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1976 (MCMLXXVI
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Max Ernst

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January

January - The Cray-1
Cray-1

The Cray-1 was a supercomputer designed by a team including Seymour Cray for Cray Research. The first Cray-1 system was installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976, and it went on to become one of the best known and most successful supercomputers in history....
, the first commercially developed supercomputer
Supercomputer

A supercomputer is a computer that is at the frontline of current processing capacity, particularly speed of calculation. Supercomputers introduced in the 1960s were designed primarily by Seymour Cray at Control Data Corporation , and led the market into the 1970s until Cray left to form his own company, Cray Research....
, is released by Seymour Cray
Seymour Cray

Seymour Roger Cray was a United States electrical engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers that were the fastest in the world for decades, and founded the company Cray Research which would build many of these machines....
's Cray Research.
January 5 - The Khmer Republic is officially renamed Democratic Kampuchea
Democratic Kampuchea

The Khmer Rouge period refers to the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge political party over Cambodia, known at that time as Democratic Kampuchea ....
as a new constitution is proclaimed by the rising Pol Pot
Pol Pot

Saloth Sar , widely known as Pol Pot, was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976–1979....
regime.
January 15 - Would-be Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore
Sara Jane Moore

Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President of the United States Gerald Ford on September 22, 1975 outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, just seventeen days after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had also tried to kill the president....
is sentenced to life in prison.
January 16 - The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction
Red Army Faction

The Red Army Faction or RAF , was postwar West Germany's most violent and prominent militant left-wing terrorist group. It described itself as a communist "urban guerrilla" group engaged in armed resistance....
begins in Stuttgart
Stuttgart

Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
, West Germany
West Germany

West Germany was the common English name for the Germany , from its formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when East Germany was dissolved and its States of Germany became part of the Federal Republic, ending the more than 40-year division of Germany....
.
January 18 - Super Bowl X
Super Bowl X

Super Bowl X was an American football game played on January 18, 1976 at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida to decide the National Football League champion following the 1975 NFL season....
: The Pittsburgh Steelers
Pittsburgh Steelers

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania. They are currently a member of the AFC North of the American Football Conference in the National Football League) ....
defeat the Dallas Cowboys
Dallas Cowboys

The Dallas Cowboys are a professional American football team in the National Football Conference East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
21-17 at the Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida
Miami, Florida

Miami is a global city in southeastern Florida, in the United States. Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the most populous county in Florida....
.
January 18 - Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War
Bangladesh Liberation War

The Bangladesh Liberation WarBangladesh Liberation War/nomenclature justification was an armed conflict pitting West Pakistan against East Pakistan and India, that resulted in the secession of East Pakistan to become the independent nation of Bangladesh....
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January 18 - The Scottish Labour Party
Scottish Labour Party

Scottish Labour, often described as the Scottish Labour Party, is that part of the Labour Party which operates in Scotland. It is historically the largest List of political parties in Scotland in modern Politics of Scotland, having won the largest share of the vote in Scotland at every UK general election since the 1960's, every Europe...
is formed.
January 19 - Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus
Iowa caucus

The Iowa caucuses are an election in which residents of the U.S. state of Iowa meet in precinct caucuses in all of Iowa's 1784 precincts and elect delegates to the corresponding county conventions....
.
January 21 - The first commercial Concorde
Concorde

The A?rospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft is a supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport . It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of A?rospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation....
flight takes off.
January 27 - The United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
vetoes a United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
resolution that calls for an independent Palestinian
Palestine

Palestine is a name which has been widely used since Roman times to refer to the region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. It is derived from a name used already much earlier for a narrower geographical region, mainly along the coastal region....
state.
January 29 - Twelve Provisional Irish Republican Army
Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army , is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation that considers itself a direct continuation of the Irish Republican Army that fought in the Irish War of Independence....
bombs explode in the West End of London
West End of London

The West End of London is an area of Central London, England, containing many of the city's major tourist attractions, businesses, headquarters and the commercial West End theatres....
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January 30 - Live from Lincoln Center
Live from Lincoln Center

Live from Lincoln Center is an ongoing series of musical performances produced by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in conjunction with WNET in New York City....
debuts on PBS.

February

February 4 - The 1976 Winter Olympics
1976 Winter Olympics

The 1976 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XII Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated February 4-February 15, 1976 in Innsbruck, Austria....
open in Innsbruck
Innsbruck

Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
, Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
.
February 4 - In Guatemala
Guatemala

Guatemala is a country in Central America bordered by Mexico to the north and west, the Pacific Ocean to the southwest, Belize and the Caribbean to the northeast, and Honduras and El Salvador to the southeast....
and Honduras
Honduras

Honduras is a democratic republic in Central America. It was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from British Honduras ....
an earthquake
Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
kills more than 22,000.
February 5 - Nearly 2,000 students become involved in a racially charged riot at Escambia High School in Pensacola, Florida
Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida. As of the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2006, the estimated population was 53,248....
; 30 students are injured in the 4-hour fray.
February 11 - Clifford Alexander Jr. is confirmed as the first African-American Secretary of the United States Army
United States Army

The United States Army is the branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for Army operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S....
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February 13 - General Murtala Mohammed
Murtala Mohammed

General Murtala Ramat Mohammed born was a List of Presidents of Nigeria of Nigeria from 1975 until his assassination in 1976.Mohammed opposed the regime of Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi which took power after a coup d'etat on January 15, 1966 carried out mainly by Christian Igbo people from the south, in which several northern Nigerian leaders h...
of Nigeria
Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....
is assassinated in a military coup.
February 15 - The 1976 Constitution of Cuba
Constitution of Cuba

Since attaining its independence from Spain, Cuba has had five constitutions. The current constitution was drafted in 1976 and has since been amended....
is adopted by national referendum
Referendum

A referendum , ballot question, or plebiscite is a direct vote in which an entire Constituency is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal....
.
February 24 - Cuba
Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is a country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba , the island of Isla de la Juventud, and several adjacent small islands....
's current constitution
Constitution

A constitution is a system for government — often codified as a written document — that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity....
is enacted.
February 26 - The Spanish Armed Forces
Spanish Armed Forces

The armed forces of Spain are known as the Spanish Armed Forces . Their Commander-in-Chief is the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I of Spain, and consists of the Spanish Army, Spanish Navy and Spanish Air Force....
withdraw from Western Sahara
Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....
.
February 27 - Western Sahara
Western Sahara

Western Sahara is a territory of North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria in the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean on the west....
declares independence.
February 28 - Spain
Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
gives up territories in Sahara
Sahara

The Sahara is the world's largest hot desert. At over 9,000,000 square kilometers , it covers most of Northern Africa, making it almost as large as the United States or the continent of Europe....
but retains its enclaves of Melilla
Melilla

Melilla is an autonomous cities of Spain located on the Mediterranean, on the north coast in North Africa. It was regarded as a part of M?laga prior to March 14, 1995, when the city's Statute of Autonomy was passed....
and Ceuta
Ceuta

Ceuta is an autonomous community#autonomous cities of Spain located on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, on the Mediterranean, which separates it from the Spanish mainland....
.

March

March 1 - U.K. Home Secretary Merlyn Rees ends Special Category Status
Special Category Status

In July 1972, William Whitelaw, the British government's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, granted Special Category Status to all prisoners convicted of scheduled terrorist crimes....
for those sentenced for scheduled terrorist
Terrorism

Terrorism, according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, is the systematic use of terror, "violent or destructive acts committed by groups in order to intimidate a population or government into granting their demands." At present, there is no internationally agreed upon definition of terrorism....
crimes relating to the civil violence in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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.
March 4 - The Maguire Seven are found guilty of possessing explosives and subsequently jailed for 14 years.
March 4 - The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention
Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention

The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention was an elected body set up in 1975 by the Labour Party government of Harold Wilson as an attempt to deal with constitutional issues surrounding the status of Northern Ireland....
is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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, resulting in direct rule
Direct Rule

Direct rule was the term given, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, to the administration of Northern Ireland directly from Westminster, seat of United Kingdom government....
of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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from London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
via the British Parliament.
March 9 - A cable-car disaster
Cavalese cable-car disaster (1976)

In the Cavalese cable-car disaster of 1976, the worst cable car accident ever, 42 people including 15 children died when the steel cable of their cable car broke....
in Cavalese
Cavalese

Cavalese is a comune of 3,665 inhabitants in the province of Trento, northern Italy, a ski resort and the main center in the Val di Fiemme....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
leaves 42 dead.
March 9–11 - Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine in Letcher County, Kentucky.
March 16 - Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson

James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, Order of the Garter, Order of the British Empire, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council was one of the most prominent British politicians of the later half of the 20th century....
resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
.
March 17 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
Rubin Carter

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter was an United States middleweight Boxing between 1961 and 1966. Carter was convicted and released after 20 years for three June 1966 murders in Paterson, New Jersey....
is retried in New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
.
March 20 - Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst

Patricia Campbell Hearst , now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is an United States newspaper heiress, socialite, and occasional actor.The granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst and great-granddaughter of self-made millionaire George Hearst, she gained notoriety in 1974 when, following her kidnapping by the Symbione...
is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.
March 24 - Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
military forces depose president Isabel Peron.
March 26 - The Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto Blue Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays are a professional baseball based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Blue Jays are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball 's American League....
are created.
March 26 - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
sends the first royal e-mail
E-mail

Electronic mail, often abbreviated as e-mail, email, E-Mail, or eMail, is any method of creating, transmitting, or storing primarily text-based human communications with digital communications systems....
.
March 27 - The first 4.6 miles of the Washington Metro
Washington Metro

The Washington Metro is the rapid transit system in Washington, D.C. and its surrounding suburbs. The system is administered by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ....
subway system opens.
March 29 - The military dictatorship
Military dictatorship

A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military. It is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military....
of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
.
March 31 - The New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
Supreme Court rules that coma
Coma

In medicine, a coma is a profound state of unconsciousness. A comatose person cannot be awakened, fails to respond normally to pain or light, does not have sleep-wake cycles, and does not take voluntary actions....
patient Karen Ann Quinlan
Karen Ann Quinlan

Karen Ann Quinlan was an important person in the history of the right to die controversy in the United States.When she was 21, Quinlan became unconscious after coming home from a party....
can be disconnected from her ventilator. She remains comatose and dies in 1985.

April

April 1 - Apple Computer
Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
Company is formed by Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs is an United States businessman and co-founder, Chairman, and Chief executive officer of Apple Inc.. Jobs is the former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios....
and Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an United States computer engineer who founded Apple Computer with Steve Jobs. His inventions and machines are credited with contributing significantly to the personal computer revolution of the 1970s....
.
April 1 - Conrail (Consolidated Rails Corporation) is formed by the U.S. government, to take control of 13 major Northeast Class-1 railroads that had filed for bankruptcy protection. Conrail takes control at midnight, as a government-owned and operated railroad until 1986, when it is sold to the public.
April 1 - The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect
Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect

The Jovian-Plutonian gravitational effect, a hoax phenomenon stated to cause a noticeable short-term reduction in gravitation on Earth, was an invention for April Fools' Day by the English people astronomer Patrick Moore broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 1 April 1976....
is first reported by

astronomer

Astronomer

Patrick Moore

April 2 - Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk

King Norodom Sihanouk Khmer alphabet#Style wasthe King of Cambodia until his abdication on October 7, 2004. He is now "King-Father of Cambodia," a position in which he retains many of his former responsibilities as constitutional King....
is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rouge

File:CPKbanner.PNGThe Khmer Rouge was the communist ruling party of Cambodia — which it renamed Democratic Kampuchea — from 1975 to 1979....
, led by Pol Pot
Pol Pot

Saloth Sar , widely known as Pol Pot, was the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge and was Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea from 1976–1979....
. Under their control the country becomes known as Democratic Kampuchea
Democratic Kampuchea

The Khmer Rouge period refers to the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge political party over Cambodia, known at that time as Democratic Kampuchea ....
.
April 3 - The Eurovision Song Contest 1976
Eurovision Song Contest 1976

The Eurovision Song Contest 1976, the 21st in the series, was held in The Hague, Netherlands, on 3 April 1976. With Corry Brokken as the presenter – the first time a previous winner of the contest had played hostess – the contest was won by Brotherhood of Man, representing the United Kingdom, with their song "Save Your Kisses for...
is won by Brotherhood of Man
Brotherhood of Man

Brotherhood of Man are a United Kingdom pop group who won the Eurovision Song Contest in Eurovision Song Contest 1976 with "Save Your Kisses for Me"....
, representing the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, with their song Save Your Kisses for Me
Save Your Kisses For Me

"Save Your Kisses for Me" was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1976, performed for the United Kingdom by Brotherhood of Man in The Hague, Netherlands....
.
April 4 - Prince Norodom Sihanouk
Norodom Sihanouk

King Norodom Sihanouk Khmer alphabet#Style wasthe King of Cambodia until his abdication on October 7, 2004. He is now "King-Father of Cambodia," a position in which he retains many of his former responsibilities as constitutional King....
resigns as leader of Cambodia
Cambodia

The Kingdom of Cambodia is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 13 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh....
and is placed under house arrest.
April 5 - James Callaghan
James Callaghan

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, Order of the Garter, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council , was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980....
becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is the political leader of the United Kingdom and the head of government Her Majesty's Government....
.
April 5- Tiananmen Incident
Tiananmen Incident

The Tiananmen Incident took place on April 5, 1976 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, PRC. The incident occurred on the traditional day of mourning, the Qingming Festival, and was triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai earlier that year....
: Large crowds lay wreaths at Beijing's Monument of the Martyrs to commemorate the death of Premier Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976. Zhou was instrumental in the Communist Party of China rise to power, and subsequently in the construction of the Economy of the People's Republic of China and restructuring of Chinese society....
. Poems against the Gang of Four
Gang of Four

The Gang of Four was the name given to a leftist political faction composed of four Communist Party of China officials. They came to prominence during the Cultural Revolution and were subsequently charged with a series of treasonous crimes....
are also displayed, provoking a police crackdown.
April 13 - An explosion in an ammunition factory in Lapua
Lapua

Lapua is a List of cities and towns in Finland and municipalities of Finland of Finland.It is located next to the Lapua River in the provinces of Finland of Western Finland and is part of the Southern Ostrobothnia regions of Finland....
, Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
kills 40.
April 16 - As a measure to curb population growth
Population growth

Population growth is the change in population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population using "per unit time" for measurement....
, the minimum age for marriage in India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
April 21 - The Great Bookie Robbery
Great Bookie Robbery

The Great Bookie Robbery was a crime committed in Melbourne, Australia on 21 April, 1976.A well-organized gang of six stole between $6 million and $12 million from the Victoria Club, which was located on the second floor of a building in Queen Street, Melbourne....
in Melbourne
Melbourne

Melbourne is the more common name for the geographic region and Census in Australia of the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area. It is the second List of cities in Australia by population in Australia, with a population of approximately 3.8 million and serves as the List of Australian capital cities of Victoria ....
: Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
April 23 - The punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
group The Ramones release their first self-titled album.
April 25 - Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
's new constitution
Constitution

A constitution is a system for government — often codified as a written document — that establishes the rules and principles of an autonomous political entity....
is enacted.

May

May 1 - Neville Wran
Neville Wran

Neville Kenneth Wran Order of Australia Queen's Counsel was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 until 1986. He was National President of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and Chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986 to 1991....
becomes Premier of New South Wales
Premiers of New South Wales

Before the 1890s, there was no formal party system in New South Wales. Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. In the 1860s and 1870s, there was a fairly coherent "liberal" tendency, led first by Charles Cowper and then by Henry Parkes....
.
May 4 - The first LAGEOS
LAGEOS

LAGEOS, or Laser Geodynamics Satellites, are a series of scientific research satellites designed to provide an orbiting satellite laser ranging benchmark for geodynamical studies of the Earth....
(Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
May 4 - A train crash in Schiedam
Schiedam

Media:Nl-Schiedam.ogg is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland in the Netherlands and is part of the Rotterdam metropolitan area....
, the Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
, kills 24 people.
May 6 - An earthquake
Earthquake

An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are recorded with a seismometer, also known as a seismograph....
hits the Friuli
Friuli

Friuli is an area of northeastern Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli-Venezia Giulia, i.e....
area in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
May 9 - Ulrike Meinhof
Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a Germany left-wing militant. She cofounded the Red Army Faction in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left-wing magazine konkret....
of the Red Army Faction
Red Army Faction

The Red Army Faction or RAF , was postwar West Germany's most violent and prominent militant left-wing terrorist group. It described itself as a communist "urban guerrilla" group engaged in armed resistance....
is found hanging in an apparent suicide, in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
May 11 - U.S. President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
signs the Federal Election Campaign Act
Federal Election Campaign Act

The Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 is a United States federal law which increased disclosure of Campaign finance in the United States, and amended in 1974 to place legal limits on the campaign contributions....
.
May 24 - Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
Concorde
Concorde

The A?rospatiale-BAC Concorde aircraft is a supersonic passenger airliner or supersonic transport . It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of A?rospatiale and British Aircraft Corporation....
service begins.
May 25 - U.S. President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
defeats challenger Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
in 3 Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
presidential primaries: Kentucky
Kentucky

The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a U.S. state located in the East Central United States of America. Kentucky is normally included in the group of Southern United States , but it is uncommonly included, geographically and culturally, in the Midwestern United States....
, Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
and Oregon
Oregon

Oregon is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers and settlers....
.
May 30 - Indianapolis 500-Mile Race
Indianapolis 500

The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500 or commonly known simply as The 500, is an USA automobile auto racing, held annually over the Memorial Day weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana....
: Johnny Rutherford
Johnny Rutherford

John Sherman Rutherford, III is a retired United States of America automobile racer.The Texas-raised "Lonestar J.R." is one of eight drivers to win the prestigious Indianapolis 500 mile race at least three times: in 1974 Indianapolis 500, 1976 Indianapolis 500, and 1980 Indianapolis 500....
wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 255 miles (408 km).
May 31 - Syria intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War
Lebanese Civil War

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in opposition to the Palestine Liberation Organization
Palestine Liberation Organization

The Palestine Liberation Organization is a political and paramilitary organization regarded by the Arab League since October 1974 as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people."...
, whom it had previously supported.

