1982

Events

January

• January 1 – New ITV franchises, Central, TVS and TSW, are launched in the United Kingdom.
• January 7 – The Commodore 64 8-bit home computer is launched by Commodore International in Las Vegas ; it becomes the all-time best-selling single personal computer model.
• January 8 – AT&T Corporation agrees to break up and divest itself of 22 subdivisions.
• January 10 – 15 – The second brutal cold snap of the winter sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities in the United Kingdom. It includes the national record from February 1895 being equalled, it would be equalled again in December 1995.
• January 11 – Mark Thatcher, son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara during the Dakar Rally; he is rescued January 14.
• January 11 – 17 – A brutal cold snap sends temperatures to all-time record lows in dozens of cities throughout the Midwestern United States.
• January 13 – Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78. On the same day, a Washington Metro train derails to the north, killing three people in the system's first fatal accident.
• January 17 – Cold Sunday sweeps over the northern United States.
• January 18 – 1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs Diamond Crash: Four Northrop T-38 aircraft of the United States Air Force Thunderbirds Demonstration Squadron crash at Indian Springs Air Force Auxiliary Field, Nevada, killing all 4 pilots.
• January 24 – Super Bowl XVI sees the San Francisco 49ers and game MVP Joe Montana capture their first National Football League championship by beating the Cincinnati Bengals 26–21 at Detroit's Pontiac Silverdome.
• January 26
• * Mauno Koivisto is elected President of Finland.
• * Unemployment in the United Kingdom increases by 129,918 to 3,070,621, a post-war record number.
• January 27 – The Garret FitzGerald government of the Republic of Ireland is defeated 82–81 on its budget; the 22nd Dáil Éireann is dissolved.
• January 28 – United States Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier is rescued by the Italian anti-terrorism Nucleo Operativo Centrale di Sicurezza force after being held captive for 42 days by the Red Brigades.
• January 30 – The first computer virus, the Elk Cloner, written by 15-year old Rich Skrenta, is found. It infects Apple II computers via floppy disk.

  February

• February 1 – Senegal and Gambia form a loose Senegambia Confederation.
• February 2 – The Hama massacre begins in Syria.
• February 3 – Syrian president Hafez al-Assad orders the army to purge the city of Harran of the Muslim Brotherhood.
• February 5 – London-based Laker Airways collapses, leaving 6,000 stranded passengers and debts of $270 million.
• February 7 – Iraqi club Al-Shorta win the 1982 Arab Club Champions Cup with a 4–2 aggregate win over Al-Nejmeh in the final.
• February 9 – Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes in Tokyo Bay due to thrust reversal on approach to Tokyo International Airport, killing 24 among the 174 people on board.
• February 11 – 12 – First China Central Television New Year's Gala program broadcast; it will become the world's most watched television show.
• February 15 – The oil platform Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing all 84 rig workers aboard.
• February 18 – The Republic of Ireland general election gives a boost to Fianna Fáil.
• February 19 – The DeLorean Motor Company car factory in Belfast is put into receivership.
• February 24 – In South Africa, 22 National Party MPs led by Andries Treurnicht vote for no confidence in P. W. Botha.
• February 25 – The European Court of Human Rights rules that teachers who cane, belt or tawse children against the wishes of their parents are in breach of the Human Rights Convention.
• February 27 – Atlanta murders of 1979–81: Wayne Williams is convicted of murdering two adult men and is sentenced to two consecutive life terms.
• February 28 – Adobe Systems is founded in the United States.

  March

• March 2 – Decentralisation in France: Law of Decentralisation creates the administrative regions of France.
• March 3 – Elizabeth II opens the Barbican Centre in London.
• March 9 – Charles Haughey becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland.
• March 10
• * The United States places an embargo on Libyan oil imports, alleging Libyan state-sponsored terrorism.
• * Syzygy: All 9 planets recognized at this time align on the same side of the Sun.
• March 16 – Claus von Bülow is found guilty of the attempted murder of his wife in Newport, Rhode Island.
• March 18 – A legal case brought by Mary Whitehouse against the National Theatre of Britain concerning alleged obscenity in the play The Romans in Britain ends after the Attorney General intervenes.
• March 19 – Argentine scrap metal workers raise the flag of Argentina on South Georgia in the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory.
• March 26 – A ground-breaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.
• March 29
• * Royal Assent is given to the Canada Act 1982, setting the stage for the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution on April 17.
• * The 54th Academy Awards, hosted by Johnny Carson, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. Chariots of Fire wins Best Picture and 3 other Academy Awards.

  April

• April 1 – The 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands begins when Argentine forces land near Stanley, beginning the Falklands War.
• April 2 – Rex Hunt, the British governor of the Falkland Islands, surrenders the islands to Argentine forces, leading to their occupation.
• April 3 – Invasion of the Falkland Islands: Argentine forces begin the invasion of South Georgia.
• April 6 – A blizzard unprecedented in size for April dumps 1–2 feet of snow on the northeastern United States, closing schools and businesses, snarling traffic, and canceling several major league baseball games.
• April 17 – By Proclamation of the Queen of Canada on Parliament Hill, Canada patriates its constitution, gaining full political independence from the United Kingdom; included is the country's first entrenched bill of rights.
• April 23 – Dennis Wardlow, mayor of Key West, Florida, declares the independent "Conch Republic" for a day.
• April 24 – German singer Nicole wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1982 with the song Ein Bisschen Frieden.
• April 25 – Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula in accordance with the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty of 1979.
• April 26 – Falklands War: British troops retake South Georgia Island during Operation Paraquet.
• April 30 – The Bijon Setu massacre takes place in India.

  May

• May 1 – A crowd of over 100,000 attends the first day of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is kicked off with an address by President Ronald Reagan. Over 11 million people attend during its 6-month run.
• May 2
• * Falklands War: The British nuclear submarine sinks the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, killing 323 sailors. Operation Algeciras, an attempt to destroy a Royal Navy warship in Gibraltar, fails.
• * The Weather Channel airs on cable television in the United States for the first time.
• May 4 – Falklands War: is hit by an Argentine Exocet missile and burns out of control; 20 sailors are killed. The ship sinks on May 10.
• May 5 – A Unabomber bomb explodes in the computer science department at Vanderbilt University; secretary Janet Smith is injured.
• May 8 – French-Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve is killed during qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix.
• May 12
• * Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the shrine at Fátima.
• * Braniff International Airways is declared bankrupt and ceases all flights.
• May 16 – The New York Islanders sweep the Vancouver Canucks in four games to win the 1982 Stanley Cup Final in ice hockey.
• May 18 – Falklands War: The British Special Air Service launches Operation Mikado to destroy three Argentinean Exocet missiles and five Super Étendard fighter-bombers in mainland Argentina. It fails when the Argentineans discover the plot.
• May 21
• * Falklands War: is sunk by Argentine aircraft, killing 22 sailors.
• * The International Maritime Organization is established.
• May 23 – Falklands War: is lost.
• May 24
• * Iranian troops retake Khorramshahr.
• * KGB head Yuri Andropov is appointed to the Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• May 25 – British ships and are sunk during the Falklands War; Coventry by two A-4C Skyhawks and the latter sunk by an Exocet.
• May 26
• * Aston Villa F.C. wins the European Cup, beating Bayern Munich 1–0 after a 69-minute goal by Peter Withe in Rotterdam.
• * Kielder Water, an artificial lake in Northumberland, is opened.
• May 27
• * Tottenham Hotspur F.C. wins the FA Cup, beating Queens Park Rangers 1–0 in a replay.
• * Conservative candidate Tim Smith holds the seat of Beaconsfield in a by-election. The Labour Party candidate is future Prime Minister Tony Blair.
• May 28 – Pope John Paul II's visit to the United Kingdom, the first by a reigning pope, begins.
• May 28 – 29 – Falklands War: Battle of Goose Green: British forces defeat a larger Argentine force.
• May 30
• * Spain becomes the 16th member of NATO and the first nation to enter the alliance since West Germany's admission in 1955.
• * Indianapolis 500: 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds. Leading to the closest finish to this date, Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps, in what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history.
• * Hussain Muhammad Ershad seizes power in Bangladesh.
• * Cal Ripken, Jr. plays the first of what eventually becomes his record-breaking streak of 2,632 consecutive Major League Baseball games in the United States.

