Year '1961' ('
MCMLXI') was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the
Gregorian calendar.
As ''
MAD Magazine'' pointed out on its cover for the March 1961 issue, this was the first "upside-up" year—i.e., one in which the numerals that form the year look the same as when the numerals are rotated upside down—since
1881, and the last until 6009.
Events of 1961
January
★
January 1 - The
farthing, used since the
13th century, ceases to be
legal tender in the
United Kingdom.
★
January 3 - President
Dwight Eisenhower announces that the
United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with
Cuba.
★
January 3 - At the National Reactor Testing Station in
Idaho Falls, Idaho,
SL-1, an
atomic reactor explodes, killing 3 military technicians.
★
January 5 - Italian sculptor
Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in
Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the
Etruscan terracotta warriors in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
★
January 7 - Following a 4-day conference in
Casablanca, 5 African chiefs of state announce plans for a
NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves
Morocco, the
United Arab Republic,
Ghana,
Guinea, and
Mali.
★
January 8 - In
France, a
referendum supports
Charles de Gaulle's policies in
Algeria.
★
January 9 -
British authorities announce that they have discovered a large
Soviet spy ring in
London.
★
January 17 - President
Dwight Eisenhower gives his final
State of the Union Address to Congress. In a Farewell Address the same day, he warns of the increasing power of a "
military-industrial complex".
★
January 17 -
Patrice Lumumba is assassinated.
★
January 20 -
John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th
President of the United States.
★
January 24 - A U.S.
B-52 Stratofortress, with two roughly 2.4
megaton nuclear bombs, crashes near
Goldsboro, North Carolina.
★
January 24 - Musician
Bob Dylan reportedly makes his way to
New York City after bumming a ride in
Madison, Wisconsin. Dylan is likely on his way to visit his idol
Woody Guthrie. He later finds fame in the
Greenwich Village protest folk music scene.
★
January 25 - In
Washington, DC John F. Kennedy delivers the first live
presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the
Soviet Union has freed the 2 surviving crewmen of a
USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane shot down by Soviet flyers over the
Barents Sea July 1, 1960. (see RB-47H shot down)
★
January 25 - Acting to halt 'leftist excesses,' a
junta composed of 2 army officers and 4 civilians takes over
El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for 3 months.
★
January 26 -
John F. Kennedy appoints
Janet G. Travell to be his physician, the first woman to hold this appointment.
★
January 30 - President
John F. Kennedy delivers his first
State of the Union Address.
★
January 31 -
Ham, a 37 pound male
chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard
Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the
Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry
United States astronauts into space.
February
★
February 3 -
China buys grain from
Canada for $60 million.
★
February 4 - The Portuguese Colonial War begins in
Angola.
★
February 5 -
February 9 - In
Congo, President
Joseph Kasavubu names Joseph Ileo as the new Prime Minister.
★
February 12 -
U.S.S.R. launches
Venera 1 towards
Venus.
★
February 13 - The
Congo government announces that villagers have killed
Patrice Lumumba.
★
February 14 -
Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103,
Lawrencium, is first synthesized in
Berkeley, California.
★
February 15 - A
Sabena Boeing 707 crashes near
Brussels,
Belgium, killing 73, including the entire
United States figure skating team and several coaches.
★
February 25 - The last public
tram operates in
Sydney,
Australia, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network.
★
February 26 -
Hassan II is pronounced King of
Morocco.
March
★
March 1 -
President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the
Peace Corps.
★
March 1 -
Uganda becomes self-governing by holding its first general elections.
★
March 3 -
Hassan II is crowned King of
Morocco.
★
March 8 - Max Conrad circumnavigates the earth in 8 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes, setting a new world record.
★
March 8 - The first U.S.
Polaris submarines arrive at
Holy Loch.
★
March 13 - Black and white
£5 notes cease to be
legal tender in the
UK.
★
March 13 - A dam bursts on the
Dnieper River in the
USSR, killing 145.
★
March 13 -
USA delegate to the
UNSC Adlai Stevenson votes against
Portuguese policies in
Africa.
★
March 15 -
South Africa withdraws from the
Commonwealth of Nations.
★
March 15 - The Union of Peoples of Angola, leaded by Holden Roberto, attacks strategic locations in the north of
Angola. These events result in the beginning of the colonial war with
Portugal.
