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1979 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1979 MCMLXXIX
Ab urbe condita	2732
Armenian calendar	1428 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԸ
Assyrian calendar	6729
Bahá'í calendar	135–136
Balinese saka calendar	1900–1901
Bengali calendar	1386
Berber calendar	2929
British Regnal year	27 Eliz. 2 – 28 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2523
Burmese calendar	1341
Byzantine calendar	7487–7488
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4675 or 4615     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4676 or 4616
Coptic calendar	1695–1696
Discordian calendar	3145
Ethiopian calendar	1971–1972
Hebrew calendar	5739–5740
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2035–2036
- Shaka Samvat	1900–1901
- Kali Yuga	5079–5080
Holocene calendar	11979
Igbo calendar	979–980
Iranian calendar	1357–1358
Islamic calendar	1399–1400
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 54 (昭和５４年)
Javanese calendar	1910–1912
Juche calendar	68
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4312
Minguo calendar	ROC 68 民國68年
Nanakshahi calendar	511
Thai solar calendar	2522
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 2105 or 1724 or 952     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 2106 or 1725 or 953
Unix time	283996800 – 315532799

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1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1979th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 979th year of the 2nd millennium, the 79th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1970s decade.

Events[]

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 including ABBA, who write the song Chiquitita to commemorate the event.
  • The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations.
  • The Canton of Jura comes into existence as the 26th canton of Switzerland, being formed from the predominantly French-speaking Catholic part of the Canton of Bern.
  • Following a deal agreed during 1978, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's European operations, which are based in Britain's former Rootes Group factories as well as the former Simca factories in France.
• 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 – The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-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, ending large-scale fighting in the Cambodian–Vietnamese War.
• January 8 – Whiddy Island Disaster: The French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry, 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 is later released.
• January 16 – Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi 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 stake their claim as the NFL team of the 1970s by beating the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 at Miami's Orange Bowl in Super Bowl XIII.
• January 25 – Pope John Paul II arrives in Mexico City for his first visit to Mexico, mainly for 1979's Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) or Conference of Puebla.
• January 26 – The Dukes of Hazzard debuts on CBS.
• January 29 – Cleveland Elementary School shooting (San Diego): Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing two faculty members and wounding eight students and a police officer. Her justification for the action, "I don't like Mondays", inspires the Boomtown Rats to make a song of the same name.

February[]

• February 1 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• February 2
  • Former Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious is found dead, aged 21, of a heroin overdose in New York City, the day after being released from a 55-day sentence at Rikers Island prison on bail.
• February 3 – Ayatollah Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
• February 7
  • Iranian Revolution: Supporters of Ayatollah Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.
  • Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
  • Nazi criminal Josef Mengele suffers a stroke and drowns while swimming in Bertioga, Brazil. His remains are found in 1985.
• February 10–11 – Iranian Revolution: The Iranian army withdraws to its barracks leaving power in the hands of Ayatollah Khomeini, ending the Pahlavi dynasty.
• 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 Guardian Angels are formed in New York City as an unarmed organization of young crime fighters.
• February 13 – The intense February 13, 1979 windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) 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.
  • Following her 1972 sex reassignment surgery, musician Wendy Carlos legally changes her name from Walter. She reveals this information in an interview in the May 1979 issue of Playboy magazine.
• February 15 – A suspected gas explosion in a Warsaw bank kills 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 20 – This Old House premieres on PBS.
• February 22 – Saint Lucia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• February 26
  • A total solar eclipse, the last visible from the continental United States until 2017, arcs over northern coterminous USA and southeastern Canada ending in Greenland. A partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America including the eastern half of AK and the western half of UK.^[1]
  • The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
• February 27 – The annual Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans is cancelled due to a strike called by the New Orleans Police Department.

March[]

• March 1
  • Scottish devolution referendum: Scotland votes in favour for a Scottish Assembly, which is not implemented due to failing a condition that at least 40% of the electorate must support the proposal; in a Welsh devolution referendum, Wales votes against devolution.
  • Philips publicly demonstrate a prototype of an optical digital audio disc at a press conference in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
• March 4 – The U.S. Voyager 1 spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
• March 5 – Voyager 1 makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 277,000 kilometres (172,000 mi).
• March 7 – The largest Magnetar (Soft gamma repeater) event is recorded.
• March 8 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
• March 13 – Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in Grenada. His government will be crushed by American intervention in 1983.
• March 14 – In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
• March 16 – End of major hostilities in the Sino-Vietnamese War.
• March 17 – The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the U.K. collapses, killing two workers.
• March 18 – Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.^[2]
• March 22 – The NHL votes to approve its merger with the WHA, effective in the fall.
• March 25 – The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the 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 an Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty.
  • Michigan State University, led by Earvin "Magic" Johnson, defeats Larry Bird-led Indiana State 75-64 in the NCAA tournament championship game at Salt Lake City.
• March 28
  • In Britain, James Callaghan's minority Labour government loses a motion of confidence by one vote, forcing a general election which is to be held on 3 May.^[3]
  • America's most serious nuclear power plant accident occurs, at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania.
• March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra of Kelantan, the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong (Head of State) of Malaysia, dies in office. He is replaced by Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang.
• March 30 – Airey Neave, World War II veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed, presumably by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.
• March 31
  • The last British soldier (belonging to the Royal Navy) leaves the Maltese Islands, after 179 years of presence. Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
  • 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.
  • The Pinwheel Network changes its name to Nickelodeon and begins airing on various Warner Cable systems beginning in Buffalo, New York, expanding its audience reach.
• April 1–18 – Police lock Andreas Mihavecz in a holding cell in Bregenz, Austria and forget about him, leaving him there without food or drink.
• April 2 – Sverdlovsk anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock. It is a violation of the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972.
• April 6 – Student protests break out in Nepal.
• April 7 – In Japan, Yoshiyuki Tomino directed Mobile Suit Gundam, the first series of the metaseries of the same name.
• April 10 – A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 tornadoes that day).
• April 11 – Tanzanian troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda; Idi Amin flees.
• April 13 – The La Soufrière volcano erupts in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
• April 15 – 1979 Montenegro earthquake: A major earthquake M  7.0 strikes Montenegro (then part of Yugoslavia) and parts of Albania, causing extensive damage to coastal areas and taking 136 lives; the old town of Budva is devastated.
• April 17 – Schoolchildren in the Central African Republic 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 22 – The Albert Einstein Memorial is unveiled at The National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.
• April 23 – Fighting breaks out in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group; protester Blair Peach receives fatal injuries during the incident, now officially attributed to the SPG.

May[]

• May 1 – Greenland is granted limited autonomy from Denmark, with its own Parliament sitting in Nuuk.
• May 4 – Counting in the previous day's British general election shows that the Conservatives have won and Margaret Thatcher becomes the country's first female prime minister, ending the rule of James Callaghan's Labour government.^[4]
• May 8 – The Woolworth's store in Manchester city centre in England is seriously damaged by fire; 10 shoppers die.
• May 9
  • The Salvadoran Civil War begins.
  • A Unabomber bomb injures Northwestern University graduate student John Harris.
• May 10 – The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
• May 21
  • Dan White receives a light sentence for killing San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. Gay men in the city riot.
  • The Montreal Canadiens defeat the New York Rangers four games to one to win their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup.
• May 25
  • American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, killing all 271 on board and 2 people on the ground in the deadliest aviation accident in U.S. history.
  • John Spenkelink is executed in Florida, in the first use of the electric chair in America after the reintroduction of the death penalty in 1976.
  • Etan Patz, 6 years old, is kidnapped in New York. He is often referred to as the "Boy on the Milk Carton" and the investigation later sprouts into one of the most prolific child abduction cases of all time. This is a cold case until 2010 when it is re-opened. Pedro Hernandez is later charged with strangling him after being sentenced to life in prison for murder and kidnapping in April 2017.
• May 27 – Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and car owner Roger Penske for the second time.

June[]

• June – McDonald's introduces the Happy Meal.
• June 1
  • The Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
  • The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
  • The Seattle SuperSonics win the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.
• June 2
  • Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on his first official, nine-day stay, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. This visit, known as nine days that changed the world, brings about the solidarity of the Polish people against Communism, ultimately leading to the rise of the Solidarity movement.
  • Los Angeles' city council passes the city's first homosexual rights bill signed without fanfare by mayor Thomas Bradley.
• 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 until it was surpassed by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
  • General elections are held in Italy.
• June 4
  • Joe Clark becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
  • Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
  • Following the Information Scandal, John Vorster resigns as State President of South Africa.^[5]
• June 7 – The first direct elections to the European Parliament begin, allowing citizens from across all then-9 European Community member states to elect 410 MEPs. It is also the first international election in history.
• 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 19 – Marais Viljoen becomes State President of South Africa.^[5]
• 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 22 – The Muppet Movie is released.
• 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 in 1980.
• June 24 – Bologna: The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal, an international opinion tribunal, is founded at the initiative of Senator Lelio Basso.
• June 25– Belgium: NATO Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.

