1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1970th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 970th year of the 2nd millennium, the 70th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1970s decade.

Events

January

• January 1
  • Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC.
• January 5 - The 7.1 M_w Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured.
• January 5 - The first episode of the United States soap opera All My Children is broadcast on the ABC television network.
• January 11 - Super Bowl IV: The Kansas City Chiefs upset the heavily favored Minnesota Vikings 23-7.
• January 14
  • Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
  • Diana Ross and The Supremes perform their farewell live concert together at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. Ross's replacement, Jean Terrell, is introduced onstage at the end of the last show.
• January 15 - After a 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria, Biafran forces under Philip Effiong formally surrender to General Yakubu Gowon.
• January 20 - The Greater London Council announces its plans for the Thames Barrier at Woolwich to prevent flooding (the barrier opens in 1981).
• January 21
  • Pan American Airways offers the first commercially scheduled Boeing 747 service from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
  • Five lifeboatmen are killed when a Fraserburgh, Scotland vessel, The Duchess of Kent, capsizes.
• January 23 - Joseph Fielding Smith becomes the 10th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• January 26 -
  • The First Quarter Storm, a series of student riots against the government of President Ferdinand Marcos, begins in the Philippines.
  • Mick Jagger is fined £200 for possession of cannabis.
• January 31 - I Want You Back becomes the Jackson 5's first Billboard No. 1 Hot 100 single.

February

• February 1 - The Benavidez rail disaster near Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 236.
• February 1 - The American Football League and National Football League officially merge under the NFL's name, with its 26 teams realigned into the American Football Conference and National Football Conference.
• February 10 - An avalanche at Val-d'Isère, France kills 41 tourists.
• February 11 - Ohsumi, Japan's first satellite, is launched on a Lambda-4 rocket.
  

  February 11: Ohsumi (satellite) launched
• February 13 - Black Sabbath's eponymous debut album is released; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.
• February 14 - The iconic live album The Who: Live at Leeds is recorded.
• February 17
  • MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it.
  • Author David Irving is ordered to pay £40,000 libel damages to Capt. John Broome over his book The Destruction of Convoy PQ17.
• February 18 - A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Five of the defendants are found guilty on the lesser charge of crossing state lines to incite a riot.
• February 19 - Poseidon bubble: shares in Australian nickel mining company Poseidon NL, which stood at $0.80 in September 1969, peak at around $280 before the speculative bubble bursts.
• February 21 - Construction begins on the Bo?aziçi Bridge crossing the Bosphorus in Istanbul.
• February 22 - Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• February 23 - The Indian Pacific train ran from Sydney to Perth for the first time.
• February 26 - Chevrolet releases the second generation Camaro.

March

• March 1 - Rhodesia severs its last tie with the United Kingdom, declaring itself a republic.
• March 4 -- All 57 men aboard the French submarine Eurydice (S644) are killed when the vessel explodes while making a practice dive in the Mediterranean Sea.
• March 5 - The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect, after ratification by 56 nations.
• March 6
  • A bomb being constructed by members of the Weathermen and meant to be planted at a military dance in New Jersey, explodes, killing three members of the organization.
  • Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (32nd government).
• March 7 -- A solar eclipse passes along the Atlantic coast region. Totality is visible across southern Mexico and across the southeast coast of the United States, Nantucket, and Nova Scotia. It was the 27th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 139.
• March 12 -
  • 18-, 19- and 20-year-olds in the United Kingdom vote for the first time, in a by-election in Bridgwater.
  • Citroën introduces the Citroën SM, the fastest front-wheel drive auto in the world at that time, at the annual Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland.
• March 15 - The Expo '70 World's Fair opens in Suita, Osaka, Japan.
• March 16 - The complete New English Bible is published.
• March 17 -
  • The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the My Lai Massacre.
  • The critically wounded pilot of Eastern Air Lines Shuttle Flight 1320 saves the 68 passengers and five crew of the DC-9 jet, landing safely in Boston despite being shot by a hijacker who killed the co-pilot.
• March 18
  • General Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and holds Queen Sisowath Kossamak under house arrest.
  • United States Post Office Department letter carriers and mail sorters in New York City go on strike; the strike spreads to the state of California and the cities of Akron, Ohio, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, and Denver; 210,000 out of 750,000 U.S. postal employees walk out. President Nixon assigns military units to New York City post offices. The strike lasts two weeks.
• March 19
  • Ostpolitik: The leaders of West Germany and East Germany meet at a summit for the first time since Germany's division into two republics. West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is greeted by cheering East German crowds as he arrives in Erfurt for a summit with his counterpart, East German Ministerpräsident Willi Stoph.
• March 20 - The Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation (ACCT) (Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique) is founded.
• March 21
  • The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto.
  • All Kinds of Everything, sung by Dana (music and text by Derry Lindsay and Jackie Smith), wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1970 for Ireland.
• March 31
  • NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
  • Japan Airlines Flight 351, carrying 131 passengers and 7 crew from Tokyo to Fukuoka, is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members. All passengers and crew are eventually freed.

April

• April 1
  • American President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States from January 1, 1971.
  • American Motors Corporation introduces the Gremlin.
    

    April 1: New car - AMC Gremlin
  • The 1970 United States Census begins. There are 203,392,031 United States residents on this day.
• April 4 - Fragments of burnt human remains believed to be those of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun, Joseph Goebbels, Magda Goebbels and the Goebbels children are crushed and scattered in the Biederitz river at a KGB center in Magdeburg, East Germany.
• April 6 - BBC Radio 4 broadcasts the first edition of PM.
• April 8
  • A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan kills 79 and injures over 400.
  • Israeli Air Force F-4 Phantom II fighter bombers kill 47 Egyptian school children at an elementary school in what is known as Bahr el-Baqar massacre. The single-floor school is hit by five bombs and two air-to-ground missiles.
• April 10 - In a press release written in mock-interview style, that is included in promotional copies of his first solo album, Paul McCartney announces that he has left The Beatles.^[1]
• April 11
  • An avalanche at a tuberculosis sanatorium in the French Alps kills 74, mostly young boys.
  • Apollo program: Apollo 13 (Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, Jack Swigert) is launched toward the Moon.
• April 13 - An oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 spacecraft explodes, forcing the crew to abort the mission and return in four days.
• April 16
  • Rev. Ian Paisley wins a by-election to gain a seat in the House of Commons of Northern Ireland.
  • The National Westminster Bank begins trading in the United Kingdom.
• April 17 - Apollo program: Apollo 13 splashes down safely in the Pacific.
  

  April 17: Apollo 13 crew after splashdown
• April 21 - The Principality of Hutt River "secedes" from Australia (it remains unrecognised by Australia and other nations).
• April 22 - The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.
• April 24 - China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).
• April 26 - The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is founded.
• April 29 - The U.S. invades Cambodia to hunt out the Viet Cong; widespread, large antiwar protests occur in the U.S.

May

• May 1
  • Demonstrations against the trial of the New Haven Nine, Bobby Seale, and Ericka Huggins draw 12,000.
  • President Richard Nixon orders U.S. forces to cross into neutral Cambodia, threatening to widen the Vietnam War, sparking protests across the United States and leading to the Kent State shootings.
  • Colorado State College changes its name to the University of Northern Colorado.^[2]
• May 4 - Kent State shootings: Four students at Kent State University in Ohio, USA are killed and nine wounded by Ohio National Guardsmen, at a protest against the incursion into Cambodia.
• May 6
  • Arms Crisis in the Republic of Ireland: Charles Haughey and Neil Blaney are dismissed as members of the Irish Government, for accusations of their involvement in a plot to import arms for use by the Provisional IRA in Northern Ireland.
  • Feyenoord wins the European Cup after a 2-1 win over Celtic.
• May 8
  • Hard Hat Riot: Unionized construction workers attack about 1,000 students and others protesting the Kent State shootings near the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street and at New York City Hall.
  • The Beatles release their 12th and final album, Let It Be.
  • The New York Knicks win their first NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers 113-99 in Game 7 of the world championship series at Madison Square Garden.
• May 9 - In Washington, D.C., 100,000 people demonstrate against the Vietnam War.
• May 10 - The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr scores a goal 40 seconds into overtime for a 4-3 victory which completes a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Blues.
• May 11
  • Henry Marrow is killed in an alleged hate crime in Oxford, North Carolina.
  • Lubbock tornado: An F5 tornado hits downtown Lubbock, Texas, the first to hit a downtown district of a major city since Topeka, Kansas in 1966; 26 are killed.
• May 12 - The 1976 Winter Olympics are awarded to Denver, Colorado but it is later rejected in 1972.
• May 14
  • Ulrike Meinhof helps Andreas Baader escape and create the Red Army Faction which exists until 1998.
  • In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.
• May 17 - Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II, to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
• May 23 - A fire occurs in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Strait near Bangor, Caernarfonshire, Wales, contributing to its partial destruction and amounting to approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire damage.
• May 24 - The scientific drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the USSR.
• May 26 - The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
• May 27 - A British expedition climbs the south face of Annapurna I.
• May 31
  • The 7.9 M_w Ancash earthquake shakes Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and a landslide buries the town of Yungay, Peru. Between 66,794 and 70,000 were killed and 50,000 were injured.
  • The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico.

