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1971
The UAE are founded.	Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED
Founding of Greenpeace	Establishment of MSF
Completion of the Aswan Dam	Skulls of victims of the genocide in Bangladesh in the Liberation War Museum
Annual dedications
International Year ( United Nations )	International Year for Combating Racism and Racial Discrimination
Bird of the year (Germany)	Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)

1971 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2724
Armenian calendar	1419-1420
Ethiopian calendar	1963-1964
Badi calendar	127-128
Bengali calendar	1377-1378
Berber calendar	2921
Buddhist calendar	2515
Burmese calendar	1333
Byzantine calendar	7479-7480
Chinese calendar
- era	4667-4668 or 4607-4608
- 60 year cycle	Metal dog (庚戌, 47) - Metal pig (辛亥, 48)
French revolution calendar	CLXXIX - CLXXX 179-180
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2027-2028
- Shaka Samvat	1893-1894
Iranian calendar	1349-1350
Islamic calendar	1390-1391
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 46
- Kōki	2631
Jewish calendar	5731-5732
Coptic Calendar	1687-1688
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4304
- Juche era	60
Minguo calendar	60
Modern Olympics	XIX
Seleucid calendar	2282-2283
Thai solar calendar	2514

In 1971 , among other things, the so-called Ostpolitik ( four-power agreement over Berlin ), the Vietnam War and changes in the leadership of the GDR determine world events.

events

Politics and world events

January

• January 1st: Rudolf Gnägi becomes President of Switzerland
• January 1: Banned cigarette advertising on United States television
• January 2nd: Cigarette advertising is now also banned on radio in the USA.
• January 7th: During the Vietnam War, an aircraft took off for the last time to spray with the defoliant Agent Orange .
• January 25: While President Milton Obote is not in the country, Army Chief Idi Amin takes power in Uganda with a bloodless coup .
• January 25: In India , the northern state of Himachal Pradesh emerges from a previously existing union territory.

February

• February 2: The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands is established, one of the first international conventions on environmental protection .
• February 7th: Introduction of active and passive voting rights for women in Switzerland by referendum for men
• February 8: Federal Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt liberalizes the wearing of long hair in the German Armed Forces with the hairnet decree .
• February 8: South Vietnamese ground forces launch Operation Lam Son 719 in the Vietnam War . By penetrating neighboring Laos , they want to paralyze supply routes on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and politically force North Vietnam to the negotiating table.
• February 11: The Seabed Treaty opens for signature in Washington DC, London and Moscow. The negotiated agreement prohibits the stationing of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction on the seabed. It will enter into force on May 18, 1972 once the ratifications have been received .
• February 12: Framework agreement on development aid between the Federal Republic of Germany and Rwanda
• February 13: The discovery of a submachine gun at a police traffic control in Bad Godesberg leads to the discovery of the Hengst military sports group .
• February 21: The Convention on Psychotropic Substances comes into being in Vienna , an international agreement with the aim of curbing private drug consumption and regulating its use for scientific and medical purposes.

March

• March 7th: The TV show Die Sendung mit der Maus is broadcast for the first time.
• March 12: The military , led by General Tagmac and Nihat Erim, carries out a coup in Turkey . Left parties and organizations are banned. Several thousand people are arrested and imprisoned
• March 14th: Berlin : In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives , the SPD can narrowly maintain its absolute majority
• March 18: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Iceland

Bangladesh Coat of Arms

• March 26: Independence from Bangladesh
• March 30th: The law against aircraft noise becomes legally effective in the Federal Republic of Germany as the first environmental protection law of the social-liberal coalition .

April

• April 4: The Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov protests against the practice of the executive branch of admitting opponents of the regime to psychiatric clinics .
• April 25: Franz Jonas ( SPÖ ) is elected Austrian Federal President (2nd term of office).

May

• May 3: GDR : Walter Ulbricht resigns as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the SED . He will be succeeded by Erich Honecker

June

• June 6th: The German magazine Stern published the campaign “ We have aborted! ".
• June 13: The New York Times begins printing secret Pentagon papers on the Vietnam War . US President Richard Nixon and Attorney General John N. Mitchell try to prevent further publications by filing a lawsuit in court, but later fail before the US Supreme Court .

August

• August 4: The first bank robbery with hostage-taking in Germany is committed in Munich (the perpetrator is Dimitri Todorov , among others ). The hostage and an accomplice were killed in the exchange of fire.
• August 11: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Switzerland
• August 14: Bahrain declares independence from Great Britain .

September

• September 1: The Federal Training Assistance Act comes into force in West Germany
• September 3: Qatar becomes independent
• September 3: The four-power agreement on Berlin is signed
• September 5: Bernd Sievert , a refugee from the Berlin Wall, is gunned down at the Springer skyscraper in Berlin at lunchtime while trying to get to Lindenstrasse in West Berlin.
• September 9: A prisoner riot breaks out in Attica Prison in New York State .
• September 13: While trying to flee to the Soviet Union , the plane used by the high-ranking Chinese politician Lin Biao and his companion crashes in Mongolia near Öndörchaan . Lin is said to have differences with Mao Zedong and involvement in a failed coup .
• September 13: New York State Police and guards end a prisoner revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility using tear gas and firearms . 32 prisoners and eleven employees die.
• September 21: Qatar, Bhutan and Bahrain join the United Nations

October

• October 7: Oman becomes a member of the United Nations.

Bruno Kreisky

• October 10: National Council election in Austria . SPÖ with Federal Chancellor Kreisky strongest party.
• October 10th: General election in Bremen
• October 12: Start of the festivities of the 2500th anniversary of the Iranian monarchy , which will last until October 16.
• October 14th: Greenpeace is founded in Canada as an offshoot of the “Don't Make a Wave Committee”.
• October 22nd: Police officer Norbert Schmid is shot dead by members of the RAF in Hamburg .
• October 25th: With UN Resolution 2758 , the People's Republic of China is admitted to the UN , while Taiwan is excluded.
• October 27: The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.

November

• November 28: The Palestinian terrorist group Black September assassinates the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tell while he is at a meeting of the Arab League in Cairo.
• November 29th: The German entrepreneur Theo Albrecht is kidnapped by Heinz Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Kron.

December

• December 2nd: United Arab Emirates . Independence and establishment from the emirates of Abu Dhabi , Dubai , Sharjah , Ajman , Umm al-Qaiwain and Fujairah
• December 9: United Arab Emirates joins the United Nations
• December 17th: Signing of the transit agreement between the FRG and the GDR
• December 17th: Bangladesh finally becomes independent from Pakistan
• December 18: The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act enters into force
• December 20: Doctors Without Borders is founded.
• December 21: The Munzur-Vadisi National Park in Eastern Anatolia is declared a national park.
• December 22nd: Police officer Herbert Schoner is shot dead by members of the RAF in Kaiserslautern .
• December 24th: After an election stretching over 15 days, Giovanni Leone finally becomes President of the Italian Republic with a narrow majority . He takes up his post five days later.

Day unknown

• Heinrich Böll is elected President of the International Writers' Union ( PEN ) for four years
• In the UK , the first is the refuge of Europe established.
• In June the European Metalworkers Confederation is founded.
• Postwar between the Federal Republic and the GDR because of the GDR postage stamps " Antifascist protective wall ", "Wiltz memorial" and "Invincible Vietnam"

business

• February 4: The British car and engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce files for bankruptcy . The development of the Rolls-Royce RB211 jet engine overwhelmed the company's finances.
• February 15: On Decimal Day this has been the case since the 9th century. Existing English coin system replaced by the international decimal system. Since then, one pound sterling has been divided into 100 pence.
• May 7th: The credit institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany and the Benelux countries decide to issue uniform Eurocheques and Eurocheque cards .
• July 11: In Chile , after a constitutional amendment, the copper mines are nationalized without compensation . Fulfilling the statements of Salvador Allende's election campaign leads to a foreign policy conflict with the United States. Among other things, US shareholders hold shares in the world's largest copper mine in Chuquicamata .
• August 15: US President Richard Nixon ends the immediate gold redemption obligation for the US dollar . This is considered to be the beginning of the end of the Bretton Woods system . In addition, Nixon announced wage and price controls, as well as an import tax.
• September 10: The Paderborn / Ahden airfield (later Paderborn / Lippstadt Airport ) opens in the area of ​​the city of Büren .
• September 22nd: The Spanish weekly magazine Cambio 16 is founded, the concept of which is based on the news magazines Time and Der Spiegel . It will be an important press medium during the transition in Spain .

1971: London Bridge in Lake Havasu City

• October 10: In Lake Havasu City in the US state of Arizona , the London Bridge from 1831, which was sold in the United States, is reopened, the parts of which are built into a reinforced concrete structure.
• October 19: The first underground line opens in Munich .
• October 23: Daimler-Benz registers its development of the airbag as an impact protection device for the occupant of a motor vehicle for a German patent .

• November 14th: The radio of the GDR begins to broadcast the radio program Voice of the GDR intended for Western listeners , which replaces the programs of the Deutschlandsender and Berliner Welle .
• December 4: McDonald’s opens its first German branch in Munich.
• December 16: Sapporo becomes the fourth Japanese city to open its subway network .
• The Commerzbank AG opened the first German credit institution has a branch in New York

science and technology

Satellite photo of the Aswan High Dam

• January 15: The Aswan Dam is inaugurated in Egypt .
• March 11th: the Polytechnic University of Valencia is founded.
• April 19: The Soviet Union launches the first space station with Salyut 1 .
• May 6th: MBB presents the first prototype of a magnetic levitation train for passenger transport on the factory premises in Ottobrunn . The new Transrapid means of transport is emerging .
• June 6th: The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 is launched. The crew can successfully dock permanently to the Salyut 1 space station , which was not possible with the Soyuz 10 mission.
• June 29: Karaganda , USSR : The three-man crew, including the commander Georgi Dobrowolski , are killed in the unsuccessful landing of Soyuz 11 .

Apollo 15 capsule before landing

• August 7: The US flight to the moon, Apollo 15 , ends with a safe landing in the Pacific , although one of the capsule's three parachutes does not open.
• October 28: In Woomera , Great Britain successfully launches the only satellite to date with a British launcher, namely the test satellite Prospero .
• After the first human exposure, the triumphant advance of computer tomography begins .
• Intel produces the i4004 chip .
• Foundation of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
• The first email was sent from Ray Tomlinson . In the course of this, the at-symbol , also known as the spider monkey , was introduced.

Culture

• January 1: Queen Elizabeth II awards writer Agatha Christie the title of Dame Commander of the British Empire
• February 4th: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Cyprus . In force since February 5, 1972
• February 26th: The Swiss book collector Martin Bodmer creates the literary museum Bibliotheca Bodmeriana in Cologny with a deed of foundation .
• February 28: World premiere of the ballet Carmen by John Cranko with music by Wolfgang Fortner in collaboration with Wilfried Steinbrecher by the Stuttgart Ballet in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart
• May 17th: World premiere of the musical show The lengthy way to the apartment of Natascha Ungeheuer by Hans Werner Henze in Rome
• May 23: World premiere of the opera The Visit of the Old Lady by Gottfried von Eine at the Vienna State Opera
• June 5th: “Augsburg Whitsun Meeting”, forerunner of the nationwide Ecumenical Church Congress, in the Rosenaustadion .

