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1980
Beginning of the First Gulf War between Iraq and Iran	Ronald Reagan wins the presidential election in the United States
Otto Schily and Petra Kelly , founding members of the Greens

The year 1980 marked the beginning of the 1980s. Internationally, it was dominated by the hostage-taking of Tehran and the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR , which also intensified the fronts in the East-West conflict after the détente in the 1970s. The USA and several other Western powers boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow . The first Gulf War , which lasted eight years , also began in 1980.

1980 in other calendars
From urbe condita	2733
Armenian calendar	1428-1429
Ethiopian calendar	1972-1973
Badi calendar	136-137
Bengali calendar	1386-1387
Berber calendar	2930
Buddhist calendar	2524
Burmese calendar	1342
Byzantine calendar	7488-7489
Chinese calendar
- era	4676-4677 or 4616-4617
- 60 year cycle	Earth sheep (己未, 56) - metal monkey (庚申, 57)
French revolutionary calendar	CLXXXVIII - CLXXXIX 188-189
Hebrew calendar	5740-5741
Hindu calendar
- Vikram Sambat	2036-2037
- Shaka Samvat	1902-1903
Iranian calendar	1358-1359
Islamic calendar	1400-1401
Japanese calendar
- Nengō (era):	Shōwa 55
- Kōki	2640
Coptic calendar	1696-1697
Korean calendar
- Dangun era	4313
- Juche era	69
Minguo calendar	69
Modern Olympics	XXII
Seleucid calendar	2291-2292
Thai solar calendar	2523

Events

Annual dedications

• The black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) is bird of the year .

Politics and world events

January

• January 1 : Georges-André Chevallaz becomes President of Switzerland
• January 1 : New traffic agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR
• January 1st : A new regulation of the parental duty of care comes into force in the Federal Republic of Germany
• January 1st : In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Equipment Safety Act (GSG) comes into force and is intended to improve occupational safety and accident protection.
• January 1 : The GDR becomes a member of the United Nations Security Council for two years
• January 2 : The Soviet armed forces begin a major offensive in the Afghan war .
• January 3 : In Portugal , the Social Democrat Francisco Sá Carneiro replaces the country's only female Prime Minister, Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo , in office.
• January 3 : The writer Joy Adamson , who became famous for her book Born Free about the rearing of the lioness Elsa , is murdered in Kenya during an evening hike by an employee who she laid off.
• January 5 : The US imposes sanctions on the Soviet Union for invading Afghanistan
• January 13 : In Karlsruhe , left and ecological groups founded the federal party Die Grünen (today Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ).
• January 14 : Indira Gandhi replaces Chaudhary Charan Singh as Prime Minister in India after her Congress party has won the previous election.
• January 16 : Botswana becomes a member of UNESCO
• January 22nd : São Tomé and Príncipe becomes a member of UNESCO
• January 30th : In the Federal Republic of Germany the Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann (WSG) is banned as anti-constitutional by the Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhart Baum and officially dissolved.

February

• February 6 : The Federal Constitutional Court publishes a decision declaring the peaceful use of nuclear energy to be compatible with the Basic Law .
• February 10 : Daniel Arap Moi , President of Kenya arrives on a state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany.
• February 11 : Three former SS employees are sentenced to long imprisonment terms by the Cologne Regional Court for complicity in the murder of French Jews - Kurt Lischka (10 years), Herbert Hagen (12 years) and Ernst Heinrichsohn (6 years).

Helmut Schmidt (1977)

• February 14 : Chancellor Helmut Schmidt arrives on an official visit to Belgium .
• February 19 : Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr is appointed supreme commander of the armed forces to succeed Ayatollah Khomeini .
• February 20 : US President Carter definitely decides to boycott the Olympics in Moscow after the USSR missed an ultimatum to withdraw armed forces from Afghanistan .
• February 20 : First election in Zimbabwe under the new constitution
• February 22 : In the Afghan capital Kabul , the martial law proclaimed after anti-Soviet demonstrations serious riots and attacks have led.
• February 25 : In Suriname the government is overthrown by the sergeant coup and power is taken over by the military . Desi Bouterse is one of the coup leaders .
• February 28 : The Federal Constitutional Court declares the most important components of the marriage law reform ( disruption principle and pension adjustment ) to be constitutional.
• February 29 : Thai Prime Minister Kriangsak Chomanan resigns after the opposition has threatened with a motion of no confidence .

March

• March 3 : General Prem Tinsulanonda is elected as the new Thai Prime Minister.
• March 3 : The French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing officially recognizes the Palestinians' right to self-determination for the first time .
• March 4th : Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits the USA (until March 8th); the talks with President Carter deal with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Coat of arms of St. Lucia

• March 6th : St. Lucia becomes a member of UNESCO.
• March 7th : An economic cooperation agreement between the European Community and ASEAN is concluded in Kuala Lumpur .
• March 7th : A bomb attack is carried out on the Soviet consulate general in the western part of Berlin .
• March 8 : Chancellor candidate Franz Josef Strauss travels to the USA for an eight-day visit.
• March 10 : The Maoist Communist Party of Germany (organizational structure) announces its dissolution.
• March 23 : The former Shah of Persia, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , travels to Egypt from his exile in Panama to forestall a threatened extradition.
• March 23 : The oil leak from a borehole off Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico , which has persisted since June 3, 1979 , is stopped.

April

• April 2nd : The European Community and Yugoslavia sign an economic cooperation agreement.
• April 5 : The Soviet Union and Afghanistan ratify a treaty for the stationing of Soviet soldiers in Afghanistan.
• April 6 : Reintroduction of summer time in the Federal Republic of Germany
• April 7 : The US severed diplomatic relations with Iran and imposed new trade restrictions after Ayatollah Khomeini refused to release the US hostages.
• April 9 : In Belgium, Wilfried Martens resigns as Prime Minister after he too failed to settle the language dispute between Flemings and Walloons .
• April 12 : By assassination of the incumbent President Tolbert Jr. is putscht Samuel Doe in Liberia to power.
• April 16 : Günter Mittag , member of the SED Politburo and party secretary for economic issues, meets with Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt after visiting the Hanover Fair .
• April 18 : Southern Rhodesia becomes an independent state under the name of Zimbabwe . The white minority government of Ian Smith (1964–1980) was hardly recognized internationally and subject to sanctions .
• April 22nd : At a meeting in Luxembourg, the EC states decide on trade sanctions against Iran if the US hostages are not released.
• April 22nd : In Liberia, 13 representatives of the government, which had previously been overthrown by Samuel K. Doe, are shot dead.
• April 24 : Operation Eagle Claw to end the hostage situation in Tehran fails.
• April 30th : Beatrix von Oranien-Nassau becomes Queen of the Netherlands and follows her mother Juliana von Oranien-Nassau
• April 30th : The hostage-taking begins at the Iranian embassy in London . An Iraq- funded terrorist group is demanding the release of 91 like-minded comrades from Iranian detention and autonomy for the oil-rich Iranian province of Khuzestan .

May

• May 2 : The Panchayat order (one-party system) is maintained in Nepal
• May 3 : Around 5,000 opponents of nuclear power build a "round village" near Gorleben ( Lower Saxony ), which is intended to enable permanent occupation.
• May 3 : The Helsinki Convention enters into force.
• May 4th : Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito dies in Ljubljana .
• May 5 : Five suspected German terrorists are arrested in Paris , among them Ingrid Hofmann , who is said to have been involved in the murder of banker Jürgen Ponto .
• May 6 : A public pledge by the Bundeswehr in Bremen triggers serious riots among supporters of the peace movement .
• May 9 : In Iran , Ayatollah Khomeini, as head of state , approves the new national coat of arms , which can be read as a stylized signature of the word Allah .
• 18th - 27. May : demonstrations and an uprising (. S Gwangju Uprising ) against the military regime are in Gwangju in South Korea brutally beaten and bloody, from the military. Depending on the source, between 154 and 2,300 defenseless students and citizens are killed and an unknown number injured.
• May 18 : Rudolf Kirchschläger is elected Austrian Federal President (2nd term of office).
• May 20 : In a referendum , the voters of Québec reject their government's secession considerations with around 60 percent no votes . It seeks complete sovereignty of the Canadian province.

June

• June 2 : A series of bombings rock the Israeli- occupied West Bank .
• June 4th : Police and BGS evacuate the " Republic of Free Wendland ", a village built by opponents of nuclear power in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district of Lower Saxony (see May 3rd ).
• June 10 : The German Federal Labor Court declares lockouts "to ward off limited partial strikes" to be permissible, provided that they are within the scope of proportionality.
• June 13 : The so-called National Assembly of Namibia elects Dirk Mudge , the spokesman for the Democratic Gym Alliance , as chairman .
• June 14 : Rudolf Raabe , wanted as a suspected terrorist , voluntarily returns from Ireland to Frankfurt am Main and surrenders to the authorities there; the arrest warrant , which has existed since 1979, is suspended on June 24th .
• June 16 : King Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz comes to Germany for a four-day state visit.
• June 18 : The German cabinet adopts measures against the abuse of asylum ; if necessary, the work permit and child benefit will be restricted.
• June 20 : For the first time in 22 years, parliament in Iraq is elected in a free election, with Bath taking 175 of the 250 seats.
• June 22nd : The Soviet Union announces a partial withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan .
• June 25 : The German Bundestag adopts the Chemicals Act, which was unanimously recognized by all parliamentary groups as a first step to protect people and the environment .
• June 26 : The German federal cabinet adopts a visa requirement for citizens of Turkey .
• June 27 : The Bavarian state government threatens to terminate the ARD contract after the television coverage of the economic summit in Venice and the planned trip of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to Moscow .
• June 29 : Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is the first woman to be elected President of Iceland .
• June 30th : Pope John Paul II arrives in Brasília to begin his journey to Brazil .
• June 30 : Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher arrive for a two-day visit to Moscow, which is mainly criticized by the opposition. In talks with Leonid Brezhnev , the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the NATO double decision are discussed.

July

• July 1 : The Federal Republic of Germany and Kiribati establish diplomatic relations
• July 2 : The German Bundestag approves a law to speed up the asylum procedure , which the Bundesrat also approves on July 18.
• July 3 : The German Bundestag passes the "Law on the Provisional Regulation of Deep Sea Mining ", at the same time rejects a proposal by the coalition to reorganize the right to conscientious objection with the votes of the CDU / CSU and 11 members of the SPD.
• July 7 : The French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing arrives on a five-day state visit to the Federal Republic of Germany.
• July 9 : The Baden-Württemberg state government decides to set up assembly camps for asylum seekers .
• July 10 : US President Jimmy Carter and Chinese Prime Minister Hua Guo-Feng meet for the first time in Tokyo . The occasion is the funeral for the Japanese Prime Minister Ohira .
• July 15 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Portugal
• July 15 : The German Federal Constitutional Court published a verdict, after calling on the legislature, annuities and pensions taxed equally.
• July 17 : The former governor of California , Ronald Reagan is elected by the electoral convention of the Republican presidential candidate.
• July 17 : A coup takes place in Bolivia 19 days after the presidential election, the incumbent President Lidia Gueiler Tejada is forced to resign.
• July 17 : Zenko Suzuki is elected Prime Minister of Japan .
• July 18 : The Maldives become a member of UNESCO .
• July 18 : Former Iranian Prime Minister Shapur Bakhtiar escapes an attack in Neuilly-sur-Seine .
• July 18 : India becomes the sixth country to launch its own satellites into space and launches an Earth observation satellite into near-Earth orbit .
• July 21 : The Soviet head of state and party leader Leonid Brezhnev opens the 22nd Summer Olympic Games in Moscow , where 57 nations stay away because of the crisis in Afghanistan . Among them are the Federal Republic of Germany , Japan and the USA .
• July 22 : Former press attaché Ali Tabatabai , known as an opponent of the Islamic Ayatollah Khomeini , is murdered in Washington .
• July 23 : Israel declares Jerusalem the eternal capital. The Knesset confirmed this seven days later.
• July 25 : The daughters of the German television journalist Dieter Kronzucker , Susanne and Sabine, are kidnapped together with their cousin Martin Wächtler in Tuscany . After 68 days, they were released on October 1st for a ransom of DM 4.3 million  .
• July 29th : The New Hebrides , formerly under British-French administration, become independent as Vanuatu . A secessionist uprising takes place on the main island during the independence celebrations.
• July 30th : The annexation of East Jerusalem and its union with the western part of the city is enshrined in law by the Israeli parliament, despite worldwide criticism.
• July 31 : Terrorist Knut Folkerts is sentenced to life imprisonment for three murders.

August

• August 2 : A bomb attack by right-wing extremist circles kills 85 people at the train station in Bologna .
• August 5th : Belgium becomes a federal state and is divided into the regions of Flanders and Wallonia . In autumn 1982 both regions elect their own parliaments for the first time.
• August 6 : Brazil tightened immigration law , especially against citizens of other South American countries.
• August 6 : Under President James Earl Carter, the US changes its nuclear war strategy against the Soviet Union ; the main weight of a nuclear strike is no longer on the densely populated cities, but on the military and command centers.
• August 8 : A business delegation headed by Federal Minister of Economics Otto Lambsdorff travels to the People's Republic of China and holds the first meeting of a German-Chinese business committee.
• August 12 : In the Treaty of Montevideo , eleven predominantly South American states found the Latin American Integration Association .
• August 13 : Johan Ferrier , the first President of Suriname , is forced to resign by the military.
• August 14 : US President James Carter is re-elected as a presidential candidate at the Democratic Party Congress.
• August 14th : A strike begins in the Gdańsk Lenin Shipyard , which spreads to all of Poland . The demands: More freedom and a better quality of life. See also: August 1980 strikes in Poland
• August 16 : In the Federal Republic of Germany, the 2nd Asylum Procedure Acceleration Act comes into force and is intended to curb the increasing flood of unjustified asylum applications and limit abuse.
• August 18 : The Polish party leader Edward Gierek says that for 19/20. August planned talks with the German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt because of the "tense domestic political situation" in Poland .
• August 20 : The UN Security Council condemns the Israeli Jerusalem Law, which declares Jerusalem the undivided capital of Israel.
• August 22nd : Chancellor Helmut Schmidt cancels the planned meeting with SED leader Erich Honecker because of the "recent political developments in Europe".
• August 24 : The Polish Prime Minister Edward Babiuch is replaced by the economic expert Pińkowski after profound changes in state and party leadership as a result of the strikes in the Baltic Sea ports .
• August 25 : Zimbabwe joins the United Nations
• August 27 : Chun Do Hwan is elected as the new President of South Korea .
• August 30th : An agreement is signed between the strikers and government officials in Szczecin to end the strikes with recognition of all 21 demands of the strikers , including the establishment of free trade unions and the introduction of the right to strike.
• August 31 : An agreement is negotiated in Gdansk that corresponds to that of the previous day in Szczecin.

