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Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar.

Contents:
Events of 1974 - Jan. ^. Feb. ^. March ^. April - May ^. June ^. July ^. Aug. - Sept. ^. Oct. ^. Nov. ^. Dec. - Undated ^. Ongoing ^. Fictional Births Deaths - Fields Medalists Nobel prizes - Templeton Prize See also - Notes - External links

[edit] Events of 1974

[edit] January

January 4 - Citing executive privilege, U.S. President Richard Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents which have been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
January 4 - Joni Lenz is attacked in her bedroom by serial killer Ted Bundy in Washington.
January 6 - In response to the energy crisis, Daylight Saving Time commences nearly 4 months early in the United States.
January 19 - In college (men's) basketball, Notre Dame defeats UCLA 71-70, ending the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak.
January 27 - Brisbane Qld Australia is flooded.
January 30
- G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of Watergate charges.
- In his State of the Union Address, U.S. President Richard Nixon declares, "One year of Watergate is enough."

[edit] February

February 1 - Fire breaks out in the Joelman Bank Building in São Paulo, Brazil; 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their injuries. Article: Joelma Fire
February 3 - In the second Bathurst Gaol riot, prisoners destroy much of the facility with petrol bombs.
February 4 - The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst.
February 8 - After 94 days in outer space, the crew of Skylab 4 returns to Earth.
February 8 The self-titled debut album from KISS is released.
February 12 - U.S. District Court Judge George Boldt rules that Native American tribes in Washington State are entitled to half of the legal salmon and steelhead catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the U.S. government.
February 13 - Nobel Prize winning writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Soviet Union (he returns May 27, 1994).
February 17 - A soccer stampede occurs in Cairo, killing 49.
February 21 - The long-running comic strip "Sazae-san" is published in the Asahi Shimbun for the final time, after 28 years of daily installments.
February 22 - The Second Islamic Summit Conference by Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was held in Lahore, Islamic Republic of Pakistan, from 29 Moharram to 1st Safar, 1394 H, (22-24 February, 1974).
February 23 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
February 28
- The United Kingdom general election results in an almost dead-heat. Harold Wilson becomes Prime Minister again, despite his Labour Party having received fewer votes than the Conservative Party.
- Ethiopian prime minister Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold, who had held the position since 1961, is dismissed by Emperor Haile Selassie and replaced with Endelkachew Makonnen.

[edit] March

March 1
- Watergate scandal: Seven former White House officials are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as Prime Minister of France.
March 3 - A Turkish Airlines DC-10 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
March 8 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
March 10 - Japanese World War II soldier, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the Philippines.
March 18 - Ten miners die in a methane gas explosion at Golborne Colliery near Wigan, Lancashire.
March 18 - Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a 5-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
March 20 - Ian Ball fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace.
March 29 - Mariner 10 approaches Mercury.

[edit] April

April 1 - The Local Government Act 1972 comes into effect in England and Wales, creating six new metropolitan counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map.
April 2 - French President Georges Pompidou dies; Senate President Alain Poher becomes Acting President for the second time.
April 3 - The Super Outbreak, the largest series of tornadoes in history, hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province. By the time the last of 149 tornadoes hit early the following morning, 315 die and over 5,000 are injured.
April 6 - ABBA win the Eurovision Song Contest in Brighton, England.
April 8 - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home-run off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
April 10 - In Israel, Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister.
April 15 - In San Francisco, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army rob a branch of the Hibernia National Bank, joined by Patricia Hearst, their erstwhile captive.
April 24 - Stephen King publishes his first novel, Carrie, under his own name.
April 25 - Carnation Revolution: A coup in Portugal restores democracy.

