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1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year that started on a Tuesday. In the Gregorian calendar, the year 1980 was the 1980th year in the Anno Domini or Common Era, the 80th year of the 20th century, and the 980th year of the 2nd millennium. It was also the first year of the 1980s.
Events of 1980
January
- January 1 – Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession make Victoria of Sweden Crown Princess and therefore next in line to the throne, ahead of her younger brother.
- January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
- January 6Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
- January 6 – The president of Sicily, Piersanti Mattarella, is killed by the Mafia.
- January 7 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs legislation approving $1.5 billion in loan guarantees to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
- January 9 – In Saudi Arabia, 63 Muslim fanatics are beheaded for their part in the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca in November, 1979.
- January 11Nigel Short, 14, becomes the youngest chess player to be awarded the degree of International Master.
- January 21 – The London Gold Fixing hits its highest price ever (adjusted for inflation), at US$850 a troy ounce.clarification needed
- January 21 – The MS Athina B is beached at Brighton, becoming a temporary tourist attraction.
- January 21 – At least 200 people were killed when the Corralejas Bullring collapsed at Sincelejo, Colombia.
- January 22Andrei Sakharov, Soviet scientist and human rights activist, is arrested in Moscow.
- January 24 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad is ordered liquidated due to bankruptcy, and debt owed to creditors.
- January 26Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.1
- January 27Canadian caper: Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland.
- January 31 – The Spanish Embassy in Guatemala is invaded and set on fire, killing 36 people. It is called "Spain's own Tehran", similar to the 1979–80 Iran American U.S. Embassy Hostages of Americans.
February
March
- March 1 – The Voyager 1 probe confirms the existence of Janus, a moon of Saturn.
- March 3Pierre Trudeau returns to office as Prime Minister of Canada.
- March 4Robert Mugabe is elected Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
- March 8The first rock music festival kicks off in the Soviet Union.
- March 14 – In Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others.
- March 18 – Fifty people are killed at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, when a Vostok-2M rocket explodes on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
- March 20 – The Mi Amigo, the ship that housed pirate radio station Radio Caroline, sinks (Radio Caroline returns aboard a new ship in 1983).
- March 21 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.
- March 21Mafioso Angelo Bruno is assassinated in Philadelphia.
- March 22 – The Georgia Guidestones are erected in Elbert County, Georgia.
- March 24 – The Australia Olympic Committee announces it will send an Olympic delegation to Moscow, despite objections by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser.
- March 24 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed by gunmen while celebrating Mass in San Salvador. At his funeral 6 days later, 42 people are killed amid gunfire and bombs.
- March 26 – A mine lift cage at the Vaal Reef gold mine in South Africa falls 1.2 miles, killing 23.
- March 27 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
- March 27 – The Silver Thursday market crash occurs.
- March 28Talpiot Tomb is found in Jerusalem.
- March 31Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train.
April
- April 1Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC).
- April 1 – The Mariel boatlift from Cuba begins.
- April 1New York City's Transport Works Union Local 100 goes on strike, which continues for 11 days.
- April 2 – The St. Pauls riot breaks out in Bristol.
- April 7 – The United States severs diplomatic relations with Iran and imposes economic sanctions, following the taking of American hostages on November 4, 1979.
- April 10Spain and the United Kingdom agree to reopen the border between Gibraltar and Spain, closed since 1969.
- April 12Samuel Kanyon Doe takes over Liberia in a coup d'état, ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.
- April 12Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope from St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.
- April 14Iron Maiden's debut self titled album Iron Maiden is released.
- April 18Zimbabwe gains independence from the United Kingdom; Robert Mugabe becomes Prime Minister.
- April 21Rosie Ruiz wins the Boston Marathon, but is later exposed as a fraud and stripped of her award.
- April 24Pennsylvania Lottery Scandal: the Pennsylvania Lottery is rigged by 6 men including the host of the live TV drawing, Nick Perry.
- April 24–25Operation Eagle Claw, a commando mission in Iran to rescue American embassy hostages, is aborted after mechanical problems ground the rescue helicopters. Eight United States troops are killed in a mid-air collision during the failed operation.
- April 25 – A Dan-Air Boeing 727 crashes in Tenerife, killing all 146 occupants and marking the worst air disaster involving a British-registered aircraft in terms of loss of life.
