1976 (
MCMLXXVI) was a
leap year starting on
Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
Events
January
February
March
April
- April 1 – Apple
Computer
Company is
formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
- April 1 – Conrail
(Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government,
to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had
filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight,
as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.
- April 1 – The Jovian-Plutonian
gravitational effect is first reported by astronomer Patrick
Moore.
- April 2 – Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as
Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer
Rouge, led by Pol Pot. Under their
control the country becomes known as Democratic Kampuchea.
- April 3 – The
Eurovision Song Contest
1976 is won by Brotherhood of
Man, representing the United Kingdom
, with their song Save Your Kisses for
Me.
- April 4 – Prince
Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader
of Cambodia
and is placed under house arrest.
- April 5 – James Callaghan becomes Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom.
- April 5- At 1:27P.M., Billionaire
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
dies aboard a private jet en route to Houston, Texas from Acapulco,
Mexico. He was 70 years old.
- April 5- Tiananmen Incident: Large crowds lay
wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to
commemorate the death of Premier Zhou
Enlai. Poems against the Gang of
Four are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
- April 13 – An
explosion in an ammunition factory in Lapua
, Finland
kills 40.
- April 16 – As a
measure to curb population growth,
the minimum age for marriage in India
is raised to
21 years for men and 18 years for women.
- April 21 – The
Great Bookie Robbery in
Melbourne
: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers'
settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
- April 23 – The punk rock group The Ramones
release their first self-titled album.
- April 25 – Portugal
's new constitution is
enacted.
May
June
July

- July 2 – North Vietnam and South Vietnam unite to form the Socialist
Republic of Vietnam
.
- July 3 – Gregg v. Georgia: The Supreme
Court of the United States
rules that the death
penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a
constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
- July 3 – The great
heat wave in the
United
Kingdom
, which is currently suffering from drought conditions, reaches its peak.
- July 4 – United States Bicentennial:
From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th
anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence.
- July 4 – The Puerto Rican Socialist Party
(PSP) leads 50,000 marchers in Philadelphia to demand a
"Bicentennial Without Colonies" and independence for Puerto Rico.
- July 4 – Entebbe Raid: Israeli
airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by
Palestinian hijackers of an
Air France plane at Uganda's Entebbe
Airport; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan
soldiers are killed in the raid.
- July 6 – The first class of women is
inducted at the United States Naval
Academy in Annapolis, MD.
- July 7 – German left-wing terrorists
Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge
Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in
West Berlin.
- July 10 – Three
British and 1 American mercenaries are
shot by firing squad in Angola
.
- July 10 – An explosion
in Seveso
, Italy
, causes
extended pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milano,
with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the
toxic cloud.
- July 12 – Barbara Jordan is the first black person to
keynote a political convention.
- July 15 – Jimmy
Carter is nominated for U.S.
President at the Democratic National
Convention in New York
City
.
- July 16–20 – Albert
Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Societe
Generale Bank in Nice
, France
.
- July 17 – The
1976 Summer Olympics begin in
Montreal
, Quebec
, Canada
.
- July 17 – East Timor
is declared the 27th province of Indonesia
.
- July 18 – Nadia Comaneci earns the first of 7 perfect
scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
- July 19 – Sagarmatha
National Park
in Nepal
is
created.
- July 20 – Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- July 21 – A bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs, British
ambassador to the Irish Republic.
- July 26 – In Los Angeles
, Ronald Reagan
announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential
running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican delegates away
from President Gerald Ford.
- July 27 – The
United
Kingdom
breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda.
- July 28 – The
Tangshan earthquake flattens
Tangshan
,China
, killing
242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
- July 29 – In New York City
, the "Son of Sam" pulls a
gun from a paper bag, killing 1 and seriously wounding another, in
the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the
next year.
- July 30 – In Santiago,
Chile
, Cruzeiro
from Brazil
beats
River Plate from
Argentina
and are the Copa Libertadores de
América champions.
- July 31 – NASA
releases
the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by
Viking 1.
- July 31 – The Big Thompson River in northern Colorado
floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses.
August
- August 1 – The
Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago
becomes a republic,
replacing Queen
Elizabeth II with a President as its head of state.
- August 1 – The Seattle Seahawks play their first football
game.
- August 1 – Racing Champion Niki Lauda suffers serious burns in the German
Grand Prix.
- August 2 – A gunman
murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an
incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth
, Texas
.
T. Cullen
Davis, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas,
is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a
plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and
a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
- August 4 – The first
recognized outbreak of Legionnaires'
disease kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia
.
- August 5 – The Great
Clock of Westminster (or Big
Ben
) suffers internal damage and stops running for over
9 months.