[edit] May

May 4
- An all female Japanese team summits Manaslu in Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
- The Expo '74 World's Fair opens in Spokane, Washington.
- The FA Cup Liverpool beat Newcastle 3-0 to win the FA Cup final at Wembley.
May 7 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
May 9 - The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public impeachment hearings against President Richard M. Nixon.
May 12 - Fire damages the carousel in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, Canada, injuring 20 animals.
May 15 - West German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel is elected President of Germany for a term beginning July 1.
May 16 - Helmut Schmidt is elected West German Chancellor.
May 17 - Los Angeles, California police raid Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, killing 6 members, including Camilla Hall.
May 17 - Thirty-three people die and over 300 are wounded in the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in the Republic of Ireland. Members of the loyalist Ulster Volunteer Force are behind the blast, allegedly in collusion with members of the British intelligence service.
May 18
- Nuclear test: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon, becoming the sixth nation to do so.
- The Warsaw radio mast is completed, the tallest structure ever built (it collapses on August 8, 1991).
May 19
- In the second round of the presidential elections in France, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins over François Mitterrand, but by a close margin.
- The Philadelphia Flyers defeat the Boston Bruins, thereby becoming the first expansion team to win the Stanley Cup.
May 28 - The Italian fascist organization Ordine Nuovo bombs demonstrators in Brescia, killing 6 people.
May 30 - NASA's ATS-6 satellite is launched.

[edit] June

June 1 - Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in Flixborough, UK, kills 28 people.
June 4 - The Cleveland Indians stage an ill-advised Ten Cent Beer Night for a game against the Texas Rangers at Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
June 6 - A new Instrument of Government is promulgated, making Sweden a parliamentary monarchy.
June 13 - The 1974 FIFA World Cup begins in West Germany.
June 15 - Red Lion Square disorders: Members of the fascist National Front clash with leftist counter-protesters in London's West End; one student is killed.
June 17 - A bomb explodes at the Houses of Parliament in London, damaging Westminster Hall. The Provisional Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for planting the bomb.
June 26 - The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
June 29 - Isabel Peron becomes interim president of Argentina, when Juan Peron falls seriously ill.
June 30 - Alberta Williams King, mother of the late Martin Luther King, Jr., is killed during a church service in Atlanta, Georgia.

[edit] July

July 1 - Juan Peron, President of Argentina dies. He's succeeded by his wife, Vice President Isabel Peron. She becomes the first female Head of State in South America.
July 7 - West Germany beats the Netherlands 2-1 to win the 1974 FIFA World Cup.
July 14 - In Issaquah, Washington, serial killer Ted Bundy abducts Janice Ott and Denise Naslund in broad daylight at Lake Sammamish State Park.
July 15 - Christine Chubbuck, U.S. television presenter for WXLT-TV, draws a revolver and shoots herself in the head during a live broadcast. She dies in a hospital 14 hours later.
July 15 - A military coup overthrows President Makarios in Cyprus.
July 17 - An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the White Tower at the Tower of London, killing 1 person and injuring 41. Another bomb explodes outside a government building in South London.
July 20 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from Turkey invade Cyprus after the coup d'etat by EOKA B.
July 22 - Ethiopian Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen is replaced with Mikael Imru.
July 23 - The Greek military junta government collapses.
July 24
- Constantine Karamanlis is sworn in as interim Prime Minister of Greece.
- Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously rules (United States v. Nixon) that President Richard Nixon can not withhold subpoenaed White House tapes, and orders him to surrender them to the Watergate special prosecutor.
July 27-July 30 - Watergate Scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee adopts 3 articles of impeachment charging President Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee.

