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The first manned moon landing by Apollo 11 | Willy Brandt becomes Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. |
Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. |
1969 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2722 |
Armenian calendar | 1417-1418 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1961–1962 |
Badi calendar | 125-126 |
Bengali calendar | 1375-1376 |
Berber calendar | 2919 |
Buddhist calendar | 2513 |
Burmese calendar | 1331 |
Byzantine calendar | 7477-7478 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4665-4666 or 4605-4606 |
- 60 year cycle |
Earth-Monkey (戊申, 45) - |
French revolution calendar |
- CLXXVII CLXXVIII 177-178 |
Hebrew calendar | 5729-5730 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2025-2026 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1891-1892 |
Iranian calendar | 1347-1348 |
Islamic calendar | 1388-1389 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 44 |
- Kōki | 2629 |
Coptic calendar | 1685-1686 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4302 |
- Juche era | 58 |
Minguo calendar | 58 |
Modern Olympics | XIX |
Seleucid calendar | 2280-2281 |
Thai solar calendar | 2512 |
The year 1969 marks the end of the 1960s. The first manned moon landing in human history was particularly influential for this year . Other significant events were changes of government in Germany, the USA and France. The brutal murders of the Manson Family in California and the Vietnam War also dominated the scene. Musically and culturally, the Woodstock Festival was remembered.
Events
Politics and world events
- January 1st : Ludwig von Moos becomes President of Switzerland again .
- January 16 : Student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague to protest against the crackdown on the Prague Spring by Warsaw Pact troops .
- January 20 : Republican Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States . He replaces Lyndon B. Johnson .
- January 20 : Ellinor von Puttkamer becomes the first woman in the history of the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany to become ambassador . She heads the German representation at the Strasbourg Council of Europe .
- February 8 : The so-called Allende meteorite bursts over the Mexican state of Chihuahua . One of the many falling debris just barely missed the post office in Pueblito de Allende, which led to the name being given.
- March 2 : Incident at Ussuri - border conflict between China and the Soviet Union
- March 5 : Gustav Heinemann (SPD) is elected President of the Federal Republic of Germany .
- March 15 : After another border conflict , Soviet and Chinese soldiers fight on the Ussuri River .
- March 18 : Democratic Republic of the Congo . Investment promotion agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and what was then Zaire
- March 31 : The Federal Republic of Germany concludes a framework agreement with Argentina on cooperation in scientific research and technological development.
- April 28 : Charles de Gaulle resigns from the office of President after losing the vote in the referendum on Senate and regional reform .
- May 5 : Queen Elizabeth II makes her first and so far only state visit to Austria . It is the first official British state visit to Austria in 61 years.
- June 15 : France . Georges Pompidou becomes the new President.
- June 28 : New York : Stonewall Uprising on Christopher Street ( Christopher Street Day )
- July 14th : Outbreak of the football war between Honduras and El Salvador
- July 18 : Edward Kennedy gets off the road on a bridge in Chappaquiddick Island, and his companion Mary Jo Kopechne is killed.
- July 20 : First manned moon landing of Apollo 11
- July 21 : Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to set foot on the moon at 3:56 p.m. CET .
- July 22nd : The aged general and dictator Francisco Franco appoints Juan Carlos as his successor at the helm of Spain . The Cortes Generales approved this and gave the chosen one the title of Prince of Spain .
- August 13 : Severe border confrontation between the Soviet Union and China
- August 14th : British troops deployed in Northern Ireland
- August 16 : Presidential election in India : VV Giri is elected President.
- September 1st : Revolution in Libya
- September 1st : In the Federal Republic of Germany the 1st Criminal Law Amendment Act comes into force. This also results in a change to Section 175 , whereby same-sex sexual contact between adult men (at that time aged 21 and over) was no longer punishable for the first time since 1532 in the entire area belonging to Germany.
- September 26th : In Bolivia , General Alfredo Ovando Candía is reinstated as President in a coup .
- October 15 : 250,000 people protest the Vietnam War in Washington, DC .
- October 21 : Willy Brandt , after the victory of his SPD in the Bundestag elections on 28 September by the Bundestag to Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany elected.
- November 9th : Attempted a bomb attack on the Jewish parish hall in Berlin by the left- wing terrorist group Tupamaros West Berlin
- November 19 : Apollo 12 lands on the moon , Charles Conrad is the third person to set foot on the moon.
- November 24th : Gustav Heinemann is the first German Federal President to visit the Netherlands
- December 3 : The Barrington Tops National Park is created in New South Wales, Australia .
- December 5 : The US magazine Life reports on the My Lai massacre, shocking the world public.
- December 12 : 17 people are killed and 88 seriously injured in the bomb attack on Piazza Fontana in Milan.
- December 17 : In Chile to parties and groups include the left-wing spectrum to electoral coalition Popular Unity together to go for a change of power.
- Act of Free Choice in Western New Guinea
economy
- March 31 : In the Aachen coal mining area , the Gouley mine in Morsbach , which was mentioned in 1599, is shut down.
- May 1st : The eurocheque system can be used by check issuers for the first time and across borders. Payments by check are up to a height of 400 on presentation of its ec-card German Mark (or its equivalent in foreign currency ) through its bank to the payee against upon redemption guaranteed .
- October 3 : The Berlin TV tower at Alexanderplatz opens.
- October 3 : The Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund decides to introduce special drawing rights as an artificial currency into the international financial system.
- November 3 : Construction of the Vienna subway begins at Karlsplatz station.
- CompuServe is founded.
- The first federal treasury bills are issued.
- George Soros founds the Quantum Funds .
science and technology
- February 9 : First flight of the so-called Boeing 747 jumbo jet .
- March 2 : first flight of a prototype of the supersonic airliner Concorde .
- May 17 : As part of the Soviet Venera missions , the Venera 6 lander reaches the planet Venus . It sends data for 51 minutes before atmospheric pressure destroys it.
- May 25th : Thor Heyerdahl and his crew set off on the papyrus boat Ra from Safi in Morocco to cross the Atlantic . He wants to show a possible settlement of America.
- June 19 : Alfred Gütgemann performs the first liver transplant in Germany on a patient at the University Hospital Bonn .
- July 5 : The Chinese People's Liberation Army tests the Shenyang J-8 interceptor on its first flight.
- July 18th : Thor Heyerdahl has to cancel his project to reach the Caribbean with the papyrus boat Ra from Africa. The boat begins to dissolve relatively close to Barbados .
- 18 / 20 August : The project STORMFURY is in Hurricane Debbie silver scattered. The intensity of the hurricane decreases after this “vaccination” by 31% on the first day and by 18% on the second day.
- September 5th : Bielefeld University is founded
- October 27 : The Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize for Economics is awarded for the first time. The announced award winners are Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch and Jan Tinbergen , who developed econometric models.
- October 29th : In the University of California in Los Angeles , the first message was sent via two distant computers, and the Internet was born.
- October 29 : On the island of Seymour is the Marambio Base , the largest Argentine research station in the Antarctic founded.
- November: Foundation of ARPANET , the forerunner of the Internet
- November 8 : The first German satellite named Azur is launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California . It serves as an introduction to German space research.
- November 23 : The researcher Jonathan Beckwith and his team at Harvard University succeed in isolating a single gene from the bacterial species Escherichia coli . He is setting a milestone in genetics .
- The first German atomic clock CS1 (Cesium-Eins) is put into operation in the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig.
Culture
- January 3 : ZDF begins broadcasting the television series Der Kommissar with Erik Ode in the title role.
- January 18 : The first ZDF hit parade is broadcast live on television.
- February 26 : The film Z , a political thriller by director Constantin Costa-Gavras , is shown for the first time in France.
- March 9 : The first Peter Alexander Show can be seen on ZDF.
- March 13th : Cultural agreement between Germany and Ecuador . In force since March 22, 1970
- March 16 : World premiere of the ballet The Taming of the Shrew by John Cranko (libretto, choreography) and Kurt-Heinz Stolze (music) by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart .
- March 20 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and India . In force since September 11, 1969
- April 30th : World premiere of the opera Maître Pathelin or Die Muttonkomödie by Rainer Kunad at the State Opera in Dresden
- May 15th : World premiere of the opera The Fairy Tale of the Beautiful Lily by Giselher Klebe at the Schwetzingen Festival
- June 9 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Brazil . In force since December 17, 1970
- June 20 : World premiere of the opera Die Teufel von Loudun by Krzysztof Penderecki at the Hamburg State Opera
- July 1 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Senegal
- July 28 : Cultural agreement between Germany and Yugoslavia . In force since January 26, 1970
- August 14 : In the West German cinemas running Sergio Leone - Western " Once Upon a Time in the West " at. Ennio Morricone's music impresses moviegoers
- September 24 : The Concerto for Group and Orchestra is performed for the first time by Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Malcolm Arnold at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
- September 25 : World premiere of the opera Two hundred thousand thalers by Boris Blacher at the Deutsche Oper Berlin
- November 3 : The Pasadena Roof Orchestra is founded in London .
- November 24th : Urmel from the ice in the Augsburger Puppenkiste on TV
- December 1 : Henri Verneuil's gangster film The Sicilian Clan premieres in France .
- December 6th : During a free concert by the Rolling Stones on Altamont Speedway near San Francisco, the Hells Angels hired as stewards stab an 18-year-old spectator in self-defense. Three other people die in accidents.
- December 13 : World premiere of the opera The Story of Aucassin and Nicolette by Günter Bialas at the Cuvilliés Theater in Munich
- December 13th : The first German full-length animated film The Conference of Animals , based on the book of the same name by Erich Kästner , is released in German cinemas.
- December 19 : World premiere of the opera Lanzelot by Paul Dessau at the German State Opera
- December 19 : The feature film Easy Rider , by and with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda , has its premiere in cinemas in the Federal Republic of Germany. The premiere was on May 8th at the Cannes Film Festival .
- December 20 : The first episode of the game show Wünsch Dir was with the moderators Dietmar Schönherr and Vivi Bach , which was designed by ORF , can be followed on television. The audience can take part with the light test.
- December 31 : The Hamburg Star Club , made legendary by the performances of the Beatles , closes.
- Opening of the archive of social democracy
- The Ministry of Culture bans Immendorff's LIDL action program . Immendorff is expelled from the academy because of the "LIDL" campaigns.
- The first season of Monty Python's Flying Circus goes on the air on the BBC .
- Foundation of the College of the Atlantic
music
- January 12th : Led Zeppelin release their debut album Led Zeppelin .
- January 18 : First broadcast of the ZDF hit parade
- January 30th : The Beatles play their final public concert on the roof of Apple Studios in London's Savile Row.
- March 29th : At the 14th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Madrid there are four winners:
- Salomé , who competed for Spain, with the song Vivo cantando ,
- Lulu , who ran for Great Britain, with the song Boom Bang-A-Bang ,
- Lenny Kuhr , who competed for the Netherlands, with the song De troubadour ,
- Frida Boccara , who competed for France, with the song Un jour, un enfant .
- June 6th : Elton John releases his debut album Empty Sky .
- 15. - 18th August (planned until August 17): Woodstock Music and Art Festival
- The British heavy metal band Judas Priest is founded.
- The British pop / rock band Supertramp is formed.