- August 6 – Former UK Postmaster General
John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7
years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
- August 7 – Viking program: Viking
2 enters into orbit around Mars.
- August 10 – The
chimes of Big
Ben
stopped when part of the chiming mechanism
disintegrated through metal fatigue.
- August 14 – Ten
thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in
Northern
Ireland
.
- August 14 – The
Senegalese
political party
PAI-Rénovation is
legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the
country.
- August 16 –
The Ramones, made their first
"proffesional" performance at CBGB's
.
- August 18 – At
Panmunjom, North
Korea
, 2 United
States
soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the
Korean Demilitarized Zone
which had obscured their view.
- August 19 – U.S. President Gerald
Ford edges out challenger Ronald
Reagan to win the Republican Party
presidential nomination in Kansas City
.
- August 24 – In
Uruguay
, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant
wife. Marcelo is later killed and his wife (and unborn
child) disappear.
- August 25 – Jacques Chirac resigns as Prime Minister of France; he is
succeeded by Raymond Barre.
- August 26 – The
first known outbreak of Ebola virus occurs in
Yambuku, Zaire
.
- August 26 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld,
husband of Queen Juliana of
the Netherlands, resigns from various posts over a scandal
involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings
with the Lockheed Corporation.
- August 30 – James Alexander George
Smith "Jags" McCartney was sworn in as the first Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands.
September
- September 3 –
Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia
Planitia
on
Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of
the planet's surface.
- September 6 –
Cold War: Soviet
Air Force
pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko
lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō
in Japan
, and
requests political asylum from the United States
.
- September 6 – Frank Sinatra brings Jerry Lewis's former partner Dean Martin onstage, unannounced, at the 1976
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon in
Las Vegas, Nevada,
reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20
years.
- September 9 –
Chairman Mao Zedong, of the People's
Republic of China
, dies.
- September 10 –
Zagreb
mid-air collision
: A British Airways
Trident and a Yugoslav DC-9 collide near
Zagreb
, Yugoslavia (now
Croatia
), killing all 176 aboard.
- September 10 – Osamu Tezuka begins serialising MW, a manga inspired by
the 1974 Kakuei
Tanaka government scandal.
- September 16 –
Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20
people from a trolleybus that had fallen into an Erevan
reservoir.
- September 17 –
The space shuttle Enterprise is rolled out
of a Palmdale,
California
hangar.
- September 20 – September 21 – The semi-legendary 100 Club Punk Festival ignites the
careers of several influential punk and post-punk bands, arguably sparking the Punk Movement's introduction into mainstream
culture.
- September 21 –
The Seychelles
join the United
Nations.
- September 21 –
Orlando Letelier is assassinated in
Washington,
D.C.
by agents of Chilean
dictator Augusto
Pinochet.
- September 24 – Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in
prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery (an
executive clemency order from U.S. President Jimmy Carter will set her free after only 22
months).
- September 25 – The Irish rock band
U2 is formed after drummer Larry Mullen Jr. posts a note seeking
members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.
October
- October 4 – The new Intercity 125 High
Speed Train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
- October 6 –
Cubana
Flight 455
crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists,
after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados
. All 73 people on board are killed. [6134]
- October 6 –
Students gathering at
Thammasat University in
Bangkok
, Thailand
are massacred, while protesting the return of
ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn
by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces,
triggering the return of the military to government.
- October 6 – In
San
Francisco
, during his
second televised debate with Jimmy
Carter, U.S. President Gerald
Ford stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet
domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
- October 10 – Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-ming is injured by a letter bomb
from a pro-independence activist.
- October 12 – The
People's
Republic of China
announces that Hua
Guofeng is the successor to Mao
Zedong, as Chairman of the Communist Party of
China.
- October 13 – The United States
Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto
Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future,
that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United
States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29
percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in
the country (not including Puerto Rico,
a U.S. territory).
- October 19 – The Copyright Act of 1976 extends copyright duration for an additional 20 years in
the United States.
- October 19 – The
Battle of Aishiya is fought in
Lebanon
.
- October 19 – The Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) is placed
on the list of endangered species.
- October 20 – The
Mississippi River ferry
MV George Prince
is struck by a ship while crossing from
Destrehan,
LA
to Luling,
LA
, killing 78 passengers and crew.
- October 21 – The Cincinnati Reds sweep the New York Yankees in four games to win the
1976 World Series.
- October 22 – Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh, the 5th
President of Ireland, resigns
after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
- October 25 – Clarence Norris, the
last known survivor of the Scottsboro
Boys, is pardoned.