- April 26Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappear from outside their flat in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
- April 27 – The Dominican embassy siege ends with all hostages released and the guerrillas flying to Cuba.
- April 30Iranian Embassy Siege: Six Iranian-born terrorists take over the Iranian embassy in London, UK. SAS retakes the Embassy on May 5; 1 terrorist survives.
- April 30Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, and her daughter Beatrix ascends to the throne.
May
- May 4Yugoslav President Tito dies. The funeral ceremony later becomes the world's biggest diplomatic meeting and media event ever, with more than 140 state delegations in Belgrade from all over the world (only the funeral of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 will have more news coverage and a higher number of delegations).
- May 7Paul Geidel, convicted of second-degree murder in 1911, is released from prison in Beacon, New York, after 68 years and 245 days (the longest-ever time served by an inmate).
- May 9 – In Florida, the Liberian freighter Summit Venture hits the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, sending 35 people (most of whom were in a bus) to a watery death as a 1,400-foot section of the bridge collapses.
- May 9 – The Norco shootout takes place.
- May 9James Alexander George Smith "Jags" McCartney the Turks and Caicos Islands’ first Chief Minister, was killed in a plane crash over New Jersey.
- May 11 – Mobster Henry Hill is arrested for drug possession.
- May 17 – A Miami, Florida court acquits 4 white police officers of killing Arthur McDuffie, a black insurance executive, provoking 3 days of race riots.
- May 17Internal conflict in Peru: On the eve of presidential elections, Maoist guerrilla group Shining Path attacks a polling location in the town of Chuschi, Ayacucho.
- May 18Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, killing 57 and causing US$3 billion in damage.
- May 18Ian Curtis, singer/songwriter of acclaimed post punk band Joy Division, found hanged.
- May 18–27Gwangju Massacre: Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations, calling for democratic reforms.
- May 201980 Quebec referendum: Voters in Quebec reject by a vote of 60% a proposal to seek independence from Canada.
- May 21Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released.
- May 22Pac-Man (the best-selling arcade game of all time) is released.
- May 24 – The International Court of Justice calls for the release of U.S. Embassy hostages in Tehran.
- May 24 – The New York Islanders win their first Stanley Cup, from a goal by Bobby Nystrom in overtime of game six of the Stanley Cup playoffs's final round.
- May 25Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.
- May 26John Frum supporters in Vanuatu storm government offices on the island of Tanna. Vanuatu government troops land the next day and drive them away.
- May 26 – In South Korea, military government forces and pro-democracy protesters clash; 2,000 protesters die.
- May 29Vernon Jordan is shot and critically injured in an assassination attempt in Fort Wayne, Indiana by Joseph Paul Franklin (the first major news story for CNN).
June
July
- July 8 – A wave of strikes begins in Lublin, Poland
- July 9Pope John Paul II visits Brazil; 7 people are crushed to death in a crowd meeting him.
- July 15 – A severe and destructive thunderstorm strikes 4 counties in western Wisconsin, including the city of Eau Claire. It causes over $250m in damage, and 1 person is killed.
- July 16 – Former California Governor and actor Ronald Reagan is nominated for U.S. President, at the Republican National Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Influenced by the Religious Right, the convention also drops its long standing support for the Equal Rights Amendment, dismaying moderate Republicans.
- July 19 – Former Turkish Prime Minister Nihat Erim is killed by 2 gunmen in Istanbul, Turkey.
- July 19August 3 – The 1980 Summer Olympics are held in Moscow, Soviet Union.
- July 25 – The album Back in Black is released by the Australian band AC/DC.
- July 27Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, deposed shah of Iran, dies in Cairo.
- July 30Vanuatu gains independence.
- July 30Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law.
August
September
- September 2Ford Europe launches the Escort MK3, which ditches the traditional rear-wheel drive saloon in favour of a more practical and modern front-wheel drive hatchback.
- September 5 – The St. Gotthard Tunnel opens in Switzerland as the world's longest highway tunnel at 10.14 miles (16.32 km), stretching from Goschenen to Airolo.
- September 12Kenan Evren stages a military coup in Turkey. It stops political gang violence, but begins stronger state violence leading to the execution of many young activists.
