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1978
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1978 (MCMLXXVIII ) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar ). It was the 1978th year of Anno Domini and the 9th in the 1970s decade.
Events of 1978
January
February
February 1 β A bomb explodes outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney , Australia , killing 2 garbagemen, a policeman and several others.
February 1 β Hollywood film director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees to France , after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl.
February 5 β7 β The Northeastern United States blizzard of 1978 hits the New England region and the New York metropolitan area , killing about 100 and causing over US$520 million in damage.
February 6 β King Dragon operation in Arakan : Burmese General Ne Win targets Muslim minorities in the village of Sakkipara.
February 8 β United States Senate proceedings are broadcast on radio for the first time.
February 11 β Pacific Western Airlines Flight 314, a Boeing 737 -200, crashes in Cranbrook, British Columbia , killing 44 of the 50 people onboard.
February 11 β Sixteen Unification Church couples wed in New York, New York .
February 11 β Somalia mobilizes its troops, due to an apparent Ethiopian attack.
February 11 β The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle , William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens .
February 15 β Rhodesia 's prime minister Ian Smith and 3 black leaders agree on the transfer to black majority rule.
February 15 β Serial killer Ted Bundy is captured in Pensacola, Florida .
February 16 β The Hillside Strangler , a serial killer prowling Los Angeles , claims a 10th and final victim.
February 16 β The first computer bulletin board system (CBBS ) is created in Chicago .
February 19 β Egyptian raid on Larnaca International Airport
February 21 β Electrical workers in Mexico City find the remains of the Great Pyramid of Tenochtitlan in the middle of the city.
March
March 1 β Charlie Chaplin 's remains are stolen from Cosier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland .
March 2 β Soyuz 28 (Aleksei Gubarev , Vladimir Remek ) is launched on a rendezvous with Salyut 6 , with the first cosmonaut from a third country (besides the Soviet Union and United States) β Czechoslovak citizen VladimΓr Remek.
March 3 β Ethiopia admits that its troops are fighting with the aid of Cuban soldiers against Somalian troops in Ogaden .
March 3 β Rhodesia attacks Zambia .
March 3 β The New York Post publishes an article about David Rorvik 's book The Cloning of Man , about a supposed cloning of a human being .
March 6 β American porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed in Lawrenceville, Georgia .
March 10 β Soyuz 28 lands.
March 11 β Coastal Road Massacre : Palestinian terrorists kill 34 Israelis .
March 14 β Operation Litani : Israeli forces invade Lebanon .
March 16 β Former Italian Premier Aldo Moro is kidnapped by the Red Brigades ; 5 bodyguards are killed.
March 17 β The oil tanker Amoco Cadiz runs aground on the coast of Brittany .
March 18 β Zulfikar Ali Bhutto , Prime Minister of Pakistan , is sentenced to death by hanging for ordering the assassination of a political opponent.
March 22 β Karl Wallenda of the Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico .
March 26 β The control tower and some other facilities of New Tokyo International Airport , which was scheduled to open on March 31, are illegally occupied and damaged by terrorist attack by New Left activists, being forced to reschedule its opening date to May 20.
March 28 β Stump v. Sparkman (435 U.S. 349): The Supreme Court of the United States hands down a 5β3 decision in a controversial case involving involuntary sterilization and judicial immunity .
April
April 1 β New Zealand National Airways Corporation the Domestic airline of New Zealand was merged with New Zealand's international airline, Air New Zealand .
April 1 β Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour .
April 1 β The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, is converted to the Polytechnic University of the Philippines .
April 3 β The 50th Academy Awards are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California with Annie Hall winning Best Picture .
April 7 β U.S. President Jimmy Carter decides to postpone production of the neutron bomb β a weapon which kills people with radiation but leaves buildings relatively intact.
April 8 β Regular radio broadcasts of British Parliament proceedings start.
April 9 β Somali military officers stage an unsuccessful coup against the government of Siad Barre ; security forces thwart the attempt within hours, and several conspirators are arrested.
April 10 β Volkswagen becomes the second (after Rolls-Royce ) non-American automobile manufacturer to open a plant in the United States, commencing production of the Rabbit, the North American version of the Volkswagen Golf , in New Stanton, Pennsylvania with a unionized (UAW ) workforce (the plant closes in 1992.)
April 14 β 1978 Tbilisi Demonstrations : Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against an attempt by Soviet authorities to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language .
April 18 β The U.S. Senate votes 68β32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on December 31, 1999.
April 22 β Izhar Cohen & the Alphabeta win the Eurovision Song Contest 1978 for Israel with their song "A-Ba-Ni-Bi".
April 22 β The One Love Peace Concert is held at National Heroes Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica . Bob Marley unites 2 opposing political leaders at this concert, bringing peace to the civil war-ridden streets of the city.
