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Calendar overview 1981
Map with all linked pages: | 1981 | |
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 Launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia |
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| Bucks Fizz win the Eurovision Song Contest with Making Your Mind Up . | |
| Annual dedications | |
| United Nations : " Ataturk Year " and " International Year of the Disabled " | |
| Flower of the year (Germany): yellow daffodil | |
| Bird of the Year (Germany): Black Woodpecker | |
| Word of the year : zero solution | |
| 1981 in other calendars | |
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| From urbe condita | 2734 |
| Armenian calendar | 1429-1430 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1973-1974 |
| Badi calendar | 137-138 |
| Bengali calendar | 1387-1388 |
| Berber calendar | 2931 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2525 |
| Burmese calendar | 1343 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7489-7490 |
| Chinese calendar | |
| - era | 4677-4678 or 4617-4618 |
| - 60 year cycle |
Metal monkey (庚申, 57) - |
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French revolutionary calendar |
CLXXXIX - CXC 189-190 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5741-5742 |
| Hindu calendar | |
| - Vikram Sambat | 2037-2038 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1903-1904 |
| Iranian calendar | 1359-1360 |
| Islamic calendar | 1401-1402 |
| Japanese calendar | |
| - Nengō (era): | Shōwa 56 |
| - Kōki | 2641 |
| Coptic Calendar | 1697-1698 |
| Korean calendar | |
| - Dangun era | 4314 |
| - Juche era | 70 |
| Minguo calendar | 70 |
| Modern Olympics | XXII |
| Seleucid calendar | 2292-2293 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2524 |
The year 1981 was mainly dominated by the peace movement . The Cold War , which had relaxed somewhat after the end of the Vietnam War with the fatigue of those involved, regained its rhetorical sharpness. In 1979, two years earlier, Soviet troops had marched into Afghanistan under Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev , which drew the world's attention to Central Asia . At the same time, the US lost its outpost there with the Islamic Revolution in Iran . The SALT II talks between the great powers had failed, so NATO relied on its double decision . With Ronald Reagan , a Republican became President of the United States in 1981 , whose stated aim was to win the arms race against the Warsaw Pact . The divided Europe should play a key role as the basis for medium-range nuclear missiles .
Against this background, peace rallies took place in Germany and throughout Europe in 1981, the largest of which, on November 21 in Amsterdam , attracted 400,000 people. The protests were part of a larger underground culture that included the environmental movement , anti-nuclear activists and the squatter scene.
Events
Poland
As a reaction to the desolate situation in the People's Republic of Poland , a new, independent trade union, Solidarność , was founded in 1980, to which around 10 million out of 16 million workers already belonged in November 1980 (see also the August strikes ). After the first strikes, hardliners in the Politburo were exchanged for moderate politicians; after that the situation eased. Nevertheless, the Soviet Union and the CPSU ( ruled by Leonid Brezhnev from 1964–1982 ) increased the pressure on the PVAP to fight the “ counterrevolution ” and repeatedly organized maneuvers near the Polish borders.
In the spring of 1981 there were repeated violent clashes between state organs and trade union activists. As the economic situation deteriorated further, wildcat strikes increased. In this decisive phase the tried and tested mediation options of the Church in Poland were also limited because the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II had been carried out in May and Primate Stefan Wyszyński also died on May 28 .
After the first state congress of Solidarność in September 1981 decided on an even stronger political commitment and sent a message to all workers in the other socialist countries, the PVAP leadership finally decided on the confrontation course. At the 4th Central Committee Plenum from October 16 to 18, party leader Stanisław Kania was replaced by General Wojciech Jaruzelski, who is a hardliner defense minister . Despite Solidarność's willingness to compromise, the night of December 12th and 13th, 1981, the military and security organs took power in Poland. General Jaruzelski announced the imposition of martial law in a televised address . The union's leadership was arrested in Gdansk and its chairman, Lech Wałęsa (later President of Poland), was placed under house arrest. Regional leaders, heads of works committees and opposition intellectuals, a total of several thousand people, were interned in camps. It was not until July 1983 that martial law was officially repealed.
Egypt
The Egyptian President Anwar as-Sadat was assassinated on October 6th during a military parade. Sadat had already isolated Egypt in the Arab world in 1979 through the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty . He made additional internal enemies when he cracked down on numerous Muslim and Coptic organizations and student groups in September and there were around 1,600 arrests. In addition, Egypt got into an economic crisis. The Islamic clergyman Omar Abdel-Rahman , who was later convicted for his role in the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, supported the attack with a fatwa .
The attack could be followed live on television. As a Mirage fighter plane overflight distracted the crowd, a troop carrier pulled up in front of the President's box and a lieutenant stepped forward. While Sadat got up to receive the salute, the assassins got out of the truck, threw grenades and shot the president. In the following exchange of fire, seven people were killed, including the Cuban ambassador, and 28 were injured, including the Foreign Minister and later UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali .
Gambia
The Gambia was rocked by a violent coup in 1981. In the aftermath of the coup, the Gambia and Senegal signed a treaty on December 12, 1981, which provided for the unification of the armed forces, the currency and the economic area in the Confederation of Senegambia . This confederation existed from February 1, 1982 to September 30, 1989, when the Gambia left the federal government.
Annual dedications
- 1981 is the " International Year of the Disabled " by the United Nations .
- The black woodpecker (Dryocopus martius) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany).
Politics and world events
January
- January 1st : Kurt Furgler becomes President of Switzerland again .
- January 1 : The Tax Relief Act (StEntlG) comes into force in the Federal Republic of Germany , and legal aid (PKH) replaces the previous poor law .
- January 1st : Greece becomes the tenth full member of the European Community .
- January 1st : Abdou Diouf becomes President of Senegal .
- January 4th : British truck driver Peter Sutcliffe is arrested by police as a suspected Yorkshire ripper .
- January 5th : Epiphany meeting of the Baden-Wuerttemberg FDP , one agrees to work with the SPD if the FDP becomes independent.
- January 5 : Iran's first counter-offensive takes place in the Iran -Iraq war . In the tank battle near Susangerd , 50 Iraqi and 140 of around 400 attacking Iranian tanks are destroyed.
- January 6 : Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt discusses with King Hassan II in Morocco . the problems of the Middle East.
- January 6 : Libya announces its agreement with Chad to unite the two states.
- January 6th : Gaston Thorn becomes the new President of the EC Commission
- January 8 : The Soviet chief interpreter at the disarmament negotiations in Vienna , Nikolai Koroljuk , fled to the Federal Republic of Germany.
- January 10 : A major offensive by left-wing guerrillas begins in El Salvador ; the government imposes martial law .
- January 13 : The Polish labor leader Lech Wałęsa travels to Italy on a week-long visit and is received by Pope John Paul II and three union bosses.
- January 14th : The international conference on Namibia ends in Geneva with no result.
- January 15 : The Berlin Senate under Dietrich Stobbe resigns.
- January 15 : Judge Giovanni D'Urso is released by the Red Brigades ; he was kidnapped on December 12, 1980 .
- January 17th : Martial law, which has existed for eight years, is repealed in the Philippines .
- January 19 : The agreement between Iran and the United States for the release of American hostages is signed by both parties; the USA say in it, inter alia. to freeze the Shah's assets in the USA, to renounce sanctions against the Iranian government and not to interfere in the internal affairs of Iran in the future.
- January 20 : Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the 40th President of the United States. He takes over from Jimmy Carter .
- January 20 : After the agreed ransom of $ 8 million has been placed in Algerian trust accounts, the 52 American hostages are released after 444 days and flown via Algeria to Wiesbaden , where they will be cared for in a military hospital until their flight home on January 25.
- January 21 : The day after the end of his term as US President, Jimmy Carter visits Wiesbaden to meet the hostages raised in Iran.
- January 22nd : The Soviet writer and Germanist Lev Kopelew is expatriated from the Soviet Union after living in the Federal Republic of Germany since November 1980 .
- January 23 : South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae-jung is pardoned by the government to life imprisonment after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence .
- January 23 : Hans-Jochen Vogel ( SPD ) is elected by the Berlin House of Representatives to succeed Dietrich Stobbe as Governing Mayor after he had resigned as Federal Minister of Justice the day before .
- January 25 : The verdict in the trial of the Gang of Four in Beijing is announced: death penalty for Mao Zedong's widow , Jiang Qing ; she receives a respite.
- January 28 : Jürgen Schmude (SPD) succeeds Hans-Jochen Vogel as Federal Minister of Justice. Björn Engholm (SPD) takes over Schmude's Office for Education and Science .
- January 29 : Spain . Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez resigns
- January 30th : Large demonstration against nuclear power plants in the Federal Republic of Germany in Brokdorf near Itzehoe
February
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- February 1st : With a 10-1 victory over Scotland , the German national hockey team becomes European indoor hockey champions .
- February 2 : At a special party conference of the Hamburg SPD , a resolution is passed against participation in the construction of the Brokdorf nuclear power plant .
- February 3 : In Manila , the Philippine police storm the Iranian embassy, which is occupied by Iranian students.
- February 3 : Gro Harlem Brundtland is elected Norway's first female prime minister . The next day she takes over this office.
- February 4th : Maurice Bignami , head of the terrorist organization “ Prima Linea ” , is arrested in Turin .
- February 5 : The 37th Franco-German summit takes place in Paris ; Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt discusses the worsening international situation with President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing .
- February 5 : The GDR relaxes its regulations on the minimum exchange rate when western visitors enter the country to the effect that people accompanying the severely disabled and the blind are not brought in.
- February 6th : Klaus Bölling arrives as the new permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in the GDR, where he pays his inaugural visit to the Chairman of the State Council, Erich Honecker, on March 9th .
- February 9 : Józef Pińkowski resigns as Prime Minister of Poland , successor on February 11 is Defense Minister General Wojciech Jaruzelski , who is presenting a 10-point program for restructuring the Polish economy.
- February 10 : The Polish Supreme Court ruled that the establishment of farmers' unions was inadmissible.
- February 10 : Anwar as-Sadat is the first Arab head of state to address the European Parliament in Luxembourg ; he calls on Israel and the Palestinians to recognize each other.
- February 12 : A five-day non-aligned conference comes to an end in New Delhi , marked by differences over the position of some pro-Soviet member states.
- February 14 : More than 100,000 farmers demonstrate in several major West German cities against the agricultural policy of the federal government and the EC ; they charge about 15% higher prices on agricultural products.
- January 15 : A speech by SED leader Erich Honecker is quoted in the GDR media, surprisingly about the unification of the two German states.
- February 16 : Pope John Paul II begins a twelve-day trip to East Asia , initially with a stopover in Pakistan .
- February 18 : In Mexico City, security forces storm the Guatemala embassy, which is occupied by students and farmers .
- February 18 : The Defense Committee of the German Bundestag constitutes itself as a committee of inquiry to clarify the circumstances and background of the procurement of the Tornado fighter aircraft .
- February 20 : In the Basque Country , the ambassadors of Austria, Uruguay and El Salvador are kidnapped and released on February 28 .
- February 21 : Bomb attacks are carried out on the US radio stations “ Radio Free Europe ” and “ Radio Liberty ” ( Munich ), eight people are injured, some seriously.
- February 23 : In Spain there is an attempted coup in the Parliament ( Cortes Generales ) with the taking hostage of 350 members of the Guardia Civil and the officer corps under the leadership of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero , which is suppressed the following day, see 23-F .
- February 25 : Spain. Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo becomes the new Prime Minister
- February 27 : The Berlin SPD elects former Senator for Science Peter Glotz as the new state chairman at its state party conference .
- February 28 : The large demonstration near Brokdorf is the largest demonstration in the Federal Republic of Germany to date: 50,000 to 100,000 demonstrators take part in a largely peaceful march against the planned Brokdorf nuclear power plant and are accompanied by around 10,000 police officers.
March
- March 2 : Defense Minister Ahmed Badawi and 13 other senior military officials die in a helicopter crash in Egypt .
- March 2nd : The Spanish soccer player Enrique Castro (Quini) is kidnapped and freed by the police on March 25th .
- March 2 : A Boeing 720 operated by the Pakistani airline PIA with 137 passengers and 11 crew members is hijacked and forced to land in Kabul ; The kidnappers demand the release of 90 political prisoners held in Pakistan, shoot a passenger on March 6th and land the plane again in Damascus on March 9th - 54 Pakistani prisoners are released and flown to Syria.
- March 3 : At the 26th party congress of the CPSU , Leonid Brezhnev is confirmed as general secretary and the entire party leadership is confirmed in their offices.
- March 4 : German President Karl Carstens visits India (until March 9), where he meets Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and other leading politicians.
- March 5 : In Nuremberg , 141 people are arrested after vandalism at a demonstration in the KOMM cultural center .
- March 5 : Two Turkish diplomats are killed by Armenian bombers in Paris .
- March 6 : The then 31-year-old Marianne Bachmeier shoots the alleged murderer of her daughter Anna in the Lübeck district court room.
- March 13 : An attack is carried out on the Reichstag building in Berlin , resulting in damage to property of 50,000 D-Marks; two of the three perpetrators are caught.
- March 15 : In Suriname , a coup, mostly right-wing circles, fails .
- March 15 : In the presidential election in the Central African Republic , the previous President Dacko emerged as the winner with a little more than 50% of the votes cast.
- March 16 : A coup is suppressed in Mauritania , but 85 people are killed.
- March 19 : The situation in Poland comes to a head after Solidarność union members were beaten up in Bydgoszcz .
- March 19 : The Federal Republic releases several GDR spies, including Christel Guillaume , to buy GDR prisoners out.
- March 19 : In the Iran-Iraq war , the Iranian side starts a major counter-offensive in the Battle of Dezful , which ultimately remains without a winner.
- March 20 : Maria Estela Peron , former president, is sentenced to eight years in prison in Argentina .
- March 22nd : In the local elections in Hesse, the Greens achieve spectacular profits, while the CDU and SPD incur more or less large losses.
- March 26 : In the UK establish former members of the Labor Party , the Socialist Party of Great Britain .
- March 27 : A Boeing 737 of the Honduran airline TAN Honduras destined for New Orleans is hijacked by members of the left-wing national liberation movement to Managua ( Nicaragua ), where the hijackers give up on March 29 and release their 49 hostages.
- March 28 : In Indonesia , an Indonesian airline DC-9 is kidnapped by Muslim terrorists and forced to Bangkok via Malaysia ; the kidnappers demand the release of 84 political prisoners in Indonesia and are overpowered by an elite commando on March 31, without harming the hostages.
- March 30 : US President Ronald Reagan is injured in an assassination attempt in Washington, DC, and assassin John Hinckley, Jr. is caught.
- March 30th : The German Interior Minister Gerhart Baum bids farewell to Horst Herold , head of the Federal Criminal Police Office since 1971 ; Heinrich Boge will be the new chief of the BKA from April 1st .
April
- April 1 : In Thailand , the " Young Turks " under the leadership of General San Chipatima attempt a coup against the government of Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda . The coup ended unsuccessfully on April 3rd and the subversive fled abroad.
- April 1 : Austria becomes the first associated member of the European Space Agency ESA .
