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Calendar overview 1982
1982 | |
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Lebanese armored vehicle in the Lebanon War | Helmut Kohl is elected Chancellor after a constructive vote of no confidence in Helmut Schmidt . |
Argentine prisoners of war in the Falklands War |
1982 in other calendars | |
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Ab urbe condita | 2735 |
Armenian calendar | 1430-1431 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1974-1975 |
Badi calendar | 138-139 |
Bengali calendar | 1388-1389 |
Berber calendar | 2932 |
Buddhist calendar | 2526 |
Burmese calendar | 1344 |
Byzantine calendar | 7490-7491 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4678-4679 or 4618-4619 |
– 60-year cycle |
Metal Rooster (辛酉, 58)– |
French Revolutionary Calendar |
- CXC CXCI 190-191 |
Hindu calendar | |
– Vikram Sambat | 2038-2039 |
– Shaka Samvat | 1904-1905 |
Iranian calendar | 1360-1361 |
Islamic calendar | 1402-1403 |
Japanese calendar | |
– Nengō (era): | Showa 57 |
- Koki | 2642 |
Jewish calendar | 5742-5743 |
Coptic calendar | 1698-1699 |
Korean calendar | |
– Dangun era | 4315 |
– Juche era | 71 |
Minguo calendar | 71 |
Modern Olympics | XXII |
Seleucid calendar | 2293-2294 |
Thai solar calendar | 2525 |
events
annual dedications
- 1982 is “ International Year of Sanctions Mobilization Against South Africa ”
- The Curlew (lat. Numenius arquata) is Bird of the Year ( NABU /Germany)
politics and world affairs
- January 1: Fritz Honegger becomes President of Switzerland
- January 1: Javier Pérez de Cuéllar takes office as Secretary-General of the United Nations
- January 2: In Egypt , Hosni Mubarak steps down from the post of Prime Minister and only holds the post of President
- January 11: Honduras adopts a new constitution, Asturias receives its autonomy
- January 25: The Berlin Appeal – Create Peace without Weapons is published in the GDR on the initiative of Pastor Rainer Eppelmann .
- 3 February: Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt asks the vote of confidence in accordance with Article 68 of the Basic Law . It was approved by the Bundestag on February 5 with 269 votes to 224 .
- February 23: A referendum in Greenland on remaining in the European Community gives 52.0% to 46.1% for leaving, which took place on January 1, 1985.
- March 17: German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt receives a delegation from the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and recognizes the genocide of the Sinti and Roma as legally binding.
- March 24: Bangladesh . Hossain Mohammad Ershad becomes President
- April 2: Argentine troops occupy the Falkland Islands , beginning of the Falklands War
- April 13: Bhutan becomes a member of UNESCO
- April 16: The first German test-tube baby is born in Erlangen
- April 17: Canada gains full sovereignty
- April 23: The Conch Republic is proclaimed and reintegrated into the USA
- April 26: During the night of April 26/27 , South Korean police officer Woo Bum-kon went on a rampage in Uiryeong , killing 57 people and himself.
- May 10: Belize becomes a member of UNESCO
- May 24: The liberation of Khorramshahr by Iranian Revolutionary Guards proves to be a turning point in the First Gulf War . The city had been under Iraqi violence since the Battle of Khorramshahr in late September 1980.
- May 30: Spain joins NATO .
- 1 June: The Berne Convention comes into force
- June 6: Israel begins the first Lebanon War with the stated goal of crushing the PLO
- June 9: American President Ronald Reagan speaks in front of the German Bundestag in Bonn .
- 10 June: The NATO summit conference meets for the first time in Bonn ( NATO summit in Bonn 1982 ), with US President Ronald Reagan present . At the same time, the peace movement held the largest rally in the history of the Federal Republic . Around 350,000 people demonstrated on the Beueler Rheinwiesen against nuclear missiles and against the arms policy symbolized by Reagan.
- June 11: American President Ronald Reagan visits Berlin.
- June 13: After the death of King Khalid , his brother Fahd becomes the new ruler in Saudi Arabia .
- 14 June: In the Falklands War , the Argentine Army declares its surrender to British forces at Port Stanley . 9,800 Argentine soldiers become prisoners of war .
- June 18: After the defeat in the Falklands War , the Argentine de facto president and pro-war advocate Leopoldo Galtieri is forced to vacate his post. During the period of military rule, Brigadier General Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean took over the post on an interim basis.
- June 20: The British government declares the end of the Falklands War after the Argentine forces on the Malvinas ceased fighting and surrendered on June 14 (local time) and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands are back in British hands.
- July 4: Dominican Republic . Jacobo Majluta becomes President
- July 12: Giani Zail Singh is elected the first Sikh President of India
- July 15: Antigua and Barbuda becomes a member of UNESCO
- July 31: Germany Seven people are seriously injured in a bomb attack in a lobby for the check-in of travelers to Israel at Munich-Riem Airport .
- 1 August: The Asylum Procedure Act (today's name: Asylum Act ) comes into force.
- August 21: Sobhuza II , King of Swaziland , dies.
- 17 September: Breakup of the social-liberal coalition ( Schmidt III cabinet ). Chancellor Helmut Schmidt governs until October 1st with a sole SPD government.
- October: An excellent wine harvest is brought in in Bordeaux
- 1 October: Helmut Kohl ( CDU ) is elected the new head of government after a constructive vote of no confidence in Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ( SPD ).
- October 8: Solidarność banned in Poland by a new trade union law
- October 10: Bolivia . After the elections, Hernán Siles Zuazo will become the new president.
- 20 October: Sri Lanka's presidential election is won by incumbent Junius Richard Jayewardene .
- October 28: In Spain 's elections, the Socialists (PSOE) win a majority with 48.3 percent of the vote, with 202 seats out of 343 in Parliament. Felipe González becomes the country's new prime minister-designate.
- November 4: Cameroon . Ahmadou Ahidjo resigns as President
- November 6: The International Telecommunications Convention is signed in Nairobi, the basis for the International Telecommunication Union , a specialized agency of the United Nations .
- November 7: In Turkey, the new constitution is approved by referendum and comes into force on November 9. With the entry into force of the constitution, President Kenan Evren automatically becomes President of the Republic for 7 years.
- November 12: Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov becomes General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU in the Soviet Union
- November 13: Founding of the environmental and conservation organization Robin Wood
- November 28: In Switzerland, a popular initiative for the introduction of a price monitor is accepted
- 1 December: Spanish Prime Minister Felipe González ( PSOE ) takes office
- December 8: In Fort Zeelandia (Paramaribo) in Suriname , 15 members of the opposition are shot dead at the instigation of the military regime under Desi Bouterse .
- 31 December: the so-called "Honecker assassination" by Paul Essling
business
- 8 February: The news magazine Der Spiegel makes accusations of enrichment in an article directed at the board of the German trade union-owned construction company Neue Heimat . The chief target is Albert Vietor , the chairman of the board .
- June 18: Italian banker Roberto Calvi is found hanged under London's Blackfriars Bridge . As president of Banco Ambrosiano , Calvi had fled Italy a few days earlier after the bank declared bankruptcy . The bank, in which the Vatican Bank holds shares, is suspected of illegal manipulations. The background of Calvi's death remains in the dark.
- November 20: The completed transit motorway between Hamburg and Berlin is opened to traffic. On the GDR side, the inner-German border crossing opens at Zarrentin am Schaalsee .
- December 7: Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Ecuador
- Foundation of MicroProse in the USA
- Sun Microsystems founded in California , United States
science and technology
- May 23: In Switzerland, the regular timetable is introduced nationwide.
- April 16: The first German test-tube baby is born in the University Hospital of Erlangen.
- 24 June: Jean-Loup Chrétien , the first Frenchman , takes off on board the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-6 . While staying in the Salyut 7 space station , he conducts the PVH research program . He returns to Earth on July 2, along with Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Alexander Ivanchenkov .
- August: The currently largest suspended cable car in the world goes into operation in the French winter resort of Val Thorens . A height difference of around 2,300 m is overcome.
- August 26: The 250th F-104 Starfighter of the Bundeswehr crashes in Upper Bavaria .
- September: The first Commodore 64 is launched.
- September 19: The student Scott E. Fahlman suggests using the three ASCII character string :-) for jokes in e-mail traffic. Emoticons modeled after a smiley soon spread across the Arpanet .
- October 11: The remains of the English warship Mary Rose , sunk in 1545, are salvaged from the Solent and taken to Portsmouth.
- December 2: At the University of Utah, 61-year-old Barney Clark is given the first artificial heart , with which he survives 112 days.
- December 27: The US news magazine Time votes the computer “ Machine of the Year ”.
- Audi presents the aerodynamics "world champion" Audi 100 with a drag coefficient of just 0.30 .
- The first computer virus, Elk Cloner , written by Rich Skrenta, spreads.
- Human insulin is produced in large quantities for the first time by genetically modified bacteria.
Culture
- March 1: Cultural agreement between Luxembourg and the Federal Republic of Germany comes into force
- May 5: Cultural Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Iraq . In force since February 7, 1983
- June 11: Steven Spielberg's film ET hits theaters in the United States .
- Documenta 7 – World Art Exhibition, takes place in Kassel from June 19th to September 28th
- June 25: World premiere of the film Blade Runner
- August 18: The state of Baden-Württemberg takes over the German Playing Card Museum from the playing card manufacturer ASS and delegates responsibility for the museum there to the city of Leinfelden-Echterdingen .
- September 8: Wim Wenders ' film The State of Things receives the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival .
- September 11: At the Bochum Artists for Peace concert , over 200 German and international artists perform in front of around 200,000 people to support the peace movement.
- October 11: The salvaged parts of the English warship Mary Rose , sunk on the Solent in 1545 , arrive in Portsmouth . The wreck is conserved there and later exhibited.
- October 13: Premiere of Leonard Bernstein 's opera Candide at the New York City Opera in New York
- November 6: World premiere of Bernard Herrmann 's opera Wuthering Heights in Portland
- The Helmut-Käutner-Prize is awarded for the first time
- Steven Spielberg's " Poltergeist " opens worldwide in the summer.
- Foundation of the Royal Rangers in Switzerland
- Opening of the German Museum of Technology in Berlin , then known as the Museum for Transport and Technology
- First award of the Philip Morris Research Prize
- The National Gallery of Australia opens.
- Publication of the New Testament of the Modern Bible Translation “ Hope for All ”
- Foundation of the fictional airline Ingold Airlines
- The film Fitzcarraldo by Werner Herzog is released
- The international art exhibition Zeitgeist opens in Berlin
- Foundation of the International Association of Astronomical Artists
- Founding of the Neubrandenburg art collection
- The Impark Summer Festival in the Olympic Park in Munich takes place for the first time.
religion
- May 12: During a visit by Pope John Paul II to the Portuguese pilgrimage site of Fátima , an assassination attempt on his bodyguards fails . The Catholic priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn , who adheres to traditional ideas , attacks the pope with a bayonet .
