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Day and Night is the eighth episode from the eighth season of Barney & Friends.

Plot
It's a nice, sunny day in the park and Barney and his friends are having fun. Beth is tired because she had stayed up late at a sleepover, so they decide to have their own sleepover inside the caboose. Outside in the park Barney uses his magic to create 'night' during the day, and the kids discover that nighttime has special sights and sounds all its own.

Songs

 * 1) Barney Theme Song
 * 2) It's a Fun, Fun Sunny Day!
 * 3) The Popcorn Song
 * 4) Brushing My Teeth
 * 5) Listen
 * 6) Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
 * 7) Twinkle Little Lightning Bug
 * 8) Listen to the Night Time
 * 9) The Sun
 * 10) I Love You

"Look at Me, I'm 3!" is the 10th episode of the second season of Barney & Friends. Season 5  of  Barney & Friends  aired from November 2-27, 1998.

Dinosaurs

 * Barney (Body: David Joyner / Voice: Bob West)
 * Baby Bop (Body: Jeff Ayers / Voice: Julie Johnson)
 * BJ (Body: Jeff Brooks / Voice: Patty Wirtz)

Children

 * Hannah (Marisa Kuers)
 * Keesha (Mera Baker)
 * Robert (Angel Velasco)
 * Stephen (Chase Gallatin)
 * Curtis (Monte Black)
 * Danny (Jeffrey Hood)
 * Ashley (Maurie Chandler)
 * Jeff (Austin Ball)
 * Kristen (Sara Hickman)
 * Chip (Lucien Douglas)
 * Emily (Hannah Owens) (debut)
 * Kim (Erica Rhodes)
 * Linda (Adrianne Kangas) (debut)
 * Alissa (Monet Chandler) Season5photoshoot.jpg

Adults

 * Stella the Storyteller (Phyllis Cicero)
 * Mr. Boyd (Robert Sweatman)

Animals

 * Scooter McNutty (Todd Duffey)
 * Miss Etta Kette (Brice Armstrong)
 * Booker T. Bookworm (Earl Fisher)BarneyBabyBopBJSeason5PromoPhoto.jpg

Guest Appearances

 * The Marching Band Musicians (in Barney's Band)
 * Riders In The Sky (in Howdy, Friends!)
 * DeWayne Hambrick (played Old King Cole in A Royal Welcome)
 * Saint Adeogba (played  Aunt Rachel  in Aunt Rachel Is Here!)
 * Renee Micheal (played  Ashley and Alissa's Mom  in Aunt Rachel is Here!)

Episodes

 * 1) Books are Fun!
 * 2) Trading Places
 * 3) Safety First!
 * 4) Circle of Friends
 * 5) The One and Only You
 * 6) Barney's Band
 * 7) Try It, You'll Like It!
 * 8) Colors All Around
 * 9) Howdy, Friends!
 * 10) Seven Days a Week
 * 11) Hidden Treasures
 * 12) A Royal Welcome
 * 13) Sweet as Honey
 * 14) First Things First!
 * 15) Aunt Rachel is Here!
 * 16) It's a Rainy Day!
 * 17) Easy Does It!
 * 18) What's in a Name?
 * 19) A Very Special Mouse
 * 20) A Package of Friendship

Trivia

 * This season marked:
 * The second season to air in only one month.
 * The first appearances of Emily and Linda.
 * The only season that features Booker T. Bookworm.
 * The final television appearances of Ashley, Alissa, Curtis and Kristen.
 * The final season to use the 1993 PBS Kids logo with the P-Pals.
 * The vocals for the Barney Theme Song were rerecorded, but the instrumental track remained the same from the previous season. However, international versions used the original vocals from Season 4 while the new vocals were used at the end.
 * In this season, Marisa Kuers (Hannah) does the fundings for the show.

Plot
Happy Birthday Baby Bop!  was a book released in 1995

Plot
It's Baby Bop's birthday and she's 3 years old! Barney and BJ are there to celebrate. They play games, open presents, have cake, and much more!

Characters

 * Barney
 * Baby Bop
 * BJ

Trivia
When the pink and green balloons mysteriously appear, Barney tells the kids that today is a very special day because it's Baby Bop's birthday, and she's 3 years old. He and his friends plan the birthday presents all having to do with the number three, with a little help from The Barney Bag. From the "Three Little Kittens" to the" Three Little Fishes" and even some "Number Limbo" with Baby Bop's big brother, "BJ", three is everywhere. Meanwhile, Barney plans a surprise for Baby Bop with a little help from his friends. When Julie has a tiny cupcake for Baby Bop, Barney transforms it into a giant cupcake. In the end, Barney reveals the surprise he was working on. A pink tricycle! Everyone ends with the "I Love You" song and continues celebrating from there.
 * The production for this book took place in March 12-14, 1994.
 * This book was included in Barney's Sharing & Caring Treasury.

Theme: The Number 3

Cast

 * Barney
 * Baby Bop
 * BJ
 * Derek
 * Tina
 * Kathy
 * Julie

Songs

 * 1) Barney Theme Song
 * 2) Little Speckled Frogs
 * 3) The Barney Bag
 * 4) Look at Me, I'm 3!
 * 5) Three Little Kittens
 * 6) Three Little Fishes
 * 7) Number Limbo
 * 8) Happy Birthday to You
 * 9) Look at Me, I'm 3! (Reprise)
 * 10) I Love You

Trivia

 * This episode marked:
 * The final time Tina wears her yellow cast.
 * The only time BJ and Julie appeared with Tina wearing her cast.
 * Baby Bop still uses the very same tricycle to this day (it has barely changed, except the strings on the handlebars have been removed after this episode).
 * In Love to Read, with Barney, the "I Love You" scene from this episode is shown differently than the way it originally aired.
 * In the PBS Pledge Drive's version of this episode, the song, "Three Little Fishes" was cut, most likely due to time constraints. Instead, it transitioned to a scene where Baby Bop gets her present from BJ. In addition, the Barney Says segment was much different than the original version

The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call.

January

 * January 1 – 1983 like a 1994 one The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).
 * January 3 – Kīlauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing.
 * January 5 – President Ronald Reagan nominates Elizabeth Dole as U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
 * January 10 – Canada and the United States launch Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, a worldwide program advocating tolerance.
 * January 18 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
 * January 19 – High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
 * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Aldo Moro.
 * January 25 – IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space.
 * January 26 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM PC compatible computers.
 * January 30 – Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII
 * January 31 – Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

February

 * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of 1983 like a 1991 one polygamy involving 105 women.
 * February 3
 * Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5th.
 * Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent leadership spill Bob Hawke is elected as Hayden's successor unopposed.
 * February 5–6 – The team of A. J. Foyt, Preston Henn, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Lena won the 24 hours of Daytona in a Porsche 935
 * February 6 – Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.
 * February 12 – 100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. They were successful in repealing the law.
 * February 13
 * A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 62 people.
 * Two US Marshals are killed and three lawmen are wounded in a shootout with Gordon Kahl in Medina, North Dakota.
 * February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.
 * February 18
 * The Venezuelan bolívar is devaluated and exchange controls are established in an event now referred to as Black Friday by many Venezuelans (the Bolívar had been the most stable and internationally accepted currency).
 * Nellie massacre: Over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
 * Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.
 * February 23
 * The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
 * The automatic shut-down fails at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA.
 * February 24
 * A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
 * Bermondsey by-election, 1983 (U.K.): Simon Hughes's defeat of Peter Tatchell is criticised for alleged homophobia.
 * February 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, setting the record for most watched television episode and reaching a total audience estimated at 125 million, which remains unsurpassed.

March

 * March 1 – The Balearic Islands and Madrid become Autonomous communities of Spain.
 * March 1 - First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland
 * March 5 – in 1983 like a 1999 and 2005 one Australian federal election, 1983: The Labor Party led by Bob Hawke defeats the Liberal/National Coalition Government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Hawke would be sworn in on March 11th. As soon as the results became clear, Fraser resigned from the Liberal leadership; he would be replaced by outgoing Minister for Industry and Commerce Andrew Peacock.
 * March 8 – IBM releases the IBM PC XT.
 * March 9
 * Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
 * The 3D printer is invented by Chuck Hull.
 * March 16 – The Ismaning radio transmitter (last wooden radio tower in Germany) is demolished.
 * March 21 – Yamoussoukro, officially becomes Ivorian political capital after transfer from Abidjan.
 * March 23 – Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars".
 * March 25 – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary with the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, during which Michael Jackson performs Billie Jean and introduces the moonwalk.

April

 * April 3 – In Mexico, the 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins, it ends five weeks later on May 1.
 * April 4 – The Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6.
 * April 11 – Spain's Seve Ballesteros won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament
 * April 13 – Minnesota's largest retailer Target Corporation expands into California, opening 11 stores.
 * April 18
 * The 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people.
 * Channel broadcasting is founded by the Disney Channel.
 * April 22 – A reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods occurs at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia.
 * April 25 – Cold War: Manchester, Maine, U.S., schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

May

 * May 6 – Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).
 * May 11 – Aberdeen F.C. beat Real Madrid 2–1 (after extra time) to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and become only the third Scottish side to win a European trophy.
 * May 14 – Dundee United F.C. are crowned champions of Scotland for the first time in their history by winning the Scottish Premier Division, on the final day of the league season at the home of their city rivals Dundee F.C., Dens Park.
 * May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.
 * May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
 * May 17 – New York Islanders beat the Edmonton Oilers four games to none to win the Stanley Cup
 * May 20
 * Two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal Science.
 * Church Street bombing. A car bombing in Pretoria, South Africa, kills 19 people. It had been planted by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the African National Congress.
 * May 25 – Return of the Jedi opens in theatres.
 * May 26 – The 7.8 Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.

January

 * January 1
 * Czechoslovakia ceases to exist as the Czech Republic and Slovakia separate in the so-called Velvet Divorce.
 * The European Economic Community eliminates trade barriers and creates a European single market.
 * Euronews, a multilingual television news channels in Europe, officially launched.
 * January 2 – Sri Lankan Civil War: The Sri Lanka Navy kills 35–100 civilians on the Jaffna Lagoon.
 * January 3 – In Moscow, Presidents George H. W. Bush (United States) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia) sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
 * January 5
 * US$7.4 million is stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, in the fifth largest robbery in U.S. history.
 * MV Braer, a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill.
 * January 6
 * Douglas Hurd is the first high-ranking British official to visit Argentina since the Falklands War.
 * January 6–20 – The Bombay riots take place in Mumbai.
 * January 7 – The Fourth Republic of Ghana is inaugurated, with Jerry Rawlings as president.
 * January 8–17 – The Braer Storm of January 1993, the most intense extratropical cyclone on record for the northern Atlantic Ocean, occurs.
 * January 13 – The Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) is signed.
 * January 14 – The Polish ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen in the Baltic Sea, killing 54 people.
 * January 19
 * IBM announces a $4.97 billion loss for 1992, the largest single-year corporate loss in United States history to date.
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM inspectors to use its own aircraft to fly into Iraq and begins military operations in the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait, and the northern Iraqi no-fly zones. U.S. forces fire approximately 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at Baghdad factories linked to Iraq's illegal nuclear weapons program. Iraq then informs UNSCOM that it will be able to resume its flights.
 * January 20 – Bill Clinton is sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States.
 * January 24 – In Turkey, thousands protest the murder of journalist Uğur Mumcu.
 * January 25 – Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen succeeds Conservative Poul Schlüter as Prime Minister of Denmark.
 * January 26 – Václav Havel is elected President of the Czech Republic.

February

 * February 4 – Members of the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party of Austria split to form the Liberal Forum in protest against the increasing nationalistic bent of the party.
 * February 5 – Belgium becomes a federal monarchy rather than a unitary kingdom.
 * February 10
 * Lien Chan is named by Lee Teng-hui to succeed Hau Pei-tsun as Premier of the Republic of China.
 * Mani pulite scandal: Italian legislator Claudio Martelli resigns, followed by various politicians over the next two weeks.
 * February 14
 * Glafcos Clerides defeats incumbent George Vasiliou in the Cypriot presidential election.
 * Albert Zafy defeats Didier Ratsiraka in the Madagascar presidential election.
 * February 22 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 808 is voted on, deciding that "an international tribunal shall be established" to prosecute violations of international law in Yugoslavia. The tribunal is established on May 25 by Resolution 827.
 * February 24 – Prime Minister of Canada Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil. Kim Campbell, his successor, becomes Canada's first female Prime Minister.
 * February 26 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a van bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over one thousand.
 * February 28 – The Waco siege begins in Texas.

March

 * March 5 – Macedonian Palair Flight 301, an F-100 on a flight to Zürich, crashes shortly after take-off from Skopje, killing 83 of the 97 on board.
 * March 8 – The Moon moves into its nearest point to Earth, called perigee, at the same time as its fullest phase of the Lunar Cycle. The Moon appears to be 14% bigger and 30% brighter than the year's other full moons. The next time these two events coincided will be 2008.
 * March 11 – Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
 * March 12
 * 1993 Bombay bombings: Several bombs explode in Bombay, India, killing 257 and injuring hundreds more.
 * North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea announces that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to nuclear sites.
 * March 13–15 – The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the way from Cuba to Quebec; it reportedly kills 184.
 * March 13 – Australian federal election, 1993: Paul Keating's Labor Government is re-elected with an increased majority, defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by John Hewson.
 * March 17 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party announces a unilateral ceasefire in Iraq.
 * March 24
 * The Israeli Knesset elects Ezer Weizman as President of Israel.
 * South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1989.
 * March 27
 * Jiang Zemin becomes President of the People's Republic of China.
 * Following a rash of integrist murders (including those of foreigners), Algeria breaks diplomatic relations with Iran, accusing the country of interfering in its interior affairs.
 * Mahamane Ousmane is elected president of Niger.
 * March 28 – French legislative election, 1993: Rally for the Republic (Gaullist party) wins a majority and Édouard Balladur becomes Prime Minister.
 * March 29 – The 65th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, with Unforgiven winning Best Picture.

April

 * April–May – 1993 Four Corners hantavirus outbreak: A dozen people are killed by the newly-recognised Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, mainly in the Southwestern United States.
 * April–October – Great Flood of 1993: The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers flood large portions of the American Midwest.
 * April 1 – The Vatican orders the moving of the Carmelite convent at Auschwitz.
 * April 8 – The Republic of Macedonia is admitted to the United Nations.
 * April 10 – African National Congress activist Chris Hani is assassinated in South Africa.
 * April 16 – Bosnian War: the enclave of Srebrenica is declared a UN-protected "safe area".
 * April 19 – Waco siege: A 51-day stand-off at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ends with a fire that kills 76 people, including David Koresh.
 * April 20 – The Council for National Academic Awards in the United Kingdom is wound up.
 * April 21 – The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis Garcia Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
 * April 23
 * The World Health Organization declares tuberculosis a global emergency.
 * Eritreans vote overwhelmingly for independence from Ethiopia in a United Nations-monitored referendum, the Eritrean independence referendum.
 * April 26 – Oscar Luigi Scalfaro appoints Carlo Azeglio Ciampi as Prime Minister of Italy.
 * April 27
 * Eritrea: Eritrean independence is declared as a result of a referendum held with United Nations verification.
 * Yemeni parliamentary election, 1993: The General People's Congress wins a plurality of 121 seats.
 * All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal.
 * April 30 – Tennis player Monica Seles – at this time World No. 1 in women's tennis – is stabbed during a match in Hamburg.

May

 * May 1
 * A Tamil Tigers suicide bomber assassinates President Ranasinghe Premadasa of Sri Lanka.
 * Dingiri Banda Wijetunga became the third executive president of Sri Lanka.
 * May 4 – UNOSOM II assumes the Somalian duties of the dissolved UNITAF.
 * May 9 – Juan Carlos Wasmosy becomes the first democratically elected President of Paraguay in nearly 40 years.
 * May 15 – Niamh Kavanagh wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with In Your Eyes.
 * May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel as President of Turkey. After Demirel becomes president, the acting Prime Minister of Turkey is Erdal İnönü of Social Democratic Populist Party for 40 days.
 * May 24 – Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
 * May 25 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia is created in The Hague.
 * May 28 – Eritrea and Monaco gain entry to the United Nations.

June

 * June 1
 * Large protests erupt against Slobodan Milošević's regime in Belgrade; opposition leader Vuk Drašković and his wife Danica are arrested.
 * President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted self-coup.
 * Burundian presidential election, 1993: The first multiparty elections in Burundi since the country's independence lead to the election of Melchior Ndadaye, leader of the Front for Democracy in Burundi. The next day's legislative election sees his party win with an overwhelming majority.
 * June 5
 * The National Assembly of Venezuela designates Ramón José Velásquez as successor of suspended President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
 * Twenty-four Pakistani troops in the United Nations forces are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia.
 * June 6
 * Following the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement's victory, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada becomes president of Bolivia.
 * Mongolia holds its first direct presidential elections.
 * June 8 – The PKK-declared ceasefire ends in Iraq.
 * June 14 – Multipartyists win a referendum on the future of the one-party system in Malawi.
 * June 18 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM weapons inspectors to install remote-controlled monitoring cameras at two missile engine test stands.
 * June 22 – Japan's New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party.
 * June 24
 * Andrew Wiles wins worldwide fame after presenting his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a problem that had been unsolved for more than three centuries.
 * Following a campaign by the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform, Dáil Éireann in the Republic of Ireland passes the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act, reforming the country's sodomy law to decriminalise consensual homosexual acts.
 * June 25
 * Kim Campbell becomes the 19th, and first female, Prime Minister of Canada.
 * Tansu Çiller of True Path Party forms the new government of Turkey.
 * Zoran Lilić succeeds Dobrica Ćosić as President of Yugoslavia.
 * The litas is introduced as the new currency of Lithuania.
 * Jacques Attali resigns as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
 * June 26–28 – Typhoon Koryn causes massive damage to the Philippines, China and Macau.
 * June 27 – U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George H. W. Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.

July

 * July 2
 * An Islamist mob sets fire to the hotel where The Satanic Verses translator Aziz Nesin resides in Sivas, Turkey, killing 37.
 * A floating chapel sinks in Bocaue, Bulacan, killing 266 people.
 * July 5
 * Iraq disarmament crisis: UN inspection teams leave Iraq. Iraq then agrees to UNSCOM demands and the inspection teams return.
 * Electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi is appointed rector (president) of Kuwait University, the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.
 * July 7–9 – The 19th G7 summit is held in Tokyo, Japan.
 * July 7 – Hurricane Calvin lands in Mexico. It is the second Pacific hurricane on record to land in Mexico in July and kills 34.
 * July 12 – The 7.7 Hokkaidō earthquake affected northern Japan with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) and triggers a devastating tsunami that kills 230 on the small island of Okushiri, Hokkaido.
 * July 15 – 1993 child sexual abuse accusations against Michael Jackson: Evan Chandler institutes legal accusations against singer Michael Jackson of sexually molesting Jordan Chandler, Evan's 13-year-old son in the United States.
 * July 19 – Japanese general election, 1993: The loss of majority of the Liberal Democratic Party results in a coalition taking power.
 * July 25 – In a terrorist attack members of the Azanian People's Liberation Army open fire on a congregation inside St James Church in Kenilworth, Cape Town, killing eleven and injuring fifty.
 * July 26
 * Miguel Indurain wins the 1993 Tour de France.
 * Asiana Airlines Flight 733 crashes into Mt. Ungeo in Haenam, South Korea; 68 are killed.
 * July 27 – Windows NT 3.1, the first version of Microsoft's line of Windows NT operating systems, is released to manufacturing.
 * July 29 – The Israeli Supreme Court acquits accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.

August

 * August – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism margin was expanded to 15% to accommodate speculation against the French franc and other currencies.
 * August 4 – The Japanese government issues the Kono Statement, acknowledging the comfort women's (sex slaves) deportation.
 * August 5 – The discovery of the Tel Dan Stele, the first archaeological confirmation of the existence of the Davidic line, is announced.
 * August 9 – King Albert II of Belgium is sworn into office nine days after the death of his brother, King Baudouin I.
 * August 13 – More than 130 die in the collapse of Royal Plaza Hotel at Nakhon Ratchasima in Thailand's worst hotel disaster.
 * August 18 – The 14th century Kapellbrücke covered wooden truss bridge in Lucerne (Switzerland) is largely destroyed by fire.
 * August 21 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Observer orbiter 3 days before the spacecraft is scheduled to enter orbit around Mars.
 * August 28 – Ong Teng Cheong becomes the first President of Singapore elected by the population.
 * August 31 – Russia completes removing its troops from Lithuania.

September

 * September 13
 * Norwegian parliamentary election, 1993: The Labour Party wins a plurality of the seats and Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland retains office.
 * Oslo I Accord: Following initially secret talks from earlier in the year, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin shake hands in Washington, D.C. after signing a peace accord.
 * September 15–21 – Hurricane Gert crosses from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through Central America and Mexico.
 * September 17 – Russian troops withdraw from Poland.
 * September 19 – Polish parliamentary election, 1993: A coalition of the Democratic Left Alliance and the Polish People's Party led by Waldemar Pawlak comes into power.
 * September 22 – Big Bayou Canot train disaster: A bridge collapses as the Sunset Limited crosses it, killing 47.
 * September 23 – The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia, to host the 2000 Summer Olympics.
 * September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
 * September 26
 * The first mission in Biosphere 2 ends after two years.
 * PoSAT-1 (the first Portuguese satellite) is launched on board French rocket Ariane 4.
 * September 27 – War in Abkhazia: Fall of Sukhumi – Eduard Shevardnadze accuses Russia of passive complicity.
 * September 30 – The 6.2 Latur earthquake shakes Maharashtra, India with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe) killing 9,748 and injuring 30,000.

October

 * October 3 – Battle of Mogadishu: The U.S. Army conducts Operation Gothic Serpent in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia, using Task Force Ranger. Two U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawks are shot down and the operation leaves over 1,000 Somalians dead and over 73 Americans wounded in action, 18 killed and 1 captured.
 * October 4 – The Russian constitutional crisis culminates with Russian military and security forces clearing the White House of Russia Parliament building by force, quashing a mass uprising against President Boris Yeltsin.
 * October 5 – China performs a nuclear test, ending a worldwide de facto moratorium.
 * October 10 – The South Korean ferry Seohae capsizes off Pusan, South Korea; 292 are killed.
 * October 11–28 – The UNMIH is prevented from entering Haiti by its military-led regime. On October 18, United Nations economic sanctions (abolished in August) are reinstated. U.S. President Bill Clinton sends 6 American warships to enforce them.
 * October 13
 * Greek legislative election, 1993: Andreas Papandreou begins his second term as Prime Minister of Greece.
 * The fifth summit of the Francophonie opens in Mauritius.
 * October 19 – Benazir Bhutto becomes the Prime Minister of Pakistan for the second time.
 * October 21 – A coup in Burundi results in the death of president Melchior Ndadaye and sparks the Burundi Civil War.
 * October 25 – Canadian federal election, 1993: Jean Chrétien and his Liberal Party defeat the governing Progressive Conservative Party, which falls to a historic low of two seats.

November

 * November 1 – The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
 * November 5 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Railways Act 1993, setting out the procedures for privatisation of British Rail.
 * November 9 – Bosnian Croat forces destroy the Stari Most, or Old Bridge of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, by tank fire.
 * November 11
 * Microsoft releases Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to manufacturing.
 * Sri Lankan Civil War – Battle of Pooneryn: Over 400 Sri Lankan military are killed.
 * November 12 – London Convention: Marine dumping of radioactive waste is outlawed.
 * November 17–22 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) passes the legislative houses in the United States, Canada and Mexico.
 * November 17 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup.
 * November 18
 * In a status referendum, Puerto Rico residents vote with a slim margin to maintain Commonwealth status.
 * The first meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit opens in Seattle.
 * November 20 – An Avioimpex Yakovlev Yak-42D crashes into Mount Trojani near Ohrid, Macedonia. All 8 crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers are killed.
 * November 28 – The Observer reveals that a channel of communications has existed between the Provisional Irish Republican Army and the British government, despite the government's persistent denials.
 * November 30
 * An agreement establishing the Permanent Commission for East African Co-operation is signed.
 * U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act.

December

 * December 2
 * STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.
 * Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is gunned down by police.
 * December 5 – Rafael Caldera Rodríguez is elected President of Venezuela for the second time, succeeding interim president Ramón José Velásquez.
 * December 7
 * In Garden City, New York, six people are murdered and 19 injured in the Long Island Rail Road massacre, a racially motivated mass shooting perpetrated by Colin Ferguson, a black Jamaican immigrant.
 * The 32-member Transitional Executive Committee holds its first meeting in Cape Town, marking the first meeting of an official government body in South Africa with Black members.
 * President of Ivory Coast Félix Houphouët-Boigny dies at 88, the oldest African head of state. He is succeeded three days later by Henri Konan Bédié.
 * December 8 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
 * December 11
 * Chilean presidential election, 1993: Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle is elected with 58% of the vote.
 * One of the three blocks of the Highland Towers near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia collapses, killing 48.
 * December 12 – Péter Boross becomes Prime Minister of Hungary following the death of József Antall.
 * December 13
 * Prime Minister of Canada Kim Campbell resigns as leader of the Progressive Conservative Party and is succeeded as leader by Jean Charest.
 * The Majilis of Kazakhstan approves the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and agrees to dismantle the more than 100 missiles left on its territory by the fall of the USSR.
 * December 15 – The Uruguay Round of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks reach a successful conclusion after seven years.
 * December 16 – Brazil's Supreme Court rules that former President Fernando Collor de Mello may not hold elected office again until 2000 due to political corruption.
 * December 18 – Omar Bongo is re-elected as President of Gabon in the country's first multiparty elections.
 * December 20
 * The United Nations General Assembly votes unanimously to appoint a U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
 * The first corrected images from the Hubble Telescope are taken.
 * December 22 – The interim South African constitution is approved by Parliament 237–45.
 * December 29 – Argentina passes a measure allowing President Carlos Menem and all future presidents to run for a second term. It also shortens presidential terms to 4 years and removes the requirement for the president to be Roman Catholic.
 * December 30
 * Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations.
 * The Congress Party gains a parliamentary majority in India after the defection of 10 Janata Dal party lawmakers.

Date unknown

 * 1992–1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak occurs in the United States when 732 people, mostly children, are infected with the Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacterium originating from undercooked beef patties in hamburgers; 4 die.
 * Severe floods hit South Asia, killing over 4,000 people in Bangladesh, India and Nepal.
 * Wildfires in California destroy over 16000 acre and 700 homes.
 * The extinct European mammalian carnivore genus Prosansanosmilus is discovered and classified with its type species, Prosansanosmilus peregrinus.
 * Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time becomes the longest-running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times ever.

