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Calendar overview 1967
1967 | |
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![]() Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors. |
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June 1967: At the Glassboro Conference in New Jersey , there is a summit between Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin and US President Lyndon B. Johnson . |
1967 in other calendars | |
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Ab urbe condita | 2720 |
Armenian calendar | 1415-1416 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1959-1960 |
Badi calendar | 123-124 |
Bengali calendar | 1373-1374 |
Berber calendar | 2917 |
Buddhist calendar | 2511 |
Burmese calendar | 1329 |
Byzantine calendar | 7475-7476 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4663-4664 or 4603-4604 |
– 60-year cycle |
Fire Horse (丙午, 43) - |
French Revolutionary Calendar |
- CLXXV CLXXVI 175-176 |
Hindu calendar | |
– Vikram Sambat | 2023-2024 |
– Shaka Samvat | 1889-1890 |
Iranian calendar | 1345-1346 |
Islamic calendar | 1386-1387 |
Japanese calendar | |
– Nengō (era): | Showa 42 |
- Koki | 2627 |
Jewish calendar | 5727-5728 |
Coptic calendar | 1683-1684 |
Korean calendar | |
– Dangun era | 4300 |
– Juche era | 56 |
Minguo calendar | 56 |
Modern Olympics | XVIII |
Seleucid calendar | 2278-2279 |
Thai solar calendar | 2510 |
events
annual dedications
- 1967 is " International Year of Tourism"
politics and world affairs
- January 1: Roger Bonvin becomes President of Switzerland
- January 13: Étienne Gnassingbé Eyadéma becomes President of Togo
- February 14: First concerted action to overcome the economic crisis under Federal Minister of Economics Karl Schiller ( SPD )
- February 14: The Treaty of Tlatelolco , part of Mexico City , declares the Caribbean and Latin America a nuclear-free zone . Cuba was the last country in the region to ratify the agreement in 2002.
- 15 February to 21 February: In the general election in India , the Congress Party (INC) wins 40.78% of the vote (up from 44.72% in the 1962 election). Indira Gandhi , Prime Minister of India since January 1966, remains in office (until March 1977).
- February 22 Indonesia 's President Sukarno , elected for life, resigns and is placed under house arrest. The background to this step remains unclear. New strong man becomes General Suharto .
- March 21: Guyana becomes a member of UNESCO
- March 24: In Poland, the Chrobry oak is protected as a natural monument. The tree has existed since around 1250 and is the largest English oak in the country.
- April 11: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Belgium
- April 12: Unit A of the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant goes into commercial operation. After almost ten years, there is an accident with a total economic loss.
- April 21: Military coup in Greece
- 22 April: The 7th SED Party Congress, which is coming to an end , decides to introduce the five-day week in the GDR . On the other hand, five public holidays are cancelled.
- May 6: Presidential election in India : Zakir Hussain is elected President
- June 2: Berlin : During a state visit by the Shah of Iran , there are demonstrations and serious riots. The student Benno Ohnesorg is shot dead by the West Berlin policeman Kurras. Governing Mayor Heinrich Albertz resigns on September 26 with the entire Senate . Ohnesorg's shooting and the court's acquittal of the perpetrator contributed to the spread and radicalization of the West German student movement of the 1960s.
- 5th-10th June: Six-Day War between Israel and its neighbors
- June 5: Reportedly marks the 2,000th over the Democratic Republic of Vietnam . US plane shot down.
- June 8: 34 Navy personnel are killed when Israeli warplanes attack the US spy ship USS Liberty .
- June 10: In the Six -Day War, Israel occupies parts of Mount Hermon and the Golan Heights on Syrian territory. Syria and Israel agree on a ceasefire.
- June 23: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin meet at the Glassboro conference . Topics of the talks are the détente in the Cold War and proxy wars between the two superpowers.
- June 24: A Bolivian military unit massacres miners and civilians at the Siglo XX tin mine site and also occupies the Catavi tin mine. About 20 dead and 70 injured are the result of the military action directed against trade union activity.
- July 4: The Freedom of Information Act goes into effect in the United States . In principle, the law grants everyone the right to obtain information about documents of the executive branch .
- July 6: Biafra War begins in Nigeria
- July 10: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Trinidad and Tobago and between the Federal Republic of Germany and Thailand
- July 12: In Newark near New York, the most serious race riots in the United States begin, which subsequently spread across the entire south. Boxer Muhammad Ali refuses military service in Vietnam.
- July 23: Race riots in Detroit - sparked by a police raid. They lasted 5 days and went down in (US) history as the second most brutal race riot in the USA (with 43 dead, 1189 injured and over 7000 arrested).
- August 8: Founding of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
- September 3: In South Vietnam , General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (with 38 percent of the vote) wins the election as President of the country.
- 3 September: Last major switch from left-hand to right-hand traffic ( Sweden )
- September 29: The small African state of Lesotho becomes a member of UNESCO
- 1 October: State elections in Bremen ; then the Hans Koschnick era begins (until 1985)
- October 9 Che Guevara is shot dead by a Bolivian army sergeant without trial.
- October 26: The coronation celebrations of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife Farah Pahlavi take place on his 48th birthday.
- November 5: In Antarctica , the previously unknown ice-covered Lyddan Island and the Stancomb Wills and Hayes Glaciers are discovered from an airplane .
- November 21: Framework agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Paraguay on German development aid
- November 28: Omar Bongo Ondimba becomes President of Gabon
- November 30: End of British colonial rule in South Yemen ; Proclamation of the Republic of South Yemen
- December 1: Nicaragua . Founding of the German school in Managua
- December 13: The Greek king Constantine II dares a counter-coup against the regime of the colonels . After it fails, he leaves
- December 14 exile in Rome, but without abdication
- December 15: The Age Discrimination in Employment Act is passed in the USA . It prohibits discrimination against older people in the workplace.
- December 17: Harold Holt , Prime Minister of Australia, disappears while swimming in the sea; he's probably drowning. John McEwen briefly becomes Prime Minister, succeeded by John Gorton .
business
- January 1: The management consultancy Roland Berger is founded in Munich . It is the largest strategy consultancy of European origin.
- October 31: After 107 years of operation for hard coal mining , the Shamrock colliery in Herne is closed.
- November 14: The United States Patent Office grants Theodore Maiman a patent on the ruby laser he developed .
- December 12: It is announced from East Berlin that the local currency , the mark of the German central bank , will be renamed the mark of the German Democratic Republic from the beginning of 1968 .
- The metal and wood processing industry reduces their weekly working hours to 40 hours.
- The packaging manufacturers Schmalbach and Lubeca merge to form Schmalbach-Lubeca .
- A minimum holiday of 15 days is stipulated in the GDR.
- With the first prototypes of the standard bus , a regular service bus appeared that was unified across various bus manufacturers, ushering in the era of standard buses in Germany that lasted well into the 1990s. In addition to the Association of Public Transport Companies (VÖV) and its members, the bus manufacturers Büssing , Magirus-Deutz , Mercedes-Benz , and later also MAN and Ikarus , are involved in the project .
science and technology
- January 12: After his death, James Bedford 's body is placed in cryostasis . The deceased is the first person who hopes to be revived in this way in the future.
- February 8: The Swedish multirole fighter aircraft Saab 37 completes its maiden flight .
- May 18: The first X-ray binary is discovered in an experiment with a launched rocket . The pulsar Centaurus X-3 lies in the constellation Centaurus .
- June 27: Barclays puts the first ATM into operation in Enfield Town , and British actor Reg Varney becomes the first person to withdraw money in this way
- August 25: Start of color television in the Federal Republic of Germany
- September 8: Federal Research Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg opens the European Space Operations Center in Darmstadt .
- 27 October: The first Zenit type Swiss sounding rocket is launched in Salto di Quirra .
- October 30: The two unmanned Soyuz spacecraft Kosmos 186 and 188 perform the first rendezvous with an automatic docking in an Earth orbit .
- November 9: First launch of the Saturn 5 rocket, which later made the first moon landing
- November 28: Searching for radio sources in the universe , Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discover the first pulsar PSR B1919+21 .
- December 3: First heart transplant by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in Cape Town
- December 6: Cardiologist Adrian Kantrowitz performs the world's second heart transplant on a child in Brooklyn . The baby, who was born with a congenital heart defect, survived the operation by a few hours.
- Wolfgang Hilberg invents the radio clock .
- Milgram coined the term: Small World Phenomenon
Culture
- 1 January: Hansjörg Utzerath becomes the new artistic director of the Freie Volksbühne in Berlin
- January 1st: Establishment of the Slowinski National Park in Poland
- January 2nd: Telekolleg starts in Bayerischer Rundfunk , it leads to secondary school leaving certificate , later also to university of applied sciences entrance qualification
- February 5: Vicco von Bülow leads through the first episode of the ARD television series Cartoon , in which he also contributes drawings as Loriot .
- March 17: Premiere of the opera Mourning Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy at the Metropolitan Opera in New York
- April 24: Susan E. Hinton's novel The Outsiders is published by Viking Press in New York ; the book is considered the first work of the new young-adult fiction
- May 19: Premiere of Alberto Ginastera 's opera Bomarzo at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC
- May 25: Groundbreaking of the excavations at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini by Spyridon Marinatos .
- June 1: The Beatles release their landmark pop album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon and George Harrison as wax figures
- June 16: The Monterey Pop Festival (June 16-18) in California becomes one of the most important concerts in rock music history.
- September 29: Formation of the band Tangerine Dream in West Berlin .
- October 1st: The first Funny paperback is published.
- October 18: The animated film The Jungle Book from Walt Disney Studios hits US theaters.
- 31 October: The 900th anniversary of the Wartburg , the 150th anniversary of the fraternity festival and the 450th anniversary of the Reformation were celebrated in Eisenach in 1967 with a series of events under the direction of the GDR Ministry of Culture.
- October 27: World premiere of the new version of the ballet Onegin by John Cranko to the music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . This version eliminated all the weaknesses of the first version and pushed it completely off the schedule.
- November 23: Cultural Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Guinea . In force since June 13, 1987
- December 24: Rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival formed
- Situationist Guy Debord publishes “la société du spectacle”, dt. “ The Society of the Spectacle ”
- The philosopher Jacques Derrida , the founder of deconstruction , publishes "De la grammatologie", dt. grammatology
- The hippie movement reached a climax with the Summer of Love
- Foundation of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
- The Ostankino Tower is being completed
- Founding of the Nuremberg Art Gallery
- Foundation of the rock band Genesis
- Formation of the rock band Procol Harum (and in the same year their probably greatest success A Whiter Shade of Pale )
- Newman paints Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue
society
- March 6: Svetlana Alliluyeva , the only daughter of former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin , travels to and settles in the United States .
