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1981

1981

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1981 (MCMLXXXI
Roman numerals
Roman numerals are a numeral system of ancient Rome based on letters of the alphabet, which are combined to signify the sum of their values. The first ten Roman numerals are:...

) was a common year starting on Thursday
Common year starting on Thursday
This is the calendar for any common year starting on Thursday . Examples: Gregorian years 1789, 1998 & 2009 or Julian year 1915 . This is the only common year with three occurrences of Friday the 13th....

 (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar
Gregorian calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the internationally accepted civil calendar. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom the calendar was named, on 24 February 1582 by the papal bull Inter gravissimas...

).

January


  • January
    January
    January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day...

     – The subterranean Sarawak chamber
    Sarawak chamber
    The Sarawak Chamber is a huge chamber in Gua Nasib Bagus , which is located in Gunung Mulu National Park, in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. It is considered to be the largest known underground chamber in the world....

     is discovered in Borneo
    Borneo
    Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia. Administratively, this island is divided among Indonesia , Malaysia and Brunei . Indonesians refer to the island as Kalimantan...

    .
  • January 1 – Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....

     enters the European Community
    European Community
    The European Community is the first of the three pillars of the European Union created under the Maastricht Treaty . It is based upon the principle of supranationalism and has its origins in the European Economic Community, the predecessor of the European Union. If the Treaty of Lisbon comes into...

    , which later becomes the European Union
    European Union
    The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 Member States, located primarily in Europe. Committed to regional integration, the EU was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community...

    .

  • January 1 – Palau
    Palau
    Palau , officially the Republic of Palau , is an island nation in the Pacific Ocean, some 500 miles east of the Philippines and 2,000 miles south of Tokyo. Having emerged from United Nations trusteeship in 1994, it is one of the world's youngest and smallest sovereign states...

     becomes self-governing.
  • January 4 – Sheffield
    Sheffield
    Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the city has grown from its largely industrial roots to encompass a wider economic base...

     police
    Police
    A police service is a public force empowered to enforce the law and provide security through the legitimized use of force.The term is most commonly associated with police services of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of...

     arrest
    Arrest
    An arrest is the act of depriving a person of his or her liberty usually in relation to the investigation and prevention of crime. The term is Anglo-Norman in origin and is related to the French word arrêt, meaning "stop".-United States:...

     Peter Sutcliffe
    Peter Sutcliffe
    Peter William Sutcliffe is an English serial killer who was dubbed The Yorkshire Ripper. Sutcliffe was convicted in 1981 for murdering 13 women and attacking several others. He is currently serving life imprisonment in Broadmoor Hospital...

    , a 34-year-old lorry
    Lorry
    -Transport:* Lorry or truck, a large motor vehicle* Lorry, called a tippler in the UK, an open gondola with a tipping trough* Lorry , a horse-drawn low-loading trolley-In fiction:...

     driver, on suspicion of being the Yorkshire Ripper who has killed 13 women and attacked 7 others over the last 6 years.
  • January 5 – Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the only woman to have held either post....

     carries out a Cabinet reshuffle
    Cabinet shuffle
    In the parliamentary system a cabinet shuffle or reshuffle is an informal term for an event that occurs when a head of government rotates or changes the composition of ministers in his or her cabinet....

    , sacking Norman St. John-Stevas.
  • January 6 – The Brazilian double decker boat Novo Amapo capsizes in the Amazon River
    Amazon River
    The Amazon River of South America is the largest river in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next eight largest rivers combined. The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. During...

    , Belem de Cajari, Macapa
    Macapá
    Macapá , or is the capital of the state of Amapá in Brazil, , on the Amazon River. Mining is central to its economy. It exports tin iron, gold, and manganese, as well as lumber, oil, animal pelts, and fish. Manufactures include rubber products and food...

    , Brazil
    Brazil
    Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...

    ; 230 are killed.
  • January 16 – Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
    Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
    Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey , also known as Bernadette Devlin and Bernadette McAliskey, is a socialist republican political activist...

     and her husband.
  • January 17 – Philippine
    Philippines
    The Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....

     President Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Marcos
    Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives and a member of the Philippine Senate . He was Senate President in 1963...

     lifts martial law
    Martial law
    Martial law is the system of rules that takes effect when the military takes control of the normal administration of justice.Martial law is sometimes imposed during wars or occupations in the absence of any other civil government. Examples of this form of military rule include Germany and Japan...

    .
  • January 19 – United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     and Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanid period and came into international use from 1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia...

    ian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostage
    Hostage
    A hostage is a person or entity which is held by a captor. The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war...

    s after 14 months of captivity.
  • January 20 – Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...

     succeeds Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter
    James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

    , as the 40th President of the United States
    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...

    . Minutes later, Iran
    Iran
    Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanid period and came into international use from 1935, before which the country was known internationally as Persia...

     releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, ending the Iran hostage crisis
    Iran hostage crisis
    The Iranian hostage crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United States where 53 Americans were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979 to January 20, 1981, after a group of Islamist students and militants took over the American embassy in support of the Iranian Revolution.The...

    .
  • January 21 – The first De Lorean DMC-12
    De Lorean DMC-12
    The DeLorean DMC-12 is a sports car that was originally manufactured in Northern Ireland by the DeLorean Motor Company for the American market in 1981-1982. It is most commonly known simply as the DeLorean, as it was the only model ever produced by the company...

     automobile
    Automobile
    An automobile, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

    , a stainless steel
    Stainless steel
    In metallurgy, stainless steel, also known as inox steel or inox, is defined as a steel alloy with a minimum of 11% chromium content by mass. Stainless steel does not stain, corrode, or rust as easily as ordinary steel...

     sports car
    Sports car
    The term sports car has been defined as "an open, low-built, fast motor car." The term describes a class of automobile with two seats, two doors, precise handling, brisk acceleration, and sharp braking — trading practical considerations such as passenger space, comfort, and cargo capacity...

     with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line
    Production line
    A production line is a set of sequential operations established in a factory whereby materials are put through a refining process to produce an end-product that is suitable for onward consumption; or components are assembled to make a finished article....

     in Dunmurry
    Dunmurry
    Dunmurry is a village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland situated between the cities of Belfast and Lisburn. The village has in recent years grown enormously as private and public housing estates have been built...

    , Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland is a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and it is situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...

    .
  • January 22 – Fowzi Nejad, sole survivor of the terrorists from the Iranian Embassy siege
    Iranian Embassy Siege
    The Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980 was a siege of the Iranian embassy in London after it had been taken over by Iranian Arab separatists. The siege was ended when British special forces, the Special Air Service , stormed the building in Operation Nimrod...

     in London
    London
    []London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

    , pleads guilty to manslaughter of 2 hostages and gets jailed for life.
  • January 24 – The British Labour Party
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...

     special conference
    Meeting
    In a meeting, two or more people come together for the purpose of discussing a predetermined topic such as business or community event planning, often in a formal setting....

     at Wembley
    Wembley
    Wembley is an area of north-west London, UK, and part of the London Borough of Brent.-Location:Wembley is bounded on the south and east by the River Brent and the A406 North Circular Road, separating it from Neasden, Willesden and Park Royal. To its west and northwest are Sudbury and Harrow...

     decides that leadership
    Leadership
    Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”...

     election
    Election
    An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and...

    s should be by electoral college
    Electoral college
    An electoral college is a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent different organizations or entities, with each organization or entity represented by a particular number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way...

    .
  • January 25 – Four former Labour
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...

     cabinet ministers (Roy Jenkins
    Roy Jenkins
    Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead OM, PC was a British politician. Once prominent as a Labour Member of Parliament and government minister in the 1960s and 1970s, he became the first British President of the European Commission and one of the four principal founders of the Social...

    , Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and David Owen
    David Owen
    David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen CH PC FKC is a British politician and Chancellor of the University of Liverpool.He was one of the founders of the British Social Democratic Party . He led the SDP from 1983 to 1987 and the re-formed SDP from 1988 to 1990...

    ) issue the Limehouse Declaration
    Limehouse Declaration
    The Limehouse Declaration was a statement issued on 25 January 1981 by four senior British Labour politicians, all MPs or former MPs and ex-Cabinet Ministers: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams. In this document the so-called 'Gang of Four' signalled their intent to leave...

    , leading to the formation of the Social Democratic Party
    Social Democratic Party (UK)
    The Social Democratic Party was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the Gang of Four: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

    .
  • January 25 – Chiang Ching ('Madame Mao
    Mao Zedong
    Mao Zedong was a Chinese revolutionary, political theorist and Communist leader. He led the People's Republic of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976...

    ') is sentenced to death
    Death
    Death is the termination of the biological functions that define a living organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby. The true nature of the latter has for millennia been a central concern of the world's religious traditions and of philosophical...

     in 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 most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...

    .
  • January 25 – Super Bowl XV
    Super Bowl XV
    Super Bowl XV was an American football game played on January 25, 1981 at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, Louisiana to decide the National Football League champion following the 1980 regular season...

    : The Oakland Raiders
    Oakland Raiders
    The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team in the NFL based in the city of Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...

     defeat the Philadelphia Eagles
    Philadelphia Eagles
    The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...

     27–10 at the Louisiana Superdome
    Louisiana Superdome
    The Louisiana Superdome, often informally referred to simply as the Superdome, The Dome or the New Orleans Superdome is a large, multi-purpose sports and exhibition facility located in the Central Business District of New Orleans, Louisiana...

     in New Orleans, Louisiana
    Louisiana
    The State of Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state divided into parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

    .
  • January 27 – The Indonesia
    Indonesia
    The Republic of Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With an estimated population of around 237 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, with the world's largest population of Muslims.Indonesia is a republic, with an...

    n passenger ship Tamponas 2 catches fire and capsizes in the Java Sea
    Java Sea
    The Java Sea is a large shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf. It was formed as sea levels rose at the end of the last ice age. The Java Sea lies between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south; Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east...

    , killing 580.

February



  • February 4 – Gro Harlem Brundtland
    Gro Harlem Brundtland
    Gro Harlem Brundtland is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization...

     becomes Prime Minister of Norway
    Prime Minister of Norway
    The Prime Minister of Norway is the political leader of Norway and the Head of His/Her Majesty's Government. The Prime Minister and Cabinet are collectively accountable for their policies and actions to the Sovereign, to Stortinget , to their political party, and...

    .
  • February 8 – 19 fans of Olympiacos
    Olympiacos
    Olympiacos F.C. , also known simply as Olympiacos, Olympiacos Piraeus or with its full name Olympiacos C.F.P. , Olympiacos Club of Fans of Piraeus, is a Greek association football club, part of Olympiacos CFP, based in Piraeus, Athens.Olympiacos is considered one of the big three football clubs in...

     FC and 2 fans of AEK Athens die, and 54 are injured, after a stampede at the Karaiskaki Stadium in Pireus, possibly because Gate 7 does not open immediately after the end of the game.
  • February 9 – Polish Prime Minister Józef Pinkowski
    Józef Pinkowski
    Józef Pińkowski was a Polish Communist politician who served as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1981....

     resigns and is replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski
    Wojciech Jaruzelski
    Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (pronounced ; (born 6 July 1923 in Kurów) is a Polish military leader and the country's last Communist leader. He was leader of the Communist Polish United Workers Party from 1981 to 1989, Prime Minister from 1981 to...

    .
  • February 10 – A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton
    Las Vegas Hilton
    The Las Vegas Hilton is a hotel, casino, and convention center in Winchester, Nevada, Nevada. It is a joint venture between Colony Capital, which owns 60 percent, and New York City-based REIT Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds, which owns the remaining 40 percent...

     hotel
    Hotel
    A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite bathrooms...

    -casino
    Casino
    A casino is a facility that houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships and other tourist attractions...

     kills 8 and injures 198.
  • February 13 – Rupert Murdoch
    Rupert Murdoch
    Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born American global media mogul. He owns media outlets and is a major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation ....

     buys The Times
    The Times
    The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register....

     and The Sunday Times
    The Sunday Times (UK)
    The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...

     for £12 million.
  • February 14 – Stardust fire: A fire at the Stardust nightclub in Artane, Dublin
    Artane, Dublin
    Artane, sometimes spelled Artaine , historically Tartaine is a Northside suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Neighbouring districts include Coolock, Beaumont, Killester, Raheny and Clontarf; to the south is a small locality, Harmonstown, straddling the Raheny-Artane border.- History :Artaine, now usually...

    , Ireland
    Republic of Ireland
    Ireland is a country in north-western Europe. The modern sovereign state occupies about five-sixths of the island of Ireland, which was partitioned on 3 May 1921. It is a parliamentary democracy and a republic...

     in the early hours kills 48 and injures 214.
  • February 14 – Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

     withdraws recognition of the Pol Pot
    Pol Pot
    Saloth Sar or Minh Hai, , 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 in Cambodia
    Cambodia
    The Kingdom of Cambodia , formerly known as Kampuchea , is a country in South East Asia with a population of over 14 million people. The kingdom's capital and largest city is Phnom Penh...

    .
  • February 23 – Antonio Tejero
    Antonio Tejero
    Antonio Tejero Molina is a Spanish former Lieutenant-Colonel, and the most visible figure in the attempted coup d'état - also known as the 'Tejerazo' - against the Spanish democracy on February 23 1981....

    , with members of the Guardia Civil, enters the Spanish Congress of Deputies and stops the session where Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo
    Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo
    Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquess of la Ría de Ribadeo was a Spanish political figure and President of the Spanish government during Spain's period of transition after the end of Francisco Franco's regime.-Biography:Calvo-Sotelo was born into a prominent...

     is about to be named president of the government. The coup d'état
    23-F
    23-F is the name given to a failed coup d'état in Spain that started on 23 February 1981 and ended the next day on 24 February 1981. It is also known as El Tejerazo from the name of its most visible figure, Antonio Tejero, who conducted the most notable event of the coup by storming into the...

     fails thanks to King Juan Carlos.
  • February 24 – A powerful, magnitude 6.7 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 Athens
    Athens
    Athens , the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....

    , killing 16 people, injuring thousands and destroying several buildings, mostly in Corinth
    Corinth
    Corinth, or Korinth Corinth, or Korinth Corinth, or Korinth (Greek Κόρινθος, Kórinthos is a city in Greece. In antiquity it was a city-state, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. To the west of the isthmus lies the Gulf of...

     and the nearby towns of Loutraki
    Loutraki
    Loutraki is a seaside town located 4 km NE of Corinth in the Prefecture of Corinthia, Greece. Loutraki is the seat of the municipality Loutraki-Perachora. It is largely a tourist town, and is well-known in Greece for its vast natural springs. The name itself, Loutraki, derives from the Greek word...

    , Kiato
    Kiato
    Kiato is a coastal town in Greece that is agricultural-based. The town is located in the northern part of the prefecture of Corinthia in the Peloponnese, Greece. Kiato is located in a sandy area which features lemon trees, orange trees, and other fruit-bearing trees. It has a lot of touristic...

     and Xylokastro
    Xylokastro
    Xylokastro is a city that is 40 km W of Corinth via GR-8, which is also E65. Its interchange is about 1.5 km W, west of the river. The population is around 11,000 and there is a nearby interchange southwest of the city...

    .

March


  • March 1 – Bobby Sands
    Bobby Sands
    Robert Gerard Sands , commonly known as Bobby Sands, , was an Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while in HM Prison Maze .He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike, in which Irish republican prisoners protested...

    , a Provisional Irish Republican Army
    Provisional Irish Republican Army
    The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation which sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...

     member, begins a hunger strike
    Hunger strike
    A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not...

     for political status
    Political status
    In international law three categories of Political status are usually recognized:#Independent countries e.g.: France, Canada#Internal independent countries which are under the protection of another country in matters of defense and foreign affairs, e.g.: Netherlands Antilles, the Faroe Islands,...

     in Long Kesh prison
    Maze (HM Prison)
    Her Majesty's Prison Maze was a prison used to house paramilitary prisoners during the Northern Ireland Troubles from mid-1971 to mid-2000....

     (he dies May 5, the first of 10 men).
  • March 6 – After 19 years hosting the CBS Evening News
    CBS Evening News
    CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....

    , Walter Cronkite
    Walter Cronkite
    Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years . During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll...

     signs off for the last time.
  • March 10 – Sir Geoffrey Howe
    Geoffrey Howe
    Richard Edward Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, CH, QC, PC , previously known as Sir Geoffrey Howe, is a British Conservative politician...

     announces the British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

     budget, which raises taxes in the middle of a recession.
  • March 11 – Chile
    Chile
    Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

    an military dictator Augusto Pinochet
    Augusto Pinochet
    Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean army general and later head of state as president. He was the Commander in Chief of the Chilean army from 1973 to 1998, president of the Government Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981 and President of the Republic from 1974 until the return of...

     is sworn in as President of Chile
    President of Chile
    The President of Chile is both the chief of state and the head of government. Under the current constitution , the President is elected by popular vote to serve for a period of four years, with immediate re-election being prohibited. The shorter period allows for parliamentary and presidential...

     for another 8-year term.
  • March 17 – In Italy the Propaganda Due
    Propaganda Due
    Propaganda Due , or P2, was a Masonic lodge operating under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient of Italy from 1945 to 1976 , and a pseudo-Masonic or "black" or "covert" lodge operating illegally from...

     Masonic Lodge
    Masonic Lodge
    A Masonic Lodge, often termed a Private Lodge or Constituent Lodge in Books of Constitutions, is the basic organisation of Freemasonry. Every new Lodge must be warranted by a Grand Lodge, but is subject to its direction only in enforcing the published Constitution of the jurisdiction...

     is discovered.
  • March 19 – Three workers are killed and 5 injured during a test of the Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it flew a total of 27 times before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 on the STS-107 mission , killing all seven...

    .
  • March 26 – The British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

     Social Democratic Party
    Social Democratic Party (UK)
    The Social Democratic Party was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the Gang of Four: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

     is launched at the Connaught Rooms in London.
  • March 29 – The first London Marathon
    London Marathon
    The London Marathon is a popular road marathon that has been held each year in London since 1981, usually in April. The race is currently sponsored by Virgin Money, as the Virgin London Marathon...

     starts with 7,500 runners.
  • March 30 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...

     is shot in the chest
    Reagan assassination attempt
    The Reagan assassination attempt occurred on March 30, 1981, just 69 days into the presidency of Ronald Reagan. While leaving a speaking engagement at the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., President Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley, Jr....

     outside a 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...

      hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
    John Hinckley, Jr.
    John Warnock Hinckley, Jr., attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C., on March 30, 1981, as the culmination of an effort to impress actress Jodie Foster. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and has remained under institutional psychiatric care since...

     Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady
    James Brady
    James Scott “Jim” Brady is a former Assistant to the President and White House Press Secretary under U.S. President Ronald Reagan...

     are also wounded.
  • March 31 – The 53rd Academy Awards
    53rd Academy Awards
    The 53rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1980, were presented March 31, 1981, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies, which were presided over by Johnny Carson, was originally scheduled the previous day but postponed due to the assassination attempt on...

    , hosted by Johnny Carson
    Johnny Carson
    John William “Johnny” Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...

    , are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
    Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
    The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is one of the halls in the Los Angeles Music Center . The Music Center's other halls include the Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, and Walt Disney Concert Hall.The Pavilion has 3,197 seats spread over four tiers, with chandeliers, wide curving stairways and rich décor...

     in Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles
    Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...

    . Robert Redford
    Robert Redford
    Charles Robert Redford Jr. , better known as Robert Redford, is an American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival...

    's directorial debut in Ordinary People
    Ordinary People
    Ordinary People is a 1980 American film drama that marked the directorial debut of Robert Redford. The story concerns the disintegration of an upper middle class family in Lake Forest, Illinois, following the death of the oldest son...

     wins Best Picture and Best Director.

April



  • April 1 – Daylight saving time
    Daylight saving time
    Daylight saving time is the convention of advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn...

     is introduced in the USSR
    Soviet Union
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...

    .
  • April 2 – Tony Benn
    Tony Benn
    Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn , formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British, democratic socialist politician, and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition....

     announces that he will challenge Denis Healey
    Denis Healey
    Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC is an English Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.-Early life:...

     for the Deputy Leadership of the British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

     Labour Party
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...

    .
  • April 4 – The UK pop group Bucks Fizz
    Bucks Fizz
    Bucks Fizz or Buck's Fizz may refer to: * Buck's Fizz , an alcoholic mixed drink* Bucks Fizz , a UK pop group which won the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest* Bucks Fizz , debut album by the band of the same name...

     wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1981
    Eurovision Song Contest 1981
    The Eurovision Song Contest 1981 was the 26th Eurovision Song Contest and was held on 4 April 1981 at the Simmonscourt Pavilion of the Royal Dublin Society in Dublin. The presenter was Doireann Ní Bhriain...

     with the song, Making Your Mind Up
    Making Your Mind Up
    "Making Your Mind Up" is a song by British pop group Bucks Fizz. It was the winner of the 1981 Eurovision Song Contest and a UK Number-one single...

    .
  • April 10 – IRA hunger-striker Bobby Sands
    Bobby Sands
    Robert Gerard Sands , commonly known as Bobby Sands, , was an Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while in HM Prison Maze .He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike, in which Irish republican prisoners protested...

     wins the Fermanagh and South Tyrone by-election.
  • April 11 – Brixton riot (1981)
    Brixton riot (1981)
    The Brixton riot was a riot which took place in Brixton, London, England, on 11 April 1981. The riot resulted in almost 279 injuries to police and 45 injuries to members of the public; over a hundred vehicles were burned, including 56 police vehicles; and almost 150 buildings were damaged, with...

    : Rioters in South London
    South London
    South London is the southern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes.-Boundary Commission:...

     throw petrol bombs, attack police and loot shops.
  • April 12 – The Space Shuttle
    Space Shuttle
    The Space Shuttle, part of the Space Transportation System , is a spacecraft operated by NASA for orbital human spaceflight missions. It began operations in the 1980s and is scheduled to be retired from service in 2010 after 134 launches...

     program: Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it flew a total of 27 times before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 on the STS-107 mission , killing all seven...

     (John Young, Robert Crippen
    Robert Crippen
    Robert Laurel Crippen is an engineer, retired United States Navy Captain and a former NASA astronaut. He flew on four Space Shuttle missions, including three as commander...

    ) launches on the STS-1
    STS-1
    STS-1 was the first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle program, launched on April 12, 1981, and returning to Earth April 14. Space Shuttle Columbia orbited the earth 37 times in this 54.5-hour mission...

     mission, returning to Earth on April 14.
  • April 15 – The Australian Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock resigns from the cabinet, accusing Prime Minister Fraser of gross disloyalty.
  • April 18 – A Minor League Baseball
    Minor league baseball
    Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in North America that compete at levels below that of Major League Baseball. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses, and many are members of Minor League Baseball, an umbrella organization for leagues...

     game between the Rochester Red Wings
    Rochester Red Wings
    The Rochester Red Wings are a minor league baseball team based in Rochester, New York. The oldest and longest running minor league franchise in the history of professional sports, the team plays in the International League and is the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins major-league club...

     and the Pawtucket Red Sox
    Pawtucket Red Sox
    The Pawtucket Red Sox are the minor league baseball Triple-A affiliates of the Boston Red Sox and belong to the International League...

     at McCoy Stadium
    McCoy Stadium
    McCoy Stadium is a Minor League baseball stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. It is currently home to the Pawtucket Red Sox of the International League.-History:...

     in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
    Pawtucket, Rhode Island
    Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 72,958 at the 2000 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:Pawtucket was the birthplace of the American Industrial Revolution...