- 10 October: Father Maximilian Kolbe , killed in Auschwitz , is proclaimed a new saint by Pope John Paul II .
- 31 October: The New Zion Church , built with Swedish help, is consecrated in Dresden (GDR) . Its construction had been obstructed by the state for more than a decade.
Sports
Entries of athletics world records see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- 11 January: The first maximum break in snooker to be caught by television cameras was played by Steve Davis at the Lada Classics in Oldham .
- January 22: Walter Röhrl wins the 50th Monte Carlo Rally in Monaco in an Opel Ascona 400 .
- January 23 to September 25: Hosting of the 33rd Formula 1 World Championship
- January 23: Niki Lauda celebrates his Formula 1 comeback after a three-year break.
- February 4: Norbert Schramm wins the gold medal at the European Figure Skating Championships in Lyon .
- March 28th to September 26th: hosting of the 34th FIM Motorcycle Road World Championship
- June 11: Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Gerry Cooney at Caesars Palace , Las Vegas , Nevada , United States , by technical knockout.
- 13 June to 11 July: At the 12th World Cup in Spain in 1982, Italy beat Germany 3-1 in the final . The Italian national football team becomes world champion for the third time.
- June 20: Jacky Ickx wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the fifth time .
- September 25: Keke Rosberg becomes the first Finn to win the Formula 1 World Championship with just one win this season . Niki Lauda is celebrating his Formula 1 comeback after a three-year break.
- October 3: Dutch climber Johan Taks became the first to climb Mount Changtse in Tibet , a mountain north of Mount Everest , without a tour permit from Chinese authorities.
- November 26: Larry Holmes wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Randall "Tex" Cobb at the Astrodome , Houston , Texas , United States by win on points.
- At the Africa Cup of Nations in Libya , the Ghana soccer team won its first continental title.
- The Race Across America takes place for the first time.
disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
- April 5: Gunung Galunggung 's last phase of activity to date begins
- April 26: Yangshuo , People's Republic of China . A CAAC Hawker 2E crashes into a mountain on approach for landing , 112 dead
- July 9: New Orleans , United States . A Pan American Airways Boeing 727 crashes shortly after takeoff. All 145 people on board and eight local residents die
- November 22: In a traffic accident in Bad Reichenhall , a tanker truck loaded with 34,000 liters of premium and regular petrol catches fire
- December 13: Magnitude 6.0 earthquake in Arabia , killing about 2,800
- December 19: An explosion classified as a BLEVE kills 150 people in a tank farm fire in Tacoa , Venezuela .
music
- 24 April: Nicole wins the 27th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Harrogate with the song Ein bißchen Frieden für Deutschland .
- November 30: Michael Jackson 's hit album Thriller is released, which over the years has become the world's best-selling album.
- The Swedish band ABBA splits up. The former band members announce that they will pursue their own projects in the future.
- With the Toten Hosen and the doctors , the two most successful German punk bands are founded.
- Japan's most famous band X Japan is formed, initially under the name X .
- List of number one hits in Germany (1982)
- Van Halen release Diver Down .
Born
January
- Egidio Arévalo Ríos , Uruguayan footballer January 1:
- David Nalbandian , Argentine tennis player January 1:
- Athanasia Tsoumeleka , Greek track and field athlete and Olympic champion January 2:
- Eşref Apak , Turkish hammer thrower January 3:
- Nicky Robinson , Welsh rugby player January 3:
- Kang Hye-jeong , South Korean actress January 4
- Bernhard Kohl , Austrian cyclist January 4
- Luca Ansoldi , Italian ice hockey player January 5:
- Karel Geraerts , Belgian footballer January 5:
- Janica Kostelić , Croatian alpine skier January 5
- Anastasiya Pidpalova , Ukrainian handball player January 5
- Gilbert Arenas , American basketball player January 6
- David Breuer , German handball player January 6:
- Eddie Redmayne , English actor January 6
- Jade North , Australian footballer January 7
- Hannah Stockbauer , German swimmer January 7
- Steve Windolf , German actor January 7
- Huang Sui , Chinese Badminton World Champion January 8:
- Barbara Tausch , Austrian politician January 8:
- Jonathan Cantwell , Australian cyclist (died 2018) January 8:
- Claudia Grehn , German playwright January 8
- Corry Berger , German basketball player January 9
- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge , wife of William Mountbatten-Windsor, Duke of Cambridge and British Princess January 9:
- Benjamin Lebert , German writer January 9:
- Henriette Richter-Röhl , German actress January 9:
- Benjamin Seifert , German cross-country skier January 9
- January 11: Anthony Delhalle , French motorcycle and automobile racer (died 2017)
- January 11 Jörg Hahnel , German footballer
- January 12: Justin Aikins , Canadian ice hockey player
- January 12: Kinga Grzyb , Polish handball player
- January 12: Anjorka Strechel , German actress
- January 13: Guillermo Coria , Argentine tennis player
- January 13: David Möller , German luger
- January 14: Lawrence Aidoo , Ghanaian footballer
- January 14: Kamila Anna Augustyn , Polish badminton player
- January 14 Markus Wagesreiter , Austrian handball player
- January 15: Rémi Adiko , Ivorian footballer
- January 15: Benjamin Agosto , American figure skater
- January 15: Michael Fritz Schumacher , German actor
- January 16: Tuncay Şanlı , Turkish footballer
- January 16: Birgitte Hjort Sørensen , Danish actress
- January 17 Dwyane Wade , American basketball player
- January 18 Joanna Newsom , American singer-songwriter, harpist and pianist
- January 19: Antje Hamer , German actress
- January 19: Andreas Löw , German marksman
- January 21: Stefanie Dreyer , German actress and pop singer
- January 21 Manuel Hobiger , German seismologist, volcano expert and quiz player
- January 22: Fabricio Coloccini , Argentine footballer
- January 22: Cornelia Dumler , German volleyball player
- January 22: Peter Jehle , Liechtenstein football player
- January 22: Kitty Kat , German rapper
- January 22: Martin Koch , Austrian ski jumper
- January 23: Karol Bielecki , Polish handball player
- January 23: Jonathan Bomarito , American racing driver
- January 23 Andrew Rock , American track and field athlete
- January 24: Claudia Heill , Austrian judoka (died 2011)
- January 24: Hamdi Dhouibi , Tunisian decathlete
- January 24 Daveed Diggs , American actor and rapper
- January 25: Peter van Agtmaal , Dutch cyclist
- January 25: Alejandro Argüello , Mexican soccer player
- January 25: Ömür Arpacı , Turkish actor
- January 25: Daniel Simon Atherton , British mountain bike racer
- January 25: Benno Wiegert , German handball player
- January 25: Noemi , Italian singer
- January 26: Justin Cochrane , Antiguan soccer player
- January 26: Miloš Putera , Slovak handball player
- January 27: Eva Asderaki , Greek tennis referee
- January 28: Anna Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- January 28: Caspar Austa , Estonian mountain bike and road bike racer
- January 28: Jan Kopecký , Czech rally driver
- January 29: Wallis Bird , Irish musician
- January 29 Ji Jianhua , Chinese mountain bike and road racer
- January 31: Yekaterina Sergeyevna Ananina , Russian badminton player
- January 31: Maret Ani , Estonian tennis player
- January 31: Andreas Görlitz , German footballer
- January 31 Ronny Göhl , German handball player
- January 31: Enrico Gaede , German footballer
February
- Daisy Betts , Australian actress February 1
- Akseli Lajunen , Finnish ski jumper February 1:
- Sara Malakul Lane , American actress of British-Thai descent February 1
- Mikhail Alyaksandravich Audzeyeu , Belarusian weightlifter February 2
- Han Ga-in , South Korean actress February 2
- Dorcus Inzikuru , Ugandan track and field athlete February 2:
- Sebastian Winkler , German actor February 2:
- Nadine Arents , German actress February 3:
- Tim Burke , American biathlete February 3
- Mariusz Jurkiewicz , Polish handball player February 3
- Roland Schwegler , Swiss footballer February 3
- Heiner Backhaus , German footballer February 4:
- Roman Wallner , Austrian footballer February 4:
- Deidra Dionne , Canadian freestyle skier February 5:
- Nicolas Gilsoul , Belgian rally co-driver 5 February:
- Rodrigo Palacio , Argentine footballer February 5:
- Christoph Schubert , German ice hockey player February 5:
- Nick Audsley , British film actor February 6
- Alice Eve , British actress February 6:
- Roman Patkoló , Slovak musician February 6:
- Benjamin Kramme , German actor February 7
- Erik Rhodes , American pornographic actor (died 2012) February 8:
- Jens Dethloff , German handball player and handball coach February 8
- Christine Kaltenbach , German soccer player February 9
- Konrad Wilczynski , Austrian handball player February 9
- February 10 Justin Gatlin , American track and field athlete
- February 10 Tom Schilling , German actor
- February 11 Daryn Colledge , American football player
- February 11 Natalie Dormer , British actress
- February 11 Neil Robertson , Australian snooker player
- February 12: Julius Aghahowa , Nigerian footballer
- February 12: Markus Feulner , German soccer player
- February 12: Harez Habib , Afghan footballer
- February 12: Bobi Wine , Ugandan politician and musician
- February 12: Matías Carlos Schulz , Argentine handball player
- February 12: Louis Tsatoumas , Greek long jumper
- February 13: Björn Andersson , Swedish footballer
- February 13 Markus Dau , German handball player
- February 13: Sophie Herbrecht , French handball player and coach
- February 15: Merthan Açıl , Turkish footballer
- February 16: Lupe Fiasco , American rapper
- February 17: Adriano , Brazilian soccer player
- February 17: Timothée Atouba , Cameroonian footballer
- February 17: Nicolás Medina , Argentine footballer
- February 17: Gustavo Sondermann , Brazilian racing driver († 2011)
- February 18: Marcos Ferreira Xavier , Azerbaijani-Brazilian footballer
- February 18: José Rujano , Venezuelan cyclist
- February 18: Juelz Santana , American rapper