- May 1: Rock star Elvis Presley marries Priscilla Beaulieu in Las Vegas .
religion
- May 29: Karol Wojtyła , later Pope John Paul II, is made a cardinal .
- June 24: In the encyclical Sacerdotalis Caelibatus , Pope Paul VI. on the celibacy of priests , which he maintains as an ecclesiastical regulation.
- August 15: Pope Paul VI reorganized the Curia in the Apostolic Constitution Regimini ecclesiae universae .
- November 18: Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle , Archbishop of Washington, becomes the first non-New England American to be made a cardinal.
- December 30: In Great Britain , the ban on eating meat is lifted by the Catholic bishops on Friday.
Sports
- January 2nd to October 22nd: Hosting of the 18th Formula 1 World Championship
- January 4: Athlete Donald Campbell attempts to set a world water speed record on Britain's Coniston Water . His racing boat overturns and Campbell dies.
- January 15: The AFL-NFL Championship Game, later renamed Super Bowl I , is played in Los Angeles between the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs . The Packers won the first ever Super Bowl 35-10.
- February 21: The Hohe-Wand-Wiese ski slope in Vienna is the venue for the world's first parallel slalom .
- 31 May: FC Bayern Munich wins the European Cup Winners' Cup by beating Glasgow Rangers 1-0 aet
- June 3: Eintracht Braunschweig becomes German soccer champion
- June 11: Italian cyclist Felice Gimondi wins the 50th Giro d'Italia
- October 22: Denis Hulme becomes Formula 1 World Champion.
Entries of athletics world records see under the respective discipline under athletics.
disasters
- January 27: The crew of the US space capsule “ Apollo 1 ” dies during a ground test
- March 18: The Torrey Canyon tanker accident off the coast of southern England causes an environmental disaster
- April 20: Nicosia , Cyprus . A Bristol Britannia aircraft operated by Swiss Globe Air crashes into a mountain. 126 inmates die, four survive.
- May 22: A fire breaks out in the Brussels department store À l'innovation . At the time there were about 4,000 people in the building. The lack of a sprinkler system favors the rapid spread of the fire, the department store burns down to the foundations. In total, more than 300 people died in the accident.
- July 6: At least 94 people die in the Langenweddingen train crash , one of the most serious accidents in German railway history.
- July 29: The US Navy is hit by the Forrestal disaster . A fire with explosions on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal , caused by a misfired missile, kills 134 people.
- August 25: Marburg : The city is put into a kind of state of emergency due to the outbreak of an epidemic that kills several people in Marburg. It is a virus that was probably introduced with test monkeys (monkeys) from Uganda to the laboratories of the pharmaceutical company Behringwerke in Marburg in Hesse. The virus is named after this incident as Marburg virus or Pharma-Behring virus.
- November 29: The Sempor dam near Kebumen in the province of the same name on Java ( Indonesia ) breaks during its construction; the tidal wave kills 160 to 200 people.
Born
January
- LTJ Bukem , British DJ, record producer January 1:
- Tim Dog , American rapper (died 2013) January 1:
- Marcelo Costa de Andrade , Brazilian serial killer January 2:
- Tia Carrere , American actress and singer January 2
- Astrid Mannes , German historian, author and politician January 2
- Francois Pienaar , South African rugby union player January 2:
- Nezâ Selbuz , actress January 2:
- Igor Ivanovich Shuvalov , Russian politician January 4:
- David Donohue , American racing driver January 5:
- Joe Flanigan , American actor January 5
- Rodrigo Pulpeiro , Argentine cinematographer and director January 5
- Markus Söder , German politician (CSU), Prime Minister of Bavaria January 5:
- Jens Zimmermann , German marksman January 5:
- Ole Kristian Furuseth , Norwegian alpine skier January 7:
- Willie Lloyd Anderson Jr. , American basketball player January 8
- Birgit Aschmann , German historian January 8
- Robert Kelly , American R&B soul singer January 8
- Thomas Watson , British politician January 8:
- Claudio Caniggia , Argentine footballer January 9:
- Dave Matthews , Australian singer and guitarist (Dave Matthews Band) January 9:
- Maria Noichl , German politician (SPD) January 9:
- Rick Rozz , American guitarist January 9
- January 10 Trini Alvarado , American actress
- January 10: Angelika Amon , Austrian biologist († 2020)
- January 10 Monika Maierhofer , Austrian alpine skier
- January 11: Teoman Alibegović , basketball player
- January 11 Katharina Hacker , German writer
- January 11: Fynn Holpert , German handball goalkeeper
- January 12: Takehiko Inoue , Japanese mangaka (comic artist)
- January 12: Meho Kodro , Yugoslavian, later Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
- January 12: Michael Theurer , German politician
- January 13 Viktor But , Russian transport contractor and arms dealer
- January 13 Suzanne Cryer , American actress
- January 14 Emily Watson , British actress
- January 14 Zakk Wylde , American guitarist and singer
- January 16 Shawn A-in-chut Atleo , Canadian politician
- January 16: Alberto Puig , Spanish motorcycle racer
- January 17 Richard Willis Hawley , British singer, musician and songwriter
- January 17 Song Kang-ho , South Korean actor
- January 18: Annette Hess , German screenwriter
- January 18 Park Chul-min , South Korean actor
- January 18: Iván Zamorano , Chilean soccer player
- January 18 Temenushka Petkova , Bulgarian politician
- January 19: A*S*Y*S , German DJ and music producer
- January 19: Adrian Borza , Romanian composer and music teacher
- January 20: Alexander Ahndoril , Swedish novelist and playwright
- January 20: Johannes Ametsreiter , Austrian manager
- January 20: Wigald Boning , German comedian, musician and presenter
- January 20 Kellyanne Conway , American lawyer and pollster
- January 20 Stacey Dash , American actress
- January 21 Konstantin Venyaminovich Astrakhansev , Russian ice hockey player
- January 24 Kevin Faulconer , American politician
- January 25: Josef Adler , German jazz guitarist
- January 25: Nicole Uphoff , German dressage rider
- January 25: Stephan Winkler , German composer and conductor
- January 26: Anno Hamacher , German jurist
- January 27: Susan Aglukark , Canadian singer-songwriter
- January 27: Michael Ebling , German politician
- January 29 Phil Bancroft , English jazz saxophonist
- January 29 Tom Bancroft , English jazz drummer
- January 29 Marc Cary , American jazz musician
- January 29: Khalid Skah , Moroccan track and field athlete
- January 30: Sergei Vladimirovich Chepikov , Russian biathlete
- January 31: Stefan Beuse , German writer
- January 31 Michael Burkett , American musician
- January 31: Chad Channing , drummer for grunge band Nirvana
- January 31: Shauna Rolston , Canadian cellist
February
- Jessica Stockmann , German actress February 1
- Catherine Flemming , German actress February 2:
- Mixu Paatelainen , Finnish footballer February 3
- Aurelio Vidmar , Australian footballer and coach February 3:
- Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Atavin , Russian handball player February 4:
- Lotto King Karl , German musician February 4:
- Izumi Sakai (pseudonym Zard ), Japanese pop singer († 2007) February 6:
- Hansjörg Weißbrich , German film editor February 6:
- Matthias Baranowski , German footballer February 8:
- Lorenzo Minotti , Italian footballer February 8
- Edson Cordeiro , Brazilian singer February 9
- February 10 Patrick Bahners , German journalist and author
- February 10 Laura Dern , American actress
- February 11: Ciro Ferrara , Italian football player and coach
- February 11 – Ladislav Lubina , Czech ice hockey player and coach (died 2021)
- February 12 Anita Wachter , Austrian alpine skier
- February 13: Tadayuki Okada , Japanese motorcycle racer
- February 14: Stefan Engels , German organist and university teacher
- February 14: Robbin Juhnke , German politician
- February 14: Helge Thorsten Kautz , German science fiction writer
- February 14: Thomas Kronthaler , German director and screenwriter
- February 14: Mark Rutte , Dutch politicianMark Rutte , 2010
- February 16: Pavel Lychnikoff , Russian actor
- February 17 Yevgeny Valeryevich Grishkovets , Russian writer, actor and director
- February 18: Roberto Baggio , Italian footballer
- February 18: Colin Jackson , British hurdles sprinter
- February 18: Michael Wittwer , German footballer
- February 19: Robby Schlund , German doctor and politician
- February 19 Benicio del Toro , American actor
- February 20: Paul Accola , Swiss alpine skier
- February 20: Damian Adamus , German-Polish ice hockey player
- February 20 Kurt Cobain , American singer and guitarist for grunge band Nirvana (d. 1994)

Kurt Cobain , 1991
- February 20 Lili Taylor , American actress
- February 21: Leroy Burrell , American track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist
- February 21: Silke-Beate Knoll , German sprinter
- February 22 Alf Poier , Austrian singer-songwriter and cabaret artist
- February 22: Thomas Westphal , German politician
- February 23: Tetsuya Asano , Japanese soccer player and coach
- February 23: Margit Auer , German journalist and writer
- February 23 Chris Vrenna , American record producer, drummer and recording engineer
- February 24: Rainer Atzbach , German medieval and modern archaeologist
- February 25 Nick Leeson , British securities dealer, speculator, book author, football manager
- February 26 Currie Graham , Canadian-American actor
- February 26: Nina Kronjäger , German actress
- February 26: Kazuyoshi Miura , Japanese soccer player
- February 27: Volkan Konak , Turkish singer
- February 28: Frank Bernaerts , Belgian composer and musician
- February 28 Andrew Tridgell , Australian programmer
March
- Yelena Alexandrovna Afanasyeva , Russian middle-distance runner March 1
- George Eads , American actor March 1
- Franzobel , Austrian writer March 1:
- Aron Winter , Dutch football player and coach March 1:
- Dietrich Birk , German politician March 2:
- Isabel Nasrin Abedi , German children's book author March 3:
- Jorge Claudio Arbiza Zanuttini , Uruguayan soccer player March 3:
- Stephan Attiger , Swiss politician March 3:
- Alexander Vladimirovich Volkov , Russian tennis player (died 2019) March 3
- Michael Andersson , Swedish cyclist March 4:
- Annika Johansson , Swedish freestyle skier March 4:
- Kubilay Türkyılmaz , Swiss footballer March 4:
- Andreas Wistuba , German botanist March 4:
- Mayumi Abe , Japanese curler March 7
- Wolfgang Adenberg , German musical author March 8:
- Christian W. Schulz , Austrian cellist March 9:
- Alexander Seitz , German jurist March 9:
- Nikolas Vogel , Austrian cinematographer (died 1991) March 9:
- March 10: Bülent Akıncı , German film director and screenwriter
- March 10 Falk-Willy Wild , German actor
- March 11: Jean-Guihen Queyras , Canadian cellist
- March 12: Axel Boisen , Danish documentary film writer, producer and director
- March 12: Thomas Dietz , German politician
- March 13: Luigi Colturi , Italian alpine skier (died 2010)
- March 14: Ralf Brauksiepe , German politician
- March 14 Michael Fincke , American astronaut
- March 14: Dieudonné Nzapalainga , Central African Archbishop
- March 15: Naoko Takeuchi , Japanese mangaka
- March 15: Claudine Wilde , German actress
- March 16: Dan Dediu , Romanian composer
- March 16 Lauren Graham , American actress
- March 16 Angela Wiedl , German singer of folk music
- March 16 Heidi Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
- March 17: Andrew Bird , New Zealand rower
