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Calendar overview 1984
1984 | |
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Indira Gandhi is murdered on October 31st. | Richard von Weizsäcker becomes German President. |
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1984 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2737 |
Armenian calendar | 1432-1433 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1976-1977 |
Badi calendar | 140-141 |
Bengali calendar | 1390-1391 |
Berber calendar | 2934 |
Buddhist calendar | 2528 |
Burmese calendar | 1346 |
Byzantine calendar | 7492-7493 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4680-4681 or 4620-4621 |
- 60 year cycle | |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CXCII CXCIII 192-193 |
Hebrew calendar | 5744-5745 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2040-2041 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1906-1907 |
Iranian calendar | 1362-1363 |
Islamic calendar | 1404-1405 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 59 |
- Kōki | 2644 |
Coptic calendar | 1700-1701 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4317 |
- Juche era | 73 |
Minguo calendar | 73 |
Modern Olympics | XXIII |
Seleucid calendar | 2295-2296 |
Thai solar calendar | 2527 |
Events
Annual dedications
- Year of Women in South Africa
- The white stork (lat. Ciconia ciconia) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany).
- Orwell year
Politics and world events
1st half year
- January 1st : Leon Schlumpf becomes President of Switzerland .
- January 1st : Military coup in Lagos , Nigeria . The new head of government is Mohammed Buhari .
- January 1st : Brunei gains full independence from Great Britain .
- January 1 : In the Federal Republic of Germany, the old-age pension is granted after 5 instead of 15 years of insurance.
- January 5 : The Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported that German Defense Minister Manfred Wörner the NATO -General Günter Kiessling has surprisingly retired. Further research by journalists brings the Kießling affair to light. The general suspected of homosexual behavior is later fully rehabilitated .
- January 10 : The USA and the Vatican resume diplomatic relations after a break of more than 100 years.
- January 17 : The CSCE follow-up conference on Confidence Building and Disarmament in Europe ( KVAE ) begins in Stockholm at Foreign Minister level .
- January 18 : The Soviet news agency TASS announces that the installation of nuclear missiles has started in the GDR .
- January 20 : In Norway , Arne Treholt , press spokesman for the foreign minister, is exposed as a Russian spy and arrested.
- January 24th : Apple introduces the Macintosh .
- January 24th : The Federal Office for Defense Technology and Procurement in Koblenz confirms that computer lists with the almost complete procurement program of the Bundeswehr have been found in a ditch.
- February 8 : Opening of the XIV Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia .
- February 13 : Konstantin Ustinowitsch Tschernenko is elected as the new General Secretary of the CPSU .
- February 18 : A Concordat between the Holy See and Italy revises parts of the Lateran Treaty . The Catholicism does not remain more state religion , state benefits to the church to be rearranged. Rome loses the name of the Holy City .
- March 5 : The troop withdrawal agreement of May 17, 1983 between Lebanon and Israel is terminated; it was to come into force after the withdrawal of the Syrian troops.
- March 5 : 1,300 people die in rioting by Muslims in the Christian north-east of Nigeria near Yola .
- March 26 : Death of the President of Guinea , Ahmed Sékou Touré
- March 26th : State Church Treaty between the Holy See and North Rhine-Westphalia
- April 3 : Colonel Lansana Conté seizes power in Guinea .
- April 5 : Bavaria is the first federal state to anchor environmental protection in its state constitution
- April 6 : attempted coup in Cameroon
- April 11 : Konstantin Ustinowitsch Tschernenko is elected as the new head of state of the Soviet Union just two months after his election as Secretary General
- May 9 : Otto Wiesheu , general secretary of the CSU on leave, loses his immunity in the Bavarian state parliament , he is charged with a fatal car accident under the influence of alcohol (and is later convicted)
- June 5 : In Amritsar ( Punjab ) special forces of the Indian army storm the " Golden Temple " in Operation Blue Star , in which hundreds of militant Sikhs have been holed up for two years , 600 people are killed.
- June 24 : Federal Minister of Economics Otto Graf Lambsdorff (FDP) resigns from office because of the Flick party donation affair .
2nd semester
- July 1 : Richard von Weizsäcker becomes Federal President.
- July 1 : In Liechtenstein , male voters narrowly choose the right to vote for women.
- July 5 : Eight militant Sikhs kidnap an Airbus of Indian Airlines with 264 people on board after Pakistan .
- July 14 : The opposition Labor Party emerges victorious from the early parliamentary elections in New Zealand .
- July 17 : Laurent Fabius replaces Pierre Mauroy as Prime Minister of France and becomes the youngest in this post at 37 years of age.
- July 19 : Jacques Delors replaces Gaston Thorn as President of the EC Commission .
- July 23 : Former boxer Gustav "Bubi" Scholz is arrested on suspicion of having shot his wife while intoxicated during the night .
- July 25 : The Federal Republic of Germany grants a guarantee for a second billion-euro loan to the GDR, financed by banks .
- July 26 : David Lange is sworn in as New Zealand's new Prime Minister.
- July 29th : Airplane hijacking in Venezuela : A 90-person DC-9 is hijacked on the way from Curaçao to Caracas .
- July 31 : hijacking in Germany: A Boeing 737 of Air France is with 63 people on board en route from Frankfurt - Paris to Tehran forced.
- August 1st : The obligation to wear seat belts comes into effect for drivers in the Federal Republic of Germany ( fine for non-compliance: DM 40 ).
- August 2 : Bomb attack in Madras ( India ): the roof of the airport arrivals hall collapses, killing 32 people.
- August 8 : hijacking year 17 by an opponent of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini : 300 Mecca - pilgrims are from Tehran to Rome kidnapped; the kidnapper asks for political asylum .
- August 11 : US President Ronald Reagan announces the bombing of the Soviet Union during a microphone speech rehearsal (later regrets the "joke").
- August 22nd : For the first time in history, mixed race and Asians elect their MPs in South Africa .
- 23 August : In Mongolia , Jambyn Batmönch replaces the previous Prime Minister Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal .
- August 24 : Sikh -Extremisten hijack a Boeing 737 of the Indian Airlines with more than 90 people on board after Dubai .
- August 28th : The Amstetten criminal case begins. The perpetrator lures his 18-year-old daughter into the cellar and keeps her captive for more than 24 years for sexual reasons and fathered seven children with her.
- September 1 : In Afghanistan resistance fighters carry out an attack on the Kabul airport , killing 42 people, mostly Afghans and Soviet citizens, among them many women and children.
- September 3 : Deputy Mayor Kuzwayo Jacob Dlamini is killed in local unrest in Sharpeville , South Africa . Dissatisfied people pour petrol over him and kill him. Two months later, the Sharpeville Six are arrested and charged with the crime.
- September 4 : The Canadian elections bring an overwhelming victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under Brian Mulroney (with 211 out of 282 seats).
- September 12 : In the Persian Gulf , six people are killed in a rocket attack by Iraqi soldiers on the German supply ship "Seetrans 21".
- September 17th : France and Libya sign a treaty with Chad , according to which the troops of both countries are withdrawn.
- September 17th : After the constitutional reform in South Africa and the introduction of the three-chamber parliament , Pieter Willem Botha accepts a minister (without portfolio) from the Colored and the Indians into his cabinet for the first time.
- September 20 : In Beirut , 24 people die after an attack on the local branch of the US embassy , to which the Islamic Jihad is committed.
- September 20 : In Munich the alleged will KGB - spy Manfred Rotsch arrested, he had access to the plans of combat aircraft " Tornado ".
- September 22 : At the Verdun military cemetery , François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl jointly commemorate the victims with a handshake recognized as a historic gesture.
- September 23 : In Switzerland , the majority votes in a referendum to build more nuclear power plants .
- September 25 : Resumption of diplomatic relations between Egypt and Jordan at the suggestion of King Hussein I.
- September 26 : One country, two systems : Great Britain and the People's Republic of China initial an agreement on Hong Kong under which the crown colony will be administered by China from June 30, 1997 ; China pledges to keep the capitalist economic system in place for another 50 years .
- October 2 : In Switzerland, a woman takes on a ministerial office in the cabinet for the first time : Elisabeth Kopp takes over the Ministry of Justice .
- October 7 : A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion campaign appears in The New York Times .
- October 8 : Jürgen Möllemann ( FDP ) renounces a top candidacy in the upcoming elections in May 1985 in North Rhine-Westphalia after he is accused of mixing political offices with private business.
- October 12 : The IRA detonates a bomb at the Grand Hotel in Brighton , where British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet are staying. Five people are killed and 32 injured.
- October 16 : The forest status report for 1984 states that 50% of the German forest is already affected by visible damage.
- October 18 : In Bonn , during the debate on the government declaration in the Bundestag, there were tumults, after which two members of the Greens were excluded: Jürgen Reents for five days and Joseph Fischer for two days.
- October 20 : In Beijing , the leadership decides on far-reaching economic reforms, according to which a market-oriented planning system is to be built, and industry is to be given more responsibility.
- October 21 : In the state of Vorarlberg , the Greens move into an Austrian parliament for the first time.
- October 25 : Rainer Barzel resigns as President of the Bundestag after he is accused of being involved in the Flick affair .
- October 31 : Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi succumbs to an attack by two Sikh extremists from her bodyguard. In the unrest that immediately followed, around 1,000 people, mostly from the Sikh population, were killed. Indira's son Rajiv takes over the office of Prime Minister.
- 6 November : Ronald Reagan won the presidential elections of the United States against Walter Mondale .
- November 6 : In Chile , after “serious unrest”, the government imposes a state of siege on the entire country.
- November 12 : A delegation from the Sahara Republic takes part for the first time at the OAU conference in Addis Ababa . Morocco then declares its exit from the OAU.
- November 19 : In Vienna the highest ranking UN diplomat in Turkey is shot dead by members of the Armenian Revolutionary Army.
- November 25 : The first free elections take place in Uruguay , with Julio María Sanguinetti winning the election .
- November 25: In Brazil , the world's largest hydropower plant to date, Itaipú , goes into operation.
- November 30th : At the inner-German border , the last self-firing systems are dismantled by soldiers of the GDR border troops .
- December 1st : In Sri Lanka , 55 people die in a separatist attack .
- December 3 : Bhopal disaster : A poison gas cloud arises in the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal - thousands die.
- December 11th : During a raid in Italy , the police arrested 150 alleged Mafia members.
- December 14 : In Prague , 40 out of 68 GDR refugees start a hunger strike at the German embassy to emphasize their demands to leave the country.
- December 21 : Brunei becomes a member of the United Nations .
- December 22nd : In the conflict over the Hainburger Au , the Austrian government decides to stop clearing after two weeks.
- September 30 : Comoros : President Ahmed Abdallah is elected to re-election.
- December 31st : The United States of America leaves UNESCO .
- 1984 is the famous year from Orwell's 1984 . On this occasion there were more retrospectives and reflections on the topics of data protection and surveillance .
economy
- January 1 : Start of private television in Germany; PKS starts broadcasting from a basement studio in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (from 1985 under the name Sat.1 )
- January 1 : The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China is founded.
- January 1 : As a result of the antitrust proceedings initiated against it by the government in 1974, the US trust AT&T surrenders large parts of its telephone business to seven independent telecommunications network operators .
