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1976
Ulrike Meinhof is found hanged in her cell in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison .	With the death of Mao Zedong , the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China ends .
Soweto uprising against apartheid in South Africa ( Hector Pieterson Memorial )	The Lockheed scandal resulted in many resignations internationally, including Kakuei Tanaka , Prime Minister of Japan .

1976 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2729
Armenian calendar	1424-1425
Ethiopian calendar	1968-1969
Badi calendar	132-133
Bengali calendar	1382-1383
Berber calendar	2926
Buddhist calendar	2520
Burmese calendar	1338
Byzantine calendar	7484-7485
Chinese calendar
- era	4672-4673 or 4612-4613
- 60 year cycle	Wooden rabbit (乙卯, 52) - fire dragon (丙辰, 53)
French revolution calendar	CLXXXIV - CLXXXV 184-185
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2032-2033
- Shaka Samvat	1898-1899
Iranian calendar	1354-1355
Islamic calendar	1395-1397
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 51
- Kōki	2636
Jewish calendar	5736-5737
Coptic Calendar	1692-1693
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4309
- Juche era	65
Minguo calendar	65
Modern Olympics	XXI
Seleucid calendar	2287-2288
Thai solar calendar	2519

In 1976 , Mao Zedong's long dictatorial rule ended with his death in September. In Germany, after the federal election on October 3, Helmut Schmidt remains Federal Chancellor of an SPD-FDP coalition . In the USA, Jimmy Carter is elected as the new president . In the summer the national team of Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champions .

events

Annual dedications

• The hoopoe (lat. Upupa epops) is bird of the year . ( NABU / Germany)

Politics and world events

January

• January 1st: Rudolf Gnägi becomes President of Switzerland again .
• January 1: Port Said , Egypt , on the Suez Canal becomes a free trade zone .
• January 1st: Venezuela nationalizes the entire oil industry.
• January 1: In the Federal Republic of Germany , seat belts are mandatory for the front seats of cars.
• January 11: The Ecuadorian dictator Guillermo Rodríguez Lara is deposed from the military. His successor in a military junta is Alfredo Poveda .
• January 12th: The withdrawal of the last Spanish troops from the former Spanish Sahara province ends Spanish colonial rule.
• JANUARY 20: The Lebanese civil war perpetrate Palestinians - and Muslim militias , the Damour massacre , and allegedly about 330 people are killed. It is the reaction to the Karantina massacre by phalangists of several hundred civilians two days earlier.
• January 21: Air France and British Airways start regular operations of a civilian supersonic aircraft with Concorde .

February

• February 13: Attempted coup, assassination of the head of state in Nigeria
• February 19: Iceland breaks diplomatic relations with Great Britain in the wake of the fisheries conflict .
• February 26: An assembly of Saharawi tribal princes approves the partition of Western Sahara in favor of Morocco and Mauritania .
• February 27: The Polisario Front calls in the Western Sahara conflict , the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic on the territory of the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara from.

March

• March 24: Argentine President Isabel Perón is arrested by the military and placed under house arrest. The military take power and begin the process of national reorganization , in which around 30,000 people ( Desaparecidos ) are murdered by 1983 , mostly left-wing opposition members.
• March 29: The last British troops leave the Maldives .

Palace of the Republic

April

• April 23: In East Berlin is the Palace of the Republic , the seat of the People's Chamber opened and public community center.

May

• MAY 5: In Corsica which is liberation movement National Liberation Front of Corsica founded.
• May 6: Algeria and the Federal Republic of Germany sign an air transport agreement.
• May 9: Ulrike Meinhof is found hanged in her cell in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison .
• May 14: Sri Lankan Tamil leaders pass the so-called Vaddukoddai Resolution , which calls for full independence of a Tamil state in Sri Lanka .

June

• June 2: The third cod war between Iceland and the United Kingdom is signed on an interim basis. The British government recognizes the 200 nautical mile zone claimed by Iceland - and only later regulated by international law .
• June 3: Former President of Bolivia , Juan José Torres Gonzáles , is kidnapped and murdered in Operation Condor in Buenos Aires. It remains to be seen whether his successor in office, Hugo Banzer Suárez, is involved.
• June 14: The first law to reform marriage and family law is passed, replacing the principle of fault with the principle of breakdown in the case of divorce in Germany .
• June 16: The Soweto uprising begins.
• June 19: Carl XVI. Gustaf marries the German Silvia Sommerlath .
• June 27: After a stopover in Athens , an Air France plane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris is hijacked by four terrorists, including two Germans, to Entebbe in Uganda . (see Operation Entebbe )
• June 27: Presidential election in Portugal 1976 : António Ramalho Eanes becomes the first democratically elected President of Portugal two years after the Carnation Revolution .
• June 29th: The Seychelles become independent.

July

• July 1st: Spain . Adolfo Suárez becomes Prime Minister of Spain.
• July 2: With the implementation of the Adoption Placement Act , adoption law in Germany is fundamentally redesigned.
• July 2nd: Reunification of Vietnam
• July 2: The Supreme Court reintroduces the death penalty in the United States
• July 4: Elite units flown into Uganda from Israel free 102 hostages from the Air France plane hijacked on June 27 at Entebbe airport on the night of July 3 to 4 . In the rescue operation die seven terrorists, three Israeli hostages and one Israeli and 20 Ugandan soldiers.
• July 4th: The United States celebrates the 200th anniversary of its independence . (Bicentennial)
• July 16: Suriname becomes a member of UNESCO .

August

• August 26: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands resigns from all public offices because of his involvement in the Lockheed scandal .

September

• September 18: An estimated 1.5 million Chinese people attend the funeral service for the late founder of the state Mao Zedong in Beijing .
• September 19: The election to the Swedish Reichstag results in a defeat for the Social Democrats, who have ruled since 1932 . Only 42.75 percent of the votes for Olof Palme's party allow the bourgeois camp to form a coalition government under Prime Minister Thorbjörn Fälldin .
• September 21: Seychelles becomes a member of the United Nations .
• September 22nd: Portugal is admitted to the Council of Europe .
• September 23: Act of September 23, 1976 introducing direct universal elections to Members of the European Parliament

October

Erich Honecker

• October 3: Elections to the German Bundestag : Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt remains Chancellor.
• October 3: The Hessian Prime Minister Albert Osswald (SPD) has to resign because of his role in the Helaba scandal .
• October 4th: Papua New Guinea becomes a member of UNESCO.
• October 4 to 6: Massacre at Thammasat University in Thailand - 46 people die according to official figures in Bangkok in the course of student protests at Thammasat University . A military junta then takes power.
• October 8: The kidnapping of Wolfgang Gutberlet begins
• October 11th: Mozambique becomes a member of UNESCO.
• October 11: As part of its 200th anniversary celebrations, the United States introduces the highest rank General of the Armies of the United States in the Army . It is the only one to be awarded posthumously to George Washington . No US officer is allowed to be of any higher rank than himself in the future.
• October 12: After the resignation of Hessian Prime Minister Albert Osswald as a result of the Helaba scandal , Holger Börner is elected as his successor by the state parliament with four votes ahead of Alfred Dregger .
• October 18: Seychelles becomes a member of UNESCO.
• October 19 The kidnapping of the Karlsberg heir Gernot Egolf begins
• October 22nd: Issue of the first schilling gold coin of the Second Republic of Austria .
• October 29th: Erich Honecker is elected by the Volkskammer as chairman of the GDR State Council.

November

• November 2: In the US presidential election , Democrat Jimmy Carter beats incumbent President Gerald Ford in a narrow decision.
• November 3: The kidnapping of Hendrik Snoek begins

December

• December 1: Angola becomes a member of the United Nations.
• December 5: In Japan , the ruling LDP loses an absolute majority in the general election in the wake of the Lockheed scandal for the first time since 1955.
• December 5: French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac founds the bourgeois party Rassemblement pour la République (RPR) and becomes its first chairman.
• December 14: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and South Korea
• December 14th: The student Richard Oetker is kidnapped by Dieter Zlof in Freising with the aim of extorting ransom .
• December 15: Samoa becomes a member of the United Nations.
• End of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976)
• The Monday is in Germany as the first day of the week specified.
• The Order of Malta is again present in Rhodes .
• Establishment of the UN Development Fund for Women by the UN General Assembly
• The White Ring e. V. , an aid organization for crime victims and their families, is founded in Mainz .

business

• April 1: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple .
• April 21: With Bagger 285 , the first example of a new generation of bucket wheel excavators with conveying capacities of more than 200,000 m³ / day is put into operation in the Rhenish lignite mining district, which doubles the output of previous devices.
• May 4th: During the transition phase in Spain , the first edition of the Spanish daily El País is published.

science and technology

Apple I.

• April 1st: Steve Wozniak introduces the Apple I at a meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club .
• April 21: The GDR opens the first permanently manned German Antarctic station, which in 1987 was named Georg Forster Station .
• May 4: The LAGEOS 1 laser satellite is launched into Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral . It is used for geodesy purposes and enables the precise determination of higher-level survey points. Its lifespan in satellite orbit is estimated to be eight million years.
• July 20: The unmanned NASA probe Viking 1 makes the first successful landing on the planet Mars .
• 23 August: Well-preserved dinosaur footprints are discovered at the Lac du Vieux Emosson reservoir in the canton of Valais . The tracks are around 250 million years old.
• November 20: The Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala is founded in Mexico .
• Emacs - a family of text editors - has its roots at MIT .
• The CN Tower is being completed.
• Fairchild publishes Channel F, the first microprocessor-controlled game console.

Culture

• January 2nd: Florence , Italy . In the San Lorenzo Basilica, unknown frescoes are uncovered, possibly by Michelangelo .
• March 11th: In Germany, ARD begins broadcasting the crime series Detective Rockford - a call is enough , in which James Garner plays the title role.
• April 3: The first César film award ceremony takes place in the Palais des congrès de Paris .
• June 19: World premiere of the opera The Girl from Domrémy by Giselher Klebe at the Stuttgart State Theater
• July 25: World premiere of the opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass at the Avignon Festival
• August 13: Dean R. Campbell , who also founded Lefthanders International in 1975 , declared this day to be Lefthanders Day.
• August 16: Release of the single Dancing Queen, probably the best-known title of the group ABBA , which even stormed the American charts and is the group's most successful song after Fernando
• September 9: German premiere of the cartoon series Maya the Bee
• September 21: First broadcast of the satirical program extra 3 on Norddeutscher Rundfunk
• October 2nd: World premiere of the opera “ Der Aufstand ” by Helmut Eder in Linz
• November 16: Wolf Biermann's concert appearance at an IG Metall event in Cologne is used to expatriate the songwriter from the GDR
• November 25th: The Band gives their 5-hour farewell concert, which is filmed by Martin Scorsese under the title The Last Waltz and is seen as the end of a musical era.
• December 8th: The album Hotel California by the rock band Eagles is released in the USA. It subsequently rises to the top group of best-selling albums.
• First time the Toronto International Film Festival takes place
• Founding of the Biermösl Blosn
• World premiere of the play Schweig, Bub!