Dama de Baza

• July 22nd: During excavations in the Spanish city of Baza , the Dama de Baza is found, a sculpture from the fourth century BC. Chr.
• August 1st: New York : Concert for Bangladesh
• September 8: Premiere of the play Mass by Leonard Bernstein at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
• September 10: World premiere of the opera Beatrix Cenci by Alberto Ginastera at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC
• November 11th: John Lennon releases the song Imagine on the album of the same name .
• December 2nd: Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and El Salvador . In force since June 30, 1972
• First award of the Gouden stylus
• Foundation of the Catholic Student Youth
• A Clockwork Orange is being made into a film.
• The Handwerkerhof Nürnberg opens.

Others

• May 5: In the Solent off Portsmouth, the first remains of wood are identified as belonging to the wreck of the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 , and the modern rediscovery, which finally leads to the salvage of the shipwreck in 1982, begins.
• November 24: A man who calls himself Dan Cooper hijacks a Boeing 727 between Portland and Seattle , after receiving a ransom of $ 200,000 in Seattle, parachutes from a height of 3000 meters on the onward flight and will never again seen. To date, this is the only aircraft hijacking in the USA that has never been resolved.

Sports

For entries of athletics world records, see the respective discipline under athletics .

• January 5: Australia and England play the first official ODI match between two national cricket teams at Melbourne Cricket Ground ; the hosts win with 5 wickets .
• March 6 to October 3: The 22nd Formula 1 World Championship is held
• March 8: Joe Frazier wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden , New York , USA, by winning on points.

Frankfurt Marathon 2004 at kilometer 1

• May 17th: The first city ​​marathon in Germany is started as the Frankfurt Marathon .
• May 18: An Austrian mountaineering expedition, consisting of Ronald Fear, Adolf Huber, Adolf Weissensteiner and the Sherpa Jangbu, succeeds in the first ascent of Dhaulagiri II , a 7,751 meter high mountain in Nepal .
• June 5: Borussia Mönchengladbach becomes German champions in the Bundesliga .
• June 6th: Horst-Gregorio Canellas reveals that games in the relegation battle and during the football season were influenced by cash payments. The first Bundesliga scandal breaks out.
• July 6th: Eddy Merckx wins the Tour de France for the third time in a row .
• August 15: Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion .
• October 24: One of the best Formula 1 racing drivers of his time, the Swiss Jo Siffert , dies in a fire accident in a post-season race at Brands Hatch, UK.
• December 17th: Hans Fassnacht , Ingrid Mickler-Becker and Borussia Mönchengladbach are the winners of the athlete of the year election in Germany

Disasters

Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .

• January 2: The second Ibrox disaster occurs in Glasgow's Ibrox Park football stadium . 66 football fans die when, towards the end of the derby game between Celtic Glasgow and the Glasgow Rangers, a barricade broke through crowded spectators and led to mass panic .
• February 9: The Aitrang railway accident turns out to be the greatest disaster in the history of the Trans-Europ-Express trains. The derailment of the TEE 56 combined with the collision of an oncoming local train caused 28 deaths and 42 seriously injured.
• March 18: In a landslide on Cerro Chungar in Peru , large masses of rock fall into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 people.
• May 22: Earthquake near Bingöl , Anatolia , Turkey , around 1,000 dead
• May 27: 46 people die in the railway accident in Radevormwald , including 41 students from the Radevormwald Geschwister-Scholl-Schule.
• July 30th: Morioka , Japan . A Japanese Boeing 727 collides with a North American F-86 fighter jet . All 162 people on board die
• September 4th: Juneau , Alaska , USA. A Boeing 727 of Alaska Airlines crashes during an instrument landing against a mountain while there at the airport Juneau a strong snowstorm. All 109 people on board die.
• September 6: Near Hasloh ( Schleswig-Holstein ), 22 people lose their lives in a plane crash .
• October 2nd: Aarsele , Belgium . One as Flight 706 used Vickers Vanguard of the British European Airways crashes due to fatigue. All 63 inmates die.
• December 24th: Puerto Inca , Huánuco Region , Peru . A Lockheed L-188 Electra of Lineas Aeras Nacionales used as Flight 508 breaks apart over the Peruvian rainforest during a thunderstorm with severe turbulence and lightning, killing 91 people. The only survivor, Juliane Koepcke , 17-year-old daughter of the naturalists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke , was only discovered after several days of walking through the Amazon region .

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Tuncay Gary , German actor and poet
  

  Tuncay Gary
• 0January 1st: Markus von Ahlen , German soccer coach and soccer player
• 0January 1: Jay Ashley , American porn director and actor
• 0January 2nd: Vasile Sănduleac , Moldovan chess player
• 0January 3: Tarek Al-Wazir , German politician and Member of the State Parliament
• 0January 3rd: Jens Møller , Danish racing car driver
• 0January 3: Markus Teutschbein , German conductor
• 0January 3rd: Andreasreiber , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Fiscal Court
• 0January 4th: Namig Yadulla Abdullajew , Azerbaijani wrestler
• 0January 4th: Sébastien Foucras , French freestyle skier
• 0January 4th: Junichi Kakizaki , Japanese artist, installation, ikebana & sculptor
• 0January 5th: Chris-Carol Bremer , German swimmer
• 0January 5th: Stian Carstensen , Norwegian jazz accordionist
• 0January 5th: Manuela Goller , German soccer player
• 0January 5: Iou Kuroda , Japanese manga artist
• 0January 6: Vladislav Bobrik , Russian cyclist
• 0January 7: Helen Darville , Australian writer
• 0January 7th: Jens Lüdtke , German handball trainer and handball player
• 0January 7th: DJ Ötzi , Austrian pop singer
  

  DJ Ötzi
• 0January 9: Angie Martinez , American musician, TV and radio presenter and model
• 0January 9th: Christoph Sieber , Austrian windsurfer
• 0January 9: Ralf Zacherl , German chef
• January 10th: Mark Loram , British track athlete
• January 11: Mary J. Blige , American singer
• January 11th: Martin Hess , German politician
• January 11th: Pekka Päivärinta , Finnish motorcycle racer
• January 12: David McAllister , German politician
• January 12th: Thorsten Thümler , German politician
• January 14th: Torsten Amft , German fashion designer and fashion artist
• January 14th: Thomas Hellriegel , German triathlete
• January 14th: Lasse Kjus , Norwegian ski racer
• January 16: Sergi Bruguera , Spanish tennis player
• January 16: Frank Cordes , German handball player
• January 16: Henrike von Platen , German business economist and women's rights activist
• January 17th: Richard Burns , British rally driver († 2005)
• January 17: Leonardo Ciampa , Italian-American musician
• January 17: Lil Jon , American hip hop musician
• January 17: Kid Rock , American musician
• January 18: Florian Adamski , Austrian cabaret artist and actor
• January 18: Jonathan Davis , American musician
• January 18: Pep Guardiola , former Spanish soccer player and today's coach

pep Guardiola

• January 18: Dru Mouser , American actress
• January 18: Adriana Santos , Brazilian basketball player and coach
• January 18: Binyavanga Wainaina , Kenyan journalist and writer († 2019)
• January 19: Assyr Abdulle , Swiss mathematician († 2021)
• January 20th: Uni Jógvanson Arge , Faroese journalist, musician, football and handball player
• January 20th: Gary Barlow , British singer and songwriter
• January 20: Wakanohana Masaru , Japanese sumo wrestler and 66th yokozuna
• January 20: Questlove , American drummer and producer
• January 21: Alan McManus , Scottish snooker player
• January 21: Auvita Rapilla , Papua New Guinea sports official
• January 22nd: Markus Baur , German handball player and coach
• January 22nd: Steffen Janich , German politician
• January 22nd: Tim Mälzer , German TV chef
• January 22nd: Sandra Speichert , German actress
• January 23: Katja Centomo , Italian cartoonist
• January 24th: Norbert Himmler , program director of the Second German Television
• January 24th: Caroline Rasser , Swiss actress
• January 25: Brett Aitken , Australian track and road cyclist
• January 25: Luca Badoer , Italian racing car driver
• January 25th: Torsten Friedrich , German handball goalkeeper
• January 25: Jaques Lazier , American racing car driver
• January 25: Pooh-Man , American rapper
• January 26th: Helge Sten , Norwegian jazz, rock and ambient musician
• January 26th: Hubert Aiwanger , German politician
• January 26th: Rick Kavanian , German comedian
• January 27: Patrice Brisebois , Canadian ice hockey player and racing car driver
• January 27th: Rolando Uríos , Cuban-Spanish handball player
• January 28: Christoph Kottenkamp , German theater, cinema and television actor
• January 28: Miriam Smolka , German actress
• January 28: Hartfrid Wolff , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• January 29: Jörg Albertz , German soccer player
• January 29th: Sonja Pfeilschifter , German marksman
• January 31: Matthias Berninger , German politician
• January 31: Volker Michalowski , German actor, musician and comedian

Volker Michalowski

February

• 0February 1: Jill Kelly , American porn actress
• 0February 1: Zlatko Zahovič , Slovenian football player
• 0February 1: Michael C. Hall , American actor

Michael C. Hall

• 0February 1st: Christian Winninghoff , German jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
• 0February 2nd: Marc Luy , German population scientist
• 0February 2: Brad McMurray , Australian actor
• 0February 3: Andreas Daams , German composer and writer
• 0February 3: Sarah Kane , British director († 1999)
• 0February 3rd: Lars Pape , German actor and director
• 0February 4th: Maarten Atmodikoro , Surinamese-Dutch soccer player
• 0February 4th: Alexander Dürr , German soccer player and coach
• 0February 4th: Chrischa Hannawald , German handball goalkeeper and handball trainer
• 0February 4: Edward Kitsis , American screenwriter and television producer
• 0February 4th: Katja Mast , German politician
• 0February 4th: Nikki Stone , American freestyle skier
• 0February 5th: Terézia Mora , writer, screenwriter and translator
• 0February 6: José María Jiménez , Spanish cyclist († 2003)
• 0February 7th: Björn Monnberg , Finnish handball player

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• 0February 7th: Anita Zoi , Russian singer
• 0February 8: Natalie Lumpp , German sommelier and wine author
• 0February 8: Andrus Veerpalu , Estonian cross-country skier
• 0February 8: Dmitri Neljubin , Russian cyclist († 2005)
• 0February 9: Rachael Beck , Australian actress and singer
• 0February 9: Dirk Beuchler , German handball player and handball trainer
• 0February 9: Zenka Dianowa , Bulgarian pianist
• 0February 9th: Hans Knauß , Austrian ski racer
• 0February 9: Géza Pálffy , Hungarian historian
• February 11: Sascha Stowasser , German ergonomist
• February 12: Ryan Conner , American porn actress
• February 12: Paul Hayden Desser , Canadian singer-songwriter
• February 13: Matthias Klimsa , German actor and voice actor
• February 13: Mats Sundin , Swedish ice hockey player
• February 14: Kristina Bernadette Cojuangco Aquino-Yap , Filipino television and film actress
• February 15: Maureen Bailo Janser , Swiss TV presenter
• February 15: Renée O'Connor , American actress
• February 16: Jack Rose , American guitarist († 2009)
• February 17th: Hermann Achmüller , Italian long-distance runner
• February 17th: Ludovic Auger , French cyclist
• February 17: Denise Richards , American actress
• February 17th: Ute van der Mâer , German composer, music teacher and artist
• February 19: Keith Baxter , British rock musician († 2008)
• February 20: Theresa Hübchen , German actress
• February 20: Jari Litmanen , Finnish soccer player
• February 21: Klaus Müller , German politician
• February 22nd: Arnon Grunberg , Dutch author
• February 22nd: Jason Marshall , Canadian ice hockey player
• February 22nd: Andrea Stella , Italian motorsport technician
• February 23: Marco Arzilli , San Marinese politician
• February 23: André Stade , German pop singer
• February 24th: Thomas Franck , German soccer player
• February 24th: Pedro de la Rosa , Spanish Formula 1 racing driver
• February 24th: Moses Pelham , German musician and record producer
• February 25: Christien Alexis Anholt , British actor
• February 25: Sean Astin , American actor
• February 25: Daniel Powter , Canadian pop musician
• February 25: Alexander Siedschlag , German political scientist
• February 25: Kathryn Zenna , Canadian actress
• February 26: Max Martin , Swedish music producer and composer
• February 26: Erykah Badu , American soul singer
• February 26: Christian Rickens , German journalist and writer
• February 27: Chilli , American singer
• February 27: Derren Brown , English illusionist
• February 27: Roman Giertych , Polish lawyer and politician

March

Tyler Hamilton .

