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Calendar overview 1985
1985 | |
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CPSU . | On July 13th, the Live Aid benefit concert took place in London and Philadelphia . |
The Achille Lauro is kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists . |
1985 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2738 |
Armenian calendar | 1433-1434 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1977-1988 |
Badi calendar | 141-142 |
Bengali calendar | 1391-1392 |
Berber calendar | 2935 |
Buddhist calendar | 2529 |
Burmese calendar | 1347 |
Byzantine calendar | 7493-7494 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4681-4682 or 4621-4622 |
- 60 year cycle | |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CXCIII CXCIV 193-194 |
Hebrew calendar | 5745-5746 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2041-2042 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1907-1908 |
Iranian calendar | 1363-1364 |
Islamic calendar | 1405-1406 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 60 |
- Kōki | 2645 |
Coptic calendar | 1701-1702 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4318 |
- Juche era | 74 |
Minguo calendar | 74 |
Modern Olympics | XXIII |
Seleucid calendar | 2296-2297 |
Thai solar calendar | 2528 |
Annual dedications
- 1985 was the "Year of the United Nations ".
- 1985 was the "International Year of Youth".
- The Red-backed Shrike (lat. Lanius collurio) was Bird of the Year ( NABU / Germany).
Events
Politics and world events
- January 1 : Switzerland introduces the motorway toll for cars .
- January 1st : The GDR increases its maritime territory from three to twelve nautical miles .
- January 1st : Kurt Furgler becomes President of Switzerland for the third time .
- January 1 : The Danish autonomous region of Greenland is the only area to leave the EC .
- January 1st : The first European passports are issued in most EC member states .
- January 11th : A propulsion stage of a Pershing II rocket explodes on the Waldheide near Heilbronn .
- January 15 : Tancredo Neves is elected president of Brazil by the electoral body with 480 out of 686 votes .
- January 15 : The 298-meter-high transmission mast of the West German Broadcasting Corporation on the Bielstein in the Teutoburg Forest overturns after a pardune is torn by heavy icing .
- January 25 : The German Bundestag unanimously decides that all decisions of the People's Court from 1934 to 1945 are null and void.
- February 5 : After 16 years, the border crossing between Spain and Gibraltar is reopened.
- February 12 : Concordat between the Holy See and Saarland .
- February 23 : Martin Bangemann is elected as the successor to Hans-Dietrich Genscher as the new federal chairman of the FDP at the party congress in Saarbrücken .
- March 8 : Over 80 people die and around 200 people are injured in a car bomb attack in Beirut aimed at spiritual leader Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah . The Hezbollah leader escapes the attack .
- March 10 : Elections to the Berlin House of Representatives ( West Berlin ), the coalition of CDU and FDP under the Governing Mayor Eberhard Diepgen (CDU) is confirmed. The SPD achieves its worst election result since the end of the war - On the same evening, the SPD in Saarland with its top candidate, Saarbrücken Lord Mayor Oskar Lafontaine , achieved an absolute majority and governed Saarland for the first time.
- March 11th : Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CPSU .
- March 15 : restoration of democracy in Brazil; José Sarney becomes president.
- April 2 : The leading RAF terrorists Christian Klar and Brigitte Mohnhaupt are sentenced .
- April 11 : Albania . Death of Enver Hoxha , Ramiz Alia takes over the leadership of the Communist Party, the beginning of a cautious opening of the country.
- April 16 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Turkey .
- May 2 : G7 summit in Bonn
- May 5 : US President Ronald Reagan visits the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition to the visit to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , the controversial war grave site Bitburg , where members of the SS are buried , also counted at the request of Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl .
- May 8 : Richard von Weizsäcker gives the widely acclaimed speech in the German Bundestag on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe and the Nazi tyranny .
- May 12 : In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, the SPD under Prime Minister Johannes Rau achieved the best election result in its history in this state with 52.1% of the votes.
- May 14 : In the Brokdorf decision , the German Federal Constitutional Court deals for the first time with freedom of assembly and sets higher hurdles for the authorities to prohibit demonstrations .
- May 20 : Radio Martí starts broadcasting .
- June 6th : Wolfgang Gerhard's grave is opened in Embu , Brazil . The exhumed remains are those of later sought as a concentration camp doctor Josef Mengele identified .
- June 10 : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of China .
- June 11th : In divided Berlin , the largest exchange of agents in the post-war era takes place. 25 western spies change the demarcation line on Glienicke Bridge against four eastern agents .
- June 13 : The so-called Auschwitz lie is made a criminal offense in the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition, the production and distribution of objects with Nazi plates is prohibited, as is the insult and denigration of deceased Nazi victims who can be prosecuted ex officio.
- June 19 : Three people are killed and over 40 injured in an explosives attack at Frankfurt am Main Airport .
- June 25th : Saarland is the first federal state to formally repeal the radical decree.
- June 30 : The last 39 hostages on TWA Flight 847 are released. A command from an organization close to Hezbollah hijacked the plane on June 14.
- July 10 : The Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior is sunk in the port of Auckland by agents of the French secret service .
- July 13th : Live Aid , the biggest benefit concert to date, takes place in parallel in London and Philadelphia .
- July 20 : Race riots prompt the South African apartheid government to declare a state of emergency in 36 districts in the country .
- August 6 : Víctor Paz Estenssoro becomes President of Bolivia for the fourth time .
- August 15 : South African President Pieter Willem Botha gives a speech in Durban known as the Rubicon Speech, as a result of which both the economic and social situation in South Africa and the country's international relations deteriorate significantly.
- August 23 : GDR television reports that the government director of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Cologne , Hansjoachim Tiedge , defected to the GDR .
- August 27 : General Ibrahim Babangida takes power in Nigeria .
- September 23 : Maldives . President Gayoom is re-elected for five years.
- September 1 : The wreck of the Titanic is discovered by researchers Jean-Louis Michel and Robert Ballard.
- September 16 : The SPD nominates the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Johannes Rau as candidate for Chancellor for the 1987 federal election .
- September 27 : The New Town Hall in Linz , a mega- structure designed as a "walkable hill", is opened.
- October 3 : In the Granada Convention , the Council of Europe agrees on the protection of the architectural heritage.
- October 6 : The parliamentary elections in Portugal are won by the Social Democrats under Aníbal Cavaco Silva .
- October 7th : The cruise ship Achille Lauro is kidnapped by Palestinians under the command of Abu Abbas .
- October 16 : The SPD and the Greens agree to form the first red-green coalition at state level in Hesse - Holger Börner remains Prime Minister, Joschka Fischer becomes Minister of the Environment .
- October 26 : 120 Aborigines received the Australian Uluṟu-Kata-Tjuṯa National Park with the rock Uluṟu (formerly Ayers Rock ) transferred back. In return, they agree with the government in Canberra to open the park to tourism for 99 years.
- November 6th : Aníbal Cavaco Silva becomes the new Portuguese Prime Minister .
- November 22 : After their first meeting at the Geneva summit conference (1985) , which ended without any concrete results, the Soviet head of state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan declared in unison that “the world is now safer”.
- December 16 : The mobster John Gotti has the mobster Paul Castellano and his newly appointed deputy Thomas Bilotti shot in front of the Sparks Steak House in Manhattan .
- December 27th : In a terrorist attack at Vienna-Schwechat airport , three passengers waiting in front of the counter of the Israeli airline El Al are killed and more than 30 injured, some seriously. On the same day, 16 people were killed and 80 injured in a terrorist attack at Rome Fiumicino airport .
- December 31 : Great Britain and Singapore leave UNESCO .
economy
- January 1st : The program company for cable and satellite broadcasting (PKS) is now called Sat.1 .
- January 9 : The Kitakyūshū monorail starts operating in the city of the same name on the Japanese island of Kyūshū .
- July 9 : The Austrian glycol wine scandal takes its course. The German Federal Ministry of Health warns against the consumption of quality wines , which can be adulterated with the antifreeze diethylene glycol .
- November 26th : The Intertrading scandal breaks out in Austria . A subsidiary of the state VÖEST - Group has made highly speculative deals in the oil market, the losses of at least 5.7 billion shillings lead.
- December 31 : Friedrich Karl Flick sells Feldmühle AG for five billion Deutschmarks to Deutsche Bank , which intends to go public after the company has been restructured .
science and technology
- March 12 : From Air Force Base Vandenberg is Earth observation satellite Geosat the US Navy started.
- June 17 : The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off into near-earth orbit on the STS-51-G mission . As a payload specialist, Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is the first Arab spaceman on board. The Saudi Arabian prince has been NASA's youngest astronaut since then .
- June 29th : The Roque de los Muchachos observatory on the Canary Island of La Palma is inaugurated. The joint project of several European countries is dedicated to astrophysical research.
- July 2 : The European space probe Giotto , named after Giotto di Bondone , is launched from the spaceport in Kourou to research Halley's Comet .
- July 17 : The EUREKA project, a European research initiative for application-oriented research and development in international project collaborations between 17 European countries, is founded in Paris .
- 23 July : Along with Viktor Gorbatko as commander also starts the first astronaut from a country of the Third World to the space station Salyut 6 in the space . The Vietnamese Phạm Tuân is a flight engineer for the Soviet Soyuz 37 mission.
- July 23rd : Commodore introduces the Amiga (later renamed Amiga 1000 ) in Lincoln Center in New York , USA . In terms of graphics performance, it surpasses everything that has been there before. The artist Andy Warhol and Debbie Harry ( Blondie ) will be there.
- October 3 : The Space Shuttle Atlantis completes its maiden flight . The associated mission STS-51-J has the task of deploying two military DSCS III communications satellites.
- November 21st The finally released version Windows 1.01 will be presented at a press conference.
- December 7th : Celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the railways in Germany. However, there were already events and special trips with historic locomotives throughout the year for the railway anniversary.
- Thomas Gangale designed a calendar for Mars , the Daric calendar .
Culture and society
- February 3 : The opera The Goggolori . A Bavarian fairy tale with music by Wilfried Hiller with the libretto by Michael Ende will be premiered at the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich.
- February 16 : World premiere of the opera Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke by Siegfried Matthus at the reopened State Opera in Dresden (Semperoper).
- February 19 : The first episode of the Eastenders television series is broadcast for the first time on the BBC .
- April 22nd : Opening of the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne.
- May 5th : The unabridged version of the opera König Hirsch by Hans Werner Henze goes on stage for the first time in the Great House of the Württemberg State Theater in Stuttgart . Before that, the work had only been performed with great sacrifices. Therefore, this date represents the actual day of the premiere.
- June 13 : The painting Portrait of the Spanish King Philip IV by Peter Paul Rubens is completely destroyed by an arson attack in the Kunsthaus Zürich .
- June 15 : In Leningrad, a man in the Hermitage carried out an acid and knife attack on the painting Danae by the painter Rembrandt van Rijn .
