1974 (
MCMLXXIV) was a
common year starting on
Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
February
- February 1 –
Fire
breaks out
in the Joelma Building in São Paulo
, Brazil
; 177 die,
293 are injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
- February 1 –
Kuala
Lumpur
, the capital of Malaysia, was declared as a
Federal
Territory.
- February 3 – In the second Bathurst Gaol riot, prisoners
destroy much of the facility with petrol bombs.
- February 4 – The Symbionese Liberation Army
kidnaps Patricia Hearst, the
19-year-old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst.
- February 8 – After a record 84 days
in orbit, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
- February 12 – U.S. District Court Judge
George Boldt rules that Native American
tribes in Washington
State
are entitled to half of the legal salmon and steelhead
catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the U.S.
government.
- February 13 – Nobel Prize winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is expelled
from the Soviet Union (he returns May 27, 1994).
- February 17 – A
soccer stampede occurs in Cairo
, killing
49.
- February 21 – The long-running comic
strip "Sazae-san" is published in the
Asahi Shimbun for the final
time, after 28 years of daily installments.
- February 22 – The
Second Islamic Summit Conference by the Organization of the
Islamic Conference (OIC) is held in Lahore, Islamic Republic of
Pakistan
, from 29
Moharram to 1st Safar,
1394 H, (22–24 February 1974).
- February 23 – The Symbionese Liberation Army
demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
- February 28 – The
United
Kingdom
general
election results in an almost dead-heat. Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister again, despite his Labour Party having received fewer votes
than the Conservative
Party.
- February 28 –
Ethiopian
prime minister Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu
Habte-Wold, who had held the position since 1961, is dismissed by Emperor Haile Selassie and replaced with Endelkachew Makonnen.
March
- March 1 – Watergate scandal: Seven former White House
officials are indicted for their role in the
Watergate
break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct
justice.
- March 1 – Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as
Prime Minister of
France.
- March 3 – A Turkish Airlines DC-10
travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris,
killing all 346 aboard.
- March 8 – Charles de
Gaulle Airport
opens in Paris
, France
.
- March 10 – A
Japanese
World War II soldier,
Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda,
surrenders in the Philippines
.
- March 18 – End of
Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a 5-month oil
embargo against the United
States
, Europe and Japan
.
- March 20 – Ian Ball
fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain
Mark Phillips in The
Mall
, outside Buckingham Palace
.
- March 26 – Gaura
Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati,
Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles
around trees to stop them being felled, thus sparking the Chipko Movement in India
.
- March 29 – Mariner 10 approaches Mercury.
- March 30 – The
Ramones made their first public performance.
April
- April 1 – The Local Government Act 1972 comes
into effect in England and Wales,
creating 6 new metropolitan
counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative
map.
- April 2 – French
President
Georges Pompidou dies; Senate
President Alain Poher becomes Acting
President for the second time.
- April 3 – The Super Outbreak, the largest series of
tornadoes in history, hits 13 U.S. states
and one Canadian province. By the time the last of 149 tornadoes
hit early the following morning, 315 die and over 5,000 are
injured.
- April 6 – ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest in
Brighton
, England
.
- April 8 – Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record, by hitting his 715th
career home run off Los Angeles
Dodgers pitcher Al Downing
at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium
.
- April 10 – In
Israel
, Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister.
- April 15 – In
San
Francisco
, members of
the Symbionese Liberation
Army rob a branch of the Hibernia National Bank, joined by
Patricia Hearst, their erstwhile
captive.
- April 24 – Stephen King publishes his first novel,
Carrie, under his own name.
- April 25 –
Carnation Revolution:
A coup in Portugal
restores democracy.
- April 27 – The
Lewis
' store in Manchesters
Piccadilly Gardens
is evacuated after an IRA
bomb threat; nobody is hurt.
May
- May 4 – An all-female
Japanese
team summits Manaslu
in Nepal
, becoming
the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
- May 4 – The Expo '74 World's Fair
opens in Spokane,
Washington
.
- May 4 – The FA Cup
Liverpool beats Newcastle 3–0 to win the FA Cup final at
Wembley.
- May 7 – West German
Chancellor Willy Brandt
resigns.
- May 9 – The United States House of
Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public
impeachment hearings against President
Richard M. Nixon.
