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Year '''1981''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXXXI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Thursday]] (link displays the 1981 [[Gregorian calendar]]).
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==Events of 1981==
===January===
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* January - The subterranean [[Sarawak chamber]] is discovered in [[Borneo]].
* [[January 1]] - [[Greece]] enters the ''[[European Community]]'', which later becomes the [[European Union]].
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* [[January 1]] - [[Palau]] becomes self-governing.
* [[January 4]] - [[Sheffield]] [[police]] [[arrest]] [[Peter Sutcliffe]], a 34-year-old [[lorry]] driver, on suspicion of being the [[Yorkshire Ripper]] who has killed 13 women and attacked seven others over the last six years.
* [[January 5]] - [[Margaret Thatcher]] carried out a [[Cabinet shuffle|Cabinet reshuffle]], sacking [[Norman St. John-Stevas]].
* [[January 6]] - Brazilian double decker boat ''Novo Amapo'' capsized [[Amazon River]], Belem de Cajari, [[Macapa]], [[Brazil]], 230 killed.
* [[January 13]] - Donna Griffiths, a schoolgirl in [[Pershore]], [[Worcestershire]], UK, begins an uncontrollable series of [[sneeze]]s that end [[September 16]], [[1983]] - after 978 days.
* [[January 16]] - [[Protestant]] gunmen shoot and wound [[Bernadette Devlin McAliskey]] and her husband.
* [[January 17]] - Former [[Philippines|Philippine]] President [[Ferdinand Marcos]] lifted [[Martial Law]].
* [[January 19]] - [[United States]] and [[Iran]]ian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American [[hostage]]s after 14 months of [[captivity]].
* [[January 20]] - [[Ronald Reagan]] succeeds [[Jimmy Carter]], becoming the 40th [[President of the United States]]. Minutes later, [[Iran]] releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, ending the [[Iran hostage crisis]].
* [[January 21]] - The first [[De Lorean DMC-12]] [[automobile]], a [[stainless steel]] [[sports car]] with [[gull-wing doors]], rolls off the [[production line]] in [[Dunmurry]], [[Northern Ireland]].
* [[January 22]] - [[Fowzi Nejad]], sole survivor of the [[terrorist]]s from the [[Iranian Embassy siege]] in [[London]], pleads guilty to manslaughter of two hostages and gets jailed for life.
* [[January 24]] - The British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] special [[Meeting|conference]] at [[Wembley]] decides that [[leadership]] [[election]]s should be by [[electoral college]].
* [[January 25]] - Four former [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] cabinet ministers ([[Roy Jenkins]], [[Shirley Williams]], [[William Rodgers]] and [[David Owen]]) issue the [[Limehouse Declaration]], leading to the formation of the [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|Social Democratic Party]].
* [[January 25]] - [[Chiang Ching]] ('Madame [[Mao Zedong|Mao]]') is [[sentence]]d to [[death]] in the [[People's Republic of China]].
* [[January 25]] - The [[Oakland Raiders]] win [[Super Bowl XV]], defeating the [[Philadelphia Eagles]] 27-10 at the [[Louisiana Superdome]] in [[New Orleans]], [[Louisiana]].
* [[January 27]] - [[Indonesian]] passenger ship ''[[Tamponas 2]]'' catches fire and capsizes in the [[Java Sea]], killing 580.
===February===
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[[Image:Athens Acropolis.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[February 24]]: A powerful [[earthquake]] hits [[Athens]].]]
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* [[February 4]] - [[Gro Harlem Brundtland]] becomes the [[Prime Minister of Norway]].
* [[February 8]] - nineteen fans of [[Olympiacos]] FC and two fans of [[AEK Athens]] died and 54 injured after a stampede at the Karaiskaki Stadium in [[Pireus]], possibly because Gate 7 did not open immediately after the end of the game.
* [[February 9]] - Polish Prime Minister [[Józef Pinkowski]] resigns and is replaced by General [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]].
* [[February 10]] - A fire at the [[Las Vegas Hilton]] [[hotel]]-[[casino]] kills 8 and injures 198.
* [[February 13]] - [[Rupert Murdoch]] buys ''[[The Times]]'' and ''[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]'' for £12 million.
* [[February 14]] - [[Stardust fire]]: a fire at the Stardust nightclub in [[Artane, Dublin|Artane]], [[Dublin]], [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] in the early hours killed 48 and injured 214
* [[February 14]] - [[Australia]] withdraws recognition of the [[Pol Pot]] regime in [[Cambodia]].
* [[February 23]] - [[Antonio Tejero]], with members of the [[Guardia Civil (Spain)|Guardia Civil]], enters the [[Congress of Deputies (Spain)|Spanish Congress of Deputies]] and stops the session where [[Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo]] is about to be named president of the government. The [[23-F|coup d'état]] fails thanks to King [[Juan Carlos of Spain|Juan Carlos]].
* [[February 24]] - A powerful, magnitude 6.7 [[earthquake]] hits [[Athens]], killing 16 people, injuring thousands and destroying several buildings, mostly in [[Corinth]] and the nearby towns of [[Loutraki]], [[Kiato]] and [[Xylokastro]].
===March===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Bobby Sands]], a [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]] member, begins a [[hunger strike]] for [[political status]] in [[Maze (HM Prison)|Long Kesh prison]] (he dies [[May 5]], the first of 10 men).
* [[March 6]] - After 19 years hosting the ''[[CBS Evening News]]'', [[Walter Cronkite]] signs off for the last time.
* [[March 10]] - Sir [[Geoffrey Howe]] announces the [[United Kingdom|British]] budget, which raises taxes in the middle of a recession.
* [[March 11]] - [[Chile]]an military dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]] is sworn in as [[President of Chile]] for another 8-year term.
*[[March 17]] - In Italy the [[Propaganda Due|Propagande Due]] [[Masonic Lodge]] is discovered.
* [[March 19]] - Three workers are killed and 5 injured during a test of the [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']].
* [[March 26]] - The [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|Social Democratic Party]] was launched at the Connaught Rooms in London.
* [[March 29]] - The first [[London Marathon]] starts with 7,500 runners.
* [[March 30]] - U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] is [[Reagan assassination attempt|shot in the chest]] outside a [[Washington, D.C.]] hotel by [[John Hinckley, Jr.]]. Two police officers and Press Secretary [[James Brady]] are also wounded.
* [[March 31]] - The [[53rd Academy Awards]], hosted by [[Johnny Carson]], are held at the [[Dorothy Chandler Pavilion]] in [[Los Angeles]]. [[Robert Redford]]'s directorial debut in ''[[Ordinary People]]'' wins [[Best Picture]] and [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]].
===April===
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[[Image:Space Shuttle Columbia launching.jpg|thumb|150px|[[April 12]]: First [[STS]] launch: [[Space Shuttle Columbia|''Columbia'']].]]
