Events

January

• January 4 – Citing executive privilege, U.S. President Richard Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents which have been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
• January 4 – Joni Lenz is attacked in her bedroom by serial killer Ted Bundy in Washington.
• January 6 – In response to the energy crisis, Daylight Saving Time commences nearly 4 months early in the United States.
• January 19 – In college (men's) basketball, Notre Dame defeats UCLA 71–70, ending the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak.
• January 26 – Bülent Ecevit, of CHP forms the new government of Turkey (37th government, partner MSP )
• January 27 – Brisbane Qld Australia is flooded.
• January 30 – G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of Watergate charges.
• January 30 – In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Richard Nixon declares, "One year of Watergate is enough."

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

• October 5 – The Guildford pub bombings at The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars kill 5 people, and lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the Guildford Four the next year.
• October 8 – Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement (the largest bank failure at that time in the history of the United States).
• October 9 – Holocaust hero Oskar Schindler dies at age sixty-six having saved between one thousand-two hundred and one thousand-seven hundred Jews from certain murder at Kraków-Płaszów and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps during World War II.
• October 10 – In the United Kingdom, the second general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Labour, still led by Harold Wilson.
• October 15 – U.S. President Gerald Ford signs a federal campaign reform bill, which sets new regulations in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
• October 30 – The Rumble in the Jungle takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire, where Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in 8 rounds to regain the Heavyweight title, which had been stripped from him 7 years earlier.

November

• November 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

• The Milgram experiment is first described by Harvard University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.
• The Baltimore police strike occurs.
• Volkswagen's Golf automobile (known in the USA as the Rabbit) first enters production, as the replacement for well-loved but antiquated Beetle. VW goes on to sell more than 22 million Golfs, and the model, now in its 5th generation, is still in full scale production as of 2008.
• The Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra is founded by Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Victor Feldbrill.
• World population reaches 4 billion people.
• A smallpox epidemic in India breaks out, one of the worst of the 20th century.
• The Urdu typewriter keyboard layout is modified using frequency tables and bifurcation (balancing load on typist's fingers) techniques, in Pakistan.

Ongoing

• Cold War
• The Troubles

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

• Banksy, infamous British graffiti artist (uncertain, but said to have been born in 1974)
• Angus Purden, Scottish TV presenter (year uncertain)
• Andrew 'Whitey' White, British rock guitarist (Kaiser Chiefs)
• Chris Lilley – Australian comedian and actor

Deaths

January

• January 2 – E. L. Cord, American automobile executive (b. 1894)
• January 2 – Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
• January 12 – Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
• January 15 – Charles Rosher, American cinematographer (b. 1885)
• January 27 – Georgios Grivas, Greek-Cypriot colonel (b. 1898)
• January 31 – Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born American film studio executive (b. 1879)
• January 31 – Glenn Morris, American Olympic decathlete and actor (b. 1912)

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

• May 10 – Hal Mohr, American cinematographer (b. 1894)
• May 13 – Denny Shute, American golf champion (b. 1904)
• May 18 – Mary Maguire, Australian actress (b. 1919)
• May 24 – Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
• May 25 – Donald Crisp, English actor (b. 1882)
• May 26 – Kitty Gordon, American actress (b. 1878)

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

• August 6 – Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
• August 8 – Baldur von Schirach, Nazi German Hitler Youth leader (b. 1907)
• August 11 – Compton Bennett, English film director (b. 1900)
• August 20 – Ilona Massey, Hungarian actress (b. 1910)
• August 26 – Charles Lindbergh, American aviator (Spirit of St. Louis) (b. 1902)
• August 27 – Otto Strasser, Nazi German politician (b. 1897)
• August 31 – William Pershing Benedict, American pilot (b. 1928)

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

• October 4 – Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (suicide) (b. 1928)
• October 6 – V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1897)
• October 9 – Oskar Schindler, German businessman, saver of Jews in the Holocaust (b. 1908)
• October 13 – Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
• October 16 – Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian carnatic musician (b. 1895)
• October 24 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
• October 24 – Ekaterina Furtseva, USSR Minister of Culture (b. 1910)

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

• Enrico Bombieri, David Mumford

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
• Chemistry – Paul J. Flory
• Medicine – Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
• Literature – Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
• Peace – Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
• Economics – Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek

Templeton Prize

• Brother Roger

Notes