- May 12 – Fire damages
the carousel in Port
Dalhousie
, Ontario
, Canada
, injuring
20 animals.
- May 15 – West German
Foreign Minister Walter
Scheel is elected President of
Germany for a term beginning July
1.
- May 15 – Ma'alot massacre: In an Arab rebels attack and hostage taking at
an Israeli
school
, a total of 31 people are killed, including 22
schoolchidren.
- May 16 – Helmut Schmidt is elected West German
Chancellor.
- May 17 – Los Angeles,
California
police raid Symbionese Liberation Army
headquarters, killing 6 members, including Camilla Hall.
- May 17 – Thirty-three
people die and over 300 are wounded in the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in
the Republic of
Ireland
. Members of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force are behind the
blast, allegedly in collusion with members of the British
intelligence service.
- May 18 – Nuclear test: Under Project Smiling Buddha, India
successfully
detonates its first nuclear weapon,
becoming the 6th nation to do so.
- May 18 – The Warsaw radio
mast
is completed, the tallest structure ever built (it
collapses on August 8, 1991).
- May 19 – In the second
round of the presidential elections in France
, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins
over François Mitterrand,
but by a close margin.
- May 19 – The Philadelphia Flyers defeat the Boston Bruins, thereby becoming the first
expansion team to win the Stanley
Cup.
- May 28 – The Italian
fascist organization Ordine Nuovo bombs
demonstrators in Brescia
, killing 8 people.
- May 30 – NASA
's ATS-6 satellite is launched.
June
- June 1 – Flixborough
disaster
: A chemical plant explosion in Flixborough
, UK
, kills 28
people.
- June 4 – The Cleveland Indians stage an ill-advised
Ten Cent Beer Night for a game
against the Texas Rangers
at Cleveland
Municipal Stadium
. Cleveland forfeits after alcohol-fueled
mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
- June 6 – A new
Instrument of
Government is promulgated, making Sweden
a parliamentary monarchy.
- June 13 – The
1974 FIFA World Cup begins in
West
Germany
.
- June 15 – Red Lion Square disorders: Members
of the fascist National Front
clash with leftist counter-protesters in London
's West End;
one student is killed.
- June 17 – A bomb
explodes at the Houses of Parliament
in London
, damaging
Westminster Hall. The
Provisional Irish
Republican Army claims responsibility for planting the
bomb.
- June 26 – The Universal Product Code is scanned for
the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the
Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
- June 29 – Isabel Peron becomes interim president of
Argentina
, when Juan Peron falls
seriously ill.
- June 30 – Alberta Williams King, mother of the
late Martin Luther King,
Jr., is killed during a church service in Atlanta,
Georgia
.
July
- July 1 – Juan
Peron, President of Argentina, dies and is succeeded by his
wife, Vice President Isabel Peron (the
first female head of state in South America).
- July 7 – West Germany beats the Netherlands 2–1 to
win the 1974 FIFA World
Cup.
- July 14 – In Issaquah, Washington,
serial killer Ted Bundy abducts Janice Ott
and Denise Naslund in broad daylight at Lake Sammamish State
Park.
- July 15 – Christine Chubbuck, U.S. television
presenter for WXLT-TV
, draws a revolver and shoots herself in the head
during a live broadcast. She dies in a hospital 14 hours
later.
- July 15 – A military
coup overthrows President
Makarios in Cyprus
.
- July 17 – A Provisional Irish Republican
Army bomb explodes in the White Tower
at the Tower of London
, killing 1 person and injuring 41.
Another
bomb explodes outside a government building in South London
.
- July 20 – Turkish invasion of Cyprus:
Forces from Turkey
invade
Cyprus
after the
coup d'etat by EOKA
B.
- July 22 – Ethiopian
Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen is replaced
with Mikael Imru.
- July 23 – The Greek military junta
government collapses.
- July 24 – Constantine Karamanlis is sworn in as
interim Prime Minister of Greece
.
- July 24 – Watergate scandal – United States v. Nixon: The United
States Supreme Court
unanimously rules that President Richard Nixon can not withhold subpoenaed
White
House
tapes, and orders him to surrender them to the
Watergate special prosecutor.
- July 27–30 –
Watergate Scandal: The House of
Representatives Judiciary Committee adopts 3 articles of
impeachment, charging President Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure
to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the
committee.