  June

• June 3 – Israeli ambassador to the UK Shlomo Argov is shot in London, an event which provokes the 1982 Lebanon War; he dies in 2003 in Israel without regaining full consciousness.
• June 6
• * The 1982 Lebanon War begins: Forces under Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon invade southern Lebanon in their "Operation Peace for the Galilee," eventually reaching as far north as the capital Beirut.
• * The United Nations Security Council votes to demand that Israel withdraw its troops from Lebanon.
• June 8
• * President Ronald Reagan becomes the first American chief executive to address a joint session of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
• * Falklands War: British supply ship RFA Sir Galahad is destroyed during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks
• * VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into a forest hillside in Fortaleza in Brazil, killing 137.
• June 11 – is released in the United States; this will become the biggest box-office hit of the rest of the decade.
• June 12 – The Nuclear Disarmament Rally, an event against nuclear weapon proliferation, draws 750,000 to New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Linda Ronstadt attend. An international convocation at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine features prominent peace activists from around the world and afterward participants march on Fifth Avenue to Central Park for the rally.
• June 13
• * The 1982 FIFA World Cup begins in Spain.
• * Fahd becomes King of Saudi Arabia upon the death of his brother, Khalid.
• June 14 – Falklands War: Argentine forces in the capital, Stanley, conditionally surrender to British forces.
• June 18 – Argentine military dictator Leopoldo Galtieri resigns in the wake of his country's defeat in the Falklands War.
• June 19 – The body of "God's Banker", Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
• June 21 – Prince William is born at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, West London.
• June 24 – British Airways Flight 9 suffers a temporary four-engine flameout and damage to the exterior of the plane after flying through the otherwise undetected volcanic ash plume from Indonesia's Mount Galunggung.
• June 25 – The Institute for Puerto Rican Policy is founded in New York City to research and advocate for Puerto Rican and Latino community issues. In 2006, it changes its name to the National Institute for Latino Policy.
• June 30 – The Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States falls short of the 38 states needed to pass.

  July

• July 2
• * Lawnchair Larry flight flies above Long Beach, California, in a lawn chair with weather balloons attached.
• * Roy Jenkins is elected Leader of the Social Democratic Party in the United Kingdom.
• July 3 – ASLEF train drivers in the United Kingdom go on strike over hours of work, returning to work on July 18.
• July 4 – Four Iranian diplomats are kidnapped upon Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
• July 6 – A lunar eclipse occurs.
• July 9
• * Pan Am Flight 759 crashes in Kenner, Louisiana, killing all 146 on board and 8 on the ground.
• * Intruder Michael Fagan breaches Buckingham Palace security as far as into the bedroom of Elizabeth II in London.
• July 11 – Italy beats West Germany 3–1 to win the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain.
• July 12 – Checker Motors Corporation, the American taxicab manufacturer, ceases production.
• July 15 – Geoffrey Prime, a British GCHQ civil servant, is remanded in custody on charges under the Official Secrets Act 1911.
• July 16 – In New York City, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon is sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 for tax fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
• July 19 – William Whitelaw, British Home Secretary, announces that Michael Trestrail has resigned from the Metropolitan Police Service over a relationship with a male prostitute.
• July 20 – Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: the Provisional IRA detonates 2 bombs in central London, killing 8 soldiers, wounding 47 people, and leading to the deaths of 7 horses.
• July 21 –, the Royal Navy flagship during the Falklands War, returns home to Portsmouth to a hero's welcome.
• July 23
• * The International Whaling Commission decides to end commercial whaling by 1985–1986.
• * A coroner's jury returns a verdict of suicide on Roberto Calvi, who was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge.
• * Torrential rain and mudslides in Nagasaki, Japan, destroy bridges and kill 299.
• * Twilight Zone accident: During filming of '', actor Vic Morrow and 2 child actors die in a helicopter stunt accident in California.
• July 31 – Beaune coach crash: In Beaune, France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident.

  August

• August 1 – Attempted coup against government of Daniel Arap Moi in Kenya.
• August 4 – The United Nations Security Council votes to censure Israel because its troops are still in Lebanon.
• August 7 – Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini resigns.
• August 12 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its large foreign debt, triggering a debt crisis that quickly spreads throughout Latin America.
• August 13 – In Hong Kong, health warnings on cigarette packets are made statutory.
• August 17 – The first compact discs are produced in Germany.
• August 20 – Lebanese Civil War: A multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the PLO withdrawal from Lebanon. French troops arrive August 21, U.S. Marines August 25.

  September

• September 1 – The United States Air Force Space Command is founded.
• September 3 – Italian general Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa is killed in a Mafia ambush.
• September 5 – Iowa paperboy Johnny Gosch is kidnapped.
• September 14 – Lebanese President-elect Bachir Gemayel is assassinated in Beirut.
• September 15 - A first edition of USA Today was founded in United States.
• September 18
• *A Lebanese Christian militia kill thousands of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut, the massacre is a response to the assassination of president-elect, Bachir Gemayel four days earlier.
• *The funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco takes place in Monaco; Princess Grace died after having suffered a car crash a few days previously
• September 19 – The first emoticons are posted by Scott Fahlman.
• September 21
• * The first International Day of Peace is proclaimed by the.
• * In the United States, the National Football League Players Association calls a strike, the first in-season work stoppage in the National Football League's 63-year history. The strike lasts for 57 days, reduces the regular season from 16 games to 9, and forces an expanded 16-team playoff tournament.
• September 23 – Amine Gemayel, brother of Bachir, is elected president of Lebanon.
• September 24 – The Wimpy Operation, first act of armed resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut.
• September 25 – In Israel, 400,000 marchers demand the resignation of Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
• September 26 – Thermals take Australian parachutist Rich Collins up to during a jump; he almost blacks out due to lack of oxygen. He releases his main parachute to fall to lower altitude and lands by his reserve parachute.
• September 29 – October 1 – The Chicago Tylenol murders occur when seven people in the Chicago area die after ingesting capsules laced with potassium cyanide.

  October

• October 1
• * Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.
• * In Orlando, Florida, Walt Disney World opens its second theme park, EPCOT Center, to the public for the first time.
• * Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player.
• October 8
• * Poland bans the Solidarity trade union after having suspended it on December 13, 1981.
• * After six years in opposition, Social Democrat Olof Palme becomes once again Prime Minister of Sweden.
• October 11 – The Mary Rose, flagship of Henry VIII of England that sank in 1545, is raised from the Solent.
• October 13 – The Ford Sierra is launched in Europe, replacing the Ford Cortina.
• October 19 – John DeLorean is arrested for selling cocaine to undercover FBI agents.
• October 20 – Luzhniki disaster: During the UEFA Cup match between FC Spartak Moscow and HFC Haarlem, 66 people are crushed to death.
• October 27
• * In Canada, Dominion Day is officially renamed Canada Day.
• * The Homosexual Offences Order 1982 comes into effect, decriminalising homosexuality in Northern Ireland for those aged 18 or older.
• October 28 – The Socialist Party wins the election in Spain; Felipe González is elected Prime Minister.

