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Clockwise from top-left: the
Argentine coup d'état overthrew
Isabel Perón as President of Argentina;
VHS is released; an
earthquake in
Guatemala killed 23,000 people; a series of
demonstrations and protests led by black school children in
South Africa under apartheid takes place; the
United States celebrates its
bicentennial ; a
counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the
IDF at
Entebbe Airport in
Uganda takes place; the
1976 Summer Olympics are held in
Montreal ,
Quebec ; an
earthquake hits
Tangshan killing 242,769 people.
Calendar year
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1976 .
1976 (
MCMLXXVI ) was a
leap year starting on Thursday of the
Gregorian calendar , the 1976th year of the
Common Era (CE) and
Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the
2nd millennium , the 76th year of the
20th century , and the 7th year of the
1970s decade.
Calendar year
Events
January
February
March
March – The
Cray-1 , the first commercially developed
supercomputer , is released by
Seymour Cray 's
Cray Research , with the first purchaser being the
Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) in
Los Alamos, New Mexico .
[6]
March 1
March 4
March 9 –
A cable car disaster in
Cavalese , Italy leaves 43 dead.
March 9 –
11 – Two coal mine explosions claim 26 lives at the Blue Diamond Coal Co. Scotia Mine, in
Letcher County, Kentucky .
March 14 – After eight years on NBC,
The Wizard of Oz returns to
CBS , where it will remain until 1999, setting what is likely a record at that time for the most telecasts of a Hollywood film on a commercial television network. (That record is broken by
The Ten Commandments in 1996, which began its annual network telecasts on
ABC in 1973, continuing be telecast by that network as of 2020.)
March 16 –
Harold Wilson resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
March 17 – American boxer
Rubin Carter is retried in
New Jersey for murder; his conviction is upheld on this occasion but will be overturned in 1985.
March 20 –
Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a
San Francisco bank in
1974 .
March 22 –
Star Wars begins filming in
Tunisia .
March 23 – In a feud between Japanese ultranationalists,
Mitsuyasu Maeno attempts to assassinate
Yoshio Kodama by flying a plane into his Tokyo house.
March 24
March 26
March 27
March 29 – The
military dictatorship of General
Jorge Videla comes to power in
Argentina .
March 30 –
Land Day :
Arab citizens of Israel protest against intended appropriation of land by the government.
March 31 – The
New Jersey Supreme Court rules that patient in a
persistent vegetative state in the
Karen Ann Quinlan case can be disconnected from her
ventilator . She remains comatose and dies in
1985 .
March late – The first truly complete recording of the opera
Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by
Decca Records in England and by
London Records in the U.S. It stars
Willard White and
Leona Mitchell . The orchestra is the
Cleveland Orchestra conducted by
Lorin Maazel .
April
April 1
April 2 –
Norodom Sihanouk is forced to resign as Head of State of Kampuchea by the
Khmer Rouge led by
Pol Pot and is placed under house arrest.
April 3 – The
Eurovision Song Contest 1976 is won by
Brotherhood of Man , representing the United Kingdom, with their song
Save Your Kisses for Me .
April 5
April 10 –
Frampton Comes Alive! , the multi-platinum selling live album by English rock musician
Peter Frampton hits #1 in the
Billboard 200 and remains there for 10 weeks, becoming the best-selling album of the year.
April 11 – Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launch the first Apple computer, the
Apple I , for the U.S. hobbyist market.
April 13
April 16 – As a measure to curb
population growth , the minimum age for marriage in India is raised to 21 years for men and 18 years for women.
April 19 – A
violent F5 tornado strikes around
Brownwood, Texas , injuring 11 people. Two people were thrown at least 1,000 yards (910 m) by the tornado and survived uninjured.
[8]
[9]
April 21 – The
Great Bookie Robbery in
Melbourne : Bandits steal A$1.4 million in bookmakers' settlements from Queen Street, Melbourne.
April 23
April 25 – Portugal's
new constitution is enacted.
April 29 –
Sino-Soviet split : A concealed bomb explodes at the gates of the Soviet embassy in China, killing four Chinese.
[10] The targets were embassy employees, returning from lunch, but on this day they had returned to the embassy earlier.
[10]
May
May 1 –
Neville Wran becomes
Premier of New South Wales .