- January 2 : RTL plus starts broadcasting from Luxembourg (private television)
- January 6th : The Deutsche Bundespost stops emptying their mailboxes at night .
- January 9th : The western Berliner Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVG) take over the S-Bahn in Berlin (West) , which was previously operated by the east .
- March 28 : The Krümmel nuclear power plant is handed over to the operator
- April 1 : A pilot project for cable television with 16 television and 24 radio channels starts in Munich
- July 6th : The EC Commission files a lawsuit against the Federal Republic of Germany before the ECJ , since it prohibits the marketing of beer legally produced in other EC member states if this does not comply with the German purity law (ECJ, Case 178/84; Judgment of March 12, 1987 ).
- October 26 : In Munich in to bankruptcy previous Zündapp -Werke for 16 million DM in China sold.
- November 4 : The French pay TV transmitters Canal + begins with the broadcast of his nationally to be received program.
- November 5th : The entrepreneur John-Werner Madaus is sentenced to a fine of 420,000 DM in the biggest party donation scandal to date
- November 19 : The Chaos Computer Club penetrates the BTX system of the Deutsche Bundespost , transfers DM 135,000 to its own account and then reports the incident
science and technology
- January 24th : The Apple company introduces the Apple Macintosh .
- March 1 : After the British government approved start-up aid of £ 250 million, nothing stands in the way of the Airbus project
- March 1 : The US Earth observation satellite Landsat 5 of the NASA and United States Geological Survey is from the Vandenberg Air Force Base started.
- March 14th : Physicists at the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt prove the element 108 by fusing iron and lead atomic nuclei .
- March 9 : "JET" ( Joint European Torus ), the largest fusion research facility in the world, is officially inaugurated in Culham (near the British capital London).
- May 21 : the continental drift is measured precisely for the first time; the Atlantic expands annually by 1.5 cm.
- August 3 : The first email reaches Germany.
- August 14 : IBM introduces the IBM Personal Computer / AT . As an AT format, its technology has been the standard in this market segment for more than a decade .
- August 24 : A research group at the University of Cologne discovers electron gas that turns into a liquid at −260 degrees Celsius and an external magnetic field .
- August 30 : The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden flight in the STS-41-D mission .
- September 18 : The American Joseph Kittinger descends on his first solo flight in a gas balloon over the Atlantic after a flight time of 83:40 hours near Cairo Montenotte in northern Italy.
- October 2 : The three Soviet cosmonauts Leonid Denissowitsch Kisim , Wladimir Alexejewitsch Solowjow and Oleg Jurjewitsch Atkow return to earth. As part of the Salyut 7 EO-3 mission , they spent 237 days on board the Salyut 7 space station in space, surpassing previous long-term stays.
- October 3 : In the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg , a bone marrow transplant is used for the first time to cure sickle cell anemia .
- October 11 : The space traveler Kathryn D. Sullivan takes the first US citizen during the Space Shuttle mission STS-41-G a spacewalk .
- November 14 : Physicists from the University of Basel confirm results that the effects of vehicle catalysts have harmful side effects on people
- December 1 : Under the name Controlled Impact Demonstration , NASA brings a remote-controlled Boeing 720 to a controlled crash.
- December 19 : River Raid is the first video game to be indexed in Germany .
- December 22nd : Uruguay founds the Base Científica Antártica Artigas research station on King George Island in the Antarctic .
- December 27 : A meteorite is found in the Allen Hills ice field in Antarctica , which nine years later will be identified as a Martian meteorite under its designation ALH 84001 .
- The French biochemist Luc Montagnier succeeds in genetically decoding the AIDS pathogen HIV .
- The American Chuck Hull invents the 3D printer .
Arts and Culture
- January 1 : In Ludwigshafen am Rhein , cable television is started with a pilot project , in which private channels also go on air.
- January 12 : With a concert of the singer Renaud , the Paris Zenith , the main concert hall of France inaugurated.
- January 31 : Wolfgang Staudte receives the Helmut Käutner Prize posthumously
- March 9 : The Neue Staatsgalerie Stuttgart , built according to plans by the Scottish architect James Stirling , opens after four and a half years of construction.
- April 16 : Muzaffer Ozak , the 19th Sheikh of the Jerrahi - Tariqa , visits his dervishes in New York during a trip to the USA . The traditional dhikr ceremony, which takes place in the evening of that day is recorded professionally on tape, but only in the year 1998 under the title Reunion published
- June 1st : The Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main opens.
- June 4 : Previously unknown manuscripts of George Orwell are near the city of Reading ( UK found)
- July 27 : In Livorno , the city administration has two alleged sculptures by the artist Amedeo Modigliani recovered from a canal, which the artist is said to have sunk 70 years earlier out of disappointment at criticism from fellow artists. The sculptures later turn out to be forgeries.
- August 7th : World premiere of the opera Un re in ascolto (A King Hears) by Luciano Berio in the Kleiner Festspielhaus in Salzburg
- September 15th : Premiere of the baroque drama Catherine of Georgia in the Balver Cave
- September: From here - two months of new German art in Düsseldorf
- October 1st : The Schauspielhaus Berlin (today Konzerthaus Berlin ) located on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin is reopened after 17 years of restoration.
- Oscar for best foreign language film for “Dangerous Moves” (CH / FR) by Richard Dembo
- Oscar best actor for F. Murray Abraham in "Amadeus"
- Oscar best actress for Sally Field in "Places in the Heart"
- First award of the Max and Moritz Prize in Erlangen
- First award of the Turner Prize
- First award of the Peter Härtling Prize
- Opening of the Strasshof Railway Museum
- With “I Want To Know What Love Is”, the American band Foreigner succeeds in one of the greatest rock ballads of all time
- Foundation of the Cartoon Art Museum
- Martin Kippenberger paints the painting I can't see a swastika with the best will in the world .
- Hit of the year: Opus (band) "Live Is Life" became the best-selling single record in Germany in 1985 .
society
- July 16 : 21 people die in a fast food restaurant in San Diego in the San Ysidro rampage . The perpetrator injured another 19 people with his weapon before he was killed by a sniper from a special police force .
environment
- The Hohe Tauern National Park is created.
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 6th : Jens Weißflog wins the Four Hills Tournament after three individual victories .
- February 8. bis 19th February : . XIV Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia .
- February 18 : Katarina Witt wins gold in figure skating for the GDR in Sarajevo .
- March 9 : Tim Witherspoon won his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Greg Page at the Convention Center , Las Vegas , Nevada , USA , by winning points.
- March 25th : The Vienna City Marathon takes place for the first time. 794 people take part, 25 of them women.
- May 12th : Opening of the new GP track at the Nürburgring .
- May 19 : VfB Stuttgart becomes German soccer champion.
- June 12. bis 27. June : France wins the seventh UEFA EURO 1984 on home soil by a 2: 0 victory over Spain .
- July 18th : The Tyrrell racing team of Ken Tyrrell ( Great Britain ) is excluded from further participation in the Formula 1 races in 1984 by FISA due to unauthorized manipulation.
- July 20 : Uwe Hohn (GDR) sets the world record in javelin throwing to 104.80 meters. The IAAF then decides to make technical changes to the sports equipment.
- July 28th to August 12th : XXIII. Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles , California , USA .
- August 16 : The 4th Skat World Championship is opened in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle by the patron, NRW Prime Minister Johannes Rau .
- August 31 : Pinklon Thomas wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Tim Witherspoon at the Riviera Hotel , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, by winning on points.
- October 21 : Niki Lauda wins his third and last Formula 1 world title in the tightest World Cup decision in history .
Disasters
- July 12th : Munich and its eastern surroundings are affected by the worst hailstorm in living memory. 300 injured people and a total of around 1.5 billion euros in property damage to cars, buildings and other objects make up the balance of the horror.
- September 2 : In the Philippines addressed by the typhoon "Ike" severe damage to and calls 1,400 lives, the storm moves over South Korea after China further.
- November 19 : Explosions in an oil storage facility of the Mexican oil company PEMEX near Mexico City caused a major fire in which around 500 people were killed.
- December 3 : Poison gas disaster at the chemical company Union Carbide in Bhopal , India , killing around 4,500.
