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Calendar overview 1988
1988 | |
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1988 in other calendars | |
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From urbe condita | 2741 |
Armenian calendar | 1436-1437 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1980-1981 |
Badi calendar | 144-145 |
Bengali calendar | 1394-1395 |
Berber calendar | 2938 |
Buddhist calendar | 2532 |
Burmese calendar | 1350 |
Byzantine calendar | 7496-7497 |
Chinese calendar | |
- era | 4684-4685 or 4624-4625 |
- 60 year cycle |
Fire Rabbit ( 丁卯 , 4) - |
French revolutionary calendar |
- CXCVI CXCVII 196-197 |
Hebrew calendar | 5748-5749 |
Hindu calendar | |
- Vikram Sambat | 2044-2045 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1910-1911 |
Iranian calendar | 1366-1367 |
Islamic calendar | 1408-1409 |
Japanese calendar | |
- Nengō (era): | Shōwa 63 |
- Kōki | 2648 |
Coptic calendar | 1704-1705 |
Korean calendar | |
- Dangun era | 4321 |
- Juche era | 77 |
Minguo calendar | 77 |
Modern Olympics | XXIV |
Seleucid calendar | 2299-2300 |
Thai solar calendar | 2531 |
Annual dedication
- The turning neck (Jynx torquilla) is bird of the year ( NABU / Germany).
Events
Politics and world events
- January 1 : Otto Stich becomes Federal President of Switzerland .
- January 16 : The Independent Society for the Protection of Human Rights is founded in the People's Republic of Bulgaria .
- January 23 : Erich Honecker receives the Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou in East Berlin and announces an earlier dismantling of medium-range nuclear missiles .
- February 18 : General Secretary Mikhail Sergejewitsch Gorbachev emphasizes that every socialist state can freely choose its social system.
- February 27 : Pogrom in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait against Armenians living there
- March 16 : Poison gas attack by the Iraqi air force on the Kurds and Assyrians in Halabja (around 5,000 dead and 10,000 injured)
- April 14 : The Afghanistan agreement is signed in Geneva, which regulates the withdrawal of Soviet troops from the country in the Hindu Kush.
- April 18 : In the Persian Gulf, is Operation Praying Mantis called naval battle between the United States and Iran held.
- April 22nd : Double taxation agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Zimbabwe
- May 1st : first revolutionary May 1st demonstration in West Berlin , the first edition of the Interim (magazine) appears.
- May 7th : The Democratic Union party in Moscow is established as the first non-communist political association in the Soviet Union .
- May 8 : In the runoff election for the office of French President , incumbent François Mitterrand prevails with 54 percent of the vote against his rival Prime Minister Jacques Chirac from the Rassemblement pour la République party , who has around 46 percent of the votes.
- May 8 : After the previous Barschel affair , the Social Democrats win the absolute majority of the seats in the state elections in Schleswig-Holstein . Björn Engholm , as Prime Minister-designate, can form the government in Kiel.
- May 15 : The USSR begins withdrawing from Afghanistan .
- May 25 : Occupation of the Lenné Triangle in West Berlin and renaming to Kubat Triangle, eviction on July 1st and flight of 194 people over the Wall to East Berlin
- May 27 : The Hungarian Prime Minister János Kádár - a 'strong man' in Hungary since the Red Army put down the popular uprising in 1956 - gives up his post as General Secretary of the Communist Party for reasons of age and health, as well as in view of Hungary's growing economic difficulties. Károly Grósz will be his successor.
- June 25 : A joint declaration on the establishment of official relations between the European Community (EC) and the Council for Mutual Economic Aid (Comecon) is signed.
- July 1 : The Senate of West Berlin and the Council of Ministers of the GDR carry out an exchange of territory in Berlin, which had already been agreed on March 31, 1988, to remove all enclaves by compensating for the area compensation or through payments by the Berlin Senate to the GDR.
- July 19 : The mass execution of political prisoners in Iran began in 1988
- July 23 : With Radio Dreyeckland , the first German free radio is legalized in Freiburg im Breisgau after a legal prosecution of the pirate radio became hopeless.
- August 5th : Armistice between Angola , Cuba and South Africa
- August 8 : In Burma , the student-initiated 8888 Uprising calls for democracy. The military warns that demonstrators will be shot at. Nonetheless, the unrest continued until it was put down on September 18 .
- August 15 : The European Community (EC) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) establish diplomatic relations.
- August 16 : Beginning of the "Gladbeck hostage drama"
- August 18 : Hamas Charter is published
- August 20 : End of the First Gulf War between Iran and Iraq
- August 26 : In her first speech in front of the Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon , Aung San Suu Kyi campaigns for the democratic development of Burma , which is experiencing the student rebellion 8888 Uprising .
- September 8th : According to a corresponding order by the Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene , the new Northeast Province is formed through the merger of the Northern and Eastern Province .
- September 18 : 8888 Uprising : Thousands of demonstrators are killed in Myanmar (Burma) when the democracy movement is bloody smashed with the change of power.
- September 27th : The annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank takes place for the first time in West Berlin and thus on German soil . The Federal Republic of Germany cancels the debts from development aid to 22 Least Developed Countries and the states only receive grants. There were also broad protests against the annual meeting of the IMF and World Bank in West Berlin in 1988 .
- October 5th : Algerian popular uprising for reforms
- October 5th : Democratic Constitution in Brazil
- October 24th : Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl visits the Soviet state and party leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow and both declare their willingness to replace the "Ice Age" with a friendlier climate in international relations. In addition, agreements on environmental and radiation protection, nuclear energy, space travel and agriculture are signed.
- November 6th : In a nationwide referendum in France , the so-called “Matignon Agreement”, which opens up prospects for New Caledonia for possible independence, is adopted by the majority of the electorate.
- November 8 : George HW Bush is elected 41st President of the USA.
- November 10 : The President of the German Bundestag, Philipp Jenninger, gives his controversial and unfortunate speech in the German Bundestag to commemorate the 1938 November pogroms , which leads to his resignation the following day.
- November 14 : Portugal and Spain join the WEU .
- November 15 : In Algiers, the Palestinian National Council , an organ of the PLO , announces a declaration of independence . Jerusalem is set as the capital of a previously nonexistent state of Palestine .
- November 16 - Benazir Bhutto takes power in Pakistan . She is the first woman to be elected to head an Islamic state.
- November 17th : The Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu meets in East Berlin for talks with Erich Honecker and is awarded the Karl Marx Order on the occasion of his 70th birthday .
- November 18 : In the GDR the delivery of the Soviet magazine Sputnik is stopped. As part of the Soviet glasnost and perestroika policy, the GDR leadership was disseminated undesirable information in the magazine.
- November 21 : In Austria, the National Democratic Party is officially banned for being re-employed by the National Socialists .
- As part of a UN peace treaty, South Africa declares that it is ready to give up the occupation of Namibia .
economy
- February 1 : In the Federal Republic of Germany, leaded regular gasoline is banned.
- March 29th : The Spanish charter airline Spantax , which has a bad image in the Federal Republic of Germany due to several accidents and breakdowns, goes bankrupt .
- April 10 : After ten years of construction, the Seto-Ōhashi bridge is opened in Japan . It serves the traffic between the islands of Honshu and Shikoku .
- July 1 : The leading index DAX is introduced on the German stock exchange .
- November 30th : The investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. suddenly becomes world famous when it acquires the conglomerate RJR Nabisco for 25 billion US dollars .
science and technology
- March 18 : A total solar eclipse in the western Pacific
- May 1 : As part of the ICE world record run , the ICE forerunner InterCityExperimental set a new speed record for rail vehicles with 406.9 km / h.
- September 19 : Israel launches the Ofeq 1 satellite with the Shavit rocket .
- 23 September : Venus from Galgenberg is found in Stratzing ( Lower Austria ) . The over 30,000 year old female statuette is the oldest artifact in the world to date .
- October 21 : First MMR06-M rocket launch on the Zingst peninsula
- November 23 : Questacon Technology Museum opens in Canberra.
- December 9th : The Swedish Saab 39 multi- role fighter makes its maiden flight .
- The first real computer worm paralyzed ten percent of the Internet at the time.
religion
- March 11 : The Abdul-Aziz-Shah Mosque is completed in Shah Alam , the largest mosque in Malaysia with a capacity of 24,000 people .
- June 19 : Andreas Dung-Lac and 116 other Vietnamese martyrs are canonized by Pope John Paul II .
- December 20 : Pope John Paul II appoints Joachim Cardinal Meisner as Archbishop of Cologne.
Culture and society
- Boris Pasternak's novel " Doktor Schiwago " will be published 32 years after its completion in the Soviet Union .
- Berlin (West) becomes European Capital of Culture .
- March 10th : Oedipussi is the first feature film by Victor von Bülow alias Loriot to have its world premiere in West and East Berlin at the same time .
- April 11th : The Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) in the Federal Republic of Germany resolves to reorganize the Abitur (upper secondary level in upper secondary level) which will come into force on August 1st, 1989.
- April 16 : Concert premiere of the opera Beatrice Cenci by Berthold Goldschmidt in London .
- April 21 : Hans-Joachim Bohlmann carried out a sulfuric acid attack on three works by Albrecht Dürer , including the Paumgartner Altar, while on leave in Munich's Alte Pinakothek .
- May 7th : The opera “Montag” by Karlheinz Stockhausen from the cycle “ Light ” is premiered in Milan .
- June 11 : The solidarity concert for Nelson Mandela's 70th birthday takes place at Wembley Stadium in London .
- June 18th : Depeche Mode "101" concert in Pasadena at the Rose Bowl Stadium
- June 27 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Cameroon . In force since February 14, 1989 .
- July 19 : the Bruce Springsteen concert in East Berlin is the largest concert in the history of the GDR .
- August 8 : The American hip-hop group NWA releases their album Straight Outta Compton .
- September 28th : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Indonesia . In force since April 2, 1990 .
- September 29th : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Somalia . In force since March 15, 1990 .
- November 10 : Cultural agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Central African Republic . In force since January 2, 1991 .
- November 18 : The government of the GDR prevents the distribution of the Soviet magazine Sputnik by the postal newspaper distribution , which in practice amounts to a ban.
- November 24 : At the Vienna Albertina square is erected a monument against war and fascism by sculptor Alfred Hrdlicka to the public.
- November 26th : In Berlin, the European Film Awards , dubbed Felix, are awarded for the first time .
