1985
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations.
Events
January
- January 1
- * The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
- * Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community.
- * The first UK cellular mobile phone network is launched by Vodafone.
- January 7
- *Cellnet launches 2nd UK cellular network.
- * Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
- January 10 - Sinclair C5, world's first mass-produced velomobile launched.
- January 13 - A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- January 15 - Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the Congress, ending the 21-year military rule.
- January 17 - British Telecom announces it is going to phase out its iconic red telephone boxes.
- January 20 - Ronald Reagan is privately sworn in for a second term as President of the United States.
- January 21
- *Nine bombs explode at the Borobudur Buddhist temple in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, damaging nine stupas.
- January 27 - The Economic Cooperation Organization is formed.
- January 28 - The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.
February
- February 4 – The border between Gibraltar and Spain reopens for the first time since Francisco Franco closed it in 1969.
- February 5 – Australia cancels its involvement in U.S.-led MX missile tests.
- February 9 – U.S. drug agent Kiki Camarena is kidnapped and murdered in Mexico by drug traffickers; his body is later discovered on March 5.
- February 14 – CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is freed from captivity in Lebanon.
- February 16
- * Israel begins withdrawing troops from Lebanon.
- * The ideology of Hezbollah is declared in a program issued in Beirut.
- February 17 – Pop rock band Tears For Fears releases the Songs from the Big Chair album, which later achieves multi-platinum status in both the UK and the US.
- February 19
- *William J. Schroeder becomes the first artificial heart patient to leave hospital.
- *China Airlines Flight 006 is involved in a mid-air incident; while there are 22 minor injuries and 2 serious injuries, no one is killed.
- * The first episode of British soap opera EastEnders is broadcast on BBC One television; it continues to run 35 years later.
- February 20 – Minolta releases the Maxxum 7000, the world's first autofocus single-lens reflex camera.
- February 28 – 1985 Newry mortar attack: The Provisional Irish Republican Army carries out a mortar attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary police station at Newry in Northern Ireland. With nine officers dead, it is the highest loss of life for the RUC on a single day.
March
- March - The GNU Manifesto, written by Richard Stallman, is first published.
- March 1 - After a 12-year-long dictatorship, Julio María Sanguinetti is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Uruguay.
- March 3 - The 8.0 Algarrobo earthquake hits Santiago and Valparaíso, Chile, leaving 177 dead, 2,575 injured, 142,489 houses destroyed, and approximately a million people homeless.
- March 4 - The United States Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used hereafter to screen all U.S. blood donations.
- March 8 - A Beirut car bomb, planted in an attempt to assassinate Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, kills more than 80 people and injures 200 more.
- March 11
- * Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.
- * Mohamed Al-Fayed buys the London-based department store company Harrods.
- March 15 - Vice-President José Sarney, upon becoming vice president, assumes the duties of president of Brazil, as the new president Tancredo Neves had become severely ill the day before. Sarney would later become Brazil's first civilian president in 21 years, upon Neves' death on April 21.
- March 16 - Associated Press reporter Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is released on December 4, 1991.
- March 17 - Expo '85 is held in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, until September 16.
- March 18 - Australia's longest-running soap opera, Neighbours, debuts on Seven Network.
- March 21 - Canadian paraplegic athlete and activist Rick Hansen sets out on his, 26-month Man in Motion tour which raises $26M for spinal cord research and quality of life initiatives.
- March 23 - Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache is dissolved.
- March 24 - United States Army military intelligence officer Arthur D. Nicholson is shot by Soviet military sergeant Aleksandr Ryabtsev at a Soviet military base in Ludwigslust, East Germany.
- March 25
- * A Middle East based, international airline service, Emirates Airlines was founded in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
- * The 57th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Amadeus winning Best Picture.
April
- Soviet–Afghan War: The Soviet Union begins to transfer the burden of fighting the mujahideen to the armed forces of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, an origin of the Revolutions of 1989.
- Cincinnati, OH-based Procter & Gamble ditches the moon & stars symbol from its packaging.
- April 1
- * Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, and Japan Tobacco and Salt Public Corporation, are privatized and change their names to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, and Japan Tobacco.
- * Eighth seeded Villanova Wildcats men's basketball defeats national powerhouse Georgetown 66–64 to win the first 64 team field NCAA Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky.
- April 11
- * The USS Coral Sea collides with the Ecuadorian tanker ship Napo off the coast of Cuba.
- * First Secretary Enver Hoxha, leader of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania, dies at age 76.
- April 12 – El Descanso bombing: A terrorist bombing attributed to the Islamic Jihad Organization in the El Descanso restaurant near Madrid, Spain, mostly attended by U.S. personnel from the Torrejón Air Base, causes 18 deaths and 82 injuries.
- April 15 – South Africa ends its ban on interracial marriages.
- April 19
- * The Soviet Union performs a nuclear weapon test in eastern Kazakhstan.
- * A 4-day siege of white supremacist group The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord begins in Arkansas.
- April 23 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
- April 28 – The Australian Nuclear Disarmament Party splits.
May
- May 1 – Soekarno-Hatta International Airport officially opens, becoming the new international gateway into Indonesia.
- May 4 – The 30th Eurovision Song Contest takes place in Gothenburg, Sweden and is won by the Bobbysocks! song La det swinge for Norway.
- May 5 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan joins West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl for a controversial funeral service at a cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany, which includes the graves of 59 elite S.S. troops from World War II.
- May 9 – The 3rd total Victory Day Parade is held on Red Square in Moscow in the Soviet Union. It features T-34-85 tanks, veterans of World War II from Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, and is the first parade to be held during the reign of Mikhail Gorbachev.
- May 11
- * The FBI brings charges against the suspected heads of the five Mafia families in New York City.
- * Bradford City stadium fire: A fire engulfs a wooden stand at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, England, during an Association football match, killing 56 people.
- May 13
- *Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode orders police to storm the radical group MOVE's headquarters to end a stand-off. The police drop an explosive device into the headquarters, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 61 city residents.
- * The National Assembly of Kuwait grants women the right to vote. The right is later revoked in 1999 and then re-instated in 2005.
- May 15
- * An explosive device sent by the Unabomber injures John Hauser at University of California, Berkeley. In a later incidient that occurs on June 13, the police of Auburn, Washington defuse another Unabomber bomb sent to Boeing.
- * Argentinian President Raúl Alfonsín terminates Argentinian administration of the Falkland Islands but does not relinquish Argentina's claim to the islands.
- May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic Survey announce the discovery of the ozone hole.
- May 19 – John Anthony Walker Jr. is arrested by the FBI for passing classified naval communications to the Soviet Union.
- May 23 – Thomas Patrick Cavanaugh is sentenced to life in prison for attempting to sell stealth bomber secrets to the Soviet Union.
- May 25 – Approximately 10,000 people are killed when Bangladesh is affected by the storm surge from Tropical Storm One.
- May 26 – Young driver Danny Sullivan beats veteran Mario Andretti to win the 1985 Indianapolis 500.
- May 29 – Heysel Stadium disaster: Thirty-eight spectators are killed in rioting on the terraces during the European Cup final between Liverpool F.C. and Juventus at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
- May 31 – Forty-four tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Ontario, including a rare powerful F5. In total, the event killed 90 people.
June
- June 6 – The remains of Josef Mengele, the physician notorious for Nazi human experimentation on inmates of Auschwitz concentration camp, buried in 1979 under the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, are exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.
- June 14
- *TWA Flight 847, carrying 153 passengers from Athens to Rome, is hijacked by a Hezbollah fringe group. One passenger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer Robert Stethem, is killed. Greek police arrest a 65-year-old Lebanese suspect on September 21, 2019.
- * The Schengen Agreement is signed between certain member states of the European Economic Community, creating the Schengen Area, a bloc of 5 states with no internal border controls.
- June 15 – Studio Ghibli, an animation studio, is founded in Tokyo.