- A drought leads to crop failures and famine in 20 African countries . The worst hit was Ethiopia , with almost 20,000 children dying from malnutrition every month. > Famine in Ethiopia 1984–1985
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
Born
January
- January 1st : Mubarak Al Rumaihi , Qatari show jumper
- January 1st : Paolo Guerrero , Peruvian soccer player
- January 2nd : Fu Haifeng , Chinese badminton world champion
- January 3rd : Serkan Atak , German-Turkish soccer player
- January 3 : Maximilian Mechler , German ski jumper
- January 4th : Astrid Plessl , Austrian memory athlete, women's world champion
- January 4th : Alexei Nikolajewitsch Silajew , Kazakh ski jumper
- January 5th : Derrick Atkins , Bahamian athlete
- January 6th : Matteo Montaguti , Italian cyclist
- January 7th : Max Riemelt , German actor
- January 7th : Luke McShane , English chess grandmaster
- January 7th : Xavier Margairaz , Swiss football player
- January 9th : Ragnhild Aas , Norwegian beach volleyball player
- January 9th : Vincent Descombes Sevoie , French ski jumper
- January 9th : Oliver Jarvis , British racing car driver
- January 10th : Pierre Ragues , French racing car driver
- January 11th : Lara Fritzsche , German journalist
- January 11 : Justin Lindine , American cyclist
- January 11th : Matthew Mullenweg , American web developer
- January 11th : Filip Salaquarda , Czech racing car driver
- January 11th : Stijn Schaars , Dutch football player
- January 11 : Yannic Seidenberg , German ice hockey player
- January 11th : Kerstin Wohlbold , German handball player
- January 12 : Robert Archibald , Australian polo player
- January 12th : Chaunte Howard , American athlete
- January 12 : Alain Montwani , Andorran football player
- January 13 : Michael Ginsburg , German actor
- January 13 : Eleni Ioannou , Greek judoka († 2004 )
- January 13 : Nick Mangold , American football player
- January 15 : Julia Kaufmann , German voice actress
- January 15 : Julia Palmer-Stoll , German actress († 2005 )
- January 15th : Jan Werle , Dutch chess master
- January 16 : Stephan Lichtsteiner , Swiss football player
- January 16 : Mona Pirzad , German actress
- January 17th : Calvin Harris , British singer, songwriter and producer
- January 17th : Tim Sebastian , German footballer
- January 18 : Leonardo Nicolás Pisculichi , Argentine soccer player
- January 18 : Brian Welch , American ski jumper
- January 19 : Karun Chandhok , Indian racing car driver
- January 19 : Nicolás Pareja , Argentine soccer player
- January 19 : Hamdi Salihi , Albanian football player
- January 19 : Aljona Savchenko , German figure skater
- January 19 : Thomas Vanek , Austrian ice hockey player
- January 20 : Federico Peluso , Italian football player
- January 20 : Lil Scrappy , American rapper
- January 21 : Amy Cragg , American long-distance runner
- January 21 : Timo Salzer , German handball player
- January 22nd : Josef Cinar , German soccer player
- January 23 : Arjen Robben , Dutch football player
- January 24 : Justin Baldoni , American actor
- January 24th : Cedric Coudoro , German handball player
- January 25 : Simon W. Kristiansen , Danish handball player
- January 25th : Stefan Kießling , German soccer player
- January 25 : Robinho , Brazilian soccer player
- January 26th : Silvi Antarini , Indonesian badminton player
- January 26 : Antonio Rukavina , Serbian football player
- January 26 : Grzegorz Wojtkowiak , Polish football player
- January 27th : Monique Angermüller , German speed skater
- January 28 : Andre Iguodala , American basketball player
- January 29th : Taichi , German rapper
- January 30 : Chad Power , American child actor
- January 31 : Franziska Garcia-Almendaris , German handball player
- January 31 : Alexander Ludwig , German soccer player
- January 31 : Alessandro Rosina , Italian football player
- January 31 : Jeremy Wariner , American athlete
February
- February 1 : Lee Thompson Young , American actor († 2013 )
- February 1 : Wataya Risa , Japanese writer
- February 2 : Yusuf Barak , Afghan soccer player
- February 2 : Natia Natia , American-Samoan soccer player
- February 2nd : Kathleen Weiß , German volleyball player
- February 3rd : Lourival Rodrigues Assis Filho , Brazilian soccer player
- February 5 : Edgaras Česnauskis , Lithuanian football player
- February 5th : Michael Nell , Canadian ski jumper
- February 5 : Carlos Tévez , Argentinian soccer player
- February 6th : Duanganong Aroonkesorn , Thai badminton player
- February 6 : Darren Bent , English soccer player
- February 6 : Katarina Tomašević , Serbian handball player
- February 7th : Jessica Lindell-Vikarby , Swedish ski racer
- February 7th : Trey Hardee , American athlete and world champion
- February 8th : Shelley Thompson , German soccer player
- February 9 : Maurice Ager , American basketball player
- February 9 : Drago Papa , Croatian football player
- February 11 : JAW , German rapper
- February 12 : Muhammad Asyraf Bin Mohd Ridzuan , Malay Imam
- February 12 : Arthur Gómez , Gambian football player
- February 12th : Caterine Ibargüen , Colombian athlete
- February 12 : Davide Ricci Bitti , Italian cyclist
- February 14th : Maria Wedig , German actress
- February 16 : Sofia Arvidsson , Swedish tennis player
- February 16 : Sokol Kacani , Albanian football player
- February 17th : Álvaro Barba , Spanish racing car driver
- February 17th : Ásgeir Örn Hallgrímsson , Icelandic handball player
- February 17th : Juliane Gramenz , German volleyball player
- February 17th : Stefan Jarosch , German soccer player
- February 18 : Hansjörg Auer , Austrian climber († 2019 )
- February 18 : Nora Binder , German actress
- February 18 : Idriss Carlos Kameni , French-Cameroonian football player
- February 18 : Nick McDonell , American writer
- February 18 : Juan Carlos Menseguez , Argentine soccer player
- February 21 : David Odonkor , German soccer player
- February 21 : Damien Molony , Irish actor
- February 22nd : Dani Arnold , Swiss mountaineer
- February 22nd : Najib Naderi , Afghan soccer player
- February 22 : Branislav Ivanović , Serbian football player
- February 23 : Cédric Makiadi , Congolese-German soccer player
- February 23 : Robert Wick , German biathlete
- February 23 : Mamoutou Coulibaly , Malian football player
- February 24th : Brian Dabul , Argentinian tennis player
- February 24th : Daniel Serra , Brazilian racing car driver
- February 25 : Maria Elisa Mendes Ticon Antonelli , Brazilian beach volleyball player
- February 25 : Steve Baumgärtel , German handball player
- February 25 : Xing Huina , Chinese athlete and Olympic champion
- February 25 : Patrik Kvalvik , Swedish handball player
- February 25 : Lovefoxxx , Brazilian pop singer
- February 26 : Alex De Angelis , San Marino motorcycle racer
- February 26 : Emmanuel Adebayor , Togolese football player
- February 27 : James Augustine , American basketball player
- February 27th : Akseli Kokkonen , Norwegian (former Finnish) ski jumper
- February 27 : Sarazar , German presenter, entrepreneur and video producer
- February 28 : Laura Asadauskaitė-Zadneprovskienė , Lithuanian pentathlete
- February 28 : René Boese , German handball player
- February 28 : Karolína Kurková , Czech photo model
- February 28 : Marleen Lohse , German actress
- February 28th : Audräy Tuzolana , French handball player
- February 29th : Jolanda Bombis-Robben , Dutch handball player
- February 29 : Cullen Jones , American freestyle swimmer
- February 29 : Anna Paulson , Swedish soccer player
- February 29th : Radik Schaparow , Kazakh ski jumper
- February 29th : Maike Weiss , German handball player
March
- March 1st : Sangsanoi Anon , Thai soccer player
- March 1st : Patrick Helmes , German soccer player
- March 2 : Elizabeth Jagger , British-American model
- March 2nd : Stefan Thurnbichler , Austrian ski jumper
- March 3 : Ángel Javier Arizmendi de Lucas , Spanish football player
- March 3rd : Kanu , Brazilian soccer player
- March 4th : Jeremy Loops , South African singer-songwriter
- March 6 : Daniël de Ridder , Dutch football player
- March 9th : Eduard Maratowitsch Absalimow , Russian boxer
- March 9 : Johan Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- March 9 : Artūrs Ansons , Latvian cyclist
- March 9 : Kamel Ghilas , Algerian football player
- March 9 : Guillaume Gillet , Belgian football player
- March 9 : Robert Kromm , German volleyball player
- March 9 : Priscilla Ahn , American singer and songwriter
- March 10 : Olivia Wilde , Irish-American actress
- March 11th : Mandy Hering , German handball player
- March 11th : Ines Österle , German soccer player
- March 12 : Jaimie Alexander , American actress
- March 13th : Pieter Custers , Dutch archer
- March 13 : Marc Zwiebler , German badminton player
- March 15 : Yves Grafenhorst , German handball player
- March 15 : Medhi Lacen , Algerian football player
- March 16 : Octavian Abrudan , Romanian football player
- March 16 : Beau Busch , Australian soccer player
- March 16 : Sebastian Schwarz , German actor
- March 17 : Damien Farrell , Antiguan soccer player
- March 18 : Katja Kramarczyk , German handball player
- March 19 : Silulu A'etonu , American-Samoan judoka
- March 20 : Fernando Torres , Spanish soccer player
- March 22nd : Piotr Trochowski , German soccer player
- March 22nd : Laura Laß , German actress
- March 23 : Luis Ángel Maté , Spanish cyclist
- March 23 : Lisa Wirén , Swedish handball player
- March 24th : Benoît Pierre David Assou-Ekotto , French-Cameroonian football player
- March 24 : Chris Bosh , American basketball player
- March 24th : Kim-Roar Hansen , Norwegian ski jumper
- March 25 : Yacine Hima , French-Algerian football player
- March 25th : Constantin Lupulescu , Romanian chess player
- March 26th : Felix Neureuther , German ski racer
- March 26 : Graeme Holmes , Scottish football player
- March 26 : Sara Jean Underwood , American model, actress, and playmate
- March 27 : Brett Holman , Australian soccer player
- March 28th : Mensur Mujdža , Croatian-Bosnian-Herzegovinian soccer player
- March 28 : Christopher Samba , Congolese-French soccer player
- March 29 : Nate Adams , American motocross rider
- March 29th : Chavdar Jankov , Bulgarian football player
- March 30th : Marcos Sebastián Aguirre , Argentinian football player
- March 30th : Mario Ančić , Croatian tennis player
- March 30th : Benjamin Baltes , German soccer player
- March 31 : Haidar Al-Shaïbani , Canadian soccer player
April
- April 1st : Jure Dobelšek , Slovenian handball player
- April 2 : Engin Atsür , Turkish basketball player
- April 2 : Meryl Cassie , New Zealand actress and singer
- April 3 : Maxi López , Argentine soccer player
- April 4th : Thomas Lövkvist , Swedish cyclist
- April 4th : Anja Stadlober , Austrian voice actress
- April 4th : Arkadi Arkadjewitsch Vyatchanin , Russian back swimmer
- April 4 : Mathieu Tschantré , Swiss ice hockey player
- April 4 : John Bowler , American basketball player
- April 4 : Ryan Dingle , American ice hockey player