September

• September 1st : In the course of a manhunt for members of right-wing extremist organizations, the former lawyer Manfred Roeder is arrested as the ringleader of a terrorist organization.
• September 5 : The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court sentenced the terrorists Christof Wackernagel and Gert Schneider to 15 years' imprisonment each.
• September 6 : The leader of the Communist Party of Poland, Edward Gierek , is replaced by Stanisław Kania "due to illness" .
• September 10th : After Hua Guofeng resigns as Chinese Prime Minister , his deputy Zhao Ziyang takes over the office.
• September 10 : Syria and Libya announce the merger to form a single state .
• September 12th : Bloodless military coup in Turkey : The military under General Kenan Evren put on a coup for the third time in Turkey . The coup is supported by NATO and the USA . NATO then stationed rapid reaction forces in Kurdistan , Van and Batman . Kenan Evren justified the coup with " wanting to return to the sources of Kemalism " and "fighting the separatist activities". The next day, Evren takes over as President.
• September 12 : The Interior Committee of the German Bundestag deals with alleged breakdowns in the course of the search for the terrorists Christian Klar and Adelheid Schulz , for which Interior Minister Gerhart Rudolf Baum is held responsible.
• September 13 : A pastoral letter from the Catholic bishops published in advance in the Frankfurter Rundschau on the expansion of state powers and the dangerously high national debt leads to a violent dispute over the political commitment of the church.
• September 16 : St. Vincent and the Grenadines becomes a member of the United Nations
• September 16 : The German UN Ambassador Rüdiger von Wechmar is elected President of the UN General Assembly for one year.
• September 16 : Investment protection and promotion agreement between Portugal and the Federal Republic of Germany
• September 16 : The Solidarność trade union is founded in Gdańsk , contrary to previous announcements by the worker, Lech Wałęsa .
• September 17th : Start of the second Reichsbahn strike in Berlin.
• September 17 : The former President of Nicaragua , Anastasio Somoza Debayle , is assassinated while in exile in Asunción ( Paraguay ).
• September 17 : The South Korean opposition politician Kim Dae Jung is sentenced to death by a military court for founding subversive organizations and attempting to overthrow.
• September 22nd : Beginning of the First Gulf War between Iran and Iraq
• September 22nd : Zimbabwe becomes a member of UNESCO
• September 23rd : Armed conflicts between Iraq and Iran begin , Iraqi troops invade Iran
• September 23 : Bob Marley's last concert
• September 24 : The sale of veal is generally banned in Italy after the hormone estrogen has been discovered in samples .
• September 24th : The Jaú National Park is founded in Brazil . The largest national park in the country is located northwest of Manaus in the Amazon basin .
• September 26 : bomb attack at Munich Oktoberfest , 13 dead, over 200 injured; the right-wing extremist assassin also dies.
• September 26th : The German terrorist Rolf Clemens Wagner is sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swiss jury after he robbed a bank in Zurich and was arrested.
• September 27 : The Italian Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga resigns.
• September 29 : Tonga becomes a member of UNESCO

October

• October 1 : Both daughters and a nephew of the German journalist Dieter Kronzucker are released by their kidnappers after several weeks of kidnapping in Italy for a ransom in the millions.
• October 3 : Four people are killed in an attack by French neo-Nazis on a synagogue in Paris .
• October 4 : The former President of Bolivia , Lidia Gueiler Tejada , is allowed to leave for exile in Paris.
• October 5 : In the election for the 9th Bundestag, the political constellation in Bonn is confirmed: Helmut Schmidt remains Chancellor and prevails against Franz Josef Strauss , whose CDU / CSU has lost 4.1%.
• October 5 : In the parliamentary elections in Portugal , Francisco Sá Carneiro's government wins a surprisingly clear majority (134 out of 250 seats in parliament).
• October 6 : The Polish United Workers' Party expels six members of the former party leadership; others are relieved of their posts at their own request.
• October 7th : King Baudouin I of Belgium accepts Prime Minister Wilfried Martens' resignation .
• October 9 : Against the background of political developments in Poland, the GDR surprisingly increases the compulsory exchange for visitors from the West to 25 D-Marks .
• October 12 : In Iran , Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sets up a Supreme Defense Council responsible for leading the war against Iraq .
• October 13 : Erich Honecker presents the Gera demands as Chairman of the State Council of the GDR . The Federal Republic of Germany should accept the Elbe border in the middle of the river, dissolve the recording office for violent crimes of the GDR in Salzgitter, respect GDR citizenship and convert the permanent representations into embassies . The wishes remain unfulfilled.
• October 18 : New Italian government under Arnaldo Forlani (Christian Democratic Party) succeeds the one who resigned under Francesco Cossiga on September 27.
• October 23 : Nikolai Alexandrovich Tikhonov takes over the post of Soviet Prime Minister after Alexei Kosygin's resignation .
• October 24 : A court in Warsaw officially registers the independent trade union Solidarnosc, but unilaterally changes its statutes. After heavy protests on October 31, the government withdrew practically all of the issues raised.
• October 24 : During the First Gulf War , the battle of Khorramshahr , which lasted over a month, ends with the capture of the Iranian city ​​by Iraqi troops.
• October 25 : The Greek parliament approves the return of the country to the NATO military organization .
• October 26 : Israeli President Yitzchak Navon arrives for the first official visit by an Israeli head of state in Cairo (Egypt).
• October 30th : The GDR abolishes visa-free traffic with its neighbor Poland . The free trade union Solidarność was formed there after the August strikes .

November

• November 2 : The Iranian parliament approves Ayatollah Khomeini's terms for the release of the US hostages on September 12; the US declared the day after that it was not prepared to bow to these demands
• November 4 : Ronald Reagan wins US presidential election ; he gets 51% versus 41% for Jimmy Carter
• November 5 : Helmut Schmidt is re-elected Chancellor in the German Bundestag with 266 of 491 votes and is appointed on the same day with the 12 SPD and 4 FDP ministers
• November 10 : The Supreme Court of Poland approves the statutes of the independent trade union federation “Solidarity” in their original version; in the first instance a court had amended the statutes to include the leading role of the Communist Party
• November 10 : Michael Foot is elected by the British Labor Party to succeed James Callaghan , who has stepped down
• November 10 : The GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker visits Austria as the first western country
• November 10th The German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt arrives in Paris , where he meets with the French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and discusses the situation after the elections in the USA
• November 11th : The second follow-up meeting of the CSCE is declared open, but the agenda can only be adopted on November 14th after tough negotiations
• November 15 : In Guinea-Bissau , the military takes power after a coup d'état, and João Bernardo Vieira becomes Chairman of the Revolutionary Council
• November 15 : For the first time in almost two centuries, a Pope visits Germany with John Paul II ; until November 19 he will visit Cologne , Bonn , Osnabrück , Mainz , Fulda , Altötting and Munich
• November 18 : Honduras and El Salvador sign a peace treaty and end a never-declared conflict that broke out in 1969 after an international football match
• November 18 : German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher travel to the US to deal with the outgoing President Jimmy Carter the future President and Ronald Reagan to confer
• November 19 : Workers of the Deutsche Bundespost take part in special strikes organized by the Deutsche Postgewerkschaft (duration until November 24)
• November 20 : The trial of the Gang of Four allegedly committed during the Cultural Revolution begins in Beijing
• November 21 : Almost 100 people are killed in a hotel fire in Las Vegas
• November 23 : In southern Italy, around 3,000 people are killed in a severe earthquake , over a quarter of a million become homeless and have to spend the night outdoors in winter temperatures
• November 24th : The Malawi National Park is established. Located on the south bank, it also extends over part of Lake Malawi , which has the world's greatest abundance of fish species.
• November 25 : In Upper Volta , the government of Sangoulé Lamizana is overthrown in a bloodless coup, and a military committee under Saye Zerbo takes power

December

• December 2 : The German Federal Administrative Court upholds the January ban on the Hoffmann military sports group
• December 2 : The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act goes into effect
• December 2 : Former Polish party leader Edward Gierek is expelled from the Polish United Workers Party.
• December 4 : Andrzej Perka kidnaps a Polish passenger plane to West Berlin and asks for political asylum
• December 6 : In Bonn it is announced that more than 1.3 billion D-Marks are missing for the development of the Tornado fighter aircraft for 1980/81; Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt assures Defense Minister Hans Apel of his confidence
• December 8 : John Lennon is shot dead in front of the Dakota Building in New York by the mentally confused assassin Mark David Chapman
• December 10 : In the first parliamentary elections in Uganda , the left-wing party of President Milton Obote (1924–2005), ousted in 1971, wins ; he will be sworn in on December 15th
• December 10 : The German Federal Constitutional Court declared due to a judicial review of the state of Bavaria , the apprenticeship Promotion Act of 1976 null and void
• December 10 : The Soviet head of state and party leader Leonid Brezhnev visits India and proposes a five-point plan for peace and security in the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean .
• December 11th : Hannes Androsch (* 1934) resigns as Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor of Austria because of private business
• December 12 : In Berlin-Kreuzberg , the conflict over the policy of land redevelopment turns into open unrest
• December 14 : The Christian Democrat José Napoleón Duarte (1925–1990) is appointed president of the government junta of El Salvador and sworn in on December 23
• December 16 : The Suez Canal has been widened and deepened and will now be opened to international shipping; For the first time, supertankers with a load capacity of 150,000  t can now also pass through the canal
• December 16 : Troops of the head of government of Chad , Goukouni Weddeye , supported by Libya , retake the capital N'djamena and force a ceasefire; his opponent Hissène Habré has to sign an armistice in Cameroon .
• December 21 : About 4,000 nuclear power plant opponents demonstrate in Brokdorf against the planned nuclear power plant , which leads to massive clashes
• December 22nd : The German Federal Labor Court approves the cold lockout , the right of companies on strike to order short-time work without the consent of the works council .
• December 23 : The general election in Singapore ends with a victory for Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew 's People's Action Party, which has ruled for 21 years .
• December 24 : Former Emperor Bokassa I is sentenced to death in absentia in Bangui ( Central African Republic ) for child murder, torture and cannibalism .
• December 24th : Frank Schubert (23), a member of the neo-Nazi People's Socialist Movement in Germany / Labor Party from Frankfurt Main, shoots two people on the Swiss border in Koblenz AG and Böttstein , injures two border officials and kills himself during a subsequent firefight.
• December 31st : The President of Senegal , Léopold Sédar Senghor , resigns for personal reasons and in future devotes himself to his literary and scientific interests again; he is succeeded by Abdou Diouf

economy

• January 3 : The Deutsche Bundespost introduces eight-minute intervals for local calls on the phone .
• January 27 : Kuwait founds the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, a state-owned company to market its crude oil . The manufactured products are sold in a number of countries under the brand name Q8 .
• February 6 : The Federal Constitutional Court ruled that the peaceful use of nuclear energy is compatible with the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany . A constitutional complaint regarding the approval procedure for the Mülheim-Kärlich nuclear power plant is unsuccessful.
• February 24 : In Israel is the new currency of the shekel introduced. There is now one shekel for ten Israeli pounds that were valid until then .
• March 27 : Silver Thursday, the height of the Hunt brothers' silver speculation .
• Establishment of Ashoka

science and technology

• January 6th The GPS time starts at midnight
• March 26 : Foundation of Arianespace by Europe's space companies. You should production, sales and starts of the ESA - launchers Ariane manage. The Ariane 1 , developed by its predecessor ELDO , was first launched at Christmas 1979 . The statute comes into force on October 13, 1980
• May 23rd : The second launch of an Ariane rocket (first launch in December 1979) failed due to vibrations in the lowest stage, built by France . It must be blown up together with its cargo (including the German research satellite Firewheel )
• June 1st : Teletext from ARD and ZDF is launched in Germany.
• July 15 : The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) is founded in Bremerhaven.

• August 7 : The first solar energy aircraft, the Gossamer Penguin , makes its maiden flight
• September 5 : Opening of the 16.9 km long Gotthard road tunnel from Göschenen to Airolo
• October 13th : The foundation of the European " Arianespace " comes into force (see March 26th). The negotiations between the companies and ESA states involved took place in 1979/80
• November 12th : The American space probe Voyager 1 flies past Saturn and provides many measurements and photos of Saturn, its rings and moons
• The German physicist Klaus von Klitzing discovered the quantum Hall effect in Grenoble

Culture

• January 21 : The Great Wall of China is listed as a historical monument .
• March 6th : The author Marguerite Yourcenar is the first woman admitted to the Académie française .
• April 14 : The film Die Blechtrommel (film) wins the Oscar for best foreign language film of 1979.