- February 18: Christian Tiffert , German footballer
- February 18: Radovan Vujanović , Serbian footballer
- February 18: Courtney Act , Australian drag queen
- February 19: Camelia Potec , Romanian swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
- February 21 Bernhard Auinger , Austrian racing driver
- February 22: Jacob Armen , American drummer
- February 22 Jenna Haze , American pornographic actress
- February 22 Travis Mayer , American freestyle skier
- February 25: Rômulo Marcos Antoneli , Brazilian soccer player
- February 25: Lars Kaufmann , German handball player
- February 25: Flavia Pennetta , Italian tennis player
- February 26 Emily Jane Aston , British actress
- February 27: Bruno Soares , Brazilian tennis player
- February 28 Carlos Enrique Ávalos , Salvadoran cyclist
- February 28 Axel Stein , German actor and comedian
- February 28: Yelena Slessarenko , Russian high jumper and Olympic champion
March
- Johnny Palermo , American actor († 2009) March 1:
- Kim Min-hee , South Korean actress March 1
- Pilou Asbæk , Danish actor March 2:
- Kevin Kurányi , German footballer March 2:
- Kathy Radzuweit , German volleyball player March 2
- Alejandro Alonso , Argentine footballer March 3:
- Jessica Biel , American actress March 3
- Landon Donovan , American soccer player March 4
- Toril Hetland Akerhaugen , Norwegian footballer March 5:
- Du Li , Chinese sports shooter March 5
- Inga Abitova , Russian long-distance runner March 6:
- Ayman al-Aatar , Arab singer March 6:
- Alexander DiPersia , American actor March 6
- Henrik Knudsen , Danish handball player March 6:
- Tomás Guzmán , Paraguayan footballer March 7:
- Matthew Krok , Australian actor March 8
- Laura Osswald , German actress and fashion model March 8
- Emmanuel Corrèze , French footballer March 9
- Barbara Feichtner , former Austrian biathlete and cross-country skier March 9
- March 11 Thora Birch , American actress
- March 11: Yasmine Akram , Irish actress, playwright and comedian
- March 11 Mircea Monroe , American actress
- March 13 Manuel Pasqual , Italian footballer
- March 14: Annika Ernst , German actress
- March 14: Carlos Marinelli , Argentine footballer
- March 14: Thomas Paulus , German footballer
- March 14: François Sterchele , soccer player († 2008)
- March 15: Björn Wiegers , German handball player
- March 16: Jesse Tamangrow , Palau sprinter
- March 18: Tatyana Albertovna Arntgolz , Russian actress
- March 18: Inga Aršakyan , Armenian musician
- March 18: Olof Ask , Swedish handball player
- March 18: Timo Glock , German racing driver
- March 18: Mantorras , Angolan footballer
- March 19: Eduardo Saverin , Facebook co-founder
- March 20: Tatjana Kästel , German actress
- March 20: José Moreira , Portuguese footballer
- March 20 Christoph Vetter , German handball player
- March 21: Ejegayehu Dibaba , Ethiopian long-distance runner
- March 21 Colin Turkington , British racing driver
- March 21: Anthar Yahia , Algerian-French footballer
- March 22: Enrico Gasparotto , Italian-Swiss cyclist
- March 22: Inácio Piá , Brazilian-Italian footballer
- March 24: Fourie du Preez , South African rugby player
- March 24: Mariano Donda , Argentine footballer
- March 24: Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis , author, daughter of the noble house of Thurn und Taxis
- March 25 Nadine Krause , German handball player
- March 25 Danica Patrick , American racing driver
- March 26: Zekiros Adanech , Ethiopian marathon runner
- March 26: Joe Anderson , British actor
- March 26: Stanislav Angelovič , Slovak footballer
- March 26: Johannes Bredl , German cross-country skier
- March 26: Andreas Hinkel , German footballer
- March 26 Marcus Hock , German handball player
- March 26: J-five , American rapper
- March 26 Nate Kaeding , American football player
- March 26: Maja Maneiro , German actress
- March 26 Michael Tschuggnall , Austrian pop singer
- March 27: Hannes Drews , German football coach
- March 27: Alan Frei , Swiss entrepreneur
- March 27: Veijo Viinikka , Finnish darts player
- March 29: Anna Nagata , Japanese film actress
- March 29: Matthias Flohr , German handball player
- March 30: A-Trak , Canadian DJ
- March 30 Louis Marcel Powell de Aquino , Brazilian guitarist
- March 30 Philippe Mexès , French footballer
- March 30 Jason Dohring , American actor
- March 30: Jure Natek , Slovenian handball player
- March 31: David Poisson , French alpine skier (died 2017)
April
- Nina Abrahamczik , Austrian politician April 1
- Stefan Pieper , German ski jumper April 1
- Andreas Thorkildsen , Norwegian track and field athlete April 1:
- Róbert Vittek , Slovak footballer April 1:
- Marco Amelia , Italian footballer April 2
- Jeremy Bloom , American freestyle skier and American football player April 2
- Sofia Boutella , Algerian dancer and actress April 3:
- Fler , German rapper April 3:
- Cobie Smulders , Canadian actress April 3
- Daniel Svensson , Danish handball player April 3
- Dragoș Oprea , German handball player April 4
- Hayley Atwell , British actress April 5:
- Stefanie Becker , German soccer player April 5
- Thomas Hitzlsperger , German footballer April 5
- Kolja Afriyie , German footballer April 6:
- Alana Austin , American actress April 6
- Steve O'Dwyer , American-Irish poker player April 6
- Džana Pinjo , Bosnian actress April 7:
- Jay Baruchel , American actor April 9
- Ivo Töllner , German handball player April 9
- April 10: Adnan Mravac , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
- April 11 Nadine Warmuth , German actress
- April 12: Tamer Bayoumi , Egyptian Taekwondoin
- April 12: Ryan Dalziel , British racing driver
- April 13 Rico Göde , German handball player
- April 13 Jennah Karthes , German actress and schlager singer
- April 14: Renat Abdulin , Kazakh footballer
- April 14: Yekaterina Abramova , Russian speed skater
- April 14: Deen , Bosnian-Herzegovinian singer
- April 14 Mauro Cetto , Argentine footballer
- April 15 Lena Amende , German actress
- April 15 Damià Abella Pérez , Spanish footballer
- April 17 Lee Si-young , South Korean actress
- April 17 Ina Trabesinger , Austrian musical actress
- April 18: Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri , Saudi Arabian terrorist
- April 18 Olaf Seegert , German handball player
- April 19 Lyudmila Ananka , Belarusian biathlete
- April 19 Filip Jícha , Czech handball player and coach
- April 19 Julian Lüttmann , German footballer
- April 19 Mette Sjøberg , Danish handball player
- April 20: Dario Knežević , Croatian footballer
- April 20 Florian Thorwart , German footballer
- April 21 Liu Yuanjun , Chinese darts player
- April 21: Walter Olmos , Argentine cuarteto singer (d. 2002)
- April 22 Cassidy Freeman , American actress and musician
- April 22 Michael Fuchs , German badminton player
- April 22: Kaká , Brazilian soccer player
- April 22 Christina Rohde , German handball player
- April 23 Louise Bager Due , Danish handball player
- April 24 Kelly Clarkson , American pop singer
- April 24: Tobias Funke , Swiss chef
- April 26 Nadja Benaissa , German singer
- April 26 Jonathan Figueroa , Puerto Rican wrestler
- April 27: Nicole Hosp , Austrian politician (FPÖ)
- April 29 Aaron Goulding , Australian footballer
- April 29: John O'Callaghan , Irish trance DJ and record producer
- April 29 Travis Smith , American drummer
- April 30 Lloyd Banks , American rapper
- April 30: Christian Bruder , German ski jumper
- April 30 Kirsten Dunst , American actress
May
- Ambrose Akinmusire , American jazz trumpeter, bandleader and composer May 1
- Tommy Robredo , Spanish tennis player May 1
- Dario Srna , Croatian footballer May 1:
- Blythe Hartley , Canadian water jumper May 2
- Lázaro Bruzón , Cuban chess player May 2:
- Andrew Durante , Australian footballer May 3
- Sebastian Furchner , German ice hockey player May 3
- Benjamin Gille , French handball player May 3
- Igor Olshansky , American football player May 3
- Tobias Rathgeb , German footballer May 3
- Konstantin Schubert , German cyclist May 3:
- Markus Rogan , Austrian swimmer May 4:
- Paweł Abbott , Polish footballer May 5
- Velibor Đurić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer May 5:
- Gunnar Jeannette , American racing driver May 5
- Enrico Rossi , Italian cyclist May 5
- Sándor Torghelle , Hungarian footballer May 5:
- Jason Witten , American football player May 6
- Kevin Stefanski , American football coach May 8
- David van Zanten , Irish footballer May 8
- Martin Andersson , Swedish footballer May 9
- May 10: Marc Hennerici , German racing driver
- May 10: Eva-Maria Fitze , German figure skater
- May 10 Sabrina Richter , German handball player
- May 11: Cory Monteith , Canadian actor (died 2013)
- May 12: Marvin Anderson , Jamaican sprinter
- May 12 Tom Reichelt , German cross-country skier
- May 13 Stefan Pries , German handball player
- May 14 Paata Khmaladze , Georgian billiards player
- May 14 Anders Eggert , Danish handball player
- May 14: Pia Malo , German pop singer
- May 14 Ania Rösler , German handball player
- May 14: Beardyman , British multivocalist, musician, web video producer and comedian
- May 15: Layāl Abboud , Lebanese pop singer
- May 15: Veronica Campbell-Brown , Jamaican sprinter and Olympic gold medalist
- May 15 Matthias Struck , German handball player
- May 15 Jessica Sutta , American singer and dancer with the Pussycat Dolls
- May 15: Alja Velkaverh , Slovenian flutist
- May 16 Billy Crawford , Filipino singer, dancer, producer, songwriter and actor
- May 16 Ju Ji-hoon , South Korean actor
- May 17: Vjosa Osmani , Kosovan politician
- May 17 Tony Parker , French basketball player
- May 18 Hussein Adilo , Ethiopian marathon runner
- May 19 Hiroki Yamada , Japanese ski jumper
- May 20 Gunnar Astrup , German musician
- May 20: Petr Čech , Czech footballer
- May 22: Vera Baranyai , German actress
- May 22: Atika Bouagaa , German volleyball player
- May 22 Kim Mu-yeol , South Korean actor
- May 23 Adil Shamasdin , Canadian tennis player
- May 24: Issah Ahmed , Ghanaian footballer
- May 24: Lusapho April , South African marathon runner
- May 24 Roberto Colautti , Israeli soccer player
- May 24 Dominic Saleh-Zaki , German actor and singer
- May 24: Xavier Gil , Andorran footballer
- May 24 Kim Frank , German actor and singer
- May 24: Issah Ahmed , Ghanaian footballer
- May 25 Esmé Bianco , British actress and burlesque dancer