May 4
The first
LAGEOS (Laser Geodynamics Satellite) is launched.
A train crash in
Schiedam , the Netherlands, kills 24 people.
May 6 – An
earthquake hits the Friuli area in Italy, killing more than 900 people and making another 100,000 homeless.
May 9 –
Ulrike Meinhof of the
Red Army Faction is found hanged in an apparent suicide in her Stuttgart-Stammheim prison cell.
May 11
May 13 – The
Atari video arcade game
Breakout is released.
May 16 – The
Montreal Canadiens sweep the
Philadelphia Flyers in four games to win the
Stanley Cup in ice hockey. Flyers forward
Reggie Leach became the only non-goaltender from a finals losing team to win the
Conn Smythe Trophy as MVP of the playoffs after scoring a record 19 goals in 16 playoff games.
May 21
The
Yuba City bus disaster , the second-worst bus crash in U.S. history, leaves 28 students and one teacher killed.
The "Famous Fire" in
McKeesport, Pennsylvania , destroys seven downtown structures, damages more than 12 others, and starts fires in at least 10 homes.
May 24
Washington, D.C.
Concorde service begins.
The Judgment of Paris pits French vs. California wines in a blind taste-test in Paris, France. California wines win the contest, surprising the wine world and opening the wine industry to newcomers in several countries.
May 25 – U.S. President
Gerald Ford defeats challenger
Ronald Reagan in 3
Republican presidential primaries:
Kentucky ,
Tennessee and
Oregon .
May 30 –
Indianapolis 500 automobile race:
Johnny Rutherford wins the (rain-shortened) shortest race in event history to date, at 102 laps or 408 kilometres (254 mi).
May 31 – Syria
intervenes in the Lebanese Civil War in opposition to the
Palestine Liberation Organization , which it has previously supported.
June
June 1 – The United Kingdom and
Iceland end the
Third Cod War , with the UK accepting Iceland's extension of its territorial waters to 200 nautical miles in exchange for defined fishing rights.
June 2
June 4 – The
Boston Celtics defeat the
Phoenix Suns 128–126 in triple overtime in Game 5 of the
National Basketball Association Finals at the
Boston Garden . In 1997, the game is selected by a panel of experts as the greatest of the NBA's first 50 years.
June 5 – The
Teton Dam collapses in southeast
Idaho in the US, killing 11 people.
June 6 – The
Double Six Crash , a plane crash in
Kota Kinabalu ,
Malaysia , kills everyone on board, including
Sabahan
Chief Minister
Tun Fuad Stephens .
June 12 –
Alberto Demicheli , a jurist, is inaugurated as a civilian
de facto President of Uruguay after
Juan María Bordaberry is deposed by the military.
June 13 – Savage thunderstorms roll through the state of
Iowa , spawning several tornadoes, including an F-5
tornado that destroys the town of
Jordan .
June 14 – The trial begins at
Oxford Crown Court in England of
Donald Neilson , the multiple killer known as the Black Panther. He will be convicted and serve the remainder of his life in prison.
June 16
June 17 – The
National Basketball Association and the
American Basketball Association agree on the
ABA–NBA merger .
June 20
Hundreds of Western tourists are moved from
Beirut and taken to safety in
Syria by the U.S. military, following the murder of the U.S. Ambassador.
General elections are held in Italy, resulting in the best result for the Communist Party (PCI) in a general election.
Czechoslovakia beats
West Germany 5–3 on
penalties to win
Euro 76 when the game ends 2–2 after extra time.
June 25 – Strikes start in Poland (
Ursus ,
Radom ,
Płock ) after communists raise
food prices ; they end on
June 30 .
June 26 – The
CN Tower is opened in Toronto, the tallest free-standing land structure opens to the public.
June 27
June 28 – Inauguration of the north lane of the
Rodovia dos Imigrantes .
June 29
July
Italian tall ship
Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor during the
United States Bicentennial celebration.
July 2 –
North Vietnam dissolves the
Provisional Government of
South Vietnam and unites the two countries to form the
Socialist Republic of
Vietnam .
July 3
July 4
July 6 – The first class of women is inducted at the
United States Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland .
July 7
German left-wing women terrorists Monika Berberich, Gabriella Rollnick, Juliane Plambeck and Inge Viett escape from the Lehrter Straße maximum security prison in
West Berlin .