June

• June 1 - Soyuz 9, a two-man spacecraft, is launched in the Soviet Union.
• June 2 - Norway announces it has rich oil deposits off its North Sea coast.
• June 4 - Tonga gains independence from the United Kingdom.
• June 7 - The Who become the first act to perform rock music (their rock opera, Tommy) at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York.
• June 8 - A coup in Argentina brings a new junta of service chiefs; on June 18, Roberto M. Levingston becomes President.
• June 11 - The United States gets its first female generals, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington.
• June 12 - NDFLOAG guerrillas attack military garrisons at Izki and Nizwa in Oman.
• June 13 - The Long and Winding Road becomes the Beatles' 20th and final single to reach number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart.
• June 15 - Operation Wedding: fifteen refuseniks try to escape from the Soviet Union by hijacking a plane.
• June 18 - 1970 United Kingdom general election: the Conservative Party wins and Edward Heath becomes Prime Minister, ousting the Labour government of Harold Wilson after nearly six years in power. The election result is something of a surprise, as most of the opinion polls had predicted a third successive Labour win.^[3]
• June 19 - The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed into international law, providing a unified procedure for filing patent applications to protect inventions.
• June 21
  • Brazil defeats Italy 4-1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico.
  • Penn Central declares Section 77 bankruptcy, the largest ever US corporate bankruptcy up to this date.
• June 23 - The film: Kelly's Heroes is released in the US.
• June 24 - The United States Senate repeals the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964.
• June 28
  • U.S. ground troops withdraw from Cambodia.
  • First pride parade in history, Stonewall riot.
• June 30 - Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati opens.

July

• July 1 -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is subordinated to the Public Health Service.
• July 3 -
  • All 112 people on board Dan-Air Flight 1903 are killed when the British De Havilland Comet crashed into the mountains north of Barcelona.
  • The French Army detonates a 914 kiloton thermonuclear device in the Mururoa Atoll. It is the fifth in a series that started on June 15 in their program to perfect a hydrogen bomb small enough to be delivered by a missile.
• July 4
  • Bob Hope and other entertainers gather in Washington, D.C. for Honor America Day, a nonpartisan holiday event.
  • Longtime radio music countdown show American Top 40 debuts on 5 U.S. stations with Casey Kasem as host.
• July 5 - Air Canada Flight 621 crashes near Toronto International Airport, Toronto, Ontario; all 109 passengers and crew are killed.
• July 12 - Thor Heyerdahl's papyrus boat Ra II arrives in Barbados.
• July 16 - Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens.
• July 21 - The Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
• July 23
  • 1970 Omani coup d'état: Said bin Taimur, Sultan of Muscat and Oman, is deposed in a bloodless palace coup by his son, Qaboos.
  • Two "tear gas" (CS gas) canisters are thrown into the chamber of the British House of Commons.
• July 30 - Damages totalling £485,528 are awarded to 28 Thalidomide victims.
• July 31 - NBC anchor Chet Huntley retires from full-time broadcasting.

August

• August 7 - Harold Haley, Marin County Superior Court Judge, is taken hostage and murdered, in an effort to free George Jackson from police custody.
• August 11 - Creation of the International Council of Organizations of Folklore Festivals and Folk Arts in Confolens, France.
• August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched toward Venus. It later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet.
• August 18 - The United States sinks 418 containers of nerve gas into the Gulf Stream near the Bahamas.
• August 24 - Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
• August 26
  • The Women's Strike for Equality takes place on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
  • The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 begins on East Afton Farm off the coast of England. Some 600,000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time. Artists include Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Chicago, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Moody Blues and Jethro Tull.
• August 29 - The Chicano Moratorium, against the Vietnam War, begins East Los Angeles, California, and leads to a riot that kills three people, including journalist Rubén Salazar.
• August 31 - An annular solar eclipse is visible in Oceania, and is the 14th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 144.

September

• September 1 - An assassination attempt against King Hussein of Jordan precipitates the Black September crisis.
• September 3-6 - Israeli forces fight Palestinian guerillas in southern Lebanon
• September 4 - Chilean Socialist Senator Salvador Allende wins 36.2% of the vote in his run for presidency defeating former right-wing President Jorge Alessandri with 34.9% of the votes and Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic with 27.8% of the votes.
• September 5
  • Vietnam War - Operation Jefferson Glenn: The United States 101st Airborne Division and the South Vietnamese 1st Infantry Division initiate a new operation in Thua Thien Province (the operation ends in October 1971).
  • Austrian Formula One driver Jochen Rindt is killed in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix; he nevertheless becomes World Driving Champion, the first to earn the honor posthumously.
• September 6 - Dawson's Field hijackings, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacks four passenger aircraft from Pan Am, TWA and Swissair on flights to New York from Brussels, Frankfurt and Zürich and flies them to a desert airstrip in Jordan.
• September 7
  • An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
  • Fighting breaks out between Arab guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
• September 8-10 - The Jordanian government and Palestinian guerillas make repeated unsuccessful truces.
• September 9
  • Guinea recognizes the German Democratic Republic.
  • Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
• September 10
  • Cambodian government forces break the siege of Kompong Tho after three months.
  • The Chevrolet Vega is introduced.
• September 11 - The Ford Pinto is introduced.
• September 13
  • The covert incursion of Operation Tailwind is instigated by the American forces in southeast Laos.
  • The first New York City Marathon begins.
• September 15 - King Hussein of Jordan forms a military government with Muhammad Daoud as the prime minister.
• September 17 - "Black September": King Hussein of Jordan orders the Jordanian Armed Forces to oust Palestinian fedayeen from Jordan.
• September 18 - American musician Jimi Hendrix dies at age 27 from an overdose of sleeping pills in London.
• September 19
  • Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial Greek junta led by Georgios Papadopoulos.
  • The first Glastonbury Festival is held, at a farm in the south west of England belonging to Michael Eavis.
• September 20
  • Syrian armored forces cross the Jordanian border.
  • Luna 16 lands on the Moon and lifts off the next day with samples, landing back on Earth September 24.
• September 21
  • Palestinian armed forces reinforce guerillas in Irbidi, Jordan.
  • The American football television series Monday Night Football debuts on ABC; the Cleveland Browns defeat the New York Jets 31-21 in front of more than 85,000 fans at Cleveland Stadium.
• September 22
  • The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) is founded.
  • Tunku Abdul Rahman resigns as prime minister of Malaysia, and is succeeded by his deputy Tun Abdul Razak.
• September 23 - The first women's only tennis tournament begins in Houston, known as the Houston Women's Invitation.
• September 24 - American television series The Odd Couple premieres on ABC.
• September 26 - The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, burning 175,425 acres (709.92 km²).
• September 27
  • Richard Nixon begins a tour of Europe, visiting Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, the United Kingdom and Ireland.
  • Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of Ávila as the first female Doctor of the Church.
• September 28 - Gamal Abdel Nasser dies; Vice President Anwar Sadat is named temporary president of Egypt.
• September 29
  • The U.S. Congress gives President Richard Nixon authority to sell arms to Israel.
  • In Berlin, Red Army Faction members rob three banks, with loot totaling over DM 200,000.

October

• October 2
  • The Wichita State University football team's "Gold" plane crashes in Colorado, killing most of the players. They were on their way (along with administrators and fans) to a game with Utah State University.
  • Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) Corps, one of seven federal uniformed services of the United States, is renamed to NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps under the soon to be formed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
  • Pink Floyd releases Atom Heart Mother. It becomes their first number one album.
• October 3
  • In Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami resigns.
  • The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is formed.
  • The Weather Bureau is renamed to National Weather Service, as part of NOAA.
  • Pope Paul VI names Saint Catherine of Siena as the second female Doctor of the Church.
• October 4
  • American singer Janis Joplin dies at age 27 from an overdose of drugs.
  • Jochen Rindt becomes Formula One World Driving Champion, first to earn the honor posthumously.
  • In Bolivia, Army Commander General Rogelio Miranda and a group of officers rebel and demand the resignation of President Alfredo Ovando Candía, who fires him.
  • National Educational Television ends operations, being succeeded by PBS.
• October 5
  • U.S. President Richard Nixon's European tour ends.
  • The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnaps James Cross in Montreal and demands release of all its imprisoned members, beginning Quebec's October Crisis. The next day the Canadian government announces that it will not meet the demand.
  • The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) begins broadcasting as a successor to National Educational Television (NET), on NET stations in the United States.
• October 6
  • Bolivian President Alfredo Ovando Candía resigns; General Rogelio Miranda takes over but resigns soon after.
  • French President Georges Pompidou visits the Soviet Union.
• October 7 - General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
• October 8
  • The U.S. Foreign Office announces the renewal of arms sales to Pakistan.
  • Soviet author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • Vietnam War: In Paris, a Communist delegation rejects U.S. President Richard Nixon's peace proposal as "a maneuver to deceive world opinion."
• October 9 - The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia, escalating the Cambodian Civil War between the government and the Khmer Rouge.
• October 10
  • Fiji becomes independent.
  • October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte becomes the second statesman kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
• October 11 - Eleven French soldiers are killed in a shootout with rebels in Chad.
• October 12 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
• October 13
  • Canada and the People's Republic of China establish diplomatic relations.
  • Saeb Salam forms a government in Lebanon.
• October 14 - A Chinese nuclear test is conducted in Lop Nor.
• October 15
  • A section of the new West Gate Bridge in Melbourne collapses into the river below, killing 35 construction workers.
  • In Egypt, a referendum supports Anwar Sadat 90.04%.
  • The domestic Soviet Aeroflot Flight 244 is hijacked and diverted to Turkey.
• October 16 - October Crisis: The Canadian government declares a state of emergency and outlaws the Quebec Liberation Front.
• October 17
  • October Crisis: Pierre Laporte is found murdered in south Montreal.
  • A cholera epidemic breaks out in Istanbul.
  • Anwar Sadat officially becomes President of Egypt.
• October 20
  • The Soviet Union launches the Zond 8 lunar probe.
  • Egyptian president Anwar Sadat names Mahmoud Fawzi as his prime minister.
• October 21 - A U.S. Air Force plane makes an emergency landing near Leninakan, Soviet Union. The Soviets release the American officers, including two generals on November 10.
• October 22 - Chilean army commander René Schneider is shot in Santiago; the government declares a state of emergency. Schneider dies October 25.
• October 23 - Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
• October 24 - Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile by a run-off vote in the National Congress
• October 25 - The wreck of the Confederate submarine Hunley is found off Charleston, South Carolina, by pioneer underwater archaeologist, Dr. E. Lee Spence,^[4] then just 22 years old. Hunley was the first submarine in history to sink a ship in warfare.
• October 26 - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
• October 28
  • In Jordan, the government of Ahmad Toukan resigns; the next prime minister is Wasfi al-Tal.
  • A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.
  • Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official land speed record at 622.407 mph (1,001.667 km/h)^[5] on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.
• October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in six years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

