1962

Events

January

• January - Stena Line is established as a ferry operator, by Sten A. Olsson in Gothenburg, Sweden.
• January 1
• * Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
• * The United States Navy SEALs, elite special forces, are activated. Navy Seal 1 is commissioned in the Pacific Fleet, and SEAL Team Two in the Atlantic Fleet.
• * The Beatles audition for Decca Records, but are rejected.
• * NBC introduces the "Laramie peacock", before a midnight showing of the series Laramie in the United States.
• January 2 - NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins praises U.S. President John F. Kennedy's "personal role" in advancing civil rights.
• January 3 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
• January 4 - New York City introduces a subway train that operates without a crew on board.
• January 8 - Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster.
• January 9 - Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.
• January 10 - An avalanche on Nevado Huascarán in Peru causes 4,000 deaths.
• January 12 - The Indonesian Army confirms that it has begun operations in West Irian.
• January 13 - Albania allies itself with the People's Republic of China.
• January 15 - Portugal abandons the U.N. General Assembly, due to the debate over Angola.
• January 16 - A military coup occurs in the Dominican Republic.
• January 19 - A counter-coup occurs in the Dominican Republic; the old government returns, except for the new president Rafael Filiberto Bonnelly.
• January 22 - The Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership; the suspension is lifted in 2009.
• January 24
• * The East German government readopts conscription.
• * The Organisation armée secrète bombs the French Foreign Ministry.
• January 26 - Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon; it later misses the Moon by.
• January 27 - The Soviet government changes all place names honoring Molotov, Kaganovich and Georgy Malenkov.
• January 30 - Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed, when their famous seven-person pyramid collapses during a performance in Detroit.

  February

• February 3 - The United States embargo against Cuba is announced.
• February 4 - The Sunday Times in the United Kingdom becomes the first paper to print a colour supplement.
• Danny Thomas founds St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
• February 4-5 - During a new moon and solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurs, all of them within 16° of one another on the ecliptic. A total solar eclipse is visible in Asia, Australia and the Pacific Ocean, and is the 49th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 130.
• February 5 - French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
• February 6 - Negotiations between U.S. Steel and the United States Department of Commerce begin.
• February 7
• * The United States embargo against Cuba comes into effect, prohibiting all U.S.-related Cuban imports and exports.
• * Luisenthal Mine Disaster: A coal mine explosion in Saarland, West Germany kills 299.
• February 9 - The Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation opens.
• February 10 - Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, in Berlin.
• February 11 - The inaugural 24 Hours of Daytona sports car endurance race is run as a 3-hour event, at Daytona Beach, Florida.
• February 12 - Six members of the Committee of 100 of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the U.K. are found guilty of a breach of the Official Secrets Act.
• February 14 - First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
• February 15 - Urho Kekkonen is re-elected president of Finland.
• February 16 - Heavy storms flood Germany's North Sea coast, mainly around Hamburg; more than 300 people die and thousands lose their homes.
• February 18 - 1962 NHRA Winternationals: Carol Cox becomes the first woman allowed to race at a National Hot Rod Association national event; she wins in the Super Stock class.
• February 20 - Project Mercury: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
• February 21 - Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev first dance together in a Royal Ballet performance of Giselle, in London.

March

• March 1
• * American Airlines Flight 1 crashes on takeoff at New York International Airport, after a rudder malfunction causes an uncontrolled roll, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft, with the loss of all 95 on board.
• * The S. S. Kresge Company opens its first Kmart discount store in Garden City, Michigan.
• March 2
• * A military coup in Burma brings General Ne Win to power.
• * Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game: Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in a single National Basketball Association basketball game.
• March 7 - Ash Wednesday Storm: A snow storm batters the Mid-Atlantic.
• March 8-12 - In Geneva, France and the Algerian FLN begin negotiations.
• March 15 - Katangan Prime Minister Moise Tshombe begins negotiations, to rejoin the Congo.
• March 16 - Flying Tiger Line Flight 739, a Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation chartered by the United States Military Air Transport Service, and carrying mainly United States Army personnel bound for South Vietnam, vanishes over the western Pacific Ocean, with the loss of all 107 on board.
• March 18
• * Évian Accords: France and Algeria sign an agreement in Évian-les-Bains, ending the Algerian War.
• * Un premier amour, sung by Isabelle Aubret, wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1962 for France.
• March 19
• * An armistice begins in Algeria; however, the OAS continues its terrorist attacks against Algerians.
• * Bob Dylan's debut album is released in the United States.
• March 21 - The Taco Bell fast food restaurant chain is founded by Glen Bell, in Downey, California.
• March 23 - The Scandinavian States of the Nordic Council sign the Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation.
• March 24 - OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is arrested in Oran.
• March 26
• * France shortens the term for military service from 26 months to 18.
• * Baker v. Carr: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that federal courts can order state legislatures to reapportion seats.

  April

• April 3 - Jawaharlal Nehru is elected de facto Prime Minister of India.
• April 4 - James Hanratty is hanged in Bedford Gaol for the A6 murder; many believe he was innocent.
• April 6
• * Belgium reestablishes diplomatic relations with the Congo.
• * New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962: Leonard Bernstein causes controversy with his remarks before a concert featuring Glenn Gould with the New York Philharmonic, when he announces that although he disagrees with Gould's style of playing Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, he finds Gould's ideas fascinating and will conduct the piece anyway. Bernstein's action receives a withering review from The New York Times music critic Harold C. Schonberg.
• April 7 - Milovan Đilas, author and former vice-president of Yugoslavia is re-arrested.
• April 8 - In France, the Évian Accords are adopted in a referendum, with a majority of 90%.
• April 9 - The 34th Academy Awards Ceremony is held; West Side Story wins Best Picture.
• April 10 - In Los Angeles, the first MLB baseball game is played at Dodger Stadium.
• April 13 - OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is sentenced to death in France.
• April 14 - A Cuban military tribunal convicts 1,179 Bay of Pigs attackers.
• April 18 - The Commonwealth Immigration Bill in the United Kingdom removes free immigration from the citizens of member states of the Commonwealth of Nations.
• April 20 - OAS leader Raoul Salan is arrested in Algiers.
• April 21 - The Century 21 Exposition World's Fair opens in Seattle.
• April 26 - The Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.

  May

• May - Larry Allen Abshier defects to North Korea, becoming the first of six American defectors to the country.
• May 1
• * Norwich City F.C. wins the English Football League Cup, beating Rochdale in the final.
• * Dayton Hudson Corporation opens the first of its Target discount stores, in Roseville, Minnesota.
• May 2
• * An OAS bomb explodes in Algeria; this and other attacks kill 110, and injure 147.
• * S.L. Benfica beats FC Barcelona 5–3 at the Olympic Stadium, to win the 1961–62 European Cup in association football.
• May 3 - Mikawashima train crash: 160 die in a triple-train disaster near Tokyo.
• May 5 - Twelve East Germans escape via a tunnel, under the Berlin Wall.
• May 6
• *Antonio Segni is elected President of the Italian Republic.
• *A test of a W47 warhead fired from a Polaris missile, the only time a nuclear missile has been test fired with its warhead detonated, occurs near Palmyra Atoll south of Hawaii.
• May 14
• * Juan Carlos of Spain marries the Greek Princess Sophia in Athens.
• * Milovan Đilas is given a further sentence in Yugoslavia, for publishing Conversations with Stalin.
• May 22 - Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes near Unionville, Missouri, after the in-flight detonation of a bomb near the rear lavatory; all 45 passengers and crew aboard are killed.
• May 23
• * Drilling for the new Montreal Subway commences.
• * Raoul Salan, founder of the French terrorist Organisation armée secrète, is sentenced to life imprisonment in France.
• * Ruben Jaramillo, Mexican peasant leader, and his wife and children, are gunned down by the Mexican army and federal police in Xochitepec, Morelos, Mexico.
• May 24 - Project Mercury: Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3 times, in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
• May 25 - The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated in England.
• May 26 - Acker Bilk's "Stranger on the Shore" becomes the first British recording to reach number one, in the US Billboard Hot 100.
• May 27 - The Centralia mine fire is ignited in Pennsylvania.
• May 29 - Negotiations between the OAS and the FLA lead to a real armistice in Algeria.
• May 30 - The 1962 FIFA World Cup begins in Chile.
• May 31 - Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann is hanged at a prison in Ramla, Israel; his body is cremated and his ashes scattered over the Mediterranean.