David Steel becomes leader of the UK's Liberal Party in the aftermath of the scandal which forced out
Jeremy Thorpe .
July 10
Four
mercenaries , three British and one American, are shot by firing squad in
Angola , following the
Luanda Trial .
Seveso disaster : An explosion in Seveso, Italy, causes extensive pollution to a large area in the neighborhood of Milan, with many evacuations and a large number of people affected by the toxic cloud.
July 12 – In the United States:
July 15
July 16 –
20 –
Albert Spaggiari and his gang break into the vault of the Société Generale Bank in
Nice , France.
July 17
July 18 – 14-year-old Romanian gymnast
Nadia Comăneci earns the first of seven perfect scores of 10 at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
July 19 –
Sagarmatha National Park in
Nepal is created.
July 20
July 21 – A
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb kills
Christopher Ewart-Biggs , new British ambassador to the Irish Republic, and Judith Cooke, a Northern Ireland Office private secretary, in Dublin; two others are seriously wounded but survive.
July 26 – In Los Angeles,
Ronald Reagan announces his choice of liberal U.S. Senator
Richard Schweiker as his vice presidential running mate, in an effort to woo moderate
Republican delegates away from President
Gerald Ford .
July 27
July 28 – The
Tangshan earthquake flattens
Tangshan , China, killing 242,769 people, and injuring 164,851.
July 29 – In New York City, the "
Son of Sam " pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing one and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
July 30
July 31
August
Tsunami damage at
barangay Tibpuan, Lebak, Mindanao
August 1
August 2 – A gunman murders
Andrea Wilborn and
Stan Farr and injures
Priscilla Davis and Gus Gavrel, in an incident at Priscilla's mansion in
Fort Worth, Texas .
T. Cullen Davis , Priscilla's husband and one of the richest men in Texas, is tried and found innocent for Andrea's murder, involvement in a plot to kill several people (including Priscilla and a judge), and a wrongful death lawsuit. Cullen goes broke afterwards.
August 5 – The clock of "
Big Ben " at the
Palace of Westminster in London suffers internal damage and requires frequent repairs. The clock is stopped at times on 26 of the next 275 days.
August 6 – Former United Kingdom Postmaster General
John Stonehouse is sentenced to 7 years' jail for fraud, theft and forgery.
August 7 –
Viking program :
Viking 2 enters into orbit around
Mars .
August 8 – As part of the
American Basketball Association–National Basketball Association merger ,
a dispersal draft is conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which have folded.
August 10 –
13 –
Hurricane Belle hits
Long Island and southern
New England . Twelve people are killed by the storm and damage is $100 million.
August 11 – A sniper rampage in
Wichita, Kansas on a
Holiday Inn results in 3 deaths while 7 others are wounded.
[15]
August 14
August 16 – The
Ramones make their first "professional" performance at
CBGB in New York City.
August 17 – The 8.0 Mw
Moro Gulf earthquake hits off the coast of
Mindanao ,
Philippines , triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless.
[16]
August 18 – At Panmunjom,
North Korea , two United States soldiers are killed while trying to
chop down part of a tree in the
Korean Demilitarized Zone which has obscured their view.
August 19 – U.S. President
Gerald Ford edges out challenger
Ronald Reagan to win the
Republican Party presidential nomination in
Kansas City .
August 21 –
Disappearance of Andy Puglisi :
Massachusetts child Angelo "Andy" Puglisi goes missing from a public pool near his home; the case is never solved.
August 24 – In
Uruguay , the army captures Marcelo Gelman and his pregnant wife. Gelman is later killed and his wife disappears.
August 25
August 26
August 28 – Actress
Anissa Jones , famous for playing Buffy Davis in the television series
Family Affair , is found dead of an accidental overdose in
Oceanside, California .
August 30 –
James Alexander George Smith McCartney is sworn in as the first
chief minister of the
Turks and Caicos Islands .
September
October
October 4 : The
InterCity 125
high-speed train is introduced in the UK; services begin two days later.
October 1 –
Hurricane Liza killed more than 600 people in
Mexico 's
Baja California Peninsula , striking the resort city of
La Paz, Baja California Sur where 350 people died, and another 280 in the surrounding area.
October 4 – The
InterCity 125
high-speed train is introduced in the United Kingdom.