* [[April 1]] - [[Daylight saving time]] is introduced in the [[USSR]].
* [[April 2]] - [[Tony Benn]] announces that he will challenge [[Denis Healey]] for the Deputy Leadership of the [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]].
* [[April 4]] - UK pop group [[Bucks Fizz]] win the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1981]] with the song, ''[[Making Your Mind Up]]''.
* [[April 10]] - IRA hunger-striker [[Bobby Sands]] wins the [[Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election, April 1981|Fermanagh and South Tyrone]] by-election.
* [[April 11]] - [[Brixton riot (1981)]]: Rioters in [[South London]] throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.
* [[April 12]] - The [[Space Shuttle]] program: [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Columbia|Columbia]]'' ([[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]], [[Robert Crippen]]) launches on the ''[[STS-1]]'' mission, returning to Earth on [[April 14]].
* [[April 15]] - The Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock resigns from the cabinet, accusing Prime Minister Fraser of gross disloyalty.
* [[April 18]] - A [[Minor League baseball]] game between the [[Rochester Red Wings]] and the [[Pawtucket Red Sox]] at [[McCoy Stadium]] in [[Pawtucket, Rhode Island]], becomes the [[longest professional baseball game]] in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until [[June 23]]).
* [[April 18]] - The rock band [[Yes (band)|Yes]] splits up (regrouping in [[1983]]).
* [[April 24]] - [[French presidential election, 1981|French presidential election]]: A first-round runoff results between [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]] and [[François Mitterrand]].
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===May===
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* May - [[Daniel K. Ludwig]] abandons the [[Jari project]] in the [[Amazon Basin]].
* [[May 1]] - Start of the new [[Chile pension system|Chilean pension system]], based on private [[pension fund]]s.
* [[May 6]] - A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects [[Maya Lin]]'s design for the [[Vietnam Veterans Memorial]] from 1,421 other entries.
* [[May 7]] - The [[Greater London Council]] election results in a small [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] majority. On [[May 8]], [[Ken Livingstone]] becomes Leader of the Council.
* [[May 10]] - In the second round of the presidential elections in [[France]], [[François Mitterrand]] beats [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]].
* [[May 10]] - In Italy a popular referendum rejects the abrogation of the law allowing abortion.
* [[May 13]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] is [[1981 Pope John Paul II assassination attempt|shot and nearly killed]] by [[Mehmet Ali Ağca]], a [[Turkey|Turkish]] gunman, as he enters [[St. Peter's Square]] in [[Rome]] to address a general audience.
* [[May 15]] - [[Donna Payant]] is murdered by serial killer [[Lemuel Smith]] - the first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.
* [[May 21]] - In [[France]], Socialist [[François Mitterrand]] becomes President.
* [[May 22]] - [[Peter Sutcliffe]] is found guilty of being the [[Yorkshire Ripper]]. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and seven of attempted murder.
* [[May 25]] - In [[Riyadh]], the [[Gulf Cooperation Council]] is created between [[Bahrain]], [[Kuwait]], [[Oman]], [[Qatar]], [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]].
* [[May 26]] - The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell [[Propaganda Due]].
* [[May 30]] - A. Marion Timpson is Born in Hildale, UT. [[Bangladesh]] President [[Ziaur Rahman]] is assassinated in [[Chittagong]].
===June===
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* [[June 5]] - The [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] report that 5 [[homosexuality|homosexual]] men in [[Los Angeles, California]] have a rare form of [[pneumonia]] seen only in patients with weakened [[immune system]]s (the first recognized cases of [[AIDS]]).
* [[June 6]] - [[Bihar train disaster]]: Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the River Kosi in [[Bihar]], [[India]]; about 800 die.
* [[June 12]] - [[Raiders of the Lost Ark]], featuring [[Star Wars]] actor [[Harrison Ford]] as adventure-seeking archaeologist [[Indiana Jones]], is released in movie theaters.
* [[June 7]] - The [[Israeli Air Force]] destroys [[Iraq]]'s [[Osirak]] nuclear reactor.
* [[June 12]] - [[Major League Baseball]] goes on [[1981 Major League Baseball strike|strike]], forcing the cancellation of 38 percent of the schedule.
* [[June 13]] - At the [[Trooping the Colour]] ceremony in [[London]], [[Marcus Sarjeant]] fires six blank shots at Queen [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom]].
* [[June 21]] - [[Wayne Williams]], a 23-year-old [[African American]], is arrested and charged with the murders of 2 other [[African Americans]]. He will later be suspected of 28 others, in the [[Atlanta child murders]].
* [[June 22]] - Iranian president [[Abolhassan Banisadr]] is deposed.
* [[June 26]] - [[Couples For Christ]], a Christian charismatic organization, established in the [[Philippines]].
* [[June 29]] - Morris Edwin Robert, armed with a machine gun, holds hostages in the FBI section at the Atlanta, Georgia Federal Building. After 3 hours the hostages are rescued and Robert is shot (dead?).
===July===
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* [[July 2]] - The [[Wonderland Gang]] was brutally murdered in a massacre that involved [[Eddie Nash]].
* [[July 3]] - The [[Toxteth]] riots start after a mob save a youth from being arrested.
* [[July 8]] - [[California]] Governor [[Jerry Brown]], faced with a [[Mediterranean fruit fly]] infestation, chooses to delay the aerial spraying of [[malathion]], in favor of continuing ground-based eradication efforts.
* [[July 10]] - [[Mahathir bin Mohamad]] became the 4th [[prime minister of Malaysia]].
* [[July 17]] - [[Hyatt Regency walkway collapse]]: Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in [[Kansas City, Missouri]] collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.
* [[July 17]] - [[Israel]]i aircraft bomb [[Beirut]], [[Lebanese Civil War#Israeli Bombing of Beirut|destroying multi-storey apartment blocks]] containing the offices of [[PLO]] associated groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Bombing of Beirut|journal=Journal of Palestine Studies|volume=11|issue=1|year=1981|pages=218–225|doi=10.1525/jps.1981.11.1.00p0366x}}</ref>
* [[July 19]] - The [[1981 Springbok Tour]] commences in [[New Zealand]], amid controversy over the support of [[Apartheid]].
* [[July 21]] - Tohui The Panda, is born in [[Chapultepec Zoo]] in [[Mexico City|Mexico, DF]]. It is the first Panda to ever be born and survive in [[captivity]] outside of [[People's Republic of China|China]].
* [[July 29]] - [[Diana, Princess of Wales|Lady Diana Spencer]] marries [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
===August===
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* [[August 1]] - [[MTV]] (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States.
* [[August 3]] - The [[Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968)|Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization]] (PATCO) goes on strike.
* [[August 5]] - [[Ronald Reagan]] fires 11,359 [[Strike action|striking]] [[air-traffic controller]]s who ignored his order for them to return to work.
