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'''1972''' ('''
Roman numerals MCMLXXII''') was a
leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar).
Events
{{Year BA}}
* Designated ''International year of the book'' by
UNESCO
January
*
January 2 - The
Pierre Hotel Heist - Six men rob the
safe deposit boxes of the
Pierre Hotel in
New York City. Loot is at least $4 million.
*
January 4 -
Rose Heilbron becomes the first woman judge at the
Old Bailey in
London.
*
January 4 -
Kurt Waldheim becomes the
Secretary General of the United Nations.
*
January 5 -
President of the United States Richard Nixon orders the development of a
space shuttle program.
*
January 7 - Iberian Airlines passenger planes crashes into an 800' peak on island of Ibiza - 104 dead.
*
January 9 -
Howard Hughes speaks by telephone to denounce
Clifford Irving's supposed biography about him.
*
January 9 -
RMS Queen Elizabeth RMS ''Queen Elizabeth'' is destroyed by fire (
Hong Kong harbor).
*
January 11 - East Pakistan becomes independent with the name
Bangladesh.
*
January 14 - King
Frederick IX of Denmark dies - his daughter Queen
Margaret II of Denmark ascends to the throne on
January 16.
*
January 19 -
Libertarian enclave
Republic of Minerva Minerva on a platform in the
Pacific Ocean South Pacific, sponsored by the
Phoenix Foundation, declares
independence. Soon neighboring
Tonga annexes the area and dismantles the platform
*
January 22 -
Denmark,
Ireland and the
United Kingdom join the
European Economic Community EEC.
*
January 23 -
New Delhi bootlegging bootlegger sells
wood alcohol to a
wedding party - 100 dead
*
January 24 -
Japanese soldier
Shoichi Yokoi is discovered in
Guam. He had spent 28 years in the jungle.
*
January 25 -
Shirley Chisholm, the first
African American woman elected to US Congress, announces her candidacy for US president.
*
January 26 -
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavian air stewardress
Vesna Vulovic is the only survivor when her plane crashes in
Czechoslovakia. She survives after falling about 30,000' in the tail section of the aircraft.
*
January 28 -
Richard Chanfray claims he is
Count of St Germain on French television.
*
January 30 -
Bloody Sunday (1972) Bloody Sunday - the
British Army kills 13 unarmed
Roman Catholic civil rights marchers in
Derry,
Ireland.
*
January 30 -
Pakistan withdraws from the
Commonwealth of Nations.
*
January 31 - King
Mahendra of Nepal dies, becoming the second king to die that month, and is succeeded by his son,
Birendra of Nepal Birendra.
February
*
February 1 - First scientific hand-held calculator (
HP-35) introduced (price $395).
*
February 2 - Anti-
United Kingdom British riots throughout
Ireland take place. The British Embassy in
Dublin is burned to the ground as are several British owned businesses.
*
February 4 -
Mariner 9 sends pictures from
Mars (planet) Mars.
*
February 5 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers and baggage.
*
February 5 - Tommy Vercetti arrested for 15 years for multiple counts of murder and possession of cocaine
*
February 5 -
Bob Douglas becomes the first
African American elected to the
Basketball Hall of Fame.
*
February 9 - The British government declares a
state of emergency over a miners' strike.
*
February 15 - President of
Ecuador José MarÃa Velasco Ibarra is deposed for the fourth time.
*
February 15 -
Phonorecords granted U.S. Federal
copyright protection for the first time.
*
February 17 - Sales of the
Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of
Ford Model-T (15 million).
*
February 18 - The
California Supreme Court invalidates the state's
death penalty and converts the sentences of all
death row inmates to life in prison.
*
February 21-
February 28 - President
Richard M. Nixon makes an unprecedented
Nixon visit to China 1972 eight-day visit to the
People's Republic of China and meets with
Mao Zedong.
*
February 21 - The
Soviet Union Soviet unmanned
spaceship Luna 20 lands on the
Moon.
*
February 22 -
Irish Republican Army IRA bomb in
Aldershot - 7 dead.
*
February 23 -
Angela Davis is released from jail.
*
February 23 - A
Lufthansa plane is hijacked and taken to
Aden. Passengers are released after a ransom of 16 million
Deutschmark D-marks is agreed.
*
February 24 - North Vietnamese negotiators walk out of the peace talks in Paris to protest US air raids.
*
February 26 - A coal sludge spill kills 125 in
Buffalo Creek.
*
February 26 -
Luna 20 comes back to Earth with a cargo of moon rocks.
March
*
March 1 - British 14-year-old schoolboy
Timothy Davey is sentenced in Turkey for "conspiring to sell
cannabis."
*
March 1 - The
Club of Rome publishes report "Boundaries on the Growth."
*
March 2 - Launch of the
Pioneer 10 spacecraft.
*
March 2 -
Jean-Bedel Bokassa becomes the president of the
Central African Republic.
*
March 3 - Sculpted figures of
Jefferson Davis,
Robert E. Lee, and
Stonewall Jackson are completed at
Stone Mountain,
Georgia (U.S. state) Georgia.
*
March 4 -
Libya and the
Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
*
March 5 - Greek composer
Mikis Theodorakis leaves the
Greek Communist Party.
*
March 13 - The
United Kingdom and the
People's Republic of China elevate diplomatic exchanges to the ambassadorial level after 22 years.
*
March 13 -
Clifford Irving admits to a New York court that he had fabricated
Howard Hughes "autobiography."
*
March 16 - The first building of the
Pruitt-Igoe housing development is destroyed.
*
March 19 -
India and
Bangladesh sign a friendship
treaty.
*
March 24 - To prevent further
Unionist (Ireland) unionist misrule,
United Kingdom Britain takes over direct rule of
Northern Ireland.
*
March 26 - 19 climbers on
Mount Fuji die in an
avalanche.
*
March 30 -
Vietnam War: The
Eastertide Offensive begins after
North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of
South Vietnam.
April
*
April 3 - First call was made with a
cell phone (cellular phone) in New York.
*
April 7 - US
Mafia Mafioso Joe Gallo shot in ''Umberto's Clam House'' in
Little Italy.
*
April 10 - The USA and the Soviet Union join some 70 nations in signing an agreement to ban
biological warfare.
*
April 10 - A 7.0
Richter scale earthquake kills 1/5 of the population of
Iranian province of
Fars.
*
April 13 - The
Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the
People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the
Republic of China administering
Taiwan.
*
April 16 -
Charlie Chaplin re-enters the USA to receive a Special Oscar (
Academy Awards Academy Award) from Daniel Taradash.
*
April 16 -
Apollo 16 launched.
*
April 16 -
Vietnam War:
Nguyen Hue Offensive – Prompted by the
North Vietnamese offensive, the
United States resumes bombing of
Hanoi and
Haiphong.
*
April 18 - The
Roland Corporation is founded in
Osaka.
*
April 22 -
Sylvia Cook and
John Fairfax have rowed across the
Pacific.
*
April 27 -
Constructive Vote of No Confidence against
Chancellor of Germany German Chancellor Willy Brandt fails under obscure circumstances.
*
April 29 - The fourth anniversary of the Broadway musical
Hair (musical) Hair is celebrated with a free concert at a Central Park bandshell, followed by dinner at the Four Seasons. There, thirteen
Black Panther protesters and the show's co-author,
Jim Rado, are arrested for disturbing the peace and marijuana use.
May
*
May 5 - An
Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of
Palermo,
Sicily – 115 dead.
*
May 13 - Fire in a nightclub atop the
Sennichi department store in
Osaka,
Japan – 115 dead.
*
May 15 - Governor
George Wallace of
Alabama is shot by
Arthur Herman Bremer at a
Laurel, Maryland political rally.
*
May 17 - The closing notice is posted for the Broadway musical ''Hair''.
*
May 18 - Four troopers of both
Special Air Service SAS and
Special Boat Service SBS are parachuted onto the ''HMS Queen Elizabeth II'', 1000 miles off Britain in the Atlantic, after a bomb threat and demand for ransom. It turns out to be bogus.
*
May 19 - Three out of six bombs explode in the
Springer-Verlag Springer Press building in
Hamburg,
Germany - 17 injured. The
Red Army Faction claims responsibility.
*
May 21 - In
Rome,
Laszlo Toth attacks
Michelangelo's
Pieta statue with a
sledgehammer shouting that he is Jesus Christ
*
May 22 -
Earthquake lasting 20 seconds destroys most of
Bingol,
Turkey - more than 1000 dead, 10.000 made homeless
*
May 22 -
Ceylon becomes the republic of
Sri Lanka under prime minister
Sirimavo Bandaranaike when its new
constitution is ratified.
*
May 24 - A
Red Army Faction RAF bomb explodes in the Campbell Barracks of the US Army Supreme European Command in
Heidelberg. Three US soldiers
Clyde Bonner,
Ronald Woodard and
Charles Peck are killed.
*
May 26 -
Richard Nixon and
Leonid Brezhnev sign
SALT I treaty in
Moscow (including
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty; also other agreements were made).
*
May 26 -
Willandra National Park is established in
Australia.
*
May 30 -
The Angry Brigade goes on trial.
*
May 30 – 3 members of
Japanese Red Army kill 24 and injure 100 in
Lod Airport,
Israel.
June
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* June -
Iraq nationalization nationalizes the
Iraq Petroleum Company.
* June - First national convention of the US
Libertarian Party held in Denver,
Colorado.
*
June 2 -
Andreas Baader,
Jan-Carl Raspe,
Holger Meins and some other members of
Red Army Faction are arrested in
Frankfurt am Main after a shootout.
*
June 3 -
Sally Priesand becomes the first female US rabbi.
*
June 4 -
Angela Davis found not guilty of murder.
*
June 14 -
June 23 -
Hurricane Agnes kills 117 in US east coast.
*
June 15 -
Ulrike Meinhof and
Gerhard Müller of
Red Army Faction are arrested in a teacher's apartment in
Langenhagen, West Germany.
*
June 17 -
Watergate scandal: Five
White House operatives are arrested for burglarizing the offices of the
Democratic National Committee.
*
June 17 - Return of
Okinawa from
United States' control to
Japan.
*
June 17 -
Chilean president
Salvador Allende forms a new government.
*
June 18 - A
British European Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident Trident 1 jet airliner crashed alongside the busy
A30 road A30 Staines bypass killing all 118 passengers and crew.
*
June 18 -
Germany national football team West Germany beat the
USSR national football team Soviet Union 3-0 to win
1972 European Football Championship Euro 72.
*
June 23 -
Watergate Scandal: U.S. President
Richard M. Nixon and
White House chief of staff
H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the
Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the
Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the
Watergate break-ins.
*
June 25 -
Juan Peron is elected president of
Argentina.
*
June 26 -
Nolan Bushnell and
Ted Dabney found
Atari.
*
June 28 - US president Nixon announces that no new draftees will be sent to
Vietnam.
*
June 29 -
Supreme Court of the United States rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
July
*
July 1 - The Broadway production of the musical ''Hair'' closes after 1,752 performances.
*
July 2 - Following
Pakistan's surrender to
India in the
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, both nations sign the historic
Simla Agreement agreeing to settle their disputes bilaterally.
*
July 4 - The first
Rainbow Gathering held in
Colorado.
*
July 8 - The USA sells
cereal grain to the Soviet Union for $750 million.
*
July 10 - A
stampede of elephants kills 24 in the
Chandka Forest in India.
*
July 15 - The
Pruitt-Igoe housing development is demolished.
*
July 18 -
Anwar Sadat expels 20.000 Soviet advisors from
Egypt
*
July 21 -
Bloody Friday — 22 bombs explode in
Belfast, Ireland. 9 people were killed and a further 130 seriously injured.
*
July 23 - The
United States launches
Landsat 1, first Earth-resources
satellite.
*
July 25 - US Health officials admit that blacks were used as guinea pigs in a
syphilis experiment.
*
July 29 - National dock strike begins in Britain.
August
*
August 4 -
Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting
George Wallace.
*
August 4 - Dictator
Idi Amin declares that
Uganda will expel 50,000 Asians with British passports to Britain within three months.
*
August 11-
August 12 - Last US ground troops withdrawn from Vietnam.
*
August 16 - The
Royal Moroccan Air Force mistakenly fires upon, but fails to bring down,
Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he was traveling back to
Rabat.
*
August 23 - R.J (Dick) Hamer replaces Henry Boltie As Victorian Premier.
*
August 28 -
Prince William of Gloucester dies in an air crash.
September
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*
September 1 -
Bobby Fischer defeats
Boris Spassky in a
chess match at
ReykjavÃk, Iceland, and becomes the first American chess champion (see
Match of the Century).
*
September 5-
September 6 -
Munich Massacre: Eleven
Israel Israeli athletes at the
1972 Summer Olympics in
Munich are killed after eight members of the
Arab terrorism terrorist group
Black September (group) Black September invade the Olympic Village; five guerillas and one policeman are also killed in a failed
hostage rescue.
*
September 14 - West Germany and Poland renew diplomatic relations.
*
September 17 -
Uganda announces that there are
Tanzanian troops in its territory.
*
September 17 -
M*A*S*H (TV series) M*A*S*H debuts on
CBS.
*
September 19 -
Parcel bomb sent to
Israeli Embassy in
London kills one diplomat.
*
September 21 -
Philippines Philippine President of the Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos issued Proclamation No. 1081 placing the entire country under
martial law.
*
September 25 -
Norwegian EC referendum, 1972 - the people of Norway reject membership into the European Economic Commission.
*
September 27 -
Joint Communique of the Government of Japan and the Government of the People's Republic of China.
*
September 29 -
Sino-Japanese relations:
Japan normalized diplomatic relations with the
People's Republic of China after breaking official ties with the
Republic of China.
October
*
October 1 - First publication reporting the production of a recombinant
DNA molecule, marking the birth of modern
molecular biology methodology.
:: Jackson, David A.; Symons, Robert H.; and Berg, Paul. (1972). [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/10/2904 Biochemical Method for Inserting New Genetic Information into DNA of Simian Virus 40: Circular SV40 DNA Molecules Containing Lambda Phage Genes and the Galactose Operon of Escherichia coli]. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA)'' '''69'''(10), 2904-2909.
*
October 2 -
Denmark joins the
European Community EEC. The
Faroe Islands stay out.
*
October 5 - The
United Reformed Church is founded out of the
Congregationalist Church Congregational and
Presbyterian Churches.
*
October 6 -
Train crash in
Saltillo,
Mexico – 208 dead.
*
October 12 - En route to her station in the
Gulf of Tonkin, a
race racial brawl involving more than 100 sailors breaks out aboard the
United States Navy aircraft carrier
USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) USS ''Kitty Hawk''. Nearly 50 sailors are injured.
*
October 13 - A ''
Fairchild FH-227D Fairchild'' passenger
airplane plane transporting a
rugby union team crashes at about 14,000' in the
Andes mountain range, near the Argentina/Chile border. Sixteen of the survivors are found alive
December 20 but they have had to resort to
cannibalism to survive (see
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571).
*
October 16 - A plane carrying US congressman
Hale Boggs of Louisiana and three other men vanishes in Alaska. The wreckage has never been found, despite a massive search at the time.
*
October 16 - ''
Rainbow (television) Rainbow'', a
United Kingdom British television programme for children, debuts.
*
October 16 - Rioting inmates of the
Maze prison cause a fire that destroys most of the camp
*
October 17 - Queen
Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visits
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavia.
*
October 25 - First female
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI agents hired.
*
October 25 -
Belgium Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx sets a new world hour record in
Mexico City.
*
October 29 - The
Black September (group) Black September group hijacks a
Lufthansa Boeing 727 over
Turkey and demands the release of three of their comrades still held for the massacre of
Israeli
athletes at the
Olympic games
*
October 30 -
United States US President
Richard Nixon approves legislation to increase
Social Security (United States) Social Security spending by US$5.3 billion.
November
*
November 1 (exact date not known) - At a scientific meeting in
Honolulu,
Herbert Boyer and
Stanley N. Cohen conceived the concept of
recombinant DNA. They published their results in November 1973 in
PNAS. Separately in 1972,
Paul Berg also recombined DNA in a test tube. Recombinant DNA technology has dramatically changed the field of biological sciences, especially
biotechnology, and opened the door to
genetically modified organisms.
*
November 5 - Group of Amerindians occupies the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
*
November 7 -
U.S. presidential election, 1972:
United States Republican Party Republican incumbent
Richard Nixon defeats
United States Democratic Party Democratic Senator
George McGovern (the election had the lowest voter turnout since 1948 with only 55 percent of the electorate voting).
*
November 11 -
Vietnam War:
Vietnamization - The
United States Army turns over the massive
Long Binh military base to
South Vietnam.
*
November 14 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
*
November 16 - The
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization adopts the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage [http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=182].
*
November 17 -
Juan Perón returns to
Argentina.
*
November 22 -
Vietnam War: The
United States loses its first
B-52 Stratofortress of the war.
*
November 29 -
Atari Games Atari kicks off the first generation of
video games with the release of their seminal
arcade game arcade version of
PONG, the first game to achieve commercial success.
*
November 30 - Vietnam War:
White House Press Secretary
Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning
United States American troop withdrawals from
Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
December
*
December 2 -
Edward Gough Whitlam Gough Whitlam becomes the first
Australian Labor Party Labour Party Prime Minister of
Australia for 23 years. He is famously sworn in on the election night and his first action using executive power is to withdraw all Australian personnel from the
Vietnam War.
*
December 7 -
PIRA kidnaps
Jean McConville in
Belfast.
*
December 7 -
Apollo 17, the last manned mission to the moon, is launched.
*
December 7 -
Imelda Marcos is stabbed and seriously wounded by an assailant; her bodyguards shoot him.
*
December 15 - The Commonwealth of
Australia ordains equal pay to women.
*
December 21 -
East Germany and
West Germany recognize each other.
*
December 21 -
ZANLA troopers attack Altera Farm in north-east
Rhodesia
*
December 22 - 6.25
Richter scale earthquake in
Managua, the capital of
Nicaragua – over 12,000 dead. President
Somoza is later accused of pocketing millions of dollars worth of foreign aid.
*
December 22 - Australia establishes diplomatic relations with China and West Germany.
*
December 23 -
Earthquake in
Nicaragua kills 5000-10.000 in the capital
Managua
*
December 28 - The bones of
Martin Bormann identified in Berlin.
*
December 29 - An Eastern Air Lines Lockheed L-1011 crashes into the
Everglades in Florida, killing 101 of 163 onboard.
*
December 31 -
Roberto Clemente dies in a plane crash off the coast of
Puerto Rico while en route to deliver aid to Nicaragua earthquake victims.
Unknown dates
* Prime minister of
Sweden,
Olof Palme compares the American bombings of North
Vietnam to
Nazism Nazi massacres. The US breaks diplomatic contact with Sweden.
* The
United Kingdom begin to train
Special Air Service for anti-terrorist duties.
*
Steve Jobs graduates from
Homestead High School (California) Homestead High School and enrolls in
Reed College in
Portland, Oregon but drops out after one semester.
* The
Japan Japanese government begins building a railway tunnel between
Honshu and
Hokkaido.
*
Stephen Hawking is confined to a wheelchair due to
motor neuron disease.
* The
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms becomes independent from
U.S. Internal Revenue Service IRS.
* The "tea house" Mellow Yellow opens on the
Amstel Amstel River in
Amsterdam, pioneering the legal sale of
marijuana in the
Netherlands.
* The
Aboriginal Tent Embassy founded on the lawn of
Parliament House in
Canberra.
* First women admitted to
Dartmouth College.
*
Colombian looters find
Ciudad Perdida but keep it a secret until government reveals it
1975.
*
Frank Serpico exposes corruption in
New York, New York New York City police.
*
Vietnam War veteran
Richard McCoy hijacks a
United Airlines jet and extorts $500,000 – he is later captured.
* The
Yellow River dries up for the first time in known history.
*
Somalian language gets a written form.
* Assassination of
Zanzibar's leader
Shaikh Sheik Abeid Karume.
*
Tamil United Front, pro-
Tamil people Tamil organization, founded.
* Worship of Norse gods officially approved in
Iceland.
* Women are allowed to compete in the
Boston Marathon for the first time.
* The Second
Cod War between UK and Iceland.
* First use of the term
Hadean.
*
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established.
* First
Ruby Tuesday (restaurant) Ruby Tuesday restaurant established.
Births
January
*
January 2 -
Taye Diggs, American actor
*
January 9 -
Jay Powell, American baseball player
*
January 12 -
Espen Knutsen, Norwegian hockey player
*
January 13 –
Nicole Eggert, American actress
*
January 17 -
Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
*
January 18 -
Mike Lieberthal, American baseball player
*
January 19 -
Drea de Matteo, American actress
*
January 23 -
Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
February
*
February 1 -
Yoshi DeHerrera, American television personality
*
February 2 -
Klára Dobrev, wife of Hungarian Prime Minister
Ferenc Gyurcsány
*
February 4 -
Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
*
February 5 -
Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
*
February 5 -
Koriki Choshu, Japanese comedian
*
February 7 -
Alex Bassi, American race car driver
*
February 8 –
Paul Wight, American professional wrestler (billed as The Big Show)
*
February 11 -
Steve McManaman, British footballer
*
February 14 -
Drew Bledsoe, American football player
*
February 14 -
Hiroshi (Owarai) Hiroshi, Japanese comedian
*
February 15 -
Jaromir Jagr, Czech hockey player
*
February 16 -
Jerome Bettis, American football player
*
February 17 -
Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (
Green Day)
*
February 17 -
Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
*
February 21 -
Seo Taiji, Korean musician
*
February 24 -
Richard Chelimo, Kenyan athlete (d.
2001)
*
February 29 -
Antonio Sabato Jr., Italian actor
March
*
March 6 -
Terry Murphy (snooker) Terry Murphy, Northern Irish snooker player
*
March 6 -
Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player
*
March 8 -
Angie Hart, Australian pop singer
*
March 10 -
Takashi Fujii (Matthew Minami), Japanese television performer
*
March 10 -
Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
*
March 10 -
Eugene Roshal, Russian-born computer programmer
*
March 15 -
Mark Hoppus, American musician (
blink-182)
*
March 17 -
Mia Hamm, American soccer player
*
March 20 -
Alexander Kapranos, British singer and guitarist (
Franz Ferdinand (band) Franz Ferdinand)
*
March 22 -
Shawn Bradley, American basketball player
*
March 22 -
Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater
*
March 23 -
Judith Godrèche, French actress
*
March 27 -
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
April
*
April 3 -
Jennie Garth, American actress
*
April 4 -
Adam Clayton Powell Jr., American politician
*
April 5 -
Krista Allen, American actress
*
April 11 -
Jason Varitek, American baseball player
*
April 13 -
Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player
*
April 17 -
Tony Boselli, American football player
*
April 17 -
Jennifer Garner, American actress
*
April 17 -
Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lankan cricketer
*
April 19 -
Rivaldo, Brazilian footballer
*
April 24 -
Chipper Jones, American baseball player
*
April 29 -
Roman Dirge, American artist, writer and cartoonist
May
*
May 2 -
The Rock (entertainer) The Rock, American professional wrestler and actor (birth name – Dwayne Johnson)
*
May 4 -
Mike Dirnt, American musician (
Green Day)
*
May 8 -
Darren Hayes, Australian musician
*
May 10 -
Radosław Majdan, Polish goalkeeper
*
May 20 -
Busta Rhymes, American musician and actor
*
May 21 -
The Notorious B.I.G., American musician (d.
1997)
*
May 28 -
Michael Boogerd, Dutch cyclist
*
May 30 -
Manny RamÃrez, Dominican baseball player
June
*
June 4 -
Derian Hatcher, American hockey player
*
June 5 -
Justin Smith, American drummer,
The Seeds
*
June 7 -
Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
*
June 15 -
Andy Pettitte, American baseball player
*
June 19 -
Brian McBride, American soccer player
*
June 21 -
Irene van Dyk, South African-born netball player
*
June 23 -
Zinédine Zidane, French footballer
*
June 25 -
Carlos Delgado, Puerto Rican baseball player
*
June 29 -
Samantha Smith, American activist (d.
1985)
July
*
July 2 -
Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
*
July 3 -
Asha Gill, British-born television host
*
July 7 -
Lisa Leslie, American Basketball player
*
July 8 -
Saurav Ganguly, Indian cricketer
*
July 27 -
Jill Arrington, American football reporter
*
July 28 -
Elizabeth Berkley, American actress
August
*
August 6 -
Geri Halliwell, British musician (
Spice Girls)
*
August 11 -
Jonathon Prandi, American model and actor
*
August 14 -
Ed O'Bannon, American basketball player
*
August 15 -
Ben Affleck, American actor
*
August 16 –
Emily Robison, American country music performer (
Dixie Chicks)
*
August 23 -
Dave Chappelle, American actor and comedian
*
August 25 -
Marvin Harrison, American football player
*
August 30 -
Cameron Diaz, American actress
*
August 30 -
Pavel Nedved, Czech footballer
September
*
September 2 -
Sergei Zholtok, Russian hockey player (d.
2004)
*
September 8 -
Lisa Kennedy, American disc jockey and political satirist
*
September 10 -
Ghada Shouaa, Syrian athlete
*
September 12 -
Jason Statham, British actor
*
September 17 -
Bobby Lee, American comedian
*
September 21 -
Liam Gallagher, British singer (
Oasis (band) Oasis)
*
September 21 -
Jon Kitna, American football player
*
September 22 -
Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer
*
September 24 -
Karyn Bosnak, American author
*
September 28 -
Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress
*
September 28 -
Dita Von Teese, American
burlesque artist
*
September 30 -
Ari Behn, Norwegian author
October
*
October 5 -
Grant Hill (basketball) Grant Hill, American basketball player
*
October 9 -
Etan Patz, disappeared school boy
*
October 17 -
Eminem, American rapper and actor
*
October 17 -
Wyclef Jean, Haitian rapper
*
October 20 -
Snoop Dogg, American rapper and actor
*
October 24 -
Pat Williams, American football player
*
October 28 -
Terrell Davis, American football player
*
October 28 –
Brad Paisley, American country music performer
*
October 28 -
Trista Rehn, American television personality
*
October 29 -
Takafumi Horie, Japanese entrepreneur (
Livedoor)
November
*
November 4 -
Luis Figo, Portuguese footballer
*
November 7 -
Danny Grewcock, British rugby player
*
November 6 -
Thandie Newton, British actress
*
November 10 -
Shawn Green, American baseball player
*
November 13 -
Takuya Kimura, Japanese actor
December
*
December 4 -
Nikki Tyler, American actress
*
December 7 -
Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
*
December 9 -
Tre Cool, German drummer (
Green Day)
*
December 10 -
Brian Molko, Belgian singer (
Placebo (band) Placebo)
*
December 12 -
Joel Cahen, Israeli artist
*
December 13 -
Chris Grant, Australian footballer
*
December 19 -
Alyssa Milano, American actress
*
December 19 -
Warren Sapp, American football player
*
December 22 -
Vanessa Paradis, French Singer and actress
*
December 28 -
Patrick Rafter, Australian tennis player
*
December 29 -
Jason Kreis, American soccer player
*
December 29 -
Jude Law, British actor
*
December 30 -
Kerry Collins, American football player
Deaths
January
*
January 1 -
Maurice Chevalier, French entertainer (surgical complications) (b.
1888)
*
January 6 -
Chen Yi (communist) Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (b.
1901)
*
January 8 -
John_Berryman John Berryman, American poet and scholar (b.
1914); suicide
*
January 8 -
Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (b.
1911)
*
January 10 -
Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b.
1897)
*
January 14 - King
Frederick IX of Denmark (b.
1899)
*
January 16 –
Ross Bagdasarian, American record producer and creator of
Alvin and the Chipmunks (b.
1919)
*
January 26 -
Mahalia Jackson, American singer (b.
1911)
February
*
February 11 -
Jan Wils, Dutch architect (b.
1891)
*
February 19 -
John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b.
1898)
*
February 20 -
Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist,
Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1906)
*
February 20 -
Walter Winchell, American journalist (b.
1897)
*
February 22 -
Tedd Pierce, American animator (b.
1906)
March
*
March 13 -
Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b.
1941)
*
March 21 -
David McCallum Sr., British violinist (b.
1897)
*
March 24 -
Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish couturier (b.
1895)
*
March 27 -
Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician (b.
1904)
*
March 27 -
M.C. Escher, Dutch artist (b.
1898)
*
March 29 -
J. Arthur Rank, British industrialist and film producer (b.
1888)
April
*
April 2 -
Gil Hodges, baseball player (b.
1924)
*
April 3 -
Ferde Grofé, American composer (b.
1882)
*
April 4 -
Stefan Wolpe, German-born composer (b.
1902)
*
April 8 -
Andrea Feldman, American actress (suicide) (b.
1948)
*
April 16 -
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer,
Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
May
*
May 2 -
J. Edgar Hoover, American Federal Bureau of Investigation director (b.
1895)
*
May 4 -
Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1886)
*
May 13 -
Dan Blocker, American actor (b.
1928)
*
May 22 -
Cecil Day-Lewis, English poet (b.
1904)
*
May 22 -
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (b.
1892)
*
May 28 - King
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom (b.
1894)
June
*
June 13 -
Georg von Békésy, Hungarian biophysicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1899)
*
June 13 -
Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German World War II spy (b.
1891)
July
*
July 2 -
Joseph Fielding Smith (1876-1972) Joseph Fielding Smith, president of
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b.
1876)
*
July 7 -
Talal of Jordan King Talal,
King of Jordan (b.
1909)
*
July 19 -
Hezekiah M. Washburn, American missionary (b.
1884)
*
July 21 -
Ralph Craig, American athlete (b.
1889)
*
July 28 -
Helen Traubel, American soprano (b.
1903)
August
*
August 11 -
Max Theiler, South African virologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1899)
*
August 14 -
Oscar Levant, American pianist and actor (b.
1906)
*
August 28 -
Prince William of Gloucester (airplane crash) (b.
1941)
September
*
September 15 -
Geoffrey Fisher,
Archbishop of Canterbury (b.
1887)
*
September 19 -
Robert Casadesus, French pianist (b.
1899)
October
*
October 1 -
Louis Leakey, British paleontologist (b.
1903)
*
October 20 -
Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b.
1885)
*
October 24 -
Jackie Robinson, baseball player (b.
1919)
*
October 26 -
Igor Sikorsky, Russian aviation engineer (b.
1889)
November
*
November 1 -
Ezra Pound, American poet (b.
1885)
*
November 14 -
Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (b.
1900)
*
November 25 -
Henri Coandă, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (b.
1886)
*
November 28 -
Havergal Brian, English composer (b.
1876)
December
*
December 3 -
Bill Johnson (jazz musician) Bill Johnson, American musician (b.
1872)
*
December 24 -
Gisela Richter, English art historian (b.
1882)
*
December 26 -
Harry S. Truman, 33rd
President of the United States (heart failure} (b.
1884)
*
December 27 -
Lester B. Pearson 14th
Prime Minister of Canada, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1897)
*
December 31 -
Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican
Major League Baseball player (b.
1934)
Nobel prizes
*
Nobel Prize in Physics Physics -
John Bardeen,
Leon Neil Cooper,
John Robert Schrieffer
*
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Chemistry -
Christian B. Anfinsen,
Stanford Moore,
William H. Stein
*
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Physiology or Medicine -
Gerald M. Edelman,
Rodney R. Porter
*
Nobel Prize in Literature Literature -
Heinrich Boll Heinrich Böll
*
Nobel Peace Prize Peace - not awarded
*
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel Economics -
John Hicks,
Kenneth Arrow
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