Ewan McGregor , 2009

• 0March 1st: Thomas Adès , English composer, conductor and pianist
• 0March 1: Tyler Hamilton , American professional cyclist
• 0March 1st: Dick Norman , Belgian tennis player
• 0March 2nd: Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi , Italian actor
• 0March 2nd: Roman Gregory , Austrian musician and presenter
• 0March 2nd: Norbert Hofer , Austrian aircraft engineer and politician
• 0March 2: Method Man , American rapper
• 0March 3rd: Christian Eigner , Austrian drummer
• 0March 3rd: Lothar Leder , German triathlete
• 0March 4th: Marc Baumgartner , former Swiss handball player
• 0March 5: Yuri Lowenthal , American actor and voice actor
• 0March 6: Héctor del Ángel , Mexican football player
• 0March 6: Richard Gay , French freestyle skier
• 0March 6th: Servais Knaven , Dutch cyclist
• 0March 7th: Francesca Rettondini , Italian film actress and model
• 0March 7th: Thies Heinemann , German chess player
• 0March 7: Peter Sarsgaard , American actor
• March 10: Ingo Ahrens , German handball player
• March 10: Jon Hamm , American actor
• March 11th: Steffen Wesemann , German racing cyclist
• March 11: Johnny Knoxville , American actor
• March 12: Karolina Arewång-Højsgaard , Swedish orienteer
• March 13: Berrit Arnold , German actress
• March 13: Annabeth Gish , American actress
• March 15th: Ralf Bißdorf , German foil fencer
• March 17th: Markus Becker , German Schlager singer
• March 18: Christian Arming , Austrian conductor
• March 18: Wayne Arthurs , Australian tennis player
• March 19: Nadja Auermann , German photo model and actress
• March 19: Arno Kompatscher , Governor of South Tyrol
• March 19: Barbara Morgenstern , German singer and musician
• March 20th: Monique Kavelaars , Canadian fencer
• March 20: Oliver Sturm , German soccer player
• March 21: Dirk von Lowtzow , German singer and guitarist
• March 23: Erik Dreesen , German bodybuilder and strength athlete († 2013)
• March 23: Karen McDougal , American playmate and model
• March 24th: Masao Azuma , Japanese motorcycle racer
• March 25: Stacy Dragila , American athlete and Olympic champion
• March 25: Bettina Engelhardt , German actress
• March 25th: Muriel Rochat Rienth , Swiss recorder player
• March 25: Werner Kuchar , German Roman Catholic clergyman and author († 2013)
• March 26th: Moyoco Anno , Japanese manga artist
• March 26th: Heidi Hartmann (boxer) , German boxer , world boxing champion
• March 27: David Coulthard , British Formula 1 racing driver
• March 27: Nathan Fillion , Canadian actor
• March 29: Lara Logan , American TV & radio journalist and war correspondent
• March 29: Maciej Zieliński , Polish composer
• March 30: Mark Consuelos , American / Spanish actor
• March 30th: Peyman Amin , German booker and model agent
• March 30th: Fabrizio De Simone , Italian racing car driver
• March 31: Martin Atkinson , English football referee
• March 31: Pavel Vladimirovich Bure , Russian ice hockey player
• March 31: Dieter Fischer , German actor
• March 31: Ewan McGregor , Scottish actor

April

• 0April 1st: Christian Titz , German soccer player and coach
• 0April 2nd: Francisco Javier Arce Rolón , Paraguayan soccer player and coach
• 0April 2nd: Gwenaëlle Aubry , French philosopher and writer
• 0April 2: Alexander Duszat (Elton), German TV presenter
• 0April 2nd: Edmundo , Brazilian soccer player
• 0April 2nd: Todd Woodbridge , Australian tennis player

Todd Woodbridge

• 0April 3: Thorstein Aaby , Norwegian guitarist († 2007)
• 0April 3: Vitālijs Astafjevs , Latvian football player
• 0April 3: Picabo Street , American skier
• 0April 4th: Najib Amhali , Dutch comedian
• 0April 4th: Dietmar Kühbauer , Austrian soccer player
• 0April 4: Mentor Miftari , Albanian football player
• 0April 5: Takami Itō , Japanese writer
• 0April 8: Chino XL , American rapper
• 0April 8th: Thomas Neger , German carnival singer
• 0April 9: Jacques Villeneuve , Canadian Formula 1 racing driver and Formula 1 world champion
• April 10: Joey DeFrancesco , American jazz organist
• April 10: Markus Koch , German television journalist and author
• April 11th: Tomasz Gollob , Polish track athlete
• April 11th: Oliver Riedel , German musician
• April 11: Craig Walsh , American composer and music educator
• April 12th: Christophe Moreau , French cyclist
• April 12th: Shannen Doherty , American actress
• April 12: Nicholas Brendon , American actor
• April 13: Alexandra Adi , American actress
• April 14th: Eugène Afrika , Luxembourg soccer player
• April 14th: Tim Austin , American boxer
• April 14th: Rainald Grebe , German songwriter, actor, cabaret artist and author
• April 14th: Thomas Waldner , German journalist and media consultant
• April 15: Andrew Daly , American actor, comedian and screenwriter
• April 15th: Sarah Young , British porn actress
• April 16: Kristian Asmussen , Danish handball player
• April 16: Sven Fischer , German biathlete
• April 16: Natallja Swerava , Belarusian tennis player
• April 16: Selena Quintanilla-Pérez , Mexican singer († 1995)
• April 17th: David Wagner , German writer
• April 18: Fredro Starr , American rapper and actor
• April 18: David Tennant , British actor
• April 19: Stanislav Kulintschenko , Russian handball player and official
• April 21: Ekin Deligöz , German politician
• April 21: Paul Heller , German jazz saxophonist
• April 21: Jule Ronstedt , German actress and director
• April 22nd: Volker Strübing , German writer, songwriter and animator
• April 22nd: Marek Harloff , German actor
• April 22nd: Josia Thugwane , South African marathon runner
• April 23: Janek Rieke , German actor and director
• April 24th: Yves Eigenrauch , German soccer player
• April 24th: Stefania Rocca , Italian actress
• April 24th: Marco Seiffert , German TV and radio presenter
• April 26: Christoph Silber , German author
• April 26th: Steffen Stiebler , German handball player
• April 27th: Marc Olejak , German politician
• April 28: Markus Beyer , German boxer († 2018)
• April 28th: Hamish Carter , New Zealand triathlete and Olympic champion
• April 28th: Leigh Adams , Australian track athlete
• April 29: Steffen Kotré , German engineer and politician
• April 30th: Carlos Baldomir , Argentine professional boxer
• April 30: John Boyne , Irish writer
• April 30th: Simone Lang , German figure skater
• April 30th: Edward Piccin , Swiss actor

May

• 0May 1st: Stuart Appleby , Australian professional golfer
• 0May 1st: Amira Casar , British-French actress
• 0May 1: Kwanza Hall , American politician
• 0May 1st: Nenad Peruničić , Montenegrin-German handball player and coach
• 0May 4th: Florian Illies , German journalist and book author
• 0May 4th: Aleksandar Jovanovic , German actor
• 0May 5: Sebastian Hess , German cellist and composer († 2021)
• 0May 5th: Anette Hoffmann , Danish handball player
• 0May 5th: Nate McBride , American jazz bassist
• 0May 6: Geneva Carr , American film and stage actress
• 0May 6: Chris Shiflett , American guitarist
• 0May 7th: Pamela Rendi-Wagner , Austrian doctor and politician
• 0May 7th: Harald Christian Strand Nilsen , Norwegian ski racer
• 0May 7: Ivan Sergei , American actor
• 0May 8: Radosław Gilewicz , Polish football player

Candice Night

• 0May 8: Candice Night , American singer
• 0May 8: Nobuteru Taniguchi , Japanese racing car driver
• May 10th: Doris Auer , Austrian pole vaulter, heptathlete and sprinter
• May 10: Monisha Kaltenborn , Austrian lawyer and racing team owner
• May 10: Kim Jong-nam , North Korean government opponent († 2017)
• May 10: Luan Krasniqi , German boxer
• May 10th: Doris Neuner , Austrian luge rider
• May 10: Tomasz Waldoch , Polish football player
• May 10: Katja Woywood , German actress
• May 10: Beat Zberg , Swiss cyclist
• May 11: Dominique Arribagé , French football player and coach
• May 11th: Markus Meyer , German castle actor
• May 11: Mathias Schlung , German actor and comedian
• May 12: Kristin Asbjørnsen , Norwegian singer and composer
• May 12: Boris Reitschuster , German journalist and non-fiction author
• May 12: Chris Snell , former Canadian ice hockey player
• May 13: Sascha Armutat , German officer and economist
• May 13: Thomas Arnold , German actor
• May 14: Sofia Coppola , American actress, screenwriter and director
• May 14: Katja Heijnen , German radio journalist and presenter
• May 14: Alberto Rodríguez Librero , Spanish director
• May 15: Zoubaier Baya , Tunisian footballer
• May 16: Thomas Knorr , German handball player and coach
• May 16: Roman Pungartnik , Slovenian handball player
• May 17th: Máxima , Queen of the Netherlands
• May 19: Uwem Akpan , Nigerian writer and priest
• May 20: Niklas Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
• May 20: Ian Feuer , former US soccer goalkeeper
• May 20: Paweł Mykietyn , Polish composer
• May 21: Tatjana Gsell , German actress
• May 22nd: Lars Koslowski , German tennis player
• May 25: Stefano Baldini , Italian athlete and Olympic champion
• May 25th: Georg Totschnig , Austrian cyclist
• May 26th: Susan Andrews , Australian sprinter and middle distance runner
• May 26: Shannon Kenny , Australian actress
• May 26th: Sven Lakenmacher , German handball trainer and handball player
• May 26: Matt Stone , American actor, screenwriter, producer, and director
• May 27: Paul Bettany , British actor
• May 27: Lisa Lopes , American rapper († 2002)
• May 27: Monika Schnarre , Australian actress
• May 27th: Beatrix von Storch , German politician
• May 28: Katja Aßmann , German cultural manager and curator
• May 28: Thomas Bartholomäus , German actor and speaker
• May 28: Isabelle Carré , French film actress
• May 28: Ekaterina Alexandrovna Gordejewa , Russian figure skater
• May 28: Manuel Beltrán , Spanish cyclist
• May 29: Oliver Auge , German historian
• May 29: Eric Lucas , Canadian professional boxer
• May 30th: Anja Haas , Austrian ski racer
• May 30th: Idina Menzel , American actress

June

• 0June 1st: Monica Anghel , Romanian singer
• 0June 1st: Jan Müller , German musician
• 0June 1st: Luca Riccitelli , Italian racing car driver

Anthony Montgomery .