★
March 18 - A
ceasefire takes effect in the
Algerian War of Independence.
★
March 18 - ''Nous les amoureux'' by Jean-Claude Pascal (music by Jacques Datin, text by Maurice Vidalin) wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 1961 for
Luxembourg.
★
March 29 - The
Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of
Washington, DC to vote in
presidential elections.
★
March 30 - The
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at
New York.
April
★
April 5 - The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed.
★
April 11 - The trial of
Adolf Eichmann begins in
Jerusalem.
★
April 12 - ''
Vostok 1'':
Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet
cosmonaut, becomes the first human in space.
★
April 12 - Albert Kalonji takes the title ''Emperor Albert I Kalonji'' of
South Kasai.
★
April 13 -
Portugal: fail in a
coup attempt against
Salazar.
★
April 17 - The
Bay of Pigs Invasion of
Cuba begins; it fails by
April 19.
★
April 18 -
Portugal sends to
Angola the first military reinforcement.
★
April 20 -
Fidel Castro announces that the
Bay of Pigs invasion has been defeated.
★
April 22 -
Algiers putsch: Four French generals who oppose
de Gaulle's policies in
Algeria fail in a
coup attempt.
★
April 23 -
Judy Garland performs in a legendary comeback concert at
Carnegie Hall in
New York City.
★
April 24 -
Regalskeppet Vasa is removed from the water after being sunk 333 years earlier.
May
★
May 3 - French phenomenological philosopher
Maurice Merleau-Ponty dies, age 53, of a
stroke, apparently while preparing for a class on
Descartes.
★
May 4 -
Freedom Riders: 13 black and white students with the
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) leave Washington DC on 2 buses, to test integration laws in bus stations throughout the deep South.
★
May 5 -
Mercury program:
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard
Mercury-Redstone 3.
★
May 8 - Briton
George Blake is sentenced to 42 years imprisonment for spying.
★
May 14 -
American civil rights movement: A
Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near
Anniston, Alabama and the
civil rights protestors are beaten by an
angry mob.
★
May 16 - A military coup in
South Korea -
Park Chung Hee takes over.
★
May 19 -
Venera program:
Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing
Venus (however, the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
★
May 21 -
American civil rights movement:
Alabama Governor
John Patterson declares
martial law in an attempt to restore order after
race riots break out.
★
May 24 -
American civil rights movement:
Freedom Riders are arrested in
Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
★
May 25 -
Apollo program:
President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the
Moon before the end of the decade.
★
May 27 -
Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of
Malaya, holds a press conference in
Singapore, announcing his idea to form the Federation of
Malaysia, comprising
Malaya,
Singapore,
Sarawak,
Brunei and North Borneo(
Sabah).
★
May 28 -
Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read
newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the
human rights organization
Amnesty International.
★
May 30 -
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, totalitarian despot of the
Dominican Republic since 1930, is killed in an ambush, putting an end to the second longest-running dictatorship in
Latin American history.
★
May 31 - In
France, rebel generals Maurice Challe and Andre Zelelr are sentenced to 15 years in prison.
★
May 31 -
South Africa officially leaves the
Commonwealth of Nations.
★
May 31 - President
John F. Kennedy and
Charles De Gaulle meet in
Paris.
June
★
June 4 -
John F. Kennedy and
Nikita Khrushchev meet during 2 days in
Vienna. They discuss nuclear tests,
disarmament and
Germany.
★
June 6 - Actor
Michael J. Fox was born
★
June 17 - A
Paris-to-
Strasbourg train derails near
Vitry-le-François; 24 are killed, 109 injured.
★
June 17 - The
New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.
★
June 19 - The British
protectorate ends in
Kuwait and it becames an
emirate.
★
June 21 - Russian ballet dancer
Rudolf Nureyev requests asylum in
France while in Paris with the
Kirov Ballet.
★
June 22 -
Moise Tshombe is released for lack of evidence of connection to the murder of
Patrice Lumumba.
★
June 25 - U.S. philanthropist
George Washington Vanderbilt III is found dead at the base of a San Francisco skyscraper.
★
June 25 -
Iraqi president
Abdul Karim Kassem announces he is going to annex
Kuwait.
★
June 27 - Kuwait requests British help; the
United Kingdom sends in troops.
