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'''1966''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMLXVI''') was a
common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar).
Events
January
*
January 1 - In a coup, Colonel
Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president
David Dacko and takes over the
Central African Republic.
*
January 2 - Strike of
public transportation workers in
New York City - ends
January 13
*
January 3 - First
Acid Test at
the Fillmore,
San Francisco
*
January 4 - Military coup in
Upper Volta (later
Burkina Faso).
*
January 4 - Prime ministers of
India and
Pakistan meet in
Moscow
*
January 4 - Fire due to a
gas leak in
Feyzin oil refinery near
Lyon,
France - 18 dead, 84 injured
*
January 10 -
Pakistani-
Indian peace negotiations end successfully in
Moscow
*
January 10 - French paper ''
L'Express'' publishes a story of
Georges Figon, who took part of the kidnapping of
Mehdi Ben Barka.
January 18 French police announces that Figon has committed suicide just before he was about to be arrested
*
January 11 - Conference about the situation in
Rhodesia begins in
Lagos
*
January 11 - Indian prime minister
Lal Bahadur Shastri dies
*
January 12 -
Lyndon Johnson states that the
United States should stay in
South Vietnam until
Communism Communist aggression there is ended.
*
January 13 -
Robert C. Weaver becomes the first
African American Cabinet member by being appointed
United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
*
January 15 - A violent military
coup in
Nigeria
*
January 15 -
Moscow announces
Sergei Korolev's death
*
January 17 - The Nigerian
coup is overturned
*
January 17 - A
B-52 Stratofortress B-52 bomber collides with a
KC-135 Stratotanker KC-135 jet tanker over
Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton
hydrogen bombs near the town of
Palomares and one into the sea
*
January 17 -
Carl Brashear, the first
African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg.
*
January 18 - About 8000 US soldiers land in
South Vietnam - numbers of US troops total 190.000
*
January 19 -
Indira Gandhi is elected
Prime Minister of India - sworn in
January 24
*
January 19 - Australian Prime Minister
Robert Menzies resigns
*
January 20 - Demonstrations against high food prices in
Hungary
*
January 21 - Italian Prime Minister
Aldo Moro resigns due to a power struggle in his party
*
January 22 - Military government of
Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa has been killed during the coup
*
January 26 -
Harold Holt becomes Prime Minister of
Australia when
Robert Menzies retires
*
January 26 -
Beaumont children disappearance - Three children disappear on their way to
Glenelg, South Australia Glenelg Beach,
South Australia, and have never been seen again
*
January 27 - British government promises USA that British troops in
Malaysia stay until more peaceful conditions in the region
*
January 29 - The first of 608 performances of ''
Sweet Charity'' opens at the Palace Theatre in
New York City.
*
January 31 -
United Kingdom ceases all trade with
Rhodesia
* January - First
SR-71 Blackbird SR-71 spy plane goes into service.
February
*
February 1 -
West Germany had purchased 2600 political prisoners from
East Germany
*
February 3 - The unmanned Soviet
Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the
Moon
*
February 4 - Japanese passenger jet crashes into
Tokyo Bay - 133 dead
*
February 6 -
Fidel Castro blames China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda among
Cuban soldiers
*
February 10 - Soviet writers
Yuli Daniel and
Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced for five and seven years, respectively, for anti-Soviet writings
*
February 11 -
Belgium Belgian government resigns
*
February 14 - The Australian Dollar was introduced at a rate of two dollars per pound, or ten shillings per dollar.
*
February 19 - Naval minister of
United Kingdom,
Christopher Mayhew, resigns
*
February 20 - While
Valeri Tarsis, Soviet author and translator, is abroad the
Soviet Union negates his citizenship
*
February 23 - A military
coup in
Syria replaces the previous government with a
Ba'athist regime.
*
February 24 - A military
coup in
Ghana raises sacked general Ankrah to power while president
Kwame Nkrumah is abroad.
*
February 26 -
Curfew in
Jakarta
*
February 28 - US astronauts
Charles Bassett and
Elliott See are killed in an aircraft accident in St. Louis, MO
March
*
March 1 - Soviet
space probe Venera 3 crashes on
Venus (planet) Venus, becoming the first
spacecraft to land on another
planet's surface.