January

 * January 1
 * Jon Flanagan, English footballer
 * Alengot Oromait, Ugandan politician
 * January 2 – Bryson Tiller, American singer-songwriter
 * January 4
 * Aaryn Doyle, Canadian actress and singer
 * Vladyslav Kalitvintsev, Ukrainian footballer
 * Scott Redding, English Grand Prix motorcycle racer
 * January 5 – Franz Drameh, English actor
 * January 7 – Jan Oblak, Slovenian footballer
 * January 9
 * Ashley Argota, American actress
 * Katarina Johnson-Thompson, English heptathlete
 * Marcus Peters, American football player
 * Aminata Savadogo, Latvian singer-songwriter
 * January 12 – Zayn Malik, British singer
 * January 13
 * Sachika Misawa, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * Max Whitlock, English artistic gymnast
 * January 14 – Daniel Bessa, Italian-Brazilian footballer
 * January 15 – Paulina Vega, Colombian model and television presenter
 * January 18
 * Sean Keenan, Australian actor
 * Morgan York, American actress
 * January 19 – Bence Biczó, Hungarian swimmer
 * January 22
 * Netta Barzilai, Israeli singer
 * Rio Haryanto, Indonesian racing driver
 * Tommy Knight, English actor
 * January 28
 * Iris Mittenaere, French model and television presenter
 * Will Poulter, English actor
 * January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Japanese model, blogger, and recording artist
 * January 30 – Katy Marchant, English track cyclist

February

 * February 5 – Gerard Bieszczad, Polish footballer
 * February 6 – Tinashe, American actress and singer
 * February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
 * February 9 – Parimarjan Negi, Indian chess prodigy
 * February 12
 * Benik Afobe, English footballer
 * Rafinha, Brazilian football player
 * Jennifer Stone, American actress
 * February 13 – Sophie Evans, Welsh actress
 * February 14
 * Shane Harper, American actor and singer
 * Alberto Rosende, American actor
 * February 15 – Ravi, South Korean rapper and songwriter
 * February 17
 * Marc Márquez, Spanish four time MotoGP world champion
 * AJ Perez, Filipino actor (d. 2011)
 * February 19
 * Mauro Icardi, Argentine footballer
 * Patrick Johnson, American actor
 * Victoria Justice, American actress and singer
 * February 23 – Kasumi Ishikawa, Japanese table tennis player
 * February 27 – Jessica Korda, American golfer
 * February 28 – Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer

March

 * March 1 – Josh McEachran, English footballer
 * March 2
 * Pandelela Rinong, Malaysian diver
 * Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian pop singer
 * March 4
 * Jenna Boyd, American actress
 * Abigail Mavity, American actress
 * March 5
 * Harry Maguire, English footballer
 * Anna Orlik, Belarusian tennis player
 * March 9 – Suga, South Korean rapper and songwriter
 * March 10
 * Jack Butland, English footballer
 * Peniel, South Korean based rapper
 * Jeffrey Scaperrotta, American actor
 * March 11
 * Jodie Comer, English actress
 * Anthony Davis, American basketball player
 * Demi Harman, Australian actress
 * Daisuke Ssegwanyi, Ugandan swimmer
 * March 14
 * Anna Ewers, German model
 * Demetrius Joyette, Canadian actor
 * March 15
 * Alia Bhatt, British-born Indian actress and singer
 * Paul Pogba, French footballer
 * Alyssa Reid, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Mark Scheifele, Canadian ice hockey player
 * March 17 – Julia Winter, Swedish-born English actress
 * March 19 – Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer
 * March 23 – Lee Hyun-woo, South Korean actor
 * March 24
 * Grace Cassidy, English actress
 * Ryo Ryusei, Japanese actor
 * March 30 – Anitta, Brazilian singer and dancer
 * March 31 – Connor Wickham, English footballer

April

 * April 1 – Keito Okamoto, Japanese idol (Hey! Say! JUMP)
 * April 7 – Yell Htwe Aung, Burmese comedian, actor, and model (d. 2018)
 * April 9 – Will Merrick, English actor
 * April 10 – Sofia Carson, American actress and singer
 * April 11 – Yuji Takahashi, Japanese footballer
 * April 12
 * Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Katelyn Pippy, American actress
 * April 13 – Hannah Marks, American actress
 * April 14
 * Vivien Cardone, American actress
 * Graham Phillips, American actor and singer
 * Ellington Ratliff, American drummer and actor
 * Josephine Skriver, Danish model
 * April 15 – Madeleine Martin, American television and voice actress
 * April 16
 * Chance the Rapper, American rapper
 * Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
 * April 18 – Nathan Sykes, British singer
 * April 19 – Sebastian de Souza, English actor
 * April 22
 * Ryu Hwayoung, Korean rapper, dancer, model, and actress
 * Ryu Hyoyoung, Korean model, actress, and singer
 * April 23 – Brooke Palsson, Canadian actress
 * April 24 – Ben Davies, Welsh footballer
 * April 25
 * Alex Bowman, American race car driver
 * Shiloh, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Raphaël Varane, French footballer

May

 * May 2 – Isyana Sarasvati, Indonesian singer and songwriter
 * May 6 – Naomi Scott, English actress, singer and musician
 * May 8 – Kayla Williams, American gymnast
 * May 9 – Ryosuke Yamada, Japanese idol
 * May 10
 * Spencer Fox, American actor, musician, and singer
 * Halston Sage, American actress
 * May 11
 * Maurice Harkless, American-Puerto Rican basketball player
 * James Reid, Filipino actor
 * May 13
 * Finn Harries, English vlogger, designer, and entrepreneur
 * Romelu Lukaku, Belgian football player
 * Stefan Kraft, Austrian ski jumper
 * Debby Ryan, American actress
 * May 14
 * Albie Casiño, Filipino actor
 * Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
 * May 16
 * Josephine Gordon, British jockey
 * IU, South Korean singer and actress
 * Atticus Mitchell, Canadian actor and musician
 * May 17 – Ayaka Sayama, Japanese gravure idol
 * May 18
 * Kyle, American rapper
 * Stuart Percy, Canadian hockey player
 * Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
 * May 19 – Daisy Mallory, American country singer
 * May 20
 * Kevin Roy, Canadian hockey player
 * Caroline Zhang, American figure skater
 * May 27 – Mikel Agu, Nigerian football player
 * May 28 – Jonnie Peacock, English sprint runner

June

 * June 6
 * Jesse Carere, Canadian actor
 * Frida Gustavsson, Swedish model
 * June 7
 * Miro Aaltonen, Finnish professional ice hockey player
 * George Ezra, English singer-songwriter
 * Park Ji-yeon, South Korean singer and actress
 * Jordan Fry, American actor
 * Amanda Leighton, American actress
 * June 9 – Danielle Chuchran, American actress
 * June 10 – Scott McLaughlin, New Zealander race car driver
 * June 12 – Robbie Henshaw, Irish rugby union player
 * June 13 – Denis Ten, Kazakhstani figure skater (d. 2018)
 * June 15
 * Kanna Arihara, Japanese singer
 * Boone Jenner, Canadian ice hockey player
 * June 16 – Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor
 * June 17 – Jean Marie Froget, Mauritian swimmer
 * June 19 – KSI, British YouTube personality
 * June 21
 * Caroline Brasch Nielsen, Danish model
 * Matej Palčič, Slovenian footballer
 * Reni Takagi, Japanese idol
 * June 22
 * Caydee Denney, American pair skater
 * Izzy Miller, American musician
 * Loris Karius, German footballer
 * June 25 – Barney Clark, British actor
 * June 26 – Ariana Grande, American actress and singer
 * June 27
 * Adair Cardoso, Brazilian singer and composer
 * Camila Queiroz, Brazilian actress
 * June 28
 * Beanie Feldstein, American actress
 * Bradley Beal, American basketball player
 * Jung Dae-hyun, South Korean singer
 * June 29
 * Harrison Gilbertson, Australian actor
 * Fran Kirby, English footballer
 * George Sampson, English street dancer, presenter, dancer, singer, and actor
 * James Sanderson, Gibraltarian swimmer
 * Alyssa Valdez, Filipino Volleyball player
 * June 30 – Alexander Evtushenko, Russian racing cyclist

July

 * July 1
 * Brett Ritchie, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Raini Rodriguez, American actress
 * July 2
 * Yosuke Kishi, Japanese singer and actor
 * Ieva Zasimauskaitė, Lithuanian singer
 * July 3
 * Mathias Anderle, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * Roy Kim, South Korean singer-songwriter
 * Vincent Lacoste, French actor
 * PartyNextDoor, Canadian rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer
 * July 6 – Melissa Steel, English singer
 * July 7 – Shakhram Giyasov, Uzbekistani boxer
 * July 8 – Shahrul Saad, Malaysian footballer
 * July 9
 * Emily Hirst, Canadian actress
 * Mitch Larkin, Australian swimmer
 * Bret Loehr, American actor
 * DeAndre Yedlin, American soccer player
 * July 10
 * Tiago Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
 * Carlon Jeffery, American actor
 * Florian Sénéchal, French racing cyclist
 * July 11 – Rebecca Bross, American gymnast
 * July 16 – Alexander Ipatov, Ukrainian-Turkish chess grandmaster
 * July 17 – Yahaya Adamu, Nigerian footballer
 * July 18
 * Alex Esmail, British actor and wrestler
 * Nabil Fekir, French footballer
 * Lee Tae-min, Korean singer
 * Casey Veggies, American rapper and songwriter
 * July 20
 * Alycia Debnam-Carey, Australian actress
 * Lucas Digne, French footballer
 * July 21 – Haziq Kamaruddin, Malaysian archer
 * July 22
 * Amber Beattie, English actress
 * Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Kyrgyzstani-American terrorist
 * July 26
 * Elizabeth Gillies, American actress
 * Taylor Momsen, American singer, songwriter, and model
 * July 27
 * Max Power, English footballer
 * George Shelley, English actor
 * Jordan Spieth, American golfer
 * July 28
 * Harry Kane, English footballer
 * Cher Lloyd, English singer
 * July 29 – Dak Prescott, American football player
 * July 30 – Andre Gomes, Portuguese footballer

August

 * August 1 – Leon Thomas III, American actor and singer
 * August 2 – Manika, American singer-songwriter
 * August 3
 * Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer
 * Thomas Rawls, American football player
 * August 4
 * Saido Berahino, English footballer
 * Alan Shirahama, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor
 * August 5 – Suzuka Ohgo, Japanese child actress
 * August 6 – Kaori Ishihara, Japanese voice actress
 * August 7 – Francesca Eastwood, American actress, model, and socialite
 * August 9 – Rydel Lynch, American actress, singer, and musician
 * August 10
 * Andre Drummond, American basketball player
 * Yuto Nakajima, Japanese idol
 * August 11
 * Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Iranian footballer
 * Alyson Stoner, American actress and singer
 * August 12
 * Ewa Farna, Polish singer
 * Luna, South Korean singer and actress
 * August 13 – Johnny Gaudreau, American ice hockey player
 * August 14 – Cassi Thomson, Australian actress and singer
 * August 15 – Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, English footballer
 * August 16 – Cameron Monaghan, American actor
 * August 17
 * Ederson Moraes, Brazilian football goalkeeper
 * Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer
 * Yoo Seung-ho, South Korean actor
 * August 18
 * Jung Eun-ji, South Korean singer and actress
 * Maia Mitchell, Australian actress and singer
 * August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and singer
 * August 28
 * Sora Amamiya, Japanese voice actress
 * Shira Naor, Israeli actress
 * August 29
 * Lucas Cruikshank, American actor
 * Liam Payne, British singer-songwriter
 * August 30 – Paco Alcácer, Spanish footballer
 * August 31 – Haruka Imai, Japanese figure skater

September

 * September 1
 * Alexander Conti, Canadian actor
 * Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
 * Megan Nicole, American singer-songwriter
 * Silje Norendal, Norwegian snowboarder
 * September 2 – Montana Cox, Australian model
 * September 3 – Dominic Thiem, Austrian tennis player
 * September 5 – Gage Golightly, American actress
 * September 7 – Taylor Gray, American actor
 * September 10 – Ruggero Pasquarelli, Italian singer and actor
 * September 11 – Farrah Moan, American drag queen and entertainer
 * September 12 – Kelsea Ballerini, American singer
 * September 13
 * Aisha Dee, Australian actress
 * Niall Horan, Irish singer-songwriter
 * September 15 – Dennis Schröder, German basketball player
 * September 16 – Metro Boomin, American record producer, songwriter, and DJ
 * September 17 – Alfie Deyes, British vlogger
 * September 18 – Patrick Schwarzenegger, American actor and model
 * September 20 – Julian Draxler, German footballer
 * September 23 – Pontus Åberg, Swedish ice hockey player
 * September 24 – Ben Platt, American actor and singer
 * September 25 – Zach Tyler Eisen, American voice actor
 * September 26
 * Joe Bunney, English footballer
 * Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, American basketball player
 * September 27
 * Lisandro Magallán, Argentine professional footballer
 * Patrick Mölleken, German actor, dubber, and voice-over artist
 * Monica Puig, Puerto Rican tennis player
 * Vinnie Sunseri, American football player
 * September 28 – Jodie Williams, British sprint runner
 * September 29 – Hongbin, South Korean singer and actor

October

 * October 1 – Christian Bravo, Chilean footballer
 * October 6
 * Jourdan Miller, American actress
 * Joe Rafferty, English-born Irish footballer
 * October 8
 * Angus T. Jones, American actor
 * Garbiñe Muguruza, Spanish professional tennis player
 * Barbara Palvin, Hungarian model
 * October 9 – Scotty McCreery, American singer
 * October 16 – Jovit Baldivino, Filipino singer
 * October 19
 * Hunter King, American actress
 * Youna Dufournet, French artistic gymnast
 * October 20 – David Bolarinwa, British sprinter
 * October 23 – Taylor Spreitler, American actress
 * October 27 – Troy Gentile, American actor
 * October 30 – Marcus Mariota, American football player
 * October 31
 * Nadine Lustre, Filipino actress
 * Letitia Wright, Guyanese-British actress

November

 * November 4 – Elisabeth Seitz, German artistic gymnast
 * November 12 – Mackensie Alexander, American football player
 * November 13 – Julia Michaels, American singer and songwriter
 * November 14
 * Luis Gil, American soccer player
 * Francisco Lindor, Puerto Rican baseball player
 * Samuel Umtiti, French footballer
 * November 15 – Paulo Dybala, Argentine footballer
 * November 16
 * Pete Davidson, American actor
 * Dakota Earnest, American gymnast
 * Nelson Semedo, Portuguese footballer
 * November 17 – Taylor Gold, American Olympian snowboarder
 * November 19 – Cleo Massey, Australian actress
 * November 21 – Elena Myers, American racer
 * November 25 – Danny Kent, English motorcycle racer
 * November 26 – Erena Ono, Japanese singer
 * November 27
 * Hannah Brandt, American ice hockey player
 * Aubrey Peeples, American actress and singer
 * November 28
 * Shiann Darkangelo, American ice hockey player
 * Bryshere Y. Gray, American actor and rapper
 * David Nofoaluma, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
 * Stephanie Park, Canadian paralympic wheelchair basketball player
 * November 29
 * Stefon Diggs, American football player
 * David Lambert, American actor
 * November 30
 * Yuri Chinen, Japanese idol
 * Mia Goth, English actress and model
 * Kevon Seymour, American football player

December

 * December 2 – Dylan McLaughlin, American actor
 * December 5 – Ross Barkley, English footballer
 * December 6 – Wesley Stromberg, American musician
 * December 7 – Jasmine Villegas, American singer
 * December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress
 * December 17 – Kiersey Clemons, American actress and singer
 * December 18
 * Ana Porgras, Romanian artistic gymnast
 * Riria, Japanese actress
 * December 19 – Corey Snide, American actor and dancer
 * December 20
 * Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer
 * Isabel Durant, Australian actress
 * December 21 – Jinger Vuolo, American author
 * December 22
 * Aliana Lohan, American actress, model, and singer
 * Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer
 * December 25
 * Ariadna Gutiérrez, Colombian actress, television host, and model
 * December 27 – Olivia Cooke, English actress
 * December 31 – Ryan Blaney, American race car driver

January

 * January 1
 * William Ricketts, Australian potter and sculptor (b. 1898)
 * Eddie Arning, American farming community (b. 1898)
 * January 5 – Juan Benet, Spanish writer (b. 1927)
 * January 6
 * Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician (b. 1917)
 * Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910)
 * Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
 * January 9
 * Paul Hasluck, Australian politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
 * Anton Crihan, Bessarabian politician (b. 1893)
 * January 10
 * Diana Adams, American ballet dancer (b. 1926)
 * Luther Gulick, expert on public administration (b. 1892)
 * January 13 – René Pleven, French politician, 88th Prime Minister of France (b. 1901)
 * January 15
 * Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913)
 * Maxwell Eley, British Olympic rower – coxless fours (b. 1902)
 * January 16
 * Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
 * Rafik Khachatryan, Armenian artist and sculptor (b. 1937)
 * January 18 – Eleanor Burford (akas: Jean Plaidy, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival, Victoria Holt, Philippa Carr), English writer (b. 1906)
 * January 19 – Reginald Lewis, American businessman (b. 1942)
 * January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (b. 1929)
 * January 21
 * Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903)
 * Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist (b. 1900)
 * January 22 – Kōbō Abe, Japanese author (b. 1924)
 * January 23 – Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician (b. 1899)
 * January 24
 * Henry Abel Smith, 17th Governor of Queensland (b. 1900)
 * Archduchess Assunta of Austria (b. 1902)
 * Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor (b. 1908)
 * Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, First African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908)
 * January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1911)
 * January 26
 * Baron Axel von dem Bussche, German military officer, member of the anti-Hitler Resistance (b. 1919)
 * Robert Jacobsen Danish artist (b. 1912)
 * Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada (b. 1922)
 * January 27 – André the Giant, French WWF professional wrestler (b. 1946)
 * January 28 – Erik Herseth, Norwegian sailor (b. 1892)
 * January 29 – Sir Adetokunbo Ademola, Nigerian Chief Justice (b. 1906)
 * January 30 – Queen Alexandra of Yugoslavia (b. 1921)
 * January 31 – Claude de Cambronne, French aircraft manufacturer (b. 1905)

February

 * February 2 – Alexander Schneider, Lithuanian violinist (b. 1908)
 * February 3
 * Karel Goeyvaerts, Belgian composer (b. 1923)
 * Tan Shaowen, Chinese politician (b. 1929)
 * February 5
 * Hans Jonas, German philosopher (b. 1903)
 * Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (b. 1958)
 * Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909)
 * February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and civil activist (b. 1943)
 * February 8 – Roland Mousnier, French historian (b. 1907)
 * February 7 – Buddy Pepper, American songwriter and accompanist (b. 1922)
 * February 9
 * Saburo Okita, Japanese politician, Foreign Minister of Japan (b. 1914)
 * Elwood "Pete" Quesada, American air force general (b. 1904)
 * Kate Wilkinson, American stage and television actress (b. 1916)
 * February 10
 * Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, Prime Minister of France (b. 1914)
 * Fred Hollows, New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
 * February 11
 * Kamal Amrohi, Indian director and screenwriter (b. 1918)
 * Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1922)
 * February 14 – Pedro Cortina y Mauri, Spanish politician, Foreign Minister of Spain (b. 1908)
 * February 18 – Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
 * February 19 – Alexander Davydov, Ukrainian physicist (b. 1912)
 * February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
 * February 21
 * Inge Lehmann, Danish seismologist (b. 1888)
 * Dick White, British intelligence officer (b. 1906)
 * February 22 – Jean Lecanuet, French politician (b. 1920)
 * February 23
 * Phillip Terry, American actor (b. 1909)
 * Robert Triffin, Belgian economist (b. 1911)
 * February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
 * February 25 – Eddie Constantine, American-born French actor and singer (b. 1917)
 * February 26 – Beaumont Newhall, American curator (b. 1908)
 * February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
 * February 28
 * Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
 * Joyce Carey, English actress (b. 1898)
 * Ruby Keeler, American actress (b. 1909)

March



 * March 1 – Terry Frost, American actor (b. 1906)
 * March 3
 * Albert Sabin, American biologist, developer of the oral polio vaccine (b. 1906)
 * Carlos Montoya, Spanish flamenco guitarist (b. 1903)
 * March 4 – Izaak Kolthoff, American chemist (b. 1894)
 * March 5
 * Cyril Collard, French filmmaker (b. 1957)
 * Norman F. Douty, Christian author and pastor (b. 1899)
 * March 8
 * Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
 * Ria Bancroft, British-New Zealand artist (b. 1907)
 * March 10 – Dino Bravo, Italian-Canadian pro wrestler (b. 1949)
 * March 12 – Wang Zhen, Chinese politician, Vice President of the PRC (b. 1908)
 * March 13 – Ann Way, English actress (b. 1915)
 * March 15 – Ricardo Arias, Panamanian politician, 29th President of Panama (b. 1912)
 * March 16
 * Ralph Fults America outlaw (b. 1910)
 * Muhammad Khan Junejo, Pakistani politician, 10th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1932)
 * March 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
 * March 18 – Sir Edward Warburton Jones, Northern Irish politician and jurist (b. 1912)
 * March 20
 * Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * Paul László, Hungarian-born architect (b. 1900)
 * March 22 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
 * March 23 – Tim Crews, American baseball player (b. 1961)
 * March 24 – John Hersey, American writer and journalist (b. 1914)
 * March 26 – Louis Falco, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1942)
 * March 27
 * Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (b. 1893)
 * Kate Reid, Canadian actress (b. 1930)
 * Kamal Hassan Aly, Egyptian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
 * March 30
 * Andrée Brunet, French pair skater (b. 1901)
 * Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (b. 1922)
 * March 31
 * Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
 * Muriel Morley, English speech therapist (b. 1899)
 * Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
 * Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)

April

 * April 1
 * Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, Spanish royal, Count of Barcelona (b. 1913)
 * Alan Kulwicki, U.S. race car driver (b. 1954)
 * José María Lemus, Salvadorian politician and military officer, 33rd President of El Salvador (b. 1911)
 * April 2 – Masaichi Niimi, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II (b. 1887)
 * April 3
 * Peter J. De Muth, American politician (b. 1892)
 * Pinky Lee, American comedian (b. 1907)
 * April 4 – Charles Elworthy, Baron Elworthy, British air chief marshal (b. 1911)
 * April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
 * April 6 – Patriarch George of Evdokia (b. 1930)
 * April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
 * April 10
 * Chris Hani, South African politician (b. 1942)
 * Donald Broadbent, British psychologist (b. 1926)
 * April 11 – Rahmon Nabiyev, Tajik politician and Communist leader, 2nd President of Tajikistan (b. 1930)
 * April 12 – George Frederick Ives, English soldier (b. 1881)
 * April 13
 * Isaac Rojas, Argentinian admiral and statesman (b. 1906)
 * Wallace Stegner, American writer (b. 1909)
 * April 15
 * Leslie Charteris, British author (b. 1907)
 * Robert Westall, British author (b. 1929)
 * John Tuzo Wilson, Canadian geophysicist and geologist (b. 1908)
 * April 17 – Turgut Özal, Turkish statesman, 19th Prime Minister and 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927)
 * April 19 – David Koresh, American spiritualist, leader of the Branch Davidian religious cult (b. 1959)
 * April 20 – Cantinflas, Mexican comedian (b. 1911)
 * April 22 – Andries Treurnicht, South African politician (b. 1921)
 * April 23
 * Guido Carli, Italian politician and economist (b. 1914)
 * Cesar Chavez, Mexican American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
 * April 24 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and former president of the ANC (b. 1917)
 * April 25 – Rosita Moreno, Spanish film actress (b. 1907)
 * April 26
 * Darussalam, Indonesian actor (b. 1920)
 * Julia Davis, American educator (b. 1891)
 * April 28 – Jim Valvano, American basketball player (b. 1946)
 * April 29 – Mick Ronson, English rock guitarist (b. 1946)

May

 * May 1
 * Pierre Bérégovoy, French politician, 111th Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
 * Ranasinghe Premadasa, Sri Lankan statesman, 3rd President of Sri Lanka (b. 1924)
 * Joshua Sieger, British engineer and scientist (b. 1907)
 * May 5 – Sir Dermot Boyle, British air force commander (b. 1904)
 * May 6
 * Ian Mikardo, British politician (b. 1908)
 * Ann Todd, English actress (b. 1909)
 * May 7 – Mary Philbin, American actress (b. 1902)
 * May 8
 * Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
 * Alwin Nikolais, American choreographer (b. 1912)
 * May 9 – Dame Freya Stark, British explorer and travel writer (b. 1893)
 * May 12 – Zeno Colò, Italian Olympic alpine skier (b. 1920)
 * May 14 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American businessman (b. 1908)
 * May 22
 * Alfred Vaucher, French theologian, church historian and bibliographer (b. 1887)
 * Mieczysław Horszowski, Polish pianist (b. 1892)
 * May 26 – Catherine Caradja, Romanian aristocrat and philanthropist (b. 1893)
 * May 30 – Sun Ra, American jazz musician (b. 1914)

June

 * June 1 – Austin Robinson, University of Cambridge economist (b. 1897)
 * June 2
 * Tahar Djaout, Algerian writer (b. 1954)
 * Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
 * June 3 – Yeoh Ghim Seng, Singaporean politician, acting President of Singapore (b. 1918)
 * June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
 * June 6 – James Bridges, American screenwriter and director (b. 1936)
 * June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
 * June 8
 * René Bousquet, head of the Vichy France Police (b. 1909)
 * Severo Sarduy, Cuban poet (b. 1937)
 * Nolan Bailey Harmon, bishop of The Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church (b. 1892)
 * June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress and singer (b. 1921)
 * June 10
 * Arleen Auger, American soprano singer (b. 1939)
 * Milward L. Simpson, American politician (b. 1897)
 * June 12
 * Manuel Summers, Spanish film director (b. 1935)
 * Binay Ranjan Sen, Indian diplomat, 4th Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (b. 1898)
 * June 13
 * Deke Slayton, American astronaut (b. 1924)
 * Gérard Côté, Canadian marathon runner (b. 1913)
 * June 15
 * John Connally, American politician (b. 1917)
 * James Hunt, British race car driver (b. 1947)
 * June 19
 * William Golding, English writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
 * Szymon Goldberg, Polish-born violinist (b. 1909)
 * June 21 – Elisabeth Johansen Greenlandic midwife and politician (b. 1907)
 * June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
 * June 24 – Archie Williams, American Olympic athlete (b. 1915)
 * June 26 – Roy Campanella, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 * June 27 – Layla Al-Attar, Iraqi painter (b. 1944)
 * June 28 – GG Allin, American punk singer (b. 1956)
 * June 29 – Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican salsa singer (b. 1946)
 * June 30 – Spanky McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)