Rubik's Cube

• June 2 : Ernő Rubik's “ Rubik's Cube ” begins its triumphal march in German toy shops.
• August 5th : Inauguration of the German School in Manila , Philippines
• September 1st : Foundation of the German School Oslo , Norway
• September 5th : World premiere of the opera Satyagraha by Philip Glass at the Stadschouwburg in Rotterdam
• September 8 : Foundation of the German School in New York , USA
• October 28 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Luxembourg . In force since March 1, 1982

Big panda "Bao Bao" in the Berlin Zoological Garden

• 5 November : The Berlin Zoo receives with Bao Bao and Tjen Tjen as the first and only zoological garden in Germany two giant panda bears .

First award

• Oskar Kokoschka Prize
• Geschwister-Scholl-Prize
• Noma Prize for African Literature

Openings

• Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)
• Times Square Show art exhibition in New York

Foundations

• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW, German section: IPPNW Germany - International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Doctors in Social Responsibility )
• Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
• Lothringer13 in Munich
• Art Fund Foundation
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum , Washington, DC , USA

Publications

• ecumenical standard translation of the Bible
• Video game Pac-Man
• Album Back in Black by AC / DC

society

• November 17 : The FBI succeeds in arresting Gerald and Charlene Gallego , who are responsible for the serial murder of a total of ten people in the past few months for sexual reasons.

religion

• October 9 : The foundation stone for the Basharat mosque is laid in Pedro Abad , Andalusia . After more than 700 years, an Islamic sacred building is being built again in Spain .
• November 15 : Pope John Paul II visits the Federal Republic of Germany. 198 years earlier, a Roman Catholic head of the church was last in Germany before him .

Sports

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

• February 3 : Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Lorenzo Zanon at Caesars Palace , Las Vegas , Nevada , USA , by knockout.
• February 13. bis 24. February : The XIII. Winter Olympics take place in Lake Placid , USA .
• May 10 : Berlin's FC Dynamo becomes GDR soccer champion for the second time , SG Dynamo Dresden is runner-up .
• MAY 17: the FC Carl Zeiss Jena won the FDGB Cup with 3: 1 aet against. FC Rot-Weiss Erfurt .
• May 31 : FC Bayern Munich becomes German soccer champion ; Vice champion of Hamburger SV .
• June 4th : Fortuna Düsseldorf wins the DFB-Pokal by beating 1. FC Köln 2-1 .
• June 11. bis 22. June : The sixth UEFA EURO 1980 is in Italy held. The team from the Federal Republic of Germany becomes European champions with a 2-1 win against Belgium in Rome .
• July 7th : Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Scott LeDoux at the Metro Center , Bloomington , USA, by a technical knockout.
• July 19 to August 3 : The XXII. Summer Olympics are taking place in Moscow , boycotts by western states because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan .
• August 16 : Birgit Friedmann wins the first world track and field title in history for the Federal Republic of Germany in the discipline 3,000 m and a time of 8: 48.05 min in the Dutch city ​​of Sittard .
• August 20 : Reinhold Messner is the first mountaineer to conquer Mount Everest alone and without an oxygen device.
• October 2nd : Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Muhammad Ali at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, by technical knockout.
• Eintracht Frankfurt wins the UEFA Cup against Borussia Mönchengladbach .
• Alan Jones becomes Formula 1 world champion.

Disasters

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

• March 7 : The oil tanker Tanio breaks in two in a storm off the coast of Brittany . The resulting oil slick reaches the coast two days later, where the pollution from heavy oil can only be combated later.
• March 27 : A storm destroys the Norwegian supply and housing platform Alexander L. Kielland in the Ekofisk field in the North Sea , 123 people die
• April 22nd : The ferry “Don Juan” ( Philippines ) sinks after colliding with a tanker. 313 dead
• April 25th : Tenerife , Canary Islands , Spain . A Boeing 727 from the British Dan-Air Services crashes into a mountain during the approach. All 146 people on board die.
• April 27 : Bangkok , Thailand : Thai Airways Flight 231 flies into a storm while approaching Don Mueang Airport and crashes. The crash kills 44.
• May 18 : Mount St. Helens eruption , USA
• June 27 In the evening, Itavia flight 870 , a Douglas DC-9 of the Italian company Itavia, crashed north of the Italian island of Ustica into the Tyrrhenian Sea for an initially unknown cause.
• August 1 to 14 : Hurricane Allen in the Caribbean , around 300 dead
• August 19 : Riyadh , Saudi Arabia . Despite the emergency landing of a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar after a fire on board, the 301 passengers can only be rescued dead. Everyone suffocated
• October 10 : A 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys El-Asnam (formerly Orléansville ), Algeria , almost completely. approx. 20,000 dead
• November 23 : Earthquake measuring 7.2 in southern Italy , around 3,000 dead, 200,000 homeless
• A heat wave in Texas kills 338

Born

January

Bryan Clay

Xavi

Nick Carter

• 0January 1 : Lexi Randall , American actress
• 0January 2nd : Jérôme Pineau , French cyclist
• 0January 2nd : Sarah Winkenstette , German director and screenwriter
• 0January 3 : Necati Ateş , Turkish football player
• 0January 3 : Bryan Clay , American track and field athlete
• 0January 3rd : Sam Hancock , British racing car driver
• 0January 3 : Federico Insúa , Argentine soccer player
• 0January 4th : Yaroslav Popovych , Ukrainian cyclist
• 0January 5 : Srđan Andrić , Croatian football player
• 0January 5th : Kamber Arslan , Turkish soccer player
• 0January 5th : Sebastian Deisler , German soccer player
• 0January 5th : Chema Rodríguez , Spanish handball player and coach
• 0January 6th : Travis Gareth Dodd , Australian soccer player
• 0January 6th : Mihael Mikić , Croatian football player
• 0January 7th : David Arroyo , Spanish cyclist
• 0January 7th : Margarita Breitkreiz , German actress
• 0January 8th : Annett Böhm , German judoka
• 0January 8 : Hugo Grimm , German actor
• 0January 8 : Lucia Recchia , Italian ski racer
• 0January 9th : Sergio García , golfer
• 0January 9 : Arta Bajrami , Albanian pop musician
• 0January 9 : Uroš Zorman , Slovenian handball player and coach
• January 10 : Josef Reif , Austrian horn player
• January 11th : Eric Agyemang , Ghanaian soccer player
• January 11 : Christian Wetklo , German soccer player
• January 12th : Juan José Abril Merino , Spanish track and road cyclist
• January 12 : Amerie Wed Marie Rogers , American R&B singer and actress
• January 12th : Shane Stefanutto , Australian soccer player
• January 13th : Wolfgang Loitzl , Austrian ski jumper
• January 13 : María de Villota , Spanish racing driver († 2013 )
• January 14th : Oliver Arno , Austrian musical actor
• January 15 : Tommy Adams , American basketball player
• January 16 : Cornelia Hirsch , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• January 16 : Amira Mohamed Ali , German politician, Member of the Bundestag
• January 16 : Michelle Wild , Hungarian porn actress
• January 17 : Zooey Deschanel , American actress
• January 18 : Nia Künzer , German soccer player
• January 18 : Jason Segel , American actor
• January 18th : Estelle Swaray , British soul singer and rapper
• January 19th : Jenson Button , British Formula 1 driver
• January 19th : Cai Yun , Chinese badminton world champion
• January 19 : Leonard Scott , American athlete
• January 20 : Felicitas Woll , German actress
• January 21 : Fernando de Moraes , Brazilian-Australian soccer and futsal player
• January 21 : Maria Popistașu , Romanian actress
• January 22nd : Chris Harms , German singer and guitarist
• January 22nd : Christopher Masterson , American film actor
• January 22nd : Daniel Sdunek , German handball goalkeeper
• January 22nd : Jonathan Woodgate , English soccer player
• January 22nd : Lizz Wright , American jazz musician
• January 24th : Yordanis Arencibia Verdecia , Cuban judoka
• January 25 : Paulo Assunção da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
• January 25th : Anna König , German actress
• January 25 : Christian Olsson , Swedish athlete
• January 25th : Xavi , Spanish soccer player
• January 26 : Ertuğrul Arslan , Turkish football player
• January 26th : Maximiliano Pellegrino , Argentinian football player
• January 26th : Tom Skinner , English jazz musician
• January 27th : Eva Padberg , German photo model and mannequin
• January 27th : Marat Michailowitsch Safin , Russian tennis player of Tatar descent
• January 28 : Nick Carter , American singer and member of the boy band Backstreet Boys
• January 28 : Yasuhito Endo , Japanese soccer player
• January 29th : Nils Bomhoff , German TV presenter
• January 29th : Jenny Kirlin , American actress
• January 29 : Ivan Klasnić , Croatian football player
• January 29 : Jason James Richter , American actor and musician
• January 30th : Yvonne Leuthold , Swiss-British handball player and trainer
• January 30th : Axel Schreiber , German actor and speaker
• January 30th : Christoph Teinert , German soccer player
• January 30 : Jurica Vranješ , Croatian football player
• January 30th : Wilmer Valderrama , actor
• January 30th : Angela Williams , American sprinter
• January 31 : Joel Brown , American athlete
• January 31 : Nick Leventis , British racing car driver and team owner

February

Cassandra Steen

Jason Ritter

Jeanette Biedermann

• 0February 1 : Otilino Tenorio , Ecuadorian football player († 2005 )
• 0February 1 : Ellen Trane Nørby , Danish politician
• 0February 3rd : Markus Esser , German athlete
• 0February 3 : Davide Moscardelli , Italian soccer player
• 0February 3rd : Martin Künzle , Swiss ski jumping trainer
• 0February 4th : Yared Asmerom , Eritrean marathon runner
• 0February 4th : Kabelo Mmono , Botswana high jumper
• 0February 5 : Sayed Tahir Shah , Afghan national soccer player
• 0February 6 : Frank Løke , Norwegian handball player
• 0February 6 : Luke Ravenstahl , American local politician
• 0February 7th : Emma Iwebunor Ania , British sprinter
• 0February 7th : Saša Papac , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 0February 8 : Nico Kibat , German handball player
• 0February 9 : Cassandra Steen , German soul singer
• 0February 9 : Angelos Charisteas , Greek football player
• February 10 : Marko Baacke , German Nordic combined athlete
• February 10 : Riki Flutey , English rugby player
• February 10 : Enzo Maresca , Italian football player
• February 11 : André Titi Buengo , Angolan football player
• February 11 : Mark “Marco” Bresciano , Australian soccer player
• February 11th : Jukka Erätuli , Finnish snowboarder
• February 11th : Theresa Scholze , German actress
• February 12th : Juan Carlos Ferrero , Spanish tennis player
• February 12 : Vittorio Magro , Italian pop singer
• February 12 : Christina Ricci , American actress
• February 12 : Antonia Schmale , German soccer player
• February 13 : Sebastian Kehl , German soccer player
• February 14th : Lara , Austrian singer
• February 14 : Nadja Pieren , Swiss politician
• February 15 : Samira Makhmalbaf , Iranian film director and screenwriter
• February 17 : Linor Abargil , Israeli model and Miss World 1998
• February 17 : Jason Ritter , American actor
• February 17th : Tomáš Rolinek , Czech ice hockey player
• February 18 : Aivar Anniste , Estonian football player
• February 18 : Nikolai Antropov , Kazakh ice hockey player
• February 18 : Bernd Friede , Austrian handball player
• February 19 : Kevin Arnould , French skier
• February 19 : Melanie Arns , German writer
• February 19 : Gavin Pickering , British racing car driver
• February 20 : Arthur Abraham , German boxer of Armenian origin
• February 20 : Thomas Andergassen , German gymnast
• February 20th : Anne Poleska , German swimmer
• February 20 : Guillermo Ariel Pereyra , Italian-Argentinian soccer player
• February 21 : Tiziano Ferro , Italian pop singer
• February 21 : Parthiva Sureshwaren , Indian racing car driver
• February 22nd : Kai Albrecht , German actor
• February 22nd : Philippe Alméras , French racing car driver
• February 22nd : Jeanette Biedermann , German singer and actress
• February 22nd : Femke Maes , Belgian soccer player
• February 23 : Hannes Jón Jónsson , Icelandic handball player
• February 23 : Kim Kyung-roul , South Korean carom player († 2015 )
• February 23 : Cornelius Meister , German conductor and pianist
• February 25 : Ovidiu Cornea , Romanian rower
• February 26th : Wiratthaworn Aree , Thai weightlifter
• February 26 : Necat Aygün , German-Turkish soccer player
• February 27 : Bobby V , African-American R&B singer
• February 27 : Chelsea Clinton , daughter of US President Bill Clinton
• February 28 : Christian Poulsen , Danish football player
• February 28 : Sigurd Pettersen , Norwegian ski jumper
• February 28 : Tayshaun Prince , American basketball player
• February 29 : Çağdaş Atan , Turkish football player
• February 29 : Kristin Fraser , American figure skater
• February 29 : Simon Gagné , Canadian ice hockey player
• February 29 : Mitsuki Tsujimura , Japanese writer