  June

• June - Rachel Carson's Silent Spring begins serialization in The New Yorker; it is released as a book on September 27 in the U.S., giving rise to the modern environmentalist movement.
• June 3 - Air France Flight 007 crashes on take-off at Orly Airport in Paris; 130 of 132 people on board are killed, 2 flight attendants survive. Most victims are cultural and civic leaders of Atlanta.
• June 6 - President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.
• June 11
• * President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at Yale University.
• * Frank Lee Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin escape from the Alcatraz Island prison
• June 15 - Students for a Democratic Society in the United States complete the Port Huron Statement.
• June 17
• *The OAS signs a truce with the FLN in Algeria, but a day later announces that it will continue the fight on behalf of French Algerians.
• *Brazil beats Czechoslovakia 3–1, to win the 1962 FIFA World Cup.
• June 22 - Air France Flight 117 crashes into terrain during bad weather in Guadeloupe, West Indies, killing all 113 on board, the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third fatal 707 crash of the year.
• June 25
• * Engel v. Vitale: The United States Supreme Court rules that mandatory prayers in public schools are unconstitutional.
• * MANual Enterprises v. Day: The United States Supreme Court rules that photographs of nude men are not obscene, decriminalizing nude male pornographic magazines.
• * İsmet İnönü of the CHP forms the new government of Turkey.
• June 26 - A 2-day steel strike begins in Italy, in support of increased wages and a five-day working week.
• June 28 - The United Lutheran Church in America, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, American Evangelical Lutheran Church and Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church merge, to form the Lutheran Church in America.
• June 30 - The last soldiers of the French Foreign Legion leave Algeria.

  July

• July 1
• * Rwanda and Burundi gain independence.
• * Algerian independence referendum, 1962: Supporters of Algerian independence win a 99% majority, in a referendum.
• * A heavy smog develops over London.
• * The Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation of March 23 comes into force, in the Nordic countries.
• July 2
• * Charles de Gaulle accepts Algerian independence; France recognizes it the next day.
• * The first Walmart store, at this time known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
• July 5 - Algeria becomes independent from France.
• July 6 - Gay Byrne presents the first edition of The Late Late Show on RTÉ in the Republic of Ireland. Byrne goes on to present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual hosts a televised talk show anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world's second longest-running talk show.
• July 9 - American artist Andy Warhol premieres his Campbell's Soup Cans exhibit in Los Angeles.
• July 10 - AT&T's Telstar, the world's first commercial communications satellite, is launched into orbit and activated the next day.
• July 12 - The Rolling Stones make their debut at London's Marquee Club, opening for Long John Baldry.
• July 13 - In what the press dubs "the Night of the Long Knives", United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses one-third of his Cabinet.
• July 14 - Norma Nolan of Argentina crowns Miss Universe 1962.
• July 17 - Nuclear testing: The "Small Boy" test shot Little Feller I becomes the last atmospheric test detonation, at the Nevada Test Site.
• July 19 - The first annual Swiss & Wielder Hoop and Stick Tournament is held.
• July 20 - France and Tunisia reestablish diplomatic relations.
• July 22 - Mariner program: The Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch, and has to be destroyed.
• July 23 - Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal.
• July 25
• * The first armed helicopter company of the United States Army is formed at Okinawa, Japan.
• * The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed in Geneva.
• July 31
• * Algeria proclaims independence; Ahmed Ben Bella is the first President.
• * A crowd assaults the rally of Sir Oswald Mosley's right-wing Union Movement in London.
• * An annular solar eclipse is visible in South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Indian Ocean, and is the 36th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 135.

  August

• August 5
• * Death of Marilyn Monroe: Marilyn Monroe is found dead from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles; it is officially ruled a "probable suicide".
• *Nelson Mandela is arrested by the South African government near Howick, and charged with incitement to rebellion.
• August 6 - Jamaica becomes independent.
• August 15 - The New York Agreement is signed, trading the West New Guinea colony to Indonesia.
• August 16 - Algeria joins the Arab League.
• August 17 - East German border guards kill 18-year-old Peter Fechter, as he attempts to cross the Berlin Wall into West Berlin.
• August 18 - Norway launches its 1st sounding rocket, Ferdinand 1 from Andøya Space Center and becomes a space nation.
• August 22 - A assassination attempt is made against French President Charles de Gaulle.
• August 24
• * A group of armed Cuban exile terrorists fire at a hotel in Havana from a speedboat.
• * Indonesia officially launched television with the establishment of TVRI television network or Televisi Republik Indonesia
• August 27 - NASA launches the Mariner 2 space probe.
• August 31 - Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.

  September

• September 1
• * A referendum in Singapore supports the Malayan Federation.
• * Typhoon Wanda strikes Hong Kong, killing at least 130 and injuring more than 600.
• September 2 - The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.
• September 8 - Newly independent Algeria, by referendum, adopts a constitution.
• September 12 - President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
• September 19 - Atlantic College opens its doors for the first time in Wales, marking the birth of the pioneering United World College educational movement.
• September 21 - A border conflict between China and India erupts into fighting.
• September 22 - Bob Dylan, 21, premieres one of his most preeminent songs, "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall", in the U.S.
• September 23 - The animated sitcom The Jetsons premieres on ABC in the U.S.
• September 25 - Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson two minutes into the first round of his fight, for the boxing world title in Chicago.
• September 26 - The North Yemen Civil War erupts.
• September 27 - A flash flood in Barcelona, Spain, kills more than 440 people.
• September 29 - The Canadian Alouette 1, the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union, is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
• September 30 - CBS broadcasts the final episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, marking the end of the Golden Age of Radio in the United States.

  October

• October 1
• * The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals.
• * Johnny Carson takes over as permanent host of NBC's The Tonight Show in the U.S., a post he will hold for 30 years.
• * Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance return to TV with The Lucy Show, two years after the end of I Love Lucy.
• October 3 - Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 8 - Walter Schirra orbits the Earth six times, in the Sigma 7 space capsule.
• October 5
• * The French National Assembly censures the proposed referendum to sanction presidential elections by popular mandate; Prime Minister Georges Pompidou resigns, but President de Gaulle asks him to stay in office.
• * The Beatles' first single in their own right, "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You", is released in the U.K. on EMI's Parlophone label. This version is recorded on September 4, at Abbey Road Studios in London, with Ringo Starr as drummer.
• * Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premieres at the London Pavilion, featuring Sean Connery as the hero.
• October 8
• * The German magazine Der Spiegel publishes an article about the Bundeswehr's poor preparedness; the Spiegel scandal erupts.
• * Algeria is accepted into the United Nations.
• October 9 - Uganda becomes independent within the Commonwealth of Nations.
• October 11 - Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
• October 12
• * The infamous Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest, with wind gusts up to 170 mph ; 46 are killed, 11 billion board feet of timber is blown down, with US$230 million in damage.
• * Jazz bassist/composer Charles Mingus invites the public to a live recording session at The Town Hall, but the public is expecting a formal concert; along with technical problems, the event is the worst moment of his career.
• October 13 - Edward Albee's drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? debuts on Broadway.
• October 14 - The beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis: A U-2 flight over Cuba in the Caribbean photographs Soviet nuclear weapons being installed. A stand-off then ensues for another 12 days, after President Kennedy is told of the pictures, between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.
• October 20 - The Sino-Indian War, a border dispute involving two of the world's largest nations, begins.
• October 22 - Cuban Missile Crisis: In a televised address, U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces to the nation the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
• October 24 - Cuban Missile Crisis: The first confrontation occurs between the U.S. Navy and a Soviet cargo vessel; the vessel changes course.
• October 26 - Spiegel scandal: German police occupy the offices of Der Spiegel in Hamburg.
• October 28
• * The end of the Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba. In a secret deal between Kennedy and Khrushchev, Kennedy agrees to the withdrawal of U.S. missiles from Turkey. The fact that this deal is not made public makes it look as though the Soviets have backed down.
• * A referendum in France favors the election of the president by universal suffrage.
• October 31 - The United Nations General Assembly asks the United Kingdom to suspend enforcement of the new constitution in Southern Rhodesia, but it comes into effect on November 1.