- September 17 – After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
- September 17 – Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
- September 19 – The Robert Redford-directed film Ordinary People, based on the novel by Judith Guest, premieres. Redford's directorial debut later wins him his first Oscar, and wins three other Academy Awards, and five Golden Globe awards.
- September 21Bülent Ulusu, ex admiral, forms the new government of Turkey (44th government, composed mostly of technocrats)
- September 22 – The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets," initiating the Iran–Iraq War.
- September 22 – Youth riots in the capital of the Soviet Republic of Estonia are quickly forced down.
- September 25John Bonham of Led Zeppelin dies of alcohol poisoning.
- September 26 – The Mariel Boatlift officially ends.
- September 29 – The Washington Post publishes Janet Cooke's story of Jimmy, an 8-year-old heroin addict (later proven to be fabricated).
- September 30Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox introduce the DIX standard for Ethernet, which is the first implementation outside of Xerox, and the first to support 10 Mbit/s speeds.
October
November
December
Undated
Ongoing
World population
| World population |
|
1980 |
1975 |
1985 |
 World |
4,434,682,000 |
4,068,109,000 |
 366,573,000 |
4,830,979,000 |
396,297,000 |
 Africa |
469,618,000 |
408,160,000 |
61,458,000 |
541,814,000 |
72,196,000 |
 Asia |
2,632,335,000 |
2,397,512,000 |
234,823,000 |
2,887,552,000 |
255,217,000 |
 Europe |
692,431,000 |
675,542,000 |
16,889,000 |
706,009,000 |
13,578,000 |
|
|
361,401,000 |
321,906,000 |
39,495,000 |
401,469,000 |
40,068,000 |
|
|
256,068,000 |
243,425,000 |
12,643,000 |
269,456,000 |
13,388,000 |
 Oceania |
22,828,000 |
21,564,000 |
1,264,000 |
24,678,000 |
1,850,000 |
Births
January
- January 1Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
- January 1Mark Nichols, Canadian curler
- January 4Erin Cahill, American actress
- January 8Adam Goodes, Australian rules footballer
- January 8Rachel Nichols, American actress
- January 9Sergio García, Spanish golfer
- January 10Janelle Pierzina, American reality star
- January 11Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
- January 13LaKisha Jones, American singer
- January 14Ossama Haidar, Lebanese footballer
- January 14Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor, model, and singer
- January 14Cory Gibbs, American footballer
- January 14Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
- January 16Albert Pujols, Dominican Major League Baseball player
- January 16Michelle Wild, Hungarian actress
- January 17Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian dance champion, choreographer, and instructor
- January 17Zooey Deschanel, American actress
- January 18Julius Peppers, American football player
- January 18Jason Segel, American actor
- January 19Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
- January 20Jenson Button, British racecar driver
- January 21Kevin McKenna, Canadian footballer
- January 21Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
- January 22Christopher Masterson, American actor
- January 22Jake Grove, American football player
- January 24Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Dutch actress
- January 25Christian Olsson, Swedish athlete
- January 25Xavi, Spanish footballer
- January 25Michelle McCool-Alexander, American professional wrestler
- January 27Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
- January 28Nick Carter, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
- January 29Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
- January 30Wilmer Valderrama, Venezuelan/Colombian-American comedian
- January 30James Adomian, American actor and comedian
February
- February 2Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
- February 5Jo Swinson, British MP
- February 5Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
- February 6Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
- February 6Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
- February 6Luke Ravenstahl, American mayor of Pittsburgh
- February 7Dionne Quan, Chinese-American voice actress
- February 8Yang Wei, Chinese gymnast
- February 10César Izturis, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
- February 10Steve Tully, English footballer
- February 11Matthew Lawrence, American actor (Boy Meets World)
- February 12Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
- February 12Christina Ricci, American actress
- February 14Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
- February 15Conor Oberst, American singer/songwriter
- February 16Ashley Lelie, American football player
- February 17Jason Ritter, American actor
- February 18Regina Spektor, Russian-born American singer-songwriter
- February 19Mike Miller, American basketball player
- February 19Ma Lin, Chinese table-tennis player
- February 20Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
- February 20Artur Boruc, Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper
- February 21Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
- February 21Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan 2006-present
- February 24Emma Johnson, Australian swimmer
- February 26Alex Fong Lik-Sun, Hong Kong singer and actor
- February 26Júlio César da Silva e Souza, Brazilian footballer
- February 27Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
- February 28Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
- February 28Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
- February 29Simon Gagné, Canadian hockey player
March
- March 2Karl Dominik, China-based foreign actor
- March 2Chris Barker, English footballer
- March 2Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
- March 2Vince Walker, American rock singer (Suburban Legends)
- March 4Jung Da Bin, Korean actress (d. 2007)
- March 4Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
- March 4Jack Hannahan, American baseball infielder
- March 7Laura Prepon, American actress
- March 13Flavia Cacace,professional dancer
- March 14Aaron Brown, English footballer
- March 16Todd Heap, American football player
- March 18Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
- March 19Agnes Pihlava, Finnish pop singer
