1984 Explained

1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar).

Events of 1984

January

January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state.
January 3 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan meets with Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman and the Reverend Jesse Jackson at the White House, following Lieutenant Goodman's release from Syrian captivity.
January 7 - Brunei becomes the 6th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
January 10 - The United States and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations.^[1]
January 18 - The Mitsui Miike coal mine explosion at Omuta, Kyūshū, Japan kills 83.
January 23 - The Treaty of Peace and Friendship of 1984 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Vatican City.

February

February 1 - Medicare comes into effect in Australia.
February 3 - Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
February 3 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th space shuttle mission.
February 7 - Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.
February 8 - The 1984 Winter Olympics open in Sarajevo, SFRJ.
February 11 - STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger makes the first shuttle landing at the Kennedy Space Center.
February 13 - Konstantin Chernenko succeeds the late Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
February 14 - British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean score 12 perfect 6.0s for their interpretation of Ravel's Boléro in the 1984 Winter Olympics. They win the gold medal for ice dancing.
February 19 - The 1984 Winter Olympics close in Sarajevo.
February 26 - United States Marines pull out of Beirut, Lebanon.
February 29 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announces his retirement.

March

March 5 - Iran accuses Iraq of using chemical weapons; the United Nations condemns their use on March 30.
March 5 - Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders Operation Blue Star to flush out separatist militants from Harimandir Sahib, the most sacred shrine of Sikhism.
March 6 - A year-long strike action begins in the British coal industry (see UK Miners' Strike (1984-1985)).
March 14 - Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams and 3 others are seriously injured in a gun attack by the UVF.
March 16 - The CIA station chief in Beirut, William Francis Buckley, is kidnapped by Islamic Jihad and later dies in captivity.
March 22 - Teachers at the McMartin Preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the schoolchildren (the charges are later dropped as completely unfounded).
March 23 - General Rahimuddin Khan becomes the first man in Pakistan's history to rule over 2 of its provinces, after becoming interim Governor of Sindh.

April

April 2 - Indian Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma is launched into space, aboard the Soyuz T-11.
April 4 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
April 6 - The 56th Academy Awards, hosted by Jack Lemmon, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, with Terms of Endearment winning Best Picture.
April 12 - Palestinian gunmen take Israeli Bus Number 300 hostage. Israeli special forces storm the bus, freeing the hostages (1 hostage, 2 hijackers killed).
April 13 - India launches Operation Meghdoot, as most of the Siachen Glacier in Kashmir comes under Indian control.
April 15 - British comedian Tommy Cooper suffers a massive heart attack and dies while live on TV.
April 17 - WPC Yvonne Fletcher is shot and killed by a secluded gunman during a siege outside the Libyan Embassy in London.
April 19 - Advance Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and green and gold as the national colours.
April 25 - The term of Sultan Ahmad Shah as the 7th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia ends.
April 26 - Sultan Iskandar, Sultan of Johor, becomes the 8th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.

May

May 2 - The Liverpool International Garden Festival opens in Liverpool.
May 5 - The Herreys win the Eurovision Song Contest 1984 for Sweden, with the song Diggi-Loo, Diggi-Ley.
May 8 - The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
May 8 - Denis Lortie kills 3 government employees in the National Assembly of Quebec building.
May 8 - The longest game in Major League Baseball history begins at 7:30 PM between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago White Sox. The game is played over the course of 2 days, lasting 25 innings, with a total time of 8 hours and 6 minutes.
May 11 - Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure burns down, killing 8.
May 11 - A transit of Earth from Mars takes place.
May 12 - The Louisiana World's Fair opens.
May 14 - The one dollar coin is introduced in Australia.
May 23 - Methane gas explosion at Abbeystead water treatment works in Lancashire, England kills 16 people.