- August 29th : On a rampage through several suburbs of Karlsruhe , a 32-year-old shoots five people he does not know.
- October 21 : Günter Wallraff's book Ganz unten appears for the first time.
- October 27 : Nine paintings by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet are stolen from the Parisian Musée Marmottan Monet during opening hours by gunmen .
- November 18 : The first comic strip about Calvin and Hobbes is published in the United States . He made his illustrator Bill Watterson known to a wide audience.
- Dec. 16 : Four assassins kill in Manhattan the mobster Paul Castellano , the head of the criminal Gambino family , and his companion Thomas Bilotti . John Gotti , who moves up to the top, is seen as the mastermind behind the murders .
- Opening of the art gallery of the Hypo-Kulturstiftung in Munich.
- Opening of the Saatchi Gallery in London.
- Martin Kippenberger and Co - a document , documentary about the new wild ones
- The city of Augsburg celebrates its 2000th birthday.
- Foundation of the Royal Rangers in Austria.
- the left-wing radical magazine autonomie ceases to appear.
religion
- November 24th : Pope John Paul II opens the second extraordinary general assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome . It should deal with the creation of a catechism of the Roman Catholic Church .
Sports
For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- February 15 : An unusually long competition to determine a chess world champion between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov is illegally broken off by FIDE President Florencio Campomanes after 48 games. Karpov was leading at this point in the 1984 World Chess Championship with 5: 3 points, while Kasparov caught up. The two title contenders meet again on the board at the newly scheduled 1985 World Chess Championship .
- March 31 : The World Wrestling Federation organizes the 1st WrestleMania in the USA .
- April 14th : Bernhard Langer wins the US Masters in Augusta (Georgia) as the first German golfer .
- April 21 : The Brazilian Ayrton Senna wins the Portuguese Grand Prix , the first victory in a Formula 1 race in his career . Although often in pole position , Senna only wins one second race in the 1985 Formula 1 season .
- April 30 : American entrepreneur Dick Bass reaches the summit of Mount Everest under the leadership of David Breashears . He is the first to have climbed the Seven Summits , the highest peaks on the seven continents. At 55 he also set an age record on Mount Everest.
- June 15 : Pinklon Thomas won his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Mike Weaver in Las Vegas , Nevada , USA by a technical knockout.
- July 7 : Boris Becker wins the first German and youngest (17 years old) tennis player of all time at the Grand Slam tournament of Wimbledon .
- July 13 : In Paris, the Ukrainian pole vaulter Serhiy Bubka is the first in his sport to cross the six-meter mark in an indoor competition.
- November 9th : At the 1985 World Chess Championship , Garry Kasparov wins the world title against Anatoli Karpov and becomes the youngest world champion in chess history.
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
- January 13 : Ethiopia . A passenger train falls from a bridge near the town of Awash . At least 392 people die and about 370 are injured.
- 20th - 22. January : North America . At least 126 people die in a cold spell .
- February 19 : Spain . When approaching Bilbao , Iberia flight 610 ends in a disaster . After colliding with an antenna system on Mount Oiz, the aircraft loses its left wing . The following crash kills all 148 inmates.
- March 3 : Earthquake in Chile with a magnitude of 7.7 (177 dead).
- May 29th : Belgium . In the run-up to the final of the European Cup in the Heysel Stadium , Brussels , fan riots and a mass panic lead to a Heysel disaster . 39 people are killed, 454 injured.
- June 19 : In departure hall B of Frankfurt am Main airport , an explosive device explodes in a waste container. Three people die, 42 others are z. T. seriously injured. In fact, several domestic and foreign organizations have made contradicting calls to confess their name.
- June 23 : Atlantic Ocean about 190 km southwest of the Irish coast, a Boeing 747 of the Indian airline Air India , Flight 182 , crashes into the Atlantic after a bomb explosion. All 329 people on board are killed.
- July 19 : Italy . When the Tesero dam breaks in Val di Stava ( Stavatal ) in Trentino-South Tyrol , the dump dam of a mine breaks and causes a tidal wave that kills between 200 and 361.
- August 2nd : Fort Worth / Dallas , Texas , USA . A Lockheed L-1011 TriStar of Delta Air Lines , Flight 191 crashes near the airport during a storm. 134 people die, 30 are saved.
- August 12 : Japan . Near the town of Otsuki a crash Boeing 747 of Japan Airlines , Flight 123 , off and crashed. Of the 524 people on board, only four survive. The Boeing company apologizes publicly for the incident. The accident could be traced back to an improperly carried out repair. This is the worst accident to date with only one aircraft involved.
- August 22nd : Manchester , United Kingdom . The left engine of a Boeing 737-236 Advanced the British Airtours , flight 28M , began at the start of the fire. The pilots were able to cancel the take-off process, but 53 passengers and two crew members died on the tarmac during the evacuation.
- September 19 : Mexico , Mexico City . A devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale with an epicenter in the state of Michoacán , 350 kilometers away , costs around 9,500 lives, according to official figures, and around 35,000 lives according to the rescue teams, and up to 250,000 people become homeless.
- November 13 : Colombia . Eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano near the city of Armero . The city of Armero is devastated by a mudslide ( lahar ). Between 25,000 and 31,000 victims are to be mourned.
- December 12th : Newfoundland , Canada . A chartered Douglas DC-8 , Arrow Air flight 1285 , carrying US soldiers from the Sinai Peacekeeping Force on its flight home for the Christmas holidays, crashes immediately after taking off from Gander . All 256 people on board are killed.
- ongoing famine in Ethiopia and other countries in the Sahel zone
Born
January
- January 1 : Denis Maratowitsch Abdullin , Russian ice hockey player
- January 1st : Jesper Arvidsson , Swedish football player
- January 1st : Jannis Bäcker , German bobsledder
- January 1st : Oscar Gatto , Italian cyclist
- January 1st : Richard Jenčík , Slovak ice hockey player
- January 1 : Katrina Law , American actress
- January 2nd : Nicole Dinkel , Swiss handball player
- January 2nd : Henrik Møllgaard Jensen , Danish handball player
- January 3 : Burak Akyıldız , Turkish soccer player
- January 3 : Nicole Beharie , American actress and singer
- January 4th : Kari Aalvik Grimsbø , Norwegian handball player
- January 4th : Lenora Crichlow , British actress
- January 4th : Leo Mansell , British racing car driver
- January 4th : Katharina Nesytowa , German actress
- January 5th : Harrison Tasher , Belizean football player
- January 6th : Valerio Agnoli , Italian cyclist
- January 6th : Abel Enrique Aguilar Tapias , Colombian soccer player
- January 7th : Lewis Hamilton , British racing car driver
- January 7th : Bănel Nicoliță , Romanian football player
- January 8th : Jorge Aguilar , Chilean tennis player
- January 8th : Elisabeth Pähtz , German chess player
- January 9th : Tristan Angenendt , German classical guitarist and musician
- January 10th : Anette Sagen , Norwegian ski jumper
- January 11th : Thanh Xuan Dam , Vietnamese martial arts artist
- January 11th : Kazuki Nakajima , Japanese racing car driver
- January 11 : José Semedo , Portuguese football player
- January 11th : Mark Yeates , Irish football player
- January 12 : Cynthia Addai-Robinson , American actress
- January 13 : Árni Þór Sigtryggsson , Icelandic handball player
- January 14th : Martin Putze , German bobsleigh athlete
- January 14th : Nicole Schuster , German author
- January 15 : René Adler , German footballer
- January 15th : Thilini Jayasinghe , Sri Lankan badminton player
- January 15th : Harri Olli , Finnish ski jumper
- January 16 : Craig Jones , British motorcycle racer († 2008 )
- January 16 : Pablo Javier Zabaleta , Argentine soccer player
- January 17th : Anna Alminowa , Russian middle-distance runner
- January 17 : Pablo Cesar Barrientos , Argentine soccer player
- January 17th : Sebastian Langeveld , Dutch cyclist
- January 18 : Dale Begg-Smith , Canadian-Australian athlete
- January 18 : Riccardo Montolivo , Italian football player
- January 19 : Pascal Behrenbruch , German decathlete
- January 19 : Daniyel Cimen , German soccer player
- January 19 : Benny Feilhaber , American soccer player
- January 19 : Esteban Guerrieri , Argentine racing car driver
- January 19 : Ulrich Maurer , German ice hockey player
- January 19 : Horia Tecău , Romanian tennis player
- January 20th : Juan Andreu , Spanish handball player
- January 20th : Johan Eriksson , Swedish ski jumper
- January 21 : Aura Dione , Danish singer-songwriter
- January 22nd : Thomas Bröker , German soccer player
- January 22nd : Manuel Mairhofer , Austrian actor
- January 22nd : Mohamed Sissoko , Malian-French soccer player
- January 23 : Doutzen Kroes , Dutch model
- January 24th : Mathias Lenz , German handball goalkeeper
- January 25 : Martin Arlofelt , Danish football player
- January 25 : Paul Thomik , German football player
- January 27 : Rúben Filipe Marques Amorim , Portuguese footballer
- January 28 : J. Cole , American rapper
- January 28 : Basharmal Sultani , Afghan boxer
- January 29th : Anna Aaron , Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist
- January 29th : Marc Gasol , Spanish basketball player
- January 29th : Jessica Marais , Australian actress
- January 29th : Athina Onassis , granddaughter and heir to the fortune of Aristotle Onassis
- January 30th : Richie Porte , Australian cyclist
- January 30th : Conkarah , Jamaican reggae singer
- January 31 : Christophe Berra , Scottish football player
February
- February 2 : Massoud Azizi , Afghan athlete
- February 4th : David Lazzaroni , French ski jumper