- List of the number one hits in Germany (1969)
society
- January 20 : Two gunmen invade a munitions depot of the Bundeswehr in the Saarland Lebach and commit the sensational soldiers murder of Lebach . The perpetrators are later arrested unsolved after a search call on the ZDF broadcast Aktenzeichen XY ...
- March 20th : The "Beatles" member John Lennon and the artist Yoko Ono get married in Gibraltar . The paths of the band slowly start to separate.
- June 17th : The sex education atlas for the newly introduced subject sex education in German schools is presented. The textbook triggers violent pros and cons from those interested in sexual ethics .
- 9 / 10 August : The Manson Family goes to the Tate - LaBianca a -Morden in history.
religion
- June 10 : The Federation of Evangelical Churches in the GDR is established. The participation of the regional churches there in the EKD had been made more and more difficult by the state since 1957.
- Joseph Höffner becomes Archbishop of Cologne
Disasters
- January 21 : Lucens , Switzerland : After a short period of operation, a momentous nuclear incident occurred in the Lucens reactor when, after problems with the cooling system, a partial core meltdown occurred. The accident is now classified as a level 5 event on the INES scale.
- January 28 : Uncontrolled effluent oil from a Unocal - drilling platform in the Santa Barbara Channel causes oil spill on the coast and the four northern Channel Islands before California .
- March 16 : Maracaibo , Venezuela . A Venezuelan Douglas DC-8 with 83 people on board crashes in a suburb. 155 people die, 100 are injured
- June 25 : Lenzen (Elbe) , GDR (today's Brandenburg): Gas explosion in a gas well, in which one man died and six were seriously injured, whereupon the drilling for natural gas in this area was stopped.
- July 25 : Earthquake of unknown magnitude in the People's Republic of China , killing around 3,000
- August 17 : Level 5 Hurricane Camille hits the US Gulf Coast, killing 256 lives.
- October 26 : Bosnia and Herzegovina : At 3:36 p.m. (Universal Time), Banja Luka is hit by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9.
- October 27 : Bosnia and Herzegovina : At 8:10 a.m. (world time), Banja Luka is hit by another earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4. The quake claims 20 lives. Around 64,000 people become homeless. A large number of buildings are damaged or destroyed. Including 15 schools, the town hall and a textile factory, from which chemicals leak and contaminate the groundwater.
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- March: The Austrian Karl Schranz finishes the 1969 ski season as the overall World Cup winner.
- April 27th : The Japanese Shigeo Itō becomes table tennis world champion in the men's singles in Munich .
- June 14 : After the German soccer championship , FC Bayern Munich also wins the DFB Cup .
- June 17th : Boris Spasski becomes tenth world chess champion by winning the competition over Tigran Petrosyan .
- July 12th : The British motorcycle world champion Bill Ivy had a serious crash in training for the GDR Grand Prix at the Sachsenring and succumbed to serious injuries a little later.
- August: 1st international parachute jumping in the Rosenaustadion .
- September 7th : the last international Gaisberg race near Salzburg takes place.
- October 19 : The Scot Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion for the first time in a Matra-Ford.
- October 22 : The German national soccer team qualified for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico with a 3-2 win against Scotland in Hamburg .
- November 19 : The Brazilian soccer star Pelé , who plays for FC Santos , scores the thousandth goal of his club career.
Born
January
- January 1 : Andrea Ashworth , English author and literary scholar
- January 1st : Yvonne Sciò , Italian actress
- January 1 : Verne Troyer , American actor († 2018 )
- January 2nd : Chalid Abdulaziz al-'Aid , Saudi Arabian show jumper
- January 2nd : Lorenz Funk jr. , German ice hockey player
- January 2 : Patrick Huard , Canadian actor
- January 2 : Christy Turlington , American model
- January 3 : Ingo Brosch , German actor
- January 3 : James Carter , American tenor saxophonist
- January 3 : Marie Darrieussecq , French writer
- January 3 : Oliver Janich , German journalist, author and politician
- January 3rd : Michael Schumacher , German Formula 1 racing driver
- January 4th : Julio Aparicio Díaz , Spanish torero
- January 4th : Luise Kinseher , German cabaret artist and actress
- January 4th : Markus Seidel , German writer
- January 5th : Petra Behle , German biathlete
- January 5 : Chuck Campbell , Canadian actor
- January 5th : Brian Hugh Warner , musician and member of the rock band Marilyn Manson
- January 6 : Nicholas Mark A'Hern , Australian walker
- January 6 : Aron Eisenberg , American actor († 2019 )
- January 6th : Stephan Harlander , German basketball coach
- January 6 : Norman Reedus , American actor
- January 7th : Cristián Gálvez , German author, coach, moderator, speaker and entrepreneur
- January 7th : Hsu Chia-cheng , former Taiwanese soccer player
- January 8 : Qanat Bosymbayev , Kazakh politician
- January 8th : Teresa Salgueiro , Portuguese singer
- January 10 : Andreas Reinke , German soccer player
- January 11 : Eden Atwood , American jazz singer and actress
- January 12th : Dickson Dee , Chinese sound artist, DJ, turntablist, composer, music producer and organizer
- January 12 : Eduardo Hurtado , Ecuadorian soccer player
- January 12 : Robert Prosinečki , Croatian football player
- January 12th : Holger Zastrow , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
- January 13th : Stefania Belmondo , Italian cross-country skier
- January 13th : Stephen Hendry , Scottish snooker player
- January 14th : Dave Grohl , American musician
- January 14th : Marek Kalbus , German opera and concert singer
- January 14th : Sergio Fabián Zárate , Argentinian football player
- January 15 : Meret Becker , German actress and singer
- January 15 : Wita Pavlysch , Ukrainian athlete
- January 16 : Axel Britz , German soccer player
- January 16 : Roy Jones Jr. , American boxer
- January 17th : Naveen Andrews , British actor
- January 17th : Tiësto , Dutch DJ and producer
- January 18 : Dave Bautista , American professional wrestler
- January 19 : Predrag Mijatović , Serbian football player
- January 19 : Oliver Mommsen , German actor
- January 20th : Emil Anka , Hungarian chess grandmaster and referee
- January 21 : Mike Arnold , German ski jumper
- January 21 : Birgit Peter , German handball player
- January 22nd : Olivia d'Abo , British actress and singer
- January 22nd : Santiago Aguilera , Spanish beach volleyball player
- January 22nd : Markus Eggler , Swiss curling athlete
- January 23 : Thomas Askebrand , Swedish football coach
- January 23 : Thomas Kumm , German speed skater
- January 23 : Stefano Zanini , Italian cyclist
- January 24th : Franz-Josef Dickhut , German Go player
- January 25th : Tanja Brakensiek , German politician
- January 26th : Maarten den Bakker , Dutch cyclist
- January 26th : Leif Schrader , German politician
- January 27 : Éliette Abécassis , French writer
- January 27 : Patton Oswalt , American actor
- January 28th : Edi Glieder , Austrian soccer player
- January 28 : Gerrit Grass , German actor
- January 28th : Steffen Menze , German soccer player and coach
- January 28 : Kathryn Morris , American actress
- January 29th : Lara Magoni , Italian ski racer
- January 29th : Mirjam Müntefering , German writer
- January 29 : Saša Obradović , Serbian basketball player and coach
- January 29th : Daniel Zupanc , Austrian photographer
- January 30th : Alexei Drejew , Russian chess player
- January 30th : Antje Pieper , German presenter and reporter
- January 31 : Bill Huizenga , American politician
- January 31 : Katjuša Pušnik , Slovenian ski racer
February
- February 1 : Dwayne Adway , American actor
- February 1st : Ange Barde , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- February 1 : Gabriel Batistuta , Argentine soccer player
- February 1 : Brian Krause , American actor
- February 1 : Joshua Redman , American jazz saxophonist
- February 1 : Victor Smolski , Belarusian musician
- February 2 : João Aguardela , Portuguese singer and musician († 2009 )
- February 2nd : Dana International , Israeli pop singer
- February 2nd : Knut Kircher , German soccer referee
- February 2 : Christian Ortner , Austrian historian
- February 3rd : Jean-Pierre Bohard , French Nordic combined skier
- February 3 : Patrick Cramer , German chemist
- February 4th : Claudia Michelsen , German actress
- February 5 : Karsten Schwanke , German meteorologist and television presenter
- February 5th : Michael Sheen , Welsh actor
- February 6 : Scott Amendola , American jazz drummer and band leader
- February 6 : David Hayter , American voice actor, actor and screenwriter
- February 7th : Chris Minh Doky , Danish jazz bassist
- February 7th : Viktor Maigurov , Russian biathlete
- February 9th : Pavel Tonkow , Russian cyclist
- February 10 : Marc-Henric Asbeck , German entrepreneur
- February 10 : Carsten Knop , German journalist and author
- February 11 : Jennifer Aniston , American actress
- February 12 : Darren Aronofsky , American film director and screenwriter
- February 12th : Steve Backley , British athlete
- February 13 : Patrícia Filler Amorim , Brazilian swimmer
- February 13 : Erkan Arıkan , German television presenter
- February 13 : Holger Müller , German comedian and actor
- February 13 : Kate Pace , Canadian ski racer
- February 13th : Frédéric Sausset , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
- February 14 : Susanne Gannott , German actress and singer
- February 15th : Anja Andersen , Danish handball player and trainer
- February 15 : Clemens Aufderklamm , Austrian screenwriter and actor
- February 15 : Birdman , American rapper
- February 15 : Katja Thimm , German journalist
- February 15th : Fulvio Valbusa , Italian cross-country skier
- February 16 : Fermín Cacho , Spanish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion
- February 16 : Zlatko Perica , Croatian guitarist
- February 16 : Dimas Teixeira , Portuguese soccer player
- February 17th : Željko Mavrović , Croatian boxer
- February 18 : Alexander Mogilny , Russian ice hockey player
- February 19 : Pejman Hadadi , Iranian percussionist, composer and music teacher
- February 19 : Tom Mikulla , German actor
- February 19 : Ståle Storløkken , Norwegian jazz musician
- February 20 : Siniša Mihajlović , Serbian football player and coach
- February 21 : William David , French racing car driver
- February 21 : Corey Harris , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- February 21 : Petra Kronberger , Austrian ski racer
- February 22nd : Peter Auwärter , German table tennis player
- February 22nd : Hans Klok , Dutch magician