    , becomes the longest professional baseball game
    Longest professional baseball game
    The Pawtucket Red Sox and Rochester Red Wings, two teams from the triple-A International League, played the longest game in professional baseball history in 1981 at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island....

     in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes/33 innings (the 33rd inning is not played until June 23).
  • April 18 – The rock band Yes
    Yes (band)
    Yes are an English progressive rock band that was formed in London in 1968. Their music is marked by sharp dynamic contrasts, extended song lengths, abstract lyrics, and a general showcasing of instrumental prowess. Yes blends symphonic and other 'classical' structures with their own brand of...

     splits up (regrouping in 1983).
  • April 26 – French presidential election
    French presidential election, 1981
    The French presidential election of 1981 was won by François Mitterrand, the first Socialist president of the Fifth Republic. In the first round of voting, 10 candidates stood for election, from both the Left and Right of French politics. The leading two candidates 'went through' to the second round...

    : A first-round runoff results between Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981...

     and François Mitterrand
    François Mitterrand
    François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party . First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist President of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of...

    .

May


  • May
    May
    May is the fifth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. It is also a month within the northern season of spring....

     – Daniel K. Ludwig
    Daniel K. Ludwig
    Daniel Keith Ludwig was a US shipping magnate and billionaire. Even though he was one of the wealthiest men of his day, his name was little known...

     abandons the Jari project
    Jari project
    The Jari project was an attempt to create a tropical tree farm in Brazil for producing pulp for paper.-Background:The Jari project was a brainchild of US entrepreneur and billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. In the 1950s he noticed that demand for paper was rising. Since the forests of the temperate zone...

     in the Amazon Basin
    Amazon Basin
    The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The basin is located mainly in Brazil, but also stretches into Peru and several other countries. The South American rain forest of the Amazon is the largest in the world, covering about...

    .
  • May 1 – The new Chilean pension system
    Chile pension system
    The Pension System refers to old-age, disability and survivor pensions for workers in Chile. Instituted under Augusto Pinochet's military government on November 4, 1980 it is the first comprehensive retirement and welfare system managed entirely by the private sector.A portion of the worker's...

    , based on private pension fund
    Pension fund
    A pension fund is a pool of assets forming an independent legal entity that are bought with the contributions to a pension plan for the exclusive purpose of financing pension plan benefits....

    s, begins.
  • May 5 – Bobby Sands
    Bobby Sands
    Robert Gerard Sands , commonly known as Bobby Sands, , was an Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while in HM Prison Maze .He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike, in which Irish republican prisoners protested...

    , Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and elected member of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, dies aged 27 while on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
  • May 6 – A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya Lin
    Maya Lin
    Maya Ying Lin is an American artist and architect who is known for her work in sculpture and landscape art. Her best-known work is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.-Personal life:...

    's design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
    Vietnam Veterans Memorial
    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a national war memorial in Washington, D.C. It honors members of the U.S. armed forces who fought in the Vietnam War and who died in service or are still unaccounted for....

     from 1,421 other entries.
  • May 7 – The Greater London Council
    Greater London Council
    The Greater London Council was the top-tier local government administrative body for Greater London from 1965 to 1986. It replaced the earlier London County Council which had covered a much smaller area.-Creation:...

     election results in a small Labour
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...

     majority. On May 8, Ken Livingstone
    Ken Livingstone
    Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician; he has twice held the leading political role in London local government, firstly as Leader of the Greater London Council from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986 by the government of Margaret Thatcher, and secondly as the first Mayor of...

     becomes Leader of the Council.
  • May 10 – In the second round of the presidential elections in France
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

    , François Mitterrand
    François Mitterrand
    François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party . First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist President of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of...

     beats Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
    Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing is a French centre-right politician who was President of the French Republic from 1974 until 1981...

    .
  • May 10 – In Italy a popular referendum rejects the abrogation of the law allowing abortion.
  • May 13 – Pope John Paul II
    Pope John Paul II
    Pope John Paul II , born Karol Józef Wojtyła served as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and Sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death almost 27 years later. His was the second-longest pontificate; only Pope Pius IX served longer...

     is shot and nearly killed
    1981 Pope John Paul II assassination attempt
    An attempted assassination of Pope John Paul II occurred on May 13, 1981. Mehmet Ali Ağca shot and seriously wounded the Pope in the Vatican City's St. Peter's Square...

     by Mehmet Ali Ağca
    Mehmet Ali Agca
    Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish assassin who shot and wounded Pope John Paul II on May 13, 1981. After serving 19 years of incarceration in Italy, he was deported to Turkey, where he is serving another life sentence for the murder of Abdi İpekçi, a left-wing journalist, in 1979. He is eligible for...

    , a Turkish
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...

     gunman, as he enters St. Peter's Square in Rome
    Rome
    Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million...

     to address a general audience.
  • May 15 – Donna Payant
    Donna Payant
    Donna Payant nee Collins was a New York state corrections officer who was murdered while on duty at Green Haven Correctional Facility. She was 31 years old at the time of her death....

     is murdered by serial killer Lemuel Smith
    Lemuel Smith
    Lemuel Warren Smith , is a convicted serial killer and rapist from Upstate New York who was the first convict ever to kill an on-duty female corrections officer.-Trouble from the beginning:...

    , the first time a female prison officer has been killed on-duty in the United States.
  • May 21 – In France
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

    , Socialist François Mitterrand
    François Mitterrand
    François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand served as the President of France from 1981 to 1995, elected as representative of the Socialist Party . First elected during the May 1981 presidential election, he became the first socialist President of the Fifth Republic and the first left-wing head of...

     becomes President.
  • May 22 – Peter Sutcliffe
    Peter Sutcliffe
    Peter William Sutcliffe is an English serial killer who was dubbed The Yorkshire Ripper. Sutcliffe was convicted in 1981 for murdering 13 women and attacking several others. He is currently serving life imprisonment in Broadmoor Hospital...

     is found guilty of being the Yorkshire Ripper. He is sentenced to life imprisonment on 13 counts of murder and 7 of attempted murder.
  • May 25 – In Riyadh
    Riyadh
    Riyadh is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. It is also the capital of Riyadh Province, and belongs to the historical regions of Nejd and Al-Yamama. It is situated in the center of the Arabian Peninsula on a large plateau, and is home to 1,444,500 people, and the urban center of a...

    , the Gulf Cooperation Council is created between Bahrain
    Bahrain
    The Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island country in the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa royal family. Saudi Arabia lies to the west and is connected to Bahrain via the King Fahd Causeway, which was officially opened on the 25th of November 1986. Qatar is to the southeast across the Gulf of...

    , Kuwait
    Kuwait
    The State of Kuwait is a sovereign Arab emirate bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south and Iraq to the north and west. The greatest distance from north to south is 200 km and from east to west 170 km . The name is a diminutive of an Arabic word meaning "fortress built near water." It has a...

    , Oman
    Oman
    Oman , officially the Sultanate of Oman , is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates on the northwest, Saudi Arabia on the west and Yemen on the southwest....

    , Qatar
    Qatar
    Qatar , also known as the State of Qatar or locally ', is an Arab emirate in the Middle East, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula...

    , Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi Arabia , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south...

     and the United Arab Emirates
    United Arab Emirates
    The United Arab Emirates is a federation of seven emirates situated in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula in Southwest Asia on the Persian Gulf, bordering Oman and Saudi Arabia. The UAE consists of seven states, termed emirates, which are Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Quwain, Ras...

    .
  • May 26 – The Italian government resigns over its links to the fascist Masonic cell Propaganda Due
    Propaganda Due
    Propaganda Due , or P2, was a Masonic lodge operating under the jurisdiction of the Grand Orient of Italy from 1945 to 1976 , and a pseudo-Masonic or "black" or "covert" lodge operating illegally from...

    .
  • May 30 – Bangladesh
    Bangladesh
    , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...

     President Ziaur Rahman
    Ziaur Rahman
    Lieutenant General Ziaur Rahman, Bir Uttam, Hilal-i-Jurat was a charismatic Bangladeshi war hero, politician and statesman. He was the President of Bangladesh from 1976 until 1981 and founded the Bangladesh Nationalist Party , one of the two largest political parties in the country...

     is assassinated in Chittagong
    Chittagong
    Chittagong is Bangladesh's main seaport and its second-largest city. The capital of the eponymous district and division, it is situated in the southeastern portion of the country, and was built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, which ends nearby, in the Bay of Bengal. The city has a...

    .

June


  • June 5 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services based in Atlanta, Georgia. It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions, and it promotes health through...

     report that 5 homosexual
    Homosexuality
    Homosexuality is the romantic or sexual attraction or behavior among members of the same sex, situationally or as an enduring disposition. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is considered to lie within the heterosexual-homosexual continuum of human sexuality, and refers to an individual’s...

     men in Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles
    Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...

    , California
    California
    California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

     have a rare form of pneumonia
    Pneumonia
    Pneumonia is an inflammatory illness of the lung. Frequently, it is described as lung parenchyma/alveolar inflammation and abnormal alveolar filling with fluid ....

     seen only in patients with weakened immune system
    Immune system
    An immune system is a system of biological structures and processes within an organism that protects against disease by identifying and killing pathogens and tumour cells. It detects a wide variety of agents, from viruses to parasitic worms, and needs to distinguish them from the organism's own...

    s (the first recognized cases of AIDS
    AIDS
    Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus ....

    ).
  • June 6 – Bihar train disaster
    Bihar train disaster
    In the Bihar train disaster on June 6, 1981, a passenger train travelling between Mansi and Saharsa, India, derailed while it was crossing a bridge spanning the Bagmati river and plunged into the river. The government places the official death toll at 268 plus another 300 missing...

    : Seven coaches of an overcrowded passenger train fall off the tracks into the River Kosi in Bihar
    Bihar
    Bihar is a state in eastern India. Bihar is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at 38,202 sq mi , and 3rd largest by population. Close to 85 percent of the population lives in villages...

    , India
    India
    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...

    ; about 800 die.
  • June 7 – The Israeli Air Force
    Israeli Air Force
    The Israeli Air Force is the air force of the Israel Defense Forces...

     destroys Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , also known as Mesopotamia, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.Iraq shares borders with Jordan to the west, Syria...

    's Osirak
    Osirak
    Osirak, also spelled Osiraq, , was a French-supplied 40 MW light-water nuclear materials testing reactor in Iraq. It was constructed by the Iraqi government at the Al Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, 18 km south-east of Baghdad in 1977...

     nuclear reactor.
  • June 12 – Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in North 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...

     goes on strike, forcing the cancellation of 38 percent of the schedule.
  • June 13 – At the Trooping the Colour
    Trooping the Colour
    Trooping the Colour is a ceremony performed by regiments of the Commonwealth and the British Army. It has been a tradition of British infantry regiments since the 17th century, although the roots go back much earlier. On battlefields, a regiment's colours, or flags, were used as rallying points...

     ceremony in London
    London
    []London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

    , Marcus Sarjeant
    Marcus Sarjeant
    Marcus Simon Serjeant is notable for firing six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II as she rode down The Mall to the Trooping the Colour ceremony in 1981.-Background:...

     fires 6 blank shots at Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
    Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
    Elizabeth II is the queen regnant of sixteen independent states known informally as the Commonwealth realms: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,...

    .
  • June 21 – Wayne Williams
    Wayne Williams
    Wayne Bertram Williams was identified as the key suspect in the Atlanta Child Murders that occurred between 1979 and 1981. In January 1982, he was found guilty of the murder of two adult men...

    , a 23-year-old African American
    African American
    African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry...

    , is arrested and charged with the murders of 2 other African Americans. He is later accused of 28 others, in the Atlanta child murders
    Atlanta child murders
    The Atlanta child murders, known locally simply as the "missing and murdered children case", were a series of murders committed in Atlanta, Georgia, United States from the summer of 1979 until the spring of 1981. Over the two year period, a minimum of twenty-nine black children, adolescents and...

    .
  • June 22 – Iranian president Abolhassan Banisadr
    Abolhassan Banisadr
    Abol-hassan Banisadr was the first President of Iran, following the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the abolition of the monarchy.-Early life:...

     is deposed.
  • June 26 – Couples For Christ
    Couples for Christ
    Couples for Christ , formally the Couples for Christ Global Mission Foundation Inc., is an international Catholic lay ecclesial movement, "intended for the renewal and strengthening of Christian family life." It is one of 122 International Associations of the Faithful with official Vatican...

    , a Christian charismatic organization, is established in the Philippines
    Philippines
    The Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....

    .
  • June 29 – Morris Edwin Robert, armed with a machine gun, holds hostages in the FBI section at the Atlanta, Georgia Federal Building. After 3 hours the hostages are rescued and Robert is killed in a shootout with Federal Agents.

July


  • July 2 – The Wonderland Gang
    Wonderland Gang
    The Wonderland Gang was an organization of drug dealers involved in the Los Angeles cocaine trade in the late 1970s and early 1980s. On July 1, 1981 the gang met its demise in one of the bloodiest mass murders in the history of California, now known as the Wonderland murders.-Members:Members of...

     is brutally murdered in a massacre involving Eddie Nash
    Eddie Nash
    Eddie Nash is a former nightclub and restaurant manager in Los Angeles, as well as a convicted gangster and drug dealer; he is best known for his involvement in the quadruple Wonderland Murders.-Early life:...

    .
  • July 3 – The Toxteth riots
    Toxteth riots
    The Toxteth riots of July 1981 were a civil disturbance in inner-city Liverpool, which arose in part from long-standing tensions between the local police and the black community...

     in Liverpool
    Liverpool
    Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

    , UK
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

     start after a mob saves a youth from being arrested. Shortly afterward, the Chapeltown riots in Leeds
    Leeds
    Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. The historic core at the heart of Leeds in 2001 had an estimated subdivision population of 443,247, whilst the entire city, that includes the urban and suburban areas incorporated into the city in 1974, had an estimated...

     start after increased racial tension.
  • July 7 – 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...

     Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...

     nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor
    Sandra Day O'Connor
    Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist and was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006...

    , to 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 judiciary. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate...

    .
  • July 8 – California
    California
    California is the most populous state in the United States, and the third largest by area. California is the second most populous sub-national entity in the Americas, behind only São Paulo, Brazil...

     Governor Jerry Brown
    Jerry Brown
    Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. is an American politician. He is a former governor of the State of California and the current Attorney General...

    , faced with a Mediterranean fruit fly infestation, chooses to delay the aerial spraying of malathion
    Malathion
    Malathion is an organophosphate parasympathomimetic which binds irreversibly to cholinesterase. Malathion is an insecticide of relatively low human toxicity....

    , in favor of continuing ground-based eradication efforts.
  • July 8 – Irish Republican Joe McDonnell dies at the Long Kesh Internment Camp after a 61-day hunger strike.
  • July 10 – Mahathir bin Mohamad
    Mahathir bin Mohamad
    Tun Mahathir bin Mohamad is a retired Malaysian political figure. He was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia. He held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysia's longest-serving Prime Minister, and one of the longest-serving leaders in Asia. During his term in office, he was...

     becomes the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia
    Prime Minister of Malaysia
    The Prime Minister of Malaysia is the indirectly elected head of government of Malaysia. He is formally appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, the head of state, and is invariably the leader of the largest party in the House of Representatives, the elected lower house of Parliament...

    .
  • July 17 – Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
    Hyatt Regency walkway collapse
    The Hyatt Regency hotel walkway collapse was a major disaster that occurred on July 17, 1981 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States, killing 114 people and injuring more than 200 others during a tea dance. At the time it was the deadliest structural collapse in U.S...

    : Two skywalks filled with people at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Missouri
    Kansas City, Missouri
    Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, just to the city's east...

     collapse into a crowded atrium lobby, killing 114.
  • July 17 – Israel
    Israel
    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia 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...

    i aircraft bomb 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 Metropolitan Area, which...

    , destroying multi-story apartment blocks containing the offices of PLO associated groups, killing approximately 300 civilians and resulting in worldwide condemnation and a U.S. embargo on the export of aircraft to Israel.
  • July 17 – In Bolivia
    Bolivia
    Bolivia, officially Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile and Peru to the west....

    , General Luis Gracia Meza leads a bloody coup d'état
    Coup d'état
    A coup d'état , or coup for short, is the sudden unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another, either civil or military...

     against the elected government of Lidia Gayler.
  • July 19 – The 1981 Springbok Tour
    1981 Springbok Tour
    The 1981 South Africa rugby union tour of New Zealand was a controversial tour of New Zealand by the South Africa national rugby union team, known as "the Springboks". The South African government's policy of racial segregation polarised opinions and sparked controversy throughout New Zealand...

     commences in New Zealand
    New Zealand
    New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses , and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori named New Zealand Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud...

    , amid controversy over the support of apartheid.
  • July 21 – Tohui The Panda is born in Chapultepec Zoo
    Chapultepec Zoo
    Chapultepec Zoo is a Mexican zoo located in Chapultepec; it is one of four zoos near Mexico City, and the best known Mexican zoo. It was founded 6 July 1923 by Mexican biologist Alfonso Luis Herrera using donations from private citizens and governmental funds from the Ministry of Agriculture and...

     in Mexico City
    Mexico City
    Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country, and the most populous city, with about 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008...

    , the first panda to ever be born and survive in captivity outside 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 most populous in the world with over 1.3 billion people, approximately one-fifth of the world's population...

    .
  • July 27 – Adam Walsh, 6, is kidnapped from a Sears store in Hollywood, Florida.
  • July 29 – Lady Diana Spencer
    Diana, Princess of Wales
    Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons, Princes William and Harry, are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth Realms.A public figure from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana...

     marries Charles, Prince of Wales
    Charles, Prince of Wales
    Charles, Prince of Wales is the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1952, he has been heir apparent to the thrones of the Commonwealth realms. After earning a bachelor of arts from Trinity College, Cambridge, Charles served a tour of duty with Royal Navy...

    .

August


  • August 1 – MTV
    MTV
    MTV is a cable television network based in New York City and launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs...

     (Music Television) is launched on cable television in the United States.
  • August 3 – The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) goes on strike.
  • August 5 – Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...

     fires 11,359 striking
    Strike action
    Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines...

     air-traffic controllers who ignored his order for them to return to work.
  • August 7 – The Washington Star
    Washington Star
    The Washington Star, previously known as the Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, was a daily afternoon newspaper published in Washington, D.C. between 1852 and 1981. For most of that time, it was the city's newspaper of record, and the longtime home to columnist Mary McGrory and...

     ceases publication after 128 years.
  • August 9 – Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball
    Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in North 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...

     resumes from the strike with the All-Star Game
    Major League Baseball All-Star Game
    The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also popularly known as the "Midsummer Classic", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by a combination of fans, players, coaches, and managers...

     in Cleveland
    Cleveland, Ohio
    Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border...

    's Municipal Stadium
    Cleveland Stadium
    Cleveland Stadium was a baseball and American football stadium located in Cleveland, Ohio. In its final years, the stadium seated 74,438 for baseball and 81,000 for football...

    .
  • August 10 – Exactly 2 weeks after his disappearance, the severed head of 6-year-old Hollywood, Florida
    Hollywood, Florida
    Hollywood is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of July 1 2008, the population estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau is 141,740. Founded in 1925, the city grew rapidly in the 1950s and 1960s, and is now the twelfth largest city in Florida...

     native Adam Walsh is found in a canal in Vero Beach, Florida
    Vero Beach, Florida
    Vero Beach is a city in Indian River County, Florida, USA. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 16,939. It is the county seat of Indian River County...

    ; to this day the rest of the boy's body has never been recovered.
  • August 12 – The original Model 5150 IBM PC
    IBM PC
    The IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981...

     (with a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088
    Intel 8088
    The Intel 8088 microprocessor was a variant of the Intel 8086 and was introduced on July 1, 1979. It had an 8-bit external data bus instead of the 16-bit bus of the 8086. The 16-bit registers and the one megabyte address range were unchanged, however...

     processor) is released in the United States at a base price of $1,565.
  • August 19 – Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
    Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
    }In the first Gulf of Sidra incident, August 19, 1981, two Libyan Sukhoi Su-22 Fitter attack aircraft were shot down by two American F-14 Tomcats off of the Libyan coast.-Background:...

    : Libya
    Libya
    Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa...

    n leader Muammar al-Gaddafi
    Muammar al-Gaddafi
    Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi1 has been the de facto leader of Libya since a coup in 1969....

     sends 2 Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept 2 U.S.
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     fighters over the Gulf of Sidra
    Gulf of Sidra
    Gulf of Sidra is a body of water in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya; it is also known as Gulf of Sirte. It is located by the city of Sirte...

    . The American jets destroy the Libyan fighters.
  • August 19 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...

     appoints the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Day O'Connor
    Sandra Day O'Connor
    Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist and was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006...

    .
  • August 24 – Mark David Chapman
    Mark David Chapman
    Mark David Chapman is an American prisoner who assassinated John Lennon on December 8, 1980, in New York City. Chapman shot at Lennon four times in the back, outside The Dakota apartment building, in the presence of Lennon's wife Yoko Ono and others...

     is sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, after being convicted of murdering John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles...

     in Manhattan
    Manhattan
    Manhattan is one of the five boroughs of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.New York County, which has the same boundaries as the Borough of Manhattan , is the most densely populated county in the United States, with a 2008 population of 1,634,795...

     8 months earlier.
  • August 28 – South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...

    n troops invade Angola
    Angola
    Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean. The exclave province of Cabinda has a border with the Republic of the...

    .
  • August 31 – A bomb explodes at the U.S. Air Force base in Ramstein
    Ramstein Air Base
    Ramstein Air Base is a United States Air Force base in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz. It serves as headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe and is also a North Atlantic Treaty Organization installation...

    , West Germany
    West Germany
    West Germany is a common English name for the period of the Federal Republic of Germany between its' formation in May 1949 to German reunification in October 1990, when the German Democratic Republic was dissolved and the five states on its territory joined the Federal Republic of Germany,...

    , injuring 20 people.

September


  • September 4 – An explosion at a mine in Záluží
    Záluží (Beroun District)
    Záluží is a village in Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has around 480 inhabitants.-External links:*...

    , Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia
    Czechoslovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

    , kills 65 people.
  • September 10 – Picasso's painting "Guernica
    Guernica (painting)
    Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the bombing of Guernica, Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces, on April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War...

    " is moved from New York
    New York
    New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

     to Madrid
    Madrid
    Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. It is the third-most populous municipality in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its metropolitan area is the third-most populous city by urban area in the European Union after Paris and London.The city is located on the river...

    .
  • September 11 – A small plane crashes into the Swing Auditorium
    Swing Auditorium
    Swing Auditorium was an indoor arena located on E Street in San Bernardino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Named for Senator Ralph E. Swing, the arena was constructed at the grounds of the National Orange Show in 1949...

     in San Bernardino, California
    San Bernardino, California
    San Bernardino is a large city located in the Inland Empire Metropolitan Area of Southern California. San Bernardino is also the county seat of San Bernardino County, California, United States. San Bernardino's estimated population, as of 2006, is 205,010. As of 2006, it was the 18th largest city...

    , damaging the venue beyond repair.
  • September 14 – Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Thatcher
    Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher LG, OM, PC, FRS served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She is the only woman to have held either post....

     appoints Cecil Parkinson
    Cecil Parkinson
    Cecil Edward Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, PC , is a British Conservative politician and former Cabinet Minister.-Early life:...

     as Chairman of the Conservative Party
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservatives, the Conservative Party, or Tory Party is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom...