- April 2 : The worst fighting between Syrian troops and Christian militias since 1978 breaks out in Lebanon ; Beirut and Zahlé are particularly hard hit.
- April 2nd : The Prime Minister of Belgium , Wilfried Martens , resigns due to profound differences of opinion with the socialist coalition partner, see April 6th .
- April 2 : The German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher visits Moscow until April 4 to hold talks with Andrei Gromyko and Leonid Brezhnev about missile armament in the West and East.
- April 3 : Samoa becomes a member of UNESCO .
- April 3 : As a result of unrest in the predominantly by Albanians inhabited province of Kosovo from March 11 imposed Yugoslavia a state of emergency; they demand an independent Republic of Kosovo within Yugoslavia.
- April 4 : In Israel , Moshe Dayan founds a new party, the Movement for National Renewal .
- April 6 : In Belgium, the previous finance minister, Mark Eyskens, is sworn in as the new prime minister.
- April 7th : A prison warden is shot dead by terrorists in Rome .
- April 8 : A bomb attack is carried out in the Neumarkt subway station in Cologne , injuring 7 people.
- April 10 : IRA terrorist Bobby Sands , sentenced to 14 years in prison, is elected to the British House of Commons .
- April 11th : Maxim Dmitrijewitsch Shostakowitsch and his son Dimitri leave for the West after a guest performance in Fürth .
- April 12th : First launch of a space shuttle , the Columbia space shuttle , after complications with a computer.
- April 16 : Sigurd Debus , who is counted on the terrorist scene, dies in a Hamburg hospital as a result of a hunger strike for improved prison conditions.
- April 17th : The Polish government agrees to officially recognize the “Solidarity of Private Farmers” trade union in an agreement .
- April 20 : Eight people die in a massacre in San Martin in El Salvador .
- April 22nd : The Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo visits the Federal Republic of Germany on his first trip abroad. to promote Spain's admission to the European Community and NATO .
- April 23 : The Bahamas becomes a member of UNESCO.
May
- May 1 : The Viennese city councilor Heinz Nittel is shot dead by a Palestinian .
- May 3 : Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin criticizes Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , calls him "greedy for money" and brings him close to National Socialism.
- May 4th : A mass trial of Italian terrorists begins in Turin .
- May 4 : Four security guards die in attacks in Madrid and Barcelona .
- May 4 : Ziaur Rahman , Prime Minister of Bangladesh , visits the Federal Republic.
- May 5 : Troubles break out in Northern Ireland following the death of IRA member Bobby Sands .
- May 7th : Three military men are killed in an attack in Madrid.
- May 10 : In the elections for the Berlin House of Representatives , the CDU wins with its top candidate Richard von Weizsäcker , the alternative list makes it into the state parliament; thus, after the end of the Senate of Dietrich Stobbe (SPD), his successor Hans-Jochen Vogel (SPD) also failed.
- May 10 : Presidential election in France 1981 : François Mitterrand succeeds Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as French President.
- May 11 : The Hessian Minister of Economic Affairs, Heinz-Herbert Karry , is shot dead by terrorists in his apartment in Frankfurt-Seckbach .
- May 11 : Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Great Britain and consults with Margaret Thatcher on the situation in the European Community after the change of presidency in France.
- May 12 : In Poland , the new union of private Polish farmers is also legally recognized.
- May 13 : Pistol assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II by the Turkish right-wing extremist Mehmet Ali Ağca
- May 17th : The President of Brazil , JB de Figueiredo visits the Federal Republic of Germany (until May 20th).
- May 19 : The Federal Court of Justice ruled that a person concerned has no right to be informed about the recipient of his data.
- May 20 : Chancellor Helmut Schmidt travels to the USA for talks, most important result: President Reagan reaffirms NATO's offer to the Soviet Union to limit arms .
- May 23 : A hostage situation occurs in Barcelona , in which 213 people are held in a bank building; one day later they are liberated by Spanish anti-terrorism special forces.
- May 24 : In the Greek part of Cyprus , the communists and the right-wing conservative “Democratic Alarm” party win 12 seats each.
- May 25 : Kuwait . Establishment of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) together with Saudi Arabia , Oman , Bahrain , Qatar and the United Arab Emirates .
- May 25 : The First Mayor of Hamburg , Hans-Ulrich Klose , resigns from his office.
- May 25 : In Bolivia , the second attempted coup fails within two weeks.
- May 26th : Parliamentary elections in the Netherlands : Christian Democrats remain the strongest party, but lose their majority together with the right-wing liberals; the Labor Party is losing heavily.
- May 26 : The Italian government resigns as a consequence of the affair surrounding the Freemason Lodge P2 .
- May 27 : The President of the GDR's Council of State, Erich Honecker , concludes a trade and shipping agreement in Japan ; Visit until May 31st.
- May 27 : When a reconnaissance plane crashes on the US aircraft carrier Nimitz , 14 people die and 48 are injured.
- May 30th : Bangladesh . Ziaur Rahman , successor to Mujibur Rahman , is murdered.
June
- June 1 : Naïm Khader , head of the PLO representation in Brussels , is shot dead in the street.
- June 2 : In a four-day session, the German Bundestag deliberates on the 1981 federal budget with a volume of 231.155 billion D-Marks - result 269: 225.
- June 7th : Israeli air strike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor Osirak , which is said to have been intended for the production of atomic bombs.
- June 9 : The North Hessian town of Wethen is proposed for the planned nuclear reprocessing plant in the Federal Republic of Germany .
- June 10th : The six-year-old Alfredo Rampi falls into a well about 80 meters deep near Rome ; he cannot be recovered alive despite a sensational rescue operation.
- June 11 : In Berlin , Richard von Weizsäcker is elected as the successor of Hans-Jochen Vogel as governing mayor with 69 out of 132 votes .
- June 11 : The ruling Fianna Fáil party under Charles Haughey loses in the general elections in Ireland .
- June 11 : A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck in the southern Iranian province of Kerman , killing at least 2,000 people.
- June 11 : 14 people are killed and 93 injured in a train accident near Erfurt .
- June 12 : The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel ( CDU ) is reshuffling his government, only the departments of the Interior, Economy and Agriculture are not affected. Minister of Culture Hanna-Renate Laurien is replaced by Georg Gölter .
- June 14 : 99.86% of the voters vote in the elections to the People's Chamber of the GDR for the candidates of the National Front ; For the first time, MPs from East Berlin are also directly elected, whereas the Western powers are raising a formal protest to the Soviet power in Moscow.
- June 15 : The first of the German anti-aircraft missile tanks , Roland , enters service with the Bundeswehr ; Unit price 19.5 million Deutschmarks.
- June 20 : At the opening of the Kiel Week , Bundestag President Richard Stücklen is pelted with bags of paint.
- June 14th and 21st : French general elections .
- June 22 : In Iran , President Abolhassan Banisadr is removed from office.
- June 22nd : In Berlin , a house is cleared for the first time since the formation of the CDU government. There are serious riots.
- June 23 : French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy reshuffles the government and appoints four members of the French Communist Party as ministers.
- June 24th : Klaus von Dohnanyi , SPD state chairman in Rhineland-Palatinate , is elected First Mayor of Hamburg to succeed Hans-Ulrich Klose .
- June 25 : The GDR People's Chamber confirms Erich Honecker as Chairman of the State Council and Willi Stoph as Prime Minister.
- June 28 : The Italian Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini ( Republican Party of Italy ) is the first Prime Minister of the country since the Second World War to not belong to the Democrazia Cristiana .
- June 28 : 72 people, including the Ayatollah Beheschti, die in an attack on the headquarters of the Islamic Republican Party in Tehran
- June 29 : Willy Brandt and Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski discuss security and disarmament issues with Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow .
- June 29 : In the People's Republic of China , Hua Guofeng is replaced as chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, successor is Hu Yaobang .
- June 29th : An attack on St. Peter's Church is prevented in the Vatican , the perpetrator Giuseppe Santangelo is arrested.
- June 29th : In the parliamentary elections in Israel two blocs of equal size emerge: the Likud under Menachem Begin and the IAP under Shimon Peres .
- June 30 : New elections in Israel see Menachem Begin's Likud bloc ahead with 48 seats won versus 47 Labor Party seats ; but the majority is not enough to form a government.
- June 30 : In the third Majdanek trial , which lasted 474 days , the Düsseldorf Regional Court imposed the verdicts: SS overseer Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan received a life sentence , another seven defendants between three and twelve years were acquitted.
July
- July 1 : With the 1st Act to Combat Environmental Crime (UKG) and 18th Criminal Law Amendment Act in the Federal Republic of Germany, some important norms of environmental criminal law are added to the newly created 29th section of the StGB .
- July 4th : In the UK , a two-week wave of violence begins with a street battle between right-wing extremists and Asians in London caused by youth unemployment .
- July 6th : Former Argentine President Maria Estela Perón is released after five years of house arrest and flies to Spain on July 9th .
- July 7th : The European Parliament decides to hold meetings in Strasbourg instead of Luxembourg .
- July 12 : Two-day consultations between the German and French governments take place in Bonn , with President François Mitterrand at the head of the French delegation for the first time .
- July 14 : For the first time, the Bavarian Council of Ministers ensures that the police are equipped with the irritant gas CS as a weapon against violent demonstrators.
- July 16 : Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Canada to meet Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and to attend the World Economic Summit in Ottawa (return on July 22).
- July 16 : Hans-Otto Scholl , FDP chairman in Rhineland-Palatinate , announced his resignation as managing director of the Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry after reports about his irregular financial behavior.
- July 17 : 134 people are killed in Israeli air strikes on Palestinian positions in southern Lebanon .
- July 18 : Democratization process in Poland : Stanisław Kania is the first party leader of the Polish United Workers' Party to be re-elected in a secret ballot.
- July 20 : Karl-Heinz Hansen is expelled from the SPD Niederrhein district after he repeatedly criticized Chancellor Schmidt and the German government.
- July 21 : The 7th G7 summit in Ottawa ends with broad agreement on all important points, including the fight against unemployment and inflation as well as increasing development aid. Only the high interest rate policy in the USA is criticized.
- July 22nd : The Turkish pope assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca is sentenced to life imprisonment.
- July 23 : The Italian regional politician Ciro Cirillo is released by the Red Brigades after being kidnapped for three months.
- July 28 : In Munich , the editor of the US broadcaster Radio Free Europe , Emil-Valer Georgescu , is seriously injured with knife wounds.
- July 29 : Ex-Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr fled to France in a military plane.
- July 30th : A coup by Marxist rebels against President Jawara takes place in Gambia , which can be suppressed on August 6th.
August
- August 1 : INLA inmate Kevin Lynch dies in Belfast prison after a hunger strike .
- August 3 : There are demonstrations in Poland because of the poor food supply.
- August 3 : In the United States, the vast majority of the 15,000 or so air traffic controllers are on strike .
- August 3 : In Bolivia the generals coup Alberto Natusch and Lucio Anez against President Luis Garcia Meza , who is stepping down on August 4.
- August 3 : In Bonn, Iranian students occupy the Iranian embassy in protest against the mullahs' government under Ayatollah Khomeini .
- August 4th : The doctor Karl-Heinz Welsche is kidnapped in Rheinau - Freistett and found murdered on August 13th in a parking lot in Frankfurt am Main.
- August 5 : After lengthy coalition negotiations, Menachem Begin introduces the new government of Israel , which has 61 out of 120 seats in parliament.
- August 6 : US President Ronald Reagan makes the decision to build the neutron bomb .
- August 11 : Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemão resigns in Portugal .
- August 14 : Iranian opponents of the regime kidnap a speedboat belonging to the Iranian Navy in Cadiz .
- August 14th : Ingeborg Schmechting, the wife of the boss of Foto-Quelle, is killed in an unsuccessful kidnapping attempt in Rückersdorf near Nuremberg.
- August 14 : The national memorial Ntaba KaNdoda in the autonomous region of Ciskei is opened.
- August 19 : American fighter planes shoot down two Libyan military planes off the coast in Libya .
- August 26th : A car driver breaks through the Berlin Wall .
- August 29 : Two people die and 20 are injured in a hand grenade attack on the Jewish community center in Vienna .
- August 30 : President Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi , Prime Minister Mohammed Jawad Bahonar and five other people die in a bomb attack in Tehran .
- August 30 : A homemade bomb explodes near the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe .
- August 31 : In Ramstein , two Germans and 18 Americans are injured in a bomb attack on the headquarters of the US air force at Ramstein Air Base .
September
- September 1 : In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the pre-military training by the Society for Sport and Technology (GST) is made a compulsory subject in the advanced secondary schools (EOS) and special schools for boys from 11th grade. Girls receive appropriate medical courses to prepare for civil defense , but they can also take part in the training and military sports program for boys.
- September 1 : A bloodless coup takes place in the Central African Republic ; Chief of Staff André Kolingba replaces President David Dacko .
- September 1st : General Gregorio Álvarez becomes the new President of Uruguay .
- September 2 : In Iran , the previous Interior Minister Ayatollah Mohammed Reza Mahdavi-Kani becomes the new Prime Minister.
- September 4th : General Celso Torrelio Villa is sworn in as the new President of Bolivia .
- September 5 : Egyptian President Anwar as-Sadat announces strict measures against Islamic extremists and deposes the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt.
- September 9 : The Federal Republic of Germany further restricts the right to work for asylum seekers : Asylum seekers who do not come from Eastern Bloc countries will have to wait two years for a work permit instead of the previous one.
- September 10 : In the People's Republic of Poland , the trade union for solidarity demands free parliamentary elections, workers' self-government and equal rights for everyone at the end of their congress in Gdansk .
- September 11th : Chancellor Helmut Schmidt travels to Italy on a state visit and is received by Pope John Paul II in his summer residence Castel Gandolfo on September 12th .
- September 13 : The US Secretary of State Alexander Haig visits the western part of Berlin and Bonn . A group of demonstrators violently confronts the Berlin police after 50,000 demonstrators peacefully expressed their protest.
- September 15 : In Heidelberg , the "Gudrun Ensslin Command" of the Red Army Faction (RAF) carried out an attack on the Commander-in-Chief of the US land forces in Europe, Frederick Kroesen , in which he was slightly injured.
- September 15 : Egypt evicts the ambassador of the Soviet Union and six other diplomats who are believed to be behind a conspiracy against the government of Anwar as-Sadat.
- September 15th : Vanuatu joins the United Nations
- September 18 : An airplane of the Polish airline LOT is hijacked to West Berlin ; Together with the kidnappers, six Polish and two Hungarian passengers apply for political asylum .
- September 21 : Belize becomes independent.
- September 21 : The Federal Republic of Germany recognizes Belize as an independent state.
- September 25 : In the local elections in Lower Saxony , the three-vote right to vote is used for the first time ; the CDU received 50.2%, the SPD 36.9%, the FDP 6.4% and the Greens 3.6% of the votes counted.
- September 25 : Belize joins the United Nations.
- September 29th : The EC approves fishing agreements with Canada , Sweden and the Faroe Islands , giving German deep-sea fishermen back a large part of their traditional fishing grounds.
- September 30 : The death penalty is abolished in France .
October
- October 1 : A bomb attack on a PLO office in Beirut kills 92 and injures over 200 people.