July[]

• July 1
  • Sweden outlaws corporal punishment in the home.
  • The Sony Walkman goes on sale for the first time in Japan.
• 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 5 – Queen Elizabeth II attends the millennium celebrations of the Isle of Man's Parliament, Tynwald.^[6]
• July 8 – Los Angeles passes its gay and lesbian civil 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
  • The Gilbert Islands become fully independent of the United Kingdom as Kiribati.
  • A Disco Demolition Night publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.
  • Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno crime family, is assassinated in Brooklyn.
  • A fire at a hotel in Zaragoza, Spain, leaves 72 dead, the worst hotel fire in Europe in decades.
• July 15 – President Jimmy Carter addresses the nation in a televised speech talking about the "crisis of confidence" in America today; it would go on to be known as his "national malaise" speech.
• July 16 – Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam al-Tikriti replaces him.
• July 17 – Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami.
• July 21
  • The Sandinista National Liberation Front concludes a successful revolutionary campaign against the Somoza dictatorship and assumes power in Nicaragua.
  • Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of Portugal.
  • Maritza Sayalero of Venezuela wins the Miss Universe pageant; the stage collapses after contestants and news photographers rush to her throne.
  • The Disco music genre dominates and peaks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the first six spots (beginning with Donna Summer's Bad Girls), and seven of the chart's top ten songs ending that week.
• July 22 – 1979 Ba'ath Party Purge: Iraqi president Saddam Hussein arranges the arrest and later execution of nearly seventy members of his ruling Ba'ath Party.

August[]

• August 3 – Dictator Francisco Macías Nguema of Equatorial Guinea is overthrown in a bloody coup d'état led by Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.
• August 4 – Opening game of the American Football Bundesliga played between Frankfurter Löwen and Düsseldorf Panther, first-ever league game of American football in Germany.^[7]
• August 5 – The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania. Mauritania withdraws from the Western Sahara territory it had occupied, and cedes it to the SADR.
• August 8 – Two American commercial divers, Richard Walker and Victor Guiel, die of hypothermia after their diving bell becomes stranded at a depth of over 160 metres (520 ft) in the East Shetland Basin. The legal repercussions of the accident will lead to important safety changes in the diving industry.^[8][9]
• August 9 – Raymond Washington, co-founder of the Crips, today one of the largest, most notorious gangs in the United States, is killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles; the killers have not yet been identified.
• August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album Off the Wall. It sells 7 million copies in the United States alone, making it a 7× platinum album.
• August 11 – The former Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya in Western Sahara is annexed by Morocco.
• August 14 – A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the deaths of 15 sailors.
• August 17 – The controversial religious satirical film Monty Python's Life of Brian, premieres in the United States.
• August 27 – Lord Mountbatten of Burma and two others are killed immediately in a bombing by Provisional Irish Republican Army assassins. Mountbatten was a British admiral, statesman and an uncle of The Duke of Edinburgh. On the same day, the Warrenpoint ambush occurs, killing 18 British soldiers. Doreen Knatchbull, Baroness Brabourne would die in a hospital the following day (August 28) from her injuries in the Mountbatten bombing.
• August 29 – A national referendum is held in which Somali voters approve a new liberal constitution, promulgated by President Siad Barre to placate the United States.

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 kilometres (13,000 mi).
  • Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps is formed.
• September 7 – The first cable sports channel, ESPN, known as the Entertainment Sports Programming Network, is launched.
• September 9 – The long-running comic strip For Better or For Worse begins its run.
• September 12 – Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
• September 13 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
• 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 the Prince Edward Islands, thought to be a nuclear weapons test conducted by South Africa and Israel.
• September 29 – The dictator Francisco Macias of Equatorial Guinea is shot by soldiers from Western Sahara.
• 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 Second Nigerian Republic is established.
• October 1–7 – Pope John Paul II visits the United States, starting in Boston.
• October 1 – The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
• October 2 – Pope John Paul II arrives in New York City for his first papal tour where he addresses the U.N. General Assembly against all forms of concentration camps and torture.
• October 6 – Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy.
• October 7 – Pope John Paul II ends his first U.S. papal visit in Washington, D.C. with his first ever visit to the White House.
• October 9 – Peter Brock wins the Bathurst 1000 by a record six laps, with a lap record on the last lap.
• October 12
  • Near Guam, Typhoon Tip reaches a record intensity of 870 millibars, the lowest pressure recorded at sea level. This makes Tip the most powerful tropical cyclone in known world history.
  • Thorbjörn Fälldin returns as Prime Minister of Sweden, replacing Ola Ullsten who is named Foreign Minister of Sweden.
• October 14 – National March for gay rights takes place in Washington, D.C., involving 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 19 – 13 U.S. Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip.^[10]
• October 20 – The first McDonald's in Singapore opens at Liat Towers in Orchard Road.^[11][12]
• October 26 – Park Chung-hee, the President of South Korea, is assassinated by KCIA director Kim Jae-gyu.
• October 27 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence from the UK.

November[]

• November 1
  • Military coup in Bolivia.
  • 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.
  • Assata Shakur (née Joanne Chesimard), a former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, escapes from a New York prison to Cuba, where she remains under political asylum.
• November 3 – In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
• November 4 – Iran hostage crisis begins: 500 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 of Iran back to stand trial.
• November 5
  • All Saints' Massacre: The military junta in Bolivia initiates a violent crack-down on its opponents.
  • The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio in the United States.
• 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 Olympic Games and international sports tournaments and championships.
• November 7 – U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
• November 9
  • The Carl Bridgewater murder trial ends in England 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.^[13]
  • Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland, detect an apparent massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.^[14]
• November 10 – 1979 Mississauga train derailment: A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
• 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.
  • Süleyman Demirel, of the Justice Party (AP) forms the new government of Turkey (43rd government, a minority government).
• 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 15 – British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures Anthony Blunt's role as the "fourth man" of the 'Cambridge Five' double agents for the Soviet NKVD during World War II is revealed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom;^[15] she gives further details on November 21.^[16]
• November 16 – Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 kilometres (5.36 mi)).
• 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 – Grand Mosque seizure: A group of 200 Juhayman al-Otaybi militants occupy Mecca's Masjid al-Haram, the holiest place in Islam. 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, and disturbing Pakistan–United States relations.
• November 23 – In Dublin, Ireland, Provisional Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten of Burma.
• November 25 – Last cargo of phosphate shipped from Banaba Island.
• November 28 – Air New Zealand Flight 901: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus in Antarctica on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
• November 30 – The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by Pink Floyd, is first released.

December[]

• December 3
  • The Who concert disaster: Eleven fans are killed during a crowd crush for unreserved seats before The Who rock concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati.
  • The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to 1.7079 DM, the all-time low so far; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.
  • Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
• 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 of Star Trek: The Motion Picture is held at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
• December 9 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two human diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
• December 12
  • The 8.2 M_w Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.
  • Coup d'état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-hah, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung-hee.
  • The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
• December 15 – The directorial debut of Hayao Miyazaki, The Castle of Cagliostro based on the manga series Lupin III is released in Japan.
• December 21 – A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London.
• December 23 – The highest aerial tramway in Europe, the Klein Matterhorn, opens.
• December 24
  • The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin, which begins the war.
  • 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.

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• The One-child policy is introduced in China – it contributes to Missing women of China. It was loosened in 2013.
• Hànyǔ Pīnyīn is widely adopted as the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, leading to changes in Western spelling of Chinese toponyms.
• VisiCalc becomes the first commercial spreadsheet program.
• The first usenet experiments are conducted by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University.
• Worldwide per capita oil production reaches a historic peak.
• Chrysler receives government loan guarantees upon the request of CEO Lee Iacocca.
• The remains of Tsar Nicholas II and some of the Romanovs are discovered and exhumed near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg).
• NBC introduces a new version of its famous peacock, used in conjunction with the 1975-style N, for the Fall season.