[edit] August

Nixon Resigns

August 4 - A bomb explodes in an Italicus Expressen train between Italy and West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility.
August 5 - Watergate scandal: The "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, is revealed, in which U.S. President Richard Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman discuss using the Central Intelligence Agency to block a Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into Watergate. Nixon's support in Congress collapses.
August 7
- Three Republican congressional leaders (Barry Goldwater, Hugh Scott and John Rhodes) visit President Richard Nixon in the White House. They inform him that he lacks the votes to escape impeachment in the United States House of Representatives and conviction in the Senate.
- French acrobat Philippe Petit walks across a high wire slung between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
August 8 - Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective August 9).
August 9 - Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by impeachment in response to his role in the Watergate scandal. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes the 38th President, taking the oath of office in the East Room of the White House.
August 14 - Turkey invades for the second time in Cyprus, occupying 37% of the island's territory.
August 15 - Seoul Metropolitan Subway Line 1 is opened.
August 28 - Geir Hallgrímsson becomes Prime Minister of Iceland.
August 30
- An express train bound for Germany from Belgrade derails in Zagreb, Yugoslavia (now Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.
- Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.

[edit] September

September 1 - Daredevil Bob Gill fails a world-record attempt to jump Appalachia Lake in West Virginia.
September 8
- Watergate Scandal: U.S. President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
- TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea 18 minutes after take off from Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, and kills 88 people.
12 September - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is deposed by the Derg. The imperial throne is offered to his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen on the condition that the Crown Prince returns to Ethiopia.
September 13 - Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in The Hague, Netherlands. They secure the release of member Yatuka Fumiya, $300,000 and a flight to Aden.
September 16 - Courageous Newport, Rhode Island, America's Cup defender "Courageous", skippered by Ted Hood, wins over Australian challenger "Southern Cross" .
September 23 - Ceefax is started by the BBC - one of the first public service information systems.

[edit] October

October 5 - The Guildford pub bombings at The Horse and Groom and The Seven Stars kill 5 people, and lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the Guildford Four the next year.
October 8 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
October 10 - The second United Kingdom general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Labour, still led by Harold Wilson.
October 15 - U.S. President Gerald Ford signs a federal campaign reform bill, which sets new regulations in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

[edit] November

November 5 - Democrats make significant gains in the U.S. Congressional midterm elections, as voters punish the Republican Party over the Watergate scandal.
November 7
- Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan disappears in England.
- A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the Kings Arms, Woolwich.
November 8 - In Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer Ted Bundy.
November 10 - Movement 2 June members try to kidnap Günter von Drenkmann, the president of West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home, but he is fatally shot during the attempt.
November 13 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his parents and his four siblings in what would later become known as "The Amityville Horror House".
November 16 - The Arecibo radio telescope sends an interstellar radio message towards the M13 Great Globular Cluster. The message will reach its destination around the year 27000.
November 17 - In Dublin, Ireland, President Erskine H. Childers dies suddenly of a heart attack in the middle of a public speech.
November 19 - 140 killed, Makahali River bridge collapsed, Baitadi, Makahali, Nepal.
November 20 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and the Bell System.
November 21 - In Birmingham, England, 2 pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this).
November 22 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
November 24 - A skeleton from the hominid species Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named Lucy.
November 27 - The Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed in the United Kingdom.

[edit] December

December 1 - A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
December 8 - Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
December 9 - The Paris summit, reuniting the European communities' heads of state and government, commences.
December 19
- Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in Dublin Castle.
- Former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States.
December 23 - Former British minister John Stonehouse, who faked his drowning in Florida, is arrested in Melbourne, Australia.
December 24-December 25 - Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy.
December 31 - Restrictions on holding private gold within the United States, implemented by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, are removed.

[edit] Undated

The Milgram experiment first described by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.
Baltimore police strike.
Volkswagen's Golf automobile first enters production, as the replacement for well-loved but antiquated Beetle. VW will go on to sell more than 22 million Golfs, and the model, now in its fifth generation, is still in full scale production as of 2008.
The Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra is founded by Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor Victor Feldbrill
World population reaches 4 billion people.
Urdu typewriter keyboard layout modified using frequency tables and bifurcation (balancing load on typist's fingers) techniques, in Pakistan.