July
★
July 2 -
Ernest Hemingway commits suicide by gunshot in
Sun Valley, Idaho.
★
July 4 - The
Soviet submarine ''
K-19'' reactor leak occurs in the North
Atlantic.
★
July 5 - The first Israeli rocket,
Shavit 2, is launched.
★
July 8 - A mine explosion in
Czechoslovakia leaves 108 dead.
★
July 21 -
Mercury program:
Gus Grissom, piloting the
Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule ''
Liberty Bell 7'', becomes the second
American to go into space (sub-orbital). Upon splashdown, the hatch prematurely opens, and the capsule sinks (it will be recovered in
1999).
★
July 31 - At
Fenway Park in
Boston, Massachusetts, the first
All-Star Game tie in major league
baseball history occurs when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain. It will be the only tie (until
2002) in MLB All-Star Game history.
★
July 31 - Ireland submits the first ever application to join the then
European Economic Community.
August
★
August 5 - The
Six Flags over Texas theme park officially opens to the public.
★
August 10 - Britain applies for membership in the
European Economic Community.
★
August 13 - Construction of the
Berlin Wall begins. Movement between
East Berlin and
West Berlin remains restricted for the next 28 years, until
November 9,
1989.
★
August 21 -
Jomo Kenyatta is released from prison in
Kenya.
September
★
September 10 - During the
F1 Italian Grand Prix on the
circuit of Monza, the German driver
Wolfgang Von Trips in a
Ferrari crashes into a stand killing 14 spectators and himself.
★
September 14 - The new military government of
Turkey sentences 15 members of the previous government to death.
★
September 17 - Military rulers in
Turkey hang former president
Adnan Menderes.
★
September 17-
September 18 -
Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash en route to
Katanga,
Congo.
★
September 19- The first
Grey alien is reported.
★
September 21 - In
France,
OAS slips an anti-
de Gaulle message into TV programming.
★
September 24 - The old
Deutsche Opernhaus in the
Berlin neighborhood of
Charlottenburg is returned to its newly rebuilt house as the
Deutsche Oper Berlin.
★
September 28 - A
military coup in
Damascus,
Syria effectively ends the
United Arab Republic, the union between
Egypt and
Syria.
October
★
October 1 - Baseball player
Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hits his 61st home run in the last game of the season, against the Boston Red Sox, beating the 34-year-old record held by Babe Ruth.
★
October 9 - Digital photography invented by Eugene F. Lally presented in a technical paper at the American Rocket Society's Space Flight Report to the Nation in
New York.
★
October 10 - A volcanic eruption on
Tristan da Cunha causes the whole population to be evacuated.
★
October 11 -
Chico Marx of the
Marx Brothers dies at 74.
★
October 12 - The
death penalty is abolished in
New Zealand.
★
October 17 -
Paris massacre of 1961: French police attack in
Paris about 30,000 protesting a curfew applied solely to
Algerians. The official death toll is 3, but human rights groups claim 240 dead.
★
October 19 - The
Arab League takes over protecting
Kuwait; the last British troops leave.
★
October 25 - The first edition of ''
Private Eye'', the British satirical magazine, is published.
★
October 27 - An
armistice begins in
Katanga,
Congo.
★
October 27 -
Mongolia and
Mauritania join the
United Nations.
★
October 27 - A standoff between
Soviet and
American tanks in
Berlin,
Germany heightens
Cold War tensions.
★
October 29 -
RBS Channel 7, the Philippines' third TV station, is launched.
★
October 30 -
Nuclear testing: The
Soviet Union detonates a 58 megaton yield
hydrogen bomb known as
Tsar Bomba over
Novaya Zemlya. It remains the largest ever (man-made) explosion.
★
October 31 -
Hurricane Hattie devastates
Belize City,
Belize killing over 270. After the
hurricane, the capital moves to the inland city of
Belmopan.
★
October 31 -
Joseph Stalin's body is removed from the Lenin Mausoleum.
November
★
November 1 - The Interstate Commerce Commission's federal order banning segregation at all interstate public facilities officially comes into effect.
★
November 2 - ''Kean'' opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 92 performances.
★
November 3 - The
UN General Assembly unanimously elects
U Thant acting Secretary General.
★
November 6 - The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of
James Naismith.
★
November 9 -
Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane of 6,587km/h flying a
X-15.
