1975

It was also declared the International Women's Year by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe.

Events

January

January 1 – Watergate scandal : John N. Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up.
January 2
* The Federal Rules of Evidence are approved by the United States Congress.
* A bomb blast at Samastipur, Bihar, India, fatally wounds Lalit Narayan Mishra, Minister of Railways.
January 5 – Tasman Bridge disaster: The Tasman Bridge in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier, causing a partial collapse resulting in 12 deaths.
January 15 – Alvor Agreement: Portugal announces that it will grant independence to Angola on November 11.

February

February 4 – The Haicheng earthquake in Haicheng, Liaoning, China, kills 2,041 and injures 27,538, but much of the city has been evacuated in a claimed example of earthquake prediction.
February 5 – The Argentinian president Isabel Perón decrees Operativo Independencia, aiming to neutralize or annihilate the "subversive elements" in the province of Tucuman. She assumes extraordinary powers.
February 11
* Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for the leadership election|leadership] of the opposition UK Conservative Party. Thatcher, 49, is Britain's first female leader of any political party.
* Colonel Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar, is assassinated.
February 27 – The 2 June Movement kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
February 28
* A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
* In Lomé, Togo, the European Economic Community and 46 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries sign a financial and economic treaty, known as the first Lomé Convention.
* The National Liberation Front of Angola approaches the South African Embassy in London and requests 40 to 50 artillery pieces to assist their cause in the Angolan Civil War.

March

March 1
* Aston Villa win the English Football League Cup at Wembley, beating Norwich City 1–0 in 1975 [Football League Cup final|the final].
* Australian television switches to full-time colour.
March 6
* Algiers Agreement: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement in their border dispute.
* A bomb explodes in the Paris offices of Springer SE|Springer] publishers. The March 6 Group demands amnesty for the Baader-Meinhof Group.
March 9 – Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
March 10
* Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Mê Thuột in South Vietnam on their way to capturing Saigon.
* An extended portion of Sanyō Shinkansen between Okayama Station and Hakata Station opens, giving the Japanese Shinkansen high speed rail network access to the country's second island, Kyushu.
March 11 – The leftist military government in Portugal defeats a rightist coup attempt involving former president António de Spínola, who flees to Brazil.
March 13 – Vietnam War: South Vietnam President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu orders the Central Highlands evacuated. This turns into a mass exodus involving troops and civilians.
March 15 – In Brazil, Guanabara State merges into the state of Rio de Janeiro. The state's capital moves from the city of Niterói to the city of Rio de Janeiro.
March 22 – "Ding-a-dong" by Teach-In wins the 20th Eurovision Song Contest 1975 for the Netherlands.
March 25 – King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.
March 27 – The South African government announces that it will consolidate the 113 separate homeland areas into 36.
March 28 – A fire in the maternity wing at Kučić Hospital in Rijeka, Yugoslavia, kills 25 people.
March 31 – Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey, a four-party coalition, the so-called First National Front.

April

April 4
* Vietnam War: The first military Operation Babylift flight, C5A 80218, crashes 27 minutes after takeoff, killing 138 on board; 176 survive the crash.
* Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico and release their Altair BASIC interpreter.
April 5 – The Soviet crewed space mission ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging at an altitude of 192 km, resulting in the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle. Both cosmonauts survive.
April 9 – Eight people in South Korea, who are involved in the People's Revolutionary Party Incident, are hanged.
April 13
* Bus massacre: The Kataeb militia kills 27 Palestinians during an attack on their bus in Ain El Remmeneh, Lebanon, triggering the Lebanese Civil War which lasts until 1990.
* A coup d'état in Chad led by the military overthrows and kills President François Tombalbaye.
April 17 – The Khmer Republic surrenders, when the Communist Khmer Rouge guerilla forces capture Phnom Penh ending the Cambodian Civil War, with mass evacuation of American troops and Cambodian civilians.
April 18 – The Khmer Rouge begins a forcible mass evacuation of the city and starts the Cambodian genocide.
April 19 – Nico Diederichs becomes the 3rd State President of South Africa.
April 20 – Taman Mini [Indonesia Indah] opens to the public in Jakarta, Indonesia.
April 24 – West German Embassy siege in Stockholm: Six Red Army Faction terrorists take over the West German embassy in Stockholm, take 11 hostages and demand the release of the group's jailed members; shortly after, they are captured by Swedish police.
April 25 – Vietnam War: As North Vietnamese Army forces close in on the South Vietnamese capital Saigon, the Australian Embassy is closed and evacuated, almost 10 years to the day since the first Australian troop commitment to South Vietnam.
April 29 – Vietnam War: North Vietnam concludes its East Sea Campaign by capturing all of the Spratly Islands that were being held by South Vietnam.
April 30 – Vietnam War - Fall of Saigon: The Vietnam War concludes as Communist forces from North Vietnam take over Saigon, resulting in mass evacuation of the remaining American troops and South Vietnam civilians. As the capital is taken, South Vietnam surrenders unconditionally and is replaced with a temporary Provisional Government.