  November

• November 2 – Channel 4, a British public-service television broadcaster, is launched, with Richard Whiteley's Countdown being the first program to be broadcast.
• November 3
• * A gasoline or petrol tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 176 people.
• * The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years. It last hit a record on January 11, 1973, when the average closed at 1,051.70. The points gain is the biggest ever up to this point.
• November 6 – Cameroon president Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns, replaced by Paul Biya.
• November 7 – The Thames Barrier is first publicly demonstrated.
• November 8 – Kenan Evren becomes the seventh president of Turkey as a result of constitution referendum. His former title was "head of state".
• November 11 – In Lebanon, the first Tyre headquarters bombing kills between 89 and 102 people.
• November 12 – In the Soviet Union, former KGB head Yuri Andropov is selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev who had died two days earlier.
• November 13 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.
• November 14 – The leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Wałęsa, is released from 11 months of internment near the Soviet border.
• November 20
• *The General Union of Ecuadorian Workers is founded.
• *University of California, Berkeley executes "The Play" in a college football game against Stanford. Completing a wacky 57-yard kickoff return that includes five laterals, Kevin Moen runs through Stanford band members who have prematurely come onto the field. His touchdown stands and California wins 25–20.
• November 25 – The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day fire destroys an entire city block of downtown Minneapolis, including the headquarters of Northwestern National Bank.
• November 27 – Yasuhiro Nakasone becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
• November 28
• * Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
• * The Edmonton Eskimos win an unprecedented 5th consecutive Grey Cup; a feat yet unaccomplished by any professional football franchise to win the 70th Grey Cup defeating the Toronto Argonauts 32–16.
• November 30 – Michael Jackson releases his sixth studio album, Thriller, in the United States, which will go on to be the greatest selling album of all time at 110 million units sold worldwide.

  December

• December 1 – Miguel de la Madrid takes office as President of Mexico.
• December 2 – At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
• December 3 – A final soil sample is taken from the site of Times Beach, Missouri. It is found to contain 300 times the safe level of dioxin.
• December 4 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
• December 7 – The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.
• December 8 – The December murders occur in Suriname.
• December 11 – Swedish pop group ABBA make their final public performance on the British TV programme The Late, Late Breakfast Show.
• December 12 – Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp: 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 km perimeter fence of RAF Greenham Common in England in a protest against nuclear weapons.
• December 13 – The 6.2 North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII, killing 2,800.
• December 16 – The United Freedom Front bombs an office of South African Airways in Elmont, NY and an IBM office in Harrison, NY. Two police officers suffer hearing damage. In March 1984, the UFF claims responsibility for the IBM building bombing, stating that the company was targeted because of its business in South Africa under Apartheid.
• December 22 – The Indian Ocean Commission is created by the Port Louis Agreement.
• December 23 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency recommends the evacuation of Times Beach, Missouri, due to dangerous levels of dioxin contamination.
• December 24 – The "Christmas Eve Blizzard of '82" hits Denver.
• December 26 – Time magazine's Man of the Year is given for the first time to a non-human, the computer.
• December 29 – Paul "Bear" Bryant coaches his final college football game, leading Alabama to a 21–15 victory over Illinois in the Liberty Bowl at Memphis, Tennessee. Bryant dies of a massive heart attack four weeks later at age 69.

  Date unknown

• The population of the People's Republic of China alone exceeds 1 billion, making China the first nation to have a population of more than 1 billion.
• A global surplus of crude oil causes gasoline prices to collapse.
• A brief but severe recession begins in the United States.
• Seattle is officially dubbed the Emerald City after a contest is held to choose a new city slogan.
• Ciabatta bread is invented by a baker in Verona, Italy.
• The car brand Toyota Camry is introduced.
• Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth, published in book format in the United States, warns of the dangers of the nuclear arms race.

  Births

January

• January 1 – David Nalbandian, Argentine tennis player
• January 3 – Chisu, Finnish singer-songwriter
• January 4
• * Kang Hye-jung, South Korean actress
• * Richard Logan, English footballer
• January 5
• * Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
• * Vadims Vasiļevskis, Latvian javelin thrower
• January 6
• * Gilbert Arenas, American basketball player
• * Eddie Redmayne, English actor
• January 7
• * Francisco Rodríguez, Venezuelan baseball player
• * Lauren Cohan, British-American actress
• * Ruth Negga, Irish actress
• * Camilo Villegas, Colombian golfer
• January 8
• * Jonathan Cantwell, Australian racing cyclist
• * Gaby Hoffmann, American actress
• January 9 – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, British princess
• January 10
• * Misato Fukuen, Japanese voice actress
• * Ana Layevska, Ukrainian–born, Mexican singer and actress
• * Josh Ryan Evans, American actor
• January 11 – Ashley Taylor Dawson, English singer and actor
• January 13
• * Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player
• * Ruth Wilson, English actress
• January 14
• * Caleb Followill, American singer
• * Víctor Valdés, Spanish football player
• January 15 – Benjamin Agosto, American skater
• January 17
• * David Blue, American actor
• * Dwyane Wade, American professional basketball player
• January 18 – Joanna Newsom, American singer, harpist, pianist and songwriter
• January 19
• * Pete Buttigieg, American politician and Presidential candidate
• * Jodie Sweetin, American actress
• January 21 – Go Shiozaki, Japanese professional wrestler
• January 23 – Karol Bielecki, Polish handball player
• January 25
• * Noemi, Italian singer
• * Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer
• January 28
• * Mirtel Pohla, Estonian actress
• * Ainett Stephens, Venezuelan television personality/model
• January 29
• * Adam Lambert, American singer
• * Heidi Mueller, American actress
• January 31 – Elena Paparizou, Greek-Swedish singer

  February

• February 1
• * Iness Chepkesis Chenonge, Kenyan athlete
• * Gavin Henson, Welsh rugby union player
• February 2
• * Li-Mei Chiang, Japanese actress
• * Filippo Magnini, Italian swimmer
• February 3
• * Vera Brezhneva, Ukrainian and Russian pop-singer and television presenter
• * Bridget Regan, American actress
• February 4 – Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
• February 5 – Yū Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
• February 6 – Alice Eve, English actress
• February 7
• * Cory Doran, Canadian voice actor and director
• * Delia Matache, Romanian singer
• February 8 – Zersenay Tadese, Eritrean long-distance track/road running athlete
• February 9 – Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
• February 10
• * Justin Gatlin, American athlete
• * Yoshimasa Hosoya, Japanese voice actor
• * Mon Redee Sut Txi, Malaysian athlete
• February 11
• * Natalie Dormer, English actress
• * Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
• February 12 – Carter Hayden, Canadian actor and voice actor
• February 14 – Marián Gáborík, Czechoslovakian hockey player
• February 16 – Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
• February 17
• * Adriano, Brazilian footballer
• * Brooke D'Orsay, Canadian actress and voice actress
• * Daniel Merriweather, Australian singer
• February 19 – Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer
• February 22
• * Buğra Gülsoy, Turkish actor, architect, director, graphic designer and photographer
• * Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
• February 25
• * Chris Baird, Northern Irish footballer
• * Maria Kanellis, American professional wrestler/model
• * Bert McCracken, American singer
• February 26 – Nate Ruess, American singer-songwriter
• February 28
• * Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier
• * Natalia Vodianova, Russian model, actress and philanthropist