★
November 10 - ''
Catch-22'' is first published by Joseph Heller.
★
November 11 - Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian
United Nations pilots.
★
November 11 - Stalingrad is renamed
Volgograd.
★
November 18 - ''
Gay Life'' opens at Shubert Theater in
New York City, for 113 performances.
★
November 18 - U.S. President
John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
★
November 20 - The funeral of longtime House Speaker
Sam Rayburn is held in
Washington, DC. Two former Presidents (
Truman,
Eisenhower) and one future one (
Lyndon B. Johnson) join
President Kennedy in paying their respects.
★
November 30 - The
Soviet Union vetoes
Kuwait's application for
United Nations membership.
December
★
December 1 -
Netherlands New Guinea raises the new Morning Star flag and changes its name to
West Papua.
★
December 2 -
Cold War: In a nationally broadcast speech,
Cuban leader
Fidel Castro declares he is a
Marxist-
Leninist, and that Cuba will adopt
Communism.
★
December 5 - U.S. President
John F. Kennedy gives support to the
Volta Dam project in
Ghana.
★
December 9 -
Tanganyika gains independence and declares itself a republic, with
Julius Nyerere as its first President.
★
December 9 - The
Australian government of
Robert Menzies is re-elected for a sixth term.
★
December 10 - The
Soviet Union severs
diplomatic relations with
Albania.
★
December 10 -
Nobel Prize: Melvin Calvin is awarded the Nobel Prize for the process of photosynthesis.
★
December 11 - The
Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon along with 400 U.S. personnel.
★
December 11 -
Adolf Eichmann is pronounced guilty of crimes against humanity by a panel of 3
Israeli judges.
★
December 15 - An Israeli war crimes tribunal sentences
Adolf Eichmann to die for his part in the Jewish
Holocaust.
★
December 17 -
India occupies
Goa.
★
December 17 -
Circus tent fire in
Niteroi,
Brazil kills 323.
★
December 18 -
India occupies
portuguese colonies of
Goa,
Damao and
Diu
★
December 19 -
Goa is officially ceded to
India after 400 years of Portuguese rule.
★
December 19 -
Sukarno announces that he will take
West Irian by force if necessary.
★
December 21 - In
Congo, Katangan prime minister
Moise Tshombe recognizes the Congolese constitution.
★
December 23 -
Luxembourg's
national holiday, the
Grand Duke's Official Birthday, is set on
June 23 by Grand Ducal decree.
★
December 30 - Congolese troops capture Albert Kalonji of
South Kasai (who soon escapes).
★
December 31 - The
Marshall Plan expires, after having distributed more than $12 billion in
foreign aid to rebuild
Europe.
★
December 31 - Ireland's first national television station, ''Teilifís Éireann'' (later
RTÉ), begins broadcasting.
Undated
★ The
Fantastic Four #1 debuts, launching the
Marvel Universe and revolutionizing the
American comic book industry.
★
John F. Kennedy begins the
Apollo program of U.S. manned spaceflight.
★ The first
quasar is discovered by
Allan Sandage at
Mt Palomar,
California
★ "Barbie" gets a boyfriend when the "Ken" doll is introduced.
★
World population reached 3 billion people.
Ongoing
★
Marshall Plan
Fictional
The following are references to year 1961 in fiction: (unknown).
World population
★
World: 3,021,475,000 (at the end of 1961)
★
★
Africa: 277,398,000
★
★
Asia: 1,701,336,000
★
★
Europe: 604,401,000
★
★
Latin-America: 218,300,000
★
★
Northern America: 204,152,000
★
★
Oceania: 15,888,000
Births
January-February
★
January 1 -
Mark Wingett, British actor
★
January 2 -
Gabrielle Carteris, American actress
★
January 2 -
Todd Haynes, American film director
★
January 8 -
Calvin Smith, American athlete
★
January 13 -
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress
★
January 13 -
Suggs, British singer (
Madness)
★
January 17 -
Maia Chiburdanidze, Georgian chess player
★
January 18 -
Mark Messier, Canadian hockey player
★
January 24 -
Nastassja Kinski, German-born actress
★
January 26 -
Wayne Gretzky, Canadian hockey player ("The Great One")
★
January 30 -
Dexter Scott King, son of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
★
January 31 -
Lloyd Cole, British singer and songwriter
★
February 1 -
Volker Fried, German field hockey player
★
February 3 -
Jim Balsillie, Canadian CEO and
philanthropist
★
February 3 -
Gretel Killeen, Australian author and TV presenter (
Big Brother)
★
February 8 -
Vince Neil, American singer
★
February 9 -
John Kruk, baseball player and commentator
★
February 9 -
Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
★
February 10 -
George Stephanopoulos, American political consultant and commentator
★
February 11 -
Mary Docter, American speed skater
★
February 11 -
Carey Lowell, American actress
★
February 13 -
Henry Rollins, American musician
★
February 13 -
Richard Tyson, American actor
★
February 16 -
Andy Taylor, British musician (
Duran Duran)
★
February 22 -
Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
★
February 25 -
Davey Allison, American race car driver (d.