April 25 β St. Paul, Minnesota becomes the 2nd U.S. city to repeal its gay rights ordinance after Anita Bryant 's successful 1977 anti-gay campaign in Dade County, Florida .
April 27 β Afghanistan President Daoud Khan is killed during a military coup; Nur Mohammed Taraki succeeds him.
April 30 β The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan is proclaimed, under pro-communist leader Nur Mohammed Taraki .
May
May 4 β Battle of Cassinga occurs in southern Angola .
May 4 β Communist activist Henri Curiel is murdered in Paris .
May 5 β Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds gets his 3,000th major league hit.
May 8 β Norway opens a natural gas field in the Polar Sea .
May 9 β In Rome , the body of Aldo Moro , the Italian president of the Christian Democrats, is found in a parked car.
May 12 β13 β A group of mercenaries lead by Bob Denard oust Ali Soilih in the Comoros ; 10 local soldiers are killed. Denard forms a new government.
May 12 β In Zaire , rebels occupy the city of Kolwezi , the mining centre of the province of Shaba . The Zairean government asks the U.S., France and Belgium to restore order.
May 15 β Students of the University of Tehran riot in Tabriz ; the army stops the riot.
May 17 β Charles Chaplin 's coffin is found 10 miles from the cemetery it was stolen from, near Lake Geneva.
May 18 β Soviet dissident Yuri Orlov is sentenced to 7 years hard labor for distributing 'counterrevolutionary material'.
May 18 β19 β Belgian and French paratroopers fly to Zaire to aid the fight against the rebels.
May 19 β20 β French Foreign Legion paratroopers land in Kolwezi , Zaire , to rescue Europeans in the middle of a civil war.
May 20 β Mavis Hutchinson , 53, becomes the first woman to run across the U.S.; her trek took 69 days.
May 22 β Exiled leaders Ahmed Abdallah and Mohammed Ahmed return to the Comoros .
May 25 β A bomb explodes in the security section of Northwestern University , wounding a security guard (the first Unabomber attack).
May 26 β In Atlantic City, New Jersey , Resorts International, the first legal casino in the eastern United States , opens.
May 28 β Indianapolis 500 : Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall .
May 29 β Ali Soilih is found dead in the Comoros , allegedly shot when trying to escape.
June
June 1 β The 1978 FIFA World Cup starts in Argentina .
June 6 β California voters approve Proposition 13 , which slashes property taxes nearly 60%.
June 9 β The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints extends the priesthood and temple blessings to 'all worthy males', ending a general policy of excluding 'Canaanites' from Priesthood ordination and temple ordinances (see Blacks and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ).
June 12 β Serial killer David Berkowitz , the "Son of Sam," is sentenced to 365 years in prison.
June 15 β King Hussein of Jordan marries 26-year-old Lisa Halaby, who takes the name Queen Noor .
June 19 β Cricketer Ian Botham becomes the first man in the history of the game to score a century and take 8 wickets in 1 inning of a Test match.
June 19 β Garfield , which eventually becomes the world's most widely syndicated comic strip , makes its debut.
June 20 β A magnitude 6.5 earthquake hits Thessaloniki , Greece 's second largest city, killing 45 people, injuring hundreds and damaging some of the city's Byzantine landmarks.
June 21 β A shootout between Provisional IRA members and the British Army leaves 1 civilian and 3 IRA men dead.
June 21 β 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown : Iranian helicopters stray into Soviet airspace and are shot down.
June 22 β Charon , a satellite of Pluto , is discovered.
June 24 β Yemen Arab Republic President Ahmad al-Ghashmi is killed.
June 24 β The Gay & Lesbian Solidarity March is held in Sydney , Australia to mark 10th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots (which later becomes the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras ; later incorporating a festival).
June 25 β Argentina defeats the Netherlands 3β1 after extra time to win the 1978 FIFA World Cup .
June 26 β A bombing by Breton nationalists causes destruction in Versailles .
June 28 β The U.S. scientific satellite Seasat is launched.
June 28 β University of California Regents v. Bakke : The Supreme Court of the United States bars quota systems in college admissions but affirms the constitutionality of programs which give advantages to minorities.
June 30 β Ethiopia begins a massive offensive in Eritrea .
July
August
September
September 5 β Camp David Accords : Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat begin the peace process at Camp David, Maryland.
September 7 β In London, England , a poison-filled pellet, supposedly injected using an umbrella, poisons Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov , probably on orders of Bulgarian intelligence; he dies 4 days later.
September 8 β Iranian Army troops open fire on rioters in Teheran , killing 122, wounding 4,000.
September 16 β General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumes the post of President of Pakistan .
September 17 β The Camp David Accords are signed between Israel and Egypt .