June

June 1 - The UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
and Iceland
Iceland

Iceland, officially the Republic of Iceland , is an island country located in the North Atlantic Ocean between mainland Europe and Greenland....
end the Cod War
Cod War

The Cod Wars, also called the Iceland Cod Wars were a series of confrontations in the 1950s and 1970s between the United Kingdom and Iceland regarding fishing rights in the North Atlantic....
.
June 2 - A car bomb fatally injures Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles
Don Bolles

Don Bolles was an United States investigative reporter whose murder in a bombing is linked to the Mafia....
.
June 5 - The Teton Dam
Teton Dam

The Teton Dam was a federally built Earthen_dam#Earth-fill_dams on the Teton River in southeastern Idaho in the United States which when filling for the first time suffered a catastrophic failure on June 5, 1976....
collapses in southeast Idaho
Idaho

The State of Idaho is a U.S. state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States of America. The state's largest city and Capital is Boise, Idaho....
in the U.S., killing 11 people.
June 13 - Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of Iowa
Iowa

The State of Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the "American Heartland." It is bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Nebraska and South Dakota to the west, and Missouri to the south....
spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5 tornado
Tornado

A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud....
that destroys the town of Jordan, Iowa
Jordan, Iowa

Jordan is an unincorporated area in Boone County, Iowa, Iowa, United States.This town was hit by a massive tornado on June 13, 1976. The tornado was rated an F-5 by the National Weather Service, and the National Climate Data Center indicated that the damage path of the tornado was roughly 880 yards wide and long....
.
June 14 - The trial begins at Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
Crown Court of Donald Neilson
Donald Neilson

Donald Neilson is a United Kingdom serial killer, whose most notable victim was Lesley Whittle from Highley, Shropshire, England....
, the killer known as the Black Panther
Black panther

A black panther is a black color variant of one of several species of larger Felidae which are known by the term panther in various parts of the world, and belong to the feline genus panthera which contains lions, tigers, leopards and jaguars....
.
June 16 - The Soweto riots
Soweto riots

The Soweto uprising or Soweto riots were a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16, 1976 between black youths and the South African authorities....
in South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
begin.
June 17 - The National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association is North America's premier professional men's basketball league, composed of thirty teams: twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada....
and the American Basketball Association
American Basketball Association

The American Basketball Association was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA-NBA merger in 1976....
agree on the ABA-NBA merger
ABA-NBA merger

The ABA-NBA merger was the merger of the American Basketball Association with the National Basketball Association, which after multiple attempts over several years finally occurred in 1976....
.
June 20 - Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from Beirut
Beirut

Beirut is the Capital and largest city of Lebanon with a population of over 2.1 million as of 2007. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's coastline with the Mediterranean sea, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport and also forms the Beirut District area, which consists of the city and its suburbs....
and taken to safety in Syria
Syria

Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is an Arab-majority country in Southwest Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north....
by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. ambassador
Ambassador

An ambassador is the highest ranking diplomat who represents their country. They are usually accredited to a Sovereignty or government, or to an international organization, to serve as the official representative of their country....
.
June 20 - General elections are held in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
.
June 20 - Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia national football team

The Czechoslovakia national football team was the national football team of Czechoslovakia, before the country was Dissolution of Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia It was controlled by the Czechoslovak Football Association from 1922 to 1993....
beats West Germany
Germany national football team

The German national football team is the association football team representing the country of Germany in international competition since 1908....
5-3 on penalties to win Euro 76
1976 UEFA European Football Championship

The 1976 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This was the fifth European Football Championship, held every four years and endorsed by UEFA....
, when the game had ended 2-2 after extra time.
June 25 - Strikes start in Poland (Ursus
Ursus (district in Warsaw)

Ursus is one of the Warsawian districts. Between 1952 and 1977 it a was separate city, a legacy of which are Ursus' poor road connections with the Warsaw city centre....
, Radom
Radom

Radom is a city in central Poland with 227,309 inhabitants. It is located on the Mleczna River in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of Radom Voivodeship , 100 km south of Poland's capital, Warsaw....
, Plock
Plock

Plock is a city in central Poland, on the Vistula river, with 131,011 inhabitants. It is located in the Masovian Voivodeship , having previously been the capital of the Plock Voivodeship ....
) after communists raise food prices; they end on June 30.
June 26 - The CN Tower
CN Tower

The CN Tower, located in Downtown Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and observation tower standing tall. It surpassed the height of the Ostankino Tower while still under construction in 1975, becoming the List of tallest freestanding structures in the world in the world....
is built in Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
; the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
June 27 - Palestinian extremists hijack an Air France
Air France

Air France , based in Paris, France, is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance....
plane in Greece with 246 passengers and 12 crew. They take it to Entebbe
Entebbe

Entebbe is a city in Uganda with a population of approximately 90,500. It is located on the shore of Lake Victoria near the capital city of Kampala....
, Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
.

July

July 2 - North Vietnam
North Vietnam

The Democratic Republic of Vietnam , or less commonly, Vietnamese Democratic Republic was an effective state all over Vietnam from 1945 until the partition of Vietnam in 1954....
and South Vietnam
South Vietnam

South Vietnam refers to an internationally recognized state which governed Vietnam south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone until 1975. Its capital was Saigon and its origin can be traced to the French colony of Cochinchina, which consisted of the southern third of Vietnam....
unite to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Vietnam

Vietnam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam , is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea to the east....
.
July 3 - Gregg v. Georgia
Gregg v. Georgia

Gregg v. Georgia, Proffitt v. Florida, Jurek v. Texas, Woodson v. North Carolina, and Roberts v. Louisiana, Case citation , reaffirmed the Supreme Court's acceptance of the use of the capital punishment in the United States, upholding, in particular, the death sentence imposed on Troy Leon Gregg....
: The Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal United States federal courts. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who are nominated by the President of the United States and confirmed with th...
rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual and is a constitutionally acceptable form of punishment.
July 3 - The great heat wave
1976 United Kingdom heat wave

The summer of 1976 was the hottest summer in the United Kingdom since records began. As well as the heat, Britain was in the middle of a severe drought....
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
, which is currently suffering from drought
Drought

A drought is an extended period of months or years when a region notes a deficiency in its water supply. Generally, this occurs when a region receives consistently below average precipitation ....
conditions, reaches its peak.
July 4 - United States Bicentennial
United States Bicentennial

The United States Bicentennial was celebrated on Sunday, July 4, 1976, the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence....
: From coast to coast, the United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
United States Declaration of Independence

The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the Thirteen Colonies then at war with Kingdom of Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire....
.
July 4 - The Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) leads 50,000 marchers in Philadelphia to demand a "Bicentennial Without Colonies" and independence for Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
.
July 4 - Entebbe Raid: Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
i airborne commandos free 103 hostages being held by Palestinian hijackers of an Air France
Air France

Air France , based in Paris, France, is one of the world's largest airlines. It is a subsidiary of the Air France-KLM Group and a founding member of the SkyTeam global airline alliance....
plane at Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
's Entebbe
Entebbe

Entebbe is a city in Uganda with a population of approximately 90,500. It is located on the shore of Lake Victoria near the capital city of Kampala....
Airport; 1 Israeli soldier and several Ugandan soldiers are killed in the raid.
July 6 - The first class of women is inducted at the United States Naval Academy
Naval Academy

Naval Academy could refer to one of several institutions:* The United States Naval Academy* The Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy of Bulgaria* The Imperial Japanese Naval Academy...
in Annapolis, MD.
July 7 - German left-wing terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in West Berlin
West Berlin

West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors established in 1945....
.
July 10 - Three British and 1 American mercenaries
Mercenary

A mercenary is a person who takes part in an armed conflict, who is not a national or a party to the conflict, and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain and, in fact, is promised, by or on behalf of a party to the conflict, material compensation substantially in excess of that promised or p...
are shot by firing squad in Angola
Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean....
.
July 10 - An explosion in Seveso
Seveso disaster

The Seveso disaster was an industrial accident that occurred around 12:37 pm July 10, 1976, in a small chemical manufacturing plant approximately 15 km north of Milan in the Lombardy region in Italy....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, kills a large number of people.
July 12 - Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan

Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician from Texas. She served as a congresswoman in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979....
is the first black person to keynote a political convention.
July 15 - Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
is nominated for U.S. President at the Democratic National Convention
Democratic National Convention

The Democratic National Convention is a series of U.S. presidential nominating convention held every four years since 1832 by the United States Democratic Party....
in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
.
July 16–20 - Albert Spaggiari
Albert Spaggiari

Albert Spaggiari , nicknamed Bert, was a France crime chiefly known as the organizer of a break-in into a Soci?t? G?n?rale bank in Nice, France in 1976....
and his gang break into the vault of the Societe Generale Bank in Nice
Nice

Nice is a city in Southern France France located on the Mediterranean Sea coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 1,197,751 inhabitants in the 2007 estimate....
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
.
July 17 - The 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 Summer Olympics

The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in 1976....
begin in Montreal
Montreal

Montreal, or Montr?al, is the largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec and the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population....
, Quebec
Quebec

Quebec , in French language, Qu?bec , is a Provinces and territories of Canada in the Central Canada and Eastern Canada regions of Canada....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
.
July 17 - East Timor
East Timor

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro Island and Jaco , and Oecussi-Ambeno, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor....
is declared the 27th province of Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
.
July 18 - Nadia Comaneci
Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Elena Comaneci is a Romanian gymnastics, winner of five Olympic Games gold medals, and the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event....
earns the first of 7 perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
July 19 - Sagarmatha National Park
Sagarmatha National Park

Sagarmatha National Park, is located in eastern Nepal, containing parts of the Himalayas and the southern half of Mount Everest. The park was created July 19, 1976 and in 1979 was inscribed as a World Heritage List....
in Nepal
Nepal

Nepal , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia and is the world's youngest republic. It is bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China, and to the south, east, and west by India....
is created.
July 20 - Viking program
Viking program

NASA's Viking program consisted of a pair of space probes sent to Mars , Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each vehicle was composed of two main parts, an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface....
: The Viking 1
Viking 1

Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program, and holds the record for the longest Mars surface mission of 6 years and 116 days ....
lander successfully lands on Mars.
July 21 - A bomb kills Christopher Ewart-Biggs
Christopher Ewart-Biggs

Christopher Ewart-Biggs Order of St Michael and St George Order of the British Empire was the United Kingdom Ambassador to Republic of Ireland and an author....
, British ambassador to the Irish Republic.
July 26 - In Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
, Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator Richard Schweiker
Richard Schweiker

Richard Schultz Schweiker is a former United States United States House of Representatives and United States Senate representing the state of Pennsylvania....
as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate Republican
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
delegates away from President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
.
July 27 - The United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
breaks diplomatic relations with Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
.
July 28 - The Tangshan earthquake flattens Tangshan
Tangshan

Tangshan is a mainly industrial prefecture-level city in Hebei province, People's Republic of China. It became known after the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, at least 8.2 on the Richter magnitude scale which flattened the city....
,China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
July 29 - In New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
, the "Son of Sam" pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing 1 and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
July 30 - In Santiago, Chile
Santiago, Chile

Santiago , is the Capital and largest city of Chile, and the center of its largest conurbation . It is located in the country's central valley, at an elevation of 520 m Above mean sea level....
, Cruzeiro
Cruzeiro Esporte Clube

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube is a List of football clubs in Brazil, from the city of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, founded on January 2, 1921.Even though the club's main focus is football , Cruzeiro also supports a professional volleyball team and semi-professional teams as well, these include track and field, bocha, and bowling....
from Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
beats River Plate
Club Atlético River Plate

Club Atl?tico River Plate, known also as River Plate or simply River, is an Argentina sports club best known for its association football team, established in 1901....
from Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
and are the Copa Libertadores de América
Copa Libertadores de América

The Copa Libertadores, also known as Copa Libertadores de Am?rica, is a football cup competition played annually by the top clubs of South America, while in recent editions, top clubs from Mexico have also been invited to compete....
champions.
July 31 - NASA
NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the Federal government of the United States, responsible for the nation's public list of space agencies....
releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
Viking 1

Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program, and holds the record for the longest Mars surface mission of 6 years and 116 days ....
.
July 31 - The Big Thompson River
Big Thompson River

The Big Thompson River is a tributary of the South Platte River, approximately 78 miles long, in the U.S. state of Colorado.The headwaters of the river begin in Forest Canyon within Rocky Mountain National Park in Larimer County, Colorado....
in northern Colorado floods, destroying more than 400 cars and houses.

August

August 1 - The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago

The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an island country in the southern Caribbean, lying northeast of the South American country of Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles....
becomes a republic
Republic

A republic is a state or country that is not led by a hereditary monarch but in which the people have an impact on its government. The word originates from the Latin term res publica....
, replacing Queen Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known as the Commonwealth realms: Monarchy of the United Kingdom, Monarchy of Canada, Monarchy of Australia, Monarchy of New Zealand, Monarchy of Jamaica, Monarchy of Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Monarchy of the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Sain...
with a President
President of Trinidad and Tobago

The President of Trinidad and Tobago is the head of state of Trinidad and Tobago, and the commander in chief its armed forces. The office was established when the country became a republic in 1976, before which the head of state was Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
as its head of state
Head of State

Head of state is the generic term for the individual or collective office that serves as the chief public representative of a monarchic or republican nation-state, federation, commonwealth or any other political state....
.
August 1 - The Seattle Seahawks
Seattle Seahawks

The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington, USA. They are currently members of the NFC West of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
play their first football game.
August 1 - Racing Champion Niki Lauda
Niki Lauda

Andreas Nikolaus "Niki" Lauda is an Austrian aviator, entrepreneur, former Formula One racing driver and three-time List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions....
suffers serious burns in the German Grand Prix.
August 2 - A gunman murders Andrea Wilborn and Stan Farr and injures Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in Fort Worth, Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
. T. Cullen Davis
T. Cullen Davis

Thomas Cullen Davis was an United States oil heir. He was arrested for, and later acquitted, of the murders of his step-daughter and his estranged wife's boyfriend, then hiring a hitman to kill his estranged wife and a judge....
, Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
August 4 - The first recognized outbreak of Legionnaires' disease
Legionellosis

Legionellosis is an infectious disease caused by bacteria belonging to the genus Legionella. Over 90% of legionellosis cases are caused by Legionella pneumophila, a ubiquitous aquatic organism that thrives in warm environments ....
kills 29 at the American Legion convention in Philadelphia.
August 5 - The Great Clock of Westminster (or Big Ben
Clock Tower, Palace of Westminster

Big Ben is the nickname for the great Bell of the clock at the north-eastern end of the Palace of Westminster in London. The nickname is often also used to refer to the clock and the clock tower....
) suffers internal damage and stops running for over 9 months.
August 6 - Former UK Postmaster General John Stonehouse
John Stonehouse

John Thomson Stonehouse was a British politician and minister under Harold Wilson. Stonehouse is perhaps most famous for his unsuccessful attempt at faking his own death in 1974....
is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
August 7 - Viking program
Viking program

NASA's Viking program consisted of a pair of space probes sent to Mars , Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each vehicle was composed of two main parts, an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface....
: Viking 2
Viking 2

The Viking 2 mission was part of the Viking program to Mars , and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission....
enters into orbit around Mars.
August 14 - Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland

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.
August 14 - The Senegal
Senegal

Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the S?n?gal River in West Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south....
ese political party
Political party

A political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain politics power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns....
PAI-Rénovation
African Independence Party-Renewal

African Independence Party is a political party in Senegal led by Majhmoud Diop.At the 1972 congress of the original Party of Independence and Work in Senegal, the former general secretary, Majhmoud Diop, was expelled....
is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.
August 18 - At Panmunjom, North Korea
North Korea

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea , is a state in East Asia, occupying the northern half of the Korean Peninsula....
, 2 United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
soldiers are killed while trying to chop down part of a tree in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
Korean Demilitarized Zone

The Korean Demilitarized Zone is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea Korea....
which had obscured their view.
August 19 - U.S. President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
edges out challenger Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California . Born in Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s, where he was an actor, president of the Screen Actors Guild , and a spokesman for General Electric ....
to win the Republican Party
Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party is one of the two major party contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party . It is often called the Grand Old Party or the GOP....
presidential nomination in Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson County, Missouri, Clay County, Missouri, Cass County, Missouri, and Platte County, Missouri counties....
.
August 24 - In Uruguay
Uruguay

Uruguay is a country located in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to 3.46 million people, of whom 1.7 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area....
, the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Marcelo is later killed and his wife (and unborn child) disappear.
August 25 - Jacques Chirac
Jacques Chirac

Jacques Ren? Chirac served as the President of France from 17 May 1995 until 16 May 2007. As President he also served as an ex officio Co-Prince of Andorra and Grand Master of the French L?gion d'honneur....
resigns as Prime Minister of France
Prime Minister of France

The Prime Minister of France in French Fifth Republic is the functional head of the government and French government ministers of France. The head of state in France is the President of the French Republic....
; he is succeeded by Raymond Barre
Raymond Barre

Raymond Octave Joseph Barre was a French centre-right politician and economist. He served as Prime Minister of France under Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing from 1976 until 1981....
.
August 26 - The first known outbreak of Ebola
Ebola

Ebola is the common term for a group of viruses belonging to genus Ebolavirus , family Filoviridae, and for the disease that they cause, Ebola viral hemorrhagic fever....
virus occurs in Yambuku
Yambuku

Yambuku is a small village in Mongala Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and was the site of the first known outbreak of the Ebola Zaire strain of the Ebola hemorrhagic fever virus in 1976....
, Zaire
Zaire

The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971, and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo language word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers", and is often still used to refer to that state, perhaps because "Zai...
.
August 26 - Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, husband of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
Juliana of the Netherlands

Juliana was Queen regnant of the Netherlands from her mother's abdication in 1948 to her own in 1980....
, resigns from various posts over a scandal involving alleged corruption, in connection with business dealings with the Lockheed Corporation.

September

September 3 - Viking program
Viking program

NASA's Viking program consisted of a pair of space probes sent to Mars , Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each vehicle was composed of two main parts, an orbiter designed to photograph the surface of Mars from orbit, and a lander designed to study the planet from the surface....
: The Viking 2
Viking 2

The Viking 2 mission was part of the Viking program to Mars , and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking 1 mission....
spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia
Utopia Planitia

Utopia Planitia is the Mars region where the Viking 2 lander touched down and began exploring on September 3, 1976. It is located at the antipodal point of Argyre Planitia, centered at ....
on Mars, taking the first close-up color photos of the planet's surface.
September 6 - Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
: Soviet
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko
Viktor Belenko

Viktor Ivanovich Belenko is an American aerospace engineer and lecturer of Russian origin. Belenko was a pilot with the 513th Fighter Regiment, 11th Air Army, Soviet Air Defence Forces based in Chuguyevka, Primorsky Krai....
lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaido
Hokkaido

, formerly known as Ezo, Yezo, Yeso, or Yesso, is Japan's second largest island and the largest, northernmost of its 47 prefectures of Japan....
in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, and requests political asylum
Refugee

Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecutionOwing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of their nationality,...
from the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.
September 6 - Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
brings Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, producer, writer, director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor on stage, screen and television, his singing ability in a string of music album recordings and his charity fund-raising telethons for the Muscular Dystrophy Association ....
's former partner Dean Martin
Dean Martin

Dean Martin was an United States singer, film actor and comedian of Italians descent. He was one of the best known musical artists of the 1950s and 1960s....
onstage, unannounced, at the 1976 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon

The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is hosted by actor/comic, Jerry Lewis to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. It has been held annually since 1960....
in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
, reuniting the comedy team for the first (and only) time in over 20 years.
September 9 - Chairman Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
, of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
, dies.
September 10 - Zagreb mid-air collision
1976 Zagreb mid-air collision

The 1976 Zagreb mid-air collision occurred on 10 September 1976 when British Airways Flight 476, a Hawker Siddeley Trident en route from London London Heathrow Airport to Atat?rk International Airport, Istanbul, Mid-air collision with Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 550, a Douglas DC-9 en route from Split Split Airport, Croatia, to...
: A British Airways
British Airways

British Airways plc is an airline of the United Kingdom. The airline has the largest fleet of aircraft of any United Kingdom airline, but is only second in terms of international passengers carried....
Trident and a Yugoslav
Yugoslavia

File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
DC-9 collide near Zagreb
Zagreb

Zagreb is the Capital and the largest city of Croatia. Zagreb is the Culture of Croatia, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Cinema of Croatia, Economy of Croatia and Government of Croatia center of the Croatia....
, Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia

File:LocationYugoslavia2.pngYugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century....
(now Croatia
Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a Central European country at the crossroads of Pannonian Plain, Balkans, and the Mediterranean Sea....
), killing all 176 aboard.
September 10 - Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese people Mangaka, animator, movie producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion....
begins serialising MW
MW (manga)

MW is a graphic novel by Osamu Tezuka. It was originally serialized in Big Comic in Japan from 1976-78 and was published in English translation by Vertical Inc....
, a manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
inspired by the 1974 Kakuei Tanaka
Kakuei Tanaka

was a Japanese politician and the 64th and 65th Prime Minister of Japan from July 7,1972 to December 22,1972 and from December 22, 1972 to December 9, 1974 respectively....
government scandal.
September 16 - Shavarsh Karapetyan
Shavarsh Karapetyan

Shavarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan is a retired Soviet Union Armenians finswimming, 13-times European Champion and seven-times USSR Champion, who saved 20 lives when a trolleybus fell into the Erevan reservoir....
saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into an Erevan reservoir.
September 17 - The space shuttle Enterprise
Space Shuttle Enterprise

The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first space shuttle built for NASA. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of space operations; its purpose was to perform test flights in the atmosphere....
is rolled out of a Palmdale, California
Palmdale, California

Palmdale is a city located in the northeast reaches of Los Angeles County, California, United States.The first community within the Antelope Valley to incorporate as a city , Palmdale is separated from Los Angeles, California by the San Gabriel Mountains range....
hangar.
September 20 - September 21 - The semi-legendary 100 Club Punk Festival
100 Club Punk Festival

The 100 Club Punk Festival was a two-day event held at the 100 Club - a typically jazz-oriented venue in Oxford Street, London, England - on September 20 and 21, 1976....
ignites the careers of several influential punk and post-punk
Post-punk

Post-punk was a popular musical movement with its roots in the mid to late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the early 1970s....
bands, arguably sparking the Punk Movement's introduction into mainstream culture.
September 21 - The Seychelles
Seychelles

Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago Country of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....
join the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
.
September 21 - Orlando Letelier
Orlando Letelier

Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, political figure, diplomat and, later, US-based activist. He was assassinated in Washington DC by Chilean DINA agents....
is assassinated in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
by agents of Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
an dictator Augusto Pinochet.
September 24 - Patricia Hearst is sentenced to 7 years in prison for her role in a 1974 bank robbery (an executive clemency order from U.S. President
President of the United States

The President of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in the United States by influence and recognition....
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
will set her free after only 22 months).
September 25 - The Irish rock band U2
U2

U2 are a rock music band from Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The band consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen, Jr. .The band formed in 1976 when the members were teenagers with limited musical proficiency....
is formed after drummer Larry Mullen Jr.
Larry Mullen Jr.