November

• November 1
  • The Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146.
  • Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Zygfryd Wolniak and three Pakistanis and a killed in an attack on a group of Polish diplomats at the Karachi airport.
• November 3
  • Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.
  • Salvador Allende takes office as president of Chile.
  • The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970 USD, $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.
• November 4
  • Vietnam War - Vietnamization: The United States turns control of a base to South Vietnamese control for the first time, transferring the Sóc Tr?ng Airfield to the ARVN.
  • Social workers in Los Angeles take custody of Genie, an abused girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth, and begin her rehabilitation.
• November 5 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers die that week, which is the fifth consecutive week the death toll is below 50; 431 are reported wounded that week, however).
• November 8
  • Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.
  • Tom Dempsey, who was born with a deformed right foot, sets a National Football League record by kicking a 63-yard field goal to lift the New Orleans Saints to a 19-17 victory over the Detroit Lions at Tulane Stadium.
  • The British comedy television series, The Goodies debuts on BBC Two.
• November 9
  • The Soviet Union launches Luna 17.
  • Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6-3 not to hear a case by the state of Massachusetts, about the constitutionality of a state law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
  • The blues rock studio double album Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, the only album by Derek and the Dominos, is released, initially in the United States, the first presentation of the classic title track, "Layla", by English guitarist Eric Clapton and American drummer Jim Gordon.
• November 12 - Soviet author Andrei Amalrik is sentenced to three years for 'anti-Soviet' writings.
• November 13
  • 1970 Bhola cyclone: A 120-mph (193 km/h) tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people (considered the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster). It gives rise to the temporary island of New Moore / South Talpatti.
  • Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria, following a military coup within the Ba'ath Party.
• November 14
  • Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in Wayne County, West Virginia; all 75 on board, including 37 players and 5 coaches from the Marshall University football team, are killed.
  • The Soviet Union enters the International Civil Aviation Organization, after having resisted joining the UN Agency for more than 25 years. Russian becomes the fourth official language of the ICAO.
• November 16 - The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar flies for the first time.
• November 17
  • Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the M? Lai massacre.
  • Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
  • United Nations Security Council Resolution 288 is passed unanimously, urging all member states to avoid giving any form of recognition to the white-minority government of Rhodesia.
• November 18
  • U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).
• November 19 - The six European Economic Community nation prime ministers meet in Munich to begin the new program of European Political Cooperation (EPC), a unified foreign policy for a future European Union.
• November 20 - The Miss World 1970 beauty pageant, hosted by Bob Hope at the Royal Albert Hall, London is disrupted by Women's Liberation protesters. Earlier on the same evening a bomb is placed under a BBC outside broadcast vehicle by The Angry Brigade, in protest at the entry of separate black and white contestants by South Africa.
• November 21
  • Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
  • In Ethiopia, the Eritrean Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.
  • Vietnam War - Operation Ivory Coast: A joint Air Force and Army team raids the S?n Tây prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (no Americans are killed, but the prisoners have already moved to another camp; all U.S. POWs are moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
  • 1970 Australian Senate election: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led by Prime Minister John Gorton and the Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam each ended up with 26 seats; both suffering a swing against them. The Democratic Labor Party won an additional seat and held the balance of power in the Senate. To date, this was the last occasion where a Senate election was held without an accompanying House Of Representatives election.
• November 22 - Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near the capital Conakry. The Guinean army repels the landing attempts over the next three days.
• November 23 - The American Indian Movement seizes a replica of the Mayflower in Boston.
• November 25 - 29 - A U.N. delegation arrives to investigate the Guinea situation.
• November 25 - In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
• November 26
  • East Pakistan leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman accuses the central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.
  • Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.
  • Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! makes its network TV debut, when CBS telecasts the 1955 film version as a three-hour Thanksgiving special.
• November 27 - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
• November 28 - The Montréal Alouettes defeat the Calgary Stampeders, 23-10, to win the 58th Grey Cup.^[6]
• November 30 - British Caledonian Airways Ltd. (BCal) is formed by the merger of Caledonian Airways and British United Airways.

December

• December 1
  • The Italian Chamber of Deputies accepts the new divorce law.
  • Ethiopia recognizes the People's Republic of China.
  • The Basque ETA kidnaps West German Eugen Beihl in San Sebastián.
  • Luis Echeverría becomes president of Mexico.
• December 2 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency is established.
• December 3
  • October Crisis: In Montreal, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.
  • Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins.
• December 4
  • The Spanish government declares a 3-month martial law in the Basque county of Guipuzcoa, over strikes and demonstrations.
  • The U.N. announces that Portuguese navy and army units were responsible for the attempted invasion of Guinea.
• December 5
  • The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.
  • Fluminense wins the Brazil Football Championship.
• December 7
  • Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.
  • The U.N. General Assembly supports the isolation of South Africa for its apartheid policies.
  • During his visit to the Polish capital, German Chancellor Willy Brandt goes down on his knees in front of a monument to the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto, which will become known as the Warschauer Kniefall ("Warsaw Genuflection").
• December 12 - A landslide in western Colombia leaves 200 dead.
• December 13 - The government of Poland announces food price increases. Riots and looting lead to a bloody confrontation between the rioters and the government on December 15.
• December 15
  • The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
  • The South Korean ferry Namyong Ho capsizes off Korea Strait; 308 people are killed.
• December 16 - The Ethiopian government declares a state of emergency in the county of Eritrea over the activities of the Eritrean Liberation Front.
• December 17 - Polish 1970 protests: Soldiers fire on civilians returning to work in Gdynia. Martial law is imposed in the country until December 22.
• December 20
  • General Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party, W?adys?aw Gomu?ka, resigns; Edward Gierek replaces him.
  • An Egyptian delegation leaves for Moscow to ask for economic and military aid.
• December 21 - The Grumman F-14 Tomcat makes its first flight.
• December 22
  • The Libyan Revolutionary Council declares that it will nationalize all foreign banks in the country.
  • Franz Stangl, the ex-commander of Treblinka, is sentenced to life imprisonment.
• December 23
  • The Polish government freezes food prices for two years.
  • The Bolivian government releases Régis Debray.
  • The North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
  • Law 70-001 is enacted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, amending article 4 of the constitution and making the country a one-party state.
• December 25 - The ETA releases Eugen Beihl.
• December 27 - President of India V. V. Giri declares new elections.
• December 28
  • Burgos Trial: Three Basques are sentenced to death, twelve others sentenced to imprisonment (terms from 12 to 62 years), and one is released.
  • The suspected killers of Pierre Laporte, Jacques and Paul Rose and Francis Sunard, are arrested near Montreal.
• December 29 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs into law the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
• December 30 - In Biscay in the Basque country of Spain, 15,000 go on strike in protest at the Burgos trial death sentences. Francisco Franco commutes the sentences to 30 years in prison.
• December 31 - Paul McCartney sues in Britain to dissolve The Beatles's legal partnership.

