Year '1974' ('
MCMLXXIV') was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974
Gregorian calendar.
Events of 1974
January
★
January 4 - Citing executive privilege, U.S. President
Richard Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents which have been
subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
★
January 6 - In response to the
energy crisis,
Daylight Saving Time commences nearly 4 months early in the
United States.
★
January 19 - In
college (men's)
basketball,
Notre Dame defeats
UCLA 71-70, ending the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak.
★
January 27 - Brisbane Qld Australia is
flooded.
★
January 30 -
G. Gordon Liddy is found guilty of
Watergate charges.
★
January 30 - In his
State of the Union Address, U.S. President
Richard Nixon declares, "One year of Watergate is enough."
February
★
February 1 - Fire breaks out in the Joelman Bank Building in
São Paulo,
Brazil; 177 dead, 293 injured, 11 die later of their injuries.
★
February 3 - In the second
Bathurst Gaol riot, prisoners destroy much of the facility with petrol bombs.
★
February 4 - The
Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps
Patricia Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of publisher
William Randolph Hearst.
★
February 8 - After 84 days in
outer space, the crew of ''
Skylab 4'' returns to
Earth.
★
February 12 - U.S. District Court Judge
George Boldt rules that Native American tribes in
Washington State are entitled to half of the legal
salmon and
steelhead catches, based on treaties signed by the tribes and the U.S. government.
★
February 13 -
Nobel Prize winning writer
Alexander Solzhenitsyn is expelled from the Soviet Union (he returns
May 27,
1994).
★
February 17 - A
soccer stampede occurs in
Cairo, killing 49.
★
February 21 - The long-running comic strip "
Sazae-san" is published in the ''
Asahi Shimbun'' for the final time, after 28 years of daily installments.
★
February 22 - The Second Islamic Summit Conference by
Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) was held in Lahore, Islamic Republic of
Pakistan, from 29
Moharram to 1st
Safar, 1394 H, (22-24 February, 1974).
★
February 23 - The
Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim
Patty Hearst.
★
February 28 - The
United Kingdom general election results in an almost dead-heat.
Harold Wilson becomes
Prime Minister again, despite his
Labour Party having received fewer votes than the
Conservative Party.
★
February 28 -
Ethiopian prime minister
Tsehafi Taezaz Aklilu Habte-Wold, who has held the position since
1961, is dismissed by Emperor
Haile Selassie and replaced with
Endelkachew Makonnen.
March
★
March 1 -
Watergate scandal: Seven former
White House officials are indicted for their role in the
Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
★
March 1 -
Pierre Messmer finishes his first term as
Prime Minister of France.
★
March 3 - A
Turkish Airlines DC-10 travelling from Paris to London crashes in a wood near Paris, killing all 346 aboard.
★
March 4 - Simen Hestnæs (
ICS Vortex), the vocalist/bassist of
Lamented Souls,
Ved Buens Ende,
Borknagar,
Dimmu Borgir,
Arcturus, and
Code, is born.
★
March 8 - ''
The Brady Bunch'', starring
Robert Reed and
Florence Henderson, is cancelled after five seasons.
★
March 8 -
Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in
Paris,
France.
★
March 10 -
Japanese
World War II soldier, Second Lieutenant
Hiroo Onoda, surrenders in the
Philippines.
★
March 18 - Ten miners die in a
methane gas explosion at
Golborne Colliery near
Wigan,
Lancashire.
★
March 18 -
Oil embargo crisis: Most
OPEC nations end a 5-month
oil embargo against the
United States,
Europe and
Japan.
★
March 20 - Ian Balls fails in his attempt to kidnap Her Royal Highness
Princess Anne and her husband Captain
Mark Phillips in
The Mall, outside
Buckingham Palace.
★
March 29 - ''
Mariner 10'' approaches
Mercury.
April
★
April 1 - The
Local Government Act 1972 comes into effect in
England and Wales, creating six new
metropolitan counties and comprehensively redrawing the administrative map.
★
April 2 -
French President
Georges Pompidou dies; Senate President
Alain Poher becomes Acting President for the second time.
★
April 3 - The
Super Outbreak, the largest series of
tornadoes in history, hits 13 U.S. states and one Canadian province. By the time the last of 149 tornadoes hit early the following morning, 315 die and over 5,000 are injured.
