Year '1983' ('
MCMLXXXIII') was a
common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983
Gregorian calendar).
Events of 1983
January
★
January 1 - The
New Jersey Transit Police Department is created in the state of
New Jersey
★
January 2 - The musical ''
Annie'' is performed for the last time after 2,377 shows at the
Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City..
★
January 3 -
CITV was launched in the
United Kingdom on the channel
ITV.
★
January 8 - A riot breaks out at
Sing Sing prison,
New York.
★
January 19 - High ranking
Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in
Bolivia.
★
January 22 -
Björn Borg retires from
tennis after winning 5 consecutive
Wimbledon championships.
★
January 24 - Twenty-five members of the
Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of
Aldo Moro.
★
January 26 -
Lotus 1-2-3 is released for
IBM-PC compatible computers.
★
January 26 - Red rain falls in the UK, caused by sand from the Sahara Desert in the droplets.
★
January 30 - The
Washington Redskins defeat the
Miami Dolphins 27-17 in
Super Bowl XVII at the
Rose Bowl Stadium in
Pasadena,
California.
★
January 31 -
Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the
United Kingdom.
February
★
February 2 -
Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial for multiple counts of
bigamy involving 105 women.
★
February 3 - Australian Prime Minister
Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament for elections on
March 5.
Bob Hawke replaces
Bill Hayden as leader of the
Australian Labor Party.
★
February 6 -
Klaus Barbie is officially charged with
war crimes.
★
February 7 -
Iran opens an invasion in the southeast of
Iraq.
★
February 13 - U.S. President
Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the
Bible".
★
February 13 - A
cinema fire in
Turin,
Italy kills 64.
★
February 16 - The
Ash Wednesday bushfires in
Victoria and
South Australia claim the lives of 76 people in one of
Australia's worst fires ever.
★
February 18 -
Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted
robbery in
Seattle, Washington.
★
February 23 - The
United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the
dioxin-contaminated community of
Times Beach, Missouri.
★
February 24 - A special commission of the
Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of
Japanese internment during
World War II.
★
February 25 -
United States playwright
Tennessee Williams is found dead in his
hotel room.
★
February 28 - ''
M
★ A
★ S
★ H (TV series)'' ends after 11 years and 251 episodes on
CBS. The series finale, ''
Goodbye, Farewell and Amen'', becomes the
highest rated episode in TV history.
March
★
March 1 - The Irish band
U2 releases its 3rd album ''
War''.
★
March 1 - The
Balearic Islands and
Madrid become
autonomous communities of
Spain.
★
March 1 -
Swatch introduces their first watches.
★
March 5 -
Bob Hawke is elected
Prime Minister of Australia.
★
March 8 -
IBM releases the
IBM PC XT.
★
March 8 - U.S. President
Ronald Reagan calls the
Soviet Union an "
evil empire."
★
March 9 -
Anne Burford resigns as head of the
United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
★
March 11 - Australia's
First Hawke Ministry is sworn in;
Andrew Peacock becomes Federal Opposition leader.
★
March 16 - The
Transmitter Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany, is demolished.
★
March 23 -
Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President
Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars."
April
★
April 7 - ''
STS-6'': Space Shuttle ''
Challenger'' astronauts
Story Musgrave and
Donald H. Peterson perform the first
space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
★
April 11 - The National Economic Summit is held in Canberra,
Australia.
★
April 12 - The British film ''
Gandhi'' wins 8
Oscars.
★
April 12 -
Harold Washington is elected the first
African American mayor of
Chicago.
★
April 15 - American Public Radio is founded (becomes
Public Radio International in
1994).
★
April 15 - The first non-American
Disney theme park opens in
Japan as
Tokyo Disneyland.
★
April 18 - The
U.S Embassy is bombed in
Beirut, killing 63 people.
★
April 22 - Soviet Embassy official Valery Ivanov is expelled from Australia for allegedly trying to recruit spies in the Australian government.
★
April 23 - ''
Stern'' magazine in
West Germany announces it has the
Hitler Diaries.
★
April 23 -
Corinne Hermès wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1983 for
Luxembourg with the song, ''Si la vie est cadeau''.
★
April 25 -
Manchester, Maine schoolgirl
Samantha Smith is invited to visit the
Soviet Union by its leader
Yuri Andropov, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about
nuclear war.
May
★
May 6 -
Stern magazine publishes the "
Hitler Diaries" (later found to be forgeries).
★
May 9 - Pope
John Paul II retracts the ban on
Galileo Galilei.