- February 22nd : Brian Laudrup , Danish football player
- February 22nd : Marc Wilmots , Belgian football player and coach
- February 23 : Michael Campbell , New Zealand golf professional
- February 23 : Chris Reifert , American drummer and singer
- February 23 : Maria Vassilakou , Austrian politician
- February 23 : Yūji Hirayama , Japanese extreme climber
- February 24th : Dirk Borchardt , German actor
- February 24th : Katrin Schreiter , German athlete
- February 25 : Solveig August , German actress
- February 25 : Paolo "Paul" Vincenzo Trimboli , Australian football player
- February 26 : Hendrik Ochel , German handball player
- February 27 : Frank Arens , German handball player
- February 27 : Moisés Carlos Atisha Contreras , Chilean bishop
- February 27 : Gareth Llewellyn , Welsh rugby player
- February 28 : Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek , Austrian politician, member of the National Council
- February 28 : Butch Leitzinger , American racing car driver
March
- March 1st : Javier Bardem , Spanish actor
- March 2nd : Ben Oxenbould , Australian actor and comedian
- March 4th : Pierluigi Casiraghi , Italian football player and coach
- March 4th : Jonas-Philipp Dallmann , German architect and writer
- March 4th : Matthias Kahle , German rally driver
- March 4th : Francis Repellin , French Nordic combined skier
- March 4th : Henrik Rödl , German basketball player
- March 5th : MC Solaar , French rap and hip-hop musician
- March 6 : Andrea Elson , American actress
- March 6 : Malahat Nasibova , Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist
- March 6 : Amy Pietz , American actress
- March 7th : Klaus Hüppchen , German handball player and coach
- March 7th : Hideki Noda , Japanese racing car driver
- March 7th : Jacqueline Vogt , Liechtenstein ski racer
- March 8th : Martina Accola , Swiss ski racer
- March 8th : Stefan Zahradnik , German economist
- March 9 : Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf , American basketball player
- March 9th : Izaline Calister , Caribbean-Dutch musician
- March 9 : La India , Puerto Rican salsa singer
- March 10 : Rolando Gutierrez Andaya, Jr. , Filipino politician
- March 10 : Paget Brewster , American actress
- March 10 : Hany Guda Ramzy , Egyptian soccer player
- March 10 : Ximena Restrepo , Colombian athlete
- March 12th : Graham Coxon , guitarist and painter
- March 12th : Beyazıt Öztürk , Turkish showmaster, actor and entertainer
- March 13 : Luca Bucci , Italian football goalkeeper
- March 13 : Michael Fischer-Art , German painter and sculptor
- March 14th : Axel Hager , German volleyball player
- March 16 : Judah Friedlander , American actor and comedian
- March 16 : Alina Petrovna Ivanova , Russian athlete
- March 16 : Markus Lanz , Italian-German television presenter
- March 17th : Werner Hasler , Swiss jazz trumpeter
- March 17th : Alexander McQueen , British fashion designer († 2010 )
- March 17th : Bernhard Röthlisberger , Swiss clarinetist and music teacher
- March 18th : Vasyl Ivanchuk , Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- March 19 : Tuulikki Laesson , Estonian chess player
- March 19 : Connor Trinneer , American actor
- March 20 : Simon Busuttil , Maltese politician
- March 21 : Ali Daei , Iranian soccer player
- March 21 : Michael Weiner , German football referee
- March 23 : Franz Stocher , Austrian track cyclist
- March 24 : Lisa Arrindell Anderson , American actress
- March 24th : Stephan Eberharter , Austrian ski racer
- March 24 : Ilir Meta , Albanian politician
- March 24 : Airton Barroso Oliveira , Brazilian-Belgian soccer player
- March 25 : Cathy Dennis , singer, songwriter and producer
- March 25 : Gregor Steinbrenner , German television presenter
- March 26th : Mahsun Kırmızıgül , Turkish singer
- March 27 : Gianluigi Lentini , Italian football player
- March 28 : Rodney Austin Atkins , American country singer
- March 28 : Brett Ratner , American director
- March 28th : Ingrid Stöckl , Austrian ski racer
- March 28th : Ilke Wyludda , German athlete
- March 29 : Kim Batten , American athlete
- March 29 : Patrick Schöpf , Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
- March 30 : Mark Astley , Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player
- March 30th : Troy Bayliss , Australian motorcycle racer
- March 31 : Frédéric Chassot , Swiss football player
- March 31 : Attik Kargar , German actor, cartoonist and author
- March 31 : Francesco Moriero , Italian football player and coach
April
- April 1st : Jean-Michel Bayle , French motorcycle racer
- April 1 : Urs Lehmann , Swiss ski racer
- April 1st : Manfred Weber-Wien , Austrian painter and draftsman
- April 2nd : Mariella Ahrens , German actress
- April 2 : José Miguel Sánchez , Cuban writer
- April 3 : Ben Mendelsohn , Australian actor and musician
- April 4th : Piotr Anderszewski , Polish pianist
- April 5 : Tomislav Piplica , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football goalkeeper
- April 5 : Stefan Romberg , German politician
- April 6 : Peter Boehringer , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
- April 6th : Philipp Peter , Austrian racing car driver
- April 6 : Paul Rudd , American actor
- April 7th : Marc Acardipane , German music producer and DJ
- April 8 : Kelvin Atkinson , American politician
- April 8 : Arabella Kiesbauer , German TV presenter
- April 8 : Lyane Leigh , German pop singer
- April 8th : Dulce Pontes , Portuguese singer
- April 9th : Linda Kisabaka , German athlete
- April 10th : Jochen Lettmann , German canoeist
- April 10 : Georg Nüßlein , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- April 11 : Timo Aaltonen , Finnish shot putter
- April 11th : Carsten Arriens , German tennis player
- April 11th : Michael von Grünigen , Swiss ski racer
- April 11th : Oriol Junqueras , Catalan historian, publicist and politician
- April 11th : Caren Miosga , German journalist and presenter
- April 11th : Chalee Tennison , American country singer
- April 12 : Lucas Radebe , South African soccer player
- April 14th : Jan Alston , Canadian-Swiss ice hockey player, coach and official
- April 14 : David J. Archibald , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- April 15 : Craig Andrew Foster , Australian soccer player
- April 15 : Jimmy Waite , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 16 : Thomas Scott Asbridge , English professor
- April 16 : Germán Burgos , Argentinian soccer player
- April 16 : Olivia Del Rio , Brazilian porn actress
- April 16 : Marcus Jehner , German ice hockey player
- April 17th : Kim Fisher , German singer and television presenter
- April 17th : Wadym Kulabuchow , Ukrainian ice hockey player
- April 17th : Oliver Piper , German actor
- April 18 : Thorsten Ehrig , German handball player
- April 18 : Anja Greb , German Taekwondo fighter and inline hockey and ice hockey player
- April 18 : Bettina Stucky , Swiss actress
- April 19 : Zsuzsa Polgár , Hungarian-American chess player
- April 19 : Stefanie Schuster , Austrian ski racer
- April 20 : Felix Baumgartner , Austrian former base jumper and extreme athlete
- April 20 : Marietta Slomka , German journalist
- April 21 : Toby Stephens , British actor
- April 23 : Kai Lentrodt , German actor
- April 24th : Melinda Clarke , American actress
- April 24th : Jan Stankiewicz , Swedish handball player
- April 25 : Gina Torres , American actress
- April 25 : Renée Zellweger , American actress
- April 28th : Athanasios Athanasiadis , Austrian journalist
- April 28th : Carl Rosenblad , Swedish racing car driver
- April 29 : Paul Adelstein , American actor
- April 29 : Bettina Gundermann , German writer
- April 29th : Markus Stangl , German chess grandmaster († 2020 )
- April 30th : Stephanie Forrester , former British duathlete
- April 30th : Hubert Haupt , German automobile racing driver
May
- May 1 : Wes Anderson , American film director
- May 6th : Manu Larcenet , French comic book artist and author
- May 7th : Marie Bäumer , German actress
- May 8 : Tarō Akebono , Japanese sumo wrestler
- May 9 : Jelena Andrejewa , Russian athlete
- May 10 : Dennis Bergkamp , Dutch soccer player
- May 10 : Hilary Lindh , American ski racer
- May 10 : Shary Reeves , German actress and presenter
- May 11 : Yasutaka Hinoi , Japanese racing car driver
- May 13 : Buckethead , American musician
- May 14 : Irinel Anghel , Romanian composer
- May 14 : Cate Blanchett , Australian film actress
- May 14 : Stephen DeCesare , American composer and singer
- May 14th : Stéphan Grégoire , French racing driver and entrepreneur
- May 15 : Michael Gudo , German biologist and philosopher
- May 15th : Jesper Nielsen , Danish entrepreneur
- May 15 : Emmitt Smith , American football player
- May 16 : Matthias Asche , German historian
- May 16 : David Boreanaz , American actor
- May 16 : Ursula Buschhorn , German actress
- May 16 : Marco Kurz , German soccer player and coach
- May 16 : Steve Lewis , American athlete
- May 17 : José Antonio Chamot , Argentinian soccer player
- May 18 : Sybille Gruner , German handball player
- May 18 : Thekla Krause , German soccer player
- May 18 : Helena Noguerra , Belgian singer, actress and writer
- May 19 : Thomas Vinterberg , Danish director
- May 20th : Simon Dolan , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
- May 20th : Laurent Dufaux , Swiss cyclist
- May 20th : Alberto Mancini , Argentine tennis player
- May 21 : Heorhij Gongadze , Ukrainian journalist († 2000 )
- May 21 : George LeMieux , American politician
- May 22 : Cathy McMorris Rodgers , American politician
- May 22nd : Jörg Roßkopf , German table tennis player
- May 23 : Laurent Aïello , French racing car driver
- May 23 : Natasha Arthy , Danish director, producer and screenwriter
- May 23 : Cathy Féchoz , French freestyle skier
- May 24th : Karin Bachmann , Swiss writer
- May 24th : Paolo Coloni , Italian racing driver and motorsport manager
- May 24 : Garett Maggart , American actor
- May 25th : Mariano Aguerre , Argentine polo player
- May 25 : Anne Heche , American actress
- May 28 : Werner Amon , Austrian politician
- May 28 : Eric Fish , German musician and singer from Subway to Sally
- May 30th : Bernd Flessner , German windsurfer
- May 31 : Mindi Abair , American saxophonist
- May 31 : Stefanie Dehnen , German chemist
June
- June 1st : André Bastian , German theater director, dramaturge, translator and author
- June 1st : Miranda Graf , 1st world champion in mini golf
- June 1st : Damon Minchella , British musician
- June 1 : Taylor St. Claire , American porn actress
- June 2 : Kurt Abbott , American baseball player
- June 2nd : Alexander Leipold , German wrestler
- June 2nd : Túlio Humberto Pereira da Costa , Brazilian soccer player
- June 4th : Zeresenay Alemseged , Ethiopian paleoanthropologist
- June 4th : Iwona Mironiuk , Polish pianist
- June 4th : Horatio Sanz , American actor and comedian
- June 6 : Len Barrie , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 6 : Fernando Redondo , Argentinian soccer player