- October 1 : The GDR spy Günter Guillaume is released after more than seven years in prison in the GDR after he was pardoned on September 28 by Federal President Karl Carstens .
- October 2 : Ali Khamenei is elected as the third President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and as the successor to the murdered Mohammed Ali Radschei and sworn in on October 13.
- October 3 : The hunger strike at HM Prison Maze in Belfast , Northern Ireland , is declared over after seven months. Ten members of the IRA and INLA captured by the British died in the course of the strike for refusing to eat.
- October 5 : Reorganization in the EMS - the D-Mark and the Dutch guilder are revalued by 5.5%, the French franc and the Italian lira devalued by 3%.
- October 6 : President Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated in Egypt . Vice-President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak takes over his office.
- October 6 : In Frankfurt several thousand police officers and officers from the Federal Border Police protect the start of construction work on the expansion of Frankfurt Airport.
- October 10 : 300,000 people demonstrate for peace in the federal capital Bonn : Peace demonstration in Bonn's Hofgarten in 1981
- October 14 : Hosni Mubarak is elected president of Egypt . He is the successor to Anwar as-Sadat, who was assassinated.
- October 26 : The Federal Republic of Germany concludes an agreement with Egypt on cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear energy
- October 28 : The Soviet submarine "U 137" runs aground off the Swedish naval base in Karlskrona . The incident gives rise to suspicion that the Soviet Union was the mastermind behind other submarines of unknown nationality that were sighted in Swedish waters in the 1980s . The seed for the Swedish submarine affair has been laid.
November
- November 1st : Antigua and Barbuda gains independence
- November 11th : Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations
- November 17 : Air transport agreement between Taiwan and the Federal Republic of Germany
December
- December 11th : Erich Honecker receives Chancellor Helmut Schmidt on the occasion of his state visit to the GDR in Hubertusstock Castle on the Werbellinsee .
- 11 / December 12 : A death squad of the military regime of El Salvador committed a massacre in the village of El Mozote , with around 1,000 deaths.
- December 12 : Senegal and Gambia sign a treaty that regulates the formation of the Senegambia Confederation from February 1, 1982. However, the confederation fails a few years later.
- December 13 : (until July 22, 1983 ): Wojciech Jaruzelski , the new party and state leader in Poland , imposes martial law in Warsaw . The “ Solidarity ” union is banned.
- December 15 : The General Assembly of the United Nations following the proposal of the United Nations Security Council and appoints the Peruvian Javier Perez de Cuellar as the new Secretary General .
- December 23rd : In the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Training Assistance Act (BAföG) replaces the planned Training Place Assistance Act (AP1FG), which was not approved by the Bundesrat and which was declared null and void by the Federal Constitutional Court in December 1980.
- December 31 : Ghana . Revolutionary government under Jerry Rawlings
economy
- January 1 : The ECU ( European Currency Unit ) is introduced as the only EC accounting unit in the European Community.
- February 13 : Australian media entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch acquires the traditional London newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times .
- June 10 : In Stuttgart , the last Mercedes-Benz 600 rolls off the production line and into the museum.
- June 25 : The Brunswick photo company Rollei applies for liquidation .
- July 2nd : Foundation of Infosys Technologies .
- July 7th : The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that duty-free purchases on butter cruises in the North and Baltic Seas are incompatible with EEC law.
- July 17th : Double taxation agreement between Germany and Canada .
- September 22nd : Inauguration of the TGV high-speed train by François Mitterrand .
- November 20 : The West German Ruhrgas AG and the Soviet foreign trade organization Sojuz-Gas-Export agree on a joint natural gas deal in Essen.
- The Dickmann company (chocolate kisses) is taken over by the Storck company.
science and technology
- January 29th : The HASYLAB synchrotron radiation laboratory of the German Electron Synchrotron DESY is handed over to its intended use after a two-year construction period.
- March 5 : Sinclair Research releases the ZX81 home computer, heralding the mass-produced computer era.
- April 1 : The Hannover Fair is a typewriter presented with Chinese characters.
- April 2 : Austria becomes the first associated member of the European Space Agency (ESA).
- April 16 : Europe's first open-air photovoltaic system goes into operation in Adrano ( Sicily ) .
- April 17th : In the vicinity of Levkanti on Evia , what is probably the oldest ancient temple is discovered during excavations.
- May 6th : The Sinsheim Auto and Technology Museum opens.
- June 15 : Agreement on scientific and technological cooperation between Portugal and Germany
- July 8th : A large-scale pilot plant for coal liquefaction is inaugurated in Bottrop .
- July 17 : The British Queen . Elizabeth II opened the over the Humber leading Humber Bridge , one of the longest suspension bridges in the world.
- August 12 : The US company IBM introduces the IBM 5150 , the first personal computer (PC).
- August 25 : The American space probe Voyager 2 flies past Saturn and provides many photos of Saturn, its rings and moons.
- November 12 : After 84 hours and 9,244 km, the American Ben Abruzzo and his crew land in their balloon Double Eagle V in a balloon in the Mendocino National Forest in California after the first crossing of the Pacific .
- December 28 : Elizabeth Carr is born as a test tube baby in the United States . She is the first child to be born through artificial insemination in US history.
- The US epidemic protection reports for the first time on the immune disease AIDS .
- The compact disc was presented to the public for the first time at the 1981 radio exhibition in Berlin .
- The National Science Foundation creates the Computer Science Network (CSNET) , a predecessor of today's Internet.
Culture
- January 14th : The world premiere of Lili Marleen (director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder ) takes place in Berlin .
- January 19 : The Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize goes to Yu-Ching Lin and Wolfgang Manz .
- January 22nd : The writer Marguerite Yourcenar is admitted to the Académie française as the first woman .
- January 22nd : The writer and Germanist Lev Kopelew , who has lived in Germany since November 1980 , is expatriated from the Soviet Union .
- February 13 : A comprehensive exhibition on the work of Pablo Picasso (until April 20 ) begins in the Haus der Kunst ( Munich ).
- February 13th : The premiere of Pink Floyd's “ The Wall ” runs in Westfalenhalle in Dortmund .
- February 13 : Prizes are awarded at the Berlin Film Festival : the Golden Bear goes to the Spanish film Deprisa, Deprisa! by Carlos Saura , the Silver Bear to the Indian contribution by Mrinal Sen Anatomy of a Famine and the Swiss film the boat is full by Markus Imhoof .
- February 17 : A memorial is inaugurated in Düsseldorf on the 125th anniversary of Heinrich Heine's death .
- February 19 : In Düsseldorf Walter Jens is awarded the Heinrich Heine Prize endowed with DM 25,000 , Martin Walser receives the Heine Medal .
- March 28 : Opening of the new building of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.
- April 4 : The Grand Prix Euro Vision in Dublin reached Lena Valaitis (Germany) the second prize.
- April 8 : In Neumünster is Hans Fallada Prize of the East German writer Erich Loest awarded.
- April 10 : The Federal Film Prize (each with 300,000 DM) goes to Jörg Graser ( The moon is just a naked ball ), Wim Wenders (Nick's Film - Lightning over water) , Adolf Winkelmann ( lots of coal ) and Walter Bockmayer and Rolf Buehrmann (Looping).
- May 6th : The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (25,000 DM) goes to Lew Kopelew .
- May 13th : At the 34th International Film Festival in Cannes , the Polish film “ The Man of Iron ” receives the golden palm.
- May 22nd : At an auction in New York , Pablo Picasso's "Self-Portrait" achieved DM 12.2 million.
- June 1st : Alf Schuler receives the Art Prize of Böttcherstraße , Bremen (15,000 DM)
- June 4 : The painter Emil Schumacher receives the Rubens Prize , Siegen (10,000 DM)
- June 12th : In June , more than 30 theater groups from 15 countries play in Cologne at the “ Theater der Welt ” festival , which took place for the first time (until June 26th).
- June 22nd : The writer Martin Walser receives the Georg Büchner Prize (20,000 DM) in Darmstadt .
- June 30th : ARD begins broadcasting the American family series Dallas .
- July 17th : Joachim Seyppel receives the Kogge Literature Prize (10,000 DM) in Minden .
- August 16 : The exhibition “Prussia - Attempting to Take a Balance” opens in Berlin (until November 15).
- August 28 : The Alte Oper is reopened in Frankfurt am Main .
- September 19 : After a long break, Simon & Garfunkel perform together in Central Park , which Mayor Ed Koch and the New York City Council want to close for financial reasons. An estimated 500,000 spectators come to the concert in Central Park .
- October 12th : Rudi Carrell satirizes for the first time on ARD with his program Rudis Tagesshow the Tagesschau .
- First award of the Konrad Lorenz Prize
- Foundation of the Royal Rangers in Germany
- Tara National Park is established
- Opening of the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
- Art exhibition Rundschau Germany
society
- January 4 : Peter Sutcliffe , arrested by Sheffield police two days earlier, confesses during interrogation that he is the wanted Yorkshire Ripper . The serial killer killed at least 13 women.
- January 15 : Giovanni D'Urso , a Roman judge held for a month by the Red Brigades , is released.
- February 24 : The engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (Princess Diana) is announced.
- February 14 : The Archduke of Luxembourg , Henri, marries the Cuban exiled Maria Teresa Mestre.
- March 20 : The sports and recreation center (SEZ), a prestige object of the GDR , opens in Berlin .
- March 28th : A concert by the British band The Who will be broadcast live on European television on Rockpalast Night .
- April 27 : Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr marries actress Barbara Bach in London .
- May 2nd : The world's first women's museum opens in Bonn .
- May 22nd : Peter Sutcliffe , known as the "Yorkshire Ripper", is sentenced to life imprisonment in London for 13 murders of women.
- July 21 : In New York , Venezuelan Irene Saez Conde is voted Miss Universe .
- July 29 : Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (Princess Diana)
- August 9 : Announcement of the Tuwat Congress in Berlin
- November 25 : First Day of Remembrance for Victims of Violence against Women (today International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women )
religion
- June 1 : The sect leader Bhagwan Rajneesh moves from Pune, India to the USA
- September 14th : The encyclical Laborem exercens by Pope John Paul II deals with working people. It describes standpoints on the value of work and the participation of workers in the means of production, management and earnings of a company on the basis of Catholic social teaching .
- November 25 : Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican. In February 1982 Ratzinger took leave of his office as Archbishop of Munich and Freising.
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 2nd : In a triangular flight, the German Hans-Werner Grosse sets a new world record in gliding with 1,306 km.
- January 6th : Hubert Neuper wins the Four Hills Tournament 1980/81
- February 7 : Hartmut Weber runs a new world record in the German indoor athletics championships over 400 m with 45.96 seconds.
- February 8 : American Jim Morgan fatally falls at the four-man world championship in Cortina d'Ampezzo .
- February 8 : The worst football accident in Greece occurs in the Karaiskakis stadium in Piraeus . When Olympiacos lead 6-0 goals against AEK Athens , visitors try to leave the stadium early. Falling spectators at a locked grandstand gate are trampled on by the following people. 21 dead and 32 injured are to be accounted for.
- March 4th : The German figure skating champions Tina Riegel and Andreas Nischwitz win the bronze medal at the world championship in pair skating in Hartford , Connecticut . Before that, they won the silver medal at the European Championships in Innsbruck .
- March 10th / 11th : Jochen Mass declares his retirement from Formula 1 racing, but then starts again in the 1982 season.
- April 1 : The German national soccer team wins the World Cup qualifier against Albania 2-0 in Tirana .
- April 5th : The German hockey ladies win the world championship title in Buenos Aires (4-2 against the Netherlands).
- April 11th : Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Trevor Berbick at Caesars Palace , Las Vegas , Nevada , USA , by winning on points.
- May 2 : Eintracht Frankfurt wins the DFB Cup .
- May 17th : The Frankfurt Marathon is started as the first city marathon in Germany.
- May 24th : Eberhard Gienger becomes European champion on the horizontal bar , he receives the 10.0 three times.
- June 12 : Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Leon Spinks in the Joe Louis Arena , Detroit , USA, by technical knockout.
- European Swimming Championships in Split , Croatia .
- June 13 : FC Bayern Munich becomes German soccer champion
- June 25th : The dressage rider Josef Neckermann (six Olympic medals, six European and three world championship titles) declares his retirement from active sport.
- October 17th : Nelson Piquet becomes Formula 1 world champion for the first time
- October 18 : Germany becomes the U-20 youth soccer world champion. The team's trainer is Dietrich Weise .
- November 6 : Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Renaldo Snipes in the Civic Arena , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , USA, by a technical knockout.
- December 12th : Toni Mang , Ulrike Meyfarth and the German national water polo team are named Sportsmen of the Year 1981 .
Disasters
- January 27th : The passenger ferry Tampomas II , which caught fire the day before, sank in the Java Sea . Of the presumably more than 1,200 people on the ship, 672 were rescued, 147 dead were rescued, 373 people known by name remained missing after the marine casualty .
- February 14 : 49 people died in a fire in a nightclub in Dublin .
- June 6 : 235 people are killed in a railway accident in the Indian state of Bihar .
- June 11th : Train accident in Erfurt-Bischleben. 14 people were killed.
- June 11 : earthquake measuring 6.9 in Iran , killing approx. 3,000
- 17 July : The hotel Hyatt Regency Crown Center in Kansas City ( Missouri ) is the scene of a disaster. During a dance competition, two connecting corridors full of people tumble down into the crowded hotel lobby. 114 people die and over 200 are injured. The cause is a lack of construction.
- July 28 : 7.3 earthquake in Iran, around 1,500 dead
- August 22 : An airliner explodes in Taiwan, killing 110 people.
- September 19 : The river passenger ship “ Sobral Santor ” ( Brazil ) capsizes in the Amazon . 300 people die
- December 1st : Ajaccio , Corsica , France . A McDonnell Douglas MD-80 of the Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet crashes into a mountain during the approach for landing. All 178 people on board die.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Nicolaas Bloembergen , Arthur L. Schawlow and Kai Manne Siegbahn
- Chemistry : Fukui Ken'ichi and Roald Hoffmann
- Medicine : Roger Sperry , David H. Hubel and Torsten N. Wiesel
- Literature : Elias Canetti
- Nobel Peace Prize : United Nations Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR )
- Economics : James Tobin
Alternative Nobel Prizes
- Mike Cooley , for product design and his theoretical and practical commitment to socially useful production
- Bill Mollison , inventor of permaculture
- Patrick van Rensburg / Education with Production for developing exemplary educational models for the majority of people in the Third World
music
- MTV goes on air. The first video is Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles
- The metal band Metallica was formed on October 28, 1981 in California.