  November

• November - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, the author's semi-autobiographical account of life in the gulag, is published in Novy Mir, in an unprecedented acknowledgement of the Soviet Union's Stalinist past.
• November 1
• * The Soviets begin dismantling their missiles in Cuba.
• * The comic book antihero Diabolik first appears in Italy.
• November 3 - Earliest recorded use of the term "personal computer", in the report of a speech by computing pioneer John Mauchly in The New York Times.
• November 5
• * West German defense minister Franz Josef Strauß is relieved of his duties over the Spiegel scandal, due to his alleged involvement in police action against the magazine.
• * Saudi Arabia breaks off diplomatic relations with Egypt, following a period of unrest, partly caused by the defection of several Saudi princes to Egypt.
• * A coal mining disaster in Ny-Ålesund kills 21 people; the Norwegian government is forced to resign in the aftermath of this accident, in August 1963.
• November 6 - Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
• November 7 - Richard M. Nixon loses the California governor's race. In his concession speech, he states that this is "Richard Nixon's last press conference" and "you won't have Nixon to kick around any more".
• November 17 - Dulles International Airport, in Washington, D.C., is dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.
• November 20 - Cuban missile crisis: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the island.
• November 21 - The Sino-Indian War ends with a Chinese ceasefire.
• November 23 - United Airlines Flight 297 crashes in Columbia, Maryland, killing all 17 on board.
• November 24
• * The first episode of That Was the Week That Was, the groundbreaking satirical comedy program hosted by David Frost, is broadcast on BBC Television in the United Kingdom.
• * Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
• November 26
• * Spiegel scandal: German police end their occupation of Der Spiegel's offices.
• * Mies Bouwman starts presenting the first live TV-marathon fundraising show, which lasts 23 hours non-stop.
• November 27 - French President Charles De Gaulle orders Georges Pompidou to form a government.
• November 29 - An agreement is signed between Britain and France, to develop the Concorde supersonic airliner.
• November 30 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma, as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations.

  December

• December 2 - Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to make a pessimistic public comment on the war's progress.
• December 7 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his formerly autocratic power to several advisory and legislative councils.
• December 8
• * The first period of the Second Vatican Council closes.
• * The North Kalimantan National Army revolts in Brunei, in the first stirrings of the Indonesian Confrontation.
• * The 1962–63 New York City newspaper strike begins, affecting all of the city's major newspapers; it will last for 114 days.
• * Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, who died on November 28, is buried at the Nieuwe Kerk.
• December 9 - Tanganyika becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Julius Nyerere as president.
• December 10 - David Lean's epic film Lawrence of Arabia, featuring Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins and Anthony Quinn, premieres in London; 6 days later, it opens in the U.S.
• December 11
• * In West Germany, a coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists and Free Democrats is formed.
• * The last execution by hanging is carried out in Canada.
• December 14
• * U.S. spacecraft Mariner 2 passes by Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet.
• * Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting the Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the Louvre, its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.
• December 15 - Storm over the North Sea: Belgian pirate radio station Radio Uylenspiegel is knocked off the airwaves, never to operate again.
• December 19 - Britain acknowledged the right of Nyasaland to secede from the Central African Federation.
• December 21 - Britain agrees to purchase Polaris missiles from the U.S.
• December 22
• * Winter of 1962–63 in the United Kingdom: The "Big Freeze" begins; there are no frost-free nights until March 5, 1963.
• * "Telstar", by The Tornados, becomes the first single by a British group to reach No. 1 on the US charts, predating The Beatles by 13 months.
• December 24 - Cuba releases the last 1,113 participants in the Bay of Pigs Invasion to the U.S., in exchange for food worth $53 million.
• December 30
• * United Nations troops occupy the last rebel positions in Katanga; Moise Tshombe moves to South Rhodesia.
• * An unexpected storm buries Maine under five feet of snow, forcing the Bangor Daily News to miss a publication date for the only time in history. The same day, also, the Netherlands are covered with several feet of snow.

  Date unknown

• American advertising man Martin K. Speckter invents the interrobang, a new English-language punctuation mark.
• Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl is published in the U.S.
• The Irish folk band The Dubliners is formed, at O'Donoghue's Pub in Dublin.
• The laser diode is invented.
• Slavery in Yemen is abolished.

  Births

January

• January 2 - Iván Palazzese, Italian-Venezuelan professional motorcycle racer
• January 3 - Guy Pratt, English musician and songwriter
• January 4
• * Patrick Cassidy, American actor
• * Peter Steele, American musician
• * Natalya Bochina, Russian athlete
• January 5 - Suzy Amis Cameron, American actress and model
• January 6 - Mark Ellis, English footballer
• January 7
• * Ron Rivera, American football player and coach
• * Kiiri Tamm, Estonian actress
• * Hallie Todd, American actress, producer and writer
• January 9 - Cecilia Gabriela, Mexican actress
• January 10 - C. Martin Croker, American animator and voice actor
• January 11
• * Kim Coles, American actress, comedian and game show host
• * Melanie Hill, English actress
• January 12
• * Luna Vachon, American-Canadian professional wrestler
• * Alfred Schön, German footballer and manager
• January 13
• * Trace Adkins, American country music singer
• * Kevin Mitchell, American baseball player
• January 14 - Michael McCaul, American politician
• January 17
• * Jim Carrey, Canadian actor and comedian
• * Denis O'Hare, American-Irish actor
• January 18
• * Mike Lynch, American cartoonist
• * Alison Arngrim, Canadian-American actress and comedian
• January 20
• * Sakiko Tamagawa, Japanese voice actress
• * Sophie Thompson, English actress
• January 21
• * Tyler Cowen, American economist
• * Marie Trintignant, French actress
• January 22
• * Lyudmila Dzhigalova, Russian athlete
• * Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu, Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
• January 23
• * Stephen Keshi, Nigerian footballer and manager
• * Richard Roxburgh, Australian actor
• January 25
• * Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
• * Christopher Coppola, American film director and producer
• January 26
• * Malcom Gregory Scott, American writer, activist, and AIDS survivor
• * Anna LaCazio, American singer
• January 28
• * Creflo Dollar, American evangelist
• * Hamish McColl, British comedian, writer and actor
• January 29 - Olga Tokarczuk, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
• January 30 - King Abdullah II of Jordan
• January 31 - David Oliver, American actor

  February

• February 1 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese pop artist
• February 2
• * Kátia Abreu, Brazilian politician
• * Andy Fordham, English darts player
• * Michael T. Weiss, American actor
• February 4
• * Clint Black, American country musician
• * John Gordon Sinclair, Scottish actor
• * Jim O'Heir, American actor and comedian
• February 5
• * Jennifer Jason Leigh, American actress
• * Martin Nievera, Filipino singer
• February 6 - Axl Rose, American rock singer
• February 7
• * Garth Brooks, American singer and songwriter
• * David Bryan, American musician
• * Eddie Izzard, British actor and comedian
• * José Carlos da Costa Araújo, Brazilian goalkeeper
• February 8
• * Malorie Blackman, British author of young adult fiction
• * Timothy Britten Parker, American actor
• February 9
• * Lolo Ferrari, French actress
• * Dany Roland, Brazilian drummer, sound designer, film director and record producer
• * Zoë Lund, American musician, model, actress, author, producer, political activist and screenwriter
• * Dennis Padilla, Filipino comedian, TV host, radio broadcaster and actor
• February 10
• * Cliff Burton, American musician and songwriter
• * Bobby Czyz, American boxer
• * Dennis Padilla, Filipino actor and comedian
• February 11 - Sheryl Crow, American singer-songwriter
• February 12
• * Nana Ioseliani, Georgian chess player
• * Jimmy Kirkwood, Irish field hockey player
• February 13
• * Michele Greene, American actress
• * Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Puerto Rican politician
• February 14 - Ken Oosterbroek, South African photojournalist
• February 17
• * David McComb, Australian musician
• * Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
• * Alison Hargreaves, British mountain climber
• February 18 - Julie Strain, American actress and model
• February 19 - Nabila Khashoggi, American businesswoman, actress, and philanthropist
• February 21
• * Vanessa Feltz, British television presenter
• * Chuck Palahniuk, American author
• * David Foster Wallace, American writer
• February 22
• * Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist and TV personality
• * Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder
• * Ethan Wayne, American actor
• February 24 - Michelle Shocked, American singer-songwriter
• February 25
• * Birgit Fischer, German kayaker
• * Junko Ogata, Japanese serial killer
• February 26 - Domingos Montagner, Brazilian actor, playwright and entrepreneur
• February 27
• * Adam Baldwin, American actor
• * Grant Show, American actor
• February 28 - Angela Bailey, Canadian athlete

