Sports year 1976
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badminton
The highlights of the badminton year 1976 were the Thomas Cup 1976 as well as the All England , the Irish Open , the Scottish Open , the German Open , the Dutch Open , the Denmark Open , the French Open and the European Championship .
International events
athletics
- June 22nd - Margarita Simu , Sweden walked the women's 10,000 meter walk in 49:04 minutes.
- June 28th - Tatjana Kasankina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 1500 meters in 3: 56.0 minutes.
- July 4th - Niklina Schterewa , Bulgaria , ran the women's 1000 meters in 2: 33.8 minutes.
- July 4 - Iwanka Christowa , Bulgaria , hit 21.89 meters in the women's shot put.
- July 10th - Ruth Fuchs , GDR , reached 69.12 meters in the women's javelin.
- July 25 - Alberto Juantorena , Cuba , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 43.5 minutes.
- July 25 - Edwin Moses , USA , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 47.64 seconds.
- July 25th - Annegret Richter , Germany , ran the women's 100 meters in 11.01 seconds.
- July 26 - Miklós Németh , Hungary , threw 94.58 meters in the men's javelin throw.
- July 26th - Tatiana Kasankina , Soviet Union , ran the 800 meters. of the women in 1: 54.9 minutes.
- July 28th - Anders Gärderud , Sweden , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 08.0 minutes.
- July 29 - Irena Szewińska , Poland , ran the women's 400 meters in 49.29 seconds.
- June 29 - Earl Bell , USA , reached 5.67 meters in the men's pole vault.
- June 30 - Daniel Bautista , Mexico , finished the men's 20,000-meter walk in 1:23:40 hours.
- July 1st - Mac Wilkins , USA , reached 70.86 meters in the men's discus throw.
- July 10 - Alexander Baryschnikow , Soviet Union , reached 22.00 meters in the men's shot put.
- July 12 - Valentina Gerasimowa , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 56.0 minutes.
- July 21 - Grete Waitz , Norway , ran the women's 3000 meters in 8: 45.4 minutes.
- July 22 - Irena Szewińska , Poland , ran the women's 400 meters in 49.75 seconds.
- July 22nd - David Roberts , USA , reached 5.70 meters in the men's pole vault.
- July 25th - Annegret Richter , GDR , ran the women's 100 meters in 11.01 seconds.
- July 25 - Edwin Moses , USA , ran the men's 400 meter hurdles in 47.64 seconds.
- July 28th - Tatjana Kasankina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 1500 meters in 3: 56.0 minutes.
- July 30 - Bruce Jenner , USA , scored 8,634 points in the men's decathlon.
- August 4th - Dwight Stones , USA , jumped 2.32 meters in the men's high jump.
- August 7 - Lyudmila Bragina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 3000 meters in 8: 27.1 minutes.
- August 16 - Alberto Juantorena , Cuba , ran the men's 800 meters in 1: 43.5 minutes.
- August 26 - Tatjana Kasankina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 800 meters in 1: 54.9 minutes.
- August 28th - Anders Gärderud , Sweden , ran the men's 3000 meter obstacle in 8: 08.0 minutes.
- August 29 - Irena Szewińska , Poland , ran the women's 400 meters in 49.29 seconds.
- August 30 - Bruce Jenner , USA , scored 8,618 points in the men's decathlon.
- September 6 - Lyudmila Bragina , Soviet Union , ran the women's 3000 meters in 8: 27.12 minutes.
- October 23 - Faina Melnik , Soviet Union , reached 70.50 meters in the women's discus throw.
Motorcycling
Formula 750
- The title in the motorcycle championship -counting formula 750 of the 28-year-old has secured Spaniard Víctor Palomo on Yamaha before the American Gary Nixon ( Kawasaki ) and the British Gary Nixon ( Suzuki ).