*
March 1 - The
Ba'ath Party takes power in
Syria
*
March 2 -
Kwame Nkrumah arrives in
Guinea and is granted an
refugee asylum
*
March 4 -
The Beatles: In an interview published in The Evening Standard,
John Lennon comments, "We're more popular than
Jesus now," eventually sparking a controversy in the
United States.
*
March 5 - Massive theft of nuclear materials revealed in
Brazil
*
March 7 -
Charles de Gaulle Charles De Gaulle asks US president Johnson for negotiations about the state of
NATO equipment in France
*
March 8 - Anti-communist demonstrations in
Indonesian foreign ministry
*
March 8 –
Ronald Kray, one of the
Kray twins, shoots rival gangster
George Cornell; the incidents leads to brother's incarceration
*
March 8 -
Vietnam War:
Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in
Vietnam
*
March 8 - A
Irish Republican Army IRA bomb destroys
Nelson's Pillar in
Dublin
*
March 10 -
Crown Prince Crown Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands marries
Claus von Amsberg.
*
March 10 - Wedding of
Beatrix of the Netherlands Beatrix, the crown princess of
Netherlands and
Claus von Amsberg. Some spectators demonstrate against the groom, because he is German
*
March 11 – Indonesian president
Sukarno gives all
executive powers to general
Suharto
*
March 11 - French president
Charles de Gaulle Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of
NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year
*
March 16 -
Gemini 8 docks with
Agena target satellite
*
March 17 - More anti-communist demonstrations in
Indonesia
*
March 17 - Off the coast of
Spain in the
Mediterranean, the
DSV Alvin Alvin submarine finds a missing American
hydrogen bomb.
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*
March 23 -
Pope Paul VI and
Arthur Michael Ramsey, the
Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the
Roman Catholic Church Roman Catholic and
Anglican Communion Anglican Churches
*
March 26 - Demonstrations again the
Vietnam War in USA
*
March 27 - In
South Vietnam, 20.000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government
*
March 28 -
Indira Gandhi visits
Washington DC
*
March 29 - 23rd Communist party conference in
Soviet Union -
Leonid Brezhnev demands that US troops leave Vietnam and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying
*
March 31 - The
Labour Party (UK) Labour Party under
Harold Wilson win the British General Election
*
March 31 - The
Soviet Union launches
Luna 10 which later becomes the first
space probe to enter orbit around the
moon
April
*
April 2 -
Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the
United Nations
*
April 4 -
Luna 10 enters orbit around the
moon
*
April 7 - The
United Kingdom asks the
United Nations Security Council UN Security Council authority to use force to stop
oil tankers that violate
oil embargo against
Rhodesia. Authority is given
April 10
*
April 8 - Buddhists in
South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for
free elections
*
April 12 -
Jan Berry of
Jan & Dean suffers brain damage in a serious automobile accident in Beverly Hills, California
*
April 14 -
South Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3-5 months
*
April 15 - anti-
Gamal Abdel Nasser Nasser conspiracy exposed in
Egypt
*
April 18 - China declares that it stops economic aid to
Indonesia
*
April 21 -
Artificial heart installed to the chest of
Marcel DeRudder in
Houston hospital
*
April 21 - The opening of
Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time
*
April 27 -
Pope Paul VI and Soviet premier
Gromyko meet in the
Vatican City Vatican - the first meeting between leaders of the
Roman Catholic Church and
Soviet Union
*
April 28 - In
Rhodesia, security forces kill 7
ZANLA men in combat- ''
Chimurenga'',
ZANU rebellion begins
*
April 29 - US troops in
Vietnam total 250,000
*
April 30 - regular
hovercraft service begins over the
English Channel (discontinued 2000 due to
Channel Tunnel)
May
*
May 1 -
Floods in
Finland Finnish coast
*
May 4 -
Fiat signs a contract with Soviet government to build a car factory in
Soviet Union
*
May 6 - The
Moors Murderers Ian Brady and
Myra Hindley sentenced for life imprisonment
*
May 12 - African members of the UN Security Council say that British army should blockage Rhodesia
*
May 12 -
China Radio International Radio Peking claims that US planes have shot down a Chinese plane over
Yunnan - US denies the story the next day
*
May 14 -
Turkey and
Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in
Cyprus
*
May 15 -
Indonesia asks
Malaysia for peace negotiations
*
May 16 -
July 1 - Seamen's strike in Britain
*
May 16 - Legendary album ''
Pet Sounds'' by Beach Boys released
*
May 15 -
South Vietnam army besieges
Da Nang
*
May 24 - Troops of
Uganda army arrest
Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace
*
May 24 -
Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country (until the
January 17 1969)
*
May 25 -
Explorer program:
Explorer 32 launches
*
May 25 - In
St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President
Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior
Stewart Udall dedicate the
Gateway Arch as part of the
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
*
May 26 -
Guyana achieves independence.