- May 25 Mike Block , American cellist
- May 25: Roger Guerreiro , Polish footballer
- May 25: Ezekiel Kemboi , Kenyan track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist
- May 26: Nelson Ferreira , Portuguese footballer
- May 26 Maya Petrova , Russian handball player
- May 27 Mariano Pavone , Argentine footballer
- May 28 Leticia Brunati , Argentine handball coach
- May 28 Marisa Brunner , Swiss soccer player
- May 29: Ailyn , Spanish singer
- May 29 Hisham Mohd Ashour , Egyptian squash player
- May 29 Elyas M'Barek , Austrian actor
- May 30: Stamatis Katsimis , Greek automobile racer
- May 31: Ananda Everingham , Lao-Australian film actor and model
- May 31: Maja Sokač , Croatian handball player
June
- Justine Henin , Belgian tennis player June 1
- Whitney Able , American actress June 2
- Nicolai Hansen , Danish handball player June 2:
- Jewel Staite , Canadian actress June 2
- Yelena Isinbayeva , Russian track and field athlete, Olympic pole vault champion 3 June:
- Jonas Larholm , Swedish handball player June 3
- Horacio Peralta , Uruguayan footballer June 3:
- Jin Au-Yeung , American rapper and actor June 4
- Dana Bönisch , German writer June 4:
- Gaetano D'Agostino , Italian footballer June 4
- Zvjezdan Misimović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer June 5:
- Marian Oprea , Romanian track and field athlete June 6:
- Germán Lux , Argentine footballer June 7:
- Alessandro Della Valle , San Marinese footballer June 8:
- Irina Lazareanu , Canadian musician and fashion model June 8
- Nadia Petrova , Russian tennis player June 8
- Nobukazu Kuriki , Japanese mountaineer (died 2018) June 9:
- Haidar Abdul-Razzaq , Iraqi footballer June 9:
- Christina Stürmer , Austrian pop singer June 9
- Roy Peter Link , German actor June 9
- 10 June: Madeleine of Sweden , Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland
- June 10 Tara Lipinski , American figure skater
- June 11 Marco Arment American iOS developer and web designer
- June 11 Marguerita Schumacher , German actress
- June 11: Renate Urne , Norwegian handball player
- June 12: Loïc Duval , French automobile racer
- June 12 Andreas Wolf , German footballer
- June 13: Kenenisa Bekele , Ethiopian long-distance runner
- June 13: Krzysztof Bosak , Polish politician
- June 14 - Antoni Lluís Adrover , Spanish footballer
- June 14: Salim Arrache , Algerian footballer
- June 14 Jamie Green , British racing driver
- June 14 Lang Lang , Chinese piano virtuoso
- June 14: Volkan Melendiz , German pop musician
- June 14: Trine Rønning , Norwegian soccer player
- June 14: Iridia Salazar , Mexican Taekwondoin
- June 15: Lander Aperribay , Spanish cyclist
- June 16 Lykke May Andersen , Danish model and mannequin
- June 16: Annika Blendl , German actress
- June 16 Christoph Letkowski , German actor and musician
- June 16: Missy Peregrym , Canadian actress
- June 16: Rəşad Sadıqov , Azerbaijani footballer
- June 17: Dirk Laucke , German playwright
- June 18: Nadir Belhadj , Algerian-French footballer
- June 18 Marco Borriello , Italian footballer
- June 19 Matthias Holst , German footballer
- June 19 Chris Vermeulen , Australian motorcycle racer
- June 20 Example , British rapper and musician
- June 21 Roman Stanislavovich Adamov , Russian footballer
- June 21: Alex Anasuya , German actress
- 21 June William, Duke of Cambridge , heir apparent to the British throne of the House of Windsor
- June 22 Isabel Edvardsson , Swedish dancer and multiple German champion in ballroom dancing
- June 23: Bart Aernouts , Belgian cyclocross rider
- June 23: Johannes Stolle , German musician
- June 24: Sylvain Guintoli , French motorcycle racer
- June 24: Joanna Kulig , Polish actress
- June 24 Lotte Verbeek , Dutch actress, singer, dancer and model
- June 25 Rain , South Korean singer and actor
- June 25 Lizandro Ajcú , Guatemalan cyclist
- June 26 Ursula Holl , German soccer player
- June 26: Sarah Mühlhause , German actress
- June 26: Ryō Orime , Japanese automobile racer
- June 26 Jeffrey Schiffner , American basketball player
- June 26: Štefan Svitko , Slovak motorcycle racer
- June 29: Admir Vladavić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
- June 30 Lizzy Caplan , American actress
- June 30: Janine Pietsch , German swimmer
- June 30: Otis Harris , American track and field athlete and Olympian
July
- Bassim Abbas , Iraqi soccer player July 1:
- Anelia Georgieva Atanasova , Bulgarian singer July 1
- Joachim Johansson , Swedish tennis player July 1
- Odirlei Pessoni , Brazilian bobsledder (died 2021) July 1:
- Verena Hagedorn , German soccer player July 2
- Michael Koch , Swiss actor and director July 2
- Lola Astanova , Russian pianist July 3
- Philippe Gilbert , Belgian cyclist July 5
- Alberto Gilardino , Italian footballer July 5
- Katrin Uhlig , German politician (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) July 5:
- Ata Yamrali , Afghan footballer July 5:
- Christian Ehrhoff , German ice hockey player July 6
- Cassidy , American rapper July 7:
- Joshua Alba , American actor July 8
- Mouna Chebbah , Tunisian handball player July 8
- Kozue Andō , Japanese soccer player July 9:
- Alecko Eskandarian , American soccer player July 9
- Sakon Yamamoto , Japanese automobile racer July 9:
- July 10: Sebastian Mila , Polish footballer
- July 11 Adrian Madaschi , Australian footballer
- July 11 Alexander Madlung , German footballer
- July 11: Guðrun Sólja Jacobsen , Faroese singer
- July 12 A. Sharath Kamal , Indian table tennis player
- July 12 Antonio Cassano , Italian footballer
- July 12 Rasmus Gersch , German handball player
- July 13 Ion Ansotegui Gorostola , Spanish footballer
- July 14: Paulo Menezes , Brazilian soccer player
- July 15 Lena Dörrie , German actress and voice actress
- July 15 Yuri Pashchinsky , Russian billiards player
- July 15: Sinan Sofuoğlu , Turkish motorcycle racer († 2008)
- July 16: André Greipel , German cyclist
- July 17: René Herms , German middle-distance runner (died 2009)
- July 18: Priyanka Chopra Jonas , Indian actress, singer and beauty queen
- July 18 Natalie Spinell , German actress
- July 19 Jared Padalecki , American actor
- July 19 Jess Vanstrattan , Australian football goalkeeper
- July 20: Lars Erik Bjørnsen , Norwegian handball player
- July 20 Andreas Kunz , German handball player
- July 21: Katrin Bauerfeind , German internet television presenter
- July 21: Kristian Nushi , Albanian footballer from Kosovo
- July 22 Anton Kalinichenko , Russian ski jumper
- July 22 Tom Van Avermaet , Belgian film director, film producer and screenwriter
- July 23 Tom Mison , British actor
- July 24 Anna Paquin , Canadian-New Zealand actress
- July 24 Adrian Wehner , German handball player
- July 25: Brad Renfro , American actor (died 2008)
- July 26: Bryce Miller , American racing driver
- July 26: Eva Moser , Austrian chess player (died 2019)
- July 27 Tatyana Andreyevna Antozchina , Russian cyclist
- July 28 Jean-François Kornetzky , French footballer
- July 28: Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir , known as Silvia Night , Icelandic singer and presenter
- July 28: Carl Waaler Kaas , Norwegian orienteer
- July 29: Pero Antić , Macedonian basketball player
- July 29 Allison Mack , American actress
- July 29 Andy Reid , Irish footballer
- July 30 Adrian Pfahl , German handball player
- July 30 Yvonne Strahovski , Australian actress
- July 31: Michael Jung , German rider and Olympic champion
- July 31: Edmond Kapllani , Albanian footballer
August
- Anthony Aquino , Italian-Canadian ice hockey player August 1
- Terumi Asoshina , Japanese long-distance runner August 2
- Hélder Postiga , Portuguese footballer August 2:
- Ricardo Teixeira , Portuguese-Angolan automobile racer August 2:
- Volodymyr Bochchuk , Ukrainian ski jumper August 3
- Kristine Riis , Norwegian actress and comedian August 3
- Robert Stadlober , Austrian actor August 3
- Luca Antonini , Italian footballer August 4
- Jendrik Meyer , German handball goalkeeper August 4:
- Rubinho , Brazilian soccer player August 4:
- Gino Coutinho , Dutch football goalkeeper August 5:
- Tobias Regner , German singer and third winner of Germany is looking for the superstar August 5:
- Ryu Seung-min , South Korean table tennis player August 5
- Julia Meynen , German voice actress August 6:
- Abbie Cornish , Australian actress August 7
- Yana Klochkova , Ukrainian swimmer August 7:
- Marco Melandri , Italian motorcycle racer August 7
- Enrico Franzoi , Italian cyclist August 8
- Yūta Watase , Japanese ski jumper August 8:
- Natsuko Abe , Japanese biathlete August 9:
- Raja Amasheh , German boxer August 9
- Joel Anthony , Canadian basketball player August 9
- Tyson Gay , American track and field athlete August 9
- August 10 Devon Aoki , American actress and model
- August 11: Jasmin Schwiers , Belgian actress
- August 12: Najmeh Abtin , Iranian archer
- August 12 Tadesse Abraham , Eritrean long-distance runner
- August 12 Daniel McMillan , British handball player
- August 12 Daniela Schreiter , German comic artist
- August 13 Gil Ofarim , German-Jewish musician and actor
- August 14: Pär Asp , Swedish footballer
- August 15: Steve Zacchia , Swiss racing car driver
- August 16 Stefan Maierhofer , Austrian footballer
- August 16: Ummet Ozcan , Dutch DJ and music producer
- August 16 Julia Schruff , German tennis player
- August 17: Mark Salling , American actor (died 2018)
- August 17: Hakan Arıkan , Turkish footballer
- August 17: Sébastien Briat , French nuclear opponent, died while transporting nuclear waste († 2004)
- August 17: Karim Ziani , Franco-Algerian footballer
- August 18 Florian Kringe , German soccer player
- August 18: Monroe , German record producer, author and publisher
- August 18 Julian Sensley , American-German basketball player
- August 18 Matt Thompson , Australian footballer
- August 19: Bryan Sellers , American racing driver
- August 20: Aytek Aşıkoğlu , Turkish footballer
- August 20: Youssouf Hersi , Dutch footballer
- August 20: Joshua Kennedy , Australian footballer
- August 20: Meghan Ory , Canadian actress
- August 20 Rosalba Pippa , Italian pop singer
- August 21 Kim Andersson , Swedish handball player
- August 21: Marc Pujol , Andorran footballer
- August 21 Francisco Vallejo Pons , Spanish chess player
- August 22: Janina Flieger , German actress
- August 23 Natalie Coughlin , American swimmer