May

May 3 – West Ham United win the FA Cup final|FA Cup] at Wembley, beating Fulham 2–0 in the final.
May 6 – The South African government announces that it will provide all Black children with free and compulsory education.
May 15 – Mayaguez incident: The American merchant ship Mayaguez, seized by Cambodian forces, is rescued by the U.S. Navy and Marines; 38 Americans are killed.
May 16
* Sikkim accedes to India after a referendum and abolishes the Chogyal, its monarchy.
* Junko Tabei from Japan becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
May 25 – Bobby Unser wins the Indianapolis 500 for a second time in a rain-shorted 174 lap, race.
May 27 – The Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, North Yorkshire, England, results in 32 deaths.
May 28 – Fifteen West African countries sign the Treaty of Lagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States.

June

June 5 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
June 6 – The Georgetown Agreement, formally creating the ACP Group, is signed.
June 9 – The Order of Australia is awarded for the first time.
June 11 – After a referendum and seven years of military rule, modern-day Greece is established as the Hellenic Republic.
June 25
* Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declares a state of emergency in India, suspending civil liberties and elections.
* Mozambique gains independence from Portugal.

July

July 1 – The Postmaster-General's Department is disaggregated into the Australian Telecommunications Commission and the Australian Postal Commission.
July 4 – Zion Square refrigerator bombing. A terrorist attack in downtown Jerusalem kills 15 civilians and wounds 77.
July 5 – Cape Verde gains independence after 500 years of Portuguese rule.
July 6 – The Comoros declares and is granted its independence from France.
July 9 – The National Assembly of Senegal passes a law that will pave way for a multi-party system.
July 12 – São Tomé and Príncipe declare independence from Portugal.
July 17 – Test Project">Test (wrestler)">Test Project: A crewed American Apollo spacecraft and the crewed Soviet Soyuz spacecraft for the Soyuz 19 mission dock in orbit, marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the 2 nations.
July 21 - The Parliament of India votes to approve Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's declaration of a state of emergency, with a 301–76 vote in the lower house and a 147–32 vote in the upper house.
July 30 – Typhoon Nina forms over the Philippine Sea.

August

The first Cuban forces arrive in Angola to join Soviet personnel who are there to assist the MPLA that controls less than a quarter of Angolan territory. The United States, Zaire and Zambia request South Africa to provide training and support for the FNLA and UNITA forces.
August 1 – The Helsinki Accords, which officially recognize Europe's national borders and respect for human rights, are signed in Finland.
August 8 – The Banqiao Dam, in China's Henan Province, fails after Typhoon Nina; over 200,000 people perish.
August 11 – Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese East Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a UDT coup and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.
August 15
* Founder President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of Bangladesh is killed during a coup led by Major Syed Faruque Rahman.
* Some members of Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Armageddon will occur this year based on the group's chronology and some sell their houses and businesses to prepare for the new world paradise which they believe will be created when Jesus establishes God's Kingdom on Earth.
August 20 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
August 24 – Officers responsible for the military coup in Greece in 1967 are sentenced to death in Athens. The sentences are later commuted to life imprisonment.
August 25 – The Victoria Falls Conference between Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and the United African National Council is held in a South African Railways coach on the Victoria Falls Bridge, officiated by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and South African Prime Minister John Vorster.

September

September–October – In New Zealand, Māori leader Whina Cooper leads a march of 5,000 people, in support of Maori claims to their land.
September 5
* In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme attempts to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is thwarted by a Secret Service agent.
* The London Hilton Hotel is bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; two people are killed and 63 injured.
September 6 – An earthquake of magnitude kills at least 2,085 in Diyarbakır and Lice, Turkey.
September 14 – Rembrandt's painting The Night Watch is slashed a dozen times at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
September 15 – The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud.
September 16
* Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
* Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
September 19 – General Vasco Gonçalves is ousted as Prime Minister of Portugal.
September 20 – The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.
September 21 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra of Kelantan, becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
September 22 – In San Francisco, Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
September 27 – Francoist Spain executes five ETA and FRAP members, the Last use of [capital punishment in Spain|last executions in Spain] to date.
September 30
* The Hughes Helicopters AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
* Home Box Office becomes the first pay television network to deliver a continuous signal via satellite by broadcasting the "Thrilla in Manila" boxing match live.