- Bucks Fizz won the 26th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Great Britain on April 4th in Dublin with the song Making Your Mind Up
- List of number one hits in Germany (1981)
- Van Halen bring Fair Warning Out
Born
January
- January 1st : Yacine Abdessadki , French-Moroccan football player
- January 1 : William Jonas Armstrong , Irish actor
- January 1st : Zsolt Baumgartner , Hungarian Formula 1 driver
- January 1st : Hüzeyfe Doğan , German football player
- January 1st : Mladen Petrić , football player
- January 2nd : Maximiliano Rodríguez , Argentinian football player
- January 2nd : Hanno Balitsch , German soccer player
- January 2nd : Marielle Bohm , German handball player and trainer
- January 3 : Eli Manning , American football player
- January 3rd : Cristian Deville , Italian ski racer
- January 4th : Mohamed Abdel Aziz , Egyptian road cyclist
- January 4th : Zhang Jiewen , Chinese badminton player
- January 4th : Silvy de Bie , Belgian singer
- January 5th : deadmau5 , Canadian music producer
- January 5th : Matthias Rauh , German handball player
- January 6 : Mike Jones , American rapper
- January 6th : Markus Bollmann , German soccer player
- January 6 : Rinko Kikuchi , Japanese actress
- January 6th : Jérémie Renier , Belgian theater and film actor
- January 7th : Ania Dąbrowska , Polish pop musician
- January 7th : Edison Miranda , Colombian boxer
- January 7th : Alex Auld , ice hockey player
- January 8th : Andrea Capone , Italian soccer player
- January 8 : Michael Creed , American cyclist
- January 8 : Szabolcs Zempléni , Hungarian horn player
- January 9 : Julia Dietze , German actress
- January 9 : David Lukáš , Czech composer and conductor
- January 9 : Euzebiusz Smolarek , Polish football player
- January 9 : Emanuele Sella , Italian cyclist
- January 9th : Ronny Heer , Nordic combined athlete from Switzerland
- January 10 : David Aganzo Méndez , Spanish soccer player
- January 10 : Nasri Tony Atweh , Canadian musician and record producer
- January 10th : Janina-Kristin Götz , German swimmer
- January 10 : Jared Kushner , American real estate developer, media entrepreneur, financial investor and political advisor
- January 11th : Benjamin Auer , German soccer player
- January 11th : Jamelia , British R&B singer
- January 11th : Per Sandström , Swedish handball goalkeeper
- January 12th : Jonathan Arnott , English politician
- January 14th : Maren Baumbach , German handball player
- January 15 : Dylan Armstrong , Canadian shot putter
- January 15 : Howie Day , American singer and songwriter
- January 15 : El Hadji Diouf , Senegalese soccer player
- January 15 : Vanessa Henke , German tennis player
- January 15th : Marcin Matkowski , Polish tennis player
- January 15 : Pitbull , American rapper
- January 16 : Samuel Ackermann , Swiss actor, director, film editor and author
- January 16 : Martin Andersson , Swedish football player
- January 16 : Viktoria Como , German handball player and trainer
- January 16 : Marta Roure Besolí , Andorran singer
- January 17th : Thierry Ascione , French tennis player
- January 17th : Christophe Riblon , French cyclist
- January 17th : Michael Weiss , Austrian mountain bike and road cyclist
- January 18 : Otgonbayar Ershuu , Mongolian artist
- January 19 : Ahmed Ammi , Moroccan football player
- January 19 : Luis Óscar González , Argentine soccer player
- January 19th : Asier del Horno , Spanish football player
- January 19 : Florian Wisotzki , German handball player
- January 20 : Dotun Akinsanya , Nigerian badminton player
- January 20 : Owen Hargreaves , Canadian football player with an English passport
- January 21 : Marko Babić , Croatian football player
- January 21 : Ivan Ergić , Serbian-Australian soccer player
- January 21 : Roberto Guana , Italian football player
- January 21 : Dany Heatley , ice hockey player
- January 22nd : Denise la Bouche , German porn actress
- January 22nd : Willa Ford , American pop singer
- January 22nd : Beverley Mitchell , American actress
- January 22nd : Ben Moody , American songwriter, producer and guitarist
- January 22nd : Guy Wilks , British rally driver
- January 23 : Julia Jones , American actress
- January 25 : Charlie Bewley , British actor
- January 25 : Alicia Keys , American R&B and soul singer
- January 25 : Clara Morgane , French porn actress and singer
- January 25th : Bianca Rech , German soccer player
- January 26 : Richard Antinucci , American racing car driver
- January 26th : Lisa Antoni , Austrian musical actress
- January 26th : Svetlana Ognjenović , Serbian handball player
- January 26 : Leandro Daniel Somoza , Argentine soccer player
- January 26th : Nina Ritter , German ice hockey player
- January 27 : Alicia Molik , Australian tennis player
- January 28th : André Muff , Swiss football player
- January 28th : Thomas Schlieter , German soccer player
- January 28 : Elijah Wood , American actor
- January 28 : Patrick Mtiliga , Danish football player
- January 29th : Thomas Broich , German soccer player
- January 29th : Alex Figge , American racing car driver
- January 29th : Jonny Lang , musician from the field of blues and blues rock
- January 30th : Dimitar Berbatov , Bulgarian soccer striker
- January 30 : Afonso Alves Martins Jr. , Brazilian soccer player
- January 31 : Amrita Arora Ladak , Indian film actress
- January 31 : Mohamed Mokrani , French-Algerian handball player
- January 31 : Justin Timberlake , American pop star
- January 31 : Antal Zalai , Hungarian violinist
February
- February 1st : Gustaf Norén , singer in the Swedish rock band Mando Diao
- February 3rd : Ingrid Rumpfhuber , Austrian ski racer
- February 3 : Vincent Humbert , French author († 2003 )
- February 4th : Paulien van Deutekom , Dutch speed skater († 2019 )
- February 4 : Jason Kapono , American basketball player
- February 4th : Marcus Steegmann , German soccer player
- February 4th : Johan Vansummeren , Belgian cyclist
- February 5 : Crystle Lightning , Canadian actress,
- February 5 : Pape Thiaw , Senegalese soccer player
- February 6 : Ari Pekka Ahonen , Finnish ice hockey goalkeeper
- February 8 : Tjark Bernau , German actor and director
- February 8 : Sebastian Preiß , German handball player
- February 9 : Tom Hiddleston , British actor
- February 10 : Franziska Christine Aufdenblatten , Swiss ski racer
- February 10 : Cho Yeo-jeong , South Korean actress
- February 10 : Dimitrios Tzimourtos , Greek handball player
- February 11 : Aritz Aduriz , Spanish soccer player
- February 11 : Kelly Rowland , American R&B singer
- February 12 : Raúl Entrerríos , Spanish handball player
- February 13 : Anna Athanasiadou , Greek weightlifter
- February 13 : Liam Miller , Irish football player († 2018 )
- February 13 : Ljubo Miličević , Australian soccer player
- February 13th : Stefan Nebel , German motorcycle racer
- February 13 : Eifion Roberts , Welsh rugby player
- February 13th : Marina Schuck , German canoeist
- February 14 : Matteo Brighi , Italian soccer player
- February 14th : Randy De Puniet , French motorcycle racer
- February 16 : Olivier Deschacht , Belgian football player
- February 16 : Jay Howard , British racing car driver
- February 16 : Susanna Kallur , Swedish athlete
- February 16 : Jenny Kallur , Swedish athlete
- February 17th : Paris Hilton , model, entrepreneur and entertainer
- February 17th : Bernhard Eisel , Austrian cyclist
- February 17 : Joseph Gordon-Levitt , American actor
- February 18 : Peng Bo , Chinese water diver
- February 19 : Julia Domenica , German actress
- February 19 : Christian Lusch , German marksman
- February 19 : Tina Pisnik , Slovenian tennis player
- February 20 : Adrian Lamo , American hacker († 2018 )
- February 20 : Elisabeth Görgl , Austrian ski racer
- February 21 : Maik Hammelmann , German handball player, trainer and manager
- February 22nd : Chakuza , Austrian rapper
- February 23 : Jan Böhmermann , German satirist, radio and television presenter
- February 23 : Richard Jareš , Czech ice hockey player
- February 23 : Christian Schöne , German handball player
- February 24 : Jonas Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- February 24th : Lleyton Hewitt , Australian tennis player
- February 24 : Mauro Damián Rosales , Argentine footballer
- February 24th : Georg Späth , German ski jumper
- February 24 : Jean de Villiers , South African rugby player
- February 25th : Pacome Assi , French kickboxer
- February 25 : Maik Wagefeld , German soccer player
- February 26 : Märt Avandi , Estonian actor
- February 26 : Johnathan Wendel , American computer gamer
- February 27 : Stefanie Böhler , German cross-country skier
- February 27 : Evi Goffin , Belgian singer
- February 27 : Josh Groban , American pop star with a classically trained voice (baritone)
- February 28 : Anke Kühn , German hockey player
March
- March 1 : Adam LaVorgna , American actor
- March 1st : Will Power , Australian racing car driver
- March 2 : Bryce Dallas Howard , American actress
- March 3 : Ed Carpenter , American racing car driver
- March 3rd : Tobias Forge , Swedish rock musician
- March 3 : Lil 'Flip , American rapper
- March 3 : Justin Gabriel , American wrestler
- March 3 : Ārash Miresmāeli , Iranian judoka
- March 3rd : László Nagy , Hungarian handball player
- March 3rd : Oliver Rudin , Swiss conductor, singer and composer
- March 3 : Mark-Alexander Solf , German actor, author and doctor
- March 4th : Turid Arndt , German handball goalie
- March 4th : Maike von Bremen , German television actress
- March 5 : Cristobal Arreola , American heavyweight boxer
- March 5th : Christian Knees , German cyclist
- March 6 : Edgar Fonseca , Colombian cyclist
- March 6 : Zlatan Muslimović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- March 6th : Tobias Schröder , German handball player
- March 7th : Kanga Gauthier Akalé , Ivorian football player
- March 8 : Jonas Solberg Andersen , Norwegian ice hockey player
- March 8 : Pablo Fernando Aurrecochea Medina , Uruguayan football player
- March 8 : Michael Beauchamp , Australian soccer player
- March 8th : Timo Boll , German table tennis player
- March 8 : David Kreiner , Austrian Nordic combined athlete
- March 8th : Pirjo Muranen , Finnish cross-country skier
- March 8th : Joost Posthuma , Dutch cyclist
- March 8 : Xu Yuanyuan , Chinese chess player
- March 9 : Nikky Blond , Hungarian porn actress
- March 9 : Goran Rubil , Croatian football player
- March 10 : Laura Rudas , Austrian politician
- March 10 : Samuel Eto'o , Cameroonian football player
- March 11 : Ruhal Ahmed , spent two years in Guantanamo without charge, victim of torture
- March 11 : David Anders , American actor
- March 11th : Matthias Schweighöfer , German actor
- March 13 : Benjamin Chatton , German handball player and manager
- March 13 : Stephen Maguire , Scottish snooker player
- March 14th : Martina Eisenreich , German violinist, film composer and music producer
- March 14th : Judith Lefeber , German singer
- March 15th : Gaby Diana Ahrens , Namibian sports shooter
- March 15 : Young Buck , American rapper
- March 15 : Mikael Forssell , Finnish soccer player
- March 15th : Brice Guyart , French foil fencer
- March 15 : Tamás Hajnal , Hungarian football player
- March 15 : Judith Hoersch , German actress
- March 16 : Hannes Aigner , Austrian soccer player
- March 17th : Aaron Baddeley , Australian professional golfer
- March 17th : Mads Øris Nielsen , Danish handball player
- March 17 : Leandro Atílio Romagnoli , Argentinian football player
- March 17th : Stephanie Subke , Austrian handball player
- March 18 : Faruk Atalay , Turkish football player
- March 18th : Lina Andersson , Swedish cross-country skier
- March 18 : Fabian Cancellara , Swiss cyclist
- March 18 : Jang Nara , South Korean singer and actress
- March 18 : Tom Starke , German soccer player
- March 19 : Daniel Brack , German handball player
- March 19 : Bastian Steger , German table tennis player
- March 20 : Thomas Augustinussen , Danish football player
- March 20th : Ian Murray , Scottish soccer player
- March 22nd : Stephan Kling , German soccer player
- March 22nd : Imre Szabics , Hungarian football player
- March 23 : Stefan Ruppe , German actor
- March 23 : Giuseppe Sculli , Italian football player
- March 24th : Orestes Júnior Alves , Brazilian soccer player
- March 24th : Patrick Fabio Maxime Kisnorbo , Italian-Australian soccer player
- March 24th : Maria Koschny , German voice actress
- March 24th : Gary Paffett , English racing car driver
- March 24th : Paweł Szaniawski , Polish cyclist
- March 25 : José de Armas , Venezuelan tennis player
- March 25th : Philipp Burger , singer and front man of the South Tyrolean band Frei.Wild
- March 26th : Maxi Arland , German musician and presenter
- March 27th : Martin Abentung , Austrian luge rider
- March 27th : Cacau , German soccer player
- March 28 : Julia Stiles , American actress
- March 29 : Nadine Härdter , German handball player
- March 29 : Jlloyd Samuel , soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago († 2018 )
- March 30th : Katy Mixon , American actress
- March 30th : Fabian van Olphen , Dutch handball player
- March 30 : Alen Škoro , Bosnian professional football player
- March 31 : Benjamin Adrion , German soccer player
- March 31 : Monika Augustin-Vogel , Swiss athlete
- March 31 : Ryan Bingham , American country musician
April
- April 1st : Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Archipow , Russian freestyle skier
- April 1 : Sontje Peplow , German actress
- April 1st : Bjørn Einar Romøren , Norwegian ski jumper
- April 1 : Hannah Spearritt , British actress and singer
- April 4th : Rubén Felgaer , Argentine chess player
- April 5th : Tom Riley , British actor
- April 5th : Lucy Scherer , German musical actress
- April 5th : Thomas Blaschek , German hurdle sprinter
- April 6 : Eliza Coupe , American actress
- April 6 : Sheldon Aitana Lawrence , Jamaican dancehall DJ
- April 6 : Lucas Matías Licht , Argentinian soccer player
- April 6th : Jarret Thomas , American snowboarder
- April 7th : Chris Ardoin , American musician
- April 9 : Moran Atias , Israeli television and film actress
- April 9th : Andrea Micheletti , Italian darts player
- April 9 : Matthias Schriefl , German jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist and composer
- April 10 : Kristin Kartheuser , German handball player
- April 10th : Liz McClarnon , British singer
- April 10 : Yves V , Belgian DJ and producer
- April 11th : Alessandra Ambrosio , Brazilian top model
- April 11th : Jerome James , Belizean football player
