 – Alex
Kahn, American artist
- April 14 – Barrett Martin, American drummer and
composer
- April 14 – Jeff
Jarrett, American professional wrestler
- April 15 – Alt, Brazilian comic
creator
- April 15 – Frankie Poullain, British rock bassist
(The Darkness)
- April 15 – Dara
Torres, American swimmer
- April 17 – Marquis Grissom, American baseball
player
- April 17 – Liz
Phair, American singer and songwriter
- April 18 – Maria
Bello, American actress
- April 20 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts
player
- April 20 – Mike
Portnoy, American rock drummer (Dream
Theater)
- April 22 – Sheryl
Lee, American actress
- April 22 – Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and TV
show host
- April 23 – Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
- April 26 – Glenn Jacobs (Kane), American professional
wrestler
- April 26 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, American
actress
- April 27 – Willem-Alexander, Prince of
Orange, Dutch heir apparent
- April 28 – Kari Wührer, American actress and
singer
- April 29 – Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
- April 29 – Rachel Williams, American model, actress,
and TV presenter
May
- May 1 – Kenny
Hotz, Canadian entertainer
- May 1 – Tim
McGraw, American country singer
- May 5 – Takehito Koyasu, Japanese seiyu (voice
actor)
- May 10 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and
sportscaster
- May 13 – Chuck Schuldiner, American singer and
guitarist (d. 2001)
- May 13 – Melanie Thornton, American singer (d.
2001)
- May 14 – Tony
Siragusa, American football player
- May 15 – John
Smoltz, American baseball player
- May 18 – Rob
Base, American rapper
- May 19 – Geraldine Somerville, Irish
actress
- May 19 – Massimo Taccon, Italian painter and
sculptor
- May 21 – Chris
Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- May 22 – MC Eiht,
American rapper
- May 22 – Brooke Smith, American actress
- May 24 – Eric
Close, American actor (Dark Skies)
- May 24 – Bruno
Putzulu, French actor
- May 25 – Poppy
Z. Brite, American author
- May 27 – Lou
Gish, British actress (d. 2006)
- May 29 – Noel
Gallagher, British musician (Oasis)
- May 31 – Phil
Keoghan, New Zealand-born television host
- May 31 – Kenny
Lofton, American baseball player
June
- June 3 – Anderson Cooper, American television
journalist
- June 3 – Tamas
Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer
- June 5 – Joe
DeLoach, American athlete
- June 5 – Ron
Livingston, American actor
- June 6 – Paul
Giamatti, American actor
- June 7 – Dave
Navarro, American guitarist
- June 8 – Efan
Ekoku, Nigerian footballer
- June 8 – Jasmin Tabatabai, German/Iranian actress
and musician
- June 10 – Darren
"Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (The
Fat Boys) (d. 1995)
- June 15 – Yūji
Ueda, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
- June 19 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
- June 19 – Mia
Sara, American actress
- June 20 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian
actress
- June 21 – Jim
Breuer,Former Saturdat Night Live cast member and stand up
comedian
- June 23 – Yoko
Minamino, Japanese idol star and actress
- June 24 – Bill
Huard, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 24 – Richard Z. Kruspe, German rock musician (Rammstein)
- June 24 – Janez
Lapajne, Slovenian film director
- June 29 – Murray Foster, Canadian rock bassist (Moxy Fruvous)
- June 29 – Melora Hardin, American actress and
singer
July
- July 1 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress and
model
- July 4 – Vinny
Castilla, Mexican Major League Baseball player
- July 4 – Andy
Walker, Canadian television personality
- July 5 – Silvia
Ziche, Italian comics artist
- July 7 – Jackie
Neal, American blues singer (d. 2005)
- July 8 – Jordan
Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
- July 11 – John
Henson, American TV show host
- July 12 – John
Petrucci, American virtuoso guitarist
- July 12 – Count Jefferson von
Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth
- July 13 – Akira
Hokuto, Japanese women's professional wrestler
- July 14 – Robin
Ventura, American baseball player
- July 15 – Michael
Tse, Hong Kong actor
- July 15 – Adam
Savage, American TV show host
- July 16 – Will
Ferrell, American comedian and actor
- July 18 – Vin
Diesel, American actor
- July 19 – Rageh
Omaar, broadcaster
- July 19 – Stuart
Howe, Canadian Operatic Tenor
- July 23 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American
actor
- July 25 – Matt
LeBlanc, American actor
- July 27 – Juliana Hatfield, American guitarist and
songwriter
- July 27 – Sasha Mitchell, American actor
- July 27 – Kellie Waymire, American actress (d. 2003)
- July 28 – Taka
Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder)
- July 30 – A. W. Yrjänä, Finnish rock musician and
poet
- July 31 – Minako
Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
- July 31 – Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and
feminist
August
- August 4 – Michael Marsh, American athlete
- August 7 – Charlotte Lewis, English actress
- August 8 – Rena
Mero, wrestler, model and actress
- August 9 – Deion Sanders, American pro football and
baseball player