June

June 1 - William M. Gibbons is released as receiver and trustee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, after all of its debts and creditors are paid off by order of a federal bankruptcy court.
June 5 - The Indian government begins Operation Blue Star, the planned attack on the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
June 6 - Indian troops storm the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikhs' holiest shrine, killing an estimated 2,000 people.
June 8 - A deadly F5 tornado nearly destroys the town of Barneveld, Wisconsin, killing 9 people, injuring nearly 200, and causing over $25,000,000 in damage.
June 20 - The biggest exam shake-up in the British education system in over 10 years is announced, with O-level and CSE exams to be replaced by a new exam, the GCSE.
June 22 - The official name of the Turkish city Urfa is changed into Şanlıurfa.
June 22 - Virgin Atlantic Airways makes its inaugural flight.
June 27 - France beats Spain 2-0 to win the Euro 84.
June 28 - Richard Ramírez, aka the "Night Stalker," murders his first confirmed victim.
June 30 - John Napier Turner becomes Canada's 17th Prime Minister.

July

July 14 - New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon calls a snap election and is heavily defeated by opposition Labour leader David Lange.
July 18 - Beverly Lynn Burns becomes the first woman Boeing 747 captain in the world.
July 18 - In San Ysidro, California, 41-year-old James Oliver Huberty sprays a McDonald's restaurant with gunfire, killing 21 people before being shot and killed.

July 23 - Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in "Penthouse" magazine.
July 25 - Salyut 7: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk.
July 28 – August 12 - The 1984 Summer Olympics are held in Los Angeles, California.

August

August 1 - Australian banks are deregulated.
August 4 - The African republic Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.
August 11 - United States President Ronald Reagan, during a voice check for a radio broadcast remarks, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes".
August 16 - John De Lorean is acquitted of all 8 charges of possessing and distributing cocaine.
August 21 - Half a million people in Manila demonstrate against the regime of Ferdinand Marcos.
August 30 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage.

September

September 2 - Seven people are shot and killed and 12 wounded in the Milperra massacre, a shootout between the rival motorcycle gangs Bandidos and Comancheros in Sydney.
September 4 - The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, led by Brian Mulroney, wins 211 seats in the House of Commons, forming the largest majority government in Canadian history.
September 4 - The Sandinista Front wins the Nicaraguan general elections.
September 5 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
September 5 - Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
September 20 - Hezbollah car-bombs the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut, killing 22 people.
September 26 - The United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China sign the initial agreement to return Hong Kong to China in 1997.

October

October 4 - Tim Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer become the first Australians to summit Mount Everest.
October 5 - STS-41-G: Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
October 11 - Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
October 12 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) attempts to assassinate the British Cabinet in the Brighton hotel bombing.
October 14 - World Series: The Detroit Tigers defeat the San Diego Padres to win in 5 games.
October 19 - Polish secret police kidnap Jerzy Popiełuszko, a Catholic priest who supports the Solidarity movement. His dead body is found in a reservoir 11 days later on October 30.
October 31 - Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her 2 Sikh security guards . Riots soon break out in New Delhi, and some 2,700 Sikhs are killed. Rajiv Gandhi becomes prime minister of India.

November

November 2 - Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
November 6 - U.S. presidential election, 1984: Ronald Reagan defeats Walter F. Mondale with 59% of the popular vote, the highest since Richard Nixon's 61% victory in 1972. Reagan carries 49 states in the electoral college; Mondale wins only his home state of Minnesota by a mere 3,761 vote margin and the District of Columbia.
November 9 - Cesar Chavez delivers his speech, "What The Future Holds For Farm Workers And Hispanics", at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.
November 14 - Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
November 19 - A series of explosions at the PEMEX Petroleum Storage Facility at San Juan Ixhuatepec, in Mexico City, ignites a major fire and kills about 500 people.
November 25 - Thirty-six of Britain and Ireland's top pop musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio to form Band Aid, and record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas", in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
November 25 - An East Rail train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling stations, Hong Kong.
November 28 - Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
November 30 - The Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.