- March 17 Billy Corgan , American guitarist and singerBilly Corgan , 2005
- March 17: Emmanuel Peterfalvi , a French cabaret artist ("Alfons") active in Germany
- March 19 Vladimir Konstantinov , Russian ice hockey player
- March 20 Xavier Beauvois , French actor, director and screenwriter
- March 20: Yukito Kishiro , Japanese mangaka
- March 20: Lara Naszinsky , German actress
- March 20 Miriam Vogt , German alpine skier
- March 21: Jonas Berggren , Swedish musician
- March 22: Bibi Appel , German ice hockey goalkeeper († 2022)
- March 22 Mario Cipollini , Italian cyclist
- March 22: Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann , German historian
- March 22: Jan Udo Holey , German author
- March 23: Uwe Leichsenring , German politician (died 2006)
- March 24: Franck Badiou , French sports shooter
- March 24 Kathy Rinaldi , American tennis player
- March 24 Diann Roffe-Steinrotter , American alpine skier
- March 24: Dietmar Schultke , German author
- March 25 Vicente Amigo , Spanish flamenco guitarist
- March 25 Matthew Barney , American media artist
- March 25 Ben Mankiewicz , American film critic
- March 25: Tom Van Dyck , Belgian jazz saxophonist
- March 25: Frits van Eerd , Dutch entrepreneur and racing driver
- March 26 Andrew Mast , American conductor and music educator
- March 28: Kai Abraham , German-Austrian badminton player
- March 28 Giacomo Aula , Italian jazz pianist
- March 29 John Popper , American blues musician
- March 29: Michel Hazanavicius , French director and screenwriter
- March 30: Megumi Hayashibara , Japanese voice actress and singer
- March 31 Robert Schirle , British racing driver and racing team owner
April
- Nicola Roxon , Australian politician April 1
- Jacques Schulz , German sports journalist and motorsports commentator April 1:
- Elke Walther , German soccer player April 1
- Ilya Itin , Russian pianist and music teacher April 3:
- Mark Skaife , Australian motor racing driver April 3
- David Knijnenburg , Australian actor April 3
- Edith Masai , Kenyan track and field athlete April 4
- Jeff Parker , American guitarist April 4
- Jörg Moukaddam , German actor April 4
- Xenia Seeberg , German actress April 4:
- Robert Lohr , German actor April 5
- Chantal Bournissen , Swiss alpine skier April 6:
- Alex Christensen , German composer, music producer and DJ April 7
- Lutz Eikelmann , German jazz musician April 7
- Artemis Gounaki , singer, lyricist, composer and producer April 7:
- Bodo Illgner , German footballer April 7
- Motoaki Ishikawa , Japanese doctor and auto racer April 7
- April 10 David Rovics , singer/songwriter and political activist
- April 11 Alejandro Gómez , Spanish athlete († 2021)
- April 11 Mambo Kurt , German musician and solo entertainer
- April 11: Klaus Michael Rückert , German politician
- April 11: Joop Stokkel , Dutch swimmer and rider
- April 13 Olga Tañón , Puerto Rican singer
- April 14 Jaimz Woolvett , Canadian actor
- April 16 Junko Ōnishi , Japanese jazz pianist
- April 17: Michael Ammann , German composer, improviser, performer and phonetician
- April 17 Matt Chamberlain , American drummer and percussionist
- April 17 Ulrike Fenzl , German jurist
- April 17 Liz Phair , American rock singer
- April 18 Maria Bello , American actress
- April 18: Daniel Sodenkamp , German politician
- April 18 Todd Terry , American DJ, producer and remixer
- April 19 Robert Viktor Minich , German actor
- April 19 Dar Williams , American singer-songwriter
- April 19: Alexander Wolf , German jurist and politician
- April 20 Ingo Appelt , German comedian and cabaret artistIngo Appelt , 2004
- April 20 Mike Portnoy , American drummer
- April 21 Rolf Miller , German cabaret artist and comedian
- April 22: Loreta Asanavičiūtė , killed in demonstrations for freedom and independence of Lithuania († 1991)
- April 22 Bart Bowen , American bicycle racer
- April 22 Sheryl Lee , American actress
- April 22: Brian J. Nelson , American composer
- April 22 Kristi Terzian , American alpine skier
- April 24 Joseph Groves Boxhall , English navigator
- April 24: Kerstin Hack , German English scholar, ethnologist, author, publisher and speaker
- April 24: Robert Nearn , British racing driver
- April 25 Susana de Fátima Carvalho Amador , Portuguese administrative lawyer and politician
- April 25: Joachim Pfeiffer , German politician
- April 26 Glenn Jacobs , American professional wrestler
- April 26: Peter Jordan , German actor
- April 26 Klaus Merk , German ice hockey player and coach
- April 26: Paul Pritchard , British climber, mountaineer and author
- April 26: Simon Teuscher , Swiss historian
- April 26: Savaş Uçar , German-Turkish singer
- April 26 Monte Warden , American country musician
- April 27 Jan Ditgen , German magician, comedian and presenter
- April 27: Willem-Alexander , King of the Netherlands
- April 28: Michel Andrieux , French rower
- April 28 Dario Hübner , Italian footballer
- April 29 Dan Ariely , US Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics
- April 29 Tyron Montgomery , Irish-German film and media figure
- April 30: Turbo B , American rapper
May
- Kendra Kobelka , Canadian alpine skier May 1:
- Tim McGraw , American country music singer and actor May 1
- Judith Adlhoch , German TV presenter, producer, screenwriter and director May 2:
- Luigi Apolloni , Italian football player and coach May 2
- Thomas Audehm , German footballer May 2
- Masami Kageyama , Japanese automobile racer May 2:
- Sven Plöger , German meteorologist and moderator May 2:
- Slavomír Kňazovický , Slovak canoeist 3 May:
- Anja Lukaseder , German artist and music manager, "DSDS" jury 2007 May 3:
- Ana Gasteyer , American actress and comedian May 4
- Michael Kauch , German politician and MP May 4:
- Dominik Schwaderlapp , Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Cologne and Canon May 4:
- Bion Tsang , American cellist May 4
- Haydar Zorlu , German actor May 4:
- Fabian Vogt , German writer and pastor May 5:
- Thomas Abratis , German Nordic combined athlete May 6:
- Till Demtrøder , German actor, speaker and author May 6:
- Christophe Pillon , Swiss racing car driver May 6:
- Oliver Anthofer , Austrian disabled athlete May 7
- Martin Bryant , Australian mass murderer May 7:
- Christian Abt , German racing driver May 8:
- Nataša Bokal , Slovenian alpine skier May 9:
- Christian Hook , German auto racer May 9:
- May 10: Antje Harvey , German biathlete
- May 11 Steve Kapur , British rapper, singer and songwriter
- May 12 Tim Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 12 Paul d'Amour , American bassist
- May 13: Chuck Schuldiner , guitarist and vocalist for death metal band Death († 2001)
- May 13 Melanie Thornton , American pop singer († 2001)
- May 15: Simen Agdestein , Norwegian chess grandmaster and footballer
- May 15: Madhuri Dixit , Indian film actress
- May 15: Andrea Jürgens , German pop singer († 2017)
- May 15 John Smoltz , American baseball player
- May 15 Orlando Zapata , Cuban dissident (died 2010)
- May 16: Markus Dieth , Swiss politician
- May 16: Klaas Hübner , German politician
- May 16 Virgil Widrich , Austrian director, screenwriter, filmmaker and multimedia artist
- May 17 Joseph Michael Acaba , American astronaut
- May 17: Frank Gerhardt , German musician
- May 18: Heinz-Harald Frentzen , German racing driver
- May 18: Matthias Haß , German composer and music producer, 2007 Echo award winner
- May 18: Bob Stephenson , American film actor, film producer and screenwriter
- May 20: Yuri Kutsenko , Russian actor
- May 20 Patrick Ortlieb , Austrian skier
- May 21 Andrei Mikhailovich Antropov , Russian badminton player
- May 21 Dirk Audehm , German actor, theater director and singer
- May 21: Chris Benoit , American wrestler (died 2007)
- May 22: MC Eiht , American rapper
- May 23: Héctor Acosta , Dominican singer and composer
- May 23: Didier Cottaz , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- May 23 Charlie Hunter , American jazz, rock and fusion guitarist
- May 23 Wotan Wilke Möhring , German actor and musician
- May 24 Dana V. Ashbrook , American actor
- May 24 Andrei Fridrikhovich Borodin , Russian banker
- May 24 Bärbel Kofler , German politician
- May 25 Poppy Z. Brite , American writer
- May 25: Luc Nilis , Belgian footballer
- May 25: André Tempelmeier , German handball player
- May 26 Kevin Moore , American keyboardist and composer
- May 26: Kristen Pfaff , American musician (d. 1994)
- May 27 Paul Gascoigne , English footballer
- May 27: Lou Gish , American actress (died 2006)
- May 27: Kai Pflaume , German TV presenterKai plum , 2007
- May 27: Jörn Leonhard , German historian
- May 28: Sunday Sunkanmi Adelaja , Ukrainian preacher
- May 28 Omar Pedrini , Italian musician
- May 28 Leonard Soccio , German ice hockey player
- May 29: Omar Arellano Nuño , Mexican soccer player and coach
- May 29: Noel Gallagher , British musician
- May 29: Heidi Mohr , German soccer player (died 2019)
- May 30 Allison Beth Adler , American screenwriter and film producer
- May 30: JJ Aeschlimann , Swiss ice hockey player
- May 30: Thomas Beimel , German composer, musicologist and violist († 2016)
- May 30: Ian Hodgkinson , Canadian wrestler
- May 30 Therese Lohner , Austrian actress
- May 31: Sandrine Bonnaire , French film actress
- May 31: Diesel , Australian rock musician and guitarist
- May 31 Eric Revis , American jazz bassist
June
- Olivier Delaître , French tennis player June 1
- Axel Holst , German actor and director June 2
- Andreas Tam , German handball coach and handball player June 2
- Anderson Cooper , American journalist June 3
- Sven Ottke , German athlete and professional boxer June 3
- Elmar Theveßen , German television journalist June 3:
- Marie NDiaye , French writer June 4
- Marcus Weinberg , German politician and MP June 4:
- Sven Authorsen , German figure skater June 5:
- Joe DeLoach , American track and field athlete June 5:
- Géraldine Olivier , Swiss singer June 5:
- Simon Stockhausen , German composer June 5:
- Stefan Weinzierl , German acoustician and musicologist June 5:
- Sven-Christian Witt , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Fiscal Court June 5:
- Katharina Abt , German actress June 6
- Paul Giamatti , American actor June 6
- Cristina-Adela Foișor , Romanian chess player († 2017) June 7:
- Robert Alonso Jónas Martinez , Andorran footballer June 7:
- Dave Navarro , American guitarist June 7
- Edgar Itt , German track and field athlete June 8
- Jasmin Tabatabai , German-Iranian actress June 8:
- Dave McLlwain , Canadian ice hockey player June 9
- June 10 Timo Dierkes , German actor
- June 10 Katja Weitzenböck , Austrian actress
- June 10 Charnett Moffett , American jazz bassist
- June 11 Clare Carey , Zimbabwean-American actress
- June 11 Oliver Ortmann , German pool player
- June 11: Alex Sipiagin , Russian jazz trumpeter
- June 12: Peter Nix , German cameraman
- June 13: Taşkın Aksoy , Turkish football player and coach
- June 13 Patrick Moster , German cyclist, cycling official and coach
- June 15: Paul Kingsman , New Zealand swimmer
- June 15 Dieter Stein , German publicist
- June 16: Jürgen Klopp , German football player and coach
- June 17 Barbara Sadleder , Austrian alpine skier
- June 17 Tori Welles , American pornographic actress and director
- June 18 Glen Benton , American bassist and singer
- June 18 Jörg Leichtfried , Austrian politician
- June 18 Michelle Ruthven , Canadian alpine skier
- June 19: Bjørn Dæhlie , Norwegian cross-country skierBjorn Daehlie , 2011
- June 19 Andrew Tosh , Jamaican reggae musician, son of Peter Tosh
- June 20 Nicole Kidman , Australian actressNicole Kidman , 2012
- June 20: Christian Schmitt-Engelstadt , German organist
- June 21: Pierre Omidyar , US founder of eBay Inc.