★
May 11 -
Aberdeen FC wins the
European Cup Winners Cup - beating
Real Madrid 2-1 in the final played in Gothenburg, Sweden.
★
May 16 -
London police begin the use of
wheel clamps on illegally-parked vehicles.
★
May 16 - NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by ABC program Four Corners that he attempted to influence the NSW Majestry.
★
May 17 -
Lebanon,
Israel, and the
United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
★
May 25 - ''
Return of the Jedi'' opens in the
United States.
★
May 28 - The
9th G7 summit begins at
Williamsburg, Virginia.
★
May 29 -
Indianapolis 500:
Tom Sneva wins his first race after three previous runner-up finishes.
June
★
June 9 -
Conservative Margaret Thatcher,
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 1979, wins a landslide victory (42% of the popular vote) over
Michael Foot, who led a highly-divided and weakened
Labour Party which earned only 28% of the vote. The much improved economy (after 2-3 years of restructuring), her victory in the Falkands, as well as shrinking unemployment rates consolidates her election victory.
★
June 13 - ''
Pioneer 10'' becomes the first manmade object to leave the
solar system.
★
June 18 - ''
STS-7'':
Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space, on the Space Shuttle ''
Challenger''.
★
June 25 -
India wins the Prudential world cup 1983.
July
★
July 1 - A
North Korean
Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in
Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in
Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
★
July 1 - The
High Court of Australia blocks construction of the
Franklin Dam in
Tasmania.
★
July 7 -
Samantha Smith flies to the
Soviet Union (see April 25).
★
July 15 - The
Nintendo Entertainment System goes on sale in Japan
★
July 16 -
Sikorsky S-61 disaster: a helicopter crashes off the
Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
★
July 17 -
American television series CHiPs ends their original run.
★
July 20 - The government of
Poland announces end of
martial law and
amnesty for
political prisoners.
★
July 21 -
Diana Ross stages a free concert in
Central Park in front of 800,000 people, enduring the severe weather but vows to return the next day.
★
July 22 -
Diana Ross and the crowds return for day two of the performer's legendary
Central Park show.
★
July 22 -
Australian
Dick Smith completes his solo
circumnavigation in a
helicopter.
★
July 23 -
Gimli Glider:
Air Canada Flight 143 crash-lands in
Gimli, Manitoba.
★
July 23 - The
Black July, a communal riot occurs in
Sri Lanka.
★
July 24 -
George Brett is expelled from a baseball game in
Yankee Stadium, New York, after charging an umpire who called him out for having more
pine tar on his bat than technically allowed.
★
July 25 - Anti-Tamil riots break out in
Sri Lanka, leaving over 3,000 Tamils massacred and millions of dollars worth of their property destroyed. This
genocide is the beginning of a deadly
civil war and
ethnic cleansing in
Sri Lanka.
★
July 25 -
Metallica releases their debut album ''
Kill 'Em All''.
★
July 28 -
New South Wales premier
Neville Wran is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by ABC (
Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme ''
Four Corners'', that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.
August
★
August 4 -
Thomas Sankara becomes President in
Upper Volta.
★
August 16 -
The Bill first airs as
Woodentop.
★
August 18 -
Hurricane Alicia hits the
Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
★
August 18 - Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock (
Uluru), NT (The driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
★
August 21 -
Benigno Aquino, Jr.,
Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in
Manila just as he returns from exile.
★
August 24 - The Old
Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.
★
August 30 - ''
STS-8'': Space Shuttle ''
Challenger'' carries
Guion S. Bluford, the first
African-American astronaut, into space.
September
★
September 1 -
Cold War:
Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by a
Soviet Union jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed.
★
September 4 - Six men walk underwater across the
Sydney Harbor - 82.9 km in 48 hours.
★
September 5 -
Tom Brokaw becomes lead anchor for ''
NBC Nightly News''.
★
September 6 - The
Soviet Union admits to shooting down
Korean Air Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian
aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
★
September 16 - Donna Griffiths of
Pershore in
England stops sneezing after a continual series of sneezes for 978 days (since
January 13,
1981).
★
September 17 -
Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first
African-American to be crowned
Miss America, in
Atlantic City,
New Jersey.
★
September 23 - Violence erupts in
New Caledonia between native
Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of
independence.
★
September 25 -
Long Kesh escape. 38 republican prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijacked a prison meals lorry and smashed their way out of
HMP Maze. The largest prison escape since WWII and in British history
★ September 25-
September 26 - Soviet military officer
Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war.