December

December - A peace agreement between Kenya and Somalia is signed in the Egyptian capital Cairo. With this agreement, in which Somalia officially renounces its historical territorial claims, relations between the two countries began to improve.
December 1 - Controlled Impact Demonstration: NASA crashes a remote controlled Boeing 720.
December 2 - Bob Hawke's government is re-elected in Australia with a reduced majority.
December 3 - Bhopal Disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 2,000 people outright and injures anywhere from 15,000 to 22,000 others (some 6,000 of whom later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
December 3 - British Telecom is privatised.
December 4 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane and kill 4 passengers.
December 19 - The People's Republic of China and United Kingdom sign the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong.
December 22 - Four African-American youths (Barry Allen, Troy Canty, James Ramseur, and Darrell Cabey) board an express train in The Bronx borough of New York City. They attempt to rob Bernhard Goetz, who shoots them. The event starts a national debate about urban crime, which is a plague in 1980s America.
December 22 - In Malta, Prime Minister Dom Mintoff resigns.
December 28 - A Soviet cruise missile plunges into Inarinjärvi lake in Finnish Lapland. Finnish authorities announce the fact in public on January 3, 1985.

Undated

Famine in Ethiopia begins and kills a million people by the end of 1984. (1984 Famine in Ethiopia).
Crack, a smokeable form of cocaine, is first introduced into the Los Angeles area and soon spreads across the United States in what becomes known as the Crack Epidemic.
Chatham Dockyard in Medway, England is closed after being used a shipbuilding yard for over 400 years since the reign of King Henry VIII.
Brothels are legalized in Victoria.

Births

January–March

January 1 - Michael Witt, Australian rugby league player
January 3 - Maya Ababadjani, Danish adult film actress
January 8 - Jeff Francoeur, American baseball player
January 10 - Marouane Chamakh, Moroccan football player
January 12 - Scott Olsen, American baseball player
January 13 - Eleni Ioannou, Greek martial artist (d. 2004)
January 15 - Megan Quann, American swimmer
January 16 - Craig Beattie, Scottish footballer
January 17 - Calvin Harris, Scottish electronic musician
January 17 - Cassie Hager, American basketball player
January 18 - Seung-hui Cho, Korean-born American Virginia Tech massacre gunman (d. 2007)
January 18 - Kristy Lee Cook, American Idol finalist
January 18 - Benji Schwimmer, Winner of So You Think You Can Dance 2006
January 19 - Trent Cutler, Australian rugby league player
January 19 - Zakia Mrisho Mohamed, Tanzanian long distance runner
January 20 - Toni Gonzaga, Filipina Actress and Singer
January 20 - Stacy Peterson, cause celebre (d. 2007?)
January 22 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
January 23 - Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
January 24 - Witold Kiełtyka, Polish musician (d. 2007)
January 25 - Robson de Souza, Manchester City footballer
January 26 - Rebecca Ritters, Australian actress
January 26 - Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
January 28 - Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
January 29 - Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer
January 29 - Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer
January 30 - Chad Power, American actor
February 1 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor
February 1 - Darren Fletcher, Scottish football player
February 5 - Nate Salley, American football player
February 6 - Darren Bent, English footballer
February 9 - Han Geng, Chinese singer in Korea, member of Super Junior
February 10 - Brent Everett, Canadian gay porn star
February 10 - Kim Hyo Jin, Korean actress
February 11 - Matt Good, American Musician (From First To Last)
February 15 - Dorota Rabczewska, Polish singer and model
February 16 - Oussama Mellouli, Tunisian swimmer
February 20 - Ben Lovejoy, American hockey player
February 21 - Karina, Japanese model and actress
February 25 - Filip Šebo, Slovak footballer
February 25 - Xing Huina, Chinese athlete
February 26 - Emmanuel Adebayor, Togoleise footballer
February 28 - Karolina Kurkova, Czech model
February 29 - Alicia Hollowell, American softball pitcher
February 29 - Cullen Jones, American swimmer
March 1 - Naima Mora, winner of America's Next Top Model cycle 4
March 4 - Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
March 4 - Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
March 4 - Donny Tourette, lead singer of British punk rock band Towers of London
March 4 - Zak Whitbread, American soccer player
March 7 - Dani Woodward, American porn star
March 9 - Julia Mancuso, US Olympic medalist
March 10 - Olivia Wilde, American actress
March 16 - Michael Ennis, Australian rugby league player
March 16 - Hosea Gear, New Zealand Rugby Union player
March 20 - Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality
March 20 - Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer Liverpool F.C.
March 20 - Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
March 20 - Marcus Vick, American football player
March 20 - Nomura Yuka, Japanese actress
March 24 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
March 25 - Katharine McPhee, American Idol finalist
March 26 - Stéphanie Lapointe, Canadian singer
March 26 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model
March 28 - Nikki Sanderson, British actress
March 30 - Anna Nalick, American singer