★
April 8 -
Hank Aaron of the
Atlanta Braves breaks
Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 715th career home-run off
Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher
Al Downing at
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.
★
April 10 - In
Israel,
Golda Meir resigns as Prime Minister.
★
April 15 - In
San Francisco, members of the
Symbionese Liberation Army rob a branch of the
Hibernia National Bank, joined by
Patricia Hearst, their erstwhile captive.
★
April 24 -
Stephen King publishes his first novel,
Carrie, under his own name.
★
April 25 - ''
Carnation Revolution'': A
coup in
Portugal restores
democracy.
May
★
May 4 - An all female
Japanese team summits
Manaslu in
Nepal, becoming the first women to climb an 8,000 metre peak.
★
May 4 - The
Expo '74 World's Fair opens in
Spokane, Washington.
★
May 7 - West
German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns.
★
May 9 - The
United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee opens formal and public
impeachment hearings against President
Richard M. Nixon.
★
May 12 - Fire damages the carousel in
Port Dalhousie,
Ontario,
Canada, damaging 20 animals.
★
May 15 -
German Foreign Minister
Walter Scheel is elected
President of Germany for a term beginning
July 1.
★
May 16 -
Helmut Schmidt is elected West
German Chancellor.
★
May 17 -
Los Angeles, California police raid
Symbionese Liberation Army headquarters, killing 6 members, including
Camilla Hall.
★
May 17 - Thirty-three people die and over three-hundred are wounded in the
Dublin and Monaghan Bombings in the
Republic of Ireland. Members of the
loyalist,
Ulster Volunteer Force are behind the blast, allegedly in collusion with members of the British intelligence service.
★
May 18 -
Nuclear test: Under project
Smiling Buddha,
India successfully detonates its first
nuclear weapon, becoming the sixth nation to do so.
★
May 18 - The
Warsaw radio mast is completed, the tallest construction ever built (it collapses on
August 8,
1991).
★
May 19 - In the second round of the presidential elections in
France,
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wins over
François Mitterrand, but by a close margin.
★
May 19 - The
Philadelphia Flyers defeat the
Boston Bruins, thereby becoming the first expansion team to win the
Stanley Cup.
★
May 28 - The Italian fascist organization
Ordine Nuovo bombs demonstrators in
Brescia, killing 6.
★
May 30 -
NASA's
ATS-6 satellite is launched.
June
★
June 1 -
Flixborough disaster: An explosion at a chemical plant in
Flixborough,
UK, kills 28 people.
★
June 4 - The
Cleveland Indians stage an ill-advised
Ten Cent Beer Night for a game against the
Texas Rangers at
Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Cleveland forfeits after alcohol-fueled mayhem and violence spreads from the stands onto the field.
★
June 6 - A new
Instrument of Government is promulgated, making
Sweden a
parliamentary monarchy.
★
June 13 - The
1974 FIFA World Cup begins in
West Germany.
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June 15 -
Red Lion Square disorders: Members of the fascist
National Front clash with leftist counter-protesters in
London's West End; one student is killed.
★
June 16 - The first
Darwin beer-can regatta is held in
Darwin,
Australia; 63 crafts made of
beer cans participate.
★
June 17 - A bomb explodes at the
Houses of Parliament in
London, damaging
Westminster Hall. The
Provisional Irish Republican Army claims responsibility for planting the bomb.
★
June 26 - The
Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time, to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
★
June 29 -
Isabel Peron becomes interim president of
Argentina, when
Juan Peron falls seriously ill.
★
June 30 -
Alberta Williams King, mother of the late
Martin Luther King, Jr., is killed during a church service in
Atlanta, Georgia.
July
★
July 1 -
Juan Peron, President of Argentina dies. He's succeeded by his wife, Vice President
Isabel Peron. She becomes the first female Head of State in South America.
★
July 7 -
West Germany beats
the Netherlands 2-1 to win the
1974 FIFA World Cup.
★
July 15 -
Christine Chubbuck, U.S. television presenter for
WXLT-TV, draws a revolver and shoots herself in the head during a live broadcast. She dies in a hospital 14 hours later.
★
July 15 - A military coup overthrows
President Makarios in
Cyprus.