- August 10 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer
- August 11 – Collin Chou, Taiwanese martial arts actor
- August 11 – Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer and
songwriter
- August 11 – Joe
Rogan, American comedian and television host
- August 12 – Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
- August 12 – Andy
Hui, Hong Kong singer and actor
- August 13 – Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- August 15 – Brahim Boutayeb, Moroccan long-distance
runner
- August 16 – Pamela Smart, American murderer
- August 16 – Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television
personality
- August 21 – Carrie-Anne Moss, Canadian actress
- August 21 – Serj Tankian, Lebanese-born singer (System of a Down)
- August 22 – Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, British
actor and model
- August 22 – Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (d. 1986)
- August 22 – Layne Staley, American rock singer (Alice in Chains) (d. 2002)
- August 25 – Jeff Tweedy, American rock singer (Wilco)
- August 29 – Anton Newcombe, American rock musician
(The Brian Jonestown
Massacre)
- August 30 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch
supermodel
September
- September 2 – Dino Cazares, American rock guitarist
(Divine Heresy, Fear Factory)
- September 3 – Luis Gonzalez, American
baseball player
- September 5 – Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey
player
- September 5 – Arnel Pineda, Filipino singer-songwriter
- September 5 – Koichi Morishita, Japanese long-distance
runner
- September 6 – Macy Gray, American R&B singer
- September 9 – Chris Caffery, American guitarist and
singer
- September 9 – Anna Malle, American pornographic actress (d.
2006)
- September 11 – Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and
actor
- September 13 – Michael Johnson, American
athlete
- September 18 – Tara Fitzgerald, British actress
- September 19 – Alexander Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman
wrestler
- September 20 – Martin Harrison, American NFL Football
Player
- September 20 – Kristen Johnston, American actress
- September 20 – Gunnar Nelson, American singer
- September 20 – Matthew Nelson, American singer
- September 21 – Susie Dent, British lexicographer
- September 21 – Faith Hill, American country singer
- September 21 – Glen Benton, American rock singer/bassist
(Deicide)
- September 22 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- September 23 – Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer
- September 25 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
- September 26 – Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
- September 28 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
- September 28 – Moon Unit Zappa, American actress and
musician
- September 30 – Andrea Roth, Canadian actress
October
- October 2 – Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
- October 4 – Liev Schreiber, American actor
- October 4 – Ekin
Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
- October 5 – Johnny Gioeli, American power metal
singer
- October 5 – Guy
Pearce, English-born actor
- October 7 – Toni Braxton, American R&B singer
- October 8 – Teddy Riley, American R&B
and hip hop singer
- October 9 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional
wrestler (d. 2005)
- October 11 – Tazz, American professional wrestler and
commentator
- October 11 – Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and radio
personality (MAD TV)
- October 11 – David Starr, American racecar driver
- October 13 – Trevor Hoffman, American Major League
Baseball player
- October 13 – Kate Walsh, American actress
- October 13 – Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper
- October 16 – Davina McCall, British TV presenter and UK
Big Brother host
- October 17 – René Dif, Danish-Algerian singer
(Aqua)
- October 17 – Venus Terzo, Canadian actress/voice actress
- October 22 – Carlos Mencia, Latino-American actor and
standup comedian
- October 22 – Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian
composer & conductor
- October 22 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d.
1994)
- October 24 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian
actress
- October 26 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born Australian country
music singer
- October 27 – Scott Weiland, American musician
- October 28 – Julia Roberts, American actress (Pretty
Woman)
- October 28 – Sophie, Hereditary
Princess of Liechtenstein
- October 29 – Joely Fisher, American actress
- October 29 – Rufus Sewell, English actor
- October 29 – Péter Kun, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1993)
- October 30 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- October 30 – Ty
Detmer, American NFL quarterback and 1990 Heisman Trophy
winner
- October 30 – Gavin Rossdale, English musician
November
- November 1 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer and
songwriter
- November 1 – Tina Arena, Australian singer and songwriter
- November 3 – Steven Wilson, English musician
- November 5 – Judy Reyes, American actress
- November 6 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actrees (d.
