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Calendar overview 1965
1965 | |
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Winston Churchill dies on January 24th . | On February 21st, Malcolm X is murdered in New York. |
The battle in the Ia Drang Valley in October 1965 saw the first major battle in the Vietnam War . |
1965 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2718 |
Armenian calendar | 1413-1414 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1957-1958 |
Badi calendar | 121-122 |
Bengali calendar | 1371-1372 |
Berber calendar | 2915 |
Buddhist calendar | 2509 |
Burmese calendar | 1327 |
Byzantine calendar | 7473-7474 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4661-4662 or 4601-4602 |
- 60 year cycle |
Wood dragon (甲辰, 41) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CLXXIII CLXXIV 173-174 |
Hebrew calendar | 5725-5726 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2021-2022 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1887-1888 |
Iranian calendar | 1343-1344 |
Islamic calendar | 1384-1385 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 40 |
- Kōki | 2625 |
Coptic calendar | 1681-1682 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4298 |
- Juche era | 54 |
Minguo calendar | 54 |
Modern Olympics | XVIII |
Seleucid calendar | 2276-2277 |
Thai solar calendar | 2508 |
Events
Annual dedications
- 1965 is " International Year of Cooperation"
Politics and world events
January
- January 1 : Hans-Peter Tschudi becomes President of Switzerland .
- January 1st: The 10% tariff reduction within the EEC comes into force.
- January 1: Those doing military service will now receive 2.70 DM instead of 2.30 DM pay per day.
- January 1: The agreed wage tax cut comes into force in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- January 2 : Muhammed Ayub Khan wins the presidential elections in Pakistan .
- January 2nd: first open battle between South Vietnam and Viet Cong
- January 2: Over 100 industrial companies are nationalized in Syria .
- January 6th : Hindi becomes the official language of India
- January 20 : Lyndon B. Johnson is re- sworn in as President of the United States .
- January 30th : Investment protection agreement between Taiwan and the Federal Republic of Germany
February
- February 1 : In honor of Sir Winston Churchill , who died a few days earlier, the 856 km long Hamilton River in Newfoundland and Labrador is renamed Churchill River .
- February 10th : Malta becomes a member of UNESCO
- February 15 : The Maple Leaf Flag / l'Unifolié is introduced as the new flag of Canada .
- February 18 : Gambia becomes independent
- February 21 : Malcolm X is murdered in New York City
- February 26th : Concordat between the Holy See and Lower Saxony
March
- March 7th : In response to a state visit by Walter Ulbricht to Egypt from February 24th to March 2nd, the Federal Republic of Germany discontinues economic aid for the North African country.
- March 7th: Outside the city of Selma, Alabama , the state police stopped the first of three protest marches by using clubs and tear gas . About 600 civil rights protesters wanted to move to Alabama's capital, Montgomery . Governor George Wallace sees the march as a threat to public safety .
- March 11th : Portugal becomes a member of UNESCO
- March 18 : The first human moves outside of a space capsule in space. The spacewalk almost ended in disaster.
- March 22nd : Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Romania
- March 29th : With the closure of the Georg mine in Willroth , ore mining in Siegerland , which had been in operation for over 2000 years, ends .
- March 30 : A car bomb attack on the United States Embassy in Saigon kills 22 people and injures 188. A new building will subsequently replace the first US embassy building in South Vietnam.
April
- April 6 : The first commercial communications satellite, Early Bird , is launched.
- April 10 : Assassination attempt on Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- April 23 : The first television satellite in the Soviet Union , Molnija-1, enters orbit.
May
- May 12th : the Federal Government ( Cabinet Erhard I ) announces that the Federal Republic and Israel are establishing diplomatic relations. Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and Iraq then break off diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany.
- May 19 : The radiation tortoise Tuʻi Malila dies on Tonga . Circumnavigator James Cook had given it to the royal family of Tonga around 1777.
- May 23 : Franz Jonas ( SPÖ ) is elected Austrian Federal President.
June
- June 19 : The previous head of Algeria , Ahmad Ben Bella , is overthrown by the military. Colonel Houari Boumedienne takes power. He nationalized most of the foreign mining companies and started an agricultural reform.
- June 24th : The amendment of the Basic Law to include an emergency constitution fails in the German Bundestag due to the necessary two-thirds majority.
- June 26 : On the Munich - Augsburg route, a scheduled express train DB class 103 in German railway operations is driven for the first time at speeds of 200 km / h .
July
- July 1 : France withdraws its representative to the European Communities: the empty chair policy begins .
- July 2 : Following politically explosive reports on prisons, the South African police storm the editorial offices of the Rand Daily Mail , after which editor-in-chief Laurence Gandar and other defendants are convicted in 1969.
- July 2 : The journalist and SED politician Albert Norden publishes a brown book with the names of over 1,800 Nazis and war criminals in leadership positions in West Germany.
- July 15 : The dismissal of Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou by King Constantine II of Greece triggers bloody demonstrations in the country.
- July 16 : Severe storms in northern Hesse, southern Lower Saxony and eastern Westphalia lead to the Heinrich Flood , which kills a total of 13 people and causes damage in the hundreds of millions.
- July 19 : The Mont Blanc Tunnel , at 11.6 km the longest road tunnel in the world at the time, is opened.
- July 26th : The Maldives become independent.
August
- August 4 : The Cook Islands are granted autonomy , but remain associated with New Zealand , which takes over foreign and defense policy
- August 6 : US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act, expressly granting all African-Americans the right to vote, which led to the legal equality of blacks in the USA.
- August 9th : Singapore becomes independent by leaving the Malay Federation.
- August 10 : Signing of the Jordanian - Saudi border treaty: Jordan cedes approx. 7,000 km² of its national territory to Saudi Arabia and receives 6,000 km² from it in return. The contract comes into force on November 7th of that year.
September
- September 15 : Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi is awarded the title Aryamehr (Light of the Aryans) by the Iranian Parliament.
- September 19 : Bundestag elections in the Federal Republic of Germany: CDU / CSU 47.6% (245 seats), SPD 39.3% (202), FDP 9.5% (49); West Berlin MPs: 15 SPD, 6 CDU, 1 FDP
- September 21 : Singapore , Maldives and Gambia join the United Nations .
- September 22nd : With the involvement of the UN , a ceasefire in the war between India and Pakistan is signed.
- September 30th : Lt. Col. Untung attempted coup in Indonesia , followed by a counter-coup by General Suharto . In the months that followed, members of the Indonesian Communist Party were politically killed and the Chinese minority was genocided . Between 100,000 and 500,000 people are murdered.
October
- October 3 : In Cuba , the unity PURS (Party of Social Revolution) is renamed the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC).
- October 3 : US President Lyndon B. Johnson's signature of the Immigration and Naturalization Services Act of 1965 makes immigration law in the United States more liberal.
- October 8th : International Red Cross Conference in Vienna; Resolution of the principles of the Red Cross that are still valid today (humanity: impartiality: neutrality: independence: voluntariness: unity: universality)
- October 13 : In the Congo, President Joseph Kasavubu and Army Chief Mobutu Sese Seko force Prime Minister Moïse Tschombé to resign . Kasavubu appoints Évariste Kimba as his successor.
- October 15 : GDR citizens of retirement age are allowed by their government to travel to non-socialist countries.
- October 22nd : cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Portugal; in force since December 29, 1966
- October 26 : Swearing-in of the new Erhard II cabinet under Chancellor Erhard
- October 27 : In Hesse explains Constitutional Court , the school prayer is inadmissible when a student or guardian contradicts the prayer.
- October 29 : In Paris , the Moroccan opposition politician Mehdi Ben Barka is kidnapped with the help of the French police ; presumably he was murdered soon afterwards.
November
- November 11th : Under Ian Smith, Rhodesia unilaterally declares its independence from Great Britain , but wants to remain loyal to Queen Elizabeth II .
- November 12 : The UN Security Council condemns Rhodesia's unilateral declaration of independence on November 11th as illegal and calls on Great Britain to intervene.
- November 18 : Call of the Polish bishops to their German colleagues for reconciliation
- November 25 : Mobutu Sese Seko takes power in the Congo after a coup d'état (see October 13 ).
- November 26th : France launches the Asterix satellite from Hammaguir in Algeria with a "Diamond A" rocket . This is the first satellite launch without US or USSR involvement.
- November: Border incidents between Argentina and Chile in the Patagonian Cordillera
- November: President Sourou-Migan Apithy is overthrown in Dahomé (see December 22nd ).
December
- December 9th : Nikolai Viktorovich Podgorny succeeds Anastas Mikoyan as head of state in the Soviet Union . The office is held by the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet .
- December 16 : King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV becomes head of state of Tonga .
- December 19 : In France, General Charles de Gaulle is elected president for the second time for a further seven years in a run-off election with 55.2% of the vote .
- December 22nd : In Dahomé the army under the leadership of General Ch. Soglo takes power, the parliament is dissolved and the parties are banned.
Day unknown
- Wolf Biermann is punished for the first time in the GDR with a performance ban.
economy
- February 1 : Seven months after the founding of the AG for Advertising TV, advertising is broadcast for the first time in Swiss television history .
- April 23 : In Paris is Peugeot 204 unveiled, the first car of the manufacturer Peugeot with front-wheel drive .
- April 26 : The Deutsche Bundesbank issues banknotes over 500 Deutsche Mark . On its back is a symbol of chivalry , the Burg Eltz displayed.
- April 26 : The private Brazilian television network Rede Globo begins its television program in Rio de Janeiro . In addition to news, the focus is on sports broadcasts and telenovelas .
- October 26 : The Postal code is introduced in France . The postcode initially consists of the number of the department and the first three capitalized letters of the place name.
- November 9th : A widespread power outage cripples life in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada for hours. The blackout affects the daily routine of around 30 million people. A baby boom is registered nine months later .
science and technology
- January 19 : The unmanned Gemini 2 mission starts from Cape Canaveral . In a short ballistic flight, the United States is testing the re-entry of a missile into the earth's atmosphere .
- March 18 : The cosmonaut Alexei Archipowitsch Leonow is the first person to leave a spaceship in space.
- May 31 : In Pforzheim, the Deutsche Bundespost uses the world's first electronic mail sorting system. The target code is determined by means of matrix coding and applied to the shipment as a barcode.
- June 3rd : First American extra-vehicular activity (" extra-vehicle activity ") by Edward H. White on board Gemini 4
- July 16 : First Proton rocket launch
- August 26th : The first flight of a prototype of the Cessna 401/402 takes place.
- August 31 : The Super Guppy completes its maiden flight . The aircraft is needed to transport rocket parts .
- October 8 : The Post Office Tower goes into operation in London . The television tower has been the tallest structure in the city for several years.
- November 2nd : The Ruhr University Bochum starts teaching.
- November 20 : Foundation stone laid for the new University of Regensburg
- December 15 : With Walter Schirra and Tom Stafford on board, the Gemini 6A spacecraft takes off into space. A few hours later, the first meeting takes place two manned spaceships in outer space with the since Dec. 4 located in All Gemini 7 .