October 6
October 8 –
Thorbjörn Fälldin replaces
Olof Palme as
Prime Minister of
Sweden .
October 9 –
Pittsburgh Pirates baseball pitcher
Bob Moose is killed in a car crash in
Ohio on his 29th birthday.
October 10 – Taiwan Governor
Hsieh Tung-min is injured by a letter bomb from a pro-independence activist.
October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that
Hua Guofeng is the successor to
Mao Zedong as
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party following the latter's death on September 9 from a
heart attack .
October 13 – The
United States Commission on Civil Rights releases the report, Puerto Ricans in the Continental United States: An Uncertain Future, that documents that
Puerto Ricans in the United States have a poverty rate of 33 percent in 1974 (up from 29 percent in 1970), the highest of all major racial-ethnic groups in the country (not including
Puerto Rico , a U.S. territory).
October 18 –
Ford officially launches volume production of the
Fiesta car at its
Valencia plant in Spain.
October 19
October 20 – The
Mississippi River ferry
MV George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing from
Destrehan, Louisiana to
Luling, Louisiana , killing 78 passengers and crew.
October 22
October 24 –
James Hunt wins a very political
Formula One World Championship by just 1 point driving a
McLaren M23 -D as rival
Niki Lauda retires from the
Japanese Grand Prix due to heavy rain.
October 25 – Clarence Norris, the last known survivor of the
Scottsboro Boys , is pardoned.
October 26 –
Transkei gains "independence" from
South Africa .
October 28 – British evolutionary biologist
Richard Dawkins ' book
The Selfish Gene is published, introducing the term
memetics .
November
December
December 1
December 3
December 4 – The
Central African Republic officially becomes a monarchy as the
Central African Empire , and President
Jean-Bedel Bokassa proclaims himself
Emperor Bokassa I .
December 5 – The
Japanese general election takes place, and the ruling
Liberal Democratic Party loses its majority in the 511-member
House of Representatives , but remains the largest party with 249 seats.
December 6 – The
Viet Cong is disbanded, and its former members become a part of the
Vietnam People's Army .
December 8 – The
Congressional Hispanic Caucus is established by the five Latinos in the United States Congress:
Herman Badillo of the Bronx, E. de la Garza and
Henry B. Gonzalez of Texas,
Edward R. Roybal of California, and the nonvoting Resident Commissioner of
Puerto Rico ,
Baltasar Corrada del Río .
December 10 – The
United Nations General Assembly adopts the
Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques .
December 15
December 17 – The
1976 remake of the 1933 King Kong film , starring
Jessica Lange and
Jeff Bridges , debuts in 974 theatres in the
United States and
Canada by Italian film producer
Dino De Laurentiis . The film becomes a big financial hit for
Paramount Pictures , despite mixed reviews.
December 23 – A new volcano,
Murara , erupts in eastern
Zaire .
Date unknown
Births
January
Paz Vega
Michael Peña
February
Isla Fisher
Tony Jaa
Abhishek Bachchan
Charlie Day
Janet Varney
Kelly Macdonald
Rashida Jones
February 1
February 2
February 3
February 4 –
Cam'ron , African-American rapper
February 5
February 6
February 9 –
Charlie Day , American actor
February 10 –
Lance Berkman , American baseball player
February 10 –
Keeley Hawes , British actress
February 11 –
Brice Beckham , American actor
February 12
February 14 –
Erica Leerhsen , American actress
February 15 –
Brandon Boyd , American singer-songwriter and author
February 16
February 17 –
Svein Berge , Norwegian musician (
Röyksopp )
February 18 –
Chanda Rubin , American tennis player
[33]
February 20
February 21 –
Michael McIntyre , British stand-up comedian
February 23
February 24
February 25 –
Rashida Jones , American actress, writer, model and musician
February 27
February 28
February 29
March
Freddie Prinze Jr.
Danny Masterson
Corey Stoll
Rachael MacFarlane
Reese Witherspoon
Peyton Manning
Wladimir Klitschko
Ayako Kawasumi
Vice Ganda
March 1
March 3
March 5
March 6 –
Ken Anderson , American professional wrestler (Mr. Anderson)
March 8
March 9 –
Yamila Diaz-Rahi , Argentinean model
March 10 –
Miroslav Kostadinov , Bulgarian singer and songwriter
March 11
March 12 –
Zhao Wei , Chinese singer and actress
March 13 –
Danny Masterson , American actor
March 14
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 18
Emma Willis , English television presenter and former model
FanFan , American-born Taiwanese singer-songwriter
March 19
March 20 –
Chester Bennington , American singer (
Linkin Park ) (d.