- March 19Johan Olsson, Swedish cross country skier
- March 20Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
- March 21Deryck Whibley, Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician (Sum 41)
- March 21Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
- March 21Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
- March 30Yalin, Turkish pop music singer and songwriter
- March 31Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese Major League Baseball player
April
- April 1Bijou Phillips, American actress and socialite
- April 1Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
- April 1Yūko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
- April 4Björn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
- April 8Ben Freeman, British actor
- April 10Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player
- April 10Kasey Kahne, American race car driver
- April 10Bryce Soderberg, Canadian musician (Lifehouse)
- April 11Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
- April 12Brian McFadden, Irish rock singer (Westlife)
- April 14Win Butler, American/Canadian musician
- April 16Paul London, American professional wrestler
- April 17Brenda Villa, American water polo player
- April 17Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
- April 20Jasmin Wagner, German singer
- April 21Tony Romo, American football player
- April 21Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
- April 21Jamie Lomas, British actor
- April 22Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
- April 24Austin Nichols, American actor
- April 24Reagan Gomez-Preston, American actress
- April 24Karen Asrian, Armenian chess Grandmaster (d. 2008)
- April 25Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
- April 26Jordana Brewster, American actress
- April 26Stana Katic, American film actress
- April 26Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
- April 26Channing Tatum, American actor and model
- April 27Zayed Khan, Indian actor
- April 28Josh Howard, American Basketball player
- April 29Kian Egan, Irish rock singer (Westlife)
- April 30Luis Scola, Argentine basketball player
May
- May 2Tim Borowski, German footballer
- May 2Zat Knight, English footballer
- May 3Marcel Vigneron, American chef
- May 4Alex Reyes, Software Engineer
- May 5Maia Hirasawa, Swedish pop singer
- May 6Taebin, Korean hip-hop artist (1TYM)
- May 6Kate Lawler, English reality TV show star
- May 6Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star
- May 6Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
- May 7Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
- May 8Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer
- May 9Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
- May 9Norihiro Nishi, Japanese footballer
- May 15Josh Beckett, American baseball player
- May 15Rocky Marquette, American actor
- May 16Melanie Lofton, American journalist
- May 19Dean Heffernan, Australian footballer
- May 19Drew Fuller, American actor
- May 21Morgan Benoit, American actor and Martial Artist
- May 22Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
- May 24Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress
- May 26Jennifer Biddall, British actress
- May 28Mark Feehily, Irish singer (Westlife)
- May 29Michael Stasko, Canadian actor
- May 30Steven Gerrard, English footballer
June
- June 1Oliver James, British actor
- June 2Lindsey Yamasaki, Japanese-American basketball player
- June 2Orish Grinstead, American R&B singer (d. 2008)
- June 5Mike Fisher, Canadian hockey player
- June 7Henkka Seppälä, Finnish bassist (Children of Bodom)
- June 10Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
- June 10Wang Yuegu, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
- June 13Sarah Connor, German singer
- June 15Almudena Cid Spanish rhythmic gymnast
- June 16Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
- June 16Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
- June 17Kimeru, Japanese singer
- June 17Venus Williams, American tennis player
- June 17Jeph Jacques, American webcomic writer
- June 18Kevin Bishop, British comedian and actor
- June 19Jason White, American football player
- June 22Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
- June 23Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indian cricketer
- June 23Manus Boonjumnong, Thai boxer
- June 24Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
- June 25Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
- June 26Michael Vick, American football player
- June 26Jason Schwartzman, American actor
- June 29Melissa Peachey, British TV presenter
- June 29Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
- June 29Martin Truex Jr, American race car driver
July
- July 1Patrick Aufiero, American ice hockey player
- July 3Roland Mark Schoeman, South African swimmer
- July 4Max Elliott Slade, American actor
- July 5Eva Green, French actress and model
- July 6Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
- July 7Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
- July 8Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
- July 8Yang Tae-Young, South Korean gymnast
- July 9Kathia Rodriguez, Puerto Rican actress
- July 10Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
- July 10Jessica Simpson, American singer
- July 15Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
- July 15Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
- July 15JW-Jones, Canadian blues artist
- July 16Adam Scott, Australian golfer
- July 16Jesse Jane, American porn actress
- July 16Svetlana Feofanova, Russian pole-volter
- July 18Kristen Bell, American actress
- July 20Mike Kennerty, American rock guitarist (The All-American Rejects)
- July 20Gisele Bündchen, Brazilian supermodel
- July 22Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
- July 22Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
- July 23Michelle Williams, American singer, actress, (Destiny's Child)
- July 27Julia Haworth, British actress
- July 28Stephen Christian, American Christian rock singer (Anberlin)
- July 29Fernando González, Chilean tennis player
- July 30Diam's, French rapper
August
- August 3Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
- August 5Wayne Bridge, English footballer
- August 5Sophie Winkleman, British actress