- June 21 Paul Sethe , German publicist and journalist
- June 21: Yingluck Shinawatra , Thai politician
- June 22 Paul Stanton , former American ice hockey player
- June 22: Yutaka Yamagishi , Japanese automobile racer
- June 23 Boris Aljinovic , German theater and film actor
- June 24 Markus Acher , German singer, guitarist and composer
- June 24 Michael Kessler , German actor
- June 24 Sherry Stringfield , American actress
- June 24 Dorian Keilhack , German-British pianist and conductor
- June 24: Janez Lapajne , Slovenian film director
- June 24: Richard Kruspe , German musician (Rammstein)
- June 26: Montgomery Arnold , German actor, comedian and voice actor
- June 26: Olivier Dahan , French film director
- June 27: Andre Arendse , South African soccer goalkeeper
- June 27: Robert Ciborowski , Polish economist
- June 27 Volker Helfrich , German actor
- June 27 Marcus Jensen , German writer
- June 27: Markus Kavka , German DJ and presenter
- June 27 Thomas Maurer , Austrian cabaret artist
- June 27: Alex Vesper , German jazz drummer
- June 28 Leona Aglukkaq , Canadian politician
- June 28: Lars Riedel , German discus thrower
- June 29 Hildegard Müller , German politician
- June 30: Michele Godena , Italian chess player
- June 30: Silke Renk , German track and field athlete and Olympic champion
July
- Pamela Anderson , Canadian actress and fashion model July 1
- Peter Plate , composer and member of the band Rosenstolz July 1:
- JD Walter , American jazz singer July 2
- Iulia Bulie , Romanian rower July 3:
- Sandra Ceccarelli , Italian actress July 3
- Matthias Konradt , German theologian and university lecturer July 4
- Mohamed Sifaoui , Algerian journalist and author July 4
- Henry Urday Cáceres , Peruvian chess grandmaster and official July 5
- Steffen Wink , German actor July 5
- Petra Kleinert , German actress July 6
- Heather Nova , Bermudian musician July 6
- Tom Kristensen , Danish racing driver July 7:
- Uwe Spies , German footballer July 8
- Klaus Tschütscher , Deputy Prime Minister of the Principality of Liechtenstein July 8:
- July 11 Valeska Böttcher , German jurist
- July 11 Jon Harris , British film editor and film director
- July 11 Elfie Simchen , German freestyle skier
- July 12: Lukáš Hurník , Czech composer
- July 12 Kenta Nishimura , Japanese writer
- July 12: Bruny Surin , Canadian track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist
- July 12: Markus Willinger , German organist and professor
- July 13 Benny Benassi , Italian disc jockey
- July 14: Ingo Hasselbach , dropout from the neo-Nazi scene
- July 16 Jonathan Adams , American actor
- July 16 Will Ferrell , American actor
- July 16: Wolfgang F. Rothe , German Catholic priest, theologian and canon lawyer
- July 18 Stefanie Dimmeler , German biologist, biochemist and medical doctor
- July 18: Miriam Meckel , communication scientist
- Jul 18 Vin Diesel (Mark Sinclair Vincent), American actor

Vin Diesel , (2013)
- July 19: Yaël Abecassis , Israeli actress
- July 19: Nischan Daimer , German walker
- July 21: Robert Clemen , German politician
- July 21: Walter Arencibia , Cuban chess champion
- July 23: Philip Seymour Hoffman , American actor (died 2014)
- July 23: Noboru Ueda , Japanese motorcycle racer
- July 24: Jochen Distelmeyer , German musician
- July 25 Annette Pehnt , German writer and literary scholar
- July 25: Magdalena Forsberg , Swedish biathlete
- July 25 Heidi Zeller-Bähler , Swiss alpine skier
- July 25 Matt LeBlanc , American actor
- July 26 Birgit Borris , German jurist
- 26 July: Dai Young , Welsh rugby player and coach
- July 27 Eik Galley , German sports reporter and journalist
- July 27 Hamish McLachlan , Australian rower (d. 2020)
- July 27 Kellie Waymire , American actress (died 2003)
- July 28: Thomas Jakob Augstein , German journalist and publisher
- July 30 James Murphy , American guitarist
- July 31 Daniel Bielenstein , German journalist and writer
- July 31: Peter Rono , Kenyan track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist
- July 31 Grzegorz Turnau , Polish singer-songwriter
- July 31 Rudolf Martin , German actor
August
- Clare Adamson , Scottish politician August 1
- Željka Cvijanović , Bosnian politician, President of Republika Srpska August 2:
- Marco Giampaolo , Italian football player and coach August 2
- Katharina Lehmann , German actress August 2
- Mathieu Kassovitz , French actor, director and screenwriter August 3
- Michael Marsh , American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist August 4:
- Jana Sorgers , two-time Olympic champion and nine-time world rowing champion August 4:
- Thomas Lang , Austrian drummer August 5:
- Kazunori Yamauchi , senior vice president of Sony Computer Entertainment August 5:
- Marcel Wüst , German cyclist, sprinter August 6
- Lucas Cordalis , German singer, composer and record producer August 7
- Yevgeny Platov , Russian figure skater August 7:
- Albert Rösti , Swiss politician, entrepreneur and association official August 7:
- Shane Lewis , American racing driver August 8:
- Gunther Metz , German footballer August 8
- Ulrich Kirchhoff , German show jumper August 9:
- Deion Sanders , American baseball player, TV host August 9
- August 10 Philippe Albert , Belgian footballer
- August 10 Georg Barber , German comic artist
- August 11 Massimiliano Allegri , Italian football player and coach
- August 11 Enrique Bunbury , Spanish singer and composer
- August 11: Wolfgang Fasching , Austrian extreme athlete
- August 11: Jorge González , Cuban-German choreographer and model
- August 11: Jędrzej Jędrych , Polish politician
- August 11 Monika Wogrolly , Austrian philologist, philosopher and writer
- August 12: Philibert Nang , Gabonese mathematician
- August 14 Kathrin Weßel , German long-distance runner
- August 14 Dirk Rehbein , German footballer
- August 15: Brahim Boutayeb , Moroccan track and field athlete
- August 15: Ercan Karacayli , German-Turkish actor
- August 16 Jason Everman , American guitarist
- August 16: Moritz Rinke , German writer
- August 17 Michael Preetz , German footballer
- August 18: Uwe Alzen , German racing driver
- August 18 Emma Amos , British actress
- August 18: Carolin Emcke , German publicist
- August 18: Beate Koch , German track and field athlete
- August 18 Dan Peters , American musician
- August 19: Saʿid al-ʿUwairan , Saudi Arabian footballer
- August 20: Uwe Amstein , German footballer
- August 21 Michael Bendetti , American actor and film producer
- August 21 Carrie-Anne Moss , Canadian actress
- August 21: Beat Anton Rüttimann , bridge builder serving the poor
- August 21: Serj Tankian , Armenian-American singer
- August 22 Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje , British actor and screenwriter
- August 22 Zaldy Ampatuan , Filipino politician
- August 22: Paul Ereng , Kenyan track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist
- August 22: Yukiko Okada , Japanese singer and actress (d. 1986)
- August 22: Layne Staley , American rock musician († 2002)
- August 23 Dominic Tony Antonelli , American astronaut
- August 23 Jörg Gerlach , German footballer
- August 23: Cedella Marley , Jamaican reggae musician
- August 25 Carola Reimann , German politician
- August 25 Jeff Tweedy , American songwriter
- August 25 Eckart von Hirschhausen , German doctor and cabaret artist
- August 27 Jens Häusler , German handball player and coach
- August 29: Jiří Růžek , Czech photographer
- August 31 Francis Chan , American pastor, speaker, and author
- August 31 Ralf Inderthal , German handball player
- August 31 Uwe Inderthal , German handball coach and handball player
- August 31: João Manuel , Portuguese footballer († 2005)
September
- Bernd Roos , German handball player September 1
- Carl-Uwe Steeb , German tennis player September 1
- Kerstin Behrendt , German track and field athlete September 2:
- Andreas Möller , German footballer September 2
- Oliver Frankenbach , German business economist and football official September 2nd.