  March

• March 2
• * Kevin Kurányi, German soccer player
• * Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish hockey goaltender
• * Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
• March 3 – Jessica Biel, American actress
• March 4
• * Landon Donovan, American soccer player
• * Yasemin Mori, Turkish musician
• March 5 – Daniel Carter, New Zealand rugby player
• March 6 – Stephen Jordan, English footballer
• March 8
• * Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast
• * Kat Von D, Mexican-born American tattoo artist, reality television star, musician and makeup artist
• March 9 – Matt Bowen, Australian rugby league player
• March 10
• * Kwame Brown, American basketball player
• * Thomas Middleditch, Canadian actor
• March 11
• * Thora Birch, American actress and producer
• * Lindsey McKeon, American actress
• March 13
• * Gisela Mota Ocampo, mayor of Temixco, Morelos, Mexico 2016
• * Jamie Cox, Australian cricketer
• March 15
• * Bobby Boswell, American soccer player
• * Tom Budge, Australian actor
• * Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, Kenyan long-distance runner
• * Daniel Richardsson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier
• March 17 – Herman Sikumbang, Indonesian guitarist
• March 18 – Adam Pally, American actor and comedian
• March 19 – Triana Iglesias, Norwegian model/Playboy Cyber Girl
• March 20
• * Erica Luttrell, Canadian actress
• * Nick Blood, English actor
• * Nick Wheeler, American musician
• March 21
• * Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player
• * Santino Fontana, American actor and singer
• March 22
• * Chris Wallace, American musician and singer
• * Constance Wu, American actress
• March 23
• * Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish football goalkeeper
• * Adam Thomson, New Zealand rugby player
• March 24 – Kenichirou Ohashi, Japanese voice actor
• March 25
• * Sean Faris, American actor
• * Danica Patrick, American race car driver
• * Jenny Slate, American actress and comedian
• March 26 – Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer and manager
• March 30
• * Jason Dohring, American actor
• * Philippe Mexès, French footballer
• * Javier Portillo, Spanish footballer
• March 31
• * David Poisson, French alpine skier
• * Tal Ben Haim, Israeli footballer
• * Chloé Zhao, Chinese-American film director

  April

• April 1
• * Taran Killam, American actor and comedian
• * Andreas Thorkildsen, Norwegian javelin thrower
• * Róbert Vittek, Slovak football player
• April 2 – David Ferrer, Spanish tennis player
• April 3
• * Kasumi Nakane, Japanese gravure idol
• * Cobie Smulders, Canadian actress
• April 5
• * Thomas Hitzlsperger, German director of football and former footballer
• * Hayley Atwell, British-American actress
• April 6
• * Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
• * Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Spanish actor
• April 9
• * Jay Baruchel, Canadian actor and film director
• * Olímpio Cipriano, Angolan basketball player
• April 10
• * Chyler Leigh, American actress
• * Nadia Meikher, Ukrainian mezzo-soprano singer
• April 12 – Easton Corbin, American country music singer
• April 13
• * Nellie McKay, American singer
• * Federico Crescentini, Sanmarinese football player
• April 14 – Larissa França, Brazilian beach volleyball player
• April 15 – Seth Rogen, Canadian actor, comedian, film director and screenwriter
• April 16 – Gina Carano, American actress, television personality, fitness model and a former mixed martial artist
• April 18
• * Scott Hartnell, Canadian hockey player
• * Marie-Élaine Thibert, Canadian singer
• April 19 – Ola Vigen Hattestad, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
• April 20 – Keiichiro Nagashima, Japanese speed skater
• April 21 – Claybourne Elder, American actor, singer, and writer
• April 22
• * Kaká, Brazilian footballer
• * Cassidy Freeman, American actress and musician
• * Noriko Shitaya, Japanese voice actress
• April 24 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer
• April 25 – Monty Panesar, English cricketer
• April 26 – Nadja Benaissa, German pop singer
• April 27 – Brian Gallant, Canadian politician, Premier of New Brunswick
• April 28 – Harry Shum Jr., Costa Rican-American dancer and actor
• April 30
• * Lloyd Banks, American rapper
• * Kirsten Dunst, American actress
• * Drew Seeley, Canadian actor, singer-songwriter and dancer

  May

• May 1
• * Jamie Dornan, Northern Irish actor and model
• * Darijo Srna, Croatian soccer player
• May 3 – Rebecca Hall, British-American actress
• May 4
• * Markus Rogan, Austrian swimmer
• * Vera Schmidt, Hungarian singer-songwriter
• May 6
• * Miljan Mrdaković, Serbian professional footballer
• * Jason Witten, American football player
• May 7 – Ákos Buzsáky, Hungarian footballer
• May 8 – Adrián González, Mexican-American baseball player
• May 9 – Rachel Boston, American actress
• May 10
• * Jeremy Gable, American playwright
• * Adebayo Akinfenwa, English footballer
• May 11
• * Cory Monteith, Canadian actor
• * Jonathan Jackson, American actor
• May 13 – Oguchi Onyewu, American soccer player
• May 14
• * Ai Shibata, Japanese swimmer
• * Anjelah Johnson, American actress
• May 15
• * Alexandra Breckenridge, American actress, voice actress, and photographer
• * Veronica Campbell-Brown, Jamaican athlete
• * Tatsuya Fujiwara, Japanese actor
• * Jessica Sutta, American dancer and singer
• * Layal Abboud, Lebanese singer
• May 16
• * Billy Crawford, Filipino-American singer
• * Tiya Sircar, American actress
• May 17
• * Dylan Macallister, Australian soccer player
• * Tony Parker, French basketball player
• * Kaye Abad, Filipino-American actress
• May 19 – Kevin Amankwaah, English footballer
• May 20
• * Petr Čech, Czech footballer
• * Jessica Raine, English actress
• * Lee Ryol-li, Korean-Japanese boxer
• * Donald Reignoux, French actor
• May 22
• * Hong Yong-jo, North Korean footballer
• * Erin McNaught, 2006 Miss Australia
• * Apolo Ohno, American short track speed skater and actor
• May 23 – Tristan Prettyman, American singer-songwriter
• May 25
• * Justin Hodges, Australian rugby league player
• * Alexandr Ivanov, Russian javelin thrower
• * Ezekiel Kemboi, Kenyan athlete
• May 26 – Yoko Matsugane, Japanese model
• May 27 – Michael de Grussa, Australian musician/comedian
• May 29
• * Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model
• * Anita Briem, Icelandic actress