Births[]

January[]

• January 1
  • Brody Dalle, Australian singer
  • Gisela, Spanish pop singer and a Spanish dub actress
  • Koichi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (KinKi Kids)
• January 2 – Erica Hubbard, American actress
• January 3
  • Francesco Bellissimo, Italian Chef
  • Koit Toome, Estonian singer and musical actor
  • Rie Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
• January 4 – Kevin Kuske, German Olympic bobsledder
• January 6
  • Christina Chanée, Danish-Thai pop singer
  • Bernice Liu, Hong Kong actress
  • Cristela Alonzo, American actress and comedian
• January 7
  • Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and model
  • Christian Lindner, German politician
• January 8 – Stipe Pletikosa, Croatian football goalkeeper
• January 9
  • Jake Shields, UFC fighter
  • Joshua Harto, American actor
  • Tomiko Van, Japanese singer (Do As Infinity)
• January 10
  • Chris Smith, African-American rapper (Kris Kross)
  • James Lloyd, British actor
• January 11 – Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
• January 12
  • Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
  • Lee Bo-young, South Korean actress and model
  • Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
• January 14 – Angela Lindvall, American model
• January 15
  • Drew Brees, American football player
  • Martin Petrov, Bulgarian footballer
• January 16 – Aaliyah, American R&B singer and actress (d. 2001)
• January 17 – Sharon Chan, Hong Kong actress
• January 18
  • Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer, song producer and actor
  • Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
  • Leo Varadkar, 14th Taoiseach of Ireland
  • Mark Anthony Fernandez, Filipino actor
• January 19 – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian artistic gymnast
• January 20
  • Billy Knight, American professional basketball player (d. 2018)
  • Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol
  • Will Young, English singer
• January 21 – Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union player
• January 23 – Larry Hughes, American basketball player
• January 24 – Tatyana Ali, American actress
• January 26 – Sara Rue, American actress
• January 27
  • Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
  • Rosamund Pike, British actress
• January 29 – B. J. Flores, American boxer
• January 31 – Jenny Wolf, German speed skater

February[]

• February 1
  • Rutina Wesley, American actress
  • Julie Augustyniak, American footballer
  • Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (d. 2006)
  • Peter Fulton, New Zealand cricketer
  • Clodoaldo Silva, Brazilian paralympian swimmer
• February 2
  • Fani Chalkia, Greek athlete
  • Mayer Hawthorne, American soul singer
  • Shamita Shetty, Indian actress and interior designer
  • Yuichi Tsuchiya, Japanese actor
• February 4 – Andrei Arlovski, Belarusian mixed martial artist
• February 5 – Katie Brambley, Canadian distance freestyle swimmer
• February 6 – David Dolníček, Czech ice hockey player
• February 7
  • Cerina Vincent, American actress and writer
  • Michał Karwan, Polish footballer
  • Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni politician
• February 8
  • Josh Keaton, American actor
  • Martin Rowlands, Irish footballer
  • Aleksey Mishin, Russian wrestler
• February 9
  • Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
  • Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
• February 10 – Daryl Palumbo, American musician; who fronted bands, such as (Glassjaw)
• February 11 – Brandy Norwood, African-American singer and actress
• February 12
  • Antonio Chatman, American football player
  • Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
• February 13
  • Anders Behring Breivik, Norwegian right-wing militant
  • Mena Suvari, American actress
  • Rafael Márquez, Mexican footballer
• February 14 – Jocelyn Quivrin, French actor (d. 2009)
• February 15 – Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver
• February 16
  • Valentino Rossi, Italian seven-time MotoGP world champion
  • Eric Mun, leader of Korean boy-band Shinhwa
• February 18 – Tyrone D. Burton, American actor
• February 19
  • Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress
  • Vitas, Ukrainian Singer, Model, and Fashion Designer.
• February 21
  • Maria Annus, Estonian actress
  • Carly Colón, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
  • Christopher Hayes, American journalist
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
  • Tituss Burgess, American actor and singer
• February 22 – Patrick Merrill, Canadian lacrosse player
• February 23 – Maryke Hendrikse, Canadian voice actress
• February 25 – László Bodnár, Hungarian footballer
• February 26
  • Corinne Bailey Rae, British singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • Susana Diazayas, Mexican actress
• February 28
  • Michael Bisping, Cypriot mixed martial artist
  • Sébastien Bourdais, French racing driver
  • Sander van Doorn, Dutch DJ and electronic music producer

March[]

• March 3 – Jon Bailey, American voice actor
• March 4
  • Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
  • Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
  • Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
• March 5
  • Martin Axenrot, Swedish metal drummer
  • Riki Lindhome, American actress and comedian
  • Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
• March 6 – Érik Bédard, Canadian pitcher
• March 7 – Stephanie Anne Mills, Canadian voice actress
• March 8
  • Tom Chaplin, British singer (Keane)
  • Jessica Jaymes, American porn actress
• March 9
  • Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
  • Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
• March 10 – Danny Pudi, American actor and comedian
• March 11 – Benji Madden and Joel Madden, American musicians (Good Charlotte)
• March 12 – Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines, Babyshambles)
• March 14
  • Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
  • Gao Ling, Chinese badminton player
  • Chris Klein, American actor
  • Michele Riondino, Italian actor
• March 15 – Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
• March 17 – Samoa Joe, American wrestler
• March 18
  • Shola Ama, English singer
  • Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
• March 19
  • Emil Dimitriev, Macedonian politician, Prime Minister
  • Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
• March 20
  • Freema Agyeman, British actress
  • Molly Jenson, American musician
  • Bianca Lawson, American actress
• March 21 – Jimenez Lai, American architect
• March 23 – Bryan Fletcher, American football player
• March 25
  • Lee Pace, American actor
  • Traxamillion, American producer rapper
  • Gorilla Zoe, American rapper
• March 29 – Estela Giménez, Spanish gymnast
• March 30
  • Norah Jones, American musician
  • Simon Webbe, English singer (Blue)
• March 31 – Tanya Tate, English porn actress

April[]

• April 1 – Mikko Franck, Finnish conductor
• April 2
  • Lindy Booth, Canadian actress
  • Jesse Carmichael, American musician (Maroon 5)
• April 3
  • Grégoire, French singer-songwriter
  • Živilė Balčiūnaitė, Lithuanian long-distance runner
• April 4
  • Heath Ledger, Australian actor and music video director (d. 2008)
  • Roberto Luongo, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
• April 8
  • Tom Kurzanski, American comic artist
  • Alexi Laiho, Finnish rock guitarist (Children of Bodom)
• April 9
  • Keshia Knight Pulliam, African-American actress
  • Mario Matt, Austrian alpine skier
  • Ben Silverstone, British actor
• April 10
  • Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
  • Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (KinKi Kids)
  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer
• April 11
  • Sebastien Grainger, Canadian singer and musician
  • Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
  • Josh Server, American actor
• April 12
  • Claire Danes, American actress
  • Jennifer Morrison, American actress
• April 13
  • Baron Davis, American basketball player
  • Tony Lundon, Irish singer (Liberty X)
• April 14
  • Rebecca DiPietro, American model
  • Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor
• April 15 – Luke Evans, Welsh actor and singer
• April 16 – Christijan Albers, Dutch racing driver
• April 17 – Sung Si-kyung, South Korean pop/ballad singer
• April 18
  • Michael Bradley, American basketball player
  • Anthony Davidson, English racing driver
  • Yusuke Kamiji, Japanese actor
  • Kourtney Kardashian, American reality television star
• April 19
  • Kate Hudson, American actress, co-founder of Fabletics
  • Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
• April 20 – Teoh Beng Hock, Malaysian journalist (d. 2009)
• April 21
  • James McAvoy, Scottish actor
  • Karin Rask, Estonian actress
• April 22 – Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
• April 23
  • Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
  • Jaime King, American actress
  • Yana Gupta, Indian actress of Czech origin
• April 24
  • Laurentia Tan, Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne
  • Avey Tare, American musician
  • Adam Andretti, American race car driver
• April 25
  • Andreas Küttel, Swiss ski jumper
  • Andrea Osvárt, Hungarian actress
• April 26 – Janne Wirman, Finnish keyboardist (Children of Bodom)
• April 27 – Travis Meeks, American musician (Days of the New)
• April 28 – Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
• April 29
  • Jo O'Meara, English singer (S Club 7)
  • Matt Tong, drummer (Bloc Party)
• April 30 – Shelley Calene-Black, American voice actress

May[]

