1979

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Year 1979 (MCMLXXIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1979 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Births 2.1 January-February 2.2 March-April 2.3 May-June 2.4 July-August 2.5 September-October 2.6 November-December 3 Deaths 3.1 January - March 3.2 April - June 3.3 July - September 3.4 October - December

[edit] Events of 1979

[edit] January

• January 1 - United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the "International Year of the Child". Many musicians donate to the "Music for UNICEF Concert" fund.
• January 1 - The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations.
• January 4 - The State of Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to families of the dead and injured in the Kent State shootings.
• January 7 - Vietnam and Vietnam-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border.
• January 8 - The French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry in Ireland; 50 are killed.
• January 9 - The Music for UNICEF Concert is held at the United Nations General Assembly to raise money for UNICEF and promote the Year of the Child. It is broadcast the following day in the United States and around the world. Hosted by The Bee Gees, other performers include Donna Summer, ABBA, Rod Stewart and Earth, Wind & Fire. A soundtrack album was released.
• January 16 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family, relocating to Egypt after a year of turmoil.
• January 19 - Former U.S. Attorney General John N. Mitchell is released on parole after 19 months at a federal prison in Alabama.
• January 21 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 35–31 in Super Bowl XIII played at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida.
• January 29 - Brenda Ann Spencer opens fire at a school in San Diego, California, killing 2 faculty members and wounding 8 students.
• January 31 - The police under directions of Jyoti Basu, Chief Minister of CPM led govt of West Bengal, surrounds and opens fire on unarmed refugee settlement of Morichjhapi island in Sunderbans, West Bengal, India. Hundreds killed but govt officially accepted 36 deaths.

[edit] February

• February 1 - Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
• February 1 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
• February 3 - Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.
• February 7 - Supporters of Khomeini take over the Iranian law enforcement, courts and government administration; the final session of the Iranian National Consultative Assembly is held.
• February 7 - Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was known to science.
• February 10-February 11 - The Iranian army mutinies and joins the Islamic Revolution.
• February 11 - Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
• February 12 - Prime Minister Hissène Habré starts the battle of N'Djamena in an attempt to overthrow Chad's President Félix Malloum.
• February 13 - The intense February 13, 1979 Windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
• February 14 - In Kabul, Muslim extremists kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs, who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
• February 15 - A suspected gas explosion rocks a bank in Warsaw killing 49.
• February 17 - The People's Republic of China invades northern Vietnam, launching the Sino-Vietnamese War.
• February 18 - The Sahara Desert experiences snow for 30 minutes.
• February 22 - Saint Lucia becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• February 26 - A total solar eclipse arcs over northern Canada, and a partial solar eclipse is visible over almost all of North America and Central America. [1]

[edit] March

• March 1 - Scotland votes narrowly for home rule, which is not implemented, and Wales votes against it.
• March 4 - The U.S. Voyager I spaceprobe photos reveal Jupiter's rings.
• March 5 - Voyager I makes its closest approach to Jupiter at 172,000 miles.
• March 7 - Largest Magnetar, or Soft gamma repeater, event recorded.
• March 13 - Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in Grenada.
• March 14 - In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
• March 17 - The Penmanshiel Tunnel in the UK collapses, killing two workers.
• March 25 - The first fully functional space shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center, to be prepared for its first launch.
• March 26 - In a ceremony at the White House, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel sign a peace treaty.
• March 28 - A nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, releases radiation.
• March 28 - In Britain, Jim Callaghan's government loses a motion of confidence by 1 vote, forcing a general election.
• March 30 - Airey Neave, World War Two veteran and Conservative Northern Ireland spokesman, is killed by an Irish National Liberation Army bomb in the British House of Commons car park.
• March 31 - The Royal Navy withdraws from Malta.
• March 31 - Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).

[edit] April

• April 1 - Iran's government becomes an Islamic Republic by a 98% vote, overthrowing the Shah officially.
• April 2 - Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak: A Soviet biowarfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
• April 10 - A tornado hits Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people (the most notable of 26 that hit that day).
• April 11 - Tanzanian troops take Kampala, the capital of Uganda; Idi Amin flees.
• April 17 - Schoolchildren in the Central African Empire are arrested (and around 100 killed) for protesting against compulsory school uniforms. An African judicial commission later determines that Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa "almost certainly" took part in the massacre.
• April 23 - Fighting in London between the Anti-Nazi League and the Metropolitan Police's Special Patrol Group results in the death of protestor Blair Peach.