- Ruggiero Rizzitelli , Italian footballer September 2
- Daron Acemoğlu , American economist 3 September
- Rainer Aigner , German footballer September 4
- Patrick Kelly , American racing driver September 4
- Susanne Vogel , German bassist September 4:
- Matthias Sammer , German football player and coach September 5

Matthew Sammer , 2013
- Rein van Duijnhoven , Dutch footballer September 5
- Petra Ivanov , Swiss author September 5:
- Macy Gray , American singer September 6
- Milan Lukić , Bosnian war criminal September 6:
- Natalia Wörner , German actress September 7
- Susan Stahnke , German actress and TV presenter September 7:
- Luis Marques , French racing driver September 8:
- Karin Müller , German writer September 8
- Hana Androníková , Czech writer (died 2011) September 9:
- Benjamin Roy Armstrong Jr. , American basketball player September 9
- Stephen Bogaert , Canadian film actor September 9
- Akshay Kumar , Indian actor September 9
- Anna Malle , American actress (died 2006) September 9:
- September 10 Tom Kress , German actor
- September 11 Maria Bartiromo , American television host and author
- September 11 Harry Connick, Jr. , American singer, pianist and actor
- September 11: Maja Schmid , Swiss freestyle skier
- September 12 Nicole Aders , German photographer
- September 12: Claudio Raneri , German opera director
- September 13 Warren Aspinall , English footballer
- September 13: Stephen Perkins , drummer and songwriter
- September 13 Michael Johnson , American track and field athlete
- September 14 Franz Aigner , Austrian footballer
- September 15 Gustavo Artacho , Argentine cyclist
- September 15: Steve Cox , paraglider pilot
- September 15 Alberth Papilaya , Indonesian boxer (d. 2021)
- September 15: Simone Greiner-Petter-Memm , German biathlete
- September 15: Hansjörg Tauscher , German alpine skier
- September 17: Stefan Krauße , German luger
- September 17: Wolfgang Perner , Austrian biathlete (died 2019)
- September 17 Bianca Urbanke-Rösicke , German handball player
- September 18: Gary John Anderson , New Zealand cyclist and cycling coach
- September 20 Kristen Johnston , American actress
- September 21 Werner Perathoner , Italian alpine skier
- September 21 Faith Hill , American country and pop singer
- September 21: Vera Int-Veen , German TV presenter
- September 22: Hannes Arch , Austrian aerobatic pilot († 2016)
- September 22: Félix Savón , Cuban boxer
- September 23 Patricia Boser , Swiss TV presenter
- September 24 Max Uthoff , German cabaret artist
- September 25: Joost Lijbaart , Dutch jazz drummer
- September 26: Bruno Akrapović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
- September 26: Shannon Hoon , American rock musician (d. 1995)
- September 26 Steffen Schorn , German jazz musician
- September 27: Stephan Freigang , German track and field athlete
- September 27 Enrico Zaina , Italian cyclist
- September 28 Diego Moltrer , Italian politician, President of the Regional Council (died 2014)
- September 28 Mira Sorvino , American actress
- September 29: Yūichi Akasaka , Japanese short tracker
- September 29: Brett Anderson , English singer and songwriter
October
- Scott Young , American ice hockey player October 1
- Frank Fredericks , Namibian sprinter 2 October:
- Thomas Muster , Austrian tennis player October 2
- Carsten Dahl , Danish jazz musician October 3
- Denis Villeneuve , Canadian film director October 3
- Liev Schreiber , American actor October 4
- Tim Carter , British footballer (died 2008) October 5:
- Guy Pearce , Australian-British actor October 5
- Jenna Russell , British stage actress October 5
- Attila Ambrus , Hungarian-Romanian ice hockey goaltender, fur smuggler, bank robber and writer October 6
- Kennet Andersson , Swedish footballer October 6:
- Michelle Alexander , American lawyer, civil rights activist and college professor October 7
- Toni Braxton , American soul and R&B singer October 7
- Ellen ten Damme , Dutch actress and singer October 7:
- Hendrik Duryn , German actor October 8:
- Sandra Keck , German singer, director, actress and author October 8
- Teddy Riley , American singer-songwriter and record producer October 8:
- Thomas Seitz , German jurist and politician October 8:
- Maurice Banach , German soccer player (died 1991) October 9 –
- Eddie Guerrero , Mexican wrestler († 2005) October 9:
- Thomas Hacker , German politician October 9:
- October 10 – Anette Kramme , German politician
- October 10 Gavin Newsom , American politician
- October 10: Thomas Ritter , German footballer
- October 11: Proschat Madani , Iranian-Austrian actress
- October 12 Susanne Munk Wilbek , Danish handball player
- October 13 Kate Walsh (actress) , American actress
- October 13: Cornelia Anken , German author
- October 13: Javier Sotomayor , Cuban high jumper
- October 14: Oliver Adler , German footballer
- October 14 Savanna Samson , American pornographic actress
- October 15 Götz Otto , German actor
- October 15: Gerlind Scheller , German synchronized swimmer
- October 15: Girma Yifrashewa , Ethiopian composer and pianist
- October 18: Matthias Aebischer , Swiss journalist, moderator and politician
- October 18 Andreas Nickl , German actor, writer and director
- October 20 Luigi Lo Cascio , Italian actor
- October 20: Luck Mervil , Haitian-Canadian actor
- October 21: Alejandro Apud , Uruguayan soccer player and coach
- October 21: Alcindo Sartori , Brazilian soccer player
- October 21 Paul Ince , English footballer
- October 22 Christophe Bourret , French automobile racer and entrepreneur
- October 22 Ulrike Maier , Austrian alpine skier (died 1994)
- October 22: Stefan Mohr , German chess player
- October 24: Robert Julien , Canadian racing driver
- October 27: Mart Siimer , Estonian composer
- October 28 André Eisermann , German theater and film actor
- October 28 Julia Roberts , American actress
- October 28 Kevin Macdonald , British film director, screenwriter and film producer
- October 28 John Romero , American game developer
- October 29: Thorsten Fink , German footballer
- October 29: Jörn König , German politician
- October 30: Gastón Acurio Jaramillo , Peruvian chef
- October 31 Jörg Lipinski , German footballer
- October 31: Vanilla Ice , American pop singer
November
- Filippina Lydia Arena , Australian singer November 1:
- Zvonimir Soldo , Croatian footballer November 2:
- Birk Anders , German biathlete November 3:
- Monica Weinzettl , Austrian actress November 3:
- Antonio Pettigrew , American track and field athlete (died 2010) November 3
- Karin Schubert , German TV presenter November 3:
- Kate Cary , British novelist, member of the Erin Hunter writing team November 4
- David MacEachern , Canadian bobsledder November 4
- Mino Raiola , Italian football players' agent November 4
- Kayah , Polish singer November 5:
- Jun Maeda , Japanese motorcycle racer (died 2006) November 6:
- Alexander Henry Arweiler , German classical philologist November 7
- David Guetta , French DJ November 7:
- Olaf Schubert , German cabaret artist November 7:
- November 10: Andreas Scholl , German countertenor
- November 11: Jim Boeven , German actor
- November 12 Mannhard Bech , German handball player
- November 12: Ann Lee , British singer
- November 13: Susann Atwell , German TV presenter
- November 13 Steve Zahn , American actor
- November 14 Simone Brand , German politician
- November 15: Becky Anderson , British journalist and presenter
- November 15: E-40 , American rapper
- November 15: Pandeli Majko , Albanian politician
- November 15: Marko-Olavi Myyry , Finnish footballer
- November 15: François Ozon , French film director
- November 16 Lisa Bonet , American actress
- November 16: Florian Fitz , German actor
- November 16: Thomas Ulrich , Swiss mountaineer, outdoor photographer and author
- November 17 Michael Andrews , American musician and film score composer
- November 17 Kim Yong-sik , North Korean wrestler
- November 17 Andreas Rieke , German musician
- November 17: Domenico Schiattarella , Italian racing driver
- November 18: Jochen Bendel , German radio and television presenter
- November 18: Steffen Tippach , German politician, MP
- November 19: Olaf Hense , German athlete
- November 19: Dhafer Youssef , Tunisian jazz musician
- November 19: Eric Lebrun , French organist and composer
- November 20: Theresia Walser , German playwright
- November 20: Klaus Weese , German freestyle skier
- November 20: Teoman Yakupoğlu , Turkish singer
- November 21 Ulrike Auhagen , German classics scholar
- November 21: Toshihiko Koga , Japanese judoka (died 2021)
- November 22 Boris Becker , German tennis player
- November 22: Frank Höfle , German disabled athlete
- November 22: Roland Meier , Swiss cyclist
- November 22 Mark Ruffalo , American actor
- November 27: Navid Kermani , German writer and orientalist
- November 28 Saeed-Ahmed Saeed , chess player from United Arab Emirates
- November 28 Anna Nicole Smith , American actress and fashion model († 2007)
- November 29: Jan Behrendt , German luger
December
- Nestor Carbonell , American actor December 1
- Craig Groeschel , American Methodist pastor, evangelical church planter, speaker, and author December 2:
- Giovanni Parisi , Italian boxer (died 2009) December 2:
- Simone Probst , German politician December 3
- Gilles Marguet , French biathlete December 3
- Adamski , British musician and producer December 4
- Guillermo Amor Martínez , Spanish footballer December 4
- Frank Luck , German biathlete December 5:
- Dirk Steffens , German presenter and wildlife filmmaker December 5
- Gary Allan , American country music singer December 5
- Judd Apatow , American film director, screenwriter and producer December 6
- Mahir Hafiz al-Assad , Syrian military 8 December:
- Lukas Gschwend , Swiss legal scholar 9 December:
- December 10: Donghua Li , Swiss gymnast of Chinese descent
- December 11 Mo'Nique , American actress
- December 11 Michael Beck , German musician
- December 11 DJ Yella , American musician
- December 13: Maria Mathis , Austrian singer and presenter
- December 13 Jamie Foxx , American actor, musician and comedian
- December 14 Georg Schwabenland , German wrestler
- December 16: Donovan Bailey , Canadian track and field athlete
- December 16 Vincent Kinchin , British track athlete (died 2010)
- December 16 Miranda Otto , Australian actress
- December 17 Jean Baruth , German handball player