April–June

April 3 - Allana Slater, Australian gymnast
April 4 - Sean May, American basketball player
April 6 - Max Bemis, American musician (Say Anything)
April 7 - Alex Smith, American football player
April 8 - Júlia Liptáková, Slovak model
April 8 - Kirsten Storms, American actress
April 9 - Adam Loewen, Canadian pitcher
April 10 - Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
April 10 - Cara DeLizia, American actress
April 11 - Kelli Garner, American actress
April 11 - Monica May, American actress
April 13 - Kris Britt, Australian cricketer
April 14 - Kyle Coetzer, Scottish cricketer
April 17 - Rosanna Davison, Irish model
April 18 - America Ferrera, American actress
April 19 - Lee Da Hae, South Korean actress
April 22 - Amelle Berrabah, British singer (Sugababes)
April 22 - Michelle Ryan, British actress
April 23 - Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian chess player
April 24 - Tyson Ritter, American singer/bassist
April 27 - Patrick Stump, American singer (Fall Out Boy)
April 29 - Taylor Cole, American actress and model
April 29 - Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator
April 29 - Pham Van Quyen, Vietnamese footballer/ inmate
May 1 - Farah Fath, American actress
May 1 - Alexander Farnerud, Swedish footballer
May 4 - Joe Simpson (Artist), British Artist
May 5 - Wade MacNeil, Canadian guitarist
May 11 - Andres Iniesta, Spanish footballer
May 12 - Junie Browning, American MMA fighter
May 14 - Michael Rensing, German footballer
May 14 - Mark Zuckerberg, Founder and CEO of Facebook
May 16 - Katie Downes, British glamour model
May 17 - Christine Robinson, Canadian water polo player
May 24 - Sarah Hagan, American actress
May 25 - Marion Raven, Norwegian Singer-Songwritter (M2M)
May 25 - Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir, "Miss Iceland", crowned Miss World in 2005
May 25 - Kyle Brodziak, Canadian ice hockey player
May 25 - Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer
May 29 - Kaycee Stroh, American actress
May 29 - Carmelo Anthony, American basketball player
May 31 - Jason Smith, Australian actor

June 1 - Oliver Tielemans, Dutch racecar driver
June 1 - Naidangiin Tüvshinbayar, Mongolian judoka
June 4 - Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer
June 7 - Ari Koivunen, Finnish singer
June 8 - Todd Boeckman, College quarterback
June 8 - Torrey DeVitto, American actress
June 8 - Andrea Casiraghi, Prince of Monaco
June 8 - Javier Mascherano, Argentinian footballer
June 9 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
June 11 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
June 13 - Berangere Schuh, French archer
June 14 - Siobhán Donaghy, British singer and songwriter (Sugababes)
June 15 - Tim Lincecum, American baseball player
June 16 - Rick Nash, Canadian hockey player
June 17 - John Gallagher Jr., American actor, singer and dancer
June 23 - Duffy, British Singer
June 24 - J.J. Redick, American basketball player
June 25 - Lauren Bush, American model
June 25 - Amrita Hunjan, British R&B singer
June 26 - Raymond Felton, American basketball player
June 27 - Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
June 30 - Fantasia Barrino, American singer