[edit] May

• May 1 - Greenland gets home rule.
• May 4 - Conservatives win the British general election; Margaret Thatcher becomes the new prime minister.
• May 8 - The Manchester, England Woolworth's in city centre is seriously damaged by fire; 10 shoppers die.
• May 9 - Unabomber bomb injures Northwestern University graduate student John Harris.
• May 10 - The Federated States of Micronesia becomes self-governing.
• May 25 - American Airlines Flight 191: In Chicago, a DC-10 crashes during takeoff at O'Hare International Airport, killing 271 on board and two people on the ground.
• May 25 - John Spenkelink executed in Florida. First usage of electric chair in USA after the reintroduction of death penalty in 1976.
• May 27 - Indianapolis 500: Rick Mears wins the race for the first time, and the second time for car owner Roger Penske.

[edit] June

• June 1 - Vizianagaram district is formed in Andhra Pradesh, India.
• June 1 - The first black-led government of Rhodesia in 90 years takes power, in succession to Ian Smith and under his power-sharing deal.
• June 1 - The Seattle Supersonics won the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets.
• June 2 - Pope John Paul II visits his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
• June 3 - A blowout at the Ixtoc I oil well in the southern Gulf of Mexico causes at least 600,000 tons (176,400,000 gallons) of oil to be spilled into the waters, the worst oil spill to date. Some estimate the spill to be 428 million gallons, making it the largest unintentional oil spill ever.
• June 3 - General elections are held in Italy.
• June 4 - Joe Clark becomes Canada's 16th and youngest Prime Minister.
• June 4 - Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after military coup in which General Akuffo is overthrown.
• June 12 - Bryan Allen flies the man-powered Gossamer Albatross across the English Channel.
• June 18 - Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev sign the SALT II agreement in Vienna.
• June 20 - A Nicaraguan National Guard soldier kills ABC TV news correspondent Bill Stewart and his interpreter Juan Espinosa. Other members of the news crew capture the killing on tape.
• June 23 - Sydney: New South Wales Premier Neville Wran officially opens the Eastern Suburbs Railway. It operates as a shuttle between Central & Bondi Junction until full integration with the Illawarra Line during 1980.
• June 25 - Belgium: Supreme Allied Commander Alexander Haig escapes an assassination attempt by the Baader-Meinhof terrorist organization.

[edit] July

• July 2 - The Susan B. Anthony dollar is introduced in the U.S.
• July 3 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.
• July 8 - Los Angeles passes its homosexual rights bill.
• July 9 - A car bomb destroys a Renault owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld at their home in France. A note purportedly from ODESSA claims responsibility.
• July 11 - NASA's first orbiting space station Skylab begins its fall to Earth, after being in orbit for 6 years and 2 months.
• July 12 - Kiribati declares independence from the United Kingdom.
• July 12 - A "Disco Demolition Night" publicity stunt goes awry at Comiskey Park, forcing the Chicago White Sox to forfeit their game against the Detroit Tigers.
• July 12 - Carmine Galante, boss of the Bonanno crime family, is assassinated.
• July 12 - A fire at a hotel in Saragossa, Spain leaves 72 dead. Worst hotel fire in Europe in decades.
• July 16 - Iraqi President Hasan al-Bakr resigns and Vice President Saddam Hussein replaces him.
• July 17 - Nicaraguan president General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida.
• July 19 - The Marxist Sandinistas take control of Nicaragua.
• July 19 - Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo becomes prime minister of Portugal.
• July 24 - The Soviet Union exchanges Gerald Brook for spies Peter and Helen Kroger with the United Kingdom.
• July 31 - Four hundred Iranian pilgrims are killed after clashes with Saudi security forces in Mecca.

[edit] August

• August 5 - The Polisario Front signs a peace treaty with Mauritania.
• August 9 - The first British nudist beach is established in Brighton.
• August 14 - A freak storm during the Fastnet Race results in the death of 15 sailors.
• August 27 - Lord Mountbatten and 3 others are assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
• August 28 - The death toll of the previous day's IRA bombing reaches five when Lady Dowager Brabourne, 82, dies in hospital as a result of her injuries.