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Mullen, Jr. is the drummer for the Irish rock music band U2. He is the founder of U2, which was originally known as "The Larry Mullen Band" at its inception....
posts a note seeking members for a band on the notice board of his Dublin school.

October

October 4 - The new Intercity 125
InterCity 125

The InterCity 125 was the brand name of British Rail's High Speed Train fleet. The InterCity 125 train is made up of two power cars, one at each end of a fixed formation of carriages, and is capable of in regular service....
High Speed Train
High Speed Train

There are three types of trains in Britain that have been traditionally viewed as high speed trains:* Advanced Passenger Train - Tilting trains which never entered into regular revenue-earning service....
is introduced in the United Kingdom.
October 6 - Cubana Flight 455
Cubana Flight 455

Cubana Flight 455 was a Cubana flight from Barbados to Jamaica that was brought down by a terrorism on October 6, 1976. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed in what was then the most deadly terrorist airline attack in the Western hemisphere....
crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Fidel Castro terrorists
Opposition to Fidel Castro

The opposition to Fidel Castros Socialist government is largely unofficial and illegal within Cuba itself. Outside the country groups in the United States and elsewhere have pursued various means, both peaceful and violent, to challenge the Cuban government since the Cuban revolution in 1959....
, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados
Barbados

Barbados , situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Continental Island-island nation in the western Atlantic Ocean. Located at roughly 13? North of the equator and 59? West of the prime meridian, it is considered a part of the Lesser Antilles....
. All 73 people on board are killed.
October 6 - Students gathering at Thammasat University
Thammasat University

Thammasat University , formerly known as the University of Moral and Political Science , is Thailand's second oldest university. ranks Thammasat as 7th of 44 Thai, 84th of 100 Asian, and 850th of 4,000 world universities....
in Bangkok
Bangkok

The city of Bangkok is the Capital , largest urban area and primary city of Thailand. Known in Thai language as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or Krung Thep for short, it was a small trading post at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River during the Ayutthaya Kingdom and came to the forefront of Thailand when it was given the status as the...
, Thailand
Thailand

The Kingdom of Thailand is an independent country that lies in the heart of Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Laos and Myanmar, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and Myanmar....
are massacred, while protesting the return of ex-dictator Thanom Kittikachorn
Thanom Kittikachorn

Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn was a military dictator of Thailand. A staunch anti-Communist, Thanom oversaw a decade of military rule in Thailand from 1963 to 1973, until public protests which exploded into violence forced him to step down....
by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
October 6 - In San Francisco, during his second televised debate with Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
, U.S. President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
stumbles when he declares that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe" (there is at the time).
October 10 - Taiwan Governor Hsieh Tung-ming
Hsieh Tung-ming

Hsieh Tung-min was the ninth Governor of Taiwan Province , the sixth and first local Taiwanese Vice President of the Republic of China under president Chiang Ching-kuo....
is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
October 12 - The People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

The People's Republic of China , commonly known as China, is the largest country in East Asia and the List of countries by population in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately a fifth of the world's population....
announces that Hua Guofeng
Hua Guofeng

Su Zhu , better known by the Pseudonym Hua Guofeng , was Mao Zedong's designated successor as the paramount leader of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China....
is the successor to Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
, as Chairman of the Communist Party of China
Communist Party of China

The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and the ruling party of the People's Republic of China and the world's largest political party....
.
October 13 - The United States Commission on Civil Rights
United States Commission on Civil Rights

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a bipartisan, independent, federal commission charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning, the civil rights issues that face the nation....
releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that Puerto Ricans in the United States
Puerto Ricans in the United States

Puerto Ricans in the United States They form the second largest Hispanic and Latino Americans group in the United States, and contain the second largest group of White Hispanic and Latino Americans....
have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
, a U.S. territory).
October 19 - The Copyright Act of 1976
Copyright Act of 1976

The Copyright Act of 1976 is a piece of United States copyright legislation and remains the primary basis of copyright law in the United States, as amended by several later enacted copyright provisions....
extends copyright
Copyright

Copyright is a form of intellectual property which gives the creator of an original work exclusive rights for a certain time period in relation to that work, including its publication, distribution and adaptation; after which time the work is said to enter the public domain....
duration for an additional 20 years in the United States.
October 19 - The Battle of Aishiya is fought in Lebanon
Lebanon

Lebanon , officially the Republic of Lebanon or Lebanese Republic , is a country in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea....
.
October 19 - The Chimpanzee
Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially known as a chimp, is the common name for the two Extant taxon species of ape in the genus Pan where the Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...
(Pan troglodytes) is placed on the list of endangered species.
October 20 - The Mississippi River
Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the longest river in the United States, with a length of from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico....
ferry MV George Prince
MV George Prince ferry disaster

The MV George Prince ferry disaster was a nautical disaster that occurred in the Mississippi River in Louisiana on the morning of October 20, 1976....
is struck by a ship while crossing from Destrehan, LA to Luling, LA, killing 78 passengers and crew.
October 22 - Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh

Cearbhall ? D?laigh served as fifth President of Ireland, from 1974 to 1976. He resigned in 1976 after a clash with the government. He also had a notable legal career, including serving as Chief Justice of Ireland....
, the 5th President of Ireland
President of Ireland

The President of Ireland is the head of state of Republic of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms....
, resigns after being publicly insulted by the Minister for Defense.
October 25 - Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the Scottsboro Boys
Scottsboro Boys

The Scottsboro Boys case was among the most important in the history of American jurisprudence. It went to the United States Supreme Court twice and established the principles that, in the United States, criminal defendants are entitled to effective assistance of counsel and that people may not be de facto excluded from juries due to the...
, is pardoned.

November

November 2 - U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize....
defeats incumbent Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974....
, becoming the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
November 15 - The first megamouth shark
Megamouth shark

The megamouth shark, Megachasma pelagios, is an extremely rare and unusual species of deepwater shark. Discovered in 1976, only a few have ever been seen, with 42 specimens known to have been caught or sighted as of 2008 and three recordings on film....
is discovered off Oahu
Oahu

'Oahu' or 'Oahu' , known as Gathering_place#Island_of_O.7B.7Bokina.7D.7Dahu_as_The_Gathering_Place, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaii....
in Hawaii
Hawaii

File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
.
November 19 - Jaime Ornelas Camacho
Jaime Ornelas Camacho

Jaime Ornelas Camacho, , was the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal, and a member of the Madeiran branch of the popular centre-right-wing Portuguese party Social Democratic Party ....
takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira
Madeira

Madeira is a Portugal archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean that lies between and . It is one of the Autonomous regions of Portugal, with Madeira Island and Porto Santo Island being the only inhabited islands....
, Portugal
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
.
November 24 - At least 3,840 are killed in a Richter scale magnitude 7.3 earthquake of Van
Van

A van is a kind of vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. It is usually a box-shaped vehicle on four wheels, about the same width and length as a large automobile, but taller and usually higher off the ground, also referred to as a light commercial vehicle or LCV....
and Muradiye
Muradiye

Muradiye is a district of Van Province of Turkey....
in Turkey.
November 25 - In San Francisco, The Band
The Band

The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
holds its farewell concert, The Last Waltz
The Last Waltz

The Last Waltz was a rock concert by the Canadian-American rock group, The Band, held on Thanksgiving , November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco....
.
November 26 - Microsoft
Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of computer software products for computing devices....
is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico
New Mexico

New Mexico is a U. S. State located in the Southwestern United States of the United States. Inhabited by Native Americans in the United States populations for many centuries, it has also has been part of the Spanish Empire viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S....
.

December

December 1 - Angola
Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordering Namibia to the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, and Zambia to the east, and with a west coast along the Atlantic Ocean....
joins the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
.
December 1 - José López Portillo
José López Portillo

Jos? L?pez Portillo y Pacheco was the President of Mexico of Mexico from 1976 to 1982.Born in Mexico City, L?pez Portillo studied Law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico before beginning his political career with the Institutional Revolutionary Party in 1959....
takes office as President of Mexico
President of Mexico

The Constitutional Citizen President of the United Mexican States is the head of state of Mexico. Under the 1917 Constitution of Mexico, the president is also the head of government and the Commander-in-chief of the Mexican Military of Mexico....
.
December 1 - The Sex Pistols
Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols are an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. The band are widely credited with initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and creating the first generation gap within rock and roll....
achieve public notoriety as they unleash several 4-letter words live on Bill Grundy
Bill Grundy

William "Bill" Grundy was a England television presenter and former host of Today programme, a regional news programme broadcast on Thames Television....
's TV show.
December 3 - Bob Marley
Bob Marley

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley Jamaican Order of Merit was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers and Bob Marley & the Wailers ....
and his manager Don Taylor
Don Taylor

There are several people of note by the name Don Taylor or Donald Taylor known for achievements in various fields. Among them:*Don Taylor ...
are shot in an assassination attempt in Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica

Kingston is the Capital and largest city of Jamaica and is located on the southeastern coast of the island country. It faces a natural harbor protected by the Palisadoes, a long spit which connects Port Royal and the Norman Manley International Airport to the rest of the island....
.
December 3 - Patrick Hillery
Patrick Hillery

Patrick John "Paddy" Hillery was an Irish Fianna F?il politician and the sixth President of Ireland from 1976 until 1990. First elected at the Irish general election, 1951 as a Fianna F?il Teachta D?la for Clare , he remained in D?il ?ireann until 1973....
is elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland
President of Ireland

The President of Ireland is the head of state of Republic of Ireland. The President is usually directly elected by the people for seven years, and can be elected for a maximum of two terms....
.
December 8 - The Congressional Hispanic Caucus
Congressional Hispanic Caucus

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus comprises 23 Democratic Party and 1 Independent Members of the United States Congress of Hispanic descent....
is established by the 5 Latinos in the United States Congress: Herman Badillo
Herman Badillo

Herman Badillo is a Bronx, New York politician who has been a borough president, United States Representative, and candidate for Mayor of New York City....
of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and Henry B. Gonzalez
Henry B. Gonzalez

Henry Barbosa Gonz?lez was a Democratic Party politician from the U.S. state of Texas. He represented Texas's 20th congressional district from 1961 to 1999....
of Texas, Edward R. Roybal
Edward R. Roybal

Edward Ross "Ed" Roybal was an United States politician. He served for thirty years as a United States Democratic Party United States House of Representatives of the 30th and later the 25th districts of California, and was a member of the Los Angeles City Council for thirteen years....
of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is a Autonomy Territories of the United States of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands....
, Baltasar Corrada del Rio
Baltasar Corrada del Río

Baltasar Corrada del R?o is a former politician from Puerto Rico. He held various high political offices in the island, including President of the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico , Mayor of the capital city of San Juan, Puerto Rico , Secretary of State and Associate Justice to the Supreme Court of...
.
December 8 - Hotel California
Hotel California

Hotel California is an album released by the United States rock music band Eagles in late 1976 . It is the first Eagles album without founding member Bernie Leadon and the first album with Joe Walsh....
by The Eagles is released.
December 15 - Samoa
Samoa

Samoa , officially the Independent State of Samoa , is a country governing the western part of the Samoan Islands archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean....
joins the United Nations
United Nations

The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
.
December 20 - Richard J. Daley
Richard J. Daley

Richard Joseph Daley served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic Political boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses." He played a major role in the History of the United States Democratic Party, especially with his support of John F....
, Mayor of Chicago for 21 years, dies.
December 23 - A new volcano, Murara
Murara

Murara was a small, short-lived, volcano on the flank of Mount Nyamuragira, that began erupting on December 23, 1976. Eruptions from Murara reduced considerably after the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo on January 10, 1977 and ended completely in April 1977....
, erupts in eastern Zaire
Zaire

The Republic of Zaire was the name of the present Democratic Republic of the Congo between 27 October 1971, and 17 May 1997. The name of Zaire derives from the , itself an adaptation of the Kongo language word nzere or nzadi, or "the river that swallows all rivers", and is often still used to refer to that state, perhaps because "Zai...
.

Undated

The first laser printer
Laser printer

A laser printer is a common type of computer printer that rapidly produces high quality text and graphics on plain paper. As with digital photocopiers and multifunction printers , laser printers employ a Xerography printing process but differ from analog photocopiers in that the image is produced by the direct scanning of a laser beam acros...
is introduced by IBM (the IBM 3800).
California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
's sodomy law
Sodomy law

A sodomy law is a law that defines certain sexual acts as Sex and the law. The precise sexual acts meant by the term sodomy are rarely spelled out in the law, but is typically understood by courts to include any sexual act which does not lead to procreation....
is repealed.
The term memetics
Memetics

Memetics is an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer based on the concept of the meme. Starting from a metaphor used in the writings of Richard Dawkins, it has since turned into a new area of study, one that looks at the self-replicating units of culture....
is first proposed by Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins

Clinton Richard Dawkins, Royal Society#Fellowship, Royal Society of Literature is a United Kingdom ethology, evolutionary biology and popular science author....
in his book The Selfish Gene.
Diffie-Hellman cryptography
Cryptography

Cryptography is the practice and study of hiding information. In modern times cryptography is considered a branch of both mathematics and computer science and is affiliated closely with information theory, computer security and engineering....
is proposed.
Plans to move the Nigeria
Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federation constitutional republic comprising States of Nigeria and one Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria....
n capital from Lagos
Lagos

Lagos is the most populous conurbation in Nigeria with 7,937,932 inhabitants at the 2006 census. It is currently the second most Largest cities in africa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa , immediately following Bamako....
to Abuja
Abuja

Abuja is the capital city of Nigeria. It is located in the centre of Nigeria in the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria . Abuja is a planned city, as it was mainly built in the 1980s and officially became Nigeria's capital on 12 December 1991, replacing the role of the previous capital Lagos....
are approved.
The New Jersey State Legislature passes legislation legalizing casinos in the shore town of Atlantic City
Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City is a City in Atlantic County, New Jersey, New Jersey, United States. Famous for its boardwalk, casino, sandy beaches, shopping centers, spectacular view of the Atlantic Ocean, and as the inspiration for the board game Monopoly , Atlantic City is a resort community located on Absecon Island on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean....
commencing in 1978. After signing the bill into law, Governor
Governor

A governor is a governing official, usually the Executive of a non-sovereign level of government, ranking under the head of state. In federations, a governor may be the title of each appointed or elected politician who governs a constitutive state....
Brendan Byrne
Brendan Byrne

Brendan Thomas Byrne is an United States Democratic Party politician from New Jersey, who served as the List of Governors of New Jersey Governor of New Jersey, from 1974 to 1982....
declares "The mob
Mafia

The Mafia is a Sicily criminal society which is believed to have emerged in late 19th century Sicily. It is a loose association of criminal groups that share a common organizational structure and code of conduct....
is not welcome in New Jersey!" referring to the Mafia's influence at casinos in Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
.