- February 4th : Trent McClenahan , Australian soccer player
- February 5th : Cristiano Ronaldo , Portuguese soccer player
- February 6 : Owusu Ampomah , Ghanaian soccer player
- February 6 : Crystal Reed , American actress
- February 7 : Tina Majorino , American film actress
- February 9 : David Gallagher , American film actor
- February 9 : Leandro Damián Marcelo Grimi , Argentine soccer player
- February 11 : Sarah Butler , American actress
- February 11 : Liridon Leçi , Albanian football player
- February 11th : Marcus Schiech , German handball player
- February 11th : Šárka Strachová , Czech ski racer
- February 12 : Shamsuddin Amiri , Afghan football goalkeeper
- February 12 : Saskia Burmeister , Australian actress
- February 12th : Hauptai Puha , New Zealand dart player
- February 13 : Mayra Andrade , Cape Verdean singer
- February 13 : David Ribolleda Bernat , Andorran football player
- February 13 : Bridget Neval , Canadian actress
- February 15th : Gøril Snorroeggen , Norwegian handball player
- February 15 : Shadrack Kiptoo Biwott , American athlete
- February 16 : Ron Vlaar , Dutch football player
- February 16 : Fumio Kuniyoshi , German rapper
- February 17th : Julia Gronemann , German handball player
- February 17th : Anders Jacobsen , Norwegian ski jumper
- February 19 : Haylie Duff , American actress
- February 20 : Petter Andersson , Swedish football player
- February 20 : Charlie Kimball , American racing car driver
- February 20 : Hafizullah Qadami , Afghan soccer player
- February 20 : Julija Olegovna Volkova , Russian singer ( tATu )
- February 21 : Frederic Heidorn , German actor
- February 22nd : Hameur Bouazza , Algerian football player
- February 24 : Brian Baxter Arroyo López , Mexican ice hockey player
- February 25 : Joakim Noah , American-French basketball player
- February 26 : George David Atherton , British professional mountain biker
- February 26 : Sanya Richards , American athlete
- February 27 : Asami Abe , Japanese singer and actress
- February 28 : Gorica Aćimović , Bosnian-Austrian handball player
- February 28 : Diego , Brazilian soccer player
- February 28 : Rok Urbanc , Slovenian ski jumper
March
- March 1st : Dario Giuseppetti , German motorcycle racer
- March 1st : Andreas Ottl , German soccer player
- March 2 : Reggie Bush , American football player
- March 2nd : Patrick Makau Musyoki , Kenyan long distance runner
- March 3 : Aljona Igorewna Arshinova , Russian politician
- March 3rd : Marc Hohenberg , German handball player
- March 3rd : Mariel Zagunis , American sword fencer
- March 4th : Rafael Aghayev , Azerbaijani karateka
- March 4th : Anne Jochin , German handball player
- March 5 : Mesfin Adimasu , Ethiopian marathon runner
- March 6 : Florian Grossert , German soccer player
- March 6 : Yael Stone , Australian actress
- March 6 : Pretty Yende , South African opera singer
- March 7th : Norman Langen , German singer
- March 8 : Haris Medunjanin , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- March 8th : Ewa Sonnet , Polish model and pop singer
- March 9 : Zdenko Baotić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- March 9 : Christian Drecke , German handball player
- March 9 : Pastor Maldonado , Venezuelan racing car driver
- March 9 : Natalja Pogonina , Russian chess player
- March 9 : Michael Wojtanowicz , Austrian football player
- March 11th : Hakuhō Shō , Mongolian sumo wrestler
- March 11 : Nikolai Topor-Stanley , Australian soccer player
- March 11 : Einar Uvsløkk , Norwegian Nordic combined
- March 12th : Macarena Aguilar , Spanish handball player
- March 12th : Christianne Mwasesa , Congolese handball player
- March 12th : Stromae , Belgian-Rwandan rapper and music producer
- March 13 : Anna Lena Graff , German actress
- March 13 : Nico Kuhn , German non-fiction author
- March 14 : Hasan Ali Acar , Turkish soccer player
- March 14 : Eva Angelina , American porn actress and model
- March 14th : Hywel Lloyd , British racing car driver
- March 15 : Eva Maria Livia Amurri , American actress
- March 15th : Antti-Matias Antero Autti , Finnish snowboarder
- March 15th : Tom Chilton , British racing driver
- March 15 : Kellan Lutz , American actor
- March 16 : Colin O'Brady , American extreme athlete
- March 17th : Vasiliki Arvaniti , Greek beach volleyball player
- March 17th : Dario Cataldo , Italian cyclist
- March 18 : Ana Beatriz , Brazilian racing car driver
- March 18 : Krisztián Berki , Hungarian gymnast
- March 18 : Juliane Brummund , German actress
- March 18 : Jamie Gregg , Canadian speed skater
- March 18 : Vince Lia , Australian soccer player
- March 18 : Gordon Schildenfeld , Croatian soccer player
- March 19 : Beatriz Fernández , Spanish handball player
- March 19 : Manuchar Tschadaia , Georgian wrestler
- March 19 : Ernesto Viso , Venezuelan racing car driver
- March 20 : Morgan Amalfitano , French football player
- March 20th : Gergely Antal , Hungarian chess master
- March 20 : Eugene Boateng , German actor, choreographer, dancer and model
- March 20 : Nicolas Lombaerts , Belgian football player
- March 20 : Martin Vingaard , Danish football player
- March 21 : Vic Anselmo , Latvian singer and songwriter
- March 21 : Chris Hogg , English soccer player
- March 22nd : Mohammad al-ʿAnbar , Saudi Arabian soccer player
- March 22nd : Lizzie Brocheré , French actress
- March 22nd : Jakob Fuglsang , Danish cyclist
- March 22 : Mike Jenkins , American football player
- March 22nd : Nadseja Skardsina , Belarusian biathlete
- March 24th : Yoshihiko Osanai , Japanese ski jumper
- March 25th : Isak Grimholm , Swedish ski jumper
- March 25 : Gustavo Andrés Oberman , Argentine soccer player
- March 26 : Jonathan Groff , American actor
- March 26 : Keira Knightley , British actress
- March 26th : Sina Wilke , German actress
- March 27th : Chadschimurat Magomedowitsch Akkajew , Russian weightlifter
- March 27 : Anton Ameltschenko , Belarusian football player
- March 27 : Dario Baldauf , Austrian football player
- March 27 : Paul Meijer , Dutch racing car driver
- March 27 : David Navara , Czech chess player
- March 28 : Julia Jurack , German handball player
- March 28 : Chris Long , American football player
- March 28 : Benjamin Trautvetter , German handball player
- March 28th : Stan Wawrinka , Swiss tennis player
- March 29 : Fernando Amorebieta Mardaras , Venezuelan-Spanish soccer player
- March 29 : Christiane Fürst , German volleyball player
- March 29 : Stuart Musialik , Australian soccer player
- March 30th : Andrea Luci , Italian soccer player
- March 30th : Marco Frapporti , Italian racing cyclist
- March 30th : Giacomo Ricci , Italian racing car driver
April
- April 2 : Matthew Antoine , American skeleton rider
- April 2nd : James Andrew Welbon Haskell , English rugby player
- April 2nd : Stéphane Lambiel , Swiss figure skater
- April 2nd : Nicat Məmmədov , Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
- April 3 : Osmay Acosta Duarte , Cuban boxer
- April 3rd : Leona Lewis , British singer and songwriter
- April 3 : Karolin Thomas , German soccer player
- April 3rd : Jari-Matti Latvala , Finnish rally driver
- April 4th : Nahla Ramadan , Egyptian weightlifter
- April 5th : Silvia Artola , Nicaraguan weightlifter
- April 5 : Sergei Chatschatrjan , Armenian violinist
- April 8 : Roberto Eduardo Carboni , Argentine soccer player
- April 8th : Gregor Schmeißer , German handball player
- April 8 : Max Woelky , German actor
- April 9 : Tim Bendzko , German singer-songwriter
- April 9 : Antonio Nocerino , Italian football player
- April 9th : David Zauner , Austrian ski jumper, former Nordic combined athlete
- April 10 : Juan Carlos Arce Justiniano , Bolivian football player
- April 12th : Şəhriyar Məmmədyarov , Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
- April 14th : Olena Kostewytsch , Ukrainian sports shooter
- April 14th : Lisa Loch , German model
- April 14th : Scott Seiver , American poker player
- April 15 : Bongkoj Khongmalai , Thai actress
- April 16 : Benjamin Rojas , Argentine actor and singer
- April 16 : Matthias Weidenhöfer , German actor
- April 17th : Steffen Bühler , German handball player
- April 18 : Melanie Kogler , Austrian actress
- April 18 : Karl Reindler , Australian racing car driver
- April 18 : Diane Willems , German-Belgian actress
- April 18 : Patrizia Wunderl , Austrian actress and cabaret artist
- April 19 : Valon Behrami , Swiss football player of Kosovar Albanian origin
- April 19 : Gustavo Alejandro Colman , Argentine soccer player
- April 19 : Jan Zimmermann , German soccer player
- April 22nd : Aytaç Ak , Turkish soccer player
- April 22nd : Philipp Danne , German actor
- April 23 : Lars Friedrich , German handball player
- April 23 : Tony Martin , German racing cyclist
- April 25th : Giedo van der Garde , Dutch racing driver
- April 25 : Wahagn Minasjan , Armenian football player
- April 26th : Jure Bogataj , Slovenian ski jumper
- April 26 : Matthias Forster , German ice hockey player
- April 27th : Andrej Iharawitsch Antonau , Russian-Belarusian ice hockey player
- April 27th : Anita Amma Ankyewah Asante , English soccer player
- April 28 : Matthias Henn , German soccer player
- April 29 : Hasher Al Maktoum , racing car driver from the United Arab Emirates
- April 29 : Vincent Braillard , Swiss motorcycle racer
- April 30th : Elena Fanchini , Italian ski racer
- April 30th : Gabriela Lindl , German actress and singer
- April 30th : Michael Mørkøv , Danish cyclist
- April 30 : Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow , German actor († 2020 )
May
- May 1st : Philipp Fleischmann , Austrian actor and short film director
- May 1st : Pierre Campana , French rally driver
- May 1st : Nicolás Artajo , German actor
- May 1st : Marco Soumikh , German actor and singer
- May 2 : Federico Almerares , Argentine-Italian soccer player
- May 2nd : Antonios Antoniadis , Belgian politician
- May 2 : Sarah Hughes , American figure skater
- May 2nd : Lily Allen , English pop singer
- May 2nd : Trine Troelsen , Danish handball player
- May 3 : Ezequiel Lavezzi , Argentine soccer player
- May 4th : Minik Dahl Høegh , Greenlandic handball player
- May 5th : Emanuele Giaccherini , Italian football player
- May 6 : Chris Paul , American basketball player
- May 7th : Tonje Nøstvold , Norwegian handball player