1989)
- November 7 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer and
songwriter
- November 7 – Steve DiGiorgio, American musician
(bassist)
- November 8 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American
actress
- November 11 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
- November 13 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk show
host
- November 13 – Steve Zahn, American actor
- November 14 – Letitia Dean, British actress
- November 14 – Nina Gordon, American singer
- November 15 – François Ozon, French writer and
director
- November 15 – E-40, American rapper
- November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
- November 20 – Teoman, Turkish rock singer and song-writer
- November 22 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
- November 22 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
- November 22 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater
- November 23 – Salli Richardson, American actress
- November 25 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
- November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and
actress (d. 2007)
- November 29 – John "Bradshaw" Layfield, American
professional wrestler
December
- December 1 – Reggie Sanders, American Major League
Baseball outfielder
- December 5 – Gary Allan, American country musician
- December 6 – Judd Apatow, American screenwriter and
producer
- December 6 – Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer and actor
- December 8 – Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice
actress)
- December 9 – Joshua Bell, American violinist
- December 11 – Mo'Nique, American actress and comedian
- December 12 – John Randle, American football player
- December 13 – Jamie Foxx, American actor
- December 14 – Ewa Białołęcka, Polish
writer
- December 16 – Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
- December 16 – Miranda Otto, Australian actress
- December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and
DJ
- December 18 – Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports
journalist
- December 19 – Criss Angel, American musician, magician,
illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer
- December 20 – Mikhail Saakashvili, President of
Georgia
- December 22 – Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
Deaths
January–March
- * January 27 – Edward White, American astroanut (b.
1930)
- * January 27 – Gus Grissom, American astronaut (b. 1926)
- * January 27 – Roger Chaffee, American astronaut (b. 1935)
- January 27 – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
- January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
- February 4 – Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation
Army (b. 1886)
- February 6 – Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
- February 6 – Henry Morgenthau, Jr., United States Secretary
of the Treasury during World War II
(b. 1891)
- February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b.
1893)
- February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884)
- February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887)
- February 16 – Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911)
- February 16 – Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (b.
1876)
- February 18 – J. Robert
Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
- February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b.
1929)
- February 24 – Franz Waxman, German-American composer (b.
1906)
- February 24 – Hilliard Almond Wilbanks, Medal of
Honor recipient (b. 1933)
- February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
- March 2 – Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885)
- March 4 – Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, deposed prime
minister of Iran (b. 1882)
- March 5 – Mischa
Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905)
- March 6 – John Haden Badley, English author (b.
1865)
- March 6 – Nelson
Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
- March 6 – Kenneth Harlan, American actor (b. 1895)
- March 6 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer
(b. 1882)
- March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877)
- March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b.
1882)
- March 11 – Hanns Lothar, German actor (b. 1929)
- March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- March 30 – Jean
Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
- March 31 – Don
Alvarado, American actor (b. 1904)
April–June
- April 4 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (b.
1901)
- April 5 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American
geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(b. 1890)
- April 17 – Red
Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
- April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b.
1876)
- April 22 – Tom
Conway, British actor (b. 1904)
- April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet
cosmonaut (parachute failure) (b. 1927)
- April 25 – Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth
officer of the RMS
Titanic
(b. 1884)
- April 27 – William Douglas Cook, founder of
Eastwoodhill Arboretum
and Pukeiti
, (New
Zealand
) (b. 1884)
- April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b.
1906)
- May 6 – Zhou
Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
- May 7 – Judith
Evelyn, American actress (b. 1913)
- May 8 – Laverne Andrews, American singer (b.
1911)
- May 8 – Barbara
Payton, American actress (b. 1927)
- May 8 – Elmer
Rice, American playwright (b. 1892)
- May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver
(b. 1935)
- May 12 – John
Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878)
- May 15 – Edward
Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
- May 18 – Andy
Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892)
- May 22 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b.
1902)
- May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film
director (b. 1885)
- May 30 – Claude
Rains, British actor (b. 1889)
- May 31 – Billy
Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)
- June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
- June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- June 13 – Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis
champion (b. 1895)
- June 14 – Eddie
Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
- June 16 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b.
1891)
- June 26 – Francoise Dorleac, French actress
(b.1942)
- June 29 – Primo
Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
- June 29 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b.