2017 )
March 21 –
Rachael MacFarlane , American actress and singer, sister of
Seth MacFarlane
March 22
March 23
March 24
March 25
March 26
March 27
March 29 –
Jennifer Capriati , American tennis player
March 30
March 31 –
Vice Ganda , Filipino comedian
April
Troy Baker
David Oyelowo
Candace Cameron Bure
Glenn Howerton
Lukas Haas
Melissa Joan Hart
Wyatt Cenac
Joey Lawrence
Sally Hawkins
April 1
April 2
April 3 –
Will Mellor , English actor
April 4
April 5
April 6 –
Candace Cameron Bure , American actress
April 7 –
Eric Wareheim , American comedian
April 9 –
April 10 –
Jan Werner Danielsen , Norwegian singer (d.
2006 )
April 11 –
Mimi Morales , Colombian actress
April 12 –
Andrei Lipanov , Russian ice skater
April 13
April 14 –
Anna DeForge , American basketball player
April 15
April 16
April 17 –
Monet Mazur , American actress
April 18
April 19
April 20
April 21
April 22 –
Michał Żewłakow , Polish footballer
April 23
April 24
April 25
April 26 –
Elisabet Reinsalu , Estonian actress
April 27 –
Sally Hawkins , English actress
April 28
April 29
April 30 –
Ankaralı Namık , Turkish singer
May
Anza
Michele Frangilli
Anže Logar
Ana Paula Valadão
Cillian Murphy
Colin Farrell
May 1
May 3
May 4
Jason Michaels , American baseball player
Anza , Japanese actress and singer best known for playing the character of
Sailor Moon in some Sailor Moon musical
May 5
May 6 –
Marshall Burt , American railroader and politician
May 7
May 8
May 10
May 11 –
Kardinal Offishall , Canadian rapper
May 14 –
Martine McCutcheon , British actress and singer
May 15
May 16 –
Ana Paula Valadão , Brazilian worship leader, singer-songwriter, pastor, author and television presenter
May 17 –
Mayte Martínez , Spanish athlete
[43]
May 19 –
Kevin Garnett , African-American basketball player
May 20 –
Ramón Hernández , Venezuelan
baseball player
May 21 –
Dara Bubamara , Serbian singer
May 23 –
Ricardinho , Brazilian football player and coach
[44]
May 25
May 26 –
Paul Collingwood , English cricketer
May 28
May 31
June
'Masenate Mohato Seeiso
Alexei Navalny
Emilie-Claire Barlow
Lindsay Davenport
Blake Shelton
Ryan Hurst
Juliano Belletti
Sir
Gavin Williamson
July
Gino D'Acampo
Bérénice Bejo
Fred Savage
Adrian Grenier
Diane Kruger
Gabriel Iglesias
Luke Bryan
Benedict Cumberbatch
Fernando Ricksen
August
Iván Duque
Sam Worthington
Alexander Skarsgård
Scott Caan
Alex O'Loughlin
Sarah Chalke
August 1
August 2
August 4
August 5 –
Napoleon Beazley , juvenile offender (d.
2002 )
August 6
August 7 –
Nargiz Birk-Petersen , Azerbaijani-American lawyer, presenter and model
August 8
August 9
August 11
August 12
August 13
August 14 –
Maya Nasri , Lebanese actress and singer
August 15
August 16 –
Kadri Rämmeld , Estonian actress
August 18
August 19 –
Gabriela Jiménez Ramírez , Venezuelan politician
August 21 –
Liezel Huber , South African born-American tennis player
[64]
August 23 –
Scott Caan , American actor
August 24
August 25 –
Alexander Skarsgård , Swedish actor
August 26 –
Mike Colter , American actor
August 27
August 29
August 30 –
Cristian Gonzáles , Uruguayan-born Indonesian footballer
August 31 –
Roque Júnior , Brazilian footballer
September
Naomie Harris
Alison Sweeney
Jon Bernthal
Emma de Caunes
Ronaldo
September 1
September 3
September 4 –
Brian Myrow , American baseball player
September 5 –
Carice van Houten , Dutch actress
September 6
September 7 –
Stevie Case , American video game celebrity
September 8 –
Sjeng Schalken , Dutch tennis player
September 9
September 10 –
Gustavo Kuerten , Brazilian tennis player
September 11 –
Marco Rose , German football player and coach
[68]
September 12 –
Maciej Żurawski , Polish footballer
September 13 –
Puma Swede , Swedish pornographic actress
September 15 –
Rob Wiethoff , American actor
September 16 –
Tina Barrett , English singer (
S Club 7 )
September 17 –
Nicole Reinhart , American track and road racing cyclist (d.