Sports

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

• January 25th to October 24th: The 27th Formula 1 World Championship is held
• February 20: Muhammad Ali wins the heavyweight boxing match against Jean-Pierre Coopman at the Roberto Clemente Coliseum , Hato Rey , Puerto Rico , by knockout .
• March 19: The Belgian professional cyclist Eddy Merckx wins the cycling classic Milan – Sanremo for the seventh time . So far he is the only one who has achieved this feat.
• May 12: FC Bayern Munich wins the European Cup for the third time in a row by beating AS Saint-Étienne 1-0
• May 15: Dynamo Dresden wins GDR football championship for the fourth time
• May 24th: Muhammad Ali wins the boxing match for the world heavyweight title against Richard Dunn in the Munich Olympic Hall by technical knockout.
• June 12: Borussia Mönchengladbach wins German football championship for the fourth time.
• June 20: At the European Football Championship in Yugoslavia , the German national team loses the final on penalties against Czechoslovakia (see also Night of Belgrade ).
• July 4th: Björn Borg wins the Wimbledon Championships .
• August 1st: Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda is seriously injured in an accident at the Nürburgring . It is the last time that a Formula 1 race will take place on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring.
• September 28: Muhammad Ali wins the heavyweight boxing match against Ken Norton at Yankee Stadium in New York on points.
• October 24th: James Hunt becomes Formula 1 world champion.
• December 21: Bayern Munich become the first German team to win the World Cup after beating Cruzeiro EC 0-0 in the second leg (first leg 2-0)
• XII. Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck ( Austria )
• XXI. Summer Olympic Games in Montreal ( Canada )

Disasters

• January 24th: Earthquake near Muradiye , Turkey , kills approx. 3,850
• February 4: Earthquake in Guatemala , hundreds of tremors, more than 23,000 dead
• March 6: An Ilyushin IL-18D from Aeroflot crashes near Voronezh from 9,000 meters due to a compass and autopilot failure. 127 dead, seven of them on the ground.
• May 6: earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 in Italy , around 1,000 dead

The rupture of the Teton Dam

• June 5: The breaking of the Teton Dam in Idaho , USA, kills 11 people and 13,000 livestock . The damage caused by the flooding of the region is estimated at one billion US dollars.
• June 25: 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck New Guinea , killing 422
• July 10th: Seveso dioxin disaster
• July 27: earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8 (official, according to other sources 8.2) in Tangshan , 150 km south of Beijing , People's Republic of China , 650,000 to 800,000 deaths depending on the source, official: approx. 242,000 deaths; the most serious natural disaster of the 20th century in terms of fatalities
• July 31: Colorado , USA . The Big Thompson River overflows its banks due to prolonged rain . 139 dead
• August 1st: Reichsbrücke in Vienna collapses: one dead
• August 16: 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck Mindanao , Philippines , killing approximately 8,000
• September 10: Zagreb , Yugoslavia , a Douglas DC-9 of the Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet and a Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident of British Airways collide in the Zagreb aircraft collision . The accident claims 176 deaths, 107 of them Germans
• September 19: During the Notlandeanfluges on the airport Isparta rebounds a Boeing 727 of Turkish Airlines into a mountain. All 154 people are killed.
• November 24: 7.3 earthquakes in Turkey and Iran , killing around 5,000

Born

January

• 0January 1st: Mustafa Doğan , German soccer player
• 0January 1st: Marko Topić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 0January 1st: Zlatko Trpkovski , German media phenomenon
• 0January 2nd: Eva Brenner , German TV presenter
• 0January 2nd: Burgi Heckmair , German snowboarder

Danilo Di Luca

• 0January 2nd: Danilo Di Luca , Italian cyclist
• 0January 2nd: Paz Vega , Spanish film actress
• 0January 3: Lee Hyung-taik , South Korean tennis player
• 0January 4th: Bülent Ceylan , German comedian
• 0January 4th: August Diehl , German actor
• 0January 5th: Pia Ampaw , German actress, television presenter and advertising actress
• 0January 5th: Matthew Walter Wachter , American bass player
• 0January 6th: David Di Michele , Italian soccer player
• 0January 6th: Judith Rakers , German journalist and presenter
• 0January 7th: Grigory Alexandrovich Andreev , Russian marathon runner
• 0January 7th: Marcelo Bordon , Brazilian soccer player
• 0January 7th: Vic Darchinyan , Armenian professional boxer
• 0January 7th: Markus Dieckmann , German beach volleyball player
• 0January 7th: Christoph Dieckmann , German beach volleyball player
• 0January 8: Raffaëla Anderson , French film actress, writer and porn actress
• 0January 8: Jenny Lewis , American singer
• 0January 8: Tomislav "Tom" Pondeljak , Australian football player
• 0January 9: Simon Gosejohann , German actor, presenter and comedian
• 0January 9: Amy Gillett , Australian cyclist († 2005)
• January 13: Mario Yepes , Colombian soccer player
• January 13th: Felix Gottwald , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
• January 16: Eva Habermann , German actress
• January 16: Artyom Vladimirovich Argokov , Kazakh ice hockey player
• January 16: Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie , sprinter and Olympic champion from the Bahamas
• January 16: Agoria (Sébastien Devaud), French techno DJ and producer
• January 17th: Tonique Williams-Darling , track and field athlete from the Bahamas
• January 18: Marcelo Daniel Gallardo , Argentine professional footballer
• January 18: Yevgeny Pupkov , Kazakh ice hockey player († 2021)
• January 19: Greta Galisch de Palma , German actress and speaker
• January 20: Til Bettenstaedt , German soccer player
• January 20th: Yann Pivois , French cyclist
• January 21: Amin Asikainen , Finnish professional boxer
• January 21: Alexander Bommes , German handball player and television presenter
• January 21: Emma Bunton , British singer
• January 21: Igors Stepanovs , Latvian football player
• January 23: Alex Wubbels , American nurse and Olympic competitor in alpine skiing
• January 23: Carsten Schneider , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• January 24th: Cacá Bueno , Brazilian racing car driver
• January 25th: Mário Haberfeld , Brazilian racing car driver
• January 26th: Shirin Soraya , German actress
• January 27: Ahn Jung-hwan , South Korean soccer player
• January 27: Chris Gauthier , Canadian actor
• January 27: Erik Haffner , German director
• January 27: Jorres Risse , German actor
• January 27: Karin Roten , Swiss alpine ski racer
• January 28: Dominik Auer , German voice actor, dialogue director and dialogue book author
• January 28: Rick Ross , American rapper
• January 28: Oliver Wnuk , German actor, author and radio play speaker
• January 29th: Karsten Kroon , Dutch cyclist
• January 30th: Cristian Brocchi , Italian soccer player
• January 30th: Andy Milonakis , comedian
• January 31: Buddy Rice , American racing car driver
• January 31: Traianos Dellas , Greek football player

February

• 0February 2nd: Björn Harich , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
• 0February 3rd: Stéphane Antiga , French volleyball player and coach
• 0February 3: Daddy Yankee , reggaeton artist
• 0February 3: Isla Lang Fisher , Australian actress and writer
• 0February 4th: Cam'ron , American rapper
• 0February 4th: Vincent Capillaire , French racing car driver
• 0February 4: Avdullah Hoti , Kosovar economist and politician
• 0February 4th: Masaki Kanō , Japanese racing car driver
• 0February 4th: Daniel Wiemer , German actor and musician
• 0February 5th: Altan Aksoy , Turkish soccer player
• 0February 5: John Aloisi , Australian football player and coach
• 0February 5th: Gökhan Arslan , Turkish kickboxer
• 0February 5th: Katrin Filzen , German actress
• 0February 5th: Tony Jaa , Thai actor
• 0February 5: Abhishek Bachchan , Indian actor
• 0February 6th: Kasper Hvidt , Danish handball goalkeeper
• 0February 8: Oksana Nikiforowa , Russian-German dancer

Nicolas Vouilloz

• 0February 8: Nicolas Vouilloz , French mountain biker and rally driver
• 0February 9: Ionela Târlea , Romanian athlete
• February 10: Carlos Jiménez Sánchez , Spanish basketball player
• February 11th: Mareile Blendl , German actress
• February 11: Alexandra Neldel , German actress
• February 11: Ricardo , Portuguese soccer player
• February 11th: Alenka Dovžan , Slovenian skier
• February 12: Carsten Mahnecke , German handball player
• February 12th: Silvia Saint , Czech porn actress
• February 13: Jörg Bergmeister , German automobile racing driver
• February 13: Leslie Feist , Canadian pop singer
• February 13: Thomas Hansen , Norwegian musician († 2007)

Aylin Aslım

• February 14th: Aylin Aslım , Turkish pop rock singer
• February 15th: Óscar Freire , Spanish cyclist
• February 15: Francisco Neri , Brazilian soccer player
• February 15: Wang Quanzhang , Chinese lawyer and dissident
• February 16: Ayla Akat Ata , Turkish politician, lawyer and politician
• February 17th: Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff , German politician
• February 17th: Almira Scripcenco , French chess player
• February 17th: Marco Seefried , German racing car driver
• February 17th: Dov Zifroni , Israeli chess player
• February 18: Katja Dörner , German politician
• February 18: Thomas Schmidt , canoeist
• February 19: Andrew Pitt , Australian motorcycle racer
• February 19: Teddy Thompson , British folk rock musician and record producer
• February 20th: Johanna Beisteiner , Austrian guitarist
• February 22nd: Kenneth Åkesson , Norwegian guitarist and drummer
• February 22nd: Christopher Isengwe , Tanzanian athlete
• February 23: Kelly Macdonald , Scottish actress
• February 23: Víctor , Spanish soccer player
• February 24: Marco Campos , Brazilian racing car driver († 1995)
• February 24: Julia Grafflage , German actress
• February 24: Yuval Noah Harari , Israeli historian and non-fiction author
• February 24: Bradley McGee , Australian cyclist
• February 24: Matthew Thomas Skiba , American musician
• February 25: Samir Muratović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian soccer player
• February 26th: Nalini Anantharaman , French mathematician
• February 26: Andreas Nauroth , German soccer player
• February 26: Mauro Lustrinelli , Swiss football player
• February 26: Ulrike Syha , German playwright
• February 27: Nikki Amuka-Bird , British actress
• February 27: Ludovic Capelle , Belgian cyclist
• February 27: Enrico Fantini , Italian football player
• February 27: Rhea Harder , German actress
• February 28: Geri Çipi , Albanian football player
• February 28: Anna Disselhoff , German handball player
• February 28: Damian Wleklak , Polish handball player
• February 29: Judith Enders , German political scientist and author
• February 29th: Milaim Rama , Swiss soccer player
• February 29: Ja Rule , American rapper
• February 29: Simone Panteleit , German TV presenter

March

• 0March 1st: Alex Debón , Spanish motorcycle racer
• 0March 1st: Kamau , Brazilian rapper, mathematician and professional skateboarder

Mario D. Richardt

• 0March 1: Mario D. Richardt , German television presenter and author
• 0March 2nd: França , Brazilian soccer player
• 0March 2nd: Florencia de la V , Argentine actor, humorist and travesty artist
• 0March 2nd: Brigitte Hobmeier , German actress
• 0March 3rd: Natalia Kukulska , Polish pop singer
• 0March 4th: Kristof Magnusson , German writer
• 0March 4th: Christian Weidner , German jazz musician
• 0March 4th: Vic Wunderle , American archer
• 0March 5: Šarūnas Jasikevičius , Lithuanian basketball player
• 0March 5: Tomáš Martinec , German ice hockey player
• 0March 5th: Carsten Cullmann , German soccer player
• 0March 6: Kenneth Charles Anderson , American wrestler and actor
• 0March 8: Nicole Aish , American long-distance runner
• 0March 8: Freddie Prinze junior , American film actor
• 0March 9: Yamila Díaz-Rahi , Argentine model
• 0March 9: Anier García , Cuban athlete
• 0March 9: Nicole Kortlüke , German film editor
• 0March 9th: Francisco Mancebo , Spanish cyclist
• 0March 9: Benedict ("Ben") Martin Paul Mulroney , Canadian television presenter
• March 10: Faisal Atallah , Kuwaiti ice hockey player
• March 10: Vanessa Louise Atkinson , English-Dutch squash player
• March 10: Eladio Jiménez , Spanish cyclist
• March 10: Barbara Schett , Austrian tennis player
• March 11th: Radek Baborák , Czech horn player
• March 11th: Anja Weisgerber , German MEP
• March 12th: Andreas Erm , German athlete
• March 14th: Jan-Olaf Immel , German handball player
• March 14th: Sarah Ulmer , New Zealand cyclist
• March 14th: Phil Vickery , English rugby player
• March 16: Kai Buchmann , German local politician
• March 16: Zhu Chen , Chinese chess player
• March 16: Pál Dárdai , Hungarian football player
• March 17th: Florin Corbeanu , Romanian rower
• March 17: Stephen Gately , Irish singer and actor († 2009)