• 0June 2: Anthony Montgomery , American actor
• 0June 2nd: Patricia Pantel , German TV reporter and presenter
• 0June 3: Luigi Di Biagio , Italian football player and coach
• 0June 3: Gabriel Merz , German actor, director and screenwriter
• 0June 3: Peter Thorwarth , German film director
• 0June 4: Mike Lee , American lawyer and politician
• 0June 4th: Noah Wyle , American actor

Mark Wahlberg , 2012

• 0June 5: Mark Wahlberg , American actor, model, and singer
• 0June 6: Rob David , American actor
• 0June 7th: Ines Anger-Koch , Austrian politician
• 0June 7th: Toni Cottura , German music producer, rapper and singer
• 0June 7th: Alexander Herrmann , German cook, presenter and cookbook author
• June 10: Joel Hailey , American R&B artist
• June 10: Bobby Jindal , American politician
• June 12: Mark Henry , American wrestler
• June 12th: Stefan Krebietke , German handball player
• June 12: MC Breed , American rapper († 2008)
• June 12: Elisabeth Lanz , Austrian theater and television actress
• June 14th: Marco Bülow , German politician
• June 14: Matthias Matz , German actor
• June 14: Dirk Ossig , German actor
• June 14th: Kathrin Röggla , Austrian writer
• June 15th: José Luis Arrieta Lujambio , Spanish cyclist
• June 15th: Edwin Brienen , Dutch film director
• June 16: Askar Abildayev , Kazakh football player and official
• June 16: Evelyn Großmann , German figure skater
• June 16: Tupac Shakur , American rapper († 1996)
• June 17th: José Emilio Amavisca Gárate , Spanish football player
• June 17th: Rafał Mazur , Polish bass guitarist
• June 17th: Bif Naked , Canadian punk rock singer
• June 17th: Paulina Rubio , Mexican singer and actress
• June 17th: Maike Schrader , German hockey player († 2004)
• June 18th: CJ Bolland , Belgian techno producer and DJ
• June 18: Gabriele Rittig , Austrian author for children and young people
• June 19: Christopher Peter Armstrong , English football player
• June 19: Jürgen Trimborn , German writer and biographer († 2012)
• June 20: Jeordie White , American bassist
• June 21: Davide Olivares , Italian football player
• June 21: Anette Olzon , singer of the Finnish metal band Nightwish
• June 22nd: Chodadad Azizi , Iranian soccer player
• June 22nd: Christian Menzel , German racing car driver
• June 22nd: Alexandra Rietz , German police superintendent
• June 23: Enrique Romero , Spanish soccer player
• June 24th: Asitha Ameresekere , British film director
• June 25: Jason Lewis , American actor and model
• June 25: Robert Reichel , Czech ice hockey player
• June 26th: Max Biaggi , Italian motorcyclist
• June 27: Sérgio Cláudio dos Santos , Brazilian soccer player

Simbeck (right) as part of the duo "Erkan and Stefan" (2006)

• June 27: Florian Simbeck , German comedian and politician
• June 27: Irène Straub , Swiss singer
• June 28: Lorenzo Amoruso , Italian football player
• June 28: Fabien Barthez , French soccer player
• June 28th: Fabrice Becker , French freestyle skier
• June 28: Elon Musk , American entrepreneur
• June 28: No ID , American hip hop producer
• June 29: Kaitlyn Ashley , American porn actress
• June 29th: Anthony Hamilton , English snooker player
• June 29: Christina Chang , American actress

July

• 0July 1: Aleh Antonenka , Belarusian ice hockey player
• 0July 1: Julianne Nicholson , American actress
• 0July 1: Missy Elliott , American rapper, singer, and producer
• 0July 2: Joel Otim , Ugandan athlete († 2021)
• 0July 3: Julian Paul Assange , Australian political activist
• 0July 4th: Nedijeljko "Ned" Zelic , Australian soccer player
• 0July 5th: Gaby König-Vialkowitsch , German soccer player
• 0July 7th: Kai Peter Schmitz , German soccer coach
• 0July 8: Marcel van Ackeren , German philosopher and historian of philosophy
• 0July 8th: Frank Holzke , German chess grandmaster and lawyer
• 0July 9th: Andrea Philipp , German athlete
• 0July 9: Marc Andreessen , US founder of Netscape Communications Corporation

Marc Andreessen

• 0July 9: Melissa Morrison-Howard , American athlete and Olympian
• 0July 9: Scott Grimes , American actor
• July 11: Alexei Aigi , Russian musician, composer and violinist
• July 12: Zarinah Abdullah , Singaporean badminton player
• July 12: Kristi Yamaguchi , American figure skater
• July 13: Antonio Francisco Astiazarán Gutiérrez , Mexican politician
• July 13: Richard Groenendaal , Dutch cyclist
• July 14th: Nick McCabe , British guitarist
• July 14th: Ross Rebagliati , Canadian snowboarder
• July 15th: Sven Telljohann , German chess master
• July 16: Bibiana Beglau , German actress
• July 16: Corey Feldman , American actor
• July 16: Michael Jelden , German violinist, violin virtuoso and linguist
• July 16: Tanja Lanäus , German actress
• July 16: Carlos Núñez , Spanish musician
• July 17: Cory Doctorow , Canadian science fiction writer
• July 18th: Ralf Appel , German chess grandmaster
• July 18: Heiko Karrer , German handball player and handball trainer
• July 18: Sarah McLeod , New Zealand actress
• July 18: Vasili Zeiher , German freestyle wrestler
• July 19: Urs Bühler , Swiss tenor, member of the classic crossover group Il Divo
• July 19: Vitali Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer

Vitali Klitschko

• July 20: Christian Ralph Ast , German basketball player
• July 21: Anthony Beltoise , French racing car driver
• July 21: Charlotte Gainsbourg , French actress
• July 22nd: Henrik Rabien , German bassoonist
• July 22nd: Henrik Wiese , German flautist and synaesthetist
• July 23: Alexander Schur , German soccer player
• July 23: Monika Kruse , German musician and producer
• July 23: Alison Krauss , American singer and fiddle player
• July 23: Nicola Ransom , British actress
• July 24th: Dino Baggio , Italian football player
• July 24th: Holger Jung , German lawyer, politician (CDU) and mayor
• July 24th: André Schubert , German football player and trainer
• July 24th: Herbert Ulrich , German actor
• July 25th: Thomas Koch , German actor
• July 26th: Regy Clasen , German chanson, pop and soul singer and songwriter († 2020)
• July 26: Andrea Fortunato , Italian football player († 1995)
• July 29: Lisa Ekdahl , Swedish jazz-pop singer
• July 30: Elvis Crespo , American musician
• July 30th: Mzukisi Sikali , South African boxer († 2005)
• July 31: Claudia Acuña , Chilean jazz singer
• 00.July: François Leleux , French oboist, conductor and professor

August

• 0August 1st: Christina Angel , American porn actress
• 0August 2nd: Julie Parisien , American ski racer
• 0August 3: Yoshitoshi ABe , Japanese artist
• 0August 5th: Karina Krawczyk , German actress
• 0August 6: Federico Giunti , Italian football player
• 0August 7th: Benita Brückner , German actress and lawyer
• 0August 7th: Sebastian Padotzke , German musician
• 0August 7th: Stephan Volkert , German rower
• 0August 9: Davide Rebellin , Italian-Argentine cyclist

Davide rebel

• August 10: Roy Keane , Irish football player
• August 10: Rüdiger Klink , German actor
• August 10: Justin Theroux , American actor
• August 12: Pete Sampras , American tennis player
• August 13: Tomoe Abe , Japanese long distance runner
• August 13: Slađan Ašanin , Croatian football player
• August 13: Moritz Bleibtreu , German actor

Moritz Bleibtreu , 2004

• August 13: Patrick Carpentier , Canadian racing driver
• August 13: Heike Makatsch , German actress

Heike Makatsch , 2009

• August 16: John Friedmann , German actor

John Friedmann, 2006

• August 16: Stefan Klos , German soccer player
• August 16: Rulon Gardner , former American wrestler
• August 18: Hanna E. Antoniussen , Faroese soccer player
• August 18: Patrik Andersson , Swedish football player
• August 18: Kai Ivo Baulitz , German actor
• August 18: Raoul Gehringer , Austrian composer († 2018)
• August 18: Ben Keating , American entrepreneur and racing car driver
• August 18th: Aphex Twin , British musician and DJ
• August 19: Erik Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
• August 19: Guido Cantz , German television presenter
• August 19: Mary Joe Fernández , American tennis player
• August 19: Giovanni Martusciello , Italian football player and coach
• August 20: Daniel Oberegger , South Tyrolean composer, writer and filmmaker
• August 21: Mike Candys , Swiss house and electro DJ and music producer
• August 21: Lukas Holliger , Swiss author and dramaturge
• August 21: Pedro Piedrabuena , American carom player
• August 22: Valentin Areh , Slovenian war reporter
• August 22: Richard Crispin Armitage , British theater, television and film actor
• August 23: Michael von Ameln , German field and indoor hockey referee
• August 23: Bone Crusher , American rapper
• August 23: Gretchen Whitmer , US politician
• August 26th: Duncan Cameron , British racing car driver
• August 25: Gilberto Simoni , Italian cyclist
• August 26th: Charles Friedek , German athlete
• August 26th: Thorsten Schmid , German handball trainer
• August 27: Ole Schröder , German politician
• August 27: Julian Weigend , Austrian actor
• August 28: Daniel Richard Goddard , Australian film actor and model
• August 29th: Tina Bøttzau , Danish handball player
• August 29: Carla Gugino , American actress
• August 30: Martin Gerster , German politician
• August 31: Nobuatsu Aoki , Japanese motorcycle racer
• August 31: Dănuț Alin Artimon , Romanian football player and coach
• August 31: Kinga Preis , Polish actress
• August 31: Chris Tucker , American film actor and comedian