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 2 – Cletidus Hunt, American football player
- January 2 – Paz
Vega, Spanish actress
- January 2 – Mahée Paiement, Canadian actress
- January 4 – Shiro Amano, Japanese manga
artist/writer
- January 6 – Danny Pintauro, American actor
- January 6 – Johnny Yong Bosch, American actor
- January 7 – Éric Gagné, Canadian baseball
player
- January 7 – Alfonso Soriano, Dominican baseball
player
- January 8 – Jenny Lewis, American actress and singer
(Rilo Kiley)
- January 10 – Adam Kennedy, American baseball player
- January 13 – Bic
Runga, New Zealand singer/songwriter
- January 19 – Marsha Thomason, British actress
- January 20 – Anastasia Volochkova, Russian prima
ballerina
- January 20 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
- January 20 – Kirsty Gallacher, Scottish TV
presenter
- January 21 – Emma Bunton, English musician (Spice Girls)
- January 22 – Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice-hockey player
- January 22 – James Dearth, American football player
- January 23 – Tony Lucca, American singer/songwriter
- January 23 – Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
- January 23 – Nigel McGuiness, English professional
wrestler
- January 27 – Ruby
Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
- January 27 – Mohamed Aly, Egyptian reformist &
writer
- January 28 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player
- January 28 – Lee Ingleby, British actor
- January 29 – Tracy Lynn Cruz, American actress
- January 30 – Andy Milonakis, American Internet and MTV
star
- January 31 – Buddy Rice, American race car driver
February
- February 2 – Carlos Coste, Venezuelan free-diver
- February 2 – James Hickman, British swimmer
- February 2 – Lori Beth Denberg, American comedian
- February 4 – Cam'ron, American rapper
- February 5 – Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
- February 5 – Tony
Jaa, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
- February 5 – Brian Moorman, American football player
- February 6 – Kim Zmeskal, American Olympic gymnast
- February 6 – Colin Teo, Singaporean D1
Professional Grand Prix drifter
- February 8 &nadsh; Abi Titmuss, British TV presenter and model
- February 8 &nadsh; Pooch Hall, American actor
- February 9 – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball
player
- February 10 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player
- February 12 – Silvia Saint, Czech actress
- February 12 – Jenni Falconer, British TV presenter
- February 13 – Martin Sastre, Uruguayan artist
- February 15 – Brandon Boyd, American rock musician (Incubus)
- February 16 – Kyo, Japanese rock musician (Dir en grey)
- February 20 – Ed Graham, British rock drummer (The Darkness)
- February 20 – Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
- February 23 – Jeff O'Neill, Canadian hockey player
- February 25 – Rashida Jones, American actress, writer,
model, and musician
- February 28 – Ali Larter, American actress and model
- February 28 – Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge,
Canadian actor
- February 29 – Ja
Rule, American rapper
March
- March 1 – Luke
Mably, English actor
- March 3 – Fraser Gehrig, Australian rules
footballer
- March 4 – Robbie
Blake, English footballer
- March 4 – Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball
player
- March 4 – Sean
Covel, American film producer
- March 4 – Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter
and stage actor
- March 4 – Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football
player
- March 4 – Regi
Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
- March 4 – Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey
player
- March 4 – Gary
Shortland, British professional figure skater
- March 4 – Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack)
- March 4 – Jasin Thomason, American guitarist (The Ataris)
- March 5 – Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian
basketball player
- March 6 – Mr.
Kennedy, American professional wrestler
- March 8 – Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
- March 10 – Haifa
Wehbe, Lebanese model, actress and singer
- March 12 – Zhao
Wei, Chinese singer and actress
- March 13 – Danny Masterson, American actor
- March 14 – Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
- March 14 – Hunter Burgan, American rock musician
(AFI)
- March 16 – Kim
Johnsson, Swedish hockey player
- March 16 – Blu
Cantrell, American R&B singer
- March 17 – Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
- March 17 – Stephen Gately, Irish singer (Boyzone) (d. 2009)
- March 17 – Brittany and Cynthia Daniel, American actress
- March 19 – Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress
- March 19 – Alessandro Nesta, Italian football
player
- March 20 – Chester Bennington, American rock
musician (Linkin Park)
- March 22 – Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey
player
- March 22 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress
- March 22 – Kellie Shanygne Williams, American
actress
- March 22 – Wayne Turner, American basketball player
- March 23 – Keri
Russell, American actress
- March 23 – Sir
Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist
- March 24 – Aaron Brooks, American
football player
- March 24 – Peyton Manning, American football player
- March 26 – Amy
Smart, American actress
- March 27 – Carl
Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
- March 28 – Dave
Keuning, American rock guitarist (The
Killers)
- March 30 – Ty
Conklin, American ice-hockey player
April
- April 2 – Lucy
Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
- April 2 – Rory
Sabbatini, South African golfer
- April 3 – Drew
Shirley, American guitarist (Switchfoot)
- April 5 – Henrik Stenson, Swedish golfer
- April 6 – Candace Cameron, American actress
- April 9 – Kris
Radlinski, English rugby league player
- April 13 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d.