Roxanne Hall

• March 17th: Roxanne Hall , British porn actress
• March 17th: Satoshi Hirose , Japanese cyclist
• March 17th: Todd Perry , Australian professional tennis player
• March 17th: Álvaro Recoba , Uruguayan soccer player
• March 18: Giovanna Antonelli , Brazilian actress and singer
• March 19: Rachel Blanchard , Canadian actress
• March 19: Alessandro Nesta , Italian football player
• March 19: Ivica Šmid , Croatian football player
• March 20: Jens Petersen , German writer and doctor
• March 20: Chester Bennington , American singer († 2017)
• March 20th: Kristian Hammer , Norwegian Nordic combined athlete
• March 22nd: Zoli Ádok , Hungarian singer, actor and dancer
• March 22nd: Sven Butenschön , German-Canadian ice hockey player
• March 22: Reese Witherspoon , American actress
• March 23: Keri Russell , American actress
• March 23: Ricardo Zonta , Brazilian Formula 1 driver
• March 24: Serhiy Hennadijowytsch Arbusow , Ukrainian businessman, economist and politician
• March 24th: Annette Dasch , German opera, concert and lieder singer
• March 24: American football player, Peyton Manning
• March 25: Lars Figura , German 400-meter runner

Wladimir Klitschko

• March 25: Wladimir Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer
• March 25: Jeb Corliss , American BASE jumper and television presenter
• March 26: Amy Smart , American actress
• March 26: Oscar Sonejee Masand , Andorran football player
• March 26: Alex Varas , Chilean football player
• March 26: Nurgül Yeşilçay , Turkish actress
• March 27: Roberta Alma Anastase , Romanian politician
• March 27: Adrian Gheorghe Anca , Romanian football player and coach
• March 28th: Haruchika Aoki , Japanese motorcycle racer
• March 29th: Igor Astarloa , Spanish cyclist
• March 28th: Tim Mullen , British racing car driver
• March 29: Jennifer Capriati , American tennis player
• March 30th: Ayako Kawasumi , Japanese voice actress and singer
• March 30th: Obadele Thompson , Barbadian athlete
• March 31: Keith Anthony Blair , Jamaican dancehall and reggae performer
• March 31: Jonas Ernelind , Swedish handball player († 2011)
• March 31: André Röhner , German actor and photographer

April

• 0April 1st: John Elkann , Italian manager and industrialist
• 0April 1st: Gábor Király , Hungarian football player
• 0April 1st: Clarence Seedorf , Dutch soccer player
• 0April 1: David Oyelowo , American actor

Samu Haber

• 0April 2nd: Samu Haber , Finnish singer and songwriter
• 0April 2nd: Lucy Diakovska , Bulgarian pop and musical singer
• 0April 4th: Nils Brunkhorst , German actor and singer
• 0April 4: Patrick Dewayne , German actor, musician, presenter, business journalist and non-fiction author
• 0April 4th: Emerson , Brazilian soccer player
• 0April 4: Elvir Rahimić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player

Daniel Caspary

• 0April 4th: Daniel Caspary , German politician and member of the EU Parliament
• 0April 5th: Kai Michalke , German soccer player
• 0April 5: Alias , American rapper († 2018)
• 0April 5: Kim Collins , St. Kitts and Nevis Islands track and field athlete

Fernando Morientes

• 0April 5th: Fernando Morientes , Spanish footballer
• 0April 6: Jennipher Antoni , German actress and radio play speaker
• 0April 6: Candace Cameron , American actress
• 0April 6th: James Fox , British singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
• 0April 7th: Achilov Achilov , Uzbek wrestler
• 0April 7th: Dalibor Anušić , Croatian handball player
• 0April 7th: Martin Buss , German athlete
• 0April 7th: Stefan Ulrich , German water diver
• 0April 7th: Radoslav Suchý , Slovak ice hockey player
• 0April 8: Mathias Schober , German soccer player
• 0April 9: Serena Maria Auñón-Chancellor , American astronaut
• 0April 9th: Lars Rasmussen , Danish handball player
• April 10: Sara Renner , Canadian cross-country skier
• April 11: Antonio Pacheco , Uruguayan-Italian soccer player

Ruth Moschner

• April 11th: Ruth Moschner , German TV presenter
• April 12: Kuok Io Keong , Macau racing car driver
• April 13: Jonathan Brandis , American actor († 2003)
• April 14th: Santiago Abascal Conde , Spanish politician
• April 14th: Georgeta Damian , Romanian rower
• April 14th: Thomas Geierspichler , Austrian wheelchair athlete and Paralympic winner
• April 14th: Françoise Mbango Etone , Cameroonian athlete and Olympic champion
• April 15: Markus Hausweiler , German soccer player
• April 15: Seigō Narazaki , Japanese soccer player
• April 16: Christopher Adolf , athlete from Palau
• April 16: David Lyons , Australian actor
• April 17th: Peter Aumer , German business economist and politician
• April 17th: Sizzla Kalonji , singer
• April 18: Rodrigo de la Serna , Argentine actor
• April 18: Melissa Joan Hart , American actress
• April 18: Kevin Rankin , American actor
• April 20: Katrin Weißensee , German graduate in business administration and performance artist in sand animation
• April 21: Sergei Yakovlev , Kazakh cyclist
• April 22nd: Christian Wilhelmi , German chess player
• April 23: Peter Kehl , German politician
• April 24th: Juan Manuel Gárate , Spanish cyclist
• April 24th: Michael Schaefer , German author
• April 25: Gilberto da Silva Melo , Brazilian soccer player
• April 25: Tim Duncan , American basketball player
• April 25: Stefan Murr , German actor
• April 25: Rainer Schüttler , German tennis player
• April 26th: Thiago Machado dos Santos , Brazilian triathlete († 2005)
• April 27: Sally Hawkins , British actress
• April 27: Benjamin Tewaag , German actor
• April 27th: Olaf Tufte , Norwegian rower
• April 29: Fabio Liverani , Italian football player and coach
• April 29th: Chiyotaikai Ryūji , Japanese sumo wrestler
• April 29th: Maja Savić , Montenegrin handball player
• April 30th: Daniel Gloger , countertenor
• April 30th: Amanda Palmer , American musician, poet and cabaret artist

May

• 0May 1st: Violante Placido , Italian actress
• 0May 2nd: Wahyu Pelita Agung Setiawan , Indonesian badminton player

Sabina Hank

• 0May 2nd: Sabina Hank , Austrian pianist and composer
• 0May 2nd: Rikke Hørlykke , Danish handball player
• 0May 2nd: Cordelia Weg , German actress
• 0May 3: Osamah Al-Shanqiti , Saudi Arabian athlete
• 0May 3rd: Beto , Portuguese soccer player
• 0May 3: Alexander Gerst , German geophysicist and astronaut
• 0May 3: Tanja Kummer , Swiss writer
• 0May 4th: Daniel Achilles , German chef
• 0May 4th: Simon Jentzsch , German soccer player
• 0May 4th: Mariusz Jurasik , Polish handball player
• 0May 5: Juan Pablo Sorín , Argentinian soccer player
• 0May 7th: Thomas Biagi , Italian racing car driver
• 0May 7th: Johannes Klomann , German politician
• 0May 7: Borja Schwember , German comedian and web video producer ( Doktor Allwissend )
• 0May 7th: Norman Simon , German racing car driver
• 0May 7th: Jana Voosen , German actress
• 0May 8: Makoto Yukimura , Japanese mangaka (comic artist)
• 0May 9: Nazan Eckes , TV presenter
• 0May 9: Ásthildur Helgadóttir , Icelandic football player
• 0May 9: Jeff Simmons , American racing car driver
• May 10: Udo Mechels , Belgian singer
• May 13: Marcelo Pletsch , Brazilian soccer player
• May 13: Ana Popović , Yugoslav blues guitarist and singer
• May 13: Grzegorz Szamotulski , Polish football player
• May 14: Øystein Martinsen , Norwegian actor
• May 14: Martine McCutcheon , British singer and actress
• May 14: Benjamin Quabeck , German film director
• May 14: Attila Tököli , Hungarian football player
• May 15: Jacek Krzynówek , Polish football player
• May 16: Christoph von Friedl , Austrian actor
• May 17th: Martin Auer , German jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player
• May 17th: Daniel Komen , Kenyan athlete (middle and long distance runner)
• May 17th: Mayte Martínez , Spanish athlete
• May 18: Manuel Ochsenreiter , German journalist († 2021)
• May 18: Anna Ottosson , Swedish ski racer
• May 18: Stéphane Yonnet , French freestyle skier
• May 19: TeeBee , Norwegian producer and DJ
• May 19: Kevin Garnett , American basketball player
• May 19: Thilo Schmidt , German radio writer and journalist
• May 20th: Virpi Kuitunen , Finnish cross-country skier
• May 21: Julia Abe , German tennis player
• May 21: Deron Miller , American musician
• May 22: Fernando Andina , Spanish actor
• May 25: Cillian Murphy , Irish actor
• May 25: Erinn Hayes , American actress
• May 25th: Stefan Holm , Swedish athlete

Sandra Nasić

• May 25: Sandra Nasić , German singer
• May 27th: Marcel Fässler , Swiss racing driver
• May 27: Jiří Štajner , Czech football player
• May 27: RJD2 , American musician
• May 28: Judit Neumann , German lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
• May 28: Michael Thurk , German soccer player
• May 29: Claudio Roberto da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
• May 29: Alexander Job , German handball player and coach
• May 30th: Magnus Norman , Swedish tennis player
• May 30th: Susu Padotzke , German actress
• May 31: Colin Farrell , Irish actor
• May 31: Steve Jenkner , German motorcycle racer
• May 31: Roar Ljøkelsøy , Norwegian ski jumper
• May 31: Tanja Mairhofer , Austrian TV presenter and actress
• 000May: Benjamin von der Ahe , German politician

June

• 0June 1st: Melanie Oßwald , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• 0June 1st: Alexander Scheer , German actor
• 0June 2: Martin Čech , Czech ice hockey player († 2007)
• 0June 3: Brian Herrington , American composer and music educator
• 0June 3rd: Jens Kruppa , German swimmer
• 0June 4th: Kasey Chambers , Australian country singer
• 0June 4th: Alexei Navalny , Russian lawyer and politician
• 0June 5: Ian Bavitz , American hip hop musician
• 0June 5: Belinda Halloran , Australian duathlete and triathlete
• 0June 6th: Oksana Romenskaja , Russian handball player
• 0June 7: Jacqueline Akerman , Canadian biathlete and biathlon coach
• 0June 7th: Ercüment Aslan , Turkish boxer
• 0June 8th: Aziz Zakari , Ghanaian athlete
• 0June 8: Lindsay Davenport , American tennis player
• 0June 8: Eion Bailey , American actor
• 0June 9: Kayode Akinsanya , Nigerian badminton player
• 0June 9: Stephan Anstötz , German lawyer
• 0June 9th: Sedat Artuç , Turkish weightlifter
• 0June 9th: Chicco Özden , German-Turkish singer
• June 10: Yvonne C. Arias , American actress
• June 10: Markus Brodbeck , German handball goalkeeper and coach

Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia

• June 10: Georg Friedrich Prince of Prussia , head of the House of Hohenzollern
• June 12: Thomas Sørensen , Danish football player
• June 12: Katja Husen , German politician and Member of the Bundestag
• June 13: Vivi Andreasen , Faroese soccer player
• June 13: Marc Ziegler , German football goalkeeper
• June 14th: Massimo Oddo , Italian football player
• June 16: Matthias Beier , German actor
• June 16: Tom Lenk , American actor
• June 16: Nokuthula Ngwenyama , American violinist and violist
• June 17th: Scott Adkins , British actor
• June 17th: Sven Nys , Belgian professional cyclocross rider
• June 17th: Pyotr Weniaminowitsch Swidler , Russian chess player
• June 18: Thomas Riedl , German soccer player
• June 18: Blake Shelton , country singer
• June 20: Juliano Belletti , Brazilian soccer player
• June 21: René Aufhauser , Austrian soccer player
• June 21: Mike Einziger , guitarist of the band Incubus
• June 21: Miroslav Karhan , Slovak football player
• June 22nd: Grant Hendrik Tonne , German politician
• June 23: Paola Suárez , Argentinian tennis player
• June 23: Emmanuelle Vaugier , Canadian actress
• June 23: Patrick Vieira , French soccer player
• June 24th: Julia Blesken , German writer
• June 24th: Florian Weber , German presenter and actor
• June 25: José Cancela , Uruguayan soccer player
• June 25: Lloyd McCollough , American rockabilly musician
• June 26th: Maikel Aerts , Dutch soccer player
• June 28th: Shinobu Asagoe , Japanese tennis player
• June 28th: Hans Sarpei , Ghanaian soccer player
• June 28th: Sheila Herrero , Spanish speed skater
• June 29th: Mohamed Bahari , Algerian amateur boxer
• June 29th: Daniel Carlsson , Swedish rally driver
• June 30: Angie Akers , American beach volleyball and volleyball player
• June 30th: Ellen Angelina , Indonesian badminton player

July

• 0July 1st: Patrick Kluivert , Dutch football player

Ruud van Nistelrooy

• 0July 1st: Ruud van Nistelrooy , Dutch football player
• 0July 1st: Rigobert Song , Cameroonian-Turkish soccer player
• 0July 1st: Szymon Ziółkowski , Polish athlete
• 0July 2nd: Idalina Borges Mesquita , Brazilian handball player
• 0July 2nd: Krisztián Lisztes , Hungarian football player
• 0July 2nd: Tomáš Vokoun , Czech ice hockey player
• 0July 3: Wade Belak , Canadian ice hockey player († 2011)
• 0July 3rd: Shane Lynch , Irish singer
• 0July 4th: Yevgenia Medvedeva-Arbusowa , Russian cross-country skier
• 0July 4th: Daijirō Katō , Japanese motorcycle racer († 2003)
• 0July 4th: Eva Zeglovits , Austrian political scientist
• 0July 5th: Nuno Gomes , Portuguese soccer player
• 0July 5th: Bizarre , American rapper
• 0July 6th: Ophélie David , French freestyle skier
• 0July 8th: Ellen MacArthur , British sailor
• 0July 8: Wang Liping , Chinese athlete and Olympic champion
• 0July 9: Thomas Cichon , German soccer player
• 0July 9: Jochem Uytdehaage , Dutch speed skater
• 0July 9: Emmanuelle Gagliardi , Swiss tennis player
• July 10: Morris Chen , Taiwanese racing car driver
• July 10: Iker Iturbe , Spanish basketball player

Lars Ricken

• July 10: Lars Ricken , German soccer player
• July 10: Ludovic Giuly , French football player
• July 10: Elijah Blue Allman , American singer and guitarist
• July 11th: Christina Scherwin , Danish athlete
• July 12th: Guillaume Gille , French handball player
• July 13th: Austrofred , Austrian singer
• July 14th: Monique Covet , Hungarian porn actress
• July 14th: Tewodros Kassahun , Ethiopian singer
• July 15th: Fredrick Canon , Nauruan athlete
• July 15: Jim Jones , American rapper

Diane Kruger

• July 15: Diane Kruger , German actress
• July 15: Marco Di Vaio , Italian football player
• July 16: Claudia Riegler , New Zealand ski racer
• July 17th: Anders Svensson , Swedish football player

Benedict Cumberbatch

• July 18: Yugo Tsukita , Japanese freestyle skier
• July 19: Benedict Cumberbatch , British actor
• July 19th: Eric Prydz , Swedish house DJ and producer
• July 20: Markus Giesler , consumer researcher and professor of marketing
• July 20: Michal Kolomazník , Czech football player
• July 20: Alex Yoong , Malaysian racing car driver
• July 21: Wahid Hashemian , Iranian soccer player
• July 21: Tatiana Lebedewa , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
• July 22nd: Almedin Hota , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
• July 22nd: Janek Tombak , Estonian cyclist
• July 23: Judith Arndt , German cyclist
• July 23: Jörg Jaksche , German racing cyclist

Judit Polgár

• July 23: Judit Polgár , Hungarian chess player
• July 24th: Michael Aish , New Zealand long distance runner
• July 24: Rafer Alston , American basketball player
• July 24th: Laura Fraser , British actress
• July 24th: Josef Heynert , German actor
• July 24th: Tiago Monteiro , Portuguese racing car driver
• July 24th: Francesc Reguera , Andorran football player
• July 25th: Nikita Denise , Czech porn actress
• July 25: Stéphane Rideau , French actor
• July 25: Lil 'Cease , American rapper
• July 25: Tera Patrick , American model and porn actress
• July 26th: Pável Pardo , Mexican soccer player
• July 28th: Oliver Köhrmann , German handball player
• July 28th: Curumin , Brazilian singer
• July 28: Kai Schumann , German actor
• July 29th: Rhymin Simon , German rapper
• July 31: Yamba Asha , Angolan soccer player
• July 31: Salvatore Lanna , Italian football player and coach
• July 31: Paulo Wanchope , Costa Rican soccer player

August

• 0August 1st: Nwankwo Kanu , Nigerian soccer player
• 0August 1st: Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu , Romanian chess player
• 0August 1st: Hasan Şaş , Turkish soccer player

Kati Wilhelm

• 0August 2nd: Kati Wilhelm , German biathlete
• 0August 2nd: Sam Worthington , Australian actor
• 0August 6: Melissa Suzanne George , Australian actress and athlete
• 0August 6: Josh Schwartz , American television producer and screenwriter
• 0August 7th: Hamed Attarbashi , German basketball coach
• 0August 9: Rhona Mitra , British film actress
• 0August 9: Christoph Baumann , German producer, director and actor
• 0August 9: Marc van Linden , German DJ and music producer
• 0August 9: Audrey Tautou , French actress
• August 10: Ricardo Andrés Aparicio De la Quintana , Uruguayan football player
• August 11: Federico Pedini Amati , San Marinese politician
• August 12: Tina Angel , German erotic model
• August 12th: Mikko Viljami Lindström , Finnish guitarist
• August 12: Sørenn Rasmussen , Danish handball player
• August 12: Manuel Jiménez Soria , Andorran football player
• August 12: Alexander Wipprecht , German actor and presenter
• August 13: Edy Portmann , Swiss computer scientist
• August 13: Roddy Woomble , British singer
• August 14th: Thomas Kläsener , German soccer player
• August 14th: Ingo Knollmann , German rock singer and front man of the band Donots
• August 15: Abiy Ahmed , Ethiopian politician, prime minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• August 15: Boudewijn Zenden , Dutch football player
• August 16: Sandra Weiss , German singer of hits and folk music
• August 17th: Olena Krassowska , Ukrainian hurdler and Olympic runner-up
• August 18: Paraskevas Antzas , Greek football player
• August 18: Michael Greis , German biathlete
• August 18th: Panacea , German drum and bass producer and DJ
• August 21: Philip Simon , Dutch presenter, cabaret artist and author
• August 22nd: Marlies Oester , Swiss ski racer
• August 23: LaTasha Colander , American athlete
• August 23: Scott Caan , American actor
• August 23: Nicoline Schubert , German actress
• August 24: Alex O'Loughlin , Australian actor
• August 25: Alexander Skarsgård , Swedish actor
• August 26: Mike Colter , American actor
• August 27: Ivan Benito , Swiss-Spanish soccer player
• August 27: Sarah Chalke , Canadian actress
• August 27th: Carlos Moyá , Spanish tennis player
• August 27: Benoît Poilvet , French cyclist
• August 27: Mark Webber , Australian Formula 1 racing driver
• August 28: Tyree Washington , American athlete
• August 29: Jon Dahl Tomasson , Danish football player
• August 29: Mieko Kawakami , Japanese writer
• August 30: Sarah-Jane Potts , American actress
• August 31: Vincent Delerm , French singer and composer
• August 31: Lucas Gregorowicz , German-Polish actor
• August 31: Roque Júnior , Brazilian soccer player

September

• 0September 1st: Ivano Brugnetti , Italian athlete
• 0September 1: Mauro Roberto Cantoro , Argentine-Polish soccer player

Jada Fire

• 0September 1st: Jada Fire , American porn actress
• 0September 2nd: Michel Jourdain junior , Mexican racing car driver
• 0September 2nd: Marchy Lee , Hong Kong-Chinese racing car driver
• 0September 3: Samuel Osei Kuffour , Ghanaian-German soccer player
• 0September 3rd: Agnes Scheibelreiter , Austrian soprano
• 0September 4th: Borislav Georgiev , Bulgarian football player
• 0September 4th: Lise Legrand , French wrestler
• 0September 4: Mario-Ernesto Rodríguez Berutti , Uruguayan-Italian football player
• 0September 5: Mishari Raschid al-Afasi , Kuwaiti Koran reciter and Imam
• 0September 5: Christopher "Chris" Robert Broach , American musician
• 0September 5th: Carice van Houten , Dutch actress
• 0September 6: Ian Ashbee , English football player
• 0September 6: Rodolfo Cázares , Mexican conductor and pianist
• 0September 6th: Melanie Mühl , German journalist and book author
• 0September 6: Tom Pappas , American athlete
• 0September 7: Steven "Steve" Fitzsimmons , Australian soccer player
• 0September 7th: Francesc Xavier Ramírez Palomo , Andorran football player
• 0September 8th: Sjeng Schalken , Dutch tennis player
• 0September 9: Emma de Caunes , French actress
• 0September 9th: Artiom Kiourengian , Greek wrestler
• 0September 9: Lúcia Moniz , Portuguese singer and actress
• 0September 9: Michael Specht , German actor
• September 10: Gustavo Kuerten , Brazilian tennis professional
• September 11th: Steffen Lehmann , German actor and speaker
• September 11th: MC Rene , German MC and rapper
• September 11th: Marco Rose , German soccer player
• September 12: Bizzy Bone , American rapper
• September 12: Gérard Calvet , Andorran football player
• September 12th: Jolanda Čeplak , Slovenian athlete and Olympian
• September 12: Coa Schwab , American composer and oboist
• September 13: Reto von Arx , Swiss ice hockey player
• September 13: Steffen Augsberg , German legal scholar and professor
• September 13th: Tami Kiuru , Finnish ski jumper
• September 13: José Théodore , Canadian ice hockey player
• September 13th: Puma Swede , Swedish porn actress
• September 14: Birkir Ívar Guðmundsson , Icelandic handball player
• September 14th: Dirk Heidolf , German motorcycle racer
• September 14th: Georgeta Narcisa Lecușanu , Romanian handball player
• September 14th: Kevin Lyttle , Vincentian Soca musician
• September 14: Raptile , German-Ethiopian rapper
• September 14th: Andrea Schaller , German soccer player
• September 15: Jonathan Liebesman , South African director
• September 15: Sebastian Pufpaff , German comedian
• September 16: Marie-Fleur Agema , Dutch politician
• September 16: Elīna Garanča , Latvian mezzo-soprano