- December 17th : First award of the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Berlin (to the former Italian President Sandro Pertini ).
- First plastic banknote in circulation
- Founding of transmediale , festival for art and digital culture
- Freeze exhibition takes place in London.
- The Tollwood Festival will take place in Munich for the first time.
- For the first time, the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival will be held in Clarksdale , Mississippi.
Sports
- For entries of athletics world records, see under the respective discipline under athletics .
- January 22nd : Mike Tyson wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Larry Holmes at the Convention Hall , Atlantic City , New Jersey , USA , by a technical knockout.
- 13. bis 28. February : XV. Winter Olympics in Calgary , Canada .
- March 21 : Mike Tyson wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Tony Tubbs at the Tokyo Dome , Tokyo , Japan , by a technical knockout.
- May 18 : Bayer 04 Leverkusen win the UEFA Cup against Espanyol Barcelona after they equalized 3-0 in the first leg (3-0 in Barcelona) and won the penalty shoot-out 3-2.
- May 21 : Werder Bremen becomes German champions in the first Bundesliga .
- June 10th to June 25th: The Dutch national soccer team wins the eighth European soccer championship in 1988 in the Federal Republic of Germany with a 2-0 victory over the USSR .
- June 27th : Mike Tyson wins his boxing match and world heavyweight title against Michael Spinks at Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, by knockout.
- September 10th : The tennis player Steffi Graf wins all Grand Slam tournaments with her victory at the US Open against the Argentinian Gabriela Sabatini as the first German and third player ever .
- September 17th to October 2nd : XXIV Summer Olympic Games in Seoul / South Korea . After the Grand Slam, Steffi Graf also wins the Olympic tennis tournament. This achievement is called the Golden Slam .
- October 2 : The Summer Olympics in Seoul end with fireworks . Outstanding athletes in these games are swimmers Kristin Otto with six and Matt Biondi with five gold medals .
- October 30 : Ayrton Senna has been crowned Formula 1 world champion for the first time after the race in Suzuka and before the end of the season with the Australian Grand Prix .
- December 10 : Jan Boklöv wins in Lake Placid as the first ski jumper in the V-style and so heralds a revolution in ski jumping.
- 16th bis 18th December : Germany (with Boris Becker , Carl-Uwe Steeb , Eric Jelen and Patrik Kuhnen ) wins Davis Cup Finals against Sweden .
- Sepp Gschwendtner performs the first documented cross-country flight by a paraglider pilot in Germany . The 14 kilometers achieved were considered a sensation at the time.
- Foundation of the German Cricket Federation (official founding meeting on April 21, 1989 in Hanau).
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Catastrophe .
- February 19 : In the state of Rio de Janeiro 300 people are killed by floods and a landslide ; around 50,000 people become homeless .
- March 8 : A Siberian family tries to hijack a plane in Irkutsk in order to flee the Soviet Union to the West. The hostage-taking failed, in the end nine people died and 35 were injured, some seriously.
- April 10 : More than 1,000 people die in the explosion at the Pakistani ammunition depot Camp Ojhri .
- June 1 : The Stolzenbach mine disaster in Borken , northern Hesse, kills 51. Only 6 miners could be rescued alive after 4 days with the help of a Dahlbusch bomb .
- June 27 : A train accident at Gare de Lyon in Paris kills 56 people.
- July 3 : Persian Gulf , Strait of Hormuz , an Airbus A300 of the airline Iran Air is accidentally American US by the warship USS Vincennes (CG-49) shot down. 290 dead (see Iran Air flight 655 )
- July 6th : A fire destroys the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea . With 167 fatalities, it is still the worst accident that has occurred on an oil rig.
- August 16 : The dam of the Bagauda reservoir in Nigeria breaks; 23 people died as a result of the tidal wave.
- August 20 : A 6.6 earthquake kills around 1,450 people in Nepal and India .
- August 25 : In a major fire in the Chiado district , the old town of Lisbon is almost completely destroyed. The fire rages on an area of two hectares.
- August 28 : Three of the aircraft involved collide in the Ramstein flight conference accident . One of them crashes into the crowd. The accident claims 70 lives.
- September 19 : Hurricane Gilbert disintegrates over Texas . The on September 8, Leeward Islands formed tropical cyclone developed into one of the deadliest (318 deaths), expensive (damage of about 5.5 billion US dollars ) and strongest hurricanes (with the third highest ever measured speed).
- December 7th : Around 25,000 people are killed in the Spitak earthquake in Armenia .
- December 8 : A US Fairchild-Republic A-10 fighter jet crashed into a residential area in Remscheid . In addition to the pilot, six other people were killed, 50 were injured, some seriously (see plane crash in Remscheid ).
- December 21 : A Boeing 747 crashes over Lockerbie in Scotland due to a bomb explosion on board Pan-Am Flight 103 . All 259 people on board and 11 Lockerbie residents died. It was not until August 16, 2003 that Libya assumed responsibility for this terrorist attack and paid 2.7 billion dollars to the bereaved.
Born
January
- January 1st : Steffen Coßbau , German handball player
- January 1st : Sebastian Kirchner , German handball player
- January 1st : Alex Rafael da Silva Antônio , Brazilian soccer player
- January 1st : Chris-Florian Treutler , German handball player
- January 3rd : Ikechi Anya , Scottish soccer player
- January 3 : JR Hildebrand , American racing car driver
- January 4th : Sergej Evljuskin , German-Kyrgyz football player
- January 5th : Azizulhasni Awang , Malaysian track cyclist
- January 5th : Paluten , German web video producer
- January 5th : Arna Sif Pálsdóttir , Icelandic handball player
- January 5 : Miroslav Raduljica , Serbian basketball player
- January 6th : Jefferson Andrade Siqueira , Brazilian soccer player
- January 7th : Haley Bennett , American singer and actress
- January 7th : Robbert van de Corput (Hardwell), Dutch DJ and music producer
- January 7th : Max Philip Koch , German actor
- January 10 : Bamba Anderson , Brazilian soccer player
- January 10 : Christian Zufelde , German handball player
- January 11 : Aislan Paulo Lotici Back , Brazilian soccer player
- January 11 : Lunchmoney Lewis , American singer and songwriter
- January 11th : Daniela Löwenberg , German soccer player
- January 12th : Matthias Baur , German handball player
- January 12th : Milica Čović , Serbian handball player
- January 12th : Douglas , Dutch soccer player
- January 13 : Caroline Abbé , Swiss football player
- January 13 : Leigh Broxham , Australian soccer player
- January 13th : Daniela Dodean , Romanian table tennis player
- January 13th : Petr Frydrych , Czech javelin thrower
- January 14th : Alexander Eberlein , German soccer player
- January 15 : John Darwin Atapuma Hurtado , Colombian road cyclist
- January 16 : Nicklas Bendtner , Danish soccer player
- January 16 : Mehmet Boztepe , Turkish football player
- January 16 : Jorge Torres Nilo , Mexican soccer player
- January 17th : Andrea Antonelli , Italian motorcycle racer († 2013 )
- January 17 : Earl Clark , American basketball player
- January 17th : Louise Lyksborg , Danish handball player
- January 17th : Mike Di Meglio , French motorcycle racer
- January 18 : Ashleigh Murray , American actress
- January 18 : Angelique Kerber , German tennis player
- January 19 : Dominic Kelm , German handball player
- January 19 : JaVale McGee , American basketball player
- January 20 : Pasquale Di Sabatino , Italian racing car driver
- January 20 : Elderson Echiéjilé , Nigerian soccer player
- January 20th : Callum MacLeod , British racing car driver
- January 21 : Ashton Eaton , American athlete
- January 21 : Tim Henkel , German handball player
- January 21 : Rapsody , American rapper
- January 22nd : Evgenija Sergejewna Romanjuta , Russian track cyclist
- January 22nd : Isabel Kerschowski , German soccer player
- January 22nd : Monique Kerschowski , German soccer player
- January 22nd : Łukasz Rutkowski , Polish ski jumper
- January 22nd : Marcel Schmelzer , German soccer player
- January 22nd : Greg Oden , American basketball player
- January 23 : Arnaud Anastasova , Franco-Bulgarian football player
- January 23 : Isabel Gehweiler , German cellist
- January 23 : Marc Sand , Austrian soccer player
- January 24th : Mia Boesen , Danish handball player
- January 24 : DaJuan Summers , American basketball player
- January 25 : Hugo Diego Arismendi Ciapparetta , Uruguayan football player
- January 25th : Tatiana Golovin , French tennis player
- January 26 : Błażej Augustyn , Polish football player
- January 26th : KC Rebell , German rapper
- January 27 : Romina Holz , German soccer player
- January 27 : Michal Kopčo , Slovak handball player
- January 27th : Lina Korsgren , Swedish cross-country skier
- January 27th : Raphaela Piehler , German swimmer
- January 27 : Alexandra Purvis , Canadian actress
- January 28th : Stanko Sabljić , Croatian handball player
- January 29 : Julian Justus , German marksman
- January 30th : Rob Pinkston , American actor
- January 30th : Florian Bissinger , German cyclist
- January 31 : Daniel Wessig , German handball player
February
- February 2 : Gülnäfis Ajtmuchambetowa , Kazakh Taekwondoin
- February 2nd : Susanne Hartel , German soccer player
- February 2nd : Sarah Tkotsch , German actress
- February 4th : Carly Patterson , American gymnast
- February 5th : Natalie Geisenberger , German luge athlete
- February 6 : Farid Ahmadi , Afghan soccer player
- February 7th : Thomas Martinot-Lagarde , French athlete