• May 1
  • Lars Berger, Norwegian biathlete and cross-country skier
  • Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
• May 2 – Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 3
  • Danny Foster, English singer (Hear'Say)
  • Ingrid Isotamm, Estonian actress
• May 4
  • Lance Bass, American singer ('N Sync)
  • Wes Butters, English broadcaster
• May 5 – Vincent Kartheiser, American actor
• May 6
  • Mark Burrier, American cartoonist
  • Kerry Ellis, English stage actress/singer
  • Gerd Kanter, Estonian discus thrower
  • Jon Montgomery, Canadian former skeleton racer and television personality; host of The Amazing Race Canada
• May 9
  • Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
  • Rosario Dawson, American actress
• May 10 – Lee Hyori, South Korean entertainer
• May 12 – Adrian Serioux, Canadian soccer player
• May 13
  • Mickey Madden, American musician (Maroon 5)
  • Carl Philip, Prince of Sweden
  • Sid Ahmed Rezala, French serial killer
• May 14 – Urijah Faber, WEC Featherweight Champion
• May 15
  • Ryan Max Riley, humorist and national champion skier
  • James Mackenzie, Scottish actor and TV presenter
• May 16 – Jessica Morris, American actress
• May 18
  • Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
  • Jens Bergensten ("Jeb"), Swedish game designer and co-founder of the game company Mojang
• May 19
  • Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
  • Diego Forlán, Uruguayan football player
  • Kyle Carrozza, American animator and voice actor
• May 21 – Sonja Vectomov, Czech musician/composer
• May 22 – Maggie Q, American actress
• May 23 – Rasual Butler American basketball player (d. 2018)
• May 24
  • Frank Mir, American mixed martial artist
  • Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
• May 25 – Jonny Wilkinson, English rugby union player
• May 26
  • Ashley Massaro, American wrestler and model
  • Elisabeth Harnois, American actress
• May 27 – Michael Buonauro, American comic creator
• May 28 – Jesse Bradford, American actor
• May 29 – Brian Kendrick, American wrestler
• May 30
  • Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Clint Bowyer, American race car driver
  • Rie Kugimiya, Japanese voice actress and singer

June[]

• June 1 – Markus "Notch" Persson, Swedish video game programmer and designer, co-founder the video game company Mojang
• June 2 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
• June 5 – Pete Wentz, American musician, lyricist, and bassist (Fall Out Boy)
• June 6 – Shanda Sharer, American murder victim (d. 1992)
• June 8 – Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
• June 9 – Émilie Loit, French tennis player
• June 10 – Lee Brice, American country music singer-songwriter
• June 11 – Preslaysa Edwards, American actress
• June 12
  • Robyn, Swedish singer-songwriter
  • Amandine Bourgeois, French singer
  • Dallas Clark, American football player
  • Diego Milito, Argentine football player
  • Jodie Prenger, British actress
• June 13
  • Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
  • Ágnes Csomor, Hungarian actress
• June 14
  • Paradorn Srichaphan, Thai tennis player
  • Alton Sterling, American man fatally shot by a Baton Rouge, Louisiana, police officer (d. 2016)
• June 15 – Yulia Nestsiarenka, Belarusian athlete
• June 16 – Ari Hest, American singer-songwriter
• June 17 – Young Maylay, American actor, record producer and rapper
• June 18
  • Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
  • Chris Neil, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter
• June 19
  • John Duddy, Irish boxer
  • Kate Tsui, Hong Kong actress
• June 21
  • Chris Pratt, American actor
  • Makasini Richter, Tongan rugby league player
• June 22
  • Sandra Klösel, German tennis player
  • Jai Rodriguez, American actor and musician
• June 23
  • Marilyn Agliotti, Dutch field hockey player
  • LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
• June 24
  • Petra Němcová, Czech model
  • Joaquín de Orbegoso, Peruvian actor
  • Craig Shergold, British cancer patient
  • Mindy Kaling, American actress, comedian and author
• June 25
  • La La Anthony, American television personality, author, businesswoman, producer and actress
  • Busy Philipps, American film actress
• June 26
  • Ryan Tedder, American singer (OneRepublic), songwriter and producer
  • Julia Benson, Canadian actress
• June 27 – Fabrizio Miccoli, Italian professional footballer
• June 28
  • Felicia Day, American actress, writer, director, violinist, and singer
  • Randy McMichael, American football player
• June 29
  • Lee Hee-joon, South Korean actor
  • Abz Love, English singer (5ive)
  • Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
  • Yehuda Levi, Israeli actor and male model
  • Liliana Castro, Ecuadorian-born Brazilian actress
  • Artur Avila, Brazilian and French mathematician
• June 30
  • Rick Gonzalez, American actor
  • Faisal Shahzad, Pakistani-American bomber
  • Matisyahu, Jewish American reggae vocalist, beatboxer, and alternative rock musician
  • Nelson Lucas, Seychellois sprinter
  • Christopher Jacot, Canadian actor
  • Andy Burrows, English songwriter and musician

July[]

• July 1
  • Danisa Phiri, Zimbabwean footballer
  • Forrest Griffin, American mixed martial arts fighter
  • Patrik Baboumian, German-Iranian strongman competitor, strength athlete and bodybuilder
• July 2
  • Diana Gurtskaya, Georgian singer
  • Sam Hornish Jr., American race car driver
  • Ayiesha Woods, American singer
• July 3
  • Sayuri Katayama, Japanese actress, singer and lyricist
  • Ludivine Sagnier, French model and actress
• July 4 – Kevin Thoms, American actor and voice actor
• July 5
  • Oh Dae-hwan, South Korean actor
  • Shane Filan, Irish singer (Westlife)
  • Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
  • Darine Hamze, Lebanese actress
• July 6
  • Mohsen Bengar, Iranian footballer
  • Kevin Hart, American actor, comedian, writer and producer
• July 7
  • Jan Hernych, Czech tennis player
  • Shebly Niavarani, Swedish actor
  • Amanda Françozo, Brazilian television presenter and model
• July 8 – Ben Jelen, Scottish-born American former singer-songwriter
• July 9
  • Ella Koon, Hong Kong actress
  • Gary Chaw, Malaysian Chinese singer
• July 10
  • Gong Yoo, South Korean actor
  • Dimitri Soudas, Canadian political consultant
• July 11
  • Im Soo-jung, South Korean actress
  • Marina Gatell, Spanish actress
• July 12
  • Justin Rockefeller, American venture capitalist and political activist
  • Sam Golzari, British actor
• July 13
  • Daniel Galera, Brazilian writer, translator and or
  • Holly Gauthier-Frankel, Canadian voice actress and singer
  • Dejan Ćirjaković, Serbian actor, screenwriter and musician
• July 14
  • Sioen, Belgian singer and songwriter
  • Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
• July 15
  • Laura Benanti, American actress and singer
  • Travis Fimmel, Australian fashion model and actor
  • Philipp Karner, American actor, writer and director
• July 16
  • Landy Wen, Taiwanese singer
  • Jayma Mays, American actress and singer
  • Kinya Kotani, Japanese singer
  • Kim Rhode, American double trap and skeet shooter
• July 17
  • Mike Vogel, American actor
  • Brendan James, American, piano-based singer/songwriter
• July 18
  • Rick Baxter, American politician
  • Jaska Raatikainen, Finnish drummer (Children of Bodom)
  • Jason Weaver, American actor and singer
• July 19
  • Malavika, Indian actress
  • David Sakurai, Danish-Japanese actor, director, scriptwriter and martial artist
  • Bruno Cabrerizo, Brazilian football player, model and actor
• July 20
  • Claudine Barretto, Filipino film actress, television actress, entrepreneur and product endorser
  • Marcos Mion, Brazilian TV host, actor, voice actor, and businessman
  • Milan Nikolić, Serbian accordionist
  • Adam Rose, South African professional wrestler
  • Amr Shabana, Egyptian squash player
• July 21 – David Carr, American football player
• July 24
  • Rose Byrne, Australian actress
  • Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
  • Stat Quo, American rapper
• July 25 – Allister Carter, English snooker player
• July 26
  • Johnson Beharry, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Tamyra Gray, American singer
  • Derek Paravicini, British pianist
  • Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Mageina Tovah, American actress
• July 27
  • Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician (d. 2018)
  • Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
  • Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
• July 30
  • Show Lo, Taiwanese singer
  • Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
  • Maya Nasser, Syrian journalist (d. 2012)
• July 31 – B. J. Novak, American actor, director, and producer

August[]