July–September

July 3 - Corey Sevier, Canadian actor
July 3 - Syed Rasel, Bangladeshi cricketer
July 3 - Manny Lawson, American Football player
July 4 - Gina Glocksen, American Idol finalist
July 4 - Stix Izza, American musician
July 4 - Jin Akanishi, Japanese singer (KAT-TUN) and actor
July 7 - Marie-Mai, Canadian signer
July 8 - Alexis Dziena, American actress
July 11 - Tanith Belbin, Canadian figure skater
July 11 - Rachael Taylor, Australian actress
July 12 - Gareth Gates, English singer
July 12 - Michael McGovern, Northern Irish footballer
July 17 - Asami Kimura, Japanese singer
July 18 - Lee Barnard, English footballer
July 18 - Josh Harding, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild)
July 19 - Adam Morrison, National Basketball Association player
July 19 - Lasse Gjertsen, Norwegian videographer
July 19 - Diana Mocanu, Romanian swimmer
July 21 - Paul Davis, American basketball player
July 22 - Kinzie Kenner, American pornographic actress
July 23 - Brandon Roy, National Basketball Association player
July 24 - Tyler Kyte, Canadian actor/singer
July 26 - Kyriakos Ioannou, Cypriot high jumper
July 28 - Zach Parise, NHL player
July 30 - Gabrielle Christian, American actress

August 2 - Brandon Browner, National Football League player
August 3 - Carah Faye Charnow, American singer for the band Shiny Toy Guns
August 6 - Marco Airosa, Angolan footballer
August 9 - Saori Horii, Japanese gravure idol
August 12 - Marian Rivera, Filipino Actress
August 12 - Sherone Simpson, Jamaican athlete
August 13 - Luke Thompson, American entrepreneurial failure
August 14 - Clay Buchholz, Major League Baseball Pitcher
August 17 - Garrett Wolfe, American pro football player
August 20 - Mirai Moriyama, Japanese actor
August 21 - Alizée Jacotey, French singer
August 21 - Melissa Schuman, American singer and actress
August 22 - Lee Camp, English footballer
August 24 - Kyle Schmid, Canadian actor
August 24 - Charlie Villanueva, American basketball player
August 24 - Yesung, Korean singer, member or Super Junior
August 25 - Alvin Banks, National Football League running back
August 27 - Josh Duhon, American actor
September 1 - Joe Trohman, American musician
September 2 - Danson Tang, Taiwanese actor, model, and singer
September 3 - Garrett Hedlund, American actor
September 5 - Trey Hill, Grammy-nominated musician
September 7 - Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
September 7 - Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
September 13 - J. R. Writer, American rapper s
September 14 - Adam Lamberg, American actor
September 15 - Prince Harry of Wales
September 16 - Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer
September 16 - Katie Melua, Georgian singer
September 19 - Kevin Zegers, Canadian actor
September 22 - Laura Vandervoort, actress
September 23 - Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-born actress
September 24 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
September 25 - Rashad McCants, National Basketball Association player
September 26 - Keisha Buchanan, British Singer (Sugababes)
September 27 - Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer
September 28 - Melody Thornton, singer The Pussycat Dolls
September 28 - Helen Oyeyemi, British novelist
September 30 - Megan Ewing, American