September 19 β Police in the West Midlands of England launch a massive murder hunt, when 13-year-old newspaper boy Carl Bridgewater is shot dead after disturbing a burglary .
September 20 β General Rahimuddin Khan assumes the post of Martial Law Governor of Balochistan .
September 25 β PSA Flight 182 , a Boeing 727, collides with a small private airplane and crashes in San Diego , California ; 144 are killed.
September 25 β Giuseppe Verdi 's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met , in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers . This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.
September 27 β The last Forest Brother guerilla movement fighter is discovered and killed in Estonia .
September 28 β Pope John Paul I dies after only 33 days of papacy.
October
November
December
December 4 β Dianne Feinstein succeeds the murdered George Moscone as San Francisco, California 's first woman mayor (she serves until January 8, 1988).
December 6 β The Spanish Constitution officially restores the country's democratic government.
December 11 β Lufthansa heist : Six men rob a Lufthansa cargo facility in New York City 's Kennedy airport .
December 11 β Two million demonstrate against the Shah in Iran .
December 13 β The first Susan B. Anthony dollar enters circulation.
December 15 β Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to go into default since the Great Depression , under Mayor Dennis Kucinich .
December 16 β Train 87 from Nanjing to Xining collides with train 368 from Xi'an to Xuzhou near Yangzhuang railway station in China, killing 106, injuring 218.
December 19 β Former Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi is arrested and jailed for a week for breach of privilege and contempt of parliament.
December 22 β The pivotal Third Plenum of the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is held in Beijing , with Deng Xiaoping reversing Mao-era policies to pursue a program for Chinese economic reform .
December 22 β Chicago serial killer John Wayne Gacy , who was subsequently convicted of the murder of 33 young men, is arrested.
December 22 β Argentina started the Operation SoberanΓa against Chile .
December 25 β Vietnam launches a major offensive against the Khmer Rouge of Cambodia .
December 27 β The Spanish Constitution is approved in a referendum, officially ending 40 years of military dictatorship .
Undated
Ongoing
Births
JanuaryβFebruary
January 1 β Alex Leigh , British model
January 1 β Phillip Mulryne , Northern Irish footballer
January 2 β Toyoguchi Megumi , Japanese seiyuu (voice actress)
January 3 β Kimberley Locke , American singer and model
January 3 β Park Sol-mi , South Korean actress
January 4 β Karine Ruby , French snowboarder (d. 2009)
January 5 β Franck Montagny , French Formula One driver
January 5 β Karnail Pitts , American rapper (d. 1999 )
January 7 β Emilio Palma , Argentine citizen, first human born in Antarctica
January 9 β Chad Ocho Cinco , American football player
January 9 β AJ McLean , American pop musician (Backstreet Boys )
January 12 β Kris Roe , American rock guitarist and singer (The Ataris )
January 12 β Jeremy Camp , American Christian guitarist and singer
January 14 β Eddie Berlin , American football player
January 14 β Shawn Crawford , American runner
January 15 β Franco Pellizotti , Italian professional road racing cyclist
January 20 β Sid Wilson , American rock turntablist (Slipknot , DJ Starscream )
January 24 β Mark Hildreth , Canadian actor/voice actor
January 26 β Kelly Stables , American actress
January 28 β Gianluigi Buffon , Italian goalkeeper (football)
January 28 β Jamie Carragher , English footballer
January 31 β Brad Rutter , Highest Money Winner on Jeopardy
January 31 β Ibolya OlΓ‘h , Hungarian singer
February 2 β Barry Ferguson , Scottish footballer
February 2 β Guido Kaczka , Argentine television show host and actor
February 5 β Brian Russell , American football player
February 5 β Samuel SΓ‘nchez , Spanish road bicycle racer
February 7 β Ashton Kutcher , American actor (That '70s Show )
February 12 β Gethin Jones , British (Welsh) television presenter
February 12 β Silver Meikar , Estonian politician
February 13 β Niklas BΓ€ckstrΓΆm , Finnish hockey player (Minnesota Wild )
February 14 β Richard Hamilton , American basketball player
February 14 β Darius Songaila , Lithuanian basketball player
February 15 β Tuan Le , American poker player
February 16 β John Tartaglia , American Broadway actor and Muppeteer
February 16 β Tia Hellebaut , Belgian atlete
February 17 β Jacob Wetterling , American child kidnapping victim (missing since 1989 )
February 19 β Kenyatta Wright , American football linebacker
February 20 β Julia Jentsch , German actress
February 23 β Dan Snyder , Canadian hockey player (d. 2003 )
February 24 β John Nolan , American rock lead singer (Straylight Run )
February 24 β Leon Constantine , British Leeds United footballer
February 27 β Kakha Kaladze , Georgian and AC Milan footballer
February 28 β Benjamin Raich , Austrian Olympic skier