- June 7th : Álex Aguinaga , Ecuadorian soccer player
- June 7th : Alina Astafei , German athlete
- June 7th : Siegbert Droese , German politician
- June 7th : Joachim , Prince of Denmark
- June 8 : George Adam , Scottish politician
- June 8 : Jörg Hartmann , German actor
- June 8 : David Sutcliffe , Canadian actor
- June 8th : Dariusz Wosz , German soccer player and coach
- June 10 : Andreas Maria Schwaiger , German actor and economist
- June 11 : Peter Dinklage , American actor
- June 11 : Matthias Maucksch , German soccer player and coach
- June 11 : Assif Tsahar , Israeli jazz musician
- June 12th : Heinz-Christian Strache , Austrian politician
- June 13 : Svetlana Vladimirovna Kriweljowa , Russian athlete
- June 14th : Steffi Graf , German tennis player
- June 14 : MC Ren , American rapper
- June 14th : Jackson Richardson , French handball player
- June 15 : Hatice Akyün , German journalist and writer
- June 15 : Ice Cube , American rap musician and film actor
- June 15 : Oliver Kahn , German soccer player
- June 15 : Uwe Scheuch , Austrian politician
- June 16 : Fabrizio Puglisi , Italian jazz bassist
- June 16 : Luís Tinoco , Portuguese composer and music teacher
- June 17th : Peter Rist , German musician and politician
- June 17th : Ulrike Schielke-Ziesing , German politician
- June 17th : Paul Tergat , Kenyan athlete
- June 17 : Ilya Vladimirovich Zymbalar , Ukrainian-Russian football player and coach († 2013 )
- June 18 : Dirk Brand , German drummer and music teacher
- June 19 : Tobias Barnerssoi , German ski racer
- June 19 : Thanh Lam , Vietnamese singer
- June 20 : Erkan Aki , Swiss tenor
- June 20 : MaliVai Washington , American tennis player
- June 21 : Lloyd Avery II , American actor († 2005 )
- June 21 : Harun Isa , Albanian football player
- June 21 : Gabriella Paruzzi , Italian cross-country skier
- June 23 : Achinoam Nini , Israeli singer
- June 23 : Fernanda Ribeiro , Portuguese athlete
- June 24th : Michael Vergers , Dutch racing car driver
- June 26 : Nurschan Aschimbetov , Kazakh politician
- June 26th : Giovanni Lombardi , Italian cyclist
- June 28 : Tichina Arnold , American film actress
- June 28th : Stéphane Chapuisat , Swiss football player
- June 28 : Phil Masinga , South African football player († 2019 )
- June 28 : Ayelet Zurer , Israeli actress
- June 30th : Volker Mudrow , German handball trainer
- June 30th : Uta Rohländer , German athlete
July
- July 1st : Sven Liesegang , German handball player and handball trainer
- July 3 : Gedeon Burkhard , German actor
- July 3rd : Alain Whyte , English guitarist
- July 3rd : Stephan Zünd , Swiss ski jumper
- July 5 : Robert Diggs , American rap musician
- July 5th : Glenn Magnusson , Swedish cyclist
- July 6th : Liz Baffoe , German actress
- July 6th : Monchy Capricho , Dominican singer
- July 6 : Frank Meyer , German television presenter and journalist
- July 6th : Manu Théron , French singer
- July 7th : Johan Furhoff , Swedish chess player
- July 7th : Clemens Haipl , Austrian author, draftsman, cabaret artist and music producer
- July 7th : Sylke Otto , German toboggan runner
- July 7 : Joe Sakic , Canadian ice hockey player
- July 7th : Hans Sigl , Austrian actor
- July 7 : Cree Summer , American voice actress, actress, and singer
- July 8 : Lisa Arce , American beach volleyball player
- July 8 : François-Xavier Houlet , French handball player
- July 8th : Joana Schümer , German actress
- July 9th : Munkhbayar Dorjsuren , German-Mongolian sports shooter
- July 9 : Carlos Leal , Swiss actor and rapper
- July 10 : Dirk Adorf , German automobile racing driver
- July 10 : Juliane Banse , German violinist and soprano
- July 10th : Jonas Kaufmann , German opera singer, tenor
- July 10 : Charlotte Richter-Peill , German writer
- July 11 : Jyri Tapani Aalto , Finnish badminton player
- July 11 : John Kiffmeyer , American musician
- July 12 : Jesse Pintado , American electric guitarist († 2006 )
- July 12th : Marcin Wierzbicki , Polish composer and music teacher
- July 13 : Gesine Dreyer , German harpist
- July 14th : Thomas Ambrosius , Danish football player
- July 16 : Karina Arroyave , American actress
- July 16 : Sahra Wagenknecht , German politician, author
- July 16 : Bjørn Dunkerbeck , German windsurfer
- July 17th : Jean-Bernard Bouvet , French racing car driver
- July 17th : Steffen Görig , German entrepreneur and racing car driver
- July 17th : Jaan Kirsipuu , Estonian cyclist
- July 17 : Ulrich Sigmar Schubert , German scientist
- July 18 : Johann Höfinger , Austrian politician
- July 18 : Hege Riise , Norwegian soccer player
- July 18 : Lazaros Voreadis , Greek referee
- July 19 : Sabine Bau , German foil fencer
- July 19 : Anders Lindström , Swedish organist and pianist
- July 20 : Daniel S. Aegerter , Swiss financier and chairman
- July 20 : Josh Holloway , American actor
- July 21 : Klaus Graf , German automobile racing driver
- July 21 : Isabell Werth , German dressage rider
- July 21 : Volker Wertich , inventor and developer of computer games
- July 22nd : Jason Becker , American guitarist
- July 22nd : Henrik Gunde Pedersen , Danish jazz pianist
- July 22nd : Ronny Weller , German weightlifter
- July 23 : Kai Abruszat , German politician
- July 23 : Clark Adams , American free thinker and atheist († 2007 )
- July 23 : Marco Bode , German soccer player
- July 23 : Tanja Gönner , German politician
- July 23 : Armelle Lesniak , French actress
- July 23 : Kai Meyer , German writer, journalist, screenwriter
- July 24 : Jennifer Lopez , American rhythm and blues singer and actress
- July 25 : Alexander Falk , German entrepreneur and publishing heir
- July 25 : Mike Hezemans , Dutch racing car driver
- July 25th : Artur Partyka , Polish athlete
- July 27 : Pavel Hapal , Czech football player
- July 27 : Paul Levesque , American Wrestler (Triple H)
- July 28 : Alexis Arquette , American singer and actress († 2016 )
- July 28th : Nilze Carvalho , Brazilian mandolinist, cavaquinho player, singer and composer
- July 28 : Alexander Schubert , German historian and cultural manager
- July 28 : Sandra Schwittau , German actress, voice actress and author
- July 28th : Filiz Zeyno , German-Turkish singer
- July 29th : Joel Fan , American pianist
- July 30th : Simon Baker , Australian actor
- July 30th : Martin Reichardt , German politician
- July 31 : Antonio Conte , Italian football player and coach
August
- August 1st : Matthias Bleyer , Austrian soccer player
- August 1st : Tomasz Łapiński , Polish football player
- August 1st : Ibrahim Okyay , Turkish racing car driver
- August 1st : Torsten Raspe , German soccer player
- August 1st : Naoki Yasuzaki , Japanese ski jumper
- August 1st : Rodin Younessi , American racing car driver
- August 1st : Norbert Zeilberger , Austrian organist, harpsichordist and fortepiano player († 2012 )
- August 2nd : Fernando Couto , Portuguese soccer player
- August 2nd : Erik Meijer , Dutch football player
- August 2nd : Ioan Codruț Șereș , Romanian politician and Vice-President
- August 3 : Ingo Oschmann , German comedian and small artist
- August 4th : Max Cavalera , Brazilian rock musician
- August 5 : Aaron Shrine , American football educator and referee
- August 6 : Martin Haidinger , Austrian journalist and writer
- August 6th : Sören Lausberg , German cyclist
- August 6 : Alejandro Maclean , Spanish aerobatic pilot and film producer († 2010 )
- August 6 : Ole Doll , German actor
- August 6 : Elliott Smith , American songwriter and musician († 2003 )
- August 7th : Todd Brunson , American poker player
- August 7 : Domino Harvey , American model and bounty hunter († 2005 )
- August 7th : Günter Krings , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
- August 8 : Stefan Krempl , German journalist
- August 8 : Faye Wong , Chinese singer and actress
- August 11th : Dru Berrymore , German porn actress
- August 11th : Ashley Jensen , Scottish actress
- August 11 : Vanderlei de Lima , Brazilian marathon runner
- August 12th : Tanita Tikaram , British singer
- August 14th : Maj Helen Sorkmo , Norwegian cross-country skier
- August 15 : Yoshiyuki Abe , Japanese cyclist
- August 15th : Bernard Fanning , Australian singer
- August 15 : Carlos Roa , Argentinian soccer goalkeeper
- August 16 : Joaquim Andrade , Portuguese cyclist
- August 16 : Yvan Muller , French racing car driver
- August 17th : Markus Gisdol , German soccer player and coach
- August 17 : Christian Laettner , American basketball player
- August 17th : Susanne Stichler , German TV presenter
- August 17th : Massimo Strazzer , Italian cyclist
- August 17 : Donnie Wahlberg , American singer and actor
- August 18 : Everlast , American rapper
- August 18 : Edward Norton , American actor and director
- August 18 : Christian Slater , American actor
- August 19 : Olapade Adeniken , Nigerian sprinter
- August 19 : Nate Dogg , American singer and musician († 2011 )
- August 19 : Matthew Perry , American actor
- August 19 : Clay Walker , country singer
- August 21 : Sharon Brauner , German actress and musician
- August 21 : Oliver Geissen , German television presenter
- August 22nd : Jale Arıkan , German-Turkish actress
- August 25 : Enrico Poitschke , German cyclist
- August 26 : Nicole Arendt , American tennis player
- August 26 : Jorge Sanz , Spanish actor
- August 26th : Sarah Sorge , German politician
- August 27 : Christof Straub , Austrian musician and composer
- August 28 : Christoph Ahlhaus , German politician
- August 28 : Jack Black , American actor
- August 28 : Philipp Brammer , German actor and voice actor († 2014 )
- August 29th : Michael Pinnella , American keyboardist
- August 30 : Vladimir Jugović , Serbian football player
- August 31 : Andreas Arnstedt , German actor, screenwriter, producer and director
- August 31 : Justo Ruiz González , Andorran football player
- August 31 : Jeff Russo , American composer, guitarist, and record producer
September
- September 1st : Enric Masip , Spanish handball player and official
- September 2 : Robert Habeck , German politician and writer
- September 2nd : Dorothee Oberlinger , German recorder player
- September 3 : Jörg Müller , German automobile racing driver
- September 4th : Louis Aliot , French politician
- September 4 : Alex Hicks , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 4 : Kristen Wilson , American actress
- September 5 : Sebastian Edathy , German politician
- September 5th : Dweezil Zappa , American heavy metal guitarist
- September 6th : Ce Ce Peniston , American singer
- September 7th : Angie Everhart , American actress
- September 7th : Roseli de Belo , Brazilian soccer player
- September 8 : Eusebio Di Francesco , Italian football player and coach
- September 8 : Holger Klein , German radio presenter
- September 8th : Peter Scharff , German chef
- September 10th : Oliver Rössel , German paraglider pilot
- September 10 : David Trueba , Spanish writer, journalist, actor and director