- December 15 : The French astronomer Audouin Dollfus discovers the inner moon of Saturn, Janus .
- December 15th : The five-kilometer Zeeland bridge over the Oosterschelde is opened by Queen Juliana . It is the longest bridge in the Netherlands .
- Development of the Sailwing , the first paraglider . First flights with it in September 1965
- The birth control pill comes onto the market in the GDR
- Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discover the cosmic background radiation
- Artur Fischer invents fishing technology
Culture
- February 15th : World premiere of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's opera Die soldiers in Cologne .
- March 5th : The first spaghetti western , Sergio Leones For a Fistful of Dollars , is shown in German cinemas . The leading actor in the film is Clint Eastwood .
- April 7th : World premiere of the comic opera Der Junge Lord by Hans Werner Henze in Berlin
- April 13 : World premiere of the ballet Onegin by John Cranko based on music by Peter Iljitsch Tchaikovsky by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart
- May 9 : Pianist Vladimir Horowitz returns to the stage after a twelve-year absence with a concert at Carnegie Hall .
- June 5th : The 24-hour happening with Joseph Beuys , Bazon Brock , Charlotte Moorman , Nam June Paik , Eckart Rahn, Tomas Schmit and Wolf Vostell took place in the Parnass Gallery .
- July 9 : The television series Auf der Flucht with David Janssen in the role of Dr. Richard Kimble and Barry Morse as his pursuers Lt. Philip Gerard .
- July 15 : Publication of the song Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
- August 6th : Help! , The Beatles' fifth album will be released in England.
- August 13 : The rock band Jefferson Airplane plays the opening concert in The Matrix club in San Francisco , which was founded especially for the band
- October 17 : Air Date of of Walther Schmieding moderated precursor mission for cultural magazine aspects , Kulturbericht
- October 31 : the Leipzig Beatdemo takes place
- November 2nd : World premiere of the opera Jacobowsky and Colonel von Giselher Klebe at the Hamburg State Opera

Ship of Kyrenia (depicted on the Cypriot 50 cent coin )
- November 20 : The sponge diver Andreas Karolou discovered off the northern coast of Cyprus , the pre-Roman Iron Age Dating ship of Kyrenia .
- November 21 : The French singer Mireille Mathieu makes her first TV appearance on the show Télé Dimanche . She sings Jezebel .
- November 26th : How to explain the pictures to the dead rabbit , action by the artist Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf
- November 30th : World premiere of the opera Das Wundertheater by Hans Werner Henze in Frankfurt am Main
- December 22nd : The film Doctor Zhivago premieres in New York.
- The German hard rock band Scorpions is founded.
- Klaus Wagenbach's anthology atlas, compiled by German authors, will appear in autumn
- First award of the Tie Man of the Year award
- Foundation of the National Endowment for the Arts
- Premiere of the first Chinese color film Dongfang hong (The East is Red)
society
- July 8 : The mail robber Ronald Biggs escapes from Wandsworth Prison in London. A rope ladder lets him and three other inmates overcome the prison wall and get into a furniture van parked by accomplices.
- July 14 : Eva Mariotti is acquitted in the third Mariotti trial before the Hamburg Regional Court .
religion
- October 4th : Paul VI. is the first Pope to address the United Nations General Assembly . His appeal for peace is counted among the most remarkable speeches of the 20th century.
- December 7th : Pope Paul VI. and Athinagoras , the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, solemnly lift each other's banishment from the Oriental Schism of 1054 in Rome and Istanbul at the same time .
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics
- January 8 : The German athletes of 1964 are honored in Baden-Baden .
- May 15 : Werder Bremen becomes German champions in the Bundesliga .
- May 25 : Lewiston (Maine) , USA . Muhammad Ali will defend his heavyweight boxing title against Sonny Liston .
- June 18 : The Bonner SC is founded through the merger of the Bonner FV and Tura Bonn.
- September 26 : The German national soccer team qualified for the 1966 soccer world championship in England with a 2-1 win against Sweden . Franz Beckenbauer makes his first international match in this game.
- December 22nd : Foundation of 1. FC Magdeburg
- December 28th : Foundation of FC Hansa Rostock
- Jim Clark becomes Formula 1 world champion for the second time .
- The Linzer ASK (LASK) gets the double and the first time Austrian champion and cup winner. For the first time a team outside of Vienna wins the championship.
Disasters
- March 9 : An earthquake destroys 85 percent of the buildings on the Sporade island of Alonnisos in the island's capital of the same name. The residents move to Patitiri .
- March 28 : Dam of the El Cobre settling basin in Chile with at least 200 dead
- May 20 : Cairo , Egypt . Crash of a Pakistani Boeing 707 of the PIA . All 124 people on board die
- June 2 : Pakistan. A cyclone kills around 30,000 people in the east of the country.
- July 16 : The Heinrich flood claims 11 lives in northern Hesse, southern Lower Saxony and eastern Westphalia-Lippe and causes damage in the hundreds of millions.
- November 13 : The US passenger liner Yarmouth Castle goes up in flames in the middle of the night off Nassau ( Bahamas ) and sinks, 90 passengers and crew members die. The accident leads to new regulations for safety at sea within the framework of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea .
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 1 : Igor Pavlov , German-Latvian-Russian ice hockey player and coach
- January 1st : Saban Trstena , Yugoslav or North Macedonian wrestler
- January 2nd : Andrew John Ashurst , British pole vaulter
- January 2nd : Veronika Meduna , German biologist, radio journalist and writer of Czech origin
- January 2nd : Antonio Paradiso , Italian actor
- January 2nd : Waldemar Reinfelder , German lawyer
- January 3 : Aiman Abdallah , German television presenter
- January 4th : Yvan Attal , French actor and director
- January 4th : Guy Forget , French tennis player
- January 4th : Beth Gibbons , singer of the English trip hop group Portishead
- January 4th : Hendrik Hey , German journalist, television presenter and producer
- January 4th : Cait O'Riordan , English singer
- January 4th : Julia Ormond , British actress
- January 5th : Vinnie Jones , former Welsh football player
- January 5th : Patrik Sjöberg , Swedish athlete
- January 6th : Marco Branca , Italian football player and official
- January 6th : Christine Wachtel , German athlete
- January 7th : Beate Andres , German radio play director
- January 7th : Dieter Thomas Kuhn , German musician
- January 8 : Francisco Assis , Portuguese politician
- January 8th : Ahn Jae-hyung , South Korean table tennis player
- January 8th : Matthias Matuschik , German DJ and presenter
- January 9th : Haddaway , singer from Trinidad and Tobago
- January 9th : Josef Dostthaler , German bobsledder
- January 9th : Joely Richardson , English actress
- January 9 : René Stadtkewitz , German politician
- January 9 : Jennifer Walinga , Canadian rower
- January 10 : Matthias Hahn , German handball player and coach
- January 10 : Oliver Johanndrees , draftsman for Perry Rhodan's novels
- January 11th : Edyta Bartosiewicz , Polish singer, composer and songwriter
- January 11 : Bertrand de Billy , French conductor
- January 11th : Andreas Diebitz , German soccer player
- January 12th : Jutta Arztmann , Austrian politician
- January 12th : Maybrit Illner , German TV presenter
- January 12 : Rob Zombie , American singer
- January 12th : Marina Kiehl , German ski racer
- January 14th : Roswitha Bindl , German soccer player
- January 14th : Michael Hennrich , German politician
- January 14th : Désirée Nosbusch , Luxembourgish actress, presenter
- January 15 : Derek B , British rapper and hip-hop producer († 2009 )
- January 15 : Markus Ferber , German politician
- January 15th : Maurizio Fondriest , Italian cyclist
- January 15th : Adam Jones , guitarist for the progressive rock band Tool
- January 15 : Andreas Schulze , German wildlife filmmaker, biologist and Germanist († 2010 )
- January 16 : Hannes Apfolterer , Austrian clarinetist, composer and military bandmaster
- January 17th : Fred Radig , German handball player († 2019 )
- January 18 : Urs Augstburger , Swiss writer
- January 18 : Viktor Gernot , Austrian cabaret artist, actor, television presenter and singer
- January 18 : Claudio Passarelli , German wrestler
- January 19 : JB Pritzker , American entrepreneur and politician
- January 20 : John Michael Montgomery , American country singer
- January 20 : Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones , wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
- January 20th : Heather Small , English soul singer
- January 20 : Georg Staudacher , Austrian theater director, screenwriter and actor († 2007 )
- January 21 : Peri Arndt , German musician and politician
- January 21 : Jam Master Jay , American hip-hop musician († 2002 )
- January 21 : Christine Paul , German soccer player
- January 22nd : Steven Adler , American drummer
- January 22nd : Diane Lane , American actress
- January 23 : Thomas Adler , German soccer player
- January 23 : Marcus Calvin , German-American actor
- January 26th : Gernot Klemm , German politician
- January 27 : Petra Berndt , German actress
- January 28th : Nadia Bonfini , Italian ski racer
- January 29 : Dominik Hašek , Czech ice hockey player
- January 29 : Julia Stemberger , Austrian actress
- January 31 : David Armitage , British historian
- January 31 : Andri Marteinsson , Icelandic football player
February
Chris Rock , 2012
- February 1 : Roberta Angelilli , Italian politician
- February 1 : Adam Benzwi , American pianist
- February 1 : Sherilyn Fenn , American actress
- February 1 : Brandon Lee , American actor; Son of Bruce Lee († 1993 )
- February 1st : Tobias Pflüger , German political scientist and peace researcher
- February 1 : Stéphanie von Monaco , daughter of Prince Rainier III. of Monaco and Gracia Patricia of Monaco
- February 2 : Alexander Rosenberg , German actor, voice actor and dialogue book author
- February 2nd : Thorsten Wolf , German actor, cabaret artist and theater director
- February 3 : Maura Tierney , American actress
- February 4th : Myrtle Sharon Mary Augee , British shot putter
- February 5 : Gheorghe Hagi , Romanian football player
- February 5 : Lawrence Iquaibom , Nigerian weightlifter
- February 6 : Bernhard Bettermann , German actor
- February 6 : Houston Hoover , American football player
- February 6th : Jan Svěrák , Czech film director, actor and screenwriter
- February 7th : Marcos Ignacio Ambríz Espinoza , Mexican soccer coach and soccer player
