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'''1969''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMLXIX''') was a
common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar).
:''For other uses, see
1969 (number) Number 1969.''
:''For the movie, see
1969 (movie).''
:''For the
The Velvet Underground Velvet Underground live album, see''
1969: The Velvet Underground Live.
Events
January
*
January 1 - Australian media baron
Rupert Murdoch purchases the largest selling British Sunday newspaper ''The
News Of The World''
*
January 3 -
Pele scores his 1000th goal
*
January 5 - The
Derry Riots leave over 100 people injured
*
January 10 - After 147 years, the last issue of the ''
Saturday Evening Post'' (a
United States US Magazine) is published
*
January 12 -
Super Bowl III: the
New York Jets defeat the
Baltimore Colts
*
January 12 -
Led Zeppelin releases their first album.
*
January 14 - An explosion aboard the
Poop Ship near
Hawaii kills 25
*
January 15 - The
Soviet Union launches
Soyuz 5
*
January 16 - Ten paintings defaced in New York's
Metropolitan Museum of Art
*
January 16 - Student
Jan Palach sets himself on fire in
Prague's
Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion of
Czechoslovakia by the
Soviet Union. Three days later he dies.
*
January 20 -
Richard Nixon succeeds
Lyndon Johnson as
President of the United States of America
*
January 24 -
Martial Law declared in
Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested
*
January 27 - 14 men, nine of them Jews, were executed in
Baghdad for spying for
Israel
*
January 27 - Reverend
Ian Paisley, hardline
Protestant leader in
Northern Ireland, is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.
*
January 30 -
The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of
Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police
February
*
February 1 - Birth, in Paris, France, of
Denis Cheyrouze, French media guru.
*
February 4 - In
Cairo Yasser Arafat is appointed
Palestinian Liberation Organization leader at the
Palestinian National Congress and takes command the next day
*
February 8 - The last issue of the ''Saturday Evening Post'' hits magazine stands
*
February 13 -
FLQ terrorists bomb the
Montreal Stock Exchange Stock Exchange in
Montreal, Quebec
*
February 24 - Launch of the
Mariner 6 Mars probe
*
February 24 -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (Case against pure speech in schools)
*
February 25 -
Jesus marries
Kool-Aid Man
March
*
March 1 - Major league
baseballer
Mickey Mantle announces his retirement.
*
March 1 - During a performance at
Miami, Florida Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium,
Jim Morrison of
the Doors is arrested for exposing himself during the show. Morrison is officially charged with lewd and lascivious behavior, indecent behavior, open profanity and public drunkenness.
*
March 1 -
Rick James officially leaves active duty in
Canada
*
March 2 - In
Toulouse,
France the first
Concorde test flight is conducted
*
March 2 -
Soviet Union Soviet and
People's Republic of China Chinese forces clash at a border outpost on the
Ussuri River
*
March 3 - In a
Los Angeles, California court,
Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate
Robert F. Kennedy
*
March 3 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches
Apollo 9 to test the
lunar module
*
March 10 - In
Memphis, Tennessee,
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating
Martin Luther King Jr. Ray would later retract his guilty plea
*
March 13 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 9 returns safely to
Earth after testing the
Lunar Module
*
March 17 -
Golda Meir of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, becomes
Prime Minister of Israel
*
March 17 - The Longhope
lifeboat in
Scotland is lost, the entire crew of eight die.
*
March 19 - British paratroopers and Marines land on the island of
Anguilla.
*
March 28 -
Dwight D Eisenhower dies after a long illness in the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC.
April
*
April 1 - The
Hawker-Siddeley Harrier enters service with the
Royal Air Force RAF
*
April 4 - Dr.
Denton Cooley implants the first temporary
artificial heart
*
April 13 -
Queensland: The final day of the
Brisbane Tramways after 84 years of operation.
*
April 20 - British troops arrive in
Northern Ireland to reinforce the
Royal Ulster Constabulary.
*
April 22 -
Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail
circumnavigation around the world solo without stopping
*
April 28 - General
Charles de Gaulle de Gaulle steps down as president of
France after having suffered a defeat in a referendum the day before.