Details: 1976 Formula 750 season
tennis
- Grand Slam tournament winners (men):
- Grand Slam tournament winners (women):
Table tennis
- European table tennis championship 1976 March 27th to April 4th in Prague
- Internationals of Germany (friendlies)
- February 25: Hamburg: D. - China 2: 5 (men)
- February 25: Hamburg: D. - China 0: 5 (women)
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European League
- February 25: Düsseldorf: D. - Bulgaria 7: 0 (women + men)
- March 4: Innsbruck: D. - Austria 7-0 (women + men)
- September 30th: Erlangen: D. - Yugoslavia 5: 2 (women + men)
- October 14: Nancy: D. - France 1: 6 (women + men)
- November 4: Trier: D. - Sweden 2: 5 (women + men)
- December 15: Jülich: D. - USSR 2: 5 (women + men)
Born
January
- January 1st : Mustafa Doğan , German soccer player
- January 3 : Lee Hyung-taik , South Korean tennis player
- January 7th : Grigory Andreyev , Russian marathon runner
- January 9 : Amy Gillett , Australian rower and cyclist († 2005 )
- January 16 : Artyom Argokov , Kazakh ice hockey player
- January 16 : Martina Moravcová , Slovak swimmer
- January 20 : Til Bettenstaedt , German football player
- January 20th : Yann Pivois , French cyclist
- January 21 : Amin Asikainen , Finnish boxer
- January 21 : Igors Stepanovs , Latvian football player
- January 22nd : Li Ju , Chinese table tennis player
- January 27 : Ahn Jung-hwan , South Korean soccer player
- January 30th : Cristian Brocchi , Italian soccer player
- January 31 : Buddy Rice , American racing car driver
- January 31 : Traianos Dellas , Greek football player
February
- February 3rd : Stéphane Antiga , French volleyball player and coach
- February 4th : Masaki Kanō , Japanese racing car driver
- February 5th : Altan Aksoy , Turkish soccer player
- February 5 : John Aloisi , Australian football player and coach
- February 5th : Gökhan Arslan , Turkish kickboxer
- February 6th : Kasper Hvidt , Danish handball goalkeeper
- February 8 : Nicolas Vouilloz , French mountain biker and rally driver
- February 9th : Ionela Târlea , Romanian athlete
- February 10 : Carlos Jiménez Sánchez , Spanish basketball player
- February 11 : Ricardo , Portuguese soccer player
- February 11 : Alenka Dovžan , Slovenian skier
- February 12 : Carsten Mahnecke , German handball player
- February 13 : Jörg Bergmeister , German racing car driver
- February 15 : Francisco Neri , Brazilian soccer player
- February 15th : Óscar Freire , Spanish cyclist
- February 17th : Almira Scripcenco , French chess player
- February 17th : Dov Zifroni , Israeli chess player
- February 18 : Thomas Schmidt , German canoeist
- February 19 : Andrew Pitt , Australian motorcycle racer
- February 22nd : Christopher Isengwe , Tanzanian athlete
- February 23 : Víctor , Spanish soccer player
- February 24 : Marco Campos , Brazilian racing car driver († 1995 )
- February 24 : Bradley McGee , Australian cyclist
- February 25 : Samir Muratović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- February 26 : Andreas Nauroth , German soccer player
- February 26 : Mauro Lustrinelli , Swiss football player
- February 27 : Ludovic Capelle , Belgian cyclist
- February 27 : Enrico Fantini , Italian football player
- February 28 : Geri Çipi , Albanian football player
- February 28 : Anna Disselhoff , German handball player
- February 28 : Damian Wleklak , Polish handball player
- February 29th : Milaim Rama , Swiss football player
March
- March 1st : Alex Debón , Spanish motorcycle racer
- March 2nd : França , Brazilian soccer player
- March 4th : Vic Wunderle , American archer
- March 5 : Šarūnas Jasikevičius , Lithuanian basketball player
- March 5 : Tomáš Martinec , German ice hockey player
- March 5th : Carsten Cullmann , German soccer player
- March 8 : Nicole Aish , American long-distance runner