[edit] September

• September 1 - The U.S. Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn, when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
• September 7 - The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for $1 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
• September 12 - Hurricane Frederic makes landfall at 10:00 p.m. on Alabama's Gulf Coast.
• September 20 - French paratroopers help David Dacko to overthrow Bokassa in the Central African Republic.
• September 22 - The South Atlantic Flash is observed near Bouvet Island, thought to be a nuclear weapons test.
• September 30 - The Hong Kong MTR begins service with the opening of its Modified Initial System (aka Kwun Tong Line).

[edit] October

• October 1 - Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Nigerian Second Republic is established.
• October 1-October 6 - Pope John Paul II visits the United States.
• October 15 - Black Monday events, in which members of a political group sack a newspaper office, unfold in Malta.
• October 16 - A tsunami in Nice, France kills 23 people.
• October 17 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Baltimore Orioles to win the '79 World Series.
• October 19 - 13 Marines die in a fire at Camp Fuji, Japan as a result of Typhoon Tip.^[1]
• October 26 - Park Chung-hee, the President of South Korea, was assassinated by the KCIA director Kim Jaegyu
• October 27 - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains independence.

[edit] November

• November 1 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urges his people to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand attacks on United States and Israeli interests.
• November 2 - French police shoot gangster Jacques Mesrine in Paris.
• November 3 - In Greensboro, North Carolina, 5 members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and 7 are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
• November 4 - Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American). They demand that the United States send the former Shah back to Iran to stand trial.
• November 6 - At Montevideo, Uruguay, the International Olympic Committee adopts a resolution, whereby Taiwan Olympic and sports teams will participate with the name Chinese Taipei in future Olympics Games and international sports tournaments and championships.
• November 7 - U.S. Senator Edward Moore Kennedy announces that he will challenge President Jimmy Carter for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination.
• November 12 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, U.S. President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all oil imports into the United States from Iran.
• November 14 - Iran hostage crisis: U.S. President Jimmy Carter issues Executive Order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States and U.S. banks in response to the hostage crisis.
• November 16 - Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).
• November 17 - Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and African American hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
• November 20 - A group of terrorists of around 200 militants occupy Mecca's Grand Mosque. They are driven out by French commandos (allowed into the city under these special circumstances despite their being non-Muslims) after bloody fighting that leaves 250 people dead and 600 wounded.
• November 21 - After false radio reports from the Ayatollah Khomeini that the Americans had occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan is attacked by a mob and set afire, killing 4. (see: Foreign relations of Pakistan)
• November 23 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten.
• November 28 - Mount Erebus disaster: an Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.

[edit] December

• December 5 - Jack Lynch resigns as Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland; he is succeeded by Charles Haughey.
• December 9 - The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
• December 21 - A ceasefire for Rhodesia is signed at London.
• December 24 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan.
• December 24 - The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
• December 26 - In Rhodesia, 96 Patriotic Front guerrillas enter the capital Salisbury to monitor a ceasefire that begins December 28.
• December 27 - The Soviet Union seizes control of Afghanistan, and Babrak Karmal replaces overthrown and executed President Hafizullah Amin.

[edit] Births

[edit] January-February

• January 1 - Koichi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (Kinki Kids)
• January 2 - Morena Baccarin, Italo-Brazilian actress
• January 3 - Francesco Bellissimo, Italian mangaka
• January 6 - Bernice Liu, Hong Kong actress
• January 7 - Bipasha Basu, Indian actress and model
• January 11 - Siti Nurhaliza, Malaysian singer
• January 12 - Marián Hossa, Slovak ice hockey player
• January 12 - Grzegorz Rasiak, Polish footballer
• January 16 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
• January 17 - Sharon Chan, Hong Kong actress
• January 18 - Jay Chou, Taiwanese singer and producer
• January 18 - Paulo Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
• January 20 - Rob Bourdon, American drummer (Linkin Park)
• January 20 - Asaka Kubo, Japanese gravure idol of 20th Century
• January 21 - Brian O'Driscoll, Irish rugby union player
• January 23 - Larry Hughes, American basketball player
• January 24 - Tatyana Ali, American actress
• January 27 - Rosamund Pike, British actress