2003)
- April 13 – Yoo
Ji-tae, South Korean actor
- April 14 – Anna
DeForge, American basketball player
- April 15 – Steve Williams, British rower
- April 15 – Jason Bonsignore, Canadian ice-hockey
player
- April 16 – Shu
Qi, Taiwanese actress and singer
- April 18 – Melissa Joan Hart, American actress
- April 18 – Sean
Maguire, British actor
- April 20 – Joey Lawrence, American actor
- April 21 – Rommel Adducul, Filipino basketball
player
- April 22 – Michał Żewłakow, Polish
footballer
- April 23 – Darren Huckerby, English footballer
- April 23 – Gabriel Damon, American actor
- April 25 – Tim
Duncan, West Indian basketball player
- April 25 – Rainer Schüttler, German tennis
player
- April 26 – Emily Booth, English actress and TV
presenter
- April 26 – Jose Pasillas, American rock drummer (Incubus)
- April 29 – Jay
Orpin, Swedish composer and record producer
- April 30 – Amanda Palmer, American lead vocalist
and pianist (The Dresden
Dolls)
May
- May 3 – Beto, Portuguese footballer
- May 4 – Jason
Michaels, American baseball player
- May 8 – Martha Wainwright, Canadian-American
folk-pop singer
- May 10 – Udo
Mechels, Belgian singer
- May 14 – Martine McCutcheon, British actress and
singer
- May 15 – Tyler
Walker, American baseball player
- May 15 – Jacek Krzynówek, Polish footballer
- May 15 – Ryan
Leaf, former American football quarterback
- May 17 – Leehom
Wang, U.S.-born Taiwanese singer/songwriter
- May 17 – Kandi
Burruss, American singer/songwriter and a member of Xscape
- May 17 – Daniel
Komen, Kenyan athlete
- May 19 – Kevin
Garnett, American basketball player
- May 20 – Ramón Hernández, Venezuelan
baseball player
- May 22 – Chris
Brazzell, Canadian and American Football player
- May 25 – Stefan
Holm, Swedish high jumper
- May 25 – Miguel
Tejada, Dominican baseball player
- May 25 – Cillian Murphy, Irish actor
- May 26 – Paul
Collingwood, English cricketer
- May 26 – Justin
Pierre, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack)
- May 28 – Alexei
Nemov, Russian gymnast
- May 31 – Roar
Ljokelsoy, Noweigian ski jumper
- May 31 – Colin
Farrell, Irish actor
June
- June 1 – Angela Perez Baraquio, Miss America 2001
- June 2 – Tim
Rice-Oxley, English rock musician/composer (Keane)
- June 2 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
of Lesotho
- June 4 – Reggie
Rolle, American actor
- June 6 – Geoff
Rowley, English skateboarder
- June 7 – Necro (Ron
Braunstein), American rapper and record producer
- June 8 – Lindsay Davenport, American tennis
player
- June 10 – Freddy Garcia, Venezuelan baseball player
- June 10 – Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician,
parliamentarian for the Party for
the Animals
- June 11 – Tai
Anderson, American rock bassist (Third
Day)
- June 11 – Gran
Naniwa, Japanese professional wrestler
- June 13 – Jason 'J' Brown, English rock musician
(5ive)
- June 13 – Kym
Marsh, British singer and actress
- June 14 – Alan
Carr, English comedian
- June 13 – Lisa
Riley, British actress and presenter
- June 15 – Dryden Mitchell, American rock musician
(Alien Ant Farm)
- June 15 – Gary
Lightbody, Northern Irish rock musician and songwriter
(Snow Patrol)
- June 20 – Juliano Haus Belletti, Brazilian
footballer
- June 21 – Antonio Cochran, American football
player
- June 21 – Mike
Einziger, American rock musician (Incubus)
- June 23 – Brandon Stokley, American football
player
- June 23 – Emmanuelle Vaugier, Canadian actress
- June 23 – Patrick Vieira, French footballer
- June 26 – Chad Pennington, American football
quarterback
July
- July 1 – Justin
Lo, Hong Kong singer and actor
- July 1 – Patrick Kluivert, Dutch footballer
- July 1 – Plies, American rapper
- July 1 – Ruud van Nistelrooy, Dutch
footballer
- July 1 – Lina
Rafn, Danish singer
- July 2 – Krisztián Lisztes, Hungarian
footballer
- July 3 – Shane
Lynch, Irish singer (Boyzone)
- July 4 – Daijiro
Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2003)
- July 5 – Bizarre, African American rapper
- July 5 – Mike
DeWolf, American rock musician (Taproot)
- July 5 – Nuno
Gomes, Portuguese footballer
- July 7 – Elijah Blue Allman, American musician,
son of Cher and Greg
Allman
- July 7 – Natasha Collins, British actress and
television presenter (d. 2008)
- July 8 – Ellen
MacArthur, English yachtswoman
- July 9 – Shelton Benjamin, American professional
wrestler
- July 9 – Fred
Savage, American actor and director
- July 10 – Ludovic Giuly, French footballer
- July 10 – Adrian Grenier, American actor, musician, and
director
- July 11 – Eduardo Nájera, Mexican basketball
