1980

1980 (MCMLXXX) was .
Events
January 20 - The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Los Angeles Rams to win their 4th Super Bowl championship. They hold the record for most wins by one team until 1995.
April 12 - Terry Fox begins his Marathon of Hope in Canada.
April 30 - Beatrix of the Netherlands crowned
May 18 - Mount St. Helens erupts.
August 1 - Vigdis Finnbogadottir becomes the 4th President of Iceland. She is the first female ever elected as a head of state in a democratic election.
August - Rising Solidarity a Polish trade union which make for fallen communism in East Europe
September 1 - Terry Fox ends his Marathon of Hope, after his cancer resurfaces.
September 22 - War begins between Iran and Iraq.
November 4 - Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter during the presidential elections.
December 8 - John Lennon of The Beatles is shot and killed outside of his apartment in New York City by Mark David Chapman.
Pictures taken by the Voyager 1 probe lead to the discovery of Saturn's moon, Atlas.
Births
January
January 1
Richie Faulkner, British rock guitarist
Karina Jacobsgaard, Danish tennis player
Mark Nichols, Canadian curler
Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
January 4 - Greg Cipes, American actor
January 7 - Hele Korve, Estonian actress and singer
January 8
Adam Goodes, Australian rules footballer
Rachel Nichols, American actress
January 9 - Sergio Garcia, Spanish golfer
January 10 - Sarah Shahi, American actress
January 11 - Lovieanne Jung, American softball player
January 12 - Ameriie, American singer
January 13 - LaKisha Jones, American singer
January 14
Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Costa Rican politician, 48th President of Costa Rica
Ossama Haidar, Lebanese footballer
Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor, model and singer
Cory Gibbs, American footballer
Monika Kuszynska, Polish singer and songwriter
Sosuke Sumitani, Japanese announcer
Yuko Kaida, Japanese voice actress
January 16
Albert Pujols, Dominican Major League Baseball player
Michelle Wild, Hungarian actress
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Puerto Rican-American actor, composer, and writer
January 17
Zooey Deschanel, American actress, singer and musician
Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Ukrainian-American dance champion, choreographer and instructor
January 18
Estelle, British singer and actress
Julius Peppers, American football player
Jason Segel, American actor and comedian
January 19
Jenson Button, British racecar driver
Arvydas Macijauskas, Lithuanian basketball player
January 20
Philippe Cousteau Jr., American-French oceanographer
Philippe Gagnon, Canadian Paralympic swimmer
Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
Brigitte Olivier, Belgian martial artist
Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer and guitarist
January 21
Nana Mizuki, Japanese voice actress and singer
Kevin McKenna, Canadian footballer
January 22
Jake Grove, American football player
Christopher Masterson, American actor
January 24
Nyncke Beekhuyzen, Dutch actress
Suzy, Portuguese singer
January 25
Christian Olsson, Swedish athlete
Xavi, Spanish footballer
Michelle McCool, American professional wrestler
January 26 - Sanae Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress
January 27 - Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
January 28 - Nick Carter, American pop singer (Backstreet Boys)
January 29
Yael Bar Zohar, Israeli actress and model
Jason James Richter, American actor
January 30
Josh Kelley, American singer-songwriter
Wilmer Valderrama, American actor
February
February 2
Zhang Jingchu, Chinese actress
Nina Zilli, Italian singer-songwriter
February 5
Jo Swinson, British MP
Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
Paul DelVecchio, American reality show personality
February 6
Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
Luke Ravenstahl, American mayor of Pittsburgh
Mamiko Noto, Japanese voice actress
February 8 - Yang Wei, Chinese gymnast
February 9 - Manu Raju, American journalist
February 10
Cesar Izturis, Venezuelan Major League Baseball player
Steve Tully, English footballer
February 11 - Matthew Lawrence, American actor
February 12
Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
Christina Ricci, American actress
Gucci Mane, American rapper
February 14 - Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
February 15
Conor Oberst, American singer-songwriter
Petr Elfimov, Belarusian singer
February 16 - Ashley Lelie, American football player
February 17
Jason Ritter, American actor
Vahe Tilbian, Ethiopian singer of Armenian descent
February 18
Cezar, Romanian opera singer and pianist
Regina Spektor, Russian-American singer-songwriter
February 19
Mike Miller, American basketball player
Ma Lin, Chinese table-tennis player
February 20
Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
Artur Boruc, Polish football (soccer) goalkeeper
Yuichi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
February 21
Brad Fast, Canadian ice hockey player
Justin Roiland, American actor
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan
February 22 - Jeanette Biedermann, German singer and actress
February 24
Emma Johnson, Australian swimmer
Shinsuke Nakamura, Japanese professional wrestler
February 25 - Chris and Christy Knowings, American actors
February 26 - Julio Cesar da Silva e Souza, Brazilian footballer
February 27
Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Don Diablo, Dutch DJ and producer
February 28
Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
February 29