February 28 β Jeanne Cherhal , French singer-songwriter
MarchβApril
March 1 β Jensen Ackles , American actor
March 2 β Tomas Kaberle , Czech hockey player
March 4 β Denis Dallan , Italian rugby union footballer
March 6 β Sage Rosenfels , American football player
March 10 β Benjamin Burnley , American musician
March 11 β Didier Drogba , Ivory Coast footballer
March 12 β Masuimi Max , American fetish model
March 12 β Claudio Sanchez , American singer/songwriter (Coheed & Cambria )
March 13 β Karina Smirnoff , Ukrainian dancer
March 14 β Pieter van den Hoogenband , Dutch swimmer
March 14 β Carl Johan Bergman , Swedish biathlete
March 14 β Moon Hee Jun , Korean singer
March 14 β Carlo Giuliani , Italian anarchist (d. 2001 )
March 21 β Kevin Federline , American musician
March 21 β Rani Mukherji , Indian actress
March 22 β Josh Heupel , American football player
March 29 β Igor Rakocevic , Serbian basketball player
March 31 β Stephen Clemence , English footballer
March 31 β JΓ©rΓ΄me Rothen , French footballer
March 31 β Tony Yayo , American rapper
April 1 β Vitor Belfort , Brazilian martial artist
April 1 β Antonio de Nigris , Mexican footballer (d. 2009 )
April 3 β John Smit , South African rugby union player
April 4 β Jason Ellison , American baseball player
April 5 β Franziska van Almsick , German swimmer
April 6 β Tim Hasselbeck , American football player
April 7 β Duncan James , English singer
April 9 β Jorge Andrade , Portuguese footballer
April 9 β Veronica Taylor , American actress
April 9 β Rachel Stevens , English singer
April 11 β Thomas Thacker , Canadian singer
April 12 β Guy Berryman , Scottish rock bass player (Coldplay )
April 13 β Kyle Howard , American television and movie actor
April 16 β Matthew Lloyd , Australian rules footballer
April 16 β Lara Dutta , Indian actress
April 17 β Jason White , Scottish rugby union player
April 17 β Juan Guillermo Castillo , Uruguayan goalkeeper
April 19 β James Franco , American actor
April 20 β Mirei Kuroda , Japanese gravure idol
April 20 β Matt Austin , Canadian actor
April 21 β Jukka Nevalainen , Finnish drummer (Nightwish )
April 22 β Jason Stollsteimer , American lead singer and guitarist (The Von Bondies )
April 23 β Princess Tamara Czartoryski-Borbon , Spanish athlete
April 25 β Duncan Kibet , Kenyan long-distance runner
MayβJune
May 3 β Paul Banks , American rock vocalist (Interpol (band) )
May 3 β Lawrence Tynes , American football player
May 6 β Aleksandr Fyodorov , Russian bodybuilder
May 7 β Brian Clevinger , American author
May 7 β Shawn Marion , American Basketball Player
May 8 β Josie Maran , American supermodel and actress
May 9 β Marwan al-Shehhi , United Arab Emirates hijacker (d. 2001 )
May 10 β Kenan Thompson , American actor (Saturday Night Live )
May 10 β Marcelo Moretto , Brazilian footballer
May 11 β Laetitia Casta , French supermodel and actress
May 12 β Hossein Reza Zadeh , Iranian weightlifter
May 12 β Jason Biggs , American actor
May 12 β Aya Ishiguro , Japanese singer, writer, and fashion designer
May 13 β Mike Bibby , American basketball player
May 13 β Barry Zito , American baseball player
May 15 β Caroline Dhavernas , French-Canadian actress
May 15 β Dwayne De Rosario , Canadian footballer
May 15 β David Krumholtz , American actor
May 15 β Krissy Taylor , American model (d. 1995 )
May 18 β Ricardo Carvalho , Portuguese footballer
May 19 β Marcus Bent , English footballer
May 21 β Briana Banks , German-American porn star
May 21 β Adam Gontier , Canadian-born rock musician (Three Days Grace )
May 22 β Jordan , English model
May 23 β Carolyn Moos , American model and professional basketball player
May 23 β Scott Raynor , American rock musician (Blink-182 )
May 25 β Brian Urlacher , American football player
May 26 β Benji Gregory , Former American Actor, Retired United States Navy
May 29 β Lorenzo Odone , American adrenoleukodystrophy patient (d. 2008 )
June 2 β A.J. Styles , American professional wrestler
June 6 β Carl BarΓ’t , English rock singer and guitarist (The Libertines , Dirty Pretty Things )
June 6 β Judith Barsi , American child actress (d. 1988 )
June 7 β Adrienne Frantz , American actress
June 7 β Bill Hader , American actor (Saturday Night Live )
June 8 β Maria Menounos , American actress, journalist, and television presenter
June 9 β Matthew Bellamy , British rock musician (Muse )
June 9 β Miroslav Klose , German football player
June 10 β Shane West , American actor
June 10 β Han Hee-Won , South Korean golfer
June 11 β Joshua Jackson , Canadian actor
June 13 β Jason Michael Carroll , American country musician
June 19 β Dirk Nowitzki , German basketball player
June 19 β MΓa Maestro , Argentine actress
June 20 β Frank Lampard English footballer
June 20 β Quinton Jackson American mixed martial arts fighter
June 20 β Mark Powell , Australian politician
June 21 β Erica Durance , Canadian actress
June 21 β Jean-Pascal Lacoste , French singer, actor and TV host
June 22 β Champ Bailey , American football player
June 22 β Dan Wheldon , English race car driver
June 22 β Tim Driesen , Belgian Actor and Singer-songwriter.