  March

• March 2
• * Jon Bon Jovi, American musician
• * Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
• March 3
• * Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete
• * Herschel Walker, American football player
• March 4 - Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
• March 6
• * Andreas Felder, Austrian ski jumper
• * Erika Hess, Swiss alpine skier
• * Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican actor and comedian
• March 7 - Taylor Dayne, American singer, songwriter and actress
• March 8
• * Leon Robinson, American actor and singer
• * Cecilia Yip, Hong Kong actress
• March 10
• * Jasmine Guy, American actress, director, singer and dancer
• * Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer and songwriter
• * Dan O'Shannon, American television writer and producer
• March 11 - Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
• March 12
• * Julia Campbell, American actress
• * Chris Sanders, American animator and voice actor
• * Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
• March 14 - Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian athlete
• March 15 - Jimmy Baio, American actor
• March 16 - Branco Mello, Brazilian singer, actor and writer
• March 17 - Kalpana Chawla, American astronaut
• March 18
• * Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
• * Mike Rowe, American television personality and presenter
• March 19 - Iván Calderón, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
• March 20 - Stephen Sommers, American film director
• March 21
• * Gilles Lalay, French motorcycle enduro and rally raid competitor
• * Matthew Broderick, American actor
• * Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress and comedian
• * Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian, actress, talk-show host and activist
• March 23
• * Sir Steve Redgrave, English rower
• * Jenny Wright, American actress
• March 24 - Star Jones, American talk show host and publisher
• March 25
• * Thom Bierdz, American actor
• * Fernando Martín Espina, Spanish basketball player
• * Marcia Cross, American actress
• March 26
• * Chris Bailey, American animator and film director
• * John Stockton, American basketball player
• * Keith Diamond, American actor and voice actor
• March 27
• * Jann Arden, Canadian singer
• * John O'Farrell, British author and broadcaster
• March 29 - Ted Failon, Filipino broadcast journalist and radio commentator
• March 30
• * MC Hammer, American rapper
• * Bil Dwyer, American stand-up comedian and game show host

  April

• April 1
• * Samboy Lim, Filipino basketball player
• * Ken Schmidt Jr American Engineer and Marketer
• * Phillip Schofield, British television presenter
• April 2
• * Clark Gregg, American actor, director, screenwriter and voice actor
• * Mark Shulman, American children's author
• April 3
• * Mike Ness, American musician
• * Jaya Prada, Indian actress and politician
• * Jon Vincent, American pornographic actor
• April 4 - Melissa Hart, American lawyer and politician
• April 5 - Sara Danius, Swedish writer and academic
• April 6 - Steven Levitan, American director, writer and producer
• April 7 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor
• April 8 - Izzy Stradlin, American guitarist
• April 9 - Imran Sherwani, British field hockey player
• April 10
• * Rick Florian, American Christian musician and real estate agent
• * Steve Tasker, American football player
• April 11 - Colin Carrie, Canadian politician
• April 12
• * Ivan Maksimović, Serbian rock guitarist
• * Diana Quijano, Peruvian actress
• * Carlos Sainz, Spanish rally driver
• * Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial arts fighter and professional wrestler
• April 13
• * Edivaldo Martins Fonseca, Brazilian footballer
• * Jennifer Rubin, American actress and model
• * Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist
• April 14 - Laura Richardson, American politician
• April 15
• * Nick Kamen, English singer, songwriter, musician and model
• * Tom Kane, American voice actor
• * Nawal El Moutawakel, Moroccan hurdler
• * Jhon Jairo Velásquez, Colombian hitman and drug dealer
• April 16
• * Jason Scheff, American bassist
• * Ian MacKaye, American guitarist
• April 17 - Bill Kopp, American actor, voice actor and animator
• April 18 - Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist
• April 19
• * Al Unser Jr., American race car driver
• * Dorian Yates, English professional bodybuilder
• April 20 - Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, American comedian
• April 21 - Craig Robinson, American college basketball coach
• April 22 - Han Aiping, Chinese badminton player
• April 23 - John Hannah, Scottish actor
• April 24 - Steve Roach, Australian rugby league player
• April 25
• * Flex-Deon Blake, African-American gay pornographic actor
• * Petya Dubarova, Bulgarian poet
• April 26
• * Colin Anderson, English footballer
• * Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
• * Michael Damian, American actor and singer
• April 28 - Scott La Rock, American hip-hop DJ and producer
• April 29 - Stephan Burger, German Roman Catholic archbishop
• April 30 - Tom Fahn, American voice actor

  May

• May 1 - Maia Morgenstern, Romanian film actress
• May 2
• * Elizabeth Berridge, American actress
• * Jimmy White, British snooker player
• May 3 - Anders Graneheim, Swedish bodybuilder
• May 4 - Jean Yoon, Korean-Canadian actress
• May 5
• * Manoj Sood, Canadian actor
• * Kaoru Wada, Japanese composer
• May 6 - Harry LaRosiliere, American businessman and officeholder
• May 7 - Ari Telch, Mexican actor
• May 8 - Natalia Molchanova, Russian free-diver
• May 9
• * Dave Gahan, English singer-songwriter
• * Paul Heaton, English singer-songwriter
• * Sean McNamara, American film director, film producer, actor and screenwriter
• May 10 - Gregory K. Davis, American attorney
• May 11 - Steve Bono, American football quarterback
• May 12 - Emilio Estevez, American actor
• May 13
• * Paul McDermott, Australian comedian
• * Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor
• May 14
• * Ian Astbury, English singer
• * Danny Huston, American actor and film director
• May 15 - Rod Lurie, American-Israeli director
• May 16 - Roberto Iniesta, Spanish songwriter
• May 17
• * Lise Lyng Falkenberg, Danish writer
• * Craig Ferguson, Scottish-American actor, comedian and television host
• * Kim Mulkey, American basketball player/coach
• * Arturo Peniche, Mexican actor
• May 18
• * Karel Roden, Czech actor
• * Sandra, German pop singer
• May 19 - Frances Ondiviela, Spanish/Mexican actress
• May 20
• * Aleksandr Dedyushko, Russian actor
• * Mike Jeffries, American soccer coach
• May 21 - Cam Brainard, American voice actor and narrator
• May 22 - Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler
• May 23 - Claver Gatete, Rwandan politician
• May 24 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor
• May 25 - Anders Johansson, Swedish drummer
• May 26
• * Black, English singer-songwriter
• * Genie Francis, American actress
• * Bobcat Goldthwait, American comedian
• May 27 - Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer
• May 28
• * Gary Belcher, Australian rugby league player and commentator
• * Brandon Cruz, American child actor and punk rocker
• * François-Henri Pinault, French businessman
• May 29 - Perry Fenwick, English actor
• May 30 - Timo Soini, Finnish politician
• May 31
• * Victoria Ruffo, Mexican actress
• * Corey Hart, Canadian singer
• * Noriko Hidaka, Japanese voice actress