Date unknown

• The first Regional Technical Colleges open in Ireland.
• Sada Abe, Japanese former prostitute and later actress, disappears.
• The Sweet Track is discovered in England. It was the world's oldest engineered roadway at the time of its discovery.
• Alvin Toffler publishes his book Future Shock.
• Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, the Federal collection of contemporary art, is established in Germany.
• Xerox PARC computer laboratory opens in Palo Alto, California.
• A multi-business conglomerate, Virgin Group was founded by Richard Branson in England.^[]

World population

Births

January

• January 1 - Sergei Kiriakov, Russian footballer and manager
• January 2
  • Royce Clayton, American baseball player
  • Oksana Omelianchik, Soviet artistic gymnast
  • Eric Whitacre, American composer
  • Nancy St. Alban, American actress
• January 3
  • Christian Duguay, American comic actor
  • Matt Ross, American actor
• January 4
  • Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
  • Basil Iwanyk, American film producer
• January 6
  • Julie Chen, American television news anchor and host
  • Keenan McCardell, American football player
  • Gabrielle Reece, American volleyball player and model
• January 7
  • João Ricardo, Angolan footballer
  • Todd Day, American basketball player
  • Doug E. Doug, American comedian, actor and director
  • Andy Burnham, British Politician
• January 8
  • Nick Miller, British weather forecaster
  • Adam Reed, American voice actor and animator
• January 9 - Lara Fabian, Canadian/Belgian singer
• January 12 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician
• January 13
  • Keith Coogan, American actor
  • Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)
  • Shonda Rhimes, American TV producer and writer
• January 15
  • Bonnie "Prince" Billy, American musician
  • Jamie Bishop (cricketer), Welsh cricketer (d. 2015)
  • Shane McMahon, American professional wrestler & businessman
• January 16 - Rick Bognar, Canadian professional wrestler and actor (d. 2019)
• January 17
  • Jeremy Roenick, American hockey player
  • Genndy Tartakovsky, Russian animator
• January 18
  • DJ Quik, American rapper and producer
• January 19
  • Tim Foster, British rower
  • Udo Suzuki, Japanese comedian
• January 20
  • Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and musician
  • Edwin McCain, American singer-songwriter and musician
  • Skeet Ulrich, American actor
  • Larry Schwarz, American animation producer, entrepreneur, writer, and photographer
• January 21 - Ken Leung, American actor
• January 22 - Alex Ross, American comic artist
• January 24 - Matthew Lillard, American actor, voice actor, director, and producer
• January 27
  • Adam Brand, Australian singer
  • Bradley Clyde, Australian rugby league player
  • Jessie Hollins, American baseball player (d. 2009)
• January 29
  • Heather Graham, American actress
  • Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
  • Paul Ryan, American politician
• January 30
  • Amaruk Kayshapanta, Indigenous-Ecuadorean filmmaker
  • Kimiya Yui, Japanese astronaut
• January 31
  • Minnie Driver, English actress
  • Chen Lin, Chinese Mandopop singer (d. 2009)

February

• February 1 - Malik Sealy, American basketball player (d. 2000)
• February 2
  • Andrew J. Olmsted, major in the U.S. Army. (d. 2008)
  • Fabrizio Vidale, Italian actor and voice actor
• February 3
  • Keith Carney, American hockey player
  • Warwick Davis, English actor
  • Anthony Russo, American film and television director
• February 4
  • Ma Mingyu, Chinese footballer
  • James Murphy, American musician
  • Hunter Biden, Son of former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden
• February 8
  • Stephanie Courtney, American actress and comedian
  • John Filan, Australian footballer
  • Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player
• February 9 - Glenn McGrath, Australian test cricketer
• February 10
  • Sarah Aldrich, American actress
  • Ardy Wiranata, Indonesian badminton player
• February 11 - Fredrik Thordendal, Swedish musician
• February 12 - Judd Winick, American cartoonist and comic book writer
• February 13 - Park Hee-soon, South Korean actor
• February 14
  • Sean Hill, American hockey player
  • Simon Pegg, British comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• February 15 - Shepard Fairey, American temporary street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator, and founder of OBEY (clothing)
• February 16 - Armand Van Helden, American DJ and music producer
• February 17
  • Tommy Moe, American Alpine skier
  • Dominic Purcell, English-Australian actor
• February 18
  • Susan Egan, American actress, voice actress, singer and dancer
  • Raine Maida, Canadian musician, frontman of Our Lady Peace
• February 19
  • Miisa, Finnish Eurodance artist (d. 2016)
  • Bellamy Young, American actress
• February 20 - Kerri Hoskins, American video game actress
• February 21 - Dayna Devon, American news anchor
• February 22
  • Nicole Oliver, Canadian actress, voice actress, and singer
  • Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player
  • Ravi Vakil, American-Canadian mathematician
• February 23 - Paul Anthony Stewart, American stage and television actor
• February 24 - Jeff Garcia, American football player
• February 25 - Allan Fung, American attorney and politician
• February 26
  • Linda Brava, Finnish violinist
  • Cathrine Lindahl, Swedish curler
• February 27 - Matthias Lechner, German art director
• February 28
  • Rupert Hamer, British journalist (d. 2010)
  • Daniel Handler, American author
  • Noureddine Morceli, Algerian athlete
  • Milovan Minja Prelevi?, Montenegrin football coach and player (d. 2019)

March

• March 1 - Jason V Brock, American author, filmmaker, artist, scholar and musician
• March 2 - Alexander Armstrong, English comedian, actor and presenter
• March 3 - Julie Bowen, American actress
• March 4 - Andrea Bendewald, American actress
• March 5
  • John Frusciante, American rock musician
  • Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress (d. 2013)
  • Aleksandar Vu?i?, President of Serbia
• March 6 - Chris Broderick, American musician
• Gesine Bullock-Prado, American pastry chef
• March 7
  • Vladislav Adelkhanov, Russian classical violinist and writer
  • Jeff Hordley, English actor
  • Rachel Weisz, British-American actress
• March 8 - Jason Elam, American football player
• March 9 - Simon Monjack, British screenwriter, film director (d. 2010)
• March 10
  • Antonio Edwards, American football player
  • Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer
• March 11 - Jane Slavin, British actress and author
• March 12 - John Nemechek, American race car driver (d. 1997)
• March 13 - Carme Chacón, Spanish politician (d. 2017)
• March 14 - Meredith Salenger, American actress
• March 15
  • Christine Anu, Australian singer
  • H?ng Nhung, Vietnamese singer
• March 16
  • Oleg Pavlov, Russian writer (d. 2018)
  • Paul Oscar (Páll Óskar Hjálmtýsson), Icelandic pop singer, songwriter and disc jockey
• March 17 - Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, American politician
• March 18 - Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress
• March 19 - Steve Light, American children's book author
• March 20
  • Bernhard Hoëcker, German comedian
  • Michele Jaffe, American novelist
  • Andrew Kishino, Canadian-American actor, voice actor, and rapper
  • Linda Larkin, American actress and voice actress
  • Michael Rapaport, American actor
• March 21
  • Jaya, Filipino pop singer
  • Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (d. 2000)
  • Cenk Uygur, Turkish-American political commentator, activist, and attorney
  • Justine Suissa, British songwriter
• March 22 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
• March 23 - Kate Jennings Grant, American actress
• March 24
  • Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
  • Sharon Corr, Irish musician
• March 25 - Kari Matchett, Canadian actress
• March 26 - Justin Meldal-Johnsen, American songwriter
• March 27
  • Mariah Carey, American singer
  • Maribel Díaz Cabello, Peruvian educator, First Lady of Peru
  • Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
  • Leila Pahlavi, Iranian princess (d. 2001)
• March 28 - Vince Vaughn, American actor, writer, and producer
• March 29 - Krista Sutton, Canadian actress
• March 30 - Secretariat, American Thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1989)
• March 31
  • Alenka Bratu?ek, 7th Prime Minister of Slovenia
  • Samantha Brown, American television host

April

• April 4
  • Janice Kawaye, American actress and voice actress
  • Sean Kelly, Canadian musician
  • Barry Pepper, Canadian actor
• April 7 - Rosey, Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2017)
• April 8
  • JR Bourne, Canadian actor
  • Andrej Plenkovi?, 12th Prime Minister of Croatia
• April 10
  • José Paulo Lanyi, Brazilian journalist, writer and filmmaker
  • Q-Tip, American musician and actor
  • Kenny Lattimore, American R&B singer
• April 11 - Trevor Linden, Canadian hockey player
• April 12 - Nick Hexum, American musician
• April 13
  • Eduardo Capetillo, Mexican actor and singer
  • Ricky Schroder, American actor
• April 14
  • Matt Allwright, English television presenter and journalist
  • Shizuka Kudo, Japanese singer and actress
• April 15 - Flex Alexander, American actor
• April 17 - Redman, American rapper and actor
• April 18
  • Heike Friedrich, German swimmer
  • Saad Hariri, 2-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon
• April 19 - Luis Miguel, Mexican singer
• April 20
  • Sven Benken, German footballer and Manager
  • Shemar Moore, American actor
  • Adriano Moraes, Brazilian rodeo performer
• April 21
  • Rob Riggle, American actor and comedian
  • Nicole Sullivan, American actress, comedian, and writer
• April 22 - Regine Velasquez, Filipino singer and actress
• April 23
  • Sadao Abe, Japanese actor
  • Andrew Gee, Australian rugby league footballer
  • Hans Välimäki, Finnish cook
• April 25
  • Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (d. 2011)
  • Jason Lee, American skateboarder and actor
• April 26
  • Melania Trump, Slovenian model, First Lady of the United States
  • Tionne Watkins, American actress and singer-songwriter
• April 28
  • Nicklas Lidström, Swedish hockey player
  • Diego Simeone, Argentine footballer and manager
• April 29
  • Andre Agassi, American tennis player
  • Uma Thurman, American actress
• April 30 - Halit Ergenç, Turkish actor