player
- July 16 – Anna
Smashnova, Israeli tennis player
- July 16 – Bobby
Lashley, American professional wrestler
- July 17 – Marcos
Senna, Brazilian footballer
- July 20 – Andrew Stockdale, Australian rock
singer/guitarist (Wolfmother)
- July 20 – Alex
Yoong, Malaysian race car driver
- July 23 – Judit
Polgar, Hungarian chess player
- July 23 – Jonathan Gallant, Canadian rock bassist
(Billy Talent)
- July 25 – Timur Mucuraev, Chechen bard
- July 25 – Stéphane Rideau, French actor
- July 31 – Annie
Parisse, American actress
August
- August 3 – Troy
Glaus, American baseball player
- August 6 – Soleil Moon Frye, American actress
- August 6 – Melissa George, Australian actress
- August 8 – JC
Chasez, American singer
- August 8 – Drew
Lachey, American singer
- August 9 – Jessica Capshaw, American actress
- August 9 – Rhona
Mitra, English actress
- August 11 – Ben
Gibbard, American rock musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)
- August 11 – Brendan Bayliss, American rock guitarist and
vocalist
- August 12 – Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock
guitarist
- August 12 – Antoine Walker, American basketball
player
- August 12 – Wednesday 13 (Joseph Poole), American rock lead
(Murderdolls, FDQ)
- August 13 – Roddy Woomble, Scottish musician
- August 14 – Alex Albrecht, American television
personality
- August 14 – Maya
Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
- August 15 – Boudewijn Zenden, Dutch football
player
- August 18 – Alex Katunich, American rock bassist
- August 18 – Bryan Volpenhein, American rower
- August 18 – Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball
player
- August 19 – Michael M. Wartella,
American underground cartoonist
- August 24 – Yang Yang, Chinese short track
skater
- August 25 – Jensen Atwood, American actor
- August 27 – Carlos Moyà, Spanish tennis player
- August 27 – Mark Webber, Australian race car driver
- August 27 – Sarah Chalke, Canadian actress
- August 30 – Lillo Brancato, Jr., American actor
September
- September 1 – Ivano Brugnetti, Italian race walker
- September 3 – Jevon Kearse, American football player
- September 4 – Brian Myrow, American baseball player
- September 5 – Carice van Houten, Dutch actress
- September 6 – Naomie Harris, British actress
- September 7 – Stevie Case, American video game celebrity
- September 8 – Sjeng Schalken, Dutch tennis player
- September 10 – Gustavo Kuerten, Brazilian tennis
player
- September 12 – Maciej Żurawski, Polish footballer
- September 12 – Bizzy Bone, American rapper, member of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
- September 16 – Tina Barrett, English pop singer (S Club 7)
- September 19 – Isha Koppikar, Indian actress
- September 20 – Yui Horie, Japanese seiyu
(voice actress)
- September 22 – Ronaldo, Brazilian
footballer
- September 24 – Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American
wrestling promoter
- September 25 – Chauncey Billups, American basketball
player
- September 26 – Michael Ballack, German footballer
- September 27 – Francesco Totti, Italian footballer
- September 28 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial arts fighter
- September 29 – Andriy Shevchenko, Ukrainian
footballer
October
- October 1 – Dora Venter, Hungarian pornographic actress
- October 4 – Alicia Silverstone, American actress
- October 4 – Mauro Camoranesi, Italian footballer
- October 6 – Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer
- October 7 – Taylor Hicks, American singer
- October 7 – Gilberto Silva, Brazilian football
player
- October 10 – Bob Burnquist, Brazilian skateboarder
- October 14 – Chang Chen, Taiwanese actor
- October 15 – Yoon Son-ha, South Korean actress
- October 19 – Dan Smith, Canadian ice-hockey
player
- October 19 – Michael Young, American
baseball player
- October 19 – Ryuji Imada, Japanese golfer
- October 21 – Jeremy Miller, American actor
- October 22 – Jon Foreman, American rock singer/guitarist
(Switchfoot)
- October 23 – Cat Deeley, British television presenter
- October 23 – Ryan Reynolds, Canadian actor
- October 25 – Kristin Rossum, American murderer
- October 25 – Steve Jones, Northern
Irish footballer
- October 26 – Miikka Kiprusoff, Finnish hockey
player
- October 26 – Jeremy Wotherspoon, Canadian speed
skater
- October 29 – Stephen Craigan, Northern Irish
footballer
- October 29 – Mohsen Emadi, Iranian poet
November
- November 5 – Sean Brown, Canadian ice-hockey player
- November 6 – Pat Tillman, American football player (d.