*
May 28 -
Fidel Castro announces a
martial law in Cuba because of possible US attack
*
May 28 –
Indonesian and
Malaysia Malayan governments declare that
Indonesian Confrontation is over. Treaty signed in
August 11
*
May 31 -
Philippines reform
diplomatic relations with
Malaysia
June
*
June 2 -
Eamon de Valera re-elected as Irish president
*
June 2 -
Surveyor program: ''
Surveyor 1'' lands in Oceanus Procellarumon the
Moon, becoming the first
spacecraft to soft land on another world
*
June 2 - Four former cabinet ministers executed in
Zaire for alleged involvement in a plot to kill
Mobutu Sese Seko
*
June 3 -
Joaquín Balaguer elected president of
Dominican Republic
*
June 5 -
Gene Cernan completes second U.S. spacewalk (which lasted 2 hours, 7 minutes) on the
Gemini 9 mission.
*
June 6 -
James Meredith,
civil rights activist, is shot while trying to march across
Mississippi
*
June 13 - The
Supreme Court of the United States U.S. Supreme Court rules in ''
Miranda v. Arizona'' that the police must inform
suspects of their rights before questioning them
*
June 14 - The
Holy See Vatican announces the abolition of ''
Index Librorum Prohibitum'' index of banned books
*
June 17 -
Air France personnel strike begins
*
June 18 -
CIA chief
William Raborn William F. Raborn resigns -
Richard Helms will be his successor
*
June 20-
July 1 -
Charles de Gaulle Charles De Gaulle visits
Soviet Union
*
June 21- Opposition leader Arthur Calwell injured when shot after attending a political meeting in Mosman, Sydney, Australia
*
June 28 - In
Argentina a
Military dictatorship Junta deposes president
Arturo Umberto Illia in a coup and appoints general
Juan Carlos Ongania to lead
*
June 29 - Sailors' strike, organised by the
National Union of Seamen ends in the
United Kingdom
*
June 29 -
Vietnam War: US planes begin bombing
Hanoi and
Haiphong
*
June 30 -
France formally leaves
NATO
July
*
July 1 - Joaquin Balaguer becomes president of the Dominican Republic.
*
July 3 -
Rene Barrientos elected
president of Bolivia
*
July 4 -
North Vietnam declares general
mobilization
*
July 4 - President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs the
Freedom of Information Act into law. The act goes into effect the following year.
*
July 6 -
Malawi becomes a republic
*
July 7 - Conference of
Warsaw Pact ends with a promise to support North Vietnam
*
July 12 -
Indira Gandhi visits Moscow
*
July 12 -
Zambia threatens to leave the
Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to
Rhodesia
*
July 12 - US lieutenant major
W.H. Whalen arrested for spying
*
July 14 -
Israeli and
Syrian jet fighters fight over the
Jordan River
*
July 14 - In
Chicago, Illinois,
Richard Speck murders eight student nurses in their dormitory
*
July 14 -
Gwynfor Evans becomes member of Parliament for
Carmarthen, the first
Plaid Cymru MP in the
United Kingdom UK.
*
July 16 - British Prime Minister
Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about
Vietnam War - Soviet Government refutes his ideas
*
July 17 -
Richard Speck arrested - he tries to commit suicide but fails
*
July 18 -
Gemini X lifts off for earth orbit with astronauts
John Young and
Michael Collins (astronaut) Michael Collins, setting a world altitude record of 474 miles.
*
July 18 - The
Hough Riots break out in
Cleveland, Ohio, the city's first
Mass racial violence in the United States race riot.