  June

• June 1 - Sherri Howard, American athlete
• June 3 - David Cole, American record producer and songwriter
• June 4
• * Paul Baloche, American Christian worship leader
• * John P. Kee, American gospel singer
• June 5
• * Princess Astrid of Belgium
• * Ken Hudson Campbell, American actor and voice actor
• * Jeff Garlin, American comedian
• June 6 - Alex Datcher, American actress
• June 7 - Thierry Hazard, French singer and songwriter
• June 8 - Suzy Gorman, American photographer
• June 10
• * Jim Farley, American automobile executive
• * Gina Gershon, American actress
• * Ralf Schumann, German sport shooter
• * Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, Egyptian author and physician
• June 11
• * Olga Charvátová, Czech alpine skier
• * Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist
• * Toshihiko Seki, Japanese voice actor
• June 12
• * Camilla Scott, Canadian actress
• * Jodi Thelen, American actress
• * Jordan Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist and professor of psychology
• June 13
• * Mark Frankel, British actor
• * Ally Sheedy, American actress
• * Vladimir Pravik, Soviet firefighter
• * Hannah Storm, American television anchor and presenter
• * Bence Szabó, Hungarian fencer
• June 14 - Emilija Erčić, Yugoslav handball player
• June 15
• * Andrea Rost, Hungarian lyric soprano
• * Chris Morris, English comedian, writer, director, actor, voice actor and producer
• June 16 - Arnold Vosloo, South African actor
• June 17 - Bap Kennedy, Northern Irish singer-songwriter
• June 18
• * Lisa Randall, American theoretical physicist
• * Mitsuharu Misawa, Japanese professional wrestler
• June 19 - Paula Abdul, American dancer, choreographer and singer
• June 20 - Alex Di Gregorio, Italian editorial cartoonist
• June 21
• * Pipilotti Rist, Swiss video artist
• * Viktor Tsoi, Soviet underground singer and songwriter
• June 22
• * Campino, German singer
• * Bobby Gillespie, Scottish musician and singer-songwriter
• * Stephen Chow, Hong Kong actor and director
• * Clyde Drexler, American basketball player
• June 23
• * Mark DeCarlo, American actor
• * Kari Takko, Finnish ice hockey player
• * Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera, Ugandan-born British banker
• * Billy Wirth, American actor, film producer and artist
• June 24
• * Harry van Bommel, Dutch politician, anti-globalisation activist and educator
• * Juan Fernando Brügge, Argentine politician
• * Sean Vincent Gillis, American serial killer
• * Andrew Patrick Gordon, American judge
• June 25
• * Pavla Tomicová, Czech actress
• * Ricardo Iorio, Argentine heavy metal musician
• * Bussunda, Brazilian comedian
• * Anthony Allen Shore, American serial killer and child molester
• June 26
• * Morten Skogstad, Norwegian drummer
• * Hubert Strolz, Austrian alpine skier
• June 27
• * Emel Heinreich, Turkish-Austrian actress, author and film-director
• * Michael Ball, British stage actor and singer
• * Ollanta Humala, Peruvian politician, 65th President of Peru
• * Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Hong Kong actor
• * Mambury Njie, Gambian politician
• June 28 - Don Chambers, American newspaper comic strip artist
• June 29
• * Mario Castañeda, Mexican voice actor and dubbing director
• * Amanda Donohoe, English actress
• * George D. Zamka, American astronaut
• * Guy Lecluyse, French comedian and actor
• June 30
• * Florence Pernel, French actress
• * Deirdre Lovejoy, American actress
• * Julianne Regan, British singer/songwriter
• * Predrag Bjelac, Serbian actress

  July

• July 1
• * Andre Braugher, American actor
• * Rafał Bruski, Polish politician
• * Ahmad Bin Byat, Emirati businessman
• * Dominic Keating, English actor
• July 2
• * Doug Benson, American comedian, marijuana rights advocate, television host, actor and judge
• * Roberto Blades, Panamanian Salsa singer
• * Mahasweta Ray, Indian actress
• July 3
• * Tom Cruise, American actor and film producer
• * Thomas Gibson, American actor
• * Hunter Tylo, American actress and author, previously model
• July 4
• * Neil Morrissey, English actor, voice actor, comedian, singer and businessman
• * Pam Shriver, American tennis player
• July 5
• * Amrozi, Indonesian terrorist
• * John Marshall Jones, American actor
• July 6
• * Christopher Chaplin, Swiss-English composer and actor
• * Natalia Dicenta, Spanish actress
• * Djarot Saiful Hidayat, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta
• * Gilbert Lam, Hong Kong actor
• July 7
• * Tom Conroy, American state legislator
• * MC Jazzy Jeff, American rapper
• * Klaus Tange, Danish actor
• * Vadivukkarasi, Indian actress
• July 8
• * Oreste Baldini, Italian actor and voice actor
• * Frank Gallagher, Scottish actor
• * Joan Osborne, American singer and songwriter
• July 9
• * Roni Ben-Hur, Israeli jazz guitarist
• * Sukhbir Singh Badal, Indian politician
• * Nikola Čuturilo, Serbian rock musician
• * Jan Degenhardt, German Lawyer and folk-singer
• July 10
• * Trond Helleland, Norwegian politician
• * Grant Kirkhope, Scottish video game composer
• July 11
• * Fumiya Fujii, Japanese singer
• * Pauline McLynn, Irish actress
• July 12
• * Dan Murphy, American rock guitarist
• * Dean Wilkins, English football manager
• July 13
• * Tom Kenny, American actor, voice artist, and comedian
• * Zlata Petrović, Serbian pop singer
• * Erry Yulian Triblas Adesta, Indonesian Academic figure
• July 14
• * Michelle Ford, Australian swimmer
• * Jeff Olson, American percussionist
• * Patricio Toledo, Chilean footballer
• July 15
• * Glen Edward Rogers, American serial killer
• * Tommy Soeharto, Indonesian businessman, convicted murderer and politician
• July 16
• * Mathias Herrmann, German actor
• * Uwe Hohn, German athlete
• * Grigory Leps, Russian singer
• July 17
• * Rita Rätsepp, Estonian actress and psychologist
• * Fred Wadsworth, American professional golfer
• July 18
• * Lee Arenberg, American actor
• * Jack Irons, American drummer
• * Shaun Micallef, Australian actor, comedian and writer
• July 19
• * Anthony Edwards, American actor and director
• * Cynthia Farrelly Gesner, American actress
• * Aya Kitō, Japanese diarist
• July 20
• * Carlos Alazraqui, American actor and comedian
• * Abdulai Hamid Charm, Sierra Leonean judge
• * Primož Ulaga, Yugoslavian/Slovenian ski jumper
• * Emmanuel Niyonkuru, Burundian politician
• July 21
• * Gabi Bauer, German journalist and television presenter
• * Ike Eisenmann, American actor and voice artist
• July 22
• *Roman Madyanov, Russian actor
• *Rena Owen, New Zealand actress
• July 23
• * Eriq La Salle, American actor
• * Bruce Marshall, American ice hockey coach
• July 24
• * Federico Franco, Paraguayan politician, 49th President of Paraguay
• * Johnny O'Connell, American race car driver
• July 26
• * Galina Chistyakova, Ukrainian athlete
• * Sergey Kiriyenko, Russian politician and statesman, 31st Prime Minister of Russia
• July 28 - Ray Shero, American hockey manager
• July 29 - Scott Steiner, American professional wrestler
• July 30
• * Kaveinga Faʻanunu, Tongan politician
• * Alton Brown, American chef and television show host
• * Lavinia Greenlaw, British poet and novelist
• July 31
• * Damien Frawley, Australian rugby union player
• * John Laurinaitis, American professional wrestler
• * Wesley Snipes, African-American actor and martial artist