Feleknas Uca

• September 17th: Feleknas Uca , German politician
• September 19: Jerden Äbdirachmanow , Kazakh biathlete
• September 20: Jon Bernthal , American actor
• September 20: Agata Buzek , Polish actress
• September 20: Maximilian Grill , German actor
• September 20: Christian Hohenadel , German automobile racing driver
• September 21: Juan Francisco Casas , Spanish painter
• September 21: Jana Kandarr , German tennis player
• September 21: Máté Kamarás , Hungarian musical performer
• September 22nd: Anabela Braz Pires , Portuguese singer and musical artist
• September 22nd: Yannick Pelletier , Swiss chess player

Ronaldo

• September 22: Ronaldo , Brazilian soccer player
• September 22nd: Martin Solveig , French house DJ
• September 23: Katja Poensgen , German motorcycle racer
• September 24: Adrian Aliaj , Albanian football player
• September 24th: Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga , Spanish cyclist
• September 24th: Claus Møller Jakobsen , Danish handball player
• September 24th: Alexander Maul , former German soccer player
• September 25: Chauncey Billups , American basketball player
• September 25: Armando Teixeira , Portuguese soccer player

Michael Ballack

• September 26: Michael Ballack , German soccer player
• September 26: Olivia O'Lovely , American porn actress
• September 27: Francesco Totti , Italian football player
• September 27: Katrin Weber , German short tracker
• September 28: Frank von Behren , German handball player
• September 29th: Mark Edusei , Ghanaian soccer player
• September 29th: Mandy Kerkossa , German handball player
• September 29: Andrij Shevchenko , Ukrainian football player and coach
• September 29th: Óscar Sevilla , Spanish cyclist
• September 30: Bligg (civil Marco Bliggensdorfer), Swiss rapper

October

• 0October 1st: Johannes Honigmann , German translator
• 0October 1st: Ümit Karan , Turkish soccer player
• 0October 2nd: Anita Kulcsár , Hungarian handball player († 2005)
• 0October 3rd: Christian Hassa , German soccer player
• 0October 3: Seann William Scott , American actor
• 0October 4th: Ueli Steck , Swiss extreme mountaineer († 2017)
• 0October 4th: Mauro Camoranesi , Argentine-Italian soccer player

Alicia Silverstone

• 0October 4th: Alicia Silverstone , American actress
• 0October 5: Pierre M. Krause , German television presenter
• 0October 5th: Sven Lintjens , German soccer player
• 0October 6: Karen Dochojan , Armenian soccer player
• 0October 6: Alexei Dudukalo , Russian racing car driver
• 0October 6: Yotuel Romero , Cuban singer-songwriter and actor
• 0October 7th: Marc Coma , Spanish enduro racer
• 0October 7th: Gilberto Silva , Brazilian soccer player
• 0October 7th: Santiago Solari , Argentinian soccer player
• 0October 8: Seryoga , rapper of Russian origin and ex-boxer
• 0October 8: Renate Groenewold , Dutch speed skater
• 0October 8th: Roland Kollmann , Austrian soccer player
• 0October 8: Stéphane Stassin , Belgian football player
• 0October 9: Mia Aegerter , Swiss pop singer and actress
• 0October 9th: Jyhan Artut , German dart player
• 0October 9: Caro Scrimali , German actress
• October 10: Katja Beer , German biathlete
• October 10: Das Bo , German rapper
• October 10: Levan Tskitishvili , Georgian football player
• October 11: Emily Deschanel , American actress
• October 11th: Jochen Seitz , German soccer player
• October 12: Kajsa Bergqvist , Swedish high jumper
• October 13: Fabricio Fuentes , Argentinian soccer player
• October 13: Nawaf Shukralla , Bahraini football referee
• October 14: Kennie Asuncion , Filipino badminton player
• October 14th: Andreas Widhölzl , Austrian ski jumper
• October 15: Elisa Aguilar , Spanish basketball player
• October 15: Jody Hill , American film director and screenwriter
• October 15th: Duško Pavasovič , Slovenian chess grandmaster
• October 16: Nándor Fazekas , Hungarian handball player
• October 17: Sebastián Abreu , Uruguayan soccer player
• October 18: Kjell Carlström , Finnish cyclist
• October 19: Leopold van Asten , Dutch show jumper
• October 19: Omar Gooding , African-American actor
• October 19: Desmond Harrington , American actor
• October 20th: Petr Dlask , Czech cyclocross rider
• October 20: Nicola Legrottaglie , Italian football player
• October 21: Raphaël Lenglet , French actor and film director
• October 21: Josh Ritter , American singer and songwriter
• October 21: Mélanie Turgeon , Canadian ski racer
• October 22: Alexander Abbot , Russian figure skater
• October 22nd: Luke Adams , Australian walker
• October 22nd: Jan Dittrich , German politician

Ryan Reynolds

• October 23: Ryan Reynolds , American actor
• October 23: Karsten Schäfer , German handball player and trainer, sports scientist
• October 25: Ahmad ad-Duchi , Saudi Arabian soccer player
• October 25: Julia Malik , German actress
• October 26: Filipe de Souza , Macau racing car driver
• October 27: Ariel Ibagaza , Argentinian-Spanish soccer player
• October 27th: Mafalda Pereira , Portuguese freestyle skier
• October 27: David Terrien , French racing car driver
• October 29th: Hanna Kanapazkaja , Belarusian politician
• October 29th: Kurt Sulzenbacher , Italian ski racer
• October 31: Sascha Bertow , German handball player
• October 31: Guti , Spanish soccer player
• October 31: Piper Perabo , American actress

November

• 0November 1st: Jarbi Álvarez , Belizean football player
• 0November 1st: Stefan Lexa , Austrian soccer player
• 0November 2nd: Mike Leon Grosch , German singer
• 0November 2nd: Daniel Müller-Schott , cellist
• 0November 2nd: Thierry Omeyer , French handball goalkeeper
• 0November 3rd: Andrea Laube , German lawyer

Daniel Bahr

• 0November 4th: Daniel Bahr , German politician
• 0November 4th: Bruno Junqueira , Brazilian racing car driver
• 0November 4th: Alexander Popp , German tennis player
• 0November 4th: Makoto Tamada , Japanese motorcycle racer
• 0November 5th: Anasol , Colombian singer
• 0November 5: Sebastian Arcelus , American actor
• 0November 5th: Jörg Michalewicz , German handball player
• 0November 5: Eric Schwartz , American composer, pianist and music teacher
• 0November 6: Robson Ponte , Brazilian soccer player
• 0November 6: Pat Tillman , American football player († 2004)
• 0November 7th: Alberto Entrerríos , Spanish handball player and coach
• 0November 8: Jawhar Mnari , Tunisian football player
• 0November 9: Jaroslav Bednář , Czech ice hockey player
• 0November 9th: Tochiazuma Daisuke , Japanese sumo wrestler
• 0November 9th: Danzel , musician
• November 10: Martin John Allan Åslund , Swedish football player
• November 10: Shefki Kuqi , Finnish football player
• November 11: Alice Anderson , British artist and filmmaker
• November 11: Rebekka Borsch , German-Norwegian journalist and politician
• November 12th: Dmitri Dorofejew , Russian speed skater and Olympic medalist

Judith Holofernes

• November 12th: Judith Holofernes , singer of the band Wir sind Helden
• November 12: Tevin Campbell , American R'n'B singer and songwriter
• November 12th: Ingrid Hofer , Austrian singer and children's book author
• November 13: Kelly Sotherton , British athlete
• November 13: Albina Chamitovna Akhatova , Russian biathlete
• November 14th: Ricardo José da Costa Andorinho , Portuguese handball player
• November 14: Chris Demetral , American actor
• November 15: Brandon DiCamillo , TV presenter
• November 15th: Virginie Ledoyen , French actress and model
• November 15th: Claudia Llosa , Peruvian film director and screenwriter
• November 16: Pietro Aurino , Italian boxer
• November 17th: Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano , Venezuelan model
• November 17th: Beate Bille , Danish actress
• November 17: Brandon Call , American actor
• November 17th: Stefan Lampadius , German actor and filmmaker
• November 17th: Ervin Skela , Albanian football player
• November 18: Vincent Assmann , German film editor
• November 18: Sage Francis , American rapper
• November 18: Patrick Glöckner , German soccer player and coach
• November 18: Tina Landgraf , German actress
• November 19: Toby Stevenson , American athlete
• November 20: Pascal Roller , German basketball player
• November 22nd: Regina Halmich , German boxer
• November 22nd: Torsten Frings , German soccer player
• November 22nd: Lars Windhorst , young German entrepreneur
• November 22nd: Ville Valo , Finnish rock musician with the band HIM
• November 23: Simone Augustin , German journalist and author
• November 23: Daniel Santacruz , Dominican singer and composer
• November 24th: Sanam Afrashteh , German actress
• November 24th: Stephanie zu Guttenberg , wife of the former Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and president of the German section of Innocence in Danger
• November 24th: Chen Lu , Chinese figure skater
• November 25th: Norman Liebold , German writer, artist and actor
• November 26th: Andreas Augustsson , Swedish football player
• November 27th: Daniel Fischer , German radio and television presenter
• November 27: Jaleel White , American actor
• November 28: Renate Aichinger , Austrian writer and theater director
• November 28: Robert Fleming , Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choir director and music teacher
• November 29: Anna Faris , American actress
• November 29: Chadwick Boseman , American actor († 2020)
• November 29th: Aline Hochscheid , German actress and director
• November 29th: Elisabeth Hilmo Meyer , Norwegian handball player
• November 30th: Iveta Apkalna , Latvian organist
• November 30th: Angela Ascher , German actress
• November 30: Guy Allen Kelpin , American composer and trombonist

December

• 0December 1st: Eva von Angern , German politician
• 0December 1st: David Rasmussen , Danish football player
• 0December 1: Matthew Shepard , American victim of a crime against his homosexuality († 1998)
• 0December 2nd: Heiko Meyer , German water diver

Mark Boucher

• 0December 3: Mark Boucher , South African cricketer
• 0December 4: Amie Comeaux , American country singer († 1997)
• 0December 4th: Nadine Luck , German author and journalist
• 0December 4th: Mbo Mpenza , Belgian football player
• 0December 5th: Amy Louise Acker , American actress
• 0December 6th: Michael Jahns , German handball player
• 0December 7th: Sebastian Gerold , German actor
• 0December 8th: Dušan Andrašovský , Slovak ice hockey player
• 0December 8th: Dominic Monaghan , British actor
• 0December 8th: Camille Raymond , French singer and actress
• 0December 9th: Booba , French rapper
• December 11th: Julius Shareef Abdur-Rahim , American basketball player
• December 11th: László Bodrogi , Hungarian cyclist
• December 12th: Maren Ade , German director, screenwriter and film producer
• December 12th: Jana Ina , German-Brazilian presenter, actress and model
• December 12th: Ivo Rüthemann , Swiss ice hockey player
• December 13: Paavo Erkki Arhinmäki , Finnish politician
• December 13th: Viola Bauer , German cross-country skier
• December 14th: André Couto , Portuguese-Macau racing car driver
• December 14th: Malte Kaufmann , German politician
• December 16: Ivan Kitanović , Serbian double bass player
• December 16: Mona Petri , Swiss actress
• December 17th: Patrick Müller , Swiss soccer player
• December 17th: Natalie O'Hara , German actress
• December 17th: Stefan Strack , German handball player
• December 18: Andrea Belicchi , Italian racing car driver
• December 18: Sun Ribo , Chinese biathlete
• December 18: Joe Russo , American drummer
• December 20: Rafael Calero , Andorran football player
• December 20th: Christian Vitalis , German musicologist, author, music critic and horn player
• December 21: José Fernando Antogna , Argentine track and road cyclist
• December 22nd: Jaap van Lagen , Dutch racing driver
• December 23: Torsten Jansen , German handball player
• December 23: Sergej Jakirović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• December 23: Julija Anatoljewna Tschepalowa , Russian cross-country skier
• December 23: Joanna Hayes , American athlete and Olympic champion
• December 24th: Marion Rodewald , German hockey player