* [[August 7]] - ''The [[Washington Star]]'' ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
* [[August 9]] - [[Major League Baseball]] resumes from [[1981 Major League Baseball strike|strike]] with the [[Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star Game]] in [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]]'s [[Cleveland Stadium|Municipal Stadium]].
* [[August 12]] - The original Model 5150 [[IBM PC]] with a 4.77 MHz [[Intel 8088]] processor is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.
* [[August 19]] - [[Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)]]: [[Libya]]n leader [[Muammar al-Gaddafi]] sends 2 [[Sukhoi Su-22]] fighter jets to intercept 2 [[United States|U.S.]] fighters over the [[Gulf of Sidra]]. The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters.
* [[August 19]] - U.S. President [[Ronald Reagan]] appoints the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, [[Sandra Day O'Connor]].
* [[August 24]] - [[Mark David Chapman]] is sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment after being convicted of murdering [[John Lennon]] in [[Manhattan]] eight months ago.
* [[August 28]] - [[South Africa]]n troops invade [[Angola]].
* [[August 31]] - A bomb explodes at the [[Ramstein Air Base|U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein]], [[West Germany]], injuring 20 people.
===September===
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* [[September 4]] - An [[List of accidents and disasters by death toll#Coal_mine_disasters|explosion at a mine]] in [[Záluží (Beroun District)|Záluží]], [[Czechoslovakia]], kills 65 people.
* [[September 10]] - [[Picasso]]'s painting "[[Guernica (painting)|Guernica]]" is moved from [[New York]] to [[Madrid]].
* [[September 11]] - A small plane crashes into the Swing Auditorium in [[San Bernardino, California|San Bernardino]] damaging the venue beyond repair.
* [[September 14]] - [[Margaret Thatcher]] appoints [[Cecil Parkinson]] as Chairman of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]].
* [[September 15]] - The [[John Bull (locomotive)|John Bull]] becomes the oldest operable [[steam locomotive]] in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside [[Washington, DC]].
* [[September 16]] - In [[United Kingdom|Britain]], the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] Assembly votes for an electoral pact with the new [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|Social Democratic Party]].
* [[September 18]] - [[France]] abolishes [[capital punishment]].
* [[September 19]] - The second Wranslide occurs in [[New South Wales]], with the Wran government re-elected for a third term with an increased majority, and reducing the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] to just 14 members in the Legislative Assembly.
* [[September 19]] - [[Simon and Garfunkel]] perform [[The Concert in Central Park]], a free concert in New York in front of approximately a half a million people.
* [[September 20]] - [[Belize]] becomes independent.
* [[September 20]] - Brazilian river boat ''[[Sobral Santos]]'' capsized [[Amazon River]], [[Óbidos, Brazil]], killing at least 300.
* [[September 25]] - [[Sandra Day O'Connor]] takes her seat as the first female justice of the [[U.S. Supreme Court]]. The [[Rolling Stones]] begin their tour in support of [[Tattoo You]] at [[JFK Stadium]] in [[Philadelphia]].
* [[September 26]] - First flight of the [[Boeing 767]] airliner.
* [[September 27]] - [[TGV]] high speed rail service between [[Paris]] and [[Lyon]], [[France]] begins.
* [[September 27]] - [[Denis Healey]] retained the post of Deputy Leader of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]], beating [[Tony Benn]] by 50.426% to 49.574%.
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===October===
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* [[October 6]] - [[Egypt]]ian president [[Anwar Sadat]] is assassinated during a parade by army members who were part of the [[Egypt]]ian [[Islamic Jihad]] organization; they opposed his negotiations with [[Israel]].
* [[October 10]] - The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the [[jōyō kanji]].
* [[October 10]] - A [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] bomb at [[Chelsea Barracks]] in [[London]] kills a woman pensioner.
* [[October 13]] - [[James Tobin]] wins the [[Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel]].
* [[October 14]] - Vice President [[Hosni Mubarak]] is elected President of [[Egypt]] 1 week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.
* [[October 15]] - The [[heavy metal]] band [[Metallica]] forms.
* [[October 16]] - Gas explosions occurred coal mine at Hokutan [[Yūbari, Hokkaidō|Yūbari]], [[Hokkaidō]], [[Japan]], killing 93.
* [[October 21]] - [[Andreas Papandreou]] becomes [[Prime Minister of Greece]].
* [[October 22]] - The founding congress of the [[Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation (Hareram Sharma)|Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization]] faction led by Hareram Sharma and D.P. Singh begins.
* [[October 22]] - [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal]] candidate [[Bill Pitt]] wins the [[Croydon North West by-election, 1981|Croydon North West byelection]], the first election win by the Liberal-[[Social Democratic Party (UK)|S.D.P.]] Alliance.
* [[October 26]] - An IRA bomb in a [[Wimpy Bar]] in [[Oxford Street]], [[London]], kills a bomb disposal expert.
* [[October 27]] - A [[Soviet]] [[submarine]] runs aground oustide the [[Karlskrona]], [[Sweden]] military base.
===November===
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[[Image:Flag of Antigua and Barbuda.svg|thumb|150px|right| [[November 1]]: Flag of [[Antigua and Barbuda|Antigua & Barbuda]].]]
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* [[November 1]] - [[Antigua and Barbuda]] gain [[independence]] from the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[November 9]] - Edict No 81-234 abolishes [[slavery]] in [[Mauritania]].
* [[November 12]] - ''[[STS-2]]'': [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia]]'', piloted by [[Joe Engle]] and [[Richard Truly]], lifts off for its second mission.
* [[November 12]] - The [[Church of England]] [[General Synod]] voted to admit women to holy orders.
* [[November 13]] - The first [[Friday the 13th]] event is held by [[motorcycle|motorcyclists]] in [[Port Dover]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]].
* [[November 16]] - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
* [[November 18]] - COMDEX Fall, IBM Introduced the IBM PC. Scientific Solutions announces the first PC add-in cards.
* [[November 23]] - [[Iran-Contra scandal]]: [[Ronald Reagan]] signs the [[Classified information|top secret]] National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] the authority to recruit and support [[Contra]] rebels in [[Nicaragua]].
* [[November 25]]-[[November 26]] - A group of [[mercenary|mercenaries]] led by [[Mike Hoare]] take over [[Mahe]] airport in the [[Seychelles]] in a [[coup]] attempt. Most of the mercenaries escape by a commandeered [[Air India]] passenger jet; 6 are later arrested.
* [[November 26]] - Former cabinet minister [[Shirley Williams]] won the [[Crosby (UK Parliament constituency)|Crosby]] [[by-election]], becoming the first elected [[Social Democratic Party (UK)|S.D.P.]] MP.