Ongoing

Angolan Civil War
Angolan Civil War

The Angolan Civil War began in Angola after the end of the Angolan War of Independence from Portugal in 1975. The war ultimately evolved into a prominent Cold War conflict, featuring two warring Angolan factions, the Communist MPLA, which was supported by the Soviet Union, and the anti-Communist UNITA, which gained support from the United Sta...
(1974-2002)
Cambodian-Vietnamese War
Cambodian-Vietnamese War

The Cambodian-Vietnamese War was a series of conflicts between the two countries, culminating in the Vietnamese invasion and subsequent occupation of Cambodia and the removal of the Khmer Rouge regime from power....
(1975-1989)
Cold War
Cold War

The Cold War was the continuing state of conflict, tension and competition that existed between a number of world powers, including the United States, the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, France, United Kingdom and those countries' respective allies from the mid-1940s to the early 1990s....
(1945-1991)
Ethiopian Civil War
Ethiopian Civil War

The Ethiopian Civil War began on September 12, 1974 when the Marxist Derg staged a coup d'?tat against Emperor Haile Selassie, and lasted until the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front , a coalition of rebel groups, overthrew the government in 1991....
(1975-1991)
Independence War in Cabinda (1975-2006)
Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975-1978)
Lebanese Civil War
Lebanese Civil War

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(1975-1991)

Births

January

January 2 - Cletidus Hunt
Cletidus Hunt

Cletidus Marquell Hunt is a former defensive tackle in the National Football League and the Arena Football League. The debate as to who the biggest bust in Packer history continues....
, American football player
January 2 - Paz Vega
Paz Vega

Paz Campos Trigo , better known as Paz Vega, is a Spain actor....
, Spanish actress
January 2 - Mahée Paiement
Mahée Paiement

Mah?e Paiement is a Quebec movie and television actress and known for playing several roles in popular Quebec movies and films since 1986....
, Canadian actress
January 4 - Shiro Amano
Shiro Amano

is a Japanese people mangaka who has worked on several projects, including his adaption on the popular Kingdom Hearts . ...
, Japanese manga
Manga

, , are comics and print cartoons , in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 20th century. In their modern form, manga date from shortly after World War II, but they have a long, complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art....
artist/writer
January 6 - Danny Pintauro
Danny Pintauro

Daniel John Pintauro is an United States actor....
, American actor
January 6 - Johnny Yong Bosch
Johnny Yong Bosch

'Johnny Yong Bosch' is an United States actor, voice acting, martial arts, and musician. He is best known for portraying Adam Park in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and being the English voice of Vash the Stampede in Trigun, as well as the voice of Ichigo Kurosaki in Bleach , Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass and Nero in Devil May C...
, American actor
January 7 - Éric Gagné
Éric Gagné

?ric Serge Gagn? is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a free agent.Signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers as a free agent in , Gagn? began his career as a starting pitcher....
, Canadian baseball player
January 7 - Alfonso Soriano
Alfonso Soriano

Alfonso Soriano is a professional Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. He has previously played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp , New York Yankees, Texas Rangers and Washington Nationals....
, Dominican baseball player
January 8 - Jenny Lewis
Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis is an United States singer, musician, and actress.Lewis is a member and primary vocalist of the indie rock band Rilo Kiley, and has also released two solo albums....
, American actress and singer (Rilo Kiley
Rilo Kiley

Rilo Kiley is a Los Angeles-based indie rock band. The band members are Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel....
)
January 10 - Adam Kennedy
Adam Kennedy

Adam Thomas Kennedy is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays organization.Kennedy attended J.W. North High School in Riverside, California, playing baseball and basketball....
, American baseball player
January 13 - Bic Runga
Bic Runga

Briolette Kah Bic Runga New Zealand Order of Merit is a New Zealand singer-songwriter whose first solo album, Drive , debuted at number one in the New Zealand RIANZ charts, and has since become one of the highest-selling New Zealand artists of all time....
, New Zealand singer/songwriter
January 19 - Marsha Thomason
Marsha Thomason

Marsha Thomason is an England Actor, who is best known in the United States for playing Nessa Holt in the first two seasons of NBC's series Las Vegas , and for her recurring role on American Broadcasting Company's Lost as Characters of Lost#Naomi Dorrit....
, British actress
January 20 - Anastasia Volochkova
Anastasia Volochkova

Anastasia Yurievna Volochkova is a Russians prima ballerina. She was born in Saint Petersburg in 1976 and was trained in the Vaganova Ballet Academy by Natalia Dudinskaya, a famous pupil of Agrippina Vaganova....
, Russian prima ballerina
January 20 - Gretha Smit
Gretha Smit

Gretha Smit is a Netherlands speed skating.Smit won a surprising silver medal in the 2002 Winter Olympics in the 5000 meter event. She skated a world record broken in a later pair by Claudia Pechstein....
, Dutch speed skater
January 20 - Kirsty Gallacher
Kirsty Gallacher

Kirsty Jane Gallacher is a Scotland television presenter. She began her television career as a presenter on Sky Sports News....
, Scottish TV presenter
January 21 - Emma Bunton
Emma Bunton

Emma Lee Bunton is an English pop music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Bunton is best known for being a member of the successful '90s girl group, the Spice Girls, in which she was known as "Baby Spice" as she was the youngest member and often wore revealing "babydoll" dresses....
, English musician (Spice Girls
Spice Girls

The Spice Girls are an English pop girl group formed in 1994. They consist of Victoria Beckham, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Melanie Chisholm and Geri Halliwell....
)
January 22 - Mikko Luoma
Mikko Luoma

Mikko Luoma is a Finnish professional ice hockey Defenceman , currently playing with HV71 in the Sweden elite league Elitserien....
, Finnish ice-hockey player
January 22 - James Dearth
James Dearth

James Dearth is a National Football League long snapper / tight end for the New York Jets. Dearth was a 6th round pick in the 1999 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns out of Tarleton State University...
, American football player
January 23 - Tony Lucca
Tony Lucca

Tony Lucca , is an United States singer, songwriter, Record producer and sometime actor, perhaps best known for starting his career on the All New Mickey Mouse Club#1990s revival....
, American singer/songwriter
January 23 - Angelica Lee
Angelica Lee

Angelica Lee Sin-Jie is a Malaysian-Taiwanese film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong....
, Taiwanese actress and singer
January 23 - Nigel McGuiness, English professional wrestler
January 27 - Ruby Lin
Ruby Lin

Ruby Lin is a Taiwanese actress and pop music singer.Lin made her acting debut in a TV Television advertisement in Taiwan. When she received her first experience in front of the camera in 1995 as minor role, she start to developed a passion for acting....
, Taiwanese actress and singer
January 27 - Mohamed Aly
Mohamed Aly

Mohammed Aly Reda is an Egyptian boxing who competed in the Super Heavyweight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal.At the AllAfrica Games 2003 he lost the final to Gbenga Oluokun....
, Egyptian reformist & writer
January 28 - Mark Madsen
Mark Madsen

Mark Ellsworth "Mad Dog" Madsen is an United States professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Minnesota Timberwolves....
, American basketball player
January 28 - Lee Ingleby
Lee Ingleby

Lee Ingleby is a United Kingdom film, television, and Theatre actor.Ingleby was born in Burnley, Lancashire, in England. He is perhaps best known for his role as Knight Bus in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban , but he has made numerous appearances in British television drama and comedy in recent years....
, British actor
January 29 - Tracy Lynn Cruz
Tracy Lynn Cruz

Tracy Lynn Cruz is a retired United Statesn actress.She is best known for playing Ashley Hammond in several Power Rangers series. Ashley Hammond was the Yellow Ranger during Power Rangers Turbo and Power Rangers In Space, and made a return appearance during Power Rangers Lost Galaxy....
, American actress
January 30 - Andy Milonakis
Andy Milonakis

Andrew Michael Milonakis in Katonah, New York) is a Greek American comedian who played the role of a young boy on his television show, The Andy Milonakis Show, which was played on the MTV and MTV2 television channel....
, American Internet and MTV star
January 31 - Buddy Rice
Buddy Rice

Buddy Rice is an auto racing driver in the Indy Racing League IndyCar Series. He is best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for Rahal Letterman Racing and the 2009 24 Hours of Daytona for Brumos Racing....
, American race car driver

February

February 2 - Carlos Coste
Carlos Coste

Carlos Coste is a world class free-diver and record-holder. He started his training in Apnea and Free-diving in 1996, and got his first national record in 1998....
, Venezuellan free-diver
February 2 - James Hickman
James Hickman

James Hickman is a former swimmer from Great Britain, who became a FINA World Championships - Short Course five times on the 200 m butterfly in short course , twice world record holder, Commonwealth Champion and four times European Champion....
, British swimmer
February 2 - Lori Beth Denberg
Lori Beth Denberg

Lori Beth Denberg is an United States actress and comedienne. She is best known for her work as an original cast member of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy series All That, and for her role as Lydia Liza Gutman on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show....
, American comedian
February 4 - Cam'ron
Cam'ron

Cameron Giles better known by his stage name Cam'ron, previously known as Killa Cam, is an American rapping and actor. He is the founder of the hip hop music group The Diplomats, commonly known as Dipset....
, American rapper
February 5 - Abhishek Bachchan
Abhishek Bachchan

Abhishek Bachchan is an Indian actor and the son of Indian actors Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. He is married to actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai....
, Indian actor
February 5 - Tony Jaa
Tony Jaa

Tatchakorn Yeerum...
, Thai martial art film actor/choreographer/director
February 5 - Brian Moorman
Brian Moorman

Brian Donald Moorman is an American football punter who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Seattle Seahawks as an undrafted free agent in 1999....
, American football player
February 6 - Colin Teo
Colin Teo

Colin Teo, born February 6, 1976, is a Drifting driver from Singapore. He made his debut in the D1 Grand Prix Malaysia in Round 3 of 2006, currently driving a red Nissan Silvia#S15, which is currently under the sponsorship of and Kumho Tires....
, Singaporean D1 Professional Grand Prix
D1 Grand Prix

The , abbreviated as D1GP and subtitled Professional Drift) is a production car drifting series from Japan. After several years of hosting amateur drifting contests, Option & Tokyo Auto Salon founder Daijiro Inada, and drifting legend Keiichi Tsuchiya hosted a professional level drifting contest in 1999 and 2000 to feed on the eve...
drifter
February 8 - Abi Titmuss
Abi Titmuss

Abigail Evelyn Titmuss, best known as Abi Titmuss, is an England nurse, turned glamour model, Television Personality and actress....
, British TV presenter and model
February 9 - Vladimir Guerrero
Vladimir Guerrero

Vladimir Alvino Guerrero , , is a Major League Baseball right fielder who plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In , he was voted the American League Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award....
, Dominican baseball player
February 10 - Lance Berkman
Lance Berkman

William Lance "The Big Puma" Berkman is a Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros. Berkman is known by his nickname "The Big Puma", a nickname coined in jest by himself while on a sports talk radio show....
, American baseball player
February 12 - Silvia Saint
Silvia Saint

Silvia Saint is a Czechs Pornographic actor. In 1996, she was Penthouse magazine Pet of the Year in the Czech edition of the magazine, and between 1997 and 2001, she appeared in over 200 Pornographic film....
, Czech actress
February 12 - Jenni Falconer
Jenni Falconer

Jenni Falconer is a Scottish people television presenter....
, British TV presenter
February 13 - Martin Sastre
Martin Sastre

Martin Sastre is a contemporary Uruguayan new media art working with film, video, sculpture, photography and drawing, considered one of the best known Latin American Artists of his generation....
, Uruguayan artist
February 15 - Brandon Boyd
Brandon Boyd

Brandon Boyd is the lead singer and chief songwriter of the alternative rock band Incubus ....
, American rock musician (Incubus
Incubus (band)

Incubus is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California, California. Formed by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while in high school in 1991, the band grew to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell , both of whom were eventually replaced by bas...
)
February 16 - Kyo
Kyo (musician)

is a Japanese musician known as the Singer of Dir en grey. He has been with the band since its inception in 1997 and was previously the frontman of La:Sadie's....
, Japanese rock musician (Dir en grey
Dir en grey

Dir en grey is a Japanese band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2008, they have recorded seven Album and while the group's lineup has remained consistent since its inception, numerous stylistic changes have made its music's genre difficult to determine ....
)
February 20 - Ed Graham
Ed Graham

Ed Graham was the drummer in the England rock band The Darkness as well as the subsequent successor band Stone Gods, before officially leaving on July 29th 2008 due to a physical inability to perform....
, British rock drummer (The Darkness
The Darkness

The Darkness were a multi-BRIT Awards-winning United Kingdom hard rock/glam rock band. Their highly retro style of music was influenced by rock music bands like Queen , Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, M?tley Cr?e, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Sparks , Van Halen, T....
)
February 20 - Gail Kim
Gail Kim

Gail Kim is a Canadian-born Professional wrestling of Koreans descent, Manager , Model , and Actor. She is currently signed with World Wrestling Entertainment....
, Canadian professional wrestler
February 23 - Jeff O'Neill
Jeff O'Neill

Jeffrey O'Neill is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger in the National Hockey League . He has played for the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes and the Toronto Maple Leafs....
, Canadian hockey player
February 25 - Rashida Jones
Rashida Jones

Rashida Leah Jones is an United States actor, Model , and musician, best-known for her portrayal of List of Boston Public minor characters on Boston Public, Karen Filippelli on The Office and Kate Frankola on Unhitched....
, American actress, writer, model, and musician
February 28 - Ali Larter
Ali Larter

Alison Elizabeth "Ali" Larter is a Saturn Award-nominated American actor and former Model best known for her screen roles aimed at teenage audiences....
, American actress and model
February 28 - Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor
February 29 - Ja Rule
Ja Rule

Jeffrey Atkins , better known by his stage name Ja Rule, is an United States rapper and actor signed to The Inc. and Universal Records, formerly of Def Jam Recordings....
, American rapper

March

March 1 - Luke Mably
Luke Mably

Thomas Luke Mably is an English actor, best known for playing the roles of Scott Lucas in Dream Team for two seasons and Prince Edvard in the comedy romance The Prince and Me , with Julia Stiles and Miranda Richardson....
, English actor
March 2 - Shane Brewer
Shane Brewer

Shane Brewer is a professional show jumper currently residing in Peterborough United Kingdom....
, English equestrian
March 3 - Fraser Gehrig
Fraser Gehrig

Fraser Gehrig is a retired Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League who played for the St Kilda Football Club and the West Coast Eagles...
, Australian rules footballer
March 4 - Robbie Blake
Robbie Blake

Robert James "Robbie" Blake is an England association football, who plays for Burnley F.C. in the English Football League Championship as a striker....
, English footballer
March 4 - Hiram Bocachica
Hiram Bocachica

Hiram Gabriel Bocachica Colon is a former Major League Baseball outfielder, now playing for the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball....
, Puerto Rican baseball player
March 4 - Sean Covel
Sean Covel

Sean Covel is an United States film producer. Sean's producing credits include Napoleon Dynamite, 12 Dogs of Christmas, Think Tank, and Beneath....
, American film producer
March 4 - Hayley Evetts
Hayley Evetts

Hayley Evetts born 4th March 1976 in Birmingham, England is a singer, TV presenter and stage actor. She rose to fame on the hit Great Britain TV talent show Pop Idol....
, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor
March 4 - Tommy Jönsson
Tommy Jönsson

Tommy J?nsson is a Sweden football player, who plays Defender for Halmstads BK....
, Swedish football player
March 4 - Regi Penxten
Regi Penxten

Regi Penxten is a Belgian DJ and record producer, of numerous dance and trance projects in Belgium, including Milk Inc. and Sylver.At the end of 2007, he released his first solo-album REGIstrated which received a golden record before its release....
, Belgian DJ and record producer
March 4 - Thierry Renaer
Thierry Renaer

Thierry Renaer is a field hockey defender from Belgium, who made his debut for the Belgium national field hockey team in the late 1990s.Renaer was a member of the squad, that missed qualification for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens....
, Belgian field hockey player
March 4 - Gary Shortland
Gary Shortland

Gary Shortland is a British professional figure skater. As an eligible skater, he competed as an ice dancer with partner Charlotte Clements at the World Figure Skating Championships, the European Figure Skating Championships, and many other international events....
, British professional figure skater
March 4 - Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim
Choking Victim

Choking Victim was an United States hardcore punk band formed in New York City, which were together from 1992 to 1999. Primarily playing an amalgam of hardcore punk, ska punk and death metal with anarchism lyrics, they classify themselves as "Crack Rock Steady." Following the breakup of the band, which occurred the same day as the recording o...
, Leftöver Crack
Leftöver Crack

Leftover Crack is an United States Ska Punk band formed in 1999, following the breakup of the ska punk band Choking Victim. Primarily playing an amalgam of ska punk, and death metal with anarchism lyrics, they classify themselves as "Crack Rock Steady." The band is currently signed to Fat Wreck Chords for CD releases, and Alternative Tentacle...
)
March 4 - Jasin Thomason
Jasin Thomason

Jasin Thomason was the guitarist for United States rock band The Ataris on their first record, Anywhere but Here . After meeting Kris Roe at Karma Records in Greenwood, Indiana the two began talking about music and immediately became good friends....
, American guitarist (The Ataris
The Ataris

The Ataris is a pop punk band originally hailing from Anderson, Indiana, Indiana. They have released five studio albums, and their most recent, Welcome the Night, was released on February 20, 2007....
)
March 5 - Sarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
March 6 - Mr. Kennedy, American professional wrestler
March 8 - Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor
March 10 - Haifa Wehbe
Haifa Wehbe

Haifa Wehbe is a Lebanon model , actress, and singer who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later the release of her debut album Huwa az-Zaman ....
, Lebanese model, actress and singer
March 13 - Danny Masterson
Danny Masterson

Daniel Peter Masterson is an United States actor, known for his role as Steven Hyde in That '70s Show....
, American actor
March 14 - Hunter Burgan
Hunter Burgan

Hunter Lawrence Burgan grew up in Grass Valley, California. He is the third and current bass guitarist of AFI . He played in a band called The Force at the time that he joined AFI....
, American rock musician (AFI
AFI (band)

AFI is an American hardcore punk band from Ukiah, California, California, formed in 1991. They have consisted of the same lineup since 1998, lead vocalist Davey Havok, drummer and backup vocalist Adam Carson, with bassist Hunter Burgan and guitarist Jade Puget, who both play keyboard and contribute backup vocals....
)
March 16 - Kim Johnsson
Kim Johnsson

Kim Johnsson is a Sweden professional ice hockey player. He plays Defenceman for the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League ....
, Swedish hockey player
March 17 - Alvaro Recoba
Álvaro Recoba

?lvaro Alexander Recoba Rivero , nicknamed "El Chino", is a Uruguayan Association football striker or Midfielder#Winger currently playing for Panionios F.C.....
, Uruguayan footballer
March 17 - Stephen Gately
Stephen Gately

Stephen Patrick David Gately is an Ireland Pop music singer and actor, who is in the boy band Boyzone. Away from his Boyzone work, Gately has appeared variously in stage productions and on television programmes as well recording solo material....
, Irish singer (Boyzone
Boyzone

Boyzone are an Irish people boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe....
)
March 17 - Brittany Daniel
Brittany Daniel

Brittany Ann Daniel is an United States television and film actress. She is the Twin of actress and photographer Cynthia Daniel....
, American actress
March 19 - Rachel Blanchard
Rachel Blanchard

Rachel Elise Blanchard is a Canada actor....
, Canadian actress
March 19 - Alessandro Nesta
Alessandro Nesta

Alessandro Nesta, Italian orders of merit is an Italy FIFA World Cup-winning Defender who plays for Italian Serie A club A.C. Milan. He is a four-time member of the annual UEFA Team of the Year; only Thierry Henry has more appearances, with five....
, Italian football player
March 20 - Chester Bennington
Chester Bennington

Chester Charles Bennington is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is the lead vocalist in the rock music band Linkin Park, and was previously associated with the band Grey Daze, among others....
, American rock musician (Linkin Park
Linkin Park

Linkin Park is an American Rock music band from Agoura Hills, California, California. Since its formation in 1996, the band has sold more than 50 million albums and won two Grammy Awards....
)
March 22 - Teun de Nooijer
Teun de Nooijer

Teun Floris de Nooijer is a field hockey player from The Netherlands, who twice became Olympic champion with the Dutch national squad: in 1996 Summer Olympics and in 2000 Summer Olympics....
, Dutch field hockey player
March 22 - Reese Witherspoon
Reese Witherspoon

Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon , better known as Reese Witherspoon, is an American actress and film producer, who has established herself as a one of Hollywood top actresses in recent years....
, American actress
March 22 - Kellie Shanygne Williams
Kellie Shanygne Williams

Kellie Shanygne Williams is an American actor, singer, and rapper best known for her role as Laura Winslow on the television series Family Matters ....
, American actress
March 22 - Wayne Turner
Wayne Turner

Wayne Keon Turner is an American professional basketball player. As a star point guard for the University of Kentucky's Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball during a four-year period in which they won two NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship and lost in the championship game once , Turner became the all-time leader in games played in...
, American basketball player
March 23 - Keri Russell
Keri Russell

Keri Lynn Russell is an American actor and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the hit series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002, and for which she won a Golden Globe Award....
, American actress
March 24 - Aaron Brooks, American football player
March 24 - Peyton Manning
Peyton Manning

Peyton Williams Manning is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Manning is one of only two three-time NFL MVPs....
, American football player
March 26 - Amy Smart
Amy Smart

Amy Lysle Smart is an American actress and former fashion model ....
, American actress
March 27 - Carl Ng
Carl Ng