August

Nixon Resigns
- August 4 – A bomb
explodes in an Italicus
Expressen
train between Italy
and
West
Germany
. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take
responsibility.
- August 5 – Watergate scandal: The "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, is revealed,
in which U.S. President Richard M.
Nixon and White House Chief of Staff
H.R. Haldeman
discuss using the Central
Intelligence Agency to block a Federal
Bureau of Investigation
inquiry into Watergate. Nixon's support in
Congress collapses.
- August 7 – Three
Republican
congressional leaders (Barry
Goldwater, Hugh Scott and John Rhodes) visit President Richard Nixon in the White House
. They inform him that he lacks the votes to
escape impeachment in the United States House of
Representatives and conviction in the Senate.
- August 7 – French
acrobat Philippe
Petit walks across a high wire slung
between the twin towers of the World Trade
Center
in New
York
.
- August 8 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation
(effective August 9).
- August 9 – Richard M. Nixon
becomes the first President of the United
States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being
removed by impeachment in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. Vice
President Gerald R. Ford becomes the 38th President, taking the oath
of office in the East Room of the White House
.
- August 14 – Turkey invades for the
second time in Cyprus, occupying 37% of the island's
territory.
- August 15 – Seoul Metropolitan Subway Line 1
is opened.
- August 28 –
Geir Hallgrímsson becomes
Prime Minister of Iceland
.
- August 30 – An
express train bound for Germany
from Belgrade
derails in Zagreb
, Yugoslavia (now Croatia
), killing more than 150 passengers.
- August 30 – A
powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
headquarters in Marunouchi
, Tokyo
, Japan
; 8 are
killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested
May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
September
- September 1 –
Daredevil Bob Gill fails a
world-record attempt to jump Appalachia Lake in West Virginia
.
- September 8 – Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have
committed while in office.
- September 8 –
TWA Flight 841 crashes into
the Ionian
Sea
18 minutes after take off from Athens
, after a
bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people.
- September 8 –
Stuntman Evel Knievel fails in his
attempt to rocket across the Snake River
Canyon in Idaho
.
- 12 September –
Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia
is deposed by the Derg.
The imperial throne is offered to his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, on the condition that
the Crown Prince returns to Ethiopia.
- September 13 –
Japanese Red Army members seize
the French Embassy in The
Hague
, Netherlands
. They secure the release of member Yatuka
Fumiya, $300,000 and a flight to Aden
.
- September 16 – In Newport, Rhode
Island, America's Cup defender "Courageous", skippered by Ted Hood, wins
over Australian challenger "Southern Cross" .
- September 23 – Ceefax (one of the first public service information
systems) is started by the BBC.
October
November
- November 5 – Democrats make significant
gains in the U.S. Congressional midterm elections, as the Republican Party suffers
losses over the Watergate
scandal.
- November 7 – A
Provisional Irish
Republican Army bomb explodes at the Kings Arms,
Woolwich
.
- November 8 –
Richard Bingham, 7th
Earl of Lucan disappears in England
.
- November 8 – In
Salt Lake
City, Utah
, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial
killer Ted Bundy.
- November 10 –
Movement 2 June members try to
kidnap Günter von Drenkmann, the president of West Germany
's Superior Court of Justice, at his home, but he is
fatally shot during the attempt.
- November 13 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his parents and
his 4 siblings in what is later known as "The Amityville Horror House".
- November 16 – The
Arecibo
radio telescope
sends an interstellar
radio message towards the M13
Great Globular Cluster. The message will reach its
destination around the year 27,000.
- November 17 – In
Dublin,
Ireland
, President Erskine H. Childers dies suddenly of a heart
attack in the middle of a public speech.
- November 17 –
Sadi Irmak, an independent, forms the new
government of Turkey
(38th
government, but fails to receive the vote of confidance
)
- November 19 – In
Baitadi, Makahali, Nepal
, 140 are
killed when the Makahali River bridge collapses.
- November 20 – The
United States Department of
Justice
files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break
up of AT&T and the Bell System.
- November 21 – In
Birmingham,
England
, 2 pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in
prison for this).
- November 22 – The United Nations General Assembly grants the
Palestine Liberation
Organization observer status.
- November 24 – A skeleton from the
hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is
discovered and named Lucy.
- November 27 – The
Prevention of
Terrorism Act is passed in the United Kingdom
.