- April 11th : Motsi Mabuse , South African dancer
- April 11th : Matt Ryan , British actor
- April 11 : Teo Yoo , South Korean actor
- April 12 : Nicolás Andrés Burdisso , Argentinian soccer player
- April 13 : Jimmie Augustsson , Swedish football player
- April 13th : Jennifer Meier , German soccer player
- April 13 : Matjaž Mlakar , Slovenian handball player
- April 13 : Martin Pohl , German soccer player
- April 15 : Andrés Nicolás d'Alessandro , Argentinian football player
- April 15 : Picco von Groote , German actress
- April 15 : Hannes Wolf , German soccer coach
- April 16 : Anastasios Agritis , Greek football player
- April 17th : Luca Denicolà , Swiss football player
- April 17th : Laura U. Klemke , German guitarist
- April 18 : Hannes Amesbauer , Austrian politician
- April 18 : Sol Gabetta , Argentine cellist and television presenter
- April 18 : Maxim Iglinski , Kazakh cyclist
- April 19 : Hayden Christensen , Canadian actor
- April 19 : Catalina Sandino Moreno , Colombian actress
- April 20 : Michel Abdollahi , Iranian emcee, performance artist, painter and man of letters
- April 20 : Alexander Stevens , German-British lawyer and actor
- April 21 : Gerd-Elin Albert , Norwegian handball player
- April 21 : Wissem Hmam , Tunisian handball player
- April 22 : Jessica Tatti , German politician (Die Linke)
- April 22nd : Linda Teuteberg , German politician
- April 23 : Seka Aleksić , Serbian folk singer
- April 23 : Hiroaki Ishiura , Japanese racing car driver
- April 24th : Chen Li-ju , Taiwanese archer
- April 24th : Marie Friederike Schöder , German soprano
- April 25 : Felipe Massa , Brazilian Formula 1 racing driver
- April 25th : Anja Pärson , Swedish ski racer
- April 26 : Matthieu Delpierre , French football player
- April 26th : Caro Emerald , Dutch pop and jazz singer
- April 26th : Teresa Weißbach , German actress
- April 27 : Magnus Andersson , Swedish football player
- April 27th : Sandy Mölling , German pop singer
- April 28 : Jessica Alba , American actress
- April 28 : Ilary Blasi , Italian actress and model
- April 28 : Michael Ferrante , Australian soccer player
- April 29th : Juliette Ah-Wan , badminton player from the Seychelles
- April 29th : Jay Smith , Swedish singer
- April 30th : Kristin Størmer Steira , Norwegian cross-country skier
May
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- May 1st : Manuel Alcides Acosta , Panamanian baseball player
- May 1st : Aljaksandr Hleb , Belarusian football player
- May 1st : Mirko Venturi , Italian racing car driver
- May 2nd : Tiago , Portuguese soccer player
- May 3rd : Charlie Brooks , British actress
- May 5th : Craig David , British R&B singer
- May 5 : Mariano González , Argentinian football player
- May 6 : Guglielmo Stendardo , Italian football player
- May 7th : Stefan Räpple , German psychological advisor and politician
- May 8 : Stephen Amell , Canadian actor
- May 8 : Andrea Barzagli , Italian football player
- May 9th : Oliver Zaugg , Swiss cyclist
- May 10th : Péter Ács , Hungarian chess master
- May 10 : Aniekan Archibong , Nigerian basketball player
- May 10 : Arkadiusz Gołaś , Polish volleyball player († 2005 )
- May 10 : Humberto Suazo , Chilean football player
- May 11 : Austin O'Brien , American film actor
- May 12th : Anna Gadt , Polish jazz singer
- May 12 : Alexander Trost , German handball player
- May 12th : Astrix , Israeli progressive & psytrance DJ and producer
- May 13 : Greg Amadio , Canadian ice hockey player
- May 13 : Asmir Avdukić , Bosnian football player
- May 13 : Fabiana Diniz , Brazilian handball player
- May 13 : Nicolás Frutos , Argentinian soccer player
- May 13 : Matías Lequi , Italian-Argentine soccer player
- May 13 : Rebecka Liljeberg , Swedish actress
- May 14th : Antti Aarnio , Finnish ice hockey player
- May 14 : Björn Andrae , German volleyball player
- May 14th : Júlia Sebestyén , Hungarian figure skater
- May 15 : Myriam Abdelhamid , French singer
- May 15th : Ben , German singer
- May 16 : Joseph Morgan , British actor
- May 17th : Krisztina Ádám , Hungarian badminton player
- May 17th : Pasi Ahonen , Finnish ski jumper
- May 17 : Vladan Grujić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- May 17th : Jan-Fiete Buschmann , German handball player
- May 17th : Cosma Shiva Hagen , German actress
- May 17th : Katrin Kliehm , German soccer player
- May 17 : Referee Maimon , Israeli singer
- May 18 : Christa Schäpertöns , German soccer player
- May 19th : Roger Aiken , Irish cyclist
- May 19 : Luciano Figueroa , Argentinian soccer player
- May 19 : Sina Schielke , German athlete
- May 19 : Felix Zwayer , German football referee
- May 19 : Uncle Zwieback , German rapper and music producer
- May 20th : Iker Casillas , Spanish soccer player
- May 21 : Craig Anderson , American ice hockey goalkeeper
- May 21 : David Appel , Czech ice hockey player
- May 21 : Maximilian Mutzke , German singer and drummer
- May 21 : Anna Rogowska , Polish athlete
- May 21 : Belladonna , American porn actress
- May 22nd : Bryan Danielson, better known as Daniel Bryan , American wrestler
- May 22nd : Jürgen Melzer , Austrian tennis player
- May 24th : Thomas Vulivuli , Fijian soccer player
- May 25 : Dirk Werner , German racing car driver
- May 26th : Eda-Ines Etti , Estonian singer
- May 27th : Stefan Heythausen , German speed skater
- May 27th : Alina Cojocaru , soloist with the Royal Ballet
- May 27 : Miloy , Angolan football player
- May 28 : Adam Green , American singer and songwriter
- May 28th : Boris Herrmann , German professional sailor
- May 28 : Aaron Schock , American politician
- May 28 : Gábor Talmácsi , Hungarian motorcycle racer
- May 29 : Andrei Sergeevich Arshavin , Russian football player
- May 30th : Igor Abakoumov , Belgian cyclist
- May 30th : Devendra Banhart , American psychedelic folk singer and songwriter
- May 30 : Ahmad Elrich , Lebanese-Australian soccer player
- May 30th : Lars Møller Madsen , Danish handball player
- May 31 : Mikael Antonsson , Swedish football player
- May 31 : Daniele Bonera , Italian football player
- May 31 : Marlies Schild , Austrian ski racer
June
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- June 1st : Kenan Aşkan , Turkish soccer player
- June 1st : Thorben Marx , German football player
- June 1st : Sabrina Schepmann , German photo model, beauty queen and photographer
- June 3 : Mike Adam , Canadian curler
- June 4th : Joey Duin , Dutch handball player
- June 4th : Tobias Karlsson , Swedish handball player
- June 5 : Niyazi Serhat Akın Hikmet , Turkish soccer player
- June 6 : João Paulo Andrade , Portuguese soccer player
- June 6th : Anja Juliette Laval , German porn actress
- June 7th : Anna Sergejewna Kurnikowa , Russian professional tennis player
- June 7th : Michael Laverty , Northern Irish motorcycle racer
- June 8 : Matteo Meneghello , Italian racing car driver
- June 8 : Alex Band , American singer
- June 8 : Sara Watkins , American fiddle player and singer-songwriter
- June 9 : Matthias Aschenbroich , German handball player
- June 9th : Daniel Larsson , Swedish dart player
- June 9 : Natalie Portman , American actress
- June 9th : Kasper Søndergaard Sarup , Danish handball player
- June 10 : Alejandro Domínguez , Argentinian football player
- June 10 : Jonathan Bennett , American actor
- June 11 : Emiliano Moretti , Italian football player
- June 12 : Nora Tschirner , German actress and presenter
- June 12 : Adriana Lima , Brazilian supermodel
- June 12 : Klemen Lavrič , Slovenian football player
- June 13 : Jérémy Bury , French carom player
- June 13 : Chris Evans , American actor
- June 13 : Radim Vrbata , Czech ice hockey player
- June 15th : Marcus Cleverly , Danish handball player
- June 15 : Anke Johannsen , German singer, pianist and songwriter
- June 15 : Ameli Neureuther , German fashion stylist
- June 15 : Jakob Thoustrup , Danish handball player
- June 16 : David Buxo Escabros , Andorran football player
- June 16 : Ben Kweller , American musician
- June 18 : Thomas Bruhn , Danish handball player
- June 18 : Marco Streller , Swiss football player
- June 19 : Martin Abadir , Austrian handball player
- June 20th : Danny J. Masseling , Dutch techno musician and DJ
- June 21 : Qi An , Chinese soccer player
- June 21 : Michael Hackert , German ice hockey player
- June 21 : Christian Montanari , San Marino racing car driver
- June 22nd : Mathias Abel , German soccer player
- June 22nd : Val Hillebrand , Belgian racing driver
- June 22nd : Isabell Polak , German actress
- June 23 : Walter Lechner junior , Austrian racing driver
- June 23 : Björn Schlicke , German soccer player
- June 24th : Juliette Greco , German theater and television actress
- June 24th : Marco Vorbeck , German soccer player
- June 25th : Simon Ammann , Swiss ski jumper
- June 25 : Matt Schaub , American football player
- June 26 : Paolo Cannavaro , Italian football player
- June 26th : Natalja Antjuch , Russian athlete and Olympian
- June 27th : Money Boy , Austrian rapper
- June 27th : Martina García , Colombian actress
- June 27 : Cléber Santana , Brazilian soccer player († 2016 )
- June 28th : Mara Santangelo , Italian tennis player
- June 30th : Can Artam , Turkish racing car driver
July
- July 2 : Alex Koroknay-Palicz , American youth rights activist
- July 3 : Inés Arrimadas García , Spanish politician and parliamentarian
- July 3 : Silvia Fuhrmann , Austrian politician
- July 4th : Christoph Preuss , German soccer player
- July 4th : Tahar Rahim , French actor
- July 6 : Roman Nikolajewitsch Schirokow , Russian football player
- July 7th : Omar Naber , Slovenian pop singer
- July 7th : Osvaldo Zambrana , Bolivian chess grandmaster
- July 8 : Ang Li Peng , Malaysian badminton player
- July 8 : Ashley Blue , American porn actress
- July 8th : Anastassija Andrejewna Myskina , Russian tennis player
- July 9 : Risto Arnaudovski , Croatian-Macedonian handball player
- July 9 : Marco Stark , German soccer player
- July 9th : Rutger Smith , Dutch athlete
- July 10 : Ciro Capuano , Italian football player
- July 10 : Antun Kovacic , Australian soccer player
- July 10 : Christine Wenzel , German sports shooter
- July 10 : Giancarlo Serenelli , Venezuelan racing car driver
- July 12th : Marco Jetzer , Swiss water polo player
- July 13 : Darío Díaz , Argentine cyclist
- July 13 : João Paulo de Oliveira , Brazilian racing car driver
- July 14th : Alexander Abraham , Armenian boxer
- July 14th : Matti Hautamäki , Finnish ski jumper
- July 14th : Milow , Belgian singer
- July 15 : José María Calvo , Argentinian football player
- July 15 : Gabriel Raab , German actor
- July 15 : Nick Sirianni , American football coach
- July 16 : Vigdis Hårsaker , Norwegian handball player
- July 17th : Stefan Schröder , German handball player and coach
- July 17th : Mélanie Thierry , French actress and model
- July 17th : Anthony West , Australian motorcycle racer
- July 18th : Esther Vergeer , Dutch wheelchair tennis player
- July 19 : Didz Hammond , American musician
- July 21 : Stefan Schumacher , German professional cyclist
- July 21 : Joaquín Sánchez Rodríguez , Spanish football player
- July 21 : Anja Taschenberg , German actress
- July 22nd : Floriane Eichhorn , German actress
- July 22nd : Fritzi Eichhorn , German actress
- July 23 : Dario Damjanović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- July 23 : Susan Hoecke , German actress and model
- July 23 : Jarkko Nieminen , Finnish tennis player
- July 24 : Nayib Bukele , Salvadoran politician
- July 25th : Noel Baxter , British ski racer
- July 25th : Juho Hänninen , Finnish rally driver
- July 25 : Cédric Paty , French handball player
- July 26th : Vildan Atasever , Turkish actress
- July 27 : Dan Jones , British writer, journalist and historian
- July 28 : Mathieu Béda , French football player
- July 28th : Patrick Long , American racing car driver
- July 28th : Giorgio Sernagiotto , Italian racing car driver
- July 29 : Ahmad Hassan Abdullah , Qatari long-distance runner
- July 29th : Fernando Alonso , Spanish racing car driver
- July 29th : Silvana Pacheco Gallardo , Peruvian chess player, coach and referee
- July 29th : Mirya Kalmuth , German actress
- July 29 : Abdelkader Laïfaoui , Algerian football player
- July 30th : Nicky Hayden , American motorcycle racer († 2017 )
- July 30th : Juan Smith , South African rugby player
- July 31 : Márcio Luiz Adurens , Brazilian soccer player
- July 31 : Ira Losco , Maltese singer
- July 31 : Clemente Juan Rodríguez , Argentine soccer player
- July: Dennis Hormes , German guitarist and singer
August
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- August 1 : Ashley Parker Angel , American pop singer
- August 1st : Christofer Heimeroth , German soccer goalkeeper
- August 1 : Miracle Laurie , American actress
- August 1st : Hans Ottar Lindberg , Danish handball player
- August 1st : Manuela Kraller , German singer
- August 1st : Melanie Raabe , German writer
- August 3 : Pablo Ibáñez , Spanish football player
- August 4th : Nelli Aghinjan , Armenian chess player
- August 4th : Malchas Assatiani , Georgian football player
- August 4th : Gabriel Fernando Atz , Brazilian soccer player
- August 4th : Michael Binder , German handball player
- August 4th : Benjamin Lauth , German soccer player
- August 4th : Meghan, Duchess of Sussex , English duchess and former US actress
- August 4th : Florian Silbereisen , German TV presenter and singer
- August 5th : Maik Franz , German soccer player
- August 5 : Rachel Scott , victim of the Littleton school massacre († 1999 )
- August 5 : Jesse Williams , American actor
- August 6 : Thomas Greilinger , German ice hockey player
- August 6th : Abdul Kader Keïta , Ivorian football player
- August 6th : Vitantonio Liuzzi , Italian racing car driver
- August 7th : Tarō Asasekiryū , Mongolian sumo wrestler
- August 8 : Vanessa Amorosi , Australian pop singer
- August 8 : Roger Federer , Swiss tennis player
- August 9 : Alexandra Uhlig , German handball player
- August 9th : Li Jia Wei , table tennis player from Singapore
- August 10 : Taufik Hidayat , Indonesian badminton player
- August 12 : Djibril Cissé , French footballer
- August 12 : Emiliano Dudar , Argentinian football player
- August 13 : Murat Akyüz , Turkish football player
- August 14 : Ömer Ateş , Turkish football player
- August 14th : Scott Lipsky , American tennis player
- August 15 : Silvan Zurbriggen , Swiss ski racer
- August 16 : Karim Bridji , Algerian footballer
- August 16 : Vlatko Mitkov , Macedonian handball player
- August 16 : Roque Santa Cruz , Paraguayan soccer player