  August

• August 1
• * Robert Clift, British field hockey player
• * Jesse Borrego, American actor
• * Cesar Montano, Filipino actor
• August 2
• * Lee Mavers, English musician
• * Cynthia Stevenson, Canadian-American actress
• August 4
• * Roger Clemens, American baseball player
• * Lori Lightfoot, African-American lawyer and politician
• August 5 - Patrick Ewing, Jamaican-born basketball player
• August 6 - Michelle Yeoh, Malaysian-born Hong Kong actress
• August 7
• * Doon Mackichan, British actress and comedian
• * Bruno Pelletier, Canadian singer
• August 8
• * Yūji Machi, Japanese voice actor
• * Mike Zanier, Canadian ice hockey player
• August 10 - Suzanne Collins, American television writer and author )
• August 11 - Rob Minkoff, American filmmaker
• August 12
• * Ivan Maksimović, Serbian rock guitarist
• * Ariel López Padilla, Mexican actor
• August 13
• * Marcello Novaes, Brazilian actor
• * Minouche Shafik, Egyptian-born international banker
• * John Slattery, American actor and film director
• August 14
• * Kevin Harris, Canadian skateboarder
• * Steve Reevis, Native American actor
• August 15 - Tom Colicchio, American chef
• August 16
• * Ayub Bachchu, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter
• * Steve Carell, American actor and comedian
• August 17 - Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, German actor and director
• August 18
• * Felipe Calderón, Mexican politician, 50th President of Mexico
• * Rob Minnig, American musician
• August 19
• * Valérie Kaprisky, French actress
• * Eric Lutes, American actor
• August 20 - James Marsters, American actor and musician
• August 21
• * Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer
• * Gilberto Santa Rosa, Puerto Rican salsa singer
• August 23
• * Dean Karnazes, American ultramarathon runner
• * Shaun Ryder, English musician, singer-songwriter, actor
• August 24
• * David Koechner, American actor and comedian
• * Mary Ellen Weber, American astronaut
• August 25
• * Theresa Andrews, American swimmer
• * Tommy Blacha, American comedy writer
• August 26
• * Roger Kingdom, American hurdler
• * Princess Lalla Meryem of Morocco
• * Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney
• August 27 - Vic Mignogna, American actor and voice actor
• August 28
• * Craig Anton, American actor and comedian
• * David Fincher, American director and producer
• August 29
• * Ian James Corlett, Canadian voice actor and producer
• * Jutta Kleinschmidt, German rally driver
• * Lycia Naff, American actress and journalist
• August 30 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian ex-KGB colonel and ex-FSB lieutenant-colonel
• August 31
• * Dee Bradley Baker, American comedian, announcer and voice artist
• * Mark L. Walberg, American television personality and show host

  September

• September 1 - Ruud Gullit, Dutch footballer
• September 2 - Keir Starmer, English politician, current Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition
• September 4 - Shinya Yamanaka, Japanese physician and researcher
• September 5 - Brian A. Joyce, American politician
• September 6 - Chris Christie, American politician and 55th Governor of New Jersey
• September 7 - Kylie InGold, Australian fantasy artist
• September 8 - Thomas Kretschmann, German actor
• September 9 - Mark Linkous, American singer, songwriter and musician
• September 11
• * Victoria Poleva, Ukrainian composer
• * Kristy McNichol, American actress
• * Andrew Jackson, Canadian voice actor
• September 12
• * Dino Merlin, Bosnian singer-songwriter, musician and producer
• * Amy Yasbeck, American actress
• September 13 - Hisao Egawa, Japanese voice actor
• September 14 - Robert Herjavec, Croatian-born Canadian businessman, investor and author
• September 15
• * François Bloemhof, South African author
• * Dina Lohan, American television personality
• * Scott McNeil, Australian voice actor
• * Rebecca Miller, American actress and director
• September 16 - Stephen Jones, English singer and musician
• September 17
• * Baz Luhrmann, Australian film director
• * Hesham Qandil, 51st Prime Minister of Egypt
• * Don Rogers, American football player
• September 19
• * Shaharuddin Badaruddin, Malaysian politician
• * Cheri Oteri, American comic actress
• * Gottfried von Bismarck, German aristocrat and socialite
• September 20 - Vittorio De Angelis, Italian voice actor
• September 21 - Rob Morrow, American actor
• September 22 - Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer
• September 24
• * Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
• * Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer and pundit
• * Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress
• September 25 - Aida Turturro, American actress
• September 26
• * Chunky Pandey, Indian actor
• * Melissa Sue Anderson, American actress
• * Gregory Crewdson, American photographer
• * Anabel Ferreira, Mexican actress/comedian
• * Steve Moneghetti, Australian long-distance runner
• * Al Pitrelli, American guitarist
• September 28 - Grant Fuhr, Canadian hockey player
• September 29 - Roger Bart, American actor and singer
• September 30 - Frank Rijkaard, Dutch football player and manager

  October

• October 1
• * Esai Morales, American actor
• * Fernando Albán Salazar, Venezuelan lawyer and politician
• October 2
• * Jeff Bennett, American voice actor and singer
• * James Hunter, English singer
• * Tawfiq Titingan, Malaysian politician
• October 3 - Tommy Lee, American rock musician and drummer
• October 5
• * Caron Keating, Northern Irish television presenter
• * Michael Andretti, American race car driver
• October 6 - Rich Yett, American baseball player
• October 7 - Micky Flanagan, English comedian
• October 8 - Richard Lintern, English actor
• October 11
• * Joan Cusack, American actress and comedian
• * Leslie Landon, American actress
• October 12
• * Carlos Bernard, American actor
• * Branko Crvenkovski, President of Macedonia
• * Chris Botti, American trumpeter and composer
• * Deborah Foreman, American actress
• October 13
• * T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh, American actress and comedian
• * Margareth Menezes, Brazilian singer
• * Kelly Preston, American actress
• * Jerry Rice, American football player
• October 14
• * Trevor Goddard, English actor
• * Amanda Noar, English actress, director and choreographer
• October 15 - Aron Ra, American author, podcaster and atheist activist
• October 16
• * Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player and activist
• * Flea, Australian-American actor and musician
• * Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Russian baritone
• * Tamara McKinney, American alpine skier
• October 17 - Mike Judge, American actor, animator and producer
• October 19
• * Tracy Chevalier, American author
• * Evander Holyfield, American boxer
• October 20 - Anatoly Khrapaty, Soviet Olympic weightlifter
• October 21 - Miki Itō, Japanese voice actress
• October 22 - Bob Odenkirk, American actor and comedian
• October 23
• * Doug Flutie, American football player
• * Mike Tomczak, American football player
• October 24 - Jay Novacek, American football player
• October 25
• * David Furnish, Canadian filmmaker, director and producer
• * Nick Hancock, English actor and television presenter
• * Darlene Vogel, American actress
• October 26
• * Davo Karničar, Slovene alpinist and extreme skier
• * Cary Elwes, English actor and writer
• October 27
• * Jun'ichi Kanemaru, Japanese voice actor
• * Ang Peng Siong, Singaporean sportsman
• October 28 - Daphne Zuniga, American actress
• October 29 - Debra Sandlund, American actress
• October 30
• * Stefan Kuntz, German football player and coach
• * Courtney Walsh, West Indian cricketer
• * Kristina Wagner, American actress

  November

• November 1
• * Sharron Davies, British swimmer/television presenter
• * Magne Furuholmen, Norwegian musician
• * Anthony Kiedis, American rock singer
• * Adolfo Constanzo, Cuban-born American serial killer
• November 3
• * Phil Katz, American computer programmer
• * Gabe Newell, American business executive
• * Jacqui Smith, British politician
• November 6
• * Nadezhda Kuzhelnaya, Russian pilot and cosmonaut
• * Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian television host
• November 7 - Bettina Hoy, German equestrienne
• November 9 - Teryl Rothery, Canadian actress
• November 10 - Bob Lindner, Australian rugby league player
• November 11
• * Mario Fenech, Maltese-Australian rugby league player
• * Mic Michaeli, Swedish keyboardist
• * Demi Moore, American actress
• * Georgios Mitsibonas, Greek football player
• * James Morrison, Australian musician
• * Nicole P. Stott, American astronaut
• November 12
• * Jon Dough, American pornographic actor
• * Neal Shusterman, American author
• * Naomi Wolf, American author, feminist and political consultant
• November 13 - Steve Altes, American humorist
• November 14
• * Miriem Bensalah-Chaqroun, Moroccan businesswoman
• * Laura San Giacomo, American actress
• * Atsuko Tanaka, Japanese voice actress
• * Harland Williams, Canadian-American actor and comedian
• November 15
• * Mark Acres, American basketball player and educator
• * Judy Gold, American comedian and actress
• November 17 - Jamie Moyer, American baseball player
• November 19
• * Jodie Foster, American actress and director
• * Sean Parnell, American politician
• November 21 - Steven Curtis Chapman, American Christian musician
• November 22 - Sumi Jo, Korean operatic soprano
• November 23 - Nicolás Maduro, 63rd President of Venezuela
• November 24 - John Kovalic, American cartoonist
• November 27
• * Marumi Shiraishi, Japanese actress
• * Davey Boy Smith, British professional wrestler
• * Emma Walton Hamilton, English actress
• November 28
• * Jane Sibbett, American actress and producer
• * Jon Stewart, American actor, comedian, media critic and television personality, host of The Daily Show
• * Paul Dinello, American comedian
• * Rose Abdoo, American actress and comedian
• November 29
• * Ronny Jordan, English guitarist
• * Andrew McCarthy, American actor
• November 30
• * Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
• * Daniel Keys Moran, American writer