September

• 0September 1st: Luci van Org , German presenter, actress, writer and singer
• 0September 1st: Helena af Sandeberg , Swedish film actress
• 0September 1st: Heike Schmidt , German handball player
• 0September 1st: Hakan Şükür , Turkish soccer player
• 0September 2nd: Kjetil André Aamodt , Norwegian ski racer
• 0September 2nd: Stephan Grossmann , German actor
• 0September 2nd: Péter Kőszeghy , Hungarian composer and music teacher
• 0September 3: Mirja Boes , German singer, comedian and actress
• 0September 3: Kiran Desai , Indian writer and permanent resident of the United States
• 0September 3: Peter Fox , German reggae and hip-hop musician
• 0September 3: Angela Marquardt , German politician
• 0September 3: Paolo Montero , Uruguayan soccer player
• 0September 3: Kristean Porter , American freestyle skier
• 0September 3: Sascha Wolf , German soccer player
• 0September 4th: Herwig Barthes , German jazz trumpeter
• 0September 4th: Peggy Schwarz , German figure skater
• 0September 4th: Max Urlacher , German actor
• 0September 5th: Bonamy Grimes , British entrepreneur and racing car driver
• 0September 6th: Mariam Amiri , German TV presenter
• 0September 6: Dolores O'Riordan , Irish rock singer († 2018)
• 0September 6th: Pavel Patera , Czech ice hockey player
• 0September 7th: Kjersti Grini , Norwegian handball player and trainer
• September 7th: Caroline Peters , German actress
• 0September 8: David Arquette , American actor and musician
• 0September 8: Martin Freeman , English actor
• 0September 9: Eric Stonestreet , American actor
• 0September 9: Henry Thomas , American actor
• September 11th: Richard Ashcroft , British musician
• September 11th: Stéphane Daoudi , French racing car driver
• September 12: Oskar Camenzind , Swiss cyclist
• September 12th: Chandra Sturrup , Bahamian athlete and Olympic champion
• September 13: Stella McCartney , British fashion designer
• September 13: Svetlana Gladysheva , Russian ski racer
• September 13: Goran Ivanišević , Croatian tennis player
• September 13: Ann-Elen Skjelbreid , Norwegian biathlete
• September 13: Antje Westermann , German actress
• September 14: Bill Pilczuk , American swimmer
• September 14th: Alphonse Tchami , Cameroonian football player
• September 14: Kimberly Williams , American actress and director
• September 15: Josh Charles , American actor
• September 15th: Wayne Ferreira , South African tennis player
• September 15: Siegfried Terpoorten , German actor
• September 16: Annelise Coberger , New Zealand ski racer
• September 16: Karsten Kobs , German athlete
• September 16: Zilla Huma Usman , Pakistani politician and women's rights activist († 2007)
• September 17th: Sergei Barbarez , Bosnian football player
• September 17th: Floriane Daniel , German actress
• September 17th: Slavko Goluža , Croatian handball player and coach
• September 17th: Klára Pollertová , Czech actress
• September 17th: Lars Schlecker , German entrepreneur
• September 17th: Jens Voigt , German racing cyclist and television commentator
• September 18: Berik Äbdighaliuly , Kazakh politician
• September 18: Judith Williams , German-American opera singer, television presenter and entrepreneur
• September 18: Lance Armstrong , American cyclist

Lance Armstrong

• September 18: Anna Netrebko , Russian opera singer

Anna Netrebko , 2005

• September 18: Jada Pinkett Smith , American actress
• September 19: Filip Apelstav , Swedish football player
• September 19: Crauss , German author
• September 19: D-Flame , German rapper
• September 19: Sanaa Lathan , American actress
• September 19: Tanja Rastetter , German soccer player and trainer
• September 19: Fatmir Vata , Albanian football player
• September 20: Ralf Bohn , German racing car driver
• September 20: Elmar Brandt , German voice imitator
• September 20: Henrik Larsson , Swedish football player
• September 20: Julia Westlake , German TV presenter
• September 21: Lee Jeong-beom , South Korean film director
• September 21: Alfonso Ribeiro , American actor
• September 21: Karen Webb , German TV presenter
• September 21: Beate Wendt , German soccer player
• September 21: Luke Wilson , American actor
• September 22nd: Chesney Hawkes , British pop singer, songwriter and film actor
• September 22nd: Roy Präger , German soccer player
• September 22nd: Märtha Louise of Norway , daughter of King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway
• September 22nd: Julika Sandt , Bavarian politician
• September 23: Ingebrigt Håker Flaten , Norwegian jazz bassist
• September 23: Lee Mi-yeon , South Korean actress
• September 23: Park Tae-bun , South Korean musician
• September 24th: Claudia Klein , German soccer player
• September 24th: Peter Salisbury , British musician
• September 25: Holger Haibach , German politician
• September 25th: Rico Lieder , German athlete
• September 26th: Frank Carstens , German handball player and coach
• September 26th: Anke Feller , German athlete
• September 26: Miguel Ramos , Portuguese racing car driver
• September 26th: Viktors Stulpins , Latvian bishop
• September 26th: Marcus Staiger , German journalist
• September 27th: Petrus accordion , German artist
• September 27: Chris Avellone , American computer game designer
• September 28: Joseph Arthur , American singer and guitarist
• September 29: Mackenzie Crook , British actor
• September 29: Leonardo Piepoli , Italian cyclist
• September 29th: Torch , German rapper
• September 29: Yitzhak Yedid , Israeli pianist and composer
• September 30th: Jenna Elfman , American actress

October

• 0October 2nd: Xavier Naidoo , German soul singer

Xavier Naidoo

• 0October 2: James Root , American guitarist
• 0October 2: Tiffany , American singer
• 0October 3: S. Antonius Budi Ariantho , Indonesian badminton player
• 0October 3: Kevin Richardson , American singer for the Backstreet Boys

Kevin Richardson

• 0October 5: Mauricio Pellegrino , Argentine soccer player
• 0October 5th: Nicola Rizzoli , Italian football referee
• 0October 6th: Phil Bennett , British racing car driver
• 0October 6: Alan Stubbs , English soccer player
• 0October 7th: Jorge Bazan Moros , Andorran football player
• 0October 7: Bettina Wiegmann , German soccer player
• 0October 8: Pınar Selek , Turkish peace activist
• 0October 9: Wibke Apholt , Swiss paraglider pilot
• October 10: Lameck Aguta , Kenyan marathon runner
• October 10: Markus Heitz , German fantasy and science fiction author
• October 10: Yevgeny Kissin , Russian pianist
• October 10: Tiffany Mynx , American porn actress and stripper
• October 10: Sharon Petzold , American freestyle skier
• October 10: Truth Hurts , American R&B singer
• October 13: Sacha Baron Cohen , English comedian
• October 13th: Pyrros Dimas , Greek weightlifter
• October 13: Sebastian Fitzek , German writer
• October 13: Kira Reed , American actress, film producer, screenwriter, and television presenter
• October 13: Luis Tosar , Spanish actor
• October 14: Jochen Hippel , German musician
• October 15: Sonia Alfano , Italian politician
• October 15: Andrew Cole , English soccer player
• October 15: Niko Kovač , Croatian football player and coach
• October 17th: Derrick Plourde , American drummer († 2005)
• October 18: Hadschi Bankhofer , Austrian moderator and journalist
• October 20: Dannii Minogue , Australian singer and actress
• October 20: Snoop Dogg , American rapper and actor

Snoop Dogg

• October 21: Oliver Paasch , Belgian politician
• October 22nd: Philippe Askenazy , French economist
• October 22nd: Amanda Coetzer , South African tennis player
• October 22nd: José Manuel Martínez , Spanish athlete
• October 22: Shamo Quaye , Ghanaian soccer player († 1997)
• October 23: Christopher Horner , American cyclist
• October 23: Bohuslav Sobotka politician, head of government and finance minister in the Czech Republic
• October 25: Kay-Uwe Jendrossek , German soccer player
• October 25: Stefan Puntigam , Austrian actor, speaker and director
• October 25: Elif Shafak , Turkish writer
• October 29: Lucio España , Colombian football player († 2005)
• October 29: Matthew Hayden , Australian cricketer
• October 29: Winona Ryder , American actress

Winona Ryder , 2009

• October 30th: Fredi Bobic , German soccer player
• October 30: Alex Godoy , Andorran soccer player
• October 31: Ian Walker , English football player
• October 31: Patrick Wirbeleit , German illustrator, comic author and cartoonist

November

Antonio Sánchez

• 0November 1st: Antonio Sánchez , Mexican jazz drummer
• 0November 1st: Alexei Vladimirovich Tikhonov , Russian figure skater
• 0November 3rd: Juliane Bogner-Strauss , Austrian politician
• 0November 3rd: Christian Dollberg , Argentinian soccer player
• 0November 3rd: Dirk Spaniel , German engineer and politician
• 0November 3rd: Dwight Yorke , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago
• 0November 4th: Robyn Moore , Australian actress
• 0November 5: Sergei Berezin , Russian ice hockey player
• 0November 5th: Jonny Greenwood , British guitarist
• 0November 5: Corin Nemec , American actor
• 0November 5: Karsten Neumann , German lawyer
• 0November 5th: Timmo Niesner , German actor and voice actor
• 0November 6th: Yuri Vladimirovich Andronov , Russian walker
• 0November 8th: Carlos Atanes , Spanish film director, screenwriter and playwright
• 0November 8: Ruben Gazarian , Armenian conductor
• 0November 9: Mauricio Annunziata , Argentine composer and pianist
• 0November 9: Big Pun , American rapper († 2000)
• November 10: Necla Akdoğan , Turkish national soccer player
• November 10: Musemestre Bamba , football player (Dem. Rep. Congo)
• November 13: Noah Hathaway , American film actor
• November 14th: Chloe , American porn actress
• November 14: Adam Gilchrist , Australian cricketer
• November 15: Maria Rachel J. Arenas , Filipino politician
• November 16: Tanja Damaske , German athlete
• November 16: Angelika Birck , Austrian psychologist († 2004)
• November 16: Mercedes Bunz , German cultural scientist and journalist
• November 16: Martin Lingnau , German pianist, theater, musical and television composer

Alexander Popov

• November 16: Alexander Vladimirovich Popov , Russian swimmer
• November 17: Tərlan Əhmədov , Azerbaijani football player
• November 17th: Michael Adams , English chess player

Ilka Bessin , 2013

• November 18: Ilka Bessin , German stand-up comedian ( Cindy from Marzahn )
• November 18: Bobby Julich , American cyclist
• November 18: Tom Reed , American politician
• November 18: Özlem Tekin , Turkish rock singer
• November 19: Justin Gunnar Walte Chancellor , British musician
• November 20: Igor Jeftić , German actor
• November 20: Marco Oppedisano , American composer and guitarist
• November 22nd: Geir Hartly Andreassen , Norwegian cameraman
• November 22nd: Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen , Danish handball player
• November 23: Frank Giering , German actor († 2010)
• November 24th: Walter Auer , Austrian flautist

Christina Applegate , 2012

• November 25: Christina Applegate , American film actress
• November 25: Magnus Arvedson , Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• November 25: Luíz Filho Jairo , Brazilian soccer player
• November 25: Dedrick Gobert , American actor († 1994)
• November 25: Raphael Rubino , German actor
• November 26th: Marcel Chyrzyński , Polish composer
• November 27: Kirk Acevedo , American actor
• November 27th: Troy Corser , Australian motorcycle racer
• November 28th: Carlos Slusher , Belizean football player
• November 30th: Jessalyn Gilsig , Canadian actress

December

• 0December 1st: Emily Mortimer , British actress
• 0December 1st: Christian Pescatori , Italian racing car driver
• 0December 2nd: Falko Dressler , German computer scientist
• 0December 2nd: Rachel McQuillan , former Australian tennis player
• 0December 3: Heiko Herrlich , German soccer player
• 0December 3rd: Ola Rapace , Swedish actor
• 0December 4th: Michael Frick , German double bass player, singer and instrument maker
• 0December 4th: Gábor Wéber , Hungarian racing car driver
• 0December 5th: Markus Aerdken , German soccer player
• 0December 5th: Oliver Elias , German actor, speaker and director

Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg

• 0December 5th: Karl-Theodor Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg , German politician
• 0December 6th: Richard Krajicek , Dutch tennis player
• 0December 6th: Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset , Norwegian cross-country skier
• 0December 6th: Carole Thate , Dutch field hockey player
• 0December 7th: Vladimir Akopian , Armenian chess player
• 0December 7th: Christian Kellner , German motorcycle racer
• 0December 7th: Chasey Lain , American porn actress
• 0December 7th: Massimo Rivola , Italian motorsport official
• 0December 7th: Eva Wittenzellner , German actress
• 0December 8th: Holger Kreymeier , German journalist
• 0December 9: Víctor Aristizábal , Colombian football player
• 0December 9th: Astrid Lødemel , Norwegian ski racer
• December 10: Elisha Abas , Israeli pianist
• December 10th: Alessia Arisi , Italian table tennis player
• December 10th: Carla Sacramento , Portuguese athlete
• December 11th: Steffen Hallaschka , German television presenter
• December 11th: Moudachirou Amadou , Beninese football player
• December 11th: Katia Skanavi , Russian pianist
• December 12th: Markus Schultze , German moderator
• December 12th: Philip Boit , Kenyan cross-country skier
• December 12th: Lamine Cissé , Senegalese soccer player
• December 12th: Khassaraporn Suta , Thai weightlifter
• December 13: John Falb , American racing car driver
• December 14th: Zhai Chao , Chinese handball player
• December 14th: Claus Jacobi , German politician
• December 14th: Claudio Urru , German chef
• December 14th: Matthias Scherz , German soccer player
• December 14th: Tanja Wedhorn , German actress

Paul van Dyk

• December 16: Paul van Dyk , German DJ and musician
• December 17th: Claire Forlani , English actress
• December 17th: Artur Petrosyan , Armenian football player
• December 18: Christian Beeck , German soccer player
• December 18: Claudia Gerini , Italian actress
• December 18th: Arantxa Sánchez Vicario , Spanish tennis player
• December 19: Tristan Egolf , American writer and musician († 2005)
• December 20: Thomas Gebhart , German politician
• December 21: Harri Ylönen , German soccer player
• December 22nd: Alexander Strauch , German composer
• December 23: Corey Haim , Canadian actor († 2010)
• December 23: René Harder , German director, author, actor and professor of drama

Ricky Martin , 2013

• December 24th: Ricky Martin , Puerto Rican pop singer
• December 24th: Eva Inés Obergfell , German lawyer and university professor
• December 25th: Chioma Ajunwa , Nigerian athlete
• December 25th: Dido Armstrong , British pop singer
• December 25th: Simone Angel , Dutch TV presenter and singer
• December 25: Besnik Hasi , Albanian football player
• December 25th: Jens Kestner , German politician
• December 26: Jared Leto , American actor and singer
• December 26th: Mika Nurmela , Finnish soccer player
• December 26: Tatiana Sorokko , Russian and American model
• December 27th: Sabine Spitz , German mountain biker
• December 27: Sergei Sergejewitsch Bodrov , Russian film actor and director († 2002)
• December 29: Ali Hasan Abunimah , Palestinian-American journalist
• December 29th: Frank Amankwah , Ghanaian soccer player
• December 29th: Dominic Dale , Welsh snooker player
• December 29th: Markus Hötzel , German tuba player
• December 30th: Bartosz Adam Arłukowicz , Polish politician, doctor and lecturer
• December 30th: Lukas Bärfuss , Swiss writer
• December 30th: CS Lee , South Korean actor and director

Day unknown

• Adel Abdessemed , Algerian artist
• Ivalo Abelsen , Greenlandic painter, graphic artist and postage stamp artist
• Micha Acher , German musician
• Shane Acker , American animation director, screenwriter, film producer, and animator
• Birgit Adam , German literary and communication scholar
• Johanna Adorján , Danish journalist and writer
• Dirk Ahrens , German biologist and taxonomist
• Katajun Amirpur , German-Iranian journalist and Islamic scholar
• Tristan Anderson , American activist and photojournalist
• Colin Angus , Canadian adventure traveler
• Christine Anlauff , German writer
• Prodromos Antoniadis , German actor
• Jonathan Aris , British actor
• Anna Arrowsmith , British politician and media artist
• Suheir Atassi , Syrian lawyer
• Jami Attenberg , American writer
• Jens Augner , German politician
• Martin Aust , German historian and university professor
• Matthias Bäcker , German oboist and university professor
• Sam Bloom , Australian parakanutin
• Katy Carmichael , British actress
• Dominique Chiout , German actress
• Diangelo Cicilia , Antillian-Dutch guitarist
• Hal Duncan , British science fiction and fantasy writer
• Jens Ivo Engels , German historian and university professor
• Bernhard Epstein , German conductor
• Jury Everhartz , German composer, conductor and organist
• Jeremy Findlay , Canadian cellist
• Bruno Frétin , French entrepreneur and racing car driver
• Milette Gaifman , Israeli art historian
• Justine Hauer , German actress
• Patrick Heyn , German actor
• Siamak Jahangiri , Iranian nay player and composer
• Tobias Kay , German actor
• Suzie Kerstgens , German singer and lyricist
• Edith Konrath , German actress
• Dorothy Koomson , British writer and journalist
• Katja Lechthaler , German-Italian actress
• Francis Leclerc , Canadian director
• Maria Loh , Canadian art historian
• Fleur S. Marsh , German actress
• Dan Mask , American composer, keyboardist and music teacher
• Konstantin Moreth , German actor and director
• Ray Ostwald , American conductor, composer and violinist
• Charles Owen , British pianist and music educator
• Mirko Reisser (DAIM), German graffiti artist
• Sophia Reuter , German violist
• Franziska Schlattner , German actress
• Thomas Schmitz , German organist
• David Schnell , painter
• Marcus Schuler , German presenter, radio journalist and correspondent
• Hannes Seifert , Austrian game developer, musician and producer
• Pia Solèr , Swiss writer
• Maurice Steger , Swiss recorder player and conductor
• Oliver Stein , German actor
• Lars Weström , German actor
• Wu Tong , Chinese sheng and bawu player and singer
• Stephen Yip , Chinese composer and organist
• Pablo Zibes , Argentine actor and mime artist
• Jacqueline Zünd , Swiss film director and screenwriter

Died

January

• 0January 2: Clemens Konermann , German Roman Catholic pastor (* 1874)
• 0January 7th: Bruno Adriani , German-American lawyer, art historian and patron (* 1881)
• 0January 8th: Adriano Lualdi , Italian composer, conductor, music teacher and critic (* 1885)
• 0January 9: Zoltán Oroszlán , Hungarian archaeologist, art historian and museologist (* 1891)

Coco Chanel (1928)

• January 10th: Coco Chanel , French fashion designer (* 1883)
• January 10: Ignazio Giunti , Italian racing driver (* 1941)
• January 10: Karl Kurt Klein , German Germanist (* 1897)
• January 11: Gustav Theodor Johann Ludwig Ahlhorn , German lawyer (* 1886)
• January 11th: Irene Scharrer , English pianist (* 1888)
• January 13: Maria Assunta Arbesser , Austrian painter and wood sculptor (* 1884)
• January 14th: Heinrich Anacker , Swiss-German writer (* 1901)
• January 14th: James Glenn Beall , American politician (* 1894)
• January 14th: Erich Friedrich , German politician (* 1901)
• January 15: John Dall , American actor (* 1920)
• January 16: Fritz Eichler , Austrian archaeologist (* 1887)
• January 16: Max Suhrbier , German politician (* 1902)
• January 16: Philippe Thys , Belgian cyclist and first three-time winner of the Tour de France (* 1889)
• January 18: Nora Stanton Blatch Barney , American civil engineer, architect and suffragette (* 1883)
• January 18: Warwick Braithwaite , New Zealand conductor (* 1896)
• January 18: Lothar Rendulic , Austrian General (Colonel General) (* 1887)
• January 18: Leopold Mayer , Professor of Business Administration (* 1896)
• January 20: Gilbert Maxwell Aronson , American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (* 1880)
• January 20: Antonio Bacci , Catholic Cardinal (* 1885)
• January 23: Annie Francé-Harrar , Austrian writer (* 1886)
• January 24th: Hermann Matern , politician of the GDR (* 1893)
• January 24th: William Griffith Wilson , co-founder of the self-help movement Alcoholics Anonymous (* 1895)
• January 25: Hermann Hoth , officer in the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht (* 1885)
• January 27: Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán , President of Guatemala (* 1913)
• January 28: Donald Winnicott , English pediatrician and psychoanalyst (* 1896)
• January 30th: Albert Marier , Canadian singer (* 1895)
• January 31: Hans Schmidt , German soccer player and coach (* 1893)
• January 31: Henry Vallotton , Swiss politician, diplomat and writer (* 1891)

February

Tilla Durieux († February 21)

• 0February 1: Raoul Hausmann , Austro-German Dadaist artist (* 1886)
• 0February 1: Amet-Chan Sultan , Soviet test pilot (* 1920)
• 0February 3: Esther de Cáceres , Uruguayan poet (* 1903)
• 0February 5: Mátyás Rákosi , Hungarian politician (* 1892)
• 0February 7th: Emy Roeder , sculptor and draftsman (* 1890)
• 0February 8: Harry Kelly , American politician (* 1895)
• February 10: Larry Burrows , British photographer and war correspondent (* 1926)
• February 11: Harry Arnold Persson , Swedish tenor saxophonist, clarinetist and band leader (* 1920)
• February 11: Viktoria Steinbiß , German politician (* 1892)
• February 12: Josef Joachim Adamczyk , German politician (* 1901)
• February 12: Harold Bruce Farncomb , Australian naval officer and lawyer (* 1899)
• February 13: Emil Fuchs , German theologian (* 1874)
• February 15: Theodor Teriete , German politician (* 1907)
• February 15: Gösta Törner , Swedish gymnast (* 1895)
• February 16: Fritz Kolbe , German spy and resistance fighter (* 1900)
• February 16: Rudolf Seyffert , Professor of Business Administration (* 1893)
• February 17: Karl Meitmann , German politician (* 1891)
• February 18: Alfred Gille , German politician (* 1901)
• February 18: Fritz Schori , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1887)
• February 20: Ricardo Joaquín Alfaro Jované , 15th President of Panama (* 1882)
• February 20: George Simonis , Romanian composer and music teacher (* 1885)
• February 21: Tilla Durieux , German actress (* 1880)
• February 21: Hanns Hopp , German architect (* 1890)
• February 22nd: Pierre Caron , French screenwriter, film director and producer (* 1901)
• February 22nd: Henry Deyglun , Canadian actor, director and author of French origin (* 1903)
• February 22nd: Rudolf Mauersberger , German composer, Kreuzkantor (* 1889)
• February 25th: Thea Rasche , German pilot and journalist (* 1899)
• February 26: Josef Berg , Czech composer (* 1927)
• February 26: Fernandel , French actor and singer (* 1903)
• February 27: Manfred Kluge , German composer and church musician (* 1928)
• February 28: Hans Müller , Austrian chess player and theorist (* 1896)