July

 * July 2
 * Fred Gwynne, American actor and comedian (b. 1926)
 * Jorge Carpio Nicolle, Guatemalan politician (b. 1932)
 * Edward Dunlop, Australian surgeon (b. 1907)
 * Elizabeth M. Ramsey, American research physician (b. 1906)
 * July 3
 * Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
 * Joe DeRita, American comedian (b. 1909)
 * July 4
 * Anne Shirley, American actress (b. 1918)
 * Lola Gaos, Spanish actress (b. 1921)
 * July 6 – Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, British courtier (b. 1908)
 * July 7
 * William McElwee Miller, American missionary to Persia and author (b. 1892)
 * Mia Zapata, American punk musician (b. 1965)
 * July 10 – Masuji Ibuse, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
 * July 11 – Mario Bauzá, Cuban musician (b. 1911)
 * July 12
 * Li Da, Chinese general (b. 1905)
 * James Peck, American civil rights activist (b. 1914)
 * July 13 – Davey Allison, American stock car driver (b. 1961)
 * July 14
 * Léo Ferré, French poet and singer-songwriter (b. 1916)
 * Harold Willmott, South African military commander (b. 1899)
 * July 15
 * Hugo Ballivián, Bolivian general, 51st President of Bolivia (b. 1901)
 * David Brian, American actor (b. 1914)
 * July 16 – Michel Hollard, French Resistance hero (b. 1898)
 * July 18 – Jean Negulesco, Romanian-born film director (b. 1900)
 * July 19 – Gordon Gray, Scottish cardinal (b. 1910)
 * July 21 – E. J. G. Pitman, Australian mathematician (b. 1897)
 * July 24
 * Rene Requiestas, Filipino comedian (b. 1957)
 * Abram L. Sachar, American historian and educator (b.1899)
 * July 25
 * Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, Scottish aristocrat (b. 1912)
 * Nan Grey, American actress (b. 1918)
 * Cecilia Parker, American actress (b. 1914)
 * July 26 – Matthew Ridgway, American army general (b. 1895)
 * July 27 – Reggie Lewis, American basketball player (b. 1965)
 * July 30
 * William Guglielmo Niederland, German-born American psychoanalyst (b. 1904)
 * Edward Bernard Raczyński, Polish aristocrat, diplomat, writer, and politician, 8th President of Poland (b. 1891)
 * Bob Wright, American baseball player (b. 1891)
 * July 31
 * Lola Alvarez Bravo, Mexican photographer (b. 1903)
 * King Baudouin of Belgium (b. 1930)
 * Paul B. Henry, American politician (b. 1942)

August

 * August 1 – Claire Du Brey, American actress (b. 1892)
 * August 3
 * James Donald, Scottish actor (b. 1917)
 * Theodore A. Parker III, American ornithologist (b. 1953)
 * August 5 – Eugen Suchoň, Slovak composer (b. 1908)
 * August 6
 * Genkei Masamune, Japanese botanist (b. 1899)
 * Esad Mekuli, Albanian poet and scholar (b. 1916)
 * August 7 – Christopher Gillis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
 * August 10
 * Hendrik G. Stoker, Calvinist philosopher (b. 1899)
 * Irene Sharaff, American costume designer (b. 1910)
 * August 16
 * Tom Fuccello, American actor (b. 1936)
 * René Dreyfus, French Grand Prix racing driver (b. 1905)
 * Stewart Granger, Anglo-American actor (b. 1913)
 * August 19 – Salah Jadid, Syrian general and Ba'athist politician (b. 1926)
 * August 20 – Bernard Delfgaauw, Dutch philosopher (b. 1912)
 * August 21
 * Ichirō Fujiyama, Japanese composer and singer (b. 1911)
 * Kasdi Merbah, Algerian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Algeria (b. 1938)
 * August 22 – Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Kazakh Soviet communist politician (b. 1912)
 * August 28 – E. P. Thompson, English historian and activist (b. 1924)
 * August 29 – Carlos Santiago Nino, Argentine philosopher and jurist (b. 1943)
 * August 30 – Richard Jordan, American actor (b. 1937)

September

 * September 1
 * Hasan Abdullayev, Azerbaijani physicist and scientist (b. 1918)
 * Sir Michael Sobell, British businessman, a major philanthropist, and owner/breeder of thoroughbred racehorses (b. 1892)
 * September 2 – Eric Berry, British actor (b. 1913)
 * September 3 – Wesley Englehorn, American football player (b. 1890)
 * September 4 – Hervé Villechaize, French-born actor (b. 1943)
 * September 5 – Baek Du-jin, Korean politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) (b. 1908)
 * September 7 – Christian Metz, French film theorist (b. 1931)
 * September 9 – Helen O'Connell, American singer (b. 1920)
 * September 11 – Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (b. 1912)
 * September 12
 * Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (b. 1917)
 * Charles Lamont, Russian-born film director (b. 1895)
 * September 13 – Steve Jordan, American jazz guitarist (b. 1919)
 * September 15
 * Pino Puglisi, Italian Roman Catholic priest (b. 1937)
 * Maurice Yaméogo, Burkinabé statesman, 1st President of Upper Volta, current Burkina Faso (b. 1921)
 * September 20 – Erich Hartmann, German World War II fighter pilot, highest-scoring fighter ace in world history (b. 1922)
 * September 22
 * Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born American conductor (b. 1903)
 * Regina Fryxell, American composer (b. 1899)
 * Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
 * September 24
 * Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian-Soviet nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
 * Ian Stuart Donaldson, singer (b. 1957)
 * September 25 – Sir John Moores, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1896)
 * September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American aviation pioneer and World War II United States Army Air Forces general (b. 1896)
 * September 28
 * Alexander A. Drabik, American soldier (b. 1910)
 * Galina Makarova, Belarusian actress (b. 1919)
 * September 29 – Gordon Douglas, American film director (b. 1907)

October

 * October 4 – Patelisio Punou-Ki-Hihifo Finau, Tongan Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1934)
 * October 5 – Agnes de Mille, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1905)
 * October 7 – Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
 * October 11 – Andy Stewart, Scottish singer and entertainer (b. 1933)
 * October 12
 * Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
 * Patrick Holt, English actor (b. 1912)
 * October 13
 * Ruth Gilbert, American actress (b. 1912)
 * Otmar Gutmann, German television director (b. 1937)
 * October 17 – Criss Oliva, American metal guitarist (b. 1963)
 * October 20 – Milan Konjović, Serbian painter (b. 1898)
 * October 21
 * James Leo Herlihy, American novelist and playwright (b. 1927)
 * Melchior Ndadaye, Burundian politician, 4th President of Burundi (b. 1953)
 * October 22
 * Jiří Hájek, Czech politician and diplomat (b. 1913)
 * Said Mohamed Jaffar, former head of State of Comoros (b. 1918)
 * October 24 – Jo Grimond, British politician, former leader of the Liberal Party (b. 1913)
 * October 25
 * Danny Chan, Hong Kong singer (b. 1958)
 * Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
 * October 26
 * František Filipovský, Czech actor (b. 1907)
 * Harold Rome, American composer (b. 1908)
 * October 27 – István Rosztóczy, Hungarian microbiologist (b. 1942)
 * October 28 – Yuri Lotman, Russian formalist critic, semiotician, and culturologist (b. 1922)
 * October 29 – Masahiro Makino, Japanese film director (b. 1908)
 * October 31
 * Federico Fellini, Italian film director (b. 1920)
 * Paul Grégoire, Archbishop of Montreal (b. 1911)
 * River Phoenix, American actor (b. 1970)

November

 * November 1
 * Severo Ochoa, Spanish-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
 * A. N. Sherwin-White, English historian (b. 1911)
 * November 3 – Léon Theremin, inventor of the theremin (b. 1896)
 * November 6
 * Ralph Randles Stewart, American botanist (b. 1890)
 * Torsten Fenslau, German DJ and record producer (b. 1964)
 * November 9 – Stanley Myers, British film composer (b. 1930)
 * November 10
 * Alberto Breccia, Argentine comics artist and writer (b. 1919)
 * Wensley Pithey, South African actor (b. 1914)
 * November 12
 * Bill Dickey, American baseball player (b. 1907)
 * H. R. Haldeman, American political aide and businessman (b. 1926)
 * Anna Sten, Ukrainian-born American actress (b. 1908)
 * November 14 – Sanzo Nosaka, Japanese Communist politician (b. 1892)
 * November 15
 * Luciano Leggio, Italian mobster (b. 1925)
 * Jimmy McAlinden, Irish footballer (b. 1917)
 * Evelyn Venable, American actress (b. 1913)
 * November 16
 * Achille Zavatta, French circus artist (b. 1915)
 * Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (b. 1939)
 * November 18 – Fritz Feld, German actor (b. 1900)
 * November 19 – Leonid Gaidai, Soviet comedy director (b. 1923)
 * November 20 – Emile Ardolino, American film director (b. 1943)
 * November 21 – Bill Bixby, American actor (b. 1934)
 * November 22
 * Anthony Burgess, English author (b. 1917)
 * Joseph Yodoyman, Chadian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Chad (b. 1950)
 * November 28
 * Kenneth Connor English comedian (b. 1916)
 * Garry Moore, American television host and comedian (b. 1915)
 * November 29 – J. R. D. Tata, Indian aviator and businessman (b. 1904)

December

 * December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
 * December 3 – Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (b. 1913)
 * December 4 – Frank Zappa, American guitarist and composer (b. 1940)
 * December 5
 * Doug Hopkins, American musician (b. 1961)
 * Alexandre Trauner, Hungarian set designer (b. 1906)
 * December 6
 * Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
 * Joe Fowler, Rear Admiral, United States Navy (b. 1894)
 * December 7
 * Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
 * Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
 * December 9
 * Danny Blanchflower, Northern Ireland international footballer and football manager (b. 1926)
 * Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani, Iranian Shia cleric (b. 1898)
 * December 12
 * József Antall, 53rd Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
 * Fritz Bock, Austrian politician (b. 1911)
 * December 13
 * Florence Davidson, Canadian First Nations artist (b. 1896)
 * George Bellew, genealogist and armorist (b. 1899)
 * Tommy Sexton, Canadian comedian (b. 1957)
 * December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
 * December 15 – Penaia Ganilau, 1st President of Fiji (b. 1918)
 * December 16
 * Charles Willard Moore, American architect (b. 1926)
 * Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
 * Moses Gunn, American actor (b. 1929)
 * Billy Morgan, English professional footballer (b. 1896)
 * December 17 – Janet Margolin, American actress (b. 1943)
 * December 18
 * Charizma, American hip hop artist (b. 1973)
 * Sam Wanamaker, American film director and actor (b. 1919)
 * December 20 – Iichirō Hatoyama, Japanese politician and diplomat (b. 1918)
 * December 22
 * Don DeFore, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Alexander Mackendrick, British-American film director (b. 1912)
 * December 23 – James Ellison, American actor (b. 1910)
 * December 24
 * Norman Vincent Peale, American preacher and writer (b. 1898)
 * Yen Chia-kan, Taiwanese politician and 2nd President of the Republic of China (b. 1905)
 * Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist (b. 1899)
 * December 25 – Princess Marie Adelheid of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1895)
 * December 26 – Dave Beck, American labor leader (b. 1894)
 * December 28
 * William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
 * Howard Caine, American actor (b. 1926)
 * December 29 – Abdul Jabbar Khan, Bangladeshi filmmaker (b. 1916)
 * December 30 – Ira Stanphill, American gospel songwriter (b. 1914)
 * December 31
 * İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1908)
 * Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)

Nobel Prizes

 * Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
 * Economics – Robert W. Fogel, Douglass North
 * Literature – Toni Morrison
 * Peace – Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk
 * Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
 * Physiology or Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Phillip Allen Sharp

January

 * January 2 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
 * January 4 – Wilaya of Relizane massacres of 4 January 1998 in Algeria: over 170 are killed in 3 remote villages.
 * January 6 – The Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles.
 * January 8 – Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
 * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria.
 * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
 * January 17 – The Drudge Report breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which would lead to the House of Representatives' impeachment of him.
 * January 22 – "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski pleads guilty in the United States, and accepts a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.

February

 * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster: a United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car.
 * February 4 – The 5.9 Afghanistan earthquake shakes the Takhar Province with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong). With up to 4,000 killed, and 818 injured, damage is considered extreme.
 * February 7–22 – The 1998 Winter Olympics are held in Nagano, Japan.
 * February 16 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people (all 196 on board and 6 on the ground).
 * February 20 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein negotiates a deal with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, allowing weapons inspectors to return to Baghdad, preventing military action by the United States and Britain.
 * February 28 – A massacre in Likoshane, FR Yugoslavia starts the Kosovo War.

March

 * March 1 – Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1 billion.
 * March 2 – Data sent from the Galileo probe indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
 * March 5 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
 * March 11 – Danish general election, 1998: Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen is re-elected.
 * March 13 – The High-Z Supernova Search Team becomes the first team to publish evidence that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate.
 * March 23 – The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, hosted for the 6th time by Billy Crystal, is held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California. Titanic wins 11 Oscars including Best Picture.
 * March 26 – Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives; 32 of the killed are babies under the age of two.

April

 * April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.8 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.
 * April 6 – Pakistan tests medium-range missiles capable of hitting India.
 * April 10 – Good Friday Agreement: 1 hour after the end of the talks deadline, the Belfast Agreement is signed between the Irish and British governments and most Northern Ireland political parties, with the notable exception of the Democratic Unionist Party.
 * April 20 – The alleged date the German Red Army Faction (created 1970) is dissolved.
 * April 23 – The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 19.

May

 * May 11
 * India conducts three underground nuclear tests in Pokhran, including one thermonuclear device.
 * The first euro coins are minted in Pessac, France. Because the final specifications for the coins were not finished in 1998, they will have to be melted and minted again in 1999.
 * May 13–14 – Riots directed against Chinese Indonesians break out in Indonesia, killing around 1,000 people.
 * May 19
 * The Galaxy IV communications satellite fails, leaving 80–90% of the world's pagers without service.
 * The wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown, sunk during the Battle of Midway in 1942, is found near Midway Atoll by a team led by former US Navy officer Robert D. Ballard.
 * May 21 – Suharto (elected 1967) resigns, after 32 years as President of Indonesia and his 7th consecutive re-election by the Indonesian Parliament (MPR). Suharto's hand-picked Vice President, B. J. Habibie, becomes Indonesia's third president.
 * May 28 – Nuclear testing: In response to a series of Indian nuclear tests, Pakistan explodes five nuclear devices of its own in the Chaghai hills of Baluchistan, codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
 * May 30
 * A 6.6 magnitude earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
 * A second nuclear test, codenamed Chagai-II, is conducted and supervised by the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC).

June

 * June 1 – European Central Bank established, replacing the European Monetary Institute.
 * June 3 – Eschede train disaster: an Intercity-Express high-speed train derails between Hanover and Hamburg, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
 * June 7
 * Former Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané seizes control over military barracks in Bissau, marking the beginning of the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998–99).
 * Peter Arnett publishes a false report of Operation Tailwind (initiated 1970), claiming that sarin nerve agents were used to eliminate a group of deserting U.S. soldiers.
 * James Byrd Jr. is beaten and dragged to death by 3 white men in Jasper, Texas.
 * June 9–July 12 – The 1998 FIFA World Cup in France: France beats Brazil 3–0 in the FIFA World Cup Final.
 * June 10 – The Organisation of African Unity passes a resolution which states that its members will no longer comply with punitive sanctions applied by the UN Security Council against Libya.
 * June 27 – Kuala Lumpur International Airport officially opened, becoming the new international gateway into Malaysia.
 * June 30 – Philippine Vice President Joseph Estrada is sworn in as the 13th President of the Philippines.

July

 * July 5 – Japan launches a probe to Mars, joining the United States and Russia as an outer space-exploring nation.
 * July 6 – The new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok opens, while the old Kai Tak Airport closes.
 * July 17
 * At a conference in Rome, 120 countries vote to create a permanent International Criminal Court to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression.
 * In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after he and his family were killed by the Lenin-led Bolsheviks in 1918.
 * The 7.0 Papua New Guinea earthquake shakes the region near Aitape with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). This submarine earthquake triggered a landslide that caused a destructive tsunami, leaving more than 2,100 dead and thousands injured.
 * July 21 – September 5 – The 1998 Sydney water crisis involved the suspected contamination by the microscopic pathogens cryptosporidium and giardia of the water supply system of Greater Metropolitan Sydney.

August

 * August 4 – The Second Congo War begins; 5.4 million people die before it ends in 2003, making it the bloodiest war, to date, since World War II.
 * August 7
 * Yangtze River Floods: in China the Yangtze river breaks through the main bank; before this, from August 1–5, peripheral levees collapsed consecutively in Jiayu County Baizhou Bay. The death toll exceeds 12,000, with many thousands more injured.
 * 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: the bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.
 * August 15 – The Omagh bombing is carried out in Northern Ireland by the Real Irish Republican Army.

September

 * September 2
 * A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 airliner (Swissair Flight 111) crashes near Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, after taking off from New York City en route to Geneva; all 229 people on board are killed.
 * A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, marking the first time that the 1948 law banning genocide is enforced.
 * September 4 – Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
 * September 5 – The Government of North Korea adopts a military dictatorship on its 50th anniversary.
 * September 9 – St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire hits his 62nd home run of the season, thus breaking the single season record of 61 which had been held by Roger Maris since 1961.
 * September 10 – At midnight, a shooting occurs aboard an Akula-class nuclear-powered attack submarine of the Russian Navy docked in the northern Russian port city of Severomorsk.
 * September 12 – The Cuban Five intelligence agents are arrested in Miami, and convicted of espionage. The agents claim they were not spying against the United States Government but against the Cuban exile community in Miami.
 * September 24 – Iranian President Mohammad Khatami retracts a fatwa against Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie that was in force since 1989 stating that the Iranian government will "neither support nor hinder assassination operations on Rushdie".

October

 * October 1 – Europol is established when the Europol Convention signed by all of its member states comes into force.
 * October 3 – Australian federal election, 1998: John Howard's Liberal/National Coalition Government is re-elected with a substantially reduced majority, defeating the Labor Party led by Kim Beazley.
 * October 10 – Indictment and arrest of Augusto Pinochet: General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator from 1973 to 1990, is indicted for human rights violations he committed in Chile by Spanish magistrate Baltasar Garzón. 6 days later British police place him under house arrest during his medical treatment in the UK. This is a leading case in the law of universal jurisdiction.
 * October 17 – 1998 Jesse pipeline explosion: An oil pipeline explosion in Jesse, Nigeria results in 1,082 deaths.
 * October 29 – Hurricane Mitch makes landfall in Central America, killing an estimated 11,000 people.

November

 * November 17 – Voyager 1 overtakes Pioneer 10 as the most distant man-made object from the Solar System, at a distance of 69.419 AU.
 * November 20 – A Russian Proton rocket is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first segment of the International Space Station, the 21-ton Zarya Module.
 * November 24 – A declassified report by Swiss International Olympic Committee official Marc Hodler reveals that bribes had been used to bring the 2002 Winter Olympics to Salt Lake City during bidding process in 1995. The IOC, the Salt Lake Organizing Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Department of Justice immediately launch an investigation into the scandal.

December

 * December 4 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour launches the first American component to the International Space Station, the 25,600 lb Unity module on STS-88. It docks with Zarya two days later.
 * December 6 – Hugo Chávez, politician and former member of the Venezuelan military, is elected President of Venezuela.
 * December 14 – The Yugoslav Army ambushes a column of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army militants attempting to smuggle arms from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
 * December 16–19 – Iraq disarmament crisis: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders airstrikes on Iraq. UNSCOM withdraws all weapons inspectors from Iraq.
 * December 19 – The U.S. House of Representatives forwards articles of impeachment against President Clinton to the Senate, making him the second president to be impeached in the nation.
 * December 29 – Khmer Rouge leaders apologize for the post-Vietnam War genocide in Cambodia that killed more than one million people in the 1970s.
 * December 31
 * The first leap second since June 30, 1997, occurs.
 * In the Eurozone, the currency rates of this day are fixed permanently.

Date unknown

 * Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsô, dies in Qamishli, Syria, making the language effectively extinct. Also, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic, Mrs. Rahel Avraham, dies in Jerusalem.

January

 * January 1
 * Sara Ahmed, Egyptian weightlifter
 * Carlo Kemp, American football player
 * January 2
 * Chen Xinyi, Chinese swimmer
 * Timothy Fosu-Mensah, Dutch footballer
 * January 3 – Patrick Cutrone, Italian footballer
 * January 4
 * Coco Jones, American actress and singer
 * Liza Soberano, Filipino actress and singer
 * January 5 – Carles Aleñá, Spanish footballer
 * January 6
 * Ismail Azzaoui, Belgian footballer
 * Norman Grimes, American sprinter
 * Lee Seung-woo, South Korean footballer
 * January 8 – Manuel Locatelli, Italian footballer
 * January 10 – Xu Shilin, Chinese tennis player
 * January 11 – Salih Özcan, German footballer
 * January 12 – Rafik Zekhnini, Norwegian footballer
 * January 13
 * Gabrielle Daleman, Canadian figure skater
 * Kamron Doyle, American ten-pin bowler
 * January 14 – Ai Moritaka, Japanese model and actress
 * January 16 – Odsonne Édouard, French footballer
 * January 18
 * Vashti Cunningham, American track and field athlete
 * Éder Militão, Brazilian footballer
 * January 20 – Frances Tiafoe, American tennis player
 * January 21 – Amelia Hundley, American artistic gymnast
 * January 23
 * Rachel Crow, American singer and actress
 * Cole Custer, American stock car racing driver
 * XXXTentacion, American rapper (d. 2018)
 * January 27 – Rebeka Kim, South Korean ice dancer
 * January 28
 * Javier Acevedo, Canadian swimmer
 * Ariel Winter, American actress
 * January 29 – Mion Mukaichi, Japanese singer and actress
 * January 31
 * Amadou Haidara, Malian footballer
 * Bradie Tennell, American figure skater

February

 * February 1
 * Kipyegon Bett, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 * Stefan Kozlov, American tennis player
 * February 3
 * Michael McLeod, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Blás Riveros, Paraguayan footballer
 * Yang Hao, Chinese diver
 * February 4
 * Scott Jones, English paralympic athlete
 * Malik Monk, American basketball player
 * February 10
 * Aitor Buñuel, Spanish footballer
 * Gray Gaulding, American stock car racing driver
 * February 13 – Khalifa St. Fort, Trinbagonian sprinter
 * February 15
 * Dennis Cholowski Canadian hockey defenseman
 * Zachary Gordon, American actor
 * February 17 – Fernanda Urdapilleta, Mexican actress and singer
 * February 18
 * Sander Berge, Norwegian footballer
 * Matthew Davidson, American guitarist
 * February 21 – Michaela Hrubá, Czech athlete
 * February 24 – Mariel Pamintuan, Filipino actress
 * February 27
 * Elisa Balsamo, Italian cyclist
 * Felix Gall, Austrian cyclist
 * Theo Stevenson, English actor

March

 * March 2 – Tua Tagovailoa, American football player
 * March 3 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player
 * March 5
 * Sergio Díaz, Paraguayan footballer
 * Micah Fowler, American actor
 * March 9
 * Najee Harris, American football player
 * Kaylin Whitney, American sprinter
 * March 17 – Nathan O'Toole, Irish actor
 * March 19 – Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer
 * March 21 – Miles Bridges, American basketball player
 * March 22 – Paola Andino, Puerto-Rican-American actress
 * March 26
 * Daria Grushina, Russian ski jumper
 * Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater
 * March 27 – Haji Wright, American footballer
 * March 28
 * Sandi Lovric, Austrian footballer
 * Ryan Simpkins, American actress
 * March 31
 * Oskar Buur, Danish footballer
 * Jakob Chychrun, American ice hockey player
 * Anna Seidel, German short track speed skater

April

 * April 3 – Paris Jackson, American actress and model
 * April 5 – Kaito Nakamura, Japanese actor and model
 * April 6
 * Peyton List, American actress
 * Spencer List, American actor
 * April 9 – Elle Fanning, American actress
 * April 10 – Anna Pogorilaya, Russian figure skater
 * April 16
 * Maxime Rooney, American swimmer
 * Paul Salas, Filipino actor
 * April 19 – Patrik Laine, Finnish ice hockey player
 * April 21 – Jarrett Allen, American basketball player
 * April 24 – Ryan Newman, American actress
 * April 26 – Jan-Krzysztof Duda, Polish chess grandmaster
 * April 29 – Kimberly Birrell, German-born Australian tennis player

May

 * May 2
 * Ian Anderson, American baseball pitcher
 * Tremaine Edmunds, American football player
 * Jonathan Ikoné, French footballer
 * May 4 – Frank Jackson, American basketball player
 * May 5
 * Tijana Bogdanović, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
 * Olli Juolevi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 6
 * Sierra Schmidt, American swimmer
 * Kayden Troff, American chess champion
 * May 7
 * Dani Olmo, Spanish footballer
 * Jesse Puljujärvi, Finnish ice hockey player
 * May 8 – Johannes Eggestein, German footballer
 * May 11 – Fran Villalba, Spanish footballer
 * May 12
 * Mohamed Bamba, American basketball player
 * Tornado Alicia Black, American tennis player
 * May 13
 * Karen Iwata, Japanese singer and voice actress
 * Mickey Moniak, American baseball outfielder
 * May 16 – Adian Pitkeev, Russian figure skater
 * May 18 – Polina Edmunds, American figure skater
 * May 20 – Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater
 * May 23 – Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
 * May 29
 * Markelle Fultz, American basketball player
 * Lucía Gil, Spanish singer and actress
 * Oliver Stokes, English actor
 * Felix Passlack, German footballer