★
July 17 - An
Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the
White Tower at the
Tower of London, killing 1 person and injuring 41. Another bomb explodes outside a government building in South
London.
★
July 20 -
Turkish invasion of Cyprus: Forces from
Turkey invade
Cyprus after the
coup d'etat by
EOKA B.
★
July 22 -
Ethiopian Prime Minister Endelkachew Makonnen is replaced with Mikael Imru.
★
July 23 - The
Greek military junta government collapses.
★
July 24 -
Constantine Karamanlis is sworn in as interim Prime Minister of
Greece.
★
July 24 -
Watergate scandal: The
United States Supreme Court unanimously rules (''
United States v. Nixon'') that President
Richard Nixon can not withhold subpoenaed
White House tapes, and orders him to surrender them to the Watergate special prosecutor.
★
July 27-
July 30 - Watergate Scandal: The
House of Representatives Judiciary Committee adopts 3 articles of
impeachment charging President
Richard M. Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce material subpoenaed by the committee.
August
Nixon Resigns
★
August 4 - A bomb explodes in an
Italicus Expressen train between
Italy and
West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility.
★
August 5 -
Watergate scandal: The "
smoking gun" tape of
June 23,
1972 is revealed, in which U.S. President
Richard Nixon and
H.R. Haldeman discuss using the
Central Intelligence Agency to block a
Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry into
Watergate. Nixon's support in
Congress collapses.
★
August 7 - Three
Republican congressional leaders (
Barry Goldwater,
Hugh Scott and
John Rhodes) visit President
Richard Nixon in the
White House. They inform him that he lacks the votes to escape
impeachment in the
United States House of Representatives and conviction in the
Senate.
French acrobat Philippe Petit walks across a
high wire slung between the
twin towers of the
World Trade Centre in
New York.
★
August 8 -
Watergate scandal: U.S. President
Richard Nixon announces his resignation (effective
August 9).Adnan was Born
★
August 9 -
Richard Nixon becomes the first
President of the United States to resign from office, an action taken to avoid being removed by impeachment in response to his role in the
Watergate scandal.
Vice President Gerald Ford, becomes the 38th President, taking the oath of office in the East Room of the
White House.
★
August 14 - Turkey invades for the second time in Cyprus, occupying 37% of the island's territory.
★
August 15 -
Seoul Metropolitan Subway Line 1 is opened.
★
August 28 -
Geir Hallgrímsson becomes
Prime Minister of
Iceland.
★
August 30 - An express train bound for
Germany from
Belgrade derails in
Zagreb,
Yugoslavia (now
Croatia), killing more than 150 passengers.
September
★
September 1 - Daredevil
Bob Gill fails a world-record attempt to jump Appalachia Lake in
West Virginia.
★
September 8 -
Watergate Scandal: U.S. President
Gerald Ford pardons former President
Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
★
September 8 - Professional stuntman
Evel Knievel fails to cross the
Snake River Canyon in
Idaho, when a drogue parachute deploys prematurely on his rocket-powered
Skycycle X-2.
★
September 8 -
TWA Flight 841 crashes into the
Ionian Sea, 18 minutes after take off from
Athens, after a bomb explodes in the cargo hold, killing 88 people.
★
September 9 - Classes begin at original
Science High School in Newark, NJ at 40 Rector Street.
★
September 13 -
Japanese Red Army members seize the French Embassy in
The Hague,
Netherlands. They secure the release of member Yatuka Fumiya, $300,000 and a flight to
Aden.
★
September 16 -
Courageous Newport, Rhode Island, America's Cup defender "Courageous", skippered by Ted Hood, wins over Australian challenger "Southern Cross" .
★
September 23 -
Ceefax is started by the
BBC - one of the first public service information systems.
October
★
October 5 - The
Guildford pub bombings at ''The Horse and Groom'' and ''The Seven Stars'' kill 5 people, and lead to the wrongful conviction and imprisonment of the
Guildford Four the next year.
★
October 8 -
Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the
United States.
★
October 10 - The second
United Kingdom general election of the year results in a narrow victory for Labour, still led by
Harold Wilson.
★
October 15 - U.S. President
Gerald Ford signs a federal campaign reform bill, which sets new regulations in the wake of the
Watergate scandal.