October

October 1 – "Thrilla in Manila": Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. The fight is viewed live by well over 100 million people worldwide.
October 14
* The South African Defence Force invades Angola during Operation Savannah in support of the FNLA and UNITA prior to the Angolan elections scheduled for November 11.
* A British Royal Air Force Avro Vulcan bomber 1975 [Żabbar Avro Vulcan crash|explodes and crashes] over Żabbar, Malta after an aborted landing, killing five crew members and one person on the ground.
October 16
* The "Balibo Five", Australian television journalists are killed at Balibo by Indonesian Army special forces in the buildup to the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
* The last naturally occurring case of smallpox is diagnosed and treated, the victim being two-year-old Rahima Banu in Bangladesh.
October 30 – Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state after General Francisco Franco concedes that he is too ill to govern. His death on November 20 effectively marks the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.
October 31
* The Racial Discrimination Act 1975 takes effect in Australia.
* Tun Mustapha resigns as Chief Minister of Sabah, a state in Malaysia, bringing to an end speculation that he would attempt to lead secession for Sabah to become an independent nation.

November

November 6 – The Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
November 7 – A vapor cloud explosion at a petroleum cracking facility in Geleen, Netherlands, leaves 14 dead and 109 injured, with fires lasting for five days.
November 10
* United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379: By a vote of 72–35, the United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism. The resolution provokes an outcry among Zionists. It is repealed in 1991.
* The Treaty of Osimo is signed between Italy and Yugoslavia, resolving their dispute over Trieste. Under the agreement, a majority of the land area and residents go to Italy.
* The -long freighter sinks during a storm from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew members on board.
* Lev Leshchenko revives "Den Pobedy", one of the most popular World War II songs in the Soviet Union.
November 11
* Angola becomes independent from Portugal and civil war erupts.
*Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Governor-General of Australia Sir John Kerr controversially dismisses the [Whitlam government|Whitlam Labor government] and commissions Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal/National Country Coalition as caretaker Prime Minister.
* The first annual Vogalonga rowing "race" is held in Venice, Italy.
November 12 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.
November 14 – Madrid Accords: Spain agrees to hand over power of the Spanish Sahara to Morocco and Mauritania by the end of February 1976.
November 15 – The "Group of 6" industrialized nations is formed and holds its 1st summit at the Château de Rambouillet in France.
November 16 – Beginning of the Third Cod War between UK and Iceland, which lasts until June 1976.
November 19 – The United States Congress approves the Clark Amendment, ending aid to the FNLA and UNITA.
November 22 – Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of General Francisco Franco; he will reign until his abdication in 2014.
November 25
* Suriname gains independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
* A failed military coup d'état by far-left activists occurs in Portugal.
November 28
* Portuguese Timor declares its independence from Portugal as East Timor.
* South African Navy frigates evacuate 26 SADF members from behind enemy lines at Ambrizete, north of Luanda in Angola.
November 29
* While disabled, the submarine tender discharges radioactive coolant water into Apra Harbor, Guam. A Geiger counter at two of the harbor's public beaches shows 100 millirems/hour, 50 times the allowable dose.
* 1975 New Zealand general election: The New Zealand National Party led by Robert Muldoon defeats the incumbent New Zealand Labour Party led by Prime Minister Bill Rowling.

December

December 2 – In Laos, the Second Indochina War ends, when the communist party of the Pathet Lao takes over Vientiane and defeats the Kingdom of Laos, forcing King Sisavang Vatthana to abdicate and creating the Lao People's Democratic Republic. This ends the Laotian Civil War, with mass evacuation of American troops and Laotian civilians, but effectively begins the Insurgency in Laos with the Pathet Lao fighting the Hmong people, Royalist-in-exile and the Right-wings.
December 3 – Wreck of is found in the Kea Channel by Jacques Cousteau.
December 7 – Indonesian invasion of East Timor: Indonesia invades East Timor; the occupation continues until 1999 when U.N. peacekeepers take control, which they did until 2002.
December 13
* 1975 Australian federal election: The Liberal/National Country Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser defeats the recently dismissed Labor government led by Gough Whitlam. The Fraser government achieves what is so far the largest parliamentary majority in federal Australian political history. Whitlam would subsequently survive a Australian [Labor Party leadership spill, 1976|leadership challenge] against him.
* The United Nations Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness comes into effect.
December 18 – The Algerian president Houari Boumediene orders the Moroccans from Algeria|expulsion of all Moroccans from Algeria].
December 21 – Six people, including Carlos the Jackal, kidnap delegates of an OPEC conference in Vienna.
December 29 – A 1975 [LaGuardia Airport bombing|bomb explosion] at LaGuardia Airport in New York City kills 11 people.

Date unknown

The Spanish Army quits Spanish Sahara, last remnant of the Spanish Empire. The Sahrawi Republic is created. Morocco invades the former territory.
Benoit Mandelbrot coins the mathematical term fractal.
Victoria (Australia) abolishes capital punishment.
South Australia becomes the first Australian state to decriminalize homosexual acts between consenting adults.