- February 7 : Chris Rock , American film actor and comedian
- February 8 : Mathilda May , French actress
- February 9 : Dieter Baumann , German long-distance runner
- February 9 : Christian Schenk , German athlete, Olympic champion
- February 10 : Gen Getsu , Japanese writer
- February 10 : Dana Winner , Belgian singer
- February 11 : Petra Durst-Benning , German writer
- February 12 : Christine Elise , American actress
- February 12 : Geworg Dabaghjan , Armenian duduk player
- February 12 : Brett Kavanaugh , US Supreme Court Justice
- February 13 : Sven Demandt , German soccer player and coach
- February 13 : Ida Ladstätter , Austrian ski racer
- February 14 : Karl Erik Bøhn , Norwegian handball player and coach († 2014 )
- February 16 : Khunying Patama Leeswadtrakul , Thai sports official
- February 16 : Dave Lombardo , drummer for Slayer
- February 18 : Dr. Dre , American rapper and music producer
- February 18 : Rainer Schmidt , German table tennis player
- February 19 : Carsten Aschmann , German filmmaker, video artist, author, film editor and film producer
- February 19 : Michael Westphal , German tennis player († 1991 )
- February 20 : Michel Ansermet , Swiss marksman
- February 20 : Thomas Kemmerich , German politician, Prime Minister of Thuringia
- February 20 : Silvius von Kessel , German cathedral organist and university professor
- February 20 : Dirk Schulz , German draftsman
- February 21 : Evair Aparecido Paulino , Brazilian soccer player and coach
- February 21 : Thomas Sivertsson , Swedish handball player and coach
- February 21 : Atsushi Yogō , Japanese racing car driver
- February 23 : Kristin Davis , American actress
- February 23 : Stephan Detjen , German journalist and chief correspondent for Deutschlandradio
- February 23 : Michael Dell , American entrepreneur
- February 23 : Tim Mudde , right-wing extremist in the Netherlands
- February 23 : Helena Suková , Czechoslovak tennis player
- February 24th : Harald Andler , German handball referee
- February 24th : Tone Åse , Norwegian singer
- February 24th : Hansi Flick , German soccer player
- February 24 : Susanne Kronzucker , German journalist and presenter
- February 24 : Jane Swift , American politician
- February 25 : Sylvie Guillem , French dancer
- February 26th : Kōsei Akaishi , Japanese wrestler
- February 27 : Joey Calderazzo , American jazz pianist
- February 27 : Oliver Reck , German football goalkeeper and goalkeeper coach
- February 27 : Ahmet Mahmut Ünlü , Turkish preacher
- February 28 : Kenichirō Isozaki , Japanese writer
- February 28 : Marko Simsa , Austrian producer and actor of children's theater
March
- March 1 : Booker T , American wrestler
- March 3 : Eric Da Re , American actor
- March 3 : Dragan Stojković , Serbian football player
- March 3 : Guylaine St-Onge , Canadian actress († 2005 )
- March 4th : Radouane Abbes , Algerian football player
- March 4 : Khaled Hosseini , Afghan writer
- March 4th : WestBam , German DJ
- March 4th : Paul WS Anderson , British film director
- March 5th : Nadja Abd El Farrag , German TV presenter and singer
- March 5 : Johnny Ekström , Swedish football player
- March 7 : Cameron Daddo , Australian actor and musician
- March 7th : Jesper Parnevik , Swedish golfer
- March 7 : Alison Redford , Canadian politician
- March 8 : Satoru Akahori , Japanese writer
- March 9 : Uta Bresan , German pop singer and presenter
- March 9 : Elías Antonio Saca González , President of El Salvador
- March 10 : Alex Fiorio , Italian rally driver
- March 11 : Nigel Howard Adkins , English football player and coach
- March 11 : Michael P. Aust , German curator, cultural organizer and film producer
- March 11th : Eric Jelen , German tennis player
- March 12th : Max Müller , Austrian actor and singer
- March 13th : Nils Aschenbeck , German journalist, book author and publisher
- March 13 : Esther Esche , German actress
- March 14 : Dirk Heinrichs , German actor
- March 14th : Aamir Khan , Indian actor
- March 14 : Kiana Tom , American actress and fitness trainer
- March 15 : Francisco Ribeiro , Portuguese musician († 2010 )
- March 16 : Utut Adianto Wahyuwidayat , Indonesian chess player, chess official and politician
- March 16 : Belén Rueda , Spanish actress
- March 18 : Zbigniew Łowżył , Polish composer, drummer, pianist and music teacher
- March 19 : Reiner Anselm , German theologian
- March 21 : Xavier Bertrand , French politician
- March 21 : Steffen Krauss , German soccer player († 2008 )
- March 21 : Oliver Rohrbeck , German voice actor
- March 22nd : Stefan Glowacz , German professional mountaineer, extreme climber
- March 23 : Richard Grieco , American actor
- March 23 : Trine Haltvik , Norwegian handball player and trainer
- March 23 : Marti Pellow , Scottish singer
- March 23 : Steve Turner , American rock musician
- March 23 : Alexander Wagendristel , Austrian composer and flautist
- March 24th : Mark Calaway , American wrestler
- March 24th : Peter Öttl , German motorcycle racer
- March 24th : Patrick Scales , British-German jazz bassist
- March 25th : Stefka Kostadinowa , Bulgarian high jumper
- March 25 : Frank Ordenewitz , German soccer player
Sarah Jessica Parker , 2012
- March 25 : Sarah Jessica Parker , American actress
- March 25 : Jürgen Seeberger , German soccer coach
- March 26 : Martin Apeltauer , Austrian politician († 2006 )
- March 26th : Violeta Szekely , Romanian athlete and Olympian
- March 27 : Roland Ketzmerick , German physicist
- March 29 : Kai Ambos , German author and legal scholar
- March 29 : Darius Mockus , Lithuanian entrepreneur and economist
- March 29 : Paraskevi Patoulidou , Greek athlete and Olympic champion
- March 29 : Lara Wendel , actress of American-German descent
- March 30th : Thomas Adasch , German politician
- March 30th : Paul Harather , Austrian film director, film producer and screenwriter
- March 30th : Juliet Landau , American actress
- March 30th : Piers Morgan , British reporter
- March 31 : Tom Barrasso , American ice hockey player
April
- April 1 : Jane Adams , American actress
- April 1st : Simona Ventura , Italian journalist and TV presenter
- April 2 : Rodney King , African American citizen, victim of police arbitrariness († 2012 )
- April 2 : Dawit Gamqrelidze , Georgian opposition leader
Robert Downey Jr. , 2008
- April 4 : Robert Downey Jr. , American actor
- April 5 : Florian Scheuba , Austrian actor, cabaret artist and presenter
- April 6th : Theresia Bauer , German politician, Member of the State Parliament in Baden-Württemberg
- April 6 : Frank Black , American musician
- April 7th : Fabián Casas , Argentine author and journalist
- April 7th : Alison Lapper , English artist
- April 7th : Sylvain Luc , French jazz guitarist
- April 7th : Alexander Mronz , German tennis player
- April 7th : Ralf Wengenmayr , German film composer
- April 8 : Heiko Brestrich , German football player and coach
- April 8 : Michael Jones , New Zealand rugby union player
- April 9th : Daniel Messina , Argentinian drummer and composer
- April 9 : Mark Pellegrino , American actor
- April 9 : Paulina Porizkova , Czech-American model and actress
- April 10th : Tim "Herb" Alexander , American drummer
- April 10 : Marco Finetti , German journalist and press officer
- April 10 : Kepa Junkera , Basque musician and composer
- April 10 : Jure Robič , Slovenian racing cyclist († 2010 )
- April 10 : Bernd Schneider , German chess player
- April 10 : Oliver Mielke , German director, writer and producer
- April 11th : Birgit Homburger , German politician
- April 11th : Simone Thomalla , German actress
- April 12th : Kim Bodnia , Danish film actor
- April 12 : Ellen Lohr , German racing driver
- April 13 : Stefan Baldi , German economist
- April 14 : Roland Dieckmann , German politician
- April 14 : Meta Merz , Austrian writer († 1989 )
- April 15 : Birgit Herdejürgen , German politician
- April 15 : Claudia Leistner , German figure skater
- April 15 : Pablo Molina , Argentinian reggae musician
- April 15 : Linda Perry , American rock singer, songwriter, and record producer
- April 15 : Noguchi Sōichi , Japanese astronaut
- April 16 : Jon Cryer , American actor
- April 16 : Martin Lawrence , American actor and comedian
- April 17th : Javier Girotto , Argentine jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and flautist
- April 17th : Mike Fuhrig , German handball player
- April 17 : William Mapother , American actor
- April 18 : Liz Aronsohn , American badminton player
- April 19 : Melitta Rühn , Romanian gymnast
- April 19 : Suge Knight , American hip hop producer
- April 21 : Katja Burkard , German TV presenter
- April 21 : Gerit Kling , German actress
- April 21 : Christina Plate , German actress
- April 21 : Thomas Helmer , German soccer player
- April 21 : Ed Belfour , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 22nd : Clarissa Ahlers , German lawyer, journalist and television presenter
- April 23 : Donna Weinbrecht , American freestyle skier
- April 24th : Claudius von Wrochem , German cellist
- April 25 : Jens Adler , German soccer player
- April 26 : Kevin James , American actor
- April 26th : Amina Gusner , German actress and director
- April 26 : Silvia Müller (alias Silvia K.), German crime victim and author († 2016 )
- April 28 : Gil Montandon , Swiss ice hockey player and coach
- April 28 : Sam Newsome , American jazz saxophonist
- April 28 : Eva Twardokens , American ski racer
- April 29 : Angelo Alessio , Italian football player and coach
- April 29th : Sylvio Kroll , German gymnast
- April 30th : Joachim Schultze , German cancer researcher
- April 30 : Gundula Gause , news anchor at ZDF
- April 30 : Adrian Pasdar , American actor
May
- May 1st : Debi Diamond , American model and porn actress
- May 3rd : Dirk Helmig , German soccer player
- May 3 : Ignatius Ephrem II Karim , since 2014 Patriarch of Antioch and the whole Orient of the Syrian Orthodox Church
- May 4th : Peter Felten , German diplomat
- May 5th : Mark Keller , German actor
- May 5th : Chris McMurry , American racing car driver
- May 5th : John Riiber , Norwegian Nordic combined skier
- May 5 : Jolanda Vogt-Kindle , Liechtenstein ski racer
- May 6 : Leslie Hope , Canadian actress
- May 6 : Greg Poss , American ice hockey coach
- May 6 : Nathalie Stutzmann , French contralto
- May 7th : Henrik Andersen , Danish football player
- May 7 : Owen Hart , Canadian-American wrestler († 1999 )
- May 8th : Shiny Abraham , Indian athlete
- May 8 : Antonio Ananiew , Bulgarian football goalkeeper
- May 9 : Shanar Aichanova , Kazakh politician
- May 9 : Ghadah Al-Akel , German actress and voice actress
- May 9th : Marcus Kretzer , German pianist and piano teacher
- May 9 : Steve Yzerman , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 10 : Linda Evangelista , Canadian mannequin and model
- May 10 : Philip Harper , American jazz trumpeter
- May 10 : Michael Regener , singer of the banned right-wing rock band Landser