- August 9Charlie David, Canadian actor
- August 9Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
- August 10Pua Magasiva, Samoan actor
- August 10Roxanne McKee, British actress
- August 11Monika Pyrek, Polish pole vaulter
- August 12Maggie Lawson, American actress
- August 12Matt Thiessen, Canadian singer/guitarist
- August 14Roy Williams, American football player
- August 16Vanessa Carlton, American singer
- August 16Julien Absalon, French mountain biker
- August 18Damion Stewart, Jamaican footballer
- August 19Houcine Camara, French singer
- August 19Darius Danesh, Scottish singer-songwriter & actor
- August 23Rex Grossman, American football player
- August 26Macaulay Culkin, American actor
- August 26Chris Pine, American actor
- August 27Derrick Strait, American football player
- August 28Debra Lafave, American teacher
- August 29Nicholas Tse, Hong Kong singer
September
- September 2Dany Sabourin, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- September 3Jennie Finch, American softball player
- September 6Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
- September 6Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer & heavyweight champion
- September 6Kerry Katona, English TV presenter and former pop star (Atomic Kitten)
- September 7Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
- September 7Mark Prior, American baseball player
- September 9Michelle Williams, American actress
- September 10Mikey Way, American rock bassist (My Chemical Romance)
- September 11Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
- September 12Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
- September 12Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
- September 13Ben Savage, American actor (Boy Meets World)
- September 13Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
- September 15Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
- September 19Tegan Quin, Canadian singer/songwriter
- September 19Sara Quin, Canadian singer/songwriter
- September 21Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
- September 21Autumn Reeser, American actress
- September 24Victoria Pendleton, English cyclist
- September 25T.I., American rapper
- September 29Patrick Agyemang, Ghanaian footballer
- September 29Zachary Levi, American actor
- September 29Dallas Green (musician), Canadian singer/songwriter
- September 30Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
- September 30Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer
October
- October 4Kristina Lenko, Canadian champion ice skater
- October 4Tomáš Rosický, Czech footballer
- October 4Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
- October 5James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
- October 8Nick Cannon, American actor and rapper
- October 10Sherine, Egyptian singer
- October 12Ledley King, English footballer
- October 13Ashanti, American musician
- October 14Terrence McGee, American football player
- October 16Sue Bird, American basketball player
- October 16Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
- October 17Ekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
- October 18Reetinder Sodhi, Indian cricket player
- October 21Kim Kardashian, American television personality
- October 24Monica Arnold, American musician
- October 24Casey Wilson, American actress and comedienne
- October 28Alan Smith, English footballer
- October 28Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
- October 31Samaire Armstrong, American actress
November
- November 3Dan Marsala, American musician
- November 4Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
- November 5Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
- November 7Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
- November 10Calvin Chen, Taiwanese pop singer
- November 11Willie Parker, American football player
- November 12Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor
- November 13Monique Coleman, American actress
- November 15Ace Young, American singer and reality show finalist
- November 16Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
- November 17Isaac Hanson, American musician
- November 19Adele Silva, British actress
- November 21Hank Blalock, American baseball player
- November 21Hiroyuki Tomita, Japanese gymnast
- November 25John-Michael Liles, American hockey player
- November 25Nick Swisher, American baseball player
- November 26Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer
- November 26Jason Anthony Griffith, American video game voice actor
- November 28Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
December
- December 1Joel A. Sutherland, Canadian author
- December 3Anna Chlumsky, American actress
- December 3Jim Sorgi, American football player
- December 5Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter
- December 6Steve Lovell, English footballer
- December 6Kei Yasuda, Japanese singer
- December 7John Terry, English footballer
- December 9Simon Helberg, American actor and comedian
- December 9Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian professional cyclist
- December 10Marina Orlova, internet celebrity
- December 10Sarah Chang, American violinist
- December 13Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor
- December 13Bosco Wong, Hong Kong actor
- December 18Christina Aguilera, American singer
- December 19Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
- December 19Marla Sokoloff, American actress
- December 20Ashley Cole, English footballer
- December 20Fitz Hall, English footballer
- December 22Chris Carmack, American actor
- December 24Tomas Kalnoky, American musician (Streetlight Manifesto)
- December 25Laura Sadler, British TV actress (d. 2003)
- December 27Bernard Berrian, American football player
- December 30Eliza Dushku, American actress
- December 31Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
Deaths
January
- January 1Adolph Deutsch, American composer (b. 1897)
- January 3Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (b. 1910)
- January 7Simone Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
- January 8John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
- January 10George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
- January 11Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