May

• May 1 - Dave Willis, American voice actor and producer
• May 3
  • Bobby Cannavale, American actor
  • Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
• May 4
  • Will Arnett, Canadian actor
  • Karla Homolka, Canadian serial killer and rapist
• May 5
  • Kyan Douglas, American television personality
  • Todd Newton, American television personality
• May 6
  • Roland Kun, Nauruan politician
  • Ade Rai, Indonesian bodybuilder
  • Kavan Smith, Canadian actor
• May 8
  • Michael Bevan, Australian cricketer
  • Luis Enrique, Spanish footballer
  • Naomi Klein, American cultural critic
• May 9
  • Doug Christie, American basketball player and TV personality
  • Hao Haidong, Chinese footballer
  • Ghostface Killah, American rapper
• May 10
  • Angelica Agurbash, Belarusian singer and model
  • Craig Mack, American rapper (d. 2018)
• May 12
  • Eric Champion, American Christian musician
  • Samantha Mathis, American actress
  • Raj Chandarlapaty, American educator and author^[7]
• May 14 - Daniel Lewin, American-Israeli mathematician and entrepreneur (d. 2001)
• May 15
  • Brad Rowe, American actor, writer, producer, and public policy advocate
  • Ronald and Frank de Boer, Dutch footballers
  • Prince Be, American rapper, singer, and record producer (P.M. Dawn) (d. 2016)
  • Rod Smith, American football player
• May 16 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentine tennis player
• May 17
  • Jordan Knight, American singer
  • Fadwa Soliman, Syrian actress and voice actress
• May 18 - Tina Fey, American comedian and actress
• May 19
  • K.J. Choi, South Korean golfer
  • Mario Dumont, Canadian politician
  • Jason Gray-Stanford, Canadian actor
• May 20
  • Juliana Pasha, Albanian singer
  • Louis Theroux, British documentary filmmaker and broadcaster
• May 21 - Once Mekel, Indonesian singer
• May 22
  • Naomi Campbell, British model and actress
  • Brody Stevens, American actor and comedian (d. 2019)
• May 23
  • Matt Flynn, American musician
  • Robert Peirce, American attorney
• May 24
  • Tommy Page, American singer-songwriter (d. 2017)
  • Jeff Zgonina, American football player
• May 25
  • Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, American actresses
  • Jamie Kennedy, American actor and comedian
  • Satsuki Yukino, Japanese voice actress
• May 26
  • John Hamburg, American writer and director
  • Nobuhiro Watsuki, Japanese cartoonist
• May 27
  • Joseph Fiennes, British actor
  • Bianka Panova, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast
• May 28 - Glenn Quinn, Irish actor (d. 2002)
• May 30
  • Erick Thohir, Indonesian politician and businessman
  • Jeffrey Sebelia, American fashion designer
• May 31 - Paolo Sorrentino, Italian film director

June

• June 1
  • Alison Hinds, British-Barbadian soca artist based in Barbados
  • Alexi Lalas, American soccer player
  • R. Madhavan, Indian film actor
  • Karen Mulder, Dutch model and singer
• June 2 - B-Real, American rapper
• June 3
  • Ammon McNeely, American rock climber
  • Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician
• June 4
  • Donald Farley, Canadian cross-country skier (d. 2016)
  • Izabella Scorupco, Polish model and actress
• June 5
  • John Marquez, British actor and cinematographer
  • Deborah Yates, American dancer and actress
• June 6
  • Dulmatin, militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (d. 2010)
  • Angad Paul, British businessman and film producer. (d. 2015)
• June 7
  • Cláudia Rodrigues, Brazilian actress and comedian
  • Ronaldo da Costa, Brazilian long-distance runner
  • Mike Modano, American hockey player
• June 8
  • Gabby Giffords, American politician
  • Steve Renouf, Australian rugby league player
  • Kelli Williams, American actress
• June 9
  • Amin Hayai, Iranian actor
  • Thomas Tull, American businessman
• June 10 - Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer
• June 11 - Alex Kendrick, American film writer
• June 12 - Rick Hoffman, American actor
• June 13
  • Cheryl "Coko" Clemons, American singer
  • Rivers Cuomo, American musician, frontman of Weezer
  • Mikael Ljungberg, Swedish wrestler (d. 2004)
• June 14 - Heather McDonald, American actress
• June 15
  • Claus Norreen, Danish musician
  • Leah Remini, American actress
• June 16
  • Younus AlGohar, Pakistani spiritualist
  • Phil Mickelson, American golfer
• June 17
  • Nishikant Kamat, Indian filmmaker and actor (d. 2020)
  • Will Forte, American actor and comedian
  • Michael Showalter, American actor, writer, and director
  • Sasha Sokol, Mexican singer
• June 18 - Katie Derham, British newsreader
• June 19 - Quincy Watts, American athlete
• June 20
  • Russell Garcia, British field hockey player
  • Moulay Rachid, Prince of Morocco
  • Michelle Reis, Hong Kong actress and beauty queen
  • Athol Williams, South African poet and social philosopher
• June 21 - Pete Rock, American rapper and DJ
• June 22
  • Michel Elefteriades, Greek-Lebanese politician, artist, producer and businessman
  • Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor
  • Michael Trucco, American actor
• June 23
  • Zen Gesner, American actor
  • Marko Albrecht, German disc jockey and electronic producer
  • Christian Meier, Peruvian actor and singer
• June 24
  • Glenn Medeiros, American singer and songwriter
  • Andres Raag, Estonian actor and singer
  • Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, Spanish screenwriter and film director
• June 25
  • Lucy Benjamin, British actress
  • Roope Latvala, Finnish guitarist
  • Pan Lingling, Singaporean actress
• June 26
  • Paul Thomas Anderson, American screenwriter and director
  • Sean Hayes, American actor
  • Patrick Norton, American writer and television host
  • Pawe? Nastula, Polish judoka and mixed martial artist
  • Chris O'Donnell, American actor
  • Matt Letscher, American actor and playwright
  • Nick Offerman, American actor, writer and carpenter
  • David Teeuwen, managing editor of USA Today where he helped pioneer digital news. (d. 2015)
• June 27
  • Ahmed Ahmed, Egyptian-born American actor and comedian
  • Jim Edmonds, American baseball player
  • Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
• June 28
  • Steve Burton, American actor
  • Mike White, American writer, director, actor and producer
• June 29 - Mike Vallely, American skateboarder, actor, and musician
• June 30
  • Emmanuel Mouret, French actor, director and screenwriter
  • Leonardo Sbaraglia, Argentine actor
  • Chris Conrad, American actor
  • Erica Sjöström, Swedish female singer and saxophonist
  • Brian Bloom, American actor, voice actor and screenwriter

July

• July 1 - Henry Simmons, American actor
• July 2
  • Derrick Adkins, American Olympic athlete
  • Yap Kim Hock, Malaysian badminton player
  • Steve Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
  • Kym Ng, Singaporean television host and actress
  • Spice 1, American rapper
• July 2 - Scott Aukerman, American writer, actor, comedian, television personality, director, producer, and podcast host
• July 3
  • Teemu Selänne, Finnish hockey player
  • Audra McDonald, American actress and singer
  • Serhiy Honchar, Ukrainian road racing cyclist
• July 5
  • Toby Whithouse, English actor, screenwriter and playwright
  • Mac Dre, American rapper (d. 2004)
  • O.G. Style, American hip hop duo (d. 2008)
• July 6
  • Inspectah Deck, American rapper
  • David Readman, English singer
  • Martin Smith, English vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
  • Demonaz Doom Occulta, Norwegian musician
• July 7
  • Wayne McCullough, Northern Irish boxer
  • Masai Ujiri, Nigerian professional basketball executive
  • Akram Abdel-Majeed, Egyptian professional footballer
  • Atli Örvarsson, Icelandic film score composer
• July 8
  • Beck, American singer-songwriter and record producer
  • Taiei Kin, Korean-Japanese karateka, kickboxer and mixed martial artist
  • Atul Agnihotri, Indian film actor, producer, and director
  • Micky Hoogendijk, Dutch actress, presenter, model and professional photographer
• July 9 - Trent Green, American football quarterback
• July 10
  • Adam Hills, Australian comedian and television presenter
  • Jason Orange, British singer
  • John Simm, British actor
• July 11
  • Justin Chambers, American actor and fashion model
  • Saj Karim, British politician
  • Michael Saucedo, American Hispanic Irish actor
• July 12
  • Lee Byung-hun, South Korean actor, singer and model
  • Conrad Coates, English-Canadian actor and teacher
  • Jaason Simmons, Australian actor
  • Viétia Zangrandi, Brazilian actress
  • Aure Atika, French actress, writer and director
• July 13 - Bruno Salomone, French actor and comedian
• July 14 - Seb Fontaine, English electronic music producer & DJ
• July 17
  • Jang Hyun-sung, South Korean actor
  • William C. Kuebler, American lawyer (d. 2014)
  • Gavin McInnes, Canadian writer and political commentator (co-founder of Vice Media)
• July 18 - Gruff Rhys, Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author
• July 20 - Tunku Abdul Majid
• July 22 - Jonathan Zaccaï, Belgian actor, film director and screenwriter
• July 23
  • Thea Dorn, German writer
  • Saulius Skvernelis, Prime Minister of Lithuania
• July 25 - Julien Fountain, English cricket coach
• July 26 - Cress Williams, American actor
• July 29 - Andi Peters, British TV presenter and producer
• July 30
  • Christopher Nolan, English screenwriter and director
  • MC Trouble, African American rapper (d. 1991)