December
- December 1 – A
Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight
514
crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles
International Airport
during bad weather, killing all 92 people on
board.
- December 4 – The Pioneer 11 probe passes Jupiter and captures famous images of the Great red spot.
- December 8 –
Greek
voters
reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
- December 9 – The
Paris
summit, reuniting the European communities' heads of state
and government, commences.
- December 19 –
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
becomes the 5th President of
Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle
.
- December 19 – Former New York
Governor Nelson Rockefeller is
sworn in as Vice
President of the United States.
- December 23 –
Former British minister John
Stonehouse, who faked his drowning in Florida, is arrested in
Melbourne
, Australia.
- December
24–25 – Darwin,
Australia
is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
- December 31 –
Restrictions on holding private gold within the
United
States
, implemented by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, are removed.
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 3 – Alessandro Petacchi, Italian
professional road cyclist
- January 7 – John Rich, American guitarist and
bassist (Big &
Rich)
- January 10 – Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood actor
- January 10 – Jemaine Clement, New Zealand
singer/comedian/actor
- January 11 – The Rosenkowitz sextuplets (Cape Town,
South Africa), the first sextuplets known to survive infancy
- January 11 – Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
- January 11 – Rahsaan Patterson, American singer
- January 12 – Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country
skiier
- January 12 – Melanie Chisholm, English
singer-songwriter
- January 16 – Kate Moss, English model
- January 17 – Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian
conjoined twins (d. 2003)
- January 18 – Michael Tunn, Australian radio and TV
presenter
- January 21 – Rove McManus Australian talk show host
- January 24 – Tim Biakabutuka, former National Football
League player
- January 23 – Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
(Beverly Hills 90210)
- January 24 – Melissa Tkautz, Australian singer and
actress
- January 24 – Ed
Helms, American actor
- January 27 – Ole Einar Bjorndalen, Norweigian
biathlete
- January 27 – Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
- January 28 – Tony Delk, American basketball player
- January 28 – Kari Traa, Norwegian freestyle skier
- January 30 – Christian Bale, Welsh actor
- January 31 – Ian Huntley, English murderer
February
- February 2 – Oz
Perkins, American actor
- February 3 – Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong singer
- February 4 – Eric Townsend, American musician and record
producer
- February 7 – Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
- February 7 – J
Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, African-American hip-hop producer
(d. 2006)
- February 8 – Seth Green, American actor
- February 8 – Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo,
French musician and record producer
- February 10 – Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
- February 11 – D'Angelo, American singer
- February 12 – Naseem Hamed, British boxer
- February 13 – Robbie Williams, English rock singer
(Take That)
- February 14 – Philippe Léonard, Belgian
footballer
- February 15 – Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish rock singer
(Lordi)
- February 15 – Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- February 15 – Alexander Wurz, Austrian Formula 1
driver
- February 22 – Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
- February 22 – James Blunt, English singer
- February 26 – Sebastien Loeb, French rally driver
- February 27 – Chad Hugo, American rock musician and producer
(N*E*R*D)
- February 27 – Hiroyasu Shimizu, Japanese speed
skater
March
- March 1 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
- March 4 – Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player
- March 4 – Ariel
Ortega, Argentine football player
- March 4 – Tommy
Phelps, South Korean professional baseball player
- March 5 – Jens
Jeremies, German footballer
- March 5 – Matt
Lucas, British comedian
- March 5 – Eva
Mendes, American actress
- March 6 – Sebastian Siegel, British-American
actor
- March 6 – Anthony Carelli, Canadian professional
wrestler
- March 7 – Jenna
Fischer, American actress
- March 8 – Fardeen Khan, Bollywood actor
- March 10 – Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
- March 11 – Bobby
Abreu, Venezuelan Major League
Baseball player
- March 11 – Russ
Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
- March 14 – Jeppe
Kofod, Danish politician
- March 15 – Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player
- March 20 – Paula Garces, Colombian actress
- March 20 – Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
- March 20 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
- March 20 – Aaron Sprinkle, American musician and record
producer
- March 22 – Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- March 22 – Kidada Jones, American actress, model, fashion