* [[November 30]] - [[Cold War]]: In [[Geneva]], representatives from the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]] begin to negotiate intermediate-range [[nuclear weapon]] reductions in [[Europe]] (the meetings end inconclusively on Thursday, [[December 17]]).
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===December===
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* [[December 1]] - A [[Yugoslavia]]n [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9|DC-9]] crashes into a mountain while approaching [[Ajaccio]] Airport in [[Corsica]], killing 178.
* [[December 4]] - [[South Africa]] grants "homeland" [[Ciskei]] independence (not recognized outside South Africa).
*[[December 5]] - American general [[James L. Dozier|James Lee Dozier]] is kidnapped in [[Verona]] by Italian [[Red Brigades]].
* [[December 8]] - The [[No. 21 Mine explosion]] in [[Whitwell, Tennessee]] kills 13.
* [[December 8]] - [[Arthur Scargill]] became President-elect of the [[National Union of Mineworkers]].
* [[December 9]] - [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] police officer Daniel Faulkner is shot and killed during a routine traffic stop of a vehicle driven by [[William Cook]], [[Mumia Abu-Jamal]]'s younger brother.
* [[December 10]] - During the Ministerial Session of the [[North Atlantic Council]] in [[Brussels]], [[Spain]] signes the [[Protocol of Accession of Spain to the North Atlantic Treaty (1981)|Protocol of Accession]] to [[NATO]].
* [[December 11]] - [[El Mozote massacre]]: In [[El Salvador]], army units kill 900 civilians.
* [[December 13]] - [[Wojciech Jaruzelski]] declares [[martial law in Poland|martial law]] in [[Poland]], to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by [[Solidarity]].
* [[December 15]] - A [[car bomb]] destroys the [[Iraq]]i [[Embassy]] in [[Beirut]], [[Lebanon]], killing 61 people. [[Syria]]n intelligence is blamed.
* [[December 20]] - The [[Penlee lifeboat disaster]] occurs off the coast of South-West [[Cornwall]].
* [[December 28]] - The first American [[test-tube baby]], [[Elizabeth Jordan Carr]], is born in [[Norfolk, Virginia]].
* [[December 31]] - [[Coup d'état]] in [[Ghana]] removes [[Heads of state of Ghana|President]] [[Hilla Limann]]'s [[People's National Party (Ghana)|PNP]] [[Limann government|government]] and replaces it with the [[Provisional National Defence Council|PNDC]] led by [[Flight Lieutenant]] [[Jerry Rawlings]].
===Undated===
* Heavy massive snow and many houses, buildings collapsed by heavy snow on roofs, in northwestern [[Japan]]. At least 152 reported deaths. (from January to March)
* Millennium reenactment of the translation of Saint [[Edward the Martyr]]'s relics from [[Wareham, Dorset|Wareham]] to [[Shaftesbury]].
* Public funding of election Campaigns introduced in [[New South Wales]], [[Australia]].
* The [[State Council of the People's Republic of China]] listed the four cities ([[Beijing]], [[Hangzhou]], [[Suzhou]] and [[Guilin]]) as where the protection of historical and cultural heritage as well as natural scenery should be treated as a priority project.
* [[Cuba]] suffers a major outbreak of [[Dengue fever]], with 344,203 cases. [http://w3.whosea.org/en/Section10/Section332/Section521_2454.htm]
* [[Luxor AB]] Presents the [[ABC 800]] computer.
===Ongoing===
* [[Cold War]].
==Births==
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===January-February===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Zsolt Baumgartner]], Hungarian race car driver
* [[January 1]] - [[Rashod Moulton]], National Football League player
* [[January 1]] - [[Mladen Petrić]], [[Croatia]]n football player
* [[January 1]] - [[Eden Riegel]], American actress
* [[January 2]] - [[Maxi Rodriguez]], Argentina and [[Atletico Madrid]] [[football]]er
* [[January 3]] - [[Eli Manning]], American football player
* [[January 6]] - [[Mike Jones (rapper)|Mike Jones]], American rapper
* [[January 6]] - [[Jérémie Renier]], Belgian actor
* [[January 7]] - [[Alex Auld]], Canadian ice hockey goaltender
* [[January 8]] - [[Xie Xingfang]], Chinese badminton player
* [[January 8]] - [[Genevieve Cortese]], American actress
* [[January 8]] - [[Jeff Francis]], Canadian pitcher
* [[January 9]] - [[Euzebiusz Smolarek]], Polish footballer
* [[January 11]] - [[Jamelia]], British singer
* [[January 12]] - [[Quentin Griffin]], American football player
* [[January 15]] - [[El Hadji Diouf]], Senegalese footballer
* [[January 15]] - [[Howie Day]], American singer and songwriter
* [[January 17]] - [[Scott Mechlowicz]], American actor
* [[January 17]] - [[Ray J]], American rapper and singer
* [[January 20]] - [[Jason Richardson]], American basketball player
* [[January 20]] - [[Owen Hargreaves]], Canadian-born footballer
* [[January 21]] - [[Dany Heatley]], German-born hockey player
* [[January 21]] - [[Gillian Chung]], Hong Kong singer ([[Twins (band)|Twins]])
* [[January 22]] - [[Chantelle Anderson]], American basketball player
* [[January 22]] - [[Willa Ford]], American singer, television hostess, and actress
* [[January 22]] - [[Beverley Mitchell]], American actress
* [[January 22]] - [[Ben Moody]], American guitarist (formerly of [[Evanescence]])
* [[January 24]] - [[Brandon Henschel]], American actor and dancer
* [[January 25]] - [[Tose Proeski]], Macedonian singer (d. [[2007]])
* [[January 27]] - [[Greg Owens]], Australian footballer (Central Coast Mariners)
* [[January 27]] - [[Alicia Molik]], Australian tennis player
* [[January 28]] - [[Elijah Wood]], American actor and music producer
* [[January 29]] - [[Jonny Lang]], American musician
* [[January 30]] - [[Dimitar Berbatov]], Bulgarian national football team captain and Tottenham Hotspur player
* [[January 31]] - [[Justin Timberlake]], American musician
* [[February 3]] - [[Alisa Reyes]], American actress
* [[February 10]] - [[The Reverend Tholomew Plague]], American drummer ([[Avenged Sevenfold]])
* [[February 10]] - [[Natasha St-Pier]], Canadian singer
* [[February 11]] - [[Kelly Rowland]], American singer ([[Destiny's Child]])
* [[February 14]] - [[Erin Torpey]], American actress
* [[February 15]] - [[Jenna Morasca]], American television personality
* [[February 15]] - [[Olivia]], American R&B singer
* [[February 16]] - [[Lupe Fiasco]], American hip-hop artist