March

Viktoria Winge

Marit Bjørgen

Ronaldinho

• 0March 2nd : Édson de Jesus Nobre , Angolan football player
• 0March 3rd : Anmary , Latvian singer
• 0March 3 : Christoph Semmler , German soccer player
• 0March 5th : Jessica Boehrs , German dance pop singer
• 0March 5th : Viktoria Winge , Norwegian actress
• 0March 6 : Patrik Anttonen , Swedish football player
• 0March 6th : Seigo Asada , Japanese dart player
• 0March 7 : Dwayne Archbold , American basketball player
• 0March 7 : Laura Prepon , American actress
• 0March 8 : Mohamadou Idrissou , football player from Cameroon
• 0March 9 : Chingy , American rapper
• 0March 9 : Matthew Gray Gubler , American actor
• March 10th : Sandra Stumptner , Austrian musician and entertainer
• March 10 : Per-Gunnar Andersson , Swedish rally driver
• March 12 : Cristian Fiél , Spanish-German soccer player
• March 12th : California Molefe , Botswana athlete
• March 13 : Lorraine Huber , Austrian freeride athlete
• March 13 : Gabriel Melkam , Nigerian soccer player
• March 15th : Ola Afolabi , British boxer
• March 15 : Shelley-Ann Brown , Canadian bobsleigh athlete
• March 15 : Kang Ye-won , South Korean actress
• March 15 : Camilla Renschke , German actress
• March 16 : Julia Schlecht , German volleyball player
• March 17th : Nora Angehrn , Swiss professional golfer
• March 17th : Torsten Hiekmann , German racing cyclist
• March 17th : Oksana Pal , Russian handball player
• March 18 : Sébastien Frey , French football player
• March 18 : Alexei Konstantinowitsch Jagudin , Russian figure skater
• March 18 : Juliette Schoppmann , German pop and musical singer
• March 19 : Harald Ambros , Austrian eventing rider
• March 20 : Philipp Bönig , German soccer player
• March 21 : Kennevic Chua Asuncion , Filipino badminton player
• March 21 : Eric Baumann , German racing cyclist
• March 21 : Marit Bjørgen , Norwegian cross-country skier
• March 21 : Andrei Kashechkin , Kazakh cyclist
• March 21 : Ronaldinho , Brazilian soccer player
• March 21 : Bamuza Sono , South African soccer player
• March 22nd : Sebastian Schoof , German soccer player
• March 23rd : Ryan Day , Welsh snooker player
• March 23 : Roberto Rolfo , Italian motorcycle racer
• March 23 : Edrissa Sonko , Gambian football player
• March 24 : Ramzi Abid , Canadian ice hockey player
• March 24th : Gianluca Bollini , San Marine footballer
• March 24th : Andreas Marek-Wendorf , German producer
• March 25th : Hanno Koffler , German actor
• March 25 : Katrin Ritt , Austrian actress
• March 26 : Khalid Ali Al Thani , Arab road cyclist
• March 26th : Marianne Andersen , Norwegian orienteer
• March 26 : Krys Barch , Canadian ice hockey player
• March 26th : Pascal Hens , German handball player
• March 26 : Darryl O'Young , Chinese racing driver
• March 27 : Nicolas Duvauchelle , French actor and model
• March 27th : Stefan Feth , German table tennis player
• March 28th : Albert Streit , German soccer player
• March 29 : Robert Archibald , British basketball player († 2020 )
• March 29 : Natalia Avelon , German actress
• March 29 : Kim Tae-hee , South Korean actress
• March 30th : Katrine Lunde Haraldsen , Norwegian handball player
• March 30th : Kristine Lunde , Norwegian handball player
• March 30th : Santiago Urdiales , Spanish handball player
• March 31 : Martin Albrechtsen , Danish football player
• March 31 : Pa Dembo Touray , Gambian football player

April

Damien Abad

Clueso

Channing Tatum

• 0April 1st : Danny Anclais , German handball player
• 0April 1st : Ismail Atalan , German soccer player and coach
• 0April 1st : James Auckland , British tennis player
• 0April 1 : Agnes Avagyan , Armenian cartoonist and illustrator
• 0April 1 : Randy Orton , American wrestler
• 0April 2nd : Sandra Hansson , Swedish cross-country skier
• 0April 2nd : Michael Mörz , Austrian soccer player
• 0April 4th : Johnny Borrell , British singer and songwriter
• 0April 4 : Eric Steinbach , American football player
• 0April 5 : Damien Abad , French politician
• 0April 6th : Tommi Evilä , Finnish athlete
• 0April 8 : Josep Ayala , Andorran football player
• 0April 8th : Simone Oberer , Swiss athlete
• 0April 8 : Katee Sackhoff , American actress
• 0April 9th : Clueso , German singer and producer
• 0April 9 : Luciano Galletti , Argentinian soccer player
• 0April 9 : Albert Hammond Jr. , American musician
• 0April 9 : Lee Yo-won , South Korean actress
• 0April 9 : Rachel Specter , American actress
• April 10 : Lorenzo Fontana , Italian politician
• April 10 : Gro Hammerseng-Edin , Norwegian handball player
• April 10 : Charlie Hunnam , English actor
• April 10 : Jiayi Shao , Chinese soccer player
• April 10th : Jimmy Rosenberg , Dutch jazz guitarist
• April 11th : Alexandre Anselmet , French ski racer
• April 11 : Siggi Kautz , German actor and musician
• April 12th : Krešimir Ivanković , Croatian handball player
• April 12th : Brian McFadden , Irish pop singer
• April 12th : Erik Mongrain , French-Canadian guitarist and composer
• April 13 : Ryan Carter , American composer
• April 13 : Quentin Richardson , American basketball player
• April 15 : Alessija Lause , German actress
• April 15 : Ljubomir Pavlović , Serbian handball player
• April 15th : Fanny Cihlar , German field hockey player
• April 15th : Fränk Schleck , Luxembourg cyclist
• April 18 : Rabiu Afolabi , Nigerian soccer player
• April 18 : Justin Amash , American politician
• April 18 : Yangzom Brauen , Swiss actress, author and director
• April 18 : Martina Müller , German soccer player
• April 19 : Jordi Escura , Andorran football player
• April 20 : Jasmin Wagner , German pop singer and presenter
• April 20 : Vibeke Skofterud , Norwegian cross-country skier († 2018 )
• April 20 : Lee Wilkie , Scottish soccer player
• April 21 : Manny Marc , German DJ and rapper
• April 22nd : Alexander Dück , German ice hockey player
• April 22nd : Nicole Grimaudo , Italian actress
• April 22nd : Andrea Jansen , Swiss TV presenter
• April 22nd : Nicolas Leblanc , French football player
• April 23 : Taio Cruz , British singer
• April 23 : Nils Döring , German soccer player
• April 23 : Jürgen Schweikardt , German handball player, trainer and manager
• April 23 : Steve Wyatt , Australian racing car driver
• April 24 : Fernando Enrique Arce Ruiz , Mexican soccer player
• April 24 : Karen Asrjan , Armenian chess player († 2008 )
• April 24th : Şener Aşkaroğlu , Turkish soccer player
• April 24 : Julia Hummer , German actress and musician
• April 24th : Jaime Melo , Brazilian racing car driver
• April 25 : Alejandro Valverde , Spanish cyclist
• April 26 : Jordana Brewster , American actress
• April 26 : Channing Tatum , American actor
• April 27 : Michele La Rosa , Italian racing car driver
• April 27th : Ananda Mikola , Indonesian racing car driver
• April 27th : Terese Pedersen , Norwegian handball player
• April 27 : Marco Sullivan , American ski racer
• April 29 : Mohammad Amin Haidar al-Aulaqi , Saudi Arabian soccer player

May

Tim Borowski

Steven Gerrard

• 0May 1st : Myriam Atz Tammerle , Italian politician
• 0May 1st : Christopher Becker , German director
• 0May 1st : Julija Gennadijewna Tabakowa , Russian sprinter
• 0May 1st : Zaz (Isabelle Geffroy), French jazz singer
• 0May 2nd : Nicole Süßmilch , young German singer
• 0May 2nd : Tim Borowski , German soccer player
• 0May 4th : Franziska Weisz , Austrian actress
• 0May 5th : Silvan Aegerter , Swiss football player
• 0May 5th : Rebecca Rudolph , German actress
• 0May 6 : Ricardo Oliveira , Brazilian soccer player
• 0May 6th : Wolke Hegenbarth , German actress
• 0May 6th : Torsten Knabel , Austrian soccer player
• 0May 8 : Michelle McManus , British singer
• 0May 8 : David Loosli , Swiss cyclist
• 0May 9 : Gerrie Eijlers , Dutch handball player
• 0May 9 : Grant Hackett , Australian swimmer
• May 10 : Karoline Dyhre Breivang , Norwegian handball player
• May 11th : Nevio Passaro , German-Italian musician
• May 12 : Dmitri Anatolyevich Afanassenkow , Russian ice hockey player
• May 13 : Preston Callander , German-Canadian ice hockey player
• May 14 : Morten Ask , Norwegian ice hockey player
• May 14th : Zdeněk Grygera , Czech football player
• May 15 : Francesco Meli , Italian opera singer, tenor
• May 15 : OSTR , Polish rapper
• May 16 : Simon Gerrans , Australian cyclist
• May 16 : Jens Spahn , German politician
• May 17th : Ilion Lika , Albanian football player
• May 18 : Ivan Jolić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• May 19 : Frida Andreasson , Swedish badminton player
• May 19 : Drew Fuller , American actor
• May 19 : Dean Heffernan , Australian soccer player
• May 19 : Moeneeb Josephs , South African soccer player
• May 21 : Kweku Adoboli , Ghanaian investment banker and fraudster
• May 21 : Lasse Kopitz , German ice hockey player
• May 21 : Benoît Peschier , French canoeist
• May 21 : Chris Raab , American actor
• May 22 : Lucy Gordon , British actress († 2009 )
• May 22nd : Róbert Gunnarsson , Icelandic handball player
• May 25 : Alex Hofmann , German motorcycle racer
• May 25 : Santiago Saitta , Argentine composer and music educator
• May 27th : Andreas Blank , German handball player
• May 27 : Adam Hauser , American ice hockey player
• May 27th : Maryan Hary , French cyclist
• May 27th : Stephen Miller , British disabled athlete
• May 28 : Olivier Thomert , French football player
• May 29th : Thomas Antonic , Austrian literary scholar, author and musician
• May 29 : Ernesto Antonio Farías , Argentinian soccer player
• May 29 : Dagmar Geppert , German actress
• May 30th : Steven Gerrard , English soccer player

• May 30 : Remy Ma , American rapper
• May 30th : Joachim Standfest , Austrian soccer player
• May 30th : Eduard Trojanowski , Russian light welterweight boxer and current undefeated world champion of the IBF
• May 31 : Johnny Aubert , French motocross and enduro athlete
• May 31 : Dirk Caspers , German soccer player
• May 31 : Andrew John Hurley , American drummer
• May 31 : Georgia Lara , Greek water polo player

June

Sibel Kekilli

Sarah Connor

• 0June 1 : Franziska Drohsel , German politician
• 0June 3 : Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani , Emir of Qatar
• 0June 3 : Kum-ae An , North Korean judoka
• 0June 3 : Mette Blak Melgaard , Danish handball player
• 0June 3 : Christian Martin Schäfer , Swiss actor
• 0June 3rd : Amauri , Brazilian soccer player
• 0June 4th : Håvard Augensen , Norwegian handball player
• 0June 5th : Rik De Voest , South African tennis player
• 0June 5th : Antonio García , Spanish racing car driver
• 0June 6 : Lauren Anderson , American model
• 0June 6th : Sven Knoll , South Tyrolean politician
• 0June 7th : Mika Anjō , Japanese badminton player
• 0June 9th : Navíd Akhavan , German-Iranian actor
• June 10 : Martin Sichert , German politician
• June 10 : Nicole Söder , German soccer player
• June 11 : Jennifer L. Armentrout , American author
• June 12th : Néstor Martín Aquino , Uruguayan road cyclist
• June 12 : Karel Novy , Swiss swimmer
• June 12 : Rogério , Brazilian soccer player
• June 12 : Andreas Thiele , German actor
• June 13th : Sarah Connor , German singer
• June 13 : Markus Winkelhock , German automobile racing driver
• June 13 : Benny Greb , German drummer
• June 13 : Florent Malouda , French football player
• June 14 : Seb Castang , British actor
• June 15 : Mary Carey , American model, porn actress and politician
• June 15 : Chris Cook , American cross-country skier
• June 15 : Silke Meier , German handball player
• June 15th : Iker Romero , Spanish handball player
• June 16 : Thijs Al , Dutch cyclist
• June 16 : Brad Gushue , Canadian curler
• June 16 : Sibel Kekilli , German film actress
• June 16 : Martin Stranzl , Austrian soccer player
• June 17th : Branko Tomović , German actor
• June 17th : Venus Williams , American tennis player
• June 18 : Musa Audu , Nigerian sprinter
• June 19 : Milka Loff Fernandes , German TV presenter and actress
• June 20 : Nina Aigner , Austrian soccer player
• June 20 : Franco Semioli , Italian football player
• June 20th : Vignir Svavarsson , Icelandic handball player
• June 20th : Fabian Wegmann , German cyclist
• June 21 : Richard Jefferson , American basketball player
• June 22nd : Davy Arnaud , American soccer player
• June 22nd : Stephanie Jacobsen , Australian actress
• June 22nd : Xavier Maassen , Dutch racing driver
• June 23 : David Emil Andersen , Australian basketball player
• June 23 : Peter Arnesson , Swedish orienteer ski runner
• June 23 : Sibel Arslan , Swiss lawyer and politician
• June 23 : Michele Bartyan , Italian racing car driver
• June 23 : Massimilian Porcello , German-Italian soccer player
• June 23 : Dustin Semmelrogge , German actor
• June 24 : John Bryant Davila , American actor
• June 25 : Shannon Lucio , American actress
• June 25 : Robert Müller , German ice hockey player († 2009 )
• June 26th : Dustin Dollin , Australian skateboarder
• June 26 : Michael Vick , American football player
• June 27 : Hugo Armando Campagnaro , Argentine football player
• June 27 : Sergei Wassiljewitsch Choroschun , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
• June 27th : Pauline Knof , German actress
• June 28 : Johntá Austin , American songwriter, arranger, producer and singer
• June 28 : Maurizio Domizzi , Italian football player
• June 29 : James Courtney , Australian racing driver
• June 30th : Ramsi Aliani , German-Tunisian singer, songwriter and producer
• June 30th : Adil Annani , Moroccan marathon runner
• June 30th : Rade Prica , Swedish football player