Simon Gagne, Canadian hockey player
Peter Scanavino, American actor
March
March 1 - Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
March 2
Chris Barker, English footballer
Julia Chantrey, Canadian actress
Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
March 4
Jung Da-bin, Korean actress (d. 2007)
Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
Jack Hannahan, American baseball infielder
March 5 - Jessica Boehrs, German singer and actress
March 7
Murat Boz, Turkish singer and actor
Laura Prepon, American actress
Mart Toome, Estonian actor
March 9
Chingy, American rapper, singer and actor
Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor and director
March 11 - Gabriela Pichler, Swedish film director and screenwriter
March 13
Caron Butler, American basketball player
Nick Barua, British Corporate executive
March 14
Aaron Brown, English footballer
Hiro Matsushita, Formar Japanese Race car Driver and Businessman
March 16 - Todd Heap, American football player
March 17 - Katie Morgan, American porn actress and radio host
March 18 - Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
March 19
Agnes Pihlava, Finnish pop singer
Johan Olsson, Swedish cross country skier
March 20
Hamada Helal, Egyptian singer
Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
Mikey Day, American actor, comedian and writer
March 21
Marit Bjorgen, Norwegian cross-country skier
Ronaldinho, Brazilian footballer
Deryck Whibley, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician (Sum 41)
March 23 - Russell Howard, English comedian
March 26 - Rosendo Rodriguez, American convicted serial killer (d. 2018)
March 27 - Greg Puciato, American heavy metal musician
March 29 - Andy Scott-Lee, British singer
March 30 - Yalin, Turkish pop singer and songwriter
March 31
Kate Micucci, American actress and voice artist
Chien-Ming Wang, Taiwanese Major League Baseball player
April
April 1
Randy Orton, American professional wrestler
Bijou Phillips, American actress
Yuko Takeuchi, Japanese actress
April 4 - Bjorn Wirdheim, Swedish race car driver
April 7 - Michael Bellisario, American actor
April 8
Ben Freeman, British actor
Carrie Savage, American actress and voice actress
April 9
Rachel Specter, American actress
Arlen Escarpeta, Belizean actor
April 10
Sean Avery, Canadian ice hockey player
Kasey Kahne, American race car driver
Charlie Hunnam, English actor
April 11 - Mark Teixeira, American baseball player
April 12 - Brian McFadden, Irish rock singer
April 13 - Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress
April 14
Ayumi Ito, Japanese actress
Tom Franco, American actor
April 15 - Natalie Casey, English actress
April 16
Reeyot Alemu, Ethiopian journalist
Samir Javadzadeh, Azerbaijani singer
Paul London, American professional wrestler
April 17
Brenda Villa, American water polo player
Lee Hyun-il, South Korean badminton player
Alaina Huffman, Canadian film and television actress
April 18 - Justin Amash, American politician
April 20
Jasmin Wagner, German singer
Waylon, Dutch singer
April 21
Tony Romo, American football player
Vincent Lecavalier, Canadian hockey player
April 22 - Nicolas Douchez, French footballer
April 24
Austin Nichols, American actor
Karen Asrian, Armenian chess Grandmaster (d. 2008)
Reagan Gomez-Preston, American actress and voice actress
April 25
Lee Spick, English snooker player (d. 2015)
Daniel MacPherson, Australian actor
Kazuhito Tadano, Japanese baseball player
April 26
Jordana Brewster, American actress
Marlon King, Jamaican footballer
Channing Tatum, American actor and model
April 27 - Zayed Khan, Indian actor
April 28 - Josh Howard, American basketball player
April 29
Kian Egan, Irish singer
Emmad Irfani, Pakistani model and TV actor
April 30 - Luis Scola, Argentine basketball player
May
May 1 - Ana Claudia Talancon, Mexican actress
May 2
Tim Borowski, German footballer
Ellie Kemper, American actress and comedian
Zat Knight, English footballer
May 3 - Marcel Vigneron, American chef
May 5
Maia Hirasawa, Swedish pop singer
Yossi Benayoun, Israeli footballer
Hank Green, American entrepreneur, musician, educator, producer and vlogger
May 6
Kelly van der Veer, Dutch reality TV star
Dimitris Diamantidis, Greek basketball player
May 7 - Johan Kenkhuis, Dutch swimmer
May 8 - Benny Yau, Canadian entertainer
May 9
Grant Hackett, Australian swimmer
Carolin Kebekus, German comedian and actress
Norihiro Nishi, Japanese footballer
May 10 - Pete Gray, Australian environmental activist (d. 2011)
May 15 - Josh Beckett, American baseball player
May 17 - Alistair Overeem, Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer
May 18 - Ali Zafar, Pakistani music composer, singer-songwriter, painter and actor
May 19
Drew Fuller, American actor and model
Dean Heffernan, Australian footballer
May 21 - Gotye, Belgian-Australian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter
May 22
Lucy Gordon, British actress (d. 2009)
Evelin Voigemast, Estonian actress and singer
May 24 - Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress
May 28
Mark Feehily, Irish singer
Jorgen Strickert, Norwegian comedian
May 29 - Michael Stasko, Canadian actor
May 30 - Steven Gerrard, English footballer
May 31 - Andy Hurley, American drummer
June
June 1
Oliver James, British actor
Damien Fahey, American MTV VJ, television host and drummer
June 2 - Lindsey Yamasaki, Japanese-American basketball player
June 3 - Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Emir of Qatar
June 5 - Mike Fisher, Canadian hockey player
June 6 - Mmusi Maimane, South African politician
June 7 - Henkka Seppala, Finnish bassist
June 8 - David Holoubek, Czech football manager