* [[February 17]] - [[Joseph Gordon-Levitt]], American actor
* [[February 17]] - [[Paris Hilton]], American model, heiress, and socialite
* [[February 18]] - [[Andrei Kirilenko (basketball)|Andrei Kirilenko]], Russian basketball player
* [[February 18]] - [[Ivan Sproule]], Irish footballer
* [[February 19]] - [[Vitas]], Russian singer
* [[February 20]] - [[Chris Thile]], American mandolinist
* [[February 20]] - [[Majandra Delfino]], American actress
* [[February 22]] - [[Jeanette Biedermann]], German singer and actress
* [[February 24]] - [[Lleyton Hewitt]], Australian tennis player
* [[February 26]] - [[Maria Sansone]], American journalist and Internet personality
* [[February 27]] - [[Josh Groban]], American singer
===March-April===
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* [[March 1]] - [[Ana Hickmann]], Brazilian model
* [[March 1]] - [[Adam LaVorgna]], American actor
* [[March 1]] - [[Brad Winchester]], American ice hockey player
* [[March 2]] - [[Bryce Howard]], American actress
* [[March 3]] - [[Lil' Flip]], American rapper
* [[March 4]] - [[Carol Banawa]], Filipina singer
* [[March 6]] - [[Ellen Muth]], American actress
* [[March 9]] - [[Antonio Bryant]], American football player
* [[March 10]] - [[Kristen Maloney]], American gymnast
* [[March 11]] - [[David Anders]], American actor
* [[March 11]] - [[Lee Evans (American football)|Lee Evans]], American football player
* [[March 11]] - [[LeToya Luckett]], American singer
* [[March 12]] - [[Katarina Srebotnik]], Slovenian tennis player
* [[March 15]] - [[Young Buck]], American rapper
* [[March 16]] - [[Andrew Bree]], Irish swimmer
* [[March 16]] - [[Johannes Aigner]], Austrian footballer
* [[March 17]] - [[Kyle Korver]], American basketball player
* [[March 19]] - [[Kolo Touré]], Ivorian football player
* [[March 22]] - [[MIMS]], American rapper
* [[March 27]] - [[Terry McFlynn]], Irish footballer
* [[March 28]] - [[Lindsay Frimodt]], American model
* [[March 28]] - [[Julia Stiles]], American actress
* [[March 28]] - [[Gareth David-Lloyd]], Welsh actor
* [[March 31]] - [[Gerard McCarthy]], British actor
* [[April 1]] - [[Hannah Spearritt]], British singer and actress
* [[April 2]] - [[Bethany Joy Lenz]], American actress and singer
* [[April 3]] - [[Arfius Arf]], British artist
* [[April 5]] - [[Michael A. Monsoor]], American Medal of Honor recipient (d. [[2006]])
* [[April 6]] - [[Robert Earnshaw]], Welsh footballer
* [[April 7]] - [[Suzann Pettersen]], Norwegian golfer
* [[April 8]] - [[Taylor Kitsch]], Canadian actor and model
* [[April 9]] - [[Milan Bartovic|Milan Bartovič]], Slovak hockey player
* [[April 9]] - [[Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold|Eric Harris]], American murderer (d. [[1999]])
* [[April 9]] - [[Ireneusz Jeleń]], Polish footballer
* [[April 10]] - [[Gretchen Bleiler]], American snowboarder
* [[April 10]] - [[Liz McClarnon]], British singer
* [[April 10]] - [[Michael Pitt]], American actor
* [[April 11]] - [[Alessandra Ambrosio]], Brazilian model
* [[April 15]] - [[Seth Wulsin]], artist
* [[April 17]] - [[Hanna Pakarinen]], Finnish singer
* [[April 18]] - [[Jang Nara]], Korean actress and singer
* [[April 18]] - [[Audrey Tang]], Taiwanese software programmer
* [[April 19]] - [[Hayden Christensen]], Canadian actor
* [[April 19]] - [[Catalina Sandino Moreno]], Colombian actress
* [[April 19]] - [[Troy Polamalu]], American football player
* [[April 20]] - [[Matus Valent]], fitness model
* [[April 21]] - [[Mike Christie]], English musician
* [[April 21]] - [[Stephanie Larimore]], American model
* [[April 22]] - [[Ken Dorsey]], American football player
* [[April 25]] - [[John McFall (athlete)|John McFall]], British Paralympic sprinter
* [[April 25]] - [[Anja Pärson]], Swedish alpine skier
* [[April 26]] - [[Matthieu Delpierre]], French football player
* [[April 27]] - [[Sandy Mölling]], German pop singer
* [[April 28]] - [[Jessica Alba]], American actress
* [[April 29]] - [[George McCartney]], Irish footballer
===May-June===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Alexander Hleb]], Belarusian football player
* [[May 3]] - [[Farrah Franklin]], American singer
* [[May 3]] - [[U;Nee]], South Korean singer and actress (d. [[2007]])
* [[May 4]] - [[Jacques Rudolph]], South African cricketer
* [[May 5]] - [[Craig David]], British singer
* [[May 5]] - [[Danielle Fishel]], American actress
* [[May 11]] - [[Lauren Jackson]], Australian basketball player
* [[May 11]] - [[Daisuke Matsui]], Japanese football player
* [[May 12]] - [[Kentaro Sato]], Japanese composer
* [[May 13]] - [[Rebecka Liljeberg]], Swedish actress
* [[May 13]] - [[Sunny Leone]], Canadian entertainer
* [[May 13]] - [[James Yun|Jimmy Wang Yang]], Korean professional wrestler
* [[May 15]] - [[Patrice Evra]], Senegalese-born French footballer
* [[May 15]] - [[Zara Phillips]], British elite equestrienne
* [[May 15]] - [[Justin Morneau]], Canadian baseball player
* [[May 15]] - [[Jamie-Lynn Sigler]], American actress
* [[May 17]] - [[R. J. Helton]], American singer
* [[May 19]] - [[Klaas-Erik Zwering]], Dutch swimmer
* [[May 19]] - [[Nate Cole]], American singer/songwriter
* [[May 20]] - [[Sean Conlon]], English musician
* [[May 20]] - [[Lindsay Taylor]], American basketball player
* [[May 20]] - [[Iker Casillas]], Spanish footballer
* [[May 22]] - [[Melissa Gregory]], American figure skater
* [[May 26]] - [[Isaac Slade]], American singer/pianist of The Fray
* [[May 27]] - [[Alina Cojocaru]], Romanian ballerina
* [[May 28]] - [[Laura Bailey (voice actress)|Laura Bailey]], Amerikan voice actress
* [[May 31]] - [[Jake Peavy]], American baseball player
* [[June 1]] - [[Carlos Zambrano]], Venezuelan baseball player
* [[June 3]] - [[Mike Adam]], Canadian curler
* [[June 5]] - [[Jade Goody]], British reality show star
* [[June 6]] - [[Johnny Pacar]], American actor
* [[June 7]] - [[Anna Kournikova]], Russian tennis player
* [[June 7]] - [[Larisa Oleynik]], American actress
* [[June 8]] - [[Alex Band]], American musician
* [[June 8]] - [[Sara Watkins]], American violinist
* [[June 8]] - [[Ai Nonaka]], Japanese voice actress
* [[June 9]] - [[Celina Jaitley]], Indian actress
* [[June 9]] - [[Natalie Portman]], Israeli-born actress
* [[June 9]] - [[Anoushka Shankar]], British musician and daughter of [[Ravi Shankar]]