- August 24: Anders Bardal , Norwegian ski jumper
- August 24: Enrico Becker , German motorcycle racer (died 2014)
- August 25: Emanuel Centurión , Argentine footballer
- August 25 Enno Hesse , German actor
- August 25 Jung Jae-sung , South Korean badminton player (died 2018)
- August 25: Primož Pikl , Slovenian ski jumper
- August 26 Nikolai Sergeyevich Apalikov , Russian volleyball player
- August 28: Manú , Portuguese footballer
- August 28: Thiago Motta , Brazilian-Italian football player and coach
- August 28 LeAnn Rimes , American singer
- August 29: A+ , American rapper
- August 29: Felix von Jascheroff , German film actor and singer
- August 29 Talita Antunes da Rocha , Brazilian beach volleyball player
- August 30 Will Davison , Australian motor racing driver
- August 30 Andy Roddick , American tennis player
- August 31: Oscar Ahumada , Argentine footballer
- August 31: Björn Andersohn , German footballer
- August 31: Ian Crocker , American swimmer
- August 31: Patrick Nuo , Swiss singer
- August 31: Michele Rugolo , Italian racing driver
September
- Ali bin Chalid Al Thani , Qatari show jumper 1 September:
- Peter van Merksteijn Jr. , Dutch rally driver September 1:
- Johannes Bitter , German handball goalkeeper 2 September:
- Dennis Klockmann , German handball goalkeeper September 2
- Sarah Burke , Canadian freestyle skier (died 2012) September 3:
- Timo Achenbach , German footballer September 3
- Anja Althaus , German handball player September 3:
- Marcin Bachleda , Polish ski jumper September 4
- Hildur Guðnadóttir , Icelandic cellist and composer 4 September:
- Tobias Peterka , German politician September 4:
- Fabián Yantorno , Uruguayan footballer September 4:
- Sondre Lerche , Norwegian singer, guitarist and songwriter September 5:
- Martin Amedick , German footballer September 6
- Hans Petrat , German ski jumper September 6:
- Sascha Detlof , German handball player September 7
- Jennifer Bongardt , German canoeist September 8
- Koen de Kort , Dutch cyclist September 8
- Saskia Bartusiak , German soccer player September 9
- Wélissa Gonzaga , Brazilian volleyball player September 9:
- Ai Ōtsuka , Japanese singer-songwriter September 9:
- September 10: Naldo , Brazilian soccer player
- September 11: Satoru Abe , Japanese biathlete
- September 11: Elvan Abeylegesse , Turkish middle and long-distance runner
- September 11 Ryan Slattery , American actor and film producer
- September 12: Matthias Müller , Swiss orienteer
- September 13 Marina Aitova , Kazakh high jumper
- September 13 Soraya Arnelas , Spanish pop singer
- September 13: Nenê , Brazilian basketball player
- September 14 Sunrise Adams , American pornographic actress
- September 14 Mario Hoppe , German handball player
- September 14: SoShy , French-American pop and R'n'B singer-songwriter
- September 15 Hannes Ambelang , German volleyball and beach volleyball player
- September 16 Lena Arnoldt , German politician
- September 16: Ruti Asarsai , Israeli actress
- September 16: Barbara Engleder , German marksman
- September 16: Linus Gerdemann , German cyclist
- September 17: Nikolas Katsigiannis , German handball goalkeeper
- September 18: Lukas Reimann , Swiss politician
- September 19: Amir Shapourzadeh , Iranian soccer player
- September 20: Max Engelke , German actor
- September 20: Gülcan Kamps , German-Turkish TV presenter
- September 21 Felisberto Sebastião da Graca Amaral , Angolan footballer
- September 21 Parvati Shallow , American boxer
- September 21: Jon McKain , Australian footballer
- September 22: Kōsuke Kitajima , Japanese swimmer
- September 23 Shyla Stylez , American pornographic actress († 2017)
- September 23: Gill Swerts , Belgian footballer
- September 24: Cristian Daniel Ledesma , Argentine footballer
- September 25: Benjamin Griffey , German rapper (known as Casper)
- September 25: Sergio Leal , Uruguayan footballer
- September 26: Miguel Portillo , Argentine footballer
- September 27: Arta Arnicane , Latvian pianist
- September 27 Lil Wayne , American rapper
- September 27 Darrent Williams , American football player (died 2007)
- September 28: Ray Emery , Canadian ice hockey player (died 2018)
- September 28: Takeshi Aoki , Japanese soccer player
- September 28 Alexander Gennadyevich Anyukov , Russian footballer
- September 28: César Andrés Carignano , Argentine footballer
- September 28 Stefan Haschke , German actor and radio play announcer
- September 29: Giancarlo Adami , Italian ski jumper
- September 30: Fero Andersen , German TV presenter
- September 30 Lacey Chabert , American actress
- Aṣa , Franco-Nigerian singer-songwriter September:
October
- Wilma Arizapana , Peruvian long-distance runner October 1:
- Matt Griffin , Irish motor racing driver October 1
- Andreas Herde , German musician October 1
- Louise Svalastog Spellerberg , Danish handball player and coach October 1
- Marcus Stolzenberg , German footballer October 1
- Oliver Bender , German actor and voice talent October 2
- Tyson Chandler , American basketball player October 2
- Stephen Pearson , Scottish footballer October 2:
- Graeme Smith , Scottish football goalkeeper October 3:
- Cecilia Andersson , Swedish ice hockey goalkeeper October 4:
- Barbara Lenk , German librarian and politician October 4
- Martin Prokop , Czech rally driver October 4:
- Yasemin Akkar , German-Turkish singer October 5:
- Francisco Bosch , Spanish film actor October 5
- Henry Fa'arodo , Solomon footballer October 5
- Florian Kohfeldt , German football coach October 5:
- Victor Moreira , Andorran footballer October 5:
- Simon Schwartz , German comics artist and illustrator October 5:
- Levon Aronyan , Armenian chess player October 6
- Sandrine Aubert , French alpine skier October 6
- Marie Burchard , German actress October 6:
- Michael Frater , Jamaican track and field athlete October 6:
- Hideki Mutō , Japanese automobile racer October 6:
- Madjid Bougherra , Algerian footballer October 7:
- Kasper Jensen , Danish footballer October 7
- Sebastian Fischer , German actor October 8:
- Alan Gow , Scottish footballer October 9
- Antonio Manuel Viana Mendonça , Angolan footballer October 9:
- October 10: David Cal , Spanish canoeist and world champion
- October 10: Logi Geirsson , Icelandic handball player
- October 11 Brett Claydon , English darts player
- October 11: Guillermo Imhoff , Argentine footballer
- October 12 Alexander Viktorovich Arekeev , Russian cyclist
- October 12: Andreas Waldmeier , Swiss cross-country skier
- October 13: Thal Abergel , French chess champion
- October 13: Bilal Akgül , Turkish mountain bike and road bike racer
- October 13: Robbert Dessauvagie , Dutch pop singer (Banaroo)
- October 13: Ian Thorpe , Australian swimmer
- October 14 Florian Hossner , German handball player
- October 14 Benh Zeitlin , American filmmaker
- October 15: Saif Saaeed Shaheen , Kenyan track and field athlete
- October 16 Ildar Rajilyevich Fatkullin , Russian ski jumper
- October 16: Jeremias Rose , German handball player
- October 18 Thierry Amiel , French pop singer
- October 18: Joe Williams , American stuntman and actor
- October 19 Gillian Jacobs , American actress and director
- October 19: Pekka Lagerblom , Finnish footballer
- October 20: José Acasuso , Argentine tennis player
- October 20: Aki Akao , Japanese badminton player
- October 21: Matt Dallas , American actor
- October 21 Qairat Aeshirbekov , Kazakh footballer
- October 21: Jeremiah Rutherford , Nauruan weightlifter
- October 24: Ricardo André , Portuguese footballer
- October 24: Fairuz Fauzy , Malaysian automobile racer
- October 25: Victoria Francés , Spanish painter, illustrator and writer
- October 25: Martin Höfer , German conceptual and media artist
- October 25 Ryō Nagamatsu , Japanese composer of video game music
- October 26: Nicola Adams , English boxer
- October 26: Adam Carroll , British racing driver
- October 27: Johann Lang , German letter bomb assassin († 2004)
- October 27: Joana Zimmer , German singer
- October 28 Jeremy Bonderman , American baseball player
- October 28: Kuraki Mai , Japanese J-pop singer
- October 29: Ásmundur Einar Daðason , Icelandic politician
- October 30: Clémence Poésy , French actress and model
November
- William Beier , German figure skater November 2:
- Fukada Kyōko , Japanese actress, singer and model November 2:
- Henrik Freischlader , German blues guitarist and singer November 3
- Yevgeny Viktorovich Plushchenko , Russian figure skater November 3:
- Bastiaan Giling , Dutch cyclist November 4
- Kamila Skolimowska , Polish athlete († 2009) November 4:
- Travis Van Winkle , American actor November 4
- Yusuf-Muri Adewunmi , German footballer November 5:
- Thomas Auer , Austrian ice hockey player November 5
- Nina Prinz , German motorcycle racer November 5
- Ted DiBiase junior , American professional wrestler November 8
- Lynndie England , US Army Corporal 8 November:
- Mika Kallio , Finnish motorcycle racer November 8:
- Petra Wimbersky , German soccer player November 9
- Massiv , German-Palestinian rapper November 9:
- Marcus Storey , American footballer November 9
- November 10 Heather Matarazzo , American actress
- November 10 Arne Stephan , German actor and voice actor
- November 11: Simon Altvater , German artistic cyclist
- November 11 Viktoria Gabrysch , German actress
- November 11: Hendrik Heutmann , German actor
- November 12: Sibylla Deen , Australian actress
- November 12 Anne Hathaway , American actress
- November 12 Mark Runge , German politician (died 2021)
- November 12: Maxim Chudov , Russian biathlete, multiple world champion
- November 12: Wu Hui-ju , Taiwan archer
- November 13: Merle Hoch , German musical actress
- November 13: Daniela Klemenschits , Austrian tennis player († 2008)
- November 13: DJ Stickle , Austrian DJ and producer
- November 14: Ekaterina Atalık , Turkish-Russian chess player
- November 14: Gradimir Crnogorac , Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
- November 14: Martin Eisl , Austrian soccer goalie
- November 14 Kim Jaggy , Swiss footballer
- November 14 Laura Ramsey , American actress
- November 14: Moreno Soeprapto , Indonesian automobile racer
- November 15: Clemens J. Setz , Austrian writer and translator
- November 16: Amar'e Stoudemire , American basketball player
- November 17 Mimoun Azaouagh , German footballer
- November 18: Gracia Baur , German pop singer