- February 8 : Abdullah Al Muzayen , Kuwaiti squash player
- February 8 : Renato Soares de Oliveira Augusto , Brazilian soccer player
- February 8th : Arik Braun , German chess player
- February 8 : Maxi Hayn , German handball player
- February 9 : Jan-Marco Behr , German handball player
- February 10 : Francesco Acerbi , Italian soccer player
- February 11 : Kristian Nippes , German handball player
- February 12 : Mike Posner , American singer, songwriter and producer
- February 12 : Anselmo Ramon Alves Erculano , Brazilian soccer player
- February 13 : Maximilian Brandl , German ice hockey player
- February 13 : Yevgeny Alexandrovich Garanichev , Russian biathlete
- February 13 : Takuto Iguchi , Japanese racing car driver
- February 13 : Dmitri Yuryevich Sajustov , Russian ice hockey player
- February 13th : Daniel Wisgott , German lightweight rower
- February 14 : Ángel Di María , Argentinian football player
- February 14th : Flávio Reblin , Brazilian cyclist
- February 15 : Brooke Abel , American synchronized swimmer
- February 15 : Stephanie Goddard , German soccer player
- February 17th : Natascha Kampusch , Austrian kidnapping victim
- February 17th : Kruttika Nadig , Indian chess player
- February 18 : Maiara Walsh , American actress
- February 18 : Andreas Wank , German ski jumper
- February 18 : Ermin Zec , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- February 20 : Cédric Anton , French soccer player
- February 20 : DCVDNS , German rapper
- February 20 : Rihanna , Barbadian R&B singer
- February 21 : Donté Greene , American basketball player
- February 21 : Sebastian Zielinsky , German soccer player
- February 22nd : Sebastian Tyrała , German footballer
- February 23 : Inga Stöckel , German field hockey player
- February 24 : Rodrigue Beaubois , French basketball player
- February 24th : Amanda da Gloria , German actress
- February 26 : Demetrius Cesar Andrade , American boxer
- February 26 : John Armstrong , Canadian ice hockey player
- February 26 : David Krammer , German handball player
- February 26 : David Williams , Australian soccer player
- February 28th : Olivier Jenot , Monegasque ski racer
- February 29th : Hanne Haugen Aas , Norwegian volleyball and beach volleyball player
- February 29 : Tom Buschke , German soccer player
- February 29 : Lena Gercke , German model
- February 29 : Benedikt Höwedes , German football player
- February 29 : Marko Marković , Serbian musician
- February 29 : Michael Schick , German soccer player
- February 29 : Aqqaluk Sørensen , Greenlandic handball player
March
- March 1 : Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Anissin , Russian ice hockey player
- March 1st : Jack Clarke , British racing car driver
- March 1st : Jasmin Jannermann , German soccer player
- March 2nd : James Arthur , British singer, musician and rapper
- March 2nd : Matthew Mitcham , Australian art and high diver
- March 2nd : MontanaBlack , German YouTuber and streamer
- March 2 : Dexter Pittman , American basketball player
- March 2nd : Dean Smith , British racing car driver
- March 4 : Gal Mekel , Israeli basketball player
- March 4th : Sophia Ralli , Greek ski racer
- March 5 : Romas Kirveliavičius , Lithuanian handball player
- March 5th : Karl Schulze , German rower
- March 5th : Janine Urbannek , German handball player
- March 6th : Angultimmarik Kreutzmann , Greenlandic handball player
- March 7th : Sebastian Faißt , German handball player († 2009 )
- March 8 : Juan Carlos García , Honduran football player († 2018 )
- March 8 : Jahmir Hyka , Albanian football player
- March 8 : Christián Mpaka , Congolese football player
- March 9 : Fabio Onidi , Italian racing car driver
- March 10 : Akeem Oriyomi Agbetu , Nigerian soccer player
- March 10 : Gurgen Dabaghyan , Armenian singer
- March 10 : Rostyn Griffiths , Australian soccer player
- March 10 : Ivan Rakitić , Croatian-Swiss football player
- March 11th : Julian Leist , German soccer player
- March 11 : Halgurd Mulla Mohammed , Iraqi soccer player
- March 11 : Vincenzo Sarno , Italian football player
- March 12th : Frederic Böhle , German actor, theater actor and singer
- March 13 : 4tune , German rapper
- March 14th : Lautaro Acosta , Argentinian soccer player
- March 14 : Stephen Curry , American basketball player
- March 14th : Jenny-Mai Nuyen , German fantasy writer
- March 15 : Alexander Sims , British racing car driver
- March 16 : Barbara Hetmanek , German handball player and trainer
- March 17th : Charlotte Mordal , Norwegian handball player
- March 18 : Hovhannes Goharjan , Armenian football player
- March 19 : Max Kruse , German soccer player
- March 19 : Josephine Schlanke , German soccer player
- March 23 : Sergei Andrejewitsch Afanassjew , Russian racing car driver
- March 23 : Sarah Jane Scott , American pop singer
- March 25 : Darrell Arthur , American basketball player
- March 25 : Big Sean , American rapper
- March 26th : Marcel Appiah , German-Ghanaian soccer player
- March 26th : Friederike Lütz , German handball player
- March 27 : Holliday Grainger , British actress
- March 27 : Jessie J , British pop musician
- March 28 : Gene Renard Atkins Jr. , American football player
- March 29th : Esther Cremer , German athlete
- March 29th : Francesco Lasca , Italian cyclist
- March 30 : Danijar Yermekowitsch Akhmetov , Kazakh ice hockey player
- March 30th : Capri Anderson , American porn actress
- March 31 : Ante Brkić , Croatian chess player
April
- April 1st : Fatmire Bajramaj , German soccer player
- April 1 : Friederike Gubernatis , German handball player
- April 1 : Brook Lopez , American basketball player
- April 1 : Robin Lopez , American basketball player
- April 4th : Nadine Keßler , German soccer player
- April 7th : Pere Riba , Spanish tennis player
- April 8 : Djideo Abdoulaye , Chadian football player
- April 8th : William Accambray , French handball player
- April 8 : Jenni Asserholt , Swedish ice hockey player
- April 10th : Aude Aguilaniu , French skier
- April 10 : Kim Falkenberg , German soccer player
- April 10 : Haley Joel Osment , American actor
- April 11th : Stefan Hickl , German soccer player
- April 11 : Mait Patrail , Estonian handball player
- April 12th : Tone Damli Aaberge , Norwegian singer
- April 12th : Miquel Julià Perello , Spanish racing car driver
- April 12th : Michaël Rossi , French racing car driver
- April 13 : Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira , Brazilian soccer player
- April 13 : Will Bratt , British racing car driver
- April 13th : Máximo Cortés , Spanish racing car driver
- April 13 : Helder Mauricio da Silva Ferreira , Brazilian soccer player
- April 13th : Jernar Tschimbayew , Kazakh billiards player
- April 14th : Kristina Igorewna Asmus , Russian actress
- April 14 : Jan Niklas Berg , German actor
- April 14th : Ratthapark Wilairot , Thai motorcycle racer
- April 15th : Yoann Axel Cyriac Arquin , French soccer player
- April 15th : Steven Defour , Belgian football player
- April 16 : Alexandre Geniez , French cyclist
- April 16 : Stanislaw Gorobchuk , German handball goalkeeper
- April 16 : Peter Liebers , German figure skater
- April 17th : Andreas Bleck , German politician
- April 17th : Veronica Ricci , American actress
- April 17th : Pernille Wibe , Norwegian handball player
- April 18th : Yuri Ajrapetjan , Ukrainian chess master
- April 19 : Diego Mario Buonanotte Rende , Argentinian soccer player
- April 19 : Philip Butz , German actor
- April 19 : Luka Karabatić , French handball player
- April 19 : Radmila Petrović , Montenegrin handball player
- April 20 : Heleen Jaques , Belgian soccer player
- April 20 : Kevin Schmidt , German handball player
- April 21 : Robert Patrick Amell , Canadian actor
- April 21 : Gary Kagelmacher , Uruguayan soccer player
- April 21 : Jonathan Summerton , American racing car driver
- April 22nd : Nedim Hasanbegović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- April 23 : Victor Anichebe , Nigerian soccer player
- April 25 : Elif Aşkın , Turkish biathlete
- April 26 : Amelia Alicia Anscelly , Malaysian badminton player
- April 26 : Rutger Bregman , Dutch historian and author
- April 26 : Rauf Məmmədov , Azerbaijani chess grandmaster
- April 26 : Oscar Guido Trejo , Argentine soccer player
- April 27th : Sezer Akgül , Turkish wrestler
- April 27 : Lizzo , American singer, rapper and songwriter
- April 28 : Niclas Andersén , Swedish ice hockey player
- April 28 : Spencer Hawes , American basketball player
- April 29 : Eric Schildge , American cyclist
May
- May 1 : Nicholas Braun , American actor
- May 1st : Remo Schulze , German actor
- May 2 : Jerry Akaminko , Ghanaian soccer player
- May 3 : Fanuel Kenosi , Botswana sprinter
- May 4th : Nycke Groot , Dutch handball player
- May 4 : Kyle Singler , American basketball player
- May 5th : Adele , British singer
- May 5th : Vítor Faverani , Brazilian basketball player
- May 5th : Skye Sweetnam , Canadian rock singer
- May 6 : Alexis Ajinça , French basketball player
- May 6 : Ryan Anderson , American basketball player
- May 7 : Nathan Joel Burns , Australian soccer player
- May 8 : Maicon Pereira de Oliveira , Brazilian soccer player († 2014 )
- May 8th : Carola Rackete , German captain and sea rescuer
- May 9 : Jacob Fritsch , German handball player
- May 10 : Steffi Annys , Belgian badminton player
- May 10 : Joel Miller , American racing car driver
- May 11 : Oscar Carlén , Swedish handball player and coach
- May 11th : Severin Freund , German ski jumper
- May 11 : Antoine McAlister , American rapper
- May 12th : Babett Peter , German soccer player
- May 13 : Hakan Ateş , Turkish football player
- May 13 : Said Husejinović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- May 14 : Niccolò Canepa , Italian motorcycle racer
- May 14 : Martin Murawski , German handball player
- May 15th : Camilla Dalby , Danish handball player
- May 15 : Jacob Zurl , Austrian long-distance cyclist