Armin van Buuren

• December 25th: Armin van Buuren , Dutch trance DJ and producer
• December 25th: Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen , Finnish keyboardist and songwriter
• December 26th: Andrea Absolonová , Czech high diver († 2004)
• December 26th: Janina Karoltschyk-Prawalinskaja , Belarusian shot putter and Olympic champion

Sabine Heinrich

• December 27: Sabine Heinrich , radio and television presenter
• December 27th: Michael Borgstede , German harpsichordist and journalist
• December 27: Aaron Stanford , American actor and film producer
• December 28th: Eric Griffin , bass player for Murderdolls
• December 29: Michal Hvorecký , Slovak author and journalist
• December 29: Danny McBride , American screenwriter, producer, and actor
• December 29: Sebastian Alscher , German politician and Federal Chairman of the Pirate Party Germany since November 2018 .
• December 30th: Karin Ammerer , Austrian children's book author
• December 30th: Patrick Kerney , American football player
• December 31: Luís Carreira , Portuguese motorcycle racer († 2012)

Day unknown

• A. Are you really going? , Austrian hip-hop musician
• Elisa Aaltola , Finnish philosopher
• Tawfik Abu Wael , Palestinian filmmaker and director
• Lars Adler , German historian, archivist and phalerist
• Amber Agar , British actress
• Stefan Ambrosius , German tuba player
• Amos , German pop singer and producer
• Markus Anton , German actor
• Salvatore Antonio Alessandro Migliore II , Canadian actor
• Athanasios Argianas , Greco-British artist
• Lola Arias , Argentine writer, musician, actress and director
• Sabine Arndt , German television presenter
• Edward Arron , American cellist
• Saleem Abboud Ashkar , Palestinian-Israeli classical pianist
• Mohamed Ben Attia , Tunisian film director and screenwriter
• William Attia , French game designer
• Jens Atzorn , German actor
• Heiko Aufdermauer , German film director, experimental filmmaker and author
• Ino Augsberg , German legal philosopher and university professor
• Rodolfo Cogliatti , Brazilian composer
• Jan Delay , German musician
• Motoko Dobashi , Japanese artist
• Amir Eldan , American cellist and music teacher
• Angela Fox , American composer, singer, choir conductor, dancer and choreographer
• Helge Fröschle , German handball player
• David Goodman , American conductor
• Thomas Gräßle , German actor
• Samu Gryllus , Hungarian bass guitarist, sound painter, composer and conductor
• Inge Hinterwaldner , Austrian-Italian professor of art history
• Huang Ruo , Chinese-American composer, pianist and singer
• Hanna Juergens , German actress
• Martin Kasík , Czech pianist
• Johanna Klante , German actress
• Mark Kosower , American cellist and music teacher
• Robert Kovács , Hungarian pianist and organist
• Anna Kubin , German actress
• Felix Maximilian , German actor
• Denise M'Baye , German actress
• Pat Muchmore , American composer
• Sebastian Nakajew , German actor
• Christian Näthe , German actor, guitarist and singer
• Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani , Nigerian writer
• Hanno Olderdissen , German film director
• Frederik Pleitgen , German journalist
• Max von Pufendorf , German actor
• Tania Saedi , Austrian musician
• Tobias Schacht , German singer and guitarist
• Johannes Unger , German organist
• Benjamin Zobrys , German actor and voice actor
• Katrin Zöfel , German biologist, science journalist and radio editor

Died

January

Agatha Christie († January 12)

• 0January 1: Xaver Gmelch , German motorcycle racer (* 1899)
• 0January 2: Dan Kazuo , Japanese writer (* 1912)
• 0January 3: John Ainsworth-Davis , British sprinter (* 1895)
• 0January 3: Anton Andergassen , Austrian clergyman and pastor (* 1893)
• 0January 4th: Rudolph Minkowski , German-American astrophysicist (* 1895)
• 0January 5: Mal Evans , road manager with the Beatles (* 1935)
• 0January 5: Gustav Geierhaas , German composer (* 1888)
• 0January 6th: José Gabriel Anaya y Diez de Bonilla , Mexican bishop of Zamora (* 1895)
• 0January 8: Ernst Emil Jung , shipowner and patron in Hamburg (* 1896)
• 0January 8: Zhou Enlai , Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China (* 1898)
• 0January 9: Rupert Wildt , German-American astronomer (* 1905)
• January 10: Howlin 'Wolf , American blues musician (born 1910)
• January 10: Lloyd McCollough , American rockabilly musician (* 1935)
• January 11: Werner March , German architect (* 1894)
• January 12th: Agatha Christie , English crime novelist (* 1890)
• January 12: Bohuslav Kokoschka , Austrian painter, graphic artist and writer (* 1892)
• January 13: Ahmed Jan Thirakwa , Indian tabla player (* 1892)
• January 13: Funabashi Seiichi , Japanese novelist (* 1904)
• January 13: Mona Rüster , German table tennis player (* 1901)
• January 14th: Do Abdul Razak bin Haji Dato 'Hussein Al-Haj , Malaysian politician (* 1922)
• January 14: Walter Jauch , insurance salesman (* 1888)
• January 14th: Juan D'Arienzo , Argentine tango musician (* 1900)
• January 15: Nina Vladimirovna Makarova , Russian composer (* 1908)
• January 15: Bohumil Soudský , Czechoslovak prehistorian (* 1922)

Blandine Ebinger and Friedrich Hollaender

• January 18: Friedrich Hollaender , German composer (* 1896)
• January 18: Gertrud Gabl , Austrian ski racer (* 1948)
• January 19: Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese physicist (* 1886)
• January 19: Dan Thornton , American politician (* 1911)
• January 20: Thure Andersson , Swedish wrestler (* 1907)
• January 22nd: Edgar Leslie , American songwriter (* 1885)
• January 22: Charles Reznikoff , American poet (* 1894)
• January 23: Frederick Hulford , British athlete (* 1883)
• January 23: Paul Robeson , American actor, singer, athlete, author and civil rights activist (* 1898)
• January 24th: Pinchas Lawon , Israeli politician (* 1904)
• January 25: Erwin Schoettle , German politician (* 1899)
• January 25: Victor Ehrenberg , German-British ancient historian (* 1891)
• January 26: Luis Alberti , Dominican merengue composer (* 1906)
• January 26: Walter Artelt , German doctor, dentist and medical historian (* 1906)
• January 26: Max Daetwyler , the first Swiss conscientious objector (* 1886)
• January 28: Ray Nance , American jazz trumpeter and violinist (* 1913)
• January 29: Reinhard Federmann , Austrian writer (* 1923)
• January 30th: Arnold Gehlen , German philosopher and sociologist (* 1904)
• January 31: Paul Dupuis , Canadian actor (born 1916)

February

• 0February 1: Eric Gordon England , British engineer and racing car driver (* 1891)

Werner Heisenberg

• 0February 1: Werner Heisenberg , German physicist, Nobel Prize winner (* 1901)
• 0February 1: Karol Mroszczyk , Polish composer and music teacher (* 1905)
• 0February 1: George Hoyt Whipple , American pathologist (* 1878)
• 0February 1: Hans Richter , German painter and film artist of Dadaism (* 1888)
• 0February 5: Lilly Ackermann , German actress and drama teacher (* 1891)
• 0February 5: Emanuel Punčochář , Czech conductor and composer (* 1902)
• 0February 6: Vince Guaraldi , American jazz musician, pianist and composer (* 1928)
• 0February 9: Yohanan Aharoni , German-Israeli archaeologist (* 1919)
• 0February 9: Percy Faith , American orchestra conductor (* 1908)
• February 11: Frank Arnau , Swiss writer (* 1894)
• February 11: Alexander Lippisch , German aircraft designer (* 1894)
• February 11: Lee J. Cobb , American actor (born 1911)
• February 12: Sal Mineo , Italian-American actor and singer (* 1939)
• February 12: Flérida de Nolasco , Dominican literary and musicologist (* 1891)
• February 12: Clifton Williams , American composer, horn player and music teacher (* 1923)
• February 13: Paul Russo , American racing driver (* 1941)
• February 14: Piero Scotti , Italian racing car driver (* 1909)
• February 16: Wilhelm Gutmann , German politician (* 1900)
• February 16: Franz Mühlenberg , German politician (* 1894)
• February 17: Edwin B. Astwood , American endocrinologist (* 1909)
• February 17: Oscar Han , Romanian author and sculptor (* 1891)
• February 17th: Jean Servais , Belgian actor (* 1910)
• February 18: Karl Heinz Abshagen , German lawyer, journalist, travel writer and biographer (* 1895)
• February 20: Hans Luckey , Baptist theologian and pastor as well as free church historian (* 1900)
• February 20: René Cassin , French lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (* 1887)
• February 21: Tage Aurell , Swedish writer, screenwriter, journalist and translator (* 1895)
• February 22nd: Michael Polanyi , Hungarian-British chemist and philosopher (* 1891)
• February 23: Lawrence Stephen Lowry , English artist (* 1887)
• February 23: Pyotr Michailowitsch Stefanowski , Soviet test pilot (* 1903)
• February 25: Paul May , German director and producer (* 1909)
• February 26: Efrem Forni , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1889)
• February 27: André Marandet , French racing car driver (* 1898)
• February 27: Hans Siburg , German general (* 1893)
• February 29: Paul Schallück , German writer (* 1922)

March

• 0March 1: Aloys Lenz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1910)
• 0March 2: Adolf Maurer , Swiss theologian and poet (* 1883)

Walter Schottky

• 0March 4: Walter Schottky , German physicist (* 1886)
• 0March 6: Pietro Berra , Italian composer and conductor (* 1879)
• 0March 9: Hans Sutor , German football player (* 1895)
• March 10th: Louis Abit , French racing car driver (* 1886)
• March 10: Curt Querner , painter (* 1904)
• March 13: Max Tau , German-Jewish humanist, philosopher and poet (* 1897)
• March 14: Anton Eduard van Arkel , Dutch chemist (* 1893)
• March 14th: Gerhard Mendelson , German music producer in Vienna (* 1913)
• March 14th: Martha Saalfeld , German poet (* 1898)

Luchino Visconti

• March 17th: Luchino Visconti , Italian writer, theater and film director (* 1906)
• March 19: Paul Kossoff , English rock and blues guitarist (* 1950)
• March 21: Joe Fulks , American basketball player (born 1921)
• March 21: Walter Kohler junior , American politician (* 1904)
• March 22nd: Hans Thirring , Austrian physicist (* 1888)
• March 23: Shiga Mitsuko , Japanese writer (* 1885)
• March 24th: Tibor Kozma , Hungarian-American conductor (* 1909)
• March 24th: Bernard Montgomery , British Field Marshal of the Second World War (* 1887)
• March 24th: Ernest Shepard , British illustrator ( Winnie the Pooh ) (* 1879)
• March 25: Josef Albers , German painter, art theorist and teacher (* 1888)
• March 26: Ernst Albrecht , German football player (* 1907)
• March 27: Georg-August Zinn , German politician (* 1901)
• March 29: Jean-Charles Roman d'Amat , French archivist and paleographer (* 1887)
• March 29: Richard Arlen , American actor (* 1900)
• March 31: René Ahrlé , German graphic artist, painter and photographer (* 1893)
• March 31: Hans-Adolf Asbach , German politician (* 1904)
• March 31: Fritz Rémond junior , German actor, director and impresario (* 1902)
• March 31: Edward Streeter , American journalist and writer (* 1891)