July

Eva Green

Gisele Bündchen

Dirk Kuyt

Jacinda Ardern

• 0July 1 : Patrick Aufiero , American ice hockey player
• 0July 1st : Robert Lechleiter , German soccer player
• 0July 2nd : Alexander Petersson , Latvian-Icelandic handball player
• 0July 2nd : Jiří Homola , Czech football player
• 0July 3rd : Dawn Askin , Canadian curler
• 0July 3 : Tatiana Logunova , Russian sword fencer and Olympic champion
• 0July 3 : Birgit Thumm , German volleyball player
• 0July 3rd : Roland Mark Schoeman , South African swimmer
• 0July 4th : Alpa Gun , German rapper
• 0July 5th : Carsten Sträßer , German soccer player
• 0July 6th : Pau Gasol , Spanish basketball player
• 0July 6 : Eva Green , French actress
• 0July 6 : Joell Ortiz , American rapper
• 0July 6th : Madleen Wilder , German soccer player
• 0July 6 : Demorrio Williams , American football player
• 0July 6th : Tanja Wörle , German soccer player
• 0July 7th : Peter Abstreiter , German ice hockey player
• 0July 7th : Michelle Kwan , American figure skater
• 0July 7th : Beren Tuna , German actress and director
• 0July 8 : Robbie Keane , Irish football player
• 0July 9 : Selvin De León , Belizean football player
• 0July 9 : Roman Roth , German actor and speaker
• July 10 : Ezequiel González , Argentine soccer player
• July 10 : Jessica Simpson , American pop singer and actress
• July 10 : Bruno Magalhães , Portuguese rally driver
• July 11 : Christina Kampmann , German politician
• July 12th : Johanna Klum , German TV presenter and singer
• July 12th : Katherine Legge , British racing driver
• July 13 : Sascha Vogt , German politician
• July 14th : Christian Dingert , German soccer referee
• July 15 : Jordi Rubio Benet , Andorran football player
• July 15 : Jasper Pääkkönen , Finnish actor
• July 16 : Svetlana Feofanova , Russian athlete
• July 17th : Emil Rosenow Angelow , Bulgarian soccer player
• July 17th : Rashid Ramzi , Moroccan athlete
• July 17 : José Gustavo Sand , Argentinian soccer player
• July 18th : Tom Arthurs , British jazz musician
• July 18 : Kristen Bell , American actress
• July 18 : Bobby Henderson , American author, physicist and inventor of the flying spaghetti monster
• July 19 : Giorgio Mondini , Swiss racing driver
• July 20 : Morten Ågheim , Norwegian ski jumper († 2017 )
• July 20 : Eric Akoto , Togolese soccer player
• July 20 : Gisele Bündchen , Brazilian mannequin and photo model
• July 20th : Gary Johnson , British motorcycle racer
• July 22nd : Scott Dixon , New Zealand racing driver
• July 22nd : Dirk Kuyt , Dutch soccer player
• July 22nd : Marco Marchionni , Italian soccer player
• July 22nd : Kate Ryan , Belgian singer
• July 23 : Mariana Kautz , German figure skater
• July 23 : Michelle Williams , American R&B and gospel singer
• July 25th : Peter Riis Andersen , Danish cyclist
• July 25 : Du-Ri Cha , Korean soccer player
• July 25 : Dmitry Svetushkin , Moldovan chess grandmaster († 2020 )
• July 26 : Jacinda Ardern , New Zealand politician, Prime Minister
• July 27 : Allan Davis , Australian cyclist
• July 29th : Daniel Rakete Siegel , German film director
• July 29 : Fernando González , Chilean tennis player
• July 30th : Wojtek Czyz , German athlete (Paralympics winner)
• July 30th : Sasa Todosijevic , Swedish handball player
• July 31 : Rina Aiuchi , Japanese J-pop singer
• July 31 : Vinicius Bergantin , Brazilian-Italian soccer player
• July 31 : Maciej Dmytruszyński , Polish handball player
• July 31 : Jiří Fischer , Czech ice hockey player
• July 31 : Mikko Hirvonen , Finnish rally driver
• 00.July: Sami Yusuf , British singer, composer and musician

August

Vanessa Carlton

Macaulay Culkin

• 0August 1st : Sylvain Armand , French football player
• 0August 1st : Romain Barras , French decathlete
• 0August 1st : Takashi Kogure , Japanese racing driver
• 0August 2nd : Charlotte and Julie Bonaventura , French handball referees
• 0August 3 : Nadia Ali , Pakistani-American singer-songwriter
• 0August 4th : Fabian Döttling , German chess player
• 0August 4th : Benjamin Köhler , German soccer player
• 0August 5 : Juliana Ferreira Braga de Aquino , Brazilian musical actress († 2009 )
• 0August 5th : Jason Culina , Australian soccer player
• 0August 5th : Eduardo Ribeiro dos Santos , Brazilian soccer player
• 0August 5th : Wayne Bridge , English soccer player
• 0August 5th : Aleksandar Mitreski , Macedonian football player
• 0August 6 : Sergey Antonyuk , Israeli badminton player
• 0August 6 : Gabriele Bosisio , Italian cyclist
• 0August 6 : Roman Weidenfeller , German football player
• 0August 7th : Chetan Anand Buradagunta , Indian badminton player
• 0August 7th : Shane Moody-Orio , Belizean football player
• 0August 8 : Luca Agamennoni , Italian rower
• 0August 8 : Matthew Allan Kemp , Australian soccer player
• 0August 9 : Franziska Stawitz , German radio journalist
• 0August 9 : Aleksandr Tadevosyan , Armenian football player
• August 10 : Roxanne McKee , British actress and model
• August 11 : Monika Pyrek , Polish athlete
• August 12 : Jessica Ginkel , German actress
• August 12 : Dominique Swain , American actress
• August 14 : China , Brazilian soccer player
• August 15th : Natalie Press , British actress
• August 16 : Julien Absalon , French mountain biker
• August 16 : Georgy Arsumanjan , Armenian chess player
• August 16 : Vanessa Carlton , American pop singer and pianist
• August 16 : Linda Chang , German actress
• August 16 : Denise Karbon , Italian ski racer
• August 16 : Rob Nguyen , Australian racing driver
• August 17th : Jan Kromkamp , Dutch football player
• August 18 : Esteban Cambiasso , Argentine soccer player
• August 18 : Emir Spahić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• August 18 : Marcel Šterbák , Slovak ice hockey player
• August 19 : Wiebke Binder , German TV presenter
• August 20 : Samuel Dumoulin , French cyclist
• August 21 : Emir Kurtagic , German handball player and coach
• August 22nd : Roland Benschneider , German soccer player
• August 22nd : Zsófia Boros , Hungarian guitarist
• August 24 : Rachael Carpani , Australian actress
• August 25th : Ève Angeli , French singer
• August 25 : TJ Bell , American racing car driver
• August 26 : Macaulay Culkin , American actor
• August 26th : Jenny Hansson , Swedish cross-country skier
• August 27th : Sarah Christ , German-Australian harpist
• August 28th : Gemma Arró Ribot , Spanish ski mountaineer
• August 29 : Faiz Mangat , German pop singer
• August 29 : Perdita Felicien , Canadian athlete
• August 29 : William Levy , Cuban actor
• August 30th : Safet Nadarević , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• August 30 : Krisztián Szollár , Hungarian football player
• August 31 : Joe Budden , American rapper
• August 31 : Nikola Prce , Bosnian-Herzegovinian handball player

September

David Garrett

Autumn Reeser

TI

Martina Hingis

• 0September 1st : Sammy Adjei , Ghanaian soccer player
• 0September 1st : Chris Riggott , English soccer player
• 0September 2 : Mohama Zanzan Atte-Oudeyi , Togolese soccer player
• 0September 2 : Joey Goebel , American author
• 0September 2nd : Simone Kuhn , Swiss beach volleyball player
• 0September 2 : Danny Shittu , Nigerian soccer player
• 0September 2nd : Hiroki / Daiki Yoshimoto , Japanese racing car driver and rock singer
• 0September 3 : Jason McCaslin , Canadian musician
• 0September 3 : Carsten Rothenbach , German soccer player
• 0September 3 : Stefan Buck , German soccer player
• 0September 4 : Zachary Abel , American actor
• 0September 4th : Cem İslamoğlu , German-Turkish soccer player
• 0September 4th : David Garrett , German-American violinist
• 0September 6th : Clemens Doppler , Austrian volleyball player
• 0September 6 : Kristian Kjelling , Norwegian handball player
• 0September 7th : Sara Carrigan , Australian cyclist
• 0September 7th : Emre Belözoğlu , Turkish football player
• 0September 7 : Gabriel Alejandro Milito , Argentine soccer player
• 0September 7th : Rikke Skov , Danish handball player
• 0September 8th : Daniel Steiner , Swiss ice hockey player
• 0September 9 : Ragnhild Aamodt , Norwegian handball player
• 0September 9 : Steffen Hofmann , German soccer player
• 0September 9 : Michelle Ingrid Williams , American actress
• 0September 9 : Jani Liimatainen , Finnish guitarist
• September 10 : Doğan Seyfi Atlı , Turkish football player († 2001 )
• September 10 : Roger Mason , American basketball player
• September 10th : Manuel Schmitt , German director, screenwriter, programmer, game developer and Let's Player (SgtRumpel)
• September 11th : Antonio Pizzonia , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver
• September 12 : Roda Antar , Lebanese soccer player
• September 12 : Yao Ming , Chinese basketball player
• September 12 : Christina Zerbe , German soccer player
• September 13 : Keith Joseph Andrews , Irish football player
• September 13 : Nicky Salapu , American-Samoan soccer goalkeeper
• September 14th : Jonas Rohrmann , German actor
• September 14 : Ivan Radeljić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• September 15 : David Diehl , American football player
• September 17th : Pavel Košťál , Czech football player
• September 18 : Ilan Araújo , Brazilian-Italian soccer player
• September 18 : Amevou-Ludovic Assemoassa , Togolese national soccer player
• September 18 : Carolin Hingst , German athlete
• September 20 : Christoph Giesa , German columnist, publicist and strategy consultant
• September 20 : Vladimir Alexandrovich Karpez , Russian cyclist
• September 20th : Igor Vori , Croatian handball player and coach
• September 21 : Ralf Bader , German handball player
• September 21 : Kareena Kapoor , Indian film actress
• September 21 : Henriette Mikkelsen , Danish handball player
• September 21 : Autumn Reeser , American actress
• September 21 : Tomas Scheckter , South African racing driver
• September 22nd : Timo Antila , Finnish biathlete
• September 23 : Silvio Adzic , German soccer player
• September 24th : Sebastian Achilles , German actor
• September 24th : Daniele Bennati , Italian cyclist
• September 24th : Diederik Boer , Dutch football player
• September 24 : Petri Pasanen , Finnish soccer player
• September 24th : Sebastian Pelzer , German soccer player
• September 24th : Tanit Phoenix , South African model and actress
• September 24th : Nicholas Reinke , German-British actor
• September 25 : TI , American rapper
• September 26th : Patrick Friesacher , Austrian racing driver
• September 26 : Lars-Uwe Lang , German handball player
• September 26th : Sarah-Lavinia Schmidbauer , German actress
• September 27th : Asashōryū Akinori , Mongolian sumo fighter
• September 27 : Elvin Beqiri , Albanian football player
• September 27 : Olivier Kapo , French football player
• September 29 : Emily Lima , Brazilian soccer coach
• September 29 : Josephine Schmidt , German actress and voice actress
• September 30th : Dante Guimarães Amaral , Brazilian volleyball player
• September 30th : Stefan Lindemann , German figure skater
• September 30th : Martina Hingis , Swiss tennis player

October

• 0October 3 : Ivan Turina , Croatian football player († 2013 )
• 0October 3rd : Daniel O'Donoghue , Irish singer
• 0October 4th : Giovanni Federico , Italian football player
• 0October 4th : Ahmed Reda Madouni , Algerian football player
• 0October 4th : Tomáš Rosický , Czech football player
• 0October 5th : Damir Doborac , Bosnian handball player
• 0October 5th : James Toseland , English motorcycle racer
• 0October 7th : Marjan Shaki , German musical actress
• 0October 7 : Şirvan-Latifah Çakici , German politician (Die Linke)
• 0October 8 : Jakob Augustsson , Swedish football player
• 0October 8th : Kasper Bøgelund , Danish football player
• 0October 8 : Mike Scifres , American football player
• 0October 9 : Fabio dos Santos Barbosa , Brazilian soccer player
• October 12 : Nadseja Astaptschuk , Belarusian shot putter
• October 12 : Ledley King , English football player
• October 13 : Ashanti Douglas , American singer
• October 14 : Paul Ambrossi , Ecuadorian soccer player
• October 14 : Daniel Boschmann , German moderator
• October 14 : Jens Bürkle , German handball player
• October 14th : Niels Lodberg , Danish football player and coach
• October 14 : Andy Ost , German singer, songwriter and comedian
• October 14th : Susan Sideropoulos , German actress
• October 14 : Ben Whishaw , British actor
• October 15th : Tom Boonen , Belgian cyclist
• October 15 : Alex Rodríguez , Andorran football player
• October 15th : Heikki Kallio , Finnish chess grandmaster
• October 15 : André Wiwerink , German soccer player
• October 16 : Sérgio da Silva Pinto , German-Portuguese soccer player
• October 16 : Laura Nativo , American actress
• October 16 : Trine Nielsen , Danish handball player
• October 16 : Jan Wilke , German composer and choir director
• October 17th : Peter Schyrba , German soccer player
• October 18 : Sarah Blackwood , Canadian singer-songwriter
• October 18 : Hannes Lambert , German singer and voiceover
• October 19 : Katja Herbers , Dutch actress
• October 19 : Martin Stadtfeld , German pianist
• October 20 : Darko Maletić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• October 20th : Patrik Sinkewitz , German racing cyclist
• October 21 : Leon Bolier , Dutch trance DJ and producer