Carl Ng is a Hong Kong actor and Model .The third of four children, Ng was born in Hong Kong and is of mixed ethnicity. His father is comedy actor Richard Ng, while his mother, a Great Britain woman, worked as a hair stylist for Bruce Lee in the 1970s....
, Hong Kong/British actor and model
March 28 - Dave Keuning, American rock guitarist (The Killers)
March 30 - Ty Conklin
Ty Conklin

Ty Conklin is an United States professional ice hockey goaltender currently with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. Raised in Anchorage, Alaska, and a graduate of Shattuck-St....
, American ice-hockey player

April

April 2 - Lucy Diakovska, German-Bulgarian pop singer
April 2 - Rory Sabbatini
Rory Sabbatini

Rory Mario Trevor Sabbatini is a South African professional golfer.Rory Sabbatini was born in Durban, South Africa. He started playing golf at age 4, but concentrated on it from age 12....
, South African golfer
April 3 - Drew Shirley
Drew Shirley

Andrew Phillip Shirley is a guitarist and the newest member of the alternate-rock band Switchfoot. Shirley attended California Baptist University studying a Fine Arts degree with a Music minor....
, American guitarist (Switchfoot
Switchfoot

Switchfoot is an American alternative rock band from San Diego, California, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley ....
)
April 5 - Henrik Stenson
Henrik Stenson

Henrik Stenson is a Sweden professional golfer.Stenson was born in Gothenburg. He turned professional in 1999 and the following year topped the money rankings on the second tier golf tour in Europe, the Challenge Tour....
, Swedish golfer
April 6 - Candace Cameron, American actress
April 9 - Kris Radlinski
Kris Radlinski

Kris Radlinski MBE is an England former rugby league Rugby league positions#Fullback who played for his hometown club Wigan Warriors throughout his career and also represented Great Britain national rugby league team....
, English rugby league player
April 13 - Jonathan Brandis
Jonathan Brandis

Jonathan Gregory Brandis was an United States actor, film director, and screenwriter....
, American actor (d. 2003)
April 13 - Yoo Ji-tae, South Korean actor
April 14 - Anna DeForge
Anna DeForge

Anna Louise DeForge is an American professional basketball player currently plays for the Minnesota Lynx in the Women's National Basketball Association....
, American basketball player
April 15 - Steve Williams
Steve Williams (rower)

|}}}Stephen David Williams Order of the British Empire is an English Sport rowing and double Olympic champion....
, British rower
April 15 - Jason Bonsignore
Jason Bonsignore

Jason Bonsignore is a professional ice hockey forward, who is currently a free agent. He was drafted in the first round of the 1994 NHL Entry Draft, 4th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers....
, Canadian ice-hockey player
April 16 - Shu Qi
Shu Qi

Shu Qi is the stage name of a Taiwanese actor born Lin Li-Hui . Her stage name is occasionally Romanization as Hsu Chi or Shu Kei ....
, Taiwanese actress and singer
April 18 - Melissa Joan Hart
Melissa Joan Hart

Melissa Joan Hart is an United Statesn actress, singer-songwriter and director, best known for her title roles in the teenage sitcoms Clarissa Explains It All and Sabrina the Teenage Witch ....
, American actress
April 20 - Joey Lawrence
Joey Lawrence

Joseph "Joey" Lawrence is an United States actor. He became successful through the TV show Gimme A Break and followed that up with the TV series Blossom in the 1990s, in which he played the character Joey Russo, a dim-witted young man who frequently uttered the phrase "No Way!" and "Whoa!" At that time he used his nickname Joey....
, American actor
April 21 - Rommel Adducul
Rommel Adducul

Rommel Adducul is a professional basketball player from the Philippines who currently plays in the Philippine Basketball Association for the Purefoods Tender Juicy Giants....
, Filipino basketball player
April 22 - Michal Zewlakow
Michal Zewlakow

Michal Zewlakow , is a Poland Football solid left-sided Defender who captains the Poland national football team and is currently on the books of Olympiacos....
, Polish footballer
April 23 - Darren Huckerby
Darren Huckerby

Darren Carl Huckerby is an England soccer who currently plays with the San Jose Earthquakes of Major League Soccer as a striker or midfield....
, English footballer
April 25 - Tim Duncan
Tim Duncan

Timothy "Tim" Theodore Duncan is a Virgin Islander American professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association ....
, West Indian basketball player
April 25 - Rainer Schüttler
Rainer Schüttler

Rainer Sch?ttler is a professional tennis player from Germany. He began playing tennis at the age of ten. He currently resides in Switzerland. After Wimbledon 2008, he is currently 30th in the ATP rankings....
, German tennis player
April 26 - Emily Booth
Emily Booth (actress)

Emily Katherine Booth , also known by her stage name Emily "Bouff" Bouffante, is an England actress and television presenter, in particular fronting shows on video gaming....
, English actress and TV presenter
April 26 - Jose Pasillas
José Pasillas

Jos? Pasillas is an American drummer of the rock band Incubus ....
, American rock drummer (Incubus
Incubus (band)

Incubus is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California, California. Formed by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while in high school in 1991, the band grew to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell , both of whom were eventually replaced by bas...
)
April 29 - Jay Orpin
Jay Orpin

Jay Orpin is a Sweden songwriter and record producer, who was teamed up with Max Martin worked in Cherion Studios until the year 2001, when the studios were forced to be closed down....
, Swedish composer and record producer
April 30 - Amanda Palmer
Amanda Palmer

Amanda MacKinnon Palmer is a performer most noted for being the lead singer, pianist, and lyricist/composer of the "Brechtian punk cabaret" duo The Dresden Dolls....
, American lead vocalist and pianist (The Dresden Dolls
The Dresden Dolls

The Dresden Dolls are an United States musical duo from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 2001, the group consists of Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione ....
)

May

May 3 - Beto, Portuguese footballer
May 4 - Jason Michaels
Jason Michaels

Jason Drew Michaels , nicknamed "J-Mike", is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Houston Astros. He is a 1994 graduate of Jesuit High School of Tampa and received an Associate's degree degree from Okaloosa-Walton College in 1996....
, American baseball player
May 8 - Martha Wainwright
Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright is a Canadian-American folk music-Rock music singer-songwriter. She is the daughter of American folk/blues musician Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle....
, Canadian-American folk-pop singer
May 10 - Udo Mechels
Udo Mechels

Udo Mechels, born in Brussels on 10 may 1976, is a Belgian singer commonly known simply as Udo. He won the first season of the Belgian version of The X Factor in 2005....
, Belgian singer
May 14 - Martine McCutcheon
Martine McCutcheon

Martine McCutcheon is an England singer, television personality and Laurence Olivier Award-winning actor. McCutcheon had minor success as one third of the pop group Milan in the early 1990s; however, it was her role as Tiffany Mitchell in BBC's EastEnders that made her a household name in the UK in 1995....
, British actress and singer
May 15 - Tyler Walker
Tyler Walker

Tyler Lanier Walker is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He is an alumnus of San Francisco University High School and University of California, Berkeley....
, American baseball player
May 15 - Jacek Krzynówek
Jacek Krzynówek

Jacek Krzyn?wek , born 15 May 1976, is a Poland national football team international Football who plays for Hannover 96 in the German Bundesliga ....
, Polish footballer
May 15 - Ryan Leaf
Ryan Leaf

Ryan David Leaf is a former American football quarterback who played for the San Diego Chargers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys between 1998 NFL season and 2001 NFL season....
, American football quarterback
May 17 - Wang Lee Hom, U.S.-born Taiwanese singer/songwriter
May 17 - Kandi Burruss
Kandi Burruss

Kandi Burruss, known by the stage name Kandi Girl, is an United States R&B singer/songwriter and a former member of the group Xscape. She is also a cast member on the second season of The Real Housewives of Atlanta....
, american singer/songwriter and a member of Xscape
Xscape (band)

Xscape is a female United States Contemporary R&B quartet that had a string of hit songs during the early and mid 1990s. The original lineup of the group consisted of sisters LaTocha Scott and Tamika Scott , along with Kandi Burruss , and Tameka Cottle ....
May 17 - Daniel Komen
Daniel Komen

Daniel Kipngetich Komen is a Kenyan Middle distance track event and Long-distance track event. Komen is the only man to achieve back-to-back four-minute mile, and is also the second man ever to break both the 13-minute mark in the 5,000-meter run and the 3?-minute mark for the 1,500-meter run....
, Kenyan athlete
May 19 - Kevin Garnett
Kevin Garnett

Kevin Maurice Garnett is an United States professional basketball player for the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics. After graduating from Farragut Career Academy, he was the fifth player 1995 NBA Draft....
, American basketball player
May 20 - Ramón Hernández
Ramón Hernández

Ram?n Jos? Hern?ndez [] is a Major League Baseball catcher and right-handed batter for the Cincinnati Reds. Previously, he played with the Oakland Athletics , San Diego Padres , and Baltimore Orioles ....
, Venezuelan baseball
Major League Baseball

Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
player
May 22 - Chris Brazzell
Chris Brazzell

Chris Brazzell is a Canadian Football League wide receiver. He is currently a free agent....
, Canadian and American Football player
May 25 - Stefan Holm
Stefan Holm

Stefan Christian Holm is a retired Sweden high jumper. He has won an Olympic Games gold medal, four gold and a silver medal in the World Championships in Athletics, and a gold, two silver medals and a bronze medal in the European Championships in Athletics....
, Swedish high jumper
May 25 - Miguel Tejada
Miguel Tejada

Miguel Odalis Tejada Martinez is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the Houston Astros. He began his first six seasons of his career with the Oakland Athletics, where he began his streak of 1,152 MLB consecutive games played streakss, that ended with the Baltimore Orioles on June 22, 2007....
, Dominican baseball player
May 25 - Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy is an Republic of Ireland film and theatre actor. He is often noted by critics for his chameleonic performances in diverse roles...
, Irish actor
May 26 - Paul Collingwood
Paul Collingwood

Paul David Collingwood Order of the British Empire , is an England cricketer. He is a regular member of the English cricket team Test cricket side and was Captain of the One Day International team from 2007, resigning on Sunday 3 August 2008....
, English cricketer
May 26 - Justin Pierre
Justin Pierre

Justin Courtney Pierre is a singer, songwriter and guitarist originally from Mahtomedi, Minnesota, United States. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the pop punk band Motion City Soundtrack, and is known for his interests and pursuits in film making and record producer....
, American musician (Motion City Soundtrack
Motion City Soundtrack

Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock music band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1997. Only two of the founding members are still a part of the lineup: lead vocalist and guitarist Justin Pierre and lead guitarist and backing vocalist Joshua Cain....
)
May 28 - Alexei Nemov
Alexei Nemov

Alexei Yurievich Nemov is a gymnastics from Russia and one of the most medaled gymnasts, male or female, of all time. He has won 12 Olympic medals, including more Olympic bronze medals than any other athlete....
, Russian gymnast
May 31 - Roar Ljokelsoy, Noweigian ski jumper
May 31 - Colin Farrell
Colin Farrell

'Colin James Farrell' is a Golden Globe Award-winning Irish people actor, who has appeared in several high-profile Hollywood, Los Angeles, California films including Tigerland, Daredevil , Miami Vice , Minority Report , Phone Booth , Alexander and S.W.A.T....
, Irish actor

June

June 1 - Angela Perez Baraquio
Angela Perez Baraquio

Angela Perez Baraquio was born on June 1 1976 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Now known as Angela Perez Baraquio Grey, she was crowned Miss America 2001 on October 14, 2000 in Atlantic City, New Jersey....
, Miss America
Miss America

The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the US Virgin Islands....
2001
June 2 - Tim Rice-Oxley
Tim Rice-Oxley

Timothy "Tim" James Rice-Oxley is the co-founder, pianist, bassist, composer and lyricist of alternative rock band Keane . He plays piano, keyboards, Bass , and provides backing vocals for the band....
, English rock musician/composer (Keane)
June 2 - Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso

Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso is the Queen Consort of King Letsie III of Lesotho.She was born as Anna Karabo Mots'oeneng in Mapoteng in the Berea District the eldest child of Thekiso Mots'oeneng and his wife 'Makarabo....
of Lesotho
June 4 - Reggie Rolle
Reggie Rolle

Reggie Rolle is an African-American actor who portrayed Galaxy_Power_Rangers#Damon_Henderson, the Green Lost Galaxy Ranger, in Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy....
, American actor
June 6 - Geoff Rowley
Geoff Rowley

Geoffrey Rowley is a professional skateboarder who currently resides in Huntington Beach, California, California. He began skating at the age of 13, and he has been skating for over 18 years....
, English skateboarder
June 7 - Necro
Necro

Ron Braunstein, better known as Necro, is a Jewish American rapper, record producer, and Film director from Brooklyn, New York....
(Ron Braunstein), American rapper and record producer
June 8 - Lindsay Davenport
Lindsay Davenport

Lindsay Ann Davenport is a former World No. 1 American professional tennis player. She has won three Grand Slam singles tournaments and an Olympic Games gold medal in singles....
, American tennis player
June 10 - Freddy Garcia
Freddy García

Freddy Antonio Garc?a is a Venezuelan-American baseball player. He is a right-handed starting pitcher who plays for the New York Mets organization in Major League Baseball....
, Venezuelan baseball player
June 10 - Esther Ouwehand
Esther Ouwehand

Esther Ouwehand is a The Netherlands politician. She is one of the two Member of Parliament for the Party for the Animals ....
, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
Party for the Animals

The Party for the Animals is a political party in the Netherlands with two out of the one hundred and fifty seats in Tweede Kamer. One of its main goals is fighting for animal rights and animal welfare, though it claims not to be a Single-issue politics....
June 11 - Tai Anderson, American rock bassist (Third Day
Third Day

Third Day is a Contemporary Christian music and Christian rock band formed in Marietta, Georgia during the 1990s. The band was founded by lead singer Mac Powell and guitarist Mark Lee ....
)
June 11 - Gran Naniwa
Gran Naniwa

, better known by his ring name , is a Japanese Professional wrestling currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling. Naniwa is known for his comedic performances and outrageous attire while performing mannerisms of crabs, which is reflected upon in the design of his wrestling mask....
, Japanese professional wrestler
June 13 - Jason 'J' Brown
Jason 'J' Brown

Jason 'J' Brown is a member of the United Kingdom boy band, 5ive.Born in Aldershot Military Hospital, as a child he lived in Germany, Canada and all over the North of England....
, English rock musician (5ive)
June 13 - Kym Marsh
Kym Marsh

Kimberley Gail Marsh is an England actress and singer. Between 2002 and 2008 she used her married name, Kym Ryder.She first came into the public eye in 2001 after appearing as a contestant on ITV's talent show Popstars where she made the final line-up for the band Hear'Say along with four others....
, British singer and actress
June 14 - Alan Carr
Alan Carr

Alan Carr is a Britain stand-up comedy and presenter of radio presenter and television presenter, noted for his Camp demeanour....
, English comedian
June 13 - Lisa Riley
Lisa Riley

Lisa Riley is an England actress and television presenter best known for playing the role of Mandy Dingle in the popular television soap opera Emmerdale and succeeding Jeremy Beadle on You've Been Framed....
, British actress and presenter
June 15 - Dryden Mitchell, American rock musician (Alien Ant Farm
Alien Ant Farm

Alien Ant Farm is an United States rock band that formed in the southern California city of Riverside, California in 1995. Their name comes from an idea guitarist Terry Corso had about aliens and the earth--"I was daydreaming at my dull desk job with my feet up, and I thought to myself, 'Wouldn't it be cool if the human species were placed o...
)
June 15 - Gary Lightbody
Gary Lightbody

Gary Lightbody is an Irish musician and songwriter, best known as the frontman of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol....
, Northern Irish rock musician and songwriter (Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol

Snow Patrol are an Ireland alternative rock band which formed in Dundee, Scotland. They are based in Glasgow and are signed to Polydor Records....
)
June 20 - Juliano Haus Belletti, Brazilian footballer
June 21 - Antonio Cochran
Antonio Cochran

Antonia Desez Cochran is a retired United States American football player who played seven seasons in the National Football League.Cochran attended Macon County High School in Montezuma, Georgia, Georgia ....
, American football player
June 21 - Mike Einziger
Mike Einziger

Mike Einziger is the multi-instrumentalist, co-writer and guitarist of the alternative rock band Incubus , as well as his own side project band, Time Lapse Consortium....
, American rock musician (Incubus
Incubus (band)

Incubus is a Grammy-nominated alternative rock band based out of Calabasas, California, California. Formed by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while in high school in 1991, the band grew to include bassist Alex Katunich , and Gavin Koppell , both of whom were eventually replaced by bas...
)
June 23 - Brandon Stokley
Brandon Stokley

Brandon Stokley is an American football player in the National Football League who currently plays for the Denver Broncos....
, American football player
June 23 - Emmanuelle Vaugier
Emmanuelle Vaugier

Emmanuelle Vaugier is a Canada film and television actress. Her biggest roles to date have perhaps been as Dr. Helen Bryce on Smallville , as Mia on Two and a Half Men and as Jessica Angell on CSI: New York....
, Canadian actress
June 23 - Patrick Vieira
Patrick Vieira

Patrick Vieira is a Senegalese-born French-Cape Verdean Association football midfielder who currently plays for Italian Serie A club F.C. Internazionale Milano and the France national football team....
, French footballer
June 26 - Chad Pennington
Chad Pennington

James Chadwick "Chad" Pennington , known as Chad Pennington by his teammates, is an American football quarterback for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League....
, American football quarterback

July

July 1 - Justin Lo
Justin Lo

Justin Lo is a Hong Kong Chinese American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer....
, Hong Kong singer and actor
July 1 - Patrick Kluivert
Patrick Kluivert

Patrick Stephan Kluivert is aNetherlands ex-professional Association football pursuing his interest in coaching. He played as a striker for AFC Ajax, AC Milan, FC Barcelona, Newcastle United F.C., Valencia CF, PSV Eindhoven and Lille OSC....
, Dutch footballer
July 1 - Plies
Plies (rapper)

Algernod Lanier Washington , better known by his stage name Plies, is an American rapping....
, American rapper
July 1 - Ruud van Nistelrooy
Ruud van Nistelrooy

Rutgerus Johannes Martinus "Ruud" van Nistelrooij is a Netherlands association football who plays as a Forward for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid C.F.....
, Dutch footballer
July 1 - Lina Rafn
Lina Rafn

Lina Rafn is a Danish female singer, songwriter and producer and is currently active in the band Infernal . In addition to that she has formerly been a VJ on the Danish music video channel The Voice TV Danmark, presenting various charts....
, Danish singer
July 2 - Krisztián Lisztes
Krisztián Lisztes

Kriszti?n Lisztes is a Hungary professional footballer, who plays by F.C. Hansa Rostock....
, Hungarian footballer
July 3 - Shane Lynch
Shane Lynch

Shane Lynch is an Ireland pop star and boy band vocalist of Boyzone fame.In recent years, Lynch has taken up auto racing and participated in a reality television series....
, Irish singer (Boyzone
Boyzone

Boyzone are an Irish people boy band who had popular mainstream success during the 1990s. They were most successful in the Republic of Ireland, Australia, Asia and the United Kingdom and they also had differing levels of success in parts of Central Europe....
)
July 4 - Daijiro Kato
Daijiro Kato