June 10
Jessica DiCicco, American actress
Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
Wang Yuegu, Singaporean Olympic table tennis player
June 13
Sarah Connor, German singer
Juan Carlos Navarro, Spanish basketball player
June 16
Brad Gushue, Canadian curler
Joey Yung, Hong Kong singer
June 17
Kimeru, Japanese singer
Venus Williams, American tennis player
Jeph Jacques, American webcomic writer
June 19 - Jason White, American football player
June 22 - Ilya Bryzgalov, Russian ice hockey player
June 23
Erick Elias, Mexican actor
Mark Greaney, Irish singer and guitarist
Ramnaresh Sarwan, West Indian cricketer
Manus Boonjumnong, Thai boxer
Francesca Schiavone, Italian tennis player
Jessica Taylor, English singer
Melissa Rauch, American actress
June 24
Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
Minka Kelly, American actress
June 25
Nozomi Takeuchi, Japanese actress
Philippe Lacheau, French actor, director and writer
June 26
Michael Vick, American football player
Michael Jackson, English footballer
Rafiz Abu Bakar, Malaysian footballer
June 27 - Kevin Pietersen, South African-English former cricketer
June 29
James Courtney, Australian race car driver
Katherine Jenkins, Welsh soprano
Martin Truex Jr., American race car driver
June 30
Adil Annani, Moroccan long-distance runner
Ryan ten Doeschate, Dutch cricketer
Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht, Iranian footballer
Nelbert Omolon, Filipino professional basketball player
Rade Prica, Swedish footballer
Sayuti, Indonesian footballer
July
July 1
Mizz Nina, Malaysian fashion designer, a host, humanitarian
Nelson Cruz, Dominican baseball player
Shon Seung-mo, South Korean badminton player
July 2 - Brian Drolet, American actor, producer and writer
July 3
Roland Schoeman, South African swimmer
Olivia Munn, American actress and model
Harbhajan Singh, Indian international cricketer
July 5
Paul "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio, American reality TV star
Eva Green, French actress and model
Zayed Khan, Indian actor and producer
Fabian Rios, Colombian actor and model
Jason Wade, American singer and guitarist
July 6 - Pau Gasol, Spanish basketball player
July 7
Marika Dominczyk, Polish American actress
Jim McMahon, British politician
Michelle Kwan, American figure skater
Dr Malinga, South African record producer and musician
July 8
Robbie Keane, Irish footballer
Chetan Anand, Indian badminton player
Yang Tae-Young, South Korean gymnast
July 10
Thomas Ian Nicholas, American film actor, singer, musician, producer, director and writer
Adam Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
Jessica Simpson, American singer
Jeremy Ray Valdez, American actor
James Rolfe, American director, actor and writer
Claudia Leitte, Brazilian singer
July 11
Mathias Boe, Danish badminton player
Alvent Yulianto, Indonesian badminton player
July 12
Kristen Connolly, American actress
Eny Widiowati, Indonesian badminton player
July 13 - Pejman Nouri, Iranian football player
July 15
Reggie Abercrombie, American baseball player
BxB Hulk, Japanese professional wrestler
JW-Jones, Canadian blues musician
Jasper Paakkonen, Finnish actor and film producer
Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (d. 2017)
July 16
Svetlana Feofanova, Russian pole-vaulter
Adam Scott, Australian golfer
July 17
Rashid Ramzi, Moroccan-Bahraini athlete
Masato Yoshino, Japanese professional wrestler
Ryan Miller, American ice hockey goaltender
July 18 - Kristen Bell, American actress
July 19
Yeoh Kay Bin, Malaysian badminton player
Michelle Heaton, English singer (Liberty X)
Mark Webber, American actor
July 20
Gisele Bundchen, Brazilian supermodel
Jin Goo, South Korean actor
July 21 - CC Sabathia, American baseball player
July 22
Tablo, South Korean-Canadian rapper, songwriter, record producer, and author
Dirk Kuyt, Dutch footballer
Kate Ryan, Belgian singer
July 23 - Michelle Williams, American singer and actress
July 25 - Rebeka Dremelj, Slovenian singer
July 26 - Jacinda Ardern, 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand
July 27 - Nick Nemeth, American professional wrestler
July 29
Rachel Miner, American actress
Fernando Gonzalez, Chilean tennis player
August
August 2 - Dingdong Dantes, Filipino actor
August 3
Nadia Ali, Pakistani-American singer-songwriter
Hannah Simone, British-Canadian actress
Dominic Moore, Canadian ice hockey player
August 5 - Wayne Bridge, English footballer
August 6 - Will Pan, American-Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor
August 8 - Craig Breslow, American baseball pitcher
August 9
Charlie David, Canadian actor
Dominic Tabuna, Nauruan politician
August 10 - Pua Magasiva, Samoan actor
August 11 - Monika Pyrek, Polish pole vaulter
August 12 - Maggie Lawson, American actress
August 14 - Roy Williams, American football player
August 16
Julien Absalon, French mountain biker
Vanessa Carlton, American singer
August 17
David Legwand, American ice hockey player
Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer and musician
August 18 - Damion Stewart, Jamaican footballer
August 19
Darius Campbell, Scottish singer-songwriter
Adrian Lulgjuraj, Albanian singer
August 21
Jon Lajoie, Canadian comedian
Paul Menard, American race car driver
August 23
Rex Grossman, American football player
Joanne Froggatt, British voice artist
August 24 - Rachael Carpani, Australian actress
August 26
Macaulay Culkin, American actor
Chris Pine, American actor
August 27 - Derrick Strait, American football player
August 28 - Debra Lafave, American teacher
August 29
William Levy, Cuban-American actor
David West, American basketball player