  June

• June 1 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player
• June 2 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
• June 3 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian athlete
• June 4 – MC Jin, American rapper
• June 5 – Yoo In-na, South Korean actor
• June 8 – Nadia Petrova, Russian tennis player
• June 10
• * Laleh, Swedish singer-songwriter
• * Tara Lipinski, American figure skater
• * Princess Madeleine of Sweden
• June 11
• * Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
• * Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
• June 12 – Jason David, American football player
• June 13 – Kenenisa Bekele, Ethiopian long-distance runner
• June 14
• * Jamie Green, English racing driver
• * Nicole Irving, Australian swimmer
• * Luda Kroitor, Moldavian-born salsa dancer and instructor
• * Lang Lang, Chinese pianist
• June 16 – Jodi Sta. Maria, Filipina actress
• June 17 – Ursula Ratasepp, Estonian actress
• June 18 – Marco Borriello, Italian football player
• June 19 – Mika Kamita, Japanese singer
• June 21
• * Jussie Smollett, American actor
• * Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, heir to the Prince of Wales
• * Danny Buijs, Dutch football manager and former player
• June 22
• * Tetsuya Naito, Japanese professional wrestler
• * Soraia Chaves, Portuguese actress and model
• June 23
• * Joona Puhakka, Finnish diver
• * Denys Shelikhov, Ukrainian football player
• June 24
• * Natasa Dusev-Janics, Serbian-Hungarian sprint canoeist
• * Kevin Nolan, English professional footballer
• June 25
• * Rain, South Korean singer-songwriter, actor, and music producer
• * Ryan Block, American technology entrepreneur
• * Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player
• * Cécile Cassel, French actress and singer
• June 26 – Rosdin Wasli, Malaysian footballer
• June 27
• * Takeru Shibaki, Japanese actor
• * Polo Ravales, Filipino actor and model
• June 28
• * Jung Gyu-woon, South Korean actor
• * Grazi Massafera, Brazilian actress and model
• June 29
• * Lily Rabe, American actress
• * Colin Jost, American actor, writer, and comedian
• * Ott Sepp, Estonian actor, singer, writer and television presenter
• * Kwon Yul, South Korean actor
• June 30
• * Lizzy Caplan, American actress
• * Büşra Pekin, Turkish actress
• * Amer Delić, Bosnian tennis player

  July

• July 1
• * Daniel Lee Chee Hun, Malaysian-Chinese singer
• * Hilarie Burton, American actress and VJ
• * Johann Tschopp, Swiss mountain bike racer
• July 2 – Beste Bereket, Turkish actress
• July 3 – Kanika, Indian actress and singer
• July 4
• * Michael Sorrentino, American model, actor, and author
• * Antonio Reguero, Spanish footballer
• * Zoran Ljubinković, Serbian footballer
• July 5
• * Javed Ali, Indian singer
• * Tuba Büyüküstün, Turkish actress
• * Alexander Dimitrenko, Ukrainian-German boxer
• * Philippe Gilbert, Belgian cyclist
• * Kate Gynther, Australian water polo player
• * Paíto, Mozambican footballer
• * Beno Udrih, Slovenian basketball player
• July 6
• * Brandon Jacobs, American football player
• * Bree Robertson, Australian gymnast and actress
• * Misty Upham, American actress
• * Tay Zonday, American actor and singer
• July 7
• * Jan Laštůvka, Czech footballer
• * Julien Doré, French singer-songwriter, musician and actor
• July 8
• * Sophia Bush, American actress
• * Schuyler Fisk, American actress and singer-songwriter
• * Miguel Thiré, Brazilian actor
• July 9
• * Toby Kebbell, English actor
• * Slaine Kelly, Irish actress
• * Sidão, Brazilian volleyball player
• * Sakon Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver
• July 10
• *Sam Fisher, Australian rules footballer
• *Jeffrey Walker, Australian actor and director
• July 12
• * Antonio Cassano, Italian footballer
• * Vinicius Machado, Brazilian producer and actor
• * Walter Perez, American actor, television actor and musician
• July 13
• * Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar, Mongolian athlete
• * Shin-Soo Choo, Korean baseball player
• * Yadier Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player
• July 15
• * Maksym Khvorost, Ukrainian épée fencer
• * Carl Espen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
• July 16
• * Kellie Wells, American athlete
• * Angel David Revilla, Venezuelan writer
• * Marco Morales, Filipino actor
• * Steven Hooker, Australian pole vaulter
• * Aamna Sharif, Indian actress
• July 17 – Natasha Hamilton, lead singer of British pop group Atomic Kitten
• July 18
• * Ryan Cabrera, Colombian-American pop rock musician
• * Priyanka Chopra, Indian actress and beauty queen
• * Carlo Costly, Honduran footballer
• * Andrew Alexander, English stage, television and film actor
• July 19
• * Jared Padalecki, American actor
• * Raphael Assunção, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• * Katee Shean, American choreographer, actor, and singer
• July 20 – Percy Daggs III, American actor
• July 21
• * Jason Cram, Australian swimmer
• * Mao Kobayashi, Japanese newscaster and actress
• July 22 – Lafaele Moala, Tongan footballer
• July 23
• * Tom Mison, English actor
• * Paul Wesley, American actor
• * Zanjoe Marudo, Filipino actor
• July 24
• * Elisabeth Moss, American actress
• * Anna Paquin, Canadian-born New Zealand actress
• July 25
• * Daniel Lopatin, American experimental electronic musician
• * Brad Renfro, American actor
• July 29 – Allison Mack, German-American actress
• July 30
• * James Anderson, English cricketer
• * Martin Starr, American actor
• * Yvonne Strahovski, Australian actress

  August

• August 1 – Orelsan, French rapper
• August 2 – Hélder Postiga, Portuguese footballer
• August 5 – Lolo Jones, American track and field athlete
• August 6
• * Romola Garai, English actress
• * Spice, Jamaican dancehall artist
• * Kevin van der Perren, Belgian figure skater
• August 7
• * Brit Marling, American actress
• * Yana Klochkova, Ukrainian swimmer
• * Marco Melandri, Italian motorcycle racer
• * Abbie Cornish, Australian actress and rapper
• August 9 – Tyson Gay, American athlete
• August 10
• * Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress
• * Shaun Murphy, English snooker player
• August 12
• * Jon Olsson, Swedish freestyle skier
• * Iza Calzado, Filipina actress
• August 13
• * Shani Davis, American speed skater
• * Gary McSheffrey, English footballer
• * Sarah Huckabee Sanders, American political consultant and press secretary
• * Sebastian Stan, Romanian-American actor
• August 15 – Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Japanese actor
• August 16 – Joleon Lescott, English footballer
• * Ummet Ozcan, Dutch-Turkish DJ and producer
• August 17
• * Jon Olsson, Swedish freestyle skier
• * Mark Salling, American actor
• August 19
• * Willy Denzey, French singer
• * Melissa Fumero, American actress
• * Stipe Miocic, American mixed martial artist
• * Erika Christensen, American actress and singer
• August 20 – Meghan Ory, Canadian actress
• August 21 – Akane Omae, Japanese voice actress
• August 23 – Natalie Coughlin, American Olympic swimmer
• August 24
• * Kim Källström, Swedish footballer
• * Jennifer Widerstrom, American personal trainer
• August 25
• * Benjamin Diskin, American voice actor
• * Jung Jae-sung, South Korean badminton player
• August 27 – Josh Duhon, American actor
• August 28
• * Karo Parisyan, Armenian MMA fighter
• * Kelly Thiebaud, American actress
• * LeAnn Rimes, American country singer
• August 29
• * Echo Kellum, American actor and comedian
• * Mayana Moura, Brazilian actress and former model
• * Carlos Delfino, Argentine basketball player
• * Vincent Enyeama, Nigerian football goalkeeper
• * Leon Washington, American football player
• August 30 – Andy Roddick, American tennis player
• August 31
• * Ian Crocker, American Olympic swimmer
• * José Manuel Reina Páez, Spanish footballer