2000 )
September 18 –
Ronaldo , Brazilian footballer
September 19
September 20
September 23 –
Rob James-Collier , British actor and model
September 24 –
Stephanie McMahon-Levesque , American professional wrestling promoter
September 25
September 26
September 27 –
Francesco Totti , Italian footballer
September 28 –
Fedor Emelianenko , Russian
mixed martial arts fighter
September 29 –
Andriy Shevchenko , Ukrainian footballer
October
Seann William Scott
Alicia Silverstone
Ramzan Kadyrov
Emily Deschanel
Andrew Scott
Ryan Reynolds
Piper Perabo
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi , Iraqi-born leader of the Islamic state (d.
2022 )
October 1
October 2 –
Anita Kulcsár , Hungarian handball player (d.
2005 )
October 3 –
Seann William Scott , American actor and producer
October 4
October 5
October 6
October 7
October 8 –
Peter Stickles , American actor
October 9
October 10
October 11 –
Emily Deschanel , American actress
October 12 –
Kajsa Bergqvist , Swedish high jumper
[69]
October 14
October 15 –
Yoon Son-ha , South Korean actress
October 17 –
Fabri Fibra , Italian rapper
October 18 –
Galder , Norwegian musician
October 19
October 20
Dan Fogler , American actor, comedian and writer
Plamen Goranov , Bulgarian photographer, mountain climber and a Varna-based local protest leader (d.
2013 )
October 21
October 23
October 25
October 26
October 29
October 31
November
Chad Lindberg
Sebastian Arcelus
Jack Dorsey
Jaleel White
Chadwick Boseman
Anna Faris
November 1
November 2 –
Thierry Omeyer , French handball goalkeeper
November 5
November 6
November 7 –
Mark Philippoussis , Australian tennis player
November 8 –
Brett Lee , Australian cricketer
November 9
November 11 –
Mike Leon Grosch , German singer
November 12
November 13 –
Janine Leal , Venezuelan nutritionist, television presenter and model.
[72]
November 14 –
František Čermák , Czech tennis player
November 15 –
Virginie Ledoyen , French actress
[73]
November 17 –
Diane Neal , American actress
November 18 –
Shagrath , Norwegian black metal musician (
Dimmu Borgir )
November 19
November 20
November 22
November 24
November 25
November 26 –
Maia Campbell , American actress and singer
November 27 –
Jaleel White , African-American actor
November 28 –
Ryan Kwanten , Australian actor and comedian
November 29
December
Zoe Konstantopoulou
Dominic Monaghan
Armin van Buuren
Joe Manganiello
Danny McBride
Date unknown
Deaths
January
Zhou Enlai
Dame
Agatha Christie
Paul Robeson
January 3 –
John Ainsworth-Davis , Welsh surgeon and athlete (b.
1895 )
January 5
January 8 –
Zhou Enlai , 1st
Premier of the People's Republic of China (b.
1898 )
January 10 –
Howlin' Wolf , American blues singer (b.
1910 )
January 12 –
Agatha Christie , English detective fiction writer (b.
1890 )
[77]
January 13 –
Margaret Leighton , English actress (b.
1922 )
January 14
January 15 –
Gengo Hyakutake , Japanese admiral (b.
1882 )
January 19 –
Hidetsugu Yagi , Japanese electrical engineer (b.
1886 )
January 22 –
Hermann Jónasson , Icelandic politician, 7th
Prime Minister of Iceland (b.
1896 )
January 23 –
Paul Robeson , American actor, singer, writer and activist (b.
1898 )
January 24 –
Emil Bodnăraș , Romanian communist politician and army officer and Soviet agent (b.