[edit] Ongoing

[edit] Births

**1974 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1974 MCMLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2727
Armenian calendar	1423 ԹՎ ՌՆԻԳ
Bahá'í calendar	130 – 131
Berber calendar	2924
Buddhist calendar	2518
Burmese calendar	1336
Chinese calendar	4610/4670-12-9 (癸丑年十二月初九日) — to — 4611/4671-11-18 (甲寅年十一月十八日)
Coptic calendar	1690 – 1691
Ethiopian calendar	1966 – 1967
Hebrew calendar	5734 – 5735
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2029 – 2030
- Shaka Samvat	1896 – 1897
- Kali Yuga	5075 – 5076
Holocene calendar	11974
Iranian calendar	1352 – 1353
Islamic calendar	1393 – 1394
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 49 (昭和49年)
Korean calendar	4307
Thai solar calendar	2517
Unix time	126230400 – 157766399
v • d • e

[edit] January-February

January 3 - Alessandro Petacchi, Italian professional road cyclist
January 7 - John Rich, American guitarist and bassist (Big & Rich)
January 10 - Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood actor
January 11 - The Rosenkowitz sextuplets (Cape Town, South Africa), the first sextuplets known to survive their infancy.
January 11 - Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
January 12 - Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skiier
January 12 - Melanie Chisholm, English singer-songwriter
January 16 - Kate Moss, English model
January 17 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d. 2003)
January 21 - Rove McManus Australian talk show host
January 24 - Tim Biakabutuka, former National Football League player
January 23 - Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
January 24 - Melissa Tkautz, Australian singer and actress
January 27 - Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
January 28 - Tony Delk, National Basketball Association player
January 30 - Christian Bale, Welsh actor
January 31 - Ian Huntley, English murderer

February 4 - Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer
February 7 - Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
February 7 - J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, American hip-hop producer (d. 2006)
February 8 - Seth Green, American actor
February 8 - Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey
February 11 - D'Angelo, American singer
February 12 - Naseem Hamed, British boxer
February 13 - Robbie Williams, English singer
February 14 - Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
February 15 - Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer Lordi
February 15 - Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
February 15 - Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d. 2002)
February 15 - Alexander Wurz, Austrian Formula 1 driver
February 22 - Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
February 22 - James Blunt, English Singer
February 24 - Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (The Neptunes)

[edit] March-April

March 1 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
March 4 - Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player
March 4 - Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
March 4 - Tommy Phelps, South Korean professional baseball player
March 5 - Eva Mendes, American actress
March 5 - Jens Jeremies, German footballer
March 6 - Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
March 6 - Anthony Carelli, professional wrestler
March 7 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
March 7 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
March 8 - Fardeen Khan, Bollywood actor
March 10 - Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
March 11 - Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
March 11 - Russ Haas, American wrestler (d. 2001)
March 14 - Jeppe Kofod, Danish politician
March 15 - Percy Montgomery, South African rugby union player
March 20 - Paula Garces, Colombian actress
March 20 - Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
March 20 - Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
March 22 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
March 22 - Kidada Jones, American actress, model, fashion designer
March 24 - Alyson Hannigan, American actress
March 25 - Lark Voorhies, American actress
March 25 - Tapani Mokko, Finnish artist
March 31 - Angela Dotchin, New Zealand actress

April 1 - Richard Christy, American musician and radio writer
April 2 - Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
April 4 - Dave Mirra, American athlete
April 9 - Jenna Jameson, American actress
April 11 - Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
April 11 - Trot Nixon, baseball player
April 12 - Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d. 2006)
April 12 - Shelton, American actress
April 14 - Da Brat, American rapper
April 15 - Josh Todd, American musician and singer (Buckcherry)
April 16 - Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
April 17 - Victoria Beckham, English singer (Spice Girls)
April 17 - Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (Opeth)
April 20 - Jonathan Roberts, American ballroom dancer (Dancing with the Stars)
April 22 - Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (System of a Down)
April 22 - Diego Costa, Brazilian singer-songwriter
April 23 - Kirill Seleznyov, Russian businessman
April 27 - Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
April 28 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
April 28 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
April 28 - Vernon Kay, English presenter