    .
  • September 15 – The John Bull
    John Bull (locomotive)
    John Bull is a British-built railroad steam locomotive that operated in the United States. It was operated for the first time on September 15, 1831, and it became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution operated it in 1981...

     becomes the oldest operable steam locomotive
    Steam locomotive
    A steam locomotive is a locomotive powered by steam. The term usually refers to its use on railways, but can also refer to a "road locomotive" such as a traction engine or steamroller....

     in the world, at 150 years old, when it operates under its own power outside Washington, DC.
  • September 16 – In Britain
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

    , the Liberal Party
    Liberal Party (UK)
    The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the mid 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become...

     Assembly votes for an electoral pact with the new Social Democratic Party
    Social Democratic Party (UK)
    The Social Democratic Party was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the Gang of Four: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

    .
  • September 17 – Ric Flair
    Ric Flair
    Richard Morgan Fliehr better known by his ring name, Ric Flair, is an American professional wrestler. Also known as "The Nature Boy," Flair is one of the most well known professional wrestlers in the world....

     defeats Dusty Rhodes to win his first World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship 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, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. It is one of two county seats of Jackson County, the other being Independence, just to the city's east...

    .
  • September 18 – France
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     abolishes capital punishment
    Capital punishment
    Capital punishment or the death penalty, is the execution of a person by judicial process as a punishment for an offense. Crimes that can result in a death penalty are known as capital crimes or capital offences....

    .
  • September 19 – The second Wranslide occurs in New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is Australia's most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia...

    , with the Wran government re-elected for a third term with an increased majority, and reducing the Liberal Party of Australia
    Liberal Party of Australia
    The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

     to just 14 members in the Legislative Assembly.
  • September 19 – Simon & Garfunkel perform The Concert in Central Park
    The Concert in Central Park
    The Concert in Central Park is a live album by Simon & Garfunkel. On September 19, 1981 the folk-rock duo reunited for a free concert on the Great Lawn of New York's Central Park attended by more than 500,000 people. They released a live album from the concert the following March...

    , a free concert in New York in front of approximately half a million people.
  • September 20 – The Brazilian river boat Sobral Santos capsizes in the Amazon River
    Amazon River
    The Amazon River of South America is the largest river in the world by volume, with a total river flow greater than the next eight largest rivers combined. The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. During...

    , Óbidos, Brazil, killing at least 300.
  • September 21 – Belize
    Belize
    Belize , is a country in Central America. Belize has a diverse society, composed of many cultures and speaking many languages. Although Kriol and Spanish are spoken among the population, Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official language...

     becomes independent.
  • September 25 – Sandra Day O'Connor
    Sandra Day O'Connor
    Sandra Day O'Connor is an American jurist and was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006...

     takes her seat as the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • September 25 – The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones
    The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in 1962 in London when multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones and pianist Ian Stewart were joined by vocalist Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. Bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts completed the early lineup...

     begin their Tattoo You
    Tattoo You
    Tattoo You is an album by The Rolling Stones, released in 1981. The follow-up to Emotional Rescue, it proved to be a big critical and commercial success upon its release and is still celebrated as one of The Rolling Stones' finest full-length releases, despite its prolonged recording...

     tour at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia.
  • September 26 – The Boeing 767
    Boeing 767
    The Boeing 767 is a mid-size, wide-body twinjet airliner produced by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. Passenger versions of the 767 can carry between 181 and 375 passengers, and have a range of 5,200 to 6,590 nautical miles depending on variant and seating configuration. The Boeing 767 has been...

     airliner makes its first flight.
  • September 26 – The Sydney Tower
    Sydney Tower
    Sydney Tower is Sydney's tallest free-standing structure, and the second tallest in Australia...

     first opened to the public.
  • September 27 – TGV
    TGV
    The TGV is France's high-speed rail service, currently operated by VFE, the long-distance rail branch of SNCF, the French national rail operator. It was developed during the 1970s by GEC-Alsthom and SNCF, and is now operated primarily by SNCF...

     high speed rail service between Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

     and Lyon
    Lyon
    ||-||}Lyon , often Anglicized as Lyons, is a city in east-central France in the region Rhône-Alpes, situated between Paris and Marseille. Its name is pronounced in French and Arpitan, and or in English...

    , France
    France
    France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean...

     begins.
  • September 27 – Denis Healey
    Denis Healey
    Denis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC is an English Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.-Early life:...

     retains the post of Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
    Labour Party (UK)
    The Labour Party is a centre-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been seen since 1920 as the principal party of the Left in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently begun to organise again...

    , beating Tony Benn
    Tony Benn
    Anthony "Tony" Neil Wedgwood Benn , formerly 2nd Viscount Stansgate, is a British, democratic socialist politician, and the current President of the Stop the War Coalition....

     by 50.426% to 49.574%.

October


  • October 6 – Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...

    ian president Anwar Sadat
    Anwar Sadat
    Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, or Anwar El Sadat , was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981...

     is assassinated during a parade by army members who belong to the Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...

    ian Islamic Jihad
    Egyptian Islamic Jihad
    The Egyptian Islamic Jihad , formerly called simply Islamic Jihad The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), formerly called simply Islamic Jihad (الجهاد الإسلامي and Liberation Army for Holy Sites...

     organization; they opposed his negotiations with Israel
    Israel
    Israel officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia 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...

    .
  • October 10 – The Ministry for Education of Japan issues the jōyō kanji
    Joyo kanji
    The is the guide to kanji characters announced officially by the Japanese Ministry of Education. Current jōyō kanji are those on a list of 1,945 characters issued on October 10, 1981...

    .
  • October 10 – A Provisional IRA
    Provisional Irish Republican Army
    The Provisional Irish Republican Army is an Irish republican paramilitary organisation which sought to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and bring about a united Ireland by force of arms and political persuasion...

     bomb at Chelsea Barracks
    Chelsea Barracks
    Chelsea Barracks was a British Army barracks located in the City of Westminster, London, adjacent to Chelsea, on Chelsea Bridge Road.-History:...

     in London
    London
    []London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

     kills a woman pensioner.
  • October 13 – James Tobin
    James Tobin
    James Tobin was an American economist who in his lifetime, had served on the Council of Economic Advisors, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and had taught at Harvard and Yale Universities. He developed the ideas of Keynesian economics, and advocated government intervention to...

     wins the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
  • October 14 – Vice President Hosni Mubarak
    Hosni Mubarak
    Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, , (born 4 May 1928), is the 4th and current President of the Arab Republic of Egypt. He was appointed Vice President in 1975, and assumed the presidency on...

     is elected President of Egypt
    Egypt
    Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...

     1 week after Anwar Sadat's assassination.
  • October 16 – Gas explosions at a coal mine at Hokutan, Yūbari, Hokkaidō
    Yubari, Hokkaido
    is a city in Sorachi, Hokkaidō, Japan.As of 2008, the city has an estimated population of 12,068. The total area is 763.20 km². Hemmed in by mountains Yūbari stretches for 25 kilometers along a mountain valley....

    , 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...

     kill 93.
  • October 21 – Andreas Papandreou
    Andreas Papandreou
    Andreas Papandreou was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a dominant figure in Greek politics. He served two terms as Prime Minister of Greece...

     becomes Prime Minister of Greece
    Prime Minister of Greece
    The Prime Minister of Greece , officially the Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic , is the head of government of the Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Greek cabinet. The current Prime Minister is George Papandreou, leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement party...

    .
  • October 22 – The founding congress of the Nepal Workers and Peasants Organization
    Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation (Hareram Sharma)
    Nepal Workers and Peasants Organisation was a communist group in Nepal, led by Hareram Sharma. It was one of the two separate NWPOs that emerged out of the original NWPO...

     faction led by Hareram Sharma and D. P. Singh begins.
  • October 22 – Liberal
    Liberal Party (UK)
    The Liberal Party was one of the two major British political parties from the mid 19th century until the rise of the Labour Party in the 1920s, and a third party of varying strength and importance up to 1988, when it merged with the Social Democratic Party to form a new party which would become...

     candidate Bill Pitt
    Bill Pitt
    William Henry Pitt, commonly known as Bill Pitt, is a British politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament between 1981 and 1983, and was the first candidate elected to Parliament under the banner of the SDP-Liberal Alliance....

     wins the Croydon North West by-election
    Croydon North West by-election, 1981
    The Croydon North West by-election took place on 22 October 1981. It was caused by the death of Conservative Member of Parliament Robert Taylor on 18 June 1981.The Conservative Party selected John Butterfill, then vice-chairman of Guildford Conservative Association...

    , the first election win by the Liberal-S.D.P.
    Social Democratic Party (UK)
    The Social Democratic Party was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the Gang of Four: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

     Alliance.
  • October 26 – An IRA bomb in a Wimpy Bar in Oxford Street
    Oxford Street
    Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in London, England in the City of Westminster. With over 300 shops, it is Europe's busiest shopping street, as well as the most dense. The street derives its name from being part of the old London—Oxford Road which began at Newgate, City of London...

    , London
    London
    []London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...

    , kills a bomb disposal expert.
  • October 27 – A Soviet submarine
    Submarine
    A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has only limited underwater capability...

     runs aground outside the Karlskrona
    Karlskrona
    Karlskrona is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 32,606 inhabitants in 2005. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's only remaining naval base and the HQ of the Swedish Coast...

    , Sweden
    Sweden
    Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...

     military base.
  • October 28 – The thrash metal band Metallica
    Metallica
    Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1981. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk...

     forms in Los Angeles
    Los Ángeles
    Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the municipality of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123.445 inhabitants...

    .

November


  • November 1 – Antigua and Barbuda
    Antigua and Barbuda
    Antigua and Barbuda is an island nation located on the eastern boundary of the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major islands Antigua and Barbuda and a number of smaller islets...

     gain independence
    Independence
    Independence is the self-government of a nation, country, or state by its residents and population, or some portion thereof, generally exercising sovereignty....

     from the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

    .
  • November 9 – Edict No. 81-234 abolishes slavery
    Slavery
    Slavery is a form of forced labor in which people are considered to be the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive compensation...

     in Mauritania
    Mauritania
    Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest...

    .
  • November 12 – STS-2
    STS-2
    STS-2 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, that launched on November 12, 1981 . This was the second space shuttle mission, and was also the second mission for Columbia...

    : Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it flew a total of 27 times before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 on the STS-107 mission , killing all seven...

     (Joe Engle, Richard Truly) lifts off for its second mission.
  • November 12 – The Church of England
    Church of England
    The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England, the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the oldest among the communion's thirty-eight independent national and regional churches...

     General Synod
    General Synod
    -Church of England:In the Church of England, the General Synod, which was established in 1970 , is the legislative body of the Church.-Episcopal Church of the United States:...

     votes to admit women to holy orders.
  • November 13 – The first Friday the 13th
    Friday the 13th
    Friday the 13th occurs when the thirteenth day of a month falls on Friday, which superstition holds to be a day of good or bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least once, but at most three times a year.-Phobia:...

     motorcycle
    Motorcycle
    A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are the most affordable form of...

     event is held in Port Dover, Ontario
    Ontario
    Ontario is a province located in east-central Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area. Ontario is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Manitoba to the west and Quebec to the east, and 5 U.S...

    , 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...

    .
  • November 16 – Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
  • November 18 – COMDEX Fall, IBM introduces the IBM PC. Scientific Solutions announces the first PC add-in cards.
  • November 23 – Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Reagan
    Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States and the 33rd Governor of California .Born in Tampico, Illinois, Reagan moved to Los Angeles, California in the 1930s...

     signs the top secret
    Classified information
    Classified information is sensitive information to which access is restricted by law or regulation to particular classes of persons. A formal security clearance is required to handle classified documents or access classified data. The clearance process requires a satisfactory background investigation...

     National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), authorizing the Central Intelligence Agency
    Central Intelligence Agency
    The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian intelligence agency of the United States government.It is an independent agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior United States policymakers....

     to recruit and support Contra
    Contra
    Contra is a Latin preposition meaning "against". It may refer to:*Contras, Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries opposed to the Sandinistas**Iran-Contra affair, the Reagan administration selling weapons to Iran to fund the Contras...

     rebels in Nicaragua
    Nicaragua
    Nicaragua officially the Republic of Nicaragua , is a representative democratic republic. It is the largest country in Central America with an area of 130,373 km2. The country is bordered by Honduras to the north and Costa Rica to the south. The Pacific Ocean lies to the west of...

    .
  • November 25–26 – A group of mercenaries
    Mercenary
    A mercenary is a professional soldier hired by a foreign army, as opposed to a soldier enlisted in the armed forces of a sovereign state. He or she takes part in armed conflict on many different scales, and is "motivated to take part in the hostilities essentially by the desire for private gain...

     led by Mike Hoare
    Mike Hoare
    Thomas Michael Hoare is a mercenary leader known for military battles in Africa and the Indian Ocean.-Early life and military career:...

     take over Mahe
    Mahé
    Mahé, a small town surrounded on all sides by Kerala this town is officially a part of Puducherry . The official name of Mahe is Mayyazhi in the local Malayalam language. The original name of Mahé, Mayyazhi, means "eyebrow of the sea". The Kannur District surrounds Mahe on three sides...

     airport in the Seychelles
    Seychelles
    Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an archipelago nation of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar...

     in a coup attempt. Most of the mercenaries escape by a commandeered Air India
    Air India
    {Infobox Airline|airline = Air India
    एअर इंडिया|logo = AI logo.gif|logo_size = 200|IATA = AI|ICAO = AIC|callsign = AIRINDIA|parent = NACIL...

     passenger jet; 6 are later arrested.
  • November 26 – Former cabinet minister Shirley Williams wins the Crosby
    Crosby (UK Parliament constituency)
    Crosby is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...

     by-election
    By-election
    A by-election is an election held to fill a political office that has become vacant between regularly scheduled elections...

    , becoming the first elected S.D.P.
    Social Democratic Party (UK)
    The Social Democratic Party was a political party of the United Kingdom that existed nationwide between 1981 and 1988. It was founded by four senior Labour Party 'moderates', dubbed the Gang of Four: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams...

     MP.
  • November 30 – Cold War
    Cold War
    The Cold War was the continuing state of political conflict, military tension, and economic competition existing after World War II , primarily between the USSR and its satellite states, and the powers of the Western world, including the United States...

    : In Geneva
    Geneva
    Geneva, is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie...

    , representatives from the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     and the Soviet Union
    Soviet Union
    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. The name is a translation of the , tr. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated СССР, SSSR. The common short name is Soviet Union, from , Sovetskiy Soyuz...

     begin negotiating intermediate-range nuclear weapon
    Nuclear weapon
    A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or a combination of fission and fusion...

     reductions in Europe
    Europe
    Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast...

     (the meetings end inconclusively on Thursday, December 17).

December


  • December 1 – A Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia
    Yugoslavia is a term that describes three political entities that existed successively on the Balkan Peninsula in Europe, during most of the 20th century.The first country to be known by this...

    n McDonnell Douglas DC-9
    McDonnell Douglas DC-9
    The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is a twin-engine, single-aisle jet airliner. It was first manufactured in 1965 with its maiden flight later that year. The DC-9 was designed for frequent, short flights. The final DC-9 was delivered in October 1982.The DC-9 was followed in subsequent modified forms by...

     crashes into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio
    Ajaccio
    Ajaccio , is a commune in France. It is the capital of the region of Corsica and the prefecture of the department of Corse-du-Sud....

     Airport in Corsica
    Corsica
    Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....

    , killing 178.
  • December 4 – South Africa
    South Africa
    The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...

     grants "homeland" Ciskei
    Ciskei
    Ciskei was a Bantustan in the south east of South Africa. It consisted 2,970 square miles , almost entirely surrounded by what was then the Cape Province and possessing a small coastline along the shore of the Indian Ocean....

     independence (not recognized outside South Africa).
  • December 5 – American general James Lee Dozier
    James L. Dozier
    James Lee Dozier is a retired US Army general officer. In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the leftist Italian "Red Brigades" terrorist group. He was freed by Italian anti-terrorist forces after 42 days of captivity. General Dozier was the deputy Chief of Staff at NATO's Southern European land...

     is kidnapped in Verona
    Verona
    Verona is a city in Veneto, northern Italy, one of the seven provincial capitals in the region. It is one of the main tourist destinations in north-eastern Italy, thanks to its artistic heritage, several annual fairs, shows and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient...

     by the Italian Red Brigades
    Red Brigades
    The Red Brigades were a Marxist-Leninist militant group based in Italy and active, mainly via political assassinations and bank robberies, during the "Years of Lead"....

    .
  • December 8 – The No. 21 Mine explosion
    No. 21 Mine explosion
    On December 8, 1981, 13 coal miners lost their lives as the result of an explosion at the No. 21 Mine, an underground coal mine near Whitwell, Tennessee....

     in Whitwell, Tennessee
    Whitwell, Tennessee
    Whitwell is a city in Marion County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,660 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, TN–GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

     kills 13.
  • December 8 – Arthur Scargill
    Arthur Scargill
    Arthur Scargill is a former British trade union and political party leader. He was the President of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1981 to 2000 and before that leader of the Yorkshire Area. He led the union through the 1984-85 miners' strike, a key event in British trade union and...

     becomes President-elect of the National Union of Mineworkers.
  • December 10 – During the Ministerial Session of the North Atlantic Council
    North Atlantic Council
    North Atlantic Council is the most senior political governing body of NATO established by Article 9 of the North Atlantic Treaty. The NAC can be held at the Permanent Representative Level , or can be composed of member states' Ministers of State, Defense, or Heads of Government. The NAC has the...

     in Brussels
    Brussels
    Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium...

    , Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably...

     signes the Protocol of Accession to NATO
    NATO
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ); ), also called "the Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4, 1949...

    .
  • December 11 – Boxing
    Boxing
    Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...

    : Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali is a retired American boxer and three-time World Heavyweight Champion, who is widely considered one of the greatest heavyweight champions. As an amateur, he won a gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome...

     loses to Trevor Berbick
    Trevor Berbick
    Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican - Canadian heavyweight boxer who fought as a professional from 1976 until 2000. He was the victim of a homicide near his hometown of Norwich, Jamaica. Berbick briefly held the WBC heavyweight title in 1986, before losing it to Mike Tyson...

    ; this proved to be Ali's last-ever fight.
  • December 11 – El Mozote massacre
    El Mozote massacre
    The El Mozote Massacre took place in the village of El Mozote, in Morazán department, El Salvador, on December 11, 1981, when Salvadoran armed forces trained by the United States military killed at least 1000 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign....

    : In El Salvador
    El Salvador
    El Salvador is the smallest and most densely populated country in Central America. It borders the Pacific Ocean between Guatemala and Honduras. It lies on the Gulf of Fonseca, as does Nicaragua further south. It has a population of approximately 5.7 million people as of 2009 on...

    , army units kill 900 civilians.
  • December 13 – Wojciech Jaruzelski
    Wojciech Jaruzelski
    Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (pronounced ; (born 6 July 1923 in Kurów) is a Polish military leader and the country's last Communist leader. He was leader of the Communist Polish United Workers Party from 1981 to 1989, Prime Minister from 1981 to...

     declares martial law in Poland
    Martial law in Poland
    Martial law in Poland refers to the period of time from December 13, 1981 to July 22, 1983, when the government of the People's Republic of Poland drastically restricted normal life by introducing martial law in an attempt to crush the political opposition against the Communist rule in Poland...

    , to prevent the dismantling of the communist system by Solidarity
    Solidarity
    Solidarity is a Polish trade union federation founded in September 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard, and originally led by Lech Wałęsa.Solidarity was the first non-Communist-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country...

    .
  • December 15 – A car bomb
    Car bomb
    A car bomb is an improvised explosive device placed in a car or other vehicle and then detonated. It is commonly used as a weapon of assassination, terrorism, or guerrilla warfare, to kill the occupants of the vehicle, people near the blast site, or to damage buildings or other property...

     destroys the Iraq
    Iraq
    Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , also known as Mesopotamia, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.Iraq shares borders with Jordan to the west, Syria...

    i Embassy in 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 Metropolitan Area, which...

    , Lebanon
    Lebanon
    Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies...

    , killing 61 people; Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest....

    n intelligence is blamed.
  • December 20 – The Penlee lifeboat disaster
    Penlee lifeboat disaster
    The Penlee lifeboat disaster occurred on 19 December 1981 off the coast of Cornwall, in the United Kingdom, when the Penlee lifeboat went to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas...

     occurs off the coast of South-West Cornwall
    Cornwall
    Cornwall is a county of England in the United Kingdom, forming the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain. It is bordered to the north and west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Taken with the...

    .
  • December 28 – The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr
    Elizabeth Jordan Carr
    Elizabeth Jordan Carr was the United States' first baby born from the in-vitro fertilization procedure and the 15th in the world. The technique was conducted at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk under the direction of Doctors Howard Jones and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, who were the first to...

    , is born in Norfolk, Virginia
    Norfolk, Virginia
    Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. With a population of 234,403 as of the 2000 census, it is Virginia's second-largest incorporated city behind its eastern neighbor, Virginia Beach....

    .
  • December 31 – A coup d'état
    Coup d'état
    A coup d'état , or coup for short, is the sudden unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another, either civil or military...

     in Ghana
    Ghana
    The Republic of Ghana is a country in West Africa which borders Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...

     removes President
    Heads of state of Ghana
    Prior to independence in 1957, Ghana was known as the British colony of Gold Coast. Before then it had been divided among a number of states, by far the largest of which was the Ashanti Confederacy, whose leaders were known as the Asantehene....

     Hilla Limann
    Hilla Limann
    Hilla Limann was the President of Ghana from 24 September, 1979 to 31 December, 1981. Eventually he became a diplomat, and served in Switzerland. Limann, whose original last name was Babini, was born in the northern Ghanaian town of Gwollu in the Sissala West District of the Upper West Region to...

    's PNP
    People's National Party (Ghana)
    The People's National Party was the ruling party in Ghana during the Third Republic .All political parties in Ghana were disbanded following the January 1972 military coup led by Col. Ignatius Kutu Acheampong. When political activities resumed in 1979, there were five parties contesting the...

     government
    Limann government
    This is a listing of the ministers who served in Limann's People's National Party government during the Third Republic of Ghana. The Third Republic was inaugurated on 24 September, 1979...

     and replaces it with the PNDC
    Provisional National Defence Council
    The Provincial National Defence Council was the name of the Ghanaian government after the People's National Party's elected government was overthrown by Jerry Rawlings, the former head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council. This was on December 31, 1981. It remained in power until January 7,...

     led by Flight Lieutenant
    Flight Lieutenant
    Flight Lieutenant is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many Commonwealth countries. It ranks above Flying Officer and immediately below Squadron Leader. The name of the rank is the complete phrase; it is never shortened to "Lieutenant"...

     Jerry Rawlings
    Jerry Rawlings
    Jerry John Rawlings is a revolutionary who ruled Ghana for nearly 19 years. He has enjoyed a good relationship with the West who have overlooked his many flaws because he embraced democracy in the later part of his reign. He was twice the head of state of Ghana and was the 1st President of the...

    .

Undated

  • Heavy massive snow causes many houses and buildings to collapse in northwestern 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...