★
October 20 - Ending nine years of nearly constant touring, the
Grateful Dead begin an extended hiatus after finishing their Fall U.S. tour at the
Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
★
October 30 - The "
Rumble in the Jungle" between
Muhammad Ali and
George Foreman takes place in
Kinshasa,
Zaire. Using his new "rope-a-dope" strategy, Ali knocks out an exhausted Foreman after 8 rounds, regaining the Heavyweight Boxing Title.
November
★
November 5 -
Democrats make significant gains in the U.S. Congressional midterm elections, as voters punish the
Republican Party over the
Watergate scandal.
★
November 7 -
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan disappears in
England.
★
November 7 - A
Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes at the
Kings Arms, Woolwich.
★
November 8 - In
Salt Lake City, Utah, Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes abduction by serial killer
Ted Bundy.
★
November 10 -
Movement 2 June members try to kidnap Günter von Drenkmann, the president of
West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home, but he is fatally shot during the attempt.
★
November 13 -
Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his parents and his four siblings in what would later become known as "
The Amityville Horror House".
★
November 16 - The
Arecibo radio telescope sends an
interstellar radio message towards the
M13 Great Globular Cluster. The message will reach its destination around the year
27000.
★
November 17 - In
Dublin, Ireland, President
Erskine H. Childers dies suddenly of a heart attack in the middle of a public speech.
★
November 20 - The
United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against
AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of
AT&T and the
Bell System.
★
November 21 - In
Birmingham, England, 2 pubs are bombed, killing 21 people (the
Birmingham Six are later sentenced to life in prison for this).
★
November 22 - The
United Nations General Assembly grants the
Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
★
November 27 - The
Prevention of Terrorism Act is passed in the
United Kingdom.
★
November 30 - A skeleton from the
hominid species
Australopithecus afarensis is discovered and named
Lucy.
December
★
December 1 - A
Boeing 727 carrying
TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles (40 km) northwest of
Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on board.
★
December 8 -
Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
★
December 19 -
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh becomes the fifth
President of Ireland, in a state inauguration in
Dublin Castle.
★
December 19 - Former New York Governor
Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as
Vice President of the United States.
★
December 23 - Former British minister
John Stonehouse, who faked his drowning in Florida, is arrested in
Melbourne,
Australia.
★
December 24-
December 25 -
Darwin, Australia is almost completely destroyed by
Cyclone Tracy.
★
December 31 - Restrictions on holding private
gold within the
United States, implemented by
Franklin Roosevelt in
1933, are removed.
Undated
★ The
Milgram experiment first described by
Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram in his 1974 book ''Obedience to Authority; An Experimental View.''
★
Baltimore police strike.
★
Volkswagen's
Golf automobile first enters production. VW will go on to sell 22 million Golfs, and the model is still in full scale production as of 2006.
★ The
Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra is founded by
Toronto Symphony Orchestra conductor
Victor Feldbrill
★
World population reached 4 billion people.
★
Urdu typewriter keyboard layout modified using
frequency tables and bifurcation (balancing load on typist's fingers) techniques, in
Pakistan.
Ongoing
★
Cold War
Births
January-February
★
January 3 -
Alessandro Petacchi, Italian professional road cyclist
★
January 7 -
John Rich, American guitarist and bassist (
Big & Rich)
★
January 10 -
Hrithik Roshan, Bollywood actor
★
January 11 - The
Rosenkowitz sextuplets (Cape Town, South Africa), the first sextuplets known to survive their infancy.
★
January 11 -
Cody McKay, Canadian baseball player
★
January 12 -
Tor Arne Hetland, Norwegian cross-country skiier
★
January 12 -
Melanie Chisholm, English singer-songwriter
★
January 16 -
Kate Moss, English model
★
January 17 -
Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twins (d.
2003)
★
January 21 -
Rove McManus Australian talk show host
★
January 23 -
Tiffani Thiessen, American actress
★
January 24 -
Melissa Tkautz, Australian singer and actress
★
January 27 -
Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
★
January 28 -
Tony Delk, American basketball player
★
January 30 -
Christian Bale, Welsh actor
★
January 31 -
Ian Huntley, English murderer
★
February 7 -
Steve Nash, Canadian basketball player
★
February 7 -
J Dilla, also known as Jay-Dee, American hip-hop producer (d.