- April 4 : Adam Rybakowicz , Polish politician of the Ruch Palikota
- April 5 : Marany Meyer , New Zealand-South African chess player
- April 5 : Samuele Preisig , Swiss football player
- April 6th : Takahiro Aō , Japanese boxer
- April 8th : Mikel Aguirrezabalaga , Spanish handball player
- April 8 : Taran Noah Smith , American actor
- April 8th : Claudia Wieland , German art cyclist
- April 9 : Donnie O'Sullivan , German-Irish presenter, television writer and music producer
- April 10 : Mandy Moore , American pop singer and actress
- April 10 : Gonzalo Rodríguez , Argentine soccer player
- April 11th : Silvia Avallone , Italian poet and writer
- April 11 : Hernán Barcos , Argentinian soccer player
- April 11th : Nikola Karabatić , French handball player
- April 13 : Karolina Lodyga , German actress
- April 13 : Jarmo Ahjupera , Estonian football player
- April 14th : Sjoerd Adrianus Theodorus Ars , Dutch football player
- April 14th : Charles Hamelin , Canadian short tracker
- April 14 : Fredrik Larsson , Swedish handball player († 2020 )
- April 14th : Pearl van der Wissel , Dutch handball player
- April 15 : Daniel Paille , Canadian ice hockey player
- April 16 : Héctor Fabian Aguilar Figueiras , Uruguayan cyclist
- April 16 : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes , American writer
- April 17th : Rosanna Davison , Irish model
- April 17th : CashMo , German rapper and producer
- April 17th : Raffaele Palladino , Italian football player
- April 18 : Franklin April , Namibian soccer player († 2015)
- April 20 : Nelson Évora , Portuguese Olympic Champion
- April 21 : Christian Lillinger , German drummer and composer
- April 21 : Dominik Jackson , British racing car driver
- April 21 : Josip Valčić , Croatian handball player
- April 23 : Alexandra Konstantinovna Kostenjuk , Russian chess player
- April 23 : Ross Ford , Scottish rugby player
- April 23 : Fumihisa Yumoto , Japanese ski jumper
- April 24th : Vendula Adlerová , Czech volleyball player
- April 25 : Kalle Keituri , Finnish ski jumper
- April 25 : Ulrike Mertesacker , German handball player
- April 25 : Katerina Rohonyan , Ukrainian-American chess player
- April 25 : Nik Tyler , American actor and short film producer
- April 26 : Bastian Riedel , German handball player
- April 27 : Patrick Stump , American musician
- April 30th : Seimone Augustus , American basketball player
- April 30th : Kasia Borek , German actress
- April 30th : Ivan Santaromita , Italian cyclist
- April 30 : Karin Weigelt , Swiss handball player
May
- May 1st : Mišo Brečko , Slovenian football player
- May 1st : Juan Cáceres , Uruguayan racing car driver
- May 1st : Alexander Farnerud , Swedish football player
- May 2nd : Fabian Barbiero , Australian soccer player
- May 2nd : Katrin Engel , Austrian handball player
- May 3 : Rahman Ali Nazari , Afghan soccer player
- May 4 : Olumuyiwa Aganun , Nigerian soccer player
- May 5th : Alexander Laas , German soccer player
- May 5th : Silla , German rapper
- May 5th : Sigi Fink , Austrian radio and television presenter
- May 8 : Mirko Nikolič-Kajič , Slovenian handball player
- May 8 : Julia Whelan , American actress
- May 11 : Andrés Iniesta , Spanish soccer player
- May 11th : Arttu Lappi , Finnish ski jumper
- May 12 : Sajjad Anoushiravani Hamlabad , Iranian weightlifter
- May 14 : Michael Rensing , German soccer player
- May 14 : Hassan Yebda , French-Algerian soccer player
- May 14 : Patrick Ochs , German soccer player
- May 14 : Mark Zuckerberg , American entrepreneur and Facebook co-founder
- May 16 : Julien Antomarchi , French cyclist
- May 16 : Rick Rypien , Canadian ice hockey player († 2011 )
- May 17 : Igor Vladimirovich Denisov , Russian football player
- May 17th : Andreas Kofler , Austrian ski jumper
- May 17th : Passenger , British singer and guitarist
- May 18 : Johan Andersson , Swedish ice hockey player
- May 18 : Dave Bennett , American jazz clarinetist
- May 18 : Simon Pagenaud , French racing car driver
- May 18th : Niki Terpstra , Dutch cyclist
- May 19 : Jesús Dátolo , Argentinian football player
- May 21 : Ivo Minář , Czech tennis player
- May 22nd : Alex Atapuma , Colombian cyclist
- May 22nd : Dustin Moskovitz , American computer scientist, co-founder of Facebook
- May 23 : Adam Wylie , American actor
- May 24th : Tom Aggar , British rower
- May 24 : Matteo Anania , Italian soccer player
- May 24 : Lucien Aubey , Congolese-French soccer player
- May 24th : Vid Kavtičnik , Slovenian handball player
- May 25 : Mikkeline Kierkgaard , figure skater
- May 26th : Patrick Milchraum , German soccer player
- May 26th : Mikel Nieve , Spanish cyclist
- May 26th : Morten Slundt , Danish handball player
- May 27 : Karsten Fischer , German soccer player
- May 27 : Filipe Oliveira , Portuguese soccer player
- May 29 : Carmelo Anthony , American basketball player
- May 29 : Sophie Moser , German violinist and actress
- May 31 : Emma Leonard , Australian actress
- May 31 : Daniela Samulski , German swimmer († 2018 )
June
- June 1 : Nathan Coe , Australian soccer player
- June 1 : Taylor Handley , American actor
- June 1st : Takuya Izawa , Japanese racing car driver
- June 3 : Faneva Imà Andriatsima , Malagasy football player
- June 3 : Bahar , German rapper
- June 4th : İbrahim Akın , Turkish soccer player
- June 4th : Raf Camora , Austrian musician and producer
- June 4th : Marvin Nartey , German handball player
- June 5 : Sergei Vyacheslavovich Agejew , Russian ice hockey goalkeeper
- June 5th : Bart Aernouts , Belgian duathlete and triathlete
- June 5th : Aferdita Kameraj , German soccer player
- June 6th : Glenda Adami , Italian grass skier
- June 6 : Juan Alberto Andreu Alvarado , Spanish football player
- June 7th : Adnan Ahmed , Anglo-Pakistani soccer player
- June 7th : Marcel Schäfer , German soccer player
- June 8th : Andrea Casiraghi , eldest son of Caroline of Monaco
- June 8th : Javier Mascherano , Argentine soccer player
- June 9 : Viktorija Afanassjewa , Kazakh biathlete
- June 9 : Christina Beier , German figure skater
- June 9 : Roland Mayr , German ice hockey player
- June 9 : Wesley Sneijder , Dutch football player
- June 10 : Amir Amini , Iranian basketball player
- June 10 : Shiva Nazar Ahari , Persian human rights activist, journalist and blogger
- June 10th : Anthoula Mylonaki , Greek water polo player
- June 11 : Vágner Love , Brazilian soccer player
- June 11 : Clemens Ostermann , German voice actor and musician († 2007 )
- June 15 : Stefanie Alexandra Prenn , Austrian cellist
- June 16 : Rick Nash , Canadian ice hockey player
- June 16 : Steven Whittaker , Scottish soccer player
- June 18 : Janne Happonen , Finnish ski jumper
- June 19 : Mateus Galiano da Costa , Angolan football player
- June 20 : Jorge Ortíz , Argentine soccer player
- June 23 : Oqgul Omonmurodova , Uzbek tennis player
- June 23 : Julien Humbert , French soccer player
- June 24th : Salvatore Amirante , Italian football player
- June 24th : Christian Nagiller , Austrian ski jumper
- June 24 : Pamela Nash , British politician
- June 25th : Fatih Atik , Franco-Turkish soccer player
- June 26 : Luis Hernández , Venezuelan baseball player
- June 26 : Aljoscha Schmidt , German handball player
- June 26th : Duncan Tappy , British racing car driver
- June 26 : Deron Williams , American basketball player
- June 27 : José Holebas , German football player
- June 27th : Gökhan Inler , Swiss football player
- June 28 : Micky Green , Australian pop singer and runway model
- June 28 : Isabell Klein , German handball player
- June 28 : Andrij Pyatov , Ukrainian football goalkeeper
- June 29 : Christopher Egan , Australian film and stage actor
- June 29th : Satrio Hermanto , Indonesian racing car driver
- June 30th : Miles Austin , American football player
- June 30th : Fantasia Barrino , American singer
- June 30th : Julie Engelbrecht , German actress
- June 30th : Dmitri Gennadjewitsch Ipatow , Russian ski jumper
- June 30th : Sebastian Munzert , German handball player
- June 30th : David Ulm , French soccer player
- June 30 : René Wilke , Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt (Oder) (Die Linke)
July
- July 1st : Jaysuma Saidy Ndure , Gambian athlete
- July 2nd : Maarten Martens , Belgian football player
- July 3rd : Michael Agazzi , Italian football goalkeeper
- July 3rd : Anthony Deane , Australian handball player and skeleton pilot
- July 3 : Fernando Vega , Spanish soccer player
- July 4th : Jin Akanishi , Japanese singer
- July 4th : Lee Je-hoon , South Korean actor
- July 7th : Alberto Aquilani , Italian football player
- July 7th : Stephanie Stumph , German actress and presenter
- July 8 : John Martin , Australian racing car driver
- July 11 : Melanie Papalia , Canadian actress
- July 11 : Ben Spies , American motorcycle racer
- July 11 : Morné Steyn , South African rugby player
- July 12 : Natalie Martinez , American actress
- July 12th : Yūki Takahashi , Japanese motorcycle racer
- July 15th : Linn Jørum Sulland , Norwegian handball player
- July 16 : Alessandro Bazzana , Italian cyclist
- July 16 : Hayanari Shimoda , Japanese racing car driver
- July 16 : Franco Cángele , Argentine soccer player
- July 17th : Samyr Lainé , Haitian athlete
- July 17th : Dominick Muermans , Dutch racing car driver
- July 17th : Katie Pflegehar , German actress
- July 18 : Ben Askren , American mixed martial arts fighter
- July 18 : Kathrin Hölzl , German ski racer
- July 18th : Ayumi Watase , Japanese ski jumper
- July 19 : Lasse Gjertsen , Norwegian animator and musician
- July 19 : Diana Mocanu , Romanian swimmer
- July 20 : Shūsaku Hosoyama , Japanese ski jumper
- July 20 : Simret Sultan , Eritrean athlete
- July 21 : Katy Saunders , British-Italian actress and model
- July 22nd : Kaitinano Mwemweata , Kiribati athlete
- July 23 : Arnór Atlason , Icelandic handball player
- July 23 : Brandon Roy , American basketball player
- July 24th : Juha-Matti Ruuskanen , Finnish ski jumper
- July 24th : René Selke , German handball player
- July 24th : Elmo , German rapper
- July 26th : Marco Angelini , Austrian singer and songwriter
- July 26th : Kristina Dörfer , German pop singer and actress
- July 27 : Mariano Barbosa , Argentinian soccer player
- July 29th : Stephanie Ullrich , German soccer player
- July 29th : J. Madison Wright Morris , American film actress († 2006 )
- July 30th : Robin van Aggele , Dutch swimmer
- July 30th : Marko Asmer , Estonian racing car driver
- July 30th : Antoine Guignard , Swiss ski jumper
- July 30th : Bernhard Holl , Austrian trombonist, composer and arranger
- July 30th : Elizabeth Swaney , American-Hungarian freestyle skier
- July 31 : Paul Ambrose , Australian triathlete
- July 31 : Manu Delago , Austrian hang player, percussionist and composer
August

Ted Ligety , 2008
- August 1st : Francesco Gavazzi , Italian cyclist
- August 1st : Jesús Méndez , Argentinian football player
- August 1st : Charles Ng , Hong Kong-Chinese racing car driver
- August 1st : Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren , Norwegian handball player