September
September 2 - Dany Sabourin, French Canadian ice hockey goaltender
September 3
Jennie Finch, American softball player
Polina Smolova, Belarusian singer
September 4 - Max Greenfield, American actor
September 5 - Kevin Simm, English singer (Liberty X)
September 6
Kerry Katona, English TV presenter and former pop star (Atomic Kitten)
Samuel Peter, Nigerian boxer and heavyweight champion
Joseph Yobo, Nigerian footballer
September 7
Nigar Jamal, Azerbaijani singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2011 winner
Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
Mark Prior, American baseball player
September 8
Eric Hutchinson, American singer-songwriter
Neferteri Shepherd, African-American model and actress
September 9
Denise Quinones, Puerto Rican actress, Miss Universe 2001
Michelle Williams, American actress
September 10 - Mikey Way, British musician (My Chemical Romance)
September 11 - Mike Comrie, Canadian ice hockey player
September 12
Sean Burroughs, American baseball player
Yao Ming, Chinese basketball player
Hiroyuki Sawano, Japanese composer
September 13
Ben Savage, American actor
Daisuke Matsuzaka, Japanese baseball player
September 15
Ben Wolff, American actor (d. 2015)
Jolin Tsai, Taiwanese singer
Faiz Khaleed, Malaysian astronaut
September 21
Kareena Kapoor, Indian actress
Autumn Reeser, American actress
September 24 - Victoria Pendleton, English cyclist
September 25 - T.I., African-American rap artist, film and music producer, actor and author
September 26 - Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Swedish ice hockey players
September 29
Patrick Agyemang, Ghanaian footballer
Dallas Green, musician
Zachary Levi, American actor and singer
September 30
Martina Hingis, Swiss tennis player
Emily Kokal, vocalist, guitarist
Arisa Ogasawara, Japanese voice actress
Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban boxer
October
October 1 - Sarah Drew, American actress
October 3 - Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor and voice actor
October 4
Me'Lisa Barber, American athlete
Joe Kennedy III, American lawyer
Tomas Rosicky, Czech footballer
Ben Whishaw, English actor
October 5
James Toseland, English motorcycle racer
Ti West, American film director
October 8
Michael Mizanin, American professional wrestler
Nick Cannon, African-American actor, comedian, rapper, entrepreneur, record producer and broadcast personality
October 10
Sherine, Egyptian singer
Lynn Hung, Hong Kong actress
October 11
Tomokazu Sugita, Japanese voice actor
October 12
Ledley King, English footballer
Nadzeya Ostapchuk, Belarusian athlete
October 13
Ashanti, African-American singer
Scott Parker, English footballer
October 14
Terrence McGee, American football player
Ben Whishaw, English actor
October 15 - Tom Boonen, Belgian cyclist
October 16
Sue Bird, Israeli-American basketball player
Timana Tahu, Australian Rugby League player
October 17
Angel Parker, American actress
Justin Shenkarow, American actor
Yekaterina Gamova, Russian volleyball player
October 18
Erin Dean, American actress
Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Indian cricket player
October 19 - Jose Bautista, Dominican baseball player
October 21 - Kim Kardashian, American socialite and television personality
October 23 - Robert Belushi, American actor
October 24
Monica, African-American singer
Casey Wilson, American actress and comedian
October 28
Alan Smith, English footballer
Christy Hemme, American professional wrestler
October 29 - Ben Foster, American actor
October 31 - Eddie Kaye Thomas, American actor and comedian
November
November 4 - Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
November 5
Luke Hemsworth, Australian actor
Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
Essai Altounian, French-Armenian actor, singer-songwriter, keyboardist and music producer
November 6 - Anri Jokhadze, Georgian pop singer
November 7 - Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
November 10 - Calvin Chen, Taiwanese pop singer
November 11 - Willie Parker, American football player
November 12 - Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor and musician
November 13 - Monique Coleman, American actress
November 15 - Kevin Staut, French equestrian
November 16 - Kayte Christensen, American basketball player
November 17 - Isaac Hanson, American musician
November 18
Denny Hamlin, American race car driver
Dustin Kensrue, Canadian singer
Francois Duval, Belgian rally driver
Junichi Okada, Japanese singer
Luke Chadwick, English footballer
Mathew Baynton, English actor and writer
Minori Chihara, Japanese voice actress and singer
November 19 - Adele Silva, English actress and model
November 21
Hank Blalock, American baseball player
Hiroyuki Tomita, Japanese gymnast
Elaine Yiu, Hong Kong actress
November 22 - David Artell, English footballer
November 23 - Jonathan Papelbon, American baseball player
November 24 - Beth Phoenix, American professional wrestler
November 25
Rowly Dennis, English actor
John-Michael Liles, American hockey player
Nick Swisher, American baseball player
November 26 - Satoshi Ohno, Japanese singer
November 28 - Lisa Middelhauve, German singer (Xandria)
November 29
Jason Griffith, American actor and voice actor
Janina Gavankar, American actress and musician
Ilias Kasidiaris, Greek politician
December
December 1
Angelique Bates, American actress, comedian, and rapper
Joel A. Sutherland, Canadian author
December 3
Anna Chlumsky, American actress
Jenna Dewan, American actress
Jim Sorgi, American football player
December 5 - Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-born French trumpeter