- December 17 Vincent Damphousse , Canadian ice hockey player
- December 17 Gigi D'Agostino , Italian musician
- December 19: Melanie Doane , Canadian singer-songwriter
- December 19: Michael Wolf , German film actor
- December 19: Jens Lehmann , German cyclist
- December 19: Rebecca Saunders , English composer
- December 19: Criss Angel , American mentalist and musician
- December 19: Charles Austin , American track and field athlete
- December 21: Oliver Conz , German conservationist and politician, Secretary of State
- December 21: Mikheil Saakashvili , former President of Georgia
- December 22 Martina Voss , German soccer player
- December 23 Carla Bruni , Italian musician and fashion model
- December 25: Pavlo Klimkin , Ukrainian politician
- December 25: Hansy Vogt , German TV presenter, singer and entertainer
- December 26: Takkyu Ishino , Japanese techno producer and DJ
- December 27: Gregory B. Waldis , Swiss actor
- December 28: Jason Danskin , English footballer
- December 30: Brynjar Valdimarsson , Icelandic snooker player
day unknown
- Michael Abbink , American typeface designer and typographer
- Rebecca Abe , German writer and illustrator
- Tomma Abts , German painter
- Abu l-Walid al-Ghamidi , Saudi Arabian resistance fighter († 2004)
- Jörg Adolph , German filmmaker, producer and film editor
- Erhan Afyoncu , Turkish historian
- Kajal Ahmad , Kurdish author and journalist
- Brenno Ambrosini , Italian pianist and music teacher
- Mario Anastasopoulos , German American football international
- Sabine Appel , German scholar and non-fiction author
- Rommy Arndt , German television presenter
- Susan Arndt , German English scholar and African scholar
- Martin Auinger , Austrian author
- Gerd Baumann , German musician and composer
- Andrea Brose , German actress
- Eduard Burza , Belarusian-German actor
- Rufus Cappadocia , Canadian cellist
- Christopher Cooper , American horn player
- Andrew Dominik , Australian director and screenwriter
- Bernhard Falk , German left-wing terrorist and Islamist
- Rossano Galante , American composer and orchestrator
- Armin Himmelrath , German educational and science journalist and non-fiction author
- Charles Glenn , American DJ and producer
- Sultan Ahmad Hamahang , Afghan musician
- Jilliane Hoffman , American writer
- Monika Hofmann , German trombonist and university teacher
- Anja Jardine , German journalist and writer
- Christoph Kalkowski , German radio play director and author
- Barbara Kraus , German concert organist and specialist book author
- David Krippendorff , German artist
- Christian Lampert , German horn player
- Thomas Lehmann , German actor
- Fernando Marzan , Argentine tango pianist
- Michael Meyen , German communication scientist
- Nicholas Milton , Australian violinist and conductor
- Klaus-Peter Neitzke , German mechanical engineer and university lecturer
- Astrid Nielsch , German harpist
- Hannes Oberwalder , Austrian music producer, keyboardist and pianist
- Markus Pöhlmann , German military historian
- René Pöltl , German jurist and politician
- Abu Hamza Rabi'a , Egyptian terrorist (died 2005)
- Matt Beynon Rees , Welsh journalist and writer
- Elisabeth Romano , German actress
- Judith Rosmair , German actress
- Andreas Schröders , German actor
- Domenico Severin , Italian organist
- Alexander Shtarkman , American pianist and music educator
- Misha Stefanuk , American composer, pianist and music educator
- Josef Steinböck , Austrian musician
- Mark Suter , Swiss percussionist
- Troels Svane , Danish cellist
- Stephan Valentin , German writer
- Ansgar Wallenhorst , German church musician, concert organist and theologian
- Natalie Weir , Australian ballet dancer and choreographer
- Marina Weis , German actress
- Stefan Wilkening , German actor and speaker
- Stefan Winckler , German political scientist and publicist
- Christine Zart , German actress and singer
- Albertine Zullo , Swiss draftsman, illustrator and author of children's books
Died
January
- Marcello Bertinetti , Italian fencer and two-time Olympic champion and football player and coach (b. 1885) January 2:
- Jack Ruby , assassin of suspected Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (b. 1911) January 3:
- Donald Campbell , British land speed record holder (b. 1921) January 4:
- Theodor August Ankermann , German trade unionist and politician (b. 1888) January 8:
- Zbigniew Cybulski , Polish actor (born 1927) January 8:
- Josef Frank , Austrian architect (b. 1885) January 8:
- Carl Stegmann , merchant and shipowner (b. 1881) January 9:
- January 10: Karl Appel , Austrian politician (b. 1892)
- January 10: Ludwig Engels , German chess champion (b. 1905)
- January 10: Peter Jacobs , German politician (born 1906)
- January 10: Vilém Petrželka , Czech composer (b. 1889)
- January 12: Pierre Clause , French automobile racer (b. 1897)
- January 13: Ove Andersen , Finnish steeplechase runner (b. 1899)
- January 15: Josef Brunner , Austrian major general (b. 1889)
- January 17: Louis Blondel , Swiss archaeologist (b. 1885)
- January 16: Robert Jemison Van de Graaff , American physicist (b. 1901)
- January 20: Paul Wessel , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR (b. 1904)
- January 21: Ann Sheridan , American actress (b. 1915)
- January 22: Alfred Mahlau , professor at the Lerchenfeld Art Academy in Hamburg (b. 1894)
- January 23: Holcombe Ward , American tennis player (born 1878)
- January 26: Hermann Adler , German officer (b. 1890)
- January 26: August Klingen Heben , German Africanist (b. 1886)
- January 27: Edward H. White , American astronaut (b. 1930)
- January 27: Roger B. Chaffee , American astronaut (b. 1935)
- January 27: Virgil Grissom , American astronaut (b. 1926)
- January 28: Ludwig Frederick Audrieth , American chemist (b. 1901)
- January 29: Hermann Neuling , German horn player and composer (born 1897)
- January 31: Otto Dibelius , Protestant bishop in Berlin-Brandenburg (b. 1880)
- January 31: Oskar Fischinger , filmmaker, pioneer of abstract film (b. 1900)
- January 31: Geoffrey O'Hara , Canadian singer and composer (b. 1882)
- January 31: Eddie Tolan , American sprinter and Olympic gold medalist (b. 1908)
February
- Wilhelm Buddenberg , German painter (b. 1890) February 2:
- Martin Charles Ansorge , American lawyer and politician (b. 1882) February 4:
- Cevat Rıfat Atilhan , Turkish author, journalist, publicist and general (b. 1892) February 4:
- Väinö Albert Nuorteva ("Olli"), Finnish writer and journalist (b. 1889) February 4
- Igo Etrich , Austrian pilot and aircraft designer (b. 1879) February 4:
- Karl Roth , German medalist, painter and sculptor (b. 1900) February 5:
- Violeta Parra , Chilean folk musician (b. 1917) February 5:
- Martine Carol , French actress (born 1920) February 6:
- Henry Morgenthau , American politician (b. 1891) February 6:
- William Preston Lane , American politician (b. 1892) February 7:
- Franz Rosenberger , Romanian-German composer and military musician (b. 1895) February 7:
- Victor Gollancz , British publisher and peace activist (b. 1893) February 8:
- Rosa Aschenbrenner , German politician (b. 1885) February 9:
- Santiago Luis Copello , Archbishop of Buenos Aires and Cardinal (b. 1880) February 9:
- February 13: Yoshisuke Aikawa , Japanese entrepreneur and politician (b. 1880)
- February 14 Lawrence Beesley , English teacher, journalist and author (b. 1877)
- February 14: Forugh Farrochzad , Iranian poet and film director (born 1935)
- February 14: Sig Ruman , American actor (b. 1884)
- February 14: Yamamoto Shūgorō , Japanese writer (b. 1903)
- February 15: William C. Bullitt , American diplomat (b. 1891)
- February 17: Victor Schiøler , Danish pianist (born 1899)

Robert Oppenheimer , ca. 1944
- February 18: Robert Oppenheimer , American physicist (b. 1904)
- February 18: Manuel Palau Boix , Spanish composer and professor (b. 1893)
- February 20: Karl Aichhorn , Austrian politician (born 1903)
- February 21: Wolf Albach-Retty , Austrian actor (born 1906)
- February 22: Fritz Erler , German SPD politician (b. 1913)
- February 24: Asaf Jah VII , Prince of Hyderabad (b. 1886)
- February 24: Franz Waxman , German film composer, conductor and arranger (born 1906)
- February 25: Heinrich Dinkelbach , German economist (b. 1891)
- February 26: Max Taut , German architect (b. 1884)
- February 28: Henry Luce , American publisher (b. 1898)
March
- Toine van Renterghem , Dutch footballer (b. 1885) March 1:
- Jean Fellot , French organist and music teacher (b. 1905) March 2:
- Hans Ledwinka , Austrian car designer (b. 1878) March 2:
- Heinrich Wilper , Member of the German Bundestag (b. 1908) March 3:
- Mischa Auer , American film and stage actor (b. 1905) March 5:
- Mohammad Mossadegh , Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882) March 5:
- Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer (b. 1882) March 6:
- Oscar Shaw , American actor (b. 1887) March 6:
- George A. Kelly , Professor of Clinical Psychology (b. 1905) March 6:
- Willie Smith , American alto saxophonist (b. 1910) March 7:
- Alice B. Toklas , American cookbook author (b. 1877) March 7:
- Viktor Afritsch , Austrian theater and film actor (b. 1906) March 9:
- March 11: Hanns Lothar , German actor (born 1929)
- March 11: Rudolf Schetter , German politician (b. 1880)
- March 13: Andrei Andreyev , Russian film set designer, draftsman and set designer (b. 1887)
- March 14: Eduard Baar-Baarenfels , Austrian Heimwehr leader and politician (b. 1885)
- March 14: Antonio Díaz Soto y Gama , Mexican legal scholar, revolutionary (b. 1880)
- March 15: Manfred Robert Erwin Aron , German-American industrialist (b. 1884)
- March 17: Frank Wisbar , German director, producer and screenwriter (born 1899)
- March 18: Waldemar Lestienne , French automobile racer, designer and entrepreneur (b. 1878)
- March 19: Frederick E. Morgan , British lieutenant-general in World War II (b. 1894)
- March 20: Ludwig von Ficker , writer and publisher (b. 1880)
- March 23: Lalla Carlsen , Norwegian actress and singer (b. 1889)
- March 24: Francesco Bracci , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1879)
- March 24 Atanasov Shteryo Georgiev , Bulgarian politician, officer and military historian (b. 1902)
- March 26: Ervin Šinko , Hungarian writer and professor (b. 1898)
- March 29: Fritz Schäffer , German politician, federal minister, Prime Minister of Bavaria (b. 1888)
April