- June 17 – John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States.
- June 20 – 1985 Nepal bombings: A series of bomb blasts occurs in Kathmandu and other cities of Nepal.
- June 22 – British and Irish police foil a "mainland bombing campaign" sponsored by the Provisional Irish Republican Army which targets luxury vacation resorts.
- June 23 – Air India Flight 182, a Boeing 747, is blown up by a terrorist bomb 31,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, south of Ireland, on a Montreal–London–Delhi flight, killing all 329 aboard.
- June 24 – STS-51-G: Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist.
- June 27 – The iconic U.S. Route 66 is officially decommissioned.
July
- July 1 – The Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons enters into force.
- July 3 – Back to the Future opens in American movie theatres and ends up being the highest-grossing film of 1985 in the US and the first film in the successful franchise.
- July 4 – Ruth Lawrence, at the age of 13, achieves a first in mathematics at the University of Oxford by becoming the youngest British person ever to earn a first-class degree and the youngest graduate of the University.
- July 10 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland Harbour by French DGSE agents.
- July 13
- *Live Aid benefit concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £50 million for famine relief in Ethiopia.
- * U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush serves as acting president for eight hours, while President Ronald Reagan undergoes colon cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
- July 19
- *New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe is announced to become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
- * The Val di Stava dam collapses in Italy, killing 268 people, destroying 63 buildings, and demolishing eight bridges.
- July 20 – State President of South Africa, P. W. Botha, declares a state of emergency in 36 magisterial districts of South Africa amid growing civil unrest in black townships.
- July 23 – Commodore launches the Amiga personal computer at the Lincoln Center in New York.
- July 27 – The 63 Building officially opens as the tallest skyscraper outside of North America in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea.
August
- ATI Technologies is founded in North America by Lee Ka Lau, Francis Lau, Benny Lau and Kwok Yuen Ho.
- August 2 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashes near Dallas, Texas, killing 137 people.
- August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
- August 12 – Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes in Japan, killing 520 people.
- August 14 – The Accomarca massacre takes place in Ayacucho, Peru.
- August 20 – Iran–Contra affair: The first arms, 96 BGM-71 TOWs, are sent to Iran in exchange for hostages in Lebanon and profits for the Nicaraguan Contras without public knowledge.
- August 22 – British Airtours Flight 28M: The 737's left engine catches fire while on its takeoff roll at Manchester Airport in England and 55 people are killed while trying to evacuate the aircraft.
- August 25 – Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 crashes in the United States killing all 8 on board including Samantha Smith.
- August 28 – The first smoking ban for restaurants in the United States is passed in Aspen, Colorado.
- August 31 – Richard Ramirez, the serial killer known as the Night Stalker, is captured in Los Angeles.
September
- September 1 - The wreck of the RMS Titanic is located by a joint American-French expedition led by Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean-Louis Michel using side-scan sonar from RV Knorr.
- September 2 - Hurricane Elena makes landfall on the U.S. Gulf Coast after reaching a Category 3 status.
- September 4 - Catcher Gary Carter of the New York Mets ties a record with five home runs in two games.
- September 6 - Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105, a Douglas DC-9, crashes just after takeoff from Milwaukee, killing all 31 onboard.
- September 11 - Pete Rose becomes the all-time hit leader in Major League Baseball, with his 4,192nd hit at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati.
- September 13
- * Super Mario Bros. is released for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
- * Steve Jobs resigns from Apple Computer in order to found NeXT.
- September 19 - An 8.0 earthquake strikes Mexico City, killing between 5,000 and 45,000 people and injuring 30,000 more.
- September 20 - The capital gains tax is introduced to Australia.
- September 22 - The Plaza Accord is signed by five nations.
- September 23 - Italian crime reporter Giancarlo Siani is killed by the Camorra.
- September 26 - Kalina, the first captive orca born at SeaWorld as well as the first to survive past infancy, is born at SeaWorld Orlando.
- September 28 - Brixton riot in South London is sparked with the shooting of Dorothy "Cherry" Groce by the Metropolitan Police.
October
- October 1 – Operation Wooden Leg: The Israeli air force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters near Tunis.
- October 3 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
- October 4 – The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts.
- October 7 – The cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked in the Mediterranean Sea by four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists. One passenger, American Leon Klinghoffer, is killed.
- October 18 – The first Nintendo home video game console in the United States is released as the Nintendo Entertainment System.
- October 25 – Emirates Airlines is established in Dubai and performs its first flight to Karachi.
November
- November 5 – In an all English match, Mark Kaylor defeats Errol Christie to become the middleweight boxing champion, after the two brawl in front of the cameras at the weigh-in.
- November 6 - Palace of Justice siege: Members of the M-19 Marxist guerrilla group take over the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, Colombia, and hold the Supreme Court hostage. Hours later, after a military raid, the incident leaves almost half of the 25 Supreme Court Justices dead.
- November 9 – In an all-Soviet match, 22-year-old Garry Kasparov defeats Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest-ever undisputed winner of the World Chess Championship.
- November 12 – A total solar eclipse occurs over Antarctica at 14:11:22 UTC.
- November 13
- *Armero tragedy: The Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts, killing an estimated 23,000 people, including 21,000 killed by lahars, in the town of Armero, Colombia.
- * Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
- November 19 – Cold War: In Geneva, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.
- November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1.0.
- November 23 – EgyptAir Flight 648 is hijacked by the Abu Nidal group and flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm the plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
- November 25 – 1985 Aeroflot Antonov An-12 shoot-down: A Soviet Aeroflot Antonov An-12 cargo airplane, en route from Cuito Cuanavale to Luanda, is shot down by South African Special Forces and crashes approximately 43 km east of Menongue, the provincial center of the Cuando Cubango Province, Angola, killing 8 crew members and 13 passengers on board.
- November 26 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan sells the rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
- November 29 – Gérard Hoarau, exiled political leader from the Seychelles, is assassinated in London.
December
- December 1
- * The Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture is created.
- * The Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable are released for sale to the public in the US.
- December 8 – The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation is established.
- December 11 – Hugh Scrutton is killed outside his Sacramento, California computer rental store by a Unabomber explosive, becoming the first fatality of the bombing campaign.
- December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff from Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256 people – 248 of whom were U.S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky after overseeing a peacekeeping force in the Sinai Peninsula.
- December 16 – In New York City, American Mafia bosses Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead in front of Spark's Steak House, making hit organizer John Gotti the leader of the powerful Gambino crime family.
- December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the instituting of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.
- December 24 – Extremist David Lewis Rice murders civil rights attorney Charles Goldmark as well as Goldmark's wife and two children in Seattle. He believed the family was Jewish and Communist and claimed his dedication to the Christian Identity movement drove him to commit the crime.
- December 27
- *Rome and Vienna airport attacks: Abu Nidal terrorists open fire in the airports of Rome and Vienna, leaving 18 dead and 120 injured.
- * American naturalist Dian Fossey is found brutally murdered in Rwanda.
- December 31 – American singer, songwriter and actor Ricky Nelson dies in a plane crash in De Kalb, Texas.
Date unknown
- Western Sahara is admitted to the Organization of African Unity; Morocco, which claims Western Sahara, leaves in protest.
- The fullerene Buckminsterfullerene is first intentionally prepared by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University in the US.
- DNA is first used in a criminal case.
- The Asian tiger mosquito, an invasive species, is first found in Houston, Texas.
- The Tommy Hilfiger clothing brand is established in the United States.
- Multiple cases of espionage in the US prompt the media to label this.
- The 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia continues; USA for Africa and Live Aid raise funds for famine relief.
- Africa has a population growth of 3.2 percent per year.
- Zhongxing Semiconductor, as a predecessor for ZTE, a famous smartphone brand, is founded in Shenzhen, China.