Shizuka Ito, Japanese voice actress
December 6
Steve Lovell, English footballer
Kei Yasuda, Japanese singer
December 7 - John Terry, English footballer
December 9
Simon Helberg, American actor and comedian
Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian professional cyclist
December 10 - Sarah Chang, American violinist
December 13
Satoshi Tsumabuki, Japanese actor
Bosco Wong, Hong Kong actor
December 15
Neil McDermott, English actor
Sergio Pizzorno, English guitarist and songwriter
December 16 - Axle Whitehead, Australian actor and singer-songwriter
December 18
Baron Vaughn, American actor and comedian
Christina Aguilera, American singer
December 19
Marla Sokoloff, American actress
Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
December 20
Ashley Cole, English footballer
Chris Edwards, English musician
Fitz Hall, English footballer
December 22
Chris Carmack, American actor
Matt Parker, Australian author
December 23 - Cody Ross, American baseball player
December 25 - Laura Sadler, English actress (d. 2003)
December 27
Bernard Berrian, American football player
Cesaro, Swiss professional wrestler
December 30 - Eliza Dushku, American actress
December 31 - Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
Deaths
January
January 1
Adolph Deutsch, American composer (b. 1897)
Frank Wykoff, American Olympic athlete (b. 1909)
January 2 - Alessandro Bruschetti, Italian artist (b. 1910)
January 3 - Joy Adamson, Austrian-born conservationist and author (b. 1910)
January 7 - Simonne Mathieu, French tennis champion (b. 1908)
January 8 - John Mauchly, American physicist and inventor (b. 1907)
January 10
Bo Rein, American football coach (b. 1945)
George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)
January 11 - Barbara Pym, English novelist (b. 1913)
January 13 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor and arranger (b. 1901)
January 17 - Barbara Britton, American actress (b. 1919)
January 18 - Sir Cecil Beaton, English photographer (b. 1904)
January 19 - William O. Douglas, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1898)
January 21 - Georges Painvin, French cryptographer (b. 1886)
January 22
Walter Pym, Australian actor (b. 1905)
Teresa Noce, Italian labor leader, activist, and journalist (b. 1900)
January 23 - Leonard Strong, American actor (b. 1908)
January 24 - Lil Dagover, German actress (b. 1887)
January 25 - David Newell, American actor (b. 1905)
January 27
Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (b. 1906)
Peppino De Filippo, Italian actor (b. 1903)
Eric Wyndham White, British administrator and economist, first Director-General of the GATT (b. 1913)
January 28 - Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer (b. 1926)
January 29 - Jimmy Durante, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1893)
January 30
Maria Bolognesi, Italian Roman Catholic laywoman, mystic and blessed (b. 1924)
Professor Longhair, American musician (b. 1918)
January 31 - Eduardo Caceres, Guatemalan politician (b. 1906)
February
February 1 - Jack Bailey, American actor (b. 1907)
February 2
Hanna Rovina, Russian-born Israeli actress (b. 1889)
William Howard Stein, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
February 6 - Albert Kotin, American abstract expressionist painter (b. 1907)
February 7 - Richard Williams, Royal Australian Air Force officer (b. 1890)
February 8
Isadora Bennett, American publicity agent (b. 1900)
Nikos Xilouris, Greek pop singer (b. 1936)
Francesco Zucchetti, French Olympic cyclist (b. 1902)
February 9 - Tom Macdonald, British journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
February 10 - Wels Eicke, Australian rules football player (b. 1893)
February 11 - R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian (b. 1884)
February 12 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
February 13 - David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
February 14 - Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
February 17
Jerry Fielding, American conductor and music director (b. 1922)
Graham Sutherland, English artist (b. 1903)
February 18 - Gale Robbins, American singer and actress (b. 1921)
February 19
Robert Morrison, British Olympic rower (b. 1902)
Bon Scott, Scottish-born Australian rock singer (b. 1946)
February 20
Joseph Banks Rhine, American parapsychologist (b. 1895)
Alice Longworth, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, wife of Nicholas Longworth (b. 1884)
February 21 - Aldo Andreotti, Italian mathematician (b. 1924)
February 22 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (b. 1886)
February 23
Enrico Celio, Swiss politician, 49th President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1889)
Robert Hayden, American poet (b. 1913)
February 24
Michael Browne, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1895)
Clement Martyn Doke, South African linguist (b. 1893)
February 26 - Mario Mattoli, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1898)
February 27
George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
Shin'ichi Hisamatsu, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
February 28 - James Goff, American football and basketball head coach (b. 1912)
February 29
Gil Elvgren, American pin-up artist (b. 1914)
Yigal Allon, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1918)
March
March 1
Dixie Dean, English football player (b. 1907)
Daniil Khrabrovitsky, Soviet film director (b. 1923)
Wilhelmina, Dutch-born American high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
March 3 - Roger Davis, American actor (b. 1884)
March 5 - Jay Silverheels, American actor (b. 1912)