1993)
March-April
★ March ?? -
Reggie Fils-Aime, American businessperson (
Nintendo)
★
March 4 -
Ray Mancini, American boxer
★
March 4 -
Steven Weber, American actor
★
March 4 -
Roger Wessels, South African golfer
★
March 8 -
Camryn Manheim, American actress
★
March 10 -
Mike Bullard (ice hockey), American hockey player
★
March 10 -
Laurel Clark, astronaut (d.
2003)
★
March 10 -
Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast
★
March 10 -
Bobby Petrino, American football coach
★
March 14 -
Gary Dell'Abate, radio producer (
The Howard Stern Show)
★
March 16 -
Brett Kenny, Australian
rugby league player
★
March 17 -
Umayya Abu-Hanna, Palestine-born Finnish writer and politician
★
March 21 -
Lothar Matthäus, German footballer
★
March 23 -
Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster
★
March 27 -
Ellery Hanley, English rugby league player and coach
★
March 27 -
Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (
B'z)
★
March 29 -
Gerardo Teissonniere, Puerto Rican pianist
★
April 2 -
Christopher Meloni, American actor
★
April 3 -
Eddie Murphy, American actor and comedian
★
April 5 -
Lisa Zane, American actress
★
April 6 -
Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (
Adam Again)
★
April 12 -
Lisa Gerrard, Australian musician
★
April 14 -
Neil Dougherty, basketball coach
★
April 18 -
Jane Leeves, English actress
★
April 20 -
Don Mattingly, American baseball player
★
April 20 -
Konstantin Lavronenko, Russian actor
★
April 23 -
George Lopez, American actor and comedian
★
April 26 -
Anthony Cumia, American radio personality (The
Opie and Anthony Show)
★
April 27 -
Moana Pozzi, Italian porn actress (d.
1994)
★
April 29 -
Fumihiko Tachiki, Japanese seiyuu
★
April 30 -
Isiah Thomas, American basketball player, coach, and team owner
May-June
★
May 2 -
Steve James, English
snooker player
★
May 6 -
George Clooney, American actor
★
May 7 -
Robert Spano, American conductor and pianist
★
May 8 -
Janet McTeer, British actress
★
May 12 -
Billy (William H) Duffy, English guitarist (
The Cult)
★
May 13 -
Dennis Rodman, American basketball player and actor
★
May 14 -
Tim Roth, English actor
★
May 17 -
Enya, Irish musician
★
May 27 -
Peri Gilpin, American actress
★
May 29 -
Melissa Etheridge, American musician
★
May 31 -
Ray Cote, Canadian ice hockey player
★
May 31 -
Justin Madden, Australian footballer and politician
★
May 31 -
Lea Thompson, American actress
★
June 1 -
Paul Coffey, Canadian hockey player
★
June 2 -
Dez Cadena, American musician
★
June 3 -
Lawrence Lessig, Professor and Free Culture activist
★
June 5 -
Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d.
2006)
★ June 5 -
Rosie Kane, member of Scottish Parliament
★
June 6 -
Tom Araya, Chilean-born musician (
Slayer)
★
June 9 -
Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor
★
June 10 -
Kim and
Kelley Deal, American musicians
★
June 14 -
Boy George, British musician and producer
★
June 15 -
Kai Eckhardt, German bass guitarist
★ June 15 -
Dave McAuley, Northern Irish boxer
★
June 18 -
Andrés Galarraga, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
★
June 22 -
Stephen Batchelor, British field hockey player
★
June 23 -
Zoran Janjetov, Serbian comic artist
★
June 25 -
Ricky Gervais, English comedian
★
June 26 -
Greg LeMond, American cyclist
★
June 27 -
Meera Syal, British-Indian comedian and actress
★
June 29 -
Greg Hetson American guitarist for Bad Religion and Circle Jerks, among others.