World population
Births
January
- January 1
- * Jeff Carter, Canadian hockey player
- * Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer
- * Juliana Harkavy, American actress
- * Fred the Godson, American rapper and DJ
- January 2
- * Teng Haibin, Chinese gymnast
- * Carla Juri, Swiss actress
- * Heather O'Reilly, U.S. women's national soccer player
- * Damien Bodie, Australian actor
- * Greg Toler, American football cornerback
- January 3
- * Nicole Beharie, American actress
- * Leah Gibson, Canadian film actress
- * Jeananne Goossen, Canadian actress
- * John David Booty, American football quarterback, USC
- * Linas Kleiza, Lithuanian basketball player
- * Colleen Wolfe, American show talent
- January 4
- * Kari Aalvik Grimsbø, Norwegian handball player
- * Danielle Campo, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
- * Al Jefferson, American basketball player
- * Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
- * Beatriz Rosselló, First Lady of Puerto Rico
- January 5
- * Michael Cuccione, Canadian child actor and activist
- * Lopez Lomong, Sudan-born American Olympic runner
- * Diego Vera, Uruguayan footballer
- January 6
- * Amalie Bruun, Danish musician and actress
- * Hugh Skinner, English film actor
- January 7
- * Lewis Hamilton, British 6-Time Formula One world champion
- * Tiger Kirchharz, German dancer
- * Wayne Routledge, English footballer
- January 8 – Rachael Lampa, American Christian singer
- January 9 – Bobô, Brazilian footballer
- January 10 – Martiño Rivas, Spanish actor
- January 11
- * Newton Faulkner, British rock musician
- * Rie fu, Japanese pop and rock musician
- * Lucy Knisley, American comic artist and musician
- * Aja Naomi King, American actress
- January 12
- * Gary Harkins, Scottish footballer
- * Will Sheridan, American college basketball player
- January 15
- * Brandon Mebane, American football player
- January 16
- * Joe Flacco, American football player
- * Gintaras Januševičius, Lithuanian pianist
- * Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor
- * Renée Felice Smith, American actress
- January 17
- * Kangin, Korean singer
- * Simone Simons, Lead singer of Dutch rock group Epica
- January 18 – Matt Hobby, American actor and comedian
- January 19
- * Damien Chazelle, American film director and screenwriter
- * Rika Ishikawa, Japanese singer and host of television and radio programs
- January 20 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress
- January 21
- * Aura Dione, Danish pop musician
- * Sasha Pivovarova, Russian model
- January 22
- * Akira Nagata, Japanese singer, actor and voice actor
- * Orianthi, Australian rock musician
- January 23 – Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel
- January 25
- * Hartley Sawyer, American actor, producer and writer
- * Michael Trevino, American actor
- * Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer
- * Claudia Kim, South Korean actress and model
- January 26
- * Edwin Hodge, American actor
- * Rusko, British musician
- January 27 – Eric Radford, Canadian pair skater
- January 28
- * J. Cole, American hip-hop musician and record producer
- * Tom Hopper, British actor
- * András Kállay-Saunders, Hungarian American recording artist, songwriter and record producer
- * Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
- January 29
- * Bosh Berlin, American drummer
- * Liu Chunhong, Chinese weightlifter
- * Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
- * Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
- January 30 – Richie Porte, Australian professional cyclist
February
- February 2 – Fontel Mines, American football player
- February 4
- * Bashy, English recording artist and actor
- * Bug Hall, American actor
- February 5
- * Vicki Chase, American porn actress
- * Laurence Maroney, American football player
- * Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
- February 6
- * Kris Humphries, American basketball player
- * Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
- * Crystal Reed, American actress
- February 7
- * Donald Moatshe, South African musician
- * Tegan Moss, Canadian actress
- * Tina Majorino, American film and television actress
- * Deborah Ann Woll, American actress
- February 8
- * Seo Min-woo, South Korean idol singer and actor
- * Jeremy Davis, American bassist
- * Bob Morris, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- * Trevor Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
- February 9
- * David Gallagher, American actor
- * Rachel Melvin, American actress
- February 10 – Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
- February 11
- * William Beckett, American singer and songwriter
- * Mike Richards, Canadian hockey player
- February 12
- * Saskia Burmeister, Australian actress
- * Ben Parr, American journalist
- February 13 – Courtney Dauwalter, American ultramarathon runner
- February 14 – Jake Lacy, American actor
- February 15 – Natalie Morales, American actress
- February 17 – Zelda Harris, American actress
- February 18
- * Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress and singer
- * Todd Lasance, Australian actor
- * Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican serial killer
- * Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist
- February 19
- * Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
- * Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress
- February 20 – Yulia Volkova, Russian singer
- February 21 – Larisa Bakurova, Ukrainian actress and model based in Taiwan
- February 22
- * Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
- * Zach Roerig, American actor
- February 25
- * Benji Marshall, New Zealand rugby league player
- * Joakim Noah, American basketball player
- February 26
- * Shiloh Fernandez, American actor
- * Miki Fujimoto, Japanese actor and pop singer
- February 27 – Nicole Linkletter, American model
- February 28
- * Fefe Dobson, Canadian pop and rock singer
- * Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
- * Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian soccer player
March
- March 1 – Cole Sanchez, American voice actor and artist
- March 2
- * Reggie Bush, American football player
- * Robert Iler, American actor
- * Patrick Makau Musyoki, Kenyan long-distance runner
- March 3
- * Alena and Ninel Karpovich, Belarusian twin sister musical duo, members of 3+2
- * Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer
- March 4
- * Scott Michael Foster, American actor
- * Angela White, Australian pornographic film actress
- March 5 – Gabby West, American actress
- March 6
- * Chad Jackson, American football player
- * Gina Sicilia, American singer
- March 7
- * Guy Benson, American columnist
- * Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer
- March 8
- * Ewa Sonnet, Polish model
- * Ashley Spencer, American actress
- March 9
- * Brent Burns, Canadian hockey player
- * Rachel Nabors, American cartoonist
- March 10
- * Cooper Andrews, American actor
- * Lassana Diarra, French footballer
- March 11
- * Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
- * Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan cricketer
- * Hakuhō Shō, 69th Yokozuna
- March 12
- * Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
- * Stromae, Belgian musical artist
- March 13 – Emile Hirsch, American actor
- March 14
- * Eva Angelina, American pornographic actress
- March 15
- * Eva Amurri, American actress
- * Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
- * Curtis Davies, English football player
- * Kellan Lutz, American fashion model and actor
- March 17 – Dominic Adams, British actor and model
- March 18
- * Krisztián Berki, Hungarian artistic gymnast
- * Bianca King, Filipina actress and model
- March 19 – E. J. Viso, Venezuelan race car driver
- March 21
- * Ryan Callahan, American hockey player
- * Adrian Peterson, American football player
- * Sonequa Martin-Green, American actress
- March 22
- * James Wolk, American actor
- * Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
- * Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
- * Mike Jenkins, American football player
- * Justin Masterson, American baseball player
- * Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer
- March 23 – Maryana Spivak, Russian actress
- March 24
- * Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
- * Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player
- * Jeremy James Kissner, American actor