March 6 - Barbara Brukalska, Polish architect (b. 1899)
March 9 - Nikolay Bogolybov, Russian actor (b. 1899)
March 10 - Herman Tarnower, American medical doctor and diet guru (b. 1910)
March 11 - Maud Hart Lovelace, American author (b. 1892)
March 13 - Roland Symonette, 1st Premier of the Bahamas (b. 1898)
March 14
Anna Jantar, Polish singer (b. 1950)
Mohammad Hatta, Indonesia's first vice president (b. 1902)
Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente, Spanish naturalist and television presenter (b. 1928)
March 17 - Boun Oum, 4th Prime Minister of Laos (b. 1911)
March 18
Jessica Dragonette, American singer (b. 1900)
Elsa Goveia, Guyanese-born Jamaican scholar (b. 1925)
Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
Louise Lovely, Australian actress (b. 1895)
Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
March 21 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
March 24
John Barrie, Welsh actor (b. 1917)
Pierre Etchebaster, French real tennis player (b. 1893)
Oscar Romero, Salvadorian Roman Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
March 25
Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
Erminio Macario, Italian actor (b. 1902)
Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b.1901)
March 28
Helena Bochorakova-Dittrichova, Czechoslovak illustrator (b. 1894)
James Hayes, American-born Filipino Roman Catholic, Jesuit archbishop, missionary and servant of God (b. 1889)
Dick Haymes, Argentine actor and singer (b. 1918)
March 29 - Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (b. 1905)
March 30
David Sharpe, American actor (b. 1910)
Ton Duc Thang, 2nd President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) (b. 1888)
March 31
Vladimir Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
Jesse Owens, American Olympic athlete (b. 1913)
April
April 2 - Stanley Forman Reed, American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1884)
April 4 - Red Sovine, American country and folk singer-songwriter (b. 1917)
April 6
John Collier, English writer (b. 1901)
Nils Ericson, Swedish actor (b. 1906)
April 8 - Bill Eastman, British army officer (b. 1911)
April 10 - Kay Medford, American actress and singer (b. 1919)
April 11 - Umit Kaftancioglu, Turkish writer (b. 1935)
April 12
Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker and billiards player (b. 1895)
William R. Tolbert Jr., 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)
April 13 - Karl Stegger, Danish actor (b. 1913)
April 15
Raymond Bailey, American actor (b. 1904)
Marshall Reed, American film and television actor (b. 1917)
Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
April 18 - Antonio Caponigro, American gangster (b. 1912)
April 19
Charles Seel, American actor (b. 1897)
Tony Beckley, English character actor (b. 1927)
April 20
Katherine Kennicott Davis, American composer (b. 1892)
Helmut Kautner, German director (b. 1908)
April 21 - Sohrab Sepehri, Persian poet and painter (b. 1928)
April 22
Jane Froman, American singer and actress (b. 1907)
Fritz Strassmann, German chemist (b. 1902)
April 24 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
April 26 - Cicely Courtneidge, British actress (b. 1893)
April 27
Mario Bava, Italian director (b. 1914)
John Culshaw, British recording producer and musicologist (b. 1924)
April 28 - Thomas G. W. Settle, American record-setting balloonist and admiral (b. 1895)
April 29 - Alfred Hitchcock, British suspense film director (b. 1899)
April 30 - Luis Munoz Marin, Puerto Rican poet, journalist and politician (b. 1898)
May
May 1 - Henry Levin, American film director and actor (b. 1909)
May 2
George Pal, Hungarian-born animator and producer (b. 1904)
Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-born cricketer (b. 1891)
May 4
Kay Hammond, English actress (b. 1909)
Josip Broz Tito, Croatian-born Yugoslav communist military and political leader, 19th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia and 1st President of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
May 5 - Isabel Briggs Myers, American psychological theorist and co-creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (b. 1897)
May 7
Isla Cameron, British actress (b. 1930)
Margaret Cole, British politician (b. 1893)
May 8 - Geoffrey Baker, English field marshal (b. 1912)
May 9
Prince Himalaya of Nepal (b. 1921)
Kate Molale, South African anti-apartheid activist (b. 1928)
May 12 - Lillian Roth, American actress (b. 1910)
May 14
Carl Ebert, German theatre and opera director (b. 1887)
Fatmawati, First Lady of Indonesia (b. 1923)
Hugh Griffith, Welsh actor (b. 1912)
May 16
Jose Calvo, Spanish actor (b. 1916)
Marin Preda, Romanian writer (b. 1922)
May 18
David A. Johnston, American volcanologist (b. 1949) (killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
Ian Curtis, English musician and singer (b. 1956)
Reid Blackburn, photojournalist for National Geographic (b. 1952; also killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
Harry R. Truman, Owner/Operator of Mt. St. Helens Lodge (b. 1896; killed by eruption of Mount St. Helens)
May 20 - Jack Walsh, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
May 21 - Ida Kaminska, Polish-born Jewish actress, playwright and translator (b. 1899)
May 25 - George West, British Anglican missionary (b. 1893)
May 28 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician (b. 1895)
May 30 - Carl Radle, American bassist (b. 1942)
June
June 1 - Rube Marquard, American baseball player (New York Giants) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1886)
June 7
Richard Bonelli, American opera baritone (b. 1889)