  September

• September 1 – Jeffrey Buttle, Canadian figure skater
• September 2
• * Mandy Cho, Hong Kong actress
• * Alan Tate, British professional footballer
• September 3
• * Sarah Burke, Canadian freestyle skier
• * Ayumi Fujimura, Japanese voice actress
• September 5 – Cyndi Wang, Taiwanese singer and actress
• September 7 – Ryoko Shiraishi, Japanese voice actress
• September 9 – Ai Otsuka, Japanese singer, songwriter, pianist and actress
• September 10
• * Misty Copeland, American ballet dancer
• * Bret Iwan, American voice actor
• September 11 – Shriya Saran, Indian actress
• September 12
• * Nana Ozaki, Japanese gravure idol
• * Isabelle Caro, French model and actress
• September 13
• * Nenê, Brazilian basketball player
• * J. G. Quintel, American animator
• September 16 – Leon Britton, English footballer
• September 18 – Lukas Reimann, Swiss politician
• September 19
• * Skepta, English MC and record producer
• * Nicole Voss, American model
• September 20 – JJ Jia, Chinese actress
• September 22
• * Kosuke Kitajima, Japanese swimmer
• * Billie Piper, English actress and singer
• September 25 – Hyun Bin, Korean actor
• September 26 – Betty Sun, Chinese actress
• September 27
• * Anna Camp, American actress
• * Ella Scott Lynch, Australian actress
• * Jon McLaughlin, American pop rock singer-songwriter and pianist
• * Abhinav Shukla, Indian actor and model
• * Lil Wayne, African-American rapper
• * Darrent Williams, American football player
• September 28
• * Abhinav Bindra, Indian shooter
• * Megumi Kagurazaka, Japanese actress
• * Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor
• * Emeka Okafor, American basketball player
• * Anderson Varejão, American basketball player
• * St. Vincent, American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
• September 29
• * Ariana Jollee, American porn actress and director
• * Amy Williams, British Olympic medallist
• September 30
• * Lacey Chabert, American actress
• * Kieran Culkin, American actor
• * Li Xiaolu, Chinese actress
• * Ryan Stout, American actor
• * Michelle Marsh, British model

  October

• October 1 – Sandra Oxenryd, Swedish pop singer
• October 2 – Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
• October 3
• * Erik von Detten, American actor
• * Clemence Poesy, French actress
• October 4 – Jered Weaver, American baseball player
• October 5 – Zhang Yining, Chinese table tennis player
• October 6
• * Levon Aronian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
• * MC Lars, American rapper
• October 7
• * Madjid Bougherra, Algerian footballer
• * Jermain Defoe, English footballer
• * Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
• October 8 – Princess Siribhachudabhorn of Thailand
• October 9 – Travis Rice, American snowboarder
• October 10
• * David Cal, Spanish sprint canoeist
• * Jason Oost, Dutch footballer
• * Dan Stevens, British actor
• October 11
• * Salim Stoudamire, American basketball player
• October 13
• * Jo Yoon-hee, South Korean actress and model
• * Ian Thorpe, Australian swimmer
• October 15
• * Lane Toran, American actor, voice actor, musician and songwriter
• * Imran Abbas Naqvi, Pakistani actor and model
• * Jessica Rey, American actress
• * Saif Saaeed Shaheen, Qatarian athlete
• October 16 – Svetlana Loboda, Ukrainian singer and composer
• October 18 – Shauntay Henderson, American criminal
• October 19
• * Atom Araullo, Filipino journalist and television personality
• * Louis Oosthuizen, South African golfer
• October 20
• * Katie Featherston, American actress
• * Adela Jušić, contemporary visual artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina
• October 21
• * Matt Dallas, American actor
• * Lee Chong Wei, Malaysian badminton player
• October 22
• * Robinson Canó, Dominican baseball player
• * Heath Miller, American football player
• October 25 – Eman Lam, Hong Kong singer
• October 26 – Nicola Adams, English boxer
• October 27
• * Jessy Matador, Congolese-French singer
• * Dennis Moran, American computer hacker
• October 28
• * Michael Stahl-David, American Actor
• * Mai Kuraki, Japanese singer
• * Anthony Lerew, American baseball player
• * Matt Smith, English actor
• October 29
• * Ariel Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
• * Chelan Simmons, Canadian actress
• October 30 – Clémence Poésy, French actress and fashion model

  November

• November 2
• * Adam Springfield, American actor
• * Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress, model and singer
• November 3 – Pekka Rinne, Finnish ice hockey goaltender
• November 4
• * Devin Hester, American football player
• * Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower
• November 6 – Sowelu, Japanese singer
• November 8
• * Ted DiBiase, American professional wrestler and actor
• * Ethan Juan, Taiwanese actor
• * Francesco Molinari, Italian golfer
• November 9 – Jana Pittman, Australian athlete
• November 10
• * Ruth Lorenzo, Spanish singer and composer
• * Heather Matarazzo, American actress
• November 11 – Brittny Gastineau, American model and socialite
• November 12
• * Anne Hathaway, American actress
• * Mikele Leigertwood, English footballer
• November 13 – Kumi Koda, Japanese singer
• November 14
• * Laura Ramsey, American actress
• * Sailosi Tagicakibau, Samoan rugby player
• * Joy Williams, American singer-songwriter
• November 15 – Joe Kowalewski, American football player
• November 16 – Amar'e Stoudemire, American professional basketball player
• November 18
• * Akeno Watanabe, Japanese voice actress
• * Damon Wayans, Jr., African-American actor and comedian
• November 19 – Shin Dong-hyuk, North Korean defector and human rights activist
• November 21
• * Ryan Carnes, American actor
• * Ioana Ciolacu, Romanian fashion designer
• November 22 – Charlene Choi, Hong Kong singer and actress
• November 23 – Asafa Powell, Jamaican sprinter
• November 25 – Minna Kauppi, Finnish orienteer
• November 26 – Karl Henry, Professional football player
• November 27 – Aleksandr Kerzhakov, Russian soccer player
• November 28
• * Steve Mullings, Jamaican athlete
• * Adam McArthur, American actor and martial artist
• * Malcolm Goodwin, American actor
• November 29
• * Lucas Black, American actor
• * Gemma Chan, British film actress
• * Ashley Force Hood, American race car driver
• November 30
• *Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
• * Jason Pominville, American hockey player
• *Nelly Tagar, Israeli actress and stand-up comedian

  December

• December 1 – Riz Ahmed, British actor, rapper, and activist
• December 2 – Horacio Pancheri, Argentine actor
• December 3
• * Jaycee Chan, Hong Kong actor and singer
• * Michael Essien, Ghanaian footballer
• December 4 – Nick Vujicic, Australian evangelist and motivational speaker
• December 5
• * Keri Hilson, American R&B recording artist, songwriter, and actress
• * Gabriel Luna, American actor
• December 6 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
• December 7
• * Chrispa, Greek singer and actress
• * Jack Huston, British actor
• * Jesse Johnson, American actor
• December 8
• * Chrisette Michele, American R&B singer-songwriter
• * Nicki Minaj, Trinidadian-born American rapper, singer, and songwriter
• * Serena Ryder, Canadian musician
• December 9
• * Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist
• * Nathalie De Vos, Belgian athlete
• * Ryan Grant, American football player
• * Bastian Swillims, German sprinter
• December 13
• * Anthony Callea, Australian singer
• * Elisa Di Francisca, Italian fencer
• * Ayumi Kinoshita, Japanese model and actress
• December 14 – Anthony Way, British singer and actor
• December 15
• * George O. Gore II, American actor
• * Charlie Cox, English actor
• December 16
• * Frankie Ballard, American country music singer-songwriter
• * Mei Finegold, Israeli singer
• * Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter
• * Stanislav Šesták, Slovak footballer
• * Justin Mentell, American artist and actor
• December 17 – Onur Özsu, Turkish singer-songwriter
• December 19 – Tero Pitkämäki, Finnish javelin thrower
• December 20
• * David Wright, American baseball player
• * David Cook, American singer-songwriter
• December 21
• * Mandy Wong, Hong Kong actress
• * Tom Payne, English actor
• December 22
• * Britta Heidemann, German fencer
• * Brooke Nevin, Canadian actress
• December 24
• * Robert Schwartzman, American actor, screenwriter, director, and musician
• * Masaki Aiba, Japanese singer
• * Robert Carmine, American singer
• * Tetsuya Kakihara, Japanese voice actor
• December 26
• * Shun Oguri, Japanese actor
• * Aksel Lund Svindal, Norwegian alpine skier
• December 27 – Terji Skibenæs, Faroese guitarist
• December 28 – Beau Garrett, American actress and model
• December 29 – Alison Brie, American actress
• December 30 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress

  Deaths

January

• January 1 – Victor Buono, American actor
• January 3 – Erwin Canham, journalist
• January 5 – Hans Conried, American actor
• January 7 – Kay Hammond, American actress
• January 8
• * Reta Shaw, American actress
• * Grégoire Aslan, Armenian actor
• January 11
• *A. W. Haydon, American inventor
• *Jiro Horikoshi, Japanese aircraft designer
• *Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian
• January 13 – Marcel Camus, French film director
• January 16 – Ramón J. Sender, Spanish novelist
• January 18 – Juan O'Gorman, Mexican painter and architect
• January 19 – Elis Regina, Brazilian singer
• January 22 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, 27th President of Chile
• January 24 – Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian military officer, 48th President of Bolivia
• January 25 – Mikhail Suslov, senior Soviet Communist Party official
• January 27 – Trần Văn Hương, 3rd president of the Second Republic of Vietnam
• January 30
• * Stanley Holloway, British actor
• * Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician
• * Helen Lynd, American sociologist and philosopher

  February

• February 3, Efraín Huerta, Mexican poet and journalist
• February 4
• * Sue Carol, American actress
• * Alex Harvey, Scottish musician
• February 5
• * Neil Aggett, South African labor leader
• * Ronald Welch, British novelist
• February 6 – Ben Nicholson, English painter
• February 11
• * Eleanor Powell, American dancer and actress
• * Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor
• February 12 – Victor Jory, Canadian actor
• February 17
• * Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist
• * Lee Strasberg, Polish-American actor and acting coach, co-founder of method acting
• February 18 – Dame Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand crime fiction writer
• February 19 – Dame Margery Perham, English Africanist
• February 21 – Gershom Scholem, German-born Israeli Jewish philosopher and historian
• February 24 – Virginia Bruce, American actress

  March

• March 2 – Philip K. Dick, American author
• March 3 – Georges Perec, French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist.
• March 5
• * John Belushi, American comedian, actor and singer
• * Giuseppe Porelli, Italian actor
• March 6 – Ayn Rand, Russian-born author
• March 8 – Rab Butler, British statesman
• March 19 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne
• March 21 – Harry H. Corbett, English actor and comedian
• March 22 – Pericle Felici, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
• March 25 – Goodman Ace, American humorist
• March 26
• * Sultan al-Atrash, Syrian nationalist and general
• * Sam Kydd, Irish-born English actor
• March 27
• * Harriet Adams, American novelist
• * Fazlur Rahman Khan, Bangladeshi-born American architect
• March 28 – William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 29
• * Carl Orff, German composer
• * Walter Hallstein, German diplomat, 1st President of the European Commission
• * Helene Deutsch, Polish-American psychoanalyst

  April

• April 3 – Warren Oates, American actor
• April 5 – Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
• April 9 – Robert Havemann, chemist and East German dissident
• April 12 – Lenny Baker, American actor
• April 15
• * Riccardo Billi, Italian actor
• * Arthur Lowe, British actor
• April 20 – Archibald MacLeish, American poet
• April 24 – Ville Ritola, Finnish Olympic athlete
• April 25
• *Boris Andreyev, Soviet and Russian actor
• * Celia Johnson, British actress
• April 27
• * George Dunn, American actor
• * Tom Tully, American actor
• April 29
• * Kassim Al-Rimawi, 52nd Prime Minister of Jordan
• * Elmer Ripley, American basketball coach
• April 30 – Lester Bangs, American music journalist

  May

• May 1
• * Hussein ibn Nasser, 36th Prime Minister of Jordan
• * William Primrose, Scottish violist
• May 2
• * Helmut Dantine, Austrian actor
• * Hugh Marlowe, American actor
• May 3 – Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, Algerian politician
• May 8
• * Salomea Andronikova, Georgian-Russian socialite
• * Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver
• May 10 – Peter Weiss, German writer and artist
• May 12 – Humphrey Searle, English composer
• May 13
• * Aleksandr Borisov, Soviet and Russian actor
• * Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer
• May 14 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor
• May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver
• May 22 – Cevdet Sunay, Turkish army officer and political leader, 5th President of Turkey
• May 24 – Stanisława Perzanowska, Polish actress
• May 26 – Guillermo Flores Avendaño, acting President of Guatemala
• May 28 – Lt Col H. Jones, VC, British soldier
• May 29 – Romy Schneider, Austrian actress
• May 30 – Albert Norden, German politician

  June

• June 2 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician, 5th President of Pakistan
• June 6 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet
• June 8 – Satchel Paige, American Negro Leagues baseball player and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame
• June 9 – Mirza Nasir Ahmad, 3rd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam
• June 10
• * Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German film director, screenwriter and actor
• * Gala Dalí, Russian-Spanish muse, wife of Paul Éluard and Salvador Dalí
• June 11 – Santosh Kumar, Pakistani actor
• June 12
• * Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• * Sgt Ian McKay, VC, British soldier
• * Marie Rambert, Polish-English dancer and pedagogue
• June 13
• * King Khalid of Saudi Arabia
• * Riccardo Paletti, Italian Formula 1 driver
• June 16 – James Honeyman-Scott, English lead guitarist of the Pretenders
• June 17 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker
• June 18
• * Djuna Barnes, American novelist
• * John Cheever, American novelist and short story writer
• * Curd Jürgens, German actor
• June 22 – Alan Webb, British actor
• June 25 – Edward Hamm, American Olympic athlete
• June 26 – Alexander Mitscherlich, German psychoanalyst
• June 29
• * Pierre Balmain, French fashion designer
• * Michael Brennan, British actor
• * Henry King, American film director

  July

• July 1 – Jacobo Palm, Curaçao born composer
• July 2
• * DeFord Bailey, American country musician
• * Siegfried Westphal, German general
• July 4
• * Terry Higgins, early British casualty of AIDS
• * Antonio Guzmán Fernández, Dominican businessman and politician, 46th President of the Dominican Republic
• July 6 – Alma Reville, English screenwriter
• July 7 – Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious writer
• July 8
• * Gunnar Eriksson, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier
• * Isa Miranda, Italian actress
• * Aino Seep, Estonian singer and actress
• * Albert White, American Olympic diver
• * Virginia Hall, American spy
• July 10 – Maria Jeritza, Czechoslovak soprano
• July 11 – Susan Littler, British actress
• July 12 – Kenneth More, English actor
• July 13 – Barbara Allen Rainey, American aviator, first female pilot in the U.S. armed forces
• July 16
• * Charles Robberts Swart, last Governor-General and 4th President of South Africa
• * Patrick Dewaere, French actor
• July 17 – Krista Harrison, American murder victim
• July 18
• * Roman Jakobson, Russian-American linguist and literary theorist
• * John Maxwell, American actor
• * Quirico Pignalberi, Italian Roman Catholic priest and venerable
• July 19
• * Hugh Everett III, American physicist
• * John Harvey, American stage and film actor
• July 21 – Dave Garroway, American television host
• July 22 – Lloyd Waner, American baseball player and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame
• July 23 – Vic Morrow, American actor
• July 26 – Teresa Iżewska, Polish actress
• July 28
• * Keith Green, American gospel singer-songwriter and pianist
• * Vladimir Smirnov, Soviet fencer
• July 29 – Vladimir Zworykin, Russian-born inventor