★
September 26 -
Australia wins
America's Cup.
★
September 27 - The
GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft
newsgroups.
October
★
October 2 -
Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the
British Labour Party.
★
October 4 -
Richard Noble sets a new
land speed record of 633.468
mph, driving
Thrust 2 at the
Black Rock Desert,
Nevada.
★
October 4 -
Hooters opens up in
Clearwater, Florida.
★
October 7 - A plan to abolish the
Greater London Council is announced.
★
October 9 - The
Rangoon bombing kills
South Korea's Foreign Minister,
Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others.
★
October 12 -
Japan's former Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from
Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
★
October 19 -
Maurice Bishop, the Prime Minister of
Grenada, and 40 others are executed in a military coup.
★
October 21 - At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the
metre is defined in terms of the
speed of light as the distance light travels in a
vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
★
October 22 - In
Bonn,
West Germany, people demonstrate for
nuclear disarmament.
★
October 23 - Simultaneous
suicide truck-bombings destroy both the
French and the
United States Marine Corps barracks in
Beirut, killing 241 US servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians. The game show "GO!" premieres on NBC.
★
October 24 -
Arthur Hutchinson kills 3 members of the Laitner family and rapes their daughter in the
Sheffield suburb of
Dore.
★
October 25 -
United States troops invade
Grenada at the behest of
Eugenia Charles of
Dominica, a member of the
Organization of American States.
★
October 25 -
Microsoft Word is first released.
★
October 27 -
Pope John Paul II visits his would-be assassin
Mehmet Ali Ağca in prison to forgive him.
★
October 30 - The first democratic elections in
Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.
November
★
November 2 -
Martin Luther King Day: At the
White House Rose Garden, U.S. President
Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor
American civil rights leader
Martin Luther King Jr.
★
November 3 - The Reverend
Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984
Democratic Party presidential nomination.
★
November 5 - The
Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident off the coast of
Norway. Five divers are killed and one severely wounded in an
explosive decompression accident.
★
November 11 -
Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the
Diet,
Japan's national legislature.
★
November 13 - The first
United States cruise missiles arrive at
Greenham Common Airbase in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
★
November 15 - The Turkish part of
Cyprus declares
independence.
★
November 16 - A jury in
Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
★
November 17 - The
Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.
★
November 24 - Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of
Narborough,
England (
Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to
life imprisonment in 1988).
★
November 26 -
Brinks Mat robbery: In
London, 6,800
gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at
Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.
★
November 27 - A
Colombian
Boeing 747 crashes near
Madrid,
Spain killing 181 of the 192 on board.
December
★
December 7 - Two
Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy
runway at a
Madrid airport killing 90.
★
December 9 - The Australian Dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer
Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of
Bob Hawke.
★
December 10 - Military rule ends and
democracy is restored in
Argentina.
★
December 13 - The
Denver Nuggets and the visiting
Detroit Pistons combine for an
NBA record 370 points, with Detroit winning in triple
overtime, 186-184.
★
December 17 - A
discotheque fire in
Madrid,
Spain, kills 83 people.
★
December 17 - A
Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 Christmas shoppers and injures 90 outside
Harrods in
London.
★
December 27 - A
propane explosion in
Buffalo, New York kills five firefighters and two civilians.
★
December 29 - The Reverend
Jesse Jackson travels to
Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant
Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity after being shot down over the country on a reconnaissance mission.
★
December 31 -
Brunei gains
independence from the
United Kingdom.
★
December 31 - Two bombs explode in
France. One on the Paris train kills 3 and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills 2 and injures 34.
Undated
★
Zlatko Ugljen received
Aga Khan Award for Architecture for
White Mosque built in
Visoko.
★
Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program launched in U.S.
★ ''
Flashdance'' and ''
Return of the Jedi'' are box-office hits.
★
Gerard Debreu wins the
Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
★ The
immunosuppressant cyclosporine was approved by
FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
★ Kellogg's introduces Crispix cereal.
★
Leopold Kohr, the people of
Belau,
Amory and
Hunter Lovins /
Rocky Mountain Institute and
Manfred Max-Neef /
CEPAUR win the
Right Livelihood Award.
★
McDonald's introduces the
McNugget.
★
Roxanne Pulitzer divorces
Herbert Pulitzer.
★
Kary Mullis discovers
polymerase chain reaction while working for Cetus.
★ The
De Lorean Motor Company ceases production.
Ongoing
★
Cold War
Fictional
The references to 1983 in popular fiction are:
-In the TV series
Supernatural, there are several 'special children,' who were all born in 1983.