• February 1 - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
• February 2 - Yuichi Tsuchiya, Japanese actor
• February 8 - Martin Rowlands, Irish footballer
• February 9 - Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress and model
• February 9 - Mena Suvari, American actress
• February 9 - Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
• February 11 - Brandy Norwood, American singer
• February 12 - Antonio Chatman, National Football League player
• February 12 - Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
• February 13 - Rafael Marquez, Mexican footballer who plays for F.C Barcelona
• February 15 - Gordon Shedden, Scottish race car driver
• February 16 - Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
• February 19 - Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress
• February 21 - Jennifer Love Hewitt, American actress and singer
• February 21 - Carlito, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
• February 22 - Patrick Merrill, Canadian lacrosse player
• February 25 - László Bodnár‎, Hungarian footballer

[edit] March-April

• March 4 - Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
• March 4 - Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
• March 4 - John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
• March 5 - Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
• March 6 - Erik Bedard, Canadian pitcher
• March 8 - Tom Chaplin, British singer (Keane)
• March 9 - Melina Perez, American professional wrestler
• March 11 - Benji Madden and Joel Madden, twins from Good Charlotte
• March 12 - Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist (The Libertines and Babyshambles)
• March 14 - Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
• March 17 - Samoa Joe, American wrestler
• March 18 - Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
• March 26 - Jason McGill, American writer
• March 30 - Norah Jones, American musician

• April 4 - Heath Ledger, Australian actor (d. 2008)
• April 8 - Alexi Laiho, Finnish guitarist (Children of Bodom)
• April 10 - Rachel Corrie, American activist (d. 2003)
• April 10 - Tsuyoshi Domoto, Japanese entertainer (Kinki Kids)
• April 10 - Sophie Ellis-Bextor, British singer
• April 10 - Dre, American producer
• April 11 - Michel Riesen, Swiss ice hockey player
• April 12 - Claire Danes, American actress
• April 12 - Jennifer Morrison, American actress
• April 13 - Baron Davis, NBA player
• April 14 - Pierre Roland, Indonesian actor
• April 18 - Michael Bradley, American basketball player
• April 18 - Yusuke Kamiji, Japanese actor
• April 19 - Kate Hudson, American actress
• April 19 - Antoaneta Stefanova, Bulgarian chess player
• April 21 - James McAvoy, Scottish actor
• April 22 - Daniel Johns, Australian musician (Silverchair)
• April 23 - Lauri Ylönen, Finnish singer (The Rasmus)
• April 23 - Yana Gupta, Indian actress of Czech origin
• April 27 - Travis Meeks, American musician (Days of the New)
• April 28 - Bahram Radan, Iranian actor
• April 30 - Casey Mongoven, American composer
• April 30 - Al Lewis, American actor

[edit] May-June

• May 1 - Mauro Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
• May 2 - Jason Chimera, Canadian ice hockey player
• May 2 - Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player (d. 2003)
• May 4 - Wes Butters, British broadcaster
• May 6 - Kerry Ellis, English actress
• May 9 - Rosario Dawson, American actress
• May 9 - Pierre Bouvier, Canadian musician
• May 12 - Adrian Serioux, Canadian footballer
• May 13 - Carl Philip, Prince of Sweden
• May 14 - Samuel Cruz, Regular American
• May 18 - Mariusz Lewandowski, Polish footballer
• May 19 - Andrea Pirlo, Italian footballer
• May 22 - Maggie Q, American actress
• May 24 - Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
• May 25 - Jonny Wilkinson, British rugby union player
• May 26 - Ashley Massaro, American professional wrestler and model
• May 29 - Brian Kendrick American Professional wrestler

• May 30 - Mike Bishai, Canadian ice hockey player

• June 5 - Pete Wentz, American bassist and lyricist (Fall Out Boy)
• June 8 - Pete Orr, Canadian baseball player
• June 9 - Émilie Loit, French tennis player
• June 13 - Nila Håkedal, Norwegian beach volleyball player
• June 16 - Ari Hest, American singer-songwriter
• June 18 - Chris Neil, a Canadian NHL hockey player.
• June 18 - Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• June 19 - John Duddy, Irish boxer
• June 22 - Sandra Klösel, German tennis player
• June 23 - LaDainian Tomlinson, American football player
• June 24 - Craig Shergold, British cancer patient
• June 28 - Randy McMichael, American football player
• June 29 - Barış Akarsu, Turkish rock musician (d.2007)
• June 29 - Marleen Veldhuis, Dutch swimmer
• June 30 - Rick Gonzalez, Hispanic-American actor