Births

January

January 1
* Sonali Bendre, Indian actress
* Eiichiro Oda, Japanese manga artist
January 2
* Dax Shepard, American actor
* Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, Ukrainian footballer
* Vladyslav Vashchuk, Ukrainian footballer
January 3
* Danica McKellar, American actress and education advocate
* Thomas Bangalter, French musician and record producer
January 5 – Bradley Cooper, American actor
January 6
* Laura Berg, American softball player and coach
* Ricardo Santos, Brazilian beach volleyball player
January 11 – Matteo Renzi, 56th Prime Minister of Italy
January 15 – Mary Pierce, French tennis player
January 17 – Tony Brown, New Zealand rugby union footballer
January 23 – Tito Ortiz, American mixed martial arts fighter
January 25
* Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
* Tim Montgomery, American athlete
January 29
* Sara Gilbert, American actress
* Karin Salanova, Venezuelan politician
January 30 – Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
January 31 – Preity Zinta, Indian actress and entrepreneur

February

February 2 – Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
February 3 – Brad Thorn, New Zealand-Australian rugby player
February 4 – Natalie Imbruglia, Australian actress and singer
February 5 – Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch footballer and coach
February 9 – Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball pitcher
February 14 – Malik Zidi, French actor
February 17
* Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
* Kaspars Astašenko, Latvian ice hockey player
* Václav Prospal, Czech hockey player
February 18
* Igor Dodon, President of Moldova
* Keith Gillespie, Northern Irish footballer
* Gary Neville, English footballer
February 19
* Mohamed Aly, Egyptian boxer
February 20 – Brian Littrell, American pop singer
February 22 – Drew Barrymore, American actress and film producer
February 23
* Wilfred Kibet Kigen, Kenyan long-distance runner
* Callan Mulvey, New Zealand-born Australian actor
February 25 – Chelsea Handler, American comedian and television host

March

March 1 – Valentina Monetta, Sammarinese singer
March 5 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
March 6 – Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress, singer and model
March 9
* Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
* Lisa Miskovsky, Swedish musician
* Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
March 10 – Jamie Arnold, American-Israeli basketball player
March 11
* Buvaisar Saitiev, Chechen wrestler
* David Cañada, Spanish cyclist
March 15
* Eva Longoria, American actress
* Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
* will.i.am, American rapper and singer
March 17
* Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor
* Test, Canadian professional wrestler
* Natalie Zea, American actress
March 18 – Sutton Foster, American actress
March 19
* Vivian Hsu, Taiwanese singer, actress and model
* Le Jingyi, Chinese swimmer
March 21
* Fabricio Oberto, Argentinian-Italian basketball player
* Mark Williams, Welsh professional snooker player
March 22 – Guillermo Díaz, American actor
March 24
* Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
* Albin Kurti, prime minister of Kosovo
March 25
* Ladislav Benýšek, Czech ice hockey player
* Melanie Blatt, English singer
March 27
* Fergie, American singer and actress
* Mihaela Melinte, Romanian hammer thrower
March 28 – Iván Helguera, Spanish footballer
March 29 – Jan Bos, Dutch speed skater
March 31 – Mirtha Vásquez, Peruvian politician and lawyer, Prime Minister of Peru

April

April 1
* Magdalena Maleeva, Bulgarian tennis player
* Kristine Quance, American swimmer
April 2
* Nate Huffman, American basketball player
* Pedro Pascal, Chilean-American actor
* Adam Rodriguez, American actor
April 3 – Koji Uehara, Japanese baseball pitcher
April 5
* John Hartson, Welsh footballer
* Juicy J, American rapper, songwriter, and record producer
April 6
* Zach Braff, American actor
* Sónia Lopes, Cape Verdean runner
April 8 – Anouk, Dutch singer-songwriter and producer
April 9 – Robbie Fowler, English footballer
April 10 - David Harbour, American actor
April 13
* Jasey-Jay Anderson, Canadian snowboarder
* Tatiana Navka, Ukrainian born-Russian Ice dancer
April 14
* Lita, American professional wrestler
* Anderson Silva, Brazilian UFC fighter
April 19 – Jussi Jääskeläinen, Finnish football player and coach
April 21 – Danyon Loader, New Zealand swimmer
April 22
* Greg Moore, Canadian racing driver
* Carlos Sastre, Spanish road bicycle racer
April 26 – Joey Jordison, American metal drummer for Slipknot
April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, Japanese ski jumper
April 30 – Johnny Galecki, Belgian-born American actor