- August 1st : Bastian Schweinsteiger , German soccer player
- August 2nd : Giampaolo Pazzini , Italian football player
- August 3rd : Kasper Mengers Andersen , Danish racing car driver
- August 3 : Mile Jedinak , Australian soccer player
- August 3 : Muhabbet , German-Turkish singer
- August 3 : Kollegah , German rapper
- August 3 : Amanda Kimmel , American model
- August 5th : Laura Bucher , Swiss politician
- August 5th : Helene Fischer , German pop singer
- August 6 : Marco Airosa , Angolan football player
- August 6 : Selim Akbulut , Turkish football player
- August 6th : Nicolas Andréani , French vaulting expert
- August 6 : Vedad Ibišević , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- August 8 : Kirk Broadfoot , Scottish soccer player
- August 8th : Kang Chil-gu , South Korean ski jumper
- August 8 : Norbert Michelisz , Hungarian racing car driver
- August 10 : Cyrille Aimée , French jazz singer
- August 10 : Serhat Akyüz , Turkish football player
- August 11th : Carina Breunig , German soccer player
- August 11 : Lucas di Grassi , Brazilian racing car driver
- August 11 : Lyudmila Postnova , Russian handball player
- August 12 : Felix Lobedank , German handball player
- August 12 : Sherone Simpson , Jamaican athlete and Olympic champion
- August 13 : Siobhan Byrne , Irish saber fencer
- August 13 : Niko Kranjčar , Croatian football player
- August 13 : James Morrison , British singer
- August 14th : Giorgio Chiellini , Italian football player
- August 14 : Carl Valeri , Australian soccer player
- August 14 : Joan Toscano , Andorran football player
- August 15 : Quinton Aaron , American actor
- August 15th : Ankerstjerne , Danish rapper and songwriter
- August 16 : Matteo Anesi , Italian speed skater
- August 17th : Oxana Domnina , Russian figure skater
- August 18 : Robert Huth , German soccer player
- August 19 : Wade Cunningham , New Zealand racing car driver
- August 19 : Alessandro Matri , Italian football player
- August 19 : Christian Ulmer , German ski jumper
- August 20 : Michael Apelgren , Swedish handball player and coach
- August 20 : Valery Volodymyrovytsch Atrashchenkov , Ukrainian badminton player
- August 21 : Alizée , French singer
- August 21 : Jusuf Dajić , Bosnian football player
- August 23 : Glen Johnson , English soccer player
- August 24th : Lumidee , American hip hop and R&B musician
- August 24th : Marcel Landers , German football player
- August 25 : Kenan Sofuoğlu , Turkish motorcycle racer
- August 27th : Torben Ehlers , German handball player
- August 27 : Johannes Schöttler , German badminton player
- August 28 : Alexander Adrian , German soccer player
- August 28 : Anastasiya Kuzmina , Slovak biathlete and Olympic champion
- August 29 : Jim Ashilevi , Estonian writer and playwright
- August 29 : Christian Lell , German soccer player
- August 30 : Oleksandr Lasarowytsch , Ukrainian ski jumper
- August 31 : Ted Ligety , American ski racer
September
- September 1 : Joseph Mark Trohman , American guitarist
- September 4th : Jonny Adam , British racing car driver
- September 4th : Camila Bordonaba , Argentine actress and singer
- September 4th : Bine Zupan , Slovenian ski jumper
- September 5 : Wilson Obungu , Kenyan football goalkeeper
- September 6th : Luc Abalo , French handball player
- September 6th : Patrick Ashton , German ice hockey goalkeeper
- September 6th : Pernille Holst Holmsgaard , Danish handball player
- September 6 : David Marazzi , Swiss football player
- September 6th : Jonathan Müller , German actor
- September 7 : Kate Lang Johnson , American actress and former model
- September 7th : Kay One , German rapper
- September 8th : Marco Hauk , German handball player
- September 8th : André Kropp , German handball player
- September 8 : Vitaly Alexandrovich Petrov , Russian racing car driver
- September 8th : Jürgen Säumel , Austrian football player
- September 8 : Peter Whittingham , English football player († 2020 )
- September 9 : Mirosław Nahacz , Polish writer († 2007 )
- September 10 : Lukáš Hlava , Czech ski jumper
- September 10 : Alina Levshin , German-Ukrainian actress
- September 11th : Mayssa Pessoa , Brazilian handball player
- September 12 : Nash'at Akram , Iraqi soccer player
- September 12th : Martin Anthamatten , Swiss ski mountaineer
- September 12 : Issam Aledrissi , Lebanese football player
- September 12th : Adam Sharpe , British racing car driver
- September 13 : Sabrina Neuendorf , German handball player
- September 13 : JR Writer , American rapper
- September 14th : Maria Costa Macedo Areosa Ribeiro , Portuguese triathlete
- September 14 : Adam Lamberg , American actor
- September 14th : Jonathan Bottinelli , Argentinian soccer player
- September 14th : Sonja Bertram , German actress
- September 15 : Harry of Wales , British Prince (younger son of Prince Charles)
- September 16 : Katie Melua , Georgian singer
- September 16 : Snorre Valen , Norwegian politician and musician
- September 17th : Michel Fabrizio , Italian motorcycle racer
- September 18 : Davor Landeka , Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Croatian football player
- September 19 : Michael Müller , German handball player
- September 19 : Philipp Müller , German handball player
- September 19 : Kevin Zegers , Canadian actor
- September 20 : Brian Joubert , French figure skater
- September 20th : Tomasz Kaczmarek , Polish football coach
- September 20 : Alexandros Margaritis , Greek-German racing driver
- September 22 : Laura Vandervoort , Canadian actress
- September 23 : Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker , German soccer player
- September 24th : Andreas Aigner , Austrian rally driver
- September 24th : Michaela Neuling , German speed skater
- September 25 : Moritz Schäpsmeier , German handball player
- September 25 : Matías Silvestre , Argentine footballer
- September 25th : Hannes Volk , German handball player
- September 26 : Dominik Farnbacher , German racing car driver
- September 26th : Thore Schölermann , German actor and presenter
- September 27 : Wouter Weylandt , Belgian cyclist († 2011 )
- September 27 : Avril Lavigne , Canadian rock singer
- September 28 : Andreas Attenberger , German ice hockey player
- September 28 : Birgit Michels , German badminton player
- September 29th : Per Mertesacker , German soccer player
- September 30th : Juan Pablo Caffa , Argentinian soccer player
October
- October 1st : Gedeón Guardiola , Spanish handball player
- October 1st : Isaías Guardiola , Spanish handball player
- October 2 : Eldin Jakupović , Swiss-Bosnian football player
- October 3rd : Anthony Le Tallec , French soccer player
- October 3 : Ashlee Simpson , American singer and actress
- October 4th : Jelena Sergejewna Katina , Russian singer (tATu)
- October 4th : Álvaro Parente , Portuguese racing car driver
- October 5th : Clint Jones , American ski jumper
- October 6 : Valerie Kasanita Adams , New Zealand athlete
- October 6th : Valerie Vili , Olympic champion in the shot put
- October 7th : Tobias Artmeier , German ice hockey player
- October 7th : Giuseppe Sulfaro , Italian actor
- October 8 : Joséphine de La Baume , French actress
- October 8 : Sejad Salihović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- October 9 : Djamel Mesbah , French-Algerian football player
- October 10 : Babatunde Luqmon Adekunle , Nigerian soccer player
- October 10 : Damien Ambrosetti , French cross-country skier
- October 10 : Huỳnh Quang Thanh , Vietnamese soccer player
- October 10 : Chiaki Kuriyama , Japanese film actress
- October 10 : Marcio Vieira , Andorran football player
- October 10 : Pavel Valeryevich Durov , Russian entrepreneur, founder of vk.com
- October 11th : Oliver Tesch , German handball player
- October 13 : Abdullah ibn Mutaib Al Saud , Saudi Arabian prince and equestrian
- October 13 : Christoph Theuerkauf , German handball player
- October 13 : Aílton do Nascimento Correia , Brazilian soccer player
- October 13 : Kathrin Fricke , German video and network artist ( Coldmirror )
- October 14 : Claudia Rauschenbach , German figure skater
- October 14th : Kevin Thomson , Scottish soccer player
- October 15 : Iwo Serafimow Angelow , Bulgarian wrestler
- October 15 : Nana Akua Anokyewaa , Ghanaian soccer player
- October 16 : Armend Dallku , Albanian football player
- October 17th : Luise Amtsberg , German politician
- October 17th : Giovanni Marchese , Italian football player
- October 18th : Stuart Hall , British racing car driver
- October 18 : Robert Harting , German athlete
- October 18 : Lindsey Vonn , American ski racer
- October 19 : Elexis Gillette , American athlete
- October 20 : Cosmina Stratan , Romanian journalist and actress
- October 20 : Mitch Lucker , American singer († 2012 )
- October 21 : Kenny Cooper , American football player
- October 21 : Silvio Heinevetter , German handball player
- October 21 : Felix Lehrmann , German drummer
- October 21 : Arlette van Weersel , Dutch chess player
- October 23 : Izabel Goulart , Brazilian model
- October 23 : Michael Koehler , German handball player
- October 24th : Christian Reif , German athlete
- October 25 : Federico Higuaín , Argentine soccer player
- October 25 : Katy Perry , American singer
- October 26 : Ahn Hyun-suk , South Korean badminton player
- October 26 : Sasha Cohen , figure skater
- October 27 : Matteo Malucelli , Italian racing car driver
- October 27th : Kelly Osbourne , British musician
- October 27 : Danijel Subašić , Croatian football player
- October 28 : Caner Ağca , Turkish football player
- October 30 : Lokman Atakol , Turkish football goalkeeper
- October 31 : Scott Clifton , American actor
- October 31 : Stefanie Kloß , German singer (Silbermond)
- October 31 : Milena Nikolova , Bulgarian writer
November
- November 1st : Hosni Abd-Rabou , Egyptian football player
- November 1st : Igor Fonseca Amorelli , Brazilian triathlete
- November 1st : René Toft Hansen , Danish handball player
- November 1st : Tom Kimber-Smith , British racing car driver
- November 1st : Miloš Krasić , Serbian football player
- November 2nd : Tamara Hope , Canadian actress
- November 2nd : Julia Stegner , German model
- November 3 : Mirko Anastasov , German basketball player
- November 3 : Christian Bakkerud , Danish racing car driver († 2011 )
- November 3rd : Björn Bastian Buhrmester , German handball player
- November 3rd : Marc Speicher , German politician
- November 5 : Nick Folk , American football player
- November 5th : Eliud Kipchoge , Kenyan marathon runner
- November 5th : Nick Tandy , British racing car driver
- November 5th : Shiml , German rapper
- November 6th : Thomas Springer , German triathlete
- November 7th : Mihkel Aksalu , Estonian football player
- November 8 : Riley Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- November 9th : Andrei Olegowitsch Aschmarin , Russian badminton player
- November 9 : Christoph Burkhard , German football player
- November 9th : Delta Goodrem , Australian singer
- November 9 : French Montana , American rapper and singer