1933)
July–September
- July 8 – Fatima
Jinnah, Pakistani 'Mother of the Nation' (b. 1893)
- July 8 – Vivien
Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
- July 9 – Douglas MacLean, American actor (b. 1890)
- July 14 – Tudor
Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
- July 17 – John
Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)
- July 17 – Cyril
Ring, American film actor (b. 1892)
- July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castello
Branco, ex-president of Brazil (b. 1897)
(plane crash)
- July 21 – Jimmie
Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
- July 21 – Albert Lutuli, South African politician,
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- July 21 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892)
- July 22 – Carl
Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
- July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English writer (b.
1896)
- August 1 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1900)
- August 9 – Joe
Orton, English playwright (b. 1933)
- August 9 – Anton Walbrook, Austrian actor (b. 1896)
- August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879)
- August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (b.
1898)
- August 19 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and
publisher (b. 1884)
- August 19 – Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian
(b. 1907)
- August 24 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
- August 24 – Lam
Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (b. 1930)
- August 25 – Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia
(b. 1883)
- August 25 – Paul
Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
- August 25 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American
Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
- August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager
(The Beatles) (b. 1934)
- August 31 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
- September 1 – Ilse Koch, Nazi German war criminal (b. 1906)
- September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (b.
1886)
- September 3 – James Dunn, American actor (b. 1901)
- September 3 – Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer
(b.1893)
- September 11 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish
technician and textilist (b. 1904)
- September 13 – Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907)
- September 18 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- September 27 – Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of
Rasputin (b. 1887)
- September 29 – Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (b. 1900)
- September 29 – Carson McCullers, American writer (b.
1917)
October–December
- October 3 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b.
1912)
- October 3 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b.
1895)
- October 7 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient
of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872)
- October 8 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom (b. 1883)
- October 9 – Che
Guevara, Argentine communist revolutionary (executed) (b.
1928)
- October 9 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- October 9 – Edith Storey, American actress (b. 1892)
- October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic
wrestler (b. 1895)
- October 17 – Xuantong Emperor, Emperor of China (b.
1906)
- October 20 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b.
1878)
- October 23 – Helen Palmer Geisel, Dr. Seuss' first
wife (b. 1899)
- October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American
playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (b. 1886)
- October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (b.
1896)
- November 5 – Joseph Kesselring, American playwright (b.
1902)
- November 7 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (b.
1868)
- November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor (b.
1891)
- November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
- November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895)
- November 19 – Charles J. Watters, U.S. Army chaplain, Medal of
Honor recipient (b. 1927)
- November 21 – C. M.
Eddy, Jr., American writer (b.
1896)
- November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and
lithographer (b. 1890)
- November 28 – Leon M'ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
- December 3 – Harry Wismer, American baseball owner (b.
1913)
- December 4 – Daniel Jones, British phonetician
(b. 1881)
- December 4 – Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1894)
- December 7 – House Peters, Sr., British-born actor (b.
1880)
- December 10 – Otis Redding, American singer (air crash) (b.
1941)
- December 10 – Ronnie Caldwell, American musician (air
crash) (b. 1948)
- December 10 – Phalon Jones, American musician (air crash) (b.
1949)
- December 17 –
Harold
Holt
, Australian Prime Minister (body never found)
(b. 1908)
- December 17 – Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
- December 21 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903)
- December 24 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b.
1900)
- December 26 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- December 28 – Katharine McCormick, American feminist
(b. 1875)
- December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b.
1890)
- December 30 – Vincent Massey, former Canadian Governor
General (b. 1887)
Nobel Prizes
Academy Awards
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor,
Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
- Best Actor: Paul Scofield,
A Man for All
Seasons
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert
Bolt, A Man
for All Seasons
- Best Animated Short Film: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Double Feature, Hubley Studios; Paramount Pictures
- Best Director: Fred Zinnemann,
A Man for All
Seasons
- Best Documentary Feature: The War
Game, BBC and Pathé Contemporary
Films
- Best Documentary (Short Subject): A Year Toward
Tomorrow, Sun Dial Films Inc.
- Best
Foreign Language Film: A Man and a
Woman, France

- Best Live Action Short Film: Wild Wings, British
Transport Films
- Best Original Screenplay: Written by and Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman
- Best Picture: A Man for All
Seasons, Fred Zinnemann
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter
Matthau, The Fortune
Cookie
- Best Supporting Actress: Sandy
Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?
- Original Score: Born Free,
John Barry
- Original Song: Born Free from
Born Free, Music by John Barry; Lyric by Don Black
Notes
- The Controversial Replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Adding
Machine
- Loving v. Virginia
External links