2004)
- November 6 – Troy Hambrick, American Football Player
- November 6 – Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist,
daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Joe
Clark
- November 6 – Wiley Wiggins, American actor
- November 7 – Mark Philippoussis, Australian tennis
player
- November 8 – Brett Lee, Australian cricket player
- November 10 – Sōta Fujimori, Japanese music
composer
- November 11 – Mike Leon Grosch, German singer
- November 12 – Mirosław Szymkowiak, Polish
footballer
- November 16 – Mario Barravecchia, Italian singer
- November 18 – Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir)
- November 19 – Jun Shibata, Japanese singer and songwriter
- November 20 – Laura Harris, Canadian actress
- November 20 – Dominique Dawes, American Olympic
gymnast
- November 22 – Torsten Frings, German footballer
- November 22 – Ville Valo, Finnish rock singer (HIM)
- November 24 – Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
- November 24 – Christian Laflamme, Canadian ice-hockey
player
- November 27 – Jaleel White, American actor
- November 29 – Anna Faris, American actress
- November 29 – Ehren McGhehey, American actor
December
- December 1 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d.
1998)
- December 3 – Marcos Denner, Brazilian
footballer
- December 4 – Amie Comeaux, American country music singer (d.
1997)
- December 7 – Georges Laraque, Canadian ice-hockey
player
- December 8 – Dominic Monaghan, English actor
- December 12 – Dan Hawkins, British rock guitarist
(The Darkness)
- December 13 – Tom Delonge, American rock musician (Blink-182)
- December 13 – Radosław Sobolewski, Polish
footballer
- December 14 – Leland Chapman, American bail bondsman
- December 15 – Baichung Bhutia, Indian footballer
- December 17 – Takeo Spikes, American football player
- December 23 – Jamie Noble, American professional wrestler
- December 24 –
Angel Matos, former Cuban
taekwondo athlete.
- December 25 – Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish metal
keyboardist (Nightwish)
- December 25 – Armin van Buuren, Dutch music producer and
DJ
- December 26 – Brad Swaile, Canadian Voice Actor
- December 27 – Fernando Pisani, Canadian ice-hockey
player
Deaths
January–March
- January 8 – Zhou
Enlai, Premier of the
People's Republic of China (b. 1898)
- January 10 – Howlin' Wolf, African-American musician (b.
1910)
- January 12 – Agatha Christie, English writer (Murder
On The Orient Express) (b. 1890)
- January 13 – Margaret Leighton, English actress (b.
1922)
- January 19 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer
(b. 1886)
- January 23 – Paul Robeson, African-American actor, singer,
writer, and activist (Ol' Man River) (b. 1898)
- January 26 – Luis Alberti, Dominican Republic musician (b.
1906)
- January 26 – João Branco Núncio, Portuguese
bullfighter (b. 1901)
- January 29 – James Edmonson, American
vaudevillian and comedian (Professor Backwards) (b. 1910)
- January 30 – Mance Lipscomb, American singer (b. 1895)
- January 31 – Ernesto Miranda, American defendant in the
court case Miranda v.
Arizona (b. 1941)
- February 1 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1901)
- February 1 – Hans Richter, German artist (b.
1888)
- February 1 – George Whipple, American scientist, recipient
of the Nobel Prize
in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1878)
- February 2 – Zlatyu Boyadzhiev, Bulgarian painter (b.
1903)
- February 4 – Roger Livesey, Welsh actor (b. 1906)
- February 7 – Eliyahu Kitov, Jewish political activist (b.
