1979

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See 1979 (song) for the Smashing Pumpkins song.

Year 1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar).

Events of 1979

January

January 1 - United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child". Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF Concert" fund.
January 1 - The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations.

January 4 - The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings.
January 7 - Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border.
January 8 - The French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland; 50 are killed.
January 9 - The Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General Assembly to raise money for UNICEF and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast the following day in the United States and around the world. Hosted by The Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire. A soundtrack album was released.
January 16 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family, relocating to Egypt after a year of turmoil.
January 19 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
January 21 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in Super Bowl XIII played at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.
January 29 - Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 teachers and wounding 8 students.
January 31 - The police under directions of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of CPM led govt of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal, India. Hundreds killed but govt officially accepted 36 deaths.

February

February 1 - Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
February 1 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
February 3 - Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
February 7 - Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.
February 7 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
February 10-February 11 - The Iranian army mutinies and joins the Islamic Revolution.
February 11 - Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
February 12 - Prime Minister Hissène Habré starts the battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow Chad's President Félix Malloum.
February 13 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
February 14 - In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
February 14 - Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter. She later reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of Playboy Magazine. Incidently on this day her future partner Andrew Aitken was born a hermaphrodite. He also went on to have sex reassignment surgery and they married as husband and wife.
February 15 - A suspected gas explosion rocks a bank in Warsaw killing 49.
February 17 - The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.
February 18 - The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
February 22 - Saint Lucia becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
February 26 - A total solar eclipse arcs over northern Canada, and a partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America.

March

March 1 - Scotland votes narrowly for home rule, which is not implemented, and Wales votes against it.
March 4 - The U.S. Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
March 5 - Voyager I makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
March 7 - Largest Magnetar, or Soft gamma repeater, event recorded.
March 13 - Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in Grenada.
March 14 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
March 17 - The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the UK collapses, killing two workers.
March 25 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
March 26 - In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty.
March 28 - A nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, releases radiation.
March 28 - In Britain, Jim Callaghan's government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election.
March 29 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah, Sultan of Pahang.
March 30 - Airey Neave, World War Two veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.
March 31 - The Royal Navy withdraws from Malta.
March 31 - Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
March 31 - Gali Atari and Milk and Honey win the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 for Israel, with the song Hallelujah.

April

April 1 - Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
April 1-April 18 - Police lock Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in Bregenz, Austria, and forget him there without food or drink.
April 1- Nickelodeon Television Channel, a children's cartoon channel, launches as The Pinwheel Network.
April 2 - Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
April 10 - A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 that hit that day).
April 11 - Tanzanian troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda; Idi Amin flees.
April 17 - Schoolchildren in the Central African Empire are arrested (and around 100 killed) for protesting against compulsory school uniforms. An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa "almost certainly" took part in the massacre.
April 20 - President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit while fishing in his hometown Plains, Georgia.
April 23 - Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.

May

May 1 - Greenland gets home rule.
May 4 - Conservatives win the British general election; Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
May 8 - The Manchester, England Woolworth's in city centre is seriously damaged by fire; 10 shoppers die.
May 9 - Unabomber bomb injures Northwestern University graduate student John Harris.
May 10 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
May 25 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
May 25 - John Spenkelink executed in Florida. First usage of electric chair in USA after the reintroduction of death penalty in 1976.
May 27 - Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and the second time for car owner Roger Penske.

June

June 1 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
June 1 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
June 1 - The Seattle Supersonics won the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.
June 2 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
June 3 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
June 3 - General elections are held in Italy.
June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
June 4 - Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup in which General Akuffo is overthrown.
June 12 - Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.
June 18 - Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
June 20 - A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
June 23 - Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
June 25 - Belgium: Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.