2006)
★
February 8 -
Seth Green, American actor
★
February 8 -
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey
★
February 11 -
D'Angelo, American singer
★
February 12 -
Naseem Hamed, British boxer
★
February 13 -
Robbie Williams, English singer
★
February 15 -
Tomi Putaansuu, Finnish singer
Lordi
★
February 15 -
Ugueth Urbina, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
★
February 15 -
Seattle Slew, American racehorse (d.
2002)
★
February 22 -
Chris Moyles, English disc jockey
★
February 22 -
James Blunt, English Singer
★
February 24 -
Chad Hugo, American musician and producer (
The Neptunes)
March-April
★
March 1 -
Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
★
March 4 -
Karol Kučera, Slovakian tennis player
★
March 4 -
Ariel Ortega, Argentine football player
★
March 4 -
Tommy Phelps, South Korean professional baseball player
★
March 5 -
Jens Jeremies, German footballer
★
March 6 -
Anthony Carelli, professional wrestler
★
March 7 -
Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor
★
March 7 -
Jenna Fischer, American actress
★
March 8 -
Fardeen Khan, Bollywood actor
★
March 11 -
Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan
Major League Baseball player
★
March 11 -
Russ Haas, American wrestler (d.
2001)
★
March 20 -
Paula Garces, Colombian actress
★
March 20 -
Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer
★
March 20 -
Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
★
March 21 -
Alan Iverson, Australian Filmmaker
★
March 22 -
Marcus Camby, American basketball player
★
March 22 -
Kidada Jones, American actress, model, fashion designer
★
March 24 -
Chad Butler, American drummer (
Switchfoot)
★
March 24 -
Alyson Hannigan, American actress
★
March 25 -
Lark Voorhies, American actress
★
March 25 -
Tapani Mokko, Finnish artist
★
April 1 -
Richard Christy, American musician and radio writer
★
April 2 -
Håkan Hellström, Swedish musician
★
April 4 -
Dave Mirra, American athlete
★
April 9 -
Jenna Jameson, American actress
★
April 11 -
Trot Nixon, baseball player
★
April 12 -
Belinda Emmett, Australian actress and singer (d.
2006)
★
April 12 -
Marley Shelton, American actress
★
April 14 -
Tricia Helfer, Canadian actress and model
★
April 14 -
Da Brat, American rapper
★
April 15 -
Josh Todd, American musician and singer (
Buckcherry)
★
April 17 -
Victoria Beckham, English singer (
Spice Girls)
★
April 17 -
Mikael Åkerfeldt, Swedish musician (
Opeth)
★
April 22 -
Shavo Odadjian, Armenian-born bassist (
System of a Down)
★
April 23 -
Kirill Seleznyov, Russian businessman
★
April 27 -
Johnny Devine, Canadian professional wrestler
★
April 28 -
Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
★
April 28 -
Richel Hersisia, Dutch boxer
May-June
★
May 4 -
Miguel Cairo, Venezuelan baseball player
★
May 8 -
Korey Stringer, American football player (d.
2001)
★
May 11 -
Kevin Brown, English-born ice hockey player
★
May 11 -
Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler
★
May 16 -
Laura Pausini, Italian singer
★ May 16 -
Sonny Sandoval, American singer for Payable on Death, aka.
P.O.D.
★
May 17 -
Andrea Corr, Irish singer (
The Corrs)
★
May 19 -
Andrew Johns, Australian rugby league player
★
May 21 -
Havoc, American rapper (
Mobb Deep)
★
May 21 -
Eduardo Verástegui, Mexican actor.
★
May 23 -
Ken Jennings, American game show winner
★
May 23 -
Jewel, American singer
★
May 23 -
Monica Naranjo, Spanish singer
★
May 23 -
Charlie Yeung, Hong Kong actress and singer
★
May 24 -
Daniel Lorenz Johnson, social activist/artist
★
May 26 -
Lars Frölander, Swedish swimmer
★
May 27 -
Danny Wuerffel, American football player
★
May 30 -
Big L, American rapper (d.