June

 * June 1
 * Aleksandra Soldatova, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Branimir Kalaica, Croatian footballer
 * June 5 – Yulia Lipnitskaya, Russian figure skater
 * June 7 – Graham Newberry, British-American figure skater
 * June 12 – Andrey Makolov, Russian artistic gymnast
 * June 14 – Jovane Cabral, Cape Verdean footballer
 * June 15 – Alexander Samarin, Russian figure skater
 * June 16
 * Ritsu Doan, Japanese footballer
 * Lauren Taylor, American actress and singer
 * June 19
 * Viktoriya Zeynep Güneş, Turkish swimmer
 * Suzu Hirose, Japanese actress and model
 * Atticus Shaffer, American actor
 * Ömer Yurtseven, Turkish basketball player
 * June 21 – Gerben Thijssen, Belgian road and track cyclist
 * June 22 – Javairô Dilrosun, Dutch footballer
 * June 23 – Josip Brekalo, Croatian footballer
 * June 24
 * Pierre-Luc Dubois, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Coy Stewart, American actor
 * June 25 – Kyle Chalmers, Australian swimmer
 * June 26 – Edu Gueda, Brazilian singer
 * June 27 – Bor Pavlovčič, Slovenian ski jumper
 * June 29 – Michael Porter Jr., American basketball player
 * June 30
 * Houssem Aouar, French footballer
 * Tom Davies, English footballer

July

 * July 2 – Ema Klinec, Slovenian ski jumper
 * July 7 – Dylan Sprayberry, American actor
 * July 8
 * Maya Hawke, American actress and model
 * Yann Karamoh, French footballer
 * Jaden Smith, American actor
 * Daria Spiridonova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * July 9 – Robert Capron, American actor
 * July 10
 * Kimia Alizadeh, Iranian taekwondo athlete
 * Haley Pullos, American actress
 * July 16 – Rina Matsuno, Japanese singer, model, and actress (d. 2017)
 * July 21 – Kim Magnus, South Korean Olympic cross-country skier
 * July 22
 * Alicia Moffet, Canadian singer
 * Patrick Schmidt, Austrian footballer
 * Federico Valverde, Uruguayan footballer
 * July 23 – DeAndre Ayton, Bahamian basketball player
 * July 28 – Frank Ntilikina, French basketball player
 * July 30 – Jake Fromm, American football player
 * July 31 – Rico Rodriguez, American actor

August

 * August 1 – Khamani Griffin, American actor
 * August 2 – Giarnni Regini-Moran, British artistic gymnast
 * August 3 – Cozi Zuehlsdorff, American actress, pianist, and singer
 * August 4 – Lil Skies, American rapper
 * August 5
 * Mimi Keene, English actress
 * Daniil Pakhomov, Russian swimmer
 * August 6 – Forrest Goodluck, American actor
 * August 7 – Jalen Hurts, American football player
 * August 8
 * Shawn Mendes, Canadian singer-songwriter
 * Ronan Parke, English singer
 * August 9
 * Jorrit Croon, Dutch hockey player
 * Panagiotis Retsos, Greek footballer
 * August 10
 * Diptayan Ghosh, Indian chess grandmaster
 * Eythóra Thorsdóttir, Dutch gymnast
 * August 11 – Nadia Azzi, American classical pianist
 * August 13
 * Arina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dina Averina, Russian rhythmic gymnast
 * Dalma Gálfi, Hungarian tennis player
 * Carter Hart, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
 * August 14 – Amy Marren, English paralympic swimmer
 * August 25 – China Anne McClain, American actress and singer

September

 * September 1 – Emily Condon, Australian footballer
 * September 9 – Jesús Marimón, Colombian footballer
 * September 10 – Sheck Wes, American rapper
 * September 17 – Richard Wang, Canadian chess champion
 * September 18 – Christian Pulisic, American soccer player
 * September 19
 * Jacob Bruun Larsen, Danish footballer
 * Trae Young, American basketball player
 * September 21 – Miguel Tanfelix, Filipino actor
 * September 26 – Ivan Pavlov, Ukrainian figure skater
 * September 28
 * Máscara de Bronce, Mexican wrestler
 * Aleksandra Goryachkina, Russian chess Grandmaster

October

 * October 1 – Danika Yarosh, American actress and dancer
 * October 7 – Trent Alexander-Arnold, English footballer
 * October 9 – Tako Natsvlishvili, Georgian model
 * October 10 – Nash Aguas, Filipino actor
 * October 12 – Tyler Pierce, American figure skater
 * October 18 – Emily Robinson, American actress
 * October 22
 * Ike Anigbogu, American basketball player
 * Ianis Hagi, Romanian footballer
 * October 24 – Daya, American singer
 * October 26 – Samantha Isler, American actress
 * October 27 – Dayot Upamecano, French footballer
 * October 28
 * Nolan Gould, American actor
 * Perrine Laffont, French mogul skier
 * October 29
 * Maria Kharenkova, Russian artistic gymnast
 * Lance Stroll, Canadian racing driver

November

 * November 1 – Marie-Antoinette Katoto, French footballer
 * November 2 – Elkie, South Korean based singer and actress
 * November 3 – Maddison Elliott, Australian paralympic swimmer
 * November 4
 * Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress
 * Achraf Hakimi, Moroccan footballer
 * November 10 – Renz Valerio, Filipino actor
 * November 11 – Carlo Lacana, Filipino actor
 * November 12 – Jules Koundé, French footballer
 * November 17 – Kara Hayward, American actress
 * November 23 – Bradley Steven Perry, American actor
 * November 24 – Peyton Meyer, American actor
 * November 29 – Ayumu Hirano, Japanese snowboarder

December

 * December 2
 * Annalise Basso, American actress
 * Amber Montana, American actress
 * Juice WRLD, American rapper and singer
 * December 4 – Si Yajie, Chinese diver
 * December 8 – Anastasia Rizikov, Canadian classical pianist
 * December 11 – Dante Rigo, Belgian footballer
 * December 14 – Maggie Voisin, American freestyle skier
 * December 15 – Chandler Canterbury, American actor
 * December 16
 * Kiara Muhammad, American actress and singer
 * Reece Oxford, English football player
 * December 17
 * Jasmine Armfield, English actress
 * Martin Ødegaard, Norwegian footballer
 * December 18 – Calvin Stengs, Dutch footballer
 * December 19 – Frans Jeppsson Wall, Swedish singer
 * December 20
 * Kylian Mbappé, French football player
 * Ivett Tóth, Hungarian figure skater
 * December 22 – G Hannelius, American actress and singer
 * December 24 – Nikita Howarth, New Zealand paralympic swimmer
 * December 26 – Kesz Váldez, Filipino humanitarian
 * December 28
 * Paris Berelc, American actress
 * Jared Gilman, American actor
 * December 31 – Gianina Ernst, German ski jumper

January

 * January 1 – Helen Wills, American tennis player (b. 1905)
 * January 2
 * Feodor I. Kozhevnikov, Soviet legal expert (b. 1893)
 * Frank Muir, British actor, comedy writer and raconteur (b. 1920)
 * January 4
 * Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
 * Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Italian film director (b. 1894)
 * January 5 – Sonny Bono, American singer, actor, and politician (b. 1935)
 * January 7 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian chemist (b. 1906)
 * January 8 – Michael Tippett, English composer (b. 1905)
 * January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist (b. 1918)
 * January 11
 * Ellis Rabb, American director and actor (b. 1930)
 * Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (b. 1926)
 * January 15
 * Junior Wells, American harmonica player (b. 1934)
 * Gulzarilal Nanda, Indian politician and economist (b. 1898)
 * Duncan McNaughton, Canadian Olympic athlete (b. 1910)
 * January 16
 * Emil Sitka, American actor (b. 1914)
 * Hermann Wedekind, artistic director (b. 1910)
 * January 18 – Monica Edwards, British writer (b. 1912)
 * January 19 – Carl Perkins, American guitarist (b. 1932)
 * January 21 – Jack Lord, American actor (b. 1920)
 * January 23 – Alfredo Ormando, Italian writer (b. 1958)
 * January 26
 * Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese musician and educator (b. 1898)
 * Ethelreda Leopold, American film actress (b. 1914)
 * January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga artist (b. 1938)
 * January 29 – Joseph Alioto, 36th Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)

February

 * February 2
 * Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
 * Raymond Cattell, British and American psychologist (b. 1905)
 * February 3
 * Fat Pat, American rapper (b. 1970)
 * Karla Faye Tucker, American convicted murderer (b. 1959)
 * February 6
 * Falco, Austrian musician (b. 1957)
 * Carl Wilson, American musician (b. 1946)
 * Nazim al-Kudsi, 26th Prime Minister of Syria and 14th President of Syria (b. 1906)
 * February 7
 * Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
 * Roger Nicholas Angleton, American murderer (b. 1942)
 * February 8
 * Halldór Laxness, Icelandic writer (b. 1902)
 * Enoch Powell, British politician (b. 1912)
 * Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
 * February 9 – Maurice Schumann, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1911)
 * February 11 – Jonathan Hole, American actor (b. 1904)
 * February 16 – Fernando Abril Martorell, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1936)
 * February 17
 * Ernst Jünger, German writer (b. 1895)
 * Bob Merrill, American composer and screenwriter (b. 1921)
 * February 18
 * Harry Caray, American television and radio broadcaster (b. 1914)
 * Scott O'Hara, American pornographic performer, author, poet, editor and publisher (b. 1961)
 * February 19 – Grandpa Jones, American musician (b. 1913)
 * February 22
 * Red Reeder, U.S. Army officer and author (b. 1902)
 * Abraham Alexander Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
 * Athol Rowan, South African cricketer (b. 1921)
 * José María de Areilza, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1909)
 * February 23
 * Philip Abbott, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Raman Lamba, Indian cricketer (b. 1960)
 * February 24 – Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
 * February 26 – Theodore Schultz, American economist (b. 1902)
 * February 27
 * Alice Rivaz, Swiss writer (b. 1901)
 * George H. Hitchings, American scientist (b. 1905)
 * February 28 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)

March

 * March 2 – Darcy O'Brien, American author (b. 1939)
 * March 3 – Fred W. Friendly, American television journalist and executive (b. 1915)
 * March 7 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master, (b. 1914)
 * March 8 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
 * March 10 – Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
 * March 10 – Milton Mallawarachchi, Sri Lankan Musician (b. 1944)
 * March 12
 * Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
 * Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (b. 1893)
 * Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
 * March 13
 * Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
 * Risen Star, American racehorse (b. 1985)
 * Hans von Ohain, German physicist (b. 1911)
 * March 15
 * Benjamin Spock, American rower, pediatrician, and author (b. 1903)
 * Dušan Pašek, Slovak ice hockey player (b. 1960)
 * Tim Maia, Brazilian musician, songwriter and businessman (b. 1942)
 * March 16 – Derek Barton, British chemist (b. 1918)
 * March 20 – George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (b. 1956)
 * March 25 – Daniel Massey, English actor (b. 1933)
 * March 27 – Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Austrian auto designer and businessman (b. 1909)
 * March 31 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer, feminist activist, and politician (b. 1920)

April

 * April 1 – Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1920)
 * April 3 – Charles Lang, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
 * April 6
 * Wendy O. Williams, American singer (b. 1949)
 * Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
 * April 7 – Nick Auf der Maur, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1942)
 * April 11
 * Doris Tetzlaff, American female professional baseball player (b. 1921)
 * Rodney Harvey, American actor and model (b. 1967)
 * April 13 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (b. 1960)
 * April 15
 * Rose Maddox, American singer (b. 1925)
 * Pol Pot, 30th Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodian Khmer Rouge leader (b. 1925)
 * April 16
 * Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
 * Marie-Louise Meilleur, Canadian supercentenarian (b. 1880)
 * April 17
 * Linda McCartney, American photographer and musician (b. 1941)
 * Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy, Egyptian Muslim jurist (b. 1911)
 * April 19 – Octavio Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer (b. 1914)
 * April 21
 * Peter Lind Hayes, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * Irene Vernon, American actress (b. 1922)
 * April 22 – Kitch Christie, South African rugby coach (b. 1940)
 * April 23
 * Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (b. 1907)
 * James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)
 * April 25
 * Christian Mortensen, Danish supercentenarian (b. 1882)
 * Wright Morris, American photographer and writer (b. 1910)
 * April 26 – Joan Mary Wayne Brown, British author (b. 1906)
 * April 27
 * Carlos Castaneda, American anthropologist and author (b. 1925)
 * Anne Desclos, French writer (b. 1907)

May

 * May 1 – Eldridge Cleaver, American political activist and writer (b. 1935)
 * May 2
 * Justin Fashanu, British footballer (b. 1961)
 * hide, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
 * Gene Raymond, American actor (b. 1908)
 * May 7
 * Allan McLeod Cormack, South African–born physicist (b. 1924)
 * Eddie Rabbitt, American musician (b. 1941)
 * May 9 – Alice Faye, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 14
 * Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American conservationist and writer (b. 1890)
 * Frank Sinatra, American entertainer (b. 1915)
 * May 15 – Earl Manigault, American street basketball player (b. 1944)
 * May 19 – Sōsuke Uno, 47th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1922)
 * May 22 – John Derek, American actor and film director (b. 1926)
 * May 28 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, writer, and comedian (b. 1948)
 * May 29
 * Orlando Anderson, American criminal (b. 1974)
 * Barry Goldwater, American politician (b. 1909)

June

 * June 2
 * Junkyard Dog, American pro wrestler (b. 1952)
 * Dorothy Stickney, American actress (b. 1896)
 * June 3 – Poul Bundgaard, Danish actor and singer (b. 1922)
 * June 5
 * Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
 * Sam Yorty, American politician, Los Angeles' 37th mayor (1961–1973) (b. 1909).
 * June 8
 * Sani Abacha, 10th President of Nigeria (b. 1943)
 * Jackie McGlew, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
 * June 9 – Lois Mailou Jones, African-American artist (b. 1905)
 * June 10 – Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
 * June 11 – Dame Catherine Cookson, English author (b. 1906)
 * June 12 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (b. 1924)
 * June 13
 * Reg Smythe, English cartoonist (b. 1917)
 * Birger Ruud, Norwegian athlete (b. 1911)
 * June 20 – Conrad Schumann, East German border guard (b. 1942)
 * June 22 – Benny Green, British writer, radio broadcaster and saxophonist (b. 1927)
 * June 23 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish-American actress (b. 1911)
 * June 25 – Lounès Matoub, Algerian Berber singer (b. 1956)
 * June 28 – Marion Eugene Carl, American fighter pilot (b. 1915)

July

 * July 2 – Kay Thompson, American author and actress (b. 1909)
 * July 3 – Danielle Bunten Berry, American software developer (b. 1949)
 * July 4 – Gregg Burge, American tap dancer and choreographer (b. 1957)
 * July 5
 * Sid Luckman, American football player (b. 1916)
 * Johnny Speight, British television scriptwriter (b. 1920)
 * July 6 – Roy Rogers, American singer and actor (b. 1911)
 * July 12 – Arkady Ostashev, Soviet, Russian scientist, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite and the first cosmonaut, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Docent, laureate of the Lenin and state prizes (b. 1925)
 * July 17 – Joseph Maher, Irish-born American actor (b. 1933)
 * July 19 – Elmer Valo, Slovak baseball player (b. 1921)
 * July 21
 * Alan Shepard, American astronaut (b. 1923)
 * Robert Young, American actor (b. 1907)
 * July 22
 * Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 * Don Dunphy, American television and radio sports announcer (b. 1908)
 * July 27 – Binnie Barnes, British-born American actress (b. 1903)
 * July 28 – Harvie Branscomb, American university president (b. 1894)
 * July 29 – Jerome Robbins, American choreographer and director (b. 1918)
 * July 30 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American children's television host (b. 1917)

August

 * August 1 – Eva Bartok, Hungarian actress (b. 1927)
 * August 2
 * Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist (b. 1933)
 * Otto Bumbel, Brazilian professional football manager (b. 1914)
 * August 3 – Alfred Schnittke, Russian-born composer (b. 1934)
 * August 4 – Yury Artyukhin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1930)
 * August 5 – Todor Zhivkov, 6th President of Bulgaria (b. 1911)
 * August 6 – André Weil, French mathematician (b. 1906)
 * August 8 – Nelly's, Greek female photographer (b. 1899)
 * August 9 – Frankie Ruiz, American salsa singer and songwriter (b. 1958)
 * August 13
 * Julien Green, French-born American writer (b. 1900)
 * Nino Ferrer, French singer (b. 1934)
 * August 18 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress and model (b. 1948)
 * August 22 – Jack Briggs, American actor (b. 1920)
 * August 24
 * Jerry Clower, American country comedian (b. 1926)
 * E. G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1914)
 * August 25 – Lewis F. Powell Jr., American Supreme Court Justice (b. 1907)
 * August 26 – Frederick Reines, American physicist (b. 1918)
 * August 28 – George Büchi, American chemist (b. 1921)

September

 * September 1 – Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)
 * September 2
 * Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1933)
 * Allen Drury, American writer (b. 1918)
 * Walter L. Morgan, American banker (b. 1898)
 * September 5
 * Willem Drees Jr., Dutch politician (b. 1922)
 * Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (b. 1946)
 * Leo Penn, American actor and director (b. 1921)
 * September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
 * September 8 – Leonid Kinskey, Russian-born actor (b. 1903)
 * September 9 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (b. 1943)
 * September 11 – Dane Clark, American actor (b. 1912)
 * September 13 – George Wallace, American politician (b. 1919)
 * September 14
 * Yang Shangkun, 4th President of the People's Republic of China (b. 1907)
 * Johnny Adams, American singer (b. 1932)
 * September 15 – Fred Alderman, American sprint runner (b. 1905)
 * September 17 – Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
 * September 19 – Patricia Hayes, British character actress and comedian (b. 1909)
 * September 20 – Muriel Humphrey Brown, American politician (b. 1912)
 * September 21 – Florence Griffith Joyner, American runner (b. 1959)
 * September 23
 * Mary Frann, American actress (b. 1943)
 * Trevor Berghan, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1914)
 * September 26
 * Betty Carter, American jazz singer (b. 1929)
 * Giovanni Barbini, Italian naval officer (b. 1901)
 * September 27 – Doak Walker, American football player (b. 1927)
 * September 29 – Herbert V. Prochnow, U.S. banker and author (b. 1897)
 * September 30
 * Dan Quisenberry, American baseball player (b. 1953)
 * Bruno Munari, Italian-born industrial designer (b. 1907)
 * Pavel Štěpán, Czech pianist (b. 1925)
 * Robert Lewis Taylor, American author (b. 1912)

October

 * October 2
 * Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and sports team owner (b. 1907)
 * Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
 * October 3 – Roddy McDowall, British-born American actor (b. 1928)
 * October 6
 * Mark Belanger, American baseball player (b. 1944)
 * Ambrose Burke, Roman Catholic priest and educator (b. 1895)
 * October 8 – Zhang Chongren, Chinese artist (b. 1907)
 * October 9 – Ian Johnson, Australian cricketer (b. 1917)
 * October 10
 * Tommy Quaid, Irish hurler (b. 1957)
 * Marvin Gay Sr., American minister (b. 1914)
 * October 11 – Richard Denning, American actor (b. 1914)
 * October 12 – Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (b. 1976)
 * October 13 – General Gérard Charles Édouard Thériault, Canadian Chief of the Defence Staff (b. 1932)
 * October 14 – Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)
 * October 16 – Jon Postel, American Internet pioneer (b. 1943)
 * October 17
 * Joan Hickson, British actress (b. 1906)
 * Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar and philanthropist (b. 1920)
 * October 19 – Germán List Arzubide, Mexican poet and revolutionary (b. 1898)
 * October 22 – Eric Ambler, British writer (b. 1909)
 * October 24
 * Pino Dordoni, Italian athlete (b. 1926)
 * Mary Calderone, American physician, public health advocate (b. 1904)
 * October 28
 * Ghulam Ahmed, Indian cricket captain (b. 1922)
 * James Goldman, American writer (b. 1927)
 * October 29 – Ted Hughes, English poet (b. 1930)
 * October 31 – Maria de la Purisima Salvat Romero, Spanish nun and saint (b. 1926)

November

 * November 3
 * Bob Kane, American comic book creator (b. 1915)
 * Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (b. 1922)
 * November 5 – Momoko Kōchi, Japanese actress (b. 1932)
 * November 8 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
 * November 10
 * Mary Millar, British actress and singer (b. 1936)
 * Hal Newhouser, American baseball player (b. 1921)
 * November 13
 * Valerie Hobson, English actress (b. 1917)
 * Michel Trudeau, Canadian outdoorsman (b. 1975)
 * Doug Wright, English cricketer (b. 1914)
 * Red Holzman, American basketball coach (b. 1920)
 * November 15 – Stokely Carmichael, African-American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
 * November 17
 * Kenneth McDuff, American serial killer (b. 1946)
 * Esther Rolle, American actress (b. 1920)
 * November 19 – Alan J. Pakula, American film director (b. 1928)
 * November 22 – Stu Ungar, professional poker player (b. 1953)
 * November 23 – Don Ray, American basketball player (b. 1921)
 * November 25 – Flip Wilson, American actor and comedian (b. 1933)
 * November 29
 * Martin Ruane, British professional wrestler (b. 1947)
 * Frank Latimore, American actor (b. 1925)
 * November 30 – Margaret Walker, American poet (b. 1915)

December

 * December 1 – Freddie Young, American cinematographer (b. 1902)
 * December 2
 * Mikio Oda, Japanese athlete (b. 1905)
 * Brian Stonehouse, English painter and secret agent (b. 1918)
 * December 5 – Hazel Bishop, American chemist and inventor (b. 1906)
 * December 6
 * Michael Zaslow, American actor (b. 1942)
 * César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921)
 * December 7 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925)
 * December 8 - Michael Craze, British actor (b 1942)
 * December 12 – Lawton Chiles, American politician (b. 1930)
 * December 13
 * Sir Lew Grade, British businessman (b. 1906)
 * Ariadna Welter, Mexican actress (b. 1930)
 * December 14
 * Norman Fell, American actor (b. 1924)
 * Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (b. 1924)
 * December 15 – Brady Boone, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 * December 16 – William Gaddis, American writer (b. 1922)
 * December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist (b. 1959)
 * December 18 – Lev Dyomin, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1926)
 * December 19
 * Gordon Gunter, American marine biologist and fisheries scientist (b. 1909)
 * Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
 * December 20
 * Irene Hervey, American actress (b. 1909)
 * Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist (b. 1914)
 * December 21
 * Roger Avon, British actor (b. 1914)
 * Richard Turnbull, British colonial governor (b. 1909)
 * December 23 – David Manners, Canadian-American actor (b. 1900)
 * December 25
 * Richard Paul, American actor (b. 1940)
 * John Pulman, English snooker player (b. 1923)
 * December 26
 * Hurd Hatfield, American actor (b. 1917)
 * Robert Rosen, American biologist (b. 1934)
 * William Frankfather, American actor (b. 1944)
 * Ram Swarup, Indian author (b. 1920)
 * December 30
 * Keisuke Kinoshita, Japanese film director (b. 1912)
 * George Webb, British actor (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, Daniel Chee Tsui
 * Chemistry – Walter Kohn, John Pople
 * Medicine – Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, Ferid Murad
 * Literature – José Saramago
 * Peace – John Hume and David Trimble
 * Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Amartya Sen

Fields Medal

 * Richard Ewen Borcherds, William Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Curtis T. McMullen

January

 * January 1 – 1983 like a 1994 one The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the true Internet).
 * January 3 – Kīlauea begins slowly erupting on the Big Island of Hawaii and is still flowing.
 * January 5 – President Ronald Reagan nominates Elizabeth Dole as U.S. Secretary of Transportation.
 * January 10 – Canada and the United States launch Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, a worldwide program advocating tolerance.
 * January 18 – The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family.
 * January 19 – High-ranking Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie is arrested in Bolivia.
 * January 24 – Twenty-five members of the Red Brigades are sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1978 murder of Aldo Moro.
 * January 25 – IRAS is launched from Vandenberg AFB, to conduct the world's first all-sky infrared survey from space.
 * January 26 – Lotus 1-2-3 is released for IBM PC compatible computers.
 * January 30 – Washington Redskins beat the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl XVII
 * January 31 – Seatbelt use for drivers and front seat passengers becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.

February

 * February 2 – Giovanni Vigliotto goes on trial on charges of 1983 like a 1991 one polygamy involving 105 women.
 * February 3
 * Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Fraser is granted a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, for elections on March 5th.
 * Bill Hayden resigns as leader of the Australian Labor Party, and in the subsequent leadership spill Bob Hawke is elected as Hayden's successor unopposed.
 * February 5–6 – The team of A. J. Foyt, Preston Henn, Bob Wollek and Claude Ballot-Lena won the 24 hours of Daytona in a Porsche 935
 * February 6 – Klaus Barbie is officially charged with war crimes.
 * February 12 – 100 women protest in Lahore, Pakistan, against military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's proposed Law of Evidence. The women were tear-gassed, baton-charged and thrown into lock-up. They were successful in repealing the law.
 * February 13
 * A cinema fire in Turin, Italy, kills 62 people.
 * Two US Marshals are killed and three lawmen are wounded in a shootout with Gordon Kahl in Medina, North Dakota.
 * February 16 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 75 people, in one of Australia's worst bushfire disasters.
 * February 18
 * The Venezuelan bolívar is devaluated and exchange controls are established in an event now referred to as Black Friday by many Venezuelans (the Bolívar had been the most stable and internationally accepted currency).
 * Nellie massacre: Over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
 * Wah Mee massacre: 13 people are killed in an attempted robbery in Seattle, Washington.
 * February 23
 * The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intention to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
 * The automatic shut-down fails at Salem Nuclear Power Plant, New Jersey, USA.
 * February 24
 * A special commission of the Congress of the United States releases a report critical of the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
 * Bermondsey by-election, 1983 (U.K.): Simon Hughes's defeat of Peter Tatchell is criticised for alleged homophobia.
 * February 28 – The final episode of M*A*S*H airs, setting the record for most watched television episode and reaching a total audience estimated at 125 million, which remains unsurpassed.

March

 * March 1 – The Balearic Islands and Madrid become Autonomous communities of Spain.
 * March 1 - First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland
 * March 5 – in 1983 like a 1999 and 2005 one Australian federal election, 1983: The Labor Party led by Bob Hawke defeats the Liberal/National Coalition Government led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. Hawke would be sworn in on March 11th. As soon as the results became clear, Fraser resigned from the Liberal leadership; he would be replaced by outgoing Minister for Industry and Commerce Andrew Peacock.
 * March 8 – IBM releases the IBM PC XT.
 * March 9
 * Anne Burford resigns as head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency amid scandal.
 * The 3D printer is invented by Chuck Hull.
 * March 16 – The Ismaning radio transmitter (last wooden radio tower in Germany) is demolished.
 * March 21 – Yamoussoukro, officially becomes Ivorian political capital after transfer from Abidjan.
 * March 23 – Strategic Defense Initiative: U.S. President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. The media dub this plan "Star Wars".
 * March 25 – Motown celebrates its 25th anniversary with the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, during which Michael Jackson performs Billie Jean and introduces the moonwalk.