* [[June 9]] - [[Vic Zhou]], Taiwanese actor, singer, and model
* [[June 10]] - [[Hoku Ho]], Hawaiian singer and musician
* [[June 10]] - [[Burton O'Brien]], Scottish footballer
* [[June 12]] - [[Adriana Lima]], Brazilian model
* [[June 13]] - [[Chris Evans (actor)|Chris Evans]], American actor
* [[June 14]] - [[Lonneke Engel]], Dutch model
* [[June 15]] - [[Haley Scarnato]], American singer
* [[June 16]] - [[Ben Kweller]], American musician
* [[June 18]] - [[Teresa Cormack]], New Zealand murder victim (d. [[1987]])
* [[June 18]] - [[Ella Chen]], Taiwanese singer
* [[June 20]] - [[Alisan Porter]], American actress and singer
* [[June 21]] - [[Brandon Flowers (musician)|Brandon Flowers]], American singer and keyboardist
* [[June 22]] - [[Chris Urbanowicz]], British guitarist
* [[June 25]] - [[Simon Ammann]], Swiss ski jumper
* [[June 25]] - [[Yūichi Komano]], Japanese footballer
* [[June 28]] - [[Mara Santangelo]], Italian tennis player
* [[June 29]] - [[Joe Johnson (basketball)|Joe Johnson]], American basketball player
===July-August===
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* [[July 2]] - [[Alex Koroknay-Palicz]], American activist
* [[July 2]] - [[Paul Anthony Finn]], Irish singer and songwriter ([[The Flaws]])
* [[July 3]] - [[Brandon Jay McLaren]], Canadian actor
* [[July 6]] - [[Nnamdi Asomugha]], American football player
* [[July 7]] - [[Synyster Gates]], American guitarist ([[Avenged Sevenfold]])
* [[July 8]] - [[Anastasia Myskina]], Russian tennis player
* [[July 8]] - [[Ashley Blue]], American pornographic actress
* [[July 14]] - [[Lee Mead]], British actor
* [[July 19]] - [[Didz Hammond]], bassist/backing vocalist ([[Dirty Pretty Things (band)|Dirty Pretty Things]] and [[The Cooper Temple Clause]])
* [[July 19]] - [[Nikki Osborne]], Australian actress
* [[July 20]] - [[Damien Delaney]], Irish footballer
* [[July 20]] - [[Dayang Nurfaizah]], Malaysian singer
* [[July 21]] - [[Stefan Schumacher]], German cyclist
* [[July 21]] - [[Blake Lewis]], ''American Idol'' finalist
* [[July 23]] - [[Steve Jocz]], Canadian drummer ([[Sum 41]])
* [[July 23]] - [[Jarkko Nieminen]], Finnish tennis player
* [[July 24]] - [[Summer Glau]], American actress ([[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]])
* [[July 25]] - [[Jani Rita]], Finnish ice hockey player
* [[July 29]] - [[Fernando Alonso]], Spanish Two Time Formula 1 World Champion
* [[July 31]] - [[M. Shadows]], American singer ([[Avenged Sevenfold]])
* [[July 31]] - [[Eric Lively]], American actor
* [[July 31]] - [[Vernon Carey]], American football player
* [[August 4]] - [[Marques Houston]], American singer and actor
* [[August 5]] - [[Carl Crawford]], Major League Baseball outfielder
* [[August 5]] - [[Rachel Scott]], American murder victim (d. [[1999]])
* [[August 5]] - [[Kou Shibasaki|Kō Shibasaki]], Japanese singer and actress
* [[August 6]] - [[Vitantonio Liuzzi]], Italian race car driver
* [[August 8]] - [[Roger Federer]], Swiss tennis player
* [[August 8]] - [[Harel Skaat]], Israeli singer
* [[August 8]] - [[Meagan Good]], American actress
* [[August 8]] - [[Kaori Iida]], Japanese singer and actress
* [[August 10]] - [[Natsumi Abe]], Japanese singer and actress
* [[August 11]] - [[Sandi Thom]], Scottish singer & song writer
* [[August 12]] - [[Djibril Cissé]], French footballer
* [[August 12]] - [[Steve Talley]], American actor
* [[August 15]] - [[Song Ji-hyo]], South Korean actress
* [[August 16]] - [[Taylor Rain]], American actress
* [[August 20]] - [[Ben Barnes (actor)|Benjamin Barnes]], English actor ([[Caspian X|Prince Caspian]])
* [[August 24]] - [[Chad Michael Murray]], American actor
* [[August 25]] - [[Rachel Bilson]], American actress
* [[August 28]] - [[Charlie Frye]], Natiional Football League quarterback
* [[August 29]] - [[Lanny Barbie]], American actress
* [[August 30]] - [[Brian J. Robinson]], Canadian musician ([[A Wilhelm Scream]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Tresor Kandol]], [[Leeds United]] [[football]]er
===September-October===
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* [[September 1]] - [[Clinton Portis]], American football player
* [[September 1]] - [[Michael Adamthwaite]], Canadian voice actor
* [[September 2]] - [[Bracha van Doesburgh]], Dutch actress
* [[September 3]] - [[Fearne Cotton]], British television presenter
* [[September 4]] - [[Beyoncé Knowles]], American actress and R&B singer ([[Destiny's Child]])
* [[September 4]] - [[Lacey Mosley]], American lead vocalist ([[Flyleaf]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Yumiko Cheng]], Hong Kong singer
* [[September 8]] - [[Jonathan Taylor Thomas]], American actor
* [[September 9]] - [[Julie Gonzalo]], Argentinian actress
* [[September 11]] - [[Dylan Klebold]], American murderer (d. [[1999]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Jennifer Hudson]], American singer and actress
* [[September 14]] - [[Ashley Roberts]], singer The Pussycat Dolls
* [[September 14]] - [[Miyavi]], Japanese-Korean singer and musician
* [[September 16]] - [[Alexis Bledel]], American actress
* [[September 16]] - [[Fan Bingbing]], Chinese actress
* [[September 21]] - [[Nicole Richie]], American actress, singer and socialite
* [[September 22]] - [[Ashley Drane]], American actress
* [[September 23]] - [[Misti Traya]], American actress
* [[September 23]] - [[Natalie Horler]], German singer [[Cascada]]
* [[September 23]] - [[Robert Doornbos]], Dutch race car driver
* [[September 25]] - [[Rocco Baldelli]], baseball player
* [[September 26]] - [[Christina Milian]], American R&B singer and actress
* [[September 26]] - [[Serena Williams]], American tennis player
* [[September 29]] - [[Suzanne Shaw]], British singer [[Hear'Say]]
* [[September 30]] - [[Cecelia Ahern]], Irish author and daughter of [[Bertie Ahern]], former [[Taoiseach]]
* [[September 30]] - [[Dominique Moceanu]], American gymnast
* [[October 3]] - [[Zlatan Ibrahimović]], Swedish footballer
* [[October 3]] - [[Amanda Walsh]], Canadian actress
* [[October 5]] - [[Enrico Fabris]], Italian speed skater
* [[October 8]] - [[Raffi Torres]], Canadian ice hockey player
* [[October 8]] - [[Ruby (Egyptian Singer)]], Egyptian singer
* [[October 9]] - [[Peter Hill (photographer)|Peter Hill]], British photographer