June 24 β Emppu Vuorinen , Finnish rock musician (Nightwish )
June 24 β Juan Roman Riquelme , Argentine football player
June 25 β Aftab Shivdasani , Indian Bollywood actor
June 25 β Marcus Stroud , American football player
June 25 β Layla El , British wrestler, WWE Diva Search Winner
June 25 β Aramis RamΓrez , Dominican baseball player
June 27 β Anna Kumble , English pop singer and TV presenter
June 29 β Nicole Scherzinger , American pop lead singer (Pussycat Dolls )
June 30 β Ben Cousins , Australian rules footballer
JulyβAugust
July 1 β Hillary Tuck , American actress
July 3 β Mizuki Noguchi , Japanese long-distance runner
July 4 β Tony Reali , American sports personality
July 4 β Becki Newton , American actress
July 6 β Kevin Senio , New Zealand rugby union footballer
July 6 β Tia and Tamera Mowry , American actresses
July 8 β Rachel Lillis , American actress
July 9 β Linda Park , Korean-born actress
July 9 β Mark Medlock , German pop singer ('Deutschland sucht den Superstars Season 4 )
July 12 β Bradley Eustace , Australian composer
July 12 β Topher Grace , American actor
July 18 β Shane Horgan , Irish rugby player
July 18 β Ben Sheets , American baseball player
July 20 β Elliott Yamin , American singer
July 21 β Josh Hartnett , American actor
July 21 β Kyoko Iwasaki , Japanese swimmer
July 23 β Stuart Elliott , Northern Irish footballer
July 23 β Stefanie Sun , Singapore singer
July 25 β Louise Brown , British citizen, first human born through in vitro fertilization
July 25 β Gerard Warren , American football player
July 26 β Jehad Muntasser , Libyan footballer
August 1 β Dhani Harrison , English musician and son of George Harrison of The Beatles
August 1 β Jonathan Wilkes , British TV presenter
August 3 β Mariusz Jop , Polish footballer
August 4 β Kurt Busch , American race-car driver
August 6 β Marisa Miller , American supermodel
August 7 β Alexandre Aja , French director
August 7 β Vanness Wu , Taiwanese singer
August 7 β Linsey Dawn McKenzie , English model and porn star
August 7 β Cirroc Lofton , American actor
August 7 β Jamey Jasta , American rock singer (Hatebreed )
August 8 β Countess Vaughn , American actress
August 15 β Tim Foreman , American rock bassist (Switchfoot )
August 17 β Vibeke Stene , Norwegian rock singer (Tristania )
August 18 β James Corden , English actor and comedian
August 21 β Reuben Droughns , American football player
August 21 β Alan Lee , Irish footballer
August 23 β Kobe Bryant , American basketball player
August 23 β Julian Casablancas , American rock musician (The Strokes )
August 24 β Rafael Furcal , Dominican baseball player
August 25 β Kel Mitchell , American actor
August 28 β Jess Margera , American Drummer (CKY )
August 29 β Danielle Hampton , Canadian actress
August 30 β Swizz Beatz , American record producer and rapper
SeptemberβOctober
September 4 β Wes Bentley , American actor
September 6 β Cisco Adler , American musician
September 6 β Mathew Horne , English actor
September 7 β Devon Sawa , Canadian actor
September 9 β Johnny Shentall , English singer
September 11 β Ed Reed , American football player
September 11 β Ben Lee , Australian singer
September 12 β Ruben Studdard , American singer
September 14 β Ben Cohen , English rugby union player
September 15 β EiΓ°ur GuΓ°johnsen , Icelandic football player
September 17 β Jennifer Rosales , Filipino golfer
September 20 β Jason Bay , Canadian baseball player
September 20 β Patrizio Buanne , Italian singer
September 20 β Sarit Hadad , Israeli pop music singer
September 22 β Harry Kewell , Australian footballer
September 23 β Worm Miller , American screenwriter, director, actor
September 24 β Wietse van Alten , Dutch archer
September 25 β Jodie Kidd , English model
September 29 β Kurt Nilsen , Norwegian singer
September 30 β Candice Michelle , American professional wrestler and model
October 2 β Ayumi Hamasaki , Japanese singer
October 3 β Jake Shears , American singer
October 3 β Shannyn Sossamon , American actress
October 4 β Kei Horie , Japanese actor
October 4 β Mark Day (actor) , Canadian actor
October 5 β Shane Ryan , Irish Gaelic footballer
October 5 β Morgan Webb , television personality, gameshow host