March

• 0March 1: František Hrubín , Czech writer and poet (* 1910)
• 0March 3: André Bovon , Swiss Protestant clergyman (* 1902)
• 0March 6: Ludwig Ankenbrand , German clergyman, writer and journalist (* 1888)
• 0March 6th: Thurston Dart , English harpsichordist, conductor and music teacher (* 1921)
• 0March 7th: Erich Abraham , German officer (* 1895)
• 0March 7: Richard Montague , American mathematician, philosopher and linguist (* 1930)
• 0March 8: Anne-Dora Arnold , German art and portrait painter (* 1883)
• 0March 8: Hans Bruns , author of a German translation of the Bible (* 1895)
• 0March 8: Harold Lloyd , American actor (* 1893)
• 0March 8: Carlo Maria Pintacuda , Italian racing car driver (* 1900)
• 0March 9: Karimuddin Asif , Indian film director (* 1924)
• 0March 9: Marie-Anne Asselin , Canadian singer and music teacher (* 1888)
• 0March 9: Karl Schulz , two-time German national soccer player from Kiel (* 1901)
• 0March 9: Kirello VI. , Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark (* 1902)
• March 10: Ladislaus Kmoch , Austrian caricaturist and comic artist (* 1897)
• March 11th: Philo Farnsworth , American inventor (* 1906)
• March 11th: CD Broad , English philosopher (* 1887)
• March 13: Leopold Hochgatterer , Austrian politician (* 1899)
• March 13: Günther Wendt , German painter, graphic artist and museum director (* 1908)
• March 15: Franz Felbringer , Austrian politician (* 1903)
• March 15: Bum Krüger , German actor (* 1906)
• March 15: Jean-Pierre Monseré , Belgian cyclist (* 1948)
• March 16: Bebe Daniels , American actress (* 1901)
• March 16: Thomas E. Dewey , American politician (* 1902)
• March 17: Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner , German lawyer and politician of the SPD (* 1894)
• March 18: Paul Appel , German poet and essayist (* 1896)
• March 19: Jean-Marie Beaudet , Canadian conductor, pianist and organist (* 1908)
• March 19: Hans Walter Imhoff , Swiss football player (* 1886)
• March 23: Simon Vestdijk , Dutch writer (* 1898)
• March 24th: Arne Jacobsen , Danish designer and architect (* 1902)
• March 24th: Otto Schmidt-Hannover , German politician (* 1888)
• March 26th: Georgi Wassiljewitsch Afanassjew , Belarusian chess composer (* 1909)
• March 26: Josef Hermann Dufhues , German politician (* 1908)
• March 28: Katharine Parker , Australian pianist and composer (* 1886)
• March 29: Mona Bates , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1889)
• March 29th: Hermann zu Leiningen , German automobile racing driver (* 1901)
• March 30th: Harold Craxton , English pianist, composer and music teacher (* 1885)
• March 30th: Werner Peters , German theater, film and television actor (* 1918)
• March 31: Michael Browne , Catholic clergyman (* 1887)
• March 31: Alfred Desenclos , French composer (* 1912)
• March 31: Karl L. King , American composer and conductor (* 1891)

April

Igor Stravinsky († April 6)

• 0April 4: Angelo Bergamonti , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1939)
• 0April 5: José Cubiles , Spanish pianist and music teacher (* 1894)
• 0April 6: Igor Stravinsky , Russian-American composer (* 1882)
• 0April 7th: Norbert Maria Aresin , German medic (* 1911)
• 0April 8: Fritz von Opel , German industrialist, rocket pioneer and motor sportsman (* 1899)
• 0April 9: Luigi Piotti , Italian racing car driver (* 1913)
• April 10: Ñico Lora , Dominican musician and composer (* 1880)
• April 11: Zbigniew Drzewiecki , Polish pianist and music teacher (* 1890)
• April 12: Wolfgang Krull , German mathematician (* 1899)
• April 12: Igor Tamm , Russian physicist (* 1895)
• April 13: Eino Saari , Finnish forest scientist and politician (* 1894)
• April 15: Alexey Brodovitch , Russian graphic designer (* 1898)
• April 17: Pierre Luboshutz , Russian pianist and music teacher (* 1891)
• April 20: Alberto Magnelli , painter (* 1888)
• April 20: Uchida Hyakken , Japanese writer (* 1889)
• April 21: François Duvalier , Haitian politician and dictator (* probably 1907)
• April 22: Anna Petrović-Njegoš , Princess of Montenegro (* 1874)
• April 23: Dempsey Wilson , American racing driver (born 1927)
• April 25: Adelheid Erna Karoline Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen , Princess of Saxe-Meiningen and Princess of Prussia (* 1891)
• April 25: Max Drischner , German composer, organist and harpsichordist (* 1891)
• April 25: Karl Blessing , President of the Deutsche Bundesbank (* 1900)
• April 25: Anneli Granget , German actress (* 1935)
• April 27: Karl Abel , German trade unionist and politician (* 1897)
• April 28: Otto Lasch , German officer in the Wehrmacht (* 1893)
• April 28: Brigitt Petry , German singer and composer (* 1943)
• April 30th: Albin Stenroos , marathon runner and Olympic champion (* 1889)

May

• 0May 1: Pierre Stasse , Belgian racing driver (* 1912)
• 0May 3: Cuno Raabe , German politician (* 1888)
• 0May 3: Kazumi Takahashi , Japanese writer and sinologist (* 1931)
• 0May 4: Klara Blum , Austrian, Soviet and Chinese writer (* 1904)
• 0May 5th: Ingrid Reschke , DEFA director (* 1936)

Helene Weigel

• 0May 6: Helene Weigel , German actress (* 1900)
• 0May 7th: Hermann Holthusen , German physician and radiologist (* 1886)
• 0May 7: Leo Schwering , German historian, philologist, high school teacher and politician (* 1883)
• 0May 9: Albert W. Hawkes , American businessman and politician (* 1878)
• May 10: Paul Abel , British lawyer (* 1874)
• May 10: Mihail Jora , Romanian composer (* 1891)
• May 10: Shukichi Mitsukuri , Japanese composer (* 1895)
• May 11: Rafał Wojaczek , Polish poet (* 1945)
• May 13: Hubert von Meyerinck , German actor (* 1896)
• May 13: Giuseppe Milano , Italian football player and coach (* 1887)
• May 14: Heinz Kiekebusch , German politician (* 1908)
• May 15: Ida Friederike Görres , writer (* 1901)
• May 15: Bernward Vesper , German writer, political activist and publisher (* 1938)
• May 16: Grégoire-Pierre XV. Cardinal Agagianian , 15th Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenian Catholic Church and Curia Cardinal of the Roman Church (* 1895)
• May 16: Karl Farkas , Austrian actor and cabaret artist (* 1893)
• May 17: Otto Salomon , German writer and publisher (* 1889)
• May 18: Rudolf Agte , German soccer player, coach and official (* 1891)
• May 18: Claude Dunbar , British officer (* 1909)
• May 19: Tor Johnson , Swedish catcher and actor (born 1903)
• May 19: Bernard Wagenaar , American composer and violinist (* 1894)
• May 21: Rudolf Henggeler , Swiss Benedictine and historian (* 1890)
• May 26: Armando Picchi , Italian soccer player and soccer coach (* 1935)
• May 28: Audie Murphy , American film actor (born 1925)
• May 30th: Marcel Dupré , French composer, organist, music theorist and publisher (* 1886)
• May 31: Max Trapp , German composer (* 1887)
• May (day unknown): Earl Peterson , American country musician (born 1927)

June

• 0June 1: Klaus Stürmer , German soccer player (* 1935)

Heinz Hopf (right) in Oberwolfach , together with Hellmuth Kneser

• 0June 2: Adolf Hempel , German general (* 1915)
• 0June 3: Heinz Hopf , Swiss mathematician (* 1894)
• 0June 4: Georg Lukács , Jewish-Hungarian philosopher, literary scholar and critic (* 1885)
• 0June 5: Otto Waffenschmied , Austrian illustrator and comic artist (* 1901)
• 0June 6: Lauro Amadò , Swiss football player (* 1912)
• 0June 6: Edward Neville da Costa Andrade , British physicist (* 1887)
• 0June 9: Hans von Arnim , German civil servant, church functionary and author (* 1889)
• 0June 9: Heinrich Deiters , German writer and journalist (* 1882)
• June 10: Michael Rennie , British actor (born 1909)
• June 11: Bert Ambrose , English violinist and band leader (* 1896)
• June 12: Nathan Ward Ackerman , American psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and university professor (* 1908)
• June 12: Hermann Sendelbach , Franconian poet (* 1894)
• June 12: William A. Stanfill , American politician (* 1892)
• June 13: Hinatsu Kōnosuke , Japanese poet, translator and literary scholar (* 1890)
• June 14: Carlos P. Garcia , Philippine politician and President (* 1896)
• June 19: Heinrich Ritzel , German politician (* 1893)
• June 21: Ludwig Schmidseder , German composer, pianist, TV chef (* 1904)
• June 22nd: Heinrich Fassbender , German politician (* 1899)
• June 24th: Hans Mersmann , German music researcher (* 1891)
• June 25: John Boyd Orr , Scottish doctor and biologist, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (* 1880)
• June 25: Mario Magnozzi , Italian football player and coach. (* 1902)
• June 25: Valentin Baur , German politician, Member of the Bundestag (* 1891)
• June 28: Franz Stangl , Austrian National Socialist (* 1908)
• June 29th: Néstor Mesta Chayres , Mexican singer (* 1908)
• June 30th: Georgi Asparukhov , Bulgarian football player (* 1943)
• June 30th: Georgi Dobrowolski , Soviet cosmonaut (* 1928)
• June 30: Viktor Pazajew , Soviet cosmonaut (* 1933)
• June 30th: Wladislaw Volkov , Soviet cosmonaut (* 1935)
• June 30: Rosa Young , American educator (* 1890)

July

Louis Armstrong († July 6)

• 0July 1: William Lawrence Bragg , English physicist (* 1890)
• 0July 2: Hans Gerstinger , Austrian classical philologist (* 1885)
• 0July 2: Waldemar von Knoeringen , German politician (* 1906)
• 0July 2: Max Nemetz , German actor (* 1884)

Jim Morrison , 1970

• 0July 3: Jim Morrison , American rock 'n' roll singer and poet (born 1943)
• 0July 4th: August Derleth , American horror story writer (* 1909)
• 0July 5: Thea Sternheim , German author (* 1883)
• 0July 6: Roger Adams , American chemist (* 1889)
• 0July 6: Louis Armstrong , American jazz trumpeter and singer (* 1901)
• 0July 6: Horst Lange , German writer (* 1904)
• 0July 7: Claude Gauvreau , Canadian writer (* 1925)
• 0July 7: Ub Iwerks , American animator and technician (* 1901)
• 0July 8: Kurt Reidemeister , German mathematician (* 1893)
• 0July 9: Karl Ast , Estonian writer and politician (* 1886)
• 0July 9: Günter Bartusch , German motorcycle racer (* 1943)
• 0July 9: Wilhelm Kohlhoff , German painter and graphic artist (* 1893)
• July 10: George Kenner , German visual artist (* 1888)
• July 11: John W. Campbell , American science fiction writer (* 1910)
• July 11: Pedro Rodríguez , Mexican Formula 1 and sports car racing driver (* 1940)
• July 12: Marie Oldekop , German painter (* 1883)
• July 15: Petra Schelm , RAF member (* 1950)
• July 19: Harold J. Arthur , American politician (* 1904)
• July 19: John Jacob Astor , British nobleman (* 1886)
• July 21: Karl Veken , German writer (* 1904)
• July 22nd: Ted Fiorito , American jazz musician (* 1900)
• July 22nd: Willy Max Rademacher , German politician (* 1897)
• July 23: Van Heflin , American actor (born 1908)
• July 23: Ross Thatcher , Canadian politician (born 1917)
• July 23: William S. Tubman , President of Liberia (* 1895)
• July 24th: Ernst Josef Aufricht , German actor and theater director (* 1898)
• July 24: Lou Fine , American comic book artist and illustrator (* 1914)
• July 24th: Alan Rawsthorne , English composer (* 1905)
• July 25: René Cotton , French skier, automobile racing driver and motorsport manager (* 1914)
• July 25: Leroy Robertson , American composer (* 1896)
• July 26: Diane Arbus , American photographer and photojournalist (* 1923)
• July 27: Bernhard Paumgartner , Austrian musician (* 1887)