[edit] May-June

May 4 - Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player
May 8 - Korey Stringer, American football player (d. 2001)
May 11 - Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler
May 13 - Tim McMahon, American singer Mouthpiece
May 16 - Laura Pausini, Italian singer
May 16 - Sonny Sandoval, American singer for Payable on Death, aka. P.O.D.
May 17 - Andrea Corr, Irish singer (The Corrs)
May 19 - Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player
May 21 - Havoc, American rapper (Mobb Deep)
May 21 - Eduardo Verástegui, Mexican actor.
May 23 - Ken Jennings, American game show winner
May 23 - Jewel, American singer
May 23 - Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer
May 23 - Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
May 24 - Daniel Lorenz Johnson, social activist/artist
May 26 - Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
May 27 - Danny Wuerffel, American football player
May 30 - Big L, American rapper (d. 1999)
May 31 - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist

June 1 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
June 2 - Gata Kamsky, American chess player
June 2 - Matt Serra, American mixed martial arts fighter
June 7 - Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
June 7 - Edward Bear Grylls, survivalist
June 12 - Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
June 13 - Steve-O, American actor
June 14 - Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress
June 21 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
June 22 - Donald Faison, American actor
June 22 - Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
June 25 - Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
June 26 - Derek Jeter, American baseball player
June 26 - Matt Striker, American professional wrestler
June 26 - Jeff Frankenstein, American musician (Newsboys)
June 26 - Jason Kendall, American baseball player
June 26 - Nicole Saba, Lebanese singer
June 28 - Rob Dyrdek, pro skateboader
June 30 - Melanie Lambert, American ice skater

[edit] July-August

July 2 - Matthew Reilly, Australian writer
July 2 - Rocky Gray, American musician
July 4 - La'Roi Glover, National Football League defensive lineman
July 4 - Gackt, Japanese singer
July 8 - Allen Skillicorn, American race car driver
July 8 - Dragoslav Jevrić‎, Montenegrin footballer
July 12 - Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
July 18 - Alan Morrison, British poet
July 19 - Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby player
July 19 - Preston Wilson, Major League Baseball player
July 22 - Daddy Kev, American record producer
July 22 - Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
July 23 - Maurice Greene, American athlete
July 23 - Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist
July 26 - Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
July 27 - Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
July 28 - Justin Lee Collins, English comedian, TV and radio presenter
July 30 - Hilary Swank, American actress
July 31 - Emilia Fox, English actress
July 31 - Jonathan Ogden, National Football League offensive lineman

August 2 - Angie Cepeda, Colombian actress
August 7 - Sek Loso, Thai singer, songwriter and guitarist
August 8 - Brian Harvey, a British singer and lead singer of pop/dance band East 17
August 9 - Matt Morris, baseball player
August 9 - Derek Fisher, American basketball player
August 15 - Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
August 16 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Guyanese cricketer
August 16 - Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian Olympic champion swimmer
August 19 - David Patten, National Football League wide receiver
August 20 - Amy Adams‎, American actress
August 20 - Szabolcs Sáfár‎, Hungarian footballer
August 20 - Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
August 22 - Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
August 23 - Ray Park, Scottish actor, martial artist
August 24 - Andrew Clark, Australian Footballer (Central Coast Mariners)
August 24 - Jennifer Lien, American actress
August 25 - Eric Millegan, American actor
August 25 - Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
August 25 - Violeta Riaubiskyte, Lithuanian Singer
August 27 - Jose Vidro, Major League Baseball player
August 28 - Carsten Jancker, German soccer player