October 9 β Nicky Byrne , Irish musician (Westlife )
October 10 β Francis Escudero , Filipino congressman, senator (Chiz )
October 14 β Usher Raymond , American musician
October 14 β Paul Hunter , English snooker player (d. 2006 )
October 18 β Wesley Jonathan , American actor
October 20 β Kira , German singer
October 20 β Virender Sehwag , Indian cricketer
October 20 β R'sonist , Jamaican Hip Hop Producer
October 21 β Joey Harrington , American football player
October 22 β Shaun Riaz , Trinidadian artist
October 24 β Carlos Edwards , Trinidadian footballer
October 25 β Russell Anderson , Scottish footballer
October 26 β Antonio Pierce , American football player
October 26 β Phil "CM Punk" Brooks , American professional wrestler
October 26 β Jimmy Aggrey , English footballer
October 27 β Vanessa-Mae , Singaporean musician
October 28 β Justin Guarini , American singer
October 29 β Travis Henry , American football player
October 30 β Matthew Morrison , American actor and singer
NovemberβDecember
November 1 β Manju Warriar , Indian actress
November 6 β Paul O'Grady , Australian soccer player
November 6 β Taryn Manning , American actress
November 6 β Sandrine Blancke , Belgian actress
November 7 β Zaheer Khan , Indian cricketer
November 8 β Ali Karimi , Iranian football player
November 9 β SisqΓ³ , American actor and singer (Dru Hill )
November 10 β Eve , American rapper
November 10 β Kyla Cole , Czech model
November 11 β Jyothika , Indian actress
November 12 β Kelly Overton , American actress.
November 13 β Nikolai Fraiture , American rock bassist (The Strokes )
November 13 β Hsu Wei Lun , Taiwanese actress (d. 2007 )
November 14 β Bobby Allen , American ice hockey player
November 14 β Xavier Nady , American baseball player
November 17 β Reggie Wayne , American football player
November 17 β Rachel McAdams , Canadian actress
November 18 β Damien Johnson , Northern Irish footballer
November 19 β Matt Dusk , Canadian jazz musician & singer
November 21 β Annie , Norwegian singer
November 22 β Karen O , American pop singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs )
November 24 β Katherine Heigl , American actress
November 25 β Shina Ringo , Japanese singer and musician
November 27 β Mike Skinner , English musician
November 29 β Ludwika Paleta , Polish-Mexican actress
November 30 β Emil Steiner , American author
November 30 β Clay Aiken , American singer (American Idol )
November 30 β Gael Garcia Bernal , Mexican actor
December 2 β Nelly Furtado , Canadian-born singer and songwriter
December 2 β Chris Wolstenholme , English bass player (Muse )
December 5 β Olli Jokinen , Finnish ice hockey player
December 7 β Shiri Appleby , American actress
December 8 β Ian Somerhalder , American actor
December 8 β Vernon Wells , American baseball player
December 9 β Jesse Metcalfe , American actor
December 9 β Gaston Gaudio , Argentine tennis player
December 10 β Brandon Novak , American freestyle skateboarder and TV/radio personality
December 12 β Monica Barladeanu , Romanian actress
December 15 β Jerome McDougle , American football player
December 16 β Joe Absolom , British actor
December 17 β Manny Pacquiao , Filipino boxer
December 17 β Chase Utley , American baseball player
December 18 β Daniel Cleary , Canadian ice hockey player
December 18 β Katie Holmes , American actress
December 19 β Patrick Casey , American screenwriter and actor
December 20 β Geremi , Cameroon footballer
December 20 β Jacqueline Saburido , Venezuelan-born drunk driving accident survivor and promoter of non-drunk driving
December 22 β Edo Maajka , Bosnian rapper
December 23 β Andra Davis , American football player
December 23 β Jodie Marsh , British model
December 23 β VΓctor MartΓnez , Venezuelan baseball player
December 23 β Estella Warren , Canadian swimmer, model, and actress
December 24 β Tonedeff , American rapper
December 24 β YΔ±ldΔ±ray BaΕtΓΌrk , Turkish footballer
December 24 β Carlson Twins , American models
December 26 β Kaoru Sugayama , Japanese volleyball player
December 29 β Alexis Amore , Peruvian actress, dancer, and model
December 29 β LaToya London , American singer
December 29 β Steve Kemp , British musician (Hard-Fi )