July

July 2 - The Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.
July 3 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
July 8 - Los Angeles passes its homosexual rights bill.
July 9 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
July 11 - NASA's first orbiting space station Skylab begins its return to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
July 12 - Kiribati declares independence from the United Kingdom.
July 12 - A "Disco Demolition Night" publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.
July 12 - Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno crime family, is assassinated.
July 12 - A fire at a hotel in Saragossa, Spain leaves 72 dead. Worst hotel fire in Europe in decades.
July 16 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him.
July 17 - Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
July 19 - Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela wins Miss Universe, stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rushed to the throne of the new Miss Universe..
July 19 - The Marxist Sandinistas take control of Nicaragua.
July 19 - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of Portugal.
July 24 - The Soviet Union exchanges Gerald Brook for spies Peter and Helen Kroger with the United Kingdom.
July 31 - Four hundred Iranian pilgrims are killed after clashes with Saudi security forces in Mecca.

August

August 5 - The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania.
August 9 - The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton.
August 9 - Raymond Washington, known for founding the Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, was shot and killed five months following his arrest for quadruple murder. (His killers have not yet been identified.)
August 10 - Michael Jackson releases his first breakthrough album Off The Wall. It sold 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7x platinum album.
August 14 - A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
August 27 - Lord Mountbatten and 3 others are assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. He was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the Warrenpoint ambush occurs, Provisional Irish Republican Army members attack a British Convoy at Narrow Water, County Down, killing 18 British soldiers.
August 28 - The death toll of the previous day's IRA bombing reaches five when Lady Dowager Brabourne, 82, dies in hospital as a result of her injuries.

September

September 1 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
September 7 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
September 7 - The Entertainment Sports Programing Network, known as ESPN, debuts.
September 9 - Norrie Paramor died
September 12 - Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
September 16 - Two families flee from East Germany by balloon.
September 20 - French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the Central African Republic.
September 22 - The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
September 30 - The Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka Kwun Tong Line).

October

October 1 - Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Nigerian Second Republic is established.
October 1-October 6 - Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
October 2- Bob Marley's album "Survival" is released.
October 9 - Peter Brock wins the Bathurst 1000 by a record 6 laps, with a lap record on the last lap.
October 14 - A major gay rights march in the United States takes place in Washington, DC, involving many tens of thousands of people.
October 15 - Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
October 16 - A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people.
October 17 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles to win the '79 World Series.
October 19 - 13 Marines Die due to fire @ Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip 2/4 H&S (Weapons) 81s & Dragons Platoons. Semper Fi! Brother.

PFC Robert L. Brees, PFC Thomas J. Breunig, Lcpl Willie Davis Jr., Lcpl Phiip E. Dupont, PFC Tyrone C. Elem, Lcpl Ernest E. Gutierrez,Pvt. Gregory L. Hassel, Pvt. Roger A. Larson, Lcpl L C Malveaux, Cpl Colim Miller, Lcpl Orlando E. Sandoval, Lcpl Robert V. Smith Jr., Lcpl Steven R. Turner

October 27 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence.

November

November 1 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests.
November 2 - French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.
November 3 - In Greensboro, North Carolina, 5 members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and 7 are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
November 4 - Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah back to Iran to stand trial.
November 5 - The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
November 6 - At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.
November 7 - U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
November 9 - The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends with all four men found guilty. James Robinson, 45, and 25-year-old Vincent Hickey are sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommended 25-year minimum for murder. 18-year-old Michael Hickey is also found guilty of murder and sentenced to indefinite detention. Patrick Molloy, 53, is found guilty on a lesser charge of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 years in prison.

November 12 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.
November 14 - Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
November 16 - Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).
November 17 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
November 20 - A group of terrorists of around 200 militants occupy Mecca's Grand Mosque. They are driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
November 21 - After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
November 23 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
November 28 - Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

December

December 3 - Eleven fans are killed during a stampede for seats before The Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum (now known as the U.S. Bank Arena) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
December 4 - The Hastie fire in Kingston upon Hull, England, leads to the deaths of 3 boys and begins the hunt for Bruce George Peter Lee, the UK's most prolific killer.
December 5 - Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland; he is succeeded by Charles Haughey.
December 6 - The world premiere for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
December 9 - The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
December 21 - A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London.
December 24 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
December 24 - The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
December 26 - In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins December 28.
December 27 - The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.