[edit] July-August

• July 3 - Ludivine Sagnier, French model and actress
• July 5 - Amélie Mauresmo, French tennis player
• July 5 - Shane Filan, Westlife
• July 9 - Ella Koon, Hong Kong actress
• July 14 - Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
• July 15 - Travis Fimmel, Australian fashion model and actor
• July 16 - Kinya Kotani, Japanese singer
• July 18 - Rick Baxter, American politician
• July 21 - David Carr, American football player
• July 24 - Lee Si-yeon, South Korean actress
• July 26 - Johnson Beharry, British recipient of the Victoria Cross
• July 26 - Tamyra Gray, American singer
• July 26 - Peter Sarno, Canadian ice hockey player
• July 27 - Jorge Arce, Mexican boxer
• July 27 - Shannon Moore, American professional wrestler
• July 30 - Graeme McDowell, Northern Irish professional golfer
• July 30 - Ian Watkins, lead singer of the band Lostprophets
• August 1 - Honeysuckle Weeks, British Actress
• August 3 - Evangeline Lilly, Canadian actress
• August 5 - David Healy, Northern Irish footballer
• August 8 - Azumi Kawashima, Japanese idol and AV idol
• August 10 - Joanna Garcia, American actress
• August 10 - Ted Geoghegan, American screenwriter
• August 11 - Bubba Crosby, American baseball player
• August 13 - Taizō Sugimura, Japanese politician
• August 16 - Sarah Balabagan, Filipina prisoner and singer
• August 19 - Oumar Kondé, Swiss footballer
• August 24 - Elva Hsiao, Taiwanese singer
• August 26 - Jamal Lewis, American football player
• August 26 - Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer
• August 27 - Giovanni Capitello, American filmmaker/actor
• August 28 - Robert Hoyzer, German football referee
• August 28 - Yuki Maeda, Japanese singer
• August 30 - Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
• August 30 - Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress
• August 31 - Mickie James, American professional wrestler

[edit] September-October

• September 1 - Neg Dupree, Neg's Urban Sports
• September 2 - Ron Ng, Hong Kong actor
• September 4 - Maxim Afinogenov, Russian ice hockey player
• September 5 - John Carew, Norwegian footballer
• September 5 - Stacey Dales, Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
• September 6 - Ned Collette, Australian singer and musician
• September 13 - Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player
• September 14 - Stuart Fielden, English rugby league player
• September 15 - Amy Davidson, American actress
• September 17 - Akin Ayodele, American football player
• September 18 - Alison Lohman, American actress
• September 19 - Noémie Lenoir, French supermodel
• September 20 - David Long, American author
• September 23 - Kevin Michael Reed, American photographer
• September 24 - Justin Bruening, American actor and model
• September 24 - Erin Chambers, American actress
• September 28 - Bam Margera, American skateboarder
• September 30 - Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist

• October 1 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
• October 1 - Marko Stanojevic, English-born Italian rugby player
• October 3 - John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
• October 3 - Daniel Hollie, American professional wrestler
• October 3 - Matt Davis (comedian), American stand up comedian
• October 4 - Rachael Leigh Cook American actress
• October 7 - Susan Eldridge, American supermodel
• October 9 - Vernon Fox, National Football League player
• October 9 - Brandon Routh, American actor
• October 10 - Mýa, American singer and actress
• October 10 - Wu Zun, Bruneian actor, model, and singer
• October 13 - Ryan Malcolm, Canadian singer
• October 13 - Mamadou Niang, Senegalese Soccer Player
• October 14 - Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler
• October 16 - Erin Brown, actress
• October 17 - Kimi Räikkönen, Finnish race car driver
• October 20 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
• October 23 - Vanessa Petruo, German pop singer
• October 23 - Jorge Solis, Mexican professional boxer
• October 24 - Ben Gillies, Australian Drummer
• October 28 - Martin Skoula, Czech ice hockey player
• October 30 - Yukie Nakama, Japanese actress