* [[October 9]] - [[Zachery Ty Bryan]], American actor
* [[October 9]] - [[Ryoichi Maeda]], Japanese footballer
* [[October 11]] - [[Beau Brady]], Australian actor
* [[October 13]] - [[Ryan Ashford]], English footballer
* [[October 15]] - [[Elena Dementieva]], Russian tennis player
* [[October 20]] - [[Willis McGahee]], American football player
* [[October 21]] - [[Nemanja Vidić]], Manchester United player
* [[October 22]] - [[Michael Fishman]], American actor
* [[October 23]] - [[Olivier Occean]], Canadian footballer
* [[October 24]] - [[Mallika Sherawat]], Indian actress
* [[October 25]] - [[Shaun Wright-Phillips]], English footballer
* [[October 25]] - [[Austin Winkler]], American lead vocalist ([[Hinder]])
* [[October 26]] - [[Guy Sebastian]], original Australian Idol 2003 singer
* [[October 28]] - [[Milan Baroš]], Czech footballer
* [[October 28]] - [[Dwayne Cameron]], New Zealand actor
* [[October 29]] - [[Amanda Beard]], American swimmer
* [[October 30]] - [[Ivanka Trump]], American model
* [[October 31]] - [[Selina Ren]], member of Taiwanese girl-group [[S.H.E]]
* [[October 31]] - [[Irina Denezhkina]], Russian writer
* [[October 31]] - [[Frank Iero]], American guitarist ([[My Chemical Romance]])
===November-December===
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* [[November 1]] - [[LaTavia Roberson]], American singer ([[Destiny's Child]])
* [[November 2]] - [[Tatiana Totmianina]], Russian figure skater
* [[November 3]] - [[Blair Chenoweth]], American beauty queen
* [[November 3]] - [[Jackie Gayda]], American professional wrestler
* [[November 4]] - [[Vince Wilfork]], American football player
* [[November 4]] - [[Paul Tucker]] Canadian comic-book artist.
* [[November 6]] - [[Cassie Bernall]], American murder victim (d. [[1999]])
* [[November 7]] - [[George Pilkington]], [[Port Vale]] [[football]]er
* [[November 8]] - [[Joe Cole]], English footballer
* [[November 8]] - [[Azura Skye]], American actress
* [[November 10]] - [[Tony Blanco]], Dominican baseball player
* [[November 10]] - [[Jason Dunham]], American Medal of Honor recipient (d. [[2004]])
* [[November 10]] - [[Alison Waite]], American model
* [[November 11]] - [[Natalie Glebova]], Canadian beauty queen
* [[November 11]] - [[Jyothika]], Indian actress
* [[November 11]] - [[Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg]]
* [[November 13]] - [[Mark Cardona]], Filipino basketball player
* [[November 13]] - [[Shawn Yue]], Hong Kong actor and singer
* [[November 15]] - [[Lorena Ochoa]], Mexican golfer
* [[November 17]] - [[Sarah Harding]], British singer ([[Girls Aloud]], [[Amy Lee]] Lead composer for [[Evanescence]]
* [[November 18]] - [[Gian Magdangal]], Filipino singer and actor
* [[November 20]] - [[Kimberley Walsh]], British singer ([[Girls Aloud]])
* [[November 21]] - [[Bryant McFadden]], American football player
* [[November 22]] - [[Ben Adams]], British singer ([[A1 (band)|a1]])
* [[November 22]] - [[Seweryn Gancarczyk]], Polish footballer
* [[November 25]] - [[Xabi Alonso]], Spanish footballer
* [[November 26]] - [[Natasha Bedingfield]], British singer
* [[November 26]] - [[Aurora Snow]], American actress
* [[November 29]] - [[Tom Hurndall]], British photographer (d. [[2004]])
* [[December 2]] - [[Britney Spears]], American singer
* [[December 3]] - [[David Villa]], Spanish footballer
* [[December 3]] - [[Brian Bonsall]], American actor
* [[December 3]] - [[Tyjuan Hagler]], American football player
* [[December 4]] - [[Lila McCann]], American singer
* [[December 9]] - [[Dia Mirza]], Bollywood actress
* [[December 9]] - [[Jacob Stewart]], St. Thomas based songwriter/guitarist
* [[December 11]] - [[Zacky Vengeance]], American guitarist ([[Avenged Sevenfold]])
* [[December 12]] - [[Spencer Johnson (American football player)|Spencer Johnson]], NFL player
* [[December 13]] - [[Amy Lee]], American pianist/singer/songwriter ([[Evanescence]])
* [[December 14]] - [[Amber Chia]], Malaysian model and actress
* [[December 15]] - [[Thomas Herrion]], American football player (d. [[2005]])
* [[December 15]] - [[Donal Coonan]], [[UK]] presenter for [[Channel 4]]'s webshow [[thisisaknife]]
* [[December 16]] - [[Anna Sedokova]], Ukrainian singer
* [[December 21]] - [[Cristian Zaccardo]], Italian footballer
* [[December 24]] - [[Dima Bilan]], Russian pop-singer
* [[December 27]] - [[Emilie de Ravin]], Australian actress
* [[December 27]] - [[Yuvraj Singh]], Indian cricketer
* [[December 28]] - [[Elizabeth Jordan Carr]], first American test-tube baby
* [[December 28]] - [[Sienna Miller]], American-born actress
* [[December 28]] - [[Khalid Boulahrouz]], Dutch footballer
* [[December 29]] - [[Shizuka Arakawa]], Japanese figure skater
* [[December 29]] - [[Angela Via]], American singer
* [[December 30]] - [[Kyle Eckel]], National Football League player
* [[December 30]] - [[Haley Paige]], American actress (d. [[2007]])
==Deaths==
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* [[January 5]] - [[Harold C. Urey]], American chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1893]])
* [[January 5]] - [[Lanza del Vasto]], Italian-born philosopher, poet, and activist (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 6]] - [[A. J. Cronin]], Scottish novelist (b. [[1896]])
* [[January 10]] - [[Katherine Alexander]], American actress (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 23]] - [[Samuel Barber]], American composer (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 31]] - [[Cozy Cole]], American jazz drummer (b. [[1909]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Geirr Tveitt]], Norwegian composer (b. [[1908]])
* [[February 9]] - [[Bill Haley]], American musician (b. [[1925]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Karl Richter]], German conductor (b. [[1926]])
* [[February 18]] - [[John Knudsen Northrop]], American airplane manufacturer (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 20]] - Baron [[Nicolas de Gunzburg]], French magazine editor and playboy (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 26]] - [[Howard Hanson]], American composer (b. [[1896]])
* [[February 27]] - [[Jacob H. Gilbert]], American politician (b. [[1920]])
* [[March 6]] - [[George Geary]], English cricketer (b. [[1893]])