*
July 19 - Chinese delegate in
Netherlands,
Liu en-Tsiu, is declared
persona non grata because of death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances; there are claims that he was kidnapped and taken to the delegate's office
*
July 22 - Chinese government announces Dutch delegate
G. J. Jongejans persona non grata but tells him not to leave the country before group of Chinese engineers has left the Netherlands
*
July 23 -
Katanga Katangese troops in
Stanleyville,
Democratic Republic of the Congo Congo, revolt in support of the exiled minister
Moise Tschombe.
Mutiny lasts several weeks
*
July 24 -
U Thant visits Moscow
*
July 26 - Lord Gardiner issues the
Practice Statement in the
House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous
precedent
*
July 28 - USA announces that
Lockheed U-2 U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba
*
July 29 -
Nigerian army rebels and execute the head of state general Irons,
Richard Steven Horvitz is born.
*
July 30 -
England national football team England beat
German national football team West Germany 4-2 to win the
Football World Cup 1966 World Cup at
Wembley Stadium Wembley
August
*
August 1 - Sniper
Charles Whitman kills 13 from the
University of Texas at Austin Main Building.
*
August 1 -
Military coup in
Nigeria - general
Yakubu Gowon takes over
*
August 2 - Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft
*
August 5 -
Martin Luther King leads a civil rights march in
Chicago
*
August 6 -
Rene Barrientos takes office as the
president of Bolivia
*
August 6 - Bridge over the
Tagus Tagus River in
Lisbon,
Portugal, is opened
*
August 7 - Race riots occur in
Lansing, Michigan Lansing, Michigan.
*
August 10 - East German court sentences
Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for espionage for USA
*
August 10 -
Lunar Orbiter 1, the first US spacecraft to orbit another world, is launched
*
August 12 - In the
Massacre of Braybrook Street, Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead three plain clothes policemen in
London - they are later sentenced to life imprisonment
*
August 13 - China begins
Cultural Revolution
*
August 13 - An
earthquake in
Turkey - 2394 dead, 10000 injured
*
August 15 -
Syrian and
Israeli troops clash over
Lake Genesaret for three hours
*
August 15 - ''
New York Herald Tribune'' stops publication
*
August 16 -
Vietnam War: The
House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the
Viet Cong with the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
*
August 17 -
Saudi Arabia and
United Arab Republic begin negotiations in
Kuwait to end the war in
Yemen
*
August 18 -
Vietnam War: D Company, 6th Battalion of the
Royal Australian Regiment meets and defeats a
Viet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, at the
Battle of Long Tan in
Phuoc Tuy Province,
Republic of Vietnam
*
August 19 -
Earthquake in eastern
Turkey destroys whole cities
*
August 21 - Seven men sentenced to death in
Egypt for anti-
Gamal Abdel Nasser Nasser agitation
*
August 22 - Formation of the
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (
UFWOC), predecessor of the
United Farm Workers United Farm Workers of America (
UFW)
*
August 26 - Riots in
French Somaliland
*
August 29 - British Rock band
The Beatles play their very last concert at
Candlestick Park in
San Francisco, California.
*
August 30 -
France offers independence to French Somaliland
September
*
September 1 -
United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he is not going to seek re-election because UN efforts in Vietnam have failed.
*
September 6 - In
Cape Town, the
South African architect of
Apartheid, Prime Minister
Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death by
Dimitri Tsafendas during a parliamentary meeting
*
September 7 - The final new episode of
The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on
October 3,
1961).
*
September 8 - "
The Man Trap", the first episode of the science fiction television series
Star Trek airs.
*
September 9 -
NATO decides to move
SHAPE headquarters to
Belgium.
*
September 13 -
Balthazar Johannes Vorster becomes new South African prime minister
*
September 13 -
TASS (USSR) TASS reports about clashes between members of the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guard
*
September 16 - In South Vietnam,
Thich Tri Quang begins a 100-day hunger strike
*
September 16 -
Metropolitan Opera house opened in
New York City
*
September 18 - Valerie Percy, the 21 year old daughter of Senator Charles Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.
*
September 19 -
Scotland Yard arrests
Ronald Edwards suspected of being involved of the great train robbery
*
September 30 -
October 1 (midnight) -
Baldur von Schirach and
Albert Speer released from
Spandau Prison
*
September 30 -
Botswana achieves independence.