- March 25 – Yūsuke Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
- March 26
- * Matt Grevers, American Olympic swimmer
- * Jonathan Groff, American actor, singer and dancer
- * Keira Knightley, English actress
- * Francesca Marie Smith, American actress, voice actress and writer
- March 27
- * Ram Charan, Indian film actor
- * Blake McIver Ewing, American singer-songwriter, actor, model and pianist
- * Danny Vuković, Australian soccer player
- * Caroline Winberg, Swedish model
- March 28
- * Zachary Browne, American television actor
- * Chris Long, American football defensive end
- * Mark Melancon, American baseball pitcher
- * Miss Mykie, American actress and television personality
- March 29
- * William Chak, Hong Kong actor
- * Morgan Smith, American actress
- March 30 – Dan Runzler, American baseball pitcher
- March 31
- * Apinan Kaewpila, Thai footballer
- * Jessica Szohr, American actress
April
- April 1
- * Danilo Caçador, Brazilian footballer
- * Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
- * Beth Tweddle, British artistic gymnast
- * Josh Zuckerman, American actor
- April 2
- * Barry Corr, Irish footballer
- * Thom Evans, Zimbabwean-Scottish rugby player
- * Stéphane Lambiel, Swiss figure skater
- April 3
- * Leona Lewis, British pop musician
- * Jari-Matti Latvala, Finnish race car driver
- April 4
- * Todrick Hall, American singer, songwriter, actor, director, choreographer and YouTuber
- * Lance Dos Ramos, Venezuelan actor, model and animator
- * Rudy Fernández, Spanish professional basketball player
- * Ricardo Vilar, Brazilian footballer
- April 5
- * Kim Ji-hoo, South Korean model and actor
- * Lastings Milledge, American baseball player
- April 6
- * Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
- * Al Mukadam, Canadian actor, director, and producer
- * Frank Ongfiang, Cameroonian footballer
- * Sinqua Walls, American basketball player and actor
- April 7
- * Ariela Massotti, Brazilian actress
- * KC Concepcion, Filipina actress and singer
- April 8
- * Patrick Schliwa, German rugby player
- * Yemane Tsegay, Ethiopian runner
- April 9
- * Tim Bendzko, German singer-songwriter
- * David Robertson, American baseball player
- * Tomohisa Yamashita, Japanese singer and actor
- * Brian Elliott, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
- April 10
- * Christie Laing, Canadian actress
- * Dion Phaneuf, Canadian NHL hockey player
- * Wang Meng, Chinese short track skater
- April 12
- * Brennan Boesch, American baseball player
- * Olga Seryabkina, Russian pop musician
- * Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer and actress
- April 13 – Carmen Carrera, American model
- April 16
- * Gregor Schmidinger, Austrian screenwriter and director
- * Nate Diaz, American mixed martial artist
- * Benjamín Rojas, Argentine singer and actor
- April 17
- * Rooney Mara, American film and television actress
- * Luke Mitchell, Australian actor and model
- * Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, French tennis player
- April 18
- * Łukasz Fabiański, Polish footballer
- * Elena Temnikova, Russian pop singer
- April 19
- * Sabrina Jalees, Canadian comedian, dancer, actress, presenter, and writer
- * Zhang Xi, Chinese beach volleyball player
- April 20 – Billy Magnussen, American actor
- April 22
- * Kristin Fairlie, Canadian actress
- * Camille Lacourt, French swimmer
- * Shari Sebbens, Australian actress
- April 23
- * Taio Cruz, British hip-hop musician
- * Angel Locsin, Filipino actress
- April 24
- * Courtnee Draper, American actress, singer and voice actress
- * Joséphine Jobert, French actress and singer
- * Kaori Nazuka, Japanese voice actress and singer
- April 26
- * Nam Gyu-ri, South Korean actress and pop singer
- * Jemima Kirke, English-American artist and actress
- * Bre Scullark, American fashion model and actress
- April 28 – Brandon Baker, American actor
- April 30 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model
May
- May 1 – Drew Sidora, American actress and singer
- May 2
- * Lily Allen, British pop musician
- * Kyle Busch, American race car driver
- * Sarah Hughes, American figure skater
- * Alexander Galimov, Russian hockey player
- May 3 – Meagan Tandy, American actress and model
- May 4
- * Fernandinho, Brazilian footballer
- * Bo McCalebb, American/Macedonian basketball player
- May 5
- * Clark Duke, American actor
- * Shoko Nakagawa, Japanese actress, voice actress and singer
- May 6
- * Chris Paul, American basketball player
- * Dent May, American pop musician
- May 7
- * J Balvin, Colombian-born reggaeton singer
- * Andrew Carroll, American ice hockey player
- May 8 – Silvia Stroescu, Romanian artistic gymnast
- May 9
- *Audrina Patridge,
- *Chris Zylka, American actor and model
- May 10
- * Odette Annable, American actress
- * David Miranda, Brazilian journalist and politician
- May 11 – Jadyn Wong, Canadian actress
- May 12 – Dániel Tőzsér, Hungarian footballer
- May 13 – Iwan Rheon, Welsh actor, singer and musician
- May 14
- * Lina Esco, American actress, producer and activist
- * Sally Martin, New Zealand actress
- * Zack Ryder, American professional wrestler
- May 15
- * Derek Hough, American dancer, choreographer and musician, six-time winner of ABC's Dancing with the Stars
- * Cristiane, Brazilian footballer
- * Tathagata Mukherjee, Indian actor
- * Tyrone Savage, Canadian voice actor and theatre, film and television actor
- May 17
- * Christine Nesbitt, Canadian speed skater
- * Matt Ryan, American football player
- May 18 – Oliver Sin, Hungarian painter
- May 20 – Chris Froome, Kenyan-born British road racing cyclist
- May 21
- * Mutya Buena, British urban singer and was member of Sugababes
- * Alison Carroll, British artistic gymnast, actress and model
- * Cameron Van Hoy, American actor, producer and writer
- May 22
- * Chrissie Chau, Hong Kong model
- * Marc-Antoine Pouliot, Canadian ice hockey player
- May 23 – Kanyeria, Kenyan music producer
- May 24 – John Vigilante, American ice hockey
- May 25
- * Luciana Abreu, Portuguese pop singer and actress
- * Lauren Frost, American actress and singer
- * Roman Reigns, American professional wrestler
- May 26 – Ashley Vincent, English footballer
- May 27
- * Chien-Ming Chiang, Taiwanese baseball player
- * Andrew Francis, Canadian voice actor and actor
- May 28
- * Colbie Caillat, American musician
- * Carey Mulligan, British actress
- * Emily Wilson, American actress
- May 29
- * Yukihiro Takiguchi, Japanese actor, singer, and model
- * Blake Foster, American actor and martial artist
- May 30
- * Sam Gifaldi, American actor
- * Turk McBride, American National Football League player
- May 31
- * Zoraida Gómez, Mexican actress
- * Navene Koperweis, American progressive metal musician
June
- June 1
- * Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian athlete
- * Ari Herstand, American singer-songwriter
- June 2 – Miyuki Sawashiro, Japanese voice actress
- June 4
- * Evan Lysacek, American figure skater
- * Lukas Podolski, German footballer
- * Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model
- * Bar Refaeli, Israeli model and occasional actress
- June 6 – Abbie Cobb, American actress and author
- June 7
- * Marie Miyake, Japanese voice actress
- * Richard Thompson, Trinidadian sprinter
- June 9
- * Eusebio Henrique de Almeida, East Timorese footballer
- * Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress and model
- * Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
- June 10
- * Andy Schleck, Luxembuergian road cyclist
- * Rok Perko, Slovenian professional skier
- * Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player
- * Celina Jade, American actress
- * Kristina Apgar, American actress
- June 11
- * Chris Trousdale, American actor and recording artist
- * Dmitry Koldun, Belarusian singer
- June 12
- * Dave Franco, American television and film actor
- * Blake Ross, American software developer
- * Sam Thaiday, Australian rugby league player
- June 13 – Danny Syvret, Canadian ice hockey player
- June 15 – Nadine Coyle, Irish singer
- June 17
- * Kateryna Handziuk, Ukrainian politician
- * Andrea Demirović, Montenegrin pop singer
- * Marcos Baghdatis, Cypriot tennis player
- June 18 – Alex Hirsch, American animator and voice actor
- June 19 – Ai Miyazato, Japanese golfer
- June 20
- * Mark Saul, American actor
- * Matt Flynn, American football player
- * Darko Miličić, Serbian basketball player
- June 21
- * Kris Allen, 8th American Idol winner, rock musician