- January 13Andre Kostelanetz, Russian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
- January 17Barbara Britton, American actress (b. 1919)
- January 18 – Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904)
- January 19William O. Douglas, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
- January 21Georges Painvin, French cryptographer (b. 1886)
- January 24Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
- January 28Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
- January 29Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1893)
- January 30Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
February
- February 2Hanna Rovina, Russian-born Israeli actress (b. 1889)
- February 2William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- February 6Albert Kotin, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1907)
- February 9Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
- February 12Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
- February 13David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
- February 14Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
- February 17Jerry Fielding, American conductor and music director (b. 1922)
- February 17Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)
- February 18Gale Robbins, American singer and actress (b. 1921)
- February 19Bon Scott, Scottish-born rock singer (AC/DC) (b. 1946)
- February 20Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895)
- February 20Alice Longworth, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, wife of Nicholas Longworth (b. 1884)
- February 22Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886)
- February 24Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893)
- February 27George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
March
- March 1Dixie Dean, English football player (b. 1907)
- March 1Wilhelmina, Dutch-born American high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
- March 1Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (b. 1923)
- March 5Jay Silverheels, Native American actor (b. 1912)
- March 5Winifred Wagner, German daughter-in-law of Richard Wagner, close friend of Adolf Hitler (b. 1897)
- March 10Herman Tarnower, American doctor and murder victim (b. 1910)
- March 11Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (b. 1892)
- March 14Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950)
- March 14Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president (b. 1902)
- March 16Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
- March 18Jessica Dragonette, American singer (b. 1900)
- March 18Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
- March 18Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)
- March 21Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
- March 24Oscar Romero, El Salvador Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
- March 24Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893)
- March 25Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
- March 25Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- March 25James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
- March 28Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1916)
- March 29Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
- March 31Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
- March 31Jesse Owens, African-American athlete (b. 1913)
April
- April 4Red Sovine, American country & folk singer & songwriter (b. 1917)
- April 6John Collier, English writer (b. 1901)
- April 10Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
- April 11Ümit Kaftancıoğlu, Turkish writer (b. 1935)
- April 12Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895)
- April 15Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
- April 15Marshall Reed, American film and television actor (b. 1917)
- April 15Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
- April 20Katherine K. Davis, American composer (b. 1892)
- April 21Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
- April 22Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
- April 24Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
- April 26Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
- April 27John Culshaw, British recording producer and musicologist (b. 1924)
- April 29Alfred Hitchcock, British suspense film director (b. 1899)
- April 30Luis Muñoz Marín, Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician (b. 1898)
May
- May 2George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904)
- May 4Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
- May 4Josip Broz Tito, President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
- May 5Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897)
- May 8Geoffrey Baker, English field marshal (b. 1912)
- May 12Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
- May 14Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
- May 16Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922)
- May 18David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949)
- May 18Ian Curtis, British musician and singer (Joy Division) (b. 1956)
- May 21Ida Kaminska, Polish actress (b. 1899)
- May 28Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
June
- June 1Rube Marquard, American baseball player (b. 1886)
- June 7Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
- June 7Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
- June 7Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1912)
- June 12Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
- June 12Billy Butlin, South African–born Canadian founder of Butlins Holiday Camps (b. 1899)
- June 12Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
- June 13Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
- June 20Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (b. 1892)
- June 21Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
- June 23Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
- June 23John Laurie, British actor (b. 1897)
- June 23Sanjay Gandhi, Indian son of Indira Gandhi (air crash) (b. 1946)
- June 24Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
- June 27Carey McWilliams, American author, editor, and lawyer (b. 1905)
- June 28José Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
July
- JulyRobert Brackman, American painter (b. 1898)