Daijiro Kato Japanese language: ?? ???; Kato Daijiro; was a Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racing Motorcycle sport road racing and the 2001 List of Grand Prix motorcycle racing World Champions in the 250cc class....
, Japanese motorcycle racer
July 5 - Bizarre
Bizarre (rapper)

Rufus Johnson, better known as Bizarre , is an United States recording artist, best known for his work with Detroit hip-hop group, D12. More recently Rufus Johnson was featured on season 3 of VH1's Celebrity Fit Club ....
, African American rapper
July 5 - Mike DeWolf, American rock musician (Taproot
Taproot (band)

Taproot is a four-piece nu metal group from Ann Arbor, Michigan, that has toured with bands such as Korn, Deftones, Staind, P.O.D., Disturbed, Chevelle, and Linkin Park....
)
July 5 - Nuno Gomes
Nuno Gomes

Nuno Miguel Soares Pereira Ribeiro, born on 5 July 1976 in Amarante. He is a captain and striker who plays for the Portugal national football team and currently plays for S.L....
, Portuguese footballer
July 7 - Elijah Blue Allman
Elijah Blue Allman

Elijah Blue Allman, also known by his stage name P. Exeter Blue I, was born July 10, 1976. He is the son of Cher and Gregg Allman and half brother of Chastity Bono, Island Allman, Michael Allman, Layla Allman, and Devon Allman ....
, American musician, son of Cher
Cher

Cher is an American pop music singer-songwriter, actor, film director and recording industry. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame....
and Greg Allman
July 7 - Natasha Collins
Natasha Collins

Natasha Louise Collins was an England actress and model....
, British actress and television presenter (d. 2008)
July 8 - Ellen MacArthur
Ellen MacArthur

Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur, Order of the British Empire is an English sailor from Whatstandwell near Matlock, England in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight....
, English yachtswoman
July 9 - Shelton Benjamin
Shelton Benjamin

Shelton Benjamin is an United States Professional wrestling and former Amateur wrestling signed to World Wrestling Entertainment working on its WWE Friday Night SmackDown WWE Brand Extension, where he is the reigning WWE United States Championship....
, American professional wrestler
July 9 - Fred Savage
Fred Savage

Fredrick Aaron Savage is an United States actor and television director and film director, and Television producer.He is best known for his role as Kevin_Arnold#Major_characters in the hit television series The Wonder Years....
, American actor and director
July 10 - Ludovic Giuly
Ludovic Giuly

Ludovic Giuly is a France association footballer who plays as a Winger for Paris Saint Germain....
, French footballer
July 10 - Adrian Grenier
Adrian Grenier

Adrian Grenier is an United States actor, musician and Film director. He is best known for his lead role on the HBO original series, Entourage , as Vincent Chase....
, American actor, musician, and director
July 11 - Eduardo Nájera
Eduardo Nájera

Eduardo Alonso N?jera P?rez is a Mexican professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association, currently playing reserve forward for the New Jersey Nets....
, Mexican basketball player
July 16 - Anna Smashnova
Anna Smashnova

Anna Smashnova is a former professional tennis player from Israel. She retired from professional tennis after Wimbledon 2007.Smashnova, who has been noted as having a great last name for a tennis player, reached her career-high singles ranking of World # 15 in 2003....
, Israeli tennis player
July 16 - Bobby Lashley, American professional wrestler
July 17 - Marcos Senna
Marcos Senna

Marcos Antônio Senna da Silva is a Spain-Brazilian Association football player who plays as a midfielder for Villarreal CF and Spain. He is known for his passing range and long shooting ability and is also a penalty specialist....
, Brazilian footballer
July 20 - Andrew Stockdale
Andrew Stockdale

Andrew James Stockdale is an Australian musician best known as the singer and guitarist of Wolfmother. Stockdale was educated in Brisbane, Australia, at Ashgrove State School, Wimbeldon Middle School, The Gap State High School and Kelvin Grove State High School, and lived in Ashgrove, Queensland and Wimbeldon Village, London as a child....
, Australian rock singer/guitarist (Wolfmother
Wolfmother

Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band that formed in Erskineville, New South Wales, Sydney in 2000. Originally comprising vocalist and guitarist Andrew Stockdale, bassist and keyboardist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett, the band has released one studio album – Wolfmother – which reached number three on the Australi...
)
July 20 - Alex Yoong
Alex Yoong

Alexander Charles Loong Yoong...
, Malaysian race car driver
July 23 - Judit Polgar
Judit Polgár

Judit Polg?r is a Hungary chess Grandmaster . She is by far the strongest female chessplayer in history. In 1991, she achieved the title of International Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months....
, Hungarian chess player
July 23 - Jonathan Gallant
Jonathan Gallant

Jonathan Gallant is the bassist of the group Billy Talent. Of Metis descent, Jon grew up in Streetsville, Ontario, picking up bass guitar at age 12....
, Canadian rock bassist (Billy Talent
Billy Talent

Billy Talent is a Canada post-hardcore band formed in 1993 in Mississauga, Ontario. The band consists of Benjamin Kowalewicz , Ian D'Sa , Jonathan Gallant and Aaron Solowoniuk ....
)
July 25 - Timur Mucuraev
Timur Mucuraev

Timur Mucuraev is a popular Chechen people nasheed singer and Bard . Also spelled Mucurayev....
, Chechen bard
July 25 - Stéphane Rideau
Stéphane Rideau

St?phane Rideau is a France actor born near Agen. Although intending to pursue a career in sports, he was discovered in 1992 at a rugby football game and then auditioned for a role in the film Wild Reeds by Andr? T?chin?....
, French actor
July 31 - Annie Parisse
Annie Parisse

Anne Marie Cancelmi , known as Annie Parisse, is an United States television, film and theater actress, known for playing Alexandra Borgia on the television drama Law & Order, a role she played from 2005 until 2006 in 33 episodes as well as Julia Lindsey Snyder from the daytime soap opera As the World Turns....
, American actress

August

August 3 - Troy Glaus
Troy Glaus

Troy Edward Glaus is a Major League Baseball player who plays Third baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals. Previously, Glaus played with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim , Arizona Diamondbacks , and the Toronto Blue Jays ....
, American baseball player
August 6 - Soleil Moon Frye
Soleil Moon Frye

Soleil Moon Frye is an United States actor, Film director and screenwriter. Frye is best known for her childhood role as the title character in Punky Brewster, a television Situation comedy....
, American actress
August 6 - Melissa George
Melissa George

Melissa Suzanne George is an Australian Golden Globe-nominated Actor who has worked in Australia and the United States in film and television....
, Australian actress
August 8 - JC Chasez, American singer
August 8 - Drew Lachey
Drew Lachey

Andrew "Drew" John Lachey is an United States singer and actor, known as a member of 98 Degrees, the winner of the second season of Dancing with the Stars , and the younger brother of Nick Lachey....
, American singer
August 9 - Jessica Capshaw
Jessica Capshaw

Jessica Capshaw is an United States actress, perhaps best known for her role as attorney Jamie Stringer on the American Broadcasting Company legal drama The Practice....
, American actress
August 9 - Rhona Mitra
Rhona Mitra

Rhona Mitra is a United Kingdom actress and model, sometimes credited as Rona Mitra....
, English actress
August 11 - Ben Gibbard
Ben Gibbard

Benjamin Gibbard is an United States musician who has formed several Indie bands. He is most notable as the lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service, although also known for his project ?All-Time Quarterback!....
, American rock musician (Death Cab for Cutie
Death Cab for Cutie

Death Cab for Cutie is a Grammy nominated American indie rock band formed in Bellingham, Washington, Washington in 1997. The band consists of Benjamin Gibbard , Chris Walla , Nicholas Harmer and Jason McGerr ....
, Postal Service
Postal service

Postal service may refer to:*Postal administration, a country's organization providing postal services and postal policies*Mail, anything sent through postal services...
)
August 11 - Brendan Bayliss
Brendan Bayliss

Brendan Bayliss is an American musician, the founder, a lead guitarist alongside fellow guitarist and band member Jake Cinninger, and main singer for progressive rock band Umphrey's McGee....
, American rock guitarist and vocalist
August 12 - Mikko Lindström, Finnish rock guitarist
August 12 - Antoine Walker
Antoine Walker

Antoine Devon Walker is an American professional basketball player....
, American basketball player
August 12 - Wednesday 13
Wednesday 13

Joseph Poole, better known as Wednesday 13 , is a rock musician from Charlotte, North Carolina. He is most famous for his role as the frontman of the Murderdolls....
(Joseph Poole), American rock lead (Murderdolls
Murderdolls

The Murderdolls are an United States horror punk band founded during 2002 in Hollywood, CA, California. The band line-up consists of Wednesday 13, Joey Jordison, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Ben Graves, though the group are currently on a hiatus....
, FDQ)
August 13 - Roddy Woomble
Roddy Woomble

Roddy Woomble is the lead singer of Scotland rock band, Idlewild and a solo contemporary folk musician. To date, Woomble has released five full-length studio albums with Idlewild, and one critically acclaimied solo album, My Secret is My Silence....
, Scottish musician
August 14 - Alex Albrecht
Alex Albrecht

'Alexander Jennings Albrecht' is an United States television personality, actor and podcaster who resides in Hollywood, California. He is best known for co-hosting the former TechTV television program The Screen Savers, an hour-long computer and technology variety show, as well as the weekly podcast Diggnation and The Totally Rad Sho...
, American television personality
August 14 - Maya Nasri, Lebanese actress and singer
August 15 - Boudewijn Zenden
Boudewijn Zenden

Boudewijn "Bolo" Zenden ) is a Netherlands Association football midfielder. Zenden is currently plays for Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille....
, Dutch football player
August 18 - Alex Katunich
Alex Katunich

Alex Katunich is the former bassist of Incubus .Since high school, Alex went by the stage name of Dirk Lance which was apparently taken from the credits of an anonymous '70s porn flick....
, American rock bassist
August 18 - Bryan Volpenhein
Bryan Volpenhein

Bryan Volpenhein is an American Rowing . He is a three-time Olympic Games, having participated in the 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics....
, American rower
August 18 - Lee Seung-Yeop, South Korean baseball player
August 19 - Michael M. Wartella, American underground cartoonist
August 24 - Yang Yang, Chinese short track skater
August 25 - Jensen Atwood
Jensen Atwood

Jensen Atwood is an United States actor who was raised and currently resides in South Los Angeles, Los Angeles. He has two younger sisters and two older brothers....
, American actor
August 27 - Carlos Moyà
Carlos Moyá

Carlos Moy? Llompart , also known as Carles Moy?, Carlos Moy? and Carlos Moya, is a former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Spain....
, Spanish tennis player
August 27 - Mark Webber
Mark Webber

Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver. He is the first Australian to race in Formula One since David Brabham in 1994.After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career....
, Australian race car driver
August 27 - Sarah Chalke
Sarah Chalke

Sarah Cassandra Chalke is a Canada actress, best known for portraying Elliot Reid on the American Broadcasting Company comedy Scrubs , the second and fourth Characters in the Roseanne television series#Rebecca "Becky" Conner Healy on Roseanne , and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother....
, Canadian actress

September

September 1 - Ivano Brugnetti
Ivano Brugnetti

Ivano Brugnetti is an Italy race walking.AchievementsReferences...
, Italian race walker
September 3 - Jevon Kearse
Jevon Kearse

Jevon Kearse , nicknamed "The Freak," is an American football defensive end for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. He was originally NFL Draft by the Titans 16th overall in the 1999 NFL Draft out of the Florida Gators football....
, American football player
September 4 - Brian Myrow
Brian Myrow

Brian Shawn Myrow is a Major League Baseball first baseman for the Chicago White Sox organization. He is an alumnus of Louisiana Tech University....
, American baseball player
September 5 - Carice van Houten
Carice van Houten

Carice Anouk van Houten is a Netherlands theatre and film actor. She won three Golden Calf for her roles in Suzy Q , Undercover Kitty , and Black Book ....
, Dutch actress
September 6 - Naomie Harris
Naomie Harris

Naomie Melanie Harris is an English screen actress known for her starring role as Selena in 28 Days Later and her supporting turn as Tia Dalma in the second and third Pirates of the Caribbean films movies....
, British actress
September 7 - Stevie Case
Stevie Case

Stevana "Stevie" Case is a recognized figure from the video game industry. She is noted for being one of the first well-known female gamers. Case has filled several roles in the industry, from the first female professional gamer at the Cyberathlete Professional League to level designer to Vice President of Development....
, American video game celebrity
September 8 - Sjeng Schalken
Sjeng Schalken

Sjeng Schalken is a former professional tennis player from the Netherlands....
, Dutch tennis player
September 10 - Gustavo Kuerten
Gustavo Kuerten

Gustavo Kuerten is a retired former List of ATP number 1 ranked players tennis player from Brazil. He won the French Open three times between 1997 and 2001, and was the Tennis Masters Cup champion in 2000....
, Brazilian tennis player
September 12 - Maciej Zurawski
Maciej Zurawski

Maciej Zurawski is a striker who currently plays for AEL Larissa. His favoured position is second striker. Zurawski has appeared 70 times and scored 17 goals for Poland national football team....
, Polish footballer
September 12 - Bizzy Bone
Bizzy Bone

Bryon Anthony McCane II, better known by his stage name Bizzy Bone, is a United States rapper and is a member of the Cleveland rap group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony....
, American rapper, member of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is an United States hip hop group from the Glenville, Cleveland section of Cleveland, Ohio. They are best known for their fast-paced, aggressive rapping style and harmonizing vocals....
September 16 - Tina Barrett
Tina Barrett

Tina Ann Barrett is a London based singer-songwriter. Her major breakthrough came in 1999, at the age of 23, when she became a member of S Club 7 where she enjoyed four years of hit record single , arena tours and awards, including two Brit Awards....
, English rock singer (S Club 7
S Club 7

S Club, formerly known as S Club 7, was a pop band created by former Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller, comprising lead singer Jo O'Meara, Tina Barrett, Paul Cattermole, Jon Lee , Bradley McIntosh, Hannah Spearritt, and Rachel Stevens....
)
September 19 - Isha Koppikar, Indian actress
September 20 - Yui Horie
Yui Horie

is a popular Japanese people singer and Seiyu. Horie's real name is , and she is sometimes affectionately nicknamed by her Japanese language fans. She is not to be confused with Yui , another J-Pop singer....
, Japanese seiyu
Seiyu

A is a Japanese voice actor. Seiyu work in radio, television, and Film; they perform voice-overs for non-Japanese movies; they provide narration; and they work as anime and video games character actors....
(voice actress)
September 22 - Ronaldo, Brazilian footballer
September 24 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American wrestling promoter
September 25 - Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Billups

Chauncey Ray Billups is an United States professional basketball player. Billups is the starting point guard for the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association....
, American basketball player
September 26 - Michael Ballack
Michael Ballack

Michael Ballack is a Germany association football. A midfielder, he is the current captain of the Germany national football team, and plays club football for Chelsea F.C....
, German footballer
September 27 - Francesco Totti
Francesco Totti

Francesco Totti, Italian orders of merit , is an Italians FIFA World Cup-winning Association football who plays for Italian Serie A club A.S. Roma....
, Italian footballer
September 28 - Fedor Emelianenko
Fedor Emelianenko

Fedor Vladimirovich Emelianenko is a Russian Heavyweight mixed martial arts fighter. He is the current World Alliance of Mixed Martial Arts Heavyweight Champion and the last holder of the List of Pride champions#World Heavyweight Championship....
, Russian mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts

Mixed martial arts is a Contact sport combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques, from a mixture of martial arts traditions and non-traditions, to be used in competitions....
fighter
September 29 - Andriy Shevchenko
Andriy Shevchenko

Andriy Mykolayovych Shevchenko is a Ukraine Association football striker who plays for A.C. Milan and the Ukraine national football team. He is the fourth-highest scorer in the history of European club competition with 61 goals, behind Filippo Inzaghi, Ra?l Gonz?lez and Gerd M?ller....
, Ukrainian footballer

October

October 1 - Blu Cantrell
Blu Cantrell

Blu Cantrell is an American contemporary R&B and soul music singer-songwriter....
, American singer
October 1 - Dora Venter
Dora Venter

Dora Venter is the pseudonym of the Hungarian people pornographic film actress Melinda G?l.She was born October 1, 1976 in a village in northern Hungary....
, Hungarian pornographic actress
October 4 - Alicia Silverstone
Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone is an United States film and theater actor and former model . She first came to widespread attention in music videos for Aerosmith, and is best known for her roles in Hollywood films such as Clueless and her portrayal of Batgirl#Adaptations in other media in Batman & Robin ....
, American actress
October 6 - Barbie Hsu
Barbie Hsu

Barbie Hsu is a Taiwanese actress and singer. She is most well known for her role in Taiwanese dramas, especially Meteor Garden, a Japanese manga adaptation that propelled her to fame....
, Taiwanese actress and singer
October 7 - Taylor Hicks
Taylor Hicks

Taylor Reuben Hicks is an American singer who achieved fame in 2006 as a contestant on the American Idol of American Idol, which he won later that year....
, American singer
October 7 - Gilberto Silva
Gilberto Silva

Gilberto Aparecido da Silva , commonly known as Gilberto Silva , is a Brazilian football . He currently plays for the Greece club Panathinaikos F.C., as a Midfielder#Defensive midfielder....
, Brazilian football player
October 7 - Rachel McAdams
Rachel McAdams

Rachel Anne McAdams is a Canadian actress.Her films include Mean Girls and The Notebook both , as well as Wedding Crashers and Red Eye both ....
, Canadian actress
October 10 - Bob Burnquist
Bob Burnquist

Robert Dean Silva Burnquist , better known as Bob Burnquist, is a professional skateboarding. He was born to a Sweden father and a Brazil mother....
, Brazilian skateboarder
October 15 - Yoon Son-ha
Yoon Son-ha

Yoon Son-ha is a Korean actress, singer and television personality . She is signed onto Sony Music Japan's SME Records division. Since making her debut in the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation dramas, she has acted in Korea and Japan, probably due to her fluency in Japanese language as well as in her native Korean language, where she has gaine...
, South Korean actress
October 18 - Azlea Antistia
Azlea Antistia

Azlea Antistia was an United States porn star. She was born in Southern California and raised in New York. Before her pornographic career she worked as a model for Guess?....
, American pornographic actress
October 19 - Dan Smith
Dan Smith (hockey player)

Dan Smith is a professional ice hockey Defenceman , currently playing for Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League.Playing career ...
, Canadian ice-hockey player
October 19 - Michael Young
Michael Young (baseball player)

Michael Brian Young is a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Texas Rangers .Young was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 25th round of the1994 Major League Baseball Draft but did not sign....
, American baseball player
October 19 - Ryuji Imada
Ryuji Imada

Ryuji Imada is a U.S.-based Japanese professional golfer.Imada was born in Mihara, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He came to the USA when he was 14 to attend a Tampa golf academy for Asian players....
, Japanese golfer
October 21 - Jeremy Miller
Jeremy Miller

Jeremy James Miller is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Ben Seaver on Growing Pains and its two reunion movies. He also voiced Linus van Pelt in Happy New Year, Charlie Brown along with Chad Allen ....
, American actor
October 22 - Jon Foreman
Jon Foreman

Jonathan Mark Foreman is the Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and co-founder of the alternative rock band Switchfoot. He started Switchfoot in 1996 with drummer Chad Butler and bass guitar Tim Foreman....
, American rock singer/guitarist (Switchfoot
Switchfoot