December 30 β Heath Evans , American football player
Unknown dates
Deaths
JanuaryβMarch
January 5 β Wyatt Emory Cooper , American screenwriter and author (b. 1927 )
January 5 β Sally Eilers , American actress (b. 1908 )
January 9 β Noble Johnson , American actor (b. 1881 )
January 13 β Hubert Humphrey , U.S. Vice President and Senator (b. 1911 )
January 13 β Joe McCarthy , American baseball manager (b. 1887 )
January 14 β Harold Abrahams , English athlete (b. 1899 )
January 14 β Kurt GΓΆdel , Austrian-born mathematician (b. 1906 )
January 18 β Carl Betz , American actor (b. 1921 )
January 18 β Walter H. Thompson , English Scotland Yard detective (b. 1890 )
January 22 β Herbert Sutcliffe , English cricketer (b. 1894 )
January 23 β Terry Kath , American rock musician (Chicago ) (b. 1946 )
January 23 β Jack Oakie , American actor (The Great Dictator ) (b. 1903 )
January 26 β Leo Genn , English actor (b. 1905 )
January 27 β Oskar Homolka , Austrian actor (b. 1898 )
January 29 β Tim McCoy , American actor (b. 1891 )
February 2 β Wendy Barrie , British actress (b. 1912 )
February 11 β James B. Conant , American chemist and headmaster of Harvard University (b. 1893 )
February 11 β Harry Martinson , Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904 )
February 15 β Ilka Chase , American actress (b. 1900 )
February 18 β Maggie McNamara , American actress (b. 1928 )
February 22 β Ernest Palmer , American cinematographer (b. 1885 )
February 27 β Vadim Salmanov , Russian composer (b. 1912 )
February 28 β Philip Ahn , Korean-American actor (b. 1905 )
February 28 β Zara Cully , American actress (b. 1892 )
March 1 β Paul Scott , English writer (b. 1920
March 11 β Claude FranΓ§ois , French singer (b. 1939 )
March 12 β John Cazale , American actor (b. 1935 )
March 18 β Leigh Brackett , American author (b. 1915 )
March 18 β Peggy Wood , American actress (b. 1892 )
March 19 β Gaston Julia , French mathematician (b. 1893 )
March 20 β Jacques Brugnon , French tennis player (b. 1895 )
March 21 β Cearbhall Γ DΓ‘laigh (Carroll Daly), 5th President of Ireland (b. 1911 )
March 22 β Karl Wallenda , American circus performer (b. 1905 )
March 23 β Haim Ernst Wertheimer , Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (b. 1893 )
March 31 β Charles Best , American-born medical scientist (b. 1899 )
AprilβJune
April 8 β Lon L. Fuller , American legal philosopher (b. 1902 )
April 9 β Michael Wilson , American screenwriter (b. 1914 )
April 14 β F.R. Leavis , British literary critic (b. 1895 )
April 16 β Lucius D. Clay , American military governor of Germany after World War II (b. 1897 )
April 19 β Joe Dougherty , first voice of Porky Pig (b. 1898 )
April 21 β Sandy Denny , English singer (b. 1947 )
April 22 β Basil Dean , English film director and producer (b. 1887 )
April 22 β Will Geer , American actor (b. 1902 )
April 25 β Leo Najo , American baseball player (b. 1899 )
April 27 β John Doeg , American tennis champion (b. 1908 )
May 1 β Aram Khachaturian , Armenian composer (b. 1903 )
May 6 β Ethelda Bleibtrey , American Olympic swimmer (b. 1902 )
May 8 β Duncan Grant , Scottish painter (b. 1885 )
May 9 β Aldo Moro , former Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1916 )
May 12 β Robert Coogan , American actor (b. 1924 )
May 14 β Robert Menzies , 12th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1894 )
May 22 β Joe Colombo , American gangster (b. 1914 )
May 26 β Tamara Karsavina , Russian ballerina (b. 1885 )
May 28 β Arthur Brough , British actor (b. 1905 )
June 7 β Ronald George Wreyford Norrish , British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897 )
June 9 β Prince Nicholas of Romania (b. 1903 )
June 18 β Walter C. Alvarez , American physician (b. 1884 )
June 20 β Mark Robson , Canadian film director (b. 1913 )
June 22 β Jens Otto Krag , Danish politician (b. 1914 )
June 24 β Robert Charroux , French writer (b. 1909 )
June 25 β Barry Brown , American actor and writer (b. 1951 )
June 27 β Josette Day , French actress (b. 1914 )
June 29 β Bob Crane , American actor (b. 1928 )
JulyβSeptember
July 1 β Kurt Student , Luftwaffe general and commander of the german airborne forces during World War II. (b. 1890 )