- July 1C.P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
- July 4Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904)
- July 6Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911)
- July 7Reginald Gardiner, English actor (b. 1903)
- July 7Dore Schary, American film writer, director, and producer (b. 1905)
- July 9Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
- July 15Ben Selvin, American orchestra leader & recording artist (b. 1898)
- July 17Don "Red" Barry, American actor (b. 1912)
- July 17Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
- July 23Keith Godchaux, American musician of the band The Grateful Dead (b. 1948)
- July 24Uttam Kumar (Arun Kumar Chatterjee), Bengali actor (b. 1926)
- July 24Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (b. 1925)
- July 25Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian singer-songwriter, poet, actor (b. 1938)
- July 26Allen Hoskins, American actor (b. 1920)
- July 26Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
- July 27Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
- July 31Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
- July 31Mohammed Rafi, Indian singer (b. 1924)
- July 31Bobby Van, American actor (b. 1928)
August
- August 1Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
- August 2Donald Ogden Stewart, American writer (b. 1894)
- August 7Jackie Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
- August 9Elliott Nugent, American actor (b. 1896)
- August 10Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
- August 14Dorothy Stratten, Canadian model (murdered) (b. 1960)
- August 19Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
- August 20Joe Dassin, French singer (b. 1938)
- August 24Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
- August 25Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer, and dancer (b. 1919)
- August 26Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
- August 26Miliza Korjus, Estonian-Polish opera singer (b. 1909)
September
- September 3Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
- September 3Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
- September 3Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
- September 8Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
- September 12Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898)
- September 15Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
- September 16Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
- September 17Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
- September 18Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890)
- September 19Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890)
- September 25John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
- September 25Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
- September 25Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)
October
- October 6Hattie Jacques, British actress (b. 1922)
- October 7Sydney Gordon Russell, English designer and craftsman (b. 1892)
- October 10Billie Thomas, American actor (Buckwheat, Our Gang) (b. 1931)
- October 20 – Lady Isobel Barnett, British television personality (b. 1918)
- October 21Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
- October 25Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921)
- October 25Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
- October 25Victor Galindez, Argentine boxer (race car accident) (b. 1948)
- October 27Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (T. Rex) (b. 1949)
- October 27John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
November
- November 4Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1904)
- November 7Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
- November 9Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born American ashion icon (b. 1912)
- November 9Carmel Myers, American actress (b. 1899)
- November 9Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
- November 16Boris Aronson, Russian set designer (b. 1898)
- November 18Conn Smythe, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1895)
- November 20John McEwen, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
- November 22Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
- November 22Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
- November 24George Raft, American actor (b. 1895)
- November 26Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927)
- November 27F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
- November 29Dorothy Day, American social progressive (b. 1897)
December
- December 2Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
- December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
- December 4Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
- December 4Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911)
- December 7Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer (The Germs) (b. 1958)
- December 8John Lennon, British singer, songwriter, and guitarist (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
- December 16Colonel Sanders, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
- December 16Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
- December 18Alexei Kosygin, Russian politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
- December 21Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890)
- December 23Frank Norman, English novelist, playwright and autobiographer (b. 1930)
- December 24Karl Dönitz, German admiral and briefly President of Germany (b. 1891)
- December 24Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer (The Nordstrom Sisters) (b. 1893)
- December 25Victoria Drummond, first woman marine engineer in Britain (b. 1894)
- December 26Richard Chase, American serial killer (b. 1950)
- December 28Sam Levene, American actor (b. 1905)
- December 29Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
- December 31Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)
- December 31Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
Ship events
Prizes and awards
Nobel Prizes
Templeton Prize
Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award was founded in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull.
Notes
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