- November 18: Freyr Alexandersson , Icelandic football player and coach
- November 19 Francesco Reda , Italian cyclist
- November 22: Yakubu Aiyegbeni , Nigerian footballer
- November 22: Steve Angello , Greek-Swedish house DJ and music producer
- November 22: Pär Arlbrandt , Swedish ice hockey player
- November 23: Colby Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- November 23: Víctor Hugo López , Spanish handball player
- November 23: Asafa Powell , Jamaican track and field athlete
- November 24: Joey Ansah , British actor and stuntman
- November 25: Michael Spatz , German handball player
- November 26: Said Daftari , Afghan footballer
- November 26: Michael Reisecker , Austrian documentary filmmaker
- November 26 Juliane Schenk , German badminton player
- November 27 Alexander Kerzhakov , Russian footballer
- November 27: Tommy Robinson , British political activist
- November 29: John Mensah , Ghanaian footballer
- November 29 Rusty Mitchell , American racing driver
- November 30 Elisha Cuthbert , Canadian actress
- November 30 Domenico Pozzovivo , Italian cyclist
December
- Rizwan Ahmed , British actor, MC and musician December 1:
- Laurens Jan Anjema , Dutch squash player December 1
- Karmen Kočar , Slovenian volleyball player December 1:
- Leif Anton , German handball player December 2
- Michael Essien , Ghanaian footballer December 3:
- Choi Yong-jik , South Korean ski jumper December 3:
- Marten Laciny , German rapper December 4
- Waldo Ponce , Chilean soccer player December 4:
- Ho-Pin Tung , Chinese automobile racer December 4
- DJ D , Italian DJ December 5:
- Ryan Carnes , American actor December 6
- Alberto Contador , Spanish cyclist December 6
- Peter Pucelj , Slovenian handball player December 6:
- Susie Stoddart , British motor racing driver December 6:
- Julen Aguinagalde Aquizu , Spanish handball player December 8
- Halil Altıntop , Turkish footballer December 8:
- Hamit Altıntop , Turkish footballer December 8:
- Raquel Atawo , American tennis player December 8
- Christian Beisel , German footballer December 8:
- Joscha Kiefer , German actor December 8
- Nicki Minaj , American rapper December 8:
- DeeDee Trotter , American track and field athlete and Olympic gold medalist December 8 –
- December 10: Aïmen Demai , French footballer of Tunisian-Algerian descent
- December 10: Sultan Kösen , tallest living human
- December 12: Heidi Løke , Norwegian handball player
- December 12 Lara Roxx , Canadian porn actress
- December 13: Tuka Rocha , Brazilian racing driver († 2019)
- December 14 Koo Kyo-hwan , South Korean actor
- December 15: Matías Delgado , Argentine footballer
- December 15: Christina Nimand Hansen , Danish handball player
- December 16: Justin Mentell , American actor (died 2010)
- December 16: Stanislav Šesták , Slovak footballer
- December 17: Davud Yaqubi , Afghan footballer
- December 19 Tamilla Rashidowna Abassova , Russian track cyclist
- December 19: Tero Pitkämäki , Finnish javelin thrower
- December 20: Keny Arkana , French rapper
- December 20: Janina Elkin , German actress
- December 20: David Wright , American baseball player
- December 22: Jeffrey Campbell , Jamaican musician
- December 22: Britta Heidemann , German epee fencer
- December 23: Nikolai Vladimirovich Pankratov , Russian cross-country skier
- December 23 Chang Han-na , South Korean cellist
- December 24: Masaki Aiba , Japanese singer and actor
- December 26: Bas Sibum , Dutch footballer
- December 26: Aksel Lund Svindal , Norwegian alpine skier
- December 28 Beau Garrett , American actress
- December 28: Kakianako Nariki , Kiribati sprinter
- December 28 Karen Zapata , Peruvian chess player
- December 29 Alison Brie , American actress
- December 29 Florian Guillou , French cyclist
- December 29 Julia Ocker , German animation film director and author
- December 29: Norbert Siedler , Austrian racing driver
- December 30: Kristin Kreuk , Canadian actress and model
- December 31: Anna Bertheau , German actress
day unknown
- Barbara Aschenwald , Austrian author
- Adomas Ąžuolas Audickas , Lithuanian business consultant, financier and politician
- Anselm Audley , British fantasy author
- Jeffrey Beecher , American double bass player
- Janina Elkin , German-Ukrainian actress
- Katarina Fischer , German writer
- Silke Franz , German actress
- Mohammed Hegazy , Egyptian national who converted to Christianity
- Eric Jacobsen , American cellist and conductor
- Lisa Jopt , German actress, radio play and dubbing actress
- Sebastian Kaufmane , German actor
- Matthias Kelle , German actor
- Martin Klaus , Swiss actor
- Jonas Laux , German actor
- Giorgos Manolakis , Greek lauto and bouzouki player
- Genoveva Mayer , German actress
- Seán McDonagh , Irish actor
- Christoph Nübel , German historian
- Juri Padel , German actor and director
- Lia Perez , German actress
- Tom Radisch , German actor and speaker
- Makyla Smith , Canadian actress
- Tilman Strauss , German actor
- Xenia Tiling , German actress
- Samantha Viana , German actress
Died
January
- Ernst Ammann , German stage designer and actor (b. 1928) January 1:
- Fritz Laband , German footballer (b. 1925) January 3:
- Freddie de Clifford , British motor racing driver and peer (b. 1907) January 3:
- Grégoire Aslan , Armenian actor (b. 1908) January 8:
- Reta Shaw , American actress (b. 1912) January 8:
- Friedrich Ahlfeld , German-Bolivian mining engineer and geologist (born 1892) January 9
- January 10: Lazar Weiner , American composer and choirmaster (b. 1897)
- January 11: Bruno Diekmann , politician, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1897)
- January 12: Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen , Dutch legal scholar (born 1898)
- January 13: Marcel Camus , French director (born 1912)
- January 13: Bernhard Reismann , German politician (born 1903)
- January 14: Walfried Winkler , German motorcycle racer (b. 1904)
- January 15: Rudolf Thaut , President of the European Baptist Federation (b. 1915)
- January 18: Nérée Arsenault , Canadian politician and forest engineer (b. 1911)
- January 19: Elis Regina , Brazilian singer (b. 1945)
- January 19: Marya Zaturenska , American writer (b. 1902)
- January 19: Leopold Stepper , Polish communist, resistance fighter and publicist (b. 1904)
- January 20: Anna Haag , German writer, pacifist, politician (SPD) and women's rights activist (b. 1888)
- January 22: Eduardo Frei Montalva , Chilean politician (b. 1911)
- January 24: Clarence Horning , American football player (b. 1892)
- January 24: Hans Schütz , German politician (b. 1901)
- January 27: Alexander Abusch , journalist, writer and politician in East Germany (b. 1902)
- January 28: Hans Sprung , German motorcycle racer (b. 1900)
- January 29 – Ōtsuka Hironori , founder of Wado-ryu karate (b. 1892)
- January 30: Stanley Holloway , British actor (born 1890)
- January 30: Lightnin' Hopkins , country blues guitarist (b. 1912)
February
- Alex Harvey , Scottish rock musician (b. 1935) February 4:
- Hans Theodor Gustav Atmer , German architect (b. 1893) February 5:
- Arthur Geiss , German motorcycle racer (b. 1903) February 5:
- Ben Nicholson , English painter and object artist (born 1894) February 6:
- Kurt Edelhagen , German big band leader (b. 1920) February 8:
- February 10: Margrit Rainer , Swiss actress (born 1914)
- February 11: Eleanor Powell , American dancer, singer and actress (b. 1912)
- February 13: Archangelus Löslein , Capuchin Father (b. 1903)
- February 13: Frank Séchehaye , Swiss soccer goalkeeper and racing driver (b. 1907)
- February 16: Heinrich Mauersberger , German inventor in the textile industry (b. 1909)
- February 17: Thelonious Monk , American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1917)
- February 17 Lee Strasberg , co-founder of the 1931 created "Group Theatre" (b. 1901)
- February 19: Gerhard Leibholz , German jurist (b. 1901)
- February 20 Karl Heinz Moll , German wildlife photographer, writer, conservationist and environmental educator (b. 1924)
- February 21: Mischel Cherniavsky , Canadian cellist of Ukrainian descent (b. 1893)
- February 21: Gershom Scholem , researcher of Jewish mysticism (b. 1897)
- February 22: Arie den Arend , Dutch composer and organist (born 1903)
- February 24: Virginia Bruce , American actress and singer (b. 1910)
- February 25: Christian Schad , German painter (b. 1894)
- February 25: Zhao Yuanren , Chinese linguist (b. 1892)
- February 25: Hans-Joachim von Merkatz , German politician (born 1905)
- February 28: Friedrich Liebling , psychologist (b. 1893)
March
- Philip K. Dick , American writer (b. 1928) March 2:
- Georges Perec , French writer (b. 1936) March 3:
- Sepp Bradl , Austrian ski jumper (b. 1918) March 3:
- John Belushi , American singer and actor (b. 1949) March 5:
- Clifford P. Case , American politician (b. 1904) March 5:
- Heinz Heck , German biologist and zoo director in Munich (b. 1894) March 5:
- Ayn Rand , American writer and philosopher (b. 1905) March 6:
- Konrad Wolf , German film director (born 1925) March 7:
- March 11: Nikolai Kamanin , Soviet pilot (b. 1909)
- March 14: Robert Eberan von Eberhorst , Austrian design engineer (b. 1902)
- March 18: Émile Chenard , French automobile racer (b. 1891)
- March 18: Otto Krayer , German pharmacologist and toxicologist (b. 1899)
- March 19 Sigi Engl , Austrian-American alpine skier and ski school leader (b. 1911)
- March 19: Randy Rhoads , American rock guitarist (b. 1956)
- March 19: Rudolf Trautvetter , German general (b. 1891)
- March 20: Marietta Shaginyan , Soviet writer (b. 1888)
- March 22: Pericle Felici , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (b. 1911)
- March 22: Bob Foster , British motorcycle racer (b. 1911)
- March 22: Buddy Parker , American football player and coach (b. 1913)
- March 24: Igor Gorin , American singer, actor, composer and music educator (b. 1904)
- March 26: Sultan al-Atrasch , Syrian nationalist and commander-general (b. 1891)
- March 28: Bill Adkins , Canadian theater coordinator and set designer (b. 1888 or 89)
- March 29: Helene Deutsch , Austrian-Polish-American psychoanalyst (b. 1884)
- March 29: Walter Hallstein , German politician and jurist (b. 1901)
- March 29: Carl Orff , German composer, educator and man of theater (b. 1895)
April
- Felix Brodtbeck , Swiss choirmaster and organist (b. 1909) April 3:
- Harald Ertl , Austro-German Formula One racing driver (b. 1948) April 7:
- Manfred Schott , German actor, voice actor (b. 1936) April 7:
- Robert Havemann , German chemist, communist and dissident in East Germany (b. 1910) April 9:
- Wilfrid Pelletier , Canadian conductor and pianist (b. 1896) April 9:
- April 10: Peter Brückner , German social psychologist (born 1922)
- April 15: Hans Weisz , Romanian-German church musician and composer (born 1903)
- April 16: Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov , Russian composer (b. 1888)
- April 16: Hermann Diebäcker , German politician (b. 1910)
- April 16: Rudi Knees , German motorcycle racer (b. 1907)
- April 17: Maxi Ackers , German novelist, screenwriter and actress (b. 1896)
- April 18 Elisabeth Bitterling-Wolters , German painter (b. 1892)
- April 18: Hiroshi Ohguri , Japanese composer and horn player (b. 1918)
- April 20: Archibald MacLeish , American poet and politician (b. 1892)
- April 23: Paul Achkar , Syrian Archbishop (b. 1893)
- April 24: Awalmir , Afghan singer, musician and composer (b. 1931)
- April 24: John M. Ashbrook , American politician (b. 1928)
- April 24: Ville Ritola , Finnish track and field athlete and Olympic champion (b. 1896)
- April 25: Boris Fyodorovich Andreyev , Soviet film actor (b. 1915)
- April 26: Karl August von Thurn und Taxis , the tenth head of the House of Thurn und Taxis (b. 1898)
- April 29: Herbert Collum , German church musician (b. 1914)
May
- Gyula Kertész , Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1888) May 1:
- Wolfgang Stammberger , German politician (b. 1920) May 1:
- Walther Wenck , Commander-in-Chief, 12th Army in World War II (b. 1900) 1 May:
- Antoine Dubreil , French automobile racer (b. 1897) May 3:
- Henri Tajfel , British social psychologist (born 1919) May 3:
- Irmgard Keun , German writer (born 1905) May 5:
- Kurt Mantel , German forest scientist (b. 1905) May 6:
- Peter Walter , German veterinarian (born 1928) May 8:
- Gilles Villeneuve , Canadian Formula One racing driver (b. 1950) May 8:
- May 10: Werner Ackermann , German writer, publisher and co-owner of the Monte Verità artists' colony (b. 1892)
- May 10: Peter Weiss , German writer, painter, graphic artist (b. 1916)
- May 11: Åke Gustav Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player (born 1918)
- May 12: Humphrey Searle , English composer and pupil of Anton von Webern (born 1915)
- May 13 Rudolf Grob , Swiss evangelical minister and director of a sanatorium (b. 1890)
- May 13: Kara Karayev , Azerbaijani composer (b. 1918)
- May 13: Věra Suková , Czechoslovak tennis player (b. 1931)
- May 15: Birch Monroe , American country musician (b. 1901)
- May 16: Hans Andreas , German physician (b. 1912)
- May 19 Reinhard Karl , German alpinist, photographer and writer (born 1946)
- May 20 Merle Antony Tuve , American physicist and geophysicist (b. 1901)
- May 22: Hans Mock , German and Austrian soccer player (b. 1906)
- May 22: Cevdet Sunay , Turkish politician and general (b. 1899)
- May 23: Renzo Bracesco , Italian composer and music teacher (born 1888)
- May 26: Semra Ertan , Turkish migrant worker in West Germany who publicly self-immolated to protest racism (b. 1957)
- May 29: Romy Schneider , German-French actress (b. 1938)
- May 30: Albert Norden , German politician (b. 1904)
- Gertrud Skrabs , German painter and illustrator (born 1903) May:
June
- Herbert Quandt , German industrialist (b. 1910) June 2:
- Willie Smith , English snooker and English billiards player (b. 1886) June 2:
- Sergei Balasanyan , Soviet composer (b. 1902) June 3:
- Günther Steines , German athlete (b. 1928) June 4:
- Roger Bonvin , Swiss politician (born 1907) June 5:
- Olle Hellbom , Swedish director and screenwriter (b. 1925) June 5:
- Nishiwaki Junzaburō , Japanese writer (b. 1894) June 5:
- Mirza Nasir Ahmad , Khalifat ul-Masih III. (* 1909) 9 June:
- Richard St Barbe Baker , British forest scientist, environmental activist and author (b. 1889) June 9:
- June 10: Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German director, film producer and playwright (born 1945)
- June 10: Bernard Heinze , Australian musician, conductor and music educator (b. 1894)
- June 12: Otto Brunner , Austrian historian (b. 1898)
- June 12: Karl von Frisch , biologist, zoologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
- June 13: Ricardo Paletti , racing car driver from San Marino (b. 1958)
- June 13: Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz , King of Saudi Arabia (b. 1912)
- June 13: Marvin Griffin , Americ. Politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1907)
- June 13: Herbert Hesmer , German forest scientist (b. 1904)
- June 14: George Tremblay , American composer (born 1911)
- June 15: Art Pepper , American alto saxophonist (b. 1925)
- June 16: James Honeyman-Scott , British guitarist, member of the Pretenders (b. 1956)
- June 16: Georg Leibbrandt , German politician (b. 1899)
- June 16: Gwen Wakeling , US costume designer (b. 1901)
- June 17: Roberto Calvi , Italian banker (b. 1920)
- June 17: Zdeněk Kalista , Czech historian, poet, literary critic, editor and translator (born 1900)
- June 18: Djuna Barnes , American novelist (b. 1892)
- June 18: Curd Jürgens , German stage and film actor (b. 1915)
- June 18: John Cheever , American writer (b. 1912)
- June 20: René Gabriëls , Belgian carom world champion and billiard table maker (b. 1912)
- June 24 – Jakob Streitle , German footballer (b. 1916)
- June 24: Paul Benthien , German table tennis player (b. 1914)
- June 26: Alexander Mitscherlich , German physician, psychoanalyst and writer (b. 1908)
- June 26: Alfredo Marceneiro , Lisbon fado singer (b. 1891)
- June 28 Adolf Portmann , Swiss zoologist and natural philosopher (b. 1897)
- June 29: Henry King , American film director (b. 1886)
- June 29 Piero Meriggi , Italian classical philologist, linguist and Indo-Europeanist (b. 1899)
- June 29: Bernhard Rogge , German naval officer (b. 1899)
July
- DeFord Bailey , American country musician (b. 1899) July 2:
- Jean Hémard , French racing driver (b. 1917) July 2:
- Annibale Bugnini , Catholic cleric (b. 1912) July 3:
- Tsubota Jōji , Japanese children's book author (born 1890) July 7:
- Kai Warner , German musician (born 1926) July 9:
- July 10: Karl Hein , German athlete (b. 1908)
- July 10: Maria Jeritza , Austrian chamber singer (soprano) (b. 1887)
- July 10: Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald , German-Dutch paleoanthropologist and geologist (born 1902)
- July 12: Lautaro García , Chilean painter, singer and playwright (b. 1895)
- July 13: Barbara Allen Rainey , American pilot and first woman pilot in the US Armed Forces (b. 1948)
- July 15: Otto von Rohr , German opera singer (b. 1914)
- July 16: Patrick Dewaere , French actor (b. 1947)
- July 16: Charles Robert Swarts , South African politician (b. 1894)
- July 18: Lionel Daunais , Canadian singer, opera director and composer (b. 1901)
- July 18 Roman Ossipowitsch Jakobson , philologist, linguist and semiotician (b. 1896)
- July 19: David Frankfurter , Jewish medical student in Bern and assassin of Wilhelm Gustloff (b. 1909)
- July 20: Okot p'Bitek , Ugandan poet, teacher and ethnologist (b. 1931)
- July 22: Sonny Stitt , American saxophonist (b. 1924)
- July 22: Lloyd Waner , American baseball player (b. 1906)
- July 23: Lucia Apicella , Italian philanthropist (b. 1887)
- July 23: Vic Morrow , American actor (b. 1929)
- July 23: Betty Parsons , American artist and gallery owner (b. 1900)
- July 25: Hal Foster , American comics writer and illustrator (b. 1892)
- July 25: Gabriele Tergit , German journalist and writer (born 1894)
- July 27: Morris Pejoe , American blues guitarist and bandleader (b. 1924)
- July 27: Vladimir Smirnov , Soviet fencer (b. 1954)
- July 28: Keith Green , American singer and composer (b. 1953)
- July 29: Harold Sakata , American actor of Korean descent (b. 1920)
- July 29: Vladimir Zworykin , Russian engineer, physicist and inventor (b. 1888)
- July 29: Sep Ruf , German architect (b. 1908)
- July 31: Queenie Paul , Australian actress, singer and dancer (born 1893)
- July 31: Walter Spahrbier , lucky postman on German television (b. 1905)
August
- Theo Akkermann , German sculptor (b. 1907) August 1:
- Otto Bayer , German chemist (b. 1902) August 1:
- Albert Aschl , German archivist and local historian (b. 1900) August 2:
- Rudolf Maros , Hungarian composer (b. 1917) August 2:
- Tex Atchison , American country musician (b. 1912) August 4:
- Rolf Karlsen , Norwegian composer and organist (b. 1911) August 4:
- Dieter Borsche , German actor (b. 1909) August 5:
- Georg Picht , philosopher of religion, educator (b. 1913) August 7:
- Eric Brandon , British racing driver (b. 1920) August 8:
- John L. Sullivan , American politician (b. 1899) August 8:
- August 9: Emanuel Kaláb , Czech military bandmaster, conductor and composer (b. 1895)
- August 10: Peter de Mendelssohn , German-British writer, historian and essayist (b. 1908)
- August 10: José Nieto , Spanish actor (born 1903)
- August 11: Tom Drake , American actor (b. 1918)
- August 12: Henry Fonda , American film actor (born 1905)
- August 13: Werner Storz , German athlete (b. 1904)
- August 14: Thruston Ballard Morton , American politician (b. 1907)
- August 15: Jock Taylor , British motorcycle racer (b. 1954)
- August 15: Hugo Theorell , Swedish biochemist (born 1903)
- August 17: Charles E. Ackerly , American wrestler (b. 1898)
- August 17: Bruno Nöckler , Italian alpine skier (b. 1956)
- August 17: Ilario Pegorari , Italian alpine skier (b. 1949)
- August 18: Georges Addor , Swiss architect (b. 1920)
- August 18: Samuel Hersenhoren , Canadian violinist and conductor (b. 1908)
- August 20: Ulla Jacobsson , Swedish stage and film actress (born 1929)
- August 20: Nicolas Naaman , Syrian Archbishop (b. 1911)
- August 21: Helmut Kajzar , Polish director (b. 1941)
- August 21: Sobhuza II , King of Swaziland (b. 1899)
- August 23: Alberto Cavalcanti , Brazilian film director (b. 1897)
- August 23: Stanford Moore , American biochemist and Nobel laureate (b. 1913)
- August 24: Giorgio Abetti , Italian astronomer (born 1882)
- August 26: Günter Adolphi , German process engineer and university lecturer (b. 1902)
- August 27: Ma Anandamayi , Indian spiritual master (b. 1896)