Kim Kardashian

• October 21 : Kim Kardashian , American actress
• October 23 : Jesper Brian Nøddesbo , Danish handball player
• October 23 : Wassili Wassiljewitsch Rotschew , Russian cross-country skier
• October 24 : Matthew Amoah , Ghanaian soccer player
• October 24 : Christian Vander , German soccer player
• October 24 : Lukas Perman , Austrian musical performer, singer and actor
• October 24th : Jan Hartmann , German actor
• October 25 : Jessica Kessler , German figure skater and musical artist
• October 25 : Nikolai Weber , German handball player
• October 26 : Khalid Abdalla , British-Egyptian actor
• October 27th : Ünsal Mukadder Arik , Turkish boxer
• October 27 : Nora Boeckler , German actress and comedian
• October 28 : Peter Windhofer , Austrian actor

Samaire Armstrong

• October 31 : Samaire Armstrong , American actress
• October 31 : Massimo Gobbi , Italian football player

November

Ryan Gosling

Sido

• 0November 1st : Fərhad Vəliyev , Azerbaijani goalkeeper
• 0November 2 : Kim So-yeon , South Korean actress
• 0November 3rd : Kjell Landsberg , German handball player
• 0November 4th : Alexander Wassiljewitsch Archipenko , Russian skeleton driver
• 0November 4th : Carsten Lichtlein , German handball goalkeeper
• 0November 5 : Ranisav Jovanović , Serbian-Montenegrin soccer player
• 0November 5th : Christoph Metzelder , German soccer player
• 0November 5th : Geneviève Simard , Canadian ski racer
• 0November 6th : Marco Christ , German soccer player
• 0November 6th : Simon Cziommer , German soccer player
• 0November 7th : Irina Alexejewna Abyssowa , Russian marathon swimmer and professional triathlete
• 0November 7 : Sergio Bernardo Almirón , Argentinian football player
• 0November 7th : Anna Katharina Kränzlein , German violinist
• 0November 7th : Matias Tosi-Socolov , Argentine opera singer
• 0November 8th : Jodie Leslie Ahlborn , German actress
• November 10th : Ajssel Akhmedova , Bulgarian soccer player
• November 10 : Rannvá Biskopstø Andreasen , Faroese soccer player
• November 10th : Eddy Lembo , French-Algerian cyclist
• November 10th : Ina Menzer , German boxer
• November 11th : Marian Meder , German actor
• November 12th : Isabellah Andersson , Swedish long distance runner
• November 12th : Charlie Hodgson , English rugby player
• November 12 : Rémo Meyer , Swiss football player
• November 12 : Ryan Gosling , Canadian actor and musician
• November 13 : Denise Djokic , Canadian cellist
• November 13 : Karl Dodd , Australian soccer player
• November 14th : Nina Müller , German handball player
• November 16 : Philip Andersen , Danish racing car driver
• November 17th : Santo Anzà , Italian cyclist
• November 17 : Seyi Olajengbesi , Nigerian soccer player
• November 18 : François Duval , rally driver
• November 18th : Robert Fontaine , French chess grandmaster
• November 18 : Christian Zeitz , German handball player
• November 20 : Marek Krejčí , Slovak football player († 2007 )
• November 22nd : David John Artell , Anglo-Gibraltar football player
• November 22nd : Frédéric Makowiecki , French racing driver
• November 24th : Ronny Arendt , German ice hockey player
• November 24th : Thomas Ziegler , German cyclist
• November 25th : Aleen Bailey , Jamaican athlete and Olympic champion
• November 26th : Julia Philippi , German actress
• November 26th : Jan Větrovec , Czech handball player and coach
• November 26 : Robert Vujević , German football player
• November 27th : Vladimir Malachow , Russian chess player
• November 27th : Evi Dingebacher , German cross-country skier
• November 28th : Adrián Gustavo “Carucha” Fernández , Argentinian football player
• November 28 : Christoph Zirngibl , German composer
• November 29th : Chun Jung-myung , South Korean actor
• November 30th : Jamie Ashdown , English soccer goalkeeper
• November 30th : Sido (Paul Hartmut Würdig), German rapper

December

Christina Aguilera

Jake Gyllenhaal

• 0December 1st : Olivier Andrey , Swiss badminton player
• 0December 2nd : Marco Engelhardt , German soccer player
• 0December 2nd : Patrick Neumann , German soccer player
• 0December 3 : Iulian Cătălin Apostol , Romanian football player
• 0December 3rd : Joyce Malebogo Arone , Botswana badminton player
• 0December 3 : Anna Chlumsky , American actress
• 0December 4th : Stefan Pfannmöller , German canoeist
• 0December 5th : Jessica Paré , Canadian actress
• 0December 6th : Sabrina Mockenhaupt , German athlete
• 0December 7th : Clément Beaud , Cameroonian football player
• 0December 7th : Clemens Fritz , German soccer player
• 0December 7th : Sarah Spale , Swiss actress
• 0December 7th : John Terry , British football player
• 0December 8th : Francis Mourey , French cyclist
• December 10th : Marina Orlowa , Russian philologist
• December 10 : DJ Smoove , German music producer († 2018 )
• December 10th : Roland Schwarzl , Austrian athlete
• December 12th : Wanda Worch , German actress
• December 13th : Alan Alborn , American ski jumper
• December 13th : Patrik Antonius , Finnish poker player
• December 13 : Nathalia Holt , American author
• December 14th : Samuel Aiken , American football player
• December 14th : David Paryla , Austrian actor
• December 16 : Dexter Langen , German football player
• December 17th : Carmen Casanova , Swiss ski racer
• December 17th : Ryan Hunter-Reay , American racing driver
• December 18 : Christina Aguilera , American pop singer
• December 18 : Mario Aschauer , Austrian musicologist, harpsichordist and conductor
• December 19 : Thomas Borenitsch , Austrian soccer player
• December 19 : Jake Gyllenhaal , American actor
• December 19 : Daniel Pankofer , German handball player
• December 19 : Diego Alejandro Ruiz Scheuschner , Argentinian soccer player
• December 20 : Martín Demichelis , Argentinian football player
• December 20th : Ashley Cole , English soccer player
• December 20th : Sebastian Halgasch , German swimmer
• December 20th : Michael Albasini , Swiss cyclist
• December 22nd : Lee Eun-ju , South Korean actress († 2005 )
• December 22nd : Grzegorz Tkaczyk , Polish handball player
• December 24th : José Aguilar , Venezuelan cyclist
• December 24 : Stephen Appiah , Ghanaian soccer player and coach
• December 24th : Anusch Aršakyan , Armenian musician
• December 25th : Joanna Angel , American porn actress and producer
• December 27 : Nadia Anjuman , Afghan poet and journalist († 2005 )
• December 27 : Elizabeth De Razzo , American actress
• December 27th : Nina Moghaddam , German TV presenter
• December 27th : Claudio Castagnoli , Swiss wrestler
• December 28th : Mircea Pârligras , Romanian chess player
• December 29th : Yvonne Bönisch , German judoka
• December 29th : Henrik Stehlik , German trampoline gymnast
• December 29th : Dorus de Vries , Dutch football goalkeeper
• December 30th : Eliza Dushku , American actress
• December 31st : Jennifer Shahade , American chess and poker player

Day unknown

• Pilar Abella , Spanish actress
• Katharina Adler , German author
• Florian Anders , German film director, screenwriter and film producer
• Jan Andreesen , German actor and speaker
• Olivia Arthur , British photojournalist
• Inio Asano , Japanese manga artist
• Simone Ascher , German actress
• Çiğdem Aslan , Turkish-Kurdish musician
• Helmut Philipp Aust , German legal scholar
• Tobias van Dieken , German actor
• Rebekah Driscoll , American composer
• Antoaneta Emanuilova , German cellist and music teacher
• Ariella Hirshfeld , German actress
• Mikhail Kissine , Belgian linguist
• Benedikt Klein , German medieval Germanist
• Alexander Koll , German actor
• Johannes Kreidler , German composer and action artist
• Daniel Lee , American cellist
• Alma Leiberg , German actress
• Sebastian Moll , Protestant theologian and author
• Cristina Pato , Spanish Gaita player and pianist
• Onur Özkaya , Turkish double bass player
• Kai-Olaf Stehrenberg , German songwriter
• Zora Thiessen , German actress
• Björn von der Wellen , German actor
• Merritt Wever , American actress

Died

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January

• 0January 2 : Roland Lebrun , Canadian singer-songwriter (Le Soldat Lebrun) (* 1919 )
• 0January 3 : Lucien Buysse , Belgian cyclist (* 1892 )
• 0January 6th : Raymond Mays , British racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1899 )
• 0January 7th : Larry Williams , American singer, pianist and songwriter (Sam & Dave) (* 1935 )
• 0January 8 : Walther Ascher , German lawyer (* 1900 )
• 0January 8 : Tryggve Gran , Norwegian pilot, explorer and author (first solo flight over the North Sea in 1914) (* 1888 )
• 0January 8 : Kuroda Saburō , Japanese poet (* 1919 )
• 0January 8 : John William Mauchly , American physicist and computer engineer (* 1907 )
• January 11 : Celia Sánchez , Cuban revolutionary and politician (* 1920 )
• January 11 : Barbara Pym , British writer (* 1913 )
• January 20 : André Dubonnet , French military pilot, sportsman, racing driver, entrepreneur and inventor (* 1897 )

Finn Ronne

• January 12 : Finn Ronne , Norwegian-American polar explorer (* 1899 )
• January 14 : Robert Ardrey , American playwright, screenwriter and anthropologist (* 1908 )
• January 19 : Wanda Chmielowska , Polish pianist and music teacher (* 1891 )
• January 22nd : Carl G. Bachmann , American politician (* 1890 )
• January 23 : Lil Dagover , German actress (* 1887 )
• January 23 : Ernst Ocffekt , Austrian football player and coach (* 1926 )
• January 23 : Bobby Sherwood , American jazz guitarist (* 1914 )
• January 27 : Hans Aeschbacher , Swiss painter and sculptor (* 1906 )
• January 27 : Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff , German officer and Hitler bomber (* 1905 )
• January 28 : Pat Griffith , British racing car driver (* 1925 )
• January 30th : Professor Longhair , American singer and pianist (* 1918 )
• January 31 : Emanuel Sperner , German mathematician (* 1905 )

February

• 0February 1 : Gastone Nencini , Italian racing cyclist (* 1930 )
• 0February 2 : Joseph Fontanet , French politician (* 1921 )
• 0February 2 : William Howard Stein , American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1911 )
• 0February 3 : Klaus Brasch , German actor (* 1950 )
• 0February 3 : Walter E. Richartz , German chemist and writer (* 1927 )
• 0February 5 : Nachman Aronszajn , Polish-American mathematician (* 1907 )
• 0February 6 : Franz Schafheitlin , German actor (* 1895 )
• 0February 9 : Clyde T. Ellis , American politician (* 1908 )
• February 12 : Hasan Balyuzi , Persian Baha'i scholar (* 1908 )
• February 13 : AS Mike Monroney , American politician (* 1902 )

Marian Rejewski

• February 13 : Marian Rejewski , Polish mathematician (* 1905 )
• February 14 : Victor Gruen , Austrian town planner and architect (* 1903 )
• February 14 : Albert Walter , German politician (* 1885 )
• February 16 : Edward Thomas Copson , British mathematician (* 1901 )
• February 16 : Kurt Frör , German Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1905 )
• February 16 : Erich Hückel , German chemist and physicist (* 1896 )
• February 17 : Oskar Paulini , German writer (* 1904 )
• February 19 : Paul August , German painter and graphic artist (* 1906 )
• February 19 : Bon Scott , rock musician (* 1946 )
• February 20 : Joseph Banks Rhine , American psychologist (* 1895 )
• February 21 : Alfred Andersch , German writer and radio editor (* 1914 )
• February 21 : Aldo Andreotti , Italian mathematician (* 1924 )
• February 21 : Mario Lanzi , Italian athlete (* 1914 )
• February 21 : Peter Wiepert , farmer, Fehmarn homeland researcher, author (* 1890 )
• February 22nd : Jean Géraud André , French film architect and set designer (* 1916 )

• February 22nd : Oskar Kokoschka , Austrian painter and writer (* 1886 )
• February 22nd : Jerzy Lefeld , Polish composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1898 )
• February 23 : Enrico Celio , Swiss politician, Federal President (* 1889 )
• February 24 : Oliver Strunk , American musicologist and educator (* 1901 )
• February 25 : Wilton E. Hall , American politician (* 1901 )
• February 25 : Hans Staudinger , German politician (* 1889 )
• February 26 : Hobart Baumann Amstutz , American theologian and bishop (* 1896 )
• February 26 : Anthony John Arkell , British Egyptologist (* 1898 )
• February 29 : Jigal Allon , Israeli Labor Party politician (* 1918 )
• February 29 : Gil Elvgren , American pin-up and commercial artist (* 1914 )