April

 * April 3 – In Mexico, the 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins, it ends five weeks later on May 1.
 * April 4 – The Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on its maiden voyage: STS-6.
 * April 11 – Spain's Seve Ballesteros won the 47th PGA Masters Tournament
 * April 13 – Minnesota's largest retailer Target Corporation expands into California, opening 11 stores.
 * April 18
 * The 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut kills 63 people.
 * Channel broadcasting is founded by the Disney Channel.
 * April 22 – A reactor shut-down due to failure of fuel rods occurs at Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, Russia.
 * April 25 – Cold War: Manchester, Maine, U.S., schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov, after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

May

 * May 6 – Stern magazine publishes the "Hitler Diaries" (which are later found to be forgeries).
 * May 11 – Aberdeen F.C. beat Real Madrid 2–1 (after extra time) to win the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1983 and become only the third Scottish side to win a European trophy.
 * May 14 – Dundee United F.C. are crowned champions of Scotland for the first time in their history by winning the Scottish Premier Division, on the final day of the league season at the home of their city rivals Dundee F.C., Dens Park.
 * May 16 – NSW Premier Neville Wran steps down, in response to allegations raised by the ABC program Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW Magistracy.
 * May 17 – Lebanon, Israel, and the United States sign an agreement on Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
 * May 17 – New York Islanders beat the Edmonton Oilers four games to none to win the Stanley Cup
 * May 20
 * Two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier independently declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV/AIDS, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal Science.
 * Church Street bombing. A car bombing in Pretoria, South Africa, kills 19 people. It had been planted by members of Umkhonto we Sizwe, a military wing of the African National Congress.
 * May 25 – Return of the Jedi opens in theatres.
 * May 26 – The 7.8 Sea of Japan earthquake shakes northern Honshu with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami is generated that leaves about 100 people dead.
 * May 27 – Benton fireworks disaster, an explosion at an unlicensed fireworks operation near Benton, Tennessee kills eleven, injures one. The blast was heard within a radius of 30 km.
 * May 28
 * The 9th G7 summit begins at Williamsburg, Virginia.
 * Golgo 13: The Professional is released in cinemas in Japan.
 * May 29 – Tom Sneva wins the Indianapolis 500
 * May 29 – Neil Bonnett wins the 24th running of the world 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway
 * May 31 – The Philadelphia 76ers defeat the LA Lakers to sweep the NBA championship in four games.

June

 * June – Throughout the local summer, many Midwestern American states are affected by a severe drought that causes water shortages.
 * June 4 – Fugitive tax protester Gordon Kahl, who has been on the run for four months, is killed in a shootout with police in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff.
 * June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority.
 * June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System.
 * June 16 – Cork Graham is caught off the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd. He is convicted and imprisoned until 1984 for illegal entry.
 * June 18
 * Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission.
 * Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women are hanged because of their membership of the Bahá'í Faith.
 * June 18–19 The team of Vern Schuppan Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood won the 24 Hours of Le Mans
 * June 19 – Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair is released in arcades.
 * June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup by defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.
 * June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

July

 * July 1
 * A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
 * The High Court of Australia blocks construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.
 * A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany.
 * July 15
 * Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.
 * The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.
 * July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
 * July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
 * July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
 * July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter.
 * July 23
 * Gimli Glider: Out of fuel, Air Canada Flight 143 glides in to land in Gimli, Manitoba.
 * 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, starting the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued until 2009.
 * Heavy massive rain and mudslides at western Shimane Prefecture, Japan, kill 117.
 * Diana Ross's concert at The Great Lawn of New York City's Central Park, attended by 800,000 fans, was cut short by a massive lightning storm.
 * July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
 * July 28 – New South Wales premier Neville Wran is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.

August

 * August 1 – America West Airlines begins operations out of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.
 * August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta.
 * August 16 – The Bill first airs as Woodentop.
 * August 18
 * Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
 * Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock, NT (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
 * August 21 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile.
 * August 24 – The Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.
 * August 26 – Heavy rain triggers flooding at Bilbao, Spain, and surrounding areas, killing 45 people and causing millions in damages.
 * August 30 – Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission.

September

 * September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.
 * September 4 – Six men walk underwater across Sydney Harbour – 82.9 km in 48 hours.
 * September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
 * September 9 – Iraqi club Al-Shorta wins the 1983 President's Gold Cup by defeating Malaysia 2-0 in the final.
 * September 15 – Huey Lewis and the News's album Sports was released.
 * September 16 – President Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) will be made available for civilian use.
 * September 17 – Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first African American to be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
 * September 18 – U.S. heavy metal band Kiss officially appears in public without makeup for the first time on MTV.
 * September 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state.
 * September 23
 * Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb explodes in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
 * Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
 * September 25 – Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison lorry and smash their way out of HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, in the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.
 * September 26
 * 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.
 * The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
 * The Australian yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy.
 * September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

October

 * October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
 * October 4 – British entrepreneur Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
 * October 4 – The first Hooters restaurant is opened in Clearwater, Florida.
 * October 7 – A plan to abolish the Greater London Council is announced.
 * October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others. The perpetrators are believed to be North Koreans.
 * October 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
 * October 16 – Baltimore Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 1 to win the World Series baseball championship in the United States.
 * October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.
 * October 21 – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
 * October 22 – In Bonn, West Germany, people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament.
 * October 23 – Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
 * October 25
 * Invasion of Grenada by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.
 * Word processor software Multi-Tool Word, soon to become Microsoft Word, is released  in the United States. It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine.
 * October 30 – Argentine general election: The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.

November

 * November 2
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: At the White House Rose Garden, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. It is first observed in 1986.
 * South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid.
 * Chrysler introduces the Dodge Caravan, the first "minivan".
 * November 3 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 United States' Democratic Party presidential nomination.
 * November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
 * November 7 – Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.
 * November 10 – The anticancer drug etoposide is approved by the FDA, leading to a curative treatment regime in the field of combination chemotherapy of testicular carcinoma.
 * November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the National Diet, Japan's national legislature.
 * November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
 * November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
 * November 15 – The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.
 * November 16 – A jury in Gretna, Louisiana, US acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
 * November 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
 * November 18 – A Christmas Story is released.
 * November 19 – An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.
 * November 20 – The Day After airs on ABC.
 * November 24 – Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988).
 * November 26 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.
 * November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 11 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.

December

 * December 2 – Michael Jackson's Thriller video is aired on MTV for the first time.
 * December 4
 * United States Navy aviator Lt's. Mark Lange and Bobby Goodman are shot down in an A-6 Intruder over Lebanon and captured by Syrians; Lt. Lange dies of his injuries; Lt. Goodman is released 30 days later after the intervention of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
 * General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984–1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turn out is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes.
 * Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983.
 * December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.
 * December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90.
 * December 9 – The Australian dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke.
 * December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina
 * December 13 – Turgut Özal, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning of a new civilian regime
 * December 17
 * A discothèque fire in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.
 * Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills six people and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.
 * December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro., the trophy has not been recovered.
 * December 27
 * A propane explosion in Buffalo, New York, US kills five firefighters and two civilians.
 * Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.
 * December 29 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson travels to Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity since being shot down over Lebanon during a bombing mission.
 * December 31
 * Brunei gains independence from the United Kingdom.
 * Two bombs explode in France; one on a Paris train kills three and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills two and injures 34.
 * Second Nigerian Republic was overthrown

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 * I. M. Pei wins the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
 * Zlatko Ugljen receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.
 * The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is launched in the United States.
 * Flashdance and Return of the Jedi are box-office hits.
 * Gérard Debreu wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
 * Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef/CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.
 * McDonald's introduces the McNugget.
 * Kary Mullis discovers polymerase chain reaction while working for Cetus.
 * The DeLorean Motor Company ceases production.
 * The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event brings severe weather worldwide.
 * A severe drought affects the Midwest, Great Plains and parts of the Southern United States between May and September.
 * Ronald Reagan declassifies GPS for public use; it will be shut down again in 1990 for the Gulf War and re-activated again in 1993.
 * The capital of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire is changed from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro.

January

 * January 1
 * Calum Davenport, English footballer
 * Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (d. 2009)
 * January 2 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
 * January 3 – Precious Lara Quigaman, Filipina model, host and actress
 * January 4
 * Spencer Chamberlain, American musician
 * Kerry Condon, Irish actress
 * January 6 – Cristina Rosato, Canadian actress
 * January 7
 * Tosin Abasi, Nigerian-American musician (Animals As Leaders)
 * Brett Dalton, American actor
 * Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
 * January 8
 * Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter
 * Chris Masters, American wrestler
 * January 9
 * Gala Évora, Spanish actress
 * Chris Getzlaf, American football player; brother of Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf
 * January 10 – Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
 * January 11 – Adrian Sutil, German Formula One driver
 * January 13
 * Bill Hudson, Brazilian-American musician
 * Imran Khan, Bollywood actor
 * Brianne Moncrief, American soap opera actress
 * Julian Morris, British actor
 * Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
 * January 14 – Takako Uehara, Japanese singer
 * January 15 – Aa Jimmy, Indonesian actor (d. 2018)
 * January 16
 * Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
 * Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
 * January 17
 * Rickey D'Shon Collins, American actor
 * Johannes Herber, German basketball player
 * January 18
 * Jung Yu-mi, South Korean actress
 * Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
 * January 19
 * Øystein Pettersen, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
 * Utada Hikaru, Japanese singer and songwriter
 * January 20
 * Yasser Elshantaf, Palestinian entrepreneur
 * Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
 * January 21
 * Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress
 * Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian professional wrestler and glamour model
 * Moritz Volz, German footballer
 * January 22 – Shaun Cody, American football player
 * January 23
 * David Firth, British animator
 * Justyna Kowalczyk, Polish cross-country skier
 * Sarah Tait, Australian rower (d. 2016)
 * January 24
 * Diane Birch, American singer-songwriter
 * Frankie Grande, American actor, dancer, television personality, and producer
 * Craig Horner, Australian actor
 * Scott Speed, American Formula One driver
 * Teo, Belarusian singer
 * January 25 – Yasuyuki Konno, Japanese footballer
 * January 27 – Rebecca Judd, Australian model and television presenter
 * January 30 – Ella Hooper, Australian singer-songwriter
 * January 31 – James Sutton, British actor

February

 * February 1 – Andrew VanWyngarden, American singer
 * February 2
 * David Call, American film and television actor
 * Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
 * February 3
 * Damiel Dossévi, French pole vaulter
 * Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
 * Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress
 * February 4 – Hannibal Buress, American comedian
 * February 5 – Vanessa Rousso, French-American professional poker player
 * February 6
 * Michael Robinson, former American football player
 * Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
 * Jamie Whincup, Australian race car driver
 * February 7
 * Scott Feldman, American baseball player
 * Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
 * Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer
 * February 8
 * Louise Glover, English model and photographer
 * Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
 * Ashley Mulheron, Scottish actress and television presenter
 * Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter (d. 2015)
 * February 10
 * Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian artistic gymnast
 * Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * February 11 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
 * February 14 – Julia Ling, American actress
 * February 15
 * Philipp and David Degen, Swiss footballers
 * Alan Didak, Australian rules footballer
 * Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
 * February 16
 * Agyness Deyn, English supermodel
 * John Magaro, American film, television and stage actor
 * February 17
 * Selita Ebanks, Caymanian model
 * Elin Kling, Swedish fashion journalist
 * Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter and record producer
 * February 18 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
 * February 19
 * Kotoōshū Katsunori (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler
 * Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
 * Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese voice actress
 * Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
 * Jawad Williams, American basketball player
 * February 20
 * Emad Moteab, Egyptian footballer
 * Justin Verlander, American baseball player
 * February 21
 * Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director
 * Eoin Macken, Irish actor
 * February 22
 * Penny Flame, born Jennifer Ketcham, American former pornographic actress/reality TV star
 * Iliza Shlesinger, American comedian
 * February 23
 * Aziz Ansari, American comedian and actor
 * Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
 * Emily Blunt, English actress
 * Dominic Lyne, English author
 * Mido, Egyptian footballer
 * February 24 – Sophie Howard, English glamour model
 * February 25 – Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player
 * February 26 – Andrew Baggaley, English table tennis player
 * February 27
 * Devin Harris, American basketball player
 * Hayley Angel Holt, English actress
 * Kate Mara, American television and film actress
 * Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
 * February 28 – Linda Király, American-Hungarian singer-songwriter

March

 * March 1 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-born Kenyan-American Academy Award-winning actress
 * March 4
 * Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater
 * Adam Deacon, British actor
 * Jessica Heap, American actress
 * March 7 – Raquel Alessi, American actress
 * March 9
 * Bryony Afferson, English actress and musician
 * Bobby Campo, American actor
 * Clint Dempsey, American footballer
 * Maite Perroni, Mexican singer and actress
 * March 10
 * Kyle Marshall, Canadian animator, storyboard artist, director and writer
 * Janet Mock, American author and activist
 * Jonas Olsson, Swedish footballer
 * Rafe Spall, English actor
 * Carrie Underwood, American singer
 * March 11 – Melissa Rycroft, American television personality and reality television contestant
 * March 12 – Roxy Shahidi, English actress
 * March 14
 * Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
 * Taylor Hanson, American musician
 * March 15 – Florencia Bertotti, Argentine actress and singer
 * March 16
 * Stephanie Gatschet, American actress
 * Katie Kim, Irish singer-songwriter
 * March 17
 * Penny McNamee, Australian actress
 * Atit Shah, Indian American Hollywood film producer
 * Martin Shkreli, American businessman, former hedge fund manager, and convicted felon
 * March 18 – Kyle Downes, Canadian-American actor
 * March 19 – Nicole Muirbrook, American actress and model
 * March 20
 * Michael Cassidy, American film television and actor
 * Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer
 * Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish pop singer
 * March 21 – Bruno Langley, British actor
 * March 22
 * Christina Bennett Lind, American actress
 * March 23 – Mo Farah, British athlete
 * March 27 – Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (d. 2005)
 * March 29
 * Ezgi Mola, Turkish actress
 * Ed Skrein, English actor and rapper
 * March 30
 * Zach Gowen, American wrestler
 * Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer
 * March 31
 * Hashim Amla, South African cricketer
 * Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress, singer and musician
 * Meinir Gwilym, Welsh folk singer
 * Melissa Ordway, American actress and model

April

 * April 1
 * Matt Lanter, American actor and model
 * Sergey Lazarev, Russian pop-singer
 * Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
 * April 2 – Yung Joc, American rapper
 * April 4
 * Eric Andre, American comedian, actor, and television host
 * Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Amanda Righetti, American actress and film producer
 * April 6
 * Diora Baird, American actress
 * Bobbi Starr, American pornographic actress
 * April 7 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
 * April 10
 * Jamie Chung, American actress
 * Ryan Merriman, American actor
 * April 11 – Joanna Douglas, Canadian actress
 * April 12
 * Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player
 * Judy Marte, American actress and producer
 * Jonti Richter, Australian soccer player
 * April 13 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
 * April 15
 * Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
 * Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
 * April 16 – Alex Antônio de Melo Santos, Brazilian footballer
 * April 18 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
 * April 19
 * Alberto Callaspo, American baseball player
 * Joe Mauer, American baseball player
 * Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
 * April 20
 * Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish club DJ
 * Miranda Kerr, Australian model
 * Joanne King, Irish film and television actress
 * April 21
 * Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
 * Lily Chan, Chinese singer
 * Tarvaris Jackson, American football player
 * Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
 * April 22
 * Francis Capra, American actor
 * Matt Jones, American football player
 * April 23
 * Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
 * Aaron Hill, American actor
 * April 24 – Will Champlin, American singer, contestant from The Voice season 5
 * April 26 – Ryan Dowell Baum, American former child actor
 * April 29
 * Jay Cutler, American football player
 * Megan Boone, American actress
 * David Lee, American basketball player
 * Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese actress and gravure idol
 * April 30 – Yelena Leuchanka, Belarusian professional women's basketball player

May

 * May 1 – Alain Bernard, French Olympic swimmer
 * May 2
 * Tina Maze, Slovenian alpine ski racer
 * Dani Sordo, Spanish rally driver
 * May 3 - Ari Magder, American actor (d. 2012)
 * May 4
 * Brad Bufanda, American actor (d. 2017)
 * Jesse Moss, Canadian actor
 * May 5 – Henry Cavill, British actor
 * May 6
 * Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
 * Adrianne Palicki, American actress
 * Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
 * May 7
 * Marco Galiazzo, Italian archer
 * Alexander Legkov, Russian cross country sky
 * May 8 – Matt Willis, English singer-songwriter
 * May 9 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
 * May 11
 * Daizee Haze, American professional wrestler
 * Matt Leinart, American football player
 * Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
 * May 12
 * Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Polish actress and singer
 * Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor and writer
 * Alina Kabaeva, Russian rhythmic gymnast and politician
 * Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
 * May 13
 * Natalie Cassidy, British actress
 * Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
 * Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
 * Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
 * May 14
 * Anahí, Mexican singer and actress
 * Sarbel, Greek Cypriot pop singer
 * Amber Tamblyn, American actress
 * May 16
 * Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
 * Daniel Kerr, Australian rules footballer
 * Marcela Temer, First Lady of Brazil
 * May 17 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
 * May 18 – Vince Young, American football player
 * May 19
 * Eve Angel, Hungarian model
 * Jessica Fox, British actress
 * May 20
 * Michaela McManus, American actress
 * N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian actor and singer
 * Emma Williams, English stage and television actress
 * May 21 – Leva Bates, American professional wrestler
 * May 22
 * John Hopkins, American MotoGP racer
 * Connie and Cassie Powney, English twin actresses
 * May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes)
 * May 24 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model
 * May 27 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
 * May 28
 * Megalyn Echikunwoke, American actress
 * Toby Hemingway, British/American actor
 * May 30 – Jennifer Ellison, British actress
 * May 31
 * David Hernandez, American singer
 * Zana Marjanović, Bosnian actress
 * Reggie Yates, English actor, television presenter, and radio DJ

June

 * June 1 – Sylvia Hoeks, Dutch actress
 * June 2
 * Lisa Hammond, English actress
 * Brooke White, American singer
 * June 3 – Janine Carmen Habeck, German model
 * June 6
 * Gemma Bissix, British actress
 * Adam Hendershott, American actor
 * Gianna Michaels, porn actress
 * Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby union player
 * June 7 – Indiggo, Romanian-born American twin sisters, singer-songwriters, and reality TV personalities
 * June 8
 * Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
 * Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor
 * June 9 – Marina Lizorkina, Russian singer
 * June 10
 * Marina Abrosimova, Russian pop singer
 * Shanna Collins, American actress
 * Leelee Sobieski, American film and television actress
 * June 11 – José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
 * June 12
 * Bryan Habana, South African rugby union player
 * Andy Ologun, Nigerian mixed martial artist
 * Anja Rubik, Polish model
 * June 13 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
 * June 14
 * Torrance Coombs, Canadian film, theatre and television actor
 * Sean Klitzner, American internet personality and comedian
 * June 15
 * Derek Anderson, American football player
 * Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist
 * June 16
 * Verónica Echegui, Spanish actress
 * Olivia Hack, American actress and voice actress
 * Kana Mannami, Japanese Go player
 * Lisa Yamanaka, Canadian voice actress
 * June 17
 * Connie Fisher, British actress and singer
 * Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor, idol, and singer
 * Lee Ryan, English singer
 * June 19
 * Macklemore, American rapper
 * Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress
 * Laura Norton, English actress
 * Mark Selby, British snooker player
 * Aidan Turner, Irish actor
 * June 20 – Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
 * June 21
 * Michael Malarkey, British-American actor and musician
 * Edward Snowden, American computer specialist, CIA employee, and whistleblower
 * Brian Sites, American actor
 * June 22
 * Sally Nicholls, English children's book author of Ways to Live Forever
 * Mizan the Poet, English spoken word poet, activist and community worker
 * June 23
 * Miles Fisher, American film and television actor and musician
 * Brandi Rhodes, American wrestler and reality television personality
 * June 24
 * John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor and model
 * Shermain Jeremy, Antiguan singer and beauty pageant contestant
 * Christian Day, English rugby union player
 * June 25
 * Cleo, Polish singer
 * Shamau Shareef, Maldivian politician
 * Daniele Gastaldello, Italian footballer
 * Marko Đurić, Serbian politician
 * June 26
 * Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Alsény Këïta, Liberian footballer
 * Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor
 * Richard Okia, Ugandan cricketer
 * June 27
 * Alsou, Russian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2000 runner-up
 * Ben Bocquelet, French-British animator and producer
 * Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor
 * Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
 * June 28
 * Jaiveer Shergill, Indian politician
 * Curtis Lepore, American actor, musician and internet celebrity
 * June 29 – Ilya Yashin, Russian activist and politician
 * June 30
 * Cheryl, British singer (Girls Aloud) and TV personality
 * Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedian and actress

July

 * July 1
 * Lynsey Bartilson, American actress, dancer and singer
 * Tanya Chisholm, American actress and dancer
 * Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
 * Park Jeong-su, Korean singer (Super Junior)
 * July 2
 * Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
 * Fadhil Hashim, Malaysian footballer
 * Alicia Menendez, American television commentator
 * July 3
 * Edinson Vólquez, Dominican baseball player
 * Park Jin-woo, South Korean actor
 * July 4 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian fashion model
 * July 5
 * Edwina Bartholomew, Australian journalist and television presenter
 * Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
 * Kumiko Ogura, Japanese badminton player
 * July 6 – Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
 * July 7
 * Kristi Capel, American beauty pageant and news presenter
 * Renee Chappell, Australian cricketer
 * Krzysztof Lijewski, Polish handballer
 * C4 Pedro, Angolan musician
 * Martin Wallström, Swedish actor
 * Vincent Wong, Hong Kong actor
 * Yoo Jae-hoon, South Korean footballer
 * July 9 – Christopher Porco, American convicted murderer
 * July 10
 * Barış Pehlivan, Turkish journalist and writer
 * Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian footballer
 * Kim Heechul, Korean actor and singer (Super Junior)
 * Boniface Mwangi, Kenyan photojournalist, politician and activist
 * July 11 – Marie Eleonor Serneholt, Swedish singer (A*Teens)
 * July 12
 * Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
 * Krystin Pellerin, Canadian actress of theatre, television and film
 * July 13
 * Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
 * Carmen Villalobos, Colombian actress and model
 * July 14 – Katrina Chen, Canadian politician
 * July 15 – Maxim Dondyuk, Ukrainian documentary photographer
 * July 16
 * Katrina Kaif, Bollywood actress and model
 * Zhang Xiangxiang, Chinese weightlifter
 * July 17
 * Flávia de Oliveira, Brazilian model
 * Kim Jin-woo, South Korean actor and singer
 * July 18 – Hatsu Hioki, Japanese professional mixed martial artist
 * July 19
 * Trai Byers, American actor and singer
 * Helen Skelton, British television presenter
 * July 20 – Martin McCann, Irish actor
 * July 21
 * Vinessa Antoine, Canadian actress
 * Amy Mizzi, Australian actress
 * Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
 * Kellen Winslow II, American football player
 * July 22
 * Jodi Albert, English actress and singer
 * Ryan Doucette, Canadian actor
 * Juliana Silva, Brazilian beach volleyball player
 * Jonas Sakuwaha, Zambian footballer
 * Sharni Vinson, Australian model, actress and dancer
 * July 23
 * Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
 * Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
 * July 24
 * Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
 * Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress
 * July 26
 * Kate Bolduan, American television journalist and CNN anchor
 * Elettra Weidemann, American fashion model and sociallite
 * July 29
 * Kaitlyn Black, American actress
 * Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican television host, reporter and actress
 * Tania Gunadi, Indonesian-American actress and producer
 * Elise Testone, American singer-songwriter
 * July 30 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer

August



 * August 2 – Huston Street, American baseball player
 * August 3
 * Michelle Buswell, American model
 * Mamie Gummer, American actress
 * August 4
 * Jai Crawford, Australian cyclist
 * Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker
 * Adhir Kalyan, South African actor
 * Mariusz Wlazły, Polish volleyball player
 * August 5 – Kara Tointon, English actress
 * August 6 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
 * August 7
 * Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor
 * Brit Marling, American actress, screenwriter and producer
 * Tina O'Brien, British actress
 * August 8 – Fred Meyers, American actor
 * August 9
 * David Ames, British actor
 * Sarah Elizabeth, American model
 * Ashley Johnson, American actress
 * August 10
 * Spencer Redford, American actress
 * Mathieu Roy, Canadian professional ice hockey player
 * August 11
 * Sammy Glenn, English television actress
 * Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
 * August 13
 * Aleš Hemský, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
 * Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born American actor
 * August 14
 * Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
 * Sunidhi Chauhan, Indian playback singer
 * Spencer Pratt, American television personality
 * Mila Kunis, Ukraine-born American actress
 * August 16 – Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
 * August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
 * August 18
 * Dragon, Evening Class student, works for Volvo
 * Kris Boyd, Scottish football player
 * Mika, Lebanese-British singer
 * Cameron White, Australian cricketer
 * August 19
 * Missy Higgins, Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor
 * Tania Nolan, New Zealand actress
 * Claudia Salinas, Mexican model and actress
 * Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013)
 * Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
 * August 20
 * Andrew Garfield, British/American actor
 * Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
 * August 21
 * Chantelle Houghton, English glamour model and television personality
 * Brody Jenner, American television personality
 * August 23
 * James Collins, Welsh footballer
 * Ruta Gedmintas, Lithuanian-English actress
 * Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
 * Fiona Onasanya, British Labour party politician and criminal
 * August 24 – Brett Gardner, American baseball player
 * August 26
 * Rob Cantor, American singer-songwriter
 * Nicol David, Malaysian squash player
 * August 27
 * Chen Bolin, Taiwanese actor
 * Jamala, Ukrainian singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest 2016 winner
 * August 28
 * Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer
 * Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
 * August 29 – Jennifer Landon, American actress
 * August 30
 * Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
 * Jim Miller, American mixed martial artist
 * August 31
 * Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
 * Maria Flor, Brazilian actress