* [[March 7]] - [[Kiril Kondrashin]], Russian conductor (b. [[1914]])
* [[March 9]] - [[Max Delbrück]], German biologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 23]] - [[Beatrice Tinsley]], English astronomer (b. [[1941]])
* [[March 30]] - [[DeWitt Wallace]], American magazine publisher (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 31]] - [[Frank Tieri (mobster)|Frank Tieri]], American gangster (b. [[1904]])
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* [[April 3]] - [[Juan Trippe]], Airline entrepreneur (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 5]] - [[Maurice Zbriger]], Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (b. [[1896]])
* [[April 7]] - [[Norman Taurog]], American film director (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 12]] - [[Joe Louis]], American boxer (b. [[1914]])
* [[April 18]] - [[James H. Schmitz]], German-born writer (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 27]] - [[John Aspinwall Roosevelt]], American businessman and philanthropist (b. [[1916]])
* [[May 5]] - [[Bobby Sands]], Irish republican (hunger strike) (b. [[1954]])
* [[May 9]] - [[Nelson Algren]], American author (b. [[1909]])
* [[May 9]] - [[Ralph Allen (footballer)|Ralph Allen]], English footballer (b. [[1906]])
* [[May 11]] - [[Odd Hassel]], Norwegian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 11]] - [[Bob Marley]], Jamaican singer and musician (b. [[1945]])
* [[May 18]] - [[William Saroyan]], American author (b. [[1908]])
* [[May 30]] - [[Don Ashby]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1955]])
* [[June 1]] - [[Carl Vinson]], U.S. Congressman (b. [[1883]])
* [[June 2]] - [[Rino Gaetano]], Italian singer-songwriter (b. [[1950]])
* [[June 9]] - [[Allen Ludden]], American television game show host (b. [[1917]])
* [[June 10]] - [[Jenny Maxwell]], American actress (b. [[1941]])
* [[June 17]] - [[Sir Richard O'Connor]], English general (b. [[1889]])
* [[June 17]] - [[Zerna Sharp]], American writer and educator (b. [[1889]])
* [[June 18]] - [[Pamela Hansford Johnson]], English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (b. [[1912]])
* [[June 19]] - [[Lotte Reiniger]], German-born silhouette animator (b. [[1899]])
* [[June 23]] - [[Zarah Leander]], Swedish actress and singer (b. [[1907]])
* [[June 28]] - [[Terry Fox]], Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. [[1958]])
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* [[July 8]] - [[Joe McDonnell]], Irish political prisoner (b. [[1951]])
* [[July 16]] - [[Harry Chapin]], American singer and songwriter (b. [[1942]])
* [[July 27]] - [[Adam Walsh]], American murder victim, inspired [[Code Adam]] (b. [[1974]])
* [[July 27]] - [[William Wyler]], American movie director (b. [[1902]])
* [[July 29]] - [[Robert Moses]], American urban planner (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 14]] - [[Karl Böhm]], Austrian conductor (b. [[1894]])
* [[August 30]] - [[Vera-Ellen]], American actress and dancer (b. [[1921]])
* [[September 1]] - [[Albert Speer]], Nazi official (b. [[1905]])
* [[September 2]] - [[Enid Lyons]], Australia politician (b. [[1897]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Christy Brown]], Irish author, poet, and artist (b. [[1932]])
* [[September 8]] - [[Hideki Yukawa]], Japanese physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1907]])
* [[September 9]] - [[Robert Askin|Sir Robert (Bob) Askin]], Premier of New South Wales (b. [[1907]])
* [[September 12]] - [[Eugenio Montale]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1896]])
* [[September 15]] - [[Rafael Méndez]], Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (b. [[1906]])
* [[September 15]] - [[Harold Bennett]], British actor (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 28]] - Sir [[Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth]], [[United Kingdom|British]] [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] cabinet minister (b. [[1923]])
* [[September 29]] - [[Bill Shankly]], British football manager (b. [[1914]])
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* [[October 2]] - [[Harry Golden]], American journalist (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 6]] - [[Anwar Sadat]], [[President of Egypt]], recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1918]])
* [[October 16]] - [[Stanley Clements]], American actor (b. [[1926]])
* [[October 16]] - [[Moshe Dayan]], Israeli general (b. [[1915]])
* [[October 29]] - [[Georges Brassens]], French singer and songwriter (b. [[1921]])
* [[November 7]] - [[Will Durant]], American philosopher and writer (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 14]] - [[Robert Bradford (NI politician)|Robert Bradford]], Northern Irish footballer and politician (b. [[1941]])
* [[November 16]] - [[William Holden (actor)|William Holden]], American actor (b. [[1918]])
* [[November 22]] - [[Hans Adolf Krebs]], German physician and biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 25]] - [[Jack Albertson]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[November 29]] - [[Natalie Wood]], American actress (b. [[1938]])
* [[December 3]] - [[Walter Knott]], American farmer and theme park creator (b. [[1889]])
* [[December 15]] - [[Catherine T. MacArthur]], American philanthropist (b. [[1909]])
* [[December 23]] - [[Reginald Miles Ansett]], Australian businessman and aviator (b. [[1909]])
* [[December 27]] - [[Hoagy Carmichael]], American jazz composer (b. [[1899]])
* [[December 28]] - [[Allan Dwan]], Canadian-born film director (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 30]] - [[Alfie Anido]], Filipino actor (b. [[1959]])
==Nobel prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]], [[Arthur Leonard Schawlow]], [[Kai Siegbahn]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Kenichi Fukui]], [[Roald Hoffmann]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Medicine]] - [[Roger Wolcott Sperry]], [[David H. Hubel]], [[Torsten Wiesel]]
* [[Nobel Prize in literature|Literature]] - [[Elias Canetti]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[James Tobin]]
==Templeton Prize==
* [[Cicely Saunders|Dame Cicely Saunders]]
==See also==
* [[20th century]]
==Notes==
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