- May 10 : Roswitha Meyer , Austrian actress
- May 11 : Guido Maria Kretschmer , German fashion designer
- May 11 : Marty Chan , Canadian writer
- May 11th : Stefano Domenicali , Italian team manager at Scuderia Ferrari
- May 11th : Charles-Louis Seck , Senegalese athlete
- May 12th : Renée Toft Simonsen , Danish model and children's book author
- May 13 : Eberhard Carl , German soccer player
- May 13 : Lari White , American country singer and songwriter († 2018 )
- May 14 : Eoin Colfer , Irish writer
- May 14th : Christophe Marguet , French jazz drummer
- May 15 : George Fouché , South African racing car driver
- May 15 : Carlos Castaño Gil , Colombian paramilitary († 2004 )
- May 15 : Sabine Küchler , German writer
- May 15 : Raí , Brazilian soccer player
- May 16 : Krist Novoselic , American musician
- May 17th : Trent Reznor , founder and leader of the band Nine Inch Nails
- May 18 : Heiko Burmeister , German handball player and trainer
- May 18th : Ingo Schwichtenberg , drummer of the band Helloween († 1995 )
- May 20th : Bruno Marie-Rose , French athlete and Olympian
- May 20 : Jean-Charles Trouabal , French athlete and Olympian
- May 20 : Hans-Peter Liese , German MEP
- May 20th : Roberta Brunet , Italian athlete and Olympian
- May 20th : Kristina Andersson , Swedish ski racer
- May 20 : Ted Allen , American author and television presenter
- May 21 : Eva-Maria Admiral , Austrian actress

Tom Tykwer , 2009
- May 23 : Christine Edda Antorini , Danish politician
- May 23 : Manolo Sanchís , Spanish soccer player
- May 23 : Tom Tykwer , German film director and film producer
- May 24 : John C. Reilly , American actor
- May 24th : Jens Becker , German musician
- May 25 : Simon Fowler , British singer and guitarist
- May 25 : Yahya Jammeh , President of the Gambia
- May 25 : Sirka Schwartz-Uppendieck , German church music director, organist and pianist
- May 26 : Wayne Kramer , South African director, producer and screenwriter
- May 26 : Christina Lux , German musician, singer, guitarist and composer
- May 27 : Pat Cash , Australian tennis player
- May 28 : André Trulsen , German football player
- May 28 : Michael Thalheimer , German director
- May 29 : Pierre François Aubameyang , Gabonese soccer player, soccer coach, scout and consultant
- May 30th : Harald Glööckler , German fashion designer
- May 30th : Anna Langhoff , German writer
Brooke Shields , 2008
- May 31 : Brooke Shields , American actress
- May 31 : Isabell Zacharias , German politician
June

Veronica Ferres , 2012

Elizabeth Hurley , 2008
- June 1st : Nigel Short , English chess grandmaster
- June 1st : Olga Nazarova , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- June 2nd : Jasper Blom , Dutch jazz saxophonist
- June 2nd : Jens-Peter Herold , German athlete
- June 2 : Jim Knipfel , American writer
- June 3rd : Anja Langer , German bodybuilder
- June 3 : Peter Mattei , Swedish opera singer (baritone)
- June 3 : Albrecht Mayer , German oboist
- June 3 : Thomas Ohrner , German television presenter and actor
- June 3 : Stefan Oster , German Salesian Father, Bishop of Passau
- June 4th : Armin Eich , German ancient historian
- June 4th : Andrea Jaeger , American tennis player
- June 4th : Mick Doohan , Australian motorcycle racer
- June 6th : Donat Acklin , Swiss bobsleigh driver
- June 6 : Ogata Megumi , Japanese seiyu and J-pop singer
- June 7 : Mick Foley , American wrestler and writer
- June 8th : Kazuoki Kodama , Japanese Nordic combined athlete
- June 9th : Giuseppe Cipriani , Italian racing driver
- June 9th : Manuela Oschmann , German cross-country skier
- June 10 : Susanne Albers , German computer scientist and university professor
- June 10 : Veronica Ferres , German actress
- June 10 : Elizabeth Hurley , British actress

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- June 10 : Andrea Kiewel , German TV presenter
- June 11 : Lars Henrik Gass , German author
- June 11th : Michael Naseband , German police officer
- June 11 : Christian Streich , German soccer coach
- June 12 : Talal Arslan , Lebanese politician
- June 12 : Wolfgang Herrndorf , German writer († 2013 )
- June 12 : Karin Thaler , German actress
- June 12 : Filip Topol , Czech singer, songwriter and pianist († 2013 )
- June 12 : Gwen Torrence , American athlete and Olympic champion
- June 12th : Vicky Vette , Norwegian-Canadian porn actress
- June 13 : Michael Klemm , German handball player
- June 16 : JB Gouthier , German guitarist, composer and musician
- June 16 : Holger Kunkel , German actor
- June 17th : Richard Auer , German crime writer and journalist
- June 17 : Dermontti Dawson , American football player
- June 17th : Carlos Medina , Andorran football player
- June 17th : Ralf Lübke , German athlete
- June 17th : Alexandra Ludwig , German voice actress
- June 19 : Sabine Braun , German athlete and Olympian
- June 19 : Sadie Frost , English actress
- June 19 : Christine Lambrecht , German politician
- June 20 : Benoît Brière , Canadian actor
- June 21 : Yang Liwei , first Chinese astronaut
- June 21 : Ruperta Lichtenecker , Austrian politician and Federal Councilor
- June 23 : Manuel Andrack , German television editor, author and sidekick of the Harald Schmidt Show
- June 24th : Uwe Krupp , German ice hockey player, coach
- June 26th : Emanuele Arciuli , Italian pianist
- June 26 : Ulrich Derad , German handball player
- June 27 : Stefan Kroll , German historian
- June 28th : Hansjörg Aschenwald , Austrian Nordic combiner
- June 28 : John Medeski , American organist, keyboardist and composer
- June 28th : Thomas Vogel , German soccer player
- June 29th : Michaela Erler , German handball player
- June 30 : Mitch Richmond , American basketball player
July
- July 1st : Carl Fogarty , British motorcycle racer
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July 2nd : Norbert Röttgen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag, lawyerNorbert Röttgen , 2012
- July 2nd : Trine-Lise Væring , Danish jazz singer and songwriter
- July 3rd : Connie Nielsen , Danish actress
- July 3 : Hans Dorfner , German soccer player
- July 4th : Michael Apitz , German painter and cartoonist
- July 4th : Harvey Grant , American basketball player
- July 4th : Horace Grant , American basketball player
- July 4th : Giancarlo Marocchi , Italian football player
- July 5th : Eyran Katsenelenbogen , American jazz pianist
- July 5th : Tom Quaas , German actor and director
- July 6th : Jens Müller , German luge and Olympic champion
- July 6th : Hannes Zehentner , German ski racer
- July 7th : Jeremy Guscott , English rugby player
- July 8 : John Shackley , English actor
- July 10th : Alexia of Greece , Princess of Greece
- July 11th : Andreas Fröhlich , actor, dubbing director and dialog book author
- July 11 : Albert Sánchez Piñol , Spanish anthropologist and writer
- July 12th : Lothar Keller , German journalist and television presenter
- July 13 : Arnd Schmitt , German fencer
- July 14 : Igor Khoroshev , Russian musician
- July 14th : Tan Liangde , Chinese water diver and Olympian
- July 14th : Friedrich Kleinhapl , Austrian cellist with Belgian roots
- July 16 : Gianni Faresin , Italian cyclist
- July 16 : Claude Lemieux , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 17 : Bastian Sick , German journalist, editor, translator and non-fiction author
- July 18 : Eva Ionesco , French actress
- July 18 : Vesselina Kasarova , Bulgarian soprano
- July 18 : Petra Schersing , German sprinter
- July 19 : Evelyn Glennie , British drummer and composer
- July 19 : Martin Heidingsfelder , German business graduate and co-founder of VroniPlag Wiki
- July 19 : Claus-Dieter Wollitz , German soccer player and soccer coach
- July 20 : Joseph John Arlauckas , American basketball player
- July 21 : Ibrahim Bilali , Kenyan boxer
- July 21 : Jovy Marcelo , Filipino racing car driver († 1992 )
- July 22 : Robert Brown Aderholt , American politician
- July 22 : Karl Koch , German hacker († 1989 )
- July 22nd : Shawn Michaels , American wrestler
- July 23 : Patrick Lencioni , American manager, consultant, speaker and author
- July 23 : Jörg Stübner , German footballer († 2019 )
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July 23 : Saul Hudson , British-American guitarist for the rock band Guns N 'RosesSlash , 2005
- July 24th : Doug Liman , American director and producer
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July 25 : Ina Müller , German singer and television presenterIna Müller , 2008
- July 25th : Dagmar Trodler , German writer
- July 25 : Illeana Douglas , American actress
- July 25 : Marty Brown , American country singer
- July 26 : Jeremy Piven , American actor
- July 27 : José Luis Chilavert , Paraguayan football player
- July 27 : Trifon Ivanov , Bulgarian football player († 2016 )
- July 27 : Heiko Triepel , German handball player and trainer
- July 28 : Delfeayo Marsalis , American jazz trombonist
- July 28th : Daniela Mercury , Brazilian singer
- July 28th : Pedro Troglio , Argentine soccer player and coach
- July 29 : Chang-Rae Lee , American writer
- July 31 : Mario von Appen , German canoeist
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July 31 : Joanne K. Rowling , British novelist, author of Harry Potter Joanne K. Rowling , 2010
August
- August 1st : Manuela Auer , Austrian politician
- August 1st : Sam Mendes , British director
- August 2nd : Katrin Müller-Hohenstein , German radio and television presenter
- August 3 : Beatrice Weder di Mauro , Swiss economist
- August 4th : Neus Asensi , Spanish actress
- August 4th : Dennis Lehane , American crime writer
- August 4th : Fredrik Reinfeldt , Swedish Prime Minister
- August 4th : Michael Skibbe , German soccer player and coach
- August 5th : Kazim Abaci , German business consultant and politician
- August 6th : Juliane Köhler , German actress
- August 6th : Stéphane Peterhansel , French rally driver
- August 6th : Luc Alphand , French ski racer and motor sportsman
- August 6 : Yuki Kajiura , Japanese composer
- August 6 : David Robinson , American basketball player
- August 6 : Ravi Coltrane , American jazz saxophonist
- August 6 : Cherno Jobatey , German television presenter
- August 6 : Jens Skwirblies , German musician and producer
- August 7th : Jocelyn Gaétan Angloma , French football player
- August 7 : Bernd Truntschka , German ice hockey player
- August 8 : Achim Hagemann , German composer and musician
- August 8 : Marion Mitterhammer , Austrian actress
- August 8th : Andreas Wahl , German jazz musician
- August 9 : Aleksandar Abutovic , Serbian football player
- August 9 : Konrad Auer , Italian alpinist
- August 10 : Claudia Christian , American actress, director, singer and musician
- August 11th : Thomas Alkier , German jazz musician
- August 12 : Peter Krause , American film and television actor
- August 14 : Terry Richardson , American photographer