October
*
October 3 -
Tunisia severs its diplomatic relations to
United Arab Republic
*
October 4 -
Israel applies for the outer membership of
European Economic Community EEC
*
October 4 -
Basutoland becomes independent and takes the name
Lesotho
*
October 5 -
UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This even is now celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
*
October 7 -
Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October
*
October 11 -
France and
Soviet Union sign a treaty about cooperation in nuclear research
*
October 14 - The city of
Montreal inaugurates its
metro system (see
Montreal Metro)
*
October 15 - US President
Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the
United States Department of Transportation.
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*
October 17 -
Lesotho and
Botswana accepted to join
United Nations
*
October 21 –
Aberfan disaster in
South Wales,
United Kingdom
*
October 22 - British spy
George Blake escapes from
Wormwood Scrubs (HM Prison) Wormwood Scrubs prison; he is next seen in
Moscow
*
October 22 -
Spain demands that
United Kingdom stop military flights to
Gibraltar - Britain says no the next day
*
October 24 - Negotiations about the
Vietnam War begin in
Manila,
Philippines
*
October 25 - Military court in
Jakarta sentences ex-foreign minister
Subandrio to death
*
October 25 - Spain closes its
Gibraltar border against non-
pedestrian traffic
*
October 26 -
NATO moves its HQ from
Paris to
Brussels
*
October 27 -
United Nations takes
Namibia from
South Africa
*
October 29 -
Guinean delegation en route to
Organization of African Unity OAU meeting in
Ethiopia is made hostages of
Ghana government in
Accra
November
*
November 2 - The
Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000
Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the
United States
*
November 4 - The
Arno river floods
Florence, damaging many art treasures
*
November 5 - 38 African states demand that
United Kingdom use force against
Rhodesian government
*
November 6 -
Lunar Orbiter 2 is launched.
*
November 8 - Former
Massachusetts Attorney General
Edward Brooke becomes the first
African American elected to the
United States Senate.
*
November 11 - A mine kills three
Israeli paratroopers on the
West Bank border.
*
November 11 -
Spain declares general amnesty about crimes committed during the
Spanish Civil War (effectively only for
Falangists side)
*
November 12 - Birthdate of Stuart King, popular American TV actor beginning in the 1990's.
*
November 15 -
Gemini program:
Gemini 12, carrying astronauts
James A. Lovell and
Buzz Aldrin, splashes down safely in the
Atlantic Ocean 600 km east of the
Bahamas.
*
November 15 -
Harry Maurice Roberts, who had killed three policemen in August, is caught near
London
*
November 16 - US doctor
Sam Sheppard Samuel Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial of murder of his pregnant wife in
1954
*
November 17 - UN General Assembly decides to found
United Nations Industrial Development Organization
*
November 17 - Spectacular meteor shower of
Leonids passes over
Arizona at the rate of 2300 a minute for 20 minutes
*
November 21 - Army crushes an attempted coup in
Togo
*
November 28 -
Truman Capote's Black and White Ball - dubbed The Party of the Century - is held in New York City.
*
November 30 -
Barbados achieves independence.
December
*
December 1 -
Kurt Georg Kiesinger is elected
Chancellor of Germany Chancellor of West Germany
*
December 1 - British Prime Minister
Harold Wilson and
Rhodesian Prime minister
Ian Smith negotiate on ''HMS Tiger'' in Mediterranean
*
December 2 -
U Thant agrees to serve a second term as UN Secretary general
*
December 3 - Anti-Portuguese demonstrations in
Macau.
Curfew declared the next day
*
December 7 -
Syria offers weapons to rebels in
Jordan
*
December 7 -
Barbados is accepted into
United Nations
*
December 8 - 217 die as the Typaldos Line's ferry ''Heraklion'' sinks in rough seas in the
Aegean Sea near
Crete.