March

• 0March 1 : Dixie Dean , English football player (* 1907 )
• 0March 1 : Eric Oliver , British motorcycle racer (* 1911 )
• 0March 2 : Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz , Polish writer (* 1894 )
• 0March 2 : Norbert Schlesinger , Austrian architect (* 1908 )
• 0March 3 : Forrest C. Donnell , American politician (* 1884 )
• 0March 4th : Anna Maria Strackerjan , German sculptor (* 1919 )
• 0March 5 : Winifred Wagner , director of the Bayreuth Festival (* 1897 )
• 0March 5 : Wilhelm Hoegner , German lawyer and politician (* 1887 )
• 0March 6 : James C. Shannon , American politician and lawyer (* 1896 )
• 0March 8 : Josef Kroll , German classical philologist (* 1889 )
• 0March 8 : Max Miedinger , Swiss graphic artist and typographer (* 1910 )
• 0March 8 : Otto Uhlmann , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1891 )
• 0March 9 : Olga Chekhova , German actress (* 1897 )
• March 10 : William Kroll , American violinist, composer and music teacher (* 1901 )
• March 11 : Karl-Maria Schley , German actor and radio play speaker (* 1908 )
• March 12 : Arthur Dobson , British racing car driver (* 1914 )
• March 13 : Tauno Pylkkänen , Finnish composer (* 1918 )
• March 14 : Manlio Giovanni Brosio , Italian politician (* 1897 )
• March 14th : Anna Jantar , Polish pop singer (* 1950 )
• March 14 : Mohammad Hatta , Vice President and Prime Minister of Indonesia (* 1902 )
• March 15 : Gerald Abrahams , British chess player, composer and author of mainly legal and chess-specific books (* 1907 )
• March 16 : Paul Thalmann , Swiss author and resistance fighter in the Spanish Civil War (* 1901 )
• March 17 : John M. Slack , American politician (* 1915 )
• March 18 : Tamara de Lempicka , Polish painter (* 1898 )
• March 18 : Erich Fromm , German psychoanalyst, philosopher and social psychologist (* 1900 )
• March 21 : Hans Dichgans , German politician (* 1907 )
• March 23 : Dietrich Keuning , German politician (* 1908 )
• March 23 : Anne-Cécile Rose-Itier , French racing car driver (* 1890 )
• March 24th : Óscar Romero , Roman Catholic Bishop (* 1917 )
• March 24th : Ernst Albert Altenkirch , SED functionary (* 1903 )
• March 25 : Milton H. Erickson , American psychiatrist and psychotherapist (* 1901 )
• March 25 : Walter Susskind , English conductor (* 1913 )
• March 26 : Roland Barthes , French philosopher, writer and literary critic (* 1915 )
• March 27 : Eduard Ernst Georg Arnold Agatz , German port construction engineer and port construction director (* 1891 )
• March 27 : Philip William Anderson , American film editor (born 1915 )
• March 28 : Dick Haymes , Argentine singer (* 1918 )
• March 29 : Annunzio Mantovani , Italian orchestra leader (* 1905 )
• March 31 : Arthur Kleiner , Austrian-American film composer (* 1903 )
• March 31 : Jesse Owens , American athlete (born 1913 )

April

Alfred Hitchcock († April 29)

• 0April 1 : Joachim Ansorge , German voice actor and actor (* 1939 )
• 0April 1 : Gomi Kōsuke , Japanese writer (* 1921 )
• 0April 1 : Ernst Siegfried Hansen , Editor-in-Chief and Secretary General of the Federation of German North Schleswig-Holstein (*  1917 )
• 0April 2 : George Wallach , British cross and long distance runner (* 1883 )
• 0April 4 : Aleksander Ford , Polish film director (* 1908 )
• 0April 5 : Max Brand , Austrian-American composer, pioneer of synthesizer and electronic music (* 1896 )
• 0April 6 : Hans Adt , German paper industrialist (* 1888 )
• 0April 7 : Charles Frederick Goodeve , Canadian chemist (* 1904 )
• 0April 8 : Lionel Parent , Canadian singer and composer (* 1905 )
• April 12 : Maria Dietz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1894 )
• April 12th : Clark McConachy , New Zealand snooker player and world champion in English billiards (* 1895 )
• April 12 : William R. Tolbert, Jr. , President of Liberia (born 1913 )
• April 13 : Abel Ferreira , Brazilian composer, clarinetist and saxophonist (* 1915 )
• April 14 : Gianni Rodari , Italian writer (* 1920 )
• April 14 : Toki Zenmaro , Japanese journalist, poet and literary scholar (* 1885 )
• April 15 : Wendell Engstrom Hoss , American horn player (* 1892 )
• April 15 : Jean-Paul Sartre , French philosopher, founder of existentialism (* 1905 )
• April 19 : Reinhard Cherubim , German chess player, chess journalist, chess official (* 1906 )
• April 20 : Helmut Käutner , German film director and actor (* 1908 )
• April 20 : Heinrich Köppler , German politician (* 1925 )
• April 22nd : August von Finck , German banker (* 1898 )
• April 22nd : Fritz Straßmann , German scientist (* 1902 )
• April 22nd : Jan Liwacz , Polish prisoner of the Auschwitz I concentration camp (* 1898 )
• April 24 : Alejo Carpentier , Cuban-French writer (* 1904 )
• April 24 : Thomas K. Finletter , American lawyer and government official (* 1893 )
• April 25 : Mario Bava , Italian film director, cameraman and screenwriter (* 1914 )
• April 25 : Katia Mann , wife of Thomas Mann (* 1883 )
• April 25 : Albert Tönjes , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1920 )
• April 28 : Andrija Anković , Yugoslav football player and coach (* 1937 )
• April 29th : Alfred Hitchcock , English film director and film producer (* 1899 )

May

• 0May 2 : George Pal , Hungarian film producer and director (* 1908 )
• 0May 4 : Siegfried Böhm , SED functionary and Minister of Finance of the GDR (* 1928 )
• 0May 4th : Joe Henderson , British piano player (born 1920 )

Josip Broz Tito , 1961

• 0May 4th : Josip Broz Tito , Yugoslav politician, Prime Minister and President (* 1892 )
• 0May 6 : Klas Anshelm , Swedish architect and artist (* 1914 )
• 0May 6 : Adele Kern , German opera and operetta singer (* 1901 )
• 0May 8 : Sam Coon , American politician (* 1903 )
• 0May 8 : Higashiyama Chieko , Japanese actress (* 1890 )
• 0May 8 : Farrochru Parsa , Iranian minister, educator and doctor (* 1922 )
• 0May 9 : Joseph Breitbach , German writer, journalist (* 1903 )
• May 10 : Hans Bohn , German typographer, graphic artist and teacher (* 1891 )
• May 15 : Len Lye , New Zealand sculptor, artist, writer and filmmaker (* 1901 )
• May 15 : Jóhann Hafstein , Icelandic politician (* 1915 )
• May 16 : Heinrich Beerbom , Mayor and City Director of Bramsche (* 1892 )
• May 17 : Harold Joseph Connolly , Canadian journalist and Prime Minister (born 1901 )
• May 17th : Maria Kurenko , Russian singer (* 1890 )
• May 18th : Ian Curtis , singer of the English rock band Joy Division (* 1956 )
• May 18 : David A. Johnston , American volcanologist (born 1949 )
• May 18th : Harry R. Truman , American innkeeper who refused to evacuate when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980 (* 1896 )
• May 20 : Francesco Severi , Italian racing car driver (* 1907 )
• May 21 : Ida Kamińska , Polish-Jewish actress (* 1899 )
• May 21 : Vivian Langrish , English pianist and music teacher (* 1894 )
• May 22 : Elisabeth de Meuron , aristocratic personality in Bern (* 1882 )
• May 25 : Josef Giggenbach , German motorcycle racer (* 1906 )
• May 25 : Herbert Nachbar , German writer (GDR) (* 1930 )
• May 27 : Karaki Junzō , Japanese literary scholar (* 1904 )
• May 27 : Richard Oelze , German Surrealist painter (* 1900 )
• May 28 : Rolf Nevanlinna , Finnish mathematician (* 1895 )
• 00.May: Jimmy Voytek , American country and rockabilly musician (* 1938 )

June

Vasja Pirc

• 0June 2 : Vasja Pirc , Slovenian chess player (* 1907 )
• 0June 3 : Naum Ilyich Achijeser , Ukrainian mathematician (* 1901 )
• 0June 5 : Lauritz Lauritzen , German politician (* 1910 )
• 0June 5 : Margret Dünser , Austrian journalist (* 1926 )
• 0June 6 : Ruth Hughes Aarons , American table tennis player (* 1918 )
• 0June 7th : Henry Miller , American writer (* 1891 )
• 0June 7th : Marian Spychalski , Polish Stalinist politician (* 1906 )
• 0June 8 : Ernst Busch , German singer, cabaret artist, actor and director (* 1900 )
• 0June 8 : Greta Schröder , German actress (* 1892 )
• 0June 8 : Alfredo Brilhante da Costa , Brazilian soccer player (* 1904 )
• June 10 : Hans-Dietrich von Diepenbroick-Grueter , German antiquarian and collector of portraits (* 1902 )
• June 11 : Bolesław Woytowicz , Polish composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1899 )
• June 12 : Gerónimo Arnedo Álvarez , Argentine politician (* 1897 )
• June 12 : Josef Knecht , German publisher (* 1897 )

Milburn Stone as Dr. Galen "Doc" Adams in the television series Smoking Colts

• June 12 : Milburn Stone , American actor (born 1904 )
• June 13 : Walter Rodney , historian and politician from Guyana (* 1942 )
• June 13 : Ludwig Raiser , Professor of Civil, Commercial and Business Law (* 1904 )
• June 14th : Herman Autrey , member of the band "Fats Waller & his Rhythm" (* 1904 )
• June 15 : Sergio Pignedoli , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1910 )
• June 16 : Fritz Huth , German horn player and horn teacher (* 1908 )
• June 16 : Bob Nolan , founding member of the Sons Of The Pioneers (* 1908 )
• June 17 : Eduard Büchsel , German organist and cantor and church music director (* 1917 )
• June 18 : Robert Hoernschemeyer , American football player (born 1925 )
• June 18 : Kazimierz Kuratowski , Polish mathematician (* 1896 )
• June 18 : André Leducq , French cyclist (* 1904 )
• June 19 : Georges Hugon , French composer (* 1904 )
• June 21 : Bert Kaempfert , German composer and orchestra leader (* 1923 )
• June 23 : Adrien Drancé , French racing car driver (* 1891 )
• June 23 : Sanjay Gandhi , Indian politician, son of Indira Gandhi (* 1946 )
• June 23 : Clyfford Still , American painter (born 1904 )
• June 23 : Eugène Verpault , French racing car driver (* 1885 )
• June 26 : K-Ximbinho , Brazilian clarinetist and composer (* 1917 )
• June 27 : Barney Bigard , American clarinetist (* 1906 )
• June 27 : Walter Dornberger , engineer and head of the German missile weapons program (* 1895 )
• June 28 : Harold Gleason , American organist, music teacher and musicologist (* 1892 )
• June 28 : Yoshiro Irino , Japanese composer (* 1921 )
• June 29 : Vera Schwarz , German harpsichordist (* 1929 )
• June 30th : Franz Xaver von Hornstein , Swiss Catholic clergyman, pastoral theologian and university professor (* 1892 )
• June 30 : Walter Zimmermann , German biologist and botanist (* 1892 )

July

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi († July 27)

• 0July 1 : Charles Percy Snow , English scientist and writer (* 1905 )
• 0July 2 : Sócrates Nolasco , Dominican writer, essayist, historian, politician and diplomat (* 1884 )
• 0July 4th : Gregory Bateson , Anglo-American anthropologist and cyberneticist (* 1904 )
• 0July 4th : Friedrich Tamms , architect, professor at the TH Berlin under fascism (* 1904 )
• 0July 5 : Thaddäus Troll , German writer (* 1914 )
• 0July 9 : Vinícius de Moraes , Brazilian poet (* 1913 )
• 0July 9 : Jorge Délano Frederick , Chilean painter, caricaturist, director and screenwriter (* 1895 )
• July 11 : Zygmunt Berling , Polish general and politician (* 1896 )
• July 12 : William Armstrong , British government official and banker (born 1915 )
• July 13 : Juan García Oliver , Spanish anarchist and syndicalist (* 1901 )
• July 13 : Seretse Khama , first President of Botswana (* 1921 )
• July 15 : Friedrich Behrens , main representative of the New Economic System in the GDR (* 1909 )
• July 15 : Ben Selvin , American band leader (* 1898 )
• July 16 : William Chalmers , Scottish football player and coach (* 1907 )
• July 18 : Josef Blatný , Czech composer and organist (* 1891 )
• July 18 : Andrée Vaurabourg-Honegger , French pianist and music teacher (* 1894 )
• July 19 : Margaret Craven , American writer (* 1901 )
• July 19 : Wolfgang Frank , German writer (* 1909 )
• July 19 : Hans Morgenthau , German lawyer and political scientist (* 1904 )
• July 19 : Heinrich Kiefer , German painter and graphic artist (* 1911 )
• July 21 : Salah ad-Din al-Bitar , Arab nationalist (* 1912 )
• July 21 : Keith Godchaux , American musician (* 1948 )
• July 22nd : Hans-Georg Bürger , German automobile racing driver (* 1952 )
• July 23 : William H. Wright , American film and television producer and screenwriter (* 1902 )
• July 23 : Mollie Steimer , Russian anarchist (* 1897 )

Peter Sellers , 1973

• July 24th : Peter Sellers , English actor (born 1925 )
• July 25 : Juliane Plambeck , German terrorist (* 1952 )
• July 25 : Wilhelm Reitz , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1904 )
• July 25 : Vladimir Semjonowitsch Vysotsky , Russian actor, poet and singer (* 1938 )
• July 26 : Federico Munerati , Italian football player and coach (* 1901 )
• July 27 : Rushdy Said Bughdady Abaza , Egyptian actor (* 1926 )
• July 27 : Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Shah of Persia (* 1919 )
• July 29 : Adelbert Mühlschlegel , German Bahai (* 1897 )
• July 30th : Louis Pons , French racing driver (* 1914 )
• July 30 : Elli Schmidt , chairwoman of the Democratic Women's Federation of Germany (DFD) in the GDR (* 1908 )