- May 8 : Chris Gebert , German actor
- May 9 : Sven-Sören Christophersen , German handball player
- May 9 : Katrin Gray , German model and professional mermaid
- May 9 : Audrina Patridge , American reality TV actress and actress
- May 10 : Mauro Finetto , Italian cyclist
- May 10 : Cristian Nicolás Sánchez Prette , Argentine soccer player
- May 10 : Odette Yustman , American actress
- May 12 : Claudia Schückler , German handball player
- May 12 : Dániel Tőzsér , Hungarian football player
- May 13 : Javier Ángel Balboa Osa , Spanish-Equatorial Guinean soccer player
- May 13th : Tobias Oriwol , Canadian swimmer
- May 14 : Carlos Eduardo Assmann , German-Brazilian soccer player
- May 15 : Andreas Buchner , German soccer player
- May 15th : Christian Hefenbrock , German track athlete
- May 15 : Cristiane Rozeira de Souza Silva , Brazilian soccer player
- May 16 : Anja Mittag , German soccer player
- May 17th : Greg Van Avermaet , Belgian cyclist
- May 18 : Mirka Pigulla , German actress
- May 18 : Oliver Šin , Hungarian painter
- May 19 : Tom Budgen , Dutch wrestler
- May 19 : Christopher Reinhard , German soccer player
- May 21 : Mutya Buena , British singer
- May 21 : Mark Cavendish , British cyclist
- May 21 : Sean McIntosh , Canadian racing car driver
- May 22nd : Gloria Asumnu , Nigerian athlete
- May 22nd : Tranquillo Barnetta , Swiss football player
- May 23 : Nicky Adler , German soccer player
- May 24th : Cemre Atmaca , Turkish football player
- May 24th : Angie Geschke , German handball player
- May 28 : Colbie Caillat , American singer-songwriter
- May 28 : Sebastian Urzendowsky , German actor
- May 29 : Simone Bentivoglio , Italian football player
- May 29th : Maike Daniels , German handball player
- May 29 : Hernanes , Brazilian soccer player
- May 30th : Madina Salamowa , Russian author
June
- June 1st : Tirunesh Dibaba , Ethiopian athlete
- June 1st : Maura Visser , Dutch handball player
- June 2nd : Christian Aigner , Austrian handball player
- June 2nd : Bella Gesser , Israeli chess player
- June 2nd : Magomed Ibragimov , Uzbek wrestler
- June 2nd : José Joaquín Rojas , Spanish cyclist
- June 3 : Łukasz Piszczek , Polish football player
- June 3 : Nela Schmitz , German actress
- June 4th : Juhamatti Aaltonen , Finnish ice hockey player
- June 4th : Anna-Lena Grönefeld , German tennis player
- June 4th : Lukas Podolski , German footballer
- June 4th : Dominique Gisin , Swiss ski racer
- June 5th : Jeremy Abbott , American figure skater
- June 5th : Kenny De Ketele , Belgian cyclist
- June 5th : Bashir Ahmad Rahmati , Afghan wrestler
- June 5th : Daniel Stumpf , German handball player
- June 5th : Gabriel Riera Lancha , Andorran football player
- June 6 : Hendrik Großöhmichen , German football player
- June 6th : Drew McIntyre , Scottish wrestler
- June 7th : Xavi Andorrà Julià , Andorran football player
- June 7th : Raphael Schaschko , German soccer player
- June 7th : Charlie Simpson , British musician
- June 8 : Alexandre Despatie , Canadian water diver
- June 8th : Pierre Spies , South African rugby player
- June 9 : Guillermo Alejandro Suárez , Argentine football player
- June 9 : Sebastian Telfair , American basketball player
- June 10 : Kristina Apgar , American actress
- June 10 : Andy Schleck , Luxembourg cyclist
- June 11 : Chris Trousdale , American singer and actor († 2020 )
- June 11 : Tim Hoogland , German soccer player
- June 11 : Dmitri Koldun , Belarusian singer
- June 11th : Petter Tande , Norwegian Nordic combined
- June 12 : Pablo Abián Vicen , Spanish badminton player
- June 12th : Jesse Anthony , American cyclocross rider
- June 12 : Claire Oelkers , German musician and actress
- June 12 : Dave Franco , American actor
- June 12th : Blake Ross , software engineer
- June 13 : Filipe Albuquerque , Portuguese racing car driver
- June 13 : Ida Alstad , Norwegian handball player
- June 15 : Anton Friesen , German politician and political scientist
- June 15 : Gabriel Iloabuchi Agu , Nigerian soccer and beach soccer player
- June 16 : Franziska Beck , German handball player
- June 17th : Yasmin Asadie , German actress
- June 17th : Manuel Fettner , Austrian ski jumper
- June 18 : Matías Enrique Abelairas , Argentine soccer player
- June 18 : Mohamed Mahmoud , Austrian Islamist and convicted terrorist
- June 18 : Eva Roob , German soccer player and erotic actress
- June 19 : José Ernesto Sosa , Argentinian soccer player
- June 20 : Jörg Lützelberger , German handball player
- June 20 : Darko Miličić , Serbian basketball player
- June 20 : Mihai Pop , Romanian handball player
- June 20 : Halil Savran , German-Turkish soccer player
- June 20 : Sahr Senesie , German soccer player
- June 22nd : Martin Liebers , German figure skater
- June 24th : Atheer Adel , German actor
- June 24th : Bastien Arnaud , French handball player
- June 25 : Anton Korobov , Ukrainian chess player
- June 25 : Karim Matmour , Algerian-French soccer player
- June 26th : Katrin Heß , German actress, model and voice actress
- June 26 : Jonathan Kennard , British racing car driver
- June 27 : To Chol-hyok , North Korean soccer player
- June 27 : Patrik Fahlgren , Swedish handball player
- June 27 : Svetlana Alexandrovna Kuznetsova , Russian tennis player
- June 27th : Nico Rosberg , German automobile racing driver
- June 28 : Gloria Aura Campos Gutiérrez , Mexican actress and singer
- June 30th : Trevor Anthony Ariza , American basketball player
- June 30th : Cem Atan , Austrian soccer player
- June 30th : Michael Phelps , American swimmer and world record holder
- June 30th : Arne Tode , German motorcycle racer
July
- July 1st : Michael Delura , German soccer player
- July 1st : Annike Krahn , German soccer player
- July 1st : Tendai Mtawarira , South African rugby player
- July 2 : Vlatko Ilievski , Macedonian singer and presenter († 2018 )
- July 2 : Ashley Tisdale , American actress, dancer, singer and model
- July 3 : Jure Šinkovec , Slovenian ski jumper
- July 4th : Goran Antic , Swiss football player
- July 5 : François Arnaud , Canadian actor
- July 5th : Markus Richwien , German handball player
- July 5th : Isaac Tutumlu , Spanish racing car driver
- July 6th : Stefano Chiapolino , Italian ski jumper
- July 7th : Marc Stein , German soccer player
- July 9 : Levan Aroshidze , Georgian chess player
- July 9 : Julia Hartmann , German actress
- July 9 : Paweł Korzeniowski , Polish swimmer
- July 9th : Sonja Schöber , German swimmer
- July 9 : Pablo Ernesto Vitti , Argentine soccer player
- July 10 : Mario Gómez , German football player
- July 10 : Brandon "BJ" Crombeen , American ice hockey player
- July 11 : Robert Gillespie Adamson IV , American actor
- July 11th : Saskia Leppin , German singer and musical artist
- July 12th : Daniel Oliveira , Brazilian rally driver
- July 12 : Timo Röttger , German soccer player
- July 12th : Emil Hegle Svendsen , Norwegian biathlete
- July 13 : Benjamin Alard , French harpsichordist and organist
- July 13 : Olli-Pekka Tolvanen , Finnish cross-country skier
- July 14th : Orhan Akkurt , German soccer player
- July 14th : Blagoja "Billy" Celeski , Macedonian-Australian football player
- July 14 : Ezequiel Oscar Scarione , Argentine soccer player
- July 15 : Chris Oliver , American basketball player
- July 16 : Denis Tahirović , Croatian football player
- July 17th : Francis Banecki , German soccer player
- July 17th : Krisztina Triscsuk , Russian-Hungarian handball player
- July 18 : Chace Crawford , American actor
- July 19 : LaMarcus Aldridge , American basketball player
- July 21 : Filip Polášek , Slovak tennis player
- July 21 : Von Wafer , American basketball player
- July 22nd : Mariama Signaté , French handball player
- July 23 : William Dunlop , British motorcycle racer († 2018 )
- July 23 : Anna Maria Mühe , German actress
- July 24th : Pankaj Advani , Indian snooker and English billiards player
- July 24 : Robert Arsumanjan , Armenian football player
- July 24th : Felix Danner , German handball player
- July 24th : Teagan Presley , American porn actress
- July 25 : Kirsten McGarry , Irish ski racer and ski crosser
- July 25 : Nelson Piquet junior , Brazilian racing car driver
- July 26th : Sayuri Asahara , Japanese badminton player
- July 26th : Marinko Kelečević , Bosnian handball player († 2011 )
- July 27 : Husain Ibn Muhammed Abdullah , American football player
- July 28th : Christian Süß , German table tennis player
- July 29th : Besart Berisha , Albanian football player
August
- August 1 : Stuart Holden , American football player
- August 1st : Susanne Kasperczyk , German soccer player
- August 2nd : Laura Steinbach , German handball player
- August 3 : Benjamin Herth , German handball player
- August 4th : Shannon Michael Cole , Australian soccer player
- August 4th : Mark Milligan , Australian soccer player
- August 6 : Michael Andrei , German volleyball player
- August 6 : Taiwo Leo Awuonda Atieno , Kenyan football player
- August 7 : Rick Genest , Canadian model & performance artist († 2018 )
- August 8 : Rukayatu Abdulai , Canadian athlete
- August 8 : Sascha Ilitsch , German handball player
- August 8th : Kai Kovaljeff , Finnish ski jumper
- August 9 : Filipe Luís , Brazilian soccer player
- August 9 : Luca Filippi , Italian racing car driver
- August 9 : Anna Kendrick , American actress
- August 9 : Stiven Rivić , Croatian football player
- August 10 : Wiebke Kethorn , German handball player
- August 13 : Olubayo Adefemi , Nigerian football player († 2011 )
- August 13 : Marc Gallego , German soccer player
- August 13 : Mattia Pasini , Italian motorcycle racer
- August 14th : Ashlynn Brooke , American porn actress, director and model
- August 15 : Nipsey Hussle , American rapper († 2019 )
- August 15 : Anika Lehmann , German actress
- August 17th : Yū Aoi , Japanese actress and model
- August 18th : Barbara Abart , Italian natural track tobogganist
- August 19th : Tom Sykes , British motorcycle racer
- August 20 : Natalie Hagel , German handball player
- August 20 : Andreas Rojewski , German handball player
- August 21 : Mimoun Alaoui , German rapper
- August 22nd : Jens Byggmark , Swedish ski racer
- August 22nd : Ruth Kolokotronis , German beach volleyball player