May

May 1 – Marc-Vivien Foé, Cameroonian footballer
May 2
* David Beckham, English footballer
* Ahmed Hassan, Egyptian footballer
May 3 – Christina Hendricks, American actress
May 7 – Roxana Maracineanu, Romanian born-French politician and swimmer
May 8
* Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer
* Jussi Markkanen, Finnish hockey player
May 9 – Chris Diamantopoulos, Canadian actor
May 10 – Hélio Castroneves, Brazilian racing driver
May 12 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby player
May 13 – Itatí Cantoral, Mexican actress
May 15
* Ray Lewis, American football player
* Janne Seurujärvi, Finnish Sami politician, and the first Sami to be elected to the Finnish Parliament.
May 18
* John Higgins, Scottish snooker player
* Jack Johnson, American singer-songwriter
* Irina Karavayeva, Russian trampolinist
May 19
* Jonas Renkse, Swedish musician
* Masanobu Ando, Japanese actor
* Zhang Ning, Chinese badminton player
May 20 – Tahmoh Penikett, Canadian actor
May 21 – Anthony Mundine, Australian rugby league player and boxer
May 22 – Janne Niinimaa, Finnish hockey player
May 25
* Keiko Fujimori, Peruvian politician
* Lauryn Hill, American singer
May 27
* André 3000, American musician, record producer, and actor
* Jamie Oliver, English chef, restaurateur and television personality
May 28 – Charmaine Sheh, Hong Kong actress
May 29
* David Burtka, American actor and professional chef
* Mel B, English singer, songwriter, rapper, television personality, actress and author
* Daniel Tosh, American comedian
May 31 – Toni Nieminen, Finnish ski jumper

June

June 1
* Nikol Pashinyan, Armenian politician, Prime Minister of Armenia
* Frauke Petry, German politician
June 4
* Russell Brand, English actor and comedian
* Angelina Jolie, American actress
June 7
* Allen Iverson, American basketball player
* Ekta Kapoor, Indian actress
June 8 – Shilpa Shetty, Bollywood actress
June 9
* Andrew Symonds, British-born Australian cricketer
* Ameesha Patel, Indian actress and model
* Lord Villanueva, Filipino associate justice of the Sandiganbayan
June 11 – Choi Ji-woo, South Korean actress and model
June 15 – Elizabeth Reaser, American actress
June 16 – Anabel Conde, Spanish singer
June 18 – Martin St. Louis, Canadian hockey player
June 19
* Oksana Chusovitina, German artistic gymnast
* Anthony Parker, American basketball player
* Ed Coode, British rower
June 23 – KT Tunstall, Scottish singer-songwriter
June 24 – Christie Pearce, American footballer
June 25
* Linda Cardellini, American actress
* Natasha Klauss, Colombian actress
* Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess player
June 26 – Florence Loiret Caille, French actress
June 27
* Mufti Menk, Zimbabwean Muslim cleric and Mufti
* Tobey Maguire, American actor
* Mosese Rauluni, Fijian rugby union footballer
June 28 – Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish singer
June 30
* James Bannatyne, New Zealand footballer
* Ralf Schumacher, German racing driver

July

July 1 – Sufjan Stevens, American musician
July 2 – Stefan Terblanche, South African rugby union player
July 3 – Ryan McPartlin, American actor
July 5
* Zander de Bruyn, South African cricketer
* Hernán Crespo, Argentinian footballer
* Ai Sugiyama, Japanese tennis player
July 6
* Sebastián Rulli, Argentine actor and model
* Alessandro Juliani, Canadian actor and singer
* 50 Cent, rapper, actor, and businessman
July 7 – Nina Hoss, German actress
July 8
* Amara, Indonesian actress, model, and singer
* Régis Laconi, French motorcycle racer
* Květa Peschke, Czech tennis player
* Elias Viljanen, Finnish musician
July 9
* Shelton Benjamin, American professional wrestler
* Gaizka Garitano, Spanish football player and coach
* Damián Szifron, Argentine director and screenwriter
* Jack White, American singer and guitarist
July 10
* Martina Colombari, Italian actress, model and television presenter
* Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
* Stefán Karl Stefánsson, Icelandic actor
July 16
* Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress and model
* Edoardo Gabbriellini, Italian actor, screenwriter, and director
July 17
* Elena Anaya, Spanish actress
* Darude, Finnish DJ and record producer
* Cécile de France, Belgian actress
* Loretta Harrop, Australian triathlete
* Terence Tao, Australian-American mathematician
July 18 – Daron Malakian, Armenian-American guitarist
July 19 – Hélène Tigroudja, French jurist and international law expert.
July 20
* Judy Greer, American actress and author
* Ray Allen, American basketball player
July 21 – David Dastmalchian, American actor
July 23 – Suriya, Indian actor
July 25 – Evgeni Nabokov, Kazakh-Russian hockey goaltender
July 26 – Liz Truss, English politician, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
July 27 – Alex Rodriguez, American baseball player
July 28 – Leonor Watling, Spanish actress and singer