- August 17 : Don Muhlbach , American football player
- August 18th : Francisco Javier Abad , Spanish middle distance runner
- August 18 : César Delgado , Argentine soccer player
- August 18 : Memo Rojas , Mexican racing car driver
- August 18 : Nils Seethaler , German cultural anthropologist
- August 18 : Frank Wahl , German handball player
- August 20 : Ben Barnes , British actor
- August 20 : Alexander Blinow , Russian sports shooter
- August 20 : Jacob Weigert , German actor and voice actor
- August 21 : Ryan Griffiths , Australian soccer player
- August 21 : Erin Kelly , American actress
- August 22 : Christina Obergföll , German athlete (javelin throw)
- August 23 : Carlos Cuéllar , Spanish soccer player
- August 23 : Jaime Lee Kirchner , American actress
- August 23 : Stephan Loboué , German-Ivorian soccer player
- August 24 : Chad Michael Murray , American actor
- August 25 : Rachel Bilson , American actress
- August 25 : Sina-Maria Gerhardt , German theater and film actress
- August 25th : Shiva Keshavan , Indian luge rider
- August 26 : Robin Bade , German radio and television presenter
- August 26th : Ali Yousef Al Rumaihi , Qatari show jumper
- August 27 : Patrick J. Adams , Canadian actor
- August 27 : Maxwell Scherrer Cabelino Andrade , Brazilian soccer player
- August 27 : Alessandro Gamberini , Italian football player
- August 27 : Richard Sterne , South African professional golfer
- August 28 : Christoph Pepe Auer , Austrian jazz saxophonist
- August 28 : Daniel Gygax , Swiss football player
- August 28 : Raphael Matos , Brazilian racing car driver
- August 28th : Agata Wróbel , Polish weightlifter
- August 29th : Miyo Akao , Japanese badminton player
- August 29 : Martin Erat , Czech ice hockey player
- August 29th : Siarhei Rutenka , Spanish handball player
- August 30 : Veli Acar , Turkish football player
- August 30th : Tomasz Majewski , Polish athlete
- August 30th : André Niklaus , German athlete
- August 31 : Dwayne Peel , Welsh rugby player
September
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- September 1st : Michael Maze , Danish table tennis player
- September 2 : Elizabeth Amolofo , Ghanaian athlete
- September 4th : Stéphane Auvray , French football player
- September 4th : Richard Garcia , Australian soccer player
- September 4 : Beyoncé , American singer (Destiny's Child)
- September 6 : Yūki Abe , Japanese soccer player
- September 6 : Søren Larsen , Danish football player
- September 6th : Sarah Schindler , German singer and actress
- September 7th : Müslüm Atav , Austrian football player
- September 7th : Dominique van Hulst , Dutch singer
- September 7th : Gregor Lorger , Slovenian handball player
- September 7th : Tatiana Jurjewna Moissejewa , Russian biathlete
- September 8 : Kate Abdo , British journalist
- September 8 : Jonathan Taylor Thomas , American actor
- September 9 : Mohamed Attoumane , Comorian swimmer
- September 10 : Ilka Arndt , German handball player
- September 10 : Germán Denis , Argentinian football player
- September 10th : Marco Chiudinelli , Swiss tennis player
- September 10th : Filippo Pozzato , Italian cyclist
- September 11th : Paul Pieck , German cameraman
- September 12th : Ada Dorian , German writer
- September 12 : Jennifer Hudson , American singer and actress
- September 12 : Dirk Reichl , German cyclist († 2005 )
- September 13th : Mariha , German actress and singer-songwriter
- September 14th : Stefan Reisinger , German soccer player
- September 14th : Miyavi , Japanese musician
- September 15 : Matthias Oomen , German politician, lobbyist and journalist
- September 16 : Alexis Bledel , American actress and model
- September 16 : Nina Eichinger , German presenter
- September 17th : Julio Alcorsé , Argentinian football player
- September 18 : Andrea Caracciolo , Italian football player
- September 18 : Arie Luyendyk junior , Dutch racing driver
- September 18 : Maicon dos Santos , Brazilian soccer player
- September 18 : Jennifer Tisdale , American actress and singer
- September 19 : Damiano Cunego , Italian cyclist
- September 19 : Marcos Agustin Gelabert , Argentinian soccer player
- September 20th : Marco Fiorentini , Italian cross-country skier
- September 21 : Nicole Richie , American It Girl
- September 22nd : Sedat Ağçay , Turkish football player
- September 22nd : Janne Drücker , German actress
- September 22nd : Michael Thiede , German handball player
- September 23 : Natalie Horler , German singer, known as the singer of the dance trio Cascada
- September 23 : Steffen Freiberg , German political official
- September 24th : Tetjana Antypenko , Ukrainian cross-country skier
- September 24th : Ryan Briscoe , Australian racing car driver
- September 24th : Sebastian Edtbauer , German actor
- September 24th : Patrick Rothe , German handball player
- September 26 : Otar Khisaneishvili , Georgian football player
- September 26th : Akira Sasaki , Japanese ski racer
- September 26 : Serena Williams , professional tennis player
- September 26th : Collien Ulmen-Fernandes , German television presenter
- September 26 : Christina Milian , American singer, songwriter and actress
- September 27th : Neha Ahuja , Indian ski racer
- September 27 : Mirjam Weichselbraun , Austrian TV presenter
- September 27th : Cytherea , American porn actress
- September 27 : Patrick Alphonse Bengondo , Cameroonian football player
- September 27 : Dennis Serano , Belizean football player
- September 28 : Jerrika Hinton , American actress
- September 28 : Mauro Iván Óbolo , Argentinian football player
- September 29 : Shay Astar , American actress and singer
- September 29th : Gordon Mathers , Australian darts player
- September 29 : Juliane Ziegler , German TV presenter
- September 30th : Cecelia Ahern , Irish writer, playwright and screenwriter
October
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- October 1st : Júlio Baptista , Brazilian soccer player
- October 1st : Gaby Mudingayi , Belgian football player
- October 1 : Christina Murphy , American actress
- October 2 : James Cerretani , American tennis player
- October 2 : Erik Fellows , American actor
- October 2nd : Sidney Samson , Dutch DJ
- October 2nd : Annette Strasser , German actress
- October 2nd : Luke Wilkshire , Australian soccer player
- October 3 : Seth Gabel , American actor
- October 3 : Zlatan Ibrahimović , Swedish football player
- October 4th : Yakubu Adamu , Nigerian soccer player
- October 4th : Birthe Wolter , German actress
- October 5th : Zhang Yining , Chinese table tennis player
- October 6th : Abdelkarim , German-Moroccan comedian
- October 6th : Lutz Altepost , German canoeist
- October 6th : Geert De Vos , Belgian dart player
- October 6th : Udomporn Polsak , Thai weightlifter
- October 7th : Geoffrey Kiprono Mutai , Kenyan long distance runner
- October 8th : Anja Graefenstein , German actress
- October 8 : Patrick Pilet , French racing car driver
- October 9 : Zachery Ty Bryan , American actor
- October 9 : Svenja Spriestersbach , German handball player
- October 10 : Chara , Angolan soccer player
- October 12th : Shola Ameobi , Anglo-Nigerian soccer player
- October 15 : Francesco Benussi , Italian football player
- October 15 : Andreas Christ , German actor
- October 15 : Jelena Dementjewa , Russian tennis player
- October 15 : Mohamed Shawky , Egyptian soccer player
- October 16 : Aygül Berîvan Aslan , Austrian political scientist, lawyer and politician
- October 16 : Caterina Scorsone , Canadian actress
- October 17th : Sophie Dal , German actress
- October 17th : Snorri Guðjónsson , Icelandic handball player and coach
- October 17th : Timo Ochs , German soccer player
- October 18 : Daniel Sauer , German handball player
- October 18 : Sophie Wepper , German actress
- October 19 : Heikki Kovalainen , Finnish Formula 1 driver
- October 19 : Jonathan Santana , Paraguayan-Argentine soccer player
- October 19 : Karoline Schuch , German actress
- October 19 : Lucas Thwala , South African soccer player
- October 20th : Kaori Kobayashi , Japanese jazz saxophonist and flutist
- October 20 : Heike Klüver , German political scientist
- October 24th : Kemal Aslan , Turkish soccer player
- October 24th : Jemima Rooper , British actress
- October 24th : Natalie Langer , German TV presenter
- October 25 : Hiroshi Aoyama , Japanese motorcycle racer
- October 25 : Shaun Wright-Phillips , English soccer player
- October 26 : Lorenzo Lanzi , Italian motorcycle racer
- October 27 : Salem Al Fakir , Swedish musician and singer
- October 27 : Jenni Dahlman , wife of Formula 1 racing driver Kimi Raikkonen
- October 28 : Milan Baroš , Czech football player
- October 29th : Amanda Beard , American swimmer
- October 30th : Ina-Lena Elwardt , German handball player
- October 30 : Jun Ji-hyun , South Korean actress
- October 30 : Muna Lee , American athlete
- October 31 : Frank Iero , American musician
- October 31 : Valezka , German R&B singer
November
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- November 1st : Marie Luv , American porn actress
- November 2nd : Ai , Japanese singer
- November 2nd : Tatjana Totmjanina , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- November 3rd : Jermaine Jones , German-American soccer player
- November 3rd : Navina Omilade , German soccer player
- November 3rd : Sten Pentus , Estonian racing car driver
- November 4 : Ryad Assani-Razaki , Canadian writer
- November 4th : Nicole Dieker , American composer
- November 4th : Christina Krogshede , Danish handball player
- November 4th : Guy Martin , British motorcycle racer
- November 7th : Gitte Aaen , Danish handball player
- November 7th : Mike Larrison , American racing car driver
- November 8th : Jéssica Augusto , Portuguese long distance and obstacle runner
- November 8 : Joe Cole , English soccer player
- November 8th : Arne Niemeyer , German handball player
- November 8 : Brian Rast , American poker player
- November 9 : Christoph Rehage , German author
- November 10 : Alexander Eisenfeld , German actor
- November 10 : Constantin Luger , Austrian musician
- November 11th : Guillaume of Luxembourg , Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- November 11th : Nike Wessel , spokeswoman for the Green Youth
- November 12th : Phil Aucoin , American ice hockey player
- November 12th : Annika Becker , German athlete
- November 12 : Sergio Floccari , Italian football player
- November 14th : Janin Reinhardt , German TV presenter
- November 14 : Russell Tovey , British actor
- November 16 : Marcel Heinig , German triathlete
- November 17th : Anna Bornhoff , German soccer player
- November 19 : André Lotterer , German racing car driver
- November 20 : Carlos Boozer , American basketball player
- November 22nd : Asmaa Abdol-Hamid , Danish-Palestinian politician and social worker
- November 22nd : Ben Adams , British singer
- November 22nd : Stefan Mücke , German automobile racing driver
- November 22nd : Song Hye-kyo , South Korean actress and model
- November 22nd : Shangela Laquifa Wadley , American drag queen
- November 23 : Nick Carle , Australian soccer player
- November 24th : Vule Avdalović , Serbian basketball player
- November 24th : Randy Bülau , German handball player
- November 25th : Xabi Alonso , Spanish soccer player
- November 25 : Jenna Bush , daughter of US President George W. Bush
- November 25th : Mauricio Rua , Brazilian martial artist
- November 26 : Ibrahim Adamu , Nigerian badminton player
- November 26 : Stephan Maigaard Andersen , Danish football player
- November 26 : Natasha Bedingfield , British singer
- November 26th : Natalie Gauci , Italian-Maltese singer
- November 26th : Aurora Snow , American porn actress
- November 27th : Theo Eltink , Dutch cyclist
- November 27th : Sabine Englert , German handball player
- November 27 : Jay Freeman , American software developer
- November 30th : Edu , Brazilian soccer player
- November 30th : Elroy Smith , Belizean football player
December
- December 1st : Rolf Hermann , German handball player
- December 2nd : Britney Spears , American pop singer
- December 2nd : Thomas Pöck , Austrian ice hockey player
- December 2nd : Vladimir Efimkin , Russian cyclist
- December 3rd : Ioannis Amanatidis , Greek football player
- December 3rd : Choi Heung-chul , Korean ski jumper
- December 3rd : David Villa , Spanish soccer player
- December 4th : Matilda Boson , Swedish handball player
- December 4th : Kim Viljanen , Finnish dart player
- December 4th : Thorsten Willer , German musician
- December 5th : Gamal Hamza , Egyptian soccer player
- December 6 : Federico Balzaretti , Italian football player
- December 6th : Lior Suchard , Israeli mentalist
- December 7th : Tommy Egeberg , Norwegian ski jumper
- December 7th : Martin Tomczyk , German automobile racing driver
- December 7th : Tuba Ünsal , Turkish actress and model
- December 8 : Azra Akın , Turkish model and actress
- December 8 : Haley Johnson , American biathlete
- December 8th : David Martínez , Mexican racing car driver
- December 10 : Sanel Jahić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- December 11 : Bruno Rangel , Brazilian soccer player († 2016 )
- December 11th : Javier Saviola , Argentinian soccer player
- December 11 : Mohamed Zidan , Egyptian soccer player
- December 13th : Hans Grugger , Austrian ski racer
- December 13th : Amy Lee , American singer
- December 15 : Brendan Fletcher , Canadian actor
- December 15 : Hossam Ghaly , Egyptian soccer player
- December 15 : Thomas Herrion , American football player († 2005 )
- December 16 : Reanna Solomon , Nauruan weightlifter
- December 17th : Tim Wiese , German soccer player (goalkeeper)
- December 19 : Hubert Auer , Austrian football goalkeeper
- December 21 : Cristian Zaccardo , Italian football player
- December 22nd : Anja Antonowicz , German-Polish actress
- December 22nd : Cheek , Finnish hip-hop musician
- December 22nd : Momir Ilić , Serbian handball player
- December 22 : Sandra Kuhn , German TV presenter
- December 22nd : Troy Mellanson , Antiguan soccer player
- December 23 : Angelo Kelly , singer / songwriter, member of The Kelly Family
- December 25 : David Andersson , Swedish orienteer and ski orienteer
- December 25 : Mario Alberto Santana , Argentine soccer player
- December 26 : Nikolai Nikolaeff , Australian actor
- December 27th : Lise Darly , French singer
- December 27th : Javine , British singer
- December 27 : Emilie de Ravin , actress
- December 27th : Jana Schadrack , German soccer player
- December 28th : Nicolas Antonoff , French ice hockey player