- May 17th : Christine Herrmann , German handball player
- May 17 : Nikki Reed , American actress
- May 20 : Kārlis Auziņš , Latvian musician
- May 20 : Karoline Teska , German actress
- May 21 : Muhammed Ali Atam , Turkish soccer player
- May 21 : Aída Román , Mexican archer
- May 21 : Kevin Schindler , German soccer player
- May 22 : Chase Budinger , American basketball player
- May 23 : Angelo Ogbonna , Italian football player
- May 24th : Artyom Alexejewitsch Anissimow , Russian ice hockey player
- May 26 : Juan Cuadrado , Colombian soccer player
- May 26th : Sina Martens , German actress
- May 26th : Susann Müller , German handball player and trainer
- May 26 : Orlando Sá , Portuguese soccer player and national team player
- May 27 : Ted Armgren , Swedish biathlete
- May 27th : Giannis Athinaiou , Greek basketball player
- May 27 : Andrejs Rastorgujevs , Latvian biathlete
- May 27th : Tobias Reichmann , German handball player
- May 28 : Carmen Jordá , Spanish racing car driver
- May 28th : Larissa Rieß , German presenter, DJ and singer
- May 28 : Ufo361 German rapper
- May 31 : Pilt Arnold , German hockey player
June
- June 1st : Domagoj Duvnjak , Croatian handball player
- June 1st : Jessica Mager , German sports shooter
- June 2nd : Sergio Agüero , Argentinian football player
- June 5 : Austin Daye , American basketball player
- June 6th : Jerome Assauer , German soccer player
- June 6th : Philipp Heissner , German politician
- June 6 : Julian Lahme , German handball player
- June 7th : Tobias Arwidson , Swedish biathlete
- June 7 : Michael Cera , Canadian actor
- June 8 : Corey Peters , American football player
- June 10th : Melanie Müller , German erotic model
- June 10 : Jeff Teague , American basketball player
- June 11 : Claire Holt , Australian actress
- June 11 : Marcos Antonio , Brazilian soccer player
- June 12th : Diogo Portela , Brazilian darts player
- June 14 : Kevin McHale , American actor
- June 15th : Jeffrey Boomhouwer , Dutch handball player
- June 15 : Kira Eickhoff , German handball player
- June 15 : Timm Schneider , German handball player
- June 16 : Tarık Langat Akdağ , Turkish obstacle and long distance runner
- June 16 : Thierry Neuville , Belgian rally driver
- June 18 : Josh Dun , American musician
- June 19 : Miloš Adamović , Serbian football player
- June 19th : Marcella Deen , Dutch handball player
- June 19 : Jacob deGrom , American baseball player
- June 21 : Beatrice Egli , Swiss pop singer
- June 21 : Nizar Khalfan , Tanzanian soccer player
- June 21 : Vasko Ševaljević , Montenegrin handball player
- June 21 : Thaddeus Young , American basketball player
- June 22nd : Torsten Ankert , German ice hockey player
- June 22nd : Omri Casspi , Israeli basketball player
- June 22nd : Julia Schäfle , German actress and presenter
- June 22nd : Davíd Garza Pérez , Mexican racing car driver
- June 22nd : Valentine , German musician
- June 23 : Carlos Javier Acuña Caballero , Paraguayan soccer player
- June 27 : Moritz Barkow , German handball player
- June 27 : Landry Fields , American basketball player
- June 27th : Célia Okoyino da Mbabi , German soccer player
- June 27 : Matthew "Matt" Spiranovic , Australian soccer player
- June 28 : Kanon Wakeshima , Japanese singer and cellist
- June 29 : Éver Maximiliano David Banega , Argentine football player
- June 29 : Gzuz , German rapper
- June 30th : Mitja Mežnar , Slovenian ski jumper
July
- July 1st : Fabian Gutbrod , German handball player
- July 1st : Shun Yamamoto , Japanese Nordic combined athlete
- July 2nd : Ronnie Ash , American hurdler
- July 3rd : Anssi Koivuranta , Finnish Nordic combined and ski jumper
- July 3 : James Troisi , Australian soccer player
- July 4th : Uwe Kalski , German handball player
- July 5 : Ish Smith , American basketball player
- July 6th : Katy Tiz , English singer-songwriter
- July 9 : Arkimedes Arguelyes Rodrigues , Russian road cyclist
- July 9 : Christian Schwarz , German handball player
- July 10th : Sarah Walker , New Zealand BMX rider
- July 11th : Natascha Born , American actress
- July 11th : Naoki Yamamoto , Japanese racing car driver
- July 12 : Patrick Beverley , American basketball player
- July 12 : Ólafur Bjarki Ragnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- July 13 : Colton Haynes , American actor
- July 13 : Emely Neubert , German actress
- July 14th : Olli Muotka , Finnish ski jumper
- July 14th : James Vaughan , English footballer
- July 14th : Rhys Anthony Williams , Australian-Welsh soccer player
- July 15 : Riki Christodoulou , British racing car driver
- July 15 : Shkelzen Gashi , Albanian-Swiss football player
- July 15 : Luis Ezequiel Ibáñez , Argentine soccer player
- July 16 : Florian Billek , German handball player
- July 18 : Hakan Arslan , Turkish soccer player
- July 18 : Rok Mandl , Slovenian ski jumper
- July 19 : Mie Augustesen , Danish handball player
- July 19 : Kevin Großkreutz , German soccer player
- July 20 : Julianne Hough , American actress, singer, and dancer
- July 20 : Anton Rúnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- July 21 : DeAndre Jordan , American basketball player
- July 22nd : Tim Oliver Schultz , German actor
- July 23 : Paul Anderson , English soccer player
- July 23 : Benjamin Baier , German soccer player
- July 23 : Daniel Mancinelli , Italian racing car driver
- July 25th : Mailen Auroux , Argentinian tennis player
- July 25 : Yonny Hernández , Colombian motorcycle racer
- July 26 : Diego Perotti , Argentinian soccer player
- July 27 : Robin Andersson , Swedish handball player
- July 27 : Adam Biddle , Australian soccer player
- July 27th : Panagiotis "Panny" Nikas , Australian soccer player
- July 28 : Emanuel Biancucchi , Argentinian soccer player
- July 29th : Levent Tuncat , Taekwondo athlete of Turkish origin
- July 30 ; Julián David Arredondo Moreno , Colombian road cyclist
- July 30th : Gina Lorentsen , Norwegian handball player
- July 30th : Andreas Stjernen , Norwegian ski jumper
- July 30 : Alexander Vlahos , British actor
- July 31 : Charlie Carver , American actor
August
- August 1st : Mos Abdellaoue , Norwegian football player
- August 1st : Nikolaj Markussen , Danish handball player
- August 1st : Nemanja Matic , Serbian football player
- August 1st : Andreas Strolz , Austrian ski jumper
- August 2nd : Robert Hrgota , Slovenian ski jumper
- August 2nd : Martin Waschul , German handball player
- August 3 : Sven Ulreich , German football goalkeeper
- August 4th : Niklas Andersen , German soccer player
- August 4th : Aaron Arens , Swiss child actor and film actor
- August 4th : Sven Grathwohl , German handball goalkeeper
- August 4th : Michael Herck , Romanian-Belgian racing driver
- August 5th : Federica Pellegrini , Italian swimmer
- August 8 : Danilo Gallinari , Italian basketball player
- August 8th : Mandy Islacker , German soccer player
- August 8 : Jeffrey Weise , American gunman († 2005 )
- August 8th : Beatrice of York , English princess
- August 9 : AblaZ , German musician
- August 9 : Simon Al-Odeh , German composer and trumpeter
- August 9 : Quadri Aruna , Nigerian table tennis player
- August 9th : Tommy Käßemodel , German soccer player and kit manager
- August 9 : Willian , Brazilian soccer player
- August 10 : Gustavo Javier Aprile Retta , Uruguayan football player
- August 10 : Bjarki Már Gunnarsson , Icelandic handball player
- August 11 : Winner Andrew Anacona Gómez , Colombian track and road cyclist
- August 11 : Patrick Mills , Australian basketball player
- August 12 : Mark Robert Arcobello , American ice hockey player
- August 12 : Tejay van Garderen , American cyclist
- August 12 : Leah Pipes , American actress
- August 13 : Carlo Degen , German actor
- August 13 : Rick Geenen , Dutch soccer player
- August 13 : Atle Pedersen Rønsen , Norwegian ski jumper
- August 14th : Mariana Agathangelou , English badminton player
- August 15 : Oussama Assaidi , Moroccan football player
- August 15th : Antje Peveling , German handball player
- August 16 : Ismaïl Aissati , Dutch-Moroccan football player
- August 16 : James Cole , British racing car driver
- August 16 : Kevin Schmidt , American actor
- August 17th : Aad el Achkar , Lebanese photographer
- August 17th : João Miguel Coimbra Aurélio , Portuguese football player
- August 18 : G-Dragon , South Korean pop musician, songwriter, producer and model
- August 18 : Rafinha , Brazilian soccer player
- August 19 : Katarina Bralo , Croatian handball player
- August 20 : Jerryd Bayless , American basketball player
- August 20 : Thomas Hylkema , Dutch racing car driver
- August 20 : Dominik Stahl , German soccer player
- August 21 : Robert Lewandowski , Polish football player
- August 22 : Mitchell Langerak , Australian football goalkeeper
- August 22nd : Pedro Nunes , Brazilian racing car driver
- August 23 : Jeremy Lin , American basketball player
- August 23 : Kimberly Matula , American actress
- August 24th : Nicholas Alexander , American ski jumper
- August 24 : Rupert Grint , British actor
- August 24 : Saliha Özcan , German-Turkish web video producer
- August 24 : Maximilian Reinelt , German rower († 2019 )
- August 25 : Ange Flore Atsé Chiépo , Ivorian football player
- August 25 : Mustafa Hadid , Afghan soccer player
- August 25 : Merlin Leonhardt , German actor
- August 26th : Cristina Neagu , Romanian handball player
- August 27 : Jane Schumacher , German-Danish handball player
- August 27 : Alexa Vega , American actress
- August 30th : Víctor Claver , Spanish basketball player
- August 30th : Andrea Morassi , Italian ski jumper
- August 30 : Tim Ohlbrecht , German basketball player
- August 31 : Antoine Adams , St. Kitts and Nevis sprinter
- August 31 : José Ramón Aguirre , Mexican track and road cyclist
- August 31 : Yuri Postrigai , Russian canoeist and Olympic champion
- August 31 : David Ospina Ramírez , Colombian football goalkeeper