- * Sharna Burgess, Australian ballroom dancer
- * Lana Del Rey, American pop musician
- June 22
- * Aaron Lim, Malaysian racing driver
- * Douglas Smith, American actor
- * Lindsay Ridgeway, American actress
- * Rosa Kato, Japanese actress and model
- June 23
- * Marcel Reece, American football player
- * Kavka Shishido, Japanese drummer and vocalist
- June 24
- * Tom Kennedy, English footballer
- * Aste, Finnish rapper
- * Justin Hires, American actor and stand-up comedian
- * Krunoslav Simon, Croatian basketball player
- June 25
- * Ehra Madrigal, Filipino actress
- * Mohd Fitri Omar, Malaysian footballer
- * Scott Brown, Scottish footballer
- * Daniel Bard, American former baseball pitcher
- * Annaleigh Ashford, American actress, singer and dancer
- * Ethan Klein, American YouTuber
- June 26
- * Arjun Kapoor, Indian actor
- * Bobo Sollander, Swedish footballer
- * Ogyen Trinley Dorje, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader
- * Cameron Tovey, Malaysian-Australian basketball player
- June 27
- * Martin Sensmeier, Alaska Native actor
- * James Hook, Welsh rugby union player
- * Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
- * Vlatko Lozanoski, Macedonian singer
- * Nico Rosberg, German 2016 Formula 1 world champion
- June 28
- * Phil Bardsley, English footballer
- * Ahmed Kantari, Moroccan footballer
- June 29 – Steven Hauschka, American football player
- June 30
- * Michael Phelps, American swimmer
- * Hugh Sheridan, Australian actor, musician and television presenter
- * Lasarus Ratuere, Australian actor
- * Cody Rhodes, American professional wrestler
July
- July 1
- * Nineteen85, Canadian hip-hop producer
- * Spose, American hip-hop musician
- * Sebalter, Swiss pop musician and fiddle player
- * Léa Seydoux, French actress
- * Ocean Mushure, Zimbabwean footballer
- * Zohre Esmaeli, Afghan-born fashion model
- July 2
- * Gábor Máthé, Hungarian Deaflympic Champion in tennis
- * Pak Nam-chol, North Korean footballer
- * Ashley Tisdale, American actress, singer and producer
- * Vlatko Ilievski, Macedonian singer and actor
- July 3
- * Dean Cook, British actor
- * Keisuke Minami, Japanese singer and actor
- July 4
- * Mariana Rios, Brazilian actress and singer
- * Pei Yuwen, Chinese footballer
- * Lartiste, Moroccan-French singer and rapper
- July 5
- * Judith Chemla, French actress
- * Stephanie McIntosh, Australian actress
- * Nick O'Malley, British musician
- * François Arnaud, French-Canadian actor
- July 6
- * Matt Overton, American football player
- * Killian Scott, Irish actor
- * Ranveer Singh, Bollywood actor
- * D. Woods, American pop musician
- July 7
- * Pong Escobal, Filipino basketball player
- * Langton Rusere, Zimbabwean cricket umpire
- * Zulkifli Che Ros, Malaysian male weightlifter
- * Seo Woo, Korean actress
- July 8
- * Emanuele Abate, Italian athlete
- * Jason Day, Peruvian actor
- July 9
- * Paweł Korzeniowski, Polish swimmer
- * Cathy Leung, Hong Kong singer
- * Ashley Young, English footballer
- July 10
- * Mario Gómez, German footballer
- * Tidiane Sane, Senegalese footballer
- * Bastian Schulz, German footballer
- * Park Chu-young South Korean footballer
- July 11
- * David Narváez and Sergio Narváez, Spanish footballers
- * Tobias Jesso Jr., Canadian musician
- * Lilian Marijnissen, Dutch politician
- * Ele Opeloge, Samoan weightlifter
- * Robert Adamson, American actor
- July 12
- * Jasper Brinkley, American football player
- * Casper Brinkley, American football player
- * Adam Gregory, Canadian singer
- * Emil Hegle Svendsen, Norwegian biathlete
- * Luiz Ejlli, Albanian singer
- * Natasha Poly, Russian model
- July 13
- * Charlotte Dujardin, English dressage rider
- * Guillermo Ochoa, Mexican footballer
- * Andrew Wolff, Filipino-British Rugby Player
- July 14
- * Oleksandr Pyatnytsya, Ukrainian javelin thrower
- * Lee Kwang-soo, South Korean actor, entertainer and model
- July 15
- * Pedro Carvalho, Portuguese actor
- * Agniya Kuznetsova, Russian actress
- * Chris Tiu, Filipino professional basketball player, TV host, commercial model, and politician
- * Crowd Lu, Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
- * Tomer Kapon, Israeli actor
- * Igor Jurković, Croatian heavyweight kickboxer
- July 16
- * Cha Ye-ryun, South Korean actress
- * Denis Tahirović, Croatian footballer
- * Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
- * Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
- * Rosa Salazar, American actress
- July 17
- * Tom Fletcher, British musician
- * Tom Cullen, Welsh actor, writer and director
- * Caitlin Van Zandt, American actress
- July 18
- * José Carlos Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- * Hopsin, American rapper and record producer
- * James Norton, British actor
- * Chace Crawford, American actor
- July 19 – LaMarcus Aldridge, American basketball player
- July 20 – John Francis Daley, American television and film actor
- July 21 – Guillaume Bastille, Canadian short track speed skater
- July 22
- * Jessica Abbott, Australian swimmer
- * Blake Harrison, English actor
- * Ryan Dolan, Irish singer
- * Takudzwa Ngwenya, Zimbabwean-American rugby player
- * Akira Tozawa, Japanese wrestler
- July 23
- * William Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer
- * Scott Chandler, American football player
- July 25
- * James Lafferty, American actor and athlete
- * Shantel VanSanten, American actress and model
- * Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian Formula One and NASCAR driver
- * Alex Presley, American baseball outfielder
- July 26 - Matt Riddlehoover, American filmmaker
- July 27
- * Aljin Abella, Australian actor
- * Lou Taylor Pucci, American actor
- July 28
- * Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor
- * Darren Murphy, Irish footballer
- July 30
- * Aml Ameen, British actor
- * Elena Gheorghe, Romanian singer
- * Matthew Scott, Australian rugby league player
August
- August 2 – Davey Boy Smith Jr., British-Canadian professional wrestler
- August 3 – Sonny Bill Williams, New Zealand Rugby League player
- August 4 – Crystal Bowersox, American singer-songwriter
- August 5 – Salomon Kalou, Ivorian footballer
- August 7 – Rick Genest, Canadian artist, actor, and fashion model
- August 8 – Toby Flood, English rugby union player
- August 9
- * Anna Kendrick, American actress
- * Hayley Peirsol, American swimmer
- * Filipe Luís, Brazilian footballer
- August 10 – Jared Nathan, American actor
- August 11
- * Asher Roth, American rapper
- * Jacqueline Fernandez, Sri Lankan-born Indian Bollywood actress
- August 12 – África Zavala, Mexican actress
- August 14
- * Ashlynn Brooke, American pornographic actress
- * Shea Weber, Canadian ice hockey player
- August 15
- * Emily Kinney, American actress, singer, and songwriter
- * Nipsey Hussle, American rapper
- August 16
- * Agnes Bruckner, American actress
- * Arden Cho, American actress, singer and model
- * Cristin Milioti, American actress and singer
- August 19 – David A. Gregory, American actor
- August 20 – Brant Daugherty, American actor
- August 21
- * Melissa M, French singer
- * Jake Pitts, American singer-songwriter
- * Laura Haddock, English actress
- August 23 – Juss Haasma, Estonian actor
- August 25
- * Andien, Indonesian jazz singer
- * Wynter Gordon, American pop/dance singer-songwriter
- August 27
- * Alexandra Nechita, American artist
- * Kayla Ewell, American actress
- * Sean Foreman, American singer, songwriter and performer; member of electro hop group 3OH!3
- August 28 – Ashlyne Huff, American singer-songwriter and dancer
- August 29 – Jeffrey Licon, American actor
- August 30
- * Eamon Sullivan, Australian swimmer
- * Leisel Jones, Australian swimmer
- * Richard Duffy, Wales international footballer
- * Éva Risztov, Hungarian Olympic Champion swimmer
- August 31 – Mohammad bin Salman, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
September
- September 1
- * Lilan Bowden, American actress
- * Camile Velasco, Filipina-American actress
- September 2
- * Allison Miller, American actress
- * Yani Gellman, Canadian/Australian film and television actor
- September 3 – Yūki Kaji, Japanese voice actor
- September 4
- * Morgan Garrett, American voice actress
- * Raúl Albiol, Spanish footballer
- * Ri Kwang-chon, North Korean footballer
- * Walid Mesloub, Algerian footballer
- September 5 – Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
- * Oleksandr Akymenko, Ukrainian football striker
- * Jan Mazoch, Czech former ski jumper.