October–December

October 1 - Matt Cain, American baseball player
October 3 - Chris Marquette, American actor
October 3 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer and actress
October 4 - Lena Katina, Russian singer
October 4 - Álvaro Parente, Portuguese racing driver
October 5 - Glenn McMillan, Brazilian-Australian actor
October 7 - Ikuta Toma, Japanese drama actor
October 10 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
October 10 - Steve Turner, Australian rugby league player
October 14 - Santino Quaranta, American soccer player
October 16 - Melissa Lauren, pornographic actress
October 16 - Ben Smith, Australian rugby league player
October 16 - Shayne Ward, British singer and winner of reality TV show The X Factor
October 17 - Chris Lowell, American actor
October 18 - Holly Dunaway, boxer
October 18 - Lindsey Vonn, American alpine skier
October 21 - Marvin Mitchell, American football player
October 22 - Jonathan Helwig, American MMA fighter
October 23 - Meghan McCain, Author/Daughter of Senator John McCain
October 25 - Sara Lumholdt, Swedish singer
October 25 - Katy Perry, American singer and actress
October 26 - Sasha Cohen, American figure skater
October 27 - Kelly Osbourne, English singer
October 27 - Brady Quinn, American football player
October 27 - Irfan Pathan, Indian cricketer
October 28 - Obafemi Martins, Newcastle United Football Player
October 29 - Eric Staal, Canadian hockey player
October 30 - Eva Marcille, American model
November 1 - Natalia Tena, English Actress
November 7 - Amelia Vega, Miss Universe 2003, from the Dominican Republic
November 9 - Beatrice Bofia, Cameroonian-American basketball player
November 9 - Delta Goodrem, Australian actress and singer
November 9 - Se7en, South Korean singer
November 12 - Yan Zi, Chinese tennis player
November 17 - Kat DeLuna, American singer
November 17 - Park Han-byul, South Korean actress
November 21 - Jena Malone, American actress
November 22 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
November 23 - Lucas Grabeel, American actor
November 25 - Ian Lacey, Australian rugby league player
November 25 - Gaspard Ulliel, French actor
November 28 - Mary Elizabeth Winstead, American actress
November 28 - Andrew Bogut, Australian basketball player
November 28 - Trey Songz, American singer
November 28 - Marc-Andre Fleury, Canadian hockey player
November 29 - Sitti Navarro, Philippine bossa nova artist
November 30 - Alan Hutton, Scottish professional footballer

December 4 - Lindsay Felton, American actress
December 4 - Lauren London, American actress and model
December 7 - Robert Kubica, Polish Formula One racing driver
December 12 - Daniel Agger, Danish football (soccer) player
December 14 - Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
December 15 - Joshua Third, Guitarist in The Horrors
December 15 - Yu Fengtong, Chinese speed skater
December 17 - Asuka Fukuda, Japanese singer
December 20 - David Tavaré, Spanish singer
December 21 - Jackson Rathbone, American Actor
December 22 - Jonas Erik Altberg, Swedish singer
December 25 - The Veronicas, Lisa and Jess Origliasso, Australian Singers
December 27 - Tye'sha Fluker, American basketball player
December 27 - Rocio Guirao Diaz, Argentinian model
December 28 - Beverly Mullins, American Wrestler/Model
December 28 - Martin Kaymer, German golfer
December 28 - Festus, American professional wrestler
December 30 - LeBron James, American basketball player

Deaths

January–March

January 1 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician and broadcaster (b. 1928)
January 7 - Alfred Kastler, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
January 14 - Ray Kroc, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
January 20 - Johnny Weissmuller, Austrian-born swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
January 21 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (b. 1934)
January 22 - Sir Count Michael Gonzi, Archbishop of Malta and past politician (b. 1885)
January 30 - Luke Kelly, Irish folk singer (b. 1940)
February 8 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
February 9 - Yuri Andropov, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1914)
February 10 - David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
February 12 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
February 13 - Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (b. 1941)
February 15 - Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
February 21 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
February 22 - Jessamyn West, American writer. (b. 1902)
February 22 - Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah a Pakistani religious leader,of Allo Mahar Shrif.
February 25 - Sean Marsee, American athlete. (b. 1965)
March 1 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
March 5 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
March 5 - William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
March 12 - Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
March 16 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
March 18 - Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)
March 24 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
March 26 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, president of Guinea (b. 1922)