*
December 16 - UN Security council approves
oil embargo against
Rhodesia
*
December 17 -
South Africa does not join the
trade embargo against
Rhodesia
*
December 20 -
Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to
Rhodesian government and announces that he agrees to the
independence only after the founding of black majority government
*
December 22 - Rhodesian Prime minister
Ian Smith declares that he considers that Rhodesia is already a republic
*
December 26 - The first
Kwanzaa is celebrated by
Maulana Karenga, the chair of
Black Studies at
California State University, Long Beach
*
December 31 -
Walter Ulbricht talks about negotiations about
German reunification German unification
*
December 31 - Thieves steal millions worth of paintings from
Dulwich Art Gallery in
London
*
December 31 - Congolese government takes over the
Union Minière du Haut Katanga.
Unknown dates
*
Cultural Revolution declared in
mainland China.
* In
Burundi, King
Mwambutsa IV is deposed by his son
Ntare V, who is in turn deposed by prime minister
Michel Micombero.
*
Bobby Seale and
Huey P. Newton found
Black Panther Party.
*
Haile Selassie visits
Jamaica for the first time, meeting with
Rastafarian leaders
*
Konstantin Chernenko, later leader of
Soviet Union, becomes candidate member of the
Central Committee.
*
Surrealist Movement in the United States founded by
Franklin Rosemont Franklin and
Penelope Rosemont.
*
Lise Meitner and
Otto Hahn are awarded the
Fermi Prize.
*
Congress of the United States creates
National Council for Marine Resources and Engineering Development.
*
Will Lang Jr. begins
Life (magazine)'s investigation into the assassination of
John F. Kennedy and the
Warren Commission. Will Lang Jr. is stopped by
Holland McCombs a few months later.
*
Martin Richards designs the
BCPL programming language.
* The
DKW automobile goes out of production.
* World
Buddhism Buddhist Sangha Council convened by
Theravada Theravadins in
Sri Lanka with the hope of bridging differences and working together.
*
Long-term potentiation (LTP), the putative
cell (biology) cellular mechanism of
learning and
memory, is first observed by
Terje Lømo in
Oslo,
Norway.
* Actress
Saira Banu marries actor
Dilip Kumar.
Births
January
*
January 1
**
Anna Burke,
Australian politician and member for
Division of Chisholm Chisholm in the
Australian House of Representatives House of Representatives
**
Michael Imperioli, American actor
*
January 3 -
Martin Galway, Northern Irish composer
*
January 12 -
Rob Zombie, American musician, artist, and writer
*
January 7 -
Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, American actress and model, wife of
John F. Kennedy, Jr. (d.
1999)
*
January 13 -
Patrick Dempsey, American actor
*
January 17 -
Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer
*
January 19
**
Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player
**
Floris Jan Bovelander, Dutch field hockey player
*
January 20 -
Tracii Guns, American guitarist
*
January 24 -
Jimeoin, Northern Irish-Australian comedian and actor
*
January 29 -
Romário, Brazilian footballer
February
*
February 1 -
Michelle Akers, American soccer player
*
February 6 -
Rick Astley, British singer
*
February 9 -
Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
*
February 11 -
Stephen Gregory (actor) Stephen Gregory, American actor
*
February 11 -
Anthony Parker, American football player
*
February 20 -
Cindy Crawford, American model
*
February 22 -
Brian Greig, Australian statesman
*
February 24 -
Billy Zane, American actor
*
February 25 -
Samson Kitur, Kenyan athlete
March-April
*
March 2 -
Debra Marshall WWE Manager & Actress
*
March 3 -
Tone-Loc, American musician
*
March 4 -
Kevin Johnson, American basketball player
*
March 4 -
Grand Puba (Brand Nubian), American rapper
*
March 4 -
Dav Pilkey, American author and illustrator
*
March 4 -
Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (
The Sundays)
*
March 5 -
Tim Crutchfield, American politician
*
March 6 -
Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (d.