1912)
- February 6 – Vince Guaraldi, American musician (Linus
and Lucy) (b. 1928)
- February 9 – Percy Faith, Canadian-born musician and composer
(b. 1908)
- February 11 – Lee J. Cobb, American
actor (Death Of A Salesman) (b. 1911)
- February 11 – Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist
(b. 1894)
- February 11 – Charlie Naughton, Scottish actor (b.
1886)
- February 12 – Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus) (b.
1939)
- February 13 – Lily Pons, American soprano (b. 1898)
- February 17 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (b. 1910)
- February 18 – Joseph Henabery, American actor (b. 1888)
- February 20 – René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
- February 20 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist and
faith healer (b. 1907)
- February 22 – Florence Ballard, American singer
(The Supremes) (b. 1943)
- March 4 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
- March 5 – Charles Lederer, American screenwriter (b.
1910)
- March 6 – Max
'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b.
1903)
- March 7 – Wright Patman, American politician (b.
1893)
- March 14 – Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and
director (b. 1895)
- March 17 – Luchino Visconti, Italian theatre and film
director (b. 1906)
- March 19 – Paul
Kossoff, British rock guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
- March 24 – Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal
(b. 1887)
- March 24 – E. H. Shepard, English artist and book illustrator
(b. 1879)
- March 25 – Josef Albers, German-American artist (b.
1888)
- March 28 – Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
- March 31 – Paul
Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)
April–June
- April 1 – Max
Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)
- April 4 – Harry
Nyquist, American information
theory pioneer (b. 1889)
- April 5 – Howard Hughes, American billionaire, aviation
pioneer, film director, and eccentric (b. 1905)
- April 9 – Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer,
pianist (Nordstrom
Sisters) (b. 1903)
- April 9 – Phil
Ochs, American folk singer and political activist (Outside
of a Small Circle of Friends) (b. 1940)
- April 12 – Miriam Cooper, American actress (b. 1891)
- April 12 – Paul
Ford, American actor (b. 1901)
- April 18 – Henrik
Dam, Danish biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b. 1895)
- April 25 – Carol
Reed, English film director (b. 1906)
- April 26 – Sid
James, South African actor (b. 1913)
- April 28 – Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (b.
1897)
- May 1 – T.R.M. Howard,
African-American civil rights leader and surgeon (b. 1908)
- May 9 – Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author (b.
1920)
- May 9 – Ulrike
Meinhof, German terrorist (b. 1934)
- May 11 – Alvar
Aalto, Finnish architect (b. 1898)
- May 14 – Keith
Relf, British rock musician (The
Yardbirds) (b. 1943)
- May 20 – Zelmar Michelini, Uruguayan politician,
member of the Christian-Democrat party (disappeared) (b. 1924)
- May 20 – Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz,
Uruguayan politicican (assassinated) (b. 1934)
- May 26 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher (b.
1889)
- May 26 – Juan
Maino, Chilean leader of MAPU, "disappeared"
- May 28 – Steffan Danielsen, Faroese painter (b.
1922)
- May 31 – Martha Beall Mitchell, American wife
of John N. Mitchell (b. 1918)
- May 31 – Jacques
Monod, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
or Medicine (b. 1910)
- June 2 – Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia (assassinated in
the frame of Operation Condor) (b.
1920)
- June 2 – Don
Bolles, American newspaper reporter (assassinated) (b. 1928)
- June 6 – J.
Paul Getty, American industrialist,
founder of Getty Oil (b. 1892)
- June 6 – Victor
Varconi, Hungarian actor (b. 1891)
- June 7 – Bobby
Hackett, American jazz musician (b. 1915)
- June 9 – Sybil
Thorndike, British actress (b. 1882)
- June 10 – Adolph
Zukor, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873)
- June 11 – Toots
Mondt, American WWF promoter (b. 1886)
- June 14 – Knud, Hereditary Prince of
Denmark (b. 1900)
- June 15 – Jimmy
Dykes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896)
- June 23 – William DeHart Hubbard, American
Olympic athlete (b. 1903)
- June 24 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer
(b. 1883)
- June 25 – Johnny Mercer, American songwriter (Moon
River) (b. 1909)
- June 28 – Stanley Baker, British actor (b. 1928)
- June 30 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (b.
1898)
July–September
- July 1 – Zhang
Mintian, General
Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1900)
- July 4 – Antoni Słonimski, Polish poet and writer
(b. 1895)
- July 6 – Zhu De,
China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886)
- July 7 – Norman Foster, American film
director (b. 1900)
- July 7 – Walter
Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
- July 12 – James Wong Howe, American cinematographer
(b. 1899)
- July 12 – Ted Mack, American radio and
television host (b. 1904)
- July 13 – Joachim Peiper, German military leader (b.
1915)
- July 13 – Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b.