    ; 152 are killed (from January to March).
  • The Millennium translation of Saint Edward the Martyr
    Edward the Martyr
    Edward the Martyr , was king of the English from 975 until he was murdered in 978. Edward was the eldest son of King Edgar, but not his father's acknowledged heir. On Edgar's death, the leadership of the England was divided, some supporting Edward's claim to be king and other supporting his much...

    's relics from Wareham
    Wareham, Dorset
    Wareham is a historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town, a civil parish, in the English county of Dorset. The town is situated on the River Frome eight miles southwest of Poole.-Situation and geography:...

     to Shaftesbury
    Shaftesbury
    Shaftesbury is a town in North Dorset, England, situated on the A30 road near the Wiltshire border 20 miles west of Salisbury. The town is built 750 feet above sea level on the side of a chalk and greensand hill, which is part of Cranborne Chase, the only significant hilltop settlement in Dorset...

     is observed in a reenactment.
  • Public funding of election campaigns is introduced in New South Wales
    New South Wales
    New South Wales is Australia's most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia...

    , Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

    .
  • The State Council of the People's Republic of China
    State Council of the People's Republic of China
    The State Council , which is largely synonymous with the Central People's Government after 1954, is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the Premier and includes the heads of each governmental department and agency. There are about 50 members in...

     lists the 4 cities (Beijing
    Beijing
    Beijing is a metropolis in northern China and the capital of the People's Republic of China...

    , Hangzhou
    Hangzhou
    ' is a sub-provincial city located in the Yangtze River Delta in the People's Republic of China, and the capital of Zhejiang province. Located southwest of Shanghai, as of 2004 the entire Hangzhou Region or Prefecture-level city had a registered population of 6.4 million people...

    , Suzhou
    Suzhou
    Suzhou is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and on the shores of Lake Taihu in the province of Jiangsu, China. The city is renowned for its beautiful stone bridges, pagodas, and meticulously designed gardens which have contributed to its status as a great tourist attraction...

     and Guilin
    Guilin
    Guilin is a prefecture-level city in China, situated in the northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on the west bank of the Li River. Its name means "forest of Sweet Osmanthus", owing to the large number of fragrant Sweet Osmanthus trees located in the city...

    ) as those where the protection of historical and cultural heritage, as well as natural scenery, should be treated as a priority project.
  • Cuba
    Cuba
    The Republic of Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean. It consists of the island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city. Cuba is home to over 11 million people and is...

     suffers a major outbreak of Dengue fever
    Dengue fever
    Dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever are acute febrile diseases, found in the tropics, and caused by four closely related virus serotypes of the genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae. It is also known as breakbone fever...

    , with 344,203 cases. http://w3.whosea.org/en/Section10/Section332/Section521_2454.htm
  • Luxor AB
    Luxor AB
    Luxor was a Swedish home electronics and computer manufacturer located in Motala, acquired by Nokia in 1985.Originally a manufacturer of tape recorders, radios, television sets, stereo systems, and other home electronics, it launched its first home computer, the ABC 80 in 1978...

     Presents the ABC 800 computer.
  • Information Technology
    Information technology
    Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic...

     Training Institution NIIT
    NIIT
    NIIT is a Information Technology global education and training company headquartered in Gurgaon, India. It is one of Asia's largest Information Technology training and education company with 5 million students across 40 countries. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange and Bombay...

     in India
    India
    India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal...

     is established.
  • The Kosovo Liberation Army
    Kosovo Liberation Army
    The Kosovo Liberation Army or KLA was a Kosovar Albanian guerilla group which sought the independence of Kosovo from Yugoslavia in the 1990s....

     is formed.

January–February



  • January 1 – Zsolt Baumgartner
    Zsolt Baumgartner
    Zsolt Baumgartner is a former Formula One racing driver who raced for the Minardi team. He was the first Hungarian driver in Formula One.-Career:...

    , Hungarian race car driver
  • January 1 – Rashod Moulton
    Rashod Moulton
    Rashod Moulton is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He played college football at the Fort Valley State....

    , American Football player
  • January 1 – Mladen Petrić
    Mladen Petric
    Mladen Petrić is a Croatian football forward who currently plays for Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga and is a member of the Croatian national team.-Early life:...

    , Croatian football player
  • January 1 – Eden Riegel
    Eden Riegel
    Eden Sonja Jane Riegel is an American actress. Nominated previously on multiple occasions, she received a Daytime Emmy Award in 2005 for her portrayal of Bianca Montgomery on the daytime drama All My Children...

    , American actress
  • January 2 – Maxi Rodriguez, Argentine footballer
  • January 3 – Eli Manning
    Eli Manning
    Elisha Nelson "Eli" Manning is an American football quarterback for the New York Giants of the National Football League. He is the younger brother of NFL quarterback Peyton Manning and the son of former NFL quarterback Archie Manning...

    , American football player
  • January 4 – Silvy De Bie
    Silvy De Bie
    Silvy De Bie is a Dance vocalist for the Dance band Sylver.-Career:Silvy had her first stage trials when she was 9 Years old in the Flemish showbizz TV Show De Kinderacademie as Silvy Melody. In the Year 2000 she took the role of female vocalist for the Dance band Liquid feat., later in 2001 the...

    , Belgian singer
  • January 5 – Deadmau5
    Deadmau5
    Deadmau5 is a progressive house and electro house producer from Toronto, Canada. His extensive discography includes tracks such as "Arguru" and "Not Exactly", which have been included in compilation albums such as In Search of Sunrise 6: Ibiza, MixMag's Tech-Trance-Electro-Madness , and on Armin...

     (Joel Zimmerman), Canadian DJ/Producer
  • January 6 – Mike Jones
    Mike Jones (rapper)
    Michael Ansara "Mike" Jones is an American southern rap artist, who initially was affiliated with the record label Swishahouse, then left to be the owner of Ice Age Entertainment....

    , American rapper
  • January 6 – Jérémie Renier
    Jérémie Renier
    Jérémie Renier is a Belgian actor. He lives in Paris, France. He became more well-known with worldwide audiences following his roles in Brotherhood of the Wolf and L'Enfant.-Filmography:-External links:...

    , Belgian actor
  • January 7 – Alex Auld
    Alex Auld
    Alexander Auld is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender currently playing for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League . Auld has also played for the Vancouver Canucks, Florida Panthers, Phoenix Coyotes, Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators of the NHL...

    , Canadian ice hockey goaltender
  • January 7 – Rasaq
    Rasaq
    Rasaq Dayo Seriki, better known by his stage name Rasaq, is an American rapper. He is the younger brother of rapper Chamillionaire and is part of his own label Royal Green.-Mixtapes:...

    , American rapper and the brother of (Chamillionaire
    Chamillionaire
    Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is a Nigerian-American rapper and singer and CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment and a founder and original member of The Color Changin' Click, He began his career independently with local releases in 2003, including collaboration album...

    )
  • January 8 – Xie Xingfang
    Xie Xingfang
    Xie Xingfang is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China who has twice won women's singles at the BWF World Championships....

    , Chinese badminton player
  • January 8 – Genevieve Cortese
    Genevieve Cortese
    Genevieve Cortese is an American actress known for her breakout role on the television series Wildfire as Kris Furillo and had a recurring role from and appeared in 11 episodes as Ruby on Supernatural....

    , American actress
  • January 8 – Jeff Francis
    Jeff Francis
    Jeffrey William Francis is a left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies...

    , Canadian pitcher
  • January 9 – Euzebiusz Smolarek
    Euzebiusz Smolarek
    Euzebiusz "Ebi" Smolarek is a Polish footballer who is currently playing for the Polish national football team. He has played forty times for the Polish national football team. Smolarek plays primarily as a striker or winger.-Club career:Smolarek grew up in the Netherlands, where his father played...

    , Polish footballer
  • January 9 – Caroline Lufkin
    Caroline Lufkin
    Caroline Lufkin is an Uchina'a-born Lewchewan-American musician and younger sister of Japanese pop artist Olivia Lufkin. Caroline's songs feature dozens of live acoustic instruments, including pianos, harps, bells, guitars, strings and hand drums, and use no samples. Caroline performed in Taiwan's...

    , American singer
  • January 11 – Jamelia
    Jamelia
    Jamelia Niela Davis , known by her stage name Jamelia, is an English singer-songwriter and model, most famous for her use of a capella and prolific work in the R&B genre. She has released three studio albums, each of which has reached the Top 40 in her native UK, which collectively have spawned...

    , British singer
  • January 12 – Quentin Griffin
    Quentin Griffin
    Quentin LaVell Griffin is an American football running back.-Early Years:Griffin started his football career as a youth playing in the Humble Area Football League -High school:...

    , American football player
  • January 15 – El Hadji Diouf
    El Hadji Diouf
    El Hadji Ousseynou Diouf is a professional footballer. He plays for Blackburn Rovers, having previously played for Liverpool, Sunderland, Bolton Wanderers and Lens. Diouf is a playmaker whose favoured position is as a striker, but can also play on either wing.-Early career:Diouf started his career...

    , Senegalese footballer
  • January 15 – Howie Day
    Howie Day
    Howard Kern "Howie" Day is an American singer-songwriter. Beginning his career as a solo artist in the late 1990s, Day became known for his extensive touring and in-concert use of samplers and effects pedals in order to accompany himself...

    , American singer and songwriter
  • January 17 – Scott Mechlowicz
    Scott Mechlowicz
    Scott David Mechlowicz is an American actor. He began acting in 2003, and thus far is perhaps best known for his lead roles in the films EuroTrip, Mean Creek, Peaceful Warrior, and Gone.- Early life :...

    , American actor
  • January 17 – Ray J
    Ray J
    William Raymond Norwood, Jr. , better known by his stage name Ray J, is an American singer, record producer and actor. He is the son of gospel singer Willie Norwood and Sonja Bates-Norwood, the cousin of rapper Snoop Dogg and the younger brother of R&B singer Brandy.-Career:Ray J was born William...

    , American rapper and singer
  • January 19 – Lucho Gonzalez, Argentine footballer
  • January 20 – Jason Richardson
    Jason Richardson
    Jason Anthoney Richardson is an American professional basketball player with for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association.A 6'6", 225 lb...

    , American basketball player
  • January 20 – Owen Hargreaves
    Owen Hargreaves
    Owen Lee Hargreaves is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Manchester United and England.Born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Hargreaves played with Calgary Foothills as a youth before beginning his professional football career in Germany with Bayern Munich...

    , Canadian-born English footballer
  • January 20 – Brendan Fevola
    Brendan Fevola
    Brendan Fevola is an Australian rules footballer for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League.Fevola is currently regarded as one of the most effective full-forwards in the AFL, having won the Coleman Medal for league leading goalkicker in 2006 and 2009 as well as All-Australian...

    , Australian rules footballer
  • January 21 – Dany Heatley
    Dany Heatley
    Daniel "Dany" James Heatley is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League . Originally drafted by the Atlanta Thrashers second overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, he won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the top NHL rookie in 2002...

    , German-born hockey player
  • January 21 – Gillian Chung
    Gillian Chung
    Gillian Chung Yan-tung is a Hong Kong-based actress and singer. She is best known as a member of the Cantopop group Twins, alongside Charlene Choi.- Personal life :...

    , Hong Kong singer (Twins)
  • January 22 – Chantelle Anderson
    Chantelle Anderson
    Chantelle Denise Anderson is a former professional basketball player who played in the Women's National Basketball Association and overseas.-High School years:...

    , American basketball player
  • January 22 – Willa Ford
    Willa Ford
    Amanda Lee Williford-Modano , known professionally as Willa Ford and often as Mandy Modano, is an American singer, songwriter, model, television personality and film actress. She became known in 2001 as the self-proclaimed "Bad Girl of Pop," when she released her debut album, Willa Was Here...

    , American singer, television hostess, and actress
  • January 22 – Beverley Mitchell
    Beverley Mitchell
    Beverley Ann Mitchell is an American actress and country music singer. She is best known for her role as Lucy Camden-Kinkirk on the television series 7th Heaven.-Career:...

    , American actress
  • January 22 – Ben Moody
    Ben Moody
    Ben Robert Moody is a singer–songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and actor. He is best known as co-founder, lead guitarist, and songwriter of Grammy Award-winning rock band Evanescence from 1995 to October 2003...

    , American guitarist (formerly of Evanescence
    Evanescence
    Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording two private EPs and a demo CD named Origin, with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on...

    )
  • January 24 – Brandon Henschel
    Brandon Henschel
    Brandon Nicholas Henschel is an American actor and dancer. He was born in Lakeside, California to Art and Renae Henschel, he has two brothers, Travis and Sean, and a sister Aubrey. His first major film role was in 2005's Clawed: The Legend of Sasquatch, he played Jay Kelter...

    , American actor and dancer
  • January 25 – Tose Proeski
    Toše Proeski
    Todor "Toše" Proeski was a Macedonian pop singer, actor and song-writer. He was popular across the entire Balkan area and further north, and locally he was considered a top act of the Macedonian music scene. Proeski was known for his trademark quote "Ve sakam site" , and was once dubbed "Elvis...

    , Macedonian singer (d. 2007)
  • January 27 – Greg Owens
    Greg Owens
    Greg Owens is an Australian football player who plays in the position of attacking midfielder...

    , Australian soccer player
  • January 27 – Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik
    Alicia Molik is a professional female tennis player from Australia. She reached a career high singles rank of number 8 and also won a bronze medal for Australia at the 2004 Athens Olympics. She retired from the sport in September 2008. However in August 2009 she announced her...

    , Australian tennis player
  • January 28 – Elijah Wood
    Elijah Wood
    Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor. Making his film debut with a minor part in the Back to the Future Part II , he landed a succession of subsequent larger roles and became a critically acclaimed child actor by age 13....

    , American actor and music producer
  • January 29 – Jonny Lang
    Jonny Lang
    Jonny Lang is a Grammy Award-winning American blues, gospel, and rock singer, songwriter and recording artist. Lang's music is notable both for his unusual voice, which has been compared to that of a 40 year old blues veteran, and for his guitar solos...

    , American musician
  • January 30 – Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Berbatov
    Dimitar Ivanov Berbatov is a Bulgarian footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United in the Premier League and the Bulgarian national team. He has won the Bulgarian Footballer of the Year award five times, equalling the number of wins by Hristo Stoichkov...

    , Bulgarian footballer
  • January 31 – Justin Timberlake
    Justin Timberlake
    Justin Randall Timberlake is an American pop musician. He has won six Grammy Awards as well as two Emmy Awards. He got his big break when he appeared as a contestant on Star Search, and went on to star in the Disney Channel television series The New Mickey Mouse Club, where he met future bandmate...

    , American musician
  • February 3 – Alisa Reyes
    Alisa Reyes
    Alisa Reyes is an American actress , best known for three seasons that she appeared on Nickelodeon's All That...

    , American actress
  • February 5 – Nora Zehetner
    Nora Zehetner
    Nora Angela Zehetner is an American film and television actress.-Early life:Zehetner was born in El Paso, Texas, the daughter of Nancy Lynne and John Carol Zehetner. She attended elementary school in Richardson, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, before moving back to El Paso...

    , American actress
  • February 5 – Lee Eon
    Lee Eon
    Lee Eon was a South Korean actor and model.- Early life and career :Lee Eon was born Park Sang-min on 5 February 1981. Lee began practising ssireum while in elementary school, going on to win gold medals at Korean national ssireum competitions in 1997 and 1998...

    , South Korean actor and model (d. 2008)
  • February 10 – The Reverend Tholomew Plague, American drummer (Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day." The band's success...

    )
  • February 10 – Natasha St-Pier
    Natasha St-Pier
    Natasha St-Pier is a Canadian pop singer and actress.-Career:...

    , Canadian singer
  • February 11 – Kelly Rowland
    Kelly Rowland
    Kelendria "Kelly" Rowland is an American singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, model and television host. Born in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in Houston, Texas, Rowland rose to fame in the late 1990s as one of the founding members of the girl group Destiny's Child...

    , American singer (Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child was a Grammy-Award winning American R&B girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The group achieved four major studio albums and four US number-one singles, and sold over 50 million records worldwide becoming one of the...

    )
  • February 14 – Erin Torpey
    Erin Torpey
    Erin Torpey is an American actress and singer.Torpey is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Jessica Buchanan on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role she played from 1990 until January 2003. She was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in 2000...

    , American actress
  • February 15 – Jenna Morasca
    Jenna Morasca
    Jenna Morasca is a reality TV contestant who was the million-dollar grand prize winner of Survivor: The Amazon and previously worked for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.-The Amazon:...

    , American television personality
  • February 15 – Olivia
    Olivia (singer)
    Olivia Theresa Longott , professionally known as Olivia, is a Jamaican-American R&B singer.-Biography:Olivia Longott was born on February 15, 1981. Her mother is Jamaican and her father is Cuban.-J Records:...

    , American singer
  • February 17 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor, known for roles both as a child and as an adult. His career has spanned more than 20 years, during which time he has worked in at least 24 feature films, as well as a number of television shows and theater productions.Beginning in commercials as a...

    , American actor
  • February 17 – Paris Hilton
    Paris Hilton
    Paris Whitney Hilton is an American socialite, heiress, media personality, model, singer, author, fashion designer and actress....

    , American model, heiress, and socialite
  • February 18 – Andrei Kirilenko
    Andrei Kirilenko (basketball)
    Andrei Gennadevich Kirilenko is a Russian professional basketball player, playing at the small forward position for the Utah Jazz in the National Basketball Association. He is 206 cm tall and weighs 103 kg...

    , Russian basketball player
  • February 18 – Ivan Sproule
    Ivan Sproule
    Ivan Sproule is a Northern Irish professional association football player who plays for Bristol City in the Football League Championship known for his explosive pace....

    , British footballer
  • February 19 – Vitas
    Vitas
    Vitaliy "Vitalik" Vladasovich Grachyov , better known by his stage name Vitas , is a Russian pop singer, composer, actor, and fashion designer...

    , Russian singer
  • February 20 – Chris Thile
    Chris Thile
    Chris Thile is an American musician, best known as the mandolinist and vocalist for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers and his most recent album is Punch. He has also recorded five albums as a solo artist, debuting with Leading Off in 1994...

    , American mandolinist
  • February 20 – Majandra Delfino
    Majandra Delfino
    Majandra Delfino , is an Alma Award nominated American actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on the television series Roswell.-Biography:...

    , American actress
  • February 22 – Jeanette Biedermann
    Jeanette Biedermann
    Jeanette Biedermann , professionally known as Jeanette, is a German pop singer-songwriter, actress and television personality....

    , German singer and actress
  • February 23 – Nakahara Mai Japanese voice actress
  • February 24 – Lleyton Hewitt
    Lleyton Hewitt
    Lleyton Glynn Hewitt is a professional tennis player, and a former World No. 1 ranked player, from Australia. In 2000, Hewitt had won ATP titles on all three major surfaces and reached one final on carpet. By 2001, he became the youngest male ever to be ranked number one at age 20...

    , Australian tennis player
  • February 26 – Maria Sansone
    Maria Sansone
    Maria Grace Sansone is the host of "Pop Tub Daily" featured on YouTube. She was previously host of The 9, an Internet video show that was part of Yahoo! Entertainment from July 6, 2006, to March 2008....

    , American journalist and Internet personality
  • February 27 – Josh Groban
    Josh Groban
    Joshua Winslow "Josh" Groban is a American singer-songwriter. He has concentrated his career so far mostly in concert singing and recordings, although he has stated that he wishes to pursue music theatre in the future. As of July 2009, he has sold 19,147,000 albums in the United States alone...

    , American singer

March–April

  • March 1 – Ana Hickmann
    Ana Hickmann
    Ana Lúcia Hickmann is a Brazilian model who has worked for Victoria's Secret, Nivea, L'Oreal, Clairol, and Bloomingdales...

    , Brazilian model
  • March 1 – Adam LaVorgna
    Adam LaVorgna
    -Early life:LaVorgna was born near New Haven in North Branford, Connecticut. Raised with his three siblings in North Branford, LaVorgna has been appearing on television and film since the early age of three when he first appeared on the daytime series As the World Turns...

    , American actor
  • March 1 – Brad Winchester
    Brad Winchester
    Brad Winchester , is a professional ice hockey left winger for the St. Louis Blues. He was selected in the second round of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, 35th overall, by the Edmonton Oilers.-Playing career:...

    , American ice hockey player
  • March 2 – Bryce Howard, American actress
  • March 3 – Lil' Flip
    Lil' Flip
    Wesley Eric Weston, Jr. , better known by his stage name Lil' Flip, is a Grammy Award Winning American rapper. Lil' Flip is known for his freestyle ability and claims to have been on 1000 mixtapes. He is one of the first southern and Houston rappers to become nationally known in mainstream play...

    , American rapper
  • March 3 – Shada Hassoun, Iraqi singer
  • March 4 – Carol Banawa
    Carol Banawa
    Carol Claire Aguilar Banawa , better known in the Philippines as Carol Banawa, is a Filipina singer and actress. She was born in Pasay City to Albino and Cirila Banawa. She has two siblings, Alexander and Cherry. She was raised in Batangas...

    , Filipina singer
  • March 6 – Ellen Muth
    Ellen Muth
    Ellen Anna Muth is an American actress, known for her role as George Lass in Showtime's series Dead Like Me. She is a member of Intertel and Mensa.-Biography:...

    , American actress
  • March 9 – Antonio Bryant
    Antonio Bryant
    Antonio Bryant is an American football wide receiver for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round of the 2002 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • March 10 – Kristen Maloney
    Kristen Maloney
    Kristin Ann Maloney , also known as Kristen Maloney, is a retired gymnast from Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, United States, who was coached by Jack Carter in the 2000 Olympics. Maloney was also the U.S...

    , American gymnast
  • March 11 – David Anders
    David Anders
    David Anders is an American television and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Julian Sark on Alias, and as Adam Monroe on Heroes. Although Anders is American, both of these noted roles required him to use a British accent.-Early life:Anders was born in Grants Pass, Oregon, to parents...

    , American actor
  • March 11 – Lee Evans
    Lee Evans (American football)
    Lee Evans is an American football wide receiver who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bills in the first round of the 2004 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • March 11 – LeToya Luckett
    LeToya Luckett
    LeToya Nicole Luckett , known professionally as LeToya, is an American R&B singer-songwriter and actress. She was a founding member of the R&B female group Destiny's Child, with whom she won two Grammy Awards and released many successful commercial recordings.After signing a record deal with...

    , American singer
  • March 12 – Katarina Srebotnik
    Katarina Srebotnik
    Katarina Srebotnik is a Slovenian professional tennis player, coached by Biljana Veselinovic. Srebotnik is right-handed, 1.80 m, weighs 65 kg and lives in Dubai. She reached a career-high ranking of No. 20 on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour on August 7, 2006. Her nickname amongst fans is...

    , Slovenian tennis player
  • March 12 – Kenta Kobayashi
    Kenta Kobayashi
    , also known by his ring name Kenta , is a Japanese professional wrestler currently signed to Pro Wrestling Noah, where he is the Global Honored Crown Junior Heavyweight Champion....

    , Japanese professional wrestler
  • March 15 – Young Buck
    Young Buck
    David Darnell Brown , better known by his stage name Young Buck, is an American rapper who is signed to G-Unit Records and Cashville Records...

    , American rapper
  • March 16 – Andrew Bree
    Andrew Bree
    Andrew Bree is a breaststroke swimmer from Helen's Bay, Co. Down Northern Ireland. He is a 2-time Irish Olympian, having swam at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics....