- March 9th : Anier García , Cuban athlete
- March 9th : Francisco Mancebo , Spanish cyclist
- March 10 : Eladio Jiménez , Spanish cyclist
- March 10 : Barbara Schett , Austrian tennis player
- March 12th : Andreas Erm , German athlete
- March 14th : Jan-Olaf Immel , German handball player
- March 14th : Sarah Ulmer , New Zealand cyclist
- March 14th : Phil Vickery , English rugby player
- March 16 : Zhu Chen , Chinese chess player
- March 16 : Pál Dárdai , Hungarian football player
- March 17th : Satoshi Hirose , Japanese cyclist
- March 17th : Álvaro Recoba , Uruguayan football player
- March 17th : Todd Perry , Australian tennis player
- March 19 : Alessandro Nesta , Italian football player
- March 20th : Kristian Hammer , Norwegian Nordic combined
- March 20 : Andrus Utsar , Estonian weightlifter
- March 22nd : Sven Butenschön , German-Canadian ice hockey player
- March 23 : Ricardo Zonta , Brazilian Formula 1 driver
- March 24 : Peyton Manning , American football player
- March 25th : Lars Figura , German 400-meter runner
- March 25 : Wladimir Klitschko , Ukrainian boxer
- March 26 : Óscar Sonejee , Andorran football player
- March 26 : Alex Varas , Chilean football player
- March 27 : Adrian Anca , Romanian football player and coach
- March 27th : Dmitri Kovalev , Russian rower
- March 28 : Haruchika Aoki , Japanese motorcycle racer
- March 29th : Igor Astarloa , Spanish cyclist
- March 29 : Jennifer Capriati , American tennis player
- March 30 : Obadele Thompson , track and field athlete
- March 31 : Jonas Ernelind , Swedish handball player († 2011 )
April
- April 1st : Gábor Király , Hungarian football player
- April 1st : Clarence Seedorf , Dutch football player
- April 4th : Emerson , Brazilian soccer player
- April 4 : Elvir Rahimić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- April 5th : Kai Michalke , German soccer player
- April 5th : Patrick Dama , German soccer player
- April 5th : Fernando Morientes , Spanish soccer player
- April 7th : Achilov Achilov , Uzbek wrestler
- April 7th : Dalibor Anušić , Croatian handball player
- April 7th : Martin Buss , German athlete
- April 7th : Stefan Ulrich , German water diver
- April 8 : Mathias Schober , German soccer player
- April 9th : Lars Rasmussen , Danish handball player
- April 10 : Sara Renner , Canadian cross-country skier
- April 11 : Antonio Pacheco , Uruguayan-Italian soccer player
- April 12 : Kuok Io Keong , Macau racing car driver
- April 12th : Olga Kotlyarova , Russian sprinter and middle-distance runner
- April 14th : Georgeta Damian , Romanian rower
- April 14th : Thomas Geierspichler , Austrian wheelchair athlete and Paralympic winner
- April 14th : Françoise Mbango Etone , Cameroonian athlete and Olympic champion
- April 15 : Markus Hausweiler , German soccer player
- April 15 : Seigō Narazaki , Japanese soccer player
- April 21 : Sergei Yakovlev , Kazakh cyclist
- April 22nd : Christian Wilhelmi , German chess player
- April 24th : Juan Manuel Gárate , Spanish cyclist
- April 25 : Rainer Schüttler , German tennis player
- April 25 : Gilberto da Silva Melo , Brazilian soccer player
- April 25 : Tim Duncan , American basketball player
- April 26th : Thiago Machado dos Santos , Brazilian triathlete († 2005 )
- April 27th : Olaf Tufte , Norwegian rower
- April 29 : Fabio Liverani , Italian football player and coach
- April 29th : Chiyotaikai Ryūji , Japanese sumo wrestler
- April 29th : Maja Savić , Montenegrin handball player
May
- May 2nd : Wahyu Pelita Agung Setiawan , Indonesian badminton player
- May 2nd : Rikke Hørlykke , Danish handball player
- May 3 : Osamah Al-Shanqiti , Saudi Arabian athlete
- May 3rd : Beto , Portuguese soccer player
- May 3 : Vanda Hădărean , Romanian gymnast
- May 4th : Simon Jentzsch , German soccer player