Births
January-February
★
January 1 -
Emi Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol
★
January 2 -
Kate Bosworth, American actress
★
January 4 -
Spencer Chamberlain, American musician
★
January 7 -
Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
★
January 8 -
Chris Masters, American wrestler
★
January 13 -
William Hung, Chinese-American musician
★
January 13 -
Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
★
January 17 -
Johannes Herber, German basketball player
★
January 18 -
Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
★
January 19 -
Hikaru Utada, Japanese singer and songwriter
★
January 20 -
Mari Yaguchi, Japanese singer and DJ
★
January 21 -
Moritz Volz, German footballer
★
January 23 -
David Firth, British flash animator
★
January 24 -
Scott Speed, American Formula One driver
★
January 31 -
James Sutton, British actor
★
February 2 -
Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete competing in heptathlon, long jump and pentathlon.
★
February 3 -
Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress
★
February 7 -
Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
★
February 8 -
Jim Verraros, American singer
★
February 8 -
Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
★
February 15 -
Alan Didak, Australian footballer
★
February 18 -
Juelz Santana, American rapper
★
February 19 -
Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
★
February 19 -
Ryan Whitney, American hockey player
★
February 23 -
Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby player
★
February 23 -
Mido, Egyptian footballer
★
February 23 -
Emily Blunt, English actress
★
February 27 -
Devin Harris, American basketball player
★
February 28 -
Tim Redwine, American actor
March-April
★
March 4 -
Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer
★
March 10 -
Carrie Underwood, American singer
★
March 10 -
Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d.
1997)
★
March 14 -
Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
★
March 14 -
Taylor Hanson, American musician
★
March 15 -
Sean Biggerstaff, British actor
★
March 17 -
Christian and Joseph Cousins, American twin actors
★
March 21 -
Bruno Langley, British actor
★
March 27 -
Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (d.
2005)
★
March 28 -
Ryan Ashington, English footballer
★
March 30 -
Zach Gowen, American wrestler
★
March 30 -
Hebe Tian, member of the Taiwanese girl-group
S.H.E
★
April 2 -
Yung Joc, American rapper
★
April 4 -
Amanda Righetti, American actress
★
April 4 -
Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
★
April 9 -
Clint Dempsey, American soccer player
★
April 10 -
Ryan Merriman, American actor
★
April 13 -
Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
★
April 15 -
Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
★
April 17 -
Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
★
April 21 -
Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
★
April 22 -
Matt Jones, American football player
★
April 22 -
Sean Muir, American playwright
★
April 23 -
Daniela Hantuchova, Slovakian tennis player
★
April 26 -
Jake Wall, Australian model
★
April 29 -
Jay Cutler, American football player
May-June
★
May 9 -
Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
★
May 11 -
Matt Leinart, American football player
★
May 11 -
Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
★
May 13 -
Aza Bataeva, Chechen singer
★
May 14 -
Natalie Cassidy, British actress
★
May 14 -
Amber Tamblyn, American actress
★
May 18 -
Vince Young, American football player
★
May 19 -
Eve Angel, Hungarian model
★
May 19 -
Jessica Fox, British actress
★
May 27 -
Bobby Convey, American soccer player
★
May 30 -
Jennifer Ellison, British actress
★
June 6 -
Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby player
★
June 6 -
Gemma Bissix, British actress
★
June 6 -
Gianna Michaels, American pornstar
★
June 8 -
Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
★
June 8 -
Mamoru Miyano, Japanese seiyuu
★
June 10 -
Leelee Sobieski, American actress
★
June 13 -
Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
★
June 15 -
Julia Fischer, German violinist
★
June 15 -
Derek Anderson, American football player
★
June 17 -
Lee Ryan, British singer
★
June 18 -
Billy Slater, Australian Rugby League player
★
June 19 -
Paul Dano, American actor
★
June 19 -
Mark Selby, British snooker player
★
June 20 -
Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
★
June 24 -
Alexander Beyer, German actor
★
June 27 -
Evan Taubenfeld, American guitarist, singer, and songwriter
★
June 30 -
Brendon James, English drummer (
Thirteen Senses)
★
June 30 -
Cheryl Cole, British singer (
Girls Aloud)
★
June 30 -
Patrick Apps, British singer, songwriter and musician (
Patrick Wolf)
July-August
★
July 1 -
Marit Larsen, Norwegian musician
★
July 2 -
Michelle Branch, American singer
★
July 6 -