- * Dario Jertec, Croatian football midfielder
- * Weronika Deresz, Polish rower
- September 6
- * Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedian
- * Mitch Moreland, American baseball player
- September 7
- * Radhika Apte, Indian film and theatre actress
- * Alyssa Diaz, American actress
- * Alyona Lanskaya, Belarusian singer
- * Rafinha, Brazilian football player
- September 8
- * Justin Bradley, Canadian actor
- * Vanessa Baden, American actress
- * Denny Morrison, Canadian speed skater
- September 9
- * Amy Manson, British actress
- * Luka Modrić, Croatian football player
- * J. R. Smith, American basketball player
- September 10 – Elyse Levesque, Canadian film and television actress
- September 13 – Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model
- September 14
- * Aya Ueto, Japanese actress
- * Dilshad Vadsaria, American television actress
- September 15
- * Kayden Kross, American porn actress
- * Iselin Steiro, Norwegian model
- September 16
- * Madeline Zima, American actress
- * Max Minghella, English actor
- * Danny Fernandes, Canadian singer
- September 17
- * Alexander Ovechkin, Russian hockey player
- * Jon Walker, American musician
- September 19 – Song Joong-ki, South Korean actor, model and host
- September 20 – Tessanne Chin, Jamaican singer, winner of The Voice season 5
- September 22 – Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress
- September 23
- * Joba Chamberlain, American baseball player
- * Maki Goto, Japanese singer and actress
- * Hasan Minhaj, American comedian and actor
- September 24
- * Eric Adjetey Anang, Ghanaian sculptor
- * Kimberley Nixon, Welsh actress
- * Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
- September 26
- * Talulah Riley, English actress
- * Marcin Mroziński, Polish actor, singer and television presenter
- September 28 – Shindong, Korean singer
- September 29
- * Calvin Johnson, retired American football player and contestant on Dancing with the Stars season 23
- * Michelle Payne, Australian jockey
- * Dani Pedrosa, Spanish motorcycle racer
- September 30 – T-Pain, American singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor
October
- October 1
- * Leah Renee Cudmore, Canadian actress and singer
- * Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian long-distance runner
- * Matt Healy, lead singer and guitarist of the band Rock Incorporated
- * Porcelain Black, American industrial pop singer-songwriter
- * Sicily, American actress
- October 3
- * Courtney Lee, American basketball player
- * Megumi Takamoto, Japanese voice actress and singer
- October 4 – Brad Bell, American television producer and screenwriter, actor, musician, and comic book author
- October 5
- * Nathalie Kelley, Peruvian actress
- * Nicola Roberts, British singer
- * Brooke Valentine, American singer
- October 7 – Evan Longoria, American professional baseball player
- October 8
- * Max Crumm, American actor and singer
- * Jesse MacDonald, Leader of new-wave band "The Fruit Patrol", Lazy Rights Activist
- * Bruno Mars, American singer-songwriter and music producer
- * Kimberly Kevon Williams, American actress
- * Magda Apanowicz, Canadian actress
- October 9 – Frankmusik, English electropop musician
- October 10
- * Marina Diamandis, Welsh singer-songwriter
- * Kyle Switzer, Canadian actor
- * Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist
- * Aaron Himelstein, American actor
- October 11
- * Lee Min-hye, South Korean racing cyclist
- * Margaret Berger, Norwegian electropop singer-songwriter
- * Michelle Trachtenberg, American actress
- October 14
- * Daniel Clark, American-Canadian actor
- * Justin Forsett, American football player
- * Sherlyn, Mexican actress
- October 16 – Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer
- October 18 – Iori Nomizu, Japanese voice actress, actress and singer
- October 19 – RR Enriquez, Filipino model, television host and actress
- October 20 – Jennifer Freeman, American actress
- October 22
- * Manpei Takagi, Japanese actor
- * Shinpei Takagi, Japanese actor
- October 23
- * Chris Neal, English footballer
- * Masiela Lusha, Albanian-American actress, poet, and humanitarian
- October 24 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
- October 25
- * Ciara, African-American singer
- * Sophie Gradon, English model and marketing manager
- * John Robinson, American actor
- * Christopher Sean, American actor
- October 26
- * Andrea Bargnani, Italian professional basketball player
- * Asin Thottumkal, Indian actress
- October 27
- * Stefano Bianco, Italian motorcycle racer
- * Briana Lane, American actress and musician
- * Troian Bellisario, American actress
- October 28
- * Anthony Fantano, American music critic
- * Troian Bellisario, American actress
- October 29 - Ximena Sariñana, Mexican singer and actress
- October 29 – Janet Montgomery, English film and television actress
- October 31
- * Kerron Clement, American hurdler and sprinter
- * Kether Donohue, American actress and singer
November
- November 2 – Josh Grelle, American voice actor
- November 3
- * Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
- * Philipp Tschauner, German footballer
- November 4 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator
- November 5 – Elizabeth Rice, American actress
- November 6 – Shayne Lamas, American reality television personality and actress
- November 7 – Paul Terry, English actor
- November 8 – Jack Osbourne, English television personality
- November 10
- * Dannic, aka Daan Romers, Dutch DJ and Producer
- * Giovonnie Samuels, American actress
- * Ricki-Lee Coulter, former Australian Idol contestant and singer
- November 11
- * Remona Fransen, Dutch athlete
- * Raquel Guerra, Portuguese singer and actress
- * Kalan Porter, Canadian singer
- * Robin Uthappa, Indian cricketer
- November 12 – Daria Bijak, German artistic gymnast
- November 13
- * Rahul Kohli, English actor
- * Michael Bennett, American football player
- * Asdrúbal Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
- * Simo-Pekka Olli, Finnish volleyball player
- November 14 – Thomas Vermaelen, Belgian footballer
- November 15
- * Lily Aldridge, American model
- * Casnel Bushay, Vincentian sprinter
- * Nick Fradiani, American singer
- * Jeffree Star, American musician and YouTuber
- November 16 – Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, 46th Prime Minister of Finland
- November 17 – Bea Saw, Filipino actress
- November 18 – Allyson Felix, American sprinter
- November 20 – Dan Byrd, American actor
- November 21 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer-songwriter
- November 22 – Asamoah Gyan, Ghanaian football player
- November 23
- * Katie Crown, Canadian actress
- * Ahn Hyun-Soo, South Korean short track skater
- November 25 – Marcus Hellner, Swedish cross-country skier
- November 27 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress
- November 28
- * Nathan Keyes, American actor
- * Magdolna Rúzsa, Hungarian singer
- * Ryan Sampson, British actor
- November 30
- * Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player
- * Kaley Cuoco, American actress and producer
- * Chrissy Teigen, American model
December
- December 1
- * John Coughlin, American pair skater
- * Philip DeFranco, American YouTube star and video blogger
- * Janelle Monáe, African-American R&B/soul musician
- * Chanel Preston, American porn actress
- December 2 – Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer
- December 3
- * László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer
- * Amanda Seyfried, American actress, model and singer-songwriter
- December 4
- * Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer
- * Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
- December 5 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, musician, writer, producer, and racecar driver
- December 6 – Dulce María, Mexican singer and actress
- December 7 – Jon Moxley, American professional wrestler
- December 8 – Dwight Howard, American basketball player
- December 9 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer
- December 10
- * Edmund Entin, American actor
- * Gary Entin, American actor
- * Meghan Linsey, American singer-songwriter
- * Matt Forté, American football player
- * Raven-Symoné, African-American actress, singer, songwriter, executive producer, and director
- December 11 – Samantha Steele, American sportscaster
- December 12 – Juan Camilo Zúñiga, Colombian footballer
- December 14 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress
- December 16 – Amanda Setton, American actress
- December 17 – Greg James, British radio DJ
- December 18 – Hana Soukupová, Czech model
- December 19
- * Christina Loukas, American diver
- * Lady Sovereign, British rapper
- * David Reale, Canadian actor
- * Gary Cahill, English footballer
- December 21
- * James Stewart Jr., American motorcycle racer
- * Tom Sturridge, English actor
- December 22 – Edurne, Spanish singer, actress, and TV presenter
- December 23
- * Harry Judd, English drummer
- * Luke O'Loughlin, Australian actor
- December 26
- * Yu Shirota, Japanese actor and singer
- * Beth Behrs, American actress
- December 27
- * Paul Stastny, Canadian-American professional ice hockey player
- * Jessica Harmon, Canadian actress
- * Halley Gross, American screenwriter
- December 28
- * Dan Amboyer, American actor
- * Taryn Terrell, American professional wrestler
- December 29 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer, songwriter and pianist
- December 30 – Anna Wood, American actress
- December 31 – Jonathan Horton, American gymnast
Deaths
January
- January 2 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino professional boxer
- January 4 – Sir Brian Horrocks, British general
- January 5 – Robert L. Surtees, American cinematographer
- January 7
- * Ruth Godfrey, American actress
- * Mary Hardy, Australian actress and comedian
- January 11 – Sir William McKell, 12th Governor-General of Australia
- January 13 – Carol Wayne, American actress
- January 14
- * Jetta Goudal, Dutch actress
- * Anagarika Govinda, German buddhist lama
- January 18 – Mahmoud Mohammed Taha, Sudanese religious thinker
- January 19 – Eric Voegelin, German-American philosopher
- January 20 – Gillis William Long, American politician
- January 22
- * Sir Arthur Bryant, British historian
- * Mikhail Gromov, Soviet aviator
- January 26 – Kenny Clarke, American jazz drummer and bandleader
- January 29
- * Georges Portmann, French physician
- * Billy Cook, Australian jockey
- January 31 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, Japanese novelist
February
- February 4 – Jesse Hibbs, American film director
- February 6 – Neil McCarthy, English actor
- February 8
- * William Lyons, British automobile engineer and designer
- * Marvin Miller, American actor
- February 11 – Henry Hathaway, American film director
- February 12 – Nicholas Colasanto, American actor
- February 18 – Randolph E. Haugan, American author, editor and publisher
- February 20 – Clarence Nash, American actor
- February 21
- * Ina Claire, American actress
- * Louis Hayward, British actor
- * John G. Trump, American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist
- February 22
- * Efrem Zimbalist, Russian-American violinist
- * Alexander Scourby, American film, television, and voice actor
- February 26 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 27
- * Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American politician
- * Iain Moncreiffe, Scottish genealogist and Officer of Arms
- * J. Pat O'Malley, English actor
March
- March 3 – Iosif Shklovsky, Soviet astronomer and astrophysicist
- March 7 – George Schick, Czechoslovakian conductor and music educator
- March 8 – Edward Andrews, American stage, film and television actor
- March 10
- * Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
- * Bob Nieman, American baseball player
- March 11
- * Tom Adams, Barbadosian politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Barbados
- * Nazem Akkari, Lebanese politician, 19th Prime Minister of Lebanon
- March 12 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American conductor
- March 13 – Mabel Alvarez, American painter
- March 15 – Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian
- March 16 – Roger Sessions, American composer
- March 21 – Sir Michael Redgrave, British actor
- March 23
- * Doctor Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Rail
- * Zoot Sims, American jazz saxophonist
- March 28 – Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter
- March 29
- * The Singing Nun, Belgian nun and singer
- * Gerhard Stock, German Olympic athlete
- March 30 – Shizuko Kasagi, Japanese singer
- March 31
- * Michel Georges-Michel, French painter, journalist, novelist
- * Richard McKeon, American philosopher
April
- April 4 – Kate Roberts, Welsh-language author
- April 5 – Paul Hugh Emmett, American chemical engineer
- April 6 – Terence Sanders, British Olympic rower – coxless fours
- April 7 – Carl Schmitt, German jurist, political theorist and professor of law
- April 8 – J. Fred Coots, American songwriter
- April 10 – Alfredo Duhalde, Chilean statesman
- April 11 – Enver Hoxha, Albanian Communist politician, leader of the Party of Labour 22nd Prime Minister of Albania
- April 14 – Noele Gordon, British actress
- April 15 – Jack Medica, American Olympic swimmer
- April 16 – Scott Brady, American actor
- April 17 – Evadne Price, Australian-British writer, actress and astrologer
- April 18 – Gertrude Caton–Thompson, English archaeologist
- April 19 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev, Russian ethnologist
- April 21
- * John Welsh, Irish actor
- * Tancredo Neves, Brazilian elected president and former Prime Minister
- April 22 – Paul H. Emmett, American chemical engineer
- April 23 – Kent Smith, American actor
- April 24 – Mildred W. Pelzer, American artist
- April 25 – Richard Haydn, English actor
- April 26 – Albert Maltz, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten
May
- May 1 – Denise Robins, British romance novelist
- May 4 – Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army
- May 5 – Sir Donald Bailey, British civil engineer
- May 6
- * Pete Desjardins, American Olympic diver
- * Julie Vega, Filipino child actress and singer
- May 7 – Dawn Addams, British actress
- May 8
- * Karl Marx, German composer and music teacher
- * Theodore Sturgeon, American writer
- * Dolph Sweet, American actor
- May 9 – Edmond O'Brien, American actor
- May 10
- * Tahar Ben Ammar, Tunisian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Tunisia
- * Florizel von Reuter, American violinist and composer
- May 12 – Jean Dubuffet, French artist
- May 13
- * Selma Diamond, American actress
- * Leatrice Joy, American actress
- May 14 – Barbara Yung, Hong Kong actress
- May 15 – Rama Devi, Indian nationalist leader
- May 16
- * Margaret Hamilton, American actress
- * Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell, American artist
- May 17 – Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter
- May 18 – Penn Nouth, Cambodian politician, 7-time Prime Minister of Cambodia
- May 19 – W. H. Diddle, American amateur golfer
- May 20 – Ben Hall, American actor
- May 22
- * Charles Murphy, American architect.