    , Irish swimmer
  • March 16 – Johannes Aigner
    Johannes Aigner
    Hannes Aigner is an Austrian footballer who currently plays as a striker for FC Magna Wiener Neustadt in the Austrian second division.-Club career:...

    , Austrian footballer
  • March 17 – Kyle Korver
    Kyle Korver
    Kyle Elliot Korver is an American basketball player with the Utah Jazz of the NBA. He plays small forward and was drafted out of Creighton University by the New Jersey Nets in the second round of the 2003 NBA Draft; his draft rights were traded to the Philadelphia 76ers for cash considerations in...

    , American basketball player
  • March 18 – Fabian Cancellara
    Fabian Cancellara
    Fabian Cancellara is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour . A time trial specialist, he has been three time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist...

    , Swiss road bicycle racer
  • March 19 – Kolo Touré
    Kolo Touré
    Kolo Habib Touré is a football player who currently plays, and captains English Premier League club Manchester City and the Ivorian national team. Touré is a central defender renowned for his pace, strength and athleticism...

    , Ivorian football player
  • March 22 – MIMS
    Mims
    Mims or MIMS may refer to:* Mims , stage name for American rapper Shawn Mims* Mims, Florida, USA* Mims, Leland G., Louisiana local politician* Mims, Robert E., Utah local journalist writer editor-Acronym:...

    , American rapper
  • March 26 – Jay Sean
    Jay Sean
    Kamaljit Singh Jhooti, better known by his stage name Jay Sean, is a British recording artist and producer. Born in West London, England, he is best known for his hits "Stolen", "Eyes On You", "Ride It" and "Tonight" in UK. He has released two albums, Me Against Myself and My Own Way...

    , British-Indian singer
  • March 27 – Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
  • March 27 – Terry McFlynn
    Terry McFlynn
    Terence Martin "Terry" McFlynn is a football player from Swatragh, Northern Ireland. He currently plays as a central midfielder for the Australian A-League team Sydney FC. He is the current vice captain.-Club career:...

    , British footballer
  • March 28 – Lindsay Frimodt
    Lindsay Frimodt
    Lindsay Frimodt is an American model who appeared in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in 2002 and 2003...

    , American model
  • March 28 – Julia Stiles
    Julia Stiles
    Julia O'Hara Stiles is an American stage and film actress.After beginning her career in small parts in a New York City theatre troupe, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet...

    , American actress
  • March 28 – Gareth David-Lloyd
    Gareth David-Lloyd
    Gareth David-Lloyd is a Welsh actor best known for his role as Ianto Jones in the British science fiction television programme Torchwood.- Early life :...

    , Welsh actor
  • March 29 – Megan Hilty
    Megan Hilty
    Megan Hilty is an American stage and television actress.- Early years :...

    , American actress, singer, and broadway star
  • March 31 – Gerard McCarthy
    Gerard McCarthy
    Gerard McCarthy is an Irish actor best recognised for his BSA nominated role as Kris Fisher in the British TV drama Hollyoaks.-Haters:...

    , British actor
  • April 1 – Asli Bayram
    Asli Bayram
    Asli Bayram is a German actress and model of Turkish descent, who is best known for being Miss Germany in 2005.-Biography:...

    , Turkish German model and actress
  • April 1 – Hannah Spearritt
    Hannah Spearritt
    Hannah Louise Spearritt is an English actress and former singer. She was previously a member of the successful pop group S Club 7, and is engaged to her Primeval co-star Andrew-Lee Potts as of December 2008....

    , British singer and actress
  • April 2 – Bethany Joy Lenz, American actress and singer
  • April 3 – Arfius Arf, British artist
  • April 5 – Michael A. Monsoor
    Michael A. Monsoor
    Michael Anthony Monsoor was a U.S. Navy SEAL killed during the Iraq War and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. Monsoor enlisted in the United States Navy in 2001 and graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training in 2004...

    , American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2006)
  • April 6 – Robert Earnshaw
    Robert Earnshaw
    Robert Earnshaw is a Zambian-born Welsh international football player. He is a striker presently playing for Nottingham Forest...

    , Welsh footballer
  • April 7 – Suzann Pettersen
    Suzann Pettersen
    Suzann "Tutta" Pettersen is a Norwegian professional golfer who plays mainly on the U.S. based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour. Her career best world ranking is second.-Amateur career:...

    , Norwegian golfer
  • April 8 – Taylor Kitsch
    Taylor Kitsch
    -Early life and modeling career:Kitsch was born in Kelowna, British Columbia. He has two older brothers and two younger half sisters. Originally set to become a professional hockey player, he played for the Langley Hornets in the Canadian BCHL before a bad knee injury ended his career...

    , Canadian actor and model
  • April 8 – Frederick Bousquet
    Frédérick Bousquet
    Frédérick Bousquet is a freestyle and butterfly swimmer from France. He is the current holder of the world record in the 50 m freestyle in a time of 20.94 in long course, set in April 26, 2009 at the final of the French Championships...

    , French swimmer
  • April 9 – Milan Bartovič
    Milan Bartovic
    Milan Bartovič is a Slovak ice hockey left wing player, playing currently for HC Bílí Tygři Liberec in Czech Extraliga, and previously for Malmo IF of Elitserien in Sweden...

    , Slovak hockey player
  • April 9 – Eric Harris
    Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
    Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold were the high school seniors who committed the Columbine High School massacre. They killed 13 people and injured 21 others. Three people were also injured as they escaped the attack...

    , American murderer (d. 1999)
  • April 9 – Ireneusz Jeleń
    Ireneusz Jelen
    Ireneusz Jeleń is a Polish footballer who plays as a right-winger or striker for AJ Auxerre and the Polish national football team.-Club career:...

    , Polish footballer
  • April 10 – Gretchen Bleiler
    Gretchen Bleiler
    Gretchen Bleiler is a professional halfpipe snowboarder. She currently resides in Aspen, Colorado and is 5’5”.-Career:...

    , American snowboarder
  • April 10 – Laura Bell Bundy
    Laura Bell Bundy
    Laura Ashley Bell Bundy is a Tony Award-nominated American actress and singer who has performed in a number of Broadway roles, both starring and supporting, as well as in television and film...

    , American actress, singer, and broadway star.
  • April 10 – Liz McClarnon
    Liz McClarnon
    Elizabeth "Liz" McClarnon is an English pop singer, dancer and member of the band Atomic Kitten. She is now also a celebrity cook and television presenter.-Atomic Kitten:...

    , British singer
  • April 10 – Michael Pitt
    Michael Pitt
    Michael Carmen Pitt is an American actor and musician.-Personal life:Pitt was born in West Orange, New Jersey, the youngest of four children. At age ten, he announced to his parents that he wished to become an actor. He moved to New York City from New Jersey when he was 16 years old, where he took...

    , American actor
  • April 11 – Alessandra Ambrosio
    Alessandra Ambrosio
    Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model. Her last name is spelled Ambrósio, but the diacritic mark is omitted in her modeling work....

    , Brazilian model
  • April 15 – Seth Wulsin
    Seth Wulsin
    Seth Wulsin was born in Spring Valley, New York. He studied briefly at Yale University, before withdrawing to play music with friend and guitarist Solomon Silber. Between 2003 and 2005 he worked with the sculptor Ray King, helping to fabricate and install his large-scale public works...

    , artist
  • April 17 – Hanna Pakarinen
    Hanna Pakarinen
    Hanna Helena Pakarinen is a Finnish pop and pop-rock singer who rose to fame as the winner of the first series of the Finnish singing competition Idols in 2004...

    , Finnish singer
  • April 18 – Jang Nara
    Jang Nara
    Jang Nara is a very popular Korean singer and actress. She also sings in Chinese and is known there by her Chinese transliteration name ; .-Early life:...

    , Korean actress and singer
  • April 18 – Audrey Tang
    Audrey Tang
    Audrey Tang is a Taiwanese free software programmer, who has been described as one of the "ten greats of Taiwanese computing."-Biography:...

    , Taiwanese software programmer
  • April 19 – Hayden Christensen
    Hayden Christensen
    Hayden Christensen is a Canadian actor. He appeared in Canadian television programs when he was young, then diversified into American television in the late 1990s. He moved on to minor acting roles before being praised for his role of Sam in Life as a House, for which he was nominated for a...

    , Canadian actor
  • April 19 – Catalina Sandino Moreno
    Catalina Sandino Moreno
    Catalina Sandino Moreno is a Colombian actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in Maria Full of Grace.-Biography:...

    , Colombian actress
  • April 19 – Troy Polamalu
    Troy Polamalu
    Troy Aumua Polamalu is a professional American football strong safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. He was drafted in the 1st round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Steelers...

    , American football player
  • April 20 – Matus Valent
    Matus Valent
    Matúš Valent is a European male fitness model, born in Bratislava, Slovak Republic living in California.As a youth, he played indoor volleyball and became the Junior Slovakian champion with his team ASK Inter...

    , fitness model
  • April 21 – Mike Christie
    Mike Christie
    Michael Phillip Christie was a baritone singer with British vocal troupe G4. The other band members were Jonathan Ansell, Matthew Stiff, and Ben Thapa. Christie also plays piano and flute....

    , English musician
  • April 21 – Stephanie Larimore
    Stephanie Larimore
    Stephanie Eve Larimore is an American model. She was Playboy's Miss June 2006.She grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana where she graduated from Carroll High School.-External links:*...

    , American model
  • April 22 – Ken Dorsey
    Ken Dorsey
    Kenneth Simon Dorsey is an American football quarterback. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the seventh round of the 2003 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • April 25 – John McFall
    John McFall (athlete)
    John McFall is a Cardiff-based British Paralympic sprinter. In 2000, when he was 19 years old, his right leg was amputated above the knee following a serious motorcycle accident. Undaunted, he took up running again after being fitted with a prosthesis, and participated in his first race in 2004...

    , British Paralympic sprinter
  • April 25 – Anja Pärson
    Anja Pärson
    Anja Sofia Tess Pärson is a Swedish alpine skier, the winner of seven World Championships gold medals and two Overall Alpine Skiing World Cup titles...

    , Swedish alpine skier
  • April 25 – Felipe Massa
    Felipe Massa
    Felipe Massa is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He finished a close second in the 2008 Drivers' World Championship, and is under contract to race for Scuderia Ferrari until the end of the season...

    , Brazilian race car driver
  • April 26 – Matthieu Delpierre
    Matthieu Delpierre
    Matthieu Delpierre is a French footballer. Delpierre plays as a centre back previously for Lille OSC and currently for VfB Stuttgart...

    , French football player
  • April 27 – Sandy Mölling
    Sandy Mölling
    Sandy Mölling , known professionally as Sandy, is a German singer-songwriter, dancer, television presenter and occasional actress, who rose to fame as one of the founding members of the successful all-female pop band No Angels, the "biggest-selling German girlband to date," according to the German...

    , German pop singer
  • April 28 – Jessica Alba
    Jessica Alba
    Jessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel...

    , American actress
  • April 29 – George McCartney
    George McCartney
    George McCartney is an international footballer for Northern Ireland. He currently plays for Sunderland where he is an attacking left full back.-Sunderland:...

    , British footballer

May–June



  • May 1 – Alexander Hleb, Belarusian football player
  • May 3 – Farrah Franklin
    Farrah Franklin
    Farrah Destiny Franklin is an American singer, actress, and model, formerly a member of Destiny's Child.-Early life:Franklin was born in Fresno, CA partially raised in Los Angeles, to an Italian father and an African American mother. Growing up, she performed in various church choirs and in off...

    , American singer
  • May 3 – U;Nee
    U;Nee
    U;Nee, was a South Korean singer and actress. Before dedicating her career to music, she used the stage name Lee Hye-Ryeon...

    , South Korean singer and actress (d. 2007)
  • May 4 – Jacques Rudolph
    Jacques Rudolph
    Jacobus Andries Rudolph , popularly known as Jacques Rudolph, is a former South African Test and ODI cricketer currently playing in England with Yorkshire CCC.-Education:...

    , South African cricketer
  • May 5 – Danielle Fishel
    Danielle Fishel
    Danielle Christine Fishel is an American actress who is best known for her role as Topanga Lawrence on the 1990s TV sitcom Boy Meets World. She later appeared in National Lampoon's Dorm Daze and its sequel, and was a spokesperson for NutriSystem...

    , American actress
  • May 5 – Danijel Nikolic
    Danijel Nikolic
    Danijel Nikolić is the Serbian theater and film actor. Played in more than twenty theatrical performances, film and the hundreds of TV shows and Radio Drama. Two years, he worked as Public Relations Manager of Academy of Art BK. From 2005. to 2007...

    , Serbian actor
  • May 8 – Andres Romero
    Andres Romero
    For the Chilean footballer with the same name see Andrés Romero Andrés Fabián Romero is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on both the PGA Tour and European Tour....

    , Argentine golfer
  • May 11 – Lauren Jackson
    Lauren Jackson
    Lauren Elizabeth Jackson is an Australian professional basketball player. She is often called LJ or Loz. She is a forward/centre with the Seattle Storm of the WNBA, the Australian national team The Opals and, until 2006, the Canberra Capitals of the Australian WNBL...

    , Australian basketball player
  • May 11 – Daisuke Matsui
    Daisuke Matsui
    is a Japanese footballer who plays for Grenoble Foot 38 in the French Ligue 1.-Early years:In 2000, Matsui graduated from and began his professional career with Kyoto Purple Sanga of the J. League.-Kyoto Purple Sanga:...

    , Japanese football player
  • May 12 – Kentaro Sato
    Kentaro Sato
    For the manga character see Kentaro Osada. is a Los Angeles-based award-winning composer/conductor/orchestrator/clinician of media music and concert music . His works have been broadcast, performed, and recorded in North and South America, Asia, and Europe by well-known groups including the...

    , Japanese composer
  • May 13 – Rebecka Liljeberg
    Rebecka Liljeberg
    - Early life :Liljeberg's mother was relatively young when she was born, and her parents divorced when she was one year old. At the age of 9 , Liljeberg began her acting career when she won a role in the series Sunes jul. Between 1993 and 1997, she became involved in amateur theatre, which she...

    , Swedish actress
  • May 13 – Sunny Leone
    Sunny Leone
    Sunny Leone is an Indo-Canadian pornographic actress and model. In addition to being a former Penthouse Pet of the Year, she is also a successful businesswoman and has played roles in independent mainstream films and T.V shows.-Early life:Karen Malhotra was born in Sarnia, Ontario to Indian...

    , Canadian pornstar
  • May 13 – Jimmy Wang Yang
    James Yun
    James Carson Yun is an American professional wrestler and actor, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment on its SmackDown brand under the ring name Jimmy Wang Yang....

    , Korean professional wrestler
  • May 15 – Patrice Evra
    Patrice Evra
    Patrice Latyr Evra is a French international footballer, who plays for English Premiership side Manchester United and the French national team. He is a left wingback who can also operate on the left wing....

    , Senegalese-born French footballer
  • May 15 – Zara Phillips
    Zara Phillips
    Zara Anne Elizabeth Phillips, MBE is the second child and only daughter of Princess Anne, Princess Royal and her first husband, Captain Mark Phillips...

    , British elite equestrienne
  • May 15 – Justin Morneau
    Justin Morneau
    Justin Ernest George Morneau is a Canadian Major League Baseball player who is currently the Minnesota Twins' starting first baseman. In , he was awarded the American League Most Valuable Player award. In , he became the first Canadian to win the Home Run Derby...

    , Canadian baseball player
  • May 15 – Jamie-Lynn Sigler
    Jamie-Lynn Sigler
    Jamie-Lynn Sigler , formerly known as Jamie-Lynn DiScala, is an American actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for her role as Meadow Soprano on the HBO television series The Sopranos.-Early life:...

    , American actress
  • May 17 – R. J. Helton, American singer
  • May 19 – Bong Tae-gyu
    Bong Tae-gyu
    Bong Tae-gyu is a South Korean actor.- Filmography :- External links :...

    , South Korean actor
  • May 19 – Klaas-Erik Zwering
    Klaas-Erik Zwering
    Klaas-Erik Zwering is a former Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. He is currently studying MBO entrepreneurship as he trained in Eindhoven with the PSV Eindhoven swim club...

    , Dutch swimmer
  • May 19 – Georges St-Pierre, Canadian mixed martial artist
  • May 20 – Sean Conlon
    Sean Conlon
    Sean Conlon was a former member of the boy band named Five. He has four siblings....

    , English musician
  • May 20 – Lindsay Taylor
    Lindsay Taylor
    Lindsay Corine Taylor is an American professional basketball player and former college player who has played in the Women's National Basketball Association , Ligue Féminine de Basketball , the WKBL and the Polish Women's League.In the WKBL Taylor has played for the Turkish team Botasspor Adana on...

    , American basketball player
  • May 20 – Iker Casillas
    Íker Casillas
    Iker Casillas Fernández ; is a Spanish football goalkeeper who plays for Spanish La Liga club Real Madrid and as captain of the Spanish national team. He is currently first-choice goalkeeper for both club and country. As captain of the national side, he led a young Spanish team to their first...

    , Spanish footballer
  • May 21 – Josh Hamilton, American baseball player
  • May 21 – Anna Rogowska
    Anna Rogowska
    Anna Rogowska is a Polish pole vaulter, current reigning World Champion.Born in Gdynia, she won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics, narrowly beating Monika Pyrek, another Polish pole vaulter born in Gdynia. Early 2005 brought success as she won the silver medal in the European Indoor...

    , Polish pole vaulter
  • May 22 – Melissa Gregory
    Melissa Gregory
    Melissa Gregory is an American ice dancer. With partner and husband Denis Petukhov, she is the 2004-2007 U.S. silver medalist.-Biography:...

    , American figure skater
  • May 26 – Isaac Slade
    Isaac Slade

    Isaac Slade is the lead singer and pianist of alternative rock and piano rock band The Fray. Slade grew up in the Denver area with his family, which included both parents and two brothers, Caleb and Micah...

    , American singer/pianist of The Fray
  • May 27 – Alina Cojocaru
    Alina Cojocaru
    Alina Cojocaru is a female principal dancer with The Royal Ballet of London.-Early years:Alina Cojocaru was born and raised in Bucharest, Romania. She has one sister. From a young age she studied gymnastics...

    , Romanian ballerina
  • May 27 – David Mauro
    David Mauro
    David Mauro is an American painter whose large scale pixelated allegories use the Renaissance technique of egg tempera on wood panel. Mauro's images are pregnant with themes of classical antiquity, translated into a contemporary context by supplanting gods and heroes with representations of...

    , American painter
  • May 28 – Laura Bailey
    Laura Bailey (voice actress)
    Laura Dawn Bailey is an American actress and voice actress. Best known for her anime roles , she has also supplied voices in video games and worked as staff on several anime series...

    , American voice actress
  • May 29 – Andrei Arshavin, Russian football player
  • May 29 – Brian Simnjanovski
    Brian Simnjanovski
    Brian Simnjanovski was a former NFL Europe punter for the Berlin Thunder, an American football team.-High School Years:...

    , American Football Player
  • May 30 – Remy Ma
    Remy Ma
    Reminisce Mackie , better known by her stage name Remy Ma, formerly known as Remy Martin and Remi Martin, is a Grammy nominated American rapper and former member of Fat Joe's rap crew, Terror Squad...

    , American rapper
  • May 31 – Jake Peavy
    Jake Peavy
    Jacob Edward Peavy is a Cy Young Award-winning starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Chicago White Sox. He bats and throws right-handed...

    , American baseball player
  • June 1 – Carlos Zambrano
    Carlos Zambrano
    Carlos Alberto Zambrano , popularly known as "Big Z" or "El Toro", is a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who has played for the Chicago Cubs since 2001...

    , Venezuelan baseball player
  • June 3 – Mike Adam
    Mike Adam
    Michael B. Adam, ONL is a Canadian curler. He was born in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador), and currently lives in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador....

    , Canadian curler
  • June 5 – Jade Goody
    Jade Goody
    Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody was an English celebrity. She came into the public spotlight while appearing on the third series of the Channel 4 reality TV programme Big Brother in 2002, an appearance which led to her own television programmes and the launch of her own products after her eviction.In...

    , British reality show star (d. 2009)
  • June 6 – Johnny Pacar
    Johnny Pacar
    Johnny Pacar is an American film and television actor, who best known for playing Cody Jackson in Flight 29 Down. He also had a main role in the film Purgatory House, and had a major recurring role as Jimmy Francis in American Dreams.-Biography:Pacar was born John Edward Pacuraru to Judith and...

    , American actor
  • June 7 – Anna Kournikova
    Anna Kournikova
    is a retired Russian professional tennis player and model. Her celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis players worldwide...

    , Russian tennis player
  • June 7 – Larisa Oleynik
    Larisa Oleynik
    Larisa Romanovna Oleynik is an American actress. She came to fame in the mid-1990s, after starring in the title role of the popular television series, The Secret World of Alex Mack, and has also appeared in theatrical films, including The Baby-Sitters Club and 1999's 10 Things I Hate about You...

    , American actress
  • June 8 – Alex Band
    Alex Band
    Alex Band is a solo musician best known for his work in his former band The Calling and their signature song "Wherever You Will Go" which peaked at #3 on the top 40 in 2001. As a solo artist he is well known for providing the vocals on the top 10 hit, "Why Don't You & I" in 2004...

    , American musician
  • June 8 – Sara Watkins
    Sara Watkins
    Sara Ullrika Watkins is an American singer-songwriter and fiddler. Watkins debuted in 1999 as the fiddler of the progressive bluegrass group, Nickel Creek, which consists of herself and her elder brother, Sean, as well as mandolinist Chris Thile...

    , American violinist
  • June 8 – Ai Nonaka
    Ai Nonaka
    is a seiyū. She currently works for Aoni Production and was formerly a member of the seiyū unit DROPS, which included fellow seiyū Akemi Kanda, Tomoko Kaneda, Mariko Kōda, and Ryōko Shiraishi...

    , Japanese voice actress
  • June 9 – Celina Jaitley
    Celina Jaitley
    Celina Jaitley , born 24 November 1981, is an Indian actress and former beauty queen. She was crowned Femina Miss India in 2001.-Early life:...

    , Indian actress
  • June 9 – Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman is an Israeli American actress. Her first role came in the 1994 independent film Léon . She achieved wider fame after playing Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy...

    , Israeli-born actress
  • June 9 – Anoushka Shankar
    Anoushka Shankar
    Anoushka Shankar , born June 9, 1981) is a sitar player and composer in the United States. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones.-Personal life and education:Shankar...

    , British musician and daughter of Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian classical musician and composer who plays the sitar. He was described as "the most famous Indian musician on the planet" by Ken Hunt of Allmusic....

  • June 9 – Vic Zhou, Taiwanese actor, singer, and model
  • June 10 – Hoku Ho, Hawaiian singer and musician
  • June 10 – Burton O'Brien
    Burton O'Brien
    Burton O'Brien is a former Scotland Under-21 midfielder currently playing for Scottish Premier League side Falkirk.-Domestic:...

    , Scottish footballer
  • June 12 – Adriana Lima
    Adriana Lima
    Adriana Francesca Lima is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria's Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009...

    , Brazilian model
  • June 13 – Chris Evans
    Chris Evans (actor)
    Christopher Robert "Chris" Evans is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Not Another Teen Movie and as the Human Torch in the Fantastic Four films. In 2009, Evans was listed in Forbes' "Most Bankable Stars" list due to his high earnings...