August

August 1 – Danny Chan Kwok-kwan, Hong Kong actor
August 3
* Wael Gomaa, Egyptian footballer
* Evika Siliņa, Latvian politician, prime minister
August 4
* Jason Crump, Australian motorcycle speedway rider
* Eicca Toppinen, Finnish cellist
August 6 – Renate Götschl, Austrian alpine skier
August 7
* Gaahl, Norwegian musician
* Megan Gale, Australian model and actress
* Charlize Theron, South African-born American actress
August 9 – Mahesh Babu, Indian actor
August 12 – Casey Affleck, American actor and film director
August 13 – Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistani fast bowler
August 15 – Kara Wolters, American basketball player
August 16 – Taika Waititi, New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian
August 17 – Ian Casocot, Filipino writer
August 18 – Kaitlin Olson, American actress
August 22 – Rodrigo Santoro, Brazilian actor
August 25 – Petria Thomas, Australian swimmer
August 29 – Dante Basco, American film, television and voice actor
August 30 – Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
August 31 – Sara Ramirez, Mexican-American actress

September

September 1
* Sarah Mintz, Colombian actress and model
* Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress and singer
* Scott Speedman, Canadian actor
September 3 – Redfoo, American disc jockey
September 4 – Mark Ronson, English DJ, record producer, and singer
September 6 – Ryoko Tani, Japanese judoka
September 7
* Norifumi Abe, Japanese professional motorcycle road racer
* Renato Sobral, Brazilian martial artist
September 8 – Elena Likhovtseva, Russian tennis player
September 9 – Michael Bublé, Canadian musician
September 13
* Peter Ho, American-Taiwanese singer and actor
* Idan Tal, Israeli footballer
September 16 – Gal Fridman, Israeli windsurfer
September 17 – Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
September 18
* Charlie Finn, American film, television, and voice actor
* Jason Sudeikis, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
September 20
* Asia Argento, Italian actress, singer, and director
* Moon Bloodgood, American actress
* Juan Pablo Montoya, Colombian racing driver
September 22 – Ethan Moreau, Canadian hockey player
September 23 – Kim Dong-moon, South Korean badminton player
September 28 – Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of Serbia
September 30
* Marion Cotillard, French actress, singer, songwriter, and musician
* Ta-Nehisi Coates, American author and journalist

October

October 1 – Bimba Bosé, Spanish model, actress and singer
October 3 – Alanna Ubach, American actress and singer
October 5
* Parminder Nagra, British actress
* Kate Winslet, British actress
* Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese actress
October 6
* Martin Jørgensen, Danish football player and coach
* Peter Pellegrini, Slovak politician, President-elect of Slovakia
October 8 – Marc Molinaro, American politician
October 9 – Sean Lennon, British-American musician, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist
October 10 – Ihsahn, Norwegian musician
October 12 – Marion Jones, American athlete
October 14
* Floyd Landis, American cyclist
* Shaznay Lewis, English singer
October 15 – Michél Mazingu-Dinzey, German-Congolese footballer
October 16 – Jacques Kallis, South African cricketer
October 21
* Henrique Hilário, Portuguese footballer
* Madchild, Canadian rapper
October 22
* Jesse Tyler Ferguson, American actor
* Míchel Salgado, Spanish footballer
October 25
*Zadie Smith, English writer
*Antony Starr, New Zealand actor
October 26
*Paula Faris, American journalist and television correspondent
*Ryan Bradley, baseball player
October 28 – Krisztián Zahorecz, Hungarian football player
October 30 – Ian D'Sa, Canadian guitarist

November

November 2 – Danny Cooksey, American actor and comedian
November 3 – Marta Domínguez, Spanish athlete
November 4
* Éric Fichaud, Canadian hockey player
* Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player
November 8
* Ángel Corella, Spanish dancer
* Tara Reid, American actress
November 10 – Markko Märtin, Estonian racing driver
November 11
* Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby union player
* Angélica Vale, Mexican-American actress, singer, and comedian
November 12
* Jason Lezak, American swimmer
* Amy Neighbors, American politician
November 13 – Ivica Dragutinović, Serbian footballer
November 14
* Luizão, Brazilian footballer
* Gary Vaynerchuk, American-Belarusian entrepreneur and internet personality
November 18
* Neal E. Boyd, American singer and reality show winner
* Anthony McPartlin, British TV presenter, actor and singer
* David Ortiz, Dominican-American baseball player
November 19 – Sushmita Sen, Indian actress and model, former Miss Universe.
November 20
* Dierks Bentley, American country music singer
* Joshua Gomez, American actor
November 21
* Cherie Johnson, American actress
* Chris Moneymaker, American poker player
* Aaron Solowoniuk, Canadian drummer
November 28 – Eka Kurniawan, Indonesian writer
November 30
* Mindy McCready, American country music singer
* Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer

December

December 5
* Sofi Marinova, Bulgarian singer
* Ronnie O'Sullivan, British snooker player
* Paula Patton, American actress
December 6 – Ashin, Taiwanese singer
* Mia Love, American political commentator and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019 in Utah, the first and to date only black woman elected to congress as a republican
December 10 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
December 12
* Mayim Bialik, Israeli-American actress and neuroscientist
* Houko Kuwashima, Japanese voice actress
December 13 – Tom DeLonge, American musician, author, and UFOlogist
December 17
* Nick Dinsmore, American professional wrestler
* Susanthika Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan athlete
* Hilje Murel, Estonian actress
* Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born American actress and model
December 18
* Mara Carfagna, Italian politician and model
* Sia, Australian singer-songwriter and music video director
* Trish Stratus, Canadian professional wrestler and model
December 20 – Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer
December 21
* Paloma Herrera, Argentine ballet dancer
* Charles Michel, Belgian politician, 51st Prime Minister of Belgium and President of the European Council
December 23 – Vadim Sharifijanov, Russian ice hockey player
December 24 – Maria Zakharova, Russian politician and diplomat
December 26
* Ed Stafford, English explorer
* Marcelo Ríos, Chilean tennis player
December 27 – Heather O'Rourke, American child actress
December 29 – Shawn Hatosy, American actor
December 30 – Tiger Woods, American golfer

Deaths

January

January 3 – Victor Kraft, Austrian philosopher
January 5 – Gottlob Berger, German Nazi senior official
January 8 – David Marshall Williams, American inventor
January 9 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor
January 14 – Georgi Traykov, head of State of Bulgaria as Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly
January 17 – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia
January 19 – Thomas Hart Benton, American artist
January 23 – Prince Karl Franz of Prussia
January 24 – Larry Fine, American actor and comedian, The Three Stooges
January 27 – Bill Walsh, American film producer and writer
January 28
* Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak Communist leader and 7th President of Czechoslovakia
* Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist

February

February 3 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress
February 4 – Louis Jordan, American musician
February 6 – Sir Keith Park, New Zealand-born British air chief marshal
February 8
* Sir Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* Jan Mukařovský, Czech literary, linguistic and aesthetic theorist.
February 9 – Sir Ivan Stedeford, British industrialist
February 10 – Dave Alexander, American musician
February 12 – Carl Lutz, Swiss diplomat and humanitarian
February 13 – André Beaufre, French general
February 14
* Sir Julian Huxley, British biologist
* Sir P. G. Wodehouse, English writer
February 16 – Morgan Taylor, American Olympic athlete
February 17 – Hugo Österman, Finnish general
February 18 – Chivu Stoica, 48th Prime Minister of Romania and head of State
February 19 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer
February 22 – Lionel Tertis, English violist
February 24 – Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union
February 25 – Elijah Muhammad, American Nation of Islam leader
February 28 – Sir Neville Cardus, British cricket and music writer

March

March 2 – Madeleine Vionnet, French fashion designer
March 3 – Therese Giehse, German actress
March 6 – Glenn Hardin, American athlete
March 7 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and literary scholar
March 8
* Joseph Bech, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
* George Stevens, American director, producer and cinematographer
March 9
* Joseph Dunninger, American mentalist
* Shirley Ross, American actress and singer
March 11 – Margarita Fischer, American silent film actress
March 13 – Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
March 14 – Susan Hayward, American actress
March 15 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate
March 16 – T-Bone Walker, American blues performer
March 19 – Harry Lachman, American set designer and film director
March 20 – Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia
March 21 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player and manager
March 25
* King Faisal of Saudi Arabia
* Michèle Girardon, French actress
March 27 – Sir Arthur Bliss, British composer and Master of the Queen's Music
March 30 – Boots Adams, American business magnate, president of Phillips Petroleum Company

April

April 5
* Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese nationalist general and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China
* Harold Osborn, American Olympic athlete
* Victor Marijnen, Dutch politician and jurist, 40th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
April 10
* Walker Evans, American photographer
* Marjorie Main, American actress
April 12 – Josephine Baker, American-born French entertainer and activist
April 14 – Fredric March, American actor
April 17 – Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd President of India
April 19 – Percy Lavon Julian, American scientist
April 23 – William Hartnell, English actor
April 24 – Pete Ham, Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist

May

May 4 – Moe Howard, American actor and comedian, The Three Stooges
May 8 – Avery Brundage, American administrator, 5th President of the International Olympic Committee
May 9 – Philip Dorn, Dutch actor
May 14 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-born American television pioneer
May 18
* Leroy Anderson, American composer
* Aníbal Troilo, Argentine tango musician
May 20 – Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor and artist
May 22
* Lefty Grove, American baseball player
* Torben Meyer, Danish actor
May 23 – Moms Mabley, African-American comedian
May 28
* Ezzard Charles, American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion
* Lung Chien, Chinese screenwriter and film director
May 30
* Steve Prefontaine, American distance runner
* Michel Simon, Swiss actor