- August 15 : Rob Thomas , American writer, screenwriter, and television producer
- August 16 : Ercan Durmaz , German actor of Turkish descent
- August 17th : Mak Ka Lok , Macau racing car driver
- August 17th : Anton Pfeffer , Austrian soccer player
- August 17th : Felix Weber , German artist
- August 19 : Hans-Georg Ambrosius , German visual artist († 2007 )
- August 19 : Maria de Medeiros , Portuguese actress, singer, director and screenwriter

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- August 19 : Kyra Sedgwick , American film and television actress
- August 20 : KRS-One , American rapper and producer
- August 20 : Laurent Lécuyer , Swiss racing driver
- August 20th : Raphael Sperrer , Austrian rally driver
- August 22nd : Franko Bogdan , Croatian football player
- August 22nd : Nurida Gadirova , Azerbaijani author and prehistorian
- August 22 : Thaddeus McCotter , American politician
- August 22nd : David Reimer , Canadian citizen († 2004 )
- August 23 : Roger Avary , American film director and writer
- August 23 : Stefan Herre German blogger and political activist
- August 23 : Alexander Nützenadel , German historian
- August 24th : Sylvia Eder , Austrian ski racer
- August 24 : Pavel Telička , Czech politician and European Commissioner
- August 24th : Marlee Matlin , American actress
- August 24 : Reggie Miller , American basketball player
- August 25 : Holger Aden , German soccer striker and soccer coach
- August 26 : Ekkehard Rumpf , German politician
- August 27 : Rez Abbasi , American fusion and jazz guitarist, music producer and composer
- August 27 : Thomas Dörflinger , German politician
- August 27 : Karim Ojjeh , Saudi entrepreneur and racing car driver
- August 28 : Amanda Tapping , British actress
- August 28 : Andrés Cea Galán , Spanish musician
- August 28 : Shania Twain , Canadian singer
- August 29 : Peter Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
- August 29th : Nedeljko Ašćerić , Austrian basketball coach and player
- August 29th : Gerhard Rodax , Austrian football player
- August 31 : Henry Acquah , Ghanaian soccer player
- August 31 : Celine Bonnier , Canadian actress
September

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- September 2nd : Lennox Lewis , British boxer
- September 3rd : Stefan Dohr , German horn player

Charlie Sheen , 2009
- September 3 : Charlie Sheen , American actor
- September 3 : Daddy Freddy , Jamaican musician
- September 4th : Marc Gabriel Degryse , Belgian football player
- September 5 : David Brabham , Australian racing car driver
- September 7th : Susan Felicity Austin , British multimedia, performance and installation artist
- September 7th : Achim Engelberg , German author, editor and filmmaker
- September 7th : Angela Gheorghiu , Romanian opera singer
- September 7 : Jörg Pilawa , German television presenter
- September 7th : Darko Pančev , Yugoslav and Macedonian football player
- September 7th : Uta Pippig , German athlete and marathon runner
- September 7th : Andreas Thom , German soccer player and coach
- September 8th : Maik Heydeck , German amateur boxer
- September 9 : Şenol Akkılıç , Austrian politician
- September 10 : Ulf Ansorge , German television and radio presenter, speaker and journalist
- September 10 : Michael Lang , German politician
- September 10 : Mona Mahmudnizhad , Iranian Baha'i († 1983 )
- September 11 : Bashar al-Assad , President of Syria
- September 11 : Paul Heyman , American wrestling manager, promoter, and television commentator
- September 11th : Axel Schock , German author
- September 11th : Moby , American producer and DJ in the field of electronic music
- September 12 : Oliver Kalkofe , German comedian, columnist and actor
- September 12 : Gerald Näscher , Liechtenstein ski racer and freestyle skier
- September 12 : Susanne-Marie Wrage , German actress and director
- September 13 : Diego Vicente Aguirre Camblor , Uruguayan football player and coach
- September 13 : Tom Bartels , sports television presenter
- September 13 : Katharina Müller-Elmau , German actress and musician
- September 13 : Zak Starkey , British musician
- September 14th : Markus Arndt , German physicist
- September 14th : Heinrich Gartentor , Swiss writer, internet activist and action artist

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- September 14 : Dmitry Medvedev , Russian politician
- September 15th : Thomas Stangassinger , Austrian ski racer
- September 16 : Karlheinz Riedle , German soccer player
- September 17th : Rodolfo Massi , Italian cyclist
- September 17 : Bryan Singer , American director, film producer and screenwriter
- September 19 : Alexandra Vandernoot , Belgian actress
- September 19 : Carsten Linke , German soccer player
- September 19th : Helen Duval , Dutch porn actress
- September 19 : Goldie , British artist and musician
- September 19 : Gilles Panizzi , French rally driver
- September 21 : Frédéric Beigbeder , French writer
- September 21 : Xan Cassavetes , American actress
- September 21 : Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs , German conductor, musician, music researcher and publicist
- September 21 : David Wenham , Australian actor
- September 22nd : Manfred Binz , German soccer player
- September 22nd : Søren Lilholt , Danish cyclist
- September 22nd : Jörg Sievers , German soccer player
- September 22nd : Tony Drago , Maltese snooker player
- September 22nd : Ernesto Bertarelli , Italian-Swiss entrepreneur, sailor
- September 23 : Brad Armstrong , Canadian porn actor, director and producer
- September 23 : Aleqa Hammond , Greenlandic politician and Prime Minister
- September 24 : Shy Abady , Israeli artist
- September 24th : Sven Eggers , German journalist, author and politician
- September 24th : Hans-Werner Moser , German soccer player
- September 24th : Lena Wisborg , Swedish child actress
- September 25 : Martin Vázquez , Spanish football player
- September 25 : Christine Frai , German soccer referee
- September 25 : Scottie Pippen , American basketball player
- September 25th : Giorgis Xylouris , Greek laouto player and singer
- September 26 : Lene Espersen , Danish economist and politician
- September 26 : Petro Poroshenko , Ukrainian politician
- September 27 : Peter Issig , jazz bassist and video artist
- September 27th : Maria Schrader , German actress
- September 28 : Jürgen Herget , German geographer
- September 28th : Hans Ulrik , Danish jazz saxophonist and band leader
- September 28 : Ginger Fish , American musician
- September 29 : Akram Assem , Afghan historian and writer
- September 30th : Omid Djalili , British film actor and comedian
October
- October 1st : Dirk Bremser , German soccer player and coach
- October 2 : Michael Breuer , German politician
- October 2nd : Keith Ridgway , Irish writer
- October 2nd : Hannes Schäfer , German musician and doctor
- October 3rd : Adriana Calcanhotto , Brazilian singer
- October 3rd : Jan-Ove Waldner , Swedish table tennis player
- October 5 : Kara Spears Hultgreen , 1st American F-14 pilot († 1994 )
- October 5 : Mario Lemieux , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 5th : Patrick Roy , Canadian ice hockey player
- October 6 : Jürgen Kohler , German soccer player
- October 7th : Marco Apicella , Italian racing car driver
- October 7th : Ursula Heinen , German politician
- October 8 : Birgitt Austermühl , German national soccer player
- October 8 : Ludger Banken , German local politician and mayor
- October 8 : Matt Biondi , American swimmer
- October 8 : CJ Ramone , American musician with the Ramones
- October 8 : Burr Steers , American screenwriter, film director, and actor
- October 9 : Stefan Kohn , German soccer player
- October 10 : Chris Penn , American actor († 2006 )
- October 11 : Bruno Cathomas , Swiss actor
- October 11 : Ignacio Cirac , physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute
- October 11 : Sean Patrick Flanery , American actor
- October 11th : Alexander Hacke , German musician, music producer, composer of film music and actor
- October 12 : Dan Abnett , British author
- October 12 : Henry Akinwande , Nigerian-British heavyweight boxer
- October 12 : Liv-Benedicte Bjørneboe , Norwegian organist, composer and cantor
- October 12 : Klaus Escher , German politician, former federal chairman of the Junge Union
- October 13 : Johan Museeuw , Belgian cyclist
- October 13 : Marko Prezelj , Slovenian mountaineer
- October 14th : Karyn White , American singer
- October 15 : Andrzej Rudy , Polish football player
- October 17th : Jens Kürbis , German handball goalkeeper and journalist
- October 18th : Fulvia Stevenin , Italian ski racer
- October 18 : German Titov , Russian ice hockey player
- October 20 : Stefano Pioli , Italian football player and coach
- October 22 : Winfried Bausback , German university professor and politician
- October 22 : Evelyn Adunka , Austrian historian and journalist
- October 22 : Johann-Georg Jaeger , German politician of the Greens
- October 22 : AL Kennedy , British writer
- October 22 : Claude Moraes , UK MEP
- October 24 : József Ács , Hungarian writer
- October 24 : Zsuzsa Bánk , German writer
- October 24 : Bernhard Schadeberg , German entrepreneur
- October 25 : Mathieu Amalric , French actor and director
- October 25 : Rainer Strecker , German actor
- October 26th : Joachim Paul Assböck , German film and theater actor
- October 26 : Stephen Rosenbaum , American visual effects artist
- October 27 : Mauro Gambetti , Italian Archbishop and Cardinal
- October 27 : Stefan Prein , German motorcycle racer
- October 28 : Ralf Kohl , German soccer player
- October 28 : Andreas Zeller , German computer scientist
- October 29 : Yasutomo Nagai , Japanese motorcycle racer († 1995 )
- October 30th : Tomoko Igata , Japanese motorcycle racer
November
- November 1st : Olaf Hampel , German bobsleigh driver
- November 1st : Sandra Redmann , German politician
- November 2 : Paweł Adamowicz , Polish politician († 2019 )
- November 2nd : Shahrukh Khan , Indian Bollywood actor
- November 2nd : Samuel Le Bihan , French actor
- November 2nd : Bruno Miot , French racing car driver
- November 2nd : Paul Röntgen , university professor and rector of RWTH Aachen
- November 3 : Vito Avantario , German journalist and author
- November 3rd : Joe Foster , American racing car driver
- November 3 : Alex Tobin , Australian soccer player
- November 4th : Jeffrey Ching , British composer of Chinese origin
- November 4th : Tomoaki Ishizuka , Japanese guitarist
- November 4th : Claudia Strobl , Austrian ski racer
- November 5th : Rudolf Jeklic , German speed skater
- November 6th : Michael Boden , German musician, composer and poet
- November 7 : Mike Henry , American voice actor, screenwriter, and actor
- November 7th : Alexander West , Swedish entrepreneur and racing car driver
- November 7th : Sigrun Wodars , German athlete
- November 9th : Maria von Blumencron , Austrian artist, author a. Filmmakers
- November 9 : Karoline Eichhorn , German actress