- August 31 : Adrienne Reese , American wrestler
September
- September 1st : Sergio Ariel Escudero , Japanese football player
- September 1 : Miles Plumlee , American basketball player
- September 1st : Simona de Silvestro , Swiss racing driver
- September 2nd : Javi Martinez , Spanish soccer player
- September 3rd : Nicole Banecki , German soccer player
- September 3 : Jérôme Boateng , German football player
- September 4th : Michael Tieber , Austrian soccer player
- September 4 : JJ Hickson , American basketball player
- September 5 : Stephen Ahorlu , Ghanaian soccer player
- September 5 : Denni Robin Avdić , Swedish football player
- September 5th : Felipe Caicedo , Ecuadorian soccer player
- September 5 : Nuri Şahin , German-Turkish soccer player
- September 7th : Arnór Smárason , Icelandic football player
- September 7 : Kevin Love , American basketball player
- September 7th : Shindy , German rapper
- September 7th : Ivan Alexejewitsch Samarin , Russian automobile racing driver
- September 7th : David Schartner , Austrian football goalkeeper
- September 8th : Lone Fischer , German handball player
- September 9 : Danilo D'Ambrosio , Italian football player
- September 9 : Gareth Allen , Welsh snooker player
- September 9th : Bassem Amin , Egyptian chess grandmaster
- September 9 : Manuela Arbeláez Correa , Colombian-American photo model
- September 9 : Fiona Erdmann , German model
- September 10 : Christian Hoße , German handball player
- September 10 : Uroš Paladin , Slovenian handball player
- September 11 : Mustafa Aşan , Turkish football player
- September 11th : Torge Oelrich , German internet comedian
- September 11 : Michael Zullo , Australian soccer player
- September 12 : Henning Quade , German handball player
- September 15 : Daniel Abera Wedajo , Ethiopian marathon runner
- September 15 : Olga Valeryevna Abramova , Russian biathlete
- September 15 : Tom Austen , British actor
- September 18th : Annette Obrestad , Norwegian poker player
- September 19 : Katrina Bowden , American actress
- September 19 : Giorgio Brambilla , Italian cyclist
- September 20 : Imran Abbas , German music producer
- September 21 : Vasily Papin , Russian chess player
- September 22 : Uğur Akdemir , Turkish football player
- September 22nd : Nikita Sergejewitsch Andrejew , Russian football player
- September 22nd : Colin Braun , American racing car driver
- September 22nd : Nadja Månsson , German handball player
- September 23 : David Unterberger , Austrian ski jumper
- September 23 : Andy Zirnstein , German rapper
- September 26th : Kiira Korpi , Finnish figure skater
- September 26th : Nelson Panciatici , French racing car driver
- September 27 : David Baramidze , German chess player
- September 27 : Alex Jones , British racing car driver († 2019 )
- September 27 : Julija Manaharowa , Ukrainian handball player
- September 27 : Nicolás Terol , Spanish motorcycle racer
- September 28 : Esmée Denters , Dutch singer and songwriter
- September 28 : Corentin Fila , French actor
- September 29 : Kevin Durant , American basketball player
- September 29th : Jannick Green Krejberg , Danish handball player
- September 30th : Rodrigo Barbosa , Brazilian racing car driver
- September 30th : Patrick Schulz , German handball goalkeeper
- September 30th : Joshua John , Dutch soccer player
October
- October 3 : Álvaro Maximiliano Arias Invernizzi , Uruguayan football player
- October 3 : A $ AP Rocky , American rapper
- October 3 : Alicia Vikander , Swedish actress and dancer
- October 3rd : Max Giesinger , German singer-songwriter
- October 4 : Derrick Rose , American basketball player
- October 5th : Adrián Campos jr. , Spanish racing car driver
- October 5th : Sona Ahmadli , Azerbaijani wrestler
- October 5th : Bahar Kizil , German singer
- October 7th : Abdelrahman Ossama Ahmed , Egyptian Taekwondoin
- October 7 : Diego Costa , Brazilian soccer player
- October 8th : Max Felder , German actor and voice actor
- October 9th : Gaëtane Abrial , French singer
- October 9 : Sandra Maren Schneider , German actress
- October 10 : Hamad Afif , Qatari track and road cyclist
- October 10 : Ideye Brown , Nigerian soccer player
- October 10 : Jason Moore , British racing car driver
- October 10 : Jil Funke , German actress
- October 11 : Séamus Coleman , Irish football player
- October 12 : Jules Cluzel , French motorcycle racer
- October 13 : Scott Jamieson , Australian soccer player
- October 13th : Susan Thorsgaard , Danish handball player
- October 13 : Norris Cole , American basketball player
- October 14 : William Henry Atkinson , English football player
- October 14 : Benjamin King , American cyclist
- October 14 : Max Thieriot , American actor
- October 15 : Konstantin Frank , German-Russian actor
- October 15 : Pia Marxkord , German soccer player
- October 15 : Mesut Özil , German football player of Turkish descent
- October 15 : Dominique Jones , American basketball player
- October 16 : Tumuaialii Anae , American water polo player
- October 16 : Zoltán Stieber , Hungarian football player
- October 17th : Belal Mansoor Ali , Bahraini middle-distance runner of Kenyan origin
- October 18 : Efetobore Ambrose Emuobo , Nigerian soccer player
- October 19 : Maximilian Weiß , German handball player
- October 20 : A $ AP Ferg , American rapper
- October 20 : Agustin Torassa , Argentine soccer player
- October 21 : Nathalie Bock , German soccer player
- October 22 : Alisa Vetterlein , German soccer player
- October 23 : Nicolaj Moesgaard Agger , Danish football player
- October 23 : Dani Clos , Spanish racing car driver
- October 23 : Carolin Schiewe , German soccer player
- October 23 : Franziska Alber , German actress
- October 23 : Elsie Uwamahoro , Burundian swimmer
- October 23 : Florian Büchler , German soccer player
- October 23 : Raphaël Joly , Dutch ice hockey player
- October 23 : Jordan Crawford , American basketball player
- October 24th : Daniel McKenzie , British racing car driver
- October 24th : Hideki Yamauchi , Japanese racing car driver
- October 25 : Chandler Parsons , American basketball player
- October 27 : Evan Turner , American basketball player
- October 28th : Kévin Estre , French racing driver
- October 28 : Ko Euna , South Korean actress
- October 29th : Anna-Katharina Fecher , German actress
- October 30th : Janel Parrish , American actress
- October 31 : Sébastien Buemi , Swiss racing driver
- October 31 : Cole Aldrich , American basketball player
November
- November 1st : Mohammed Ali Khan , Swedish football player
- November 1st : Kimberley Murray , British skeleton pilot
- November 2nd : Julia Görges , German tennis player
- November 3rd : Manuel António , Angolan athlete
- November 3rd : Stefan Kutschke , German soccer player
- November 3 : Carlo Wittig , German handball player
- November 4th : Robert Cregan , Irish racing driver
- November 6th : Alexandra Elbakyan , Kazakh programmer and founder of Sci-Hub
- November 6 : Emma Stone , American actress
- November 6th : Tom Neuwirth , Austrian singer
- November 7th : Gani Lawal , American basketball player
- November 8th : Thomas Asanger , Austrian composer
- November 9 : Analeigh Tipton , American figure skater, model, and actress
- November 12 : Russell Westbrook , American basketball player
- November 15 : BoB , American rapper
- November 16 : Kevin Freiberger , German soccer player
- November 17 : Eric Lichaj , American soccer player
- November 17 : Eric Nam , Korean-American singer and actor
- November 17th : Gabriel da Silva , Swiss actor and filmmaker
- November 18 : Andreas Niederquell , German soccer player
- November 19th : Savitree Amitrapai , Thai badminton player
- November 20 : Roberto Rosales , Venezuelan football player
- November 20 : Dušan Tadić , Serbian football player
- November 20 : Rhys Wakefield , Australian actor
- November 21 : Eric Frenzel , German Nordic combined athlete and Olympic champion
- November 21 : Larry Sanders , American basketball player
- November 22nd : Jamie Campbell Bower , British actor and singer
- November 22nd : René Lange , German soccer player
- November 24th : Anina Abt-Stein , German actress
- November 24th : Dorian van Rijsselberghe , two-time Olympic champion and two-time world champion in windsurfing
- November 25 : Nodar Kumaritashvili , Georgian toboggan athlete († 2010 )
- November 28 : Ritchie De Laet , Belgian football player
- November 28 : Florian Leitner , Austrian soccer player
- November 29th : Hermann Gassner junior , German rally driver
- November 29th : Ryūnosuke Ōkoshi , Japanese ski racer
- November 30 : Phillip Hughes , Australian cricketer († 2014 )
- November 30th : Kurdo , German rapper of Iraqi origin
- November 30th : Sascha Meiner , German handball player
- November 30 : Rebecca Rittenhouse , American actress
- November 30th : Julie Zangenberg , Danish actress
December
- December 1 : Tyler Joseph , American musician
- December 2nd : Kim Adolfsson , Swedish biathlete
- December 3 : Hermas Muvunyi , Rwandan athlete
- December 4th : Hanno Holzhüter , German handball player
- December 5 : Ross Bagley , American actor
- December 6th : Yasin Gorkem Arslan , Turkish soccer player
- December 6th : Johan Kristoffersson , Swedish racing car driver
- December 7th : Nathan Adrian , American freestyle swimmer
- December 7th : Emily Browning , Australian actress
- December 7th : Jens Schöngarth , German handball player
- December 7th : Andrew Goudelock , American basketball player
- December 8th : Carla Amanda Sol Abrahamsen , Swedish actress and singer
- December 8 : Philip Major , Canadian racing car driver
- December 9 : Kwadwo Asamoah , Ghanaian soccer player
- December 9th : Christoph Trinks , German handball goalkeeper
- December 9 : Bosca , German rapper
- December 10th : Jon Lancaster , British racing car driver
- December 10 : Neven Subotić , Serbian-American soccer player
- December 10 : Imke Wübbenhorst , German soccer player