• August 1
  • Jason Momoa, American actor
  • Honeysuckle Weeks, British actress
• August 3
  • Danso Gordon, Canadian actor
  • Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress and author of children's literature
  • Maria Haukaas Mittet, Norwegian recording artist
• August 4 – Patryk Dominik Sztyber, Polish rock musician
• August 5 – David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
• August 7 – Miguel Llera, Spanish footballer
• August 10
  • JoAnna Garcia, American actress
  • Ted Geoghegan, American screenwriter
• August 11
  • Drew Nelson, Canadian actor and voice actor
  • Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
• August 12
  • Peter Browngardt, American cartoonist
  • Cindy Klassen, Canadian speed skater
• August 13 – Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
• August 15
  • Carl Edwards, American race car driver
  • Dan Marshall, Canadian hockey player
  • Peter Shukoff, American comedian, musician and personality
• August 16
  • Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
  • Ivan Cudby, British sculptor
• August 19 – Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• August 20 – Jamie Cullum, English jazz pianist and singer
• August 22 – Matt Walters, American football player
• August 23 – Ritchie Neville, English singer (5ive)
• August 24 – Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
• August 25 – Andrew Hussie, American artist.
• August 26
  • Jamal Lewis, American football player
  • Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
• August 27
  • Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
  • Tian Liang, Chinese diver
  • Aaron Paul, American actor
• August 28
  • Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
  • Yuki Maeda, Japanese singer
  • Shane Van Dyke, American actor
• August 29 – Justine Pasek, Miss Universe 2002
• August 30
  • Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
  • Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress
• August 31
  • Mickie James, American professional wrestler
  • Simon Neil, Scottish musician (vocalist, guitarist, songwriter), Biffy Clyro Marmaduke Duke
  • Yuvan Shankar Raja, Indian film composer

September[]

• September 1 – Neg Dupree, British comedian
• September 2
  • Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
  • Łukasz Żygadło, Polish volleyball player
• September 3 – Júlio César, Brazilian football goalkeeper
• September 4 – Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
• September 5
  • John Carew, Norwegian footballer
  • Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• September 6 – Ned Collette, Australian singer and musician
• September 8 – Pink, American singer and actress
• September 10 – Mustis, Norwegian pianist
• September 11
  • Ariana Richards, American actress
  • Eric Abidal, French footballer
  • Cameron Richardson, American actress and model
• September 12 – Jay McGraw, American author, son of TV psychologist Dr. Phil McGraw
• September 13 – Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
• September 14
  • Catalina Cruz, American porn actress
  • Stuart Fielden, English rugby league player
  • Kamya Panjabi, Indian television actress
• September 15
  • Dave Annable, American actor
  • Amy Davidson, American actress
  • Edna Ngeringway Kiplagat, Kenyan long-distance runner
• September 16
  • Fanny, French singer
  • Flo Rida, African-American rapper
• September 17
  • Akin Ayodele, American football player
  • Chuck Comeau, Canadian drummer
• September 18 – Alison Lohman, American actress
• September 19 – Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel
• September 20 – David Long, New Zealand musician
• September 22 – Jericho Rosales, Filipino actor
• September 23 – Lote Tuqiri, Australian rugby union player
• September 24
  • Justin Bruening, American actor and model
  • Erin Chambers, American actress
  • Katja Kassin, German porn actress
  • Julia Clarete, Filipina actress
• September 25
  • Rashad Evans, a fighter in the MMA sport UFC
  • Michele Scarponi, Italian road bicycle racer (d. 2017)
• September 26
  • Naomichi Marufuji, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Taavi Rõivas, Prime Minister of Estonia
• September 27 – Shinji Ono, Japanese football player
• September 28
  • Bam Margera, American skateboarder
  • Dane Boedigheimer (Daneboe), American YouTuber and animator
  • Anndi McAfee, American actress and voice actress
• September 29
  • Gaitana, Ukrainian singer and songwriter of Ukrainian and Congolese descent
  • Artika Sari Devi, Putri Indonesia 2004
• September 30
  • Mike Damus, American actor
  • Vince Chong, Malaysian singer

October[]

• October 1
  • Rudi Johnson, American football player
  • Senit, Italian singer of Eritrean descent
  • Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby union player
• October 2 – Brianna Brown, American actress
• October 3
  • Matt Davis, American stand-up comedian
  • Josh Klinghoffer, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
  • John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
  • Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer-songwriter (The Script)
• October 4
  • Brandon Barash, American actor
  • Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress
  • Adam Voges, Australian cricketer
• October 5 – Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese actress
• October 7
  • Shawn Ashmore, Canadian film and television actor
  • Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
  • Tang Wei, Chinese actress
• October 8 – Kristanna Loken, American actress and model
• October 9
  • Csézy, Hungarian singer
  • Vernon Fox, American football player
  • Alex Greenwald, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Phantom Planet and JJAMZ)
  • Todd Kelly, Australian race car driver
  • Chris O'Dowd, Irish actor and comedian
  • DJ Rashad, Chicago-based electronic musician, producer and DJ (d. 2014)
  • Hendrik Odendaal, South African swimmer
  • Brandon Routh, American actor
  • Gonzalo Sorondo, Uruguayan footballer
• October 10
  • Wu Chun, Bruneian actor, model, and singer
  • Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
  • Mýa, American singer and actress
• October 11
  • Bae Doona, South Korean actress
  • Gabe Saporta, Uruguayan singer (Cobra Starship)
• October 13
  • Ryan Malcolm, Canadian singer
  • Mamadou Niang, Senegalese footballer
• October 14 – Stacy Keibler, American actress and model
• October 15 – Jaci Velasquez, American Christian singer
• October 16 – Erin Brown, American actress
• October 17 – Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish 2007 Formula 1 world champion
• October 18 – Ne-Yo, African-American singer and songwriter
• October 19 – Marc Elliott, British actor
• October 20
  • John Krasinski, American actor
  • Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby union player
• October 23 – Jorge Solís, Mexican professional boxer
• October 25 – Sarah Thompson, American actress
• October 26 – Jonathan Chase, American actor
• October 28
  • Brett Dennen, American folk/pop singer and songwriter
  • Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube
  • Martin Škoula, Czech ice hockey player
• October 30 – Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress

November[]

• November 1
  • Coco Crisp, American baseball player
  • Atsuko Enomoto, Japanese voice actress
  • Milan Dudić, Serbian footballer
• November 2 – Erika Flores, American actress
• November 3
  • Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
  • Tim McIlrath, American rock singer, songwriter (Rise Against)
• November 4 – Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
• November 5 – Tarek Boudali, French actor
• November 6
  • Lamar Odom, African-American retired basketball player
  • Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress
• November 7 – Jon Peter Lewis, American singer and songwriter
• November 8
  • Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
  • Dania Ramirez, Dominican actress
  • Salvatore Cascio, Italian actor (Cinema Paradiso)
• November 9
  • Caroline Flack, English television presenter, radio presenter, and model
  • Dania Ramirez, Dominican-American actress
  • Darren Trumeter, American actor and comedian ^[17]
• November 10 – Nina Mercedez, American porn actress
• November 12
  • Matt Cappotelli, American professional wrestler (d. 2018)
  • Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
  • Matt Stevic, Australian rules football umpire
• November 13
  • Henry Wolfe, American actor and musician
  • Metta World Peace, American basketball player
• November 14
  • Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
  • Olga Kurylenko, Ukrainian model and actress
  • Mpule Kwelagobe, Miss Universe 1999
• November 17 – Matthew Spring, English footballer
• November 18 – Neeti Mohan, Indian playback singer
• November 19 – Larry Johnson, American football player
• November 20 – Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
• November 21 – Kim Dong-wan, South Korean singer and actor
• November 22
  • Chris Doran, Irish singer
  • Scott Robinson, English singer (5ive)
• November 23
  • Ivica Kostelić, Croatian alpine skier
  • Kelly Brook, English actress/model
• November 25 – Joel Kinnaman, Swedish-American actor
• November 27
  • Ricky Carmichael, American motorcycle and stock car racer
  • Hilary Hahn, American violinist
• November 28
  • Dane Bowers, English singer-songwriter (Another Level)
  • Jamie Korab, Canadian curler
  • Hakeem Seriki, African-American rapper (Chamillionaire)
  • Daniel Henney, American actor and model
• November 29 – Jayceon Taylor, American rapper (The Game)
• November 30 – Diego Klattenhoff, Canadian actor

December[]