- November 9th : Bryn Terfel , British bass-baritone
- November 10th : Alexander Adolph , German screenwriter and director
- November 10 : Jonas Åkerlund , Swedish music video and film director
- November 10 : Heiko Antoniewicz , German chef
- November 10 : Michaela Gerg , German ski racer
- November 10 : Eddie Irvine , Irish Formula 1 racing driver
- November 10 : Mark Turner , American jazz saxophonist
- November 11th : Stefan Schwarzmann , German musician
- November 12th : Regula Aebi , Swiss athlete
- November 12 : Christian Nauheimer , German film editor
- November 13th : Oliver Kreuzer , German soccer player
- November 14 : Alexander Petritz , Croatian architect and urban planner
- November 16 : Mika Aaltonen , Finnish soccer player
- November 16 : Magnus Bäcklund , Swedish singer
- November 16 : Jeff Pinkner , American film producer and screenwriter
- November 17 : Stefan Kiefer , German motorcycle racer and team boss († 2017 )
- November 18 : Bernd Angerer , Austrian special effects animator
- November 18 : Heinz Gröning , German cabaret artist and musician
- November 18 : Eckart von Klaeden , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- November 18 : Michael Wagner , German biologist
- November 19 : Gary Ian Ablett , English football player and coach († 2012 )
- November 19 : Laurent Blanc , French football player
- November 20th : Hayashi Yoshiki , Japanese musician
- November 20 : Michael Steinbrecher , German journalist and television presenter
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November 21 : Björk , Icelandic musicianBjörk , 2000
- November 21 : Otto Fricke , German politician
- November 21 : Alexander Siddig , British-Sudanese actor
- November 22nd : Gustavo Jorge Acosta , Argentinian soccer player
- November 22nd : Mads Mikkelsen , Danish actor
- November 23 : Neil James Adams , English soccer player
- November 23 : Marcel Beyer , German writer
- November 23 : Götz Widmann , German songwriter
- November 24 : Rui Barros , Portuguese football player and coach
- November 24th : Angelika Kirchschlager , Austrian opera singer
- November 24 : Brad Wall , Canadian politician
- November 25 : Timothy Lockwood Armstrong , American musician
- November 25th : Moritz Eggert , German composer and pianist
- November 25th : Dougray Scott , Scottish actor
- November 26th : Bernard Allison , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- November 26th : Ewald Arenz , German writer and teacher
- November 26th : Patrice Goueslard , French racing car driver
- November 26th : Thomas Rudnick , German actor
- November 27th : Jacky Terrasson , French-American jazz pianist
- November 28th : Thomas Ahrens , German artistique billiard player
- November 28 : Jürgen Fuchs , German motorcycle racer
- November 29th : Susanne Schädlich , German writer, translator and journalist
- November 29th : Manfred Trenz , inventor and developer of computer games
- November 30th : Aldair Santos do Nascimento , Brazilian soccer player
- November 30th : Fumihito of Akishino , Japanese prince
- November 30th : Zeynəddin Bilalov , Azerbaijani athlete in disabled sports
- November 30th : Claudia Geisler-Bading , German actress
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November 30 : Ben Stiller , American actor, screenwriter, film director, and film producerBen Stiller , 2012
December
- December 1st : Till Hoheneder , German comedian and musician
- December 2 : Edgar Aristizábal Quintero , Colombian auxiliary bishop
- December 3 : Simone Peter , German politician
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December 3 : Katarina Witt , German figure skater, two-time Olympic championKatarina Witt at the GDR championship in 1982
- December 4th : Ulf Kirsten , German soccer player
- December 4th : Oliver Baier , Austrian radio and television presenter
- December 5th : Siegrun Appelt , Austrian artist
- December 6th : Jean-Christophe Lafaille , French extreme mountaineer
- December 7th : Wolfgang Haffner , German jazz drummer
- December 7th : Dirk Stermann , German satirist, radio presenter and cabaret artist
- December 7th : Sophie Watillon , Belgian viol player († 2005 )
- December 8th : Astrid Harzbecker , German composer, lyricist and singer
- December 10 : J. Mascis , American musician
- December 10 : Jörg Jäger , German politician
- December 11th : Werner Auer , Austrian artist, singer, actor, director, cabaret artist and presenter
- December 12th : Alessandra Acciai , Italian actress
- December 12th : Else Buschheuer , German writer
- December 12 : Michael Lauber , Swiss Federal Prosecutor
- December 13 : Kristiane Backer , German TV presenter
- December 14 : Aljoša Asanović , Yugoslav-Croatian football player
- December 14th : Karin Beier , German theater director
- December 14th : Bärbel Weimar , German soccer player
- December 15 : José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça , Portuguese Cardinal Curia
- December 15 : Torsten Münchow , German actor and voice actor
- December 15 : Clayton Nemrow , American actor
- December 16 : Christian Lavieille , French motorcycle racer and rally driver
- December 16 : Anke Sieloff , German opera singer
- December 16 : JB Smoove , American actor, comedian and author
- December 17th : Roberto Cappelluti , German TV presenter and DJ
- December 17th : Sabina Naber , Austrian author, actress, director, screenwriter
- December 19 : Andreas Zaron , German musical actor, singer and lyricist
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December 21 : Anke Engelke , German comedian and actressAnke Engelke , 2010
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December 21 : Cem Özdemir , German politicianCem Özdemir , 2013
- December 21 : Jyri Pelkonen , Finnish Nordic combined athlete
- December 21 : Michael Schenk , German actor
- December 22nd : Sergi López , Spanish actor
- December 23 : Andreas Kappes , German cyclist († 2018 )
- December 24th : Volker Felgenhauer , German composer
- December 25th : Olivier Dupard , French racing car driver
- December 26th : Mani Beckmann , German writer
- December 26th : Peter Stefan Herbst , German journalist
- December 27th : Salman Khan , Indian actor
- December 27 : Christian Kleiminger , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- December 27 : Michael Mertens , German shot putter
- December 27th : Peter Walther , German Germanist and literary historian
- December 28th : Mario Wille , German handball player
- December 29th : Dexter Holland , guitarist, singer and songwriter
- December 30th : Essam Abd El Fatah , Egyptian FIFA referee and airplane pilot
- December 30th : Daniel Froschauer , Austrian violinist and director of the Vienna Philharmonic
- December 30th : Arnold Jacobshagen , German musicologist
- December 30th : Peter Lund , German theater director and author
- December 30th : Tima the Divine , German actor
- December 31 : Anthony Robert Dorigo , English football player
- December 31 : Gong Li , Chinese actress
- December 31 : Nicholas Sparks , American writer
Day unknown
- Marion Ackermann , German art historian
- Maud Ackermann , German voice actress
- Uli Aigner , Austrian photographer and video artist
- Archi Alert , German guitarist
- Axel Andrae , German bassoonist
- Giovanni Antonini , Italian flautist and conductor
- Ivo Appel , German legal scholar
- Joachim Arnold , German pianist, conductor, producer and entrepreneur
- Ulrike Arnold , German theater director, actress and acting lecturer
- Debito Arudou , Japanese civil rights activist and author
- Peter Aschoff , German theologian
- Mathias Baier , German bassoonist and professor
- Manuela Biedermann , Swiss actress
- David Bohn , American composer, organist and music teacher
- Corina Caduff , Swiss cultural scientist and literary critic, professor at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)
- Sérénade Chafik , Egyptian-French human rights activist
- Jürgen Dahlkamp , German journalist
- Kostas Drygiannakis , Greek composer and musician
- Anuk Ens , German actress
- Angela Frontera , Brazilian percussionist
- Matthias Hanke , German church musician, conductor, choir director, organist
- Matthias Heep , Swiss composer, choir director and arranger
- Birgit Jooss , German art historian and archivist
- Bradley Joseph , American musician, composer and arranger
- Edin Karamazov , Bosnian lute player
- Kim Dong-won , Korean percussionist
- Lothar Koenigs , German conductor
- Beate Lakotta , German journalist and author
- Torsten Laux , German organist and music teacher
- Elmar Lehnen , German organist
- Harald Lemke (philosopher) , German philosopher and cultural scientist
- Thomas Limpinsel , German actor
- Catherine McClements , Australian actress
- David H. McCormick , American officer, civil servant, consultant and manager
- Susanne Michel , Austrian actress
- Heidi Grant Murphy , American singer and music teacher
- Thilo Muster , German-Swiss organist
- Stephen Page , Australian ballet dancer and choreographer
- Michael Paulwitz , German historian and journalist
- Hille Perl , German musician
- Jörg Pintsch , German actor, voice actor, director and acting lecturer
- Rainer Piwek , German actor
- Abdul Rahman , Afghan convert to Islam
- Lars Ranch , Danish solo trumpeter
- Caroline Redl , German actress
- Sonja Reichelt , German voice actress and actress
- Alejandra Riera , Argentine artist
- William C. Rodgers , American bookseller and eco-activist († 2005 )
- Edda Skibbe , German illustrator of children's and youth literature
- Johannes Spehr , German artist
- Norbert Stertz , German horn player and professor
- Fionnuala Sweeney , Irish television presenter
- Steven Tenenbom , American violist and music teacher
- Lina Wendel , German actress
- Tytus Wojnowicz , Polish oboist
- Kenji Yanobe , Japanese artist
- Uwe Zahn , German musician
Died
January
- January 1st : Juan Bautista Plaza , Venezuelan composer (* 1898 )
- January 1st : Herman Roosdorp , Dutch-Belgian racing driver (* 1895 )
- January 4th : Albert Andergassen , Austrian engineer, master builder and housing manager (* 1925 )
- January 4 : TS Eliot , poet, playwright and essayist (* 1888 )
- January 5 : Nell Craig , American actress (* 1891 )
- January 7th : Henry S. Johnston , American politician (* 1867 )
- January 8 : Boris Wassiljewitsch Barnet , Soviet film director and actor (* 1902 )
- January 9 : Erich Schwertner , German politician (* 1918 )
- January 10 : Paul-Émile Corbeil , Canadian singer and vocal teacher, radio producer and actor (* 1908 )
- January 14 : Friedrich Bauereisen , German politician, Member of the Bundestag (* 1895 )
- January 14th : Jeanette MacDonald , American actress (* 1903 )
- January 16 : Albert Amann , Baden politician (* 1879 )
- January 16 : Erwin Geldmacher , Professor of Business Administration (* 1885 )
- January 17th : Pierre-Marie Gerlier , Archbishop of Lyon and Cardinal (* 1880 )