- Mischa Elman , American violin virtuoso (b. 1891) April 5:
- Johan Falkberget , Norwegian writer (born 1879) April 5:
- Hermann Joseph Muller , American biologist and geneticist; Nobel Laureate (b. 1890) April 5
- Hans Sachtleben , German zoologist (born 1893) April 5:
- Helmut Schlueter , German politician and MP (born 1925) April 7:
- Elisabeth Crodel , German painter (born 1897) April 8:
- April 10: Paul Gustav Bernhard Assmann , German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1881)
- April 11: Murata Shūgyo , Japanese lyric poet (b. 1889)
- April 12: Clemens Wilmenrod , first German TV chef (b. 1906)
- April 12: Kubota Utsubo , Japanese writer (b. 1877)
- April 13: Christian Stock , German politician and first Prime Minister of Hesse (b. 1884)
- April 15: Totò , Italian actor (b. 1898)
- April 16: Leo Elthon , American politician (b. 1898)
- April 18: Otto Brües , German writer (b. 1897)
- April 19: Konrad Adenauer , German politician (born 1876)
- April 21: André Danjon , French astronomer (born 1890)
- April 21: Wolfgang Steinitz , German linguist, folk song collector and ethnologist (b. 1905)
- April 22: Iona Timofeevich Nikitchenko , Soviet judge at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1895)
- April 26: Walter Lütgehetmann , German carom player, world champion and 4-time European champion (b. 1914)
- April 24: Vladimir Mikhailovich Komarov , Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
- April 25: Emile Maret , French racing driver (b. 1897)
- April 29: JB Lenoir , American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1929)
- April 29: Anthony Mann , American film director (b. 1906)
- April 29: Will Meisel , German dancer, composer and publisher founder (b. 1897)
- April 29: Claude R. Wickard , American politician (b. 1893)
May
- Agapios Salomon Naoum , Lebanese Archbishop (b. 1882) May 1:
- Maria Probst , German politician (born 1902) May 1:
- Ernst Friedrich , German anarcho-pacifist (b. 1894) May 2:
- Wilhelm Schröder , Minister of Agriculture and Forestry of the GDR (b. 1913) May 2:
- Hans Orlowski , German painter and woodcutter (b. 1894) May 3:
- Ernst Wollweber , German politician, Minister for State Security in the GDR (b. 1898) May 3:
- Jean Laroche , French automobile racer (b. 1914) May 5:
- Ludwig Karl Hilberseimer , architect and town planner (b. 1885) May 6:
- Paul Pratt , Canadian composer, clarinetist, conductor and music educator (b. 1894) May 8:
- Elmer Rice , American playwright (b. 1892) May 8:
- Oskar Hergt , German politician (b. 1869) May 9:
- Philippa Schuyler , American pianist, journalist and author (b. 1931) May 9:
- May 10: Lorenzo Bandini , Italian racing driver (b. 1935)
- May 10: Arthur Carron , English operatic tenor (born 1900)
- May 12: Julius Kalaš , Czech composer (b. 1902)
- May 14: Renzo De Vecchi , Italian football player and coach (b. 1894)
- May 15: Edward Hopper , American painter (b. 1882)
- May 19: Louis Balart , French automobile racer (b. 1887)
- May 20: Leonhard Grebe , German physicist (born 1883)
- May 22: Bertha Hintz , German painter (born 1876)
- May 22: Langston Hughes , American writer (b. 1902)
- May 23: Ernst Niekisch , German politician (born 1889)
- May 25: Flem Sampson , American politician (b. 1875)
- May 26: Gideon Ståhlberg , Swedish chess player (born 1908)
- May 27 Tilly Edinger , paleontologist, founder of "paleoneurology" in Germany (b. 1897)
- May 27: Paul Henckels , German actor (b. 1885)
- May 28: Doc Walsh , American country musician (b. 1901)
- May 29: Georg Wilhelm Pabst , Austrian director (b. 1885)
- May 30: Claude Rains , English actor (born 1889)
- May 30: Alfred Brinckmann , German chess player and author (b. 1891)
- May 31: Wilhelm Rath , German politician (b. 1892)
- May 31: Billy Strayhorn , American jazz musician (b. 1915)
June
- Rudolf Appel , Austrian politician (born 1915) June 1:
- Aloys Heuvers , German mechanical engineer (b. 1888) June 1:
- Clarence Ashley , American old-time and folk singer (b. 1895) June 2:
- Benno Ohnesorg , student shot dead by a policeman at a demonstration in Berlin (b. 1940) June 2:
- Anton Eberhard , German politician (b. 1892) June 3:
- J.R. Ackerley , English novelist (b. 1896) June 4:
- Lloyd Viel Berkner , American physicist (b. 1905) June 4:
- Edward Givens , US astronaut candidate (b. 1930) June 6:
- Dorothy Parker , American novelist (b. 1893) June 7:
- June 10: Joseph Elmer Ritter , Archbishop of Saint Louis and Cardinal (b. 1892)
- June 10: Spencer Tracy , American actor (b. 1900)
- June 11: Ernesto Ruffini , Italian bishop and cardinal (b. 1888)
- June 11: Wolfgang Köhler , co-founder of Gestalt psychology (b. 1887)
- June 11: Eurith Rivers , Governor of Georgia (b. 1895)
- June 13: W. Harold Anderson , American basketball player and coach (born 1902)
- June 13: Gerald Patterson , Australian tennis player (b. 1895)
- June 15: Estanislao Mejía , Mexican composer (b. 1882)
- June 16 Dutch Holland , American baseball player (b. 1903)
- June 18: Beat Fehr , Swiss racing car driver (b. 1943)
- June 20: Willi Ahrem , German soldier (b. 1902)
- June 23: Charles Armstrong , American physician and virologist (b. 1886)
- June 24: Raúl Borges , Colombian composer, guitarist and music educator (b. 1882)
- June 24: Theodor Heckel , German Protestant theologian and bishop (b. 1894)
- June 26: Peter Horn , German politician (b. 1891)
- June 26: Françoise Dorléac , French actress (born 1942)
- June 26: Romano Perdomi , Italian racing driver
- June 28: Oskar Maria Graf , German writer (b. 1894)
- June 29: Jayne Mansfield , American film actress (b. 1933)
July
- Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev , Russian mathematician and logician (born 1909) July 7:
- Vivien Leigh , British film and stage actress (born 1913) July 8:
- Eugen Fischer , German physician, anthropologist and racial hygienist (b. 1874) July 9:
- Hovhannes Baptist Apcar , Persian Bishop (b. 1884) July 9:
- Marguerite-Fadhma Aït Mansour Amrouche , Algerian singer (b. 1882) July 9:
- Stefan Bolesław Poradowski , Polish composer (b. 1902) July 9:
- July 10: Willy Andreas , German historian (b. 1884)
- July 12: Otto Nagel , Berlin painter (b. 1894)
- July 13: Joachim Schöne , German politician (b. 1906)
- July 13: Tom Simpson , English racing cyclist (b. 1937)
- July 13: Yoshino Hideo , Japanese writer (b. 1902)
- July 14: Thomas Otto Hermannus Achelis , German high school teacher, historian and author (b. 1887)
- July 14: Ion N. Teodorescu , Romanian poet and writer (b. 1880)
- July 17: Cyril Ring , American actor (b. 1892)
- July 17: John Coltrane , American jazz musician (saxophone) (b. 1926)
- July 18: Humberto Castelo Branco , President of Brazil (b. 1897)
- July 19: Karl Hartung , sculptor (b. 1908)
- July 20: Heinrich Steinbeck , Swiss composer and conductor (born 1884)
- July 21: Albert John Luthuli , South African politician and religious leader (b. 1898)
- July 21: Basil Rathbone , American actor (b. 1892)
- July 21: Thomas Dehler , German politician (born 1897)
- July 22: Hektor Ammann , Swiss historian and archivist (b. 1894)
- July 22: Carl Sandburg , American poet (b. 1878)
- July 23: Ahmet Kutsi Tecer , Turkish poet and politician (b. 1901)
- July 24 – Waddy Kuehl , American football player (b. 1893)
- July 24: Thomas Tien Ken-sin , Archbishop of Peiping and Cardinal (b. 1890)
- July 25: Joseph Cardijn , founder of International Christian Worker Youth (b. 1882)
- July 25: Tommy Duncan , American country music singer (b. 1911)
- July 25: Paul Hennicke , German Nazi politician, SS group leader (b. 1883)
- July 26: Milán Füst , Hungarian writer (b. 1888)
- July 26: Matthijs Vermeulen , Dutch composer (b. 1888)
- July 27: Hans Schomburgk , German explorer of Africa and pioneer of wildlife film (b. 1880)
- July 27: Arthur Werner , German politician (b. 1877)
- July 28: Doggie Julian , American basketball coach (b. 1901)
- July 30: Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach , head of the Krupp concern (b. 1907)
- 30 July: Antonio Drapier , Archbishop and Apostolic Delegate Emeritus for Indochina (b. 1891)
- July 30: Marios Varvoglis , Greek composer (b. 1885)
- July 31: Fritz Kühn , German photographer, sculptor and blacksmith (b. 1910)
- July 31: Richard Kuhn , Austro-German chemist (born 1900)
August
- Lewis H. Brereton , US Lieutenant General (b. 1890) August 1:
- Paul Löbe , German politician (b. 1875) August 3:
- Frederick Zimmermann , American double bass player and music teacher (b. 1906) August 3:
- Gustave Samazeuilh , French composer and music critic (b. 1877) August 4:
- Lajos Áprily , Hungarian poet and translator (b. 1887) August 6:
- Joe Orton , British playwright (b. 1933) August 9:
- Rudolf Vogel , German actor (b. 1900) August 9:
- Adolf Wohlbrück , Austrian actor (b. 1896) August 9:
- August 10: Joshua B. Lee , American politician (b. 1892)
- August 14: Bob Anderson , British motorcycle and automobile racer (b. 1931)
- August 14: Hans Joachim Moser , German musicologist and singer (born 1889)
- August 15: René Magritte , Belgian Surrealist painter (b. 1898)
- August 15: Manuel Prado y Ugarteche , President of Peru (b. 1889)
- August 17: Hermann Keller , German church musician and musicologist (b. 1885)
- August 17: Philippe Nabaa , Jordanian Archbishop of Beirut (b. 1907)
- August 18: Paule Maurice , French composer (b. 1910)
- August 19: Hugo Gernsback , American publisher and writer (b. 1884)
- August 19: Pierre Chami , Lebanese Archbishop (b. 1890)
- August 22: Junie Astor , French actress (born 1911)
- August 22: Gregory Goodwin Pincus , American physiologist (b. 1903)
- August 22: Johnny Simone , French entrepreneur and racing driver (b. 1913)
- August 23: Georges Berger , Belgian racing driver (b. 1918)
- August 23: Nate Cartmell , American track and field athlete and Olympian (b. 1883)
- August 24: Hermann Grapow , German Egyptologist (b. 1885)
- August 25: Stanley Melbourne Bruce , Australian politician, diplomat and Prime Minister (b. 1883)
- August 25: Paul Muni , American actor (b. 1895)
- August 25: George Lincoln Rockwell , American military officer and founder of the American Nazi Party (b. 1918)
- August 26: Albert Schnettler , professor of business administration (b. 1896)
- August 27: Henri-Georges Adam , French university lecturer, painter, printmaker, sculptor and designer (b. 1904)
- August 27: Eduard Edert , Schleswig-Holstein politician and author (b. 1880)