    , American actor
  • June 14 – Lonneke Engel
    Lonneke Engel
    Lonneke Engel is a Dutch fashion model.Lonneke started modeling when she was 13 years old, and was soon discovered by legendary photographer Bruce Weber, who shot her for Abercrombie & Fitch....

    , Dutch model
  • June 15 – Haley Scarnato
    Haley Scarnato
    Haley Suzanne Scarnato is an American singer who was the 8th place finalist on the 6th season of American Idol. As of 2009, her debut album "Strongheart" has yet to be released.-Early years:...

    , American singer
  • June 16 – Ben Kweller
    Ben Kweller
    Ben Kweller is an American singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.-Early life:Ben Kweller was born in San Francisco, Calif. in 1981. In 1982, his family relocated to Emory, Texas where his father Howard Kweller became the town's first doctor. In 1986, The Kwellers moved to a much larger city,...

    , American musician
  • June 16 – Joe Saunders
    Joe Saunders
    Joseph Francis Saunders is a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. He attended West Springfield High School in Springfield, Virginia...

    , American baseball player
  • June 17 – Amrita Rao
    Amrita Rao
    Amrita Rao is an Indian model and Bollywood actress.Beginning her career as a model, Rao made her acting debut with Ab Ke Baras , for which she won her best debut award. She starred in Ken Ghosh's love-story, Ishq Vishk and earned her first Filmfare nomination in the Best Female Debut category...

    , Indian actress
  • June 18 – Teresa Cormack
    Teresa Cormack
    Teresa Maida Cormack was a six-year-old murder victim from Napier, New Zealand.- Teresa's death :Teresa lived in Napier, New Zealand, with her mother, Kelly Piggot, and a younger sister named Sara...

    , New Zealand murder victim (d. 1987)
  • June 18 – Ella Chen
    Ella Chen
    Chen Chia-Hwa , more commonly credited as Ella, is the oldest member of the Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. Her name 'Ella', which means courage, was given after the personality test given by HIM Management Co....

    , Taiwanese singer
  • June 20 – Alisan Porter
    Alisan Porter
    Alisan Porter is an American actress, singer and dancer.-Life and career:Porter was born in Worcester, Massachusetts to a Jewish family. Her maternal grandmother ran the Charlotte Klein Dance Center in Worcester...

    , American actress and singer
  • June 21 – Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist
  • June 22 – Chris Urbanowicz
    Chris Urbanowicz
    Christopher Dominic Urbanowicz is the lead guitarist and synthesizer player of the British indie rock band Editors. He attended Toot Hill Comprehensive school in Bingham, Nottinghamshire. He then went on to study music technology at Staffordshire University for three years with the other members...

    , British guitarist
  • June 25 – Simon Ammann
    Simon Ammann
    Simon Ammann is a Swiss ski jumper.Ammann was born in Grabs, Switzerland to Margit and Hienrich Ammann and raised in Unterwasser, Switzerland. He has two brothers and three sisters. He made his debut as a 16-year-old unknown during the 1997-1998 Ski jumping World Cup season...

    , Swiss ski jumper
  • June 25 – Yūichi Komano
    Yuichi Komano
    is a Japanese football player. He plays for J.League division 1 side Júbilo Iwata. He is right-footed and mainly plays right full back for the club but he is often employed in the left for Japan national football team.-Playing career:...

    , Japanese footballer
  • June 28 – Mara Santangelo
    Mara Santangelo
    Mara Santangelo is a professional female tennis player from Italy.-Tennis career:Santangelo reached the fourth round at the 2004 Australian Open, defeating 16th-seeded Magüi Serna, Barbara Schett, and 19th-seeded Eleni Daniilidou—losing to eventual champion and World No. 1 Justine Henin after...

    , Italian tennis player
  • June 29 – Joe Johnson
    Joe Johnson (basketball)
    Joe Marcus Johnson is an American professional basketball player, currently a member of the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA and a former member of the U.S. national team...

    , American basketball player

July–August



  • July 1 – Amanda Diva
    Amanda Diva
    Amanda Diva is a female rapper, actress, and former replacement of the musical group Floetry.- Personal life :...

    , American actress and rapper
  • July 2 – Alex Koroknay-Palicz
    Alex Koroknay-Palicz
    Alex Koroknay-Palicz is an American activist in Washington, D.C. He is currently the executive director of the National Youth Rights Association.-Biography:Koroknay-Palicz was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and grew up in Holland, Michigan...

    , American activist
  • July 2 – Paul Anthony Finn, Irish singer and songwriter (The Flaws
    The Flaws
    The Flaws are an Irish Choice Music Prize-nominated, Meteor Award nominated indie-rock quartet, hailing from Carrickmacross in County Monaghan and Dundalk in County Louth...

    )
  • July 3 – Brandon Jay McLaren
    Brandon Jay McLaren
    Brandon Jay McLaren is a Canadian actor. He is best known by his role of Jack Landors, the Red SPD Power Ranger, on Power Rangers: SPD, and Danny Brooks on Harper's Island. He was a guest star in the episode "Bloodlines" of Blade: The Series...

    , Canadian actor
  • July 5 – Gianne Albertoni
    Gianne Albertoni
    Gianne Albertoni is a Brazilian model. She was discovered as a model when she was only 13 by the photographer, Sérgio Duarte. Four months later in Milan, she took the big fashion shows by storm like Versace, Armani, Prada, Fiorucci.At the age of 18 Gianne was the very first Terra Girl...

    , Brazilian model
  • July 6 – Nnamdi Asomugha
    Nnamdi Asomugha
    Nnamdi Asomugha is a Nigerian-American cornerback for the National Football League's Oakland Raiders professional football team. He was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Raiders. He played college football at California.-Biography:Asomugha was raised in Los Angeles,...

    , American football player
  • July 7 – Synyster Gates
    Synyster Gates
    Brian Elwin Haner, Jr. , better known by his stage name Synyster Gates or simply Syn or "Gates", is an American musician...

    , American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day." The band's success...

    )
  • July 8 – Anastasia Myskina
    Anastasia Myskina
    Anastasia Andreyevna Myskina is a professional tennis player from Russia. In 2004 she won the French Open, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam event...

    , Russian tennis player
  • July 8 – Ashley Blue
    Ashley Blue
    Ashley Blue is the pseudonym of an American pornographic actress.- Biography :Ashley Blue has won numerous awards Adult Video News awards, including 2004 Female Performer of the Year and 2005 Best Supporting Actress...

    , American pornographic actress
  • July 13 – Agnes Kovacs
    Ágnes Kovács
    Ágnes Kovács is a Hungarian swimmer.- External links :** *

    ...

    , Hungarian swimmer
  • July 14 – Lee Mead
    Lee Mead
    Lee Stephen Mead is an English musical theatre actor, best known for winning the BBC reality talent show Any Dream Will Do.-Early Career:...

    , British actor
  • July 19 – Didz Hammond
    Didz Hammond
    David Jonathan Hammond , better known as Didz Hammond, is an English bassist. He was the bassist and backing vocalist in The Cooper Temple Clause , and in Carl Barât's Dirty Pretty Things...

    , bassist/backing vocalist (Dirty Pretty Things
    Dirty Pretty Things (band)
    Dirty Pretty Things were an English band fronted by Carl Barât, a former member of The Libertines. The formation of the band was announced in September 2005, after a dispute between Barât and Pete Doherty led to the breakup of The Libertines in 2004. Barât had worked with Vertigo Records and had...

     and The Cooper Temple Clause
    The Cooper Temple Clause
    The Cooper Temple Clause were a six-piece alternative rock band originating from Wokingham, Berkshire, England. Formed in 1998, the band quickly gained a following through their live concerts, and have produced three albums, the latest being Make This Your Own...

    )
  • July 19 – Nikki Osborne
    Nikki Osborne
    Nikki Osborne is an Australian actress, former model and television presenter. Osborne is best known as a former host of the now-defunct late night interactive quiz series, Quizmania...

    , Australian actress
  • July 20 – Damien Delaney
    Damien Delaney
    Damien Delaney is an Irish professional footballer, currently playing for Ipswich Town.-Early life:Delaney attended Coláiste Chríost Rí and began his footballing career at local club Cork City.-Leicester and Hull:...

    , Irish footballer
  • July 20 – Dayang Nurfaizah
    Dayang Nurfaizah
    Dayang Nurfaizah binti Awang Dowty, better known as Dayang Nurfaizah, is a Malaysian singer.Dayang recorded her first album with the title Dayang Nurfaizah which was released in May 1999 mainly of the Pop and R&B genre...

    , Malaysian singer
  • July 21 – Stefan Schumacher
    Stefan Schumacher
    Stefan Schumacher is a German professional road racing cyclist. First professionally employed with Team Telekom in 2002, he was released the following year...

    , German cyclist
  • July 21 – Blake Lewis
    Blake Lewis
    Blake Colin Lewis is an American singer-songwriter and beatboxer who was the runner-up on the sixth season of American Idol.-Early years:...

    , American Idol finalist
  • July 23 – Steve Jocz
    Steve Jocz
    Stephen Martin Jocz was born on July 23, 1981, and is best known as the drummer for Canadian pop punk band Sum 41.-Personal:...

    , Canadian drummer (Sum 41
    Sum 41
    Sum 41 is a rock band from Ajax, Ontario active since 1996. The current members are Deryck Whibley , Jason McCaslin , Steve Jocz , and Tom Thacker .In 1999, the band signed an international record deal with Island Records...

    )
  • July 23 – Jarkko Nieminen
    Jarkko Nieminen
    Jarkko Nieminen is a professional tennis player from Finland.Nieminen ranked World No. 37 in the ATP Rankings in the 2008 end of season rankings. He has won one ATP singles title and one doubles title in his career so far. His best performances in Grand Slam tournaments have been reaching the...

    , Finnish tennis player
  • July 24 – Summer Glau
    Summer Glau
    Summer Lyn Glau is an American actress and dancer, known for playing River Tam in the science fiction series Firefly and follow-up movie Serenity, and for playing Cameron in the series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles....

    , American actress (Firefly
    Firefly (TV series)
    Firefly is an American space western television series created by writer/director Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, under his Mutant Enemy Productions. Its naturalistic future setting, modeled after traditional Western movie motifs, has been praised as an "oddball genre mix"...

    )
  • July 25 – Jani Rita
    Jani Rita
    Jani Rita is a professional ice hockey winger.-Playing career:Despite limited NHL experience, Rita has played extensively in the American Hockey League and in the SM-liiga in his native Finland...

    , Finnish ice hockey player
  • July 27 – Li Xiaopeng
    Li Xiaopeng (gymnast)
    Li Xiaopeng is a male Chinese gymnast, who specializes in parallel bars and vault. He currently holds 16 world titles, more than any other gymnasts in China...

    , Chinese gymnast
  • July 29 – Fernando Alonso
    Fernando Alonso
    Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, racing for the Renault team....

    , Spanish Two Time Formula 1 World Champion
  • July 31 – M. Shadows
    M. Shadows
    Matthew Charles Sanders, better known by his stage name M. Shadows, is currently the vocalist for the American Hard Rock band Avenged Sevenfold.-Biography:...

    , American singer (Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day." The band's success...

    )
  • July 31 – Eric Lively
    Eric Lively
    -Early life:Lively was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He has a sister, actress Blake Lively, half-sisters actresses Lori Lively and Robyn Lively and a half-brother, Jason Lively, who played Rusty in National Lampoon's European Vacation. Both his parents, Ernie Lively and Elaine Lively, and all four...

    , American actor
  • July 31 – Vernon Carey
    Vernon Carey
    Vernon A. Carey is an American football offensive tackle for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Dolphins 19th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Miami....

    , American football player
  • August 4 – Marques Houston
    Marques Houston
    Marques Barrett Houston is an American R&B singer and actor. He is a former member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx and has since gone solo.-Early life:...

    , American singer and actor
  • August 5 – Carl Crawford
    Carl Crawford
    Carl Demonte Crawford is the starting left fielder for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws left-handed.-Early life:...

    , Major League Baseball outfielder
  • August 5 – Rachel Scott
    Rachel Scott
    Rachel Joy Scott was the first victim of the Columbine High School massacre, which claimed the lives of 12 students and one teacher, along with the two perpetrators, in one of the deadliest school shootings in United States history.She has since been the subject of several books and is the...

    , American murder victim (d. 1999)
  • August 5 – Kō Shibasaki
    Kou Shibasaki
    , born Yukie Yamamura, on August 5, 1981 in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan is a Japanese singer and actress.-Music career:Shibasaki made her debut in the music industry in 2002 with her first single Trust My Feelings, but she became recognized for her second single Tsuki no shizuku which was used for the...

    , Japanese singer and actress
  • August 6 – Vitantonio Liuzzi
    Vitantonio Liuzzi
    Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi is an Italian race driver who currently drives for the Force India Formula One team. He lives in Pescara, Italy.-Karting:...

    , Italian race car driver
  • August 6 – Travis McCoy
    Travis McCoy
    Travis McCoy is the lead vocalist of the alternative hip-hop group Gym Class Heroes.-Musician:Travis made his MTV debut in the summer of 2002, as he appeared on stage at the beach house on a standard nation-wide MC Battle that was held on the MTV show Direct Effect.McCoy was arrested on July 1...

    , American alternative hip-hop artist
  • August 8 – Roger Federer
    Roger Federer
    Roger Federer is a Swiss professional tennis player. As of October 2009, he is ranked world number 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals , having previously held the number one position for a record 237 consecutive weeks...

    , Swiss tennis player
  • August 8 – Harel Skaat
    Harel Skaat
    Harel Skaat born August 8, 1981, in Kfar Sava, Israel is a singer of Yemenite Jewish descent who quickly rose to fame as the runner-up of the second season of “Kokhav Nolad” in 2004....

    , Israeli singer
  • August 8 – Meagan Good
    Meagan Good
    Meagan Monique Good is an American film and television actress, and occasional film producer. Beginning her career at the age of four, Good has appeared in numerous commercials, television shows, feature films, and music videos....

    , American actress
  • August 8 – Kaori Iida
    Kaori Iida
    is a Japanese pop singer and actress, associated with Hello! Project and best known as a founding member of the girl band Morning Musume. She has also recorded with the Morning Musume side project band Tanpopo and is currently a solo artist.- Biography :...

    , Japanese singer and actress
  • August 9 – Li Jiawei
    Li Jiawei
    Li Jiawei is a China-born Singaporean table tennis player who is ranked among the top ten athletes in her sport. Spotted by Singapore talent scouts in Beijing in 1995, she moved to Singapore and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis in 1996...

    , Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
  • August 10 – Natsumi Abe
    Natsumi Abe
    , born August 10, 1981 in Muroran, Hokkaidō, Japan, is a Japanese singer and actress, and a former member of Morning Musume.- Biography :She released her first single, "22 Sai no Watashi", on August 13, 2003, just a few days after her 22nd birthday...

    , Japanese singer and actress
  • August 10 – Taufik Hidayat
    Taufik Hidayat
    Taufik Hidayat is an Indonesian badminton player. He is a former world champion and a former Olympic champion in men's singles. He has also won the Indonesian Open six times . When he was young, he joined the SGS Club, a badminton club in Bandung...

    , Indonesian badmington player
  • August 11 – Sandi Thom
    Sandi Thom
    Sandi Thom is a Scottish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Macduff in Aberdeenshire...

    , Scottish singer & song writer
  • August 12 – Djibril Cissé
    Djibril Cissé
    Djibril Aruun Cissé is a French football player of Ivorian descent who plays as a striker for Panathinaikos. He is noted particularly for his speed and acceleration. Since 2005, he has held the title of Lord of the Manor of Frodsham.Cissé started his career at Nîmes Olympique in 1993 at the age of...

    , French footballer
  • August 12 – Steve Talley
    Steve Talley
    Steve "Stevie" Talley is an American actor.Talley was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. His most notable role was in American Pie 5: The Naked Mile and American Pie Presents: Beta House. Talley is also known for his role as Bryce in the tv series Summerland.-Personal life:He is an avid Hunter S...

    , American actor
  • August 15 – Song Ji-hyo, South Korean actress
  • August 16 – Taylor Rain
    Taylor Rain
    Taylor Rain is an American former pornographic actress.- Career :Rain first entered the pornographic video industry in November 2001. By October 2003, she estimated that she had shot between 200-250 scenes...

    , American actress
  • August 20 – Benjamin Barnes
    Ben Barnes (actor)
    Benjamin Thomas "Ben" Barnes is an English actor. He has appeared in the television series Doctors and Split Decision, and in the films Stardust, Bigga Than Ben, Prince Caspian, Dorian Gray and Easy Virtue.-Early life:Barnes was born in London, England to Tricia, a psychotherapist, and Thomas...

    , English actor (Prince Caspian
    Caspian X
    Caspian X, King of Narnia, Lord of Cair Paravel and Emperor of The Lone Islands, also called Caspian the Seafarer and Caspian the Navigator is a fictional character in the The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. He is featured predominantly in three books in the series: Prince Caspian, The...

    )
  • August 21 – Ross Thomas (actor)
    Ross Thomas (actor)
    Ross Schuler Thomas is an American film and television actor who currently has the regular role of Bailey Reese on the teen drama television series Beyond the Break.-Early life:...

    , American actor
  • August 24 – Jiro Wang
    Jiro Wang
    Jiro Wang , nicknamed Da Dong is a Taiwanese actor and singer. He is currently a member of the boy band Fahrenheit, and is widely known as the male lead in the Taiwanese idol drama KO One and its sequel The X-Family, as Ah Jin in It Started With a Kiss and its sequel, and Jin Xiu Yi in the...

    , Actor and Singer Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)
    Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)
    Fahrenheit is a Taiwanese boy band that has achieved success in the last two years in Southeast Asia. The group consists of four members: Aaron Yan, Wu Chun, Calvin Chen, and Jiro Wang. They are managed by Jerry Fen's Comic Productions Co., Ltd. and records albums with HIM International Music....

  • August 24 – Chad Michael Murray
    Chad Michael Murray
    Chad Michael Murray is an American actor, former fashion model and spokesperson. Murray became an international household name after landing the lead role in The CW television series One Tree Hill where he portrays Lucas Scott...

    , American actor
  • August 25 – Rachel Bilson
    Rachel Bilson
    Rachel Sarah Bilson is an American actress. Bilson grew up in a California show business family, and made her television debut in 2003, subsequently becoming well-known for playing Summer Roberts on the prime time drama series The O.C. Bilson made her film debut in the 2006 film The Last Kiss and...

    , American actress
  • August 25 – Shiva Keshavan
    Shiva Keshavan
    Shiva Keshavan , born August 25, 1981 is the first Indian representative at the Winter Olympic Games. Three time Olympian and First ever Indian Medal in International Winter Sports...

    , Indian Luge Pilot
  • August 28 – Charlie Frye
    Charlie Frye
    Charles Lester Frye is an American football quarterback for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft...

    , Natiional Football League quarterback
  • August 29 – Lanny Barbie
    Lanny Barbie
    Lanny Barby is a French Canadian pornographic actress.-Career:Lanny Barby's adult career began in her words "about five seconds after my eighteenth birthday"...

    , American pornstar
  • August 30 – Brian J. Robinson
    Brian J. Robinson
    Brian J. Robinson is the current bassist for Nitro Records' A Wilhelm Scream.Brian was born in Milton, Ontario, Canada on August 30, 1981. He moved to Oakville, Ontario in 1987 and attended Munn's Public School and Montclair Middle School, where he formed friendships that lead to him starting his...

    , Canadian musician (A Wilhelm Scream
    A Wilhelm Scream
    A Wilhelm Scream is a punk rock/melodic hardcore band from New Bedford, Massachusetts. Many people have referenced Strung Out, Hot Water Music, Propagandhi, and Strike Anywhere as the band's similar artists. Their name is a reference to the Wilhelm scream, a famous stock sound effect which mainly...

    )
  • August 30 – Tresor Kandol
    Tresor Kandol
    Trésor Osmar Kandol is a Congolese footballer. He currently plays for Leeds United, having been signed from Barnet. Before Barnet, he played at Chesham United F.C., Darlington, Dagenham & Redbridge, Thurrock, Bournemouth, Cambridge United and Luton Town in England...

    , Leeds United football
    Football
    Football is the name of several similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer"...

    er

September–October

  • September 1 – Clinton Portis
    Clinton Portis
    Clinton Earl Portis is an American football running back for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League.-Family Life:...

    , American football player
  • September 1 – Michael Adamthwaite
    Michael Adamthwaite
    Michael David Adamthwaite is a Canadian voice actor. He is credited with providing the voice for many characters in various anime series. He is also known for playing the Jaffa Herak in the science fiction TV-series Stargate SG-1...

    , Canadian voice actor
  • September 2 – Bracha van Doesburgh
    Bracha van Doesburgh
    Bracha Seymens de Vries van Doesburgh is a Dutch actress.Van Doesburgh studied theater in Amsterdam and took acting lessons in New York City.-Filmography:...

    , Dutch actress
  • September 3 – Fearne Cotton
    Fearne Cotton
    Fearne Cotton is a British presenter known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon. In 2007, she became the first regular female presenter of BBC Radio 1's Chart Show...

    , British television presenter
  • September 4 – Jero
    Jero
    is a Japanese enka singer who is American-born of African-American and Japanese descent. His maternal grandmother was Japanese. He is the first black enka singer in Japanese music history.-Biography:...

    , American-born Japanese enka
    Enka
    is a Japanese popular music genre. Although considered to resemble traditional music stylistically, modern enka is a relatively recent musical form which arose in the context of such postwar expressions of modern Japanese nonmaterial nationalism as Nihonjinron, while adopting a more traditional...

     singer
  • September 4 – Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Knowles
    Beyoncé Giselle Knowles , often referred to mononymously as Beyoncé , is an American R&B singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model. Born and raised in Houston, Texas, she enrolled in various performing arts schools and was first exposed to singing and dancing competitions as a child...

    , American actress and R&B singer (Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child was a Grammy-Award winning American R&B girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The group achieved four major studio albums and four US number-one singles, and sold over 50 million records worldwide becoming one of the...

    )
  • September 4 – Lacey Mosley
    Lacey Mosley
    Lacey Nicole Mosley, sometimes known as Lacey Sturm , is the lead vocalist and main lyricist for Texan alternative metal–hard rock band Flyleaf.- Background :...

    , American lead vocalist (Flyleaf
    Flyleaf
    Flyleaf is an American alternative rock band, formed in the Belton and Temple, Texas regions in 2000. They performed around the United States in 2003 until releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005. The album went platinum after selling more than one million copies...

    )
  • September 6 – Yumiko Cheng
    Yumiko Cheng
    Yumiko Cheng is a Hong Kong-based Cantopop singer. Cheng was given the Japanese nickname "Yumiko" by her friends in secondary school, and upon signing with EEG, adopted it for her official stagename....

    , Hong Kong singer
  • September 8 – Jonathan Taylor Thomas
    Jonathan Taylor Thomas
    Jonathan Taylor Thomas is an American actor, former child star, and teen idol. He is well known for his role of middle child Randy Taylor on the sitcom Home Improvement and as the voice of the young Simba in Disney's The Lion King.-Early life:Thomas was born Jonathan Taylor Weiss in Bethlehem,...

    , American actor (Home Improvement
    Home Improvement
    Home Improvement is an American television sitcom. starring Tim Allen, which aired 1991 to 1999. The show was created by Matt Williams, Carmen Finestra and David MacFadzean. In the 1990s, it was one of the most watched sitcoms, winning many awards...