1999)
★
May 31 -
Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist
★
June 1 -
Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
★
June 2 -
Gata Kamsky, American chess player
★
June 2 -
Matt Serra, American
mixed martial arts fighter
★
June 7 -
Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
★
June 12 -
Hideki Matsui, Japanese baseball player
★
June 13 -
Brande Roderick, American actress
★
June 13 -
Takahiro Sakurai, Japanese voice actor
★
June 13 -
Steve-O, American actor
★
June 14 -
Jang Jin-young, South Korean actress
★
June 20 -
Steve 'Flash' Juon, American webmaster and writer
★
June 21 -
Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
★
June 25 -
Karisma Kapoor, Indian actress
★
June 26 -
Derek Jeter, baseball player
★
June 28 -
Rob Dyrdek, pro skateboader
July-August
★
July 2 -
Matthew Reilly, Australian writer
★
July 2 -
Rocky Gray, American musician
★
July 4 -
La'Roi Glover, American football player
★
July 4 -
Gackt, Japanese singer
★
July 8 -
Allen Skillicorn, American race car driver
★
July 8 -
Tami Erin, American actress and model
★
July 12 -
Gregory Helms, American professional wrestler
★
July 18 -
Alan Morrison, British poet
★
July 19 -
Malcolm O'Kelly, Irish rugby player
★
July 19 -
Preston Wilson, American baseball player
★
July 22 -
Daddy Kev, American record producer
★
July 22 -
Sonija Kwok, Hong Kong actress
★
July 23 -
Maurice Greene, American athlete
★
July 23 -
Rik Verbrugghe, Belgian professional road racing cyclist
★
July 26 -
Daniel Negreanu, Canadian poker player
★
July 27 -
Eason Chan, Hong Kong singer
★
July 28 -
Justin Lee Collins, English comedian, TV and radio presenter
★
July 30 -
Hilary Swank, American actress
★
July 31 -
Emilia Fox, English actress
★
July 31 -
Jonathan Ogden, American football player
★
August 2 -
Jeremy Castle, American singer and songwriter
★
August 2 -
Angie Cepeda,
Colombian actress
★
August 7 -
Sek Loso, Thai singer, songwriter and guitarist
★
August 9 -
Matt Morris, baseball player
★
August 14 -
Christopher Gorham, American actor
★
August 15 -
Natasha Henstridge, Canadian actress and model
★
August 16 -
Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian Olympic champion swimmer
★
August 20 -
Andy Strachan, Australian musician (
The Living End)
★
August 20 -
Maxim Vengerov, Russian violinist
★
August 22 -
Agustín Pichot, Argentine rugby player
★
August 23 -
Ray Park, Scottish actor, martial artist
★
August 24 -
Jennifer Lien, American actress
★
August 25 -
Eric Millegan, American actor
★
August 25 -
Kenzo Suzuki, Japanese professional wrestler
★
August 27 -
Jose Vidro, baseball player
★
August 27 -
Mase, American rapper
★
August 28 -
Johan Andersson, Swedish game programmer
★
August 28 -
Carsten Jancker, German footballer
★
August 30 -
Mark Gottlieb, American game designer and web columnist
September-October
★
September 1 -
Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist
★
September 2 -
Lisa Snowdon, English television presenter
★
September 4 -
Carmit Bachar, singer The Pussycat Dolls
★
September 4 -
Nona Gaye, American actress and singer
★
September 5 -
Justin Nimmo, American actor
★
September 6 -
Tim Henman, English tennis player
★
September 6 -
Nina Persson, Swedish singer
★
September 10 -
Ben Wallace, American basketball player
★
September 10 -
Mirko Filipović, Croatian
kickboxer and
mixed martial arts fighter
★
September 11 -
DeLisha Milton-Jones, American basketball player
★
September 13 -
Stephen Lawrence, young black teenager murdered in 1993
★
September 14 -
Hicham El Guerrouj, Moroccan athlete
★
September 15 -
Jamie Stevens, German pop singer
★
September 17 -
Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
★
September 18 -
Sol Campbell, English footballer
★
September 18 -
Xzibit, American rapper
★
September 19 -
Victoria Silvstedt, Swedish model
★
September 19 -
Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian
★
September 21 -
Katharine Merry, English sprinter
★
September 23 -
Matt Hardy, American professional wrestler
★
September 29 -
Brian Ash, American screenwriter and producer
★
October 1 -
Mats Lindgren, Swedish ice hockey player
★
October 5 -
Valerie Vernon, American actress
★
October 7 -
Allison Munn, American actress
★
October 10 -
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., American race car driver
★
October 11 -