Undated

China becomes the first nation in the world to register 1 billion people in its population. Conversely, the One Child Policy is implemented in China in this year.
VisiCalc becomes the first commercial spreadsheet program.
Guardian Angels civilian patrol group forms in New York City.
Sprengel Museum opens in Hanover, Germany.
Windsor Tower was built in Madrid, Spain.
The first usenet experiments were conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University.
The Vauxhall Viva finishes production after 16 years and is replaced by the all-new Astra, which follows the current European trend of abandoning rear-wheel drive saloons for front-wheel drive hatchbacks on the small family car market.
Ford launches the MK5 Cortina, which is little more than a facelift of the hugely successful MK4 that was launched three years ago.
Financially-troubled American carmaker Chrysler sells its European division to Peugeot. The British-built Chrysler and French Simca models are all sold under the Talbot badge.
Mag Instrument puts its first flashlight on the market, the Maglite.

Ongoing

The 1979 energy crisis occurred throughout this year, in the wake of the Iranian Revolution.
Historical peak year of worldwide per capita oil production.
Cold War.

Births

January-February

January 1 - Brody Dalle, Australian punk rock singer
January 1 - Koichi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (Kinki Kids)
January 2 - Morena Baccarin, Italo-Brazilian actress
January 3 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
January 6 - Bernice Liu, Hong Kong actress
January 7 - Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and model
January 10 - Chris Smith, 1/2 of rap duo Kris Kross
January 11 - Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
January 12 - Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
January 12 - Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
January 16 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
January 17 - Sharon Chan, Hong Kong actress
January 18 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
January 18 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
January 20 - Rob Bourdon, American drummer (Linkin Park)
January 20 - Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
January 21 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union player
January 23 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
January 24 - Tatyana Ali, American actress
January 27 - Rosamund Pike, British actress

February 1 - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
February 2 - Yuichi Tsuchiya, Japanese actor
February 9 - Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
February 9 - Mena Suvari, American actress
February 9 - Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
February 11 - Brandy Norwood, American singer
February 12 - Antonio Chatman, National Football League player
February 12 - Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
February 13 - Rafael Marquez, Mexican footballer who plays for F.C Barcelona
February 15 - Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver
February 16 - Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
February 19 - Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress
February 21 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
February 21 - Carlito, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
February 22 - Patrick Merrill, Canadian lacrosse player

March-April

March 4 - Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
March 4 - Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
March 4 - John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
March 5 - Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
March 6 - Erik Bedard, Canadian pitcher
March 8 - Tom Chaplin, British singer (Keane)
March 9 - Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
March 11 - Benji Madden and Joel Madden, twins from Good Charlotte
March 12 - Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines and Babyshambles)
March 14 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
March 17 - Samoa Joe, American wrestler
March 18 - Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon5)
March 25 - Traxamillion, American producer rapper
March 25 - Gorilla Zoe, rapper
March 26 - Jason McGill, American writer
March 30 - Norah Jones, American musician

April 4 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
April 8 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist (Children of Bodom)
April 10 - Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
April 10 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (Kinki Kids)
April 10 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer
April 10 - Dre, American producer
April 11 - Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
April 12 - Claire Danes, American actress
April 12 - Jennifer Morrison, American actress
April 13 - Baron Davis, NBA player
April 14 - Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor
April 18 - Michael Bradley, American basketball player
April 18 - Yusuke Kamiji, Japanese actor
April 19 - Kate Hudson, American actress
April 19 - Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
April 21 - James McAvoy, Scottish actor
April 22 - Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
April 23 - Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
April 23 - Yana Gupta, Indian actress of Czech origin
April 27 - Travis Meeks, American musician (Days of the New)
April 28 - Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
April 30 - Casey Mongoven, American composer