    )
  • September 9 – Julie Gonzalo
    Julie Gonzalo
    Julie Gonzalo is an Argentinian American actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles as Parker Lee in Veronica Mars, Shelby in A Cinderella Story and Maggie Dekker in Eli Stone. She has been in two movies with Chad Michael Murray: Freaky Friday and A Cinderella Story...

    , Argentinian actress
  • September 11 – Dylan Klebold, American murderer (d. 1999)
  • September 12 – Jennifer Hudson
    Jennifer Hudson
    Jennifer Kate Hudson is an American recording artist, actress and model. She came to prominence in 2004 as one of the finalists on the third season of the Fox reality television series American Idol...

    , American singer and actress
  • September 12 – Hosea Chanchez
    Hosea Chanchez
    Hosea Chanchez , also credited as Hosea, is an American actor of African-American and Dominican decent. He is perhaps best known for his role as professional football player Malik Wright on the CW comedy-drama TV series The Game.-Biography:Born in Montgomery, Alabama, Chanchez spent most of his...

    , American actor of The Game
  • September 14 – Ashley Roberts
    Ashley Roberts
    Ashley Roberts is an American dancer, singer and actress. She is in the modern burlesque singing group the Pussycat Dolls.-Early life and career:...

    , singer The Pussycat Dolls
  • September 14 – Miyavi
    Miyavi
    Miyavi is a Japanese recording artist and entertainer...

    , Japanese musician
  • September 16 – Alexis Bledel
    Alexis Bledel
    Alexis Bledel is an American actress and fashion model. She is best known for her role as Rory Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls.-Early life:...

    , American actress
  • September 16 – Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
  • September 21 – Nicole Richie
    Nicole Richie
    Nicole Camille Richie is an American actress, author, socialite, celebutante, singer, and television personality. The adopted daughter of soul singer Lionel Richie, she is perhaps best known for her role in the Fox reality television series The Simple Life, alongside fellow socialite and former...

    , American actress, singer and socialite
  • September 22 – Ashley Drane
    Ashley Drane
    Maria Ashley Eckstein , credited as Ashley Eckstein or Ashley Drane, is an American film and television actress known to audiences of Blue Collar TV and as the voice of Ahsoka Tano on Star Wars: The Clone Wars. To younger audiences, she plays a minor character named Muffy on Disney Channel's That's...

    , American actress
  • September 22 – Alexei Ramirez
    Alexei Ramírez
    Alexei Fernando Ramírez is a Major League Baseball second baseman and shortstop for the Chicago White Sox...

    , baseball player
  • September 23 – Misti Traya
    Misti Traya
    Misti Traya is an American actress. She landed her first prime time television series regular role playing 15-year-old Allison Reeves in The WB's comedy Living with Fran.-Private Life:Traya was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii...

    , American actress
  • September 23 – Natalie Horler
    Natalie Horler
    Natalie Christine Horler Natalie Christine Horler Natalie Christine Horler (born 23 September 1981 best known mononymously as Cascada (pronounced /kæskɑdæ/) is a German-English singer and television presenter, known internationally as the lead singer for the German Eurodance/Eurotrance group...

    , German singer Cascada
    Cascada
    Cascada is a German eurodance group. They are most famous for their hit singles "Everytime We Touch" which won them a World Music Award in 2007 as well as becoming the group's first number one single, "What Hurts the Most" which stormed the charts in 2008, and "Evacuate the Dancefloor" which...

  • September 23 – Robert Doornbos
    Robert Doornbos
    Robert Michael Doornbos is a Dutch racing driver. He has been test and third driver for the Jordan and Red Bull Racing Formula One teams, as well as driving for Minardi and Red Bull Racing in 2005 and 2006. Doornbos then drove for Minardi Team USA in the 2007 and final season of the Champ Car...

    , Dutch race car driver
  • September 25 – Rocco Baldelli
    Rocco Baldelli
    Rocco Daniel Baldelli is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Boston Red Sox.- Early life :...

    , baseball player
  • September 25 – Van Hansis
    Van Hansis
    Van Hansis is an American actor. Hansis, who uses the name Van professionally, currently stars on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns as Luke Snyder, the son of one of the show's signature supercouples, Holden and Lily Snyder ; although the character's...

    , American actor
  • September 26 – Christina Milian
    Christina Milian
    Christine Flores , better known by her stage name Christina Milian , is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, and model. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Milian moved to Los Angeles when she was 13 years old, desiring to be an actress...

    , American R&B singer and actress
  • September 26 – Serena Williams
    Serena Williams
    Serena Jameka Williams is an American professional tennis player and current World No. 1. She has been ranked World No. 1 by the Women's Tennis Association on four separate occasions...

    , American tennis player
  • September 29 – Suzanne Shaw
    Suzanne Shaw
    Suzanne Shaw is an English actress, singer and television personality. She is most famous for winning the talent contest Popstars and subsequently being a member of the band Hear'Say...

    , British singer Hear'Say
  • September 30 – Cecelia Ahern
    Cecelia Ahern
    Cecelia Ahern is an Irish novelist, since 2004. In addition to publishing several novels, she has also contributed a number of short stories to various anthologies, for which all her royalties go to charity, and she is currently a producer for the ABC comedy Samantha Who? starring Christina...

    , Irish author and daughter of Bertie Ahern
    Bertie Ahern
    Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahern is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 26 June 1997 to 7 May 2008....

    , former Taoiseach
    Taoiseach
    The Taoiseach , plural Taoisigh , also referred to as An Taoiseach , is the head of government of Ireland.The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann , and must, while he remains in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil...

  • September 30 – Dominique Moceanu
    Dominique Moceanu
    Dominique Helena Moceanu is an American gymnast of Romanian descent who was a member of the Olympic Gold medal winning 1996 U.S...

    , American gymnast
  • October 3 – Zlatan Ibrahimović
    Zlatan Ibrahimovic
    Zlatan Ibrahimović is a Swedish football player of Bosnian and Croatian parentage who plays for Spanish La Liga club Barcelona and the Swedish national team....

    , Swedish footballer
  • October 3 – Amanda Walsh
    Amanda Walsh
    Amanda Walsh is a Canadian actress and former VJ for the Canadian television station MuchMusic.-Career beginnings:Walsh was born in Rigaud, Quebec. She went to Hudson High School, in Hudson, Quebec...

    , Canadian actress
  • October 5 – Enrico Fabris
    Enrico Fabris
    Enrico Fabris is an Italian long track speed skater who has won three World Cup races and became the first European Allround Champion from Italy when he won the 2006 European Championships one month before the Winter Olympics in Turin. In 2007 he won also the silver medal an in 2008 the bronze medal...

    , Italian speed skater
  • October 8 – Raffi Torres
    Raffi Torres
    Raphael "Raffi" Torres is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League . He has previously played for the Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders....

    , Canadian ice hockey player
  • October 8 – Ruby (Egyptian Singer)
    Ruby (Egyptian singer)
    Rania Hussein Mohammed Tawfik , known as Ruby , is an Egyptian singer and actress who rose to fame with her debut single "Enta Aref Leih" .-Early life:...

    , Egyptian singer
  • October 9 – Zachery Ty Bryan
    Zachery Ty Bryan
    Zachery Tyler Bryan is an American actor best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the American sitcom Home Improvement.-Personal life:...

    , American actor
  • October 9 – Ryoichi Maeda
    Ryoichi Maeda
    is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Jubilo Iwata of the J-League.He was educated at and played for Gyosei Junior High and Ghosei High School. While he was a high school student, he was chosen as one of the Designated Players for Development by J. League and JFA...

    , Japanese footballer
  • October 11 – Beau Brady
    Beau Brady
    Beau Brady is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Noah Lawson on drama, Home and Away....

    , Australian actor
  • October 13 – Ryan Ashford
    Ryan Ashford
    Ryan Ashford is an English former professional footballer. He was born in Honiton, Devon.Ashford began his career as a trainee at Southampton, making his first team debut for the Saints in a League Cup game in August 2000 against Mansfield Town. He didn’t last the first 45 minutes as he received a...

    , English footballer
  • October 13 – Kele Okereke
    Kele Okereke
    Kelechukwu "Kele" Rowland Okereke is an English singer and rhythm guitarist for indie rock band Bloc Party.-Early life:...

    , English singer (Bloc Party
    Bloc Party
    Bloc Party are an English indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...

    )
  • October 15 – Elena Dementieva
    Elena Dementieva
    Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a Russian professional tennis player, who has won one Olympic medals in singles, including the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Her performance at the Olympics is the strongest of any competitor in recent times, with an 11–2 record. She has also...

    , Russian tennis player
  • October 15 – Guo Jingjing
    Guo Jingjing
    Guo Jingjing is a female diver from the People's Republic of China. She has won more Olympic medals than any other female diver.-Career:...

    , Chinese diver
  • October 20 – Willis McGahee
    Willis McGahee
    Willis Andrew McGahee III is an American football player who plays running back for the Baltimore Ravens in the National Football League. He attended the University of Miami.-College career:...

    , American football player
  • October 21 – Nemanja Vidić
    Nemanja Vidic
    Nemanja Vidić is a Serbian footballer who currently plays for the English Premier League club Manchester United and for the Serbian national team....

    , Serbian fotball player
  • October 22 – Michael Fishman
    Michael Fishman
    Michael Desmond Fishman is a Cuban American actor, best known for playing D.J. Conner on the long-running series Roseanne. He graduated from Los Alamitos High School....

    , American actor
  • October 23 – Olivier Occean
    Olivier Occean
    Olivier Occean is a Canadian soccer player, who currently plays for Lillestrøm S.K. of the Norwegian Tippeligaen.- Career :...

    , Canadian footballer
  • October 24 – Tila Tequila, Vietnamese American model and singer
  • October 24 – Mallika Sherawat
    Mallika Sherawat
    Mallika Sherawat is an Indian actress and model. Known for her public openness, she is frequently featured in the Indian media as a sex symbol.-Early life :...

    , Indian actress
  • October 25 – Shaun Wright-Phillips
    Shaun Wright-Phillips
    Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips is an English football player and is currently playing in his second spell at Premier League side Manchester City....

    , English footballer
  • October 25 – Austin Winkler, American lead vocalist (Hinder
    Hinder
    Hinder is an American rock band from Oklahoma that was formed in 2001 by drummer Cody Hanson, guitarist Joe Garvey, and singer Austin Winkler.-History:...

    )
  • October 26 – Guy Sebastian
    Guy Sebastian
    Guy Theodore Sebastian is an Australian singer-songwriter, and winner of the first Australian Idol television talent quest in 2003. Since winning the competition he has released four top 4 albums including one #1, all of which have achieved either platinum or multi platinum accreditation...

    , original Australian Idol 2003 singer
  • October 28 – Milan Baroš
    Milan Baroš
    Milan Baroš is a Czech international footballer.He is a striker who currently plays for Galatasaray. In the 2008-2009 season he scored 20 goals in Turkish Super league, becoming top-goalscorer of TSL...

    , Czech footballer
  • October 28 – Dwayne Cameron
    Dwayne Cameron
    Dwayne Cameron is a New Zealand film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his role of Bray on the teen drama series The Tribe and Tyzonn in Power Rangers Operation Overdrive, although he has also had recurring roles in Street Legal, Mercy Peak and Shortland Street.-Biography:Born in...

    , New Zealand actor
  • October 29 – Jonathan Brown
    Jonathan Brown
    Jonathan Brown is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Brisbane Lions in the Australian Football League. Widely regarded as one of the premier players in the competition, Brown is a two time club best and fairest winner, two time All Australian , one time Coleman Medallist and three time...

    , Australian rules footballer
  • October 29 – Amanda Beard
    Amanda Beard
    Amanda Ray Beard , is an American Olympic-level swimmer and model. Beard participated in the 1996 Summer Olympics, 2000 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics, and 2008 Summer Olympics, capturing a total of seven medals, the most recent in the 2004 games. She held the world number one ranking of 200...

    , American swimmer
  • October 30 – Ivanka Trump
    Ivanka Trump
    Ivanka Marie Trump is an American businesswoman, socialite, heiress, and fashion model. The daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump, she is Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the The Trump Organization...

    , American model
  • October 31 – Selina Ren
    Selina Ren
    Jen Chia-Hsüan, more commonly credited as Selina, is a member of the Taiwanese girl-band S.H.E. On June 11, 2004, she graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University with a Bachelor of Education degree, majoring in Civic Education and Leadership...

    , member of Taiwanese girl-group S.H.E
    S.H.E
    S.H.E is a Taiwanese girl group whose members are Selina Jen, Hebe Tien, and Ella Chen. The name of the group is an alphabetism derived from the first letter of each member's name. Since releasing their first album Girls Dorm , S.H.E has recorded 10 albums with sales totalling over 4.5 million, and...

  • October 31 – Irina Denezhkina
    Irina Denezhkina
    Irina Denezhkina is a Russian controversial writer, notable for a vulgar style of her works, which is explained by some as a reflection of the modern reality, as of the Millennial Generation...

    , Russian writer
  • October 31 – Frank Iero
    Frank Iero
    Frank Anthony Thomas Iero Jr. is the rhythm guitarist and backup vocalist of the alternative rock band My Chemical Romance and the vocalist of the hardcore punk band Leathermouth. He was born in Belleville, New Jersey and attended Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington. He went to Rutgers...

    , American guitarist (My Chemical Romance
    My Chemical Romance
    My Chemical Romance is a Grammy-nominated American rock band from New Jersey, formed in 2001. The band consists of lead vocalist Gerard Way, bassist Mikey Way, guitarists Frank Iero and Ray Toro and drummer Bob Bryar. Shortly after forming, the band signed to Eyeball Records and released their...

    )

November–December



  • November 1 – LaTavia Roberson
    LaTavia Roberson
    LaTavia Marie Roberson is an American singer-songwriter, as well as an original member of the R&B female group Destiny's Child and was later replaced by Michelle Williams. She was an original founder of the group with Beyonce as they were best friends...

    , American singer (Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child
    Destiny's Child was a Grammy-Award winning American R&B girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles alongside Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams. The group achieved four major studio albums and four US number-one singles, and sold over 50 million records worldwide becoming one of the...

    )
  • November 2 – Tatiana Totmianina
    Tatiana Totmianina
    Tatiana Totmianina is a retired pairs figure skater. With partner Maxim Marinin, she is the 2006 Olympic Champion.-Biography:...

    , Russian figure skater
  • November 3 – Blair Chenoweth
    Blair Chenoweth
    Blair Jane Chenoweth is a beauty queen from Anchorage, Alaska who has competed in the 2003 Miss America pageant and in the 2007 Miss USA pageant....

    , American beauty queen
  • November 3 – Jackie Gayda
    Jackie Gayda
    Jacquelyn Suzanne Gayda-Haas is an American professional wrestler and valet, best known for her work on World Wrestling Entertainment 's Raw and SmackDown! brands and in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as a TNA Knockout...

    , American professional wrestler
  • November 4 – Vince Wilfork
    Vince Wilfork
    Vincent Lamar Wilfork is an American football nose tackle for the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Patriots in the first round in the 2004 NFL Draft...

    , American football player
  • November 4 – Paul Tucker
    Paul Tucker (artist)
    Paul Tucker is a visual artist and illustrator of graphic novels and webcomics.-Biography:...

     Canadian comic-book artist
  • November 6 – Cassie Bernall
    Cassie Bernall
    Cassie René Bernall was a student killed in the Columbine High School massacre, at age 17.Initial reports suggested that one of the assailants, either Eric Harris or Dylan Klebold, asked Bernall if she believed in God moments before fatally shooting her. She was reported to have answered "yes"...

    , American murder victim (d. 1999)
  • November 7 – George Pilkington
    George Pilkington
    George Pilkington is an English professional footballer who plays for Luton Town as a defender.-Career:...

    , Port Vale football
    Football
    Football is the name of several similar team sports, all of which involve kicking a ball with the foot in an attempt to score a goal. The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer"...

    er
  • November 8 – Joe Cole
    Joe Cole
    Joseph John "Joe" Cole is a professional footballer who plays for Chelsea of the English Premier League and plays for the England national team. He started his career with West Ham United where he played more than 100 games during five years, until he left for Chelsea in 2003...

    , English footballer
  • November 8 – Azura Skye
    Azura Skye
    Azura Skye is an American actress known for her role as 'Jane' in the two season TV Show Zoe, Duncan, Jack and Jane and for her memorable, but short lived appearance as Cassie Newton in the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Early life and family:Skye was born Azura Dawn Storozynski in...

    , American actress
  • November 10 – Tony Blanco
    Tony Blanco
    Tony Hemiphere Blanco is a professional baseball third baseman and outfielder, He last played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Nationals. During , his rookie season, he hit .177 with one home run and seven RBI.Blanco began his career in the farm system of the Boston Red Sox...

    , Dominican baseball player
  • November 10 – Jason Dunham
    Jason Dunham
    Jason Dunham was a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps who served with 4th Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment , 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, during Operation Iraqi Freedom.While fighting with his unit in Karabilah, Iraq, an enemy soldier threw a...

    , American Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2004)
  • November 10 – Alison Waite
    Alison Waite
    Alison Waite is an American model. Waite appeared on the cover of the May 2006 issue of Playboy. She was the Playmate of the Month in the same issue....

    , American model
  • November 11 – Natalie Glebova
    Natalie Glebova
    Natalie Glebova, is a Russian Canadian beauty queen who has held the title Miss Universe 2005.-Biography:Glebova was born in Tuapse, Russia. She is a classical pianist and also has won various regional gymnastic championships...

    , Canadian beauty queen
  • November 11 – Jyothika, Indian actress
  • November 11 – Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg
    Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg has been heir apparent to the crown of Luxembourg since his father's accession in 2000...

  • November 11 – Ross Phillips
    Ross Phillips
    Ross Phillips is the guitarist for the band Hard-Fi and also provides backing vocals. He is from Chertsey and worked in a local hi-fi shop there. It was here where Archer would come to play his demos on the latest systems. Richard Archer used to listen to his demos under the pretence of checking...

    , British musician (Hard-Fi
    HARD-Fi
    Hard-Fi is an English alternative rock band formed in Staines, Surrey in 2003. The band´s members are Richard Archer , Kai Stephens , Ross Phillips and Steve Kemp ....

    )
  • November 12 – Neil Young
    Neil Young
    Neil Percival Young, OM is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and film director. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist in 1995 and also as a member of Buffalo Springfield in 1997....

    , Canadian Musician
  • November 13 – Mark Cardona
    Mark Cardona
    Mark "Macmac" Cardona is a Filipino professional basketball player currently playing for the Talk 'N Text Tropang Texters in the Philippine Basketball Association...

    , Filipino basketball player
  • November 13 – Shawn Yue
    Shawn Yue
    Shawn Yue Man-Lok is an actor/singer based in Hong Kong. A former model, he has starred in many Cantonese movies such as Jiang Hu and Infernal Affairs II and has established himself as a recognized face in Hong Kong cinema.- Background :...

    , Hong Kong actor and singer
  • November 14 – Russell Tovey
    Russell Tovey
    - Biography :Tovey began his career as a child actor. Growing up in Billericay in Essex, he attended Shenfield High School.His TV career started in 1994, when he was cast in Mud, a children's series broadcast on CBBC...

    , British actor
  • November 15 – Lorena Ochoa
    Lorena Ochoa
    Lorena Ochoa is a Mexican golfer who plays on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour and is currently the number one ranked female golfer in the world. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world, she is considered the best Mexican golfer of all time.-Childhood and amateur...

    , Mexican golfer
  • November 17 – Sarah Harding
    Sarah Harding
    Sarah Nicole Harding is an English singer, model and actress best known for her work with the pop group Girls Aloud.-Early life and career:...

    , British singer (Girls Aloud
    Girls Aloud
    Girls Aloud are a UK girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK...

    )
  • November 18 – Gian Magdangal
    Gian Magdangal
    Giancarlo "Gian" Alzate Magdangal , is a Filipino singer, performer, and theater actor currently signed to GMA Network. A former boy band member, he rose to prominence as one of the runners-up of Philippine Idol in 2006...

    , Filipino singer and actor
  • November 20 – Kimberley Walsh
    Kimberley Walsh
    Kimberley Jane Walsh is an English singer, dancer and model best known for her work with girl group Girls Aloud. She also fronts the 2009 Autumn/Winter collection for the fashion chain New Look.-Early life:...

    , British singer (Girls Aloud
    Girls Aloud
    Girls Aloud are a UK girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars: The Rivals in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts and Kimberley Walsh have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK...

    )
  • November 21 – Bryant McFadden
    Bryant McFadden
    Bryant McFadden is an American football cornerback for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Florida State.McFadden earned two Super Bowl rings during his time with...

    , American football player
  • November 21 – Ainars Kovals
    Ainars Kovals
    Ainārs Kovals Ainārs Kovals Ainārs Kovals (born November 21, 1981 in Riga, Latvia, is a Latvian javelin thrower.His personal best throw is 86.64 metres, achieved at the Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished second.-Achievements:...

    , Latvian javelin thrower
  • November 22 – Ben Adams
    Ben Adams
    Benjamin "Ben" Steven Adams is an English singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the popular boyband a1.-Early life:He was born in Ascot, Berkshire, United Kingdom....

    , British singer (a1
    A1 (band)
    For other uses of A1 please see A1A1 are a British/Norwegian boy band who were originally made up of Mark Read, Paul Marazzi, Ben Adams and Christian Ingebrigtsen . Their first single, "Be the First to Believe", entered the UK singles chart at number six in early 1999. They had relative success in...

    )
  • November 22 – Seweryn Gancarczyk
    Seweryn Gancarczyk
    Seweryn Gancarczyk is a professional Polish football player for Lech Poznań who plays as a left sided defender.- Career :...

    , Polish footballer
  • November 25 – Xabi Alonso
    Xabi Alonso
    Xabier "Xabi" Alonso Olano is a Spanish footballer who plays for Spanish club Real Madrid and the Spanish national team. He is a central midfielder, often playing as a deep-lying playmaker. He is known for his ability to read the game and delivering long-distance passes...

    , Spanish footballer
  • November 25 – Barbara Pierce Bush
    Barbara Pierce Bush
    Barbara Pierce Bush is the elder of the fraternal twin daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, and the granddaughter of the 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush...

    , daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush
  • November 25 – Jenna Bush
    Jenna Bush
    Jenna Welch Hager, née Bush, , is the younger of the fraternal twin daughters of the 43rd U.S. President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush, and a granddaughter of the 41st U.S. President George H.W. Bush. She and her sister, Barbara Pierce Bush, were the first twin children of a...

    , daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush
  • November 26 – Natasha Bedingfield
    Natasha Bedingfield
    Natasha Anne Bedingfield is a British pop singer and songwriter.Based in Book St., London, Bedingfield debuted in the 1990s as a member of the Christian dance/electronic group The DNA Algorithm with her siblings Daniel Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle...

    , British singer
  • November 26 – Aurora Snow
    Aurora Snow
    Aurora Snow is the pseudonym of an American pornographic actress and occasional director.-Early life:Snow was born and raised in Santa Maria, California, but also spent time in Albuquerque, New Mexico...