[edit] November-December

• November 1 - Coco Crisp, American baseball player
• November 1 - Milan Dudić‎, Serbian footballer
• November 3 - Tim McIlrath, American singer and songwriter (Rise Against)
• November 4 - Audrey Hollander, American pornographic actress
• November 6 - Lamar Odom, American basketball player
• November 6 - Myolie Wu, Hong Kong actress
• November 7 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer and songwriter
• November 8 - Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
• November 12 - Cote de Pablo, Chilean actress
• November 13 - Ron Artest, National Basketball Association player
• November 14 - Mavie Hörbiger, German actress
• November 17 - Matthew Spring, English footballer
• November 20 - Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer
• November 21 - Kim Dong Wan, South Korean singer and actor
• November 22 - Mohammad Tanzeel-ul-siddiqi al-husaini, Pakistani author
• November 22 - Chris Doran, Irish singer
• November 23 - Kelly Brook, English actress/model
• November 27 - Ricky Carmichael, American Motocross Champion
• November 28 - Jamie Korab, Canadian curler

• December 3 - Rainbow Sun Francks, Canadian actor and singer
• December 3 - Rock Cartwright, American football player
• December 3 - Daniel Bedingfield, English pop singer and songwriter
• December 5 - Evonne Hsu, Taiwanese singer
• December 7 - Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress
• December 8 - Raymond Lam, Hong Kong actor
• December 14 - Michael Owen, English footballer
• December 15 - Adam Brody, American actor
• December 17 - William Green, American football player
• December 17 - Matt Murley, National Hockey League player
• December 18 - Amy Grabow, American actress
• December 23 - Summer Altice, American model and actress
• December 26 - Mzbel, Ghanaian singer
• December 27 - Carson Palmer, National Football League quarterback
• December 28 - James Blake, American tennis pro
• December 29 - Diego Luna, Mexican actor
• December 30 - Milana Terloeva, Chechen journalist and author
• December 31 - Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress
• December 31 - Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] January - March

• January 3 - Conrad Hilton, American hotelier (b. 1887)
• January 5 - Charles Mingus, American musician (b. 1922)
• January 5 - Billy Bletcher, American actor (b. 1894)
• January 8 - Sara Carter, American bluegrass and country singer (b. 1898)
• January 13 - Donny Hathaway, American musician (b. 1945)
• January 26 - Nelson Rockefeller, Governor of New York, Vice President of the United States (b. 1908)

• February 2 - Sid Vicious, English musician (Sex Pistols) (drug overdose) (b. 1957)
• February 2 - Issa Pliyev, Soviet general (b. 1903)
• February 7 - Josef Mengele, German doctor (b. 1911)
• February 9 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
• February 12 - Jean Renoir, French film director (b. 1894)
• February 14 - Reginald Maudling, British politician (b. 1917)
• February 23 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
• February 28 - Mr. Ed, American talking horse (b. 1949)

• March 1 - Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
• March 19 - Richard Beckinsale, British actor (b. 1947)
• March 23 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• March 28 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
• March 29 - Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra, King of Malaysia (b. 1917)
• March 30 - Airey Neave, British politician (assassinated) (b. 1916)

[edit] April - June

• April 1 - Barbara Luddy, American actor (b. 1908)
• April 4 - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, President and Prime Minister of Pakistan (executed) (b. 1928)
• April 4 - Edgar Buchanan, American actor (b. 1903)
• April 10 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (b. 1911)
• April 23 - Blair Peach, New Zealand-born anti-Nazi campaigner (killed by police) (b. 1946)

• May 2 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
• May 11 - Lester Flatt, American bluegrass and folk singer (b. 1914)
• May 11 - Barbara Hutton, American socialite (b. 1912)
• May 29 - Mary Pickford, Canadian actress and studio founder (b. 1892)

• June 1 - Werner Forssmann, German physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1904)
• June 4 - Lazar Lagin, Soviet satirical and children's writer (b.1903)
• June 7 - Asa Earl Carter, author and segregationist (b. 1925)
• June 11 - John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)
• June 17 - Duffy Lewis, baseball player (b. 1888)
• June 19 - Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
• June 21 - Angus MacLise, American percussionist, composer, mystic, shaman, poet, occultist, calligrapher and original drummer for the Velvet Underground (b. 1938)
• June 25 - Dave Fleischer, American animator (b. 1894)
• June 26 - Vernon Presley, father of Elvis Presley, grandfather of Lisa Marie Presley (b. 1916)
• June 29 - Lowell George, American musician (Little Feat) (b. 1945)

[edit] July - September

• July 3 - Louis Durey, French composer (b. 1888)
• July 8 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• July 8 - Robert B. Woodward, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
• July 10 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (b. 1894)
• July 12 - Minnie Riperton, American singer (b. 1947)
• July 13 - Ludwig Merwart, Austrian painter and graphic artist (1913)