August

• 0August 1: Henri Poitras , Canadian actor and playwright (* 1896)
• 0August 2: Ludwig Marcuse , philosopher and writer (* 1894)
• 0August 4th: Georg Maurer , German poet, essayist and translator, professor (* 1907)
• 0August 6: Fausto Cleva , American conductor (* 1902)
• 0August 8: Ella Bergmann-Michel , German painter, photographer and documentary filmmaker (* 1895)
• 0August 8: Julien Hasley , French racing car driver (* 1898)
• 0August 8: Joseph Santley , American director, writer and producer (* 1889)
• August 10: Federico Callori di Vignale , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1890)
• August 13: King Curtis , American tenor saxophonist (* 1934)
• August 14: Georg von Opel , German automobile entrepreneur and sports official (* 1912)
• August 15: Paul Lukas , Hungarian-American actor (* 1894)
• August 15: Thomas Wayne , American rockabilly and pop singer (* 1940)
• August 19: Mary Kendall Browne , American tennis player (* 1891)
• August 19: Reinhold Maier , German politician and Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (* 1889)
• August 24th: Carl Blegen , American archaeologist (* 1887)
• August 27: Lil Hardin Armstrong , American jazz pianist, singer and composer (* 1898)
• August 27: Margaret Bourke-White , American photo reporter (* 1904)
• August 30th: Louis Armand , French mining engineer, railroad worker and President of the European Atomic Energy Community (* 1905)

September

Nikita Khrushchev († September 11th)

• 0September 1: Willi Scharf , German geologist (* 1896)
• 0September 1: Peter Uhlig , German enduro athlete (* 1940)
• 0September 2: Humberto Viscarra Monje , Bolivian composer (* 1898)
• 0September 4: Enrico Dassetto , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1874)
• 0September 4: Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper , American politician (* 1896)
• 0September 5: Hans Domizlaff , artist (* 1892)
• 0September 5: George Trafton , American football player (* 1896)
• September 10: Anna Maria Pierangeli , Italian actress (* 1932)
• September 10: Winston L. Prouty , American politician (born 1906)
• September 11th: Nikita Khrushchev , Soviet politician and head of government (* 1894)
• September 12: Klaus Reisch , Austrian automobile racing driver (* 1941)
• September 12: Edgar Wind , German art historian (* 1900)
• September 13: George Lambert , Canadian singer and music teacher (* 1900)
• September 14: Harald Lander , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer (* 1905)
• September 15: Rudolf Anderl , German journalist and writer (* 1904)
• September 15: Tom Linton Anderson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1911)
• September 15: John Desmond Bernal , British physicist (* 1901)
• September 15: Umberto Malvano , Italian football player, referee and official as well as engineer (* 1884)
• September 16: Heinrich Glücklich , businessman (* 1877)
• September 19: William Foxwell Albright , American archaeologist and orientalist (* 1891)
• September 20: Giorgos Seferis , Greek writer and diplomat, Nobel Prize winner (* 1900)
• September 21: Bernardo Alberto Houssay , Argentine physiologist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1887)
• September 23: Eugen Lechner , German politician (* 1903)
• September 24th: Carl Bellingrodt , co-founder of the Federal Association of German Railway Friends (BDEF) (* 1897)
• September 25: Hugo Black , American politician and lawyer (* 1886)
• September 27: Douglas Copland , New Zealand-Australian economist and diplomat (* 1894)
• September 27: Hermann Ehrhardt , German military and free corps leader (* 1881)
• September 27: Einar Ralf , Swedish opera singer and composer (* 1888)
• September 29: Walter Bartram , German politician (* 1893)

October

• 0October 2: Walther Bullerdiek , German actor, radio play speaker and composer (* 1901)
• 0October 2: Bola de Nieve , Cuban musician (* 1911)
• 0October 3: Edit Angold , German actress (* 1895)
• 0October 3: Lester H. Germer , American physicist (* 1896)
• 0October 4: Norman Cota , American general (* 1893)
• 0October 4: Homer Ruh , American football player (* 1895)
• 0October 7: John E. Miles , American politician (* 1884)
• October 10: Arne Benary , German economist in the GDR (* 1929)
• October 10: Cyril Burt , British psychologist (* 1883)
• October 10: Metod Doležil , Czech choir director and music teacher (* 1885)
• October 10: Ernst Kuntscher , German politician (* 1899)

Dean Acheson

• October 12: Fritz Karl Walther Achterberg , German actor (* 1880)
• October 12: Dean Acheson , US Secretary of State (* 1893)
• October 12: Gene Vincent , American musician (* 1935)
• October 13: Benito Canónico , Venezuelan composer (* 1894)
• October 14: Berthold Bahnsen , Frisian-German politician (* 1913)
• October 15: Joseph Offenbach , German actor (* 1904)
• October 15: Will Rasner , German politician (* 1920)
• October 17: Willi Eichler , German journalist and politician (* 1896)
• October 17: Russ Method , American football player (* 1897)
• October 18: Peter Szondi , Hungarian literary scholar, critic, translator and essayist (* 1929)
• October 20: Ernst Arnds , German politician (* 1922)
• October 22: Heinrich Landahl , Hamburg School Senator (* 1895)
• October 22: Norbert Schmid , police officer, victim of the RAF (* 1939)
• October 23: Herbert Böhme , German poet, writer and publicist (* 1907)
• October 24: Carl Ruggles , American composer (* 1876)
• October 24th: Jo Siffert , Swiss Formula 1, touring car and Can-Am racing driver and star (* 1936)
• October 25: Hanns Blaschke , Mayor of Vienna (* 1896)
• October 26: Yves de la Casinière , French composer and music teacher (* 1897)
• October 29: Maura Böckeler , German Benedictine, writer and researcher about Hildegard von Bingen (* 1890)
• October 29: Duane Allman , slide guitar legend, rock and blues guitarist (* 1946)
• October 29: Julius Zerzer , writer (* 1889)
• October 30: Osvald Chlubna , Czech composer (* 1893)
• October 30: Ernst Günter Troche , German art historian, art dealer and museum director (* 1909)

November

• 0November 1: Gertrud von le Fort , German writer (* 1876)
• 0November 1st: Michail Romm , Russian film director (* 1901)
• 0November 2: Lucie Adelsberger , German medic (* 1895)
• 0November 2: Svensk Hjalmar Andersson Zakeus , Swedish long-distance runner (* 1889)
• 0November 3: Tawee Boonyaket , Minister of Agriculture and Prime Minister of Thailand (* 1904)
• 0November 3: Hans Krüger , German politician (* 1902)
• 0November 5: Martin Frey , German politician (* 1904)

Spessard Holland

• 0November 6th: Spessard Holland , American politician (* 1892)
• 0November 7th: Maurice Hewitt , French violinist and conductor (* 1884)
• November 10: Walter Van Tilburg Clark , American writer (* 1909)
• November 12: Dietrich Klagges , Prime Minister of the State of Braunschweig during the Nazi era (* 1891)
• November 13: Ramón Emilio Jiménez , Dominican writer (* 1886)
• November 14th: Narayan Hari Apte , Indian writer, editor and screenwriter (* 1889)
• November 14: Paul Klinger , German actor (* 1907)
• November 14: Gottlieb Söhngen , German Catholic theologian and philosopher (* 1892)
• November 16: Bruno Cicognani , Italian writer (* 1879)
• November 16: Walter Möller , German local politician of the SPD (* 1920)
• November 16: Edie Sedgwick , American actress (born 1943)
• November 17: James Howard Edmondson , American politician (* 1925)
• November 18: Rudolf Kopf , Austrian lawyer and politician (* 1890)
• November 18: Junior Parker , American blues musician (* 1932)
• November 20: Will Elfes , German sculptor and musician (* 1924)
• November 21: Charlotte Kramm , German actress (* 1900)
• November 22nd: Ludwig Adenauer , German civil servant (* 1902)
• November 22nd: Georges Aubé , French general (* 1884)
• November 24th: Friedrich Oehlkers , German botanist (* 1890)
• November 24th: Ernst Göhner , Swiss building contractor and entrepreneur (* 1900)
• November 25th: Jan Engbertus Jonkers , Dutch criminal lawyer (* 1890)
• November 26th: Giuseppe Antonio Doto , Italian mafioso (* 1902)
• November 26: Jacques de Senarclens , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1914)
• November 27: Joe Guyon , American football player (* 1892)
• November 27: Jēkabs Mediņš , Latvian composer (* 1885)
• November 28: Grantley Herbert Adams , Barbadian politician (* 1898)
• November 29: Olivier Guimond , Canadian actor (born 1914)
• November 29th: Heinz Tiessen , German composer (* 1887)

December

• 0December 4th: Anton Horner , Austrian horn player (* 1877)
• 0December 4: Meinrad Inglin , Swiss author (* 1893)
• 0December 4th: Georg von Rauch , German terrorist (* 1947)
• 0December 5: Andrej Andrejewitsch Andrejew , Soviet politician (* 1895)
• 0December 5: Thomas A. Burke , American politician (* 1898)
• 0December 5: Charlotte Pluquet-Dziekan , German painter (* 1902)
• 0December 6th: Georg Haas , German doctor, inventor of blood washing (* 1886)
• 0December 7th: Josef Adlmannseder , Austrian politician (* 1888)
• 0December 9: Giuseppe Agostini , Canadian conductor and composer (* 1890)
• December 12th: Max Mell , Austrian playwright and lyric poet (* 1882)
• December 13: François Augiéras , French author (born 1925)
• December 13: Dita Parlo , German-French film actress (* 1908)
• December 15: Paul Lévy , French mathematician (* 1886)
• December 16: Albert Lieven , German actor (* 1906)
• December 18: Bobby Jones , American golfer (born 1902)
• December 20: Amerigo Bartoli , Italian painter and caricaturist (* 1890)
• December 23: Alberto Ancilotto , Italian short film director (* 1903)
• December 23: Alessandro Cagno , Italian racing car driver (* 1883)
• December 24th: Maria Koepcke , German-Peruvian ornithologist (* 1924)
• December 25: George William Andrews , American politician (* 1906)
• December 25: Werner Titel , politician, Minister for Environmental Protection and Water Management of the GDR (* 1931)
• December 29th: Walther Steller , German university professor, Germanist (* 1895)
• December 31: Johannes Saß , German linguist and lexicographer (* 1889)

Day unknown

• Max Aeschlimann , Swiss inventor and entrepreneur (* 1904)
• Carlos Rebelo de Andrade , Portuguese architect (* 1887)
• Erwin Haller , Swiss Germanist (* 1885)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Dennis Gábor
• Chemistry : Gerhard Herzberg
• Medicine : Earl W. Sutherland Jr.
• Literature : Pablo Neruda
• Nobel Peace Prize : Willy Brandt
• Economics : Simon Kuznets

music

• The British musician Elton John reached the top of the US charts for the first time with his album Honky Château , which was released on May 19 .
• Séverine wins the 16th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Monaco on April 3rd in Dublin with the song Un Banc, un arbre, une rue
• List of number one hits in Germany (1971)

Web links

Commons : 1971  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Annual review from tagesschau.de
• Annual chronicle of the House of History of the FRG
• The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government (1971) in the Federal Archives
• Year 1971 by Frank Rübertus