April

Max Ernst († April 1) with Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt (1972)

• 0April 1: Harold John Aldington , British racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1902)
• 0April 1: Dimitrij Andrusov , Czechoslovak geologist (* 1897)
• 0April 1: Max Ernst , German painter of Dadaism and Surrealism (* 1891)
• 0April 2: Carlo Grano , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1887)
• 0April 5: Howard Hughes , American entrepreneur and aviation pioneer (* 1905)
• 0April 5: Robert Lord , American screenwriter and film producer (* 1900)
• 0April 5: Wilder Penfield , Canadian neurologist (* 1891)
• 0April 6: Ruth Plumly Thompson , American writer (* 1891)
• 0April 7: Matthias Joseph Mehs , German politician, Mayor of Wittlich (* 1893)
• 0April 8: Alberto Barberis , Italian football player and lawyer (* 1883)
• 0April 9: Phil Ochs , American protest singer (* 1940)
• 0April 9: Mushanokōji Saneatsu , Japanese writer and painter (* 1885)
• 0April 9: Akio Yashiro , Japanese composer (* 1929)
• April 10: Enrico Mainardi , Italian cellist, composer and conductor (* 1897)
• April 10: Ramón Otero Pedrayo , Spanish-Galician writer (* 1888)
• April 12: Emilio Amero , Mexican painter, graphic artist and photographer (* 1901)
• April 13: Sabri al-Asali , Syrian politician (* 1903)
• April 16: Ján Arpáš , Slovak football player (* 1917)
• April 16: Anton Aschauer , German politician (* 1897)
• April 17th: Henrik Dam , Danish biochemist, Nobel Laureate (* 1895)
• April 17th: Soma Morgenstern , Austrian writer (* 1890)
• April 22: Jeanne Mammen , German painter (* 1890)
• April 23: Karl Schäfer , Austrian figure skater (* 1909)
• April 24: Mark Tobey , American painter (* 1890)
• April 25: Aquiles Nazoa , Venezuelan writer, poet and journalist (* 1920)
• April 25: Carol Reed , British film director (* 1906)
• April 26: Stella Arbenina , Russian actress (* 1885)
• April 26: Margaret Bonds , American composer and pianist (* 1913)
• April 26: François Brassard , Canadian ethnomusicologist and organist (* 1908)
• April 26: Sidney James , South African-English actor and comedian (* 1913)
• April 26: Benita Koch-Otte , German weaver and textile designer (* 1892)
• April 27: Carlos Villarias , Spanish-American film actor (* 1892)
• April 28: Richard Hughes , British writer (* 1900)
• April 28: Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach , German general (* 1888)
• April 28: Eugen Roth , German lyric poet and popular poet (* 1895)
• April 28: Jürgen Bartsch , pedosexual serial killer who murdered four children (* 1946)
• April 29: Ramón Díaz Freeman , Dominican composer, bassoonist and organist (* 1901)
• April 30th: Michael Gartenschläger , German dissident and escape helper (* 1944)

May

• 0May 3: Ernie Nevers , American football player (born 1903)
• 0May 9: Valentino Bucchi , Italian composer (* 1916)
• 0May 9: Otto Kerner , American politician (* 1908)
• 0May 9: Floyd Council , American blues musician (born 1911)
• 0May 9: Ulrike Meinhof , German journalist and terrorist; Co-founder of the RAF (* 1934)
• May 10: Elias Aslaksen , Norwegian preacher (* 1888)
• May 10: Karl Alfred Kihn , German politician (* 1887)
• May 11: Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect and designer (* 1898)
• May 11: Heinrich Baaken , Auxiliary Bishop of the Diocese of Münster (* 1900)
• May 12: Rudolf Kempe , German conductor (* 1910)
• May 12: Keith Relf , British musician (* 1943)
• May 15: David Munrow , English musician and musicologist (* 1942)
• May 15: Hans Terofal , German actor (* 1923)
• May 17: Norbert Frýd , writer and publicist (* 1913)
• May 18: Hans Androschin , Austrian cameraman (* 1892)
• May 18: Luise Ida Aufsberg , German art photographer (* 1907)
• May 19: Hermann Böhrnsen , German politician (* 1900)
• May 19: Wiktor Brégy , Polish singer, opera director and music teacher (* 1903)
• May 19: Eduard Schüller , German engineer (* 1904)
• May 19: Jeanette Wolff , German politician (* 1888)
• May 21: Jean Andreff , Swiss circus clown (* 1919)
• May 21: Lee E. Emerson , American politician (* 1898)
• May 22nd: Óscar Natalio Bonavena , Argentine heavyweight boxer (* 1942)
• May 22nd: Otto Klötzer , German politician (* 1914)
• May 22nd: Imerio Testori , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1950)
• May 23: Gordon Browning , American politician, Governor of Tennessee (* 1889)

Martin Heidegger

• May 26: Martin Heidegger , German philosopher (* 1889)
• May 26: Heinz Musculus , German caricaturist, draftsman and illustrator (* 1917)
• May 27: Hilde Hildebrand , German actress and singer (* 1897)
• May 28: Steffan Danielsen , Faroese painter (* 1922)
• May 28: Dale Van Every , American writer and screenwriter (* 1896)
• May 29: Samuel Elzevier de Jongh , Dutch pharmacologist (* 1898)
• May 29: Gustav Spörri , Swiss ceramist (* 1902)
• May 30th: Elmer George , American racing driver (born 1928)
• May 31: Jacques Monod , French biochemist (* 1910)
• 000May: Simón Arriaga , Spanish actor

June

• 0June 2: Fred von Hoerschelmann , German writer and radio play author (* 1901)
• 0June 3: Viggo Kampmann , Danish social democratic politician (* 1910)
• 0June 3: Revol Samuilowitsch Bunin , Russian composer (* 1924)
• 0June 4th: Bruno Beye , painter and graphic artist (* 1895)
• 0June 5: Robert Wichard Pohl , German physicist (* 1884)
• 0June 6: David Jacobs , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1888)
• 0June 6: Elisabeth Rethberg , German singer (* 1894)
• 0June 7: Eckart Friedrichson , German actor (* 1930)
• 0June 7: Bobby Hackett , American white jazz trumpeter, jazz cornet player and jazz guitarist (* 1915)
• 0June 8: Carlos Abdala , Uruguayan politician (* 1930)
• 0June 9: Gerd Gaiser , German writer (* 1908)
• June 10: Robert Bach , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1901)
• June 10: William John Patterson , Canadian politician (* 1886)
• June 10: Adolph Zukor , American entrepreneur (* 1873)
• June 11: René Delacroix , French film director (* 1900)
• June 11: Peter Pan , German cabaret artist (* 1909)
• June 12: Peter Etzenbach , German politician (* 1889)
• June 13: Géza Anda , Swiss pianist (* 1921)
• June 13: Nora Groß , German mineralogist, crystallographer and university lecturer (* 1891)
• June 16: Reinhard Raffalt , German writer and journalist (* 1923)
• June 16: Ernst Flessa , professor and poet (* 1903)
• June 17th: Richard Gardiner Casey , Australian politician (* 1890)
• June 18: Franz Mueller-Darß , German forester and SS-Standartenführer (* 1890)
• June 20: Karl Ausch , Austrian economist, journalist and functionary (* 1893)
• June 22nd: Hans Rothfels , German historian (* 1891)
• June 24th: Minor White , American photographer (born 1908)
• June 26th: Helmut Hallmeier , German motorcycle racer (* 1933)
• June 27: Sara Alexandrovna Levina , Russian composer (* 1906)
• June 30th: Marguerite Roesgen-Champion , Swiss composer and harpsichordist (* 1894)

July

Gustav Heinemann († July 7th)

• 0July 1: Anneliese Michel , German Catholic, died after exorcism (* 1952)
• 0July 2: Heinz Matthes , German politician (* 1897)
• 0July 3: Eugen Huth , German politician (* 1901)
• 0July 3: Alexander Lernet-Holenia , Austrian writer (* 1897)
• 0July 4th: Wilfried Böse , German terrorist (* 1949)
• 0July 4: Yonatan Netanyahu , Israeli lieutenant colonel (* 1946)
• 0July 5th: Anna Hübler , German figure skater (* 1885)
• 0July 6: Fritz Lenz , German anthropologist and racial hygienist (* 1887)
• 0July 7th: Gustav Heinemann , German politician and Federal President (* 1899)
• 0July 8: Hans Grund , German major general (* 1896)
• 0July 8: Leonardo Pedroza , Venezuelan musician and orchestra leader (* 1912)
• 0July 9: Walter Scheidt , Professor (* 1895)
• July 10: Mike Pratt , British composer, musician and actor (born 1931)
• July 13: Artur Anders , member of the German Bundestag (* 1896)
• July 13: Carl Dreher , American sound engineer of Austrian origin (* 1896)
• July 13: Max Butting , German composer (* 1888)
• July 15: Joachim Peiper , Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen SS (* 1915)
• July 15: Eva Schulze-Knabe , painter, resistance fighter (* 1907)
• July 15: Paul Gallico , American author (* 1897)
• July 16: Nikolos Muschelischwili , Georgian mathematician (* 1891)
• July 16: Gehnäll Persson , Swedish dressage rider (* 1910)
• July 18: Lucie Mannheim , German actress (* 1899)
• July 24th: Julius Döpfner , Cardinal (* 1913)

Rudolf Bultmann

• July 30: Rudolf Karl Bultmann , philosopher, Protestant theologian, New Testament scholar (* 1884)

August

• 0August 1: Richard Archbold , American zoologist, pilot and philanthropist (* 1907)
• 0August 2: Fritz Lang , Austrian-American film director (* 1890)
• 0August 2: Johannes Siegfried Schubert , German Tibetologist (* 1896)
• 0August 4th: Enrique Ángel Angelelli , Argentine bishop of La Rioja (* 1923)
• 0August 4: Helmut de Boor , German Germanist and literary historian (* 1891)
• 0August 5: Ole Mørk Sandvik , Norwegian folk song collector, music researcher and teacher (* 1875)
• 0August 6: Gregor Piatigorsky , American cellist (* 1903)
• 0August 8: Winston Hibler , American screenwriter, film producer and director as well as actor and voiceover (* 1910)
• 0August 9: José Lezama Lima , Cuban writer (* 1910)
• August 10: Josef Mattauch , German physicist (* 1895)
• August 10: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , German expressionist painter (* 1884)
• August 14: Werner Bräunig , German writer (* 1934)
• August 19: Alastair Sim , British actor (born 1900)
• August 22nd: Oskar Brüsewitz , Protestant pastor (* 1929)
• August 22: Juscelino Kubitschek , Brazilian medic and President (* 1902)
• August 22nd: Anton Profes , Austrian hit and film composer (* 1896)
• August 25: Eyvind Johnson , Swedish writer and Nobel Prize winner from 1974 (* 1900)
• August 26: Lotte Lehmann , German-American opera singer (* 1888)
• August 28: Werner Krauss , German Romanist (* 1900)
• August 29: Jimmy Reed , American blues singer and musician (* 1925)
• August 29: Hans Nieland , politician of the NSDAP and Lord Mayor of Dresden (* 1900)
• August 30: Paul Felix Lazarsfeld , Austrian-American sociologist (* 1901)
• August 31: Kornelis Heiko Miskotte , Dutch Reformed pastor, theology professor and writer (* 1894)
• August 31: Frederick Henry Mueller , American politician (* 1893)