- November 10 : Dominik Höpfner , German baseball player
- November 10 : Ludovic Obraniak , Polish football player
- November 11 : Hilton Armstrong , American basketball player
- November 11th : Julian Theobald , German automobile racing driver
- November 12 : Francesco Magnanelli , Italian football player
- November 12 : Omarion , American R&B singer and actor
- November 13 : Lucas Barrios , Argentinian-Paraguayan soccer player
- November 14th : Edita Shain , Swiss singer
- November 14th : Marija Šerifović , Serbian singer
- November 15th : Katarina Bulatović , Montenegrin handball player
- November 15 : Jakob Kühnemann , German jazz musician
- November 16 : Gemma Louise Atkinson , British actress and glamor model
- November 16 : Patrick Jahns , Austrian actor and director
- November 17 : Park Han-byul , South Korean actress
- November 18 : François Bourque , Canadian ski racer
- November 18 : Anna Loerper , German handball player
- November 18 : François Bourque , former Canadian ski racer
- November 18 : Sabin Tambrea , Romanian-German actor
- November 19 : Aljaksandr Bujkewitsch , Belarusian saber fencer
- November 19 : Lindsay Ellingson , American model
- November 21 : Álvaro Bautista , Spanish motorcycle racer
- November 21 : Andreas Gabalier , Austrian singer
- November 21 : Tobias Mahncke , German handball player
- November 21 : Jena Malone , American film actress
- November 22 : Mahmood Abdulrahman , Bahraini football player
- November 22nd : Davide Chiumiento , Swiss football player
- November 22nd : Scarlett Johansson , American actress
- November 22nd : Carolin Leonhardt , German canoeist and Olympic champion
- November 22nd : Joan Olivé , Spanish motorcycle racer
- November 23 : Matthieu Lahaye , French racing car driver
- November 24th : Anna Henkes , German handball player
- November 24th : Maria Höfl-Riesch , German ski racer
- November 25th : Dennis Schigiol , German theater and television actor
- November 25 : Gaspard Ulliel , French actor
- November 27 : Balthasar Schneider , Austrian ski jumper
- November 27th : Lindsey Van , American ski jumper
- November 28 : Marc-André Fleury , Canadian ice hockey player
- November 29th : Florian Bitterlich , German handball player
- November 29th : Michael Devaney , Irish racing driver
- November 29 : Katlego Mphela , South African soccer player
December
- December 2nd : Iliesa Delana , Fijian athlete
- December 3 : Juan Pablo Francia , Argentine soccer player
- December 4th : Matthias Werner , German handball player
- December 5th : Manuela Schär , Swiss athlete
- December 5th : Camille Abily , French soccer player
- December 5th : Tracey Andersson , Swedish hammer thrower
- December 5th : Shūhei Aoyama , Japanese motorcycle racer
- December 5th : Abdelkader Ghezzal , Algerian football player
- December 6th : Farina Brock , German actress and voice actress
- December 6th : Daryl Impey , South African cyclist
- December 7th : Emmanuel Muscat , Maltese-Australian soccer player
- December 8th : Emma Green Tregaro , Swedish athlete
- December 8th : Roland Resch , Austrian motorcycle racer
- December 9th : Michael Adam , German politician
- December 10 : Tom Hern , New Zealand serial actor
- December 11th : Rachel Emily Bragg , British volleyball player
- December 12th : Daniel Agger , Danish football player
- December 12th : Sophie Edington , Australian swimmer
- December 12th : Mette Gravholt , Danish handball player
- December 13th : Santi Cazorla , Spanish football player
- December 14th : Chadli Amri , Algerian soccer player
- December 15th : Véronique Mang , French athlete and Olympian
- December 15 : Martin Škrtel , Slovak football player
- December 17th : Þórunn Helga Jónsdóttir , Icelandic football player
- December 17th : Shannon Woodward , American actress
- December 18 : Carl Jakob Haupt , German blogger († 2019 )
- December 18 : Giuliano Razzoli , Italian ski racer
- December 19 : Mariko Asabuki , Japanese writer
- December 20 : Şenol Akın , Turkish soccer player
- December 21 : Michael McDowell , American racing car driver
- December 21 : Myvanwy Ella Penny , young German-British violinist
- December 21 : Peter Chrappan , Slovak football player
- December 22nd : Basshunter , Swedish singer, music producer and DJ
- December 22nd : David Müller , German soccer player
- December 23 : Alison Sudol , American singer and pianist
- December 24th : Wallace Spearmon , American athlete
- December 25 : Manuel Antonio Morais Cange , Angolan football player
- December 25 : Hal Scardino , American actor
- December 28th : Martin Kaymer , German professional golfer
- December 28th : Alex Lloyd , British racing car driver
- December 28th : Sean St. Ledger , Anglo-Irish soccer player
- December 29th : Lisa Brüggemann , German gymnast
- December 30th : Silvère Ackermann , Swiss cyclist
- December 30th : Sergio Gadea , Spanish motorcycle racer
- December 30th : LeBron James , American basketball player
- December 31 : Demba Touré , Senegalese football player
Day unknown
- Mona Ardeleanu , German painter
- Luke Arnold , Australian actor
- Daniel Austrich , Russian violinist
- Lorna Bracewell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Christina Courtin , American violinist and singer-songwriter
- Feras Fayyad , Syrian filmmaker
- David Halina , German-Polish actor
- Lazar Krstić , Serbian Minister of Finance
- Joseph Kuipers , American cellist and music teacher
- Frederik Obermaier , German journalist
- Adrian Spielbauer , German actor
- Sæunn Þorsteinsdóttir , American cellist of Icelandic origin
- Omar Tomasoni , Italian trumpeter
- Karl Urban , German author and freelance science journalist
- Max Wagner , German actor
- Lucy Wirth , Swiss actress
- Julia Wissert , German director and theater director
Died
January
- January 1 : Paula Grogger , Austrian writer (* 1892 )
- January 1 : Alexis Korner , English blues musician (* 1928 )
- January 1 : Augustin Souchy , German anarchist and anti-militarist (* 1892 )
- January 2 : Sebastià Juan Arbó , Catalan novelist and dramaturge (* 1900 )
- January 2 : Klaus Mehnert , journalist and university professor (* 1906 )
- January 2 : Roberto Porta , Uruguayan-Italian football player and coach (* 1913 )
- January 3 : Taras Borodajkewycz , member of the NSDAP, professor (* 1902 )
- January 5 : Hanns-Gero von Lindeiner , German forester, hunter, diplomat and politician (* 1912 )
- January 6th : Hermann Engelhard , German athlete (* 1903 )
- January 7th : Alfred Kastler , French physicist (* 1902 )
- January 8 : Alwin Aßmann , Austrian politician (* 1899 )
- January 13 : Fulvio Bernardini , Italian football player and coach (* 1905 )
- January 14 : Gerhard Arnold , German politician (* 1927 )
- January 14 : Garabed Amadouni , Turkish clergyman (* 1900 )
- January 14 : Justin Brooks Atkinson , American theater critic (* 1894 )
- January 14 : Paul Ben-Haim , Israeli composer (* 1897 )
- January 14th : Ray Kroc , founder of McDonald's (* 1902 )
- January 14 : Rudolf Lehmann , German historian (* 1891 )
- January 15 : Kurt Mansfeld , German motorcycle racer (* 1910 )
- January 16 : Kenneth A. Arnold , American pilot and businessman (* 1915 )
- January 17th : Robert Pikler , Australian violinist, violist, conductor and music teacher of Hungarian origin (* 1909 )
- January 18 : Vassilis Tsitsanis , Greek singer, composer and bouzouki virtuoso (* 1915 )
- January 18 : Heinrich Gleißner , lawyer and Austrian politician (ÖVP) (* 1893 )
- January 18 : Hans Constantin Paulssen , German industrialist (* 1892 )
- January 19 : Everhard Bungartz , German entrepreneur and politician (* 1900 )

Wolfgang Staudte , 1955
- January 19 : Wolfgang Staudte , German film director (* 1906 )

Johnny Weissmüller , ca.1925
- January 20 : Johnny Weissmüller , American swimmer and film actor (* 1904 )
- January 21 : Jackie Wilson , rhythm and blues and soul singer (* 1934 )
- January 22nd : Ronald Kinloch Anderson , Scottish pianist, music teacher and music producer (* 1911 )
- January 22nd : Anton Lamprecht , German painter (* 1901 )
- January 22nd : Josef Walcher , Austrian ski racer (* 1954 )
- January 23 : Samuel Gardner , American composer and violinist (* 1891 )
- January 28 : Al Dexter , American country musician and songwriter (* 1905 )
- January 29 : Max Güde , German lawyer and politician (* 1902 )
- January 29th : Gunther Ipsen , Austrian sociologist and philosopher (* 1899 )
- January 29 : Edzard Schaper , German writer and translator (* 1908 )
- January 30 : Walter A. Berendsohn , German literary scholar (* 1884 )
- January 30th : Luke Kelly , Irish singer and banjo player (* 1940 )
- January 30th : Fritz Nüßlein , German hunting and forestry scientist (* 1899 )
February
- February 3 : Hubert Ney , German politician (* 1892 )
- February 5 : Manès Sperber , Austro-French writer, social psychologist and philosopher (* 1905 )
- February 6 : Hildegard Bleyler , German politician (* 1899 )
- February 8 : Philippe Ariès , French medievalist and historian (* 1914 )
- February 9 : Yuri Andropov , Soviet politician (* 1914 )
- February 12 : Julio Cortázar , Argentine writer (* 1914 )
- February 12 : Ferry Dusika , Austrian cyclist (* 1908 )
- February 12 : Johannes Messner , Austrian theologian, legal scholar and politician (* 1891 )
- February 14 : Christoph Aschmoneit , German shipbuilding engineer (* 1901 )
- February 15 : Ethel Merman , American actress and singer (* 1908 )
- February 16 : Charles Oulmont , French writer (* 1883 )
- February 18 : Jakob Miltz , German football player (* 1928 )
- February 19 : Waldemar Bloch , Austrian composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1906 )
- February 19 : Anton Mader , Austrian general (* 1913 )
- February 20 : Fikrət Əmirov , Azerbaijani composer (* 1922 )
- February 20 : Giuseppe Colombo , Italian engineer and mathematician (* 1920 )
- February 21 : Mikhail A. Scholokhov , Soviet writer (* 1905 )
- February 22nd : Wilhelm Müller , German field handball player (* 1909 )
- February 23 : Walter Jokisch , German actor (* 1914 )
- February 23 : Uwe Johnson , German writer (* 1934 )
- February 24 : Lech Bądkowski , Polish writer, journalist and politician (* 1920 )
- February 24 : Helmut Schelsky , sociologist (* 1912 )
- February 27 : Michał Kondracki , Polish composer (* 1902 )
- February 29 : Heinz Autenrieth , German lawyer (* 1906 )
March
- March 1 : Hans Fleischer , German politician (* 1906 )
- March 1 : Peter Walker , British racing car driver (* 1912 )
- March 3 : John Bertram Adams , British physicist (* 1920 )
- March 3 : Roy Hall , American pianist, country and rockabilly musician (* 1922 )
- March 3 : Heinrich Kirchner , German sculptor (* 1902 )
- March 5 : William Powell , American actor (* 1892 )
- March 6 : Pierre Eugène Charles Cochereau , French composer, organist and music teacher (* 1924 )
- March 6th : Martin Niemöller , Christian resistance fighter, theologian (* 1892 )
- March 7th : Robert Bloch , French racing car driver (* 1888 )