- January 17 : Hans Marchwitza , German worker poet, writer and communist (* 1890 )

Winston Churchill , 1943
- January 24 : Winston Churchill , British Prime Minister during the Second World War (* 1874 )
- January 25 : Sumner Sewall , American politician (* 1897 )
- January 26 : George Enacovici , Romanian composer (* 1891 )
- January 26 : Harry Stuhldreher , American football player and coach (* 1901 )
- January 27 : Theo Uden Masman , Dutch pianist and journalist (* 1901 )
- January 27 : C. Douglass Buck , American politician (* 1890 )
- January 27 : Hassan Ali Mansour , Iranian Prime Minister (* 1923 )
- January 28 : Ernst Exss , German general (* 1896 )
- January 29 : Michał Spisak , Polish composer (* 1914 )
- January 29th : Harold Steinacker , German historian (* 1875 )
- January 30th : Paul Brohmer , German biologist (* 1885 )
- January 30th : Frol Romanowitsch Koslow , Russian politician (* 1908 )
February
- February 5 : August Adam , German priest and theologian (* 1888 )
- February 8 : Karl Wilhelm Rosenmund , German chemist (* 1884 )
- February 10 : Bruno Max Leuschner , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED (* 1910 )
- February 12 : Elise Aulinger , German folk actress (* 1881 )
- February 12 : Wilhelm Pramme , German painter (resin painter) (* 1898 )
- February 13 : Wilhelm Fink , German historian and local researcher (* 1889 )
- February 13 : Humberto Delgado , Portuguese general and politician (* 1906 )
- February 14 : Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel , Austrian painter and illustrator (* 1881 )
- February 14 : Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht , French conductor and composer (* 1880 )
- February 15 : Selmar Samuel Aschheim , German gynecologist (* 1878 )
- February 15 : Nat King Cole , American singer and jazz musician (* 1919 )
- February 16 : Liselotte Malkowsky , German pop singer (* 1913 )
- February 20 : Masao Yamakawa , Japanese writer (* 1930 )
- February 21 : Malcolm X , American leader of the black movement (born 1925 )
- February 22nd : Richard W. Leche , American politician (* 1898 )
- February 23 : John Kitzmiller , American actor (* 1913 )

Stan Laurel , around 1930
- February 23 : Stan Laurel , English comedian and film actor (* 1890 )
- February 26 : George Adamski , American science fiction writer and ufologist (* 1891 )
- February 26 : Kurt Johnen , German pianist, music teacher and music writer (* 1884 )
- February 28 : Adolf Schärf , Austrian Federal President (* 1890 )
- February 28 : Franz Reichel , architect and Nuremberg Culture Prize winner (* 1901 )
March
- March 1 : Boyd Atkins , American jazz and blues musician (* 1900 )
- March 1 : Walter Dix , German crop scientist (* 1879 )
- March 2 : Micheil Tsereteli , Georgian historian and diplomat (* 1878 )
- March 4 : Hachirō Arita , Japanese diplomat and politician (* 1884 )
- March 4 : William S. Flynn , American politician (* 1885 )
- March 5 : Johann von Leers , Nazi publicist in the Third Reich (* 1902 )
- March 6 : Margaret Dumont , American actress (* 1882 )
- March 6 : Alexander von Bernus , German writer (* 1880 )
- March 6th : Jules Goux , French racing driver (* 1885 )
- March 10 : Jean Boyer , French director and screenwriter (* 1901 )
- March 10 : Beatrice Harrison , English cellist (* 1892 )
- March 11 : Clemente Micara , cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1879 )
- March 11 : Dionisio Kfoury , Syrian auxiliary bishop in Antioch (* 1879 )
- March 11 : James Reeb , American, Unitarian pastor and civil rights activist (* 1927 )
- March 13 : Vittorio Jano , Italian automobile designer (* 1891 )
- March 13 : Theophan Stylian Noli , Albanian bishop and politician (* 1882 )
- March 14 : Stanko Premrl , Slovenian composer (* 1880 )
- March 15 : Willard Motley , American writer (* 1912 )
- March 15 : Franz Doelle , German musician and composer (* 1883 )
- March 16 : Paul Apel , German resistance fighter (* 1896 )
- March 16 : William C. Feazel , American politician, senator and independent oil and gas producer (* 1895 )
- March 18 : Faruq , Egyptian king (* 1920 )
- March 19 : Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej , Romanian politician and President (* 1901 )
- March 20 : Edward Archibald , Canadian pole vaulter (* 1884 )
- March 22nd : Wilhelm Schapp , German philosopher and lawyer (* 1884 )
- March 23 : Karl Barwick , German classical philologist (* 1883 )
- March 25 : Viola Gregg Liuzzo , American civil rights activist (* 1925 )
- March 26th : Heinrich Schomburgk , German tennis player (* 1885 )
- March 27 : Dirk Lotsy , Dutch football player (* 1882 )
- March 28 : Iwan Wassiljewitsch Boldin , head of the Soviet military administration in Thuringia (* 1892 )
- March 28 : Adolph Ernst Knoch , author of theological writings and Bible editor (* 1874 )
- March 29 : Ewald Mataré , German painter and sculptor (* 1887 )
- March 30th : Maurilio Fossati , Archbishop of Turin and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1876 )
- March 30 : Alexander Alexandrowitsch Charkewitsch , Russian scientist of communications technology (* 1904 )
- March 30 : Philip Showalter Hench , American physician (* 1896 )
April
- April 2 : Ernst Kirchweger , first political fatality in Austria after 1945 (* 1898 )
- April 5 : Giulio Foresti , Italian racing driver (* 1888 )
- April 5 : Erwin Jacobi , German constitutional and canon lawyer (* 1884 )
- April 5 : Hermann Senkowsky , Finance President of the General Government (* 1897 )
- April 5 : Pietro Sernagiotto , Brazilian-Italian football player (* 1908 )
- April 6 : August Adolphi , German politician (* 1889 )
- April 8 : Lars Hanson , Swedish film actor (* 1886 )
- April 9 : Gregory Albert Meyer , Archbishop of Chicago and Cardinal (* 1903 )
- April 10 : Lloyd Casner , American racing driver and team owner (* 1928 )
- April 10 : La Belle Otéro , Spanish revue dancer, singer (* 1868 )
- April 10 : Hans Soenius , German motorcycle racer (* 1901 )
- April 13 : Gottlob Schrenk , German Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1879 )
- April 15 : Hans Karl Breslauer , Austrian film director and writer (* 1888 )
- April 16 : Marion Estelle Edison-Oeser , daughter of the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, German-American (* 1873 )
- April 16 : Wilhelm Banse , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1911 )
- April 17 : Roman Lampl , German politician (* 1900 )
- April 18 : Wilhelm Arnoldi , German Ministerial Director (* 1884 )
- April 18 : Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston , American politician (* 1896 )
- April 20 : Robert Kramreiter-Klein , Austrian architect (* 1905 )
- April 21 : Edward Victor Appleton , English physicist (* 1892 )
- April 26 : Karl Brunner , Austrian Anglicist (* 1887 )
- April 26 : Richard Gaettens , German numismatist (* 1886 )
- April 26 : Wilhelm Heiner , German sculptor, painter and graphic artist (* 1902 )
- April 27 : Paul Beckers , German comedian (* 1878 )
- April 27 : Edward R. Murrow , American journalist (* 1908 )
- April 29 : Theodor Anton Abele , German schoolboy (* 1879 )
- April 29 : Matilda Anderson , American cyclist (* 1875 )
- April 30th : Américo Belloto Varoni , Argentine violinist and conductor (* 1913 )
May
- May 1 : Spike Jones , American musician (* 1911 )
- May 3 : Naka Kansuke , Japanese writer (* 1885 )
- May 5th : Gene Anderson , British actress (born 1931 )
- May 5 : Otto Kneipp , German politician (* 1884 )
- May 6 : Rudolf-Ernst Heiland , German politician (* 1910 )
- May 7 : Johannes Brüns , German politician (* 1903 )
- May 9 : Leopold Figl , Austrian politician (* 1902 )
- May 10 : Edmund Adler , Austrian artist (* 1876 )
- May 12 : Franz Josef Kallmann , German-American psychiatrist (* 1897 )
- May 14 : Frances Perkins , American politician (* 1880 )
- May 18 : Eli Cohen , Israeli spy (* 1924 )
- May 18 : Willy Westra van Holthe , Dutch football player (* 1888 )
- May 19 : Erik Adolf Efraim Abrahamsson , Swedish long jumper and ice hockey player (* 1898 )
- May 19 : Maria Dąbrowska , Polish writer (* 1889 )
- May 19 : Jean Majola , French entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1869 )
- May 19 : Federico Della Ferrera , Italian cyclist and motorcycle racer, engineer and entrepreneur (* 1887 )
- May 20 : Edgar Barth , German racing driver (* 1917 )
- May 21 : Geoffrey de Havilland , English aviation pioneer and designer (* 1882 )
- May 21 : Pierre Goutte , French racing car driver (* 1897 )
- May 23 : Rosina Anselmi , Italian actress (* 1876 )
- May 25 : Sonny Boy Williamson II , American blues musician (* 1897 )
- May 25 : Bruno Deserti , Italian racing car driver (* 1942 )
- May 27 : Arnold Heim , Swiss geologist (* 1882 )
- May 30th : Louis Hjelmslev , Danish linguist (* 1899 )
- May 31 : Dankwart Otto Heinrich Emil Rudolf Ackermann , German physiologist and chemist (* 1878 )
- May 31 : Earl Johnson , American country musician (* 1886 )
June
- June 1 : Curly Lambeau , American football player and coach (* 1898 )
- June 3 : Julius Lorenzen , German civil engineer and Lord Mayor (* 1897 )

Max Volmer , 1958
- June 3 : Max Volmer , German chemist (* 1885 )
- June 4 : Ernst Rodenwaldt , German medic (* 1878 )
- June 5 : Eleanor Farjeon , British children's author, poet and playwright (* 1881 )
- June 5 : William of Sweden , Duke of Södermanland (* 1884 )
- June 6 : Hayunga Carman , Canadian music teacher (* 1875 )
- June 7 : Richard Billinger , Austrian writer (* 1890 )
- June 7th : Judy Holliday , American actress (* 1921 )
- June 10 : Georg Misch , German philosopher (* 1878 )
- June 10 : Max Rychner , Swiss writer and literary critic (* 1897 )
- June 13 : Martin Buber , Jewish religious philosopher (* 1878 )
- June 15 : Richard Suchwirth , Austrian historian and politician (* 1896 )
- June 16 : Hans Willibalt Apelt , German university professor, constitutional law teacher and politician (* 1877 )
- June 16 : Louis Biester , German politician (* 1882 )
- June 16 : René Dély , French racing car driver (* 1897 )
- June 19 : Franz Kruckenberg , German engineer (* 1882 )
- June 22nd : Joseph Auslander , American poet (* 1897 )
- June 22nd : David O. Selznick , American film producer (* 1902 )
- June 28 : Red Nichols , American jazz musician, cornet player and trumpeter (* 1905 )
- June 30th : Margarete Sommer , German social worker, Righteous Among the Nations (* 1893 )
- June 30th : William Dudley Pelley , American anti-Semite (* 1890 )
July
- July 1 : Arthur Drey , German poet, playwright, essayist (* 1890 )
- July 1 : Claude Thornhill , American jazz musician (* 1909 )
- July 6 : Oscar Funcke , German manufacturer and politician (* 1885 )
- July 7th : Moshe Sharet , Israeli politician (* 1894 )
- July 7th : Johannes Ude , Roman Catholic priest (* 1874 )
- July 9th : Louis Harold Gray , British physicist and radiologist and founder of radiobiology (* 1905 )
- July 10 : Jacques Audiberti , French poet (* 1899 )