- December 28th : Sienna Miller , American actress
- December 29th : Shizuka Arakawa , Japanese figure skater
- December 29 : Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko , Estonian football player
- December 30th : Ali Abdullah Harib al-Habsi , Omani football player
- December 30th : Haley Paige , American porn actress and director of Mexican and Welsh origins († 2007 )
- December 31 : Gabriel Andrade , German actor
- December 31 : Tobias Rau , German soccer player
- December 31 : Margaret Simpson , track and field athlete (heptathlon) from Ghana
- December: Gary Lundy , American actor
Day unknown
- Ximena Abarca Tapia , Chilean singer
- Lars Gunnar Abusdal , Norwegian badminton player
- Björn Ahrens , German actor
- Airen , German blogger and writer
- Jasmin Al-Safi , German television presenter
- Yūsuke Amano , Japanese game developer
- Sahra Amir Ebrahimi , Iranian television actress
- Nicole Ansperger , German musician
- Nine Antico , French comic book artist and illustrator
- Cam Archer , American filmmaker and photographer
- Helwig Arenz , German actor and writer
- Katharina Behrens , German actress
- Benjamin Bistram , German music producer and rapper
- Evangelina Carrozzo , Argentine Carnival Queen
- Daso , German music producer and DJ († 2018 )
- Dagny Dewath , German actress
- Israa Abdel Fattah , Egyptian political internet activist and co-founder of the April 6th Youth Movement
- Kimball Gallagher , American pianist and composer
- Felix Hassenfratz , German film director
- Katja Huhn , Russian pianist
- Meike Leluschko , German soprano
- Friederike Linke , German actress
- Sven Ludwig , German music producer
- Valzhyna Mort , Belarusian poet
- Julia Nachtmann , German actress
- Salar Nader , Afghan-American tabla player, composer and music teacher
- Giorgio Spiegelfeld , Austrian actor
- Veronika Trisko , Austrian pianist
- Misha Verollet , British-German writer
- Zhang Daxun , Chinese double bass player
Died
January
- January 1 : Mauri Rose , American racing driver (* 1906 )
- January 4 : Friedrich Werber , German politician (* 1901 )
- January 5 : Lanza del Vasto , Italian philosopher and poet, theorist (* 1901 )
- January 5 : Fritz Walter , German football official (* 1900 )
- January 6th : AJ Cronin , Scottish doctor and writer (* 1896 )
- January 6 : Wesley Powell , American politician (* 1915 )
- January 7th : José Ardévol , Cuban composer of Spanish origin (* 1911 )
- January 8 : Alexander Kotow , Russian chess player and author (* 1913 )
- January 8 : Francis Samuelson, 4th Baronet , British racing car driver (* 1890 )
- January 9 : Sammy Davis , British racing car driver and journalist (* 1887 )
- January 9 : Kazimierz Serocki , Polish composer (* 1922 )
- January 10 : Aleksander Marczewski , Polish composer, conductor and organist (* 1911 )
- January 12th : Elma Grohs-Hansen , German sculptor and textile artist (* 1892 )
- January 13 : Finn Olav Gundelach , Danish diplomat (* 1925 )
- January 14th : G. Lloyd Spencer , American politician (* 1893 )
- January 15 : Graham Whitehead , British racing driver (* 1922 )
- January 16 : Gordon Delamont , Canadian composer, trumpeter and music teacher (* 1918 )
- January 16 : Bernard Lee , British actor (born 1908 )
- January 17 : Hugo Aufderbeck , theologian and bishop (* 1909 )
- January 19 : Marietta di Monaco , German cabaret artist, poet and Diseuse (* 1893 )
- January 19 : Francesca Woodman , photographer (* 1958 )
- January 21 : Cuth Harrison , British Formula 1 racing driver (* 1906 )
- January 23 : Samuel Barber , American composer (* 1910 )
- January 23 : Liselott Baumgarten , German actress (* 1906 )
- January 23 : Roland Hampe , German archaeologist and translator (* 1908 )
- January 23 : Roman Rudenko , Soviet chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (* 1907 )
- January 24th : Hans Lauscher , German politician (* 1904 )
- January 25 : Adele Astaire , American dancer and entertainer (* 1896 )
- January 27 : Rudolf Attig , German medical officer (* 1893 )
- January 27 : Helmut Bertram , German politician (* 1910 )
- January 30 : John E. Miller , American politician (* 1888 )
- January : Carl Adloff , German table tennis official (* 1896 )
February
- February 1 : Mischa Mischakoff , violinist and music teacher of Ukrainian origin (* 1895 )
- February 1 : Ernst Pepping , German composer (* 1901 )
- February 1 : Geirr Tveitt , Norwegian composer and pianist (* 1908 )
- February 1 : Donald Wills Douglas , American aircraft manufacturer (* 1892 )
- February 1 : Arnold Huebner , German soldier and knight's cross bearer (* 1919 )
- February 1 : Eric Hultén , Swedish botanist and phytogeographer (* 1894 )
- February 2 : Hugh Joseph Addonizio , American politician (* 1914 )
- February 2 : Richard Muckermann , German politician (* 1891 )
- February 3 : Gisela Praetorius , German politician (* 1902 )
- February 6 : Heinz Benthien , German table tennis player (* 1917 )
- February 6 : Friederike von Hannover , Queen of the Hellenes (* 1917 )
- February 7 : Paul Mattick , German communist and political writer (* 1904 )
- February 7th : Hermann Esser , NSDAP functionary (* 1900 )
- February 8 : Jakob Bender , German football player (* 1910 )
- February 8 : Konrad Wittmann (politician) , German politician (* 1905 )
- February 9 : John Zuinglius Anderson , American politician (* 1904 )
- February 9 : Franz Andrysek , Austrian weightlifter (* 1906 )
Bill Haley & his Comets, 1954
- February 9 : Bill Haley , American rock musician (* 1925 )
- February 11 : Kermit Murdock , American actor (* 1908 )
- February 11 : Franz Sondheimer , German chemist (* 1926 )
- February 13 : Rolf Schwedler , Senator for Building and Housing of Berlin (* 1914 )
- February 15 : Michael Bernard Bloomfield , American blues guitarist (* 1943 )
- February 15 : Esteban Canal , Peruvian chess grandmaster (* 1896 )
- February 15 : Karl Richter in Munich, choirmaster, conductor, organist and harpsichordist (* 1926 )
- February 19 : Jan Volkert Rijpperda Wierdsma , Dutch legal scholar (* 1904 )
- February 20 : Athanasios Toutoungi , Syrian Archbishop (* 1899 )
- February 20 : Hans Fleischer , German composer (* 1896 )
- February 21 : Ron Grainer , Australian composer (* 1922 )
- February 22nd : Hans Arnold , German SPD politician (* 1904 )
- February 22nd : Guy Butler , British athlete and Olympic champion (* 1899 )
- February 22nd : Ilo Wallace , American politician's wife (* 1888 )
- February 23 : Roy Newman , American country musician (* 1899 )
- February 24th : Fritz Knoll , Austrian botanist and rector of the University of Vienna (* 1883 )
- February 23 : Robert L. Fish , American writer (* 1912 )
- February 25 : Ulrich Scheuner , constitutional lawyer (* 1903 )
- February 25 : Mikawa Gun'ichi , Vice Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (* 1888 )
- February 26 : Howard Hanson , American pianist and composer (* 1896 )
- February 26 : William Oliver , British officer (* 1901 )
- February 28 : Albin Lesky , Austrian classical philologist (* 1896 )
- February 28 : August Wilhelm Raapke , German businessman and head of authorities (*?)
March
- March 1 : Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón , 31st President of Panama (* 1905 )
- March 2 : Fridolin Stier , German Bible translator (* 1902 )
- March 5 : Brenda de Banzie , British actress (born 1915 )
- March 5 : Paul Hörbiger , Austrian actor (* 1894 )
- March 5 : Karl Springenschmid , Austrian writer (* 1897 )
- March 7th : Giovanni Bianconi , Swiss teacher, wood carver and local researcher (* 1891 )
- March 7th : Bosley Crowther , American film critic (* 1905 )
- March 7th : Hilde Sperling , German tennis player (* 1908 )
- March 9 : Max Delbrück , German-American geneticist and biophysicist (* 1906 )
- March 14th : Giancarlo Sala , Italian racing driver (* 1926 )
- March 15 : René Clair , French film director (* 1898 )
- March 15 : Horiguchi Daigaku , Japanese writer and translator (* 1892 )
- March 17 : William Lawrence , American pianist, singer and music teacher (* 1895 )
- March 18 : Peter H. Dominick , American politician (* 1915 )
- March 19 : Tampa Red , American singer and guitarist (born 1904 )
- March 20 : Väinö Auer , Finnish geologist and geographer (* 1895 )
- March 20 : Edith Schultze-Westrum , German actress (* 1904 )
- March 23 : Mike Hailwood , British motorcycle racer, (* 1940 )
- March 24th : Walther Bringolf , Swiss politician (* 1895 )
- March 25 : Edward Lasker , American chess and go player (* 1885 )
- March 26th : Roger Gauthier , French racing driver (* 1902 )
- March 27 : Jakob Ackeret , Swiss aerodynamicist (* 1898 )
- March 27 : Margarete Berger-Heise , German politician (* 1911 )
- March 29 : David Prophet , British racing car driver (* 1937 )
April
- April 1 : Hans Ahrbeck , German educationalist, pedagogue and university lecturer (* 1890 )
- April 1 : Karl Bechert , German politician (* 1901 )
- April 3 : Stefan Herman , Polish violinist and music teacher (* 1902 )
Leo Kanner around 1955
- April 3 : Leo Kanner , Austro-American child and youth psychiatrist (* 1894 )
- April 3 : Juan Trippe , American entrepreneur and Pan American World Airways founder (* 1899 )
- April 4 : Carl Ludwig Siegel , German mathematician (* 1896 )
- April 5 : Franziska Hamann , German painter and caricaturist (* 1907 )
- April 6 : Bob Hite , American singer (* 1945 )
- April 7th : Norman Taurog , American film director (* 1899 )
- April 8 : Omar Bradley , American five-star general (* 1893 )
- April 8 : Adrian Hoven , Austrian actor, director and film producer (* 1922 )
- April 9 : Ludwig von Andok , German painter (* 1890 )
- April 9 : Christa Johannsen , German writer (* 1914 )
- April 10 : Gerhard Grüneberg , SED functionary (* 1921 )
- April 12 : Yasuhiko Asaka , Japanese nobleman and general (* 1887 )
- April 12 : Matthias Domaschk , civil rights activist in the GDR (* 1957 )
- April 12 : Joe Louis , American boxer (* 1914 )
- April 12 : Hendrik Andriessen , Dutch composer and professor (* 1892 )
- April 12 : Hans Chemin-Petit , German composer and conductor (* 1902 )
- April 14 : Sergio Amidei , Italian screenwriter (* 1904 )
- April 14 : William Henry Vanderbilt III , American politician (* 1901 )
- April 16 : Sigurd Debus , imprisoned German RAF terrorist, most recently on hunger strike (* 1942 )
- April 20 : Hans Söhnker in Berlin, German actor (* 1903 )
- April 22nd : Max Aronoff , American violist and music teacher (* 1905 )
- April 26 : Jim Davis (actor) , American actor (born 1909 )
- April 28 : Cliff Battles , American football player and coach (born 1910 )
- April 29 : William Alonzo Anderson , American jazz trumpeter (* 1916 )
- April 30 : Jan Filip , Czech prehistorian (* 1900 )
- April 30 : Peter Huchel , German poet (* 1903 )
May
- May 1 : Edmond Romulus Amateis , American sculptor and teacher (* 1897 )
- May 1 : Tex Hamer , American football player (born 1901 )
- May 1 : Heinz Nittel , Austrian politician (* 1930 )
- May 1 : Robert Stauch , German politician (* 1898 )
- May 2 : David Wechsler , American psychologist and intelligence researcher (* 1896 )
- May 3 : Wilhelmine Lübke , German politician, chairwoman of the maternal convalescence organization (* 1885 )
- May 5th : Bobby Sands , Northern Irish resistance fighter, member of the British House of Commons (* 1954 )
- May 6 : Bahadır Alkım , Turkish archaeologist (* 1915 )
- May 8 : Wolfgang Kunkel , German lawyer and legal historian (* 1902 )
- May 9 : Nelson Algren , American writer (* 1909 )
- May 9 : Fritz Umgelter German film and television director (* 1922 )
- May 10 : Bolesław Lewandowski , Polish composer and conductor (* 1912 )
Bob Marley , 1980
- May 11 : Bob Marley , Jamaican reggae musician (* 1945 )
- May 11 : Heinz-Herbert Karry , Hessian Minister of Economics and Deputy Prime Minister (* 1920 )
- May 12 : HAP Grieshaber , German painter and graphic artist (* 1909 )
- May 12 : Benjamin Henry Sheares , Singaporean politician (* 1907 )
- May 13 : Nathan Abshire , American accordionist (born 1913 )
- May 13 : Joseph-Ernst Fugger von Glött , German politician (* 1895 )
- May 14 : Miguel Andreolo , Uruguayan-Italian football player (* 1912 )
- May 14 : Karl-Axel Kullerstrand , Swedish high jumper (* 1892 )
- May 14 : Juan R. Posadas , Argentine Trotskyist ideologist and ufologist (* 1912 )
- May 15 : Roger Crovetto , French racing driver (* 1918 )
- May 17 : Hugo Friedhofer , American film composer (* 1901 )
- May 18 : William Saroyan , American writer (* 1908 )
- May 20 : Dositej II. , Archbishop of Ohrid and Macedonia (* 1906 )
- May 20 : Noboru Nakamura , Japanese director and screenwriter (* 1913 )
- May 20 : Lauri Pihkala , Finnish athlete, inventor of the Pesäpallo (* 1888 )
- May 20 : Fritz Richter , German graphic artist and painter (* 1904 )
- May 22 : Emil van Tongel , Austrian politician (* 1902 )
- May 23 : Karin Hahn-Hissink , German ethnologist (* 1907 )
- May 24 : Charles-Émile Gadbois , Canadian clergyman, music publisher and composer (* 1906 )
- May 24 : Herb Lubalin , American typographer and graphic artist (* 1918 )
- May 24th : Herbert Müller , Swiss automobile racing driver (* 1940 )
- May 24th : Hans Wehr , German Arabist (* 1909 )
- May 25 : Roy Brown , American blues musician (* 1925 )
- May 25 : Georg Malmstén , Finnish singer, musician, composer, orchestra leader and actor (* 1902 )
- May 28 : Garland Grange , American football player (born 1906 )
- May 28 : Mary Lou Williams , American jazz pianist, composer and arranger (* 1910 )
- May 28 : Stefan Wyszyński , Polish clergyman, Primate of Poland since 1948 (* 1901 )
- May 29 : Omar Khorshid , Egyptian guitarist (* 1945 )
- May 29 : Janusz Minkiewicz , Polish writer, poet, satirist, journalist and translator (* 1911 )
- May 29 : Song Qingling , Chinese politician (* 1893 )
- May 30 : Donald Allan Ashby , Canadian ice hockey player (born 1955 )
- May 30 : Sven Andersson , Swedish football player and coach (* 1907 )
- May 31 : Gyula Lóránt , Hungarian football player and football coach (* 1923 )
June
- June 1 : Carl Vinson , American politician (* 1883 )
- June 1 : Jan Zdeněk Bartoš , Bohemian composer (* 1908 )
- June 4 : Fritz Steuben , German writer (* 1898 )
- June 4 : Billy Starr , American country musician (* approx. 1913 )
- June 8 : Lydia Lopokova , Russian ballet dancer (* 1892 )
- June 9th : Colgate Darden , American politician (* 1897 )
- June 9 : Allen Ludden , American presenter and actor (born 1917 )
- June 10 : Georg Abeler , German master goldsmith, watchmaker and founder of the Wuppertal watch museum (* 1906 )