- September 11th : Toni-L , German musician and rapper
- September 13 : Daniel Fonseca , Uruguayan soccer player
- September 13 : Matthias X. Oberg , German director
- September 13 : Shane Warne , Australian cricketer
- September 14 : Francesco Antonioli , Italian football goalkeeper
- September 14 : Bong Joon-ho , South Korean director and screenwriter
- September 14th : Grigory Serper , American chess player
- September 15 : Revas Arveladze , Georgian football player
- September 16 : Justine Elinor Frischmann , British-American musician
- September 16 : Reiner Kirsten , German folk music singer
- September 17th : Ken Doherty , Irish snooker player
- September 17th : Bismarck Barreto Faria , Brazilian soccer player
- September 17th : Keith Flint , British singer († 2019 )
- September 17 : Matthew Settle , American actor
- September 18 : Juha Ahokas , Finnish wrestler
- September 18 : Nezha Bidouane , Moroccan athlete
- September 19 : Jóhann Jóhannsson , Icelandic composer († 2018 )
- September 19th : Candy Dulfer , Dutch saxophonist and jazz musician
- September 19 : Jan "Fege" Fegter , German handball player
- September 20 : Keiko Atori , Japanese manga artist and illustrator († 2004 )
- September 20 : Victoria Dillard , American actress
- September 20 : Peter Felser , German politician
- September 20th : Emiliano Gonzáles , Andorran football player
- September 21 : Billy Boyo , Jamaican child star DJ of the early reggae dancehalls († 2000 )
- September 22nd : Junko Asari , Japanese marathon runner
- September 22nd : Pawel Kolobkow , Russian sword fencer
- September 23 : Toni Anzenberger , Austrian cyclist, travel journalist and photographer
- September 23 : Donald Audette , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 23 : Tapio Laukkanen , Finnish rally driver
- September 23 : Michael Rich , German racing cyclist
- September 23 : Silvia Seidel , German actress († 2012 )
- September 24 : Hussain Ghulum Abbas , United Arab Emirates football player
- September 24th : Miyoko Asahina , Japanese long-distance runner
- September 24th : Shawn Crahan , American rock musician
- September 24th : Amparo Sánchez , Spanish singer
- September 24th : Goya Toledo , Spanish actress
- September 25 : Adalberto Madero , Mexican lawyer and politician
- September 25 : Robert Schupp , German actor
- September 25 : Hal Sparks , American actor, comedian and singer
- September 25 : Catherine Zeta-Jones , British actress
- September 26th : Peter Asplund , Swedish trumpeter, band leader and composer
- September 27 : Claudia Mandrysch , German soccer player
- September 27 : Tanja Kinkel , German writer
- September 28 : Ines Arland , German journalist and presenter
- September 29 : Jon Auer , American musician
- September 29th : Nico Brina , Swiss boogie woogie, blues and rock 'n' roll pianist and singer
- September 29 : Erika Eleniak , American actress and playmate
- September 29 : Jürgen Oelschläger , German motorcycle racer († 2004 )
- September 29 : Ivica Vastić , Austrian football player
- September 30th : Andres Anvelt , Estonian politician
October
- October 1 : Heather Hunter , American porn actress, dancer and singer
- October 1 : Jimmy Panetta , American politician
- October 1st : Simone Stelzer , Austrian singer and actress
- October 1st : Marcus Stephen , Nauruan weightlifter and Member of Parliament
- October 2nd : Mustafa Atici , Swiss politician
- October 2nd : Badly Drawn Boy , British musician and songwriter
- October 2nd : Peter Gerfen , German handball trainer and handball player
- October 2nd : Anne Gesthuysen , German journalist and presenter
- October 3 : Martin Jiranek , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- October 3 : Massimiliano Papis , Italian racing car driver
- October 3 : Gerhard Schebler , German chess player
- October 3 : Gwen Stefani , American singer
- October 4 : Abraham Benrubi , American actor
- October 4th : Andrea Fischer Schulthess , Swiss writer
- October 4th : Mat Maneri , American jazz violinist
- October 5th : Sven Dietrich , German local politician
- October 6th : Byron Black , tennis player from Zimbabwe
- October 6 : Ebele Okoye , Nigerian painter
- October 6th : Peter Sippel , German soccer referee
- October 7 : Hartmut Abendschein , German-Swiss writer, editor and publisher
- October 8 : Julia Ann , American dancer and porn actress
- October 8 : Dimitri Ashkenazy , American clarinetist
- October 8 : Hagen Rether , German cabaret artist
- October 8 : Karin Sonnenmoser , German manager
- October 9 : PJ Harvey , British singer and songwriter
- October 10 : Nina von Arx , German actress
- October 10 : Manu Bennett , New Zealand actor and model
- October 10 : Brett Favre , American football player
- October 10 : Wendi McLendon-Covey , American actress
- October 10 : Robert Quiroga , American boxer († 2004 )
- October 11th : Tetiana Tereshchuk-Antipova , Ukrainian athlete
- October 12 : Cary Mullen , Canadian ski racer
- October 13 : Rhett Akins , American country singer and songwriter
- October 13 : Tal Silberstein , Israeli entrepreneur and PR consultant
- October 14 : Christophe Agou , French photographer († 2015 )
- October 14 : Karsten Baumann , German soccer player
- October 14 : PJ Brown , American basketball player
- October 14 : David Strickland , American film actor († 1999 )
- October 15th : Vítor Baía , Portuguese football player
- October 15th : Markus Freiherr von Rotberg , German soccer player
- October 16 : Reinhold Daschner , German soccer player
- October 17th : Ernie Els , South African golfer
- October 17th : Wyclef Jean , Haitian musician, songwriter and producer
- October 17th : Alexander Rüdiger , Austrian entertainer
- October 18 : Marco Hofschneider , German actor
- October 19 : Teuta Arifi , Macedonian politician
- October 19 : Dieter Thoma , German ski jumper
- October 19 : Trey Parker , American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director
- October 20th : Guillermo Pérez Roldán , Argentine tennis player
- October 21 : Dariusz Edward Adamczuk , Polish football player
- October 21 : Richard Balandras , French racing car driver
- October 21 : Lucio Cecchinello , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 21 : Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Chalifa , Crown Prince of Bahrain
- October 21 : Daniel Rottmann , German theologian, bookseller and politician
- October 22nd : James Bailey , Australian darts player
- October 22nd : Helmut Lotti , Belgian star tenor
- October 22 : Florian Leis-Bendorff , German musician († 2005 )
- October 23 : Dolly Buster , Czech producer, director, actress, porn actress and author
- October 23 : Trudi Canavan , Australian writer
- October 23 : Christian Schwarzer , German handball player
- October 24th : Katalin Gödrös , Swiss director, film producer and screenwriter
- October 25 : Josef Beránek , Czech ice hockey player
- October 25 : Simone Koch , German figure skater
- October 25 : Ilham Tohti , Chinese economist, university professor and critic of the regime from the Uyghur ethnic group
- October 25 : Alex Webster , American metal bassist
- October 26 : Robert Maillet , Canadian wrestler and actor
- October 26 : Tetsushi Suwa , Japanese writer
- October 27 : Heiko Herlofson , German porn actor Sachsen-Paule, actor, singer
- October 27 : Michael Tarnat , German soccer player
- October 29th : Mirco Nontschew , German comedian
- October 29th : DJ Sammy , Spanish DJ and music producer
- October 29 : Serenity , American porn actress
- October 30 : Jens Büchner , German pop singer († 2018 )
- October 30th : Philipp van Endert , German jazz guitarist and composer
- October 30 : Stanislav Gross , Czech politician († 2015 )
- October 30 : Krisztián Ungváry , Hungarian historian and contemporary historian
- October 31 : Dieter Ramusch , Austrian soccer player
- Patrick von Blume , German actor, musician and singer October:
November
- November 2 : Reginald Arvizu , American musician
- November 3rd : Fabio Babini , Italian racing car driver
- November 3rd : Mattia Binotto , Italian team manager at Scuderia Ferrari
- November 3 : Robert Miles , Italian pop and dreamhouse musician († 2017 )
- November 4th : Jan Apell , Swedish tennis player
- November 4th : Sean Combs , American rapper
- November 4th : Thomas Luther , German chess grandmaster
- November 4 : Matthew McConaughey , American actor
- November 5th : Markus Braun , Austrian economic manager
- November 5th : Oliver Ferenc , Serbian darts player
- November 6th : Manou Lubowski , German actor and voice actor
- November 7th : Hélène Grimaud , French pianist
- November 7th : Carsten Heinze , German educator and university professor
- November 10 : Faustino Hernán Asprilla Hinestroza , Colombian football player
- November 10 : Bruce Goodin , New Zealand show jumper
- November 10 : Jens Lehmann , German soccer player
- November 10 : Nicola Minali , Italian cyclist
- November 10 : Ellen Pompeo , American actress
- November 11 : Gary Powell , American drummer
- November 12 : Harry Attison , football referee from Vanuatu
- November 13 : Patrik Augusta , Czech ice hockey player
- November 13 : Gerard Butler , Scottish actor
- November 13 : Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Dutch politician
- November 14 : Greg Andrusak , Canadian ice hockey player
- November 14th : Isabelle Attard , French politician
- November 14th : Rino Mastronardi , Italian racing driver
- November 15 : Big Hawk , American rapper († 2006 )
- November 15th : Harry Koch , German soccer player
- November 18 : Duncan Sheik , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- November 19 : Philippe Adams , Belgian racing driver
- November 19 : Richard virusesque , French cyclist
- November 20 : Ron Holzschuh , German actor († 2020 )
- November 20 : Wolfgang Stark , German soccer referee
- November 21 : Olivia Jones , German politician and drag queen
- November 22nd : Katrin Krabbe , German short-distance runner
- November 23 : Olivier Beretta , Monaco racing car driver
- November 23 : Byron Moreno , Ecuadorian football referee
- November 24th : David Adeang , Nauruan politician
- November 24th : Robert Andersson , Swedish handball player and handball coach
- November 24th : Benoist Apparu , French politician
- November 24th : Günther Dissertori , Italian physicist
- November 25 : Kim Ofstad , Norwegian pop, rock and jazz drummer
- November 26 : Shawn Kemp , American basketball player
- November 27 : Samuel Adamson , Australian playwright and screenwriter
- November 28 : Martin Cummins , Canadian actor and director
- November 28 : Sonia O'Sullivan , Irish athlete and Olympian
- November 28th : Lexington Steele , American porn actor and director
- November 28 : Trace Worthington , American freestyle skier
- November 29 : Kasey Keller , American soccer player
- November 29th : Fredrik Ljungkvist , Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist
- November 30 : David Auburn , American playwright and director
- November 30th : Tomas Axnér , Swedish handball player
- November 30th : Marc Goossens , Belgian racing driver
- November 30 : Amy Ryan , American actress
December
- December 2nd : Tanya Plibersek , Australian politician
- December 2nd : Peggy Sander , German voice actress
- December 3 : Dagmar Andres , German politician
- December 3 : Halvard Hanevold , Norwegian biathlete († 2019 )
- December 4th : Yui Asaka , Japanese singer and actress
- December 4th : Jay-Z , American rapper and record producer
- December 5th : Gunda Ebert , German actress
- December 5th : Ramón Ramírez , Mexican soccer player
- December 6th : Christophe Agnolutto , French cyclist
- December 6th : Irene Grandi , Italian singer and film actress
- December 6th : Jörg Heinrich , German soccer player
- December 8th : Bernd Hollerbach , German soccer player
- December 9th : Horst Heldt , German football player and official
- December 9th : Bixente Lizarazu , French football player
- December 10 : Rob Blake , Canadian ice hockey player
- December 10 : Austin Scott , American politician
- December 11th : Viswanathan Anand , Indian chess player
- December 11th : Takehiko Asanowaka , Japanese sumo wrestler
- December 12th : Michael Möllenbeck , German athlete
- December 13th : Dragan Adžić , Montenegrin handball player and coach
- December 13th : Tony Curran , Scottish actor
- December 13 : Sergei Fyodorov , Russian ice hockey player
- December 14th : Ildebrando D'Arcangelo , Italian opera singer
- December 15 : Rick Law , American comic book artist
- December 15 : Peter Müller , German soccer player
- December 16 : Henning Bürger , German soccer player
- December 16 : Adam Riess , American astronomer
- December 16 : Michelle Smith , Irish swimmer
- December 17th : Wolfram Grandezka , German actor
- December 17 : Scott Player , American football player
- December 18 : Santiago Cañizares , Spanish football player
- December 18 : Florian Funk , former German ice hockey player and today's coach
- December 18 : Akira Iida , Japanese racing car driver
- December 18 : Christophe Tinseau , French racing car driver
- December 19th : Lucilla Andreucci , Italian long distance runner
- December 19 : Richard Hammond , British television presenter
- December 19 : Kristy Swanson , American actress
- December 19 : Aziza Mustafa Zadeh , Azerbaijani composer, pianist and singer
- December 20 : Alain de Botton , Swiss-British writer
- December 20 : Israel Adrián Caetano , Argentine director
- December 20 : Michael Fellmann , German sailor
- December 20th : Serhiy Holubyzkyj , Ukrainian fencer
- December 21 : Julie Delpy , French actress
- December 22nd : Myriam Bédard , Canadian biathlete and two-time Olympic champion
- December 22nd : Dagmar Hase , German swimmer
- December 22nd : Martin Schmidt , German handball player
- December 23 : John Bickerton , English professional golfer on the European Tour
- December 23 : Angelika Neuner , Austrian toboggan athlete
- December 23 : Günter Perl , German football referee
- December 24th : Milan Blagojevic , Australian soccer player
- December 24th : Leavander Johnson , American professional boxer († 2005 )
- December 25th : Jörn Knebel , German actor
- December 25th : AnNa R. , German singer
- December 26th : Heike Aumüller , German artist and musician
- December 26th : Shayla LaVeaux , American porn actress, producer
- December 27 : Marco Antonio Regil , Mexican TV presenter
- December 26th : Thomas Linke , German soccer player
- December 28 : Heike Dederer , German politician, MdL
- December 28th : Marius No.1 , DJ and producer
- December 28th : Linus Torvalds , founder of the Linux software project
- December 29th : Jennifer Ehle , American actress
- December 30th : Angel , Spanish cartoonist
- December 30th : Emmanuel Clérico , French racing car driver
- December 30th : Eddie Duffy , Scottish bass player
- December 30th : Jens Eriksen , Danish badminton player
- December 30th : Jay Kay , singer of the popular music group Jamiroquai
- December 31 : Claudia Kleinert , German TV presenter
- December 31 : Pit-Arne Pietz , German actor
Day unknown
- Steve William Abana , Solomonic politician
- Jörg Abbing , German organist and musicologist
- Dirar Abu Sisi , Palestinian engineer
- Patrick K. Addai , Ghanaian children's author and actor
- Toyin Adewale-Gabriel , Nigerian poet
- Nilüfer Akbal , Turkish singer
- Selda Akhan , German-Turkish actress and director
- Ulf Aminde , German artist
- Maurizio Anania , Italian film director and writer
- Benjamin Anastas , American author
- Roger Andermatt , Swiss criminal
- Michael Anderson , American jazz trumpeter
- Kai Arzheimer , German political scientist
- Kerstin Asbar , German volleyball and beach volleyball player
- Can Atilla , Turkish composer and musician
- Dave Audé , American remixer and house DJ
- Angeline Ball , Irish actress.
- Maximilian zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg , German entrepreneur and art historian, 7th prince and head of the Bentheim-Tecklenburg family
- Andreas Bernard , German journalist and scientist
- Julia Blankenburg , German actress
- Jason Brown , British musician and college teacher
- Ferdinand Dörfler , German actor
- Gesine Dornblüth , German Slavist and radio journalist
- Frank Forst , German professor for bassoon and musician
- Markus L. Frank , German musician and conductor
- Alice Garner , Australian actress
- Holger Gehring , German Kreuz organist
- Alban Gerhardt , German cellist
- Gunda Gottschalk , German violinist
- Karlo Hackenberger , German voice actor, actor, singer and author
- He Cui , Chinese cheng player, music educator and producer
- Jörn Hentschel , German actor
- Patrick Hünerfeld , German doctor and journalist, author and director
- Nicola Hüsing , German chemist and materials scientist
- Christian Kerepeszki , German actor and speaker
- Rita Kersting , German art historian and curator
- Guillermo Klein , Argentine jazz pianist
- Matthias Klink , German opera and operetta singer, tenor
- Péter Kovács , Hungarian historian, archaeologist and classical philologist
- Matthias Krupa , German journalist and editor
- Pascal Lalo , French actor
- Arjopa Limburg , German singer, musician and painter
- Thorsten Mäder , German organist, conductor and university professor
- Martin Müller-Reisinger , Austrian actor
- Periklis Papapetropoulos , Greek music teacher, composer and lutenist
- Maja Peter , Swiss writer
- Dirk Powell , American fiddle, banjo and accordion player, music educator and composer
- Christina Rainer , Austrian actress
- Steven Ricks , American composer and music educator
- Detlef Roth , German singer (baritone and bass)
- Margot Lee Shetterly , American non-fiction author
- Ivan Shvedoff , actor from the Soviet Union
- Christian Sievers , German television journalist
- Peter Sikemsen , Greenlandic weightlifter and handball player
- Zsolt Sőrés , Hungarian improvisation musician, publisher, sound, performance and conceptual artist
- Daniel Speich Chassé , historian
- Marek Stefański , Polish organist
- Tim Stolzenburg , German musician
- Adelheid Theil , German actress
- Robert Voisey , American composer and music producer
- Titus Vollmer , German musician and film composer
Died
January
- January 4 : Paul Chambers , American jazz bassist (* 1935 )
- January 4th : Günther Jacoby , German philosopher (* 1881 )
- January 4th : Arthur Loesser , American pianist, music teacher and writer (* 1894 )
- January 5 : A. Leonard Allen , American politician (* 1891 )
- January 5 : Franz Theodor Csokor , Austrian writer (* 1885 )
- January 8 : Albert Hill , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1889 )
- January 9th : Giacomo Acerbo , Italian agronomist and politician (* 1888 )
- January 9 : Ladislav Vycpálek , Czech composer (* 1882 )
- January 14th : Fritz Reiche , German physicist (* 1883 )
- January 16 : Rudolf Martin Argus , German politician (* 1888 )
- January 16 : Jules Jacob , Canadian singer (tenor) (* 1906 )
- January 17th : Grażyna Bacewicz , Polish composer (* 1909 )
- January 17 : Hubertus von Golitschek , German politician (* 1910 )
- January 18 : Hans Freyer , German sociologist and philosopher (* 1887 )
- January 19 : Robert Lusser , German engineer (* 1899 )
- January 19 : Jan Palach , student from Czechoslovakia, who burned himself to death (* 1948 )
- January 19 : Carlo Salamano , Italian racing driver (* 1890 )
- January 20 : Ilse Thouret , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver, athlete and sports journalist (* 1897 )
- January 21 : Franz Xaver Arnold , German theologian and religious scholar (* 1898 )
- January 21 : Giovanni Comisso , Italian writer (* 1895 )
- January 23 : Robin Christian Andersen , Austrian painter (* 1890 )
- January 23 : Jaroslav Křička , Czech composer (* 1882 )
- January 24 : Lothar Kreuz , last rector of the Friedrich Wilhelm University Berlin (* 1888 )
- January 24th : Theodor Spitta , German politician (* 1873 )
- January 27th : Willi Albrecht , German politician, trade unionist, resistance against National Socialism (* 1896 )
- January 27 : Hanns Jelinek , Austrian composer and music teacher (* 1901 )
- January 28 : Jakob Grimminger , German National Socialist and SS man (* 1892 )
- January 28th : Louis Villeneuve , French racing car driver (* 1889 )
- January 29 : Theodor Boehm , German pharmaceutical chemist (* 1892 )
- January 29 : William E. Burney , American politician (* 1893 )
- January 29 : Allen Welsh Dulles , director of the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) from 1953 to 1961 (* 1893 )
- January 29 : Julius Gold , American violinist, musicologist and music teacher (* 1884 )
- January 30th : Theodor Asholt , German politician (* 1890 )
- January 30th : Fritzi Massary , Austrian singer and actress (* 1882 )
- January 30th : Georges Pire , Belgian monk and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (* 1910 )
- January 30th : Li Zongren , Chinese general, politician, Vice President (* 1890 )
- January 31 : Meher Baba , Indian guru (* 1894 )
February
- February 2 : Boris Karloff , English film actor (* 1887 )
- February 3 : Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai , Indian politician and author (* 1909 )
- February 3 : Al Taliaferro , American comic artist (* 1905 )
- February 7th : Hans Rademacher , German mathematician (* 1892 )
- February 7th : Alma Rogge , Lower Saxony writer (* 1894 )
- February 7 : Carlos Eduardo de Sabóia Bandeira Melo , Brazilian clergyman and bishop (* 1902 )
- February 13 : Georges Jouatte , French tenor and music teacher (* 1892 )
- February 13 : Kazimierz Wierzyński , Polish writer (* 1894 )
- February 14 : Ludolf Malten , German classical philologist and religious scholar (* 1879 )
- February 18 : Gisela Arendt , German swimmer (* 1918 )
- February 18 : Otto Wemper , German forester (* 1894 )
- February 20 : Ernest Ansermet , Swiss conductor (* 1883 )