1884)
- July 16 – Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat (assassinated
by the Chilean DINA) (b. 1921)
- July 17 – Arthur Hornblow, Jr., American film
producer (b. 1893)
- July 24 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (b.
1912)
- August 2 – Cecilia , Spanish singer-songwriter (b.
1948)
- August 2 – Fritz
Lang, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and
occasional film producer (b. 1890)
- August 3 – Valery Sablin, Soviet mutineer (executed) (b.
1939)
- August 4 – Enrique Angelelli, Argentine bishop
(assassinated in the "Dirty War") (b.
1923)
- August 6 – Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist (b.
1903)
- August 6 – William Mervyn, English actor (b.1912)
- August 10 – Ray
"Crash" Corrigan, American actor (b. 1902)
- August 10 – Robert L. May , Creator of Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer (b. 1905)
- August 19 – Alastair Sim, Scottish actor (b. 1900)
- August 22 – Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil (b. 1902)
- August 25 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- August 26 – Warner Anderson, American actor (b. 1911)
- August 26 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (b. 1888)
- August 27 – Mukesh, Indian singer (b. 1923)
- August 28 – Anissa Jones, American actress (b. 1958)
- September 2 – Stanisław Grochowiak, Polish
writer (b. 1934)
- September 9 – Mao Zedong, Chinese leader (b. 1893)
- September 10 – Dalton Trumbo, American screenwriter, one of
the Hollywood Ten (b. 1905)
- September 11 – Prince Paul of Yugoslavia (b.
1893)
- September 21 – Orlando Letelier, Chilean former minister
of Salvador Allende (assassinated
in Washington, D.C.) (b. 1932)
- September 26 – Lavoslav Ružička, Croatian
chemist, Nobel Prize
laureate (b. 1887)
- September 30 – Paul Dehn, British screenwriter (b. 1912)
October–December
- October 5 – Barbara Nichols, American actress (b.
1929)
- October 5 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
- October 6 – Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)
- October 14 – Edith Evans, British actress (b. 1888)
- October 15 – Carlo Gambino, American gangster (b. 1902)
- October 11 – Connee Boswell, American singer (b. 1907)
- October 11 – Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (b. 1897)
- October 25 – Raymond Queneau, French poet and novelist
(b. 1903)
- October 28 – Máire Drumm, Irish nationalist politician
(assassinated) (b. 1919)
- November 8 – Gottfried von Cramm, German tennis
champion (b. 1909)
- November 9 – Billy Halop, American actor (b. 1920)
- November 10 – Syd Coventry, Australian footballer (b.
1899)
- November 11 – Alexander Calder, American sculptor (b.
1898)
- November 12 – Walter Piston, American composer (b. 1894)
- November 15 – Jean Gabin, French actor (b. 1904)
- November 18 – Man
Ray, American artist (b. 1890)
- November 23 – André Malraux, French writer and
statesman (b. 1901)
- November 28 – Rosalind Russell, American actress (b.
1907)
- November 29 – Godfrey Cambridge, American actor (b.
1933)
- November 29 – Judith Lowry, American actress (b. 1890)
- December 2 – Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1917)
- December 3 – Cornelius Griffin, American football
player
- December 3 – Mary Nash, American actress (b. 1884)
- December 4 – Benjamin Britten, English composer (b.
1913)
- December 4 – Tommy Bolin, American Guitarist (b. 1951)
- December 6 – João Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- December 8 – Henryk Jasiczek, Polish writer and political
activist (b. 1919)
- December 12 – Jack Cassidy, American actor of stage, film,
and screen (b. 1927)
- December 20 – Richard J. Daley, American Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902)
- December 24 –
Duarte Nuno, Duke of
Braganza, claimant to the throne of Portugal
(b. 1907)
- December 25 – Frankie Darro, American actor (b. 1917)
- December 25 – Irving Lerner, American cinematographer and
director (b. 1909)
- December 26 – Phil Hart, U.S. Senator (b. 1912)
- December 28 – Katharine Byron, U.S. Congresswoman (b.
1903)
Unknown dates
In fiction
- The 2008 CBS television show Swingtown takes place in the summer of this
year.
- The pilot for That '70s
Show is also set in this year.
- The movie Dazed and
Confused takes place in this year.
- In the movie The
Sandlot: Heading Home, the main character is sent back to
this year.
- '76, a comic book mini-series
published by Image Comics, is set in this year.
- The film Rocky, also released
this year, takes place with the Rocky/Apollo match fought on New
Year's Day.
Ship events
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
See also
References
- University of California EAOP, 2003 in Review. University of
California, 2009-10 Budget for Current Operations Budget Detail, as
Presented to the Regents for Approval.
External links