- August 22nd : David Ortega , German scripted reality actor, model and television presenter
- August 26 : Hakan Aslantaş , German-Turkish soccer player
- August 26th : Danilo Wyss , Swiss cyclist
- August 27th : Maro Engel , German automobile racing driver
- August 27 : Kayla Ewell , American actress
- August 27 : Brian Holden , American actor
- August 27 : Nikica Jelavić , Croatian football player
- August 27 : Daniel Küblböck , German casting star and singer (missing since September 9, 2018 )
- August 27 : Sören Pirson , German football player
- August 27 : André Rankel , German ice hockey player
- August 28 : Kjetil Jansrud , Norwegian ski racer
- August 29 : Lucas Vogelsang , German journalist and author
- August 29 : Michael Schmerda , German ice hockey player
- August 30th : Leisel Jones , Australian swimmer
- August 30 : Tianna Madison , American athlete
- August 30th : Steven Smith , Scottish soccer player
September
- September 1st : François Fargère , French chess player
- September 2 : Yani Gellman , American actor
- September 2nd : Kevin Jahn , German handball player
- September 3rd : Friba Razayee , Afghan judoka
- September 4th : Raúl Albiol , Spanish football player
- September 4th : Juan Carlos Arias Pérez , Cuban track and road cyclist
- September 4th : Andrew Meyrick , British racing car driver
- September 4th : Matías Russo , Argentine racing car driver
- September 5th : JokA , German rapper
- September 5 : Saboor Khalili , Afghan soccer player
- September 5th : Jan Mazoch , Czech ski jumper
- September 5th : Kristi Vangjeli , Albanian football player
- September 6 : Ali Ashfaq , Maldivian soccer player
- September 6th : Simon Baumgarten , German handball player
- September 6 : Lencke Wischhusen , German entrepreneur and politician (FDP)
- September 7th : Alexander Kasprik , German actor
- September 7 : Rafinha , Brazilian soccer player
- September 9 : Luka Modrić , Croatian football player
- September 11 : Shaun Livingston , American basketball player
- September 12th : Champian Fulton , American jazz pianist and singer
- September 12th : Willem Rebergen , Dutch hardstyle DJ
- September 12th : Domenico Tedesco , German-Italian soccer coach
- September 13th : Manuel Veith , Austrian snowboarder
- September 14th : Felix Hell , German organist
- September 14th : Dennis Wilke , German handball player
- September 15th : Ian Dyk , Australian racing car driver
- September 15 : Kayden Kross , American model and porn actress
- September 15th : François-Olivier Roberge , Canadian speed skater
- September 16 : Miguel Ángel de Amo Fernández-Echevarría , Spanish volleyball and beach volleyball player
- September 16 : Sandro Burki , Swiss football player
- September 16 : Johan Remen Evensen , Norwegian ski jumper
- September 16 : Madeline Zima , American actress
- September 17th : Tomáš Berdych , Czech tennis player
- September 17th : Hailey Duke , American ski racer
- September 18 : Steffi Bergmann , German handball player
- September 20th : Meskerem Assefa , Ethiopian middle-distance and long-distance runner
- September 20 : Julius Emrich , German handball player
- September 20th : Ryan Joyce , English darts player
- September 20 : Tim Morten Uhlenbrock , German singer and actor
- September 21 : Pedro Geromel , Brazilian-Italian soccer player
- September 21 : Camill Jammal , German actor and musician
- September 21 : Stefan König , German actor
- September 22nd : Tatiana Maslany , Canadian actress
- September 23 : Hossein Kaebi , Iranian soccer player
- September 23 : Usim Nduka , Nigerian-Azerbaijani football player
- September 23 : Ariel Rebel , Canadian porn actress, model and food blogger
- September 23 : Anna Unterberger , Italian actress
- September 24th : Saidat Adegoke , Nigerian soccer player
- September 24th : Eric Adjetey Anang , Ghanaian sculptor
- September 24 : Jessica Lucas , Canadian actress
- September 24th : Jonathan Soriano , Spanish soccer player
- September 25th : Nicolas eighth , Belgian conductor, singer, lutenist, harpsichordist and harpist
- September 25 : Marvin Matip , German soccer player
- September 25 : Tino Semmer , German soccer player
- September 26 : Senijad Ibričić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- September 27th : Janine Wulz , Austrian student functionary
- September 27 : Ibrahim Touré , Ivorian football player († 2014 )
- September 29 : Calvin Johnson , American football player
- September 29th : Dani Pedrosa , Spanish motorcycle racer
- September 29th : Butterscotch , American musician
- September 30th : Olcan Adın , Turkish soccer player
- September 30th : Dmytro Grabovskyy , Ukrainian-Israeli cyclist († 2017 )
- September 30th : Noko Matlou , South African soccer player
October
- October 1st : Scott Mansell , British racing car driver
- October 1st : Sina Reiss , German actress
- October 1st : Revazi Zintiridis , Greek judoka
- October 3 : Anna Kraft , German athlete and sports journalist
- October 4th : Daniel la Rosa , German racing car driver
- October 5th : Matteo Marsaglia , Italian ski racer
- October 6 : Francesco Ginanni , Italian cyclist
- October 8 : Felix Menzel , German journalist
- October 8 : Bruno Mars , American musician
- October 9 : Lukas Sinkiewicz , German soccer player
- October 10 : Marina Diamandis , Welsh singer-songwriter
- October 10 : Gisa Flake , German actress
- October 11 : Jacqueline Arendt , American triathlete
- October 11 : Erica Dasher , American actress
- October 11 : Matthias Puhle , German handball player
- October 11th : Philipp Seitle , German handball player
- October 11th : Isabella Rosenby Thomsen , Danish handball player
- October 11 : Michelle Trachtenberg , American actress
- October 14 : Manuel Belletti , Italian cyclist
- October 15th : Marcos Martínez , Spanish racing car driver
- October 16 : Johannes Clair , German author and former Bundeswehr soldier
- October 16 : Casey Stoner , Australian motorcycle racer
- October 16 : Manuel Späth , German handball player
- October 17th : Kiril Najdenow Akalski , Bulgarian football goalkeeper
- October 18 : Gülsha Adilji , Swiss moderator
- October 18 : Herbert Snorrason , Icelandic Internet activist (WikiLeaks, OpenLeaks)
- October 22 : Barbara Leibssle-Balogh , Hungarian handball player
- October 23 : Moa Abdellaoue , Norwegian football player
- October 23 : Svenja Huber , German handball player
- October 24 : Wayne Rooney , English soccer player
- October 24th : Victoria Max-Theurer , Austrian dressage rider
- October 25 : Ciara , American singer
- October 25th : Arkadij Naiditsch , German chess player of Latvian origin
- October 26 : Labinot Haliti , Albanian-Australian soccer player
- October 26 : Mira Mazumdar , German actress
- October 28 : Anthony Fantano , American web video producer and music critic
- October 29th : Cal Crutchlow , British motorcycle racer
- October 31 : Kerron Clement , American athlete
- October 31 : Branimir Koloper , Croatian handball player
- October 31 : Aditya Mehta , Indian snooker player
- October 31 : Sascha Rabe , German figure skater
November
- November 2nd : Davor Palo , Danish chess grandmaster
- November 3rd : Fabian Ammon , German soccer player
- November 3rd : Guido Landert , Swiss ski jumper
- November 3rd : Philipp Tschauner , German soccer player
- November 4th : Marcell Jansen , German soccer player
- November 4th : Annika Olbrich , German actress
- November 4th : Vanessa Struhler , German singer
- November 5th : Johannes Neumann , German swimmer
- November 7th : Mark Bridge , Australian soccer player
- November 7th : Tom Croft , English rugby player
- November 7th : Thaíssa Presti , Brazilian sprinter
- November 8 : Magda Apanowicz , Canadian actress
- November 8 : Alban Ramaj , Albanian football player
- November 10th : Marco Barba , Spanish racing car driver
- November 10 : Aleksandar Kolarov , Serbian football player
- November 11th : Janusz Gol , Polish football player
- November 11th : Kanybek Sagynbayev , Kyrgyz billiards player
- November 14th : Mara Abbott , American cyclist
- November 14th : Katrin Blume , German actress
- November 14 : Veroljub Salatić , Swiss-Bosnian football player
- November 14th : Thomas Vermaelen , Belgian football player
- November 14th : Andreas Vilberg , Norwegian ski jumper
- November 15 : Guilherme Afonso , Angolan-Swiss football player
- November 15 : Claas Relotius , German journalist
- November 15 : Jeffree Star , American make-up artist, fashion designer, singer and DJ
- November 16 : Benjamin Krotz , German handball player
- November 17th : Fikri El Haj Ali , German soccer player
- November 18 : Melanie Behringer , German soccer player
- November 18 : Allyson Felix , US athlete and Olympian
- November 18 : Max Hemmersdorfer , German actor
- November 20 : Marcus Wengler , German actor
- November 21 : Michael Hamlin , American football player
- November 22nd : Vicente Arze , Bolivian soccer player
- November 22nd : Lukáš Pešek , Czech motorcycle racer
- November 23 : Wiktor Ahn , Russian short track runner
- November 23 : Dennis Kuipers , Dutch rally driver
- November 24th : Irmak Atuk , Turkish actress, presenter and model
- November 24th : Esther Sedlaczek , German sports presenter
- November 25th : Marit Malm Frafjord , Norwegian handball player
- November 25 : Arlan Monteiro Leocadio , Brazilian soccer player
- November 26th : Saad El-Haddad , German rapper
- November 27th : Tim-Christopher Jost , German handball player
- November 27 : Dominik Stroh-Engel , German soccer player
- November 28th : Andreas Arén , Swedish ski jumper
- November 28th : Johannes Klaußner , German actor
- November 29th : Sven Lechner , German handball player
- November 30th : Brigitte Acton , Canadian ski racer
- November 30th : Luis Valbuena , Venezuelan baseball player († 2018 )
- November 30th : Kaley Cuoco , American actress
- November 30th : Furious Pete , Canadian competitive eater
December
- December 1st : Emiliano Viviano , Italian football player
- December 1st : Björn Vleminckx , Belgian football player
- December 2nd : Tatiana Azarova , Kazakh hurdler
- December 3rd : László Cseh , Hungarian swimmer
- December 3rd : Josep Gómes , Andorran football player
- December 3 : Amanda Seyfried , American actress
- December 5th : McJoe Arroyo , Puerto Rican boxer
- December 5 : McWilliams Arroyo , Puerto Rican boxer