  August

• August 1 – T. Thirunavukarasu, Sri Lankan Tamil politician
• August 2 – Cathleen Nesbitt, British actress
• August 6 – S. K. Pottekkatt, Indian writer
• August 10
• * William Henry, American actor
• * José Nieto, Spanish actor
• August 11 – Tom Drake, American actor
• August 12
• * Henry Fonda, American actor
• * Tomás Romero Pereira, 41st President of Paraguay
• * Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer
• August 13 – Charles Walters, American film director
• August 14
• * Kanhaiyalal, Indian actor
• * Patrick Magee, British actor
• August 15 – Hugo Theorell, Swedish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• August 18 – Beverly Bayne, American actress
• August 20
• * Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress
• * Edward Ludwig, Russian-born American director
• * George David Woods, American banker, 4th President of the World Bank
• August 21 – King Sobhuza II of Swaziland
• August 22 – John Boxer, British actor
• August 23
• * Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian film director
• * Stanford Moore, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• August 25 – Anna German, Polish singer
• August 27 – Anandamayi Ma, Indian spiritual leader
• August 29 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actress

  September

• September 1
• * Władysław Gomułka, Polish Communist politician, former First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party
• * Ludwig Bieberbach, German mathematician
• September 2
• * Tom Baker, American actor
• * Jay Novello, American actor
• September 3 – Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, Italian general
• September 4 – Jack Tworkov, American painter
• September 5 – Sir Douglas Bader, British fighter pilot and inspirational leader during the Battle of Britain
• September 7 – Ken Boyer, American baseball player
• September 11
• * Wifredo Lam, Cuban artist
• * Jovan Miladinović, Serbian footballer
• September 12 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer and conductor
• September 14
• * Bachir Gemayel, President-elect of Lebanon
• * Grace Kelly, American actress; Princess of Monaco
• September 16 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor
• September 17
• * Ettore DeGrazia, American artist
• * Kristján Eldjárn, 3rd President of Iceland
• September 19 – Ted Badcock, New Zealand cricketer
• September 21 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Soviet Armenian military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union
• September 23 – Jimmy Wakely, American Country-Western singer and actor
• September 24 – Sarah Churchill, British actress, daughter of Winston Churchill
• September 28 – Mabel Albertson, American actress
• September 30 – Bill George, American football player ; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame

  October

• October 3 – Vivien Merchant, British actress
• October 4
• * Ahmad Hassan al-Bakr, 25th Prime Minister of Iraq and 4th President of Iraq
• * Criswell, American psychic, entertainer
• * Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist
• * Leroy Grumman, American aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and industrialist.
• * Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece
• October 5 – François Simon, Swiss actor
• October 8
• * Philip Noel-Baker, Canadian-born peace activist; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• * Fernando Lamas, Argentine-born actor
• October 9
• * Anna Freud, Austrian psychoanalyst
• * Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt, German historian
• October 10 – Jean Effel, French painter and journalist
• October 16
• * Nikolai Efimov, Soviet mathematician
• * Hans Selye, Canadian endocrinologist
• October 18
• * Bess Truman, First Lady of the United States
• * Dwain Esper, American director
• * Pierre Mendès France, French politician, 93rd Prime Minister of France
• October 20 – Jimmy McGrory, Scottish football player and manager
• October 21 – Sylvia Lance Harper, Australian tennis player
• October 22 – Savitri Devi, French-born writer and philosopher
• October 25 – Arvid Wallman, Swedish diver
• October 26 – Giovanni Benelli, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal
• October 27 – Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, Guatemalan general, 21st President of Guatemala
• October 29 – William Lloyd Webber, British organist and composer
• October 30
• * Wolfgang Heinz, German actor
• * Iryna Vilde, Ukrainian writer
• October 31 – Dick Merrill, American aviation pioneer

  November

• November 1
• * James Broderick, American actor
• * King Vidor, American film director
• November 4 – Dominique Dunne, American actress
• November 5
• * Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Korean-American novelist
• * Jacques Tati, French filmmaker
• November 7 – Will Durant, American writer, historian, and philosopher
• November 10
• * Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet statesman, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet
• * Elio Petri, Italian filmmaker
• November 11 – S. A. Ashokan, Tamil actor
• November 12
• * Dorothy Round Little, English tennis champion
• * Patrick Cowley, American disco and Hi-NRG dance music composer and recording artist
• November 13 – Chesney Allen, British entertainer and comedian
• November 15
• * Vinoba Bhave, Indian educator
• * Dick Randall, Australian public servant
• November 16 – Peter Forster, British actor
• November 17
• * Ruth Donnelly, American actress
• * Duk Koo Kim, South Korean boxer
• * Eduard Tubin, Estonian composer
• November 19 – Erving Goffman, Canadian-American sociologist and psychologist
• November 21 – Lee Patrick, American actress
• November 22
• * Jean Batten, New Zealand aviator
• * Stanisław Ostrowski, Polish politician, 3rd President of Poland in exile
• November 23
• * Benny Friedman, American football player and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• * Grady Nutt, American humorist
• November 24 – Barack Obama Sr., father of US President Barack Obama
• November 25 – Hugh Harman, American cartoon animator
• November 26 – Juhan Aavik, Estonian composer
• November 27 – Nina Shaternikova, Soviet and Russian actress
• November 28 – Helen of Greece and Denmark, Queen Mother of Romania
• November 29
• * Hermann Balck, German general
• * Percy Williams, Canadian athlete
• November 30
• * Rosario Riccobono, Italian gangster
• * Aldo Vidussoni, Italian lawyer and Fascist politician

  December

• December 2 – Marty Feldman, British comedian and writer
• December 7 – Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street
• December 8
• * Encarnación Fuyola, Spanish teacher and activist
• * Marty Robbins, American singer, songwriter and racing driver
• December 10
• * Roy Webb, American film music composer
• * Freeman Fisher Gosden, American actor
• December 13 – Mary Cecilia of Jesus, Filipino Discalced Carmelite nun and servant of God
• December 15 – Prince Adalberto, Duke of Bergamo
• December 16 – Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor and builder in the automotive industry
• December 17 – Homer S. Ferguson, American politician
• December 18 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German World War II dive bomber pilot
• December 20 – Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born pianist and conductor
• December 21
• * Charles Hapgood, American college professor
• * Gladys Henson, Irish actress
• December 23 – Jack Webb, American actor
• December 24 – Louis Aragon, French writer
• December 25 – Helen Foster, American actress
• December 27 – Jack Swigert, American astronaut
• December 28 – Arthur Hughes, American actor
• December 30 – Giuseppe Aquari, Italian cinematographer
• December 31
• * John Collins, British Anglican priest and venerable
• * Kurt Otto Friedrichs, German-born American mathematician

  Date unknown

• Alexandru Beldiceanu, Romanian general
• Corneliu Carp, Romanian general

  Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Kenneth G. Wilson
• Chemistry – Aaron Klug
• Medicine – Sune K. Bergström, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John R. Vane
• Literature – Gabriel García Márquez
• Peace – Alva Myrdal, Alfonso García Robles
• Economics – George Stigler

  Fields Medal

• Alain Connes, William Thurston, Shing-Tung Yau