  December

• December 1
• * Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
• * Hayashiya Shōzō IX, Japanese rakugoka, tarento and voice actor
• December 3 - Tammy Jackson, American basketball player
• December 4
• * Julie Lemieux, Canadian voice actress
• * Anna Walker, British television presenter
• December 5 - José Cura, Argentine tenor
• December 6 - Janine Turner, American actress
• December 9
• * Albert Grajales, INTERPOL Director of Puerto Rico and martial artist
• * Felicity Huffman, American actress
• * Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, American actress, voice actress, singer, performer, puppeteer, speaker and artist
• December 10
• * Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and businessman
• * Scott Capurro, American comedian, writer and actor
• December 11
• * Ben Browder, American actor
• * Denise Biellmann, Swiss figure skater
• * Jasper Britton, English actor
• December 12
• * Tracy Austin, American tennis player
• * Arturo Barrios, Mexican long-distance runner
• * Peter Bergen, American journalist
• * Max Raabe, German singer
• December 14 - Yvonne Ryding, Swedish pageant winner
• December 16 - Maruschka Detmers, Dutch actress
• December 17
• * Paul Dobson, English footballer
• * Richard Jewell, American security guard and media figure
• * Galina Malchugina, Russian athlete
• * Rocco Mediate, American golfer
• December 18 - James Sie, American actor and voice actor
• December 19 - Jill Talley, American actress and voice actress
• December 21 - Steven Mnuchin, 77th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• December 22
• * Andrés Cantor, Argentine/American sportscaster
• * Ralph Fiennes, English actor
• December 23 - Keiji Mutoh, Japanese professional wrestler
• December 24 - Kate Spade, American fashion designer
• December 25
• * Maryna Bazhanova, Russian handball player
• * Tony Currie, Australian rugby league player
• * Francis Dunnery, English singer-songwriter and musician
• December 27
• * Pierlucio Tinazzi, Italian security guard
• * Mark Few, American basketball coach
• * Bill Self, American basketball coach
• * Sherri Steinhauer, American golfer
• * Joe Mantello, American actor and director
• December 28
• * Michelle Cameron, Canadian synchronised swimmer
• * Choi Soo-jong, South Korean actor
• * Michel Petrucciani, French jazz pianist and composer
• December 30 - Alessandra Mussolini, Italian politician
• December 31
• * Pedro Cardoso, Brazilian actor, screenwriter, playwright and television director
• * Don Diamont, American actor
• * Jeff Flake, American politician
• * Lance Reddick, American actor

  Date unknown

• Gunnar Krantz, Swedish comic artist

  Deaths

January

• January 1 - Diego Martínez Barrio, Spanish politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Spain
• January 4 - Hans Lammers, German Nazi minister
• January 5 - Per Thorén, Swedish figure skater
• January 6 - Marziyya Davudova, Soviet actress
• January 13 - Ernie Kovacs, American TV comedian
• January 16 - R. H. Tawney, English historian and social critic
• January 17 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet
• January 19 - Snub Pollard, American actor
• January 20 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet
• January 21 - Arturo Bragaglia, Italian actor
• January 22 - José María Beltrán, Spanish cinematographer
• January 26 - Lucky Luciano, American gangster
• January 29 - Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist

  February

• February 1 - Carey Wilson, American screenwriter
• February 2 - Shlomo Hestrin, Canadian-born Israeli biochemist
• James B. Leonardo - American politician
• February 4 - Daniel Halévy, French historian
• February 5 - Jacques Ibert, French composer
• February 6
• * Roy Atwell, American actor, comedian and composer
• * Cândido Portinari, Brazilian painter
• February 7 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator
• February 10 - Eduard von Steiger, Swiss politician, 51st President of the Swiss Confederation
• February 11 - Indalecio Prieto, Spanish Socialist politician
• February 13 - Hugh Dalton, British Labour politician
• February 17
• * Joseph Kearns, American actor
• * Bruno Walter, German conductor
• February 19
• * James Barton, American actor
• * Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek inventor
• February 20 - Halliwell Hobbes, English-born film actor
• February 24 - Hu Shih, Chinese philosopher
• February 25 - María Ludovico De Angelis, Italian Roman Catholic professed sister and blessed
• February 27 - Willie Best, American actor
• February 28 - Chic Johnson, American actor

  March

• March 1
• * Roscoe Ates, American actor
• * Richard L. Conolly, American admiral
• * W. Alton Jones, American industrialist and philanthropist
• * Arnold Kirkeby, American hotelier, art collector and real estate investor
• * Louise Lindner Eastman, American wife of Lee Eastman and mother of Linda McCartney
• * Emelyn Whiton, American Olympic sailor
• March 2 - Walt Kiesling, American football player and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame
• March 3 - Pierre Benoit, French novelist
• March 14 - Giovanna Berneri, Italian educationalist and anarchist
• March 15 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• March 19 - Vasily Stalin, Soviet general and son of Joseph Stalin
• March 20
• * C. Wright Mills, American sociologist
• * A. E. Douglass, American astronomer and founder of dendrochronology
• March 23 - Josef van Schaik, Dutch politician
• March 24
• * Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician
• * Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist, aeronaut and explorer
• March 27 - Augusta Savage, American sculptor

  April

• April 1 - Jussi Kekkonen, Finnish major
• April 3 - Benny Paret, Cuban welterweight boxer
• April 8 - Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter
• April 10
• *Michael Curtiz, Austrian-born film director
• * Manton S. Eddy, American general
• * Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish artist and rock guitarist, The Beatles
• April 12 - M. Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and politician
• April 13 - Culbert Olson, American politician, Governor of California
• April 15
• * Clara Blandick, American actress
• * Arsenio Lacson, Filipino politician and sportswriter
• April 17 - Louise Fazenda, American actress
• April 20 - Grover Whalen, American politician
• April 21 - Sir Frederick Handley Page, English aircraft manufacturer
• April 22 - Vera Reynolds, American actress
• April 24 - Milt Franklyn, American film composer
• April 27 - Josefa Toledo de Aguerri, Nicaraguan pioneer educator
• April 28 - Gianna Beretta Molla, Italian Roman Catholic pediatrician and saint
• April 29 - Hajime Tanabe, Japanese philosopher

  May

• May 5 - Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer
• May 10 - Shunroku Hata, Marshal of the Imperial Japanese Army
• May 12 - Pedro Pablo Ramirez, Argentine military general, 26th President of Argentina, leader of the World War II
• May 13
• * Henry Trendley Dean, American dental researcher
• * Franz Kline, American painter
• May 23 - Rubén Jaramillo, peasant leader assassinated by the Mexican Army
• May 26 - Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, English poet
• May 27 - Egon Petri, German pianist
• May 28 - Robert Francis Anthony Studds, American admiral and engineer, fourth Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
• May 31 - Henry Fountain Ashurst, American politician