- December 5th : Jürgen Gjasula , German-Albanian soccer player
- December 5th : Gianni Meersman , Belgian cyclist
- December 5 : Frankie Muniz , American actor
- December 6th : Janier Acevedo , Colombian road cyclist
- December 7th : Dean Ambrose , American wrestler
- December 7th : Floris van Assendelft , Dutch chess player
- December 8th : Sören Anders , German chef
- December 8 : Dwight Howard , American basketball player
- December 8 : Xavier Carter , American athlete
- December 9 : Kristoffer Andersen , Belgian-Danish football player
- December 9th : Ernesto Inarkiev , Russian chess player
- December 9th : Sebastian Schneider , German handball player
- December 10th : Charlie Adam , Scottish soccer player
- December 10th : Sander Armée , Belgian road cyclist
- December 10th : Bu Xiangzhi , Chinese chess player
- December 11th : Daniil Jurjewitsch Mowe , Russian automobile racing driver
- December 11th : Zdeněk Štybar , Czech cyclist
- December 12th : Martina Plura , German film director
- December 12th : Monika Plura , German camerawoman
- December 13 : Laurence Leboeuf , Canadian actress
- December 14th : Sévi Amoussou , Beninese football player
- December 14th : Jakub Błaszczykowski , Polish football player
- December 14th : Chris Czekaj , Welsh rugby player
- December 15 : Adi Rocha , Brazilian soccer player
- December 16 : James Nash , British racing car driver
- December 16 : José Shaffer , Argentinian soccer player
- December 17th : Tine Mikkelsen , Danish handball player
- December 18 : Tomoya Adachi , Japanese marathon runner
- December 18th : Heidi Andreasen , successful swimmer at the Paralympics
- December 18 : Anna F. , Austrian singer-songwriter
- December 19 : Shane Bitney Crone , American LGBT activist
- December 19 : Neil Kilkenny , Australian soccer player
- December 19 : Stefan Kneer , German handball player
- December 19 : Gary Cahill , English soccer player
- December 22nd : José Vicente Toribio , Spanish cyclist
- December 23 : Christian Hildebrand , German handball player
- December 23 : Austin Santos , American singer and songwriter
- December 24th : Christina Schwanitz , German shot putter
- December 25th : Lukas Klapfer , Austrian combiner
- December 26th : Beth Behrs , American actress
- December 26th : Charline Hartmann , German soccer player
- December 26th : Marija Jovanović , Montenegrin handball player
- December 27th : Jérôme D'Ambrosio , Belgian racing driver
- December 27th : Thomas Holzer , German automobile racing driver
- December 27th : Daiki Itō , Japanese ski jumper
- December 27th : Verona van de Leur , Dutch gymnast and porn actress
- December 27th : Thomas Ower , German ice hockey goalie
- December 27 : Cristian Villagra , Argentinian soccer player
- December 31 : Jan Smit , Dutch singer
Day unknown
- Kudjoe Affutu , Ghanaian coffin artist
- Tobias Amslinger , German writer and literary scholar
- Marie Helene Anschütz , German director
- Noha Atef , Egyptian blogger and human rights activist
- Andrea Bottlinger , German author, translator and editor
- Ulrich Brandhoff , German actor
- Constantin van Lijnden , German journalist and podcaster
- Jochen Matschke , German actor
- Ronny Miersch , German actor
- Paul Schweinester , Austrian opera singer (tenor)
- Serafim Smigelskiy , Russian-American cellist
- Sebastian Tessenow , German actor
Died
January
- January 1st : Jóse Artes de Arcos , Spanish inventor and entrepreneur (* 1893 )
- January 1 : Herbert Cysarz , Sudeten German Germanist (* 1896 )
- January 1 : Hermann Reutter , German composer and musician (* 1900 )
- January 2 : Jacques de Lacretelle , French writer (* 1888 )
- January 3 : Lucien Cailliet , American composer and clarinetist (* 1891 )
- January 3 : René Leroy , French flautist and music teacher (* 1898 )
- January 3 : Wolfgang Vacano , German-American conductor and music teacher (* 1906 )
- January 4 : Kakuei Kin , Japanese writer (* 1938 )
- January 5 : Rudolf Anthes , German Egyptologist (* 1896 )
- January 6th : OV Weidling , talk show host and conférencier on GDR television (* 1924 )
- January 7 : Vladimir Kokkinaki , Soviet test pilot (* 1904 )
- January 7th : Johannes Ludwig , German football player (* 1903 )
- January 7th : Alfons Stemmer , German soccer player (* 1933 )
- January 10 : Anton Karas , Austrian composer and musician (* 1906 )
- January 14th : Lama Anagarika Govinda , German interpreter of Buddhism (* 1898 )
- January 14 : Rudolf Agricola , economist, journalist (* 1900 )
- January 14 : Robert T. Odeman , German cabaret artist (* 1904 )
- January 14 : Allan Shivers , American politician (* 1907 )
- January 16 : Ruth Orkin , American photographer and filmmaker (* 1921 )
- January 19 : Eric Voegelin , political scientist and philosopher (* 1901 )
- January 20 : Pug Manders , American football player (born 1913 )
- January 21 : Josef Dahmen , German actor (* 1903 )
- January 21 : Luise Ullrich , Austrian actress (* 1910 )
- January 20 : Johannes Thimme , RAF member (* 1956 )
- January 22 : Yusuf Lule , Ugandan politician (* 1912 )
- January 22nd : Mikhail Gromov , Soviet pilot (* 1899 )
- January 22nd : Bernhard Sprengel , German chocolate manufacturer and art patron (* 1899 )
- January 26th : Jacob Yuchtman , strong chess player (* 1935 )
- January 28 : Alfredo Foni , Italian football player and coach (* 1911 )
- January 28 : Tommy Jarrell , American fiddle and banjo player and singer (* 1901 )
- January 28 : Paul Wittmann , Romanian German church musician and composer (* 1900 )
- January 31 : Ishikawa Tatsuzō , Japanese writer (* 1905 )
February
- February 1 : Anton Kutter , German director and designer of the Kutter-Schiefspiegler (* 1903 )
- February 2 : Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux , Canadian composer (* 1938 )
- February 4 : Friedrich Arndt , German puppeteer (* 1905 )
- February 4 : Mathieu Hezemans , Dutch racing driver and entrepreneur (* 1915 )
- February 6th : Hans Domnick , German film producer a. Director (* 1909 )
- February 6 : Eduard Wahl , German politician (* 1903 )
- February 8 : Ernst Brüche , German physicist and pioneer of electron optics (* 1900 )
- February 10 : Werner Hinz , German actor (* 1903 )
- February 10 : Norman Woodlieff , American old-time musician (* 1901 )
- February 11 : Ben Abruzzo , American balloonist (* 1930 )
- February 11 : Henry Hathaway , American film director (* 1898 )
- February 11 : Jochen Müller , German soccer player (* 1925 )
- February 16 : Sigfried Asche , German art historian and museum director (* 1906 )
- February 16 : Alí Rafael Primera Rossell , Venezuelan musician (* 1942 )
- February 18 : Otto Tschumi , Swiss painter (* 1904 )
- February 19 : Katharina Schroth , German physiotherapist (* 1894 )
- February 20 : Isaac Kashdan , American chess grandmaster and author (* 1905 )
- February 20 : Nakano Yoshio , Japanese literary scholar and translator (* 1903 )
- February 22nd : Albert Volkmann , German problem composer (* 1908 )
- February 22nd : Emilie Kiep-Altenloh , German politician (* 1888 )
- February 22nd : Efrem Zimbalist , American composer, music teacher and conductor (* 1889 )
- February 26 : Gerd Böttcher , German pop singer and actor (* 1936 )
- February 26 : Tjalling Koopmans , American economist of Dutch descent (* 1910 )
- February 27 : Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. , American politician and diplomat (* 1902 )
- February 28 : David Byron , English musician (* 1947 )
March
- March 3 : Kyril Bonfiglioli , English art dealer and writer (* 1928 )
- March 3 : Noel Purcell , Irish actor and comedian (born 1900 )
- March 5 : Oskar Ritter , German football player (* 1901 )
- March 6 : Erwin Aichinger , Austrian forest scientist (* 1894 )
- March 6 : Hans Brunke , German football player (* 1904 )
- March 7 : Tamara Ramsay , children's book writer (* 1895 )
- March 8 : Edward Andrews , American actor (born 1914 )
- March 9 : John Chandler Gurney , American politician (* 1896 )
- March 9 : William E. Jenner , American politician (* 1908 )
- March 10 : Israel Regardie , occultist (* 1907 )
- March 10 : Konstantin Tschernenko , Soviet politician (* 1911 )
- March 11th : John Michael Geoffrey Manningham "Tom" Adams , Barbadian politician (* 1931 )
- March 12 : Earle Clements , American politician (* 1896 )
- March 13 : Bob Shad , American music producer (* 1920 )
- March 14 : Josef Spies , German politician (* 1906 )
- March 15 : Alan A. Freeman , Australian music producer (* 1920 )
- March 15 : Emmy Meyer-Laule , German politician (* 1899 )
- March 16 : Roger Sessions , American composer (* 1896 )
- March 17th : Irving Asher , American film producer (* 1903 )
- March 21 : Oldřich Halma , Czech choir director and composer (* 1907 )
- March 21 : Michael Redgrave , British actor (born 1908 )
- March 23 : Zoot Sims , American jazz musician (* 1925 )
- March 23 : Anton Levien Constandse , Dutch author, editor, publisher, free thinker (* 1899 )
- March 24th : George London , opera singer (* 1920 )
- March 26 : Anders Cleve , Finnish writer (* 1937 )
- March 26th : Sally Kessler , German local politician and survivor of the Holocaust (* 1912 )
- March 27 : Hans Kossatz , German caricaturist, comic artist and illustrator (* 1901 )
- March 28 : Marc Chagall , French-Russian painter (* 1887 )
- March 28th : Hannelore Schlaf , German table tennis player and official (* 1930 )
- March 29 : George P. Murdock , American ethnologist (* 1897 )
- March 29 : Gerhard Stöck , German athlete and Olympic champion (* 1911 )
- March 30th : Sœur Sourire , drawing teacher, religious sister and chansonnière (* 1933 )
April
- April 1 : Jonny Rieger , German writer (* 1908 )
- April 1 : Herman Roelstraete , Belgian composer and conductor (* 1925 )
- April 6 : Mark Lothar , German composer (* 1902 )
- April 7 : Carl Schmitt , German constitutional lawyer and philosopher (* 1888 )
- April 8 : Boris Koschewnikow , Russian composer and professor (* 1906 )
- April 9 : Willem Roelof Oege Goslings , Dutch medic (* 1907 )
- April 9 : Karl Neumann , German writer for children and young people (* 1916 )
- April 10 : Eusebio Sempere , Spanish painter (* 1923 )
- April 11 : Enver Hoxha , political leader of Albania (* 1908 )
- April 11 : Bunny Ahearne , President of the IIHF (* 1900 )