*
April 29 - First anniversary of the
Broadway theatre Broadway production of the musical ''Hair'' is celebrated with free concert at Wollman Skating Rink
May
*
May 10 - Zip to Zap, a harbinger of the Woodstock Concert, ends with dispersal and eviction of youth and young adults at
Zap, North Dakota by the National Guard.
*
May 10 - The
Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as the
Hamburger Hill, begins in
Vietnam War
*
May 13 -
May 13th Incident:
Race riots occur in
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
*
May 14 - Colonel
Qaddafi had made his phenomenal visit to Mecca.
*
May 16 -
Venera program:
Venera 5, a
Soviet Union Soviet spaceprobe, lands on
Venus (planet) Venus
*
May 17 - Venera program:
Soviet Union Soviet Venera 6 begins to descend into
Venus (planet) Venus' atmosphere sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure
*
May 17 -
Tom McClean completes the first solo transatlantic crossing by a rowboat
*
May 18 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 10 launches
*
May 19-
May 20 -
French Foreign Legion paratroopers land onto
Kolwezi,
Zaire, to rescue Europeans in a middle of a civil war
*
May 20 -
United States National Guard National Guard helicopters spray skin-stinging powder on anti-war protesters in California
*
May 22 - Apollo program:
Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 15,400 m of the
moon's surface
*
May 26 - Apollo program:
Apollo 10 returns to
earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned
moon landing
*
May 26-
June 2:
John Lennon and
Yoko Ono conduct their
Bed-In at the
Queen Elizabeth Hotel in
Montreal, Quebec, and record the song "
Give Peace a Chance" on
May 31.
*
May 29 -
Mashina Vremeni Russian
rock (music) rock band official birthday
*
May 30 - Riots in
Curaçao, marking the start for a movement for
Afro-Caribbean civil rights on the island.
June
*
June 2 - In
Ottawa, Canada the
National Arts Centre opens its doors to the public for the first time
*
June 2 -
Australian aircraft carrier ''Melbourne'' collides with the US destroyer ''Frank E. Evans'' in the
South China Sea - 74 US sailors dead
*
June 8 - After the
Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) cancels the program, the last
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour airs
*
June 8 -
President Nixon and
South Vietnamese President
Nguyen Van Thieu meet at
Midway Island. Nixon announced that 25,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn by September.
*
June 18-
June 22 22 - The National Convention of the
Students for a Democratic Society, held in
Chicago, Illinois, collapses, and the
Weatherman (organization) Weatherman faction seizes control of the SDS National Office. Thereafter, any activity run from the National Office or bearing the name of SDS is Weatherman-controlled.
*
June 20 -
Georges Pompidou elected President of France.
*
June 23 -
Warren E. Burger is sworn in as
Chief Justice of the United States by retiring chief
Earl Warren.
*
June 24 -
United Kingdom and
Rhodesia sever diplomatic ties
*
June 28 - The
Stonewall riots mark the start of the modern
gay rights movement in the U.S.
July
image:Aldrin Apollo 11.jpg thumb|The Apollo Moon landings
*
July 5 – Assassination of
Mboya,
Kenyan Minister of Development
*
July 7 -
French language French is made equal to
English language English throughout the
Canada Canadian national government
*
July 8 -
Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made
*
July 10 -
Trimaran the ''Teignmouth Electron'' of
Donald Crowhurst is found drifting and unoccupied - Crowhurst might have committed suicide
*
July 14 -
Football War - after
Honduras loses a soccer game against
El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadorean workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The
Organization of American States OAS works out a cease-fire on
July 18, taking effect on
July 20
*
July 18 -
Edward M. Kennedy Ted Kennedy drives off a bridge on his way home from a party on
Chappaquiddick Island,
Massachusetts.