- August 28: Ludwik Stefański , Polish pianist and music teacher (b. 1917)
- August 29: Ingrid Bergman , Swedish actress (born 1915)
- August 29: Nahum Goldmann , founder and President of the World Jewish Congress (b. 1895)
- August 31: Joaquín Piñeros Corpas , Colombian writer and politician (b. 1915)
September
- Haskell Brooks Curry , American logician (born 1900) September 1
- Ludwig Bieberbach , German mathematician and Nazi Party activist (b. 1886) September 1:
- Władysław Gomułka , Polish politician and PZPR party leader (b. 1905) 1 September:
- Werner Schwarz , German politician (born 1900) September 2:
- Walter Lüthi , Reformed pastor (b. 1901) 3 September:
- Douglas Bader , British fighter pilot (b. 1910) 5 September:
- Mohammed Abdullah , Indian politician of Kashmir (b. 1905) September 8:
- Joseph Pütz , German politician (b. 1903) September 9:
- September 11: Albert Soboul , French historian (b. 1914)
- September 12: Arthur Jores , German physician (b. 1901)
- September 12: Franz Grothe , German composer (b. 1908)
- September 14: Kristján Eldjárn , third President of Iceland (b. 1916)
- September 14: John Gardner , American writer and translator (b. 1933)
- September 14: Pablo Garrido , Chilean composer and jazz musician (b. 1905)
- September 14: Bachir Gemayel , Lebanese President (b. 1947)
- September 14: Grace Kelly , American actress, Princess of Monaco (b. 1929)
- September 15: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh , Iranian politician (b. 1936)
- September 17: Manos Loïzos , Greek composer (b. 1937)
- September 19: Samuel Barlow , American composer (b. 1892)
- September 21: Hovhannes Baghramyan , Soviet military (b. 1897)
- September 21: Franz Esser , German soccer player (b. 1900)
- September 23: Franz Josef Brecht , German professor of philosophy (b. 1899)
- September 26: Henri D'Espine , Swiss Protestant minister and university teacher (b. 1895)
- September 27: Thomas C. Chattoe , Canadian organist, choirmaster and music educator (b. 1890)
- September 29: Franz Seume , German politician and member of the Bundestag (b. 1903)
- September 30 - Bill George , American football player (b. 1929)
October
- Otto Hans Abt , Swiss painter (b. 1903) October 1:
- Alice Baber , American painter (b. 1928) October 2:
- Roger Claessen , Belgian footballer (b. 1941) October 3:
- Adam Kopyciński , Polish conductor, pianist, singer and composer (born 1907) October 3:
- Michael Aures , German music teacher (b. 1888) October 4:
- Glenn Gould , Canadian pianist, composer, music writer (born 1932) October 4:
- Leroy Grumman , American designer and aircraft builder (b. 1895) October 4:
- Philip Noel-Baker , British Member of Parliament, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1889) October 8:
- Wilhelm Kempf , Bishop of Limburg (b. 1906) 9 October:
- Fernando Lamas , Argentine actor and film producer (born 1916) October 9:
- October 14: Gerhard Kreyssig , German politician (b. 1899)
- October 15: Johannes Gohl , German officer (b. 1908)
- October 16: Jean Effel , French illustrator (b. 1908)
- October 16: Jakov Gotovac , Croatian composer and conductor (b. 1895)
- October 16: Hans Selye , Canadian medic (b. 1907)
- October 16: Mario Del Monaco , Italian opera singer (tenor) (b. 1915)
- October 18: Pierre Mendès France , French politician, Prime Minister (b. 1907)
- October 21: Hermann Berg , German politician, MP (b. 1905)
- October 21: Abdul Zahir , Afghan Prime Minister (b. 1910)
- October 22: Savitri Devi , Nazi philosopher and writer (b. 1905)
- 25 October: Werner Naumann , National Socialist, personal aide to Joseph Goebbels (b. 1909)
- October 25: Karl Bruckner , Austrian writer (b. 1906)
- October 26: Giovanni Benelli , Archbishop of Florence and Cardinal (b. 1921)
- October 28: Mario Agustoni , Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1902)
- October 28: Robert d'Escourt Atkinson , British astronomer, physicist and inventor (born 1898)
- October 28: Hendri Spescha , Swiss author and politician (b. 1928)
- October 29: William Lloyd Webber , English church musician and composer (born 1914)
November
- Michel Aunaud , French automobile racer (b. 1911) November 1:
- Eric Arthur , Canadian architect and author (b. 1898) November 1:
- Ray Draper , American jazz tuba player (b. 1940) November 1:
- King Vidor , American director (b. 1894) November 1:
- Jo Miard , German sculptor (born 1929) November 3:
- Germaine Rouault , French automobile racer (b. 1905) November 4:
- Jacques Tati , French actor (comedian) and director (born 1907) November 4:
- Bully Buhlan , German jazz and schlager singer, pianist and actor (b. 1924) November 7:
- Salvador Contreras , Mexican composer (b. 1910) November 7:
- Marco de Gastyne , French film director and screenwriter (born 1889) November 8:
- Emil Bettgenhäuser , German politician (b. 1906) November 9:
- November 10: Leonid Brezhnev , Party leader of the CPSU of the Soviet Union (b. 1906)
- November 12: Rudi Baerwind , German painter (born 1910)
- November 12: Eduardo Mallea , Argentine writer and diplomat (b. 1903)
- November 12: Dorothy Round , English tennis player (b. 1908)
- November 14: Max Beyer , amateur astronomer and vocational school teacher (b. 1894)
- November 16: Arthur Bowden Askey , British comedian and actor (born 1900)
- November 17: Robert Knight Andras , Canadian entrepreneur and politician (b. 1921)
- November 17: Eduard Tubin , Swedish composer (born 1905)
- November 17: Heinrich Lindenberg , German politician (b. 1902)
- November 18: Anton Biersack , German composer (b. 1907)
- November 18: Heinar Kipphardt , German playwright (b. 1922)
- November 19: Erving Goffman , American Jewish sociologist (b. 1922)
- November 21: Herbert Lewin , President of the Central Council of Jews (b. 1899)
- November 22: Max Deutsch , French composer, conductor and music teacher (b. 1892)
- November 22: Stanisław Ostrowski , Polish doctor, officer and politician (b. 1892)
- November 24 Benny Friedman , American football player and coach (b. 1905)
- November 24: Bohumír Štědroň , Czech musicologist and pianist (born 1905)
- November 26: Juhan Aavik , Estonian composer (b. 1884)
- November 26: Gordon Gray , American politician (b. 1909)
- November 26: Antonino Janner , Swiss diplomat (b. 1917)
- 28 November: Hermann Balck , German general (b. 1893)
- November 29: Percy Williams , Canadian track and field athlete (b. 1908)
- November 30: Adolf Heusinger , German general (b. 1897)
December
- Lindley Evans , Australian pianist, music educator and composer (b. 1895) December 2:
- Marty Feldman , British-American author, actor and director (b. 1934) December 2:
- Giovanni Ferrari , Italian football player and coach (b. 1907) December 2:
- Louis Auriacombe , French conductor (b. 1917) December 3:
- Rudolph Eugen Arbesmann , American classical philologist (b. 1895) December 4
- Dora Dunkl , German-Austrian poet and writer (b. 1925) December 3:
- Georg André , German politician (b. 1920) December 5:
- Charlie Brooks , American murderer (b. 1942) December 7:
- Harry Jerome , Canadian track and field athlete and Olympian (b. 1940) December 7:
- George Bogdan Kistiakowsky , Russian-American chemist (b. 1900) December 7:
- Sam Theard , American singer and songwriter (b. 1904) December 7:
- Marty Robbins , American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1925) December 8:
- Ján Smrek , Slovak writer and editor (b. 1898) December 8:
- Ásmundur Sveinsson , Icelandic sculptor (b. 1893) December 9:
- Paul Godwin , German-Dutch violinist and orchestra leader (born 1902) December 9:
- Fritz Usinger , German writer (b. 1895) December 9:
- December 11: Erhard Mauersberger , organist, music teacher and choir conductor (b. 1903)
- December 13: Jan Anderle , Czech test pilot (b. 1900)
- December 16 Colin Chapman , British racing car designer (b. 1928)
- December 16: Toña la Negra , Mexican singer (b. 1912)
- December 17: Homer S. Ferguson , American politician (b. 1889)
- December 17: Big Joe Williams , American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1903)
- December 18: Hans-Ulrich Rudel , German Luftwaffe colonel in World War II (b. 1916)
- December 18: Willi Multhaup , German football coach (b. 1903)
- December 19: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald , French organist, composer and music teacher (b. 1911)
- December 19: Frederick Terman , American electrical engineer and "Father of Silicon Valley" (b. 1900)
- December 20: Rudolf Werner Ackermann , German painter (b. 1908)
- December 20 Arthur Rubinstein , Polish/American pianist (b. 1887)
- December 21 Georg Apfelbeck , German building contractor and table tennis official (b. 1914)
- December 21: John Hargrave , British author, politician (born 1894)
- December 23: Wilhelm Angerer , Austrian photographer (b. 1904)
- December 23: Piți Apolzan , Romanian footballer (b. 1927)
- December 24: Louis Aragon , French historian, poet and writer (b. 1897)
- December 25: Walt Ader , American racing driver (b. 1913)
- December 26: Johann Blankemeyer , German Nazi politician (b. 1898)
- December 26: Maxi Böhm , Austrian actor and cabaret artist (b. 1916)
- December 27: Erwin Bootz , German pianist (born 1907)
- December 27: John Leonard Swigert , American astronaut (b. 1931)
- December 29: Max de Terra , Swiss racing car driver (b. 1918)
- December 29: Hugh Gallen , American politician (b. 1924)
- December 31: Paul Eßling , German assassin (born 1940)
- December 31: Kurt Friedrichs , German-American mathematician (b. 1901)
date unknown
- Rui Pinto de Abreu , Portuguese swimmer (born 1961)
- Peter Earl Anderza , American alto saxophonist (born 1933)
- Annemarie Hansen , German painter (born 1898)
- Else Schubert-Christaller , German author (born 1891)
- Werner Stief , German folklorist (born 1905)
- Henry Tyrell-Smith , Irish motorcycle racer (born 1907)
Nobel prizes
Works on prostaglandins (medicine)
- Physics : Kenneth Wilson
- Chemistry : Aaron Klug
- Medicine : Sune Bergstrom , Bengt Ingemar Samuelsson and John Robert Vane
- Literature : Gabriel García Marquez
- Nobel Peace Prize : Alva Myrdal and Alfonso García Robles
- Economics : George Stigler
literature
- Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1982. (1 volume), Oldenbourg, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-486-71876-8 .
web links
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