May-June

May 1 - Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
May 2 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
May 2 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
May 4 - Wes Butters, British broadcaster
May 6 - Kerry Ellis, English actress
May 9 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
May 9 - Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
May 12 - Adrian Serioux, Canadian footballer
May 13 - Carl Philip, Prince of Sweden
May 18 - Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
May 19 - Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
May 22 - Maggie Q, American actress
May 24 - Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
May 25 - Jonny Wilkinson, British rugby union player
May 26 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and model
May 29 - Casey Sheehan, American soldier (Son of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan)

died 2004

May 29 - Brian Kendrick American Professional wrestler

May 30 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player

June 5 - Pete Wentz, American bassist and lyricist (Fall Out Boy)
June 6 - Shanda Sharer, murder victim (d. 1992)
June 8 - Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
June 13 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
June 16 - Ari Hest, American singer-songwriter
June 18 - Chris Neil, a Canadian NHL hockey player.
June 18 - Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
June 19 - John Duddy, Irish boxer
June 23 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
June 24 - Craig Shergold, British cancer patient
June 28 - Randy McMichael, American football player
June 29 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (d.2007)
June 29 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
June 30 - Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor

July-August

July 3 - Ludivine Sagnier, French model and actress
July 5 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
July 5 - Shane Filan, Westlife
July 7 - Gucci Mane African American rapper
July 9 - Ella Koon, Hong Kong actress
July 14 - Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
July 15 - Travis Fimmel, Australian fashion model and actor
July 18 - Rick Baxter, American politician
July 21 - David Carr, American football player
July 24 - Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
July 24 - Stat Quo, American rapper
July 26 - Johnson Beharry, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
July 26 - Tamyra Gray, American singer
July 26 - Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
July 27 - Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
July 27 - Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
July 30 - Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
July 30 - Ian Watkins, lead singer of the band Lostprophets
August 1 - Honeysuckle Weeks, British Actress
August 3 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
August 5 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
August 8 - Azumi Kawashima, Japanese idol and AV idol
August 10 - Joanna Garcia, American actress
August 10 - Ted Geoghegan, American screenwriter
August 11 - Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
August 13 - Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
August 16 - Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
August 19 - Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
August 24 - Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
August 26 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
August 27 - Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
August 28 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
August 28 - Yuki Maeda, Japanese singer
August 30 - Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
August 30 - Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress
August 31 - Mickie James, American professional wrestler

September-October

September 2 - Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
September 4 - Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
September 5 - John Carew, Norwegian footballer
September 5 - Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
September 6 - Ned Collette, Australian singer and musician
September 8 - Pink, American singer
September 12- Jay McGraw, Son of tv psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw
September 13 - Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
September 14 - Stuart Fielden, English rugby league player
September 15 - Amy Davidson, American actress
September 17 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
September 18 - Alison Lohman, American actress
September 19 - Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel
September 20 - David Long, American author
September 23 - Kevin Michael Reed, American photographer
September 24 - Justin Bruening, American actor and model
September 24 - Erin Chambers, American actress
September 28 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder
September 30 - Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist

October 1 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
October 1 - Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby player
October 3 - John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
October 3 - Daniel Hollie, American professional wrestler
October 4 - Rachael Leigh Cook American actress
October 7 - Susan Eldridge, American supermodel
October 9 - Vernon Fox, National Football League player
October 9 - Brandon Routh, American actor
October 10 - Mýa, American singer and actress
October 13 - Ryan Malcolm, Canadian singer
October 14 - Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler
October 16 - Erin Brown, actress
October 17 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
October 20 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
October 23 - Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer
October 24 - Ben Gillies, Australian Drummer
October 28 - Martin Skoula, Czech ice hockey player
October 30 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress

November-December

November 1 - Coco Crisp, American baseball player
November 4 - Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
November 6 - Lamar Odom, American basketball player
November 6 - Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress
November 7 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer and songwriter
November 8 - Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
November 12 - Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
November 13 - Ron Artest, National Basketball Association player
November 14 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
November 17 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
November 20 - Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
November 21 - Kim Dong Wan, South Korean singer and actor
November 22 - Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini, Pakistani author
November 22 - Chris Doran, Irish singer
November 23 - Kelly Brook, English actress/model
November 27 - Ricky Carmichael, American Motocross Champion
November 28 - Jamie Korab, Canadian curler
November 28 - Hakeem Seriki, a.k.a. Chamillionaire, American rapper
November 29 - Jayceon Taylor, a.k.a. The Game, American rapper

December 3 - Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor and singer
December 3 - Rock Cartwright, American football player
December 3 - Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer and songwriter
December 5 - Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
December 7 - Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
December 8 - Raymond Lam, Hong Kong actor
December 14 - Michael Owen, English footballer
December 15 - Adam Brody, American actor
December 17 - William Green, American football player
December 17 - Matt Murley, National Hockey League player
December 18 - Amy Grabow, American actress
December 23 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
December 26 - Mzbel, Ghanian singer
December 27 - Carson Palmer, National Football League quarterback
December 28 - James Blake, American tennis pro
December 29 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
December 30 - Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and author
December 31 - Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
December 31 - Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance)

Deaths

January - March

January 3 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
January 5 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
January 5 - Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894)
January 8 - Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer (b. 1898)
January 13 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
January 26 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
February 2 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (b. 1957)
February 2 - Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b. 1903)
February 7 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
February 9 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
February 12 - Jean Renoir, French film director (b. 1894)
February 14 - Reginald Maudling, British politician (b. 1917)
February 23 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
February 28 - Mr. Ed, American talking horse (b. 1949)

March 1 - Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
March 19 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947)
March 23 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
March 28 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
March 29 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, King of Malaysia (b. 1917)
March 30 - Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b. 1916)

April - June

April 1 - Barbara Luddy, American actor (b. 1908)
April 4 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (executed) (b. 1928)
April 4 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
April 10 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
April 23 - Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner (killed by police) (b. 1946)

May 2 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
May 11 - Lester Flatt, American bluegrass and folk singer (b. 1914)
May 11 - Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b. 1912)
May 29 - Mary Pickford, Canadian actress and studio founder (b. 1892)

June 1 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
June 4 - Lazar Lagin, Soviet satirical and children's writer (b.1903)
June 11 - John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)
June 17 - Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b. 1888)
June 19 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
June 21 - Angus MacLise, American percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, calligrapher and original drummer for the Velvet Underground (b. 1938)
June 25 - Dave Fleischer, American animator (b. 1894)
June 26 - Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley, grandfather of Lisa Marie Presley (b. 1916)
June 29 - Lowell George, American musician (Little Feat) (b. 1945)

July - September

July 3 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
July 8

Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)

July 10 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
July 12 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (b. 1947)
July 13 - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1913)
July 15 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican President (b. 1911)
July 16 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
July 22 - Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
July 29 - Bill Todman, American game show producer (b. 1916)

August 2 - Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder of APRA party (b. 1895)
August 2 - Thurman Munson, baseball player (b. 1947)
August 3 - Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
August 6 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
August 9 - Walter O'Malley, baseball executive (b. 1903)
August 12 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (b. 1906)
August 16 - John Diefenbaker, Canadian Prime Minister (b. 1895)
August 17 - Vivian Vance, American actress (b. 1909)
August 19 - Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, Satmarer Rebbe (b. 1887)
August 27 - Earl Mountbatten, last British Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b. 1900)
August 31 - Sally Rand, American dancer (b. 1904)

September 5 - Alberto di Jorio, former head of the Vatican Bank and secretary of the 1958 conclave (b. 1884)
September 8 - Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
September 10 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan nationalist (b. 1922)
September 20

Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1907)
Ludvík Svoboda, president of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)

September 22 - Syed Abul Ala Maududi, political philosopher and Islamic thinker from Pakistan (b. 1903)
September 28 - John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
September 29 - Francisco Macías Nguema, first president of Equatorial Guinea (assassinated/executed)

October - December

October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
October 10 - Dr Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
October 13 - Rebecca Helferich Cl