July 3 β James Daly , American actor (b. 1918 )
July 8 β Osman Lins , Brazilian novelist (b. 1924 )
July 10 β Joe Davis , English snooker and billiards player (b. 1901 )
July 16 β Howard Estabrook , American actor (b. 1884 )
July 20 β Gerald Warner Brace , American writer, educator, sailor and boat builder (b. 1901 )
July 25 β Masao Koga , Japanese composer (b. 1904 )
July 30 β Umberto Nobile , Italian aviator (b. 1885 )
August 2 β Carlos ChΓ‘vez , Mexican composer (b. 1899 )
August 2 β Totie Fields , American comedienne (b. 1930 )
August 4 β Frank Fontaine , American comedian and singer (b. 1920 )
August 5 β Queenie Smith , American actress (b. 1898 )
August 6 β Pope Paul VI (b. 1897 )
August 6 β Edward Durell Stone , American architect (b. 1902 )
August 7 β Eddie Calvert , American musician (b. 1922 )
August 11 β Hugh MacDiarmid , Scottish poet (b. 1892 )
August 14 β Nicolas Bentley , British writer and illustrator (b. 1907 )
August 16 β Jean Acker , American actress (b. 1893 )
August 21 β Charles Eames , American architect and designer (b. 1907 )
August 22 β Jomo Kenyatta , Kenyan statesman
August 24 β Louis Prima , Italian-American singer and actor (b. 1910 )
August 26 β Charles Boyer , French actor (b. 1899 )
August 28 β Bruce Catton , American Civil War historian, Pulizer Prize winner (1954) (b. 1899 )
August 28 β Robert Shaw , English actor (Jaws ) (b. 1927 )
August 31 β Lee Garmes , American cinematographer (b. 1898 )
September 7 β Keith Moon , English drummer (The Who ) (b. 1946 )
September 9 β Jack Warner , Canadian film studio founder (b. 1892 )
September 11 β Mike Gazella , American baseball player (b. 1895 )
September 11 β Georgi Markov , Bulgarian dissident (b. 1929 )
September 11 β Ronnie Peterson , Swedish Formula One driver (b. 1944 )
September 15 β Willy Messerschmitt , German aircraft engineer (b. 1898 )
September 23 β Lyman Bostock , American baseball player (b. 1950 )
September 24 β Ruth Etting , American singer (b. 1896 )
September 25 β Bret Morrison , American voice actor (b. 1912 )
September 26 β Manne Siegbahn , Swedish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1886 )
September 28 β Pope John Paul I (b. 1912 )
September 30 β Edgar Bergen , American actor and ventriloquist (b. 1903 )
OctoberβDecember
October 6 β Johnny O'Keefe , Australian singer (b. 1935 )
October 9 β Jacques Brel , Belgian singer (b. 1929 )
October 10 β Ralph Metcalfe , American athlete (b. 1910 )
October 12 β Nancy Spungen , American groupie and girlfriend of Sid Vicious (b. 1958 )
October 16 β Dan Dailey , American actor (b. 1915 )
October 19 β Gig Young , American actor (b. 1913 )
October 20 β Gunnar Nilsson , Swedish race car driver (cancer) (b. 1948 )
October 23 β Maybelle Carter , American singer (b. 1909 )
October 28 β Geoffrey Unsworth , British cinematographer (b. 1914 )
October 30 β Wallace MacDonald , Canadian actor (b. 1891 )
November 6 β Harry Bertoia , Italian artist and designer (b. 1915 )
November 7 β Gene Tunney , American boxer (b. 1897 )
November 8 β Norman Rockwell , American artist and illustrator (b. 1894 )
November 10 β Theo Lingen , German actor (b. 1903 )
November 15 β Margaret Mead , American anthropologist (b. 1901 )
November 16 β Claude Dauphin , French actor (b. 1903 )
November 18 β Jim Jones , Peoples Temple founder (b. 1931 )
November 20 β Robert Alan Aurthur , American screenwriter (b. 1922 )
November 20 β Giorgio de Chirico , Greek painter (b. 1888 )
November 27 β Harvey Milk , American gay rights activist (b. 1930 )
November 27 β George Moscone , American 37th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1929 )
November 27 β Susan Shaw , American actress (b. 1929 )
November 28 β AndrΓ© Morell , British actor (b. 1909 )
December 8 β Golda Meir , Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1898 )
December 10 β Ed Wood , American filmmaker (b. 1924 )
December 11 β Vincent du Vigneaud , American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901 )
December 12 β Fay Compton , English actress (b. 1894 )
December 15 β Chill Wills , American actor (b. 1902 )
December 27 β Houari BoumΓ©diΓ¨nne , President of Algeria (b. 1932 )
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