July-August
★
July 1 -
Kalpana Chawla, astronaut (d.
2003)
★
July 1 -
Diana, Princess of Wales (d.
1997)
★
July 1 -
Carl Lewis, American athlete
★
July 10 -
Jacky Cheung, Hong Kong singer and actor
★
July 12 -
Ray Gillen, American singer (d.
1993)
★
July 14 -
Jackie Earle Haley, American actor
★
July 19 -
Maria Filatova, Soviet gymnast
★
July 19 -
Benoît Mariage, Belgian film director
★
July 23 -
Martin Gore, English musician and songwriter (
Depeche Mode)
★
July 26 -
Keiko Matsui, Japanese pianist and composer
★
July 30 -
Laurence Fishburne, American actor
★
August 3 -
Nicholas Harvey, English politician
★
August 4 -
Barack Obama, US Senator, author
★
August 4 -
Lauren Tom, American actress
★
August 5 -
Clayton Rohner, American actor
★
August 7 -
Brian Conley, English TV presenter, comedian, singer & actor
★
August 7 -
Yelena Davydova, Soviet gymnast
★
August 8 -
The Edge, Irish guitarist (
U2)
★
August 14 -
Susan Olsen, American actress
★
August 21 -
Stephen Hillenburg, animation writer and artist
★
August 22 -
Debbi Peterson, Drummer for The Bangles
★
August 25 -
Billy Ray Cyrus, American singer and actor
★
August 29 -
Carsten Fischer, German field hockey player
September-October
★
September 2 -
Eric Dickerson, American football player
★
September 2 -
Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
★
September 6 -
Paul Waaktaar-Savoy, Norwegian guitarist (
a-ha)
★
September 6 -
Scott Travis, American drummer (
Judas Priest)
★
September 11 -
Elizabeth Daily, American actress
★
September 12 -
Mylene Farmer, Canadian singer and songwriter
★
September 13 -
Dave Mustaine, former
Metallica guitarist, frontman of
Megadeth
★
September 15 -
Dan Marino, American football player
★
September 15 -
Lidia Yusupova, Chechen human-rights lawyer
★
September 18 -
James Gandolfini, American actor
★
September 22 -
Scott Baio, American actor
★
September 22 -
Catherine Oxenberg, British actress
★
September 23 -
William C. McCool, US Army Commander and astronaut (d.
2003)
★
September 25 -
Heather Locklear, American actress
★
September 26 -
Edward Kennedy Jr, son of
U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
★
September 27 -
Andy Lau, Hong Kong actor and singer
★
September 30 -
Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress
★
October 2 -
Edmond Yu, Chinese student (d.
1997)
★
October 5 -
Matthew Kauffman, American journalist and
George Polk Award winner
★
October 11 -
Steve Young, American football player
★
October 11 -
Amr Diab, Egyptian singer
★
October 16 -
Randy Vasquez, American actor
★
October 18 -
Wynton Marsalis, American trumpeter and composer
★
October 18 -
Rick Moody, American writer
★
October 22 -
Robert Torti, American actor
★
October 26 -
Dylan McDermott, American actor
★
October 29 -
Randy Jackson, American musician
★
October 31 -
Alonzo Babers, American runner
★
October 31 -
Peter Jackson, New Zealand film director
★
October 31 -
Larry Mullen, Jr., Irish drummer (
U2)
November-December
★
November 1 -
Anne Donovan, American basketball player
★
November 2 -
k.d. lang, Canadian singer and songwriter
★
November 4 -
Daron Hagen, American composer
★
November 4 -
Edward Knight, American composer
★
November 4 -
Ralph Macchio, American actor
★
November 4 -
Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
★
November 5 -
Gina Mastrogiacomo, American actress (d.
2001)
★
November 11 -
Jan Kuehnemund, American guitarist
★
November 14 -
Jurga Ivanauskaitė, Lithuanian writer (d.