- February 22nd : Johannes Dieckmann , German journalist and politician (* 1893 )
- February 23 : Saud ibn Abd al-Aziz , King of Saudi Arabia (* 1902 )
- February 26 : Wladimir Eliasberg , German psychiatrist (* 1887 )
- February 26 : Levi Eschkol , third Prime Minister of Israel (* 1895 )
- February 26 : Karl Jaspers , German philosopher and psychiatrist (* 1883 )
- February 26 : Josef Ivar Müller , Swiss composer (* 1892 )
- February 27 : Marius Barbeau , Canadian anthropologist, ethnologist and folklore researcher (* 1883 )
- February 28 : Gustavo Testa , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1886 )
March

- March 2 : Walter Müller , Austrian actor (* 1911 )
- March 3 : Fred Alexander , American tennis player (* 1880 )
- March 4 : Nicholas Schenck , American film pioneer (* 1881 )
- March 5 : Hans Ekstrand , German politician (* 1903 )
- March 5 : Bonifacio Ondó Edu , Equatorial Guinean head of government (* 1922 )
- March 9 : Walter Christaller , German geographer (* 1893 )
- March 9 : Charles Brackett , American screenwriter (* 1892 )
- March 11 : Hermann Carl Wilhelm Aubin , German-Austrian historian, science organizer and history politician (* 1885 )
- March 11th : Ella Scoble Opperman , American music teacher, organist and pianist (* 1873 )
- March 13 : Charles A. Sprague , American politician (* 1887 )
- March 14 : Henry O. Talle , American politician (* 1892 )
- March 17th : Marcus Ariowitsch , German entrepreneur (* 1880 )
- March 18 : Elna Jørgen-Jensen , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer (* 1890 )
- March 19 : Adolf Aeschbach , Swiss politician (* 1888 )
- March 20 : Oscar Behrens , German administrative lawyer and mayor (* 1880 )
- March 21 : Gustav Fuchs , German politician (* 1900 )
- March 22 : José Dolores Cerón , Dominican composer (* 1897 )
- March 22nd : Ernst Deutsch , German actor (* 1890 )
- March 22nd : Gerhard Fritsch , Austrian writer (* 1924 )
- March 23 : Josef Gerstmann , Austrian, Jewish neurologist (* 1887 )
- March 24th : Renato Cesarini , Italian-Argentine football player and coach (* 1906 )
- March 24 : Joseph Kasavubu , first President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (* 1910 )
- March 24th : Abel Smeets , French racing car driver (* 1891 )
- March 25 : Max Eastman , American writer (* 1883 )
- March 26 : B. Traven , German-speaking writer (* 1882 )
- March 27 : David Lloyd , Welsh singer (tenor) (born 1912 )
- March 28 : Dwight D. Eisenhower , American general, 34th President of the USA (* 1890 )
- March 29 : Bjarne Aas , Norwegian sailor, shipyard owner and yacht designer (* 1886 )
- March 30th : Lucien Bianchi , Belgian racing driver and Le Mans winner (* 1934 )
- March 30th : Stanislav Ledinek , actor and voice actor (* 1920 )
April
- April 1 : Mario Gualzata , Swiss linguist and local researcher (* 1897 )
- April 4 : Alphonse Auclair , French racing car driver (* 1898 )
- April 4 : Friedrich von Huene , German vertebrate paleontologist (* 1875 )
- April 7 : Alexandra Wassiljewna Artjuchina , Soviet party and state official (* 1889 )
- April 10 : Fernando Ortiz Fernández , Cuban scientist, politician and lawyer (* 1881 )
- April 10 : Claus Back , German writer (* 1904 )
- April 10 : Werner Rudolf Heinrich Keyßner , German politician and member of the Reichstag (* 1903 )
- April 11 : Herbie Haymer , American jazz tenor saxophonist (* approx. 1936 )
- April 14 : Matilde Muñoz Sampedro , Spanish actress (* 1900 )
- April 15 : Victoria Eugénie von Battenberg , Queen of Spain (* 1887 )
- April 15 : Daniel Webster Turner , American politician (* 1877 )
- April 17th : Emilio Arenales Catalán , Guatemalan politician (* 1922 )
- April 20 : Benny Benjamin , American session drummer (* 1925 )
- April 21 : Franz Diener , German heavyweight boxer (* 1901 )
- April 21 : Rudolf Amelunxen , German politician (* 1888 )
- April 23 : Krzysztof Komeda , Polish musician (* 1931 )
- April 25 : Richard Alan John Asher , British medic (* 1912 )
- April 25 : Margarita Xirgu , Catalan actress (* 1888 )
- April 26 : Ed H. Campbell , American politician (* 1882 )
- April 26th : Ueshiba Morihei , founder of the martial art Aikidō (* 1883 )
- April 29 : Julius Katchen , American pianist (* 1926 )
May
- May 2 : Robert Arthur , American author (born 1909 )
- May 2 : Franz von Papen , German politician (* 1879 )
- May 3 : Karl Freund , German cameraman (* 1890 )
- May 6th : Lajos Czeizler , Hungarian football coach (* 1893 )
- May 6 : Don Drummond , member of the original line-up of the Skatalites (* 1932 )
- May 6 : Jacques de la Presle , French composer and music teacher (* 1888 )
- May 6th : Petán Trujillo , Venezuelan general and radio director (* 1895 )
- May 7 : Rudolf Egger , Austrian ancient historian and archaeologist (* 1882 )
- May 8 : Hedwig Anneler , Swiss ethnologist and writer (* 1888 )
- May 9 : Josef Jonsson , Swedish composer (* 1887 )
- May 10 : Eli Lotar , French photographer (* 1905 )
- May 11 : Jim Bowdoin , American football player (born 1904 )
- May 11 : W. Lee O'Daniel , American politician (* 1890 )
- May 12 : Martin Lamble , British folk rock drummer (* 1949 )
- May 13 : Paul Merker , SED functionary in the GDR (* 1894 )
- May 16 : Helena Oleska , Polish opera singer and vocal teacher (* 1875 )
- May 17 : Wilhelm Abeln , German politician (* 1894 )
- May 17 : Josef Beran , Archbishop of Prague and Cardinal (* 1888 )
- May 18 : Ludwig Berger , German film director (* 1892 )
- May 18 : Prentice Cooper , American politician (* 1895 )
- May 19 : Friedrich Damann Andam , German writer, screenwriter and film manager (* 1901 )
- May 19 : Coleman Hawkins , American jazz musician (* 1904 )
- May 19 : Eberhard von Mackensen , German general (* 1889 )
- May 23 : Lejaren Hiller , American photographer and illustrator (* 1880 )
- May 24th : Hans Weber , German motor sportsman (* 1941 )
- May 28 : Arnold Kohlschütter , German astrophysicist (* 1883 )
- May 29 : Wilhelm von Scholz , German writer (* 1874 )
- May 31 : Hilde Körber , Austrian actress (* 1906 )
June
- June 4th : Rafael Osuna , Mexican tennis player (* 1938 )
- June 5 : Karl Bleyle , Austrian musician and composer (* 1880 )
- June 8 : Guy Cordon , American politician (* 1890 )
- June 8 : He Long , Chinese army leader and politician (* 1896 )
- June 9 : Robert Taylor , American actor (born 1911 )
- June 11 : Paul Laufer , Head of Department at the Ministry for State Security (* 1904 )
- June 12 : Alexander Deineka , Russian painter, graphic artist and sculptor (* 1899 )
- June 12 : Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie , French politician (* 1900 )
- June 13 : Hans Reimann , German writer, playwright and screenwriter (* 1889 )
- June 14 : Roberto Firpo , Argentine tango musician and composer (* 1884 )
- June 14 : Wynonie Harris , American blues singer (born 1915 )
- June 16 : Harold Alexander , British Field Marshal (* 1891 )
- June 16 : Walter Risse , German football player (* 1893 )
- June 17 : Fritz Reinhardt , State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance during the Nazi era (* 1895 )
- June 20 : Rudolf Schwarzkogler , Austrian photographer and artist (* 1940 )
- June 21 : Maureen Connolly , American tennis player (born 1934 )
- June 22nd : Judy Garland , American film actress and singer (* 1922 )
- June 22nd : Mirko Jelusich , Austrian writer, theater critic (* 1886 )
- June 23 : Volmari Iso-Hollo , Finnish athlete, two-time Olympic champion (* 1907 )
- June 24 : Frank O. King , American cartoonist and comic artist (* 1883 )
- June 24th : Oskar Sima , Austrian theater and film actor (* 1896 )
- June 25 : Franz Klafböck , Austrian politician (* 1906 )
- June 29 : Moïse Tschombé , Congolese politician, President of Katanga (* 1919 )
- June 30 : Roman Richard Atkielski , American Auxiliary Bishop (* 1898 )
- Hassan Arsanǰānī , Persian lawyer, journalist and Minister of Agriculture (* 1923 ) June:
July
- July 3 : Wilhelm Heinrich Erwin Adolf Friedrich Martin von Apell , German officer (* 1892 )
- July 3 : Hermann Grabner , Austrian composer (* 1886 )
- July 3 : Brian Jones , British musician (* 1942 )
- July 5 : Wilhelm Backhaus , German pianist (* 1884 )
- July 5 : Walter Gropius , German architect, founder and longstanding director of the Bauhaus University (* 1883 )
- July 5 : Leo McCarey , American director, film producer and screenwriter (* 1898 )
- July 7th : Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland , German diplomat and politician (* 1902 )
- July 10 : Paul Heuäcker , German chess problem and study composer (* 1899 )
- July 12 : Bill Ivy , British motorcycle racer (* 1942 )
- July 15 : Peter van Eyck , German actor (* 1913 )
- July 16 : Max Gablonsky , German football player and athlete (* 1890 )
- July 16 : James Scott-Douglas , British racing driver (* 1930 )
- July 18 : Charlotte Armstrong , American crime novelist (* 1905 )
- July 19 : Carl Jörns , German automobile racing driver (* 1875 )
- July 25 : Otto Dix , German painter (* 1891 )
- July 25 : Witold Gombrowicz , Polish writer (* 1904 )
- July 25 : Douglas Moore , American composer (* 1893 )
- July 26 : Léon Dernier , Belgian racing driver (* 1912 )
- July 26 : Walter Reppe , German chemist (* 1892 )
- July 27 : Moisés Solana , Mexican racing car driver (* 1935 )
- July 28 : Ramón Grau San Martín , Cuban President (* 1882 )
- July 29 : Friedrich Arnold (politician) , German politician (* 1912 )
- July 30 : Konstantin Prinz von Bayern , German politician, Member of the Bundestag (* 1920 )
- July 31 : Alexandra , German singer (* 1942 )
- July 31 : Charles Edison , American politician (* 1890 )
August
- August 1st : Gerhard Mitter , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1935 )
- August 2 : Clarence Dickinson , American organist, composer and music teacher (* 1873 )
- August 4th : Wilhelm Apel , German politician (* 1905 )
- August 5th : Charlotte Ander , German actress (* 1902 )
- August 5 : Adolf Friedrich zu Mecklenburg , German colonial official and first President of the NOK (* 1873 )
- August 6 : Theodor W. Adorno , German sociologist, philosopher and composer (* 1903 )
- August 7th : Morris Goldenberg , American percussionist and music teacher (* 1911 )
- August 7th : Joseph Kosma , Austrian composer (* 1905 )
- August 7th : Russ Morgan , American band leader, pianist, trombonist and composer (* 1904 )
- August 8 : Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer , German physician and human geneticist (* 1896 )
- August 9 : Cecil Powell , English atomic physicist (* 1903 )
- August 9 : Sharon Tate , American model and film actress. (* 1943 )
- August 12 : Hans-Egon Hass , German lawyer, Germanist and university lecturer (* 1916 )
- August 12 : Hugh Hodgson , American music teacher, pianist, conductor and composer (* 1893 )
- August 13 : Jacob do Bandolim , Brazilian mandolinist and composer (* 1918 )
- August 13 : Nicolás Fasolino , Archbishop of Santa Fe and Cardinal (* 1887 )