1996)
*
March 10 -
Edie Brickell, American singer
*
March 25 -
Tom Glavine, baseball player
*
March 25 -
Tatjana Patitz, model
*
March 25 -
Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer
*
March 31 -
Roger Black, British athlete
*
April 2 -
Teddy Sheringham, British footballer
*
April 4 -
Riduan Isamuddin,
Bali bombing suspects
*
April 8 -
Robin Wright Penn, American actress
*
April 8 -
Bobby Ologun, Nigerian television personality and martial artist
*
April 11 -
Lisa Stansfield, British soul singer
*
April 14 -
Greg Maddux, American baseball player
*
April 18 -
Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete
*
April 28 -
John Daly, American golfer
*
April 29 -
Phil Tufnell, British cricketer
May
*
May 8 -
Kamil Kašťák, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
*
May 8 -
Cláudio Taffarel, Brazilian goalkeeper
*
May 8 -
Marta Sánchez, Spanish female vocalist, entertainer
*
May 10 -
Jonathan Edwards (sports) Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
*
May 11 -
Christoph Schneider, German musician (
Rammstein)
*
May 12 -
Stephen Baldwin, American actor
*
May 13 -
Darius Rucker, American singer (
Hootie & the Blowfish Hootie & The Blowfish)
*
May 16 -
Janet Jackson, American singer
*
May 16 -
Thurman Thomas, American football player
*
May 24 -
Eric Cantona, French footballer
*
May 26 -
Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
*
May 26 -
Zola Budd, South African athlete
June-July
*
June 4 -
Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzo-soprano
*
June 4 -
Tiffany Million, American actress
*
June 8 -
Julianna Margulies, American actress
*
June 13-
Rod Walker, American poet
*
June 18 -
Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater
*
June 21 -
Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist
*
June 22 -
Michael Park (rally co-pilot) Michael Park, British rally co-driver (d.
2005)
*
June 25 -
Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player
*
June 27 -
J. J. Abrams J.J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
*
June 28 -
John Cusack, American actor
*
June 30 -
Mike Tyson, American boxer
*
July 3 -
Moises Alou, baseball player
*
July 5 -
Gianfranco Zola, Italian football (soccer) player
*
July 7 -
Gundula Krause, German violinist
*
July 13 -
Gerald Levert, American singer
*
July 14 -
Matthew Fox (actor) Matthew Fox, American actor
*
July 15 -
Irene Jacob Irène Jacob, French-born actress
*
July 18 -
David Geoffrey Smith, American geographer, engineer and computer scientist
*
July 29 -
Martina McBride, American singer
*
July 31 -
Dean Cain, American actor
August-September
*
August 7 -
Jimmy Wales, American founder of
*
August 11 -
Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer
*
August 14 -
Halle Berry, American actress
*
August 17 -
William E. Dudley, American poet
*
August 19 -
Lee Ann Womack, American musician
*
August 20 -
Dimebag Darrell, Guitarist for
Pantera and
Damageplan
*
August 23 -
Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player
*
August 26 -
Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player
*
August 26 -
Shirley Manson, Scottish musician and
Garbage (band) frontwoman
*
September 2 -
Salma Hayek, Mexican-born actress
*
September 4 -
Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer
*
September 9 -
Georg Hackl, German luger
*
September 9 -
Adam Sandler, American actor and comedian
*
September 24 -
Michael J. Varhola, American author and publisher.
October-November
*
October 1 -
George Weah, Liberian politician and football player
*
October 3 - Rabbi
Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler leader (d.
2000)
*
October 8 -
Aaron Callaghan, Irish football club executive
*
October 9 -
David Cameron,
United Kingdom British politician
*
October 10 -
Tony Adams (footballer) Tony Adams, English footballer
*
October 12 -
Brian Kennedy (singer) Brian Kennedy, Irish musician and author
*
October 13 -
Javier Lopez Cantu, American Latino painter
*
October 24 -
Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate
*
October 27 -
Matt Drudge, American Internet journalist
*
October 28 -
Steve Atwater, American football player
*
November 1 -
Gary Howell, American actor
*
November 6 -
Peter DeLuise, American actor
*
November 12 -
David Schwimmer, American actor
*
November 14 -
Curt Schilling, baseball player
*
November 16 -
Christian Lorenz, German musician (
Rammstein)
*
November 17 -
Jeff Buckley, American singer (d.
1997)
*
November 17 -
Sophie Marceau, French actress
*
November 20 -
Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer, and instrumentalist
December
*
December 1 -
Larry Walker, Canadian
Major League Baseball player
*
December 7 -
C. Thomas Howell, American actor
*
December 7 -
Linn Ullmann, Norwegian journalist and author
*
December 8 -
Sinéad O'Connor,
Ireland Irish pop singer.