designer
- March 23 – Camilla Martin, Danish badminton player
- March 24 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
- March 25 – Lark Voorhies, American actress
- March 25 – Tapani Mokko, Finnish artist
- March 31 – Angela Dotchin, New Zealand actress
April
- April 1 – Richard Christy, American musician and radio
writer
- April 2 – Håkan Hellström, Swedish
musician
- April 4 – Dave
Mirra, American athlete
- April 9 – Jenna
Jameson, American actress
- April 11 – Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
- April 11 – Trot
Nixon, American baseball player
- April 11 – Zöe Lucker, English Actress
- April 12 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer
(d. 2006)
- April 12 – Shelton, American actress
- April 14 – Da
Brat, American rapper
- April 15 – Josh
Todd, American musician and singer (Buckcherry)
- April 16 – Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
- April 16 – Xu
Jinglei, Chinese actress
- April 17 – Victoria Beckham, English singer
(Spice Girls)
- April 17 – Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician
(Opeth)
- April 18 – Edgar Wright, English film director
- April 20 – Jonathan Roberts, American
ballroom dancer (Dancing with
the Stars)
- April 22 – Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born rock bassist
(System of a Down)
- April 22 – Diego
Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- April 23 – Kirill Seleznyov, Russian
businessman
- April 27 – Johnny Devine, Canadian professional
wrestler
- April 28 – Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
- April 28 – Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
- April 28 – Vernon
Kay, English presenter
May
- May 3 – Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein
of Jordan
- May 3 – Peter
Everitt, Australian
Football League player
- May 4 – Miguel
Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player
- May 5 – Adge
Cutler, British musician (The
Wurzels)
- May 7 – Breckin
Meyer, American Actor
- May 8 – Korey
Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
- May 11 – Billy
Kidman, American professional wrestler
- May 13 – Tim
McMahon, American singer (Mouthpiece)
- May 14 – Keram Malicki-Sanchez, Canadian
singer, actor, writer
- May 16 – Laura
Pausini, Italian singer
- May 16 – Sonny
Sandoval, American rock singer (P.O.D.)
- May 17 – Andrea
Corr, Irish singer (The
Corrs)
- May 19 – Andrew
Johns, Australian rugby league player
- May 21 – Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
- May 21 – Eduardo Verástegui, Mexican
actor
- May 23 – Ken
Jennings, American game show winner
- May 23 – Jewel, American singer
- May 23 – Monica
Naranjo, Spanish singer
- May 23 – Charlie
Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
- May 24 – Daniel Lorenz Johnson, American social
activist/artist
- May 26 – Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
- May 27 – Danny
Wuerffel, American football player
- May 28 – Mikael
Stanne
- May 30 – Big L,
American rapper (d. 1999)
- May 31 – Adrian
Tomine, American cartoonist
June
- June 1 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- June 2 – Gata
Kamsky, American chess player
- June 2 – Matt
Serra, American mixed martial
arts fighter
- June 7 – Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
- June 7 – Edward Bear Grylls, British survivalist
- June 12 – Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
- June 13 – Steve-O, American actor
- June 14 – Jang
Jin-young, South Korean actress (d. 2009)
- June 16 – Paul Lee, British sculptural artist
- June 21 – Natasha Desborough, British radio
personality
- June 22 – Donald Faison, American actor
- June 22 – Vijay, Indian actor
- June 25 – Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
- June 26 – Derek
Jeter, American baseball player
- June 26 – Matt
Striker, American professional wrestler
- June 26 – Jeff Frankenstein, American musician
(Newsboys)
- June 26 – Jason
Kendall, American baseball player
- June 26 – Nicole
Saba, Lebanese singer
- June 28 – Rob
Dyrdek, American pro skateboader
- June 28 – Lin
Wen-tang, Taiwanese golfer
- June 30 – Melanie Lambert, American ice skater
July
- July 1 – Timmy
Hung, Hong Kong actor
- July 1 – Jefferson Perez, Ecuadorean race walker
- July 2 – Matthew Reilly, Australian writer
- July 2 – Rocky
Gray, American musician
- July 4 – La'Roi
Glover, American National
Football League defensive lineman
- July 8 – Allen Skillicorn, American race car
driver
- July 8 – Dragoslav Jevrić,
Montenegrin footballer
- July 12 – Gregory Helms, American professional
wrestler
- July 12 – Sharon den Adel, Dutch singer (Within Temptation)
- July 15 – Chris Taylor, Australian comedian
(The Chaser)
- July 18 – Alan Morrison, British poet
- July 19 – Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby player
- July 19 – Preston Wilson, Major League Baseball
player
- July 21 – Terry Coldwell, British pop singer
(East 17)
- July 22 – Daddy
Kev, American record producer
- July 22 – Sonija
Kwok, Hong Kong actress
- July 23 – Maurice Greene, American
athlete
- July 23 – Rik
Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist
- July 26 – Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
- July 27 – Eason
Chan, Hong Kong singer