September

• 0September 2: Hans Schuberth , German politician (* 1897)
• 0September 3: Kees Pijl , Dutch football player (* 1897)
• 0September 3: Heinrich Schönfeld , Austrian football player (* 1900)
• 0September 6: Alfred Antkowiak , German publisher and writer (* 1925)
• 0September 7th: Daniel F. Galouye , American journalist and science fiction writer (* 1920)
• 0September 8: Willem Janssen , Dutch football player (* 1880)
• 0September 8: Assen Karastojanow , Bulgarian composer (* 1893)

Portrait of Mao Zedong at the Gate of Heavenly Peace

• 0September 9: Mao Zedong , Chinese politician (* 1893)
• September 10: Betty Mitchell , Canadian theater director and director (* 1896)
• September 15: Riccardo Assereto , Italian paleontologist and geologist (* 1937)
• September 15: Josef Sudek , Czech photographer (* 1896)
• September 17th: Reine Bibois , Italian poet of the Franco-Provencal language (* 1894)
• September 20: Carrie Tubb , English soprano (* 1876)
• September 21: Nikolai Sergejewitsch Akulow , Russian physicist (* 1900)
• September 21: Nils Middelboe , Danish football player (* 1887)
• September 22: Samuel Münchow , Danish-German politician (* 1893)
• September 23: Roger Bourdin , French flautist (* 1923)
• September 24: Gilbert Auvergne , French sprinter and football player (* 1905)
• September 24th: Wilhelm Kamlah , German musicologist, theologian and philosopher (* 1905)
• September 25: Carlo Mattrel , Italian football player (* 1937)
• September 26: Leopold Ružička , Swiss chemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1887)
• September 27: Hans Burgeff , German botanist and university professor (* 1883)
• September 27: Marion Bayard Folsom , American politician (* 1893)
• September 28: Raymond Collishaw , English military pilot and commander (* 1893)
• September 29: Nikolaos Pantelis Andriotis , Greek linguist and Neo-Graecist (* 1906)
• September 30th: Louis Fourestier , French composer and conductor (* 1892)

October

• 0October 1: Fritz Winter , German artist (* 1905)
• 0October 2: James Coats Auchincloss , American politician (* 1885)
• 0October 2: Quentin Jackson , American jazz trombonist (* 1909)
• 0October 3: Hermann Pünder , German politician (* 1888)
• 0October 5: Takeda Taijun , Japanese writer (* 1912)
• 0October 6: Herman Geiger-Torel , Canadian opera director and music teacher (* 1907)
• 0October 6: Hans Theilig , German handball player (* 1914)
• 0October 7th: Alfred Arndt , German architect (* 1898)
• 0October 9: Yevgeny Konstantinowitsch Sawoiski , Russian physicist (* 1907)
• 0October 9: Walter Warlimont , deputy to Colonel General Alfred Jodl (* 1894)
• October 10: Silvana Armenulić , Yugoslav folk singer (* 1939)
• October 10: Reinold von Thadden-Trieglaff , German theologian, founder of the Protestant Church Congress (* 1891)
• October 11: Connee Boswell , American blues and jazz singer and actress (* 1907)
• October 12: Hertha Koenig , German writer and poet (* 1884)
• October 12: José Rozo Contreras , Colombian composer (* 1894)
• October 13: Gerhard Assmann , German trade union official (* 1915)
• October 15: Erwin Lambert , master mason and NSDAP member (* 1909)
• October 17: Franz Altheim , German ancient historian and classical philologist (* 1898)
• October 17th: Radaslau Astrouski , Belarusian politician and activist (* 1887)
• October 18: Count Ossie , Jamaican drummer and band leader (* 1926)
• October 18: Mori Arimasa , Japanese philosopher (* 1911)
• October 18: Pedro Sanjuán , Spanish composer and conductor (* 1886)
• October 18: Paul Schmidt , German inventor (* 1898)
• October 18: James A. Noe , American politician (* 1890)
• October 19: Paul Baumgartner , Swiss pianist (* 1903)
• October 20: Janusz Grabiański , Polish illustrator (* 1929)
• October 21: Jean Berveiller , French organist and composer (* 1904)
• October 22: Else Brökelschen , German politician (* 1890)
• October 23: Vera Guilaroff , Canadian pianist and composer (* 1902)
• October 24: Georg Ostrogorsky , Yugoslav Byzantinist (* 1902)
• October 25: Raymond Queneau , French poet and writer (* 1903)
• October 29: Richard Seewald , German painter and writer (* 1889)
• October 30: Alfred Landé , German physicist (* 1888)
• October 31: Eileen Gray , Irish interior architect and designer (* 1878)
• October 31: Bruno Uher , Austrian composer (* 1912)

November

• 0November 1: Gustav Riek , German prehistorian (* 1900)
• 0November 1: Pavel Reiman , Czech writer and literary historian (* 1902)
• 0November 2: Duke Osborn , American football player (* 1897)
• 0November 3: Giuseppe Cavanna , Italian football player (* 1905)
• 0November 4: Grete Popper , German photographer (* 1897)
• 0November 4: Toni Ulmen , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1906)
• 0November 5: Willi Hennig , German zoologist, phylogeneticist (* 1913)
• 0November 6th: Václav Čtvrtek , Czech writer (* 1911)
• 0November 6: Alexander Solomon Wiener , American serologist (* 1907)
• 0November 7th: Ottomar Carl Joseph Anton , German painter, graphic artist and university lecturer (* 1895)
• 0November 8: Giorgio Ferrini , Italian football player (* 1939)

Gottfried von Cramm (left) with Irish tennis player George Lyttelton Rogers, 1932

• 0November 9th: Gottfried von Cramm , German tennis player (* 1909)
• November 10: Carl Blümel , German archaeologist (* 1893)
• November 10: Wout Buitenweg , Dutch football player (* 1893)
• November 10: Vinzenz Erath , German narrator (* 1906)
• November 11th: Alexander Calder , American sculptor (* 1898)
• November 12: Walter Piston , American composer (* 1894)
• November 18: Christopher Addison , British peer (* 1904)
• November 18: Man Ray , American painter and photographer (* 1890)
• November 19: Wayne Millner , American football player and coach (born 1913)
• November 20: Walther Hasemann , German politician (* 1900)
• November 20: Trofim Denissowitsch Lyssenko , Ukrainian biologist (* 1898)
• November 23: Heinrich Welsch , Minister-President of the Saarland from 1955 to 1956 (* 1888)
• November 23: André Malraux , French writer and politician (* 1901)
• November 25th: Mikhail Iossifowitsch Gurewitsch , Soviet aircraft designer (* 1893)
• November 26th: Heinrich Otto Meisner , German archivist and historian (* 1890)
• November 27th: Herbert Kaufmann , German journalist and writer (* 1920)
• November 28: Robert Fleming , Canadian composer, pianist, organist, choir director and music teacher (* 1921)
• November 29: José María Arizmendiarrieta Madariaga , Spanish priest (* 1915)
• November 29: José da Costa Nunes , Archbishop of Goa and Cardinal (* 1880)
• November 29: Walter Hieber , German chemist (* 1895)
• November 29: Werner Weber , German constitutional lawyer (* 1904)
• November 30th: Fritz Rasp , German film and stage actor (* 1891)
• November 30th: Friedrich Schulz , German general (* 1897)

December

• 0December 1: Otto Wittenburg , German politician (* 1891)
• 0December 2: Tommaso Maestrelli , Italian football player and coach (* 1922)
• 0December 2: William Tannen , American film and stage actor (* 1911)
• 0December 3: Frauke Missfeldt-Bünz , German painter (* 1882)
• 0December 4th: Tommy Bolin , American guitarist (born 1951)
• 0December 4th: Benjamin Britten , English composer (* 1913)
• 0December 6: João Goulart , President of Brazil from 1961 to 1964 (* 1918)
• 0December 8: Rudolf Hotzenköcherle , Swiss linguist (* 1903)
• December 11: Elmyr de Hory , Hungarian art forger (* 1906)
• December 12: Jack Cassidy , American actor, singer (born 1927)
• December 12: Vadim Shavrov , Soviet aircraft designer (* 1898)
• December 13: Eduard Claudius , German writer and diplomat (GDR) (* 1911)
• December 13: Lambert Schill , German politician (* 1888)
• December 15: Grégoire Kayibanda , Rwandan politician (* 1924)
• December 16: Ilse Fürstenberg , German actress (* 1907)
• December 19: Kurt Lieck , German actor and radio play speaker (* 1899)
• December 25th: Günther Arndt , German choir director and producer (* 1907)
• December 26: Philip Hart , American politician (* 1912)
• December 27: Anders Oscar Ahlgren , Swedish wrestler (* 1888)
• December 27: Karl Abenthum , German Catholic pastor and papal house prelate (* 1901)
• December 28th: Freddie King , American blues musician (* 1934)
• December 28: Franz Seraph Reicheneder , German historian and local researcher (* 1905)
• December 29th: Ivo Van Damme , Belgian athlete (* 1954)
• December 30th: Rudolf Fischer , Swiss Formula 1 racing driver (* 1912)
• December 31: Sándor Bortnyik , Hungarian painter (* 1893)

Day unknown

• Ermanno Aebi , Swiss-Italian football player (* 1892)
• Julio Antonio Vásquez , Chilean sculptor (* 1897)
• Jesús Villalobos Villegas , Peruvian football player (* 1927)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : Burton Richter and Samuel Chao Chung Ting
• Chemistry : William Lipscomb
• Medicine : Baruch S. Blumberg and D. Carleton Gajdusek
• Literature : Saul Bellow
• Nobel Peace Prize : Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan
• Economics : Milton Friedman

music

• The Swedish pop group ABBA achieved worldwide success with their albums Greatest Hits and Arrival , as well as the singles Fernando , Dancing Queen and Money, Money, Money .
• British band Queen released their fifth album A Day at the Races and the single Somebody to Love , which became a hit in the UK.
• The Rolling Stones land a number one album in the US with Black and Blue .
• English rock band Led Zeppelin released their seventh album Presence and the live album The Song Remains the Same , both of which went platinum in the UK and the US.
• The Eagles publish their studio album Hotel California and Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 , which is the best-selling best-of album ever with more than 40 million copies sold.
• The Bee Gees publish beside her album Children of the World , the single You Should Be Dancing and thus contribute to the emerging disco wave .
• The German disco band Boney M. has hits across Europe with their singles Daddy Cool and Sunny .
• The Australian hard rock band AC / DC released their third album Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap .
• The American hard rock band Kiss released the two albums Destroyer and Rock and Roll Over .
• British singer David Bowie released his album Station to Station , which hit the top five in the UK and US charts.
• The also British singer Elton John released the studio album Blue Moves and the live album Here and There as well as the single Don't Go Breaking My Heart , which became a worldwide hit.
• The American singer Stevie Wonder released his album Songs in the Key of Life , which won two Grammys, and the single I Wish , which also won a Grammy.
• The French musician Jean Michel Jarre achieved a worldwide breakthrough with his debut album Oxygène ; In France alone, it topped the charts for 18 weeks .
• Irish rock band U2 founded in Dublin
• The group Brotherhood of Man won the 21st Eurovision Song Contest for Great Britain on April 3rd in The Hague with the song Save Your Kisses for Me
• List of number one hits in Germany (1976)
• List of number one hits in Austria (1976)
• List of number one hits in Switzerland (1976)

Footnotes

1. ↑ see also en: United States Bicentennial
2. ↑ Printed matter 14/685 of the German Bundestag from March 23, 1999, page 10 (PDF; 618 kB)

Web links

Commons : 1976  - 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 (1976) in the Federal Archives
• Year 1976 by Frank Rübertus