Mary Jo Kopechne, a former campaign aide to his brother who was in the car with him, dies in the incident
*
July 20 -
Apollo program: First man on the moon. The human race, represented by
Neil Armstrong and
Buzz Aldrin, lands on the
Moon. ''
Apollo 11'' lifted off for the moon on
July 16 and returned safely on
July 24
*
July 25 -
Vietnam War: US President
Richard Nixon declares the
Nixon Doctrine stating that the
United States now expects its
Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war
*
July 30 -
Vietnam War: US President
Richard M. Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to
South Vietnam and meets with President
Nguyen Van Thieu and with US military commanders
*
July 31 -
Halfpenny ceases to be
legal tender in the UK
August
*
August 4 - Vietnam War: At the apartment of
France French intermediary
Jean Sainteny in
Paris, US representative
Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative
Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations. The negotiations will eventually fail
*
August 5 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of
Mars (planet) Mars (3,524 kilometers)
*
August 8 - Fire in the
Bannerman's Castle in the Hudson River - most of the roof collapses
*
August 9 - Members of a
cult led by
Charles Manson murder five people including
Sharon Tate,
Jay Sebring and,
Abigail Folger. The next day The Family would murder Rosemary and Leno LaBianca
*
August 10 - Manson family kills Leno and Rosemary LaBianca
*
August 12 -
Jack Lynch,
Taoiseach of the
Republic of Ireland, makes a speech to the
United Nations in which he asks them to deploy a peace-keeping mission in
Northern Ireland.
*
August 13 - Serious border clash between
Soviet Union and
People's Republic of China
*
August 14 -
United Kingdom British troops deployed in
Northern Ireland
*
August 15 - The
Woodstock Festival of music begins in upstate New York lasting three days and featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era
*
August 17 - Category 5
Hurricane Camille hits the
Mississippi coast killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars)
*
August 21 - Part of the
al-Aqsa Mosque is destroyed by arson
September
*
September 1 - A coup in
Libya oust King
Idris I of Libya Idris and brings Col.
Moammar Qaddafi to power
*
September 2 - The first
automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in
Rockville Centre, New York.
*
September 5 -
My Lai Massacre: Lt.
William Calley is charged with six specifications of premeditated murder for the death of 109
Vietnamese civilians in
My Lai
*
September 9 -
Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 Douglas DC-9 DC-9 collided in flight with a Piper PA-28 and crashed near
Fairland, Indiana Fairland,
Indiana USA.
*
September 22 -
September 25 25 Islamic conference in
Rabat, Morocco after al-Aqsa Mosque fire (Augusr 21) condemns Israeli occupation of
Jerusalem
*
September 26 -
The Beatles release their album
Abbey Road (album) Abbey Road. It would be the last album that the group recorded together.
*
September 28 -
Social Democrats and
Free Democratic Party (Germany) Free Democratic Party have received a majority of votes in the
Germany German parliamentary elections and decide to form a common government
October
*
October 1 - In
Sweden,
Olof Palme is elected Labour party leader, replacing
Tage Erlander as prime minister on
October 14
*
October 9 - In
Chicago, Illinois, the
United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection to the trial of the "
Chicago Eight" (trial started on
September 24)
*
October 15 -
Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in
National Moratorium antiwar demonstrations across the
United States
*
October 16 - The ("miracle")
New York Mets win the
World Series, beating the heavily favored
Baltimore Orioles, four games to one.
*
October 17 - Willard S. Boyle and George Smith invent the
Charge-coupled device CCD at
Bell Laboratories. Today, this technology is widely used in digital cameras.
*
October 21 -
Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of
West Germany
*
October 21 -
Siad Barre comes to power in
Somalia in a coup
*
October 31 -
Wal-Mart incorporates as Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
November
*
November - Creation of
ARPANET, the predecessor of the
Internet
*
November 3 -
Vietnam War: US President
Richard M. Nixon addresses his nation on
television and
radio asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies
*
November 9 - Group of Amerindians lead by
Richard Oakes (activist) Richard Oakes seize the
Alcatraz island for 19 months, inspiring a wave of renewed Indian pride and government reform
*
November 12 -
Vietnam War:
My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist
Seymour Hersh breaks the
My Lai story
*
November 13 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in
Washington, DC stage a symbolic "
March Against Death"
*
November 14 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches
Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the
Moon (landed on the Moon on
November 19)
*
November 15 -
Cold War: The
Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine
USS Gato (SSN-615) USS ''Gato'' in the
Barents Sea
*
November 15 -
Vietnam War: In
Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war
*
November 15 - Regular
colour television broadcasts begin on
BBC1 and
ITV in
United Kingdom UK.