- April 11 : Fred Uhlman , German lawyer, painter and writer (* 1901 )
- April 12 : Gerhard Bosinski , German Protestant theologian (* 1911 )
- April 17 : Charles Owen , American percussionist and music teacher (* 1912 )
- April 19 : Willie Mabon , American R&B singer, songwriter and pianist (born 1925 )
- April 20 : Rudolf Gnägi , Swiss politician (* 1917 )
- April 21 : Astrid Gerd Judith Hjertenæs Andersen , Norwegian writer (* 1915 )
- April 21 : Joe Hembus , film critic (* 1933 )
- April 21 : Tancredo Neves , Brazilian politician (* 1910 )
- April 21 : Elinor von Wallerstein , Austrian actress (* 1907 )
- April 22 : Alfred Charles Gimson , English linguist (* 1917 )
- April 22 : José de Lima Siqueira , Brazilian composer and conductor (* 1907 )
- April 22nd : Basile Khoury , Lebanese Archbishop (* 1900 )
- April 22nd : Albéric Loqueheux , French racing car driver (* 1903 )
- April 23 : Helmut Bruno Anders , German legal scholar and historian (* 1928 )
- April 23 : Sam Ervin , American politician (* 1896 )
- April 24th : Harry Thomson Andrews , South African diplomat (* 1897 )
- April 25 : Zoltán Horusitzky , Hungarian composer, pianist and music teacher (* 1903 )
- April 26 : Adolf Maislinger , concentration camp prisoner in Dachau concentration camp (* 1903 )
- April 27 : Wilhelm Abel , German economic historian (* 1904 )
- April 27 : Friedrich Märker , German writer and publicist (* 1893 )
- April 27 : Pierre Kamel Medawar , Israeli bishop (* 1887 )
- April 29 : Karen Fredersdorf , German actress (* 1892 )
May
- May 1 : Ástgeir Ólafsson , Icelandic writer (* 1914 )
- May 3 : Horst Adamietz , German journalist (* 1916 )
- May 4th : Jan Appel , German revolutionary (* 1890 )
- May 5 : Carter Brown , Australian crime writer (born 1923 )
- May 7 : Dawn Addams , British actress (born 1930 )
- May 7 : Luis Arenal Bastar , Mexican artist (* 1908 / 1909 )
- May 8 : Karl Marx , German composer and teacher (* 1897 )
- May 8 : Ulrich Dübber , journalist and politician (* 1929 )
- May 8 : Theodore Sturgeon , science fiction author (born 1918 )
- May 8 : Edmond O'Brien , American actor (born 1915 )
- May 11 : Ria Ginster , German singer and vocal teacher (* 1898 )
- May 11 : Piet van Mever , Dutch composer (* 1899 )
- May 12 : Rodolfo Arizaga , Argentine composer (* 1926 )
- May 12 : Jean Dubuffet , French painter and sculptor (* 1901 )
- May 12 : Bohdan Wodiczko , Polish conductor and music teacher (* 1911 )
- May 13 : Alexander Mikulin , Soviet engine designer (* 1895 )
- May 13 : Mildred Scheel , German doctor, wife of Walter Scheel (* 1931 )
- May 14 : María Luisa Escobar , Venezuelan composer, pianist and singer (* 1903 )
- May 14 : Charles Leonard Hamblin , Australian philosopher, logician and computer pioneer (* 1922 )
- May 15 : Renato Olmi , Italian football player (* 1914 )
- May 18 : Ernst Harold Anderson , Swedish athlete (* 1907 )
- May 18 : Hermann Schridde , German show jumper (* 1937 )
- May 19 : Hilding Rosenberg , Swedish composer and conductor (* 1892 )
- May 19 : Johannes Petzold , church musician, composer of several hymn book songs (* 1912 )
- May 21 : Karl Weber , German politician (* 1898 )
- May 24th : Natalio Perinetti , Argentinian football player (* 1900 )
- May 25 : Ludwig Anschütz , German actor and radio play speaker (* 1902 )
- May 25 : Johannes Holthusen , German Slavist and professor at the University of Würzburg (* 1924 )
- May 26 : Harold Hecht , American film producer (* 1907 )
- May 28 : Nils Nobach , German pop composer and producer (* 1918 )
- May 29 : Mario Revelli di Beaumont , Italian motorcycle racer and vehicle designer (* 1907 )
- May 30th : Olga Nikolajewna Anstej , Russian writer, poet and translator (* 1912 )
June
- June 1 : Ines Alfani-Tellini , Italian opera singer (soprano) and music teacher (* 1896 )
- June 1 : Gaston Rébuffat , French mountaineer (* 1921 )
- June 2 : Franz Korinek , Austrian politician and minister (* 1907 )
- June 3 : Karl Obermayr , Bavarian folk actor (* 1931 )
- June 5 : Josef Maria Reuss , auxiliary bishop in Mainz and titular bishop of Sinope (* 1906 )
- June 5 : Diarmaid Ó Súilleabháin , Irish writer (* 1932 )
- June 6 : Kurt Ranke , Germanist and folklorist (narrative researcher) (* 1908 )
- June 7th : Georgia Hale , American actress (born 1905 )
- June 12 : Dominique Laffin , French actress (* 1952 )
- June 12 : Helmuth Plessner , German philosopher and sociologist (* 1892 )
- June 15 : Andy Stanfield , American athlete and Olympic champion (* 1927 )
- June 16 : Alois Mertes , German politician (* 1921 )
- June 16 : Elias Coueter , Syrian clergyman and Melkite bishop of Brazil (* 1896 )
- June 17th : Czesław Marek , Polish composer (* 1891 )
- June 21 : Carl Andresen , German theologian and historian of religion (* 1909 )
- June 21 : Tage Erlander , Swedish Prime Minister (* 1901 )
- June 21 : Marianne Frostig , social worker, teacher and psychologist (* 1906 )
- June 23 : Hubert Schulze Pellengahr , German politician (* 1899 )
- June 25 : Connie Curtis Crayton , American blues singer and guitarist (born 1914 )
- June 26 : Erwin Albrecht , judge in the Third Reich and Saarland politician (* 1900 )
- June 28 : Mischa Spoliansky , composer (revue, film music) (* 1898 )
July
- July 2 : Josef Mühlberger , German writer and journalist (* 1903 )
- July 3 : Erik Alfred Ågren , Swedish boxer (* 1916)
- July 3 : Friedrich Ruge , naval officer; Admiral; Inspector of the Navy (* 1894 )
- July 4th : Lotte Strauss , German pathologist (* 1913 )
- July 7 : Guido Kisch , lawyer and legal historian (* 1889 )
- July 8 : Wim Addicks , Dutch football player (* 1896 )
- July 8 : Simon Smith Kuznets , Nobel Prize Winner and Economist (* 1901 )
- July 9 : Charlotte , Grand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1919 to 1964 (* 1896 )
- July 9 : Jimmy Kinnon , founder of Narcotics Anonymous (* 1911 )
- July 11 : Herbert Amry , Austrian diplomat and Middle East expert (* 1939 )
- July 13 : Matthias Hoogen , German politician (* 1904 )
- July 16 : Heinrich Böll , German writer and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (* 1917 )
- July 17 : Leslie Cornelius Arends , American politician (* 1895 )
- July 17 : Susanne K. Langer , American philosopher (* 1895 )
- July 17th : Fritz Lisetti , Austrian magician (* 1889 )
- July 17 : Wynn Stewart , American country musician (born 1934 )
- July 19 : Mathew T. Anden , German theater, television and film actor (* 1942 )
- July 25 : Willie Perryman , American blues musician (* 1911 )
- July 25 : Adolf Ziegler , German actor (* 1899 )
- July 26 : Walter Richter , German actor (* 1905 )
- July 27 : Michel Audiard , French screenwriter and director (* 1920 )
- July 28 : Rose Oehmichen , German actress and co-founder of the Augsburger Puppenkiste (* 1901 )
- July 30th : Andreina Ardizzone Emeri , Italian politician, women's rights activist and lawyer (* 1936 )
- July 30th : Robert Sénéchal , French entrepreneur and racing car driver (* 1892 )
August
- August 1 : Sam Wooding , American jazz pianist, arranger and bandleader (* 1895 )
- August 1 : Alois Carigiet , Swiss artist, painter and children's book author (* 1902 )
- August 2 : Frank Faylen , American actor (* 1905 )
- August 2 : Karl-Heinz Stroux , German actor, director and theater manager (* 1908 )
- August 4th : Zbyněk Vostřák , Czech composer (* 1920 )
- August 5 : Juozas Žilevičius , Lithuanian composer, organist, music pedagogue and scholar (* 1891 )
- August 6 : William John St. Clair Anstruther-Gray , British politician (* 1905 )
- August 6 : Forbes Burnham , Guyanese politician and President of Guyana (* 1923 )
- August 8 : Milton Greene , American photographer (born 1922 )
- August 8 : Louise Brooks , American film actress (* 1906 )
- August 9 : Fred Åkerström , Swedish songwriter and singer (* 1937)
- August 10 : Gerhard Sevenster , Dutch Reformed theologian and church historian (* 1895 )
- August 11 : Nicolaus Darboven , German entrepreneur (* 1902 )
- August 11 : János Drapál , Hungarian motorcycle racer (* 1948 )
- August 11 : Josef Fath , German football player (* 1911 )
- August 12 : Jakob Adlhart , sculptor (* 1898 )
- August 12 : Manfred Winkelhock , German Formula 1 racing driver (* 1951 )
- August 14th : Gale Sondergaard , American actress (* 1899 )
- August 16 : Erwin Zucker-Schilling , Austrian journalist and writer (* 1903 )
- August 19 : Yamazaki Hōdai , Japanese writer (* 1914 )
- August 22nd : Paul Peter Ewald , German physicist (* 1888 )
- August 24 : Paul Creston , American musician and composer (* 1906 )
- August 24 : Morrie Ryskind , American author (* 1895 )
- August 25 : Rudi Blesh , American jazz author (* 1899 )
- August 27 : Ernst Aust , German politician (* 1923 )
- August 27 : Walter Frey , Swiss pianist and music teacher (* 1898 )
- August 28 : Isidro Benítez , Cuban musician, conductor and composer (* 1900 )
- August 28 : Ruth Gordon , American actress (* 1896 )
- August 28 : Claus-Joachim von Heydebreck , German politician (* 1906 )
- August 29 : Evelyn Ankers , British actress (born 1918 )
- August 30 : Taylor Caldwell , American writer of British origin (* 1900 )
- August 30 : Tatiana Proskouriakoff , American American artist and illustrator of Russian origin (* 1909 )
- August 31 : Frank Macfarlane Burnet , Australian medic (* 1899 )
September
- September 1 : Stefan Bellof , racing car driver (* 1957 )
- September 2 : Abe Lenstra , Dutch football player (* 1920 )
- September 4 : George O'Brien , American actor (* 1899 )
- September 7 : Frank Kinard , American football player and coach (born 1914 )
- September 7th : George Pólya , American mathematician (* 1887 )
- September 7th : Rodney R. Porter , English biochemist (* 1917 )
- September 8 : Ana Mendieta , American performance artist (* 1948 )
- September 8 : John Franklin Enders , American bacteriologist (* 1897 )
- September 9 : Paul John Flory , American chemist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1910 )
- September 9 : Hugo Lindo , Salvadoran writer, diplomat and politician (* 1917 )
- September 10 : Ernst Öpik , German-Baltic astronomer (* 1893 )
- September 11th : William Alwyn , English composer (* 1905 )
- September 12 : Lajzer Ajchenrand , Polish poet (* 1911 )