August

• August 1
  • Quentin Coryatt, American football player
  • David James, English football goalkeeper
  • Elon Lindenstrauss, Israeli mathematician
  • Eugenie van Leeuwen, Dutch cricketer
• August 2
  • James Dale, American gay rights activist
  • Elijah Alexander, American football linebacker (d. 2010)
  • Kevin Smith, American screenwriter, film director, and actor
• August 3 - Masahiro Sakurai, Japanese video game director, designer and writer
• August 4
  • Pete Abrams, American webcomic artist
  • Ron Lester, American actor (d. 2016)
• August 5 - Konstantin Yeryomenko, Russian futsal (d. 2010)
• August 6
  • Tanya Wexler, American film director
  • M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American film director and writer
• August 9
  • Chris Cuomo, American journalist
  • Thomas Lennon, American actor, comedian, and writer
• August 10
  • Doug Flach, American tennis player
  • Bret Hedican, American ice hockey player
  • Brendon Julian, New Zealand cricket player
  • Steve Mautone, Australian football player and coach
• August 11
  • Daniella Perez, Brazilian actress and ballerina (d. 1992)
  • Andy Bell, English musician (Ride, Hurricane #1, Oasis)
• August 12 - Jim Schlossnagle, American baseball coach
• August 13
  • Hamden Khalif Allah Awad, Egyptian Islamist militiant (d. 1998)
  • Will Clarke, American novelist
  • Alan Shearer, English footballer
• August 14 - Leah Purcell, Australian actress
• August 15
  • Maddie Corman, American actress
  • Anthony Anderson, American actor
• August 16
  • Bonnie Bernstein, American sportscaster
  • Dean Del Mastro, Canadian politician
  • Saif Ali Khan, Indian actor
  • Manisha Koirala, Indian actress
• August 17
  • Jim Courier, American tennis player
  • Tammy Townsend, American actress and singer
• August 18 - Malcolm-Jamal Warner, American actor
• August 19 - Fat Joe, American rapper
• August 20
  • Fred Durst, American rapper
  • Ove Jørstad, Norwegian footballer (d. 2008)
• August 21
  • Erik Dekker, Dutch professional cyclist
  • Cathy Weseluck, Canadian actress and voice actress
• August 22
  • Giada De Laurentiis, Italian-American celebrity chef
  • Ricco Groß, German biathlete
  • Tímea Nagy, Hungarian fencer
• August 23
  • Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian
  • River Phoenix, American actor (d. 1993)
  • Fabian Wilnis, Dutch footballer
• August 25 - Claudia Schiffer, German model
• August 26
  • Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian race walker
  • Melissa McCarthy, American actress, comedian, and film producer
• August 27
  • Peter Ebdon, English snooker player
  • Jim Thome, American baseball player
  • Karl Unterkircher, Italian mountaineer (d. 2008)
  • Pokwang, Filipino comedian and actress
• August 28
  • Henny van Schoonhoven, Dutch professional footballer (d. 2009)
  • Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, Indian director and poet. (d. 2015)
• August 29
  • Nyimpine Chissano, eldest son of former Mozambican (d. 2007)
  • Alessandra Negrini, Brazilian actress
• August 30 - Guang Liang, Malaysian singer
• August 31
  • Debbie Gibson, American singer
  • Epic Mazur, American singer and rapper
  • Queen Rania of Jordan, Queen consort of Jordan
  • Zack Ward, Canadian actor

September

• September 1 - Hwang Jung-min, South Korean actor
• September 3
  • Maria Bamford, American stand-up comedian, actress and voice actress
  • Jeremy Glick, passenger on board United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
• September 4
  • Daisy Dee, Dutch singer and actress
  • Ione Skye, British-born American actress
• September 5 - Liam Lynch, American musician, comedian, and puppetteer
• September 7
  • Gao Min, Chinese diver
  • Tom Everett Scott, American actor
• September 8
  • Benny Ibarra, Mexican singer
  • Rosearik Rikki Simons, American voice actor
  • Latrell Sprewell, American basketball player
• September 10
  • Molly McKay, LGBT activist
  • Ménélik, French rapper
• September 11
  • Taraji P. Henson, American actress
  • Laura Wright, American actress
• September 12 - Amala Akkineni, Indian actress, dancer and activist
• September 13
  • Susumu Chiba, Japanese voice actor
  • Ben Ely, Australian musician
• September 14 - Mike Burns, American soccer player
• September 17 - Valeria Cappellotto, Italian racing cyclist. (d. 2015)
• September 18 - Darren Gough, English cricketer
• September 19
  • Dan Bylsma, American ice hockey player
  • Yuka Imai, Japanese voice actress
  • Takanori Nishikawa, Japanese singer
• September 20 - Gert Verheyen, Belgian footballer
• September 21 - Samantha Power, Irish-American government official and writer
• September 22
  • Mike Matheny, American baseball player
  • Mystikal, American rapper
  • Chris Tallman, American actor and comedian
• September 23 - Ani DiFranco, American musician
• September 25 - Aja Kong, Japanese professional wrestler
• September 26
  • Marco Etcheverry, Bolivian football player
  • Frank Guinta, American politician
  • Yukio Iketani, Japanese gymnast
• September 27 - Yoshiharu Habu, Japanese professional shogi player
• September 28
  • Isabelle Brasseur, Canadian figure skater
  • Kimiko Date-Krumm, Japanese tennis player
• September 29
  • Ninel Conde, Mexican actress, singer, and television host
  • Emily Lloyd, English actress
  • Yoshihiro Tajiri, Japanese professional wrestler
  • Natasha Gregson Wagner, American actress
• September 30
  • Tony Hale, American actor
  • Mark Smith, English actor and bodybuilder

October

• October 1 - Moses Kiptanui, Kenyan athlete
• October 2 - Kelly Ripa, American actress and TV personality
• October 4
  • Richard Hancox, English footballer
  • Zdravko Zdravkov, Bulgarian footballer
• October 6 - Amy Jo Johnson, American-Canadian actress
• October 7 - Nicole Ari Parker, American actress and model
• October 8
  • Matt Damon, American actor
  • Sadiq Khan, British politician; 3rd Mayor of London (2016-present)
  • Tetsuya Nomura, Japanese video game and film director
• October 9
  • Jason Butler Harner, American actor
  • Annika Sörenstam, Swedish golfer
• October 10
  • Sir Matthew Pinsent, British rower
  • Jokelyn Tienstra, Dutch handball player (d. 2015)
• October 11
  • Andy Marriott, English footballer
  • Shin Tae-yong, South Korean footballer
• October 12
  • Kirk Cameron, American actor and Christian activist
  • Charlie Ward, American football and basketball player
• October 14 - Daniela Pe?tová, Czech supermodel
• October 15 - Chris Mims, American football (d. 2008)
• October 16 - Mehmet Scholl, German footballer
• October 17
  • Anil Kumble, Indian cricketer
  • Marciano Vink, Dutch footballer
• October 18 - Jose Padilla, American gang member and convicted terrorist
• October 19 - Chris Kattan, Iraqi-American comedian and actor
• October 20 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator
• October 21
  • Louis Koo, Hong Kong actor
  • Tony Mortimer, English singer
• October 22 - D'Lo Brown, American professional wrestler
• October 23 - Grant Imahara, American electrical engineer, roboticist, television host, and actor (d. 2020)
• October 24 - Stephen Kipkorir, Kenyan middle-distance runner (d. 2008)
• October 25 - Adam Goldberg, American actor
• October 26 - Chavo Guerrero Jr., Mexican-American professional wrestler
• October 27 - Adrian Erlandsson, Swedish drummer
• October 27 - Jonathan Stroud, British writer of fantasy fiction
• October 28 - Greg Eagles, American actor and voice actor
• October 29
  • Michael Daingerfield, Canadian actor and voice actor
  • Toby Smith, British musician (d. 2017)
  • Edwin van der Sar, Dutch footballer
• October 30
  • Ben Bailey, American host
  • Nia Long, American actress
  • Xie Jun, Chinese chess grandmaster
• October 31
  • Linn Berggren, Swedish singer
  • Nolan North, American actor and voice actor

November

• November 1 - Merle Palmiste, Estonian actress
• November 2
  • Ely Buendia, Filipino rock lead singer and rhythm guitarist (Eraserheads)
  • Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman, American wrestling valet
• November 3 - Dawn Marie Psaltis, American professional wrestler
• November 4
  • François Delapierre, French politician (d. 2015)
  • Anthony Ruivivar, American actor
  • Lauri Aus, Estonian cyclist (d. 2003)
  • Tony Sly, American singer (d. 2012)
• November 5 - Heather Pick, American television news anchor (d. 2008)
• November 6 - Ethan Hawke, American actor, writer, and film director
• November 7
  • Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician
  • Morgan Spurlock, American filmmaker and activist
• November 8
  • Tom Anderson, American co-founder of Myspace
  • Lee Bong-Ju, South Korean long-distance runner
• November 9
  • Chris Jericho, American professional wrestler
  • Scarface, American rapper
  • Dan Schlissel, American record producer
• November 10
  • Orny Adams, American comedian
  • Warren G, American rapper
• November 12
  • Tonya Harding, American figure skater
  • Alina María Hernández, Cuban transgender (d. 2016)
• November 13 - Frederick Herman, American air line pilot
• November 15
  • Patrick M'Boma, Cameroonian footballer
  • Jack Ingram, American country music singer
• November 16
  • Matt Healy, British actor
  • Martha Plimpton, American actress
• November 17 - Paul Allender, English guitarist
• November 18 - Peta Wilson, Australian actress
• November 20
  • Phife Dawg, American raper (A Tribe Called Quest) (d. 2016)
  • Joe Zaso, American actor and producer
  • Melissa Disney, American actress, voice actress, singer-songwriter, writer, and film producer
• November 21 - Karen Davila, Filipina journalist, TV host and news personality
• November 22
  • Stel Pavlou, British novelist and screenwriter
  • Joe Son, Korean-American actor, wrestler, and convicted felon
• November 23
  • Zoë Ball, British television and radio presenter
  • Oded Fehr, Israeli-American actor
• November 25 - Eluana Englaro, Italian patient in right-to-die case (d. 2009)
• November 26 - Dave Hughes, Australian comedian
• November 27
  • Mr. Lobo, television personality
  • Jorge Luis González Tanquero, Cuban dissident (d. 2016)
• November 28 - Richard Osman, English television presenter, producer and director
• November 29 - Larry Joe Campbell, American actor and comedian
• November 30
  • Yayuk Basuki, Indonesian tennis player
  • Walter Emanuel Jones, American actor
  • Natalie Williams, American basketball player