- July 28 – Justin Lee Collins, English comedian, TV
and radio presenter
- July 30 – Hilary
Swank, American actress
- July 31 – Emilia
Fox, English actress
- July 31 – Jonathan Ogden, National Football League offensive
lineman
August
- August 2 – Angie Cepeda, Colombian
actress
- August 7 – Sek
Loso, Thai singer, songwriter and guitarist
- August 8 – Brian Harvey, British
pop singer (East
17)
- August 9 – Matt Morris, American baseball
player
- August 9 – Derek Fisher, American basketball player
- August 15 – Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and
model
- August 16 – Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese
cricketer
- August 16 – Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian Olympic
champion swimmer
- August 19 – David Patten, National Football League wide
receiver
- August 20 – Misha Collins, American actor
- August 20 – Amy Adams, American actress
- August 20 – Szabolcs Sáfár, Hungarian
footballer
- August 20 – Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
- August 22 – Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby
player
- August 23 – Christian Beranek, American writer,
producer, musician and actor
- August 23 – Ray
Park, Scottish actor, martial artist
- August 24 – Andrew Clark, Australian footballer
- August 24 – Dalila Carmo, Portuguese actress
- August 24 – Jennifer Lien, American actress
- August 25 – Eric Millegan, American actor
- August 25 – Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional
wrestler
- August 25 – Violeta Riaubiskyte, Lithuanian
singer
- August 27 – Jose
Vidro, Major League Baseball player
- August 28 – Carsten Jancker, German soccer player
September
- September 1 – Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book
artist
- September 1 – Jason Taylor, American
football player
- September 4 – Carmit Bachar, American singer
- September 4 – Andrew Hansen, Australian comedian and
musician (The Chaser)
- September 6 – Tim Henman, English tennis player
- September 6 – Nina Persson, Swedish singer
- September 9 – Shane Crawford, Australian rules football
- September 10 – Ben Wallace, American basketball player
- September 10 – Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer and mixed
martial arts fighter
- September 11 – DeLisha Milton-Jones, American
basketball player
- September 13 – Stephen Lawrence, British murder victim (d.
1993)
- September 14 – Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
- September 14 – Wael Kfoury, Lebanese singer
- September 17 – Rasheed Wallace, American basketball
player
- September 18 – Sol Campbell, English footballer
- September 18 – Xzibit, American rapper
- September 19 – Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
(Saturday Night Live)
- September 19 – Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
- September 21 – Katharine Merry, English sprinter
- September 23 – Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
- September 26 – Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
- September 29 – Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer
- September 30 – Ashley Hamilton, American actor
October
- October 1 – Mats Lindgren, Swedish National Hockey League player
- October 1 – Keith Duffy, Irish singer (Boyzone)
- October 2 – Sam
Roberts, Canadian songwriter and producer
- October 3 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
- October 5 – Alex Walkinshaw, Actor The Bill
- October 8 – Koji Murofushi, Japanese hammer thrower
- October 10 – Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car
driver
- October 11 – Jason Arnott, Canadian National Hockey League player
- October 11 – Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
- October 11 – Kane Kosugi, American martial artist/actor
- October 14 – Shaggy 2 Dope, American rapper
- October 16 – Paul Kariya, Canadian National Hockey League player
- October 21 – Nakia Burrise, American actress
- October 22 – Andrew Ferguson, Recruitment Consultant
- October 21 – Lera Auerbach, Russian composer &
pianist
- October 23 – Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer
player
- October 24 – Catherine Sutherland, Australian
actress
- October 25 – Lee Byung-Kyu, South Korean baseball
player
- October 26 – Lisa, Japanese musician
- October 28 – Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
- October 29 – Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
- October 31 – Natasja Saad, Afro Danish rapper & reggae
singer (d. 2007)
November
- November 1 – VVS Laxman, Indian cricketer
- November 2 – Beverley Mahood, Canadian singer and
songwriter
- November 2 – Nelly, American rapper (Hot In Herre)
- November 3 – Mick Thomson, American rock lead guitarist
(Slipknot)
- November 4 – Louise Redknapp, English singer
- November 4 – Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mexican-American
singer/lyricist
- November 5 – Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
- November 5 – Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball
player
- November 8 – Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga
author
- November 8 – Penelope Heyns, South African swimmer
- November 9 – Uncle Kracker, American singer
- November 9 – Alessandro Del Piero, Italian
footballer
- November 11 – Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor.