- * Wolfgang Reitherman, German animator, director and producer
- May 28 – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster, producer, playwright and novelist
- May 30 – George K. Arthur, English actor and producer
June
- June 1 – Eugène Séguy, French entomologist
- June 5 – Lord George-Brown, British politician
- June 6
- * Norman W. Walker, British businessman
- * Vladimir Jankélévitch, French philosopher and musicologist
- June 7
- * Georgia Hale, American actress
- * Gordon Rollings, British actor
- June 9
- * Clifford Evans, British actor
- * Matsutarō Kawaguchi, Japanese novelist
- June 10 – George Chandler, American actor
- June 11 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause célèbre
- June 12
- * Czesław Marek, Polish composer and pianist
- * Helmuth Plessner, German philosopher and sociologist
- June 15
- * Percy Fender, English cricketer
- * Andy Stanfield, American Olympic athlete
- June 17
- *George Jackson, English footballer
- * John Boulting, English filmmaker
- *Kirill Moskalenko, Soviet military commander
- Either June 18 or June 19 - Bonnie Nettles, American religious leader
- June 21 – Tage Erlander, Swedish politician, 25th Prime Minister of Sweden
- June 27 – Elias Sarkis, Lebanese lawyer, 27th President of Lebanon
- June 28 – James Craig, American actor
- June 30 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau
July
- July 1 – Pauli Murray, American civil rights activist, lawyer, author and priest
- July 2
- * David Purley, British race car driver
- * Hector Nicol, Scottish entertainer
- July 3 – Erik Ågren, Swedish boxer
- July 4 – Jan de Quay, Dutch politician and psychologist, 31st Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- July 8
- * Phil Foster, American actor
- * Simon Kuznets, American economist
- July 9
- * Jimmy Kinnon, Scottish founder of Narcotics Anonymous
- * Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- July 14 – Lluís Solé, Spanish geographer and academic
- July 16 – Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 17 – Margo, Mexican-born American actress
- July 19
- * Janusz Zajdel, Polish writer
- * Louisa Ghijs, Belgian stage actress and wife of Johannes Heesters
- July 21 – Alvah Cecil Bessie, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten
- July 22 – Matti Järvinen, Finnish Olympic athlete
- July 23
- * Kay Kyser, American bandleader
- * Mickey Shaughnessy, American actor
- July 25 – Grant Williams, American actor
- July 26 – Grace Albee, American printmaker and wood engraver.
- July 27 – John Scarne, American magician and card expert
August
- August 1 – D. H. Turner, British art historian and museum curator
- August 2 – Frank Faylen, American actor
- August 5 – Arnold Horween, Harvard Crimson and NFL football player
- August 6
- * Forbes Burnham, Guyanese political leader, 1st Prime Minister of Guyana and 2nd President of Guyana
- * John Harmon, American actor
- August 8 – Louise Brooks, American actress
- August 9 – Clive Churchill, Australian rugby league player and coach
- August 10 – Kenny Baker, American actor and singer
- August 11 – Hector Grey, Scottish street trader and company director
- August 12
- * Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer
- * Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver
- August 14 – Gale Sondergaard, American actress
- *Lina Heydrich, Wife of Reinhard Heydrich
- August 15 – Lester Cole, American screenwriter, one of the Hollywood Ten
- August 20 – Donald O. Hebb, Canadian neuropsychologist
- August 22 – Paul Peter Ewald, German-born American crystallographer and physicist
- August 24 – Morrie Ryskind, American dramatist
- August 25
- * Paul Harris, American actor
- * Samantha Smith, American schoolgirl activist
- August 28
- * Ruth Gordon, American actress, screenwriter, and playwright
- * Miguel Otero Silva, Venezuelan writer
- August 29
- * Evelyn Ankers, British actress
- * Patrick Barr, British actor
- August 30 – Taylor Caldwell, Anglo-American writer
- August 31 – Macfarlane Burnet, Australian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
September
- September 1 – Stefan Bellof, race car driver and 1984 World SportsCars Champion
- September 4
- * Isabel Jeans, British actress
- * George O'Brien, American actor
- September 6
- * Little Brother Montgomery, American musician
- * Rodney Robert Porter, English biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- September 7
- * Bruiser Kinard, American football player and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
- * José Zabala-Santos, Filipino cartoonist
- * George Pólya, Hungarian mathematician
- September 8 – John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- September 9 – Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- September 10
- * Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist
- * Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager
- September 11
- * William Alwyn, English composer
- * Henrietta Barnett, British Women's Royal Air Force officer
- * Masako Natsume, Japanese actress
- September 13 – Augusto Rademaker, Brazilian admiral and former military junta member
- September 14
- * Julian Beck, American actor
- * John Holt, American writer and educator
- September 17 – Laura Ashley, Welsh designer
- September 19 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer
- September 22 – Axel Springer, German journalist and the founder and owner of the Axel Springer AG
- September 27 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor
- September 30
- * Floyd Crosby, American cinematographer
- * Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist, creator of the Richter magnitude scale
- * Simone Signoret, French actress
October
- October 1 – E. B. White, American writer
- October 2
- * Rock Hudson, American actor
- * George Savalas, American actor
- October 5 – Abdus Sattar, Bangladeshi statesman, 8th President of Bangladesh
- October 6
- * John W. Snyder, American businessman and Cabinet Secretary
- * Nelson Riddle, American bandleader
- October 9 – Emílio Garrastazu Médici, Brazilian general and statesman, 28th President of Brazil
- October 10
- * Yul Brynner, Russian-American actor and performer
- * Orson Welles, American actor and director
- October 12 – Ricky Wilson, American guitarist
- October 13 – Francesca Bertini, Italian actress
- October 14 – Emil Gilels, Soviet pianist
- October 17 – Abdelmunim Al-Rifai, Prime Minister of Jordan
- October 21 – Dan White, American politician and murderer
- October 22 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American inventor
- October 24 – László Bíró, Hungarian inventor of the ballpoint pen
- October 29 – John Davis Lodge, American actor and politician
- October 30 – David Oxley, English actor
November
- November 1
- * Rick McGraw, American professional wrestler
- * Ōuchiyama Heikichi, Japanese sumo wrestler
- * Phil Silvers, American entertainer
- November 2 – William Lummis, British military historian
- November 4 – Cus D'Amato legendary boxing trainer who was a mentor to hall of famer boxers Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson and José Torres.
- November 5
- * Spencer W. Kimball, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- * Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist
- November 6 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor
- November 8 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgian cyclist
- November 9 – Marie-Georges Pascal, French actress
- November 11
- * James Hanley, British novelist, playwright and writer
- * Pelle Lindbergh, Swedish Professional Hockey goaltender
- November 13
- * William Pereira, American architect
- * George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer
- November 16
- * Stuart Chase, American economist
- * John Sparkman, American politician
- November 17
- * Lon Nol, Cambodian general and statesman, 32nd Prime Minister of Cambodia and 7th President of Khmer Republic
- * Jimmy Ritz, American actor
- November 19
- * Juan Arvizu, Mexican operatic tenor and bolero vocalist
- * Stepin Fetchit, American actor
- November 24 – Big Joe Turner, American blues singer
- November 25 – Geoffrey Grigson, British poet, writer, critic
- November 27
- * Fernand Braudel, French historian
- * Rendra Karno, Indonesian actor
- November 28 – Johnny McNally, American football player, member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
December
- December 2 – Philip Larkin, English poet and novelist
- December 7
- * Robert Graves, English writer
- * Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice
- December 12
- * Anne Baxter, American actress
- * Ian Stewart, Scottish rock musician
- * Phil Karlson, American film director
- December 14 – Roger Maris, American baseball player
- December 15
- * Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius
- * Carlos Romulo, Filipino diplomat
- December 16 – Paul Castellano, American Mafia boss
- December 20 – Coral Buttsworth, Australian tennis champion
- December 22 – D. Boon, American musician
- December 23
- * Ferhat Abbas, Algerian nationalist, 1st president of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic
- * Prince Bira, Prince of Siam and Formula One driver
- December 24
- * Erich Schaedler, Scottish footballer
- December 26 – Dian Fossey, American biologist
- December 27
- * Harry Hopman, Australian tennis player and coach
- * Harold Whitlock, British Olympic athlete
- December 28 – Renato Castellani, Italian director
- December 31
- * Ricky Nelson, American actor and musician
- * Sam Spiegel, Polish-born film producer
Date unknown
- Andrej Bicenko, Russian fresco painter and muralist
- Kaare Bratung, Norwegian cartoonist
- Hamlet Gonashvili, Georgian singer
Nobel Prizes
- Physics – Klaus von Klitzing
- Chemistry – Herbert A. Hauptman, Jerome Karle
- Literature – Claude Simon
- Peace – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Economics – Franco Modigliani
- Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Michael Stuart Brown, Joseph L. Goldstein