- May 4th : Mariusz Jurasik , Polish handball player
- May 5th : Juan Pablo Sorín , Argentinian football player
- May 7th : Thomas Biagi , Italian racing car driver
- May 9 : Jeff Simmons , American racing car driver
- May 13 : Marcelo Pletsch , Brazilian soccer player
- May 13 : Grzegorz Szamotulski , Polish football player
- May 14th : Attila Tököli , Hungarian football player
- May 15 : Jacek Krzynówek , Polish football player
- May 17th : Daniel Komen , Kenyan athlete (medium and long distance runner)
- May 17th : Mayte Martínez , Spanish athlete
- May 18 : Anna Ottosson , Swedish ski racer
- May 19 : Kevin Garnett , American basketball player
- May 20th : Virpi Kuitunen , Finnish cross-country skier
- May 21 : Julia Abe , German tennis player
- May 25th : Stefan Holm , Swedish athlete
- May 27th : Marcel Fässler , Swiss racing driver
- May 27 : Jiří Štajner , Czech football player
- May 28 : Alexei Nemow , Russian gymnast and Olympic champion
- May 28 : Michael Thurk , German soccer player
- May 29 : Claudio Roberto da Silva , Brazilian soccer player
- May 29 : Alexander Job , German handball player and trainer
- May 30th : Magnus Norman , Swedish tennis player
- May 31 : Steve Jenkner , German motorcycle racer
- May 31st : Roar Ljøkelsøy , Norwegian ski jumper
June
- June 3 : Jens Kruppa , German swimmer
- June 5 : Belinda Halloran , Australian duathlete and triathlete
- June 6th : Oxana Romenskaja , Russian handball player
- June 7 : Jacqueline Akerman , Canadian biathlete and biathlon coach
- June 8th : Aziz Zakari , Ghanaian athlete
- June 8 : Lindsay Davenport , American tennis player
- June 9 : Kayode Akinsanya , Nigerian badminton player
- June 9th : Sedat Artuç , Turkish weightlifter
- June 10 : Markus Brodbeck , German handball goalkeeper and coach
- June 12 : Thomas Sørensen , Danish football player
- June 13th : Vivi Andreasen , Faroese soccer player
- June 13 : Marc Ziegler , German football goalkeeper
- June 14th : Massimo Oddo , Italian football player
- June 17th : Sven Nys , Belgian cyclocross rider
- June 17th : Pyotr Swidler , Russian chess player
- June 18 : Thomas Riedl , German soccer player
- June 20 : Juliano Belletti , Brazilian soccer player
- June 21 : René Aufhauser , Austrian soccer player
- June 21 : Miroslav Karhan , Slovak football player
- June 21 : Anton Tschermashenzew , Russian rower
- June 23 : Paola Suárez , Argentinian tennis player
- June 23 : Patrick Vieira , French soccer player
- June 25 : José Cancela , Uruguayan soccer player
- June 26th : Maikel Aerts , Dutch soccer player
- June 28th : Shinobu Asagoe , Japanese tennis player
- June 28th : Sheila Herrero , Spanish speed skater
- June 28th : Gleb Pissarewski , Russian weightlifter
- June 28th : Hans Sarpei , Ghanaian soccer player
- June 29th : Mohamed Bahari , Algerian amateur boxer
- June 29th : Daniel Carlsson , Swedish rally driver
- June 30th : Angela Akers , American beach volleyball and volleyball player
- June 30th : Ellen Angelina , Indonesian badminton player
July
- July 1st : Szymon Ziółkowski , Polish athlete
- July 1st : Rigobert Song , Cameroonian-Turkish soccer player
- July 1st : Patrick Kluivert , Dutch football player
- July 1st : Ruud van Nistelrooy , Dutch football player
- July 2nd : Idalina Borges Mesquita , Brazilian handball player
- July 2nd : Tomáš Vokoun , Czech ice hockey player
- July 2nd : Krisztián Lisztes , Hungarian football player
- July 3 : Wade Belak , Canadian ice hockey player († 2011 )
- July 4th : Daijirō Katō , Japanese motorcycle racer († 2003 )
- July 4th : Yevgenia Medvedeva-Arbusowa , Russian cross-country skier and Olympic champion
- July 5th : Nuno Gomes , Portuguese soccer player
- July 6th : Ophélie David , French freestyle skier