*
December 14 -
Bill Ranford, Canadian hockey player
*
December 21 -
Kiefer Sutherland, English-born actor
*
December 22 -
Dmitry Bilozerchev, Soviet gymnast
*
December 27 -
Bill Goldberg, American professional wrestler
Deaths
January-March
*
January 1 -
Vincent Auriol,
President of France (b.
1884)
*
January 11 -
Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b.
1901)
*
January 11 -
Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b.
1889)
*
January 14 -
Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (b.
1888)
*
January 14 -
Bill Carr, American athlete (b.
1909)
*
January 15 -
Sergei Korolev, Russian space scientist (b.
1906)
*
January 18 -
Kathleen Norris, American writer (b.
1880)
*
February 1 -
Buster Keaton, American actor and film director (b.
1895)
* February 1 -
Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist (b.
1885)
*
February 10 -
Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b.
1899)
* February 10 -
Lal Bahadur Shastri,
Prime Minister of India (b.
1904)
*
February 15 -
Gerard Antoni Ciołek Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect and historian of gardens (b.
1909)
*
February 20 -
Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b.
1885)
*
March 1 -
Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b.
1903)
*
March 3 -
Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b.
1870)
*
March 5 -
Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b.
1889)
*
March 8 -
William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, British politican (b.
1907)
*
March 10 -
Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1888)
April-June
*
April 1 -
Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b.
1911)
*
April 2 -
C.S. Forester, English author (b.
1899)
*
April 3 -
Battista Pininfarina, Italian car designer (b.
1893)
*
April 10 -
Evelyn Waugh, English author (b.
1903)
*
April 11 -
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, military dictator of El Salvador (assassinated) (b.
1882)
*
April 13 -
Georges Duhamel, French author (b.
1884)
*
April 13 -
Abdul Salam Arif,
President of Iraq (b.
1921)
*
April 23 -
Georges Ohsawa, Japanese diet founder (b.
1893)
*
May 22 -
Tom Goddard, English cricketer (b.
1900)
*
May 23 -
Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (b.
1902)
*
June 1 -
Papa Jack Laine, American jazz musician (b.
1873)
*
June 7 -
Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b.
1887)
*
June 8 -
Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (b.
1890)
*
June 11 -
Delmore Schwartz, American poet (b.
1913)
*
June 12 -
Hermann Scherchen, Austrian conductor (b.
1891)
*
June 19 -
Ed Wynn, American actor (b.
1886)
*
June 30 -
Giuseppe Farina, Italian race car driver (b.
1906)
July-October
*
July 2 -
Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b.
1900)
*
July 5 -
George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1885)
*
July 6 -
Sad Sam Jones, baseball player (b.
1892)
*
July 24 -
Montgomery Clift, American actor (b.
1920)
*
August 3 -
Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b.
1925)
*
August 6 -
Cordwainer Smith, American author (b.
1913)
*
September 5 -
Dezső Lauber, Hungarian sportsman and architect (b.
1879)
*
September 6 -
Margaret Sanger, American birth control advocate (b.
1879)
*
September 6 -
Hendrik Verwoerd, Dutch-born
Prime Minister of South Africa (b.
1901)
*
September 11 -
C. E. Woolman, American airline founder (b.
1889)
*
September 17 -
Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b.
1930)
*
September 28 -
Andre Breton, French writer (b.
1896)
*
October 7 -
Smiley Lewis, American R&B musician (b.
1913)
*
October 16 -
George O'Hara, American actor (b.
1899)
*
October 18 -
Elizabeth Arden, Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (b.
1878)
*
October 26 -
Alma Cogan, English singer (b.
1932)
November-December
*
November 2 -
Peter Debye, Dutch chemist,
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1884)
*
November 2 -
Mississippi John Hurt, American singer and guitarist (b.
1893)
*
November 23 -
Sean T. O'Kelly, second
President of Ireland (b.
1882)
*
December 15 -
Walt Disney, American animated film producer (b.
1901)
Month/day unknown
*
Hiram Wesley Evans, American leader of the Ku Klux Klan (b.
1881)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Alfred Kastler
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
Robert S. Mulliken
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Physiology or Medicine -
Peyton Rous,
Charles Brenton Huggins
*
Nobel Prize in Literature Literature -
Shmuel Yosef Agnon,
Nelly Sachs
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace - not awarded
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