September

 * September 1
 * Camille Mana, American actress
 * José Antonio Reyes, Spanish football player
 * September 2 – Tiffany Hines, American television actress and singer
 * September 3
 * Alexander Klaws, German singer
 * Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
 * Christine Woods, American actress
 * September 4 – Jennifer Metcalfe, English actress
 * September 5 – Priscilla Meirelles, Miss Earth 2004
 * Lincoln Riley, American football coach
 * September 8 – Chris Judd, Australian rules footballer
 * September 9 – Zoe Kazan, American actress and screenwriter
 * September 10 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
 * September 11 – Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
 * September 12 – Carly Smithson, Irish singer
 * September 13
 * James Bourne, English singer-songwriter
 * Kaoklai Kaennorsing, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer
 * September 14 – Amy Winehouse, British singer (d. 2011)
 * September 15
 * Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
 * Holly Montag, American television personality
 * September 16 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
 * September 17
 * Jennifer Peña, American singer
 * Ammel-Carl Sierra, Victorian Melbournian Horseman, Polo Player & Sports Entrepreneur
 * Catherine Tyldesley, English actress and model
 * September 18
 * Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
 * Sasha Son, Lithuanian singer
 * September 20
 * A-Lin, Taiwanese singer
 * Yuna Ito, American-Japanese singer and actress
 * September 21
 * Sarah Rees Brennan, Irish novelist
 * Scott Evans, American actor
 * Maggie Grace, American actress
 * Joseph Mazzello, American actor
 * Anna Meares, Australian track cyclist
 * September 22 – Eriko Imai, Japanese singer (Speed)
 * September 23
 * Shane del Rosario, American professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer (d. 2013)
 * Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
 * September 24
 * Lyndon Ferns, South African swimmer
 * Randy Foye, American basketball player
 * September 25
 * Donald Glover, American actor
 * Son Dam-bi, South Korean singer
 * September 26 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
 * September 27
 * Fazura, Malaysian actress
 * Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer
 * September 28
 * Julissa Bermudez, Dominican-American television personality and actress
 * Sarah Wright, American actress
 * September 30
 * Machiko Kawana, Japanese voice actress
 * Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
 * Reiko Shiota, Japanese badminton player

October

 * October 1 – Anna Drijver, Dutch actress and model
 * October 2 – Gerran Walker, American football player
 * October 3
 * Meghan Heffern, Canadian actress
 * Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
 * Tessa Thompson, American actress
 * October 4
 * Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
 * Risa Kudō, Japanese gravure idol
 * Shontelle, Barbadian singer, and songwriter
 * October 5
 * Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
 * Nicky Hilton Rothschild, American model and socialite
 * Shelby Rabara, American actress and singer
 * Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress
 * Noah Segan, American character actor
 * Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer
 * October 7 – Flying Lotus, American musician
 * October 8 – Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
 * October 9 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
 * October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ
 * October 11 – Bradley James, English actor
 * October 12 – Annick Obonsawin, Canadian actress and voice actress
 * October 13 – Katia Winter, Swedish actress
 * October 14
 * Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
 * David Oakes, English film, television and theatre actor
 * Zesh Rehman, English-Pakistani footballer
 * October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
 * October 16 – Loreen, Swedish pop singer and music producer, Eurovision Song Contest 2012 winner
 * October 17
 * Daniel Booko, American actor
 * Felicity Jones, English actress
 * Daniel Kajmakoski, Macedonian singer and songwriter
 * Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
 * October 19
 * Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish model and actress
 * Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and writer
 * October 20 – Alona Tal, Israeli television actress
 * October 21
 * Ashley Banjo, Canadian actor
 * Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (d. 2008)
 * Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou, Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou
 * Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress
 * Aaron Tveit, American actor
 * October 24
 * Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress
 * V V Brown, English singer, songwriter, model, and producer
 * Ashleigh Harrington, Canadian actress
 * Katie McGrath, Irish actress
 * Brian Vickers, American race car driver
 * October 25 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
 * October 27
 * Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
 * Katy Tur, American broadcast journalist
 * Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Turkish actor and model
 * October 28 – Joe Thomas, English actor
 * October 29
 * Johnny Lewis, American actor (d. 2012)
 * Amit Sebastian Paul, Swedish singer
 * October 30 – Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer

November

 * November 1
 * Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol
 * Jelena Tomašević, Serbian pop singer
 * November 2 – Andreas Bourani, German singer-songwriter
 * November 3 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress
 * November 5 – Alexa Chung, English television presenter and model
 * November 4 – Tyler Everett, American football player
 * November 8
 * Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
 * Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
 * November 9 – Meseret Defar, Ethiopian long-distance runner
 * November 10
 * Fred Cheng, Canadian-born Hong Kong singer
 * Miranda Lambert, American country music singer
 * November 11
 * Sola Aoi, Japanese model
 * Philipp Lahm, German footballer
 * Kristal Marshall, American professional wrestler, model and beauty queen
 * Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese voice actor
 * November 12 – Kate Bell, Australian actress
 * November 14 – Chelsea Wolfe, American singer-songwriter and musician
 * November 15 – Laura Smet, French actress
 * November 16 – K, Korean singer
 * November 17
 * Viva Bianca, Australian actress
 * Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
 * Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
 * Ryan Braun, American baseball player
 * Évelyne Brochu, Canadian actress
 * Harry Lloyd, British actor
 * Nick Markakis, American baseball player
 * Patrick McHale, American animator
 * Christopher Paolini, American author
 * Rocsi, American television personality
 * November 18
 * Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
 * Robert Kazinsky, English actor and model
 * November 19
 * Adam Driver, American actor
 * DeAngelo Hall, American football player
 * Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
 * November 20 – Future, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
 * November 21 – The Bella Twins, (Brie & Nikki), American professional wrestlers
 * November 22
 * Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * Xiao Yu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
 * November 24
 * Dean Ashton, British footballer
 * José López, Venezuelan baseball player
 * Gwilym Lee, English actor
 * November 25 – Atsushi Itō, Japanese actor
 * November 26 – Emiri Katō, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * November 27
 * Professor Green, British rapper
 * Arjay Smith, American actor
 * November 28
 * Courtney Rush, Canadian professional wrestler
 * Ellie Taylor, English comedian and television presenter
 * Kelly Wenham, English actress
 * November 29
 * Pamela Brown, CNN Justice Correspondent
 * Jenn Sterger, American television personality and model
 * Aylin Tezel, German actress
 * November 30 – Nicholas Kole, American figure skater

December

 * December 2
 * Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
 * Ana Lucía Domínguez, Columbian actress
 * Jana Kramer, American actress
 * Mette Lindberg, Danish singer
 * Aaron Rodgers, American football player
 * Daniela Ruah, Portuguese actress
 * December 3
 * Troy Bergeron, American football player
 * Andy Grammer, American singer and songwriter
 * December 4
 * Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer
 * Charity Shea, American actress
 * Roman Zaretsky, Israeli figure skater
 * December 5
 * Tori Sparks, American singer, songwriter and activist
 * Tiffany Weimer, American footballer
 * December 6 – Francesca Jackson, English musical theatre actress
 * December 7 – Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player
 * December 9
 * Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
 * Jolene Purdy, American actress
 * December 10
 * Patrick Flueger, American actor
 * Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
 * December 12 – Katrina Elam, American singer
 * December 13
 * J Alvarez Puerto Rican singer
 * Satya Bhabha, British actor
 * Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
 * December 15
 * Delon Armitage, English rugby union player
 * René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
 * Brooke Fraser, New Zealand folk-pop and Christian musician
 * Camilla Luddington, English actress
 * Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
 * December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model
 * December 17
 * Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
 * Sébastien Ogier, French rally driver
 * December 19
 * Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer
 * Casey Crescenzo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dear Hunter and The Receiving End of Sirens)
 * AJ Lamas, American actor
 * Bridget Phillipson, English politician
 * Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer
 * Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
 * December 20
 * Nelly Alisheva, Russian volleyball player
 * Gia Allemand, American actress (d. 2013)
 * Jonah Hill, American actor
 * Lucy Pinder, English model
 * Josh Sussman, American actor
 * December 21 – Steven Yeun, American actor
 * December 22
 * Joe Dinicol, Canadian actor
 * Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, Miss Universe 2004
 * Nathalie Péchalat, French ice dancer
 * December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
 * December 25 – Gwei Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
 * December 27 – Cole Hamels, American baseball player
 * December 28 – Aiko Nakamura, Japanese tennis player
 * December 29 – Jessica Andrews, American country music singer

Date unknown

 * Linda Bhreathnach, Irish television actress
 * Sarah Earnshaw, British actress
 * Yalda Hakim, Australian journalist
 * Leila Benn Harris, English actress and singer
 * Eleonore Hendricks, American actress, photographer and casting director
 * Ainsley Howard, British actress
 * Jane McGregor, Canadian actress
 * Ashley Austin Morris, American actress
 * Daráine Mulvihill, Irish television personality
 * Brook Roberts, American television personality and former beauty pageant
 * Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Australian actress

January

 * January 2
 * Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)
 * Edward Howard, American Roman Catholic prelate and venerable (b. 1877)
 * January 7 – Fred Church, American actor (b. 1889)
 * January 8 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (b. 1919)
 * January 10 – Roy DeMeo, American Mafia hitman (b. 1942)
 * January 11
 * Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
 * Tikhon Kiselyov, Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the de facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR from 1980 to 1983 (b. 1917)
 * January 12 – Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977 (b. 1903)
 * January 13 – David M. Shoup, American general (b. 1904)
 * January 15
 * Masatane Kanda, Japanese general (b. 1890)
 * Meyer Lansky, American gangster (b. 1902)
 * January 17 – Doodles Weaver, American comedian (b. 1911)
 * January 18 – Arturo Umberto Illia, 34th President of Argentina (b. 1900)
 * January 20 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
 * January 21 – Howard Clark, Canadian Anglican primate (b. 1903)
 * January 22 – Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, British trade unionist (b. 1887)
 * January 23 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
 * January 24
 * Carmen Clemente Travieso, Venezuelan journalist and activist (b. 1900)
 * George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
 * Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
 * January 27
 * Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
 * Louis de Funès, French comedy actor (b. 1914)
 * January 28
 * Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
 * Billy Fury, British musician (b. 1940)
 * January 29 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1898)

February



 * February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
 * February 7 – Raja Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
 * February 8
 * Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)
 * Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1893)
 * February 9 – Patriarch Khoren I Paroian (b. 1914)
 * February 12
 * Italo Acconcia, Italian football player and manager (b. 1925)
 * Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
 * February 13 – Lorenzo Bianchi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899)
 * February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
 * February 19 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
 * February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
 * February 23 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
 * February 25 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
 * February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)
 * February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914)

March

 * March 1 – Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902)
 * March 3
 * Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
 * Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
 * March 6 – Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)
 * March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)
 * March 8
 * Sir William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
 * Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b. 1920)
 * March 9
 * Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
 * Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 * March 11 – Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)
 * March 14 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927)
 * March 15 – Dame Rebecca West, British writer (b. 1892)
 * March 16 – Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b. 1903)
 * March 17 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
 * March 18
 * Umberto II of Italy, the last King of Italy (b. 1904)
 * Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
 * March 22 – Blanton Collier, American football coach (b. 1906)
 * March 23 – Prince Thibaut of Central African Empire (b. 1948)
 * March 25 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1920)
 * March 26 – Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian (b. 1907)
 * March 27
 * Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (b. 1898)
 * James Hayter, British actor (b. 1907)
 * March 30
 * Gunnar Bigum, Danish actor (b. 1914)
 * Lisette Model, Austrian-American photographer (b. 1901)
 * March 31 – Stephen Murray, British actor (b. 1912)

April

 * April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)
 * April 4
 * Maria Babanova, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1900)
 * Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b. 1901)
 * Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
 * April 11 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
 * April 12
 * Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b. 1923)
 * Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (b. 1906)
 * April 13 – Gloria Marín, Mexican actress (b. 1919)
 * April 15
 * Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1902)
 * Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1892)
 * April 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)
 * April 20
 * Mária Mezei, Hungarian actress (b. 1909)
 * Walther Nehring, German general (b. 1892)
 * Pedro Quartucci, Argentine boxer and actor (b. 1905)
 * April 21 – Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor (b. 1902)
 * April 22 – Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
 * April 23
 * Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b. 1908)
 * Selena Royle, American actress and writer (b. 1904)
 * Alberto Zorrilla, Argentine Olympic swimmer (b. 1906)
 * April 30
 * George Balanchine, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
 * Joel Henry Hildebrand, American chemist (b. 1881)
 * Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)

May

 * May 1
 * George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
 * Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born cinematographer (b. 1889)
 * Arthur D. Struble, American admiral (b. 1894)
 * May 2
 * Pridi Banomyong, Thai Prime minister (b. 1900)
 * Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Minnesota Vikings) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1926)
 * May 5 – John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)
 * May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
 * May 13 – Allauddin, Pakistan actor (b. 1923)
 * May 14
 * Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
 * Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
 * May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)
 * May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898)
 * May 19 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
 * May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
 * May 22
 * Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
 * King Idris of Libya (reigned from 1951 to 1969) (b. 1889)
 * John Penrose, British actor (b. 1914)
 * May 23 – John Seward Johnson I, American art collector (b. 1895)
 * May 25 – Sid Daniels, British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of the RMS Titanic dies (b. 1895)
 * May 29 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b. 1899)
 * May 31 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)

June

 * June 1
 * Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
 * Ernest Graves, American actor (b. 1919)
 * June 2
 * Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
 * Julio Rosales, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
 * June 4 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (b. 1920)
 * June 6 – Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (b. 1910)
 * June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)
 * June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)
 * June 11 – George Douglas, American actor (b. 1903)
 * June 12 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1902)
 * June 15
 * Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Spanish-born Guatemalan Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1909)
 * Srirangam Srinivasarao, Indian Telugu poet (b. 1910)
 * June 17
 * George Benson, British actor (b. 1911)
 * Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
 * June 18
 * Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
 * Robert Riddles, British locomotive engineer (b. 1892)
 * June 23 – Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician, 21st President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1919)
 * June 24 – Charles Phelps Taft II, American politician, son of President William Howard Taft (b. 1897)
 * June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
 * June 30 – Mary Livingstone, American radio and voice actress (b. 1905)

July

 * July 1 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
 * July 4
 * Dr. John Bodkin Adams, British suspected serial killer (b. 1899)
 * Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)
 * July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)
 * July 7 – Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)
 * July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)
 * July 10 – Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)
 * July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
 * July 12 – Chris Wood, English musician (b. 1944)
 * July 14 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b. 1892)
 * July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)
 * July 16 – Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
 * July 17 – Roosevelt Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)
 * July 19 – Erik Ode, German actor (b. 1910)
 * July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
 * July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
 * July 26
 * Larry Gains, Canadian boxer (b. 1901)
 * Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)
 * July 29
 * Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1900)
 * Rocco Chinnici, Italian judge (b. 1925)
 * Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
 * David Niven, English soldier and actor (b. 1910)
 * July 30
 * Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
 * Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)

August

 * August 1
 * Peter Arne, British actor (b. 1918)
 * Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (b. 1954)
 * August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1938)
 * August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
 * August 5
 * Bart Bok, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1906)
 * Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
 * August 6
 * Michel Micombero, Burundian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burundi and 1st President of Burundi (b. 1940)
 * Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)
 * August 7 – David Ford, American actor (b. 1925)
 * August 10 – José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Portuguese political figure, 104th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1917)
 * August 12 – Theodor Burchadi, German admiral (b. 1892)
 * August 13 – Bob Bailey, American actor (b. 1913)
 * August 16
 * Earl Averill, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1902)
 * Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (b. 1895)
 * August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
 * August 18 – Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b. 1902)
 * August 21 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
 * August 26 – Nazir Ahmed Khan, Pakistan-born Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1904)
 * August 27 – Harry A. deButts, American railroad executive
 * August 28 – Jan Clayton, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
 * August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)

September

 * September 1 – Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (suffered an aortic aneurysm after giving a news conference condemning the shooting down of KAL 007) (b. 1912)
 * September 2 - Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (b. 1944)
 * September 8 – Ibrahim Abboud, 4th Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b. 1900)
 * September 9 – Leo Lemay, American-born Solomonian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1909)
 * September 10
 * Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 * Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)
 * Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)
 * John Vorster, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa and 5th President of South Africa (b. 1915)
 * September 12 – Sabin Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1904)
 * September 16
 * Gunnar Olsson, Swedish actor (b. 1904)
 * José María Reyes Mata, Honduran revolutionary leader (b. 1943)
 * September 17 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-born American Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1915)
 * September 18 – María Esther Podestá, Argentine actress (b. 1896)
 * September 20
 * Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1906)
 * Ángel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
 * September 25 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
 * September 26 – Tino Rossi, French singer (b. 1907)
 * September 29 – Alan Moorehead, Australian-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)
 * September 30 – William Elliott, American actor (b. 1934)

October

 * October 4 – Andrés Córdova, acting President of Ecuador, Leader of the World War II (b. 1892)
 * October 5 – Earl Tupper, American businessman (b. 1907)
 * October 6 – Terence Cooke, American Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1921)
 * October 7
 * George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
 * Christophe Soglo, Beninese military officer and political leader, twice President of Dahomey (b. 1909)
 * October 8 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
 * October 10
 * Georgia Cozzini, American socialist politician (b. 1915)
 * Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)
 * October 12 – Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (b. 1914)
 * October 14
 * Alice Lardé de Venturino, Salvadoran poet and writer (b. 1895)
 * Paul Fix, American actor (b. 1901)
 * October 15 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
 * October 17 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. (b. 1905)
 * October 18 – Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
 * October 19
 * Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary (b. 1944)
 * Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-British pathologist (b. 1895)
 * October 20 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
 * October 21 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
 * October 23
 * Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
 * Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)
 * Lakshman Wickremasinghe, Sri Lankan Anglican bishop (b. 1927)
 * October 26
 * Mike Michalske, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
 * Alfred Tarski, Polish-born American logician and mathematician (b. 1901)
 * October 28
 * Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)
 * Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
 * October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player and coach; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1895)

November

 * November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
 * November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
 * November 8
 * Robert Agnew, American actor (b. 1899)
 * Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)
 * November 13
 * Aliagha Aghayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1913)
 * Junior Samples, American comedian (b. 1926)
 * November 14
 * Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)
 * Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)
 * November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
 * November 19
 * Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
 * Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)
 * November 20
 * Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
 * Richard Loo, Chinese-born American actor (b. 1903)
 * November 23 – Waheed Murad, Legendary Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)
 * November 25 – Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
 * November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
 * November 30 – Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)

December

 * December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
 * December 5
 * Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
 * John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919)
 * December 6
 * Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
 * Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)
 * December 8
 * Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
 * Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
 * December 9
 * Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
 * David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)
 * December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
 * December 13
 * Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)
 * Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)
 * December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913)
 * December 19 – Cameron Hall, British actor (b. 1897)
 * December 20 – Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b. 1935)
 * December 21
 * Rod Cameron, American actor (b. 1910)
 * Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
 * December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
 * December 25 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b. 1893)
 * December 26 – Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
 * December 27
 * William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
 * Walter Scott, American performer (b. 1943)
 * December 28
 * Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910)
 * Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)

Date unknown

 * Mary Cohan, Broadway composer and lyricist, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1909)
 * Freda Simmonds, New Zealand artist (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
 * Chemistry – Henry Taube
 * Medicine – Barbara McClintock
 * Literature – William Golding
 * Peace – Lech Wałęsa
 * Economics – Gérard Debreu

1983 in fiction

 * The 1968 Jimi Hendrix song "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" references the year
 * Season one of the Netflix original series Stranger Things takes place in 1983.
 * The 1999 Video game Silent Hill takes place in 1983
 * The main timeline of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novels takes place in 1983
 * The 2007 movie This Is England takes place during summer 1983.
 * The 2016 Disney movie Pete's Dragon is set in this year.
 * The 2016 Marvel superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse takes place during 1983.
 * The 2017 film Call Me By Your Name takes place during the summer of 1983 in Northern Italy.

June

 * June – Throughout the local summer, many Midwestern American states are affected by a severe drought that causes water shortages.
 * June 4 – Fugitive tax protester Gordon Kahl, who has been on the run for four months, is killed in a shootout with police in Smithville, Arkansas, along with a local sheriff.
 * June 9 – Britain's Conservative government, led by Margaret Thatcher, is re-elected by a landslide majority.
 * June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to leave the vicinity of the major planets of the Solar System.
 * June 16 – Cork Graham is caught off the Vietnamese island of Phú Quốc looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd. He is convicted and imprisoned until 1984 for illegal entry.
 * June 18
 * Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-7 mission.
 * Iranian teenager Mona Mahmudnizhad and nine other women are hanged because of their membership of the Bahá'í Faith.
 * June 18–19 The team of Vern Schuppan Al Holbert and Hurley Haywood won the 24 Hours of Le Mans
 * June 19 – Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair is released in arcades.
 * June 25 – India wins the Cricket World Cup by defeating the West Indies by 43 runs.
 * June 30 – A total loss of coolant occurs at the Embalse Nuclear Power Station, Argentina. It is classified as an "Accident With Local Consequences" – level 4 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

July

 * July 1
 * A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet, en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea, crashes into the Fouta Djall Mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
 * The High Court of Australia blocks construction of the Franklin Dam in Tasmania.
 * A technical failure causes the release of iodine-131 from the Philippsburg Nuclear Power Plant, Germany.
 * July 15
 * Nintendo's Family Computer, also known as the Famicom, goes on sale in Japan.
 * The Orly Airport attack in Paris leaves eight dead and 55 injured.
 * July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
 * July 20 – The government of Poland announces the end of martial law and amnesty for political prisoners.
 * July 21 – The lowest temperature on Earth is recorded in Vostok Station, Antarctica with −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F).
 * July 22 – Australian Dick Smith completes his solo circumnavigation in a helicopter.
 * July 23
 * Gimli Glider: Out of fuel, Air Canada Flight 143 glides in to land in Gimli, Manitoba.
 * 13 Sri Lanka Army soldiers are killed after a deadly ambush by the militant Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, starting the Sri Lankan Civil War which continued until 2009.
 * Heavy massive rain and mudslides at western Shimane Prefecture, Japan, kill 117.
 * Diana Ross's concert at The Great Lawn of New York City's Central Park, attended by 800,000 fans, was cut short by a massive lightning storm.
 * July 24 – The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
 * July 28 – New South Wales premier Neville Wran is exonerated by the Street Royal Commission, over claims raised by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) programme Four Corners, that he attempted to influence the NSW magistracy.

August

 * August 1 – America West Airlines begins operations out of Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada.
 * August 4 – Thomas Sankara becomes President of Upper Volta.
 * August 16 – The Bill first airs as Woodentop.
 * August 18
 * Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 22 and causing over US$3.8 billion (2005 dollars) in damage.
 * Five people are killed and 18 others injured when a road train is deliberately driven into a motel at Ayers Rock, NT (the driver, Douglas Edward Crabbe, is convicted in March 1984).
 * August 21 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippines opposition leader, is assassinated in Manila just as he returns from exile.
 * August 24 – The Old Philadelphia Arena is destroyed by arson.
 * August 26 – Heavy rain triggers flooding at Bilbao, Spain, and surrounding areas, killing 45 people and causing millions in damages.
 * August 30 – Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space aboard Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-8 mission.

September

 * September 1 – Cold War: Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet Union Air Force Su-15 Flagon pilot Major Gennadi Osipovich near Moneron Island when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace. All 269 on board are killed including U.S. Congressman Larry McDonald.
 * September 4 – Six men walk underwater across Sydney Harbour – 82.9 km in 48 hours.
 * September 6 – The Soviet Union admits to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, stating that the pilots did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
 * September 9 – Iraqi club Al-Shorta wins the 1983 President's Gold Cup by defeating Malaysia 2-0 in the final.
 * September 15 – Huey Lewis and the News's album Sports was released.
 * September 16 – President Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) will be made available for civilian use.
 * September 17 – Vanessa L. Williams becomes the first African American to be crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
 * September 18 – U.S. heavy metal band Kiss officially appears in public without makeup for the first time on MTV.
 * September 19 – Saint Kitts and Nevis becomes an independent state.
 * September 23
 * Gulf Air Flight 771 crashes in the United Arab Emirates after a bomb explodes in the baggage compartment, killing 117.
 * Violence erupts in New Caledonia between native Kanaks and French expatriates. The French government withdraws the promise of independence.
 * September 25 – Maze Prison escape: 38 Provisional Irish Republican Army prisoners, armed with 6 handguns, hijack a prison lorry and smash their way out of HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, in the largest prison escape since World War II and in British history.
 * September 26
 * 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident: Soviet military officer Stanislav Petrov averts a worldwide nuclear war by correctly identifying a warning of attack by U.S. missiles as a false alarm.
 * The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown. The escape tower system, attached to the top of the capsule containing the crew and Soyuz spacecraft, fires immediately, pulling the crew safe from the vehicle a few seconds before the rocket explodes, destroying the launch complex.
 * The Australian yacht Australia II wins the America's Cup, the first successful challenge to the New York Yacht Club's 132-year defence of the sailing trophy.
 * September 27 – The GNU Project is announced publicly on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups.

October

 * October 2 – Neil Kinnock is elected leader of the British Labour Party.
 * October 4 – British entrepreneur Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 mph (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert, Nevada.
 * October 4 – The first Hooters restaurant is opened in Clearwater, Florida.
 * October 7 – A plan to abolish the Greater London Council is announced.
 * October 9 – The Rangoon bombing kills South Korea's Foreign Minister, Lee Bum Suk, and 21 others. The perpetrators are believed to be North Koreans.
 * October 12 – Japan's former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed, and sentenced to 4 years in jail.
 * October 16 – Baltimore Orioles beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 1 to win the World Series baseball championship in the United States.
 * October 19 – Maurice Bishop, Prime Minister of Grenada, and 40 others are assassinated in a military coup.
 * October 21 – At the 17th General Conference on Weights and Measures, the metre is defined in terms of the speed of light as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
 * October 22 – In Bonn, West Germany, people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament.
 * October 23 – Beirut barracks bombing: Simultaneous suicide truck-bombings destroy both the French Army and United States Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, killing 241 U.S. servicemen, 58 French paratroopers and 6 Lebanese civilians.
 * October 25
 * Invasion of Grenada by United States troops at the behest of Eugenia Charles of Dominica, a member of the Organization of American States.
 * Word processor software Multi-Tool Word, soon to become Microsoft Word, is released  in the United States. It is primarily the work of programmers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi. Free demonstration copies on disk are distributed with the November issue of PC World magazine.
 * October 30 – Argentine general election: The first democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of military rule are held.

November

 * November 2
 * Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: At the White House Rose Garden, U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. It is first observed in 1986.
 * South Africa approves a new constitution granting limited political rights to Coloureds and Asians as part of a series of reforms to apartheid.
 * Chrysler introduces the Dodge Caravan, the first "minivan".
 * November 3 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 United States' Democratic Party presidential nomination.
 * November 5 – Byford Dolphin rig diving bell accident: Off the coast of Norway, 5 divers are killed and one severely wounded in an explosive decompression accident.
 * November 7 – Able Archer 83: Many Soviet officials misinterpret this NATO exercise as a nuclear first strike, causing the last nuclear scare of the Cold War.
 * November 10 – The anticancer drug etoposide is approved by the FDA, leading to a curative treatment regime in the field of combination chemotherapy of testicular carcinoma.
 * November 11 – Ronald Reagan becomes the first U.S. President to address the National Diet, Japan's national legislature.
 * November 13 – The first United States cruise missiles arrive at RAF Greenham Common in England amid protests from peace campaigners.
 * November 14 – The immunosuppressant cyclosporine is approved by the FDA, leading to a revolution in the field of transplantation.
 * November 15 – The Turkish part of Cyprus declares independence.
 * November 16 – A jury in Gretna, Louisiana, US acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
 * November 17 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico.
 * November 18 – A Christmas Story is released.
 * November 19 – An attempted hijacking of Aeroflot Flight 6833 in Soviet Georgia results in several dead and wounded.
 * November 20 – The Day After airs on ABC.
 * November 24 – Lynda Mann, 15, is found raped and strangled in the village of Narborough, England (Colin Pitchfork is sentenced to life imprisonment in 1988).
 * November 26 – Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly UK£26 million are taken from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. Only a fraction of the gold is ever recovered, and only 2 men are convicted of the crime.
 * November 27 – Colombian Avianca Flight 11 crashes near Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain, killing 181 of the 192 on board.