2007)
★
November 15 -
Ian Reid, Australian educator
★
November 18 -
Anthony Warlow, Australian stage performer
★
November 19 -
Meg Ryan, American actress
★
November 20 -
Dave Watson, English footballer
★
November 22 -
Mariel Hemingway, American actress
★
November 22 -
Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
★
December 3 -
Marcelo Fromer, Brazilian guitarist
★
December 4 -
Frank Reich, American football player
★
December 8 -
Ann Coulter, American author, political commentator and attorney
★
December 12 -
Sarah Sutton, British actress
★
December 12 -
Daniel O'Donnell, Irish singer
★
December 15 -
Karin Resetarits, Austrian journalist and politician
★
December 16 -
Bill Hicks, American comedian (d.
1994)
★
December 19 -
Matthew Waterhouse, British actor
★
December 19 -
Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate
★
December 19 -
Reggie White, American football player (d.
2004)
★
December 21 -
Francis Ng, Hong Kong actor
★
December 25 -
Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian senator
★
December 26 -
John Lynch, Northern Irish actor
★
December 29 -
Jim Reid, Scottish musician
★
December 30 -
Douglas Coupland, Canadian author
★
December 30 -
Sean Hannity, American talk radio host and conservative commentator
★
December 30 -
Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete
Unknown Dates
(none listed)
Deaths
January - June
★
January 4 -
Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1887)
★
January 9 -
Emily Greene Balch, American writer and pacifist, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1867)
★
January 10 -
Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b.
1894)
★
January 21 -
Blaise Cendrars, Swiss writer (b.
1887)
★
January 24 -
Alfred Carlton Gilbert, American swimmer and inventor (b.
1884)
★
January 26 -
Stan Nichols, English cricketer (b.
1900)
★
February 17 -
Nita Naldi, American actress (b.
1897)
★
February 20 -
Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b.
1882)
★
February 22 -
Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b.
1889)
★
February 26 - King
Mohammed V of Morocco (b.
1909)
★
March 3 -
Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-born pianist (b.
1887)
★
March 6 -
George Formby, British singer, comedian & actor (b.
1904)
★
March 8 -
Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b.
1879)
★
March 8 -
Gala Galaction, Romanian writer (b.
1879)
★
March 23 -
Valentin Bondarenko,
cosmonaut (b.
1937)
★
April 6 -
Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist and microbiologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1870)
★
April 7 -
Vanessa Bell, English artist and interior designer (b.
1879)
★
April 9 -
Ahmet Zog,
King of Albania (b.
1895)
★
May 13 -
Gary Cooper, American actor (b.
1901)
★
May 30 -
Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic (b.
1891)
★
May 31 -
Walter Little, Canadian politician (b.
1877)
★
June 2 -
George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b.
1889)
★
June 6 -
Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (b.
1875)
★
June 16 -
Marcel Junod, Swiss physician (b.
1904)
★
June 17 -
Jeff Chandler, American actor (b.
1918)
★
June 30 -
Lee DeForest, American inventor (b.
1873)
July - December
★
July 1 -
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b.
1894)
★
July 2 -
Ernest Hemingway, American writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1899)
★
July 6 -
Woodall Rodgers, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (b.
1890)
★
July 17 -
Ty Cobb, baseball player (b.
1886)
★
August 20 -
Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1882)
★
September 17 -
Adnan Menderes, Turkish prime minister (executed) (b.
1899)
★
September 18 -
Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish
Secretary General of the United Nations, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (b.
1905)
★
September 25 -
Frank Fay, American actor (b.
1897)
★
October 11 -
Chico Marx, American comedian (b.
1887)
★
October 14 -
Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b.
1876)
★
October 13 -
Maya Deren, Russian-born filmmaker (b.
1917)
★
November 1 -
Mordecai Ham, American evangelist (b.
1877)
★
November 2 -
James Thurber, American humorist (b.
1894)
★
November 16 -
Sam Rayburn,
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b.
1882)
★
December 20 -
Moss Hart, American dramatist (b.
1904)
★
December 20 -
Earle Page, eleventh
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1880)
★
December 25 -
Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1873)
Unknown dates
★ (none listed)
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Robert Hofstadter,
Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer
★
Chemistry -
Melvin Calvin
★
Physiology or Medicine -
Georg von Békésy
★
Literature -
Ivo Andric
★
Peace -
Dag Hammarskjöld - awarded posthumously
See also
★
20th century
Notes
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