- December 11th : Alia Atkinson , Jamaican swimmer
- December 12th : Ham Eun-jeong , South Korean singer and actress
- December 13th : Rassul Abduraim , Kyrgyz Taekwondoin
- December 14th : Nicolas Batum , French basketball player
- December 14 : Vanessa Hudgens , American actress, singer and model
- December 14th : Anna-Maria Zimmermann , German pop singer
- December 16 : Alexei Viktorovich Schwed , Russian basketball player
- December 16 : Mats Hummels , German soccer player
- December 16 : Park Seo-joon , South Korean actor
- December 16 : Anna Popplewell , British film actress
- December 17th : Mikkel Andersen , Danish football goalkeeper
- December 17 : Mate Vazadze , Georgian football player
- December 17th : David Lekuta Rudisha , Kenyan middle distance runner
- December 18 : Elizabeth Mary Armitstead , British cyclist
- December 18 : Markus Pazurek , German soccer player
- December 19 : Niklas Landin Jacobsen , Danish handball player
- December 19 : Moritz von Treuenfels , German actor
- December 20 : Franziska Mietzner , German handball player
- December 22nd : Mario Lang , Austrian rock singer
- December 22nd : Juventina Napoleão , East Timorese marathon runner
- December 22nd : Kaja Schmäschke , German handball player
- December 23 : Devin Lytle , American actress, model and dancer
- December 24th : Alexander Auerbach , German handball player
- December 24th : Stefanos Athanasiadis , Greek football player
- December 24th : Felix Lobrecht , German stand-up comedian, podcast presenter and author
- December 25 : Ayodele Adeleye , Nigerian soccer player
- December 25 : Eric Gordon , American basketball player
- December 25th : Michael Blum , German soccer player
- December 27 : Hayley Williams , American singer
- December 28 : Belal Arezou , Afghan soccer player
- December 28 : Islambek Said-Zilimowitsch Albijew , Russian wrestler
- December 29 : Rebecca Perry , American-Italian volleyball and beach volleyball player
- December 30th : Benjamin Winter , German eventing rider († 2014 )
- December 31 : Francisc Joel Martinez , Andorran football player
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- Ben Blaskovic , German actor
- Lance Butters , German rapper
- Alice Dwyer , German actress
- Luke Flynn , American composer
- Laura Louisa Garde , German actress
- Daniel Gawlowski , German actor
- Frederik Götz , German actor
- Seada Kedir , Ethiopian marathon runner
- Magdalena Łapaj , Polish saxophonist
- Viktoria Marinowa , Bulgarian journalist († 2018 )
- Elaine McMillion Sheldon , American journalist and documentary filmmaker
- Moritz Otto , German actor
- Arunima Sinha , Indian volleyball player and mountaineer
Died
January
- January 1 : Rolf Presthus , Norwegian conservative politician and lawyer (* 1936 )
- January 3 : Joie Chitwood , American racing driver (* 1912 )
- January 3 : Gaston Eyskens , Belgian statesman and multiple prime minister (* 1905 )
- January 3 : Franz Muxeneder , German-Austrian actor (* 1920 )
- January 4th : Walther Amelung , German doctor (* 1894 )
- January 4th : Anton Anderl , Austrian politician (* 1909 )
- January 4th : Friedrich Joloff , German actor and voice actor (* 1908 )
- January 4 : Walter Glöckler , German automobile and motorcycle racing driver and automobile designer (* 1908 )
- January 4th : Lily Laskine , harpist (* 1893 )
- January 5 : Pete Maravich , American basketball player (born 1947 )
- January 7th : Michel Auclair , French actor (* 1922 )
- January 7th : Trevor Howard , English theater and film actor (born 1913 )
- January 10 : Hilde Bussmann , German table tennis player (* 1914 )
- January 11 : Isidor Isaac Rabi , American physicist (* 1898 )
- January 11 : Robert F. Kennon , American politician (* 1902 )
- January 12 : Piero Taruffi , car and motorcycle racing driver (* 1906 )
- January 14th : Pi Scheffer , Dutch composer and conductor (* 1909 )
- 14 January : Georgi Maximilianowitsch Malenkow , Soviet politician (* 1902 )
- January 15 : Seán MacBride , Irish politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (* 1904 )
- January 16 : Andrija Artuković , Croatian politician (* 1899 )
- January 19 : Yevgeny Alexandrovich Mrawinsky , Russian conductor (* 1903 )
- January 20 : Philippe de Rothschild , French entrepreneur, automobile racing driver and pioneer of French viticulture (* 1902 )
- January 23 : Werner Ansel , German administrative officer (* 1909 )
- January 26th : Gustav Aufhammer , German crop scientist and plant breeder (* 1899 )
- January 26 : Stephan Koren , Austrian politician (* 1919 )
- January 28 : Klaus Fuchs , German-British nuclear physicist, Soviet "nuclear spy" (* 1911 )
- January 29 : Seth Neddermeyer , American physicist (* 1907 )
- January 31 : Amir Nasser Eftetah , Iranian tombak player and teacher (* 1935 )
February
- February 1 : Johannes Bours , Roman Catholic theologian and writer (* 1913 )
- February 1 : Heather O'Rourke , American film actress (* 1975 )
- February 2 : Solomon , English pianist (* 1902 )
- February 3 : Radamés Gnattali , Brazilian musician and composer (* 1906 )
- February 4 : Willi Kollo , German composer (* 1904 )
- February 5 : Ove Arup , engineer (* 1895 )
- February 5 : Stefan Dittrich , German politician (* 1912 )
- February 7th : Giovanni Attanasio , Italian actor (* 1928 )
- February 8 : Pietro Arcari , Italian football player (* 1909 )
- February 9 : Kurt Adler , Austrian-American conductor (* 1905 )
- February 10 : Hans Ruchti , German economist (* 1903 )
- February 10 : Don Patterson , American jazz organist (* 1936 )
- February 10 : Lothar Malskat , painter and art forger (* 1913 )
- February 11 : René Hall , American jazz and R&B guitarist (* 1903 )
- February 12 : John Gordon Bennett , American racing driver (* 1913 )
- February 12 : Adolf Bieringer , German politician and Member of the Bundestag (* 1928 )
- February 14 : Frederick Loewe , American composer (* 1901 )
- February 14th : Nora Astorga Gadea , Nicaraguan underground fighter (* ~ 1948 )
- February 14 : Cal Niday , American racing car driver (born 1914 )
- February 14 : Joseph Wresinski , French clergyman and founder of the human rights movement ATD Fourth World (* 1917 )
- February 15 : Al Cohn , American jazz saxophonist (* 1925 )

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- February 15 : Richard Feynman , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1918 )
- February 15 : Neil R. Jones , science fiction writer (born 1909 )
- February 16 : Jean Carignan , Canadian fiddle player (* 1916 )
- February 16 : Arturo Correa , Puerto Rican actor, film director and producer (* 1924 )
- February 16 : Carlo Snider , Swiss canon lawyer (* 1910 )
- February 17th : Alain Savary , French education politician and resistant (* 1918 )
- February 19 : René Char , French poet (* 1907 )
- February 19 : André Frédéric Cournand , French-American medic (* 1895 )
- February 24th : Memphis Slim , American blues singer and pianist (born 1915 )
- February 24 : Bljuma Wulfowna Zeigarnik , Soviet Gestalt psychologist (* 1900 )
- February 25 : Bernard Ashmole , British classical archaeologist (* 1894 )
- February 25 : Helmut Echternach , pastor, Protestant theologian (dogmatist) and bishop (* 1907 )
- February 25 : Mamduh Muhammad Salim , Egyptian politician, general and prime minister (* 1918 )
- February 29 : Johann van Aken , German politician (* 1915 )
- Eduard Alexejewitsch Asaba , Soviet chess composer (* 1932 ) February:
- Cristóbal Humberto Ibarra , Salvadoran poet, narrator and essayist (* 1920 ) February:
March
- March 1 : Bernd August , German boxer (* 1952 )
- March 1 : Joe Besser , American comedian (* 1907 )
- March 3 : Sewall Wright , American biologist, geneticist (* 1889 )
- March 4 : Ernesto Duarte Brito , Cuban pianist, composer and band leader (* 1922 )
- March 6th : Jeanne Aubert , French singer and actress (* 1906 )
- March 7th : Rafael Quiñones Vidal , Puerto Rican journalist and television presenter (* 1892 )
- March 8 : Ken Colyer , British jazz and skifflemusic (* 1928 )
- March 9 : Kurt Georg Kiesinger , German politician, 1966–1969 Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (* 1904 )
- March 11 : Christianna Brand , British writer (* 1907 )
- March 12 : Alessandro Bausani , Italian Iranist, Islamic scholar and linguist (* 1921 )
- March 13 : John Holmes , American porn actor (* 1944 )
- March 14 : Willi Apel , American musicologist (* 1893 )
- March 14th : Reinhold Ebertin , German astrologer, cosmobiologist and esotericist (* 1901 )
- March 14 : Rudolf Gramlich , German football player (* 1908 )
- March 14th : Bruno Balz , German lyricist and hit songwriter (* 1902 )
- March 15 : Peter Lühr , German actor (* 1906 )
- March 17 : Norbert Hans Herbert Achterberg , German lawyer and university professor (* 1932 )
- March 17th : Nikolas Asimos , Greek singer-songwriter (* 1949 )
- March 20 : Jeanne Behrend , American pianist (* 1911 )
- March 20 : Gil Evans , Canadian jazz musician (* 1912 )
- March 21 : Hans Fronius , Austrian painter and illustrator (* 1903 )
- March 22nd : Albert Benz (composer) , Swiss composer and conductor (* 1927 )
- March 23 : Theodore Fred Abel , American sociologist (* 1896 )
- March 24th : Heinrich Aigner , CSU member of the Bundestag (* 1924 )
- March 24th : Roger Loyer , French motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1907 )
- March 30th : Edgar Faure , French politician (* 1908 )
- March 30th : Arnie Zane , American photographer, dancer and choreographer (* 1948 )
- March 31 : Oliver Hassencamp , German cabaret artist, actor and author (* 1921 )
- March 31 : William McMahon , Australian politician and Prime Minister (* 1908 )
April
- April 1 : Tsuruta Tomoya , Japanese writer (* 1902 )
- April 3 : Milton Caniff , American comic book artist and author (* 1907 )
- April 3 : Dieter Mauritz , German table tennis player (* 1918 )