[edit] September-October

September 1 - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
September 1 - Jason Taylor, American football player
September 4 - Carmit Bachar, singer
September 4 - Nona Gaye, American actress and singer
September 6 - Tim Henman, English tennis player
September 6 - Nina Persson, Swedish singer
September 10 - Ben Wallace, National Basketball Association guard
September 10 - Mirko Filipović, Croatian kickboxer and mixed martial arts fighter
September 11 - DeLisha Milton-Jones, American basketball player
September 13 - Stephen Lawrence, British murder victim (d. 1993)
September 14 - Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
September 15 - Jamie Stevens, German pop singer
September 17 - Rasheed Wallace, National Basketball Association player
September 18 - Sol Campbell, English footballer
September 18 - Xzibit, American rapper
September 19 - Jimmy Fallon, American actor and coemdian
September 19 - Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
September 21 - Katharine Merry, English sprinter
September 23 - Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
September 26 - Gary Hall, Jr., American swimmer
September 29 - Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer

October 1 - Mats Lindgren, National Hockey League player
October 10 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver
October 11 - Jason Arnott, National Hockey League player
October 11 - Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
October 11 - Kane Kosugi, Japanese-American martial artist/actor
October 14 - Shaggy 2 Dope, Juggalo Rapper
October 16 - Paul Kariya, National Hockey League player
October 16 - Deo Grech, Maltese songwriter & presenter
October 21 - Nakia Burrise, American actress
October 21 - Lera Auerbach, Russian composer & pianist
October 23 - Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
October 24 - Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
October 24 - Ali Ahmed, Mechanical Engineer
October 26 - Lisa, Japanese musician
October 28 - Joaquin Phoenix, American actor
October 29 - Michael Vaughan, English cricketer

[edit] November-December

November 1 - VVS Laxman, Indian cricketer
November 2 - Beverley Mahood, Canadian singer and songwriter
November 2 - Nelly, American rapper
November 3 - Mick Thomson, lead guitarist for Slipknot
November 4 - Louise Redknapp, English singer
November 4 - Cedric Bixler-Zavala, Mexican-American singer/lyricist
November 5 - Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
November 5 - Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
November 8 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
November 9 - Uncle Kracker, American singer
November 9 - Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer and
November 11 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
November 11 - Bettina Goislard, French UN worker (d. 2003)
November 14 - Adam Walsh, American murder victim, son of John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted (d. 1981)
November 15 - Chad Kroeger, singer
November 16 - Paul Scholes, English football player
November 21 - Kelsi Marie Osborn, American Singer (SHeDAISY)
November 22 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
November 24 - Stephen Merchant, British comedian
November 27 - Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player

December 1 - Costinha, Portuguese footballer
December 6 - Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
December 7 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer (All Saints)
December 7 - Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist
December 8 - Maya Mishalska, Mexican actress
December 10 - Meg White, drummer (The White Stripes)
December 11 - Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
December 13 - Nicholas McCarthy, English-born guitarist (Franz Ferdinand)
December 14 - Billy Koch, baseball player
December 16 - Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
December 17 - Duff Goldman, American celebrity chef
December 18 - Kari Byron, artist and television personality
December 18 - Peter Boulware, American football player
December 18 - Euroboy, Norwegian musician (Turbonegro)
December 19 - Jake Plummer, American football player
December 19 - Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
December 21 - Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
December 23 - Aimee Nezhukumatathil, American poet
December 24 - Ryan Seacrest, American television host
December 24 - Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
December 27 - Bojan Sarcevic, Bosnian-French sculptor
December 28 - Wilson Kirwa, Kenyan-born Finnish athlete
December 29 - Richie Sexson, baseball player
December 29 - Brad Hodge, Australian cricketer
December 31 - Ryan Sakoda, Japanese American professional wrestler

[edit] Unknown

Banksy, infamous British graffiti artist. Uncertain, but said to have been born in 1974.
Angus Purden, Scottish TV presenter (year uncertain).
Andrew 'Whitey' White, guitarist of the Kaiser Chiefs.