- August 17th : Wilhelm Heile , German politician (* 1881 )
- August 17th : Ludwig Mies van der Rohe , German architect (* 1886 )
- August 17th : Otto Stern , physicist (* 1888 )
- August 18 : Conrad Albrecht , German admiral in World War I (* 1880 )
- August 19 : Nakayama Gishū , Japanese writer (* 1900 )
- August 20 : Marty Barry , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1904 )
- August 23 : Hans Hoff , Austrian psychiatrist (* 1897 )
- August 27 : Erika Mann , German actress, cabaret artist and writer (* 1905 )
- August 28 : Robert Sparr , American film director, film editor and screenwriter (* 1915 )
- August 31 : Ottmar Gerster , German composer (* 1897 )
- August 31 : Rocky Marciano , American boxer (born 1923 )
September
- September 2 : Willy Mairesse , Belgian racing driver (* 1928 )
- September 2 : Ho Chi Minh , Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman (* 1890 )
- September 4 : Marcel Riesz , Hungarian mathematician (* 1886 )
- September 5 : Jan Bontjes van Beek , German sculptor and ceramist (* 1899 )
- September 5 : Henk Bijvanck , Dutch composer (* 1909 )
- September 5 : Hans-Joachim Rehse , judge at the People's Court (* 1902 )
- September 6th : Arthur Friedenreich , Brazilian footballer (* 1892 )
- September 7th : Everett Dirksen , American politician (* 1896 )
- September 8 : Guido Calgari , Swiss politician, university professor and writer (* 1905 )
- September 8 : Alexandra David-Néel , French travel writer (* 1868 )
- September 9 : Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad , Persian writer (* 1923 )
- September 11 : Leon Payne , American country musician (born 1917 )
- September 12 : Robert Geritzmann , German politician (* 1893 )
- September 17 : Giovanni Urbani , Patriarch of Venice and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1900 )
- September 18 : Félix López , Dominican songwriter (* 1917 )
- September 18 : Rudolf Wagner-Régeny , German composer of Romanian origin (* 1903 )
- September 22nd : Bernd Scholz , German composer (* 1911 )
- September 24th : Rodolfo Biagi , Argentine tango musician (* 1906 )
- September 24 : Warren McCulloch , American neurophysiologist and cyberneticist (* 1898 )
- September 25 : Paul Scherrer , Swiss physicist (* 1890 )
- September 27 : Nicolas Grunitzky , Togolese politician (* 1913 )
- September 29 : Andrej Stojanow , Bulgarian composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1890 )
- September 30 : Nikola Atanasov , Bulgarian composer and music teacher (* 1886 )
October
- October 1 : Gunnar Andersson , Swedish football player (* 1928 )

- October 3 : Richard Hammer , German politician (* 1897 )
- October 3 : Skip James , American blues singer, guitarist and pianist (* 1902 )
- October 3 : Eugen Fürst zu Oettingen-Wallerstein , German politician (* 1885 )
- October 4 : Guilherme Rebelo de Andrade , Portuguese architect (* 1891 )
- October 7 : Hermann Quistorf , German writer and translator (* 1884 )
- October 7th : Léon Scieur , Belgian cyclist and winner of the Tour de France 1921 (* 1888 )
- October 8 : Emil Dovifat , German journalist (* 1890 )
- October 9 : Elsa Rendschmidt , German figure skater (* 1886 )
- October 12 : Sonja Henie , Norwegian figure skater (* 1912 )
- October 13 : Wilhelm Gontrum , German politician (* 1910 )
- October 13 : Pierre Meyrat , French racing driver (* 1916 )
- October 13 : Helene Wessel , German politician, one of the four "Mothers of the Basic Law" (* 1898 )
- October 14 : Hans Mühlenfeld , German politician (* 1901 )
- October 15 : Karl Saller , German anthropologist and doctor (* 1902 )
- October 15 : Abdirashid Ali Shermarke , first Prime Minister and second President of Somalia (* 1919 )
- October 16 : Leonard Chess , Polish-American entrepreneur (* 1917 )
- October 16 : Billy Munro , American-Canadian pianist and composer (* 1894 )
- October 18 : Martin Gusinde , Austrian anthropologist, priest (* 1886 )
- October 18 : Antoni Sadlak , American politician (* 1908 )
- October 21 : Jack Kerouac , American writer (* 1922 )
- October 21 : Wacław Sierpiński , Polish mathematician (* 1882 )
- October 22 : Alfons von Czibulka , Austrian writer and painter (* 1888 )
- October 22nd : Ralph Staub , American producer of short films (* 1899 )
- October 22 : Fritz Steinhoff , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (* 1897 )
- October 23 : Robert Dussaut , French composer and music theorist (* 1896 )
- October 23 : Mongi Slim , Tunisian politician (* 1908 )
- October 24 : Loys Masson , French writer (* 1915 )
- October 25 : Will-Erich Peuckert , German folklorist and writer (* 1895 )
- October 25 : Edward Herbert Rees , American politician (* 1886 )
- October 26 : Gustav Seitz , German sculptor and draftsman (* 1906 )
- October 28 : Teodoro Fuchs , Argentine conductor and music teacher (* 1908 )
- October 28 : Kornei Tschukowski , Russian poet (* 1882 )
- October 30 : Anton Plankensteiner , Austrian governor of Vorarlberg (* 1890 )
- October 31 : Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río , Ecuadorian President (* 1893 )
November
- November 4 : Frank G. Clement , American politician (* 1920 )
- November 4 : Ernest Gibson , American politician (* 1901 )
- November 4 : Carlos Marighella , Brazilian revolutionary and theoretician of urban guerrillas (* 1911 )
- November 4th : Ferenc Szabó , Hungarian composer (* 1902 )
- November 5 : Brunolf Baade , German engineer in the aircraft industry (* 1904 )
- November 6th : Max Knoll , German electrical engineer (* 1897 )
- November 7th : Ernesto Nathan Rogers , Italian architect (* 1909 )
- November 8 : Dave O'Brien , American actor, screenwriter and director (born 1912 )
- November 8 : Vesto Slipher , American astronomer (* 1875 )
- November 9 : Valentine Ackland , British poet (born 1906 )
- November 9 : Werner Hofmann , German sociologist (* 1922 )
- November 11th : Jan Petersen , German writer (* 1906 )
- November 12th : William Friedman , American military cryptologist at SIS (* 1891 )
- November 12 : Liu Shaoqi , President of the People's Republic of China (* 1898 )
- November 14 : Fanny Rosenfeld , Canadian athlete and Olympic champion (* around 1904 )
- November 15 : Ignacio Aldecoa , Spanish writer (* 1925 )
- November 15 : Friedrich Holzapfel , German politician (* 1900 )
- November 15 : Itō Sei , Japanese writer, translator and literary critic (* 1905 )
- November 16 : Charles W. Henney , American politician (* 1884 )
- November 18 : Ted Heath , British trombonist and band leader (* 1902 )
- November 18 : Joseph P. Kennedy , American businessman and diplomat (* 1888 )
- November 21 : Rosalia Angeleri , Italian actress (* 1922 )
- November 21 : Ishida Hakyō , Japanese poet (* 1913 )
- November 21 : Edward Mutesa , King of Buganda and President of Uganda (* 1924 )
- November 23 : Spade Cooley , American country musician and band leader (* 1910 )
- November 24 : Howell Glynne , Welsh opera singer and vocal teacher (born 1906 )
- November 24th : Walter Hahn , German photographer (* 1889 )
- November 24th : Howard Marion-Crawford , British actor (born 1914 )
- November 27 : László Székely , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1910 )
December
- December 1 : Magic Sam , American blues guitarist and singer (* 1937 )
- December 2 : José María Arguedas , Peruvian writer (* 1911 )
- December 2 : Kliment Voroshilov , party and state functionary, Marshal of the Soviet Union (* 1881 )
- December 3 : Mathias Wieman , German actor (* 1902 )
- December 4 : Karl Kaufmann , Nazi Gauleiter in Hamburg (* 1900 )
- December 5 : Alice von Battenberg , mother-in-law of Queen Elizabeth II (* 1885 )
- December 5 : Claude Dornier , German aircraft designer (* 1884 )
- December 5 : Katsuji Yamashita , Professor of Business Administration (* 1906 )
- December 6th : Walther Aeschbacher , Swiss conductor and composer (* 1901 )
- December 6 : Siegfried Aufhäuser , German union leader and politician (* 1884 )
- December 7th : Maria Kasterska , Polish writer and literary scholar (* 1894 )
- December 8th : Edolf Aasen , Norwegian printer (* 1877 )
- December 8th : Fritz Arndt , German chemist (* 1885 )
- December 8 : Karl Fiehler , German politician (* 1895 )
- December 9 : Fanny Jensen , Danish social democratic politician (* 1890 )
- December 10 : Franco Capuana , Italian conductor and composer (* 1894 )
- December 11th : Gostan Zarian , Armenian writer, poet and painter (* 1885 )
- December 13 : Shishi Bunroku , Japanese writer (* 1893 )
- December 13 : Raymond A. Spruance , American admiral (* 1886 )
- December 17th : Artur da Costa e Silva , President of Brazil during the military dictatorship (* 1899 )
- December 19 : Rolf Dahlgrün , German politician (* 1908 )
- December 19 : Kurt Fischer , German Mayor (* 1910 )
- December 20 : James H. Duff , American politician (* 1883 )
- December 21 : Georges Catroux , French general and diplomat (* 1877 )
- December 22nd : Olga Körner , German politician (* 1887 )
- December 22nd : August Momberger , German racing car driver and engineer (* 1905 )
- December 22nd : Josef von Sternberg , Austrian-American director (* 1894 )
- December 23 : Henri Trébor , French racing driver (* 1901 )
- December 24th : Mary Barratt Due , Norwegian pianist and music teacher (* 1888 )
- December 25th : Theodor Dombart , German architect, university professor and local researcher from Munich (* 1884 )
- December 26 : Jakob Diel , German politician (* 1886 )
- December 27 : Dan Breen , Irish politician (Fianna Fáil) and volunteer in the Irish Republican Army (* 1894 )
- December 27 : Alexei Sokolski , Soviet chess player (* 1908 )
- December 29 : Peter Nellen , German politician (* 1912 )
- December 29th : Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango , 21st President of Panama (* 1899 )
- December 29 : Franz Koch , German-Austrian Germanist and literary historian (* 1888 )
- December 29 : William Quindt , German journalist and writer (* 1898 )
- December 29th : Kurt Richter , German chess player (* 1900 )
- December 31 : Carl-Christian Arfsten , German politician (* 1889 )
- December 31 : Theodor Reik , Austrian-American psychoanalyst (* 1888 )
Day unknown
- Leslie Walter Allan Ahrendt , English botanist (* 1903 )
- Marianne von Angern , German writer (* 1898 )
- Anton von Avanzini , Austrian politician (* 1890 )
- Bruno Bandini , Argentinian violist, conductor and music teacher of Italian origin (* 1889 )
- Augusto Eguiluz , Chilean painter (* 1893 )
- Otto Georgi , Chilean painter (* 1890 )
- Rupert Viktor Oppenauer , Austrian chemist (* 1910 )
- Andy Tipaldi , Canadian banjo player (* 1894 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Murray Gell-Mann
- Chemistry : Derek HR Barton and Odd Hassel
- Medicine : Max Delbrück , Alfred Day Hershey and Salvador Edward Luria
- Literature : Samuel Beckett
- Nobel Peace Prize : International Labor Organization (ILO), Geneva
- Economics : Ragnar Frisch and Jan Tinbergen