December

 * December 2 – Michael Jackson's Thriller video is aired on MTV for the first time.
 * December 4
 * United States Navy aviator Lt's. Mark Lange and Bobby Goodman are shot down in an A-6 Intruder over Lebanon and captured by Syrians; Lt. Lange dies of his injuries; Lt. Goodman is released 30 days later after the intervention of the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
 * General elections are celebrated in Venezuela in which the opposition party, Democratic Action, wins a majority in both chambers of the Venezuelan Congress and the presidency for the 1984–1989 period under Jaime Lusinchi. Voter turn out is 87.3% and Lusinchi obtains 58.4% of the votes.
 * Solar eclipse of December 4, 1983.
 * December 5 – ICIMOD is established and inaugurated with its headquarters in Kathmandu, Nepal, and legitimised through an Act of Parliament in Nepal this same year.
 * December 7 – Two Spanish passenger planes collide on the foggy runway at a Madrid airport, killing 90.
 * December 9 – The Australian dollar is floated, by Federal treasurer Paul Keating. Under the old flexible peg system, the Reserve Bank bought and sold all Australian dollars and cleared the market at the end of the day. This initiative is taken by the government of Bob Hawke.
 * December 10 – Military rule ends and democracy is restored in Argentina, with the beginning of Raúl Alfonsín's first term as President of Argentina
 * December 13 – Turgut Özal, of ANAP forms the new government of Turkey (45th government); beginning of a new civilian regime
 * December 17
 * A discothèque fire in Madrid, Spain, kills 83 people.
 * Harrods bombings: a Provisional IRA car bomb kills six people and injures 90 outside Harrods in London.
 * December 19 – The Jules Rimet Trophy is stolen from the Brazilian Soccer Confederation building in Rio de Janeiro., the trophy has not been recovered.
 * December 27
 * A propane explosion in Buffalo, New York, US kills five firefighters and two civilians.
 * Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.
 * December 29 – The Reverend Jesse Jackson travels to Syria to secure the release of U.S. Navy Lieutenant Robert Goodman, who has been in Syrian captivity since being shot down over Lebanon during a bombing mission.
 * December 31
 * Brunei gains independence from the United Kingdom.
 * Two bombs explode in France; one on a Paris train kills three and injures 19. The other at Marseille station kills two and injures 34.
 * Second Nigerian Republic was overthrown

Date unknown

 * I. M. Pei wins the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
 * Zlatko Ugljen receives the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Šerefudin's White Mosque, built in Visoko.
 * The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program is launched in the United States.
 * Flashdance and Return of the Jedi are box-office hits.
 * Gérard Debreu wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
 * Leopold Kohr, the people of Belau, Amory and Hunter Lovins/Rocky Mountain Institute and Manfred Max Neef/CEPAUR win the Right Livelihood Award.
 * McDonald's introduces the McNugget.
 * Kary Mullis discovers polymerase chain reaction while working for Cetus.
 * The DeLorean Motor Company ceases production.
 * The meteorological 1982–83 El Niño event brings severe weather worldwide.
 * A severe drought affects the Midwest, Great Plains and parts of the Southern United States between May and September.
 * Ronald Reagan declassifies GPS for public use; it will be shut down again in 1990 for the Gulf War and re-activated again in 1993.
 * The capital of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire is changed from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro.

January

 * January 1
 * Calum Davenport, English footballer
 * Daniel Jarque, Spanish footballer (d. 2009)
 * January 2 – Kate Bosworth, American actress
 * January 3 – Precious Lara Quigaman, Filipina model, host and actress
 * January 4
 * Spencer Chamberlain, American musician
 * Kerry Condon, Irish actress
 * January 6 – Cristina Rosato, Canadian actress
 * January 7
 * Tosin Abasi, Nigerian-American musician (Animals As Leaders)
 * Brett Dalton, American actor
 * Natalie Gulbis, American golfer
 * January 8
 * Chen Xiexia, Chinese weightlifter
 * Chris Masters, American wrestler
 * January 9
 * Gala Évora, Spanish actress
 * Chris Getzlaf, American football player; brother of Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf
 * January 10 – Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier
 * January 11 – Adrian Sutil, German Formula One driver
 * January 13
 * Bill Hudson, Brazilian-American musician
 * Imran Khan, Bollywood actor
 * Brianne Moncrief, American soap opera actress
 * Julian Morris, British actor
 * Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player
 * January 14 – Takako Uehara, Japanese singer
 * January 15 – Aa Jimmy, Indonesian actor (d. 2018)
 * January 16
 * Marwan Kenzari, Dutch actor
 * Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer
 * January 17
 * Rickey D'Shon Collins, American actor
 * Johannes Herber, German basketball player
 * January 18
 * Jung Yu-mi, South Korean actress
 * Samantha Mumba, Irish singer and actress
 * January 19
 * Øystein Pettersen, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier
 * Utada Hikaru, Japanese singer and songwriter
 * January 20
 * Yasser Elshantaf, Palestinian entrepreneur
 * Geovany Soto, Puerto Rican baseball player
 * January 21
 * Svetlana Khodchenkova, Russian actress
 * Maryse Ouellet, French-Canadian professional wrestler and glamour model
 * Moritz Volz, German footballer
 * January 22 – Shaun Cody, American football player
 * January 23
 * David Firth, British animator
 * Justyna Kowalczyk, Polish cross-country skier
 * Sarah Tait, Australian rower (d. 2016)
 * January 24
 * Diane Birch, American singer-songwriter
 * Frankie Grande, American actor, dancer, television personality, and producer
 * Craig Horner, Australian actor
 * Scott Speed, American Formula One driver
 * Teo, Belarusian singer
 * January 25 – Yasuyuki Konno, Japanese footballer
 * January 27 – Rebecca Judd, Australian model and television presenter
 * January 30 – Ella Hooper, Australian singer-songwriter
 * January 31 – James Sutton, British actor

February

 * February 1 – Andrew VanWyngarden, American singer
 * February 2
 * David Call, American film and television actor
 * Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
 * February 3
 * Damiel Dossévi, French pole vaulter
 * Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
 * Hillary Scott, American pornographic actress
 * February 4 – Hannibal Buress, American comedian
 * February 5 – Vanessa Rousso, French-American professional poker player
 * February 6
 * Michael Robinson, former American football player
 * Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
 * Jamie Whincup, Australian race car driver
 * February 7
 * Scott Feldman, American baseball player
 * Elin Grindemyr, Swedish model
 * Federico Marchetti, Italian footballer
 * February 8
 * Louise Glover, English model and photographer
 * Atiba Hutchinson, Canadian footballer
 * Ashley Mulheron, Scottish actress and television presenter
 * Olga Syahputra, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer, and television presenter (d. 2015)
 * February 10
 * Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian artistic gymnast
 * Vic Fuentes, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * February 11 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
 * February 14 – Julia Ling, American actress
 * February 15
 * Philipp and David Degen, Swiss footballers
 * Alan Didak, Australian rules footballer
 * Russell Martin, Canadian baseball player
 * February 16
 * Agyness Deyn, English supermodel
 * John Magaro, American film, television and stage actor
 * February 17
 * Selita Ebanks, Caymanian model
 * Elin Kling, Swedish fashion journalist
 * Kevin Rudolf, American singer-songwriter and record producer
 * February 18 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
 * February 19
 * Kotoōshū Katsunori (born Kaloyan Stefanov Mahlyanov), Bulgarian sumo wrestler
 * Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
 * Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese voice actress
 * Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
 * Jawad Williams, American basketball player
 * February 20
 * Emad Moteab, Egyptian footballer
 * Justin Verlander, American baseball player
 * February 21
 * Mélanie Laurent, French actress and director
 * Eoin Macken, Irish actor
 * February 22
 * Penny Flame, born Jennifer Ketcham, American former pornographic actress/reality TV star
 * Iliza Shlesinger, American comedian
 * February 23
 * Aziz Ansari, American comedian and actor
 * Mirco Bergamasco, Italian rugby union player
 * Emily Blunt, English actress
 * Dominic Lyne, English author
 * Mido, Egyptian footballer
 * February 24 – Sophie Howard, English glamour model
 * February 25 – Eduardo da Silva, Croatian soccer player
 * February 26 – Andrew Baggaley, English table tennis player
 * February 27
 * Devin Harris, American basketball player
 * Hayley Angel Holt, English actress
 * Kate Mara, American television and film actress
 * Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
 * February 28 – Linda Király, American-Hungarian singer-songwriter

March

 * March 1 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-born Kenyan-American Academy Award-winning actress
 * March 4
 * Samuel Contesti, Italian figure skater
 * Adam Deacon, British actor
 * Jessica Heap, American actress
 * March 7 – Raquel Alessi, American actress
 * March 9
 * Bryony Afferson, English actress and musician
 * Bobby Campo, American actor
 * Clint Dempsey, American footballer
 * Maite Perroni, Mexican singer and actress
 * March 10
 * Kyle Marshall, Canadian animator, storyboard artist, director and writer
 * Janet Mock, American author and activist
 * Jonas Olsson, Swedish footballer
 * Rafe Spall, English actor
 * Carrie Underwood, American singer
 * March 11 – Melissa Rycroft, American television personality and reality television contestant
 * March 12 – Roxy Shahidi, English actress
 * March 14
 * Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
 * Taylor Hanson, American musician
 * March 15 – Florencia Bertotti, Argentine actress and singer
 * March 16
 * Stephanie Gatschet, American actress
 * Katie Kim, Irish singer-songwriter
 * March 17
 * Penny McNamee, Australian actress
 * Atit Shah, Indian American Hollywood film producer
 * Martin Shkreli, American businessman, former hedge fund manager, and convicted felon
 * March 18 – Kyle Downes, Canadian-American actor
 * March 19 – Nicole Muirbrook, American actress and model
 * March 20
 * Michael Cassidy, American film television and actor
 * Eiji Kawashima, Japanese footballer
 * Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish pop singer
 * March 21 – Bruno Langley, British actor
 * March 22
 * Christina Bennett Lind, American actress
 * March 23 – Mo Farah, British athlete
 * March 27 – Shawntinice Polk, American basketball player (d. 2005)
 * March 29
 * Ezgi Mola, Turkish actress
 * Ed Skrein, English actor and rapper
 * March 30
 * Zach Gowen, American wrestler
 * Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer
 * March 31
 * Hashim Amla, South African cricketer
 * Ashleigh Ball, Canadian voice actress, singer and musician
 * Meinir Gwilym, Welsh folk singer
 * Melissa Ordway, American actress and model

April

 * April 1
 * Matt Lanter, American actor and model
 * Sergey Lazarev, Russian pop-singer
 * Sean Taylor, American football player (d. 2007)
 * April 2 – Yung Joc, American rapper
 * April 4
 * Eric Andre, American comedian, actor, and television host
 * Doug Lynch, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Amanda Righetti, American actress and film producer
 * April 6
 * Diora Baird, American actress
 * Bobbi Starr, American pornographic actress
 * April 7 – Franck Ribéry, French footballer
 * April 10
 * Jamie Chung, American actress
 * Ryan Merriman, American actor
 * April 11 – Joanna Douglas, Canadian actress
 * April 12
 * Jelena Dokić, Australian tennis player
 * Judy Marte, American actress and producer
 * Jonti Richter, Australian soccer player
 * April 13 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
 * April 15
 * Alice Braga, Brazilian actress
 * Ilya Kovalchuk, Russian ice hockey player
 * April 16 – Alex Antônio de Melo Santos, Brazilian footballer
 * April 18 – Miguel Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player
 * April 19
 * Alberto Callaspo, American baseball player
 * Joe Mauer, American baseball player
 * Curtis Thigpen, American baseball player
 * April 20
 * Sebastian Ingrosso, Swedish club DJ
 * Miranda Kerr, Australian model
 * Joanne King, Irish film and television actress
 * April 21
 * Paweł Brożek, Polish footballer
 * Lily Chan, Chinese singer
 * Tarvaris Jackson, American football player
 * Gugu Mbatha-Raw, British actress
 * April 22
 * Francis Capra, American actor
 * Matt Jones, American football player
 * April 23
 * Daniela Hantuchová, Slovakian tennis player
 * Aaron Hill, American actor
 * April 24 – Will Champlin, American singer, contestant from The Voice season 5
 * April 26 – Ryan Dowell Baum, American former child actor
 * April 29
 * Jay Cutler, American football player
 * Megan Boone, American actress
 * David Lee, American basketball player
 * Yuriko Shiratori, Japanese actress and gravure idol
 * April 30 – Yelena Leuchanka, Belarusian professional women's basketball player

May

 * May 1 – Alain Bernard, French Olympic swimmer
 * May 2
 * Tina Maze, Slovenian alpine ski racer
 * Dani Sordo, Spanish rally driver
 * May 3 - Ari Magder, American actor (d. 2012)
 * May 4
 * Brad Bufanda, American actor (d. 2017)
 * Jesse Moss, Canadian actor
 * May 5 – Henry Cavill, British actor
 * May 6
 * Gabourey Sidibe, American actress
 * Adrianne Palicki, American actress
 * Raquel Zimmermann, Brazilian model
 * May 7
 * Marco Galiazzo, Italian archer
 * Alexander Legkov, Russian cross country sky
 * May 8 – Matt Willis, English singer-songwriter
 * May 9 – Ryuhei Matsuda, Japanese actor
 * May 11
 * Daizee Haze, American professional wrestler
 * Matt Leinart, American football player
 * Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
 * May 12
 * Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Polish actress and singer
 * Domhnall Gleeson, Irish actor and writer
 * Alina Kabaeva, Russian rhythmic gymnast and politician
 * Charilaos Pappas, Greek footballer
 * May 13
 * Natalie Cassidy, British actress
 * Anita Görbicz, Hungarian handball player
 * Grégory Lemarchal, French singer (d. 2007)
 * Yaya Touré, Ivorian footballer
 * May 14
 * Anahí, Mexican singer and actress
 * Sarbel, Greek Cypriot pop singer
 * Amber Tamblyn, American actress
 * May 16
 * Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
 * Daniel Kerr, Australian rules footballer
 * Marcela Temer, First Lady of Brazil
 * May 17 – Channing Frye, American basketball player
 * May 18 – Vince Young, American football player
 * May 19
 * Eve Angel, Hungarian model
 * Jessica Fox, British actress
 * May 20
 * Michaela McManus, American actress
 * N. T. Rama Rao Jr., Indian actor and singer
 * Emma Williams, English stage and television actress
 * May 21 – Leva Bates, American professional wrestler
 * May 22
 * John Hopkins, American MotoGP racer
 * Connie and Cassie Powney, English twin actresses
 * May 23 – Heidi Range, British singer (Sugababes)
 * May 24 – Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean actress and model
 * May 27 – Bobby Convey, American soccer player
 * May 28
 * Megalyn Echikunwoke, American actress
 * Toby Hemingway, British/American actor
 * May 30 – Jennifer Ellison, British actress
 * May 31
 * David Hernandez, American singer
 * Zana Marjanović, Bosnian actress
 * Reggie Yates, English actor, television presenter, and radio DJ

June

 * June 1 – Sylvia Hoeks, Dutch actress
 * June 2
 * Lisa Hammond, English actress
 * Brooke White, American singer
 * June 3 – Janine Carmen Habeck, German model
 * June 6
 * Gemma Bissix, British actress
 * Adam Hendershott, American actor
 * Gianna Michaels, porn actress
 * Joe Rokocoko, New Zealand rugby union player
 * June 7 – Indiggo, Romanian-born American twin sisters, singer-songwriters, and reality TV personalities
 * June 8
 * Kim Clijsters, Belgian tennis player
 * Mamoru Miyano, Japanese voice actor
 * June 9 – Marina Lizorkina, Russian singer
 * June 10
 * Marina Abrosimova, Russian pop singer
 * Shanna Collins, American actress
 * Leelee Sobieski, American film and television actress
 * June 11 – José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
 * June 12
 * Bryan Habana, South African rugby union player
 * Andy Ologun, Nigerian mixed martial artist
 * Anja Rubik, Polish model
 * June 13 – Jason Spezza, Canadian hockey player
 * June 14
 * Torrance Coombs, Canadian film, theatre and television actor
 * Sean Klitzner, American internet personality and comedian
 * June 15
 * Derek Anderson, American football player
 * Julia Fischer, German violinist and pianist
 * June 16
 * Verónica Echegui, Spanish actress
 * Olivia Hack, American actress and voice actress
 * Kana Mannami, Japanese Go player
 * Lisa Yamanaka, Canadian voice actress
 * June 17
 * Connie Fisher, British actress and singer
 * Kazunari Ninomiya, Japanese actor, idol, and singer
 * Lee Ryan, English singer
 * June 19
 * Macklemore, American rapper
 * Tanja Mihhailova, Russian-Estonian pop singer and actress
 * Laura Norton, English actress
 * Mark Selby, British snooker player
 * Aidan Turner, Irish actor
 * June 20 – Cherrie Ying, Hong Kong actress
 * June 21
 * Michael Malarkey, British-American actor and musician
 * Edward Snowden, American computer specialist, CIA employee, and whistleblower
 * Brian Sites, American actor
 * June 22
 * Sally Nicholls, English children's book author of Ways to Live Forever
 * Mizan the Poet, English spoken word poet, activist and community worker
 * June 23
 * Miles Fisher, American film and television actor and musician
 * Brandi Rhodes, American wrestler and reality television personality
 * June 24
 * John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor and model
 * Shermain Jeremy, Antiguan singer and beauty pageant contestant
 * Christian Day, English rugby union player
 * June 25
 * Cleo, Polish singer
 * Shamau Shareef, Maldivian politician
 * Daniele Gastaldello, Italian footballer
 * Marko Đurić, Serbian politician
 * June 26
 * Toyonoshima Daiki, Japanese sumo wrestler
 * Alsény Këïta, Liberian footballer
 * Fahad Mustafa, Pakistani actor
 * Richard Okia, Ugandan cricketer
 * June 27
 * Alsou, Russian singer, Eurovision Song Contest 2000 runner-up
 * Ben Bocquelet, French-British animator and producer
 * Nikola Rakočević, Serbian actor
 * Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
 * June 28
 * Jaiveer Shergill, Indian politician
 * Curtis Lepore, American actor, musician and internet celebrity
 * June 29 – Ilya Yashin, Russian activist and politician
 * June 30
 * Cheryl, British singer (Girls Aloud) and TV personality
 * Katherine Ryan, Canadian comedian and actress

July

 * July 1
 * Lynsey Bartilson, American actress, dancer and singer
 * Tanya Chisholm, American actress and dancer
 * Marit Larsen, Norwegian singer and songwriter
 * Park Jeong-su, Korean singer (Super Junior)
 * July 2
 * Michelle Branch, American singer (The Wreckers)
 * Fadhil Hashim, Malaysian footballer
 * Alicia Menendez, American television commentator
 * July 3
 * Edinson Vólquez, Dominican baseball player
 * Park Jin-woo, South Korean actor
 * July 4 – Isabeli Fontana, Brazilian fashion model
 * July 5
 * Edwina Bartholomew, Australian journalist and television presenter
 * Zheng Jie, Chinese tennis player
 * Kumiko Ogura, Japanese badminton player
 * July 6 – Gregory Smith, Canadian actor
 * July 7
 * Kristi Capel, American beauty pageant and news presenter
 * Renee Chappell, Australian cricketer
 * Krzysztof Lijewski, Polish handballer
 * C4 Pedro, Angolan musician
 * Martin Wallström, Swedish actor
 * Vincent Wong, Hong Kong actor
 * Yoo Jae-hoon, South Korean footballer
 * July 9 – Christopher Porco, American convicted murderer
 * July 10
 * Barış Pehlivan, Turkish journalist and writer
 * Sherif Ekramy, Egyptian footballer
 * Kim Heechul, Korean actor and singer (Super Junior)
 * Boniface Mwangi, Kenyan photojournalist, politician and activist
 * July 11 – Marie Eleonor Serneholt, Swedish singer (A*Teens)
 * July 12
 * Megumi Kawamura, Japanese model
 * Krystin Pellerin, Canadian actress of theatre, television and film
 * July 13
 * Liu Xiang, Chinese athlete
 * Carmen Villalobos, Colombian actress and model
 * July 14 – Katrina Chen, Canadian politician
 * July 15 – Maxim Dondyuk, Ukrainian documentary photographer
 * July 16
 * Katrina Kaif, Bollywood actress and model
 * Zhang Xiangxiang, Chinese weightlifter
 * July 17
 * Flávia de Oliveira, Brazilian model
 * Kim Jin-woo, South Korean actor and singer
 * July 18 – Hatsu Hioki, Japanese professional mixed martial artist
 * July 19
 * Trai Byers, American actor and singer
 * Helen Skelton, British television presenter
 * July 20 – Martin McCann, Irish actor
 * July 21
 * Vinessa Antoine, Canadian actress
 * Amy Mizzi, Australian actress
 * Eivør Pálsdóttir, Faroese singer and composer
 * Kellen Winslow II, American football player
 * July 22
 * Jodi Albert, English actress and singer
 * Ryan Doucette, Canadian actor
 * Juliana Silva, Brazilian beach volleyball player
 * Jonas Sakuwaha, Zambian footballer
 * Sharni Vinson, Australian model, actress and dancer
 * July 23
 * Bec Hewitt, Australian actress
 * Aaron Peirsol, American swimmer
 * July 24
 * Daniele De Rossi, Italian footballer
 * Asami Mizukawa, Japanese actress
 * July 26
 * Kate Bolduan, American television journalist and CNN anchor
 * Elettra Weidemann, American fashion model and sociallite
 * July 29
 * Kaitlyn Black, American actress
 * Inés Gómez Mont, Mexican television host, reporter and actress
 * Tania Gunadi, Indonesian-American actress and producer
 * Elise Testone, American singer-songwriter
 * July 30 – Seán Dillon, Irish footballer

August



 * August 2 – Huston Street, American baseball player
 * August 3
 * Michelle Buswell, American model
 * Mamie Gummer, American actress
 * August 4
 * Jai Crawford, Australian cyclist
 * Greta Gerwig, American actress and filmmaker
 * Adhir Kalyan, South African actor
 * Mariusz Wlazły, Polish volleyball player
 * August 5 – Kara Tointon, English actress
 * August 6 – Robin van Persie, Dutch footballer
 * August 7
 * Christian Chávez, Mexican singer and actor
 * Brit Marling, American actress, screenwriter and producer
 * Tina O'Brien, British actress
 * August 8 – Fred Meyers, American actor
 * August 9
 * David Ames, British actor
 * Sarah Elizabeth, American model
 * Ashley Johnson, American actress
 * August 10
 * Spencer Redford, American actress
 * Mathieu Roy, Canadian professional ice hockey player
 * August 11
 * Sammy Glenn, English television actress
 * Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor
 * August 13
 * Aleš Hemský, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
 * Sebastian Stan, Romanian-born American actor
 * August 14
 * Elena Baltacha, Ukrainian-Scottish tennis player (d. 2014)
 * Sunidhi Chauhan, Indian playback singer
 * Spencer Pratt, American television personality
 * Mila Kunis, Ukraine-born American actress
 * August 16 – Nikos Zisis, Greek basketball player
 * August 17 – Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player
 * August 18
 * Dragon, Evening Class student, works for Volvo
 * Kris Boyd, Scottish football player
 * Mika, Lebanese-British singer
 * Cameron White, Australian cricketer
 * August 19
 * Missy Higgins, Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor
 * Tania Nolan, New Zealand actress
 * Claudia Salinas, Mexican model and actress
 * Reeva Steenkamp, South African model (d. 2013)
 * Tammin Sursok, Australian actress
 * August 20
 * Andrew Garfield, British/American actor
 * Yuri Zhirkov, Russian footballer
 * August 21
 * Chantelle Houghton, English glamour model and television personality
 * Brody Jenner, American television personality
 * August 23
 * James Collins, Welsh footballer
 * Ruta Gedmintas, Lithuanian-English actress
 * Annie Ilonzeh, American actress
 * Fiona Onasanya, British Labour party politician and criminal
 * August 24 – Brett Gardner, American baseball player
 * August 26
 * Rob Cantor, American singer-songwriter
 * Nicol David, Malaysian squash player
 * August 27
 * Chen Bolin, Taiwanese actor
 * Jamala, Ukrainian singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest 2016 winner
 * August 28
 * Alfonso Herrera, Mexican actor and singer
 * Lasith Malinga, Sri Lankan cricketer
 * August 29 – Jennifer Landon, American actress
 * August 30
 * Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
 * Jim Miller, American mixed martial artist
 * August 31
 * Larry Fitzgerald, American football player
 * Maria Flor, Brazilian actress