- June 12 : Anton von Aretin , German politician (* 1918 )
- June 12 : Mahmud Fauzi , Egyptian politician and Prime Minister (* 1900 )
- June 12 : Harri Bading , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1901 )
- June 13 : Jean-Louis Lafosse , French racing driver (* 1941 )
- June 13 : Alfredo Rampi , Italian accident victim (* 1975 )
- June 14 : Alberto Winkler , Italian rower (* 1932 )
- June 16 : Jule Gregory Charney , American meteorologist (* 1917 )
- June 19 : Lotte Reiniger , cutter, silhouette animation filmmaker, book illustrator (* 1899 )
- June 20 : Paul Joseph Z'dun , German "funny cyclist" (* 1904 )
- June 21 : Johan Fabricius , Dutch writer, illustrator, journalist and adventurer (* 1899 )
- June 22nd : Ernst Duschön , German politician (* 1904 )
- June 23 : Zarah Leander , Swedish actress (* 1907 )
- June 23 : Willi Bleicher , German IG-Metall district manager (* 1907 )
- June 26 : Werner Teske , captain of the MfS and last victim of the death penalty in Germany (* 1942 )
- June 26 : Rosl Mayr , Bavarian folk actress (* 1896 )
- June 28 : Edward Anseele Jr. , Belgian politician and resistance fighter (* 1902 )
- June 28 : Peter Kreuder , German composer, pianist and conductor (* 1905 )
- June 28 : Terry Fox , Canadian athlete and activist (born 1958 )
- June 28 : Ayatollah Mohammad Beheschti , Iranian politician, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council (* 1928 )
- June 30 : Eduard Marks , German actor, drama teacher and radio play speaker (* 1901 )
- June 30th : Bud Tingelstad , American racing driver (* 1928 )
July
- July 1 : Zdeněk Burian , Czech draftsman and graphic artist (* 1905 )
- July 1 : Wolfgang Weber , German problem composer (* 1909 )
- July 1 : Marcel Breuer , Hungarian architect and designer (* 1902 )
- July 1 : Nana de Varennes , Canadian actress (* 1885 )
- July 4th : Helmut Gröttrup , German engineer and inventor (* 1916 )
- July 4 : Michael Kohl , German diplomat, 1974–1978 head of the permanent representation of the GDR in the Federal Republic of Germany (* 1929 )
- July 4th : Klaus Thormaehlen , inventor of the mulching sickle and winemaker (* 1892 )
- July 5 : Otto Andersen , German architect (* 1924 )
- July 5 : Hermann Anselment , German painter (* 1905 )
- July 5 : Jorge Urrutia Blondel , Chilean composer (* 1905 )
- July 6 : Hans Achinger , German economist and social scientist (* 1899 )
- July 6th : Martin Jahn , German draftsman, painter and art teacher (* 1898 )
- July 8 : Walther Ahrens , German microbiologist and hygienist (* 1910 )
- July 9 : Hermann Weinkauff , first President of the Federal Court of Justice (* 1894 )
- July 9 : Willi Beuster , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1908 )
- July 10 : Valter Ever , Estonian athlete (* 1902 )
- July 10 : Elimar Freiherr von Fürstenberg , German politician (* 1910 )
- July 11th : August Berlin , German politician (* 1910 )
- July 12 : Boris Polewoi , author and journalist (* 1908 )
- July 14th : Peter von Tramin , Austrian writer (* 1932 )
- July 16 : Alexander Grundner-Culemann , German forester and politician (* 1885 )
- July 17 : Karl Hoffmann (politician, 1901) , German politician (* 1901 )
- July 19 : Roger Doucet , Canadian singer (born 1919 )
- July 19 : Karl Steinhoff , Prime Minister of the State of Brandenburg and Minister of the Interior of the GDR (* 1892 )
- July 21 : Jean Vaurez , French racing car driver (* 1897 )
- July 23 : Ivan Eklind , Swedish football referee (* 1905 )
- July 23 : Franz Solan Schäppi , Swiss Capuchin and missionary scholar (* 1901 )
- July 25 : Conrad Fink , German politician (* 1900 )
- July 26 : John Passmore Widgery , Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (* 1911 )
- July 27 : William Wyler , film director (* 1902 )
- July 29 : Robert Moses , American urban planner (* 1888 )
August
- August 1st : Julius Arigi , Austro-Hungarian fighter pilot (* 1895 )
- August 1 : Paddy Chayefsky , American author (* 1923 )
- August 1 : Pearl Chertok , American harpist, music teacher and composer (* 1918 )
- August 2 : Delfo Cabrera , Argentine marathon runner (* 1919 )
- August 2 : Josef Breuer , German problem composer (* 1903 )
- August 4th : Melvyn Douglas , American actor (born 1901 )
- August 5 : Jean Bobescu , Romanian violinist, conductor and music teacher (* 1890 )
- August 6 : Mario Abbate , Italian singer and actor (* 1927)
- August 8 : Lazar Wechsler , most important film producer of early Swiss cinema (* 1896 )
- August 14 : Karl Böhm , Austrian conductor (* 1894 )
- August 16 : Viktor Achter , German lawyer, university professor and entrepreneur (* 1905 )
- August 18 : Robert Russell Bennett , American composer (* 1894 )
- August 22 : Karl von Appen , German set designer (* 1900 )
- August 22nd : Ludwig Janda , German football player (* 1919 )
- August 22 : Kuniko Mukōda , Japanese writer (* 1929 )
- August 22 : Glauber Rocha , Brazilian film director (* 1938 )
- August 23 : Rolf Herricht , German actor and comedian (* 1927 )
- August 27 : Valery Borisovich Kharlamov , Russian ice hockey player (* 1948 )
- August 28 : Paul Anspach , Belgian fencer (* 1882 )
- August 28 : Béla Guttmann , Hungarian football player and coach (* 1899 )
- August 30 : Mohammad Ali Radschāʾi , Iranian politician (* 1933 )
September
- September 1 : Vincenzo Agnetti , Italian conceptual artist, photographer, art theorist and writer (* 1926)
- September 1 : Paul Bausch , German politician (* 1895 )
- September 1 : Ann Harding , American actress (* 1902 )
- September 1 : Albert Speer , German architect and high functionary during the Nazi era (* 1905 )
- September 2 : Tadeusz Baird , Polish composer (* 1928 )
- September 2 : Janko Ravnik , Slovenian composer, music teacher and director (* 1891 )
- September 6 : Christy Brown , Irish painter and author (born 1932 )
- September 7th : Werner Berg , German painter (* 1904 )
- September 8 : Paul Collart , Swiss archaeologist (* 1902 )
- September 8 : Yukawa Hideki , Japanese physicist (* 1907 )
- September 8th : Nisargadatta Maharaj , Indian spiritualist and yogi (* 1897 )
- September 8 : Carlo Alberto Pizzini , Italian composer and conductor (* 1905 )
- September 9 : Jacques Lacan , French psychoanalyst (* 1901 )
- September 11th : Gregory Breit , American physicist (* 1899 )
- September 11 : Walter Heinrich Fuchs , German phytomedicist (* 1904 )
- September 12 : Eugenio Montale , Italian writer (* 1896 )
- September 14 : Walter "Furry" Lewis , American blues guitarist and singer (* 1893 )
- September 15 : Robert Sidney Cahn , British chemist (* 1899 )
- September 16 : Fritz Lange , Minister for Popular Education of the GDR (* 1898 )
- September 16 : Michael DiSalle , American politician (* 1908 )
- September 21 : Tony Aubin , French composer (* 1907 )
- September 21 : Carlo Bandirola , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1915 )
- September 21 : Nigel Patrick , British actor (born 1913 )
- September 22nd : Klaus-Jürgen Rattay , German squatter (* 1962 )
- September 25 : Hermann Glüsing , German farmer and CDU politician (* 1908 )
- September 26 : Ludwig Goldbrunner , German football player (* 1908 )
- September 27th : Bronisław Malinowski , Polish athlete, Olympic champion (* 1951 )
- September 28 : Karl Artelt , German politician (* 1890)
- September 30th : Boyd Neel , English-Canadian conductor and music teacher (* 1905 )
- September 30th : Flemming Weis , Danish composer (* 1898 )
October
- October 3 : José Alberto Albano do Amarante , Brazilian electrical engineer (* 1935 )
- October 3 : Tadeusz Kotarbiński , Polish philosopher (* 1886 )
- October 4 : Franz Amrehn , German politician (* 1912 )
- October 6 : Anwar as-Sadat , Egyptian statesman (* 1918 )
- October 6 : Werner Zech , German general (* 1895 )
- October 9 : Julio “Matador” Libonatti , Argentinian football player (* 1901 )
- October 9 : Karl Lütgendorf , Austrian politician (* 1914 )
- October 9 : Peter Steinforth , German artist (* 1923 )
- October 11 : Lawrence Brooks Hays , American politician (* 1898 )
- October 13 : Hans Christoph Ade , German writer (* 1888 )
- October 13 : Nils Anton Alfhild Asther , Swedish actor (* 1897 )
- October 14 : Elsa Scholten , German actress (* 1902 )
- October 15 : Philip Fotheringham-Parker , British racing car driver (* 1907 )
- October 16 : Moshe Dajan , Israeli general and politician (* 1915 )
- October 17 : Albert Cohen , Swiss writer (* 1895 )
- October 19 : Wilhelm Auerswald , Austrian physiologist and university professor (* 1917 )
- October 20 : Annot , German painter, art teacher, art writer and pacifist (* 1894 )
- October 20 : Mary Chase , American writer (* 1907 )
- October 22nd : Edward Caton , American dancer, ballet teacher and choreographer (* 1900 )
- October 22nd : David Cecil, 6th Marquess of Exeter (Lord Burghley), British athlete, Olympic champion and President of the IAAF (* 1905 )
- October 22 : George Ziegler , Canadian organist, choir director, conductor, composer and music teacher (* 1889 )
- October 24th : Edith Head , American costume designer (* 1897 )
- October 25 : Ariel Durant , American writer (* 1898 )
- October 25 : Franz Grasberger , Austrian musicologist (* 1915 )
- October 26 : Francisco Amicarelli , Argentine pianist and music teacher (* 1905 )
- October 26 : Charles Glenn Anders , American theater and film actor (* 1889 )
- October 27 : Nico Dostal , Austrian operetta and film music composer (* 1895 )
- October 27 : Louis Metcalf , American jazz musician (* 1905 )
- October 28 : Gerhard Gregor , German organist and pianist (* 1906 )
- October 29th : Georges Brassens , French poet, author and interpreter of chansons (* 1921 )
- October 29 : Karl Joseph Leiprecht , Bishop of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart (* 1903 )
- October 31 : Georges Guignard , French racing car driver (* 1892 )
- October 31 : Bernhard Günther , German politician (* 1906 )
November
- November 3 : Edvard Kocbek , Slovenian writer and publicist (* 1904 )
- November 3 : Eraldo Monzeglio , Italian football player and coach (* 1906 )
- November 3 : Walt Szot , American football player (* 1920 )
- November 5 : Jean Eustache , French film director (* 1938 )
- November 5 : Herdis McCrary , American football player (born 1904 )
- November 7th : William James Durant , American philosopher and writer (* 1885 )
- November 9 : Rolf von Goth , German actor and radio play director (* 1906 )
- November 10 : Abel Gance , French film pioneer (* 1889 )
- November 12th : Herman Pilnik , German-Argentinian chess master (* 1914 )
- November 13 : Gerhard Marcks , sculptor (* 1889 )
- November 13th : Mestre Pastinha , Brazilian martial artist (* 1889 )
Walter Heitler , 1937
- November 15 : Walter Heitler , German physicist (* 1904 )
- November 15 : Maulana Sadr ud-Din , Imam in the Wilmersdorfer Mosque in Berlin, first missionary of the Islamic denomination Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ischat-i-Islam Lahore
- November 16 : William Holden , American film actor (born 1918 )
- November 20 : Herbert Behrens-Hangeler , German painter, graphic artist and writer (* 1898 )
- November 21 : Harry von Zell , American radio and television announcer, actor and singer (* 1906 )
- November 22nd : Hans Adolf Krebs , German, later British physician and biochemist (* 1900 )
- November 22nd : Dieter Bäumle , Swiss composer (* 1935 )
- November 25 : Morris Kirksey , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1895 )
- November 25th : Margot Kalinke , German politician (* 1909 )
- November 25 : Shimamura Toshimasa , Japanese writer (* 1912 )
- November 26th : Max Euwe , Dutch chess player and 5th world chess champion (* 1901 )
- November 27 : Lotte Lenya , Austrian-American actress and singer (* 1898 )
- November 29 : Natalie Wood , American actress (* 1938 )
December
- December 2 : Rudolf Prack , Austrian actor (* 1905 )
- December 2 : Iwan Wassiljewitsch Obreimow , Russian physicist (* 1894 )
- December 4 : Karl Gilg , German chess player (* 1901 )
- December 6 : Harry Harlow , American psychologist and behavioral scientist (* 1905 )
- December 6 : Kurt Paupié , Austrian journalist (* 1920 )
- December 7th : Auguste Caralp , French racing car driver (* 1892 )
- December 8 : Big Walter Horton , American blues musician (* 1918 )
- December 14 : Edgar J. Anzola , Venezuelan film producer, radio pioneer, journalist and cartoonist (* 1883 )
- December 14 : Paolo Mosconi , Italian Archbishop (* 1914 )
- December 15 : Max Steenbeck , German physicist (* 1904 )
- December 16 : Karl Struss , American cameraman (* 1886 )
- December 16 : Lawrence Edward Watkin , American writer and screenwriter (* 1901 )
- December 17 : Mehmet Shehu , Albanian politician and Prime Minister (* 1913 )
- December 17 : Franz Dahlem , SED functionary, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee and head of the SED (* 1892 )
- December 17th : Edwin Erich Dwinger , writer (* 1898 )
- December 17th : Børge Ralov , Danish ballet dancer and choreographer (* 1908 )
- December 23 : Luther H. Evans , American political scientist (* 1902 )
- December 24th : René Barbier , Belgian composer and professor (* 1890 )
- December 25 : Heinrich Welker , German physicist (* 1912 )
- December 26 : Günther Serres , German politician (* 1910 )
- December 27 : Hoagy Carmichael , American composer, pianist, actor and singer (* 1899 )
- December 28 : Demetrio Aguilera Malta , Ecuadorian writer, painter and diplomat (* 1909 )
- December 28 : Allan Dwan , American director, producer, screenwriter (* 1885 )
- December 28th : Franco Giongo , Italian athlete (* 1891 )
- December 28 : Walter Erich Schäfer , German dramaturge and general director of the Württemberg State Theater (* 1901 )
- December 29th : Katharina Christine Augenstein , German photographer (* 1899 )
- December 30th : Karl Arndt , German officer (* 1892 )
- December 30th : Joseph Platz , German-American chess player (* 1905 )
- December 30th : Franjo Šeper , Archbishop of Zagreb and Cardinal (* 1905 )
Day unknown
- Gabriel María Gregorio del Carmen Lucio Argüelles , Mexican teacher and ambassador (* 1899 )
- Eugen Bodart , German composer and conductor (* 1905 )
- Janet Craxton , English oboist (* 1929 )
- Leonhard Joa , German racing car driver (* 1909 )
- Klaus W. Krause , German actor and voice actor (* 1903 )
- Michael Mosoeu Moerane , South African composer and choir director (* 1909 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ spiegel.de: The communists caught in the trap
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