  June

• June 1 - Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer and a major organiser of the Holocaust
• June 2 - Vita Sackville-West, English writer and landscape gardener
• June 4 - Charles William Beebe, American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist and entomologist
• June 6
• * Abba Ahimeir, Soviet-born Israeli journalist
• * Yves Klein, French painter
• * Guinn Williams, American actor
• * Joe Profaci, Italian-American mobster
• June 7 - Korneli Kekelidze, Georgian philologist
• June 8 - Eugène Freyssinet, French civil engineer
• June 12 - John Ireland, English composer
• June 13 - Sir Eugene Goossens, English composer
• June 15
• * Eugeniusz Baziak, Polish Roman Catholic archbishop
• * Alfred Cortot, Swiss pianist and conductor
• June 16 - Aleksei Antonov, General of the Soviet Army
• June 19
• * Frank Borzage, American film director
• * Mihail Cămărașu, Romanian general
• * Will Wright, American character actor
• June 24 - Lucile Watson, Canadian actress
• June 25 - Sir Raymond Leane, Australian army general
• June 27 - Paul Viiding, Estonian poet, author and literary critic
• June 28 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame
• June 29 - Charles Lyon Chandler, American historian

  July

• July 1 - Bidhan Chandra Roy, Indian physician and politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
• July 2
• * Arconovaldo Bonaccorsi, Italian soldier
• * Valeska Suratt, American stage actress, silent film star
• July 4 - Rex Bell, American actor and politician
• July 6
• * John Anderson, British-born Australian philosopher
• * Paul Boffa, Maltese politician, 5th Prime Minister of Malta
• * William Faulkner, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• * Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal and former regent of Hungary
• July 8 - Georges Bataille, French writer and philosopher
• July 10 - Yehuda Leib Maimon, Bassarabian-born Israeli rabbi and government minister
• July 11 - Owen D. Young, American industrialist, businessman, lawyer and diplomat
• July 12 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader
• July 13 - Jerry Wald, American screenwriter and producer
• July 18 - Denjirō Ōkōchi, Japanese actor
• July 21 - G. M. Trevelyan, English historian
• July 23 - Victor Moore, American actor
• July 25 - Nelle Wilson Reagan, mother of United States President Ronald Reagan
• July 26
• * Raquel Meller, Spanish singer and actress
• * George Preca, Maltese Roman Catholic priest and saint
• July 27 - Richard Aldington, English poet
• July 29
• * Leonardo De Lorenzo, Italian flautist
• * Ronald Fisher, English-born statistician and geneticist
• July 30 - Myron McCormick, American actor

  August

• August 5
• * Marilyn Monroe, American actress
• * Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Spanish writer and diplomat
• August 6 - Ángel Borlenghi, Argentine labor leader and politician
• August 9 - Hermann Hesse, German-born writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• August 15 - Lei Feng, Chinese soldier
• August 18 - Cleo Ridgely, American actress
• August 19 - Jean Lucienbonnet, French racing driver
• August 21 - Ahmad bin Ibrahim, Malaysian-born Singaporean politician
• August 22 - Charles Rigoulot, French Olympic weightlifter
• August 23 - Hoot Gibson, American actor and film director
• *Joseph Berchtold, Nazi officer, Second commander of the SS
• August 24 - Mykolas Biržiška, Lithuanian politician
• August 26 - Dušan Simović, Yugoslav general, 18th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
• August 27 - Leopoldo Panero, Spanish poet
• August 28 - John Collum, American actor
• August 29 - Georgina de Albuquerque, Brazilian painter
• August 31 - Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Prime Minister of Poland

  September

• September 1 - Hans-Jürgen von Arnim, German general
• September 3 - E. E. Cummings, American poet
• September 4
• * Juan Atilio Bramuglia, Argentine composer
• * William Clothier, American tennis player
• September 5 - Roy MacNairy, English cricketer
• September 6 - Hanns Eisler, Austrian composer
• September 7
• * Karen Blixen, Danish writer
• * Morris Louis, American painter
• * Louis King, American film director
• * Graham Walker, English motorcycle racer
• September 10 - Constantion Bădescu, Romanian general
• September 11 - Kenkichi Ueda, Japanese general
• September 12 – Wiktor Thommée, Polish general
• September 18 - Ahmad bin Yahya, King of Yemen
• September 19 - Nikolai Pogodin, Soviet playwright
• September 20 - Conrad Helfrich, Dutch admiral
• September 21 - Ouyang Yuqian, Chinese playwright, director and Peking opera performer
• September 23
• * Louis de Soissons, Canadian-born English architect
• * Patrick Hamilton, English dramatist
• September 24
• * Sam McDaniel, American actor
• * Charles Reisner, American silent film actor and director
• September 26 - Francisco de Paula Brochado da Rocha, Prime Minister of Brazil
• September 30 - Bernard Rawlings, British admiral

  October

• October 1 - Ludwig Bemelmans, Austro-Hungarian born American writer
• October 2
• * Henry Louis Larsen, American Marine Corps general; Governor of American Samoa and Governor of Guam
• * Frank Lovejoy, American actor
• October 3 - K. Kanagaratnam, Ceylon Tamil civil servant and politician
• October 6 - Tod Browning, American film director
• October 7 - Henri Oreiller, French Olympic alpine skier
• October 9 - Milan Vidmar, Slovenian chess player
• October 10 - Stancho Belkovski, Bulgarian architect and lecturer
• October 11 - Erich von Tschermak, Austrian agronomist
• October 12 - Alberto Teisaire, Argentine Navy officer and Vice President of the Republic
• October 14 - Irma Gramatica, Italian actress
• October 16
• * Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher
• * Princess Helen of Serbia
• October 17 - Natalia Goncharova, Russian artist
• October 20 - Jesús Herrera, Spanish international footballer
• October 26 - Louise Beavers, American actress
• October 27
• * Otto Froitzheim, German tennis player
• * Enrico Mattei, Italian politician
• October 31 - Louis Massignon, French Catholic scholar of Islam

  November

• November 7 - Eleanor Roosevelt, American politician, diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States
• November 8
• * William Bailey, American actor
• * Willis H. O'Brien, American stop motion animator
• November 9 - Carroll McComas, American actress
• November 14
• * Alwi bin Thahir al-Haddad, Yemeni-born Malaysian Islamic scholar
• * Manuel Gálvez, Argentine writer and historian
• November 15 - Irene Lentz, American costume designer
• November 18
• * Domingo Arrieta León, Mexican general and statesman
• * Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• November 19 - Francisco Tudela y Varela, 68th Prime Minister of Peru
• November 21 - Frank Amyot, Canadian canoeist
• November 22 - René Coty, 17th President of France
• November 23 - Grace Butler, New Zealand artist
• November 25 - Forrest Smithson, American Olympic athlete
• November 26
• * Aleksandr Antonov, Soviet actor
• * Albert Sarraut, 2-time Prime Minister of France
• November 28
• * K. C. Dey, Indian singer, composer, actor and teacher
• * Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
• November 29 - Erik Scavenius, 12th Prime Minister of Denmark
• November 30 - Joseph Lade Pawsey, Australian radio astronomer.

  December

• December 6 - Harry Bauler, American politician
• December 7 - Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian soprano
• December 10 - Robert C. Giffen, American admiral
• December 13
• * John Cunningham, British admiral
• * Ahmad Nami, Prince of the Ottoman Empire, 5th Prime Minister of Syria and 2nd President of Syria
• December 15 - Charles Laughton, English actor and director
• December 16 - Lew Landers, American TV and film director
• December 17 - Thomas Mitchell, American actor
• December 18 - Garrett Mattingly, American historian
• December 20 - Emil Artin, Austrian mathematician
• December 21 - Gary Hocking, Rhodesian motorcycle racer
• December 23 - José Giral, Spanish politician, former Prime Minister
• December 24
• * Wilhelm Ackermann, German mathematician
• * Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German artist
• December 26 - Calcedonio Di Pisa, Italian criminal
• December 28 - Kazimierz Świtalski, Polish diplomat, politician, soldier and military officer, 18th Prime Minister of Poland
• December 30 - Arthur Lovejoy, American philosopher and historian

  Date unknown

• Ștefan Balaban, Romanian general
• Petre Cameniță, Romanian general
• Fawzi Al-Mulki, Prime Minister of Jordan
• Abdallah Beyhum, 10th Prime Minister of Lebanon
• Henry Matthew Talintyre, British comic strip artist

  Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Lev Landau
• Chemistry - Max Perutz, John Kendrew
• Physiology or Medicine - Francis Crick, James Watson, Maurice Wilkins
• Literature - John Steinbeck
• Peace - Linus Pauling