Jason Arnott, Canadian ice hockey player
★
October 11 -
Terje Haakonsen, Norwegian snowboarder
★
October 11 -
Kane Kosugi, Japanese-American martial artist/actor
★
October 16 -
Paul Kariya, Canadian hockey player
★
October 16 -
Deo Grech, Maltese songwriter & presenter
★
October 21 -
Nakia Burrise, American actress
★
October 21 -
Lera Auerbach, Russian composer & pianist
★
October 23 -
Sander Westerveld, Dutch soccer player
★
October 24 -
Catherine Sutherland, Australian actress
★
October 26 -
LISA, Japanese musician
★
October 29 -
Michael Vaughan, English cricketer
November-December
★
November 1 -
VVS Laxman, Indian cricketer
★
November 2 -
Beverley Mahood, Canadian singer and songwriter
★
November 2 -
Nelly, American rapper
★
November 4 -
Louise Redknapp, English singer
★
November 5 -
Ryan Adams, American singer and songwriter
★
November 5 -
Jerry Stackhouse, American basketball player
★
November 8 -
Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
★
November 9 -
Uncle Kracker, American singer
★
November 9 -
Alessandro Del Piero, Italian footballer and
★
November 11 -
Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
★
November 11 -
Bettina Goislard, French UN worker (d.
2003)
★
November 15 -
Chad Kroeger, Nickleback lead vocals
★
November 20 -
Jason Faunt, American actor
★
November 22 -
David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
★
November 23 -
Jamie Sharper, American football player
★
November 24 -
Stephen Merchant, British comedian
★
November 27 -
Zsófia Polgár, Hungarian-born chess player
★
December 1 -
Costinha, Portuguese footballer
★
December 6 -
Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
★
December 7 -
Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer (
All Saints)
★
December 8 -
Maya Mishalska, Mexican actress
★
December 10 -
Meg White, drummer (
The White Stripes)
★
December 11 -
Rey Mysterio, American professional wrestler
★
December 13 -
Nicholas McCarthy, English-born guitarist (
Franz Ferdinand)
★
December 14 -
Billy Koch, baseball player
★
December 16 -
Frida Hallgren, Swedish actress
★
December 17 -
Duff Goldman, American celebrity chef
★
December 18 -
Kari Byron, artist and television personality
★
December 18 -
Peter Boulware, American football player
★
December 18 -
Euroboy, Norwegian musician (
Turbonegro)
★
December 19 -
Jake Plummer, American football player
★
December 19 -
Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
★
December 21 -
Karrie Webb, Australian golfer
★
December 23 -
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, American poet
★
December 24 -
Ryan Seacrest, American television host
★
December 24 -
Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
★
December 27 -
Bojan Sarcevic,
Bosnian-French sculptor
★
December 28 -
Wilson Kirwa, Kenyan-born Finnish athlete
★
December 29 -
Jenny Barker, British radio presenter
★
December 29 -
Richie Sexson, baseball player
★
December 29 -
Brad Hodge, Australian cricketer
★
December 31 -
Ryan Sakoda, Japanese American professional wrestler
Deaths
January - March
★
January 2 -
Tex Ritter, American actor and singer (b.
1905)
★
January 12 -
Princess Patricia of Connaught (b.
1886)
★
January 31 -
Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (b.
1879)
★
February 2 -
Imre Lakatos, Hungarian philosopher (b.
1922)
★
February 4 -
Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician and physicist (b.
1894)
★
February 4 -
Stuart Buchanan, American actor (b.
1894)
★
February 11 -
Anna Q. Nilsson, Swedish actress (b.
1888)
★
February 14 -
Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b.
1903)
★
February 15 -
Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b.
1887)
★
February 21 -
Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b.
1930)
★
February 23 -
Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b.
1895)
★
March 1 -
Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b.
1935)
★
March 4 -
Adolph Gottlieb, American abstract expressionist painter (b.
1903)
★
March 5 -
Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b.
1888)
★
March 6 -
Ernest Becker, American cultural anthropologist (b.
1925)
★
March 9 -
Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1915)
★
March 12 -
George D. Sax, drive-in bank innovator (b.
1904)
★
March 20 -
Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b.