- July 8 : Sergei Kazakov , Russian boxer
- July 8th : Ellen MacArthur , British sailor
- July 8 : Wang Liping , Chinese athlete and Olympic champion
- July 9th : Thomas Cichon , German soccer player
- July 9th : Jochem Uytdehaage , Dutch speed skater
- July 10th : Lars Ricken , German soccer player
- July 10 : Ludovic Giuly , French football player
- July 11 : Christina Scherwin , Danish athlete
- July 12th : Guillaume Gille , French handball player
- July 15th : Fredrick Canon , Nauruan athlete
- July 15 : Marco Di Vaio , Italian football player
- July 16 : Claudia Riegler , New Zealand ski racer
- July 17th : Anders Svensson , Swedish football player
- July 20 : Michal Kolomazník , Czech football player
- July 20 : Alex Yoong , Malaysian racing car driver
- July 21 : Wahid Hashemian , Iranian soccer player
- July 21 : Tatiana Lebedewa , Russian athlete and Olympic champion
- July 22 : Almedin Hota , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- July 22nd : Janek Tombak , Estonian cyclist
- July 23 : Judith Arndt , German cyclist
- July 23 : Jörg Jaksche , German cyclist
- July 23 : Judit Polgár , Hungarian chess player
- July 24th : Michael Aish , New Zealand long distance runner
- July 24 : Rafer Alston , American basketball player
- July 24th : Tiago Monteiro , Portuguese racing car driver
- July 24th : Francesc Reguera , Andorran football player
- July 26th : Pável Pardo , Mexican soccer player
- July 28th : Oliver Köhrmann , German handball player
- July 31 : Yamba Asha , Angolan soccer player
- July 31 : Salvatore Lanna , Italian football player and coach
- July 31 : Paulo Wanchope , Costa Rican soccer player
August
- August 1st : Nwankwo Kanu , Nigerian soccer player
- August 1st : Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu , Romanian chess player
- August 1st : Hasan Şaş , Turkish football player
- August 2nd : Kati Wilhelm , German biathlete
- August 7th : Dimitrios Eleftheropoulos , Greek football goalkeeper
- August 10 : Ricardo Andrés Aparicio De la Quintana , Uruguayan football player
- August 12 : Sørenn Rasmussen , Danish handball player
- August 12 : Manuel Jiménez Soria , Andorran football player
- August 14th : Thomas Kläsener , German soccer player
- August 15 : Boudewijn Zenden , Dutch football player
- August 17th : Olena Krassowska , Ukrainian hurdler and Olympic runner-up
- August 18 : Paraskevas Antzas , Greek football player
- August 18 : Michael Greis , German biathlete
- August 19 : Amiran Kartanow , Greek wrestler
- August 22nd : Marlies Oester , Swiss ski racer
- August 22nd : Olena Tatarkova , Ukrainian tennis player
- August 23 : LaTasha Colander , American athlete
- August 27 : Ivan Benito , Swiss-Spanish soccer player
- August 27th : Carlos Moyá , Spanish tennis player
- August 27 : Benoît Poilvet , French cyclist
- August 27 : Mark Webber , Australian Formula 1 racing driver
- August 28 : Tyree Washington , American track and field athlete
- August 29 : Jon Dahl Tomasson , Danish football player
- August 31 : Roque Júnior , Brazilian soccer player
September
- September 1st : Ivano Brugnetti , Italian athlete
- September 1 : Mauro Cantoro , Argentine-Polish soccer player
- September 2nd : Michel Jourdain junior , Mexican racing car driver
- September 2nd : Marchy Lee , Hong Kong-Chinese racing car driver
- September 3 : Samuel Kuffour , Ghanaian-German soccer player
- September 4th : Mario-Ernesto Rodríguez Berutti , Uruguayan-Italian football player
- September 6 : Ian Ashbee , English football player
- September 6 : Tom Pappas , American athlete
- September 7 : Steve Fitzsimmons , Australian soccer player
- September 7th : Francesc Ramírez , Andorran football player
- September 8th : Sjeng Schalken , Dutch tennis player
- September 10 : Gustavo Kuerten , Brazilian tennis player