*
November 17 -
Cold War: Negotiators from the
Soviet Union and the
United States meet in
Helsinki to begin
SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides
*
November 19 -
Apollo program:
Apollo 12 astronauts
Charles Conrad and
Alan Bean land at
Oceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth
humans to walk on the
Moon
*
November 20 -
Vietnam War: The ''
Cleveland Plain Dealer'' publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the
My Lai massacre in
Vietnam
*
November 20 -
Richard Oakes (activist) Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers and offers to buy the Alcatraz for $24 (he leaves the island January 1970)
*
November 21 -
U.S. President Nixon and
Japanese Premier
Eisaku Sato agree in
Washington on the return of
Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, U.S. retains rights to military bases on island, but must be nuclear-free.
*
November 21 - The first
ARPANET link is established which was the progenitor of the global
Internet.
*
November 21 - The
senate voted down the
Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court nomination of
Clement Haynsworth Clement F. Haynsworth, the first such rejection since 1930.
*
November 24 -
Apollo program: The
Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the
Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the
Moon
*
November 25 -
John Lennon returns his
Order of the British Empire OBE to protest the British government's support of the US war in Vietnam
December
*
December 1 -
Vietnam War: The first
draft lottery in the
United States is held since
World War II (on
January 4,
1970, the ''
New York Times'' ran a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random")
*
December 2 - The
Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut. It carried 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from
Seattle, Washington Seattle to
New York City.
*
December 4 -
Black Panther Party Black Panther members
Fred Hampton and
Mark Clark (Black Panther) Mark Clark are shot dead in their sleep during a raid by 14
Chicago, Illinois Chicago police officers.
*
December 12 - Piazza Fontana Slaughter in Italy (Strage di Piazza Fontana). A U.S. officer and C.I.A. agent called David Carrett involved.
Undated events
*
Parker Morris Committee Parker Morris Standards became mandatory for all
council house Council housing in the
United Kingdom UK.
*Summer saw the invention of
Unix
*In the autumn, the first four nodes of the ARPAnet went up
*
ACM SIGGRAPH founded
*First performance of
Steven Berkoff's adaptation of
Franz Kafka Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Ongoing events
*
Vietnam War (
1964 -
1975)
*
1970 War of Attrition War of Attrition, between
Egypt and
Israel, which lasted until August
1970. This conflict was characterized by escalating artillery duels, air raids and commando missions
Birth Dates
January
*
January 2 -
Christy Turlington, American fashion model
*
January 2 -
Tommy Morrison, American boxer
*
January 3 -
Michael Schumacher, German race car driver
*
January 5 -
Marilyn Manson (person) Marilyn Manson, American singer
*
January 14 -
Jason Bateman, American actor
*
January 14 -
David Grohl, American drummer and composer (
Nirvana (band) Nirvana; later,
Foo Fighters)
*
January 15 -
Meret Becker, German actress and musician
*
January 16 -
Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
*
January 16 -
Per Yngve Ohlin Per "Dead" Yngve Ohlin, Scandanavian vocalist
*
January 17 -
Lukas Moodysson, Swedish film director
*
January 20 -
Patrick K. Kroupa, American writer, hacker
February
*
February 1 -
Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
*
February 3 -
Retief Goosen, South African golfer
*
February 5 -
Bobby Brown, American singer
*
February 11 -
Jennifer Aniston, American actress
*
February 11 -
Thomas Edison - Inventor
*
February 12 -
Abraham Lincoln - 16th American President
*
February 12 -
Hong Myung-Bo, South Korean footballer
*
February 13 -
Ahlam, Arabic Diva
*
February 17 -
Tuesday Knight, American actress
*
February 17 -
Michael Jordan, American Basketball Player
*
February 17 -
Larry the Cable Guy, American Comedian
*
February 23 -
Michael Campbell,
New Zealand golfer
March
*
March 1 -
Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
*
March 1 -
Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh drummer (
Super Furry Animals)
*
March 19 -
Connor Trinneer, American actor
April
*
April 6 -
Bret Boone, baseball player
*
April 10 -
Billy Jayne, American actor
*
April 11 -
Cerys Matthews, Welsh singer
*
April 17 -
Henry Ian Cusick, Peruvian actor
*
April 19 -
Susan Polgar, Hungarian chess player
*
April 25 -
Joe Buck, baseball and American football broadcaster
*
April 25 -
Vanessa Beecroft, Italian artist
*
April 25 -
Darren Woodson, American football player
*
April 25 -
Renée Zellweger, American actress
May
*
May 2 -
Brian Lara, West Indian cricketer
*
May 3 -
Daryl F. Mallett, American author and actor
*
May 6 -
Jim Magilton, Northern Irish footballer
*
May 7 -
Eagle Eye Cherry, Swedish-born musician
*
May 10 -
Dennis Bergkamp, Dutch soccer player
*
May 13 -
Nikos Aliagas, French-born television host
*
May 14 -
Cate Blanchett, Australian actress
*
May 15 -
Emmitt Smith, American football player
*
May 16 -
Tracey Gold, American actress
*
May 16 -
Steve Lewis (athlete) Steve Lewis, American athlete
*
May 18 -
Martika, American singer
*
May 21 -
Georgiy R. Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (d.