December

• December 1
  • Matt Sanchez, American journalist and former porn actor
  • Sarah Silverman, American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, producer, and writer
• December 2
  • Treach, American rapper
  • Joshua Seth, American voice actor and hypnotist
• December 3
  • Jimmy Shergill, Indian actor
  • Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, U.S. Representative (D-SD)
• December 4
  • Fat Pat, American rapper (d. 1998)
  • Kevin Sussman, American actor and comedian
• December 5
  • Tim Hetherington, English-born photojournalist (d. 2011)
  • Martin Selmayr, German Eurocrat
• December 6
  • Ulf Ekberg, Swedish musician
  • Lewis MacLeod, Scottish actor and voice actor
• December 9 - Kara DioGuardi, American songwriter
• December 10 - Kevin Sharp, American country music singer, and motivational speaker (d. 2014)
• December 12
  • Mädchen Amick, American actress
  • Jennifer Connelly, American actress
  • Regina Hall, American actress
• December 13 - Bart Johnson, American actor
• December 14 - Andrew Lewis, Guyanese professional boxer (d. 2015)
• December 15 - Przemys?aw Tru?ci?ski, Polish artist
• December 17
  • Craig Doyle, Irish television presenter
  • Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
• December 18
  • DMX, American rapper and actor
  • Miles Marshall Lewis, American author
  • Victoria Pratt, Canadian-born actress and model
  • Rob Van Dam, American professional wrestler
• December 20
  • Nicole de Boer, Canadian actress
  • Massimo Ellul, Maltese entrepreneur and philanthropist
• December 22
  • Ted Cruz, Canadian-American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Tx.) from 2013 and 2016 presidential candidate
  • Gary Anderson, Scottish darts player
  • Clay Dreslough, American game designer
• December 23 - Catriona Le May Doan, Canadian speed skater
• December 25 - Emmanuel Amuneke, Nigerian footballer
• December 26 - Krissada Sukosol Clapp, Thai actor and singer
• December 28 -- Yolanda Andrade, Mexican actress and television presenter
• December 29
  • Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television presenter
  • Glen Phillips, American singer-songwriter, frontman of Toad the Wet Sprocket
  • Kevin Weisman, American actor
• December 31 - Bryon Russell, American basketball player

Deaths

January

• January 1 - Alfred Lauck Parson, British chemist and physicist (b. 1889)
• January 4
  • Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
  • David John Williams, Welsh-language writer and Welsh nationalist (b. 1885)
• January 5 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1882)
• January 7
  • Robert Barrat, American actor (b. 1889)
  • Babbis Friis-Baastad, Norwegian children's writer (b. 1921)
• January 10 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)
• January 13 - Jimmy Hanley, English actor (b. 1918)
• January 14 - Harry M. Woods, American songwriter (b. 1896)
• January 17 - Robert Lindley Murray, American tennis champion (b. 1893)
• January 18 - David O. McKay, 9th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1873)
• January 19 - Aldo De Benedetti, Italian screenwriter (b. 1892)
• January 25
  • Jane Bathori, French mezzo-soprano (b. 1877)
  • Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer (Godzilla, Ultraman) (b. 1901)
• January 26 - Noel Laurence, British admiral (b. 1882)
• January 27 - Erich Heckel, German painter (b. 1883)
• January 28 - Thomas J. Ryan, American admiral (b. 1901)
• January 29
  • Lawren Harris, Canadian painter. (b. 1885)
  • Basil Liddell Hart, British military historian (b. 1895)
  • Thelma Morgan, American socialite (b. 1904)
• January 30
  • Fritz Bayerlein, German general (b. 1899)
  • Malcolm Keen, British actor (b. 1887)
• January 31 - Slim Harpo, American singer (b. 1924)

February

• February 2
  • Lawrence Gray, American actor (b. 1898)
  • Bertrand Russell, British logician and philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1872)
• February 3 - Italo Gariboldi, Italian general (b. 1879)
• February 4 - Louise Bogan, American poet (b. 1897)
• February 5 - Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• February 6 - Roscoe Karns, American actor (b. 1891)
• February 10
  • John Davidson, Scottish-Canadian botanist. (b. 1878)
  • Tobias Geffen, Lithuanian-born, American Orthodox rabbi. (b.1870)
  • Alfred Roberts, English lay preacher, politician, and father of Margaret Thatcher (b. 1892)
• February 14
  • Arthur Edeson, American cinematographer (b. 1891)
  • Sasha Siemel, adventurer, hunter, guide, actor, writer, photographer, and lecturer. (b. 1890)
  • Harry Stradling, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
  • Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880)
• February 15 - Hugh Dowding, British RAF Fighter Commander during the Battle of Britain (b. 1882)
• February 16 - Francis Peyton Rous, American pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1879)
• February 17
  • Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
  • Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
• February 19 - Jules Munshin, American actor (b. 1915)
• February 20
  • João Café Filho, Brazilian politician, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)
  • Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
• February 21 - Johannes Semper, Estonian writer and translator (b. 1892)
• February 22
  • Edward Selzer, American film producer (b. 1893)
  • Dora Boothby, English tennis champion (b. 1881)
• February 24 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
• February 25 - Mannathu Padmanabha Pillai, Indian social reformer (b. 1878)
• February 28 - Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond, English painter (b. 1875)

March

• March 2 - Joseph Vialatoux, French Roman Catholic philosopher (b. 1880)
• March 6 - William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
• March 8 - Waldo Peirce, American painter (b. 1884)
• March 9 - Nicholas Timasheff, Russian sociologist (b. 1886)
• March 11
  • Erle Stanley Gardner, American crime writer (b. 1889)
  • Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
• March 13 - Alec Clunes, English actor (b. 1912)
• March 14 - Ma Hongkui, prominent warlord in China during the Republic of China era (b. 1892)
• March 16 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
• March 18 - William Beaudine, American film director (b. 1892)
• March 23 - Del Lord, Canadian film director (b. 1894)
• March 28 - Fortune Gallo, Italian-born opera impresario (b. 1878)
• March 29 - Vera Brittain, British writer (b. 1893)
• March 30 - Heinrich Brüning, German academic and politician, 21st Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
• March 31
  • Semyon Timoshenko, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
  • George Wootten, Australian soldier, public servant, political activist and solicitor (b. 1893)

April

• April 1 - Polina Zhemchuzhina, Soviet politician (b. 1897)

• April 5
  • Louisa Bolus, South African botanist and taxonomist (b. 1877)
  • Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
• April 6
  • El Deif Ahmed, Egyptian actor (b. 1936)
  • Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
• April 8
  • Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte (b. 1893)
  • Julius Pokorny, Austrian-born Czech linguist (b. 1887)
• April 11
  • Cathy O'Donnell, American actress (b. 1923)
  • Richard Neill, American actor of the silent era (b. 1875)
  • Joseph Schechtman, writer and Revisionist political activist (b. 1891)
• April 16 - Richard Neutra, Austrian-born American architect (b. 1892)
• April 17 - Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (b. 1877)
• April 18 - Micha? Kalecki, Polish economist (b. 1899)
• April 26
  • Francisco Cunha Leal, Portuguese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1888)
  • Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress (b. 1911)
• April 27 - Arthur Shields, Irish actor (b. 1896)
• April 28 - Ed Begley, American actor (b. 1901)
• April 30 - Inger Stevens, Swedish-American actress (b. 1934)

May

• May 1
  • Ralph Hartley, American inventor (b. 1888)
  • Yi Un, Crown Prince of Korea (b. 1897)
• May 4
  • Allison Krause, American Kent State University shooting victim (b. 1951)
  • Sandra Lee Scheuer, Kent State University shooting victim (b. 1949)
• May 6
  • Giovanni Giuriati, Italian Fascist politician (b. 1876)
  • Helen Kinnear, Canadian lawyer (b. 1894)
• May 9 - Walter P. Reuther, 62, American labor union leader and president of the United Auto Workers; in a private plane crash.
• May 10
  • Mari Blanchard, American actress (b. 1927)
  • Leslie H. Sabo Jr., Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1948)
• May 11 - Johnny Hodges, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
• May 12
  • W?adys?aw Anders, General of the Polish Army (b. 1892)
  • Nelly Sachs, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
• May 13 - Sir William Dobell, Australian artist (b. 1899)
• May 14 - Billie Burke, American actress (b. 1884)
• May 17 - Heinz Hartmann, Austrian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1894)
• May 19 - Ray Schalk, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1892)
• May 21 - E. L. Grant Watson, Australian scientist and writer (b. 1885)
• May 22 - Joseph Wood Krutch, American writer and naturalist (b. 1893)
• May 26 - R. V. C. Bodley, British army officer, traveller and writer (b. 1892)
• May 27 - Osei Tutu Agyeman Prempeh II, King of the Ashanti (b. 1892)
• May 28 - Iuliu Hossu, Romanian Roman Catholic bishop and servant of God (b. 1885)
• May 29
  • John Gunther, American writer (b. 1901)
  • Eva Hesse, German-born American sculptor (b. 1936)
• May 31 - Terry Sawchuk, Canadian hockey player (b. 1929)