April–June

April 1 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
April 5 - Arthur "Bomber" Harris, British air marshall. (b. 1892)
April 8 - Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1894)
April 11 - Edgar V. Saks, Estonian statesman and historian (b. 1910)
April 15 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedian and magician (b. 1921)
April 15 - Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
April 20 - Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian mountaineer (b. 1943)
April 22 - Ansel Adams, American photographer (b. 1902)
April 26 - Count Basie, American musician and composer (b. 1904)

May 2 - Jack Barry, American television host and producer (b. 1918)
May 6 - Mary Cain, Mississippi newspaper editor and politician (b. 1904)
May 16 - Andy Kaufman, American comedian (b. 1949)
May 16 - Irwin Shaw, American author (b. 1913)
May 19 - John Betjeman, English poet (b. 1906)
May 24 - Vincent J. McMahon, professional wrestling promoter WWF (b. 1914)
May 28 - Eric Morecambe, British comedian (b. 1926)

June 6 - Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Sikh theologian, Most powerful Sikh leader of the 20th century (b. 1947)
June 16 - Lew Andreas, American basketball coach (b. 1895)
June 18 - Alan Berg, American talk radio host (murdered) (b. 1934)
June 26 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (b. 1926)

July–September

July 1 - Moshé Feldenkrais, Ukrainian founder of the Feldenkrais Method (b. 1904)
July 4 - Jimmie Spheeris, American singer-songwriter (b. 1949)
July 8 - Brassaï, Hungarian-born photographer (b. 1899)
July 14 - Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941)
July 17 - Karl Wolff, German General
July 24 - Armando Morales Barillas, Nicaraguan guitarist (b. 1936)
July 26 - George Gallup, American statistician and opinion pollster (b. 1901)
July 26 - Ed Gein, American serial killer (b. 1906)

August 2 - Quirino Cristiani, Argentine animated film director (b. 1896)
August 5 - Richard Burton, Welsh actor (b. 1925)
August 11 - Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)
August 11 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)
August 13 - Tigran Petrosian, Georgian chess player (b. 1929)
August 14 - J. B. Priestley, English novelist and playwright (b. 1894)
August 25 - Waite Hoyt, baseball player (b. 1899) and Truman Capote, writer. (b. 1924)
September 8 - Frank Lowson English Test Cricketer 1951-1955 (b.1925)
September 14 - Richard Brautigan, American counter-culture author (suicide) (b. 1935)
September 20 - Steve Goodman, American folk musician and songwriter (b. 1948)
September 25 - Walter Pidgeon, Canadian actor (b. 1897)

October–December

October 5 - Leonard Rossiter, British actor (b. 1926)
October 12 - Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (bombing) (b. 1925)
October 14 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)
October 18 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American actor (b. 1957)
October 20 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
October 20 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
October 21 - François Truffaut, French film director (b. 1932)
October 31 - Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (assassinated) (b. 1917)

November 6 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
November 14 - Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (assassinated) (b. 1916)
November 16 - Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (b. 1906)
November 16 - Leonard Rose, American cellist (leukemia) (b. 1918)
November 18 - Mary Hamman, American writer and editor, modern living editor LIFE and eidtor in chief Bride & Home (b. 1907)

December 1 - Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
December 8 - Luther Adler, American actor (b. 1903)
December 11 - Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born Jewish-American literary scholar (b. 1911)
December 14 - Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
December 15 - Jan Peerce, American tenor (b. 1904)
December 16 - J. Roderick MacArthur, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1920)
December 20 - Gonzalo Márquez, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player (b. 1946)
December 28 - Sam Peckinpah, American film director (b. 1925)

Ship events

Nobel Prizes

Templeton Prize

Rev. Michael Bourdeaux, founder of the Keston Institute http://www.templetonprize.org/bios_recent.html

Notes and References

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