- November 11 – Bettina Goislard, French U.N. worker (d.
2003)
- November 14 – Adam Walsh, American murder victim, son
of John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted (d.
1981)
- November 14 – Scott West, Australian rules footballer
- November 15 – Chad Kroeger, Canadian singer
- November 16 – Paul Scholes, English football player
- November 22 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
- November 24 – Stephen Merchant, British comedian
- 27 November – King ov Hell
- 27 November – Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess
player
December
- December 1 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
- December 6 – Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey
player
- December 6 – Gregory S. Glasson, American bass guitarist
- December 7 – Nicole Appleton, Canadian rock singer
(All Saints)
- December 7 – Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
- December 8 – Maya Mishalska, Mexican actress
- December 10 – Meg White, American rock drummer (The White Stripes)
- December 11 – Rey Mysterio, American professional
wrestler
- December 13 – Nicholas McCarthy, English-born rock
guitarist (Franz
Ferdinand)
- December 14 – Billy Koch, American baseball player
- 16 December – Daniel Antonsson
- 16 December – Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
- December 17 – Duff Goldman, American celebrity chef
- December 18 – Kari Byron, American artist and television
personality (Mythbusters)
- December 18 – Peter Boulware, American football player
- December 18 – Euroboy, Norwegian rock musician (Turbonegro)
- December 19 – Jake Plummer, American football player
- December 19 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
- December 21 – Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
- December 23 – Aimee Nezhukumatathil, American
poet
- December 24 – Ryan Seacrest, American television
personality
- December 24 – Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
- December 27 –
Bojan Sarcevic, Bosnian
-French sculptor
- December 27 – Fumiko Orikasa, Japanese seiyū and
singer
- December 27 – Edgar Ponce, Mexican actor and dancer (d.
2005)
- December 28 – Wilson Kirwa, Kenyan-born Finnish athlete
- December 29 – Richie Sexson, American baseball player
- December 29 – Brad Hodge, Australian cricketer
- December 31 – Ryan Sakoda, Japanese American professional
wrestler
Unknown
Deaths
January
February
- February 2 – Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b.
1922)
- February 4 – Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian
mathematician and physicist (b. 1894)
- February 4 – Stuart Buchanan, American actor (b. 1894)
- February 7 – Arline Judge, American actress (b. 1912)
- February 11 – Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish actress (b. 1888)
- February 14 – Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b.
1903)
- February 15 – Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
- February 17 – Jack Cole, American choreographer
and dancer (b. 1911)
- February 21 – Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
- February 23 – Florence Rice, American actress (b. 1907)
- February 23 – Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b.
1895)
- February 28 – Russell Harlan, American cinematographer (b.
1903)
March
- March 1 – Bobby
Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
- March 4 – Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract
expressionist painter (b. 1903)
- March 5 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
- March 5 – Sol
Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
- March 6 – Ernest Becker, American cultural
anthropologist (b. 1925)
- March 9 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr.,
American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1915)
- March 12 – George D. Sax,
American drive-in bank innovator (b. 1904)
- March 17 – Louis
Kahn, Estonian-born architect (b. 1901)
- March 19 – Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
- March 20 – Chet
Huntley, American television journalist (Huntley-Brinkley
Report) (b. 1911)
- March 22 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b.
1939)
- March 28 – Dorothy Fields, American librettist and
lyricist (b. 1905)
- March 31 – Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu, Chinese tenor (b.
1913)
April
- April 2 – Douglas Dumbrille, Canadian actor (b.
1889)
- April 2 – Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
- April 5 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
- April 11 – Ernst Ziegler, German actor (b. 1894)
- April 15 – Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b.
1906)
- April 17 – Blossom Seeley, American actress (b. 1886)
- April 18 – Betty Compson, American actress (b. 1897)
- April 18 – Marcel Pagnol, French novelist (b. 1895)
- April 19 – Ayub
Khan, President of
Pakistan (b. 1907)
- April 24 – Bud
Abbott, American actor (Abbott and Costello) (b.