• December 2
  • Sabina Babayeva, Azerbaijani singer
  • Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer
• December 3
  • Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer and songwriter
  • Rock Cartwright, American football player
  • Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor and singer
  • Tiffany Haddish, American actress and comedian
• December 7
  • Eric Bauza, Canadian comedian and voice actor
  • Sara Bareilles, American singer, songwriter and pianist
  • Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
  • Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
• December 8 – Ingrid Michaelson, American indie pop singer-songwriter
• December 9 – Olivia Lufkin, English-Japanese singer, songwriter
• December 10 – Keiko Nemoto, Japanese voice actress
• December 11 – Rider Strong, American actor
• December 12 – Emin, Azerbaijani-Russian singer-songwriter and businessman
• December 14 – Michael Owen, English footballer
• December 15
  • Adam Brody, American actor
  • Eric Young, Canadian wrestler
• December 16
  • Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian singer and musician
  • Trevor Immelman, South African golfer
• December 17
  • William Green, American football player
  • Matt Murley, American hockey player
  • Jaimee Foxworth, American actress and model
• December 18 – Amy Grabow, American actress
• December 19
  • Kevin Devine, American songwriter and musician
  • Nicki Hunter, American porn actress and director
  • Paola Rey, Colombian actress and model
  • Tara Summers, English actress
• December 22
  • Petra Majdič, Slovene cross-country skier
  • Amanda Baker, American actress
• December 23
  • Summer Altice, American model and actress
  • Kenny Miller, Scottish football player
• December 25 – Ferman Akgül, vocalist of Turkish nu-metal band maNga
• December 26
  • Chris Daughtry, American singer and guitarist
  • Dimitry Vassiliev, Russian ski jumper
• December 27 – Carson Palmer, American football player
• December 28
  • James Blake, American tennis pro
  • Diego Luna, Mexican actor
  • André Holland, American actor
  • Bree Williamson, Canadian actress
  • Robert Edward Davis, German-American rapper
  • Zach Hill, American drummer (Death Grips)
• December 30
  • Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and author
  • Yelawolf, American rapper
• December 31
  • Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance)
  • Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress

Deaths[]

January[]

• January 3 – Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
• January 4 – Vincent Korda, Hungarian art director (b. 1897)
• January 4 – Peter Frankenfeld, German comedian, radio and television personality (b. 1913)
• January 5
  • Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894)
  • Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
• January 7 – Wallace Townsend, American lawyer and politician (b. 1882)
• January 11 – Jack Soo, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1917)
• January 13 – Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
• January 14 — Thomas DeSimone, American gangster (b. 1950)
• January 16 — Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
• January 18 – Maurice Challe, French general (b. 1905)
• January 19 – Tuffy Leemans, American football player (New York Giants) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1912)
• January 22 - Ali Hassan Salameh, Palestinian Leader of Black September and mastermind of the 1972 Munich Massacre (b.1940)
• January 26 – Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, 41st Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)
• January 28 – Glen Flanagan, American featherweight boxer (b. 1926)
• January 30 – Charles Watts, English cricketer (b. 1894)

February[]

• February 1 – Daniel Starch, American psychologist and marketing researcher (b. 1883)
• February 2
  • Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b. 1903)
  • Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (b. 1957)
• February 3 – Aaron Douglas, American painter (b. 1899)
• February 4 – Claude Massop, Jamaican gang leader of the Shower Posse Gang (b. c. 1949)
• February 5 – Reidar Waaler, Norwegian-born, American soldier for the United States Army (b. 1894)
• February 6 – Mary Bell, Australian aviator (b. 1903)
• February 8
  • Percy Bernard, 5th Earl of Bandon, British air chief marshal (b. 1904)
  • Art Williams, American baseball umpire (b. 1934)
• February 12 – Jean Renoir, French film director and actor (b. 1894)
• February 14 – Reginald Maudling, British politician (b. 1917)
• February 17 – William Gargan, American actor (b. 1905)
• February 22 – Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (b. 1877)
• February 23 – W. A. C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
• February 25 – Henrich Focke, German aviation pioneer (b. 1890)
• February 27 – Hanns-Horst von Necker, German Generalmajor in the Nazi Luftwaffe (b. 1903)

March[]

• March 1
  • Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
  • Dolores Costello, American actress (b. 1903)
• March 6 – Link Wasem, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• March 10 – William Boyd, Scottish-Canadian physician, pathologist, academic and author (b. 1885)
• March 11 – Victor Kilian, American actor (b. 1891)
• March 12 – Mashiur Rahman, former Senior Minister of Bangladesh (b. 1924)
• March 13 – Tudor Owen, English-American actor (b. 1898)
• March 14 – Robert William Wood, American landscape painter (b. 1889)
• March 15 – Léonide Massine, Russian dancer and choreographer (b. 1896)
• March 16 – Thomas Aloysius Boland, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Newark (b. 1896)
• March 18 – Marjorie Daw, American actress (b. 1902)
• March 19 – Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947)
• March 22 – Ben Lyon, American actor (b. 1901)
• March 23 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• March 24 – Yvonne Mitchell, English actress (b. 1915)
• March 26 – Jean Stafford, American writer (b. 1915)
• March 28 – Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
• March 29 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, Sultan of Kelantan and 6th King of Malaysia (b. 1917)
• March 30
  • Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b. 1916)
  • José María Velasco Ibarra, Ecuadorian politician, 24th President of Ecuador (b. 1893)

April[]

• April 1 – Barbara Luddy, American actress (b. 1908)
• April 2 – Grace Fortescue, American socialite (b. 1883)
• April 4
  • Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 9th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 4th President of Pakistan (executed) (b. 1928)
  • Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
• April 6 – Ivan Vasilyov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1893)
• April 7
  • Frank J. Donahue, American politician (b. 1881)
  • Charles W. Sawyer, United States Secretary of Commerce (b. 1887)
• April 10 – Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
• April 11
  • Howard Cruse, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1908)
  • Hassan Pakravan, Iranian diplomat (b. 1911)
  • Juma Butabika, Ugandan military officer
• April 13 – Frankie Kelleher, American baseball player (b. 1916)
• April 14 – Clarence Dillon, American financier (b. 1882)
• April 15 – David Brand, Australian politician (b. 1912)
• April 17 – Chuck Osborne, American basketball player with Syracuse Nationals (b. 1939)
• April 18 – Jullan Kindahl, Swedish actress (b. 1885)
• April 19
  • Wilhelm Bittrich, German Waffen SS general (b. 1894)
  • Antonio Centa, Italian actor (b. 1907)
• April 20 – Peter Donald, British-born American actor (b. 1918)
• April 22 – Leslie Phillips, English cricketer (b. 1899)
• April 23 – Blair Peach, New Zealand-born, British teacher (b. 1946)
• April 24 – John Carroll, American actor (b. 1906)
• April 26 – Julia Bell, English human geneticist (b. 1879)
• April 28 – Norman Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1895)
• April 30 – Pan Halippa, Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician (b. 1883)

May[]

• May 1 – Morteza Motahhari, Iranian cleric & politician (b. 1919)
• May 2 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• May 6 – Milton Ager, American songwriter (b. 1893)
• May 8
  • Talcott Parsons, American sociologist (b. 1902)
  • Victor Saville, American film director and producer (b. 1895)
• May 11
  • Joan Chandler, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b. 1912)
• May 12
  • Rosario María Gutiérrez Eskildsen, Méxican lexicographer (b. 1899)
  • Clyde Kluttz, American baseball player, scout and executive (b. 1917)
• May 13
  • Predrag Đajić, Bosnian Serb and Yugoslav footballer (b. 1922)
  • Iris Hoey, British actress (b. 1885)
• May 14 – Jean Rhys, mid-20th-century novelist from Dominica.(b. 1890)
• May 27
  • Margot Benary-Isbert, German writer (b. 1889)
  • Ahmed Ould Bouceif, Mauritanian military officer, 2nd Prime Minister of Mauritania (b. 1934)
• May 29 – Mary Pickford, Canadian Academy Award-winning actress and studio founder (b. 1892)

June[]

• June 1
  • Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
  • Ján Kadár, Czechoslovakian film director (b. 1918)
  • Jack Mulhall, American actor (b. 1887)
• June 5 – Heinz Erhardt, German comedian, musician, entertainer, actor and poet (b. 1909)
• June 6 – Jack Haley, American actor (b. 1897)
• June 10 – Winifred Mary Ward, British language pathologist (b. 1884)
• June 11
  • Loren Murchison, American Olympic athlete (b. 1898)
  • John Wayne, American Academy Award-winning actor and film director (b. 1907)
• June 13
  • George Cisar, American actor (b. 1912)
  • Darla Hood, American actress (b. 1931)
• June 20 – Bill Stewart, American journalist (b. 1941)
• June 22
  • Louis Chiron, Monacan Grand Prix driver (b. 1899)
  • Hope Summers, American actress (b. 1896)
• June 23 – Cremilda de Oliveira, Portuguese actress (b. 1887)
• June 25 – Dave Fleischer, American animator (b. 1894)
• June 26
  • Akwasi Afrifa, Ghanaian soldier and politician, Head of state (1969–1970) (b. 1936)
  • George Boakye, Ghanaian Military airman and politician (b. 1937)
• June 30 – William B. Franke, 55th United States Secretary of the Navy (b.1894)