- September 11th : Marco Rose , German soccer player
- September 12 : Gérard Calvet , Andorran football player
- September 12th : Jolanda Čeplak , Slovenian athlete
- September 13th : Tami Kiuru , Finnish ski jumper
- September 13 : José Théodore , Canadian ice hockey player
- September 13 : Reto von Arx , Swiss ice hockey player
- September 14 : Birkir Ívar Guðmundsson , Icelandic handball player
- September 14th : Dirk Heidolf , German motorcycle racer
- September 14th : Georgeta Narcisa Lecușanu , Romanian handball player
- September 14th : Andrea Schaller , German soccer player
- September 19 : Jerden Äbdirachmanow , Kazakh biathlete
- September 20 : Christian Hohenadel , German automobile racing driver
- September 21 : Jana Kandarr , German tennis player
- September 22nd : Yannick Pelletier , Swiss chess player
- September 22nd : Ronaldo , Brazilian soccer player
- September 23 : Katja Poensgen , German motorcycle racer
- September 24th : Adrian Aliaj , Albanian football player
- September 24th : Mikel Artetxe Gezuraga , Spanish cyclist
- September 24th : Claus Møller Jakobsen , Danish handball player
- September 25 : Chauncey Billups , American basketball player
- September 25 : Armando Teixeira , Portuguese soccer player
- September 26th : Michael Ballack , German soccer player
- September 27 : Francesco Totti , Italian football player
- September 28 : Frank von Behren , German handball player
- September 28 : Fyodor Jemeljanenko , Russian sambo and MMA fighter
- September 29th : Mark Edusei , Ghanaian soccer player
- September 29th : Mandy Kerkossa , German handball player
- September 29 : Andrij Shevchenko , Ukrainian football player and coach
- September 29th : Óscar Sevilla , Spanish cyclist
October
- October 1st : Ümit Karan , Turkish soccer player
- October 2 : Anita Kulcsár , Hungarian handball player († 2005 )
- October 3rd : Christian Hassa , German soccer player
- October 4th : Mauro Camoranesi , Argentine-Italian soccer player
- October 5th : Sven Lintjens , German soccer player
- October 6 : Karen Dochojan , Armenian soccer player
- October 6 : Alexei Dudukalo , Russian racing car driver
- October 7th : Gilberto Silva , Brazilian soccer player
- October 7th : Santiago Hernán Solari , Argentinian football player
- October 8 : Renate Groenewold , Dutch speed skater
- October 8 : Roland Kollmann , Austrian soccer player
- October 9th : Jyhan Artut , German dart player
- October 10 : Katja Beer , German biathlete
- October 10 : Levan Tskitishvili , Georgian football player
- October 11th : Jochen Seitz , German soccer player
- October 12th : Kajsa Bergqvist , Swedish high jumper
- October 13 : Fabricio Fabio Fuentes , Argentine soccer player
- October 13 : Nawaf Shukralla , Bahraini football referee
- October 14th : Andreas Widhölzl , Austrian ski jumper
- October 15th : Elisa Aguilar López , Spanish basketball player
- October 15th : Duško Pavasovič , Slovenian chess grandmaster
- October 16 : Nándor Fazekas , Hungarian handball player
- October 17 : Washington Sebastián Abreu Gallo , Uruguayan soccer player
- October 18 : Kjell Carlström , Finnish cyclist
- October 20th : Petr Dlask , Czech cyclocross rider
- October 20 : Nicola Legrottaglie , Italian football player
- October 21 : Mélanie Turgeon , Canadian ski racer
- October 22 : Alexander Abt , Russian figure skater
- October 22nd : Luke Adams , Australian walker
- October 25 : Ahmad al-Duchi al-Dussari , Saudi Arabian soccer player
- October 25 : Anton Sicharulidze , Russian figure skater and Olympic champion
- October 26th : Filipe de Souza , Macau racing car driver
- October 27 : Ariel Miguel Santiago Ibagaza , Argentinian-Spanish soccer player
- October 27 : David Terrien , French racing car driver
- October 29th : Kurt Sulzenbacher , Italian ski racer