1897)
- April 24 – Franz
Jonas, Austrian president (b. 1899)
- April 30 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress
(Bewitched) (b. 1900)
May
June
- June 6 – Blanche
Yurka, American actress (b. 1887)
- June 9 – Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan
writer, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1890)
- June 9 – Katharine Cornell, American actress (b.
1893)
- June 10 – Prince Henry, Duke of
Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia
(b. 1900)
- June 17 – Pamela Britton, American actress (b. 1923)
- June 18 – Georgy Zhukov, Soviet general (World War II) (b. 1896)
- June 22 – Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
- June 28 – Frank
Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)
July
- July 1 – Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
- July 7 – Leon
Shamroy, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
- July 9 – James
Bausch, American Olympic decathlete (b. 1906)
- July 9 – Earl
Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)
- July 11 – Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- July 13 – Patrick Blackett, English
physicist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1897)
- July 15 – Christine Chubbuck, American television
reporter (b. 1944)
- July 17 – Dizzy
Dean, American baseball player (b. 1910)
- July 19 – Joe Flynn, American character actor
(McHale's Navy) (b. 1924)
- July 20 – Allen
Jenkins, American actor (b. 1900)
- July 24 – James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
- July 29 – "Mama
Cass" Elliott, American rock music vocalist (The Mamas and
the Papas) (b. 1941)
- July 29 – Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)
August
September
- September 3 – Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
- September 4 – Creighton Williams Abrams,
American general (b. 1914)
- September 4 – Marcel Achard, French playwright and
scriptwriter (b. 1899)
- September 6 – Otto Kruger, American actor (b. 1885)
- September 11 – Víctor Olea Alegría, member of
the Chilean Socialist Party,
(disappeared) (b. 1950)
- September 14 – Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
- September 21 – Walter Brennan, American actor (b. 1894)
- September 21 – Jacqueline Susann, American author (b.
1918)
- September 23 – Cliff Arquette, American actor (b. 1905)
- September 23 – Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur,
last Maharaja of Mysore (b. 1919)
- September 27 – Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer
(assassinated by the Triple A) (b. 1907)
- September 30 – Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General
(assassinated in the frame of Operation
Condor) (b. 1915)
October
November
- November 7 – Rodolfo Acosta, Mexican actor (b. 1920)
- November 11 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
- November 13 – Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b.
1901)
- November 14 – Johnny Mack Brown, American actor (b.
1904)
- November 16 – Walther Meissner, German technical
physicist (b. 1882)
- November 17 – Clive Brook, English actor (b. 1887)
- November 17 – Erskine Hamilton Childers, 4th
President of Ireland (b.
1905)
- November 19 – George Brunies, American musician (b.
1902)
- November 21 – John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b.
1897)
- November 21 – Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b.
1890)
- November 23 – Manuel dos Reis Machado, Brazilian
martial arts Master (b. 1899)
- November 23 – Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American writer (b.
1920)
- November 24 – Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian
politician (b. 1927)
- November 25 – Nick Drake, British musician (b. 1948)
- November 25 – Rosemary Lane, American singer and actress (b.
1914)
- November 25 – U
Thant, Burmese diplomat and Secretary-General of the
United Nations (b. 1909)
- November 26 – Cyril Connolly, British writer and critic (b.
1903)
- November 29 – James J. Braddock, American boxer (b. 1905)
- November 29 – Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b. 1898)
- November 29 – H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon (b. 1889)
- November 29 – Lawrence Riley, American playwright and
screenwriter (b. 1896)
December
- December 2 – Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor
(b. 1897)
- December 5 – Pietro Germi, Italian film director (b.
1914)
- December 5 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American
tennis champion (b. 1914)
- December 11 – Reed Hadley, American actor (b. 1911)
- December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and
journalist (b. 1889)
- December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director
(b. 1902)
- December 18 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (b.
1887)
- December 20 – André Jolivet, French composer (b.
1905)
- December 21 – Richard Long, American actor (b.
1927)
- December 26 – Ahmad Ismail Ali, Egyptian soldier and
politician (b. 1917)
- December 26 – Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer,
virtuoso oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
- December 26 – Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
- December 27 – Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898)
- December 28 – Paul Dixon, American Cincinnati TV
personality (b. 1918)
Fields Medalists
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
Notes