Robert Cormier American author

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - March

January 2 - Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
January 12 - Princess Patricia of Connaught (b. 1886)
January 31 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b. 1879)

February 2 - Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b. 1922)
February 4 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b. 1894)
February 4 - Stuart Buchanan, American actor (b. 1894)
February 11 - Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish actress (b. 1888)
February 14 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
February 15 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
February 21 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
February 23 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)

March 1 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
March 4 - Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1903)
March 5 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
March 6 - Ernest Becker, American cultural anthropologist (b. 1925)
March 9 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
March 12 - George D. Sax, drive-in bank innovator (b. 1904)
March 20 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
March 22 - Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
March 31 - Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu, Chinese tenor (b. 1913)

[edit] April - June

April 2 - Georges Pompidou, President of France (b. 1911)
April 5 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
April 15 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b. 1906)
April 19 - Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan (b. 1907)
April 24 - Bud Abbott, American actor (b. 1897)
April 24 - Franz Jonas, Austrian president (b. 1899)
April 30 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b. 1900)

May 18 - Mary Maguire, Australian actress (b. 1919)
May 24 - Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)

June 9 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
June 10 - Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1900)
June 18 Georgy Zhukov WWII Soviet General. (b. 1896)
June 22 - Darius Milhaud, French composer (b. 1892)
June 28 - Frank Sutton, American actor (b. 1923)

[edit] July - September

July 1 - Juan Domingo Perón, President of Argentina (b. 1895)
July 9 - Earl Warren, Governor of California and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1891)
July 11 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
July 13 - Patrick Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
July 15 - Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter (b. 1944)
July 19 - Joe Flynn, American character actor (b. 1924)
July 24 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1891)
July 29 - "Mama Cass" Elliott, American rock music vocalist (b. 1941)
July 29 - Erich Kästner, German author (b. 1899)

August 6 - Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1925)
August 26 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator (b. 1902)
August 31 - William Pershing Benedict, American pilot

September 3 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
September 4 - Creighton Williams Abrams, American general (b. 1914)
September 4 - Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b. 1899)
September 11 - Víctor Olea Alegría, member of the Chilean Socialist Party, "disappeared".
September 14 - Warren Hull, American actor (b. 1903)
September 23 - Jayachamaraja Wodeyar Bahadur, last Maharaja of Mysore (b. 1919)
September 27 - Silvio Frondizi, Argentine lawyer, assassinated by the Triple A
September 30 - Carlos Prats, Chilean Constitutionalist General, assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor

[edit] October - December

October 4 - Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (suicide) (b. 1928)
October 6 - V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b. 1897)
October 9 - Oskar Schindler, Saver of Jews in the Holocaust (b. 1908)
October 13 - Ed Sullivan, American television host (b. 1901)
October 16 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, carnatic musician (b. 1895)
October 24 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
October 24 - Ekaterina Furtseva, USSR Minster of Culture (b. 1910)
November 11 - Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b. 1894)
November 13 - Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b. 1901)
November 17 - Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth President of Ireland (b. 1905)
November 19 - George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
November 21 - John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b. 1897)
November 21 - Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b. 1890)
November 24 - Nick Drake, British musician (b. 1948)
November 24 - Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician (b. 1927)
November 29 - Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b. 1898)
November 29 - H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon (b. 1889)
November 29 - Lawrence Riley, American playwright and screenwriter (b. 1896)

December 2 - Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1897)
December 18 - Harry Hooper, baseball player (b. 1887)
December 20 - André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905)
December 26 - Ahmad Ismail Ali, Egyptian soldier and politician (b. 1917)
December 26 - Farid al-Atrash, Arab composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
December 26 - Jack Benny, American comedian (b. 1894)
December 27 - Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898)
December 28 - Paul Dixon, Cincinnati TV personality (b. 1918)

[edit] Fields Medalists

Enrico Bombieri, David Mumford

[edit] Nobel prizes

Physics - Sir Martin Ryle, Antony Hewish
Chemistry - Paul J. Flory
Medicine - Albert Claude, Christian de Duve, George E. Palade
Literature - Eyvind Johnson, Harry Martinson
Peace - Séan MacBride, Eisaku Sato
Economics - Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich von Hayek

[edit] Templeton Prize

Brother Roger

[edit] Notes

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