1904 )
January 26 –
Gabriele Allegra , Italian
Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b.
1907 )
January 29 –
Jesse Fuller , American one-man band musician (b.
1896 )
January 31 –
Ernesto Miranda , American criminal and namesake of the
Miranda right (b.
1941 )
February
Sal Mineo
Florence Ballard
February 1
February 4 –
Roger Livesey , Welsh actor (b.
1906 )
February 6 –
Ritwik Ghatak , Bengali filmmaker and script writer (b.
1925 )
February 9 –
Percy Faith , Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor (b.
1908 )
February 11
February 12 –
Sal Mineo , American actor (b.
1939 )
February 13
February 17 –
Jean Servais , Belgian actor (b.
1910 )
February 20
February 22 –
Florence Ballard , American singer (
The Supremes ) (b.
1943 )
February 23 –
L. S. Lowry , British artist (b.
1887 )
February 26 –
Frieda Inescort , Scottish-born actress (b.
1901 )
March
Luchino Visconti
March 4 –
Walter H. Schottky , German physicist (b.
1886 )
March 5 –
Otto Tief , Estonian politician and military commander (b.
1889 )
March 6 –
Maxie Rosenbloom , American boxer and actor (b.
1907 )
March 8 –
Alfons Rebane , Estonian military commander (b.
1908 )
March 10 –
Haddon Sundblom , Swedish illustrator and American artist (b.
1899 )
March 14 –
Busby Berkeley , American choreographer and director (b.
1895 )
March 17 –
Luchino Visconti , Italian theatre and film director (b.
1906 )
March 19 –
Paul Kossoff , British rock guitarist (
Free ) (b.
1950 )
March 24
March 25 –
Josef Albers , German-American artist (b.
1888 )
March 28 –
Richard Arlen , American actor (b.
1899 )
March 31 –
Paul Strand , American photographer (b.
1890 )
April
Max Ernst
Howard Hughes
April 1
April 4 –
Harry Nyquist , American
information theory pioneer (b.
1889 )
April 5 –
Howard Hughes , American aviation pioneer, film director and millionaire recluse (b.
1905 )
April 8 –
Renato Petronio , Italian rower (b.
1891 )
April 9 –
Phil Ochs , American singer-songwriter (b.
1940 )
April 12 –
Miriam Cooper , American actress (b.
1891 )
April 13 –
Sabri al-Asali , Syrian politician, 3-time
Prime Minister of Syria (b.
1903 )
April 14 –
Mariano Ospina Pérez , Colombian politician, 17th
President of Colombia (b.
1891 )
April 17 –
Henrik Dam , Danish biochemist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1895 )
April 25
April 26 –
Andrei Grechko , Soviet general,
Minister of Defence (b.
1903 )
May
Hugo Wieslander
May 9
May 11 –
Alvar Aalto , Finnish architect (b.
1898 )
May 12 –
Keith Relf , British rock musician (
The Yardbirds ) (b.
1943 )
May 15 –
Samuel Eliot Morison , American historian (b.
1887 )
[79]
May 24 –
Hugo Wieslander , Swedish Olympic athlete (b.
1889 )
May 26
May 27 –
Ruth McDevitt , American actress (b.
1895 )
May 28 –
Zainul Abedin , Bangladeshi painter (b.
1914 )
May 30 –
Mitsuo Fuchida , Japanese aviator, naval officer and Christian evangelist (b.
1902 )
May 31 –
Jacques Monod , French biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1910 )
June
J. Paul Getty
Dame
Sybil Thorndike
June 2
June 5 –
Robert Wichard Pohl , German physicist (b.
1884 )
June 6
June 7
June 9 –
Dame Sybil Thorndike , British actress (b.
1882 )
June 10 –
Adolph Zukor , Hungarian-born film producer (b.
1873 )
June 11 –
Toots Mondt , American WWF promoter (b.
1894 )
June 12 –
Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ , 1st
Prime Minister of South Vietnam and 1st Vice President of South Vietnam (b.
1908 )
June 15 –
Jimmy Dykes , American baseball player and manager (b.
1896 )
[80]
June 16 –
Hector Pieterson , South African activist (b.
1963 )
June 17 –
Richard Casey , Australian statesman and diplomat (b.