Henry Miller, American writer (b. 1891)
Elizabeth Craig, British chef and writer (b. 1883)
Salvator Gotta, Italian writer (b. 1887)
Philip Guston, American painter (b. 1912)
Marian Spychalski, Polish architect and politician, former head of State (b. 1908)
June 8
Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (b. 1900)
Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian football player (b. 1904)
June 9 - Shyam Kumari Khan, Indian lawyer (b. 1904)
June 12
Billy Butlin, South African-born Canadian founder of Butlins Holiday Camps (b. 1899)
Masayoshi Ohira, Japanese politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1910)
Milburn Stone, American actor (b. 1904)
June 13 - Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (b. 1942)
June 14 - Sante Spessotto, Italian Roman Catholic priest and saint (b. 1923)
June 18 - Terence Fisher, British director (b. 1904)
June 20 - Amy Key Clarke, English mystical poet (b. 1892)
June 21 - Bert Kaempfert, German orchestra leader and songwriter (b. 1923)
June 23
Clyfford Still, American painter (b. 1904)
John Laurie, Scottish actor (b. 1897)
V. V. Giri, Indian politician and 4th President of India (b. 1894)
June 24 - Boris Kaufman, Russian cinematographer (b. 1897)
June 26 - Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch Ignatius Jacob III (b. 1912)
June 27 - Carey McWilliams, American author, editor and lawyer (b. 1905)
June 28 - Jose Iturbi, Spanish conductor and musician (b. 1895)
July
July - Robert Brackman, American painter (b. 1898)
July 1 - C. P. Snow, British physicist and novelist (b. 1905)
July 3
Deng Hua, Chinese general (b. 1910)
Abdelhamid Sharaf, 51st Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1939)
July 4 - Gregory Bateson, British anthropologist, anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist (b. 1904)
July 6 - Gail Patrick, American actress (b. 1911)
July 7
Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia (b. 1901)
Reginald Gardiner, English actor (b. 1903)
Dore Schary, American film writer, director and producer (b. 1905)
Dan White, American actor (b. 1908)
July 8 - Rudolf Creutz, Austrian criminal (b. 1896)
July 9 - Vinicius de Moraes, Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat (b. 1913)
July 13 - Seretse Khama, 1st President of Botswana (b. 1921)
July 15 - Ben Selvin, American orchestra leader and recording artist (b. 1898)
July 17
Red Barry, American actor (b. 1912)
Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
July 19 - Nihat Erim, Turkish politician and jurist, 30th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1912)
July 20 - Lado Gudiashvili, Soviet painter (b. 1896)
July 21 - Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Syrian politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Syria (b. 1912)
July 22 - Hans-Georg Burger, German racing driver (b. 1952)
July 23 - Keith Godchaux, American musician (b. 1948)
July 24 - Peter Sellers, British comedian and actor (b. 1925)
July 25
Tony Catalano, American football player (b. 1895)
Vladimir Vysotsky, Soviet singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1938)
July 26
Allen Hoskins, American actor (b. 1920)
Kenneth Tynan, English theatre critic (b. 1927)
July 27 - Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (b. 1919)
July 28 - Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, Brazilian librarian (b. 1908)
July 30 - Lucien Dalsace, French actor (b. 1893)
July 31
Pascual Jordan, German physicist (b. 1902)
Bobby Van, American actor, singer, and dancer (b. 1928)
August
August 1
Patrick Depailler, French racing driver (b. 1944)
Strother Martin, American actor (b. 1919)
August 2 - Donald Ogden Stewart, American writer (b. 1894)
August 9
Harry Bell, Australian footballer (b. 1897)
Jacqueline "Jackie" Cochran, American pilot (b. 1906)
Elliott Nugent, American actor (b. 1896)
August 10
Gareth Evans, British philosopher (b. 1946)
Yahya Khan, Pakistani general and statesman, 3rd President of Pakistan (b. 1917)
August 14 - Dorothy Stratten, Canadian actress and model (murdered) (b. 1960)
August 15 - William Hood Simpson, American general (b. 1888)
August 18 - Arman, Iranian-born Soviet actor (b. 1921)
August 19 - Otto Frank, German father of Jewish diarist Anne Frank (b. 1889)
August 20 - Joe Dassin, American-born French singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
August 22 - Norman Shelley, British actor (b. 1903)
August 24 - Yootha Joyce, British actress (b. 1927)
August 25 - Gower Champion, American theatre director, choreographer and dancer (b. 1919)
August 26 - Tex Avery, American cartoonist (b. 1908)
September
September 3
Barbara O'Neil, American actress (b. 1909)
Dirch Passer, Danish actor (b. 1926)
Duncan Renaldo, American actor (b. 1904)
September 4
Pepe Abad, Spanish-born Chilean television presenter and radio host (b. 1932)
George Murray Burnett, British mathematician and chemist (b. 1921)
September 8 - Willard Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
September 9 - Manzoor Ali Khan, Pakistani classical singer (b. 1922)
September 12 - Lillian Randolph, American actress (b. 1898)
September 14 - Domingo Acedo, Spanish football player (b. 1898)
September 15 - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist (b. 1929)
September 16
Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
Julio Franco Arango, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1914)
September 17 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Nicataguan politician, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
September 18 - Katherine Anne Porter, American author (b. 1890)