June

June 3
* Eisaku Satō, Japanese politician, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
* Ozzie Nelson, American actor, director and producer
June 4 – Evelyn Brent, American actress
June 9 – Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer, British aristocrat
June 12 – Rafael Arévalo Martínez, Guatemalan writer
June 13 – José María Guido, 33rd President of Argentina
June 15 – William Austin, English actor
June 18 – Hugo Bergmann, German and Israeli Jewish philosopher
June 26 – Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Roman Catholic priest and saint
June 27 – G. I. Taylor, British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory
June 28 – Rod Serling, American television screenwriter and narrator
June 29 – Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter

July

July 2 – James Robertson Justice, British actor
July 4 – Luigi Carlo Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic bishop
July 5 – Otto Skorzeny, Austrian-born German lieutenant colonel
July 10 – Achille Van Acker, 33rd Prime Minister of Belgium
July 13 – Thomas Walter Swan, American jurist and judge on the Second Circuit">Indochina wars">Second Circuit from 1926 until 1975
July 14 – Madan Mohan, Indian music director
July 17 – Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor
July 19
* Lefty Frizzell, American singer
* Charles Alan Pownall, American admiral, 3rd Military Governor of Guam
July 21 – Billy West, American actor
July 23 – Emlen Tunnell, American football player and coach
July 30 – James Blish, American science fiction and fantasy writer

August

August 3
* Andreas Embirikos, Greek poet
* Jack Molinas, American basketball player
August 6 – Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera, Spanish prince, military aviator
August 9 – Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet and Russian composer
August 10 – Anthony McAuliffe, American general
August 11 – Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel
August 15 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 2nd Prime Minister of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh
August 16 – Vladimir Kuts, Soviet runner
August 17 – Sig Arno, German actor
August 19
* Mark Donohue, American race car driver
* Ima Hogg, American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts
* Frank Shields, American tennis player
August 23 – Sidney Buchman, American screenwriter
August 25 – Joseph Kane, American film director and producer
August 26 – Cullen Landis, American actor
August 27 – Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia
August 28 – Fritz Wotruba, Austrian sculptor
August 29
*Charles C. Bass, American physician and medical researcher
*Éamon de Valera, Irish politician and statesman, 3rd President of Ireland and 3-time Taoiseach
August 31 – Pierre Blaise, French film actor

September

September 5 – Alice Catherine Evans, American microbiologist
September 9
* Minta Durfee, American actress
* Ethel Griffies, British actress
September 10 – Sir George Paget Thomson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
September 15 – Pavel Sukhoi, Soviet aerospace engineer, twice Hero of Socialist Labour
September 19 – Pamela Brown, English actress
September 20
*Doria Shafik, Egyptian feminist, poet, writer and editor
*Saint-John Perse, French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate
September 23 – Ian Hunter, British actor
September 26 – C. H. Waddington, British biologist, paleontologist, geneticist and philosopher
September 27
* Mark Frechette, American actor
* Jack Lang, Australian politician
September 29 – Casey Stengel, American baseball player and manager

October

October 3 – Guy Mollet, 94th Prime Minister of France
October 4 – May Sutton, American tennis champion
October 10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician
October 16 – Don Barclay, American actor and artist
October 21 – Charles Reidpath, American athlete
October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian
October 27
* Peregrino Anselmo, Uruguayan football player
* Rex Stout, American author
October 28 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer
October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

November

November 1 – C. S. Wright, Canadian explorer
November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director
November 4 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian
November 5 – Lionel Trilling, American literary critic
November 6
* Ernst Hanfstaengl, German-born American businessman and politician
* Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress
November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English writer
November 17 – Kay Johnson, American actress
November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and politician, Caudillo of Spain
November 29
* Tony Brise, English racing driver
* Graham Hill, English racing driver

December

December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist
December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright
December 8 – Plínio Salgado, Brazilian politician and writer
December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director
December 10 – Boy Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer
December 11 – Nihal Atsız, Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet
December 12 – Saadi Al Munla, 4th Prime Minister of Lebanon
December 13 – Addie Viola Smith, American lawyer and trade commissioner
December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor
December 15
* Alex Aronson, Jewish-Dutch aid worker
* Shigeyoshi Inoue, Japanese admiral
December 17 – Noble Sissle, American jazz composer
December 18 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist
December 19 – René Maheu, French professor and administrator, 6th Director-General of UNESCO
December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor
December 21 – Rowland V. Lee, American film director
December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer
December 30 – Elene Akhvlediani, Soviet painter

Date unknown

Sisowath Monireth, 3rd Prime Minister of Cambodia

Nobel Prizes

Physics – Aage Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, James Rainwater
Chemistry – John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog
Medicine – David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin
Literature – Eugenio Montale
Peace – Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov
Economics – Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans