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1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1967
January
February
March
April
- April 2 – A United Nations delegation arrives in Aden due to approaching independence. They leave April 7, accusing British authorities of lack of cooperation. The British say the delegation did not contact them.
- April 4 – Martin Luther King, Jr. denounces the Vietnam War during a religious service in New York City.
- April 6 – Georges Pompidou begins to form the next French government.
- April 7 – Six Day War (approach): Israeli fighters shoot down 7 Syrian MIG-21s.
- April 8 – Puppet On A String by Sandie Shaw (music and text by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter) wins the Eurovision Song Contest 1967 for United Kingdom.
- April 9 – The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) takes its maiden flight.
- April 10 – The AFTRA strike is settled just in time for the 39th Academy Awards ceremony to be held, hosted by Bob Hope. Best Picture goes to A Man for All Seasons. Also, oral arguments begin in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), challenging the State of Virginia's statutory scheme to prevent marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications.
- April 12 – The Ahmanson Theatre opens in Los Angeles.
- April 13 – Conservatives win the Greater London Council elections.
- April 14 – In San Francisco, 10,000 march against the Vietnam War.
- April 15 – Large demonstrations are held against the Vietnam War in New York City and San Francisco.
- April 20
- Surveyor 3 probe lands on the Moon.
- A Globe Air Bristol Britannia turboprop crashes at Nicosia, Cyprus, killing 126 people.[2][1]
- April 21
- April 23 – A group of young radicals are expelled from the Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN). This group goes on to found the Socialist Workers Party (POS).
May
- May 1
- May 2
- The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. It was their last Stanley Cup and last finals appearance to date. It would turn out to be the last game in the original six era. Six more teams would be added in the fall.
- Harold Wilson announces that the United Kingdom has decided to apply for EEC membership.
- May 4 – Lunar Orbiter 4 is launched by the United States.
- May 6
- Dr. Zakir Hussain is the first Muslim to become president of India.
- Four hundred students seize the administration building at Cheyney State College, now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, the oldest institute for higher education for African Americans.
- Hong Kong 1967 riots: Clashes between striking workers and police kill 51 and injure 800.
- May 8 – The Philippine province of Davao is split into three: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.
- May 10 – The Greek military government accuses Andreas Papandreou of treason.
- May 11 – The United Kingdom and Ireland apply officially for European Economic Community membership.
- May 17
- May 18
- May 19
- May 22 - The Innovation department store in the centre of Brussels, Belgium burns down. It is the most devastating fire in Belgian history, resulting in 323 dead and missing and 150 injured.
- May 23 – Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, blockading Israel's southern port of Eilat, and Israel's entire Red Sea coastline.
- May 25
- May 27
- Naxalite Guerrilla War: Beginning with a peasant uprising in the town of Naxalbari, this Marxist/Maoist rebellion sputters on in the Indian countryside. The guerrillas operate among the impoverished peasants, fighting both the government security forces and private paramilitary groups funded by wealthy landowners. Most fighting takes place in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.
- The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia's first step in recognising Indigenous rights.
- May 28 – The Folk-Rock band Fairport Convention plays their first gig in London.
- May 30 – Biafra, in eastern Nigeria, announces its independence.
June
- June – Moshe Dayan becomes Israel's Secretary of Defense.
- June 1 – The Beatles legendary release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, nicknamed "The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love"; it would be number one on the albums charts throughout the summer of 1967.
- June 2
- Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which young Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
- Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
- June 4 – Stockport Air Disaster: British Midland flight G-ALHG crashes in Hopes Carr, Stockport, killing 72 passengers and crew.
- June 5
- June 6 – East African Community (EAC) established.
- June 7 – Two Moby Grape members are arrested for contributing to the delinquency of minors.
- June 8 – Six-Day War – USS Liberty incident: Israeli fighter jets and Israeli warships fire at the USS Liberty off Gaza, killing 34 and wounding 171.
- June 10
- June 11 – A race riot occurs in Tampa, Florida after the shooting death of Martin Chambers by police while allegedly robbing a camera store. The unrest lasts several days.
- June 12
- June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court. [2]
- June 14
- June 14–June 15 – Glenn Gould records Prokofiev's Seventh Piano Sonata, Op. 83, in New York City (his only recording of a Prokofiev composition).
- June 16 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins and is held for 3 days.
- June 17 – The People's Republic of China announces a successful hydrogen bomb test.
- June 23 – Cold War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, for the 3-day Glassboro Summit Conference. Johnson travels to Los Angeles for a dinner at the Century Plaza Hotel where earlier in the day thousands of war protesters clashed with L.A. police. [4]
- June 25 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love".
- June 26
- Pope Paul VI ordains 276 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).
- The Buffalo Race Riot begins, lasting until July 1; leads to 200 arrests.
- June 27 – The first automatic cash machine (voucher-based) is installed, in the office of the Barclays Bank in Enfield, England.
- June 28 – Israel declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
- June 30 – Moise Tshombe, former President of Katanga and former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is kidnapped to Algeria.
July
- July 1
- July 3 – A military rebellion led by Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme begins in Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- July 4 – The British Parliament decriminalizes homosexuality.
- July 5 – Troops of Belgian mercenary commander Jean Schramme revolt against Mobutu Sese Seko, and try to take control of Stanleyville, Congo.
- July 6
- July 10 – Heavy massive rains and a landslide at Kobe and Kure, Hiroshima, Japan, kill at least 371.
- July 12
- The Greek military regime strips 480 Greeks of their citizenship.
- After the arrest of an African-American cab driver for allegedly illegally driving around a police car and gunning it down the road, race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, and these riots last for six days.
- July 14 – Near Newark, New Jersey, the Plainfield, NJ, riots also occur.
- July 16 – A prison riot in Jay, Florida leaves 37 dead.
- July 18 – The United Kingdom announces the closing of its military bases in Malaysia and Singapore. Australia and the U.S. disapprove.
- July 19 – A race riot breaks out in the North Side of Minneapolis on Plymouth Street during the Minneapolis Aquatennial Parade and business are vandalized and fires break out in the area, although the disturbance is quelled within hours. However, the next day a shooting sets off another incident in the same area that leads to 18 fires, 36 arrests, 3 shootings, 2 dozen people injured, and damages totaling 4.2 million. There will be two more such incidents in the following two weeks.
- July 20 – Chilean poet Pablo Neruda receives the first Viareggio-Versile prize.
- July 21 – The town of Winneconne, Wisconsin, announces secession from the United States because it is not included in the official maps and declares war. Secession is repealed the next day.
- July 23 – 12th Street Riot/Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1,400 buildings burned.
- July 24 – During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! (Long live free Quebec!). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delights many Quebecers but angers the Canadian government and many English Canadians.
- July 29
- July 30 – The 1967 Milwaukee race riots begin, lasting through August 2 and leading to a ten-day shutdown of the city from August 1.
August
September
- September 1 – Ilse Koch, also known as the "Witch of Buchenwald", commits suicide in the Bavarian prison of Aichach.
- September 2 – Paddy Roy Bates occupies Roughs Tower and establishes the Principality of Sealand.
- September 3
- Nguyen Van Thieu is elected President of South Vietnam.
- H-Day in Sweden: At 5:00 a.m. local time, all traffic in the country switches from left-hand traffic pattern to right-hand traffic.
- September 4 – Vietnam War – Operation Swift: The United States Marines launch a search and destroy mission in Quang Nam and Quang Tin Provinces. The ensuing 4-day battle in Que Son Valley kills 114 Americans and 376 North Vietnamese.
- September 9 – Fashion Island, one of California's first outdoor shopping malls, opens in Newport Beach.
- September 10 – In Gibraltar, only 44 out of 12,182 voters support union with Spain.
- September 17
- A riot during a football match in Kayseri, Turkey leaves 44 dead, about 600 injured.
- Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show, when Morrison sings the word "higher" from their #1 hit Light My Fire, despite having been asked not to.
- September 18 – Love Is a Many Splendored Thing debuts on U.S. daytime television and is the first soap opera to deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.
- September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton, at the end of her last transatlantic voyage.
- September 30 – BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 are all launched.
October
- October 3 – An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7.
- October 4 – Omar Ali Saifuddin III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, His Majesty Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.
- October 8 – Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
- October 9 – Che Guevara is executed.
- October 12 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile, because of North Vietnam's opposition.
- October 14 – Quebec Nationalism: René Lévesque leaves the Liberal Party.
- October 16 – Thirty-nine people, including singer-activist Joan Baez, are arrested in Oakland, California, for blocking the entrance of that city's military induction center.
- October 17 – The musical Hair opens off-Broadway. It moves to Broadway the following April.
- October 18 – Walt Disney's 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.
- October 19 – The Mariner 5 probe flies by Venus.
- October 21
- October 25 – An abortion bill passes in the British Parliament.
- October 26
- Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran is officially crowned.
- U.S. Navy pilot John McCain is shot down over North Vietnam and made a POW. His capture will be announced in the NY Times and Washington Post two days later.
- October 27
- Patterson-Gimlin film, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin's famous film of an unidentified subject thought to be Bigfoot, is recorded.
- Charles De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European Economic Community again.
- London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- October 29
- Mobutu's troops launch an offensive against mercenaries in Bukavu, Congo.
- The Montreal, Quebec Expo 67 closes, having received over 50 million attendees.
- October 30 – Hong Kong 1967 riots: British troops and Chinese demonstrators clash on the border of China and Hong Kong.
November
- November 2 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort. They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
- November 3 – Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Dak To (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides (the Americans narrowly win the battle on November 22).
- November 4–5 – Mercenaries of Jean Schramme and Jerry Puren withdraw from Bukavu, over the Shangugu Bridge, to Rwanda.
- November 6 – The Rhodesian parliament passes pro-Apartheid laws.
- November 7
- U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major United States city.
- November 8 – The BBC's first local radio station (BBC Radio Leicester) is launched.
- November 9 – Apollo program: NASA launches a Saturn V rocket carrying the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft from Cape Kennedy.
- November 11 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 3 United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "New Left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.
- November 14 – The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as the "Day of the Colombian Woman".
- November 15
- General Grivas and his 10,000 strong Greek Army division are forced to leave Cyprus, after 24 Turkish Cypriot civilians are killed by the Greek Cypriot National Guard in the villages of Kophinou and Ayios Theodhoros; relations sour between Nicosia and Athens. Turkey flies sorties into Greek territory, and masses troops in Thrace on her border with Greece.
- Test pilot Michael Adams is killed when his X-15 rocket plane tumbles out of control during atmospheric re-entry and disintegrates.
- November 17
- Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress (2 months later the Tet Offensive makes him regret his words)."
- French author Régis Debray is sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in Bolivia.
- November 18 – The UK pound is devalued from 1 GBP = 2.80 USD to 1 GBP = 2.40 USD.
- November 21 – Vietnam War: United States General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
- November 22 – UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement.
- November 26 – Major floods hit Lisbon, Portugal, killing 462.
- November 29 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation to become president of the World Bank. This action is due to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's outright rejection of McNamara's early November recommendations to freeze troop levels, stop bombing North Vietnam and hand over ground fighting to South Vietnam.
- November 30
December
Undated
Ongoing
Births
January
- January 1 – Sunny Chan, Hong Kong TVB actor
- January 2 – Tia Carrere, American actress
- January 4 – Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
- January 5 – Joe Flanigan, American actor
- January 7 – Mark Lamarr, British comedian/TV and radio presenter
- January 8 – R. Kelly, American R&B singer/songwriter/producer
- January 9
- Dave Matthews, South African–born musician
- Dale Gordon, English footballer
- January 12 – Vendela Kirsebom, Swedish supermodel
- January 14
- Sharon Beshenivsky, West Yorkshire police constable (d. 2005)
- Leonardo "Leo" Ortolani, Italian comic book author
- January 15 – Lisa Lisa, American singer
- January 17 – Song Kang-ho, Korean actor
- January 18 – Iván Zamorano, Chilean footballer
- January 21 – Artashes Minasian, Armenian chess grand master
- January 22 – Eleanor McEvoy, Irish singer-songwriter
- January 23 – Naim Süleymanoğlu, Turkish weightlifter
- January 25 – Voltaire, Cuban singer
- January 28 – Jan Lamb, Hong Kong singer and actor
- January 29 – Khalid Skah, Moroccan long-distance runner
- January 31 – Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
February
- February 1 – Meg Cabot, American teen author
- February 5 – Chris Parnell, American actor and comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- February 5 – Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician
- February 6 – Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
- February 7 – Cheung Man, Hong Kong actress
- February 9 – Todd Pratt, American baseball player
- February 9 – Dan Shulman, Canadian sports announcer
- February 10
- Laura Dern, American actress
- Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
- February 11 – Hank Gathers, American college basketball player
- February 12 – Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
- February 15 – Trond Egil Soltvedt, Norwegian footballer
- February 18
- February 19 – Sven Erik Kristiansen Norwegian Black metal and hardcore punk singer (Maniac)
- February 20
- February 23 – Tamsin Greig, English actress
- February 26 – Kazuyoshi Miura, Japanese footballer
March
- March 1 – George Eads, American actor
- March 4 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
- March 11 – John Barrowman, Scottish-born actor
- March 13 – Andres Escobar, Colombian football player (d. 1994)
- March 16 – Lauren Graham, American actress
- March 17 – Billy Corgan, American musician and songwriter
- March 18 – Andre Rison, American pro football player
- March 19 – Mary Scheer, American actress
- March 21
- Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Swedish rock musician (Ace of Base)
- Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter
- March 22 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
- March 25 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater
- March 26 – Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
- March 27
- Talisa Soto, American actress
- Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler
- March 29 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player
- March 30 – Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008)
April
- April 5 – Anu Garg, Indian-American writer and speaker
- April 6 – Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
- April 9 – Alex Kahn, American artist
- April 14 – Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
- April 15
- Alt, Brazilian comic creator
- Dara Torres, American swimmer
- April 17 – Marquis Grissom, American baseball player
- April 20 – Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch darts player
- April 22
- Sheryl Lee, American actress
- Sherri Shepherd, American comedian and TV show host
- April 23 – Melina Kanakaredes, American actress
- April 26
- Glenn Jacobs (Kane), American professional wrestler
- Marianne Jean-Baptiste, American actress
- April 27 – Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, Dutch heir apparent
- April 29
- Curtis Joseph, Canadian hockey player
- Rachel Williams, American model, actress, and TV presenter
May
- May 1 – Kenny Hotz, Canadian entertainer
- May 5 – Takehito Koyasu, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
- May 10 – Nobuhiro Takeda, Japanese footballer and sportscaster
- May 14 – Tony Siragusa, American football player
- May 15 – John Smoltz, American baseball player
- May 19
- Geraldine Somerville, Irish actress
- Massimo Taccon, Italian painter, sculptor and writer
- May 21 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2007)
- May 22 – Brooke Smith, American actress
- May 24 – Bruno Putzulu, French actor
- May 25 – Poppy Z. Brite, American author
- May 27 – Paul Gascoigne, English footballer (Newcastle United, England & Middlesbrough)
- May 29 – Noel Gallagher, British musician (Oasis)
- May 31
- Phil Keoghan, New Zealand-born television host
- Kenny Lofton, American baseball player
June
- June 3
- Anderson Cooper, American television journalist
- Tamás Darnyi, Hungarian swimmer
- June 5
- Joe DeLoach, American athlete
- Ron Livingston, American actor
- June 6 – Paul Giamatti, American actor
- June 8
- Efan Ekoku, Nigerian footballer
- Jasmin Tabatabai, German/Iranian actress and musician
- June 9 – Rubén Maza, Venezuelan long-distance runner
- June 10 – Darren "Buffy, the Human Beatbox" Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (d. 1995)
- June 15 – Yūji Ueda, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
- June 19 – Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
- June 20 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress
- June 21 – Jim Breuer, former Saturday Night Live cast member and stand up comedian
- June 23 – Yoko Minamino, Japanese Idol star and actress
- June 24
- Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player
- Richard Z. Kruspe, German rock musician (Rammstein)
- Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
July
- July 1 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian actress and model
- July 4
- Vinny Castilla, Mexican Major League Baseball player
- Andy Walker, Canadian television personality
- July 5 – Silvia Ziche, Italian comics artist
- July 8 – Jordan Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
- July 9
- Gunnar Axén, Swedish politician
- Mark Stoops, American football coach
- July 11 – John Henson, American TV show host
- July 12 – Count Jefferson von Pfeil und Klein-Ellguth
- July 13 – Akira Hokuto, Japanese women's professional wrestler
- July 14 – Robin Ventura, American baseball player
- July 15 – Michael Tse, Hong Kong actor
- July 15 – Adam Savage, American TV show host
- July 16 – Will Ferrell, American comedian and actor
- July 18 – Vin Diesel, American actor
- July 19 – Rageh Omaar, broadcaster
- July 23 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor
- July 25 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor
- July 28 – Taka Hirose, Japanese musician (Feeder)
- July 30 – A. W. Yrjänä, Finnish rock musician and poet
- July 31
- Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (d. 2005)
- Elizabeth Wurtzel, author and feminist
August
- August 4 – Michael Marsh, American athlete
- August 7 – Charlotte Lewis, English actress
- August 8 – Rena Mero, wrestler, model and actress
- August 9 – Deion Sanders, American pro football and baseball player
- August 10 – Riddick Bowe, American boxer
- August 11
- Collin Chou, Taiwanese martial arts actor
- Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer and songwriter
- Joe Rogan, American comedian and television host
- August 12
- Regilio Tuur, Dutch boxer
- Andy Hui, Hong Kong singer and actor
- Emil Kostadinov, Bulgarian football player
- August 13 – Amélie Nothomb, Belgian writer
- August 15 – Brahim Boutayeb, Moroccan long-distance runner
- August 16
- Pamela Smart, American murderer
- Ulrika Jonsson, Swedish-born television personality
- August 21
- August 22
- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Nigerian-British actor and model
- Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (d. 1986)
- August 30 – Frederique van der Wal, Dutch supermodel
September
- September 3 – Luis Gonzalez, American baseball player
- September 5
- Jane Sixsmith, English field hockey player
- Arnel Pineda, Filipino singer-songwriter
- Koichi Morishita, Japanese long-distance runner
- September 6 – Macy Gray, American R&B singer
- September 9 – Chris Caffery, American guitarist and singer
- September 9 – Anna Malle, American pornographic actress (d. 2006)
- September 11 – Harry Connick, Jr., American singer and actor
- September 13 – Michael Johnson, American athlete
- September 18 – Tara Fitzgerald, British actress
- September 19 – Alexander Karelin, Russian Greco-Roman wrestler
- September 20 – Martin Harrison, American NFL Football Player
- September 20 – Kristen Johnston, American actress
- September 20 – Gunnar Nelson, American singer
- September 20 – Matthew Nelson, American singer
- September 21 – Susie Dent, British lexicographer
- September 21 – Faith Hill, American country singer
- September 21 – Glen Benton, American rock singer/bassist (Deicide)
- September 22 – Félix Savón, Cuban boxer
- September 23 – Masashi Nakayama, Japanese footballer
- September 25 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
- September 26 – Shannon Hoon, American singer (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)
- September 28 – Mira Sorvino, American actress
- September 28 – Moon Unit Zappa, American actress and musician
- September 30 – Andrea Roth, Canadian actress
October
- October 2 – Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
- October 4 – Liev Schreiber, American actor
- October 4 – Ekin Cheng, Hong Kong actor and singer
- October 5 – Johnny Gioeli, American power metal singer
- October 5 – Guy Pearce, English-born actor
- October 7 – Toni Braxton, American R&B singer
- October 8 – Teddy Riley, American R&B and hip hop singer
- October 9 – Eddie Guerrero, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
- October 11 – Tazz, American professional wrestler and commentator
- October 11 – Artie Lange, American actor, comedian and radio personality (MAD TV)
- October 11 – David Starr, American racecar driver
- October 13 – Trevor Hoffman, American Major League Baseball player
- October 13 – Kate Walsh, American actress
- October 13 – Javier Sotomayor, Cuban high jumper
- October 16 – Davina McCall, British TV presenter and UK Big Brother host
- October 17 – René Dif, Danish-Algerian singer (Aqua)
- October 17 – Venus Terzo, Canadian actress/voice actress
- October 22 – Carlos Mencia, Latino-American actor and standup comedian
- October 22 – Salvatore Di Vittorio, Italian composer & conductor
- October 22 – Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier (d. 1994)
- October 24 – Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
- October 26 – Keith Urban, New Zealand-born Australian country music singer
- October 27 – Scott Weiland, American musician
- October 28 – Julia Roberts, American actress (Pretty Woman)
- October 28 – Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein
- October 29 – Joely Fisher, American actress
- October 29 – Rufus Sewell, English actor
- October 29 – Péter Kun, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1993)
- October 30 – Brad Aitken, Canadian ice hockey player
- October 30 – Ty Detmer, American NFL quarterback and 1990 Heisman Trophy winner
- October 30 – Gavin Rossdale, English musician
November
- November 1 – Sophie B. Hawkins, American singer and songwriter
- November 1 – Tina Arena, Australian singer and songwriter
- November 2 – Akira Ishida, Japanese voice actor
- November 3 – Steven Wilson, English musician
- November 5 – Judy Reyes, American actress
- November 6 – Rebecca Schaeffer, American actrees (d. 1989)
- November 7 – Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer and songwriter
- November 7 – Steve DiGiorgio, American musician (bassist)
- November 8 – Courtney Thorne-Smith, American actress
- November 11 – Gil de Ferran, Brazilian race car driver
- November 13 – Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk show host
- November 13 – Steve Zahn, American actor
- November 14 – Letitia Dean, British actress
- November 14 – Nina Gordon, American singer
- November 15 – François Ozon, French writer and director
- November 15 – E-40, American rapper
- November 16 – Lisa Bonet, American actress
- November 20 – Teoman, Turkish rock singer and song-writer
- November 22 – Boris Becker, German tennis player
- November 22 – Mark Ruffalo, American actor
- November 22 – Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater
- November 23 – Salli Richardson, American actress
- November 25 – Anthony Nesty, Surinamese swimmer
- November 28 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (d. 2007)
- November 29 – John "Bradshaw" Layfield, American professional wrestler
December
- December 1 – Reggie Sanders, American Major League Baseball outfielder
- December 5 – Gary Allan, American country musician
- December 6 – Judd Apatow, American screenwriter and producer
- December 6 – Hacken Lee, Hong Kong singer and actor
- December 8 – Kotono Mitsuishi, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
- December 9 – Joshua Bell, American violinist
- December 11 – Mo'Nique, American actress and comedian
- December 12 – John Randle, American football player
- December 13 – Jamie Foxx, American actor
- December 14 – Ewa Białołęcka, Polish writer
- December 16 – Donovan Bailey, Canadian athlete
- December 16 – Miranda Otto, Australian actress
- December 17 – Gigi D'Agostino, Italian musician and DJ
- December 18 – Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch sports journalist
- December 19 – Criss Angel, American musician, magician, illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer
- December 20 – Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia
- December 22 – Dan Petrescu, Romanian footballer
Deaths
January–March
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- January 27 – Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
- January 31 – Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
- February 4 – Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
- February 6 – Martine Carol, French actress (b. 1920)
- February 6 – Henry Morgenthau, Jr., United States Secretary of the Treasury during World War II (b. 1891)
- February 7 David Unaipon, Australian author and inventor (b. 1872)
- February 8 – Victor Gollancz, British publisher (b. 1893)
- February 14 – Sig Ruman, German actor (b. 1884)
- February 15 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (b. 1887)
- February 16 – Smiley Burnette, American actor (b. 1911)
- February 16 – Józef Hofmann, Polish pianist (b. 1876)
- February 18 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
- February 21 – Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
- February 24 – Franz Waxman, German-American composer (b. 1906)
- February 24 – Hilliard Almond Wilbanks, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1933)
- February 28 – Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
- March 2 – Gordon Harker, English actor (b. 1885)
- March 4 – Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, deposed prime minister of Iran (b. 1882)
- March 5 – Mischa Auer, Russian-born actor (b. 1905)
- March 6 – John Haden Badley, English author (b. 1865)
- March 6 – Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
- March 6 – Kenneth Harlan, American actor (b. 1895)
- March 6 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
- March 7 – Alice B. Toklas, American personality (b. 1877)
- March 11 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
- March 11 – Hanns Lothar, German actor (b. 1929)
- March 21 – Marcellus Boss, American politician, member of the Kansas Senate and the 5th Civilian Governor of Guam. (b. 1901)
- March 27 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
- March 30 – Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
- March 31 – Don Alvarado, American actor (b. 1904)
April–June
- April 4 – Al Lewis, American songwriter (b. 1901)
- April 5 – Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890)
- April 17 – Red Allen, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1908)
- April 19 – Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
- April 22 – Tom Conway, British actor (b. 1904)
- April 24 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (parachute failure) (b. 1927)
- April 25 – Joseph Boxhall, British sailor, fourth officer of the RMS Titanic (b. 1884)
- April 27 – William Douglas Cook, founder of Eastwoodhill Arboretum and Pukeiti, (New Zealand) (b. 1884)
- April 29 – Anthony Mann, American actor and director (b. 1906)
- May 6 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (b. 1885)
- May 7 – Judith Evelyn, American actress (b. 1913)
- May 8 – Laverne Andrews, American singer (b. 1911)
- May 8 – Barbara Payton, American actress (b. 1927)
- May 8 – Elmer Rice, American playwright (b. 1892)
- May 10 – Lorenzo Bandini, Italian Formula One driver (b. 1935)
- May 12 – John Masefield, English poet and novelist (b. 1878)
- May 15 – Edward Hopper, American painter (b. 1882)
- May 18 – Andy Clyde, Scottish actor (b. 1892)
- May 22 – Langston Hughes, American writer (b. 1902)
- May 29 – Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Austrian film director (b. 1885)
- May 30 – Claude Rains, British actor (b. 1889)
- May 31 – Billy Strayhorn, American composer and pianist (b. 1915)
- June 5 – Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
- June 7 – Dorothy Parker, American writer (b. 1893)
- June 10 – Spencer Tracy, American actor (b. 1900)
- June 13 – Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis champion (b. 1895)
- June 14 – Eddie Eagan, American sportsman (b. 1897)
- June 16 – Reginald Denny, English actor (b. 1891)
- June 17 – Vernon Huber, American admiral and 36th Governor of American Samoa (b. 1899)
- June 26 – Francoise Dorleac, French actress (b.1942)
- June 29 – Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (b. 1906)
- June 29 – Jayne Mansfield, American actress (b. 1933)
July–September
- July 1 – Gerhard Ritter, German historian (b. 1888)
- July 8 – Fatima Jinnah, Pakistani 'Mother of the Nation' (b. 1893)
- July 8 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (b. 1913)
- July 9 – Douglas MacLean, American actor (b. 1890)
- July 14 – Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
- July 17 – John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1926)
- July 17 – Cyril Ring, American film actor (b. 1892)
- July 18 – Humberto de Alencar Castello Branco, ex-president of Brazil (b. 1897) (plane crash)
- July 21 – Jimmie Foxx, American baseball player (b. 1907)
- July 21 – Albert Lutuli, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- July 21 – Basil Rathbone, British actor (b. 1892)
- July 22 – Carl Sandburg, American poet (b. 1878)
- July 31 – Margaret Kennedy, English writer (b. 1896)
- August 1 – Richard Kuhn, Austrian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- August 9 – Joe Orton, English playwright (b. 1933)
- August 9 – Anton Walbrook, Austrian actor (b. 1896)
- August 13 – Jane Darwell, American actress (b. 1879)
- August 15 – René Magritte, Belgian painter (b. 1898)
- August 19 – Hugo Gernsback, Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (b. 1884)
- August 19 – Isaac Deutscher, British Marxist historian (b. 1907)
- August 24 – Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
- August 24 – Lam Bun, Hong Kong radio commentator (b. 1930)
- August 25 – Stanley Bruce, 8th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1883)
- August 25 – Paul Muni, Polish actor (b. 1895)
- August 25 – George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi Party leader (b. 1918)
- August 27 – Brian Epstein, English band manager (The Beatles) (b. 1934)
- August 31 – Ilya Ehrenburg, Russian writer (b. 1891)
- September 1 – Ilse Koch, Nazi German war criminal (b. 1906)
- September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, British poet (b. 1886)
- September 3 – James Dunn, American actor (b. 1901)
- September 3 – Francis Ouimet, American professional golfer (b.1893)
- September 11 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (b. 1904)
- September 13 – Varian Fry, American journalist (b. 1907)
- September 18 – John Cockcroft, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- September 27 – Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (b. 1887)
- September 29 – Ludwig Donath, Austrian actor (b. 1900)
- September 29 – Carson McCullers, American writer (b. 1917)
October–December
- October 3 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912)
- October 3 – Sir Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
- October 7 – Norman Angell, British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1872)
- October 8 – Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1883)
- October 9 – Che Guevara, Argentine communist revolutionary (executed) (b. 1928)
- October 9 – Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- October 9 – Edith Storey, American actress (b. 1892)
- October 12 – Nat Pendleton, American actor and Olympic wrestler (b. 1895)
- October 17 – Xuantong Emperor, Emperor of China (b. 1906)
- October 20 – Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- October 23 – Helen Palmer Geisel, Dr. Seuss' first wife (b. 1899)
- October 25 – Margaret Ayer Barnes, American playwright, novelist, and short-story writer (b. 1886)
- October 29 – Julien Duvivier, French film director (b. 1896)
- November 5 – Joseph Kesselring, American playwright (b. 1902)
- November 7 – John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (b. 1868)
- November 9 – Charles Bickford, American actor (b. 1891)
- November 13 – Harriet Cohen, English pianist (b. 1895)
- November 15 – Alice Lake, American actress (b. 1895)
- November 19 – Charles J. Watters, U.S. Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
- November 21 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
- November 21 – Florence Reed, American stage actress (b. 1883)
- November 25 – Ossip Zadkine, Russian sculptor, painter and lithographer (b. 1890)
- November 28 – Leon M'ba, Gabonese politician (b. 1902)
- December 3 – Harry Wismer, American baseball owner (b. 1913)
- December 4 – Daniel Jones, British phonetician (b. 1881)
- December 4 – Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1894)
- December 7 – House Peters, Sr., British-born actor (b. 1880)
- December 10 – Otis Redding, American singer (air crash) (b. 1941)
- December 10 – Ronnie Caldwell, American musician (air crash) (b. 1948)
- December 10 – Phalon Jones, American musician (air crash) (b. 1949)
- December 17 – Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (body never found) (b. 1908)
- December 17 – Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
- December 21 – Stuart Erwin, American actor (b. 1903)
- December 24 – Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (b. 1900)
- December 26 – Sydney Barnes, English cricketer (b. 1873)
- December 28 – Katharine McCormick, American feminist (b. 1875)
- December 29 – Paul Whiteman, American bandleader (b. 1890)
- December 30 – Vincent Massey, former Canadian Governor General (b. 1887)
Nobel Prizes
Academy Awards
- Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Best Actor: Paul Scofield, A Man for All Seasons
- Best Adapted Screenplay: Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
- Best Animated Short Film: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature, Hubley Studios; Paramount Pictures
- Best Director: Fred Zinnemann, A Man for All Seasons
- Best Documentary Feature: The War Game, BBC and Pathé Contemporary Films
- Best Documentary (Short Subject): A Year Toward Tomorrow, Sun Dial Films Inc.
- Best Foreign Language Film: A Man and a Woman, France
- Best Live Action Short Film: Wild Wings, British Transport Films
- Best Original Screenplay: Written by and Claude Lelouch, A Man and a Woman
- Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons, Fred Zinnemann
- Best Supporting Actor: Walter Matthau, The Fortune Cookie
- Best Supporting Actress: Sandy Dennis, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Original Score: Born Free, John Barry
- Original Song: Born Free from Born Free, Music by John Barry; Lyric by Don Black
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