August

• 0August 2 : Eduard Platner , German politician (* 1894 )
• 0August 4 : Joseph Ashbrook , American astronomer (* 1918 )
• 0August 4th : Georg Aumann , German mathematician (* 1906 )
• 0August 4th : Vicente de la Mata , Argentinian football player (* 1918 )
• 0August 5 : Harold L. Runnels , American politician (* 1924 )

Jacqueline Cochran

• 0August 9 : Jacqueline Cochran , American pilot (* 1906 )
• August 11th : Willi Forst , Austrian actor, screenwriter, director and producer (* 1903 )
• August 12 : Tachihara Masaaki , Japanese writer (* 1926 )
• August 12 : Manuel Tato , Argentine theologian (* 1907 )
• August 17 : Harold Campbell Adamson , American composer, film composer and songwriter (* 1906 )
• August 17 : Gwen Bristow , American journalist and writer (* 1903 )
• August 18 : Norman Cazden , American composer (* 1914 )
• August 19 : Otto Heinrich Frank , father of Anne Frank (* 1889 )
• August 20 : Joe Dassin , French singer (* 1938 )
• August 22 : Gabriel González Videla , Chilean politician (* 1898 )
• August 22 : Alfred Neubauer , race director of the Mercedes Grand Prix team from 1926 to 1955 (* 1891 )
• August 22 : Erich Sternberg , German-Russian geriatric psychiatrist (* 1903 )
• August 23 : Gerhard Hanappi , Austrian football player (* 1929 )
• August 26 : Tex Avery , director and illustrator of cartoons (* 1908 )
• August 29 : Franco Basaglia , Italian psychiatrist (* 1924 )

September

• 0September 3 : Fabian von Schlabrendorff , German officer and resistance fighter against Hitler (* 1907 )
• 0September 4 : Wolfgang Gentner , German physicist (* 1906 )
• 0September 5 : Barbara Loden , American actress (* 1932 )
• 0September 7th : Ernst Cramer , Swiss gardener and landscape architect (* 1898 )
• 0September 8 : Wilhelm Andersen , German theologian (* 1911)
• 0September 8 : Hermann Claudius , German poet (* 1878 )
• 0September 9 : José de Anchieta Fontana , Brazilian football player (* 1940 )
• September 12 : Magdalena Aebi , Swiss philosopher (* 1898 )
• September 12 : János Balogh , Hungarian correspondence chess player (* 1892 )
• September 12th : André Chéron , French chess endgame theorist (* 1895 )
• September 13 : Joseph Suder , German composer and conductor (* 1892 )
• September 14 : Gerhard Latzel , German problem composer (* 1912 )
• September 15 : Bill Evans , American jazz pianist (* 1929 )
• September 15 : Hans Herbert Schweitzer , Reich Commissioner for Artistic Design in the Third Reich (* 1901 )
• September 16 : Kaspar Muther , Swiss composer, clarinet and soprano saxophone player (* 1909 )
• September 16 : Jean Piaget , Swiss developmental psychologist (* 1896 )
• September 17 : Anastasio Somoza Debayle , President of Nicaragua (* 1925 )
• September 17th : Bianca Stagno Bellincioni , Italian singer and actress (* 1888 )
• September 20 : Josias Braun-Blanquet , Swiss botanist (* 1884 )
• September 21 : Waldir Azevedo , Brazilian composer and cavaquinho player (* 1923 )
• September 21 : Ernest White , Canadian organist and organ builder, choir director and music teacher (* 1901 )
• September 22nd : Jimmy Bryant , American country guitarist (* 1925 )
• September 22 : Kawakami Tetsutarō , Japanese writer (* 1902 )
• September 23 : Jiří Hrzán , Czech actor (* 1939 )
• September 25 : John Bonham , drummer (* 1948 )
• September 25 : Charles H. Elston , American politician (* 1891 )
• September 25 : Lewis Milestone , American film director, screenwriter and film producer (* 1895 )
• September 26 : Pat Hare , American blues musician (* 1930 )
• September 26 : Gundolf Köhler , German neo-Nazi (* 1959 )
• September 27th : Dietrich von Saucken , German general (* 1892 )

October

• 0October 3 : Alberic O'Kelly de Galway , Belgian chess player (* 1911 )
• 0October 3 : Melvin Thompson , American politician, Governor of Georgia (* 1903 )
• 0October 4 : Eugène Aisberg , Russian-French science journalist (* 1905 )
• 0October 6 : Felix Slavik , Austrian mechanic and politician (* 1912 )
• 0October 8 : Maria Holst , Austrian theater and film actress (* 1917 )
• 0October 8 : Maurice Martenot , inventor of the Ondes Martenot (* 1898 )
• 0October 8 : Roland Schnell , German motorcycle racer (* 1921 )
• October 10 : Carlo Annovazzi , Italian football player (* 1925 )
• October 10 : Auguste Veuillet , French racing car driver and entrepreneur (* 1910 )
• October 13 : Charles Philip "Gabby" , Hawaiian steel guitarist (* 1921 )
• October 15 : Bobby Lester , American singer (born 1930 )
• October 15 : Mikhail Alexejewitsch Lavrentjew , Russian mathematician and physicist (* 1900 )
• October 17 : Karl Brückel , German actor, theater director, singer and radio play speaker (* 1881 )

Richard Gavin Reid

• October 17 : Richard Gavin Reid , Canadian politician (* 1879 )
• October 18 : Hans Ehard , German lawyer and politician (CSU) (* 1887 )
• October 19 : Georg Rasch , Danish statistician (* 1901 )
• October 20 : Robert Whittaker , American botanist, climatologist and university professor (* 1920 )
• October 21 : Hans Asperger , Austrian pediatrician (* 1906 )
• October 22 : Sammy Angott , American lightweight boxer (* 1915 )
• October 25 : Herb Stein , American football player (* 1898 )
• October 25 : Virgil Keel Fox , American organist (* 1912 )
• October 26 : Marcelo Caetano , Portuguese dictator (* 1906 )
• October 27 : John H. van Vleck , American physicist (* 1899 )
• October 28 : Benvenuto Terzi , Italian composer and concert guitarist (* 1892 )
• October 30 : Eberhard Brünen , German politician (* 1906 )
• October 31 : Edelmiro Julián Farrell , Argentine President (* 1887 )

November

• 0November 1 : Rudolf Singer , German chairman of the State Committee for Broadcasting (* 1915 )
• 0November 3 : Ludwig Hohl , Swiss author (* 1904 )
• 0November 3rd : Schaggi Streuli , Swiss screenwriter, cabaret artist and dialect actor (* 1899 )
• 0November 6th : Erik Asklund , Swedish writer and screenwriter (* 1908 )
• 0November 6th : Jean-François Piot , French rally and circuit racing driver (* 1938 )
• 0November 6th : Pierre Villon , founder of the newspaper L'Humanité, French politician (* 1901 )

Steve McQueen .

• 0November 7th : Steve McQueen , American actor and amateur racing driver (* 1930 )
• 0November 7th : Adrienne Thomas , German writer (* 1897 )
• 0November 7th : Wolfgang Weyrauch , German writer and radio play author (* 1904 )
• 0November 8th : Friedo Dörfel , German football player (* 1915 )
• 0November 9 : Fritz Lattke , German painter (* 1895 )
• November 10 : Hans Reiffenstuel , representational painter (* 1894 )
• November 11th : Louis Charavel , French racing car driver (* 1890 )
• November 12 : Andrei Alexejewitsch Amalrik , Russian historian, publicist, writer and dissident (* 1938 )
• November 13th : Herbert Krebs , German forester and hunting author (* 1901 )
• November 14th : Friedrich Heinrichsen , German type artist (* 1901 )
• November 15 : Harri Larva , Finnish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion (* 1906 )
• November 15 : Emilio Pujol , Spanish guitarist and composer (* 1886 )
• November 16 : Frank Luther , American country music (* 1900 )
• November 17th : Bruno Gleitze , German economist and politician (* 1903 )
• November 19 : Abu'l-Qasim Faizi , Iranian Bahai (* 1906 )
• November 20 : Eugenia Umińska , Polish violinist and music teacher (* 1910 )
• November 22nd : Mae West , American film actress and screenwriter (* 1893 )
• November 23 : Hans Sylvius Hermann Maria von Aulock , German banker and numismatist (* 1906 )
• November 24th : George Raft , American actor (born 1901 )
• November 26th : Peter DePaolo , American racing car driver (* 1898 )
• November 26 : Conrad A. Nervig , American film editor (* 1889 )
• November 26 : Konrad Wachsmann , German architect and engineer (* 1901 )
• November 27 : René Dreux , French racing car driver (* 1891 )
• November 27 : Andrzej Rudziński , Polish graphic artist and art educator (* 1910 )
• November 28 : Mia May , Austrian silent film actress (* 1884 )
• November 29 : Dorothy Day , American social activist (* 1897 )
• November 29 : Ray Hanken , American football player (born 1911 )

December

John Lennon († December 8)

• 0December 2 : Takakichi Asō , Japanese entrepreneur and politician (* 1911 )
• 0December 2 : Romain Gary , French writer (* 1914 )
• 0December 3 : Oswald Mosley , British fascist politician (* 1896 )
• 0December 4 : Stanisława Walasiewicz , Polish-American athlete (* 1911 )
• 0December 4 : Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe , UN politician and diplomat from Sri Lanka (* 1913 )
• 0December 5 : Mary Lavater-Sloman , German writer (* 1891 )
• 0December 7th : Darby Crash , American punk rock musician (* 1958 )
• 0December 8th : Petar Trifunović , Yugoslav chess master (* 1910 )
• 0December 8 : John Lennon , British musician (The Beatles) (* 1940 )
• December 11 : Viktoria Luise von Prussia , Duchess of Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Princess of Prussia (* 1892 )
• December 12 : Jean Lesage , Canadian politician (* 1912 )
• December 13 : Hans von Helms , German Nazi politician, SA group leader (* 1899 )
• December 15 : Peter Gregg , American racing driver (* 1940 )
• December 16 : Hellmuth Walter , German technician, entrepreneur (* 1900 )
• December 18 : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Kosygin , Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (* 1904 )
• December 18 : Conrad Ahlers , German SPD politician (* 1922 )
• December 19 : Nasrollah Entezam , Iranian politician (* 1900 )
• December 22nd : Thomas Valentin , German writer (* 1922 )
• December 23 : Alec Wilder , American composer (* 1907 )
• December 24 : Karl Dönitz , Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy in World War II (* 1891 )
• December 25th : Erwin Moritz Herbert Guttmann , German chess problem composer (* 1909 )
• December 26 : Egidio Vagnozzi , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1906 )
• December 27th : Fritz Schröder-Jahn , German actor and radio play director (* 1908 )
• December 29th : Oskar Matzner , German politician (* 1898 )
• December 29th : Tim Hardin , American musician (* 1941 )
• December 30th : Volker von Törne , German poet and writer (* 1934 )
• December 30th : Guus de Serière , Dutch football player (* 1893 )
• December 31 : Raoul Walsh , American film director (* 1887 )
• December 31 : Marshall McLuhan , communications and literary scholar (* 1911 )
• 00.December: Placide Morency , Canadian singer (* 1887 )

Day unknown

• Antoine Adam , French Romance studies and literary scholar (* 1899 )
• Dante Agostini , French drummer (* 1921 )
• Rosa Alarco Larrabure , Peruvian musicologist, composer and choir director (* 1911 )
• Josef Augustin , German folk musician (* 1929 )
• Marino Auriti , Italian-American artist (* 1891 )
• Glore Becker-Bettermann , German painter (* 1904 )
• Franz Bieber , German motorcycle racer, motorsport official and entrepreneur (* 1892 )
• Peter Broeker , Canadian racing car driver (* 1929 )
• Adolfo Costa du Rels , Bolivian writer, diplomat and politician (* 1891 )
• Abdollah Davami , Iranian singer (* 1899 )
• August Eichhorn , German musician and professor (* 1899 )

Nobel Prizes

• Physics : James Cronin and Val Fitch
• Chemistry : Paul Berg , Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger
• Medicine : Baruj Benacerraf , Jean Dausset and George D. Snell
• Literature : Czesław Miłosz
• Nobel Peace Prize : Adolfo Maria Pérez Esquivel
• Economics : Lawrence Klein

music

Band foundations

• Böhse Onkelz
• Bad religion
• Depeche Mode
• Grave Digger
• Manowar
• New order
• New Model Army
• SEM

Others

• The Swedish pop group ABBA published alongside the two hit singles The Winner Takes It All and Super Trouper their penultimate album Super Trouper , which sells end of the year more than 4 million times.
• AC / DC's most successful album Back in Black is released
• Releases numerous debut albums by bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal , including Iron Maiden , Def Leppard and Angel Witch .
• Van Halen bring Women and Children First out
• Johnny Logan wins the 25th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on April 19 in The Hague with the song What's Another Year for Ireland
• List of number one hits in Germany (1980)
• List of number one hits in Austria (1980)
• List of number one hits in Switzerland (1980)

Oscar winner

• Best film: A perfectly normal family
• Best Director: Robert Redford for directing A Normal Family
• Best Actress: Sissy Spacek for her role in Nashville Lady
• Best Actor: Robert De Niro for his role in Like a Wild Bull
• Best foreign language film: The Tin Drum

Web links

Commons : 1980  - 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 (1980) in the Federal Archives
• Year 1980 by Frank Rübertus