- April 3 : Martin Wagenschein , pedagogue, didactic, physicist, mathematician (* 1896 )
- April 4 : Herbert Heinicke , chess player (* 1905 )
- April 7 : Cesar Bresgen , Austrian composer (* 1913 )
- April 9 : Brook Benton , American soul singer and songwriter (* 1931 )
- April 10 : Kuwabara Takeo , Japanese literary scholar and translator (* 1904 )
- April 12 : Alan Stewart Paton , South African writer and opponent of apartheid (* 1903 )
- April 15 : Kenneth Williams , British actor and comedian (born 1926 )
- April 16 : José Dolhem , French racing car driver (* 1944 )
- April 17 : Toni Frissell , American photographer (* 1907 )
- April 17th : Patrick Mphephu , first President of the Homeland Venda (* 1924 )
- April 18 : Pierre Desproges , French humorist, author and television cabaret artist (* 1939 )
- April 18 : Oktay Rifat , Turkish writer and lawyer (* 1914 )
- April 21 : IAL Diamond , American screenwriter (born 1920 )
- April 22 : Ulrich Leman , German painter (* 1885 )
- April 24th : Michel Attenoux , French musician (* 1930 )
- April 25 : Clifford D. Simak , journalist and author (* 1904 )
- April 26 : Valerie Solanas , American feminist (* 1936 )
- April 27 : Olaf Wieghorst , Danish-American painter (* 1899 )
- April 28 : Donald Joyce Borror , American entomologist, bioacoustics and ornithologist (* 1907 )
- April 28 : Gerd Martienzen , German actor (* 1918 )
- April 29 : Jan Kapr , Czech composer (* 1914 )
- April 30 : Wacław Geiger , Polish composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1907 )
May
- May 2nd : Berthold Koch , German chess player (* 1899 )
- May 3 : Erich Abberger , German officer (* 1895 )
- May 3 : Franz Ackerl , Austrian university professor for geodesy and photogrammetry (* 1901 )
- May 4 : Stanley William Hayter , British painter and printmaker (* 1901 )
- May 5 : Billo Frómeta , Dominican musician and conductor (* 1915 )
- May 7 : Herbert Arndt , German lawyer and judge (* 1906 )
- May 7th : Conny Freundorfer , German table tennis player (* 1936 )
- May 7 : Yamamoto Kenkichi , Japanese literary scholar (* 1907 )
- May 9 : Georg Moser , Catholic bishop of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese (* 1923 )
- May 9 : Robert A. Heinlein , American science fiction writer (* 1907 )
- May 10 : Richard Ogilvie , American politician (* 1923 )
- May 10 : Joey Sternaman , American football player and coach (* 1900 )
- May 11 : Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann , German sociologist and ethnologist (* 1904 )
- May 13 : Chet Baker , American jazz musician, singer and composer (* 1929 )
- May 14 : Willem Drees , Dutch politician (* 1886 )
- May 21 : Hansi Dujmic , Austrian musician (* 1956 )
- May 22nd : Chucho Martínez Gil , Mexican singer and composer (* 1917 )
- May 22 : Heinrich Zillich , German writer and poet (* 1898 )
- May 24th : Freddie Frith , British motorcycle racer (* 1909 )
- May 25 : Karl A. Wittfogel , German sociologist, philosopher and sinologist (* 1896 )
- May 27 : Ernst Ruska , German electrical engineer and inventor of the electron microscope (* 1906 )
- May 29 : Vladimír Menšík , Czech film, theater and television actor (* 1929 )
- May 29 : Siaka Stevens , former President of Sierra Leone (* 1905 )
- May 31 : Ömer Lütfi Akadlı , Turkish lawyer (* 1902 )
- May 31 : Wilhelm Aschka , German politician (* 1900 )
June
- June 1 : Herbert Feigl , Austrian-American philosopher (* 1902 )
- June 2 : Nasib Gajasowitsch Schiganow , Tatar composer (* 1911 )
- June 3 : Anna Mahler , Austrian sculptor (* 1904 )
- June 3 : Franz Ortner , Austrian journalist (* 1922 )
- June 8 : Yvonne Hubert , Canadian pianist and music teacher (* 1895 )
- June 9 : Willy Bartsch , German politician (* 1905 )
- June 9th : Willi Kohlhoff , German illustrator and comic artist (* 1906 )
- June 9 : Karl Kraus , theoretical physicist (* 1938 )
- June 9 : Willy Seiler , German radio and television presenter (* 1930 )
- June 10 : Franz Josef Delonge , German lawyer and local politician (* 1927 )
- June 11th : Giuseppe Saragat , Italian politician (* 1898 )
- June 12 : Marcel Poot , Belgian composer and professor (* 1901 )
- June 12 : Emil Telmányi , Hungarian violinist and conductor (* 1892 )
- June 13 : Heinrich Lützeler , Professor of Philosophy and Literary Studies (* 1902 )
- June 13 : Bill Rooney , American football player (* 1896 )
- June 18 : Archie Cochrane , British epidemiologist and founder of evidence-based medicine (* 1909 )
- June 19 : Aaly Tokombayev , Kyrgyz poet (* 1904 )
- June 22 : Burrill Phillips , American composer and music teacher (* 1907 )
- June 23 : Martin Gregor-Dellin , German writer (* 1926 )
- June 23 : Jan Wodyński , Polish painter (* 1903 )
- June 24th : Marta Abba , Italian actress (* 1900 )
- June 24th : Csaba Kesjár , Hungarian racing car driver (* 1962 )
- June 25 : Mildred Elizabeth Sisk Gillars , American radio presenter (* 1900 )
- June 25 : Hillel Slovak , American musician (* 1962 )
- June 26 : Hans Urs von Balthasar , Swiss Catholic theologian and cardinal (* 1905 )
- June 26 : Karl Wilhelm Struve , German prehistoric and early historian (* 1917 )
- June 27 : Léonie Fuller Adams , American poet (* 1899 )
July
- July 1 : Anton Leader , American film director and film producer (* 1913 )
- July 1 : Hermann Volk , Bishop of Mainz from 1962 to 1983 (* 1903 )
- July 2 : Johann Baptist Gradl , German politician (* 1904 )
- July 2 : Eddie Vinson , American jazz musician (* 1917 )
- July 3 : Fritz Wiessner , mountaineer (* 1900 )
- July 6 : Hans Gutzwiller , Swiss philologist and Germanist (* 1913 )
- July 7th : Paula Mollenhauer , German athlete (* 1908 )
- July 8 : Ray Barbuti , American sprinter and Olympic champion (* 1905 )
- July 11 : Barbara Wootton , British sociologist, economist and criminologist (* 1897 )
- July 12 : Michael Jary , German composer (* 1906 )
- July 12 : Joshua Logan , American film and theater director (* 1908 )
- July 12 : Nakamura Mitsuo , Japanese writer and literary critic (* 1911 )
- July 13 : Luis Benjamín , Puerto Rican pianist (* 1922 )
- July 16 : Gustave Antoine Abel , Austrian cave explorer (* 1901 )
- July 16 : Herbert Lawrence Anderson , American nuclear physicist (* 1914 )
- July 18 : Manfred Näslund , Swedish forest scientist (* 1899 )
- July 18 : Nico , German model and singer (* 1938 )
- July 19 : Vilhelm Aubert , Norwegian sociologist (* 1922 )
- July 21 : Kenneth Morgan Abbott , American classical philologist (* 1906 )
- July 21 : Pacho Galán , Colombian composer (* 1904 )
- July 21 : Stanisława Zawadzka , Polish opera singer and singing teacher (* 1890 )
- July 24th : Helmut Schubert , German football player (* 1916 )
- July 27 : Brigitte Horney , German actress (* 1911 )
- July 31 : Herbert Ansbach , German politician (* 1913 )
- July 31 : André Navarra , French cellist (* 1911 )
August
- August 1 : Louis-Jean Guyot , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1905 )
- August 2 : Stephen Eugene Anderson , American hurdler (* 1906 )
- August 2 : Raymond Carver , American writer of short stories and poems (* 1938 )
- August 6 : Johannes Cornelis Anceaux , Dutch orientalist and philologist (* 1920 )
- August 6th : Henri Frenay , member of the Resistance (* 1905 )
- August 7 : David L. Hoggan , National Socialist history revisionist (* 1923 )
- August 8 : Alan Ameche , American football player (born 1933 )
- August 8 : Panchito Riset , Cuban son and bolero singer (* 1910 )
- August 9 : Paul Ruegger , Swiss lawyer (* 1897 )
- August 9 : Giacinto Scelsi , Italian composer (* 1905 )
- August 10 : Arnulfo Arias , President of Panama (* 1901 )
- August 10 : Adela Rogers St. Johns , American journalist, writer and screenwriter (* 1894 )
- August 11 : Jean-Pierre Ponnelle , French director, stage and costume designer (* 1932 )
- August 11 : Alfred Kelbassa , German football player (* 1925 )
- August 11th : Pauline Lafont , French film actress (* 1963 )
- August 12 : Jean-Michel Basquiat , American graffiti artist, painter and draftsman (* 1960 )
- August 13 : Gordon H. Scherer , American politician (* 1906 )
- August 14 : Roy Buchanan , American blues rock guitarist (* 1939 )
- August 14 : Robert Calvert , British all-round artist, poet, actor and musician (* 1945 )
- August 14 : Enzo Ferrari , Italian racing driver and founder of the racing car manufacturer Ferrari (* 1898 )
- August 14 : Hans-Werner von Massow , German chess official (* 1912 )
- August 17th : Bruno Mathsson , architect and designer (* 1907 )
- August 17 : Mohammed Zia-ul-Haq , Pakistani general and President of Pakistan (* 1924 )
- August 18 : Ernst Simon (philosopher) , German-Jewish pedagogue and religious philosopher (* 1899 )
- August 18 : Frederick Ashton , ballet dancer and choreographer (* 1904 )
- August 20 : Jean-Paul Aron , French journalist, writer and philosopher (* 1925)
- August 21 : Hans Günther Adler , Czechoslovak-English writer (* 1910 )
- August 21 : Ray Eames , designer and namesake of the “Eames Lounge Chair” (* 1912 )
- August 22nd : Karl Ebb , Finnish entrepreneur, athlete and racing car driver (* 1896 )
- August 22 : Frances James , Canadian soprano and music teacher (* 1903 )
- August 24 : Kurt Zips , Austrian actor and voice actor (* 1922 )
- August 25 : Marion Price Daniel Sr. , American politician (* 1910 )
- August 26 : Thomas H. Kerr , American composer and music teacher (* 1915 )
- August 27 : Max Black , American philosopher (* 1909 )
- August 28 : Paul Grice , English philosopher (* 1913 )
- August 30 : Wanda Wermińska , Polish opera singer (* 1900 )
September
- September 1 : Luis Walter Alvarez , American physicist and Nobel Prize winner (* 1911)
- September 1 : Wilfredo García , Dominican photographer (* 1935 )
- September 4 : Oda Schaefer , German writer (* 1900 )
- September 4 : Artur Missbach , German politician (* 1911 )
- September 5 : Ann-Charlott Settgast , German writer (* 1921 )
- September 5 : Gert Fröbe , German actor (* 1913 )