September

 * September 1
 * Camille Mana, American actress
 * José Antonio Reyes, Spanish football player
 * September 2 – Tiffany Hines, American television actress and singer
 * September 3
 * Alexander Klaws, German singer
 * Valdas Vasylius, Lithuanian basketball player
 * Christine Woods, American actress
 * September 4 – Jennifer Metcalfe, English actress
 * September 5 – Priscilla Meirelles, Miss Earth 2004
 * Lincoln Riley, American football coach
 * September 8 – Chris Judd, Australian rules footballer
 * September 9 – Zoe Kazan, American actress and screenwriter
 * September 10 – Joey Votto, Canadian baseball player
 * September 11 – Vivian Jepkemoi Cheruiyot, Kenyan long-distance runner
 * September 12 – Carly Smithson, Irish singer
 * September 13
 * James Bourne, English singer-songwriter
 * Kaoklai Kaennorsing, Thai Muay Thai kickboxer
 * September 14 – Amy Winehouse, British singer (d. 2011)
 * September 15
 * Ashleigh McIvor, Canadian freestyle skier
 * Holly Montag, American television personality
 * September 16 – Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean swimmer
 * September 17
 * Jennifer Peña, American singer
 * Ammel-Carl Sierra, Victorian Melbournian Horseman, Polo Player & Sports Entrepreneur
 * Catherine Tyldesley, English actress and model
 * September 18
 * Kevin Doyle, Irish footballer
 * Sasha Son, Lithuanian singer
 * September 20
 * A-Lin, Taiwanese singer
 * Yuna Ito, American-Japanese singer and actress
 * September 21
 * Sarah Rees Brennan, Irish novelist
 * Scott Evans, American actor
 * Maggie Grace, American actress
 * Joseph Mazzello, American actor
 * Anna Meares, Australian track cyclist
 * September 22 – Eriko Imai, Japanese singer (Speed)
 * September 23
 * Shane del Rosario, American professional mixed martial artist and kickboxer (d. 2013)
 * Märt Israel, Estonian discus thrower
 * September 24
 * Lyndon Ferns, South African swimmer
 * Randy Foye, American basketball player
 * September 25
 * Donald Glover, American actor
 * Son Dam-bi, South Korean singer
 * September 26 – Ricardo Quaresma, Portuguese footballer
 * September 27
 * Fazura, Malaysian actress
 * Jeon Hye-bin, South Korean actress and singer
 * September 28
 * Julissa Bermudez, Dominican-American television personality and actress
 * Sarah Wright, American actress
 * September 30
 * Machiko Kawana, Japanese voice actress
 * Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast
 * Reiko Shiota, Japanese badminton player

October

 * October 1 – Anna Drijver, Dutch actress and model
 * October 2 – Gerran Walker, American football player
 * October 3
 * Meghan Heffern, Canadian actress
 * Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
 * Tessa Thompson, American actress
 * October 4
 * Vicky Krieps, Luxembourgish actress
 * Risa Kudō, Japanese gravure idol
 * Shontelle, Barbadian singer, and songwriter
 * October 5
 * Jesse Eisenberg, American actor
 * Nicky Hilton Rothschild, American model and socialite
 * Shelby Rabara, American actress and singer
 * Noot Seear, Canadian fashion model and actress
 * Noah Segan, American character actor
 * Juan Manuel Vargas, Peruvian footballer
 * October 7 – Flying Lotus, American musician
 * October 8 – Michael Fraser, Scottish football goalkeeper
 * October 9 – Spencer Grammer, American actress
 * October 10 – Alyson Hau, Hong Kong radio DJ
 * October 11 – Bradley James, English actor
 * October 12 – Annick Obonsawin, Canadian actress and voice actress
 * October 13 – Katia Winter, Swedish actress
 * October 14
 * Lin Dan, Chinese badminton player
 * David Oakes, English film, television and theatre actor
 * Zesh Rehman, English-Pakistani footballer
 * October 15 – Stephy Tang, Hong Kong singer and actress
 * October 16 – Loreen, Swedish pop singer and music producer, Eurovision Song Contest 2012 winner
 * October 17
 * Daniel Booko, American actor
 * Felicity Jones, English actress
 * Daniel Kajmakoski, Macedonian singer and songwriter
 * Ivan Saenko, Russian footballer
 * October 19
 * Rebecca Ferguson, Swedish model and actress
 * Cara Santa Maria, American neuroscientist and writer
 * October 20 – Alona Tal, Israeli television actress
 * October 21
 * Ashley Banjo, Canadian actor
 * Hrvoje Ćustić, Croatian footballer (d. 2008)
 * Marie Marguerite, Duchess of Anjou, Venezuelan heiress and wife of Louis Alphonse of Bourbon, Duke of Anjou
 * Charlotte Sullivan, Canadian actress
 * Aaron Tveit, American actor
 * October 24
 * Adrienne Bailon, American singer and actress
 * V V Brown, English singer, songwriter, model, and producer
 * Ashleigh Harrington, Canadian actress
 * Katie McGrath, Irish actress
 * Brian Vickers, American race car driver
 * October 25 – Princess Yōko of Mikasa, member of the Japanese Imperial Family
 * October 27
 * Dmitri Sychev, Russian footballer
 * Katy Tur, American broadcast journalist
 * Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Turkish actor and model
 * October 28 – Joe Thomas, English actor
 * October 29
 * Johnny Lewis, American actor (d. 2012)
 * Amit Sebastian Paul, Swedish singer
 * October 30 – Diana Karazon, Jordanian singer

November

 * November 1
 * Yuko Ogura, Japanese gravure idol
 * Jelena Tomašević, Serbian pop singer
 * November 2 – Andreas Bourani, German singer-songwriter
 * November 3 – Julie Marie Berman, American actress
 * November 5 – Alexa Chung, English television presenter and model
 * November 4 – Tyler Everett, American football player
 * November 8
 * Pavel Pogrebnyak, Russian footballer
 * Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
 * November 9 – Meseret Defar, Ethiopian long-distance runner
 * November 10
 * Fred Cheng, Canadian-born Hong Kong singer
 * Miranda Lambert, American country music singer
 * November 11
 * Sola Aoi, Japanese model
 * Philipp Lahm, German footballer
 * Kristal Marshall, American professional wrestler, model and beauty queen
 * Tatsuhisa Suzuki, Japanese voice actor
 * November 12 – Kate Bell, Australian actress
 * November 14 – Chelsea Wolfe, American singer-songwriter and musician
 * November 15 – Laura Smet, French actress
 * November 16 – K, Korean singer
 * November 17
 * Viva Bianca, Australian actress
 * Ioannis Bourousis, Greek basketball player
 * Ryan Bradley, American figure skater
 * Ryan Braun, American baseball player
 * Évelyne Brochu, Canadian actress
 * Harry Lloyd, British actor
 * Nick Markakis, American baseball player
 * Patrick McHale, American animator
 * Christopher Paolini, American author
 * Rocsi, American television personality
 * November 18
 * Jon Johansen, Norwegian computer programmer
 * Robert Kazinsky, English actor and model
 * November 19
 * Adam Driver, American actor
 * DeAngelo Hall, American football player
 * Daria Werbowy, Ukrainian-Canadian model
 * November 20 – Future, American rapper, singer, and songwriter
 * November 21 – The Bella Twins, (Brie & Nikki), American professional wrestlers
 * November 22
 * Tyler Hilton, American singer-songwriter and actor
 * Xiao Yu, Taiwanese singer and songwriter
 * November 24
 * Dean Ashton, British footballer
 * José López, Venezuelan baseball player
 * Gwilym Lee, English actor
 * November 25 – Atsushi Itō, Japanese actor
 * November 26 – Emiri Katō, Japanese voice actress and singer
 * November 27
 * Professor Green, British rapper
 * Arjay Smith, American actor
 * November 28
 * Courtney Rush, Canadian professional wrestler
 * Ellie Taylor, English comedian and television presenter
 * Kelly Wenham, English actress
 * November 29
 * Pamela Brown, CNN Justice Correspondent
 * Jenn Sterger, American television personality and model
 * Aylin Tezel, German actress
 * November 30 – Nicholas Kole, American figure skater

December

 * December 2
 * Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player
 * Ana Lucía Domínguez, Columbian actress
 * Jana Kramer, American actress
 * Mette Lindberg, Danish singer
 * Aaron Rodgers, American football player
 * Daniela Ruah, Portuguese actress
 * December 3
 * Troy Bergeron, American football player
 * Andy Grammer, American singer and songwriter
 * December 4
 * Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer
 * Charity Shea, American actress
 * Roman Zaretsky, Israeli figure skater
 * December 5
 * Tori Sparks, American singer, songwriter and activist
 * Tiffany Weimer, American footballer
 * December 6 – Francesca Jackson, English musical theatre actress
 * December 7 – Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player
 * December 9
 * Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer
 * Jolene Purdy, American actress
 * December 10
 * Patrick Flueger, American actor
 * Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
 * December 12 – Katrina Elam, American singer
 * December 13
 * J Alvarez Puerto Rican singer
 * Satya Bhabha, British actor
 * Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
 * December 15
 * Delon Armitage, English rugby union player
 * René Duprée, Canadian professional wrestler
 * Brooke Fraser, New Zealand folk-pop and Christian musician
 * Camilla Luddington, English actress
 * Wang Hao, Chinese table tennis player
 * December 16 – Danielle Lloyd, British model
 * December 17
 * Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
 * Sébastien Ogier, French rally driver
 * December 19
 * Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer
 * Casey Crescenzo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dear Hunter and The Receiving End of Sirens)
 * AJ Lamas, American actor
 * Bridget Phillipson, English politician
 * Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer
 * Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
 * December 20
 * Nelly Alisheva, Russian volleyball player
 * Gia Allemand, American actress (d. 2013)
 * Jonah Hill, American actor
 * Lucy Pinder, English model
 * Josh Sussman, American actor
 * December 21 – Steven Yeun, American actor
 * December 22
 * Joe Dinicol, Canadian actor
 * Jennifer Hawkins, Australian television personality, Miss Universe 2004
 * Nathalie Péchalat, French ice dancer
 * December 23 – Hanley Ramírez, Dominican baseball player
 * December 25 – Gwei Lun-mei, Taiwanese actress
 * December 27 – Cole Hamels, American baseball player
 * December 28 – Aiko Nakamura, Japanese tennis player
 * December 29 – Jessica Andrews, American country music singer

Date unknown

 * Linda Bhreathnach, Irish television actress
 * Sarah Earnshaw, British actress
 * Yalda Hakim, Australian journalist
 * Leila Benn Harris, English actress and singer
 * Eleonore Hendricks, American actress, photographer and casting director
 * Ainsley Howard, British actress
 * Jane McGregor, Canadian actress
 * Ashley Austin Morris, American actress
 * Daráine Mulvihill, Irish television personality
 * Brook Roberts, American television personality and former beauty pageant
 * Zoe Tuckwell-Smith, Australian actress

January

 * January 2
 * Dick Emery, British comedian (b. 1915)
 * Edward Howard, American Roman Catholic prelate and venerable (b. 1877)
 * January 7 – Fred Church, American actor (b. 1889)
 * January 8 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German World War II fighter ace (b. 1919)
 * January 10 – Roy DeMeo, American Mafia hitman (b. 1942)
 * January 11
 * Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian industrialist and educator (b. 1894)
 * Tikhon Kiselyov, Belarusian statesman in the Soviet Union, the de facto leader of the Byelorussian SSR from 1980 to 1983 (b. 1917)
 * January 12 – Nikolai Podgorny, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 1965 to 1977 (b. 1903)
 * January 13 – David M. Shoup, American general (b. 1904)
 * January 15
 * Masatane Kanda, Japanese general (b. 1890)
 * Meyer Lansky, American gangster (b. 1902)
 * January 17 – Doodles Weaver, American comedian (b. 1911)
 * January 18 – Arturo Umberto Illia, 34th President of Argentina (b. 1900)
 * January 20 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
 * January 21 – Howard Clark, Canadian Anglican primate (b. 1903)
 * January 22 – Walter Citrine, 1st Baron Citrine, British trade unionist (b. 1887)
 * January 23 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
 * January 24
 * Carmen Clemente Travieso, Venezuelan journalist and activist (b. 1900)
 * George Cukor, American film director (b. 1899)
 * Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine Olympic athlete (b. 1911)
 * January 27
 * Georges Bidault, French Resistance leader (b. 1899)
 * Louis de Funès, French comedy actor (b. 1914)
 * January 28
 * Frank Forde, 15th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1890)
 * Billy Fury, British musician (b. 1940)
 * January 29 – Stuart H. Ingersoll, American admiral (b. 1898)

February



 * February 4 – Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
 * February 7 – Raja Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
 * February 8
 * Harry Boot, English physicist (b. 1917)
 * Maria Josefa Alhama y Valera, Spanish Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1893)
 * February 9 – Patriarch Khoren I Paroian (b. 1914)
 * February 12
 * Italo Acconcia, Italian football player and manager (b. 1925)
 * Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
 * February 13 – Lorenzo Bianchi, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1899)
 * February 14 – Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
 * February 19 – Alice White, American actress (b. 1904)
 * February 22 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
 * February 23 – Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
 * February 25 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
 * February 27 – Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Russian astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1908)
 * February 28 – Winifred Atwell, British pianist (b. 1914)

March

 * March 1 – Hideo Kobayashi, Japanese author (b. 1902)
 * March 3
 * Hergé, Belgian comics creator (b. 1907)
 * Arthur Koestler, Austrian writer (b. 1905)
 * March 6 – Donald Maclean, British spy (b. 1913)
 * March 7 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor (b. 1912)
 * March 8
 * Sir William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
 * Chabuca Granda, Peruvian singer and composer (b. 1920)
 * March 9
 * Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
 * Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 * March 11 – Will Glickman, American playwright (b. 1910)
 * March 14 – Maurice Ronet, French film actor and director (b. 1927)
 * March 15 – Dame Rebecca West, British writer (b. 1892)
 * March 16 – Arthur Godfrey, American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer (b. 1903)
 * March 17 – Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
 * March 18
 * Umberto II of Italy, the last King of Italy (b. 1904)
 * Ivan Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
 * March 22 – Blanton Collier, American football coach (b. 1906)
 * March 23 – Prince Thibaut of Central African Empire (b. 1948)
 * March 25 – Bob Waterfield, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1920)
 * March 26 – Anthony Blunt, British spy and art historian (b. 1907)
 * March 27
 * Elsie Eaves, American civil engineer (b. 1898)
 * James Hayter, British actor (b. 1907)
 * March 30
 * Gunnar Bigum, Danish actor (b. 1914)
 * Lisette Model, Austrian-American photographer (b. 1901)
 * March 31 – Stephen Murray, British actor (b. 1912)

April

 * April 3 – Jimmy Bloomfield, English football player and manager (b. 1934)
 * April 4
 * Maria Babanova, Soviet and Russian actress (b. 1900)
 * Jacqueline Logan, American actress (b. 1901)
 * Gloria Swanson, American actress (b. 1899)
 * April 11 – Dolores del Río, Mexican actress (b. 1904)
 * April 12
 * Desmond Bagley, English novelist (b. 1923)
 * Jørgen Juve, Norwegian football player and journalist (b. 1906)
 * April 13 – Gloria Marín, Mexican actress (b. 1919)
 * April 15
 * Gyula Illyés, Hungarian poet and novelist (b. 1902)
 * Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1892)
 * April 19 – Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish author (b. 1909)
 * April 20
 * Mária Mezei, Hungarian actress (b. 1909)
 * Walther Nehring, German general (b. 1892)
 * Pedro Quartucci, Argentine boxer and actor (b. 1905)
 * April 21 – Walter Slezak, Austrian-American actor (b. 1902)
 * April 22 – Earl "Fatha" Hines, American musician (b. 1903)
 * April 23
 * Buster Crabbe, American actor and athlete (b. 1908)
 * Selena Royle, American actress and writer (b. 1904)
 * Alberto Zorrilla, Argentine Olympic swimmer (b. 1906)
 * April 30
 * George Balanchine, Russian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1904)
 * Joel Henry Hildebrand, American chemist (b. 1881)
 * Muddy Waters, American musician (b. 1915)

May

 * May 1
 * George Hodgson, Canadian Olympic swimmer (b. 1893)
 * Joseph Ruttenberg, Russian-born cinematographer (b. 1889)
 * Arthur D. Struble, American admiral (b. 1894)
 * May 2
 * Pridi Banomyong, Thai Prime minister (b. 1900)
 * Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and coach (Minnesota Vikings) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1926)
 * May 5 – John Williams, British actor (b. 1903)
 * May 8 – John Fante, American writer (b. 1909)
 * May 13 – Allauddin, Pakistan actor (b. 1923)
 * May 14
 * Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1900)
 * Roger J. Traynor, American judge (b. 1900)
 * May 15 – James Van Der Zee, American photographer (b. 1886)
 * May 18 – Frank Aiken, Irish Foreign Minister (b. 1898)
 * May 19 – Jean Rey, President of the European Commission (b. 1902)
 * May 21 – Kenneth Clark, British art historian (b. 1903)
 * May 22
 * Albert Claude, Belgian biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1899)
 * King Idris of Libya (reigned from 1951 to 1969) (b. 1889)
 * John Penrose, British actor (b. 1914)
 * May 23 – John Seward Johnson I, American art collector (b. 1895)
 * May 25 – Sid Daniels, British merchant marine worker, last surviving crewmember of the RMS Titanic dies (b. 1895)
 * May 29 – Arvīds Pelše, Latvian historian, Soviet politician and functionary (b. 1899)
 * May 31 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight champion boxer (b. 1895)

June

 * June 1
 * Prince Charles of Belgium (b. 1903)
 * Ernest Graves, American actor (b. 1919)
 * June 2
 * Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
 * Julio Rosales, Filipino Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1906)
 * June 4 – Gordon Kahl, American tax protester and cop-killer (b. 1920)
 * June 6 – Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Egyptian actor and screenwriter (b. 1910)
 * June 8 – Miško Kranjec, Slovenian writer (b. 1908)
 * June 10 – Larry Hooper, American singer (b. 1917)
 * June 11 – George Douglas, American actor (b. 1903)
 * June 12 – Norma Shearer, Canadian-born American actress (b. 1902)
 * June 15
 * Mario Casariego y Acevedo, Spanish-born Guatemalan Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1909)
 * Srirangam Srinivasarao, Indian Telugu poet (b. 1910)
 * June 17
 * George Benson, British actor (b. 1911)
 * Peter Mennin, American composer and teacher (b. 1923)
 * June 18
 * Marianne Brandt, German industrial designer (b. 1893)
 * Robert Riddles, British locomotive engineer (b. 1892)
 * June 23 – Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, Cuban politician, 21st President of Cuba (suicide) (b. 1919)
 * June 24 – Charles Phelps Taft II, American politician, son of President William Howard Taft (b. 1897)
 * June 25 – Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (b. 1916)
 * June 30 – Mary Livingstone, American radio and voice actress (b. 1905)

July

 * July 1 – Buckminster Fuller, American architect (b. 1895)
 * July 4
 * Dr. John Bodkin Adams, British suspected serial killer (b. 1899)
 * Ted Berrigan, American poet (b. 1934)
 * July 5 – Harry James, American musician and band leader (b. 1916)
 * July 7 – Herman Kahn, American futurist (b. 1922)
 * July 9 – Keith Wickenden, British politician (b. 1932)
 * July 10 – Werner Egk, German composer (b. 1901)
 * July 11 – Ross Macdonald, American-Canadian writer (b. 1915)
 * July 12 – Chris Wood, English musician (b. 1944)
 * July 14 – Jack MacBryan, English cricketer (b. 1892)
 * July 15 – Eddie Foy, Jr., American actor (b. 1905)
 * July 16 – Samson Raphaelson, American screenwriter (b. 1894)
 * July 17 – Roosevelt Sykes, American blues musician (b. 1906)
 * July 19 – Erik Ode, German actor (b. 1910)
 * July 20 – Frank Reynolds, American journalist (b. 1923)
 * July 23 – Georges Auric, French composer (b. 1899)
 * July 26
 * Larry Gains, Canadian boxer (b. 1901)
 * Charlie Rivel, Spanish Catalan circus clown (b. 1896)
 * July 29
 * Luis Buñuel, Spanish filmmaker (b. 1900)
 * Rocco Chinnici, Italian judge (b. 1925)
 * Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (b. 1896)
 * David Niven, English soldier and actor (b. 1910)
 * July 30
 * Howard Dietz, American lyricist (b. 1896)
 * Lynn Fontanne, British actress (b. 1887)

August

 * August 1
 * Peter Arne, British actor (b. 1918)
 * Lilian Mercedes Letona, Salvadoran guerrilla (b. 1954)
 * August 2 – James Jamerson, American musician (b. 1938)
 * August 3 – Carolyn Jones, American actress (b. 1930)
 * August 5
 * Bart Bok, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1906)
 * Judy Canova, American actress (b. 1913)
 * August 6
 * Michel Micombero, Burundian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Burundi and 1st President of Burundi (b. 1940)
 * Klaus Nomi, German singer and performance artist (b. 1944)
 * August 7 – David Ford, American actor (b. 1925)
 * August 10 – José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, Portuguese political figure, 104th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1917)
 * August 12 – Theodor Burchadi, German admiral (b. 1892)
 * August 13 – Bob Bailey, American actor (b. 1913)
 * August 16
 * Earl Averill, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1902)
 * Heinz Warneke, American sculptor (b. 1895)
 * August 17 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (b. 1896)
 * August 18 – Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, German-born British art historian (b. 1902)
 * August 21 – Benigno Aquino Jr., Filipino politician (b. 1932)
 * August 26 – Nazir Ahmed Khan, Pakistan-born Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1904)
 * August 27 – Harry A. deButts, American railroad executive
 * August 28 – Jan Clayton, American actress and singer (b. 1917)
 * August 29 – Simon Oakland, American actor (b. 1915)

September

 * September 1 – Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, American politician (suffered an aortic aneurysm after giving a news conference condemning the shooting down of KAL 007) (b. 1912)
 * September 2 - Feri Cansel, Turkish-Cypriot actress (b. 1944)
 * September 8 – Ibrahim Abboud, 4th Prime Minister and 1st President of Sudan (b. 1900)
 * September 9 – Leo Lemay, American-born Solomonian Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1909)
 * September 10
 * Felix Bloch, Swiss-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
 * Jon Brower Minnoch, heaviest man who ever lived (b. 1941)
 * Dai Rees, British golfer (b. 1913)
 * John Vorster, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa and 5th President of South Africa (b. 1915)
 * September 12 – Sabin Carr, American Olympic athlete (b. 1904)
 * September 16
 * Gunnar Olsson, Swedish actor (b. 1904)
 * José María Reyes Mata, Honduran revolutionary leader (b. 1943)
 * September 17 – Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-born American Roman Catholic clergyman (b. 1915)
 * September 18 – María Esther Podestá, Argentine actress (b. 1896)
 * September 20
 * Prince Friedrich Christian of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1906)
 * Ángel Labruna, Argentine footballer and manager (b. 1918)
 * September 25 – King Leopold III of Belgium (b. 1901)
 * September 26 – Tino Rossi, French singer (b. 1907)
 * September 29 – Alan Moorehead, Australian-born English war correspondent and historian (b. 1910)
 * September 30 – William Elliott, American actor (b. 1934)

October

 * October 4 – Andrés Córdova, acting President of Ecuador, Leader of the World War II (b. 1892)
 * October 5 – Earl Tupper, American businessman (b. 1907)
 * October 6 – Terence Cooke, American Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop and servant of God (b. 1921)
 * October 7
 * George O. Abell, American astronomer, professor at UCLA, science popularizer, and skeptic (b. 1927)
 * Christophe Soglo, Beninese military officer and political leader, twice President of Dahomey (b. 1909)
 * October 8 – Joan Hackett, American actress (b. 1934)
 * October 10
 * Georgia Cozzini, American socialist politician (b. 1915)
 * Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor (b. 1902)
 * October 12 – Prince Nayef bin Abdullah (b. 1914)
 * October 14
 * Alice Lardé de Venturino, Salvadoran poet and writer (b. 1895)
 * Paul Fix, American actor (b. 1901)
 * October 15 – Pat O'Brien, American actor (b. 1899)
 * October 17 – Raymond Aron, French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. (b. 1905)
 * October 18 – Willie Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
 * October 19
 * Maurice Bishop, Grenadian politician and revolutionary (b. 1944)
 * Dorothy Stuart Russell, Australian-British pathologist (b. 1895)
 * October 20 – Peter Dudley, British actor (b. 1935)
 * October 21 – Joseph P. Lordi, American government official (b. 1919)
 * October 23
 * Jessica Savitch, American journalist (b. 1947)
 * Toru Takahashi, Japanese race car driver (b. 1960)
 * Lakshman Wickremasinghe, Sri Lankan Anglican bishop (b. 1927)
 * October 26
 * Mike Michalske, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1903)
 * Alfred Tarski, Polish-born American logician and mathematician (b. 1901)
 * October 28
 * Roderick Gill, Irish cricketer (b. 1919)
 * Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (b. 1892)
 * October 31 – George S. Halas, American football player and coach; member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1895)

November

 * November 3 – Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
 * November 7 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer (b. 1892)
 * November 8
 * Robert Agnew, American actor (b. 1899)
 * Betty Nuthall, English tennis champion (b. 1911)
 * November 13
 * Aliagha Aghayev, Azerbaijani actor (b. 1913)
 * Junior Samples, American comedian (b. 1926)
 * November 14
 * Barney Bubbles, English graphic artist (b. 1942)
 * Tómas Guðmundsson, Icelandic poet (b. 1901)
 * November 15 – John Le Mesurier, British actor (b. 1912)
 * November 19
 * Tom Evans, English musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
 * Carolyn Leigh, American lyricist (b. 1926)
 * November 20
 * Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)
 * Richard Loo, Chinese-born American actor (b. 1903)
 * November 23 – Waheed Murad, Legendary Pakistani actor, film producer, writer and director (b. 1938)
 * November 25 – Michael Conrad, American actor (b. 1925)
 * November 28 – Christopher George, American actor (b. 1931)
 * November 30 – Richard Llewellyn, British writer (b. 1906)

December

 * December 2 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904)
 * December 5
 * Robert Aldrich, American film director (b. 1918)
 * John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919)
 * December 6
 * Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
 * Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914)
 * December 8
 * Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904)
 * Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919)
 * December 9
 * Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915)
 * David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930)
 * December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897)
 * December 13
 * Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923)
 * Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905)
 * December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913)
 * December 19 – Cameron Hall, British actor (b. 1897)
 * December 20 – Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b. 1935)
 * December 21
 * Rod Cameron, American actor (b. 1910)
 * Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
 * December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910)
 * December 25 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b. 1893)
 * December 26 – Violet Carson, British actress (b. 1898)
 * December 27
 * William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892)
 * Walter Scott, American performer (b. 1943)
 * December 28
 * Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910)
 * Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)

Date unknown

 * Mary Cohan, Broadway composer and lyricist, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1909)
 * Freda Simmonds, New Zealand artist (b. 1912)

Nobel Prizes

 * Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler
 * Chemistry – Henry Taube
 * Medicine – Barbara McClintock
 * Literature – William Golding
 * Peace – Lech Wałęsa
 * Economics – Gérard Debreu

1983 in fiction

 * The 1968 Jimi Hendrix song "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" references the year
 * Season one of the Netflix original series Stranger Things takes place in 1983.
 * The 1999 Video game Silent Hill takes place in 1983
 * The main timeline of Higurashi no Naku Koro ni visual novels takes place in 1983
 * The 2007 movie This Is England takes place during summer 1983.
 * The 2016 Disney movie Pete's Dragon is set in this year.
 * The 2016 Marvel superhero film X-Men: Apocalypse takes place during 1983.
 * The 2017 film Call Me By Your Name takes place during the summer of 1983 in Northern Italy.