- March 8 : Helena Cortesina , Spanish dancer, actress and director (* 1903 )
- March 8 : Klaus Schmid-Burgk , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1913 )
- March 9 : Imogen Holst , English music writer, composer and conductor (* 1907 )
- March 10 : Wilhelm Seedorf , German agricultural economist (* 1881 )
- March 12th : Heinz Oskar Wuttig , German writer and screenwriter (* 1907 )
- March 14th : Hovhannes Shiraz , Armenian poet (* 1915 )
- March 16 : Evencio Castellanos , Venezuelan composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1915 )
- March 19 : Réal Gagnier , Canadian oboist and music teacher (* 1905 )
- March 19 : Ivo Veit , German radio director, actor and cabaret artist (* 1910 )
- March 19 : Garry Winogrand , American photographer (* 1928 )
- March 19 : Nakanoshima Kin'ichi , Japanese composer (* 1904 )
- March 23 : Knud Børge Andersen , Danish politician (* 1914 )
- March 23 : Jean Prouvé , French architect and designer (* 1901 )

Karl Rahner , 1974 in conversation (left)
- March 24th : William Voltz , German writer (* 1938 )
- March 24th : Sam Jaffe , American actor (* 1891 )
- March 25 : Jack Groob , Canadian violinist and conductor (* 1920 )
- March 26th : Ahmed Sékou Touré , Guinean dictator (* 1922 )
- March 28 : Comins Mansfield , English chess problem composer (* 1896 )
- March 30th : Karl Rahner , Catholic theologian (* 1904 )
April

Count Basie († April 26)
- April 1 : Marvin Gaye , American soul and R&B singer (* 1939 )
- April 2 : Ernst van Aaken , German sports doctor and trainer (* 1910 )
- April 4 : Scott E. Forbush , American geophysicist (* 1904 )
- April 4 : Oleg Konstantinowitsch Antonow , Soviet aircraft designer (* 1906 )
- April 4 : Otway Herbert , British officer (* 1901 )
- April 5 : Robert Adams , British sculptor (* 1917 )
- April 5 : Arthur Harris , Commander in Chief of Bomber Command in World War II (* 1892 )
- April 5 : Herbert Fleischmann , German film and television actor (* 1925 )
- April 8 : Pjotr Leonidowitsch Kapiza , Russian physicist (* 1894 )
- April 9 : Paul-Pierre Philippe , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1905 )
- April 10 : Jakub Berman , Polish Stalinist politician (* 1901 )
- April 10 : Hans Drexler , German classical philologist (* 1895 )
- April 10 : Willy Semmelrogge , German actor (* 1923 )
- April 11 : Fritz Rotter , Austrian author and composer (* 1900 )
- April 11th : Hildegard Schaeder , German church historian and "Righteous Among the Nations" (* 1902 )
- April 13 : Ralph Kirkpatrick , American harpsichordist (* 1911)
- April 17 : Mark W. Clark , American general (* 1896 )
- April 18 : Leopold Lindtberg , Austrian director (* 1902 )
- April 19 : Gustav Scheck , German flautist and director of the Freiburg University of Music from 1946 to 1964 (* 1901 )
- April 20 : Otto Arosemena Gómez , President of Ecuador (* 1925 )
- April 21 : Marcel Janco , Romanian artist and writer (* 1895 )
- April 21 : Manuel Mujica Láinez , Argentine writer and journalist (* 1910 )
- April 22nd : Ansel Adams , American photographer (* 1902 )
- April 23 : Juan Tizol , musician (* 1900 )
- April 25 : Hayashi Tatsuo , Japanese philosopher, cultural and literary critic (* 1896 )
- April 26 : Count Basie , American jazz pianist, organist and band leader (* 1904 )
- April 28 : Loro Boriçi , Albanian football player and coach (* 1922 )
- April 29 : Otto Guglia , Austrian historian, geographer and naturalist (* 1904 )
May
- May 1 : Gordon Jenkins , American musician (* 1910 )
- May 3 : Joseph Calvet , French violinist (* 1897 )
- May 4 : Willie Ormond , Scottish football player and coach (born 1927 )
- May 5th : Just Göbel , Dutch football player (* 1891 )
- May 6 : William Allen Egan , American politician (* 1914 )
- May 7 : Gerhard Dabel , German writer and head of the Kinderlandverschickung office at the Reich Youth Leadership (* 1916 )
- May 8 : Gino Bianco , Italian racing driver (* 1916 )
- May 10 : Joaquim Agostinho , Portuguese cyclist (* 1943 )
- May 11 : Stanislav Šebek , Czech composer and music teacher (* 1925 )
- May 11 : Toni Turek , German football player (* 1919 )
- May 12 : Robert Cooley Angell , American sociologist (* 1899 )
- May 13 : Stanisław Marcin Ulam , Polish mathematician (* 1909 )
- May 13 : Julie Rösch , German politician (* 1902 )
- May 14 : Dick Weisgerber , American football player (born 1913 )
- May 16 : Andy Kaufman , American entertainer and actor (* 1949 )
- May 16 : Irwin Shaw , American writer. (* 1913 )
- May 17th : Albert Becker , Austrian chess master (* 1896 )
- May 18 : Nasuh Akar , Turkish wrestler (* 1925 )
- May 19 : John Betjeman , British publicist, journalist and poet (* 1906 )
- May 20 : Bill Holland , American automobile racing driver (* 1907 )
- May 22nd : Erich Gutenberg , German business economist (* 1897 )
Pawoł Nedo († May 24th)
- May 24th : Pawoł Nedo , Sorbian educator and ethnologist, Domowina chairman (* 1908 )
- May 26 : Waldemar Grzimek , German sculptor (* 1918 )
- May 27 : Michael Raucheisen , German pianist (* 1889 )
- May 28 : Marco Tulio Maristany , Venezuelan singer (* 1916 )
- May 28 : Eric Morecambe , English comedian (born 1926 )
- May 31 : Manuel Enrique Pérez Díaz , Venezuelan guitarist, composer and music teacher (* 1911 )
June
- June 1 : Archip Michailowitsch Lyulka , Soviet jet engine designer (* 1908 )
- June 2 : François de Menthon , Minister of Justice in De Gaulle's first government (* 1900 )
- June 3 : Aldo Campatelli , Italian football player and coach (* 1919 )
- June 4th : Hans Kies , German sculptor and politician (* 1910 )
- June 5 : Ahmad Fuad Muhi ad-Din , Prime Minister of Egypt (* 1926 )
- June 6 : Karl Leo Johannes Ågren , Finnish-Swedish writer (* 1928 )
- June 6 : Ernst Schellenberg , German politician (* 1907 )
- June 7th : Rudolf Stahl , German field handball player (* 1912 )
- June 8 : Gordon Jacob , classical composer, conductor, arranger and music teacher (* 1895 )
- June 8 : Julius Speer , German forest scientist and science organizer (* 1905 )
- June 11 : Siegfried Balke , German chemist, manager, politician and Federal Minister (* 1902 )
- June 11 : Enrico Berlinguer , Italian politician and anti-fascist (* 1922 )
- June 13 : Kenneth Armstrong , English football player and coach (* 1924 )
- June 15 : Edgar Jené , Franco-German painter and graphic artist, Surrealist (* 1904 )
- June 15 : Takeyama Michio , Japanese writer (* 1903 )
- June 18 : Heinrich Wehking , German politician (* 1899 )
- June 19 : Lee Krasner , American painter (* 1908 )
- June 19 : Wladimir Rudolfowitsch Vogel , Russian composer of classical music (* 1896 )
- June 20 : Hans Studer , Swiss composer, choir director and organist (* 1911 )
- June 22nd : Joseph Losey , American director (born 1909 )
- June 22nd : Marianne Strauss , wife of Franz Josef Strauss (* 1930 )
- June 22nd : Gerhard Frommel , German composer and music teacher (* 1906 )
- June 24th : William Keighley , American film director (* 1889 )
- June 25 : Michel Foucault , French philosopher (* 1926 )
- June 26 : Albert Dailey , American jazz pianist (* 1939 )
- June 28 : Gavin Astor , British nobleman and publisher (* 1918 )
- June 28 : Jigael Jadin , Israeli archaeologist, second chief of staff of the Israeli army (* 1917 )
- June 28 : Norbert Kricke , sculptor (* 1922 )
- June 29 : Herbert AE Böhme , German actor (* 1897 )
- June 30 : Lillian Hellman , American writer (* 1905 )
- Jorge Pelikan , Czech-Argentine chess master (* 1906 ) June:
July
- July 1 : Henri Fabre , French aviation pioneer (* 1882 )
- July 1 : Moshé Feldenkrais , physicist, developed the Feldenkrais method (* 1904 )
- July 2 : Bedřich Fučík , Czech literary critic, editor and translator (* 1900 )
- July 3 : Ernesto Mascheroni , Uruguayan-Italian football player (* 1907 )
- July 3 : Raoul Salan , French general (* 1899 )
- July 4th : Joseph H. Bottum , American politician (* 1903 )
- July 4th : Wolfgang Görg , German photographer (* 1911 )
- July 5 : Don Elliott , American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player, vibraphonist, singer, mellophone player, composer, arranger and producer (* 1926 )
- July 6 : Fernand Tavano , French racing car driver (* 1933 )
- July 6 : Henricus Jacobus Charles Tendeloo , Dutch chemist (* 1896 )
- July 7th : Flora Robson , British actress (born 1902 )
- July 8 : Franz Fühmann , German writer (* 1922 )
- July 8 : Hugo Geiger , German politician (* 1901 )
- July 8 : José Humberto Quintero Parra , Archbishop of Caracas and Cardinal (* 1902 )
- July 8 : Reginald Stewart , Canadian conductor, pianist and music teacher (* 1900 )
- July 9 : Randall Thompson , American composer and music teacher (* 1899 )
- July 12 : Hannes Flesner , East Frisian artist (* 1928 )
- July 12 : Franz Gurk , German politician (* 1898 )
- July 13 : Werner Abegg , Swiss textile industrialist, collector of textiles and founder of the Abegg Foundation (* 1903)
- July 15 : Karl Wolff , Chief of the Personal Staff Reichsführer SS (* 1900 )
- July 16 : Camille Bernard , Canadian singer, teacher and actress (* 1898 )
- July 20 : Gail Kubik , American composer, violinist and music teacher (* 1914 )
- July 21 : Felix Augenfeld , Austrian-American architect, interior designer, set designer and designer (* 1893 )
- July 24th : Richard Angst , Swiss cameraman (* 1905 )
- July 24 : Bob Heinz , German comic artist (* 1923 )
- July 25 : Big Mama Thornton , American blues singer (* 1926 )
- July 26 : George Gallup , American pioneer of market and opinion research (* 1901 )
- July 26th : Ed Gein , serial killer (born 1906 )
- July 27th : James Mason , English film actor (born 1909 )
- July 29 : Woodrow Parfrey , American actor (born 1922 )
- July 30 : Kon Hidemi , Japanese writer (* 1903 )
August
- August 3 : Vladimir Tendryakov , Russian writer (* 1923 )

Richard Burton with Sophia Loren, 1974
- August 5 : Richard Burton , British actor (born 1925 )
- August 5 : Rudolf Hagelstange , German writer (* 1912 )
- August 5 : Tuts Washington , American blues pianist (* 1907 )
- August 7th : Ann Christy , Belgian singer (* 1945 )
- August 8 : Werner Otto von Hentig , diplomat (* 1886 )
- August 8 : Vladimír Pachman , Czech grandmaster for chess composition (* 1918 )
- August 11th : Marcel Balsa , French racing car driver (* 1909 )
- August 11 : Percy Mayfield , American blues musician (* 1920 )
- August 11 : Paul Felix Schmidt , Baltic German chess player (* 1916 )
- August 13 : Tigran Petrosyan , Armenian-Soviet chess grandmaster (* 1929 )
- August 14 : John Boynton Priestley , English writer (* 1894 )
- August 16 : György Kósa , Hungarian composer (* 1897 )
- August 17th : Hammie Nixon , American blues musician (* 1908 )
- August 19 : Louis Lansana Béavogui , former President of Guinea (* 1923 )
- August 20 : Heinrich Austermann , German politician (* 1909 )
- August 21 : Ewald Sprave , German politician (* 1902 )
- August 22 : Charles Whittenberg , American composer and music teacher (* 1927 )
- August 23 : Heribert Fischer-Geising , German painter and draftsman (* 1896 )