Gregory Smith, Canadian-born American actor
★
July 8 -
Elizabeth Del Mar, American pornographic actress
★
July 9 -
Ben Ziff, American actor
★
July 11 -
Marie Eleonor Sernehlot, Swedish-born American singer (
A
★ Teens)
★
July 12 -
Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
★
July 13 -
Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
★
July 18 -
Aaron Gillespie, drummer (
Underoath)
★
July 21 -
Eivør Pálsdóttir,
Faroese singer and composer
★
July 21 -
Kellen Winslow II, American football player
★
July 23 -
Bec Cartwright, Australian actress
★
July 23 -
Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
★
July 30 -
Sean Dillon, Irish footballer
★
August 5 -
Sam Stacey, British model
★
August 6 -
Robin van Persie, Dutch football player
★
August 7 -
Tina O'Brien,
Coronation Street actress
★
August 8 -
Fred Meyers, American actor
★
August 8 -
Guy Burnet, British actor
★
August 10 -
Mathieu Roy, Canadian professionial ice hockey player
★
August 12 -
Martina Warren, British model
★
August 13 -
Ales Hemsky, Czechoslovakian professional ice hockey player
★
August 14 -
Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress
★
August 15 -
Lilly Ann, American adult model and porn star
★
August 16 -
Colin Griffiths, TV presenter and DJ
★
August 16 -
Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
★
August 17 -
Dustin Pedroia, American Baseball Player
★
August 18 -
MIKA, British singer
★
August 19 -
Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
★
August 21 -
Chantelle Houghton, British reality TV star
★
August 23 -
Nicol David,
Malaysian
squash player
★
August 24 -
Christopher Parker, British actor
★
August 27 -
Wilson Chen, Taiwanese actor
★
August 28 -
Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
★
August 28 -
Luke McAlister, New Zealand Rugby Union player
★
August 30 -
Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
★
August 30 -
Jonne Aaron, Finnish musician
September-October
★
September 1 -
José Antonio Reyes, Spanish football player
★
September 14 -
Amy Winehouse, British singer
★
September 17 -
Jennifer Peña, American singer
★
September 21 -
Maggie Grace, American actress
★
September 21 -
Joseph Mazzello, American actor
★
September 24 -
Randy Foye, American basketball player
★
September 26 -
Samantha Hammel, American producer, actress and singer
★
October 3 -
Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
★
October 4 -
Risa Kudo, Japanese gravure idol
★
October 5 -
Nicky Hilton, American model and socialite
★
October 8 -
Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
★
October 10 -
Alyson Hau,
Hong Kong radio DJ
★
October 14 -
Vanessa Lane, American porn star
★
October 15 -
Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
★
October 17 -
Michelle Ang, Australian actress
★
October 24 -
Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress
★
October 24 -
Alycia Purrott, Canadian actress
★
October 24 -
Brian Vickers, American race car driver
★
October 29 -
Amit Sebastian Paul, Swedish-born American singer (
A
★ Teens)
★
October 29 -
Richard Brancatisano, Australian actor/musician ()
★
October 30 -
Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer
November-December
★
November 1 -
Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol
★
November 3 -
Julie Berman, American actress
★
November 8 -
Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
★
November 11 -
Philipp Lahm, German footballer
★
November 11 -
Sora Aoi, Japanese model
★
November 14 -
Lil Boosie, American rapper
★
November 16 -
Fallon Bowman, South African-born guitarist (
Kittie)
★
November 16 -
K, South Korean singer
★
November 17 -
Harry Lloyd, British actor
★
November 18 -
Mila J, American singer/rapper
★
November 18 -
Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
★
December 2 -
Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
★
December 6 -
Bryan Habana, South African rugby player
★
December 9 -
Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
★
December 10 -
Patrick Flueger, American actor ('', ''
The 4400'')
★
December 12 -
Katrina Elam, American singer
★
December 12 -
Brad Smith, American football player
★
December 13 -
Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
★
December 13 -
Alan Hoyle, UK basketball player
★
December 15 -
René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
★
December 16 -
Danielle Lloyd, British model
★
December 17 -
Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
★
December 20 -
Lucy Pinder, British model
★
December 22 -
Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, crowned Miss Universe in 2004
★
December 27 -
Cole Hamels, American baseball player
★
December 31 -
Sayaka Ichii, Japanese singer
Deaths
January-March
★
January 10 -
Roy DeMeo,
Mafia hitman (b.
1942)
★
January 11 -
Shri Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b.
1894)
★
January 15 -
Meyer Lansky, Russian-born gangster (b.