- September 5 : Vasily Mschawanadze , Georgian Communist Party leader (* 1902 )
- September 6th : Axel von Ambesser , film director (* 1910 )
- September 7 : Werner Felfe , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED in the GDR (* 1928 )
- September 9 : Felice Filippini , Swiss writer and painter (* 1917 )
- September 11th : Hugh Bancroft , Canadian organist and composer (* 1904 )
- September 11th : Charles Jay , French composer (* 1911 )
- September 13 : Gerd Hornberger , German athlete (* 1910 )
- September 14 : Manuel Simó , Dominican composer, conductor and music teacher (* 1916 )
- September 17th : Hilde Güden , Austrian coloratura soprano and chamber singer (* 1917 )
- September 21 : Henry Koster , German film director (* 1905 )
- September 21 : Aurel von Milloss , Hungarian-Italian dancer, choreographer and ballet director (* 1906 )
- September 21 : Walter Vogt , writer (* 1927 )
- September 23 : Wilhelm Jost , physical chemist (* 1903 )
- September 24th : Aziz Suryal Atiya , Egyptian coptologist and historian (* 1898 )
- September 26 : Branko Zebec , Yugoslav football player (* 1929 )
- September 29 : Charles Samuel Addams , American cartoonist (born 1912 )
- September 30th : Al Holbert , American racing car driver (* 1946 )
October
- October 3 : Franz Josef Strauss , German politician (* 1915 )
- October 4th : Geoffrey Household , author (born 1900 )
- October 6 : Paul Ledoux , Belgian astronomer and astrophysicist (* 1914 )
- October 7th : Otto Arnholz , politician (* 1894 )
- October 7 : Kurt Honolka , German musicologist, journalist, music and theater critic (* 1913 )
- October 7 : Heinrich Maria Janssen , German bishop (* 1907 )
- October 8 : Ernst Hermann Meyer , German composer, musicologist and music sociologist (* 1905 )
- October 9 : Mousey Alexander , American jazz drummer (* 1922 )
- October 9 : Alex Gottlieb , American screenwriter and film producer (* 1906 )
- October 9th : Felix Wankel , German mechanical engineer and inventor of the rotary engine (* 1902 )
- October 11 : Max Imdahl , German art historian (* 1925 )
- October 14 : René Vietto , French cyclist (* 1914 )
- October 15 : Serafín Aedo , Spanish football player (* 1908 )
- October 16 : Christian Matras , Faroese linguist and poet (* 1900 )
- October 19 : Son House , American blues musician (* 1902 )
- October 20 : Sheila Scott , English pilot (* 1922 )
- October 23 : Valter Åhlén , Swedish ice hockey player (* 1929 )
- October 23 : Henry Melody Jackson Jr. , American boxing athlete (born 1912 )
- October 23 : Tarō Asashio , Japanese sumo wrestler (* 1929 )
- October 23 : Karl Augustin-Hartmann , Swiss printer and publisher (* 1884 )
- October 27 : Curt Herzstark , Austrian inventor and office machine mechanic (* 1902 )
- October 27 : Charles Hawtrey , British actor (born 1914 )
- October 28 : Pietro Annigoni , Italian painter (* 1910 )
- October 29th : Thomas Benjamin Cooray , Archbishop of Colombo and Cardinal (* 1901 )
- October 30 : Ernst Fritz Fürbringer , German actor and voice actor (* 1900 )
- October 30 : Leopold Gressenbauer , Austrian politician (* 1931 )
- October 30 : Heinz Heckhausen , German psychologist (* 1926 )
- October 31 : George Eugene Uhlenbeck , American physicist (* 1900 )
November
- November 3 : Felipe Arriaga , Mexican singer and actor (* 1937 )
- November 4 : Hermann Graf , German fighter pilot (* 1912 )
- November 4 : Alfred Jäger , Czech-German medic (* 1904 )
- November 6th : Donald Marcus Kelway Marendaz , British fighter pilot, entrepreneur, racing car driver and designer (* 1897 )
- November 7th : Morris Janowitz , American sociologist and political scientist (* 1919 )
- November 9th : Mario Nasalli Rocca di Corneliano , Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (* 1903 )
- November 9 : Clarke Hinkle , American football player (born 1909 )
- November 9 : John N. Mitchell , US attorney general (* 1913 )
- November 10 : Ildefonso Aroztegui , Uruguayan architect (* 1916 )
- November 10 : Reinhart Wolf , German photographer (* 1930 )
- November 12 : Tomasz Sikorski , Polish composer (* 1939 )
- November 12th : Lev Aronson , German cellist, cello teacher and composer (* 1912 )
- November 12 : Kusano Shinpei , Japanese poet (* 1903 )
- November 13 : Antal Doráti , Hungarian-American conductor (* 1906 )
- November 14 : Takeo Miki , 66th Prime Minister of Japan (* 1907 )
- November 15 : Giovanni Vittorio Amoretti , Italian literary historian, literary scholar and Germanist (* 1892 )
- November 17th : Jean-Claude Depince , French racing driver (* 1947 )
- November 18 : Erwin Heinz Ackerknecht , German politician (* 1906 )
- November 22nd : Raymond Arthur Dart , Australian anatomist and paleoanthropologist (* 1893 )
- November 22nd : Erich Fried , Austrian, primarily poet, translator and essayist (* 1921 )
- November 23 : Wieland Herzfelde , German publicist, author and publisher (* 1896 )
- November 24th : John William Corrington , American screenwriter (born 1932 )
- November 24th : Joachim Fernau , Prussian writer and painter (* 1909 )
- November 24th : Rudolf Zender , Swiss painter, graphic artist and draftsman (* 1901 )
- November 25th : Alphaeus Philemon Cole , American artist (* 1876 )
- November 25 : Bernhard Winkelheide , German politician (* 1908 )
- November 26th : Antonio Estévez , Venezuelan composer (* 1916 )
- November 27 : John Carradine , American actor (born 1906 )
- November 27 : Johannes Hendrikus Donner , Dutch chess grandmaster (* 1927 )
- November 29 : Hans Scholz , German writer, journalist and painter (* 1911 )
- November 30th : Pannonica de Koenigswarter , jazz patron (* 1913 )
December
- December 2 : Hans Jürgen von Arnswaldt , German forester (* 1897 )
- December 2 : Klaus-Joachim Zülch , German neuroscientist (* 1910 ).
- December 3 : Thawal Thamrong Navaswadhi , Thai politician and Prime Minister (* 1901 )
- December 4th : Gerd Arntz , German artist and graphic artist (* 1900 )
- December 4 : Alberto Uria , racing car driver from Uruguay (* 1924 )
- December 5 : August Lenz , German football player (* 1910 )
- December 6 : Roy Orbison , American country and rock singer (* 1936 )
- December 6th : Lambertus Johannes Bot , Dutch anti-militarist and anarchist (* 1897 )
- December 11 : Joseph Basmadjan , Syrian Archbishop (* 1920 )
- December 11 : Roberto Beracochea , Argentine writer (* 1909 )
- December 13 : Robert Urquhart , British officer (* 1901 )
- December 13th : André Jaunet , Swiss flautist (* 1911 )
- December 15 : Leonid Andrussow , German chemical engineer (* 1896 )
- December 16 : Sylvester James , American musician (born 1947 )
- December 18 : Milt Gantenbein , American football player (born 1909 )
- December 19 : Kurt Grigoleit , German cameraman (* 1924 )
- December 20 : Anni Schaad , founder of the Langani fashion jewelry workshop (* 1911 )
- December 21 : Gottfried Amann , German forest scientist (* 1901 )
- December 21 : Nikolaas Tinbergen , Dutch-British behavioral biologist (* 1907 )
- December 22nd : Chico Mendes , Brazilian entrepreneur (* 1944 )
- December 23 : Hermann Heimpel , German historian (* 1901 )
- December 23 : Georg Kurlbaum , German politician (* 1902 )
- December 23 : Hans Königs , German architect and city curator (* 1903 )
- December 24 : George W. Peters , Protestant missiologist (* 1907 )
- December 25th : Denis Matthews , English pianist, music teacher and musicologist (* 1919 )
- December 25 : Yevgeny Kirillowitsch Golubew , Russian composer (* 1910 )
- December 25th : Ōoka Shōhei , Japanese writer (* 1909 )
- December 26 : John Loder , British-American actor (* 1898 )
- December 27th : Hal Ashby , American film director (born 1929 )
- December 28 : Kurt Abraham , German jazz musician (* 1921 )
- December 28 : Karlfried Graf Dürckheim , German diplomat, psychotherapist and Zen master (* 1896 )
- December 29 : Émile Aillaud , French architect (* 1902 )
- December 29th : Mike Beuttler , British racing driver (* 1942 )
- December 30th : Isamu Noguchi , American sculptor (* 1904 )
- December 31 : Pepe Aguirre , Chilean tango singer (date of birth unknown)
- December 31 : Christopher Howard Andrewes , British virologist (* 1896 )
Date unknown
- Curt Ackermann , German actor, dubbing actor, dialogue book author and dubbing director (* 1905 )
- Zofia Adamska , Polish cellist and music teacher (* 1903 )
- Alexander Aigner , Austrian university professor (* 1909 )
- Gunnar Andersen , Norwegian ski jumper (* 1909 )
- Mehdi Barkeshli , Iranian musicologist and physicist (* 1912 )
- Enrique de Marchena y Dujarric , Dominican composer and diplomat (* 1908 )
- Curtis Hobock , American country and rockabilly musician (* 1926 )
- Stephen Murray-Smith , Australian editor and author (born 1922 )
- Alfredo Valdés , Cuban singer and band leader (* 1910 )
Nobel Prizes
- Physics : Leon Max Lederman , Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger
- Chemistry : Johann Deisenhofer , Robert Huber and Hartmut Michel
- Medicine : James W. Black , Gertrude B. Elion, and George H. Hitchings
- Literature : Naguib Mahfouz
- Nobel Peace Prize : peacekeepers of the United Nations
- Economics : Maurice Allais
music
- March 30th : Herbert Grönemeyer's album Ö is released.
- July 9th : The punk band Die Ärzte gives their farewell concert on Sylt.
- Bathory releases the album Blood Fire Death, which is considered a pioneering work of Viking Metal .
- Battalions of Fear, the first studio album by the German power metal and speed metal band Blind Guardian , is released by the Virgin Group .
- Metallica releases the album And Justice for All
- The punk rock band Pennywise is founded.
- "Gimme Hope Jo'anna" - Eddy Grant
- Celine Dion won the 33rd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland on April 30th in Dublin with the song “Ne partez pas sans moi”
- List of the number one hits in Germany (1988)
Web links
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