- October 31 : Sascha Bertow , German handball player
- October 31 : Guti , Spanish soccer player
November
- November 1st : Jarbi Álvarez , Belizean football player
- November 1st : Stefan Lexa , Austrian soccer player
- November 2nd : Thierry Omeyer , French handball goalkeeper
- November 4th : Bruno Junqueira , Brazilian racing car driver
- November 4th : Alexander Popp , German tennis player
- November 4th : Makoto Tamada , Japanese motorcycle racer
- November 5th : Jörg Michalewicz , German handball player
- November 6 : Robson Ponte , Brazilian soccer player
- November 6 : Pat Tillman , American football player († 2004 )
- November 7th : Alberto Entrerríos , Spanish handball player and coach
- November 8 : Jawhar Mnari , Tunisian football player
- November 9th : Tochiazuma Daisuke , Japanese sumo wrestler
- November 10 : Shefki Kuqi , Finnish football player
- November 12th : Dmitri Dorofejew , Russian speed skater and Olympic medalist
- November 13 : Kelly Sotherton , British athlete
- November 13 : Albina Akhatova , Russian biathlete
- November 14th : Ricardo Andorinho , Portuguese handball player
- November 17th : Ervin Skela , Albanian football player
- November 19 : Toby Stevenson , American athlete
- November 20 : Pascal Roller , German basketball player
- November 22nd : Regina Halmich , German boxer
- November 22nd : Torsten Frings , German soccer player
- November 24th : Chen Lu , Chinese figure skater
- November 29th : Elisabeth Hilmo Meyer , Norwegian handball player
December
- December 1st : David Rasmussen , Danish football player
- December 2nd : Heiko Meyer , German water diver
- December 3 : Mark Boucher , South African cricketer
- December 4th : Mbo Mpenza , Belgian football player
- December 4th : Roman Sarubin , Russian canoeist
- December 6th : Michael Jahns , German handball player
- December 8th : Dušan Andrašovský , Slovak ice hockey player
- December 11th : Shareef Abdur-Rahim , American basketball player
- December 11th : László Bodrogi , Hungarian cyclist
- December 12th : Ivo Rüthemann , Swiss ice hockey player
- December 13th : Viola Bauer , German cross-country skier
- December 14th : André Couto , Portuguese-Macau racing car driver
- December 17th : Patrick Müller , Swiss soccer player
- December 17th : Stefan Strack , German handball player
- December 18 : Andrea Belicchi , Italian racing car driver
- December 18 : Sun Ribo , Chinese biathlete
- December 20 : Rafael Calero , Andorran football player
- December 21 : José Fernando Antogna , Argentine track and road cyclist
- December 22nd : Jaap van Lagen , Dutch racing driver
- December 23 : Torsten Jansen , German handball player
- December 23 : Sergej Jakirović , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- December 23 : Julia Tschepalowa , Russian cross-country skier
- December 23 : Joanna Hayes , American athlete and Olympic champion
- December 24th : Marion Rodewald , German hockey player
- December 26th : Andrea Absolonová , Czech high diver († 2004 )
- December 26th : Janina Prawalinskaja-Karoltschyk , Belarusian shot putter and Olympic champion
- December 31 : Luís Carreira , Portuguese motorcycle racer († 2012 )
Died
- January 1 : Xaver Gmelch , German motorcycle racer (* 1899 )
- April 2 : Otto von Müller , German tennis player (* 1875 )
- April 8 : Alberto Barberis , Italian football player and lawyer (* 1883 )
- May 22nd : Imerio Testori , Italian motorcycle racer (* 1950 )
- June 26 : Helmut Hallmeier , German motorcycle racer (* 1933 )
- September 25 : Carlo Mattrel , Italian football player (* 1937 )
- November 3 : Giuseppe Cavanna , Italian football player (* 1905 )
- November 4 : Toni Ulmen , German motorcycle and automobile racing driver (* 1906 )
See also
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