    , American actress
  • November 27 – Gary Lucy
    Gary Lucy
    Gary Edward Lucy , is an English television actor and model, best known for his roles as TDC Will Fletcher on ITV police drama The Bill, Kyle Pascoe on Footballers' Wives and on Channel Four teen soap Hollyoaks, as Luke Morgan.-Acting career:Lucy cut his acting teeth in shows like Grange Hill and...

    , Actor The Bill
    The Bill
    ...

     HollyOaks
    Hollyoaks
    Hollyoaks is a long-running television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...

  • November 29 – Tom Hurndall
    Tom Hurndall
    Thomas "Tom" Hurndall was a British photography student, a volunteer for the International Solidarity Movement , and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. On 11 April 2003, he was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defense Forces sniper, Taysir Hayb...

    , British photographer (d. 2004)
  • December 2 – Britney Spears
    Britney Spears
    Britney Jean Spears is an American singer and entertainer. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears first appeared on national television in 1992 as a contestant on the Star Search program, and went on to star in Disney Channel's television series The New Mickey Mouse Club from 1993 to...

    , American entertainer
  • December 3 – David Villa
    David Villa
    David Villa Sánchez , nicknamed El Guaje is a Spanish footballer, who currently plays as a striker for Valencia CF and Spain....

    , Spanish footballer
  • December 3 – Brian Bonsall
    Brian Bonsall
    Brian Eric Bonsall is an American former child actor. He is best known for playing the youngest Keaton child, Andy, on the television sitcom Family Ties from 1986 through 1989...

    , American actor
  • December 3 – Tyjuan Hagler
    Tyjuan Hagler
    Tyjuan Cedric Hagler is an American football linebacker for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Colts in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Cincinnati....

    , American football player
  • December 4 – Lila McCann
    Lila McCann
    Lila Elaine McCann is an American country music singer who made her debut at age sixteen with the single "Down Came a Blackbird." Reaching a peak of #28 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, the song was the first release from her 1997 album Lila, which became the highest-selling...

    , American singer
  • December 9 – Dia Mirza
    Dia Mirza
    Dia Mirza or Diya Mirza Handrich, nicknamed Dee, is a former Indian model and actress who appears in Bollywood films. She was second runner up at Femina Miss India 2000 and was subsequently sent to Miss Asia Pacific 2000 where she won.-Personal life and education:Dia Mirza was born in Hyderabad,...

    , Bollywood actress
  • December 11 – Zacky Vengeance
    Zacky Vengeance
    Zachary James Baker, better known by his stage name Zacky Vengeance, is the rhythm guitarist and harmony vocalist for the American hard rock band Avenged Sevenfold.-Biography:...

    , American guitarist (Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold
    Avenged Sevenfold is an American rock band from Huntington Beach, California, formed in 1999. The band has achieved mainstream success with their 2005 album City of Evil, which included singles such as "Burn It Down", "Bat Country," "Beast and the Harlot" and "Seize the Day." The band's success...

    )
  • December 11 – Javier Saviola
    Javier Saviola
    Javier Pedro Saviola Fernández is an Argentine footballer who currently plays as a striker for Sport Lisboa e Benfica in the Portuguese first division....

    , Argentine soccer player
  • December 12 – Spencer Johnson, NFL player
  • December 13 – Amy Lee
    Amy Lee
    Amy Lynn Hartzler , better known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence...

    , American pianist/singer/songwriter (Evanescence
    Evanescence
    Evanescence is an American rock band founded in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1995 by singer/pianist Amy Lee and guitarist Ben Moody. After recording two private EPs and a demo CD named Origin, with the help of Bigwig Enterprises in 2000, the band released their first full-length album, Fallen, on...

    )
  • December 14 – Amber Chia
    Amber Chia
    Amber Chia is a Malaysian model. She was born in Ipoh, Malaysia, but grew up in the city of Tawau, in Sabah, East Malaysia. She began her modeling career at seventeen in Kuala Lumpur...

    , Malaysian model and actress
  • December 15 – Thomas Herrion
    Thomas Herrion
    Thomas Herrion was an American football player for the San Francisco 49ers. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Herrion, a 6-foot-3 , 310-pound guard, played college football first at Kilgore College at the junior college level before transferring to the University of Utah where he blocked for current...

    , American football player (d. 2005)
  • December 15 – Donal Coonan
    Donal Coonan
    Donal Coonan is an actor, writer and presenter, who is most notable for presenting Channel 4's web show thisisaknife.-Early life:Coonan was born December 15 1981 in London, England...

    , UK presenter for Channel 4
    Channel 4
    Channel 4 is a UK public-service television broadcaster which began working on November 2, 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station owned now and operated by the Channel Four Television...

    's webshow thisisaknife
    Thisisaknife
    thisisaknife was a web show produced for Channel 4 in the UK by World of Wonder that ran from December 2005 to September 2007.Originally daily, it ran from 5 January to 27 April 2006, and was presented by Donal Coonan, Rachna Suri, Alex Sutton and Susan Hickey.After a gap of two weeks, it...

  • December 15 – Roman Pavlyuchenko
    Roman Pavlyuchenko
    Roman Anatolevich Pavlyuchenko is a Russian footballer who currently plays as a centre forward for Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League and for the Russian national team.-Early career:...

    , Russian Soccer player
  • December 16 – Anna Sedokova
    Anna Sedokova
    Anna Sedokova is a Ukrainian pop singer, born on December 16, 1982 in Kiev....

    , Ukrainian singer
  • December 21 – Cristian Zaccardo
    Cristian Zaccardo
    Cristian Zaccardo, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, is an Italian World Cup-winning footballer, who plays for Serie A team Parma F.C. and the Italy national football team...

    , Italian footballer
  • December 24 – Dima Bilan
    Dima Bilan
    Dima Bilan is a Russian pop artist. Bilan represented Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with "Never Let You Go", finishing second, and he won the contest in 2008, with the song "Believe". He has had several Russian no...

    , Russian pop-singer
  • December 27 – Emilie de Ravin
    Emilie de Ravin
    Emilie de Ravin is an Australian actress. She became famous by starring in the popular teen series Roswell but gained even greater fame by starring in the hit ABC drama Lost as Claire Littleton....

    , Australian actress
  • December 27 – Yuvraj Singh
    Yuvraj Singh
    Yuvraj Singh is a cricketer from India, and the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi movie star Yograj Singh. He has been a member of the Indian cricket team since 2000 and played his first Test match in 2003. He was the vice captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008...

    , Indian cricketer
  • December 28 – Elizabeth Jordan Carr
    Elizabeth Jordan Carr
    Elizabeth Jordan Carr was the United States' first baby born from the in-vitro fertilization procedure and the 15th in the world. The technique was conducted at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk under the direction of Doctors Howard Jones and Georgeanna Seegar Jones, who were the first to...

    , first American test-tube baby
  • December 28 – Sienna Miller
    Sienna Miller
    Sienna Rose Miller is an American-born English actress, model, and fashion designer, best known for her roles in G.I. Joe, Alfie, and Factory Girl.-Early life:...

    , American-born actress
  • December 28 – Khalid Boulahrouz
    Khalid Boulahrouz
    Khalid Boulahrouz 28 December 1981, in Maassluis, Netherlands is a Dutch footballer of Berber Moroccan Rif descent, who plays for the Netherlands and VfB Stuttgart. His nickname is "Khalid the Cannibal" for his ability to "eat up" his opposition....

    , Dutch footballer
  • December 29 – Shizuka Arakawa
    Shizuka Arakawa
    is a Japanese figure skater.She is the 2006 Olympic Champion and the 2004 World Champion. Arakawa is the first Japanese figure skater to win the Olympics. She is the second Japanese figure skater to win an Olympic medal, after Midori Ito, and is the second Japanese woman to win a gold medal at the...

    , Japanese figure skater
  • December 29 – Angela Via
    Angela Via
    Angela Vía is an American singer/songwriter from Texas. Initially marketed as a pop artist, Angela’s catalog contains music of a variety of genres in both English and Spanish...

    , American singer
  • December 30 – Kyle Eckel
    Kyle Eckel
    Kyle Eckel is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2005...

    , National Football League player
  • December 30 – Haley Paige
    Haley Paige
    Maryam Irene Haley , better known by her stage name Haley Paige, was a Mexican-born American pornographic actress.-Adult film career:...

    , American porn actress (d. 2007)

January–March


  • January 5 – Harold C. Urey, American 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, physics, literature,...

     laureate (b. 1893)
  • January 5 – Lanza del Vasto
    Lanza del Vasto
    Lanza del Vasto, , was a philosopher, poet, artist, and nonviolent activist.He was born in San Vito dei Normanni, Italy and died in Elche de la Sierra, Spain....

    , Italian-born philosopher, poet, and activist (b. 1901)
  • January 6 – A. J. Cronin
    A. J. Cronin
    Archibald Joseph Cronin, M.B., Ch.B., M.D., D.P.H., M.R.C.P. was a Scottish physician, novelist, dramatist and writer of non-fiction who was one of the most renowned storytellers of the twentieth century...

    , Scottish novelist (b. 1896)
  • January 10 – Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)
  • January 13 – Robert Kellard
    Robert Kellard
    Robert Kellard was an American actor who appeared in over 60 films between 1937 and 1951.Kellard entered in Hollywood in 1937 in the film Annapolis Salute, directed by Christy Cabanne...

    , American actor (b. 1915)
  • January 16 – Bernard Lee
    Bernard Lee
    Bernard Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films.-Biography:Born in London, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...

    , English actor (b. 1908)
  • January 23 – Samuel Barber
    Samuel Barber
    Samuel Osborne Barber II was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. His Adagio for Strings is among his most popular compositions and widely considered a masterpiece of modern classical music....

    , American composer (b. 1910)
  • January 31 – Cozy Cole
    Cozy Cole
    Cozy Cole was a jazz drummer who scored a #1 Cashbox magazine hit with the record "Topsy Part 2". "Topsy" peaked at number three on Billboard Hot 100, and at number one on the R&B chart. . The recording contained a lengthy drum solo, and was one of the few drum solo recordings that ever made the...

    , American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
  • February 1 – Geirr Tveitt
    Geirr Tveitt
    Geirr Tveitt, born Nils Tveit , was a Norwegian composer and pianist. Tveitt was a central figure of the national movement in Norwegian cultural life during the 1930s. A talented pianist, Tveitt won considerable acclaim in continental Europe and elsewhere performing his own compositions...

    , Norwegian composer (b. 1908)
  • February 9 – Bill Haley
    Bill Haley
    Bill Haley was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the early 1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock"...

    , American musician (b. 1925)
  • February 15 – Karl Richter
    Karl Richter
    Karl Richter was a German conductor, organist, and harpsichordist. He was born in Plauen and studied first in Dresden, where he was a member of the Dresdner Kreuzchor and later in Leipzig, where he received his degree in 1949. In the same year, he became organist at St...

    , German conductor (b. 1926)
  • February 18 – John Knudsen Northrop
    John Knudsen Northrop
    John Knudsen "Jack" Northrop was an American aircraft industrialist. He co-founded the Lockheed Corporation in 1927. He was the founder and eponym of the Northrop Corporation in 1939.-Entering aviation:...

    , American airplane manufacturer (b. 1895)
  • February 20 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg
    Nicolas de Gunzburg
    Baron Nicolas Louis Alexandre de Gunzburg was an editor in chief of Town & Country and an influential fashion editor at Vogue and Harper's Bazaar.-Biography:...

    , French magazine editor and playboy (b. 1904)
  • February 26 – Howard Hanson
    Howard Hanson
    Howard Harold Hanson was an American composer, conductor, educator, music theorist, and ardent champion of American classical music. Director for 40 years of the Eastman School of Music, he built a top quality school and provided unparalleled opportunities for commissioning and performing...

    , American composer (b. 1896)
  • February 27 – Jacob H. Gilbert
    Jacob H. Gilbert
    Jacob H. Gilbert was a United States Representative from New York between 1960 and 1971.Gilbert was born in Bronx, N.Y., He attended the public schools and graduated from St. John’s College and from St. John's University School of Law...

    , American politician (b. 1920)
  • March 6 – George Geary
    George Geary
    George Geary was easily the greatest cricketer Leicestershire produced before the advent of David Gower and one of the best and hardest-working bowlers of the inter-war period...

    , English cricketer (b. 1893)
  • March 7 – Kiril Kondrashin
    Kiril Kondrashin
    Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin , was a Russian conductor.- Early life :...

    , Russian conductor (b. 1914)
  • March 9 – Max Delbrück
    Max Delbrück
    Max Ludwig Henning Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate.-Biography:Delbrück was born in Berlin, German Empire...

    , German biologist, 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 Institute. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine...

     (b. 1906)
  • March 23 – Beatrice Tinsley
    Beatrice Tinsley
    Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley was a New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist whose research made fundamental contributions to our understanding of how galaxies evolve with time....

    , English astronomer (b. 1941)
  • March 30 – DeWitt Wallace
    DeWitt Wallace
    DeWitt Wallace , also known as William Roy was a United States magazine publisher. He co-founded Reader's Digest with his wife Lila Wallace and published the first issue in 1922.Born in St...

    , American magazine publisher (b. 1889)
  • March 31 – Frank Tieri, American gangster (b. 1904)

April–June


  • April 3 – Juan Trippe
    Juan Trippe
    Juan Terry Trippe was an American airline entrepreneur and pioneer, and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the world's most prominent airlines of the mid-twentieth century.-Early years:...

    , Airline entrepreneur (b. 1899)
  • April 5 – Maurice Zbriger
    Maurice Zbriger
    Maurice Zbriger was a Canadian violinist, composer and conductor. He began learning violin as a child, and continued his studies at the conservatory in St...

    , Canadian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1896)
  • April 7 – Norman Taurog
    Norman Taurog
    Norman Rae Taurog was an American film directorBetween 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Director for the film Skippy and still holds the record as the youngest director to win it. He was later nominated for Best Director for the 1938 film,...

    , American film director (b. 1899)
  • April 8 – Omar N. Bradley, 5 Star General US Army (b. 1893)
  • April 12 – Joe Louis
    Joe Louis
    Joseph Louis Barrow , better known as Joe Louis, was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1937 to 1949....

    , American boxer (b. 1914)
  • April 18 – James H. Schmitz
    James H. Schmitz
    James Henry Schmitz was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents. Aside from two years at business school in Chicago, Schmitz lived in Germany until 1938, leaving before World War II broke out in Europe in 1939.During World War II, Schmitz served as an aerial photographer...

    , German-born writer (b. 1911)
  • April 27 – John Aspinwall Roosevelt
    John Aspinwall Roosevelt
    John Aspinwall Roosevelt was the 6th and last child of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the only Roosevelt son who never sought political office....

    , American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1916)
  • May 5 – Bobby Sands
    Bobby Sands
    Robert Gerard Sands , commonly known as Bobby Sands, , was an Irish Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike while in HM Prison Maze .He was the leader of the 1981 hunger strike, in which Irish republican prisoners protested...

    , Irish republican (hunger strike) (b. 1954)
  • May 9 – Nelson Algren
    Nelson Algren
    Nelson Algren was an American writer.-Early life:Born Nelson Ahlgren Abraham in Detroit, Michigan. At the age of three he moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois where they lived in a working-class, immigrant neighborhood on the South Side...

    , American author (b. 1909)
  • May 9 – Ralph Allen
    Ralph Allen (footballer)
    Ralph Slack Littlewood Allen was an English professional footballer. He played as a forward and he was born in Newburn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland....

    , English footballer (b. 1906)
  • May 11 – Odd Hassel
    Odd Hassel
    Odd Hassel was a Norwegian physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.-Biography:Born in Kristiania, his parents were Ernst Hassel, a gynaecologist, and Mathilde. In 1915, he entered the University of Oslo where he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, and graduated in 1920...

    , Norwegian 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, physics, literature,...

     laureate (b. 1897)
  • May 11 – Bob Marley
    Bob Marley
    Robert Nesta "Bob" Marley 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...

    , Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
  • May 18 – William Saroyan
    William Saroyan
    William Saroyan was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:...

    , American author (b. 1908)
  • May 30 – Don Ashby
    Don Ashby
    Donald Allan Ashby was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played six seasons in the National Hockey League from 1975–76 until 1980–81....

    , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1955)
  • June 1 – Carl Vinson
    Carl Vinson
    Carl Vinson was a United States Representative from Georgia. He was a Democrat and the first person to serve for more than 50 years in the United States House of Representatives.-Early years:...

    , U.S. Congressman (b. 1883)
  • June 2 – Rino Gaetano
    Rino Gaetano
    Salvatore Antonio "Rino" Gaetano , was an Italian singer-songwriter.- Biography :Rino Gaetano was born in Crotone, in the southern Italian region of Calabria...

    , Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1950)
  • June 9 – Allen Ludden
    Allen Ludden
    Allen Ludden was an American television personality, emcee and game show host.-Early years:He was born as Allen Packard Ellsworth in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. His father, Elmer Ellsworth, died at age 26, on January 6, 1919, when Allen was a toddler...

    , American television game show host (b. 1917)
  • June 10 – Jenny Maxwell
    Jenny Maxwell
    Jenny Maxwell was an American film and television actress, probably best-remembered for her role in the 1961 Elvis Presley film Blue Hawaii....

    , American actress (b. 1941)
  • June 17 – Sir Richard O'Connor, English general (b. 1889)
  • June 17 – Zerna Sharp
    Zerna Sharp
    Zerna Addis Sharp , U.S. author, writer and teacher. She became known for creating the Dick and Jane beginning readers, as well as many other readers for children. Sharp noted the reduced reading ability of children during her travels and urged a new reading format for primers...

    , American writer and educator (b. 1889)
  • June 18 – Pamela Hansford Johnson
    Pamela Hansford Johnson
    Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.-Career:...

    , English poet, novelist, playwright, literary and social critic (b. 1912)
  • June 19 – Lotte Reiniger
    Lotte Reiniger
    Charlotte Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.- Early life :Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899...

    , German-born silhouette animator (b. 1899)
  • June 23 – Zarah Leander
    Zarah Leander
    Zarah Leander was a Swedish actress and singer.Leander began her career in the late 1920s, and by the mid 1930s her success in Europe, particularly in Germany and the Scandinavian countries, led to invitations to work in the United States...

    , Swedish actress and singer (b. 1907)
  • June 28 – Terry Fox
    Terry Fox
    Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox, CC was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, which Fox ran with one prosthetic leg...

    , Canadian athlete and cancer activist (b. 1958)

July–September


  • July 8 – Joe McDonnell
    Joe McDonnell
    Joseph McDonnell was a volunteer in the Provisional Irish Republican Army , who died in the 1981 Irish hunger strike.-Early life:...

    , Irish political prisoner (b. 1951)
  • July 16 – Harry Chapin
    Harry Chapin
    Harry Forster Chapin was an American singer and songwriter known for his folk rock songs "Taxi," "W*O*L*D," and the number-one hit "Cat's in the Cradle" as well as his masterful folk musical based on the biblical book of John, "Cotton Patch Gospel." Chapin was also a dedicated humanitarian who...

    , American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
  • July 27 – Adam Walsh, American murder victim, inspired Code Adam
    Code Adam
    Code Adam is a "missing child" safety program in the United States and Canada, originally created by Wal-Mart retail stores in 1994. It is named in memory of Adam Walsh, the 6-year-old son of John Walsh . Adam was abducted from a Sears department store in Florida in 1981 and was later found murdered...

     (b. 1974)
  • July 27 – William Wyler
    William Wyler
    William Wyler was a motion picture director.-Early life:Wyler was born Wilhelm Weiller to a Swiss father and a German mother, in Mulhouse in the French region of Alsace...

    , American movie director (b. 1902)
  • July 29 – Robert Moses
    Robert Moses
    Robert Moses was the "master builder" of mid-20th century New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County, New York. As the shaper of a modern city, he is sometimes compared to Baron Haussmann of Second Empire Paris, and is one of the most polarizing figures in the history of urban planning in...

    , American urban planner (b. 1888)
  • August 14 – Karl Böhm
    Karl Böhm
    Karl August Leopold Böhm was an Austrian conductor.-Biography:Born in Graz, Austria, Böhm studied law and earned a doctorate on this subject. He later studied music at the Graz Conservatory. On the recommendation of Karl Muck, Bruno Walter engaged him at Munich's Bavarian State Opera in 1921...

    , Austrian conductor (b. 1894)
  • August 15 – Carol Ryrie Brink
    Carol Ryrie Brink
    Carol Ryrie Brink an American author of over thirty juvenile and adult books. Her novel Caddie Woodlawn won the 1936 Newbery Medal.- Life :...

    , American author (b. 1895)
  • August 30 – Vera-Ellen
    Vera-Ellen
    Vera-Ellen was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor.-Early life:...

    , American actress and dancer (b. 1921)
  • September 1 – Albert Speer
    Albert Speer
    Albert Speer was a German architect who was, for part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...

    , Nazi official (b. 1905)
  • September 2 – Enid Lyons
    Enid Lyons
    Dame Enid Muriel Lyons, AD, GBE was an Australian politician and the first woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives as well as the first woman appointed to the federal Cabinet...

    , Australia politician (b. 1897)
  • September 6 – Christy Brown
    Christy Brown
    Christy Brown was an Irish author, painter and poet who had severe cerebral palsy. He is most famous for his autobiography My Left Foot, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film of the same name....

    , Irish author, poet, and artist (b. 1932)
  • September 8 – Hideki Yukawa
    Hideki Yukawa
    né , was a Japanese theoretical physicist and the first Japanese Nobel laureate.-Biography:Yukawa was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1929, after receiving his degree from Kyoto Imperial University, he stayed on as a lecturer for four years. After graduation, he was interested in theoretical physics,...

    , Japanese 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...

     laureate (b. 1907)
  • September 9 – Sir Robert (Bob) Askin
    Robert Askin
    Sir Robert William Askin, GCMG was the first Premier of New South Wales from the Liberal Party of Australia 1965 to 1975. He was born Robin William Askin, but he always disliked his first name and he changed it by deed poll in 1971...

    , Premier of New South Wales (b. 1907)
  • September 12 – Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale
    Eugenio Montale was an Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.- Early years :...

    , Italian 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. 1896)
  • September 15 – Rafael Méndez
    Rafael Méndez
    Rafael Méndez was a popular Mexican virtuoso solo trumpeter.Méndez was born in Michoacan, Mexico. As a young child, Méndez was the cornetist for Pancho Villa...

    , Mexican-born trumpet virtuoso (b. 1906)
  • September 15 – Harold Bennett
    Harold Bennett
    Harold Bennett was an English actor most famous for playing "Young Mr. Grace" in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?.-Biography:...

    , British actor (b. 1899)
  • September 28 – Sir Edward Boyle, Baron Boyle of Handsworth, British
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...

     Conservative
    Conservative Party (UK)
    The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservatives, the Conservative Party, or Tory Party is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom...

     cabinet minister (b. 1923)
  • September 29 – Bill Shankly
    Bill Shankly
    William "Bill" Shankly, OBE was one of Britain's most successful and respected football managers. Shankly was also a fine player, whose career was interrupted by the Second World War...

    , British football manager (b. 1914)

October–December


  • October 2 – Harry Golden
    Harry Golden
    Harry Lewis Golden was an American Jewish writer and newspaper publisher. He was born Herschel Goldhirsch in the shtetl Mikulintsy, Ukraine, then part of Austria-Hungary....

    , American journalist (b. 1902)
  • October 6 – Anwar Sadat
    Anwar Sadat
    Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat, or Anwar El Sadat , was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination on 6 October 1981...

    ,