July[]

• July 1
  • Douglas McKenzie, Australian cricketer (b. 1906)
  • Richard Ward, gravely-voiced, American actor (b. 1915)
• July 2 – Carlyle Smith Beals, Canadian astronomer (b. 1899)
• July 3 – Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
• July 4
  • Frank H. Ellis, Canadian aviator and Member of the Early Birds (b. 1896)
  • Theodora Kroeber, American writer and anthropologist (b. 1897)
  • Marjorie Rhodes, British actress (b. 1897)
  • Mendy Rudolph, American basketball referee of the NBA (b. 1926)
• July 6
  • Antonio María Barbieri, Uruguay Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1892)
  • Van McCoy, American accomplished musician; noted for his 1975 hit The Hustle (b. 1940)
• July 7 – Billy Dean Anderson, Notorious American criminal on "America's 10 Most Wanted" (b. 1934)
• July 8
  • Elizabeth Ryan, American 30 Grand Slam (tennis) Tennis Champion (b. 1892)
  • Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
  • Michael Wilding, English actor (b. 1912)
  • Robert Burns Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• July 9 – Roddy McMillan, Scottish actor (b. 1923)
• July 10 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (Boston Pops) (b. 1894)
• July 11
  • Giorgio Ambrosoli, Italian lawyer (b. 1933)
  • Else Højgaard, Danish ballerina (b. 1906)
  • Claude Wagner, French-Canadian judge and Progressive Conservative senator appointed in 1978 (b. 1925)
• July 12 – Minnie Riperton, American rhythm and blues singer (Lovin' You) (b. 1947)
• July 13
  • Corinne Griffith, American actress and author (b. 1894)
  • Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1913)
• July 14 – McGuire Twins; One of the heaviest recorded twins by Guinness World Records, Billy died. (b. 1946)
• July 15
  • Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican politician, 49th President of Mexico (b. 1911)
  • Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (b. 1892)
• July 16 – Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
• July 17 – Edward Akufo-Addo, Ghanese politician and lawyer, 5th President of Ghana (b. 1906)
• July 18 – Pavel Prokkonen, Karelian Soviet politician (b. 1909)
• July 19 – Helen Bradley, English artist whose works depicted the Edwardian era (b. 1900)
• July 20
  • Sir Herbert Butterfield, English philosopher and historian (b. 1900)
  • Volney Davis, American Depression era outlaw (b. 1902)
• July 21
  • Patriarch Elias IV of Antioch (b. 1914)
  • Juan Guzmán Cruchaga, Chilean poet and diplomat (b. 1895)
• July 22
  • Tony Galento, American boxer (b. 1910)
  • Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)
• July 23 – Lefty West, American Major League Baseball player (b. 1915)
• July 24 – Archie Duncan, British actor (b. 1914)
• July 25 – Erich Pohlmann, Austrian character actor (b. 1913)
• July 26 – Stefan Wiechecki, Polish journalist (b. 1896)
• July 27 – Gustavo Cochet, Argentine painter and engraver (b. 1894)
• July 28 – George Seaton, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
• July 29
  • Bill Todman, American game show producer (b. 1916)
  • Herbert Marcuse, German American philosopher, sociologist and political theorist (b. 1898)
• July 30 – Lew Kowarski, Russian-born, French physicist (b. 1907)
• July 31 – Beatrix Lehmann, British actress, theatre director and author (b. 1903)

August[]

• August 1 – Wayne Brenkert, American football player-coach (b. 1895)
• August 3 – Bertil Ohlin, Swedish economist and Liberal politician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (b. 1899)
• August 6 – Feodor Lynen, German biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
• August 8
  • Lionel Cooper, South African mathematician (b. 1915)
  • George Rider, American basketball coach (b. 1890)
• August 9 – Walter O'Malley, American baseball executive (b. 1903)
• August 10
  • Dick Foran, American actor (b. 1910)
  • Mohammad Nur Ahmad Etemadi, Afghan politician, 9th Prime Minister of Afghanistan (b. 1921)
  • Zygmunt Witymir Bieńkowski, Polish pilot and writer (b. 1913)
  • Asa Martin, American old time musician (b. 1900)
• August 16 – John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1895)
• August 18 – Draper Kauffman, American Naval pioneering underwater demolition expert (b. 1911)
• August 20 – Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (b. 1922)
• August 21 – Stuart Heisler, American film and television director (b. 1896)
• August 22 – James T. Farrell, American novelist (b. 1904)
• August 23 – Richard Hearne, English comedic actor (b. 1908)
• August 24
  • Ahmad Daouk, Lebanese politician, 12th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1892)
  • Hanna Reitsch, German aviator (b. 1912)
• August 25 – Stan Kenton, American jazz pianist (b. 1911)
• August 26 – Alvin Karpis, American criminal (b. 1907)
• August 27 – Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, British Viceroy of India (assassinated) (b. 1900)
• August 30 (body found on September 8) – Jean Seberg, American actress (b. 1938)
• August 31 – Sally Rand, American dancer (b. 1904)

September[]

• September 1
  • Doris Kenyon, American actress (b. 1897)
  • Stanley R. Mullard, English industrialist (b. 1883)
• September 2 – Felix Aylmer, British actor (b. 1889)
• September 3
  • Lim Cheng Hoe, Chinese-born, Singaporean watercolorist (b. 1912)
  • Wincenty Okołowicz, Polish geographer and climatologist (b. 1906)
  • Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, Venezuelan politician (b. 1903)
• September 4 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and bodabil entertainer (b. 1904)
• September 5
  • John Bradburne, English-born lay Roman Catholic]] missionary, murdered (b. 1921)
  • Alberto di Jorio, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1884)
• September 6 – Guy Bolton, British playwright (b. 1884)
• September 7 – Alan Browning, English actor (b. 1926)
• September 8
  • Princess Hilda of Luxembourg (b. 1897)
  • Rick Joseph, Dominican baseball player (b. 1939)
• September 9 – Norrie Paramor, British music producer (b. 1914)
• September 10 – Agostinho Neto, Angolan poet and politician, 1st President of Angola (b. 1922)
• September 11 – Laurie Banfield, English footballer (b. 1889)
• September 13 – Hap Ward, American baseball player (b. 1885)
• September 15 – Tommy Leonetti, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1929)
• September 16
  • Giò Ponti, Italian architect, industrial designer, furniture designer and artist (b. 1891)
  • Rob Slotemaker, Indonesian-born, Dutch Formula 1 racing car driver (b. 1929)
• September 17 – Paul Maze, Anglo-French painter (b. 1887)
• September 18 – André Zeller, French army general (b. 1898)
• September 19
  • Lou Busch, American record producer, singer and songwriter (b. 1910)
  • Mary Ann Nyberg, American costumer designer (b. 1923)
• September 20
  • Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah, Sultan of Terengganu and 4th King of Malaysia (b. 1907)
  • Ludvík Svoboda, 8th President of Czechoslovakia (b. 1895)
• September 21
  • Edmund Morgan, the seventh Suffragan Bishop of Southampton (b. 1888)
  • Bernard L. Austin, American admiral (b. 1902)
• September 22
  • Abul A'la Maududi, Pakistani journalist and philosopher (b. 1903)
  • Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born British physicist (b. 1904)
• September 23 – Steve Brooks, American jockey (b. 1922)
• September 24 – Carl Laemmle Jr., American film studio executive (b. 1908)
• September 25
  • Yury Kovalyov, Soviet footballer (b. 1934)
• September 26
  • John Cromwell, American film director and actor (b. 1887)
  • Eva Carrillo de García, Mexican-born American Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1883)
  • Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (b. 1910)
• September 27
  • Gracie Fields, British actress (b. 1898)
  • Jimmy McCulloch, Scottish guitarist (Paul McCartney & Wings) (b. 1953)
• September 28 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist (b. 1921)
• September 29
  • Francisco Macías Nguema, 1st President of Equatorial Guinea (executed) (b. 1924)
  • Ivan Wyschnegradsky, Russian composer (b. 1893)
• September 30 – Charles North, Australian attorney and politician (b. 1887)

October[]