1890 )
June 24 –
Imogen Cunningham , American photographer (b.
1883 )
June 27 –
C. Wade McClusky , United States Navy admiral (b.
1902 )
June 28 –
Stanley Baker , Welsh actor and film producer (b.
1928 )
July
Joachim Peiper
Mickey Cohen
July 1
July 4 –
Yonatan Netanyahu , Israeli commando leader (b.
1946 )
July 6 –
Zhu De ,
Head of State of China, China Red Army Commander-in-Chief (b.
1886 )
July 7
July 11 –
León de Greiff , Colombian poet (b.
1895 )
July 12 –
James Wong Howe , American cinematographer (b.
1899 )
July 14 –
Joachim Peiper , German military leader (b.
1915 )
July 15 –
Paul Gallico , American novelist, short story and sports writer (b.
1897 )
[81]
July 16 –
Wilhelmina von Bremen , American sprint runner (b.
1909 )
July 22 – Sir
Mortimer Wheeler , British archaeologist (b.
1890 )
July 23 –
Basil Hopko , Czechoslovak
Roman Catholic bishop and saint (b.
1904 )
July 24 –
Afro Basaldella , Italian painter (b.
1912 )
July 28
July 29 –
Mickey Cohen , American gangster (b.
1913 )
July 30 –
Rudolf Bultmann , German Lutheran theologian (b.
1884 )
August
Fritz Lang
August 2 –
Fritz Lang , Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter and occasional film producer (b.
1890 )
August 4 –
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet , Canadian-born British newspaper proprietor (b.
1894 )
[83]
August 6
August 9 –
José Lezama Lima , Cuban writer and poet (b.
1910 )
August 10 –
Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , German painter (b.
1884 )
August 12 –
Tom Driberg , British politician/journalist (b. 1905)
[85]
August 22 –
Juscelino Kubitschek , 21st
President of Brazil (b.
1902 )
August 25 –
Eyvind Johnson , Swedish novelist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Literature (b.
1900 )
August 26 –
Lotte Lehmann , German soprano (b.
1888 )
August 28 –
Anissa Jones , American actress and student (b.
1958 )
August 29 –
Jimmy Reed , American blues musician (b.
1925 )
September
Mao Zedong
September 5 –
Arthur Gilligan , English cricketer (b.
1894 )
September 9 –
Mao Zedong , Chinese revolutionary and political theorist,
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (b.
1893 )
September 10 –
Dalton Trumbo , American screenwriter and novelist (b.
1905 )
[86]
September 13 –
Camilo Ponce Enríquez , Ecuadorian political figure, 30th
President of Ecuador (b.
1912 )
September 14 –
Prince Paul of Yugoslavia , (b.
1893 )
September 15 –
Josef Sudek , Czech photographer (b.
1896 )
September 16 –
Bertha Lutz , Brazilian zoologist, politician, diplomat and feminist (b.
1894 )
September 19
September 21 –
Orlando Letelier , Chilean economist, politician and diplomat (assassinated) (b.
1932 )
September 26 –
Leopold Ružička , Yugoslav chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1887 )
September 28 –
Raymond Collishaw , Canadian World War I fighter ace (b.
1893 )
October
Barbara Nichols
November
Rosalind Russell
November 3 –
Solange d'Ayen , French noblewoman, Duchess of Ayen and journalist (b.
1898 )
[89]
November 8 –
Gottfried von Cramm , German tennis player (b.
1909 )
November 9 –
Armas Taipale , Finnish Olympic athlete (b.
1890 )
November 11 –
Alexander Calder , American sculptor (b.
1898 )
November 12 –
Walter Piston , American composer (b.
1894 )
[90]
November 15 –
Jean Gabin , French actor (b.
1904 )
November 18 –
Man Ray , American artist (b.
1890 )
November 20 –
Trofim Lysenko , Soviet biologist and agronomist of Ukrainian origin (b.
1898 )
November 23 –
André Malraux , French novelist (b.
1901 )
[91]
November 28 –
Rosalind Russell , American actress (b.
1907 )
November 29 –
Godfrey Cambridge , American comedian and actor (b.
1933 )
November 30 –
Ivan Yakubovsky , Marshal of the Soviet Union (b.
1912 )
December
Benjamin Britten
João Goulart
Nobel Prizes
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