June

• June 1
  • Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, 31st President of Argentina (b. 1903)
  • George Watkins, American baseball player (b. 1900)
• June 2 - Bruce McLaren, Founder of McLaren Racing (b. 1937)
• June 3
  • Ruth Sawyer, American storyteller and writer (b. 1880)
  • Hjalmar Schacht, Nazi German economic minister (b. 1877)
• June 7
  • E. M. Forster, English writer (b. 1879)
  • Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez, Spanish archaeologist and historian (b. 1870)
• June 8 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (b. 1908)
• June 9 - Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia, 19th President of Costa Rica (b. 1900)
• June 10 - Bartolomé Blanche, Chilean military officer, provisional President of Chile (b. 1879)
• June 11
  • Alexander Kerensky, Russian revolutionary politician (b. 1881)
  • Frank Laubach, American Congregational Christian missionary (b. 1884)
• June 13 - Gonzalo Roig, Cuban musician, composer, musical director and founder of several orchestras. (b. 1890)
• June 14 -Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (b. 1893)
• June 15 - John Noble Kennedy, British Army officer (b. 1893)
• June 16 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer and composition teacher (b. 1887)
• June 21 - Sukarno, 1st President of Indonesia (b. 1901)
• June 22 - Frank J. Wilson, Chief of the United States Secret Service (b. 1887)
• June 26 - Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer (b. 1900)
• June 30 - Arthur Leslie, British actor (b. 1899)

July

• July 2 - Dumitru Carlaon?, Romanian general (b. 1888)
• July 6 - Marjorie Rambeau, American actress (b. 1889)
• July 10
  • Bjarni Benediktsson, 11th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1908)
  • Maria Orsola Bussone, Italian Roman Catholic student and venerable (b. 1954)
• July 11
  • André Lurçat, French modernist architect, landscape architect, (b. 1894)
  • Andreas Malandrinos, Greek actor, (b. 1888)
• July 12 - L. Wolfe Gilbert, Russian-born American songwriter. (b. 1886)
• July 13
  • Leslie Groves, American general, director of the Manhattan Project (b. 1896)
  • Lazar Drlja?a, Yugoslav-Bosnian painter (b. 1882)
  • Sheng Shicai, Chinese warlord (b. 1895)
• July 14 - Luis Mariano, Spanish tenor (b. 1914)
• July 15 - Frits Lugt, self-taught collector and connoisseur of Dutch drawings and prints and a selfless (b. 1884)
• July 17 - Ernst Wellmann, highly decorated German Army officer (b. 1904)
• July 19
  • Egon Eiermann, German architect (b. 1904)
  • Panagiotis Pipinelis, former Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1899)
• July 21 - Bob Kalsu, American football player (b. 1945)
• July 22 - Fritz Kortner, Austrian-born director (b. 1892)
• July 23 - Amadeo Bordiga, Italian Marxist (b. 1889)
• July 24 - Peter de Noronha, Indian businessman (b. 1897)
• July 27 - António de Oliveira Salazar, Portuguese economist and politician, 100th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1889)
• July 28 - Baba Bujha Singh, Indian revolutionary
• July 29 - Sir John Barbirolli, English conductor (b. 1899)
• July 30 - George Szell, Hungarian conductor (b. 1897)
• July 31 - Wilfrid Kent Hughes, Australian Olympian and politician (b. 1895)

August

• August 1
  • Delia Akeley, American explorer (b. 1875)
  • Frances Farmer, American actress and television host (b. 1913)
  • Giuseppe Pizzardo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1877)
  • Otto Heinrich Warburg, German physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (b. 1883)
• August 10 -Victor W. Voorhees, American architect (b. 1876)
• August 18 - Soledad Miranda, Spanish actress (b. 1943)
• August 19 - Efisio Melis, Sardinian folk musician (b. 1890)
• August 20 - Zeki Velidi Togan, Turkish historian (b. 1890)
• August 22 - Vladimir Propp, Soviet folklorist (b. 1895)
• August 23 - Abdallah Khalil, 3rd Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1892)
• August 30
  • Thomas Hunton, Royal Marines officer (b. 1885)
  • William McCance, Scottish artist (b. 1894)

September

• September - Mahmud al-Muntasir, 1st Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1903)
• September 1 - François Mauriac, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• September 2
  • Marie-Pierre Koenig, French general and politician (b. 1898)
  • Agnes E. Meyer, American journalist, a philanthropist (b. 1887)
  • Kees van Baaren, Dutch composer (b. 1906)
• September 3 - Vince Lombardi, American football player and coach after whom the NFL's Super Bowl trophy is named (b. 1913)
• September 5
  • Jesse Pennington, English footballer (b. 1883)
  • André Simon, French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and prolific writer about wine (b. 1877)
  • Jochen Rindt, Austrian racing driver, 1970 Formula One Driver's Champion (b. 1942)
• September 7 - Yitzhak Gruenbaum, noted leader of the Zionist movement in the interwar period (b. 1879)
• September 14
  • Rudolf Carnap, German-American philosopher and mathematician (b. 1891)
  • Virgil T. McCroskey, American conservationist (b. 1876)
• September 18 - Jimi Hendrix, American rock musician (b. 1942)
• September 22 - Alice Hamilton, the first woman appointed to the faculty of Harvard University (b. 1869)
• September 23
  • Esteban de Bilbao Eguía, Spanish politician (b. 1879)
  • André Bourvil, French actor (b. 1917)
• September 25 - Erich Maria Remarque, German author (All Quiet On The Western Front) (b. 1898)
• September 28
  • John Dos Passos, American novelist (b. 1896)
  • Gamal Abdel Nasser, 31st Prime Minister of Egypt and 2nd President of Egypt (b. 1918)
• September 29
  • Edward Everett Horton, American actor (b. 1886)
  • Gilbert Seldes, American writer and cultural critic (b. 1893)
• September 30 - Benedetto Aloisi Masella, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1875)

October

• October 1 - Petar Konjovi?, Yugoslav composer (b. 1883)
• October 2 - Lauro Gazzolo, Italian actor and voice actor (b. 1900)
• October 4 - Janis Joplin, American rock singer (b. 1943)
• October 10 - Édouard Daladier, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1884)
• October 11 - César Falcón, Peruvian writer, journalist and politician (b. 1892)
• October 13 - Julia Culp, Dutch mezzo-soprano (b. 1880)
• October 15 - Jack Harrison, British boxer (b. 1888)
• October 17
  • Corneliu Calotescu, Romanian general (b. 1889)
  • Quincy Wright, American political scientist (b. 1890)
• October 18 - Prince Zeid bin Hussein (b. 1898)
• October 19 - Lázaro Cárdenas, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895)^[8]
• October 20 - Antoni Bohdziewicz, Polish screenplay, writer and director (b. 1906)
• October 21
  • Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (b. 1896)
  • Ernest Haller, American cinematographer (b. 1896)
• October 22 - George Austin Welsh, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1878)
• October 23 - Fan Changjiang, Chinese journalist and writer (b. 1909)
• October 24 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (b. 1916)
• October 25
  • Robert Delafield Rands, Estonian painter (b. 1890)
  • René Schneider, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army (assassinated) (b. 1890)
• October 26 - Hugh Gordon Cummins, 2nd Premier of Barbados (b. 1891)

November

• November 1 - Otto Kreisler, Austrian film director of the silent era (b. 1890)
• November 2
  • Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
  • Fernand Gravey, French actor (b. 1904)
• November 6 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (b. 1897)^[9]
• November 8 - Napoleon Hill, American author in the area of the new thought (b. 1883)
• November 9 - Charles de Gaulle, French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister of France and 18th President of France (b. 1890)
• November 14
  • Louis Rich, American entrepreneur (b. 1896)
  • Howard Winkler, Canadian politician (b. 1891)
• November 15 - Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Greek politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1884)
• November 19 - Andrei Yeremenko, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892)
  • Maria Yudina, Soviet pianist (b. 1899)
• November 20 - John Louis Clarke, Blackfoot wood carver from Montana. (b. 1881)
• November 21
  • C. V. Raman, Indian physicist. (b. 1888)
  • Percy Ernst Schramm, German historian (b. 1894)
• November 23 - Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910)
• November 25
  • Louise Glaum, American actress (b. 1888)
  • Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist (b. 1925)
• November 26 - David Brown, Scottish footballer (b. 1887)
• Unknown - César Calvo de Araujo (b. 1910)

December

• December 7 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
• December 8
  • Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist (b. 1893)
  • Philip Edward Smith, American endocrinologist (b. 1884)
• December 9 - Evelyn Temple Emmett, first Director of the Tasmanian Government Tourist Bureau (b. 1871)
• December 12 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
• December 14 - William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, British field marshal and 13th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1889)
• December 15 - Ernest Marsden, English-New Zealand physicist (b. 1889)
• December 16 - Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist and philosopher (b. 1894)
• December 29 - Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (b. 1886)
• December 30 - Lenore Ulric, American actress (b. 1892)
• December 30 - Sonny Liston, American boxer
• December 31 - Cyril Scott, English composer, writer, and poet (b. 1879)

Date unknown

• Traian Cocor?scu, Romanian general (b. 1888)
• Sabla Wangel Hailu, Ethiopian noble and former wife of the uncrowned emperor of Ethiopia

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel
• Chemistry - Luis Federico Leloir
• Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
• Literature - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Peace - Norman Borlaug
• Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences - Paul Samuelson

References