1902)
★
January 23 -
Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b.
1908)
★
January 24 -
George Cukor, American film director (b.
1899)
★
January 27 -
Louis de Funès, French actor (b.
1899)
★
January 28 -
Frank Forde, fifteenth
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1890)
★
January 28 -
Billy Fury, British
Rock 'n' Roll artist of the
1960s
★
February 4 -
Karen Carpenter, American singer (b.
1950)
★
February 12 -
Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b.
1887)
★
February 14 -
Lina Radke, German athlete (b.
1903)
★
February 22 - Sir
Adrian Boult, English conductor (b.
1889)
★
February 23 -
Herbert Howells, English composer (b.
1892)
★
February 25 -
Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b.
1911)
★
February 27 -
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b.
1908)
★
March 3 -
Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b.
1907)
★
March 3 -
Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b.
1905)
★
March 8 -
William Walton, English composer (b.
1902)
★
March 9 -
Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1905)
★
March 15 -
Rebecca West, English-born writer (b.
1892)
★
March 17 -
Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1903)
★
March 27 -
Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer,
George Norlin Silver Medal from the University of Colorado (b.
1898)
April-June
★
April 4 -
Gloria Swanson, American actress (b.
1897)
★
April 22 -
Earl 'Fatha' Hines, American musician (b.
1903)
★
April 30 -
McKinley "Muddy Waters" Morganfield, American musician (b.
1915)
★
May 8 -
John Fante, American writer (b.
1909)
★
May 14 -
Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b.
1900)
★
May 18 -
Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b.
1898)
★
May 19 -
Jean Rey,
President of the European Commission (b.
1902)
★
May 21 -
Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b.
1903)
★
May 22 -
Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1899)
★
May 31 -
Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b.
1895)
★
June 2 -
Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b.
1949)
★
June 8 -
Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b.
1908)
★
June 10 -
Larry Hooper, American singer, ''
The Lawrence Welk Show'' (b.
1917)
★
June 12 -
Norma Shearer, Canadian-born actress
★
June 18 -
Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b.
1893)
★
June 25 -
Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b.
1916)
July-September
★
July 1 -
Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b.
1895)
★
July 4 -
John Bodkin Adams, alleged English murderer (b.
1899)
★
July 7 -
Vicki Morgan, American model (murdered) (b.
1952)
★
July 11 -
Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b.
1915)
★
July 12 -
Chris Wood, British rock musician (b.
1944)
★
July 20 -
Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b.
1923)
★
July 23 -
Georges Auric, French composer (b.
1899)
★
July 29 -
Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b.
1896)
★
July 29 -
David Niven, English actor (b.
1910)
★
August 3 -
Carolyn Jones, American actress (b.
1930)
★
August 16 -
Earl Averill, baseball player (b.
1902)
★
August 17 -
Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b.
1896)
★
August 21 -
Benigno Aquino, Jr., Filipino politician (b.
1932)
★
September 1 -
Larry McDonald, U.S. Congressman (plane crash) (b.
1935)
★
September 10 -
Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1905)
★
September 10 -
Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b.
1941)
★
September 25 - King
Léopold III of Belgium (b.
1901)
★
September 26 -
Tino Rossi, Corsican singer (b.
1907)
October-December
★
October 6 -
Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b.
1921)
★
October 8 -
Joan Hackett, American actress (b.
1934)
★
October 18 -
Willie Jones, baseball player (b.
1925)
★
October 23 -
Jessica Savitch, American journalist (drowned in a car accident) (b.
1947)
★
October 28 -
Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b.
1892)
★
October 31 -
George S. Halas, American football player and coach (b.
1895)
★
November 3 -
Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b.
1901)
★
November 7 -
Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b.
1892)
★
November 15 -
John Le Mesurier, British actor (b.
1912)
★
December 2 -
Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (b.
1904)
★
December 6 -
Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b.
1903)
★
December 8 -
Slim Pickens, American actor (b.
1919)
★
December 11 - Sir
Neil Ritchie, British general (b.
1897)
★
December 21 -
Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b.
1919)
★
December 23 -
Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b.
1910)
★
December 25 -
Joan Miró, Catalan painter (b.
1893)
★
December 28 -
Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (drowned) (b.
1944)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar,
William Alfred Fowler
★
Chemistry -
Henry Taube
★
Medicine -
Barbara McClintock
★
Literature -
William Golding
★
Peace -
Lech Wałęsa
★
Economics -
Gerard Debreu
Templeton Prize
★
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
See also
★
20th century
Notes
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