September 19 - Sol Lesser, American film producer (b. 1890)
September 23 - Jacobus Johannes Fouche, 5th President of South Africa (b. 1898)
September 25
John Bonham, British rock drummer (Led Zeppelin) (b. 1948)
Lewis Milestone, American film director (b. 1895)
Marie Under, Estonian poet (b. 1883)
September 30
John McGuire, American actor (b. 1929)
Peter, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (b. 1922)
October
October 2 - John Kotelawala, Sri Lanka soldier and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (b. 1895)
October 6 - Hattie Jacques, British actress (b. 1922)
October 7 - Sydney Gordon Russell, English designer and craftsman (b. 1892)
October 10 - Billie Thomas, American actor (b. 1931)
October 12 - Alberto Demicheli, Uruguayan political figure, President of Uruguay ("de facto") (b. 1896)
October 15 - Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (b. 1908)
October 18 - Hans Ehard, German lawyer and politician (b. 1887)
October 21
Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician after whom Asperger syndrome was named (b. 1906)
Valko Chervenkov, Bulgarian politician, 34th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1900)
Edelmiro Julian Farrell, Argentine general, 28th President of Argentina (d. 1887)
October 23 - Mariano Suarez, Ecuadorian politician, 27th President of Ecuador (b. 1897)
October 25
Virgil Fox, American organist (b. 1912)
Victor Galindez, Argentine boxer (race car accident) (b. 1948)
Sahir Ludhianvi, Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist (b. 1921)
October 26 - Marcelo Caetano, Portuguese politician and scholar, 101st Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1906)
October 27
Steve Peregrin Took, British rock musician (b. 1949)
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
October 29 - Giorgio Borg Olivier, Maltese politician and statesman, 7th Prime Minister of Malta (b. 1911)
October 31 - Elizebeth Smith Friedman, American cryptographer (b. 1892)
November
November 4
Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1904)
Johnny Owen, Welsh professional boxer (b. 1956)
November 7 - Steve McQueen, American actor (b. 1930)
November 9
Gloria Guinness, Mexican-born American fashion icon (b. 1912)
Carmel Myers, American actress (b. 1899)
Victor Sen Yung, American actor (b. 1915)
November 16
Boris Aronson, Russian set designer (b. 1898)
Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942)
November 18 - Conn Smythe, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1895)
November 19 - E. J. Bowen, English chemist (b. 1898)
November 20
Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922)
John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)
November 21 - Sara Garcia, Mexican actress (b. 1895)
November 22
Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901)
Mae West, American actress (b. 1893)
November 24 - George Raft, American actor (b. 1901)
November 26 - Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927)
November 27 - F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882)
November 29
Dorothy Day, American journalist, activist, Roman Catholic convert and Servant of God (b. 1897)
Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901)
December
December 2
Jean Donovan, American Roman Catholic missionary (b. 1953)
Murder of the Three American Roman Catholic fellow missionaries by Salvadorian military:
Maura Clarke (b. 1931)
Ita Ford (b. 1940)
Dorothy Kazel (b. 1939)
Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914)
December 3 - Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896)
December 4
Francisco de Sa Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911)
December 7 - Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer (b. 1958)
December 8 - John Lennon, British singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
December 9 - Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892)
December 11 - Dorothy West, American actress (b. 1891)
December 12
Bruno Bartolozzi, Italian composer (b. 1911)
Erich Jantsch, Austrian astrophysicist (b. 1929)
Severino Montano, Filipino actor, director and playwright (b. 1915)
December 14 - Elston Howard, American baseball player (b. 1929)
December 16
Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890)
Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900)
Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936)
December 17 - Chiang Kuei, Chinese novelist (b. 1908)
December 18
Frances Fuller, American actress (b. 1907)
Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910)
December 19 - Hector Jose Campora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909)
December 21 - Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890)
December 23 - Frank Norman, English novelist, playwright and autobiographer (b. 1930)
December 24
Karl Donitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891)
Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894)
Siggie Nordstrom, American model, actress, entertainer, socialite and lead singer (b. 1893)
December 25 - Victoria Drummond, first woman marine engineer in Britain (b. 1894)
December 28
Alfredo Barrera Vasquez, Mexican anthropologist (b. 1900)
Sam Levene, American actor (b. 1905)
December 29 - Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941)
December 30 - Giuseppe Carraro, Italian Roman Catholic bishop and venerable (b. 1899)
December 31
Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911)
Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887)
Date Unknown
Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899)
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