1911)
★
March 22 -
Peter Revson, American race car driver (b.
1939)
April - June
★
April 2 -
Georges Pompidou,
President of France (b.
1911)
★
April 5 -
A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b.
1882)
★
April 15 -
Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (b.
1906)
★
April 19 -
Ayub Khan,
President of Pakistan (b.
1907)
★
April 24 -
Bud Abbott, American actor (b.
1897)
★
April 24 -
Franz Jonas, Austrian president (b.
1899)
★
April 30 -
Agnes Moorehead, American actress (b.
1900)
★
May 24 -
Duke Ellington, American jazz pianist and bandleader (b.
1899)
★
June 9 -
Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1890)
★
June 10 -
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester,
Governor-General of Australia (b.
1900)
★
June 22 -
Darius Milhaud, French composer (b.
1892)
★
June 28 -
Frank Sutton, American actor (b.
1923)
July - September
★
July 1 -
Juan Domingo Perón,
President of Argentina (b.
1895)
★
July 9 -
Earl Warren, Governor of California and
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b.
1891)
★
July 11 -
Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1891)
★
July 13 -
Patrick Blackett, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1897)
★
July 15 -
Christine Chubbuck, American television reporter (b.
1944)
★
July 19 -
Joe Flynn, American character actor (b.
1924)
★
July 24 -
James Chadwick, English physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b.
1891)
★
July 29 -
"Mama Cass" Elliott, American rock music vocalist (b.
1941)
★
July 29 -
Erich Kästner, German author (b.
1899)
★
August 6 -
Gene Ammons, American jazz saxophonist (b.
1925)
★
August 26 -
Charles Lindbergh, aviator (b.
1902)
★
August 31 -
William Pershing Benedict, American pilot
★
September 3 -
Harry Partch, American composer (b.
1901)
★
September 4 -
Creighton Williams Abrams, American general (b.
1914)
★
September 4 -
Marcel Achard, French playwright and scriptwriter (b.
1899)
★
September 14 -
Warren Hull, American actor (b.
1903)
October - December
★
October 4 -
Anne Sexton, American poet and writer (suicide) (b.
1928)
★
October 6 -
V.K. Krishna Menon, Indian freedom fighter and politician (b.
1897)
★
October 9 -
Oskar Schindler, Austrian industrialist (b.
1908)
★
October 13 -
Ed Sullivan, American television host (b.
1901)
★
October 16 -
Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar,
carnatic musician (b.
1895)
★
October 24 -
David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b.
1908)
★
November 11 -
Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (b.
1894)
★
November 13 -
Vittorio De Sica, Italian film director (b.
1901)
★
November 17 -
Erskine Hamilton Childers, fourth
President of Ireland (b.
1905)
★
November 19 -
George Brunies, American musician (b.
1902)
★
November 21 -
John B. Gambling, American radio talk-show host (b.
1897)
★
November 21 -
Frank Martin, Swiss composer (b.
1890)
★
November 24 -
Nick Drake, British musician (b.
1948)
★
November 24 -
Endelkachew Makonnen, Ethiopian politician (b.
1927)
★
November 29 -
Peng Dehuai, Chinese leader (b.
1898)
★
November 29 -
H. L. Hunt, American oil tycoon (b.
1889)
★
November 29 -
Lawrence Riley, American playwright and screenwriter (b.
1896)
★
December 2 -
Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (b.
1897)
★
December 18 -
Harry Hooper, baseball player (b.
1887)
★
December 20 -
André Jolivet, French composer (b.
1905)
★
December 26 -
Jack Benny, American comedian (b.
1894)
★
December 28 -
Paul Dixon, Cincinnati TV personality (b.
1918)
Fields Medalists
★
Enrico Bombieri,
David Mumford
Nobel prizes
★
Physics -
Sir Martin Ryle,
Antony Hewish
★
Chemistry -
Paul J. Flory
★
Medicine -
Albert Claude,
Christian de Duve,
George E. Palade
★
Literature -
Eyvind Johnson,
Harry Martinson
★
Peace -
Séan MacBride,
Eisaku Sato
★
Economics -
Gunnar Myrdal,
Friedrich von Hayek
Templeton Prize
★
Brother Roger
See also
★
20th century
Notes
External links
★
1974 Coin Pictures
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