- September 12 : Fred Strittmatter , German-Swiss film music composer (* 1923 )
- September 13 : Werner Trillmich , German historian (* 1914 )
- September 13 : Benno Sterzenbach , German theater and film actor (* 1916 )
- September 14 : John Caldwell Holt , American author and educator (* 1923 )
- September 15 : Wolfgang Abendroth , German political scientist (* 1906 )
- September 15 : Bruno Banducci , American football player (born 1921 )
- September 15 : Cootie Williams , American jazz trumpeter (* 1911 )
- September 19 : Italo Calvino , Italian writer (* 1923 )
- September 20 : Karl Angerstein , German officer (* 1890 )
- September 21 : Jan Cyž , Sorbian lawyer and publisher, District Administrator of Bautzen (* 1898 )
- September 22 : Axel Springer , founder and owner of Axel Springer Verlag (* 1912 )
- September 23 : Beppe Assenza , Italian painter (* 1905 )
- September 24th : Antonio Poma , Archbishop of Bologna and Cardinal (* 1910 )
- September 27 : Lloyd Nolan , American actor (* 1902 )
- September 28 : LB Abbott , American cameraman and special effects artist (* 1908 )
- September 28 : Günter Sare , German anti-fascist demonstrator (* 1949 )
- September 30th : Herbert Bayer , Austrian graphic designer, typographer, painter and photographer (* 1900 )
- September 30 : Cuto Estévez , Dominican musician and composer (* 1915 )
- September 30 : Charles Francis Richter , American seismologist (* 1900 )
- September 30th : Simone Signoret , French actress (* 1921 )
- Rubens Bassini , Brazilian percussionist (* 1933 ) September:
October
- October 1 : Ninian Sanderson , British racing driver (born 1925 )
- October 1 : Bill Springsteen , American football player (* 1899 )
- October 2 : Hugo Decker , German politician (* 1899 )
- October 2 : Rock Hudson , American film actor (born 1925 )
- October 2 : Alex Möller , German politician (* 1903 )
- October 2 : George Savalas , American actor (born 1924 )
- October 3 : Heinz Kindermann , Austrian literary and theater scholar (* 1894 )
- October 5 : Therese Angeloff , German cabaret artist and actress (* 1911 )
- October 5 : Serge Jaroff , American choir director of Russian origin (* † 1896 )
- October 5 : Karl Menger , Austrian mathematician (* 1902 )
- October 5 : Peter Paul , German actor (* 1911 )
- October 5 : Emil Spiess , Swiss Roman Catholic clergyman and educator (* 1895 )
- October 6 : Nelson Riddle , American composer and big band leader (* 1921 )
- October 7th : Wolfgang Kieling , German actor (* 1924 )
- October 7 : Cemal Reşid Rey , Turkish composer (* 1904 )
- October 8 : John W. Snyder , US Secretary of the Treasury (* 1895 )
- October 9 : Andreas Lindt , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1920 )
- October 9 : Emílio Garrastazu Médici , President of Brazil (* 1905 )
- October 9 : Ludo Coeck , Belgian football player (* 1955 )
- October 10 : Yul Brynner , American actor and singer (* 1920 )
- October 10 : Orson Welles , American director, actor and writer (born 1915 )
- October 11 : Tex Williams , American country singer and band leader (born 1917 )
- October 12 : John Davis , American blues pianist and singer (* 1913 )
- October 12 : Duke Dinsmore , American automobile racing driver (* 1913 )
- October 14 : Emil Gilels , Russian pianist (* 1916 )
- October 14 : Paul B. Johnson junior , American politician (born 1916 )
- October 15 : Sandro Angiolini , Italian comic artist and cartoonist (* 1920 )
- October 15 : Max Zaslofsky , American basketball player (* 1925 )
- October 17 : Josef Garovi , Swiss composer (* 1908 )
- October 18 : Stefan Askenase , Belgian-Polish pianist (* 1896 )
- October 19 : Jean Mineur , French film producer and director (* 1902 )
- October 22 : Thomas Townsend Brown , American physicist (* 1905 )
- October 23 : Bernhard Bauknecht , German politician (* 1900 )
- October 24th : László József Bíró , Hungarian inventor (ballpoint pen) (* 1899 )
- October 24 : Maurice Roy , Archbishop of Québec and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1905 )
- October 25 : Blair Lee III. , American politician (* 1916 )
- October 27 : Paul Edwin Roth , German actor (* 1918 )
- October 29 : Yevgeny Lifschitz , Soviet physicist (* 1915 )
- October 31 : Henri Schaller , Swiss clergyman, journalist and newspaper publisher (* 1886 )
November
- November 1st : Georg Stadtmüller , German historian and Byzantinist
- November 2 : Robert Biberti , singer (* 1902 )
- November 4 : Ferdinand Kramer , German architect (* 1898 )
- November 4 : Rudolf Fernau , German actor (* 1898 )
- November 4 : Cus D'Amato , American boxing trainer (* 1908 )
- November 5 : Reinhard Priessnitz , Austrian journalist (* 1945 )
- November 6th : Sanjeev Kumar , Indian film actor (* 1938 )
- November 7th : Sid Robin , American lyricist and composer (* 1912 )
- November 7th : Friedrich Traugott Wahlen , Swiss Professor of Agriculture and Federal Council (* 1899 )
- November 8th : Masten Gregory , Formula 1 racing driver (* 1932 )
- November 8 : Nicolas Frantz , Luxembourgish cyclist (* 1899 )
- November 9 : Marie-Georges Pascal , French actress (* 1946 )
- November 11th : James Hanley , British writer (* 1897 )
- November 12 : Willy Dehnkamp , politician and Mayor of Bremen (* 1903 )
- November 13 : Alexander Pokryschkin , Soviet pilot (* 1913 )
- November 14th : Julito Deschamps , Dominican singer, pianist and guitarist (* 1930 )
- November 15 : Meret Oppenheim , Swiss surrealist artist and poet (* 1913 )
- November 17 : Lon Nol , President of Cambodia (* 1913 )
- November 18 : Stephan Henrik Barratt-Due , Norwegian violinist and music teacher (* 1919 )
- November 19 : Juan Arvizu , Mexican singer (* 1900 )
- November 19 : Uwe Dallmeier , German actor (* 1924 )
- November 24 : Maurice Podoloff , American lawyer and sports manager (* 1890 )
- November 24th : George Raynor , English football player and coach (* 1907 )
- November 24th : Big Joe Turner , American boogie woogie, blues and rock 'n' roll singer (* 1911 )
- November 25 : Elsa Morante , Italian writer (* 1912 )
- November 25 : Franz Hildebrandt , Lutheran (later Methodist) pastor and theologian (* 1909 )
- November 26 : Sergei Gerasimow , Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor (* 1906 )
- November 26 : José Antonio Zorrilla , Mexican composer, writer, screenwriter and director (* 1915 )
- November 27th : André Hunebelle , French film director (* 1896 )
- November 28 : Karl Abt , German painter (* 1899 )
- November 28 : John McNally , American football player (born 1903 )
December
- December 1 : Kenshiro Abe , Japanese Jūdō teacher (* 1916 )
- December 2 : Heinz Hoffmann , Defense Minister of the GDR (* 1910 )
- December 4 : Frederick H. Boland , Irish politician (* 1904 )
- December 6th : Heribert Aichinger , Austrian actor (* 1903 )
- December 6 : Burleigh Grimes , American athlete (* 1893 )
- December 6th : Hans Sachse , German doctor and Goethe researcher (* 1906 )
- December 6 : Günter Steffens , German writer (* 1922 )
- December 7th : Robert Graves , British writer and poet (* 1895 )
- December 8 : Ermenegildo Florit , Archbishop of Florence and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1901 )
- December 9 : Cees See , Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist (* 1934 )
- December 12th : Ian Stewart , British pianist (* 1938 )
- December 12 : Josef Hornauer , German football player (* 1908 )
- December 12th : Anne Baxter , American actress (* 1923 )
- December 14 : Roger Maris , American baseball player (born 1934 )
- December 15 : Carlos P. Rómulo , Filipino politician (* 1899 )
- December 15 : Seewoosagur Ramgoolam , first Prime Minister of Mauritius (* 1900 )
- December 17 : Otto Gotsche , German politician and writer (* 1904 )
- December 17th : Otto Erich Strasser , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor (* 1888 )
- December 18 : Leonhard Mahlein , German trade unionist, 1968–1983 Chairman of the Board of Directors. IG Druck u. Paper (* 1921 )
- December 23 : Prince Bira , Thai automobile racing driver (* 1914 )
- December 23 : Artur Gelbrun , Israeli violinist, violist, music teacher, conductor and composer of Polish origin (* 1913 )
- December 23 : Gina Kaus , Austrian writer, translator and screenwriter (* 1893 or 1894 )
- December 24th : Ramazan Avcı , Turkish victim of terrorism (* 1959 )
- December 24 : Ferhat Abbas , Algerian politician (* 1899 )
- December 25th : Friedrich Becker , German astronomer (* 1900 )
- December 25 : Franz Marx , German politician (* 1903 )
- December 25th : Jacques Monod , French actor (born 1918 )
- December 25th : Eddie Taylor , American blues guitarist (* 1923 )
- December 26th : Dian Fossey , American gorilla researcher (* 1932 )
- December 27th : Harry Hopman , Australian tennis player (* 1906 )
- December 27th : Jean Rondeau , French racing car driver and designer (* 1946 )
- December 28 : Josef Lense , Austrian mathematician (* 1890 )
- December 31 : Ricky Nelson , teenage star in the United States (born 1940 )
- December 31 : Georges Haddad , Lebanese Archbishop (* 1924 )
Day unknown
- Benjamin Akzin , Israeli professor (* 1904 )
- Wilhelm Friedrich Arntz , German lawyer, writer, publisher and editor (* 1903 )
- Bernard Astraud , French pilot and entrepreneur (* 1922 )
- Eugenio Retes , Chilean actor and author (* 1895 )
- Francis Rome , British officer (* 1905 )
- Kornel Schimpl , Czech conductor, music teacher and composer (* 1907 )
- Paul Van Cuyck , Belgian racing driver (* 1904)
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Klaus von Klitzing
- Chemistry : Herbert A. Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Medicine : Michael S. Brown and Joseph L. Goldstein
- Literature : Claude Simon
- Nobel Peace Prize : International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
- Economics : Franco Modigliani
music
- The Rock am Ring music festival is taking place for the first time on the Nürburgring .
- The duo Bobbysocks won the 30th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest in Gothenburg on May 4th with the song La det swinge for Norway
- On September 16th the single Take On Me by the band a-ha will be released across Europe. It reached number 1 in the charts in 36 countries.
- List of number one hits in Germany
Web links
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