- July 11 : Ray Collins , American actor (* 1889 )
- July 14th : Alina Borioli , Swiss teacher and writer (* 1887 )
- July 14th : Adlai Ewing Stevenson junior , American politician (* 1900 )
- July 15 : Tiny Feather , American football player (born 1902 )
- July 16 : Boris Artzybasheff , American illustrator (* 1899 )
- July 17th : Eugène Bigot , French composer and conductor (* 1888 )
- July 17 : Walter Evans-Wentz , American anthropologist and writer (* 1878 )
- July 19 : Rhee Syng-man , South Korean President (* 1875 )
- July 21 : Robert J. Bulkley , American politician (* 1880 )
- July 22nd : Liesel Beckmann , Professor of Business Administration (* 1914 )
- July 28 : Edogawa Rampo , Japanese author and critic (* 1894 )
- July 28 : Kurt Hueck , German botanist (* 1897 )
August
- August 6 : Peter Ronnefeld , German composer and conductor (* 1935 )
- August 8 : Oskar Wackerzapp , German politician (* 1883 )
- August 10 : Erich Rothacker , German philosopher and sociologist (* 1888 )
- August 11 : Carlo Mense , German painter (* 1886 )
- August 14 : Willy Spilling , German composer and musicologist (* 1909 )
- August 15 : Pawel Sergejewitsch Abankin , Soviet admiral (* 1902 )
- August 15 : René Léonard , French automobile racing driver (* 1889 )
- August 15 : Fritz Rienecker , Protestant publicist, pastor and theologian (* 1897 )
- August 17th : Takami Jun , Japanese writer (* 1907 )
- August 18 : Ben Stom , Dutch football player (* 1886 )
- August 20 : Odile Defraye , Belgian cyclist (* 1888 )
- August 23 : Rudolf Abderhalden , Swiss physiologist and pathologist (* 1910 )
- August 24th : Amílcar Barbuy , Italian-Brazilian football player and coach (* 1893 )
- August 25 : John Hayes , marathon runner, Olympic champion (* 1886 )
- August 27 : Le Corbusier , Swiss-French architect, architectural theorist, urban planner, painter, draftsman, sculptor and furniture designer (* 1887 )
- August 28 : Giulio Racah , Israeli physicist and mathematician (* 1909 )
- August 29 : Karl Hartleb , Austrian politician (* 1886 )
- August 30th : Henri Mignet , French aircraft designer and pilot (* 1893 )
- August 31 : Edward Elmer Smith , American science fiction writer and chemist (* 1890 )
September
- September 1 : Karl Anton Kreuter , teacher, author, local researcher (* 1876 )
- September 2 : Johannes Bobrowski , German poet, narrator, retoist and essayist (* 1917 )
- September 4 : Tommy Hampson , British middle-distance runner and Olympic champion (* 1907 )
- September 4 : Albert Schweitzer , German doctor, theologian, musician and philosopher (* 1875 )
- September 8 : Dorothy Dandridge , American actress and singer (* 1922 )
- September 8 : Hermann Staudinger , German chemist (* 1881 )
- September 9 : Julián Carrillo , Mexican composer (* 1875 )
- September 9 : Vito Castorina , Italian composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1910 )
- September 9 : Philipp Wilhelm Jung , German politician (* 1884 )
- September 11th : Manfred Schiek , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1935 )
- September 12 : Matthias Pier , German chemist (* 1882 )
- September 14 : Walter Le Coutre , German professor, business economist and balance sheet theorist (* 1885 )
- September 16 : Peter Paul Althaus , German poet (* 1892 )
- September 17th : Alejandro Casona , Spanish writer (* 1903 )
- September 19 : Kurt Goldstein , neurologist and psychiatrist (* 1878 )
- September 19 : Elmer Thomas , American politician (* 1876 )
- September 20 : Arthur Holmes , English geologist (* 1890 )
- September 22nd : Othmar Ammann , Swiss-American engineer and bridge builder (* 1879 )
- September 23 : Sophie Cossaeus , German actress (* 1893 )
- September 23 : Joseph Ferche , auxiliary bishop in Breslau and Cologne (* 1888 )
- September 23 : Jean Goulet , Canadian violinist, clarinetist, conductor and music teacher (* 1877 )
- September 24 : Stu Clancy , American football player (born 1906 )
- September 26th : James Fitzmaurice , Irish pilot (* 1898 )
- September 27 : Clara Bow , American actress (* 1905 )
- September 28 : Robert Dannemann , German politician (* 1902 )
October
- October 3 : Max Picard , Swiss doctor and writer (* 1888 )
- October 5 : Georges Vantongerloo , Belgian painter, sculptor and architect (* 1886 )
- October 7 : Jesse Douglas , American mathematician (* 1897 )
- October 9 : Aloys Feldmann , German politician (* 1897 )
- October 9 : Ernest Read , English composer and music teacher (* 1879 )
- October 11 : Dorothea Lange , American documentary photographer (* 1895 )
- October 11 : Walther Stampfli , Swiss politician (* 1884 )
- October 12 : Merl Lindsay , American country musician (* 1915 )
- October 13 : Paul Hermann Müller , Swiss chemist (* 1899 )
- October 13 : Nils Västhagen , Professor of Business Administration (* 1906 )
- October 15 : Abraham Adolf Fraenkel , mathematician (* 1891 )
- October 21 : William Patton Black Jr. , American musician (born 1926 )
- October 22 : Earl Cooper , American racing driver (* 1886 )
- October 22nd : Paul Tillich , German Protestant theologian (dogmatist) and religious philosopher (* 1886 )
- October 24th : Hans Meerwein , German chemist (* 1879 )
- October 25 : Hans Knappertsbusch , German conductor (* 1888 )
- October 25 : Eduard Einstein , Albert Einstein's son and his wife Mileva Maric (* 1910 )
- October 25 : Fried Lübbecke , art historian (* 1883 )
- October 28 : Luigi Amoroso , Italian mathematician and economist (* 1886 )
- October 28 : Earl Bostic , American alto saxophonist and composer (* 1913 )
- October 31 : Max Rudolf Lehmann , Professor of Business Administration (* 1886 )
November
- November 1 : Alfred Comte , Swiss aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer (* 1895 )
- November 2 : Herbert Vere Evatt , Australian politician (* 1894 )
- November 4th : Krsto Odak , Croatian composer (* 1888 )
- November 5 : Marcel Collet , French racing car driver (* 1901 )
- November 7th : Brigitte von Arnim , German writer (* 1905 )
- November 7th : Mirza Bashir ud-Din Mahmud Ahmad , Khalifat ul-Massih II. (* 1889 )
- November 7th : Otto Wernicke , German actor (* 1893 )
- November 8 : Dorothy Kilgallen , American television presenter and actress (* 1913 )
- November 10 : Robert Cottrell-Hill , British officer (* 1903 )
- November 11th : Emmerich Arleth , Austrian actor and singer (* 1900 )
- November 11th : Ellen Daub , German actress (* 1900 )
- November 15 : Hans Seischab , Professor of Business Administration (* 1898 )
- November 16 : Fritz Everding , naturalistic painter and graphic artist (* 1903 )
- November 16 : William Thomas Cosgrave , Irish politician (* 1880 )
- November 19 : Hermann Aichinger , Austrian architect (* 1917 )
- November 21 : Naoum Blinder , Russian-American violinist and music teacher (* 1889 )
- November 23 : Dipa Nusantara Aidit , Indonesian politician (* 1923 )
- November 23 : Jochen Joachim Bartsch German director, film editor and screenwriter (* 1903 )
- November 25th : Myra Hess , British pianist (* 1890 )
- November 25th : Alfred Nissle , German doctor and scientist (* 1874 )
- November 26 : Emil Kemmer , German politician (* 1914 )
- November 26 : William C. Marland , American politician (* 1918 )
- November 26th : Wilhelm Matthießen , German author for children and young people (* 1891 )
December
- December 2 : Hellmut Kretzschmar , German archivist and historian (* 1893 )
- December 3 : Erich Apel , SED functionary and chairman of the State Planning Commission (* 1917 )
- December 5 : Franz Völker , German tenor (* 1899 )
- December 5 : Joseph Erlanger , American neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1874 )
- December 5 : Werner Pledath , German actor and voice actor (* 1898 )
- December 6 : Walter Muschg , Swiss literary historian (* 1898 )
- December 6th : Oskar Sillén , Professor of Business Administration (* 1883 )
- December 10 : Henry Cowell , American composer (* 1897 )
- December 10 : Max Sidow , German writer (* 1897 )
- December 11th : Gioacchino Armano , Italian football player (* 1883 )
- December 11 : Rafael Hernández Marín , Puerto Rican composer (* 1892 )
- December 12 : Halvdan Koht , Norwegian historian and politician (* 1873 )
- December 12 : Tibor Radó , Hungarian mathematician (* 1895 )
- December 14th : Hellmuth Felmy , German general in World War II (* 1885 )
- December 16 : Leonhard Maria Adler , Austrian-German engineer, politician and worker priest (* 1882 )
- December 16 : Tito Schipa , Italian tenor and composer (* 1888 )
- December 16 : William Somerset Maugham , English playwright and writer (* 1874 )
- December 20 : Charlie Burse , American blues musician (* 1901 )
- December 20 : Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt , German anthropologist (* 1892 )
- December 20 : Karl Hübner , German politician (* 1897 )
- December 21 : Ignacio Asúnsolo , Mexican sculptor (* 1890 )
- December 21 : Claude Champagne , Canadian composer (* 1891 )
- December 21 : Friedrich Jähne , German engineer and entrepreneur (* 1879 )
- December 22nd : Herbert Demetz , Italian racing driver (* 1936 )
- December 25 : Karl Wagner (politician, 1891) , communist and opponent of National Socialism (* 1891 )
- December 27th : Edgar Ende , German painter (* 1901 )
- December 29 : Kosaku Yamada , Japanese composer (* 1886 )
Day unknown
- Otto Aschmann , German businessman and politician (* 1888 )
- Craig Campbell , Canadian singer (tenor) (* 1878 )
- Ross Hamilton , Canadian actor (* 1889 )
- Odette Le Fontenay , French opera singer and vocal teacher (* 1885 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Richard Feynman , Julian Schwinger and Shinichirō Tomonaga
- Chemistry : Robert B. Woodward
- Medicine : François Jacob , André Lwoff and Jacques Monod
- Literature : Michail Scholochow
- Nobel Peace Prize : United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
music
- France Gall wins the 10th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Luxembourg on March 20 in Naples with the song Poupée de cire, poupée de son
- List of number one hits in Germany (1965)
Web links
Commons : 1965 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Annual review from tagesschau.de
- Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
- The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government (1965) in the Federal Archives
- Year 1965 by Frank Rübertus
Individual evidence
- ^ Dalia Abu Samra: Germany's foreign policy towards Egypt . Diss., FU Berlin 2002, p. 80 ( online ; table of contents )
- ↑ The International Red Cross solemnly proclaims its 7 principles at its 20th International RK Conference on October 8, 1965 in Vienna ( Memento of December 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Twentieth International Conference of the Red Cross, Vienna, 2-9 October 1965, Report, Austrian Red Cross, Vienna, 1965, pp. 39–40 (int. Lauda) (PDF; 556 kB)
- ↑ Article in the English and French Wikipedia