2000)
June
*
June 11 -
Steven Drozd, American drummer (
The Flaming Lips)
*
June 14 -
Steffi Graf, German tennis player
*
June 15 -
Oliver Kahn, German football goalkeeper
*
June 17 -
Paul Tergat, Kenyan athlete
*
June 18 -
PÃ¥l Pot Pamparius, Norwegian guitarist and keyboardist (
Turbonegro)
*
June 24 -
Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
*
June 25 -
Matt Gallant, American television host
July
*
July 5 -
John LeClair, American hockey player
*
July 10 -
Gale Harold, American actor
*
July 18 -
Masanori Murakawa, Japanese professional wrestler
*
July 20 -
Josh Holloway, American actor
*
July 24 -
Jennifer Lopez, American actress and singer
*
July 27 -
Triple H(aka Hunter Hearst Helmsley), American professional wrestler
August
*
August 2 -
Fernando Couto, Portuguese footballer
*
August 6 -
Elliott Smith, American musician (d.
2003)
*
August 9 -
Troy Percival, baseball player
*
August 13 -
Midori Ito, Japanese figure skater
*
August 18 -
Edward Norton, American actor
*
August 18 -
Christian Slater, American actor
*
August 19 -
Matthew Perry (actor) Matthew Perry, American actor
*
August 28 -
Jack Black (actor) Jack Black, American actor
*
August 29 -
Joe Swail, Northern Irish snooker player
September
*
September 2 -
Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
*
September 5 -
Dweezil Zappa, American actor and musician
*
September 9 -
Rachel Hunter, New Zealand model and actress
*
September 13 -
Shane Warne, Australian cricketer
*
September 24 -
Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
*
September 25 -
Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (d.
2002)
*
September 25 -
Hal Sparks, American actor and comedian
*
September 25 -
Catherine Zeta-Jones, Welsh actress
*
September 26 -
Paul Warhurst, English football player
October
*
October 1 -
Igor Ulanov, Russian hockey player
*
October 2 -
Mitch English, American actor and television host
*
October 3 -
Gwen Stefani, American singer (
No Doubt)
*
October 8 -
Julia Ann, American porn actress
*
October 10 -
Brett Favre, American football player
*
October 13 -
Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
*
October 14 -
David Strickland, American actor (d.
1999)
*
October 17 -
Ernie Els, South African golfer
*
October 19 -
Trey Parker, American television producer
*
October 20 -
Juan Gonzalez, baseball player
*
October 30 -
Clay Enos, American photographer
November
*
November 4 -
Matthew McConaughey, American actor
*
November 7 -
Michelle Clunie, American actress
*
November 7 -
Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
*
November 7 -
Bryant H. McGill, American poet
*
November 10 -
Jens Lehmann, German football player
*
November 11 -
Carson Kressley, American fashion expert
*
November 12 -
Heinz-Christian Strache,
Austrian politician
*
November 17 -
Jean-Michel Saive, Belgian table tennis player
*
November 18 -
Sam Cassell, basketball player
*
November 20 -
AQi Fzono, Japanese composer
*
November 21 -
Ken Griffey, Jr., baseball player
*
November 28 -
Lexington Steele, African-American actor and film director
*
November 29 -
Mariano Rivera, Panamanian
Major League Baseball player
*
November 29 -
Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch footballer
*
November 29 -
Chris Baker, American race car driver
December
*
December 4 -
Jay-Z, American rapper
*
December 15 -
Rick Law, American illustrator and producer
*
December 19 -
Kristy Swanson, American actress
*
December 21 -
Julie Delpy, French actress
*
December 23 -
Martha Byrne, American actress and singer
*
December 28 -
Linus Torvalds, Finnish computer programmer
*
December 30 -
Jason Kay Jay Kay, English singer (
Jamiroquai)
Deaths
January
*
January 4 -
Violet Hilton Violet and
Daisy Hilton, English conjoined twin actresses (b.
1908)
*
January 8 -
Albert Hill, British athlete (b.
1889)
*
January 19 -
Jan Palach Czech student protester (suicide) (b.
1948)
*
January 25 -
Irene Castle, English dancer (b.
1893)
*
January 29 -
Allen Dulles, American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b.
1893)
*
January 30 -
Georges Pire, Belgian monk, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1910)
*
January 31 -
Meher Baba, Indian Spiritual master (b.
1894)
February
*
February 4 -
Thelma Ritter, American actress (b.
1905)
*
February 9 -
Gabby Hayes, American actor (b.
1885)
*
February 20 -
Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b.
1883)
*
February 23 - King
Saud of Saudi Arabia (b.
1902)
*
February 26 -
Levi Eshkol,
Prime Minister of Israel (b.
1895)
March
*
March 4 -
Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b.
1881)
*
March 11 -
John Wyndham, British author (b.
1903)
*
March 21 -
Pinky Higgins, American baseball player and manager (b.
1909)
*
March 26 -
John Kennedy Toole, American author (b.
1937)
*
March 27 -
B. Traven, German writer
*
March 28 -
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th
President of the United States (b.
1890)
May
*
May 4 -
Osbert Sitwell, English writer (b.
1892)
*
May 14 -
Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (b.
1888)
*
May 19 -
Coleman Hawkins, American musician (b.
1904)
June
*
June 21 -
Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (b.
1934)
*
June 22 -
Judy Garland, American actress and singer (b.
1922)
July
*
July 5,
Walter Gropius, German architect (b.
1883)
*
July 18 -
Mary Jo Kopechne, American campaign aide to U.S. Senator
Robert F. Kennedy (b.
1940)
*
July 24 -
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish novelist and dramatist (b.
1904)
August
*
August 9 -
Cecil Frank Powell, British physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
*
August 9 -
Sharon Tate, American actress (murdered) (b.
1943)
*
August 17 -
Otto Stern, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1888)
*
August 27 -
Ivy Compton-Burnett, English novelist (b.
1884)
*
August 27 -
Erika Mann, German writer (b.
1905)
*
August 31 -
Rocky Marciano, American boxer (b.
1923)
September
*
September 2 -
Ho Chi Minh,
President of Vietnam (b.
1890)
October
*
October 4 -
Natalino Otto, Italian singer (b.
1912)
*
October 12 -
Sonja Henie, Norwegian figure skater (b.
1912)
*
October 21 -
Jack Kerouac, American author (b.
1922)
*
October 21 -
Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (b.
1882)
*
October 30 -
Pops Foster, American musician
November
*
November 12 -
William F. Friedman, American cryptanalyst (b.
1891)
*
November 15 -
Iskander Mirza, first
President of Pakistan
*
November 18 -
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American politician (b.
1888)
December
*
December 4 -
Fred Hampton, Black Panther (shot by police) (b.
1948)
*
December 4 -
Mark Clark (Black Panther) Mark Clark, Black Panther (shot by police) (b.
1896)
*
December 12 -
Magic Sam, American musician (b.
1937)
*
December 31 -
George Lewis (clarinetist) George Lewis, American musician (b.
1900)
Nobel Prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
Murray Gell-Mann
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
Derek Harold Richard Barton,
Odd Hassel
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Medicine -
Max Delbrück,
Alfred Hershey,
Salvador Luria
*
Nobel Prize in Literature Literature -
Samuel Beckett
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace -
International Labour Organization
*
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Economics -
Ragnar Frisch,
Jan Tinbergen
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