Switchfoot is an American alternative rock band from San Diego, California, California. The band's members are Jon Foreman , Tim Foreman , Chad Butler , Jerome Fontamillas , and Drew Shirley ....
)
October 23 - Cat Deeley
Cat Deeley

Catherine Elizabeth "Cat" Deeley is an English disc jockey, television presenter and former fashion model, who at 21 co-hosted the children's series SMTV Live, alongside Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly....
, British TV presenter
October 23 - Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds

Ryan Rodney Reynolds is a Canada television and film actor noted for his role in the television sitcom Two Guys and a Girl and for the 2002 comedy film National Lampoon's Van Wilder....
, Canadian actor
October 25 - Kristin Rossum
Kristin Rossum

Kristin Margrethe Rossum , is currently serving a life sentence in California for poisoning her husband Greg deVillers with fentanyl she stole from her job and attempting to pass off his death as a suicide....
, American murderer
October 25 - Steve Jones, Northern Irish footballer
October 26 - Miikka Kiprusoff
Miikka Kiprusoff

Miikka Sakari Kiprusoff is a Finland professional ice hockey goaltender playing for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League . He captured the 2006 Vezina Trophy as the NHL's best goaltender, and is widely considered among the league's elite at the position....
, Finnish hockey player
October 26 - Jeremy Wotherspoon
Jeremy Wotherspoon

Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canada Speed skating.Wotherspoon was born in Humboldt, Saskatchewan but grew up in Red Deer, Alberta. He first became involved in speedskating after signing up for a power skating class in an effort to improve his ice hockey skills....
, Canadian speed skater
October 29 - Stephen Craigan
Stephen Craigan

Stephen James Craigan is a Northern Irish people professional football currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Motherwell F.C..A boyhood Glentoran F.C....
, Northern Irish footballer
October 29 - Mohsen Emadi
Mohsen Emadi

Biography Mohsen Emadi, born in Sari, Iran, north of Iran , began writing poetry during his childhood. Early and rebel, he had been published in numerous magazines, but didn't want to collect his poems in a book, until Clara Janes published his first collection of poetry, La flor de los renglones, in Spain....
, Iranian poet

November

November 5 - Sean Brown
Sean Brown

Sean Brown is a Canada professional ice hockey Defenceman who currently plays for EC KAC in the Austrian Hockey League....
, Canadian ice-hockey player
November 6 - Pat Tillman
Pat Tillman

Patrick Daniel Tillman was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002....
, American football player (d. 2004)
November 6 - Catherine Clark
Catherine Clark

Catherine Jane Clark is a Canada television broadcaster, and the daughter of former Prime Minister of Canada Joe Clark and Maureen McTeer.Born the same year Joe Clark first became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Catherine Clark attended Neuch?tel Junior College in Neuch?tel, Switzerland prior to pursuing studies in...
, Canadian journalist, daughter of former Canadian Prime Minister Joe Clark
Joe Clark

Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Alberta Order of Excellence is a Canadian journalist, politician, statesman, businessman, and university professor....
November 6 - Wiley Wiggins
Wiley Wiggins

Wiley Ramsey Wiggins is an American film actor and blogger. He is the nephew of Lanny Wiggins, who was a member of Janis Joplin's early band, The Waller Creek Boys....
, American actor
November 7 - Mark Philippoussis
Mark Philippoussis

Mark Anthony Philippoussis is an Australian tennis player. He turned professional in 1994. His father is Greek, whilst his mother is of Italian ancestry ....
, Australian tennis player
November 8 - Brett Lee
Brett Lee

Brett Lee is an Australian cricketer.After breaking into the Australian Test team, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket....
, Australian cricket player
November 11 - Mike Leon Grosch
Mike Leon Grosch

Mike Leon Grosch is a Germany singer, who came to fame as the runner-up of the third season of the television show Deutschland sucht den SuperStar, the German version of Pop Idol....
, German singer
November 12 - Miroslaw Szymkowiak
Miroslaw Szymkowiak

Miroslaw Szymkowiak is a retired Poland footballer, who played last for Turkey club Trabzonspor. Szymkowiak is also a former member of the Poland national football team....
, Polish footballer
November 18 - Shagrath
Shagrath

Shagrath is a Norway musician, most well-known as the vocalist of Dimmu Borgir....
, Norwegian black metal musician (Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian symphonic black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. "Dimmu Borgir" means "Dark Cities" or "Dark Fortresses" in Icelandic language and Old Norse....
)
November 19 - Jun Shibata
Jun Shibata

is a J-Pop female singer-songwriter. Her nickname is "Shibajun"....
, Japanese singer and songwriter
November 20 - Laura Harris
Laura Harris

Laura Elizabeth Harris is a Canada actress....
, Canadian actress
November 20 - Dominique Dawes
Dominique Dawes

Dominique Margaux Dawes is a retired United States artistic gymnastics. She was 10-year member of the U.S. national gymnastics team, the 1994 U.S....
, American Olympic gymnast
November 22 - Torsten Frings
Torsten Frings

Torsten Frings is a Germany association football midfielder who plays for SV Werder Bremen in the Fu?ball-Bundesliga....
, German footballer
November 22 - Ville Valo
Ville Valo

Ville Hermanni Valo , is a Finland singer, songwriter, and frontman of the Finland Rock music band HIM . Valo was also the drummer for the Daniel Lioneye project....
, Finnish rock singer (HIM)
November 24 - Chen Lu, Chinese figure skater
November 24 - Christian Laflamme
Christian Laflamme

Christian Laflamme is a former professional ice hockey Defenceman . Laflamme was selected in the second round of the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, 45th overall, by the Chicago Blackhawks, after a successful junior career in the QMJHL....
, Canadian ice-hockey player
November 27 - Jaleel White
Jaleel White

Jaleel Ahmad White is an United States actor. He is best known for his role as Steve Urkel/Stefan Urquelle on the television program Family Matters from 1989 to 1998, and Sonic the Hedgehog on Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog , Sonic Underground, and Sonic the Hedgehog media....
, American actor
November 29 - Anna Faris
Anna Faris

Anna Kay Faris is an United Statesn actress and singer known for her broadly comedy roles....
, American actress
November 29 - Ehren McGhehey
Ehren McGhehey

Ehren McGhehey is an United States stunt performer and actor. He is best known as a star of the MTV series Jackass and its subsequent films....
, American actor

December

December 1 - Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard

Matthew Wayne Shepard was a student at the University of Wyoming who was tortured and subsequently murdered near Laramie, Wyoming. He was attacked on the night of October 6?October 7, 1998 and died at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, Colorado, on October 12, from severe head injuries....
, American murder victim (d. 1998)
December 4 - Amie Comeaux
Amie Comeaux

Amie Noelle Comeaux was an American country music singer who gained fame as a teen-ager. Her debut album, Moving Out, was released on Polydor Records in 1994, and it produced the single "Who's He to You", a #64 on the Billboard country charts....
, American country music singer (d. 1997)
December 7 - Georges Laraque
Georges Laraque

Georges Laraque is a professional ice hockey forward, and a radio host for CFRN. He and teammate Francis Bouillon are among the very few NHL players of Haitian descent....
, Canadian ice-hockey player
December 8 - Dominic Monaghan
Dominic Monaghan

Dominic Berhnard Patrick Luke Monaghan is an England actor. He has received international attention from playing Meriadoc Brandybuck in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy of J....
, English actor
December 12 - Dan Hawkins
Dan Hawkins (musician)

Daniel Francis Hawkins is an English people rock guitarist, noted for his strong revival of 70s classic rock and 80s metal.He is best known for his time as guitarist and backing singer of the United Kingdom band , The Darkness, fronted by his brother Justin Hawkins, which achieved notable mainstream success between 2002 and 2006....
, British rock guitarist (The Darkness
The Darkness

The Darkness were a multi-BRIT Awards-winning United Kingdom hard rock/glam rock band. Their highly retro style of music was influenced by rock music bands like Queen , Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, M?tley Cr?e, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Sparks , Van Halen, T....
)
December 13 - Tom Delonge
Tom DeLonge

Thomas Matthew "Tom" DeLonge, Jr. is an United States musician and the guitarist/vocalist for the punk rock band Blink-182 as well as the alternative rock band Angels & Airwaves....
, American rock musician (Blink-182
Blink-182

Blink-182 is an United States Rock music trio formed in 1992 in Poway, California that predominantly plays pop punk music. The band, then known simply as "Blink", was originally composed of Tom DeLonge , Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor ....
)
December 13 - Radoslaw Sobolewski
Radoslaw Sobolewski

Radoslaw Sobolewski is a Poland football who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for Wisla Krak?w and the Poland national football team....
, Polish footballer
December 14 - Leland Chapman
Leland Chapman

Leland Blaine Chapman was born 14th December , 1976 in Pampa, Texas and is a Hawaii-based bail bondsman and bounty hunter. Leland Chapman is well known for appearing on the television show Dog the Bounty Hunter with his father, Duane Chapman....
, American bail bondsman
December 15 - Baichung Bhutia
Baichung Bhutia

Baichung Bhutia is an Indian football player. He is considered to be the torchbearer of Indian football in the international arena. He is currently the Captain of Indian national football team and plays for Mohun Bagan Athletic Club....
, Indian footballer
December 17 - Takeo Spikes
Takeo Spikes

Takeo Gerard Spikes is an American football linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals 13th overall in the 1998 NFL Draft....
, American football player
December 23 - Jamie Noble
Jamie Noble

James Gibson better known by his ring name Jamie Noble, is an United States professional wrestling. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment, wrestling on its WWE Raw WWE Brand Extension....
, American professional wrestler
December 25 - Tuomas Holopainen
Tuomas Holopainen

Tuomas Holopainen is a Finland composer, musician, poet and music producer. Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical music styles....
, Finnish metal keyboardist (Nightwish
Nightwish

Nightwish is a Finns symphonic metal power metal band, formed in 1996 in Kitee, Finland. The band has sold more than 4 million CDs, DVDs and online material internationally....
)
December 25 - Armin van Buuren
Armin van Buuren

Armin van Buuren is a trance producer and DJ. He was born in Leiden, but grew up in Koudekerk aan den Rijn. In 2007 and 2008, he was voted number one DJ in DJ Mag's annual Top 100 vote....
, Dutch music producer and DJ
December 27 - Fernando Pisani
Fernando Pisani

Fernando Pisani is a Canada professional ice hockey Winger with the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League, where he has spent his entire career....
, Canadian ice-hockey player

Deaths

January–March

January 8 - Zhou Enlai
Zhou Enlai

Zhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976. Zhou was instrumental in the Communist Party of China rise to power, and subsequently in the construction of the Economy of the People's Republic of China and restructuring of Chinese society....
, Premier of the People's Republic of China
Premier of the People's Republic of China

The Premier of the State Council , sometimes referred to as the "Prime Minister", is the Chairman of the State Council of the People's Republic of China , who is the head of government....
(b. 1898)
January 10 - Howlin' Wolf, African-American musician (b. 1910)
January 12 - Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie

Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire , commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English people crime writer of novels, short stories and Play ....
, English writer (Murder On The Orient Express) (b. 1890)
January 19 - Hidetsugu Yagi
Hidetsugu Yagi

Hidetsugu Yagi was a Japanese electrical engineer. When working at Tohoku University, he wrote several important articles that introduced a new antenna design by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world....
, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
January 23 - Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson

Paul LeRoy Bustill Robeson was an American actor of film and stage, All-American and professional sportsperson, writer, multi-lingual orator, lawyer, and basso profondo concert singer who was also noted for his wide-ranging social justice activism....
, African-American actor, singer, writer, and activist (Ol' Man River) (b. 1898)
January 26 - João Branco Núncio
João Branco Núncio

Jo?o Branco N?ncio was a Portugal bullfighter born in Alc?cer do Sal , Alc?cer do Sal, in a whitewashed house next to his uncle's Viscount of Alc?cer do Sal....
, Portuguese bullfighter (b. 1901)
January 29 - James Edmonson, American vaudevillian and comedian (Professor Backwards
Professor Backwards

James Edmondson, Sr., also known as Professor Backwards, was a vaudeville/comedian who appeared on TV from the 1950s to the early 1970s, most notably on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show, and The Mike Douglas Show....
) (b. 1910)
January 30 - Mance Lipscomb
Mance Lipscomb

Mance Lipscomb was an influential blues singer, guitarist and songster. Born Beau De Glen Lipscomb near Navasota, Texas, Texas, he as a youth took the name of 'Mance' from a friend of his oldest brother Charlie ....
, American singer (b. 1895)
January 31 - Ernesto Miranda
Ernesto Miranda

Ernesto Arturo Miranda was a laborer whose conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed robbery charges based on his confession under police interrogation resulted in the landmark Supreme Court of the United States case , which ruled that criminal suspects must be informed of their right against self-incrimination and their right to consult wit...
, American defendant in the court case Miranda v. Arizona
Miranda v. Arizona

Miranda v. Arizona , , was a Landmark decision 5-4 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States which was argued February 28?March 1, 1966 and decided June 13, 1966....
(b. 1941)
February 1 - Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg

Werner Heisenberg was a German Theoretical physics who made foundational contributions to quantum mechanics and is best known for asserting the uncertainty principle of quantum theory....
, German physicist, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
laureate (b. 1901)
February 1 - George Whipple
George Whipple

George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia."...
, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
(b. 1878)
February 2 - Zlatyu Boyadzhiev
Zlatyu Boyadzhiev

Zlatio Georgiev Boiadjiev was a Bulgarian Painting. He is known for his portraits and Landscape arts, depicting mainly the village of Plovdiv and village life in its vicinity....
, Bulgarian painter (b. 1903)
February 7 - Eliyahu Kitov
Eliyahu Kitov

Rabbi Avraham Eliyahu Mokotow , better known as Eliyahu Kitov, was a Rabbi, educator, and community activist. He was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1912 as Abraham Eliyahu Mokotow....
, Jewish political activist (b. 1912)
February 6 - Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi

Vincent Anthony "Vince" Guaraldi was an United States jazz musician and pianist best known for composing music for animated adaptations of the Peanuts comic strip....
, American musician (Linus and Lucy) (b. 1928)
February 9 - Percy Faith
Percy Faith

Percy Faith was a Canadian-born band-leader, orchestrator and composer, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas music standards. He is often credited with creating the "easy listening" or "mood music" format which became staples of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s....
, Canadian-born musician and composer (b. 1908)
February 11 - Lee J. Cobb
Lee J. Cobb

Lee J. Cobb was an United States actor....
, American actor (Death Of A Salesman) (b. 1911)
February 11 - Alexander Lippisch
Alexander Lippisch

Alexander Martin Lippisch was a Germany pioneer of aerodynamics. He made important contributions to the understanding of flying wings, delta wings and the ground effect....
, German aerodynamicist (b. 1894)
February 11 - Charlie Naughton
Charlie Naughton

Charles John 'Charlie' Naughton was a Scotland comedian.Naughton was a member of The Crazy Gang, and part of a double act with fellow Glaswegian Jimmy Gold....
, Scottish actor (b. 1886)
February 12 - Sal Mineo
Sal Mineo

Salvatore Mineo, Jr. , better known as Sal Mineo, was a Golden Globe-winning United States film and theatre actor, best known for his Academy Awards-nominated performance opposite James Dean in the film Rebel Without a Cause....
, American actor (Exodus) (b. 1939)
February 13 - Lily Pons
Lily Pons

Lily Pons was a France-United States coloratura soprano....
, American soprano (b. 1898)
February 20 - René Cassin
René Cassin

Ren? Samuel Cassin was a France lawyer, Universit? Lille Nord de France and judge. A France soldier in World War I, he later went on to form the Union F?d?rale, a leftist, pacifist Veterans organisation....
, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
(b. 1887)
February 20 - Kathryn Kuhlman
Kathryn Kuhlman

Kathryn Johanna Kuhlman was an American faith healer and Pentecostal evangelist. She was born in Concordia, Missouri to Ethnic German parents and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma, following open-heart surgery....
, American evangelist and faith healer (b. 1907)
February 22 - Florence Ballard
Florence Ballard

Florence Glenda Ballard Chapman, nicknamed "Flo" or "Blondie" , was an United States singer, and one of the co-founders of the Hall of Fame Motown group The Supremes....
, American singer (The Supremes
The Supremes

The Supremes, an American girl group, were one of the signature acts on Motown Records during the 1960s. Originally founded as The Primettes in Detroit, Michigan, Michigan in 1959, The Supremes' repertoire included doo-wop, pop music, soul music, Broadway theatre show tunes, psychedelic soul and disco....
) (b. 1943)
March 4 - Walter H. Schottky
Walter H. Schottky

Walter Hermann Schottky was a Germany physicist who invented the screen-grid vacuum tube in 1915 and the tetrode in 1919 while working at Siemens AG....
, German physicist (b. 1886)
March 6 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
March 7 - Wright Patman
Wright Patman

John William Wright Patman was a U.S. Congressman from Texas in Texas's 1st congressional district and chair of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency....
, American politician (b. 1893)
March 14 - Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley

Busby Berkeley , born William Berkeley Enos in Los Angeles, California, was a highly influential Hollywood movie director and musical film choreographer....
, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
March 17 - Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti

Luchino House of Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo was an Italian theatre director and film director and writer, best known for films such as The Leopard and Death in Venice ....
, Italian theatre and film director (b. 1906)
March 19 - Paul Kossoff
Paul Kossoff

Paul Francis Kossoff was a rock music guitarist best known as a member of the band Free ....
, British rock guitarist (Free
Free (band)

Free were an England rock band, formed in London in 1968 and best known for their popular song "All Right Now".Lead singer Paul Rodgers went on to become lead singer of the rock band Bad Company along with Simon Kirke on drums....
) (b. 1950)
March 24 - Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1897)
March 31 - Paul Strand
Paul Strand

Paul Strand was an American photographer and filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century....
, American photographer (b. 1890)

April–June

April 1 - Max Ernst

Max Ernst

Harry Nyquist

Harry Nyquist , was an important contributor to information theory....
, American information theory

Information theory

Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Historically, information theory was developed by Claude E....
pioneer (b. 1889) April 5 - Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world....
, American billionaire, aviation pioneer, film director, and eccentric (b. 1905) April 9 - Dagmar Nordstrom

Dagmar Nordstrom

Dagmar Nordstrom was a composer, pianist, singer, known with her sister Siggie Nordstrom as Nordstrom Sisters.Born in Chicago, Illinois the second daughter of Anna and Alexander Nordstrom....
, American composer, pianist (Nordstrom Sisters
Nordstrom Sisters

The Nordstrom Sisters were an United States sister act from 1931 to 1976. Originally from Chicago, they were billed as society performers. These international cabaret singers were often styled as "The Misses Nordstrom" or introduced as "those Park Avenue darlings, the Nordstrom Sisters"....
) (b. 1903) April 9 - Phil Ochs

Phil Ochs

Philip David Ochs was a United States protest song and songwriter who was known for his sharp wit, sardonic humor, earnest humanism, political activism, insightful and alliterative lyrics, and haunting voice....
, American folk singer and political activist (Outside of a Small Circle of Friends) (b. 1940) April 18 - Henrik Dam

Henrik Dam

Henrik Dam was a Denmark biochemistry and physiology.He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1943 for his work in discovering vitamin K and its role in human physiology....
, Dutch biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded once a year by the Swedish Karolinska Institutet. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Physiology or Medic...
(b. 1895) April 26 - Sid James