- August 27: Brian Epstein , British businessman, manager of the Beatles (b. 1934)
- August 29: Emmy Brode , German painter (b. 1890)
- August 29: Pedro Echavarría Lazala , Dominican flutist, music educator and composer (b. 1894)
- August 31: Samad Behrangi , Persian writer, teacher, journalist and civil rights activist (b. 1939)
- August 31: Tamara Bunke , guerrilla in Latin America, alongside Che Guevara (b. 1937)
- August 31: Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez , Cuban revolutionary (b. 1925)
- August 31: Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg , Soviet writer and journalist (b. 1891)
- August 31: Jerónimo Costa , Chilean painter (b. 1880)
September
- Ilse Koch , wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Karl Otto Koch (b. 1906) September 2:
- August Pepöck , Austrian composer and Kapellmeister (b. 1887) September 5:
- Kurt von Priesdorff , German Privy Councilor, military historian and author (b. 1881) September 5:
- Hugo Herrmann , German composer, organist and choirmaster (b. 1896) 7 September:
- Rex Stewart , American jazz cornetist (b. 1907) September 7:
- August Prüssing , German engineer (b. 1896) September 8:
- Harry Hines Woodring , American politician (b. 1890) September 9:
- September 11: Kurt Ulrich , German film producer (born 1905)
- September 13: Varian Fry , American journalist and smuggler in Vichy France (b. 1907)
- September 13: Frédéric Gilliard , Swiss architect and archaeologist (b. 1884)
- September 14: Abd al-Hakim Amr , Egyptian general of the United Arab Republic (b. 1919)
- September 14: Franz Stein , Lord Mayor of the City of Mainz (b. 1900)
- September 15: Hans Haug , Swiss composer (b. 1900)
- September 17: Jean Rolland , French automobile racer (b. 1935)
- September 18: John Cockcroft , English atomic physicist (b. 1897)
- September 19: Friedrich Herzfeld , German conductor, music writer and music critic (b. 1897)
- September 19: Zinaida Yevgenevna Serebryakova , Russian painter (b. 1884)
- September 20: Henri Mulet , French organist and composer (b. 1878)
- September 21: Johannes Hoffmann , German politician (b. 1890)
- September 22: Harald Quandt , German industrialist (b. 1921)
- September 25: Eduardo Aunós Pérez , Spanish diplomat and politician (b. 1894)
- 25 September: Stanisław Sosabowski , Polish general in World War II (b. 1892)
- September 27: Hilla von Rebay , Alsatian painter (b. 1890)
- September 27: Theodor Schwegler , Roman Catholic religious and chaplain (b. 1887)
- September 29: Carson McCullers , American writer (b. 1917)
October
- Jacob Picard , German poet (b. 1883) October 1:
- – Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig , American actor, author, animator, cartoonist and voice actor (b. 1892) October 3
- Woody Guthrie , American unionist and songwriter (b. 1912) October 3:
- Malcolm Sargent , English conductor (b. 1895) October 3:
- Walter Müller von Kulm , Swiss composer and music teacher (b. 1899) October 3:
- Carlo Hemmerling , Swiss composer, pianist and organist (b. 1903) October 3:
- Stanley C. Wilson , American politician (b. 1879) October 5:
- Norman Angell , British writer, publicist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1874) October 7:
- Vernon Phillips Watkins , Welsh lyric poet (b. 1906) October 8:
- Clement Attlee , British Prime Minister (b. 1883) October 8:
- Johan Schreiner , Norwegian historian (b. 1903) October 8:
- Ernesto Che Guevara , Argentine doctor and Cuban revolutionary (b. 1928) October 9:
- Cyril Norman Hinshelwood , British chemist, Nobel laureate (born 1897) October 9:
- André Maurois , French writer and literary scholar (b. 1885) October 9:
- Norman S. Case , American politician (b. 1888) October 9:
- October 10: John Frank Akers , American botanist (b. 1906)
- October 11: Franz Asboth , Austrian politician (b. 1902)
- October 11: Halina Poświatowska , Polish poet (born 1935)
- October 11: Stanley Morison , English typographer (b. 1889)
- 12 October: Günther Blumentritt , German Wehrmacht infantry general (b. 1892)
- October 14: Marcel Aymé , French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)
- October 15: Eduard Hütter , Austrian architect and set designer (b. 1880)
- October 15: Gigi Meroni , Italian footballer (born 1943)
- October 16: Aimé Vassiaux , French automobile racer (b. 1890)
- October 17: Pu Yi , last Emperor of China (b. 1906)
- October 18: Wilhelm Schwinn , German politician (b. 1897)
- October 20: Yoshida Shigeru , Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
- October 21: Fritz ter Meer , German chemist (b. 1884)
- October 21: Ejnar Hertzsprung , Danish astronomer (b. 1873)
- October 24: Heino Gaze , German composer and lyricist (born 1908)
- October 25: Árpád Vajda , Hungarian chess player (b. 1896)
- October 25: Heinrich Eduard Jacob , German and American journalist and writer (b. 1889)
- October 27: Theodor Steltzer , German politician and first Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1885)
- October 27: Kurt Schneider , German psychiatrist (born 1887)
- October 29: Julien Duvivier , French director (b. 1896)
- October 30: Hubert Biernat , German politician and state minister (b. 1907)
- October 30: Hans Theodor David , German-American musicologist (born 1902)
- October 31 – George Salter , German-American commercial graphic artist and set designer (b. 1897)
November
- Alexander Craig Aitken , New Zealand mathematician (b. 1895) November 3:
- Henri Guibert , French racing driver (b. 1883) November 4:
- Robert Nighthawk , American blues musician (born 1909) November 5:
- John Nance Garner , 32nd Vice President of the United States (b. 1868) November 7:
- Ian Raby , British motor racing driver (b. 1921) November 7:
- Charles Bickford , American actor (b. 1891) November 9:
- 11 November: Franz Kremer , first president of 1. FC Köln (b. 1905)
- November 12: Stanisław Adamski , Polish Bishop of Katowice and politician (b. 1875)
- November 13: Gaudencio E. Antonino , Filipino entrepreneur, business executive and politician (b. 1909)
- November 15: Michael Adams , X-15 test aircraft test pilot (b. 1930)
- November 16: James Archey , American trombonist and bandleader (b. 1902)
- November 17: Aram Merangulyan , Armenian composer and conductor (b. 1902)
- November 18: Henri Nibelle , French organist and composer (b. 1883)
- November 19: Casimir Funk , Polish biochemist, coined the term vitamins in 1913 (b. 1884)
- November 19: George Lawrence Stone , American drummer and drum teacher (b. 1886)
- November 22: Edvin Kallstenius , Swedish composer (b. 1881)
- November 22: Pavel Korin , Russian icon, history, landscape and portrait painter (b. 1892)
- November 23: Otto Erich Deutsch , Austrian musicologist (b. 1883)
- November 25: Erich Dunskus , German actor (born 1890)
- November 25: Heinz Hilpert , German theater director (b. 1890)
- November 26: Johannes Hanssen , Norwegian composer, conductor and military musician (b. 1874)
- November 27: Max Dreher , German organ builder (b. 1886)
- November 28: Léon M'ba , first President of the State of Gabon (b. 1902)
- November 28: Willy Maertens , German actor, theater director and theater manager (born 1893)
- 30 November: Josias zu Waldeck und Pyrmont , SS Obergruppenfuhrer (b. 1896)
December
- John Gordon Aitken , Scottish footballer (b. 1897) December 1:
- Max Neufeld , Austrian actor and film director (b. 1887) December 2:
- Francis Cardinal Spellman , Archbishop of New York (b. 1889) 2 December:
- Annette Kolb , German writer (b. 1870) December 3:
- Daniel Jones , English Anglist and phonetician (b. 1881) December 4:
- Oswald Rothaug , German jurist (b. 1897) December 4
- Philipp Holl , union secretary and mayor of Wiesbaden (b. 1879) December 6:
- Adolf Rosenberger , German racing driver and businessman (b. 1900) December 6:
- Friedhelm Missmahl , German politician (b. 1904) December 7:
- December 10: Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha Luz , Brazilian composer (b. 1896)
- December 10: Otis Redding , American soul singer (b. 1941)
- December 12: Hans Merten , German politician (b. 1908)
- December 13: Ernst Vierkötter , German long-distance swimmer (b. 1901)
- 16 December: Antonio Cardinal Riberi , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1897)
- December 19: Harold Holt , Australian politician and Prime Minister (b. 1908)
- December 20: Benno Adolph , German physician (b. 1912)
- 21 December: William Palmer , British walker (b. 1882)
- December 21: Louis Washkansky , the first human with a second heart (b. 1913)
- December 23: Alfredo Cardinal Pacini , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1888)
- December 27: Friedrich Pfister , German philologist (born 1883)
- 27 December: Julius Schaub , German military and Adolf Hitler's longtime personal chief adjutant (b. 1898)
- December 29: Emma Gertrud Eckermann , German painter, printmaker and art teacher (b. 1879)
- December 29: Omkarnath Thakur , Indian singer, music educator and scholar (b. 1897)
- December 30: Bert Berns , American music producer and composer (b. 1929)
- December 30: Paul Gibbert , German politician (b. 1898)
- December 31: Dore Hoyer , German dancer and choreographer (b. 1911)
day unknown
- Harry William Hugh Armytage , British artillery officer (born 1890)
- Eduardo Fornarini , Italian music teacher and composer (born 1887)
- Gerónimo Baqueiro Foster , Mexican musicologist, composer, flutist and oboist (born 1898)
Nobel prizes
- Physics : Hans Bethe
- Chemistry : Manfred Eigen , Ronald George Wreyford Norrish , and George Porter
- Medicine : Ragnar Granite , Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald
- Literature : Miguel Angel Asturias
No Nobel Peace Prize was awarded.
music
- Sandie Shaw wins the 12th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on April 8 in Vienna with the song Puppet on a String for Great Britain
- List of number one hits in Germany (1967)
- The most important albums of the "magic summer of '67" include The Beatles' Sgt . Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Jefferson Airplane 's Surrealistic Pillow , Pink Floyd 's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn , The Rolling Stones ' Their Satanic Majesties Request , Are You Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix Experience and the Doors ' self-titled debut album .
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