• October 1 – Dorothy Arzner, American film director (b. 1897)
• October 2 – Ray Genet, American mountain climber (b. 1931)
• October 4 – Natwarsinhji Bhavsinhji, The Maharaja of Porbandar in India from (1908–1948), and cricketer (b. 1901)
• October 5 – Ken Strong, American football player (New York Giants) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1906)
• October 6 – Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (b. 1911)
• October 16 – Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (b. 1903)
• October 17
  • Eugenio Mendoza, Venezuelan business tycoon (b. 1909)
  • André Matsangaissa, Mozambican guerrilla rebel, leader of the RENAMO (b. 1950?)
  • S. J. Perelman, American humorist (b. 1904)
• October 18
  • Joe Coomer, American football player (b. 1917)
  • Virgilio Piñera, Cuban author, playwright and poet (b. 1912)
• October 19 – Fritz Diez, German actor (b. 1901)
• October 22 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
• October 24 – Julio Porter, Argentine screenwriter (b. 1916)
• October 25
  • Maphevu Dlamini, 2nd Prime Minister of Swaziland (b. 1922)
  • Gerald Templer, British Army Field Marshal in World War I and World War II (b. 1898)
• October 26
  • Park Chung-hee, Korean politician, 3rd President of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (assassinated) (b. 1917)
  • Charles P. Thompson, American actor (b. 1891)
• October 30
  • Barnes Wallis, British aeronautical engineer (b. 1887)
  • Rachele Mussolini, Italian, wife of Benito Mussolini (b. 1890)
• October 31 – Edvin Adolphson, Swedish actor and director (b. 1893)

November[]

• November 1
  • Bob Clayton, American television game show host & announcer (b. 1922)
  • Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (b. 1896)
• November 2
  • Ernst Kals, German submarine commander (b. 1905)
  • Jacques Mesrine, French criminal; known as the "French Robin Hood" (b. 1936)
• November 3 – Hugh P. Harris, United States Army general (b. 1909)
• November 4
  • Morris Chalfen, American sports entertainment promoter (b. 1907)
  • Yank Terry, American baseball player (b. 1911)
• November 5 – Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
• November 6 – Chick Evans, American golf champion (b. 1890)
• November 7 – Gyula Germanus, professor of oriental studies, a Hungarian writer and Islamologist of Jewish origin (b. 1884)
• November 8
  • Edward Ardizzone, English painter, printmaker and author (b. 1900)
  • Yvonne de Gaulle, French political wife of former President of France Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
• November 9
  • Louise Thaden, American aviator (b. 1905)
  • Tammy Alexander, Murder victim (b. 1963)
• November 10 – Mahmud Al-Nashaf, Israeli-Arab politician (b. 1906)
• November 11 – Dimitri Tiomkin, Russian film composer (b. 1894)
• November 12 – Gavriil Veresov, Soviet chess player (b. 1912)
  • Pythagoras Papastamatiou, Greek lyricist (b. 1930)
• November 13
  • Freda Betti, French opera singer (b.1924)
  • Ernest N. Harmon, American general (b. 1894)
• November 14
  • Amelia Best, Australian politician from Tasmania (b. 1900)
  • Grahame Budge, Canadian-born rugby player representing Scotland (b. 1920)
• November 15 – Ed Klieman, American baseball player; nicknamed, "Specs" (b. 1918)
• November 16 – Joseph Iglehart, American financier (b. 1891)
• November 17 – Immanuel Velikovsky, Russian author and psychiatrist (b. 1895)
• November 18
  • Freddie Fitzsimmons, American baseball player, manager, and coach (b. 1901)
  • Ade Schwammel, American football offensive tackle (b. 1908)
• November 19 – Dewey Jackson Short, Republican U.S. Representative from Missouri (b. 1898)
• November 21
  • Marie Byles, Australian conservationist (b. 1900)
  • Paul Wexler, American actor (b. 1929)
• November 22
  • Harry Jackman, Canadian politician and entrepreneur (b. 1900)
  • Irina Saburova, Russian poet, writer, and translator (b. 1907)
• November 23
  • Merle Oberon, British actress (b. 1911)
  • Judee Sill, American singer and cartoonist (b. 1944)
• November 24 – Georg Pinkepank, German Nazi Korvettenkapitän with the Kriegsmarine during World War II (b. 1907)
• November 25 – John S. Crawford, American politician for the Wisconsin State Assembly (b. 1923)
• November 26 – Marcel L'Herbier, French movie-maker (b. 1888)
• November 27 – Jerome Cavanagh, American civic politician; Mayor of Detroit, Michigan, from (1962–1970), especially what doomed his administration was the July, 1967 race riots (b. 1928)
• November 28 – Peter Mulgrew, New Zealand mountaineer, yachtsman, and businessman (b. 1927)
• November 30
  • Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
  • Laura Gilpin, American photographer (b. 1891)
  • Joyce Grenfell, British actress and comedian (b. 1910)
  • Gabrielle Dorziat, fashion trend setter in Paris and helped popularize the designs of Coco Chanel (b. 1880)

December[]

• December 1
  • Noel Estrada, Puerto Rican composer (b. 1918)
  • Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim of Egypt (b. 1899)
• December 2 – Helen Fraser, British suffragist, feminist and educationalist (b. 1881)
• December 3 – Dhyan Chand, Indian hockey player (b. 1905)
• December 4
  • Dumitru Dan, Romanian geographer (b. 1889)
  • Petya Dubarova, Bulgarian poet (b. 1962)
• December 5
  • Sonia Delaunay, Russian-born French artist (b. 1885)
  • Jesse Pearson, American actor (b. 1930)
• December 7 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
• December 8 – Nikolai Gritsenko, Soviet actor of Russian-Ukrainian background (b. 1912)
• December 9
  • Freeman Harrison Owens, American cinematographer (b. 1890)
  • Fulton J. Sheen, American Roman Catholic bishop and venerable (b. 1895)
• December 10 – Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1911)
• December 12 – Alan Shipman, English cricketer (b. 1901)
• December 13 – Jon Hall, American actor (b. 1915)
• December 14 – Ken Leishman, Canadian criminal (b. 1931)
• December 15 – Ethel Lackie, American Olympic swimmer (b. 1907)
• December 16 – Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani jazz musician (b. 1940)
• December 17 – A. J. Iversen, Danish cabinetmaker (b. 1888)
• December 18
  • Mohammad Mofatteh, Iranian philosopher (b. 1928)
  • Franz Suchomel, Sudeten German Nazi Unterscharführer (b. 1907)
• December 19 – Donald Creighton, Canadian historian (b. 1902)
• December 21 – Ermindo Onega, Argentine footballer (b. 1940)
• December 22 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American film producer (b. 1902)
• December 23
  • Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (b. 1898)
  • Ernest B. Schoedsack, American film producer and director (b. 1893)
• December 24
  • Renato Chiantoni, Italian actor (b. 1906)
  • Armand Massonet, Belgian painter (b. 1892)
• December 25
  • Joan Blondell, American actress (b. 1906)
  • Jordi Bonet, Canadian artist (b. 1932)
  • Lee Bowman, American actor (b. 1914)
• December 26 – Karl Hubbuch, German painter, printmaker and draftsman (b. 1891)
• December 27
  • Hafizullah Amin, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, 4th President of Afghanistan (b. 1929)
  • William H. Wilbur, United States Army officer (b. 1888)
• December 28
  • Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly, Dominican lawyer, scholar and diplomat, 43rd President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1904)
  • Karl George (American football), American football player (b. 1894)
• December 29
  • Felix Becker, German Oberst in World War II (b. 1893)
  • Petras Ciunis, Soviet army officer (b. 1898)
  • Richard Tecwyn Williams, Welsh biochemist (b. 1909)
• December 30 – Richard Rodgers, American composer (b. 1902)
• December 31 – John A. Powers, American public affairs officer for NASA (b. 1922)

Date unknown[]

• Saad Jumaa, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1916)
• Dave Line, British author
• Cecil Williams, English-South African theatre director and anti-apartheid activist (b. 1909)

Nobel Prizes[]

• Physics – Sheldon Lee Glashow, Abdus Salam, Steven Weinberg
• Chemistry – Herbert C. Brown, Georg Wittig
• Medicine – Allan M. Cormack, Godfrey N. Hounsfield
• Literature – Odysseas Elytis
• Peace – Mother Teresa
• Economics – Theodore Schultz, Arthur Lewis

Media[]

• The Doctor Who story City of Death is set in 1979, its year of broadcast.
• The events of the 2011 science fiction film Super 8 take place during the winter and summer of 1979.

References[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1979.

Further reading[]

• Caryl, Christian, Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century (2013), 1979 as worldwide turning point; excerpt and text search
• Facts on File. Facts on File Yearbook: 1979 (1980) weekly factual report on events worldwide.
• Hodson, H.V. Annual Register of World Events 1979 (1980), in-depth coverage of major countries
• Paxton, John, ed. Statesman's Yearbook 1978–1979 (1980), statistical details on all countries