Sid James

Sid James was a South African actor and comedian, who made his name in a series of England sitcoms before starring in the popular Carry On films....
, South African actor (b. 1913) May 1 - T.R.M. Howard, African-American civil rights leader and surgeon (b. 1908) May 9 - Jens Bjørneboe

Jens Bjørneboe

Jens Ingvald Bj?rneboe was a Norway writer whose work spanned a number of literary formats. He was also a painter and a school teacher. Bj?rneboe was a harsh and eloquent critic of Norwegian society and Western culture on the whole....
, Norwegian author (b. 1920) May 9 - Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Meinhof

Ulrike Marie Meinhof was a Germany left-wing militant. She cofounded the Red Army Faction in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left-wing magazine konkret....
, German terrorist (b. 1934) May 11 - Alvar Aalto

Alvar Aalto

Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finland architect and designer, sometimes called the "Father of Modernism" in the Scandinavian countries. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware....
, Finnish architect (b. 1898) May 14 - Keith Relf

Keith Relf

Keith Relf, born Keith William Relf , is most widely known as the lead singer and harmonica player of The Yardbirds. After the Yardbirds broke up Relf formed the acoustic duo Together with fellow Yardbird Jim McCarty, followed by Renaissance which also featured his sister, singer Jane Relf, then hard rock group Armageddon ....
, British rock musician (The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds

The Yardbirds are an England Rock music band, noted for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists: Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page....
) (b. 1943) May 20 - Zelmar Michelini

Zelmar Michelini

Zelmar Michelini was a Uruguayan reporter and politician, murdered in Buenos Aires in 1976 in the frame of Operation Condor.Zelmar Michelini was member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1954 to 1958, and then of the Chamber of Senators starting in 1966....
, Uruguayan politician, member of the Christian-Democrat party (disappeared) (b. 1924) May 20 - Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz

Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz

H?ctor Guti?rrez Ruiz was a Uruguayan political figure, who died by assassination in the framework of Operation Condor....
, Uruguayan politicican (assassinated) (b. 1934) May 26 - Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger was an influential Germany Philosophy. His best known book, Being and Time, is generally considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century....
, German philosopher (b. 1889) May 26 - Juan Maino

Juan Maino

Juan Bosco Maino Canales was a photographer, political activist, and opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile. He was a leader in MAPU . He was detained on May 26 1976 by DINA agents and disappeared....
, Chilean leader of MAPU

Mapu

Mapu is:*MAPU , a leftist political party in Chile,*the name of Abraham Mapu, a Hebrew novelist,*the Chinese language name for the "Horse Stance" position in martial arts....
, "disappeared

Forced disappearance

A forced disappearance occurs when force is used to cause a person to vanish from public view, followed by a refusal to acknowledge the deprivation of liberty , thereby placing the victim outside the protection of law....
" May 27 - Hilde Hildebrand

Hilde Hildebrand

File:HildeHildebrand-Heerstrasse.jpgHilde Hildebrand was a German people Actor who was born in Hanover, Germany on September 10, 1897. She died at the age of 78 in Grunewald, Berlin, on April 28, 1976....
, German actress (b. 1897) May 28 - Steffan Danielsen

Steffan Danielsen

Johan Steffan Danielsen was a Faroese painter....
, Faroese painter (b. 1922) May 31 - Jacques Monod

Jacques Monod

See also Jacques-Louis Monod, French-born composer and cousin of Jacques Monod.Jacques Lucien Monod was a French biology who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965....
, French biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Juan José Torres

Juan Jos? Torres Gonz?lez was a Bolivian socialism politician and military leader. He served as President of Bolivia from October 7, 1970 to August 21, 1971....
, former President of Bolivia

President of Bolivia

The President of Bolivia is the head of state of Bolivia. According to the current constitution, the president is elected by popular vote for a single non-renewable five year term....
(assassinated in the frame of Operation Condor

Operation Condor

Operation Condor , was a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and Intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing politics dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America....
) (b. 1920) June 2 - Don Bolles

Don Bolles

Don Bolles was an United States investigative reporter whose murder in a bombing is linked to the Mafia....
, American newspaper reporter (assassinated) (b. 1928) June 10 - Adolph Zukor

Adolph Zukor

Adolf Zukor, born Adolph Cukor, was a film Media proprietor and founder of Paramount Pictures.He was born to a Jewish family in Ricse, Hungary, which was then a part of the Austria-Hungary empire....
, Hungarian-born film producer (b. 1873) June 11 - Toots Mondt

Toots Mondt

Joseph Raymond "Toots" Mondt was a former wrestling promoter who revolutionized the wrestling industry in the early to mid 1920s and co-promoted the World Wrestling Entertainment....
, American WWF promoter (b. 1886) June 14 - Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (b. 1900) June 15 - Jimmy Dykes

Jimmy Dykes

James Joseph Dykes was an United States third baseman and second baseman, manager and coach in Major League Baseball who played for the Oakland Athletics and Chicago White Sox from 1918 to 1939....
, American baseball player and manager (b. 1896) June 25 - Johnny Mercer

Johnny Mercer

John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer was an American songwriter and singer. As a songwriter, he is best known as a lyricist, but he also composed music....
, American songwriter (Moon River) (b. 1909) June 30 - Firpo Marberry

Firpo Marberry

Frederick "Firpo" Marberry was an United States right-handed starting pitcher and relief pitcher in Major League Baseball from to , most notably with the Minnesota Twins....
, American baseball player (b. 1898)

July–September

July 1 - Zhang Mintian, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

The General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee is the highest ranking official within the Communist Party of China and heads the Secretariat of the Communist Party of China....
(b. 1900) July 4 - Antoni Slonimski

Antoni Slonimski

Antoni Slonimski was a Poland poet and writer.Born into a Jewish family in Warsaw, Slonimski was baptized in infancy. In 1919 he co-founded the Skamander group of experimental poets with Julian Tuwim and Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz....
, Polish poet and writer (b. 1895) July 6 - Zhu De

Zhu De

Zhu D? was a Communist Party of China military leader and statesman. He is regarded as the founder of the Chinese Red Army and the tactician who engineered the revolution from which emerged the People's Republic of China....
, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b. 1886) July 7 - Walter Giesler

Walter Giesler

Walter John Giesler was an United States soccer player, referee, and businessman....
, American soccer coach (b. 1910) July 13 - Joachim Peiper

Joachim Peiper

Joachim Peiper more often known as Jochen Peiper from the common German nickname for Joachim, was a senior Waffen-SS officer in World War II and a convicted war criminal....
, German military leader (b. 1915) July 13 - Frederick Hawksworth

Frederick Hawksworth

Frederick W. Hawksworth , was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway . Born in Swindon, he joined the GWR in 1898, aged 15, but did not become CME until he was 57, in 1941....
, GWR

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway was a History of rail transport in Great Britain that linked London with the south west and west of England and most of Wales....
Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884) July 16 - Carmelo Soria

Carmelo Soria

Carmelo Soria was a Spain diplomat. A member of the CEPAL , he was assassinated as a part of Operation Condor. Augusto Pinochet's arrest and trial in this case, which involved inter-state relationship ....
, Spanish diplomat (assassinated by the Chilean DINA

DINA

This article is about the Chilean police agency. For the bus manufacturer, see DINA S.A..Direcci?n de Inteligencia Nacional or DINA was the Chilean secret police in the government of Augusto Pinochet....
) (b. 1921) July 24 - Afro Basaldella

Afro Basaldella

Afro Basaldella was an Italy painter. He was generally known by the single name Afro.Afro first showed his work when he was sixteen, alongside the paintings of his artist brothers, Dino and Mirko....
, Italian painter (b. 1912) August 2 - Cecilia (singer), Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1948) August 2 - Fritz Lang

Fritz Lang

Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-Germany-United States filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer. One of the best known ?migr?s from Germany's school of German Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute....
, Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b. 1890) August 3 - Valery Sablin

Valery Sablin

Lieutenant Commander Valery Mikhailovich Sablin was a Soviet Navy officer and a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In November 1975, he led a mutiny on the Soviet warship the Storozhevoy in the hope of starting a political revolution in the Soviet Union....
, Soviet mutineer (executed) (b. 1939) August 4 - Enrique Angelelli

Enrique Angelelli

Enrique ?ngel Angelelli was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina, killed during the last Proceso de Reorganizaci?n Nacional for his involvement with social issues....
, Argentine bishop (assassinated in the "Dirty War

Dirty War

The Dirty War refers to the state-sponsored violence against History of Argentina citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983 carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military government....
") (b. 1923) August 6 - Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky

Gregor Piatigorsky was a Ukraine-USA cello....
, Russian cellist (b. 1903) August 22 - Juscelino Kubitschek, President of Brazil

President of Brazil

The President of Brazil is both the head of state and head of government of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The presidential system was established in 1889, upon the proclamation of the republic in a military coup d'et?t against the Pedro II of Brazil....
(b. 1902) August 25 - Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson

Eyvind Johnson, was a Sweden author. He became a member of the Swedish Academy in 1957 and shared the Nobel Prize in Literature with Harry Martinson in 1974 with the citation:for a narrative art, far-seeing in lands and ages, in the service of freedom....
, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" ....
laureate (b. 1900) August 26 - Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann was a Germany soprano opera and Lieder singer who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss; the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier was considered her greatest role....
, German soprano (b. 1888) August 27 - Mukesh

Mukesh

Mukesh Chand Mathur was an Indian playback singer of Bollywood. Along with Mohammed Rafi and Kishore Kumar, he was one of the three leading male Bollywood playback singers from the 1950s to the 1970s....
, Indian singer (b. 1923) August 28 - Anissa Jones

Anissa Jones

Mary Anissa Jones was an United States child actress best remembered as "Buffy" on the CBS Situation comedy Family Affair. She died of a drug overdose at the age of 18....
, American actress (b. 1958) September 2 - Stanislaw Grochowiak

Stanislaw Grochowiak

Stanislaw Grochowiak was a Polish poet and dramatist. His is often classified as a representative of turpism, because of his interest in the physical, ugly and brutal, but he also exhibits strong tendencies toward formal, rhymed poetry, reaching on many occasions the ornamental grace of a baroque style....
, Polish writer (b. 1934) September 9 - Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong was a China military and politics dictator. Mao led the Communist Party of China to victory against the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People?s Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976....
, Chinese leader (b. 1893) September 11 - Prince Paul of Yugoslavia

Prince Paul of Yugoslavia

Prince Paul of Yugoslavia also known as Prince Paul Karadordevic of the Serbian, later Yugoslav Royal House of Karadordevic was regent of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia for King Peter II of Yugoslavia, who was the eldest son of his first cousin Alexander of Yugoslavia....
(b. 1893) September 21 - Orlando Letelier

Orlando Letelier

Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, political figure, diplomat and, later, US-based activist. He was assassinated in Washington DC by Chilean DINA agents....
, Chilean former minister of Salvador Allende

Salvador Allende

Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens was President of Chile of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the 1973 Chilean coup d'?tat.Allende's involvement in Chilean political life spanned a period of nearly forty years....
(assassinated in Washington, D.C.) (b. 1932) September 26 - Lavoslav Ružicka

Lavoslav Ružicka

Leopold Stjepan Ru?icka was a Croatian scientist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He received eight honoris causa doctorates in in science, medicine, and law; seven prizes and medals; and twenty-four honorary memberships in chemical, biochemical, and other scientific societies....
, Croatian chemist, Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Pri...
laureate (b. 1887)

October–December

October 5 - Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager

Lars Onsager was a Norway?United States physical chemistry and theoretical physicist, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize/Chemistry.He had the Gibbs Professorship of Theoretical Chemistry at Yale University....
, Norwegian chemist, Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Gilbert Ryle

Gilbert Ryle , was a United Kingdom philosopher, and a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophys influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein's insights into language, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine"....
, British philosopher (b. 1900) October 14 - Edith Evans

Edith Evans

Dame Edith Mary Evans Order of the British Empire was an actress who had a long and distinguished career on the British stage. Later in her career, she appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden Globe award....
, British actress (b. 1888) October 15 - Carlo Gambino

Carlo Gambino

Carlo "Don Carlo" Gambino, was a mafioso who became crime boss of the Gambino crime family, that still bears his name today. No one expected Gambino to seize control over the The Commission of Mafia in the US, at Apalachin Meeting....
, American gangster (b. 1902) October 11 - Alfredo Bracchi

Alfredo Bracchi

Alfredo Bracchi was a versatile Italian author, whose production ranged from song lyrics to movie scripts.Between 1930s and 1950s he and Giovanni D'Anzi formed a very prolific pair of songwriters....
, Italian author (b. 1897) October 25 - Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau

Raymond Queneau was a French poet and novelist and the co-founder of Oulipo....
, French poet and novelist (b. 1903) October 28 - Máire Drumm

Máire Drumm

M?ire Drumm was the vice president of Sinn F?in and a commander in Cumann na mBan. She was killed by Ulster loyalism while recovering in Belfast's Mater Infirmorum Hospital....
, Irish nationalist politician (assassinated) (b. 1919) November 10 - Syd Coventry

Syd Coventry

Syd Coventry was a former Australian rules footballer.Originally from Diamond Creek, Coventry journeyed across the Bass Strait after the first world war to work in the mines at Queenstown, taking with him a reputation as a fine footballer....
, Australian footballer (b. 1899) November 11 - Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder , also known as Sandy Calder, was an United States Sculpture and artist most famous for inventing the mobile . In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithography, toys, tapestry and jewelry, and designed carpets....
, American sculptor (b. 1898) November 12 - Walter Piston

Walter Piston

Walter Hamor Piston Jr. was an American composer and music theorist....
, American composer (b. 1894) November 28 - Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell

Rosalind Russell was an American actress of theatre and film, perhaps best known for her role as a fast-talking newspaper reporter in the Howard Hawks screwball comedy His Girl Friday, as well as originating the role of Auntie Mame on Broadway theatre and in film....
, American actress (b. 1907) December 2 - Danny Murtaugh

Danny Murtaugh

Daniel Edward Murtaugh was an United States second baseman and manager in Major League Baseball best known for his 29-year association with the Pittsburgh Pirates as a player and manager....
, American baseball player and manager (b. 1917) December 3 - Cornelius Griffin

Cornelius Griffin

Cornelius Griffin is an American football player in the National Football League who currently plays defensive tackle for the Washington Redskins....
, American football player December 4 - Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, Order of Merit Order of the Companions of Honour was an England composer, conducting, viola and pianist....
, English composer (b. 1913) December 4 - Tommy Bolin

Tommy Bolin

Thomas Richard 'Tommy' Bolin was an American-born guitarist best known for his work with Zephyr , The James Gang , Deep Purple , and his solo work....
, American Guitarist (b. 1951) December 6 - João Goulart

João Goulart

Jo?o Belchior Marques Goulart was a Brazilian politician and the 24th president of Brazil until a 1964 Brazilian coup d'?tat deposed him on March 31, 1964....
, President of Brazil

President of Brazil

Henryk Jasiczek

Henryk Jasiczek was a Polish minority in Zaolzie journalist, poet, writer, and activist from the Zaolzie region. He is considered one of the most important Polish writer from Zaolzie after World War II and one of the most popular local Polish poets....
, Polish writer and political activist (b. 1919) December 20 - Richard J. Daley

Richard J. Daley

Richard Joseph Daley served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic Political boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses." He played a major role in the History of the United States Democratic Party, especially with his support of John F....
, American Mayor of Chicago (b. 1902) December 24 - Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza

Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza

Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza , ) was a pretender to the List of Portuguese monarchs from 1920 until his death....
, claimant to the throne of Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
(b. 1907) December 26 - Phil Hart, U.S. Senator (b. 1912) December 28 - Katharine Byron

Katharine Byron

Katharine Edgar Byron , a Democratic Party , was a United States House of Representatives who represented the United States House of Representatives, Maryland District 6 of Maryland from May 27, 1941 to January 3, 1943....
, U.S. Congresswoman (b. 1903)

Unknown dates

Mariano Andreu

Mariano Andreu was a Spanish painter, drawer, enamelling master, sculptor, and stage designer.He was born in Barcelona in 1888 and lived his early childhood above the "Circo Barcelon?s" in the Calle Montserrat....
, Spanish painter (b. 1888) Anna Mae Aquash

Anna Mae Aquash

Anna Mae Aquash was a Mi'kmaq activist from Nova Scotia, Canada who became one of the most active and prominent female members of the American Indian Movement during the early 1970s....
, Native American activist (found murdered) Mariya Vasil’yevna Klenova, Russian marine geologist (b. 1898)

In Fiction

The 2008 CBS

CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
Television Show Swingtown

Swingtown

Swingtown was an American television series created by Mike Kelley as a midseason replacement series for CBS. The show was a Period piece and relationship Television drama about the impact of sexual and social liberation in 1970s American suburban households, with story arcs involving open marriages and key party....
takes place in the Summer of this year. The pilot for That '70s Show

That '70s Show

That '70s Show is an American television program situation comedy that centers on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979....
is also set in this year. The movie Dazed and Confused

Dazed and Confused

"Dazed and Confused" is a song by Jake Holmes and by Led Zeppelin....
takes place in this year. In the movie The Sandlot: Heading Home

The Sandlot: Heading Home

The Sandlot: Heading Home is the second direct-to-video sequel to the 1993 theatrical film The Sandlot and the first direct-to-video sequel The Sandlot 2....
, the main character is sent back to this year.

Ship events

List of ship launches in 1976

The list of ship launches in 1976 includes a chronological list of all ships launched in 1976.See also ...
List of ship decommissionings in 1976

List of ship decommissionings in 1976

The list of ship decommissionings in 1976 includes a chronological list of all ships decommissioned in 1976....
List of shipwrecks in 1976

List of shipwrecks in 1976

The list of shipwrecks in 1976 includes all ships sunk, foundered, grounded, or otherwise lost during 1976....

Nobel Prizes

Physics

Nobel Prize in Physics

The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Prize in literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine....
- Burton Richter

Burton Richter

Burton Richter is a Nobel Prize-winning United States physicist....
, Samuel Chao Chung Ting Chemistry

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

William Lipscomb

William Nunn Lipscomb, Jr. is an United States Inorganic chemistry, working in experimental and theoretical chemistry and biochemistry.He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but his family moved to Lexington, Kentucky when he was an infant, and he lived there until he received his Bachelor of Science academic degree at the University of Kentucky...
Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Nobel Prize in Literature

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow , was an acclaimed Canada-United States writer born in Canada of Russian-Jewish origin. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976 and the National Medal of Arts in 1988....
Peace

Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize is one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. According to Nobel's will , the Peace Prize should be awarded "to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for :wikt:fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the h...
- Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan

Mairead Corrigan

M?iread Corrigan , also known as M?iread Corrigan-Maguire, was the co-founder, with Betty Williams , of the Community of Peace People, an organization which attempts to encourage a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland....
Economics

Nobel Prize in Economics

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially named The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel , is an award for outstanding contributions in the field of economics and is generally considered one of the most prestigious awards in that field....
- Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman was an United States economist, statistician and public intellectual, and a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences....

Templeton Prize

Cardinal Suenens

Catholic Charismatic Renewal

The Catholic Charismatic Renewal is a movement within the Roman Catholic Church emphasizing the release of more of the power and gifts of the Holy Spirit in a continuing and New Pentecost for all Catholics; the aim is to have the Renewal become part of the experience of all Catholics and not simply remain the experience of just one group or s...

1976

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Unknown dates

In Fiction

Ship events

Nobel Prizes

Templeton Prize

See also

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