- August 25 : Rudolf Harms , German writer (* 1901 )

Truman Capote († August 25)
- August 25 : Truman Capote , American writer (* 1924 )
- August 26 : Lawrence Joseph Shehan , Archbishop of Baltimore and Cardinal (* 1898 )
- August 26th : Hans Tügel , German actor, radio play speaker, director and author (* 1894 )
- August 28 : Corrado Annicelli , Italian actor (* 1905 )
- August 29 : Pierre Gemayel , Lebanese politician (* 1905 )
- August 30 : John O. Aalberg , American film and sound engineer (* 1897 )
- August 30 : Ariyoshi Sawako , Japanese writer (* 1931 )
September
- September 3 : Dora Labbette , English singer (* 1898 )
- September 3 : Jan Zábrana , Czech writer, poet and translator (* 1931 )
- September 6 : Ernest Tubb , American country singer (born 1914 )
- September 7th : Liam O'Flaherty , Irish writer (* 1896 )
- September 7th : Jossyf Slipyj , Archbishop of Lemberg and Cardinal (* 1892 )
- September 9 : Yılmaz Güney , Kurdish actor and director (* 1937 )
- September 10 : Georges de Beauregard , French film producer (* 1920 )
- September 11th : Else Reventlow , German teacher, women's rights activist, editor (* 1897 )
- September 12 : Maria Dolors Anglada i Sarriera , Spanish writer, illustrator and cartoonist (* 1892 )
- September 14 : Janet Gaynor , American actress (* 1906 )
- September 16 : Cyril Paul , British racing car driver (* 1903 )
- September 17 : Richard Basehart , American actor (born 1914 )
- September 19 : Josef Maria Camenzind , Swiss Catholic clergyman and writer (* 1904 )
- September 19 : Ève Gagnier , Canadian soprano and actress (* 1930 )
- September 20 : Heinrich Abegg , Swiss politician (* 1904 )
- September 22nd : Erwin Assmann , German historian (* 1908 )
- September 23 : Harald Meschendörfer , Transylvanian-Saxon painter and graphic artist (* 1909 )
- September 24 : Domenico De 'Paoli , Italian musicologist, music critic and composer (* 1894 )
- September 25 : Erich Arendt , German poet and translator (* 1903 )
- September 25 : Walter Pidgeon , Canadian actor (* 1897 )
- September 28 : Hans Joachim Breustedt , German painter and graphic artist (* 1901 )
- September 30th : Helen Dore Boylston , American writer (* 1895 )
October

Jerzy Popiełuszko († October 19)

Paul Dirac , 1933
- October 2 : Hâmit Zübeyir Koşay , Turkish archaeologist and ethnologist (* 1897 )
- October 2 : Harry Strom , Canadian politician (* 1914 )
- October 2 : Paul Weyres , German motorcycle racer (* 1900 )
- October 4th : Gerda Weneskoski , Finnish pianist and music teacher (* 1892 )
- October 5 : Hugo Kükelhaus , German writer, educator, philosopher and artist (* 1900 )
- October 6 : Herbert Friedrich Andréas , German historian and bibliographer (* 1914 )
- October 6 : Ghulam Mohammad Farhad , Afghan politician (* 1901 )
- October 6 : George Gaylord Simpson , American biologist, zoologist, paleontologist (* 1902 )
- October 7th : Hermann Schroeder , German composer and Catholic church musician (* 1904 )
- October 9 : Heinz von Cleve , German actor (* 1897 )
- October 10 : Rudolf Adolph , German writer (* 1900 )
- October 12 : Rudolf Beiswanger , German actor, radio broadcaster and theater director (* 1903 )
- October 12 : Jesús María Sanromá , Puerto Rican pianist and music teacher (* 1903 )
- October 13 : Alice Neel , American painter (* 1900 )
- October 14 : Richard Attlesey , American hurdler (born 1929 )
- October 14 : Martin Ryle , British radio astronomer (* 1918 )
- October 15 : Paolo Marella , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1895 )
- October 17 : Hermann Auf der Heide , German hockey player (* 1911 )
- October 17 : Georges Thill , French opera tenor (* 1897 )
- October 18 : Jon-Erik Hexum , American actor (* 1957 )
- October 19 : Henri Michaux , French writer and painter (* 1899 )
- October 19 : Eugene "Buddy" Moss , American blues guitarist, harmonica player and singer (* 1914 )
- October 19 : Jerzy Popiełuszko , Polish clergyman (* 1947 )
- October 20 : Budd Johnson , American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and arranger (* 1910 )

Carl Ferdinand Cori , 1947
- October 20 : Carl Ferdinand Cori , doctor, Nobel Prize winner (* 1896 )
- October 20 : Paul Dirac , British physicist and co-founder of the field of quantum physics (* 1902 )
- October 21 : François Truffaut , French director, film critic, actor and producer (* 1932 )
- October 21 : Dalibor Vačkář , Czech composer (* 1906 )
- October 22 : Harold L. Walters , American composer (* 1918 )
- October 23 : Josef Augstein , German lawyer (* 1909 )
- October 23 : Millard F. Caldwell , American politician (* 1897 )
- October 23 : Oskar Werner , Austrian actor and declamator (* 1922 )
- October 25 : Pascale Ogier , French actress (* 1958 )
- October 28 : Knut Erik Alexander Nordahl , Swedish football player (* 1920 )
- October 29 : Benji Asada , Japanese painter and woodcut artist (* 1900 )
- October 29 : Wolfgang Keilig , German officer (* 1915 )

Indira Gandhi , 1984
- October 31 : Indira Gandhi , Indian politician and Prime Minister (* 1917 )
- Andrew Liddell Aitken , English football player (* 1909 ) October:
November
- November 1st : Marcel Moyse , French flautist (* 1889 )
- November 2 : Toni Hiebeler , photographer, mountaineer, publicist (* 1930 )
- November 3 : Aldo Donati , Italian football player (* 1910 )
- November 5 : Enrique Schmidt , Nicaraguan politician (* 1949 )
- November 7th : Hans Herter , German classical philologist (* 1899 )
- November 8 : Albert Heinrich Kniest , German problem composer (* 1908 )
- November 8 : Collin Walcott , American percussionist and sitar player (* 1945 )
- November 9th : Hans Petersson , German mathematician (* 1902 )
- November 11th : Hans Reif , German politician (* 1899 )
- November 13 : Bärbel Wachholz , German singer (* 1938 )
- November 14 : Alexander Hegarth , German actor (* 1923 )
- November 15 : Hermann Dietzfelbinger , German pastor, theologian and Bavarian regional bishop (* 1908 )
- November 15 : Anton Kehrer , Austrian politician (* 1893 )
- November 16 : Leonard Rose , American cellist (* 1918 )
- November 17 : Hans Kilb , German lawyer (* 1910 )
- November 17 : Jan Novák , Czech composer (* 1921 )
- November 18 : Osvaldo Nicolás Fresedo , Argentine musician, arranger, band leader, composer and lyricist (* 1897 )
- November 18 : Alexander Schläffer , German crib maker (* 1899 )
- November 19 : George Aiken , American politician (* 1892 )
- November 20 : Trygve Bratteli , Norwegian politician (* 1910 )
- November 20 : Mario Celoria , Italian football player (* 1911 )
- November 20 : Kristian Djurhuus , Faroese politician (* 1895 )
- November 20 : Alexander Moyzes , Slovak composer (* 1906 )
- November 23 : Tadashi Abe , Japanese Aikido teacher (* 1926 )
- November 23 : Paul Dahlke , German actor (* 1904 )
- November 24th : Wilhelm Antrup , Brigadier General of the German Air Force (* 1910 )
- November 24 : Godfrey Ridout , Canadian composer and music teacher (* 1918 )
- November 25th : Clara Asscher-Pinkhof , Dutch educator and writer (* 1896 )
- November 25 : Jimmy Jackson , American racing car driver (* 1910 )
- November 25th : Willibald Mücke , German politician (* 1904 )
- November 26th : Albert Vietor , German economic manager, ex. New home (* 1922 )
- November 28 : Adam Antes , German sculptor and graphic artist (* 1891 )
- November 28 : Hubertus Prince zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg , German politician and journalist (* 1906 )
- November 29 : Gotthard Günther , German philosopher (* 1900 )
- November 29 : Franz Jachym , auxiliary bishop in Vienna (* 1910 )
December
- December 1 : Wayland Becker , American football player (born 1910 )
- December 3 : Pawel Stepanowitsch Kutachow , Soviet pilot (* 1914 )
- December 7th : Wilhelm Schmied , German painter and graphic artist (* 1910 )
- December 8 : Lutha J. Adler , American film and stage actor (* 1903 )
- December 8 : Bruno Six , German politician (* 1906 )
- December 10 : Luke Johnsos , American football player and coach (* 1905 )
- December 11th : Anton Betz , German journalist (* 1893 )
- December 11th : Pentti Hämäläinen , Finnish boxer (* 1929 )
- December 12 : Otto Schmidt , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1902 )
- December 13 : Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục , Titular Archbishop of Bulla Regia and Archbishop of Hue (* 1897 )
- December 14 : Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish poet and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 1977 (* 1898 )
- December 18 : Feike Pieter Asma , Dutch organist, conductor and composer (* 1912 )
- December 18 : Rudolf Platte , German actor (* 1904 )
- December 18 : Gebhard Seelos , German politician (* 1901 )
- December 19 : Maria Pirwitz , German sculptor and painter (* 1926 )
- December 23 : Joan Lindsay , Australian writer (* 1896 )
- December 23 : Johann Bernhard Michael Schneider , German chess problem composer (* 1905 )
- December 24th : Josef Arents , German cyclist (* 1912 )
- December 24th : Ian Hendry , English actor (born 1931 )
- December 24th : Peter Lawford , British actor (born 1923 )
- December 26th : Franz Arnold , Swiss politician (* 1897 )
- December 28 : Erwin Mehl , Austrian sports scientist (* 1890 )
- December 28th : Sam Peckinpah , American film director (* 1925 )
- December 29 : Erich Schmitt , German cartoonist (* 1924 )
- December 31 : Gonzaque Lécureul , French racing driver (* 1887 )
- December 31 : Warren Thew , American-Swiss pianist, composer, poet and illustrator (* 1927 )
Date unknown
- Enrique Clemente Armand-Ugón , Uruguayan lawyer (* 1893 )
- Dave Ashman , American weightlifter (born 1934 )
- Chris Dafeff , Canadian violinist, choir director and music teacher (* 1894 )
- Alfonso de Elías , Mexican composer (* 1902 )
- Mario Escobar , Chilean tenor saxophonist (* 1916 )
- Knyaz Hacıbəyov , Azerbaijani conductor (* 1912 )
- Rafael Ignacio , Dominican composer (* 1897 )
- Franz West (politician) , Austrian politician (KPÖ) (* 1909 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Carlo Rubbia and Simon van der Meer
- Chemistry : Robert Bruce Merrifield
- Medicine : Niels Kaj Jerne , Georges JF Köhler and César Milstein
- Literature : Jaroslav Seifert
- Nobel Peace Prize : Desmond Tutu
- Economics : Richard Stone
music
- List of number one hits in Germany (1984)
- The band Deep Purple is re-founded.
- The band Bon Jovi is founded.
- The band Blind Guardian is initially founded under the name Lucifer's Heritage .
- The band Helloween is founded.
- The band Iced Earth is initially founded under the name Purgatory .
- The band Modern Talking is founded.
- The band New Kids on the Block is founded.
- The band Soundgarden is founded.
- The band Stratovarius is founded.
- The band Herreys won the 29th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest on May 5th in Luxembourg with the song Diggi-loo, diggi